Annual wheat meeting sidesteps eastern Ontario controversy
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
CBC will continue to use term North American agriculture officials say has hurt the industry
Program payments plunge
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
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
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
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
All County Feed & Grain owners owed producers more than $500,000
Price crash on cherries
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
With encouragement from the Appeals Tribunal, Ontario Pork is seeking compromise, but the chair of Progressive Pork Producers says 'we don’t trust them.’
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