Industry applauds new farm sign law
Queen’s Park eases MTO restrictions on signs to promote farm products, but Norfolk County’s mayor says there are other related issues needing attention.
Queen’s Park eases MTO restrictions on signs to promote farm products, but Norfolk County’s mayor says there are other related issues needing attention.
Producers and their representatives are apprehensive about changes to Ontario’s Animal Welfare Act, which give new powers to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They say clarification is needed about how these powers will be exercised in connection with agriculture.
LANGTON – If manufacturers of a recently introduced local brand of cigarette can get into tobacco export, it will be a major boon to an industry severely battered over the years, says the new company’s president.
Ernie Hardeman a former Ontario agriculture minister and current Progressive Conservative agriculture and food critic is calling for government support for growers caught with an estimated 400,000 pigeons following the collapse of Arlan Galbraith’s Pigeon King International early last week.
There’s “nothing scary” for agriculture in the province’s budget brought down in Queen’s Park on Tuesday, said a researcher for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the province’s largest farm group. “Base funding” has actually increased to $945.6 million from $876 million budgeted last year, said Jason Bent. The budget document said OMAFRA expenditures are expected to total more than $1.2 billion in the 2007-08 fiscal year, which starts Apr. 1.
There’s “nothing scary” for agriculture in the province’s budget brought down in Queen’s Park on Tuesday, said a researcher for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the province’s largest farm group. “Base funding” has actually increased to $945.6 million from $876 million budgeted last year, said Jason Bent. The budget document said OMAFRA expenditures are expected to total more than $1.2 billion in the 2007-08 fiscal year, which starts Apr. 1.