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Annual wheat meeting sidesteps eastern Ontario controversy

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Despite eastern Ontario producers having recently asked to secede from the provincial wheat board and withhold checkoff fees, no one raised the issue at the Ontario Wheat Producers Marketing Board’s final annual meeting


Change urged in media reports on H1N1 virus

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CBC will continue to use term North American agriculture officials say has hurt the industry


Program payments plunge

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Farmers are receiving more from the market but less money from government programs means “the price is not there,” says the head of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.


Ethanol cooperative chair challenges report

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Letter to the editor: Ethanol production has increased the availability of corn in Ontario says Tom Cox chair of the Integrated Grain Processors Cooperative, which operates an ethanol plant in Aylmer, Ontario.

Photo: Tom Cox


I don't work hard enough in their opinion

Both my mother-in-law and father-in-law do not seem to think I do enough


Food Safety program tapped out

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OMAFRA is studying its options after a popular food safety program runs out of money in just four months
Photo: Jeff Wilson


Study knocking ethanol ‘slanted’ says Co-op chief

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George Morris Centre study says government support for ethanol and support of pork producers work at cross purposes

Photo: Tom Cox


Fraud charges laid in failed ‘local’ beef marketing venture

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All County Feed & Grain owners owed producers more than $500,000


Price crash on cherries

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A glut of U.S. cherries drove bargains for consumers and now there's a plea to protect Canadian farmers


Pork marketing appeals hearing begins Nov 25

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With encouragement from the Appeals Tribunal, Ontario Pork is seeking compromise, but the chair of Progressive Pork Producers says 'we don’t trust them.’

Photo: Stewart Cressman


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