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Indoor turkey raising rule under fire
July 3, 2009

It’s about more than turkeys, say outdoor raising supporters who fear other marketing boards will require that birds be kept indoors as well
Pigeon King escalated to ‘criminal investigation’
June 25, 2009
Police still gathering evidence more than a year after pigeon breeding scheme collapses

Photo: The former Pigeon King International was headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.
Date set for ag worker labour law hearing
June 25, 2009
Union wants farm workers included under Labour Relations Act

Photo: Ken Forth
Municipal Board gives go-ahead to Solaris project in East Hawkesbury
June 24, 2009
Solaris project operator criticizes province’s plan to ban solar parks on prime farmland
Tribunal cuffs Commission
June 20, 2009
In the ongoing saga of the province’s beleaguered pork industry the Ontario Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal has dealt another blow to the organization that oversees the province’s marketing boards

Photo: Elbert van Donkersgoed
New limits on stray voltage
June 19, 2009
After being forced to get rid of his cows and fight bureaucracy for more than three decades farmer satisfied with new provincial stray voltage maximum

Photo: Lee Montgomery
Local foods campaign missing its mark?
June 15, 2009
Brenda Lammens, chair of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association, says major retailers aren’t interested in local foods ‘until they’ve got the imports off the shelves’

Photo: Brenda Lammens
Wheat chair a no show, says eastern growers can’t go
June 11, 2009
Disaffected District 10 growers cancel Thursday night’s meeting but vow to separate from province’s wheat board
NFU ‘completely out of touch’: Ritz
June 9, 2009
Federal ag minister blasts the farm organization for its call to end captive supply in the cattle industry

Photo: Gerry Ritz
Wheat producers in east revolt against their board
June 5, 2009
‘Reinstatement’ of local director only one of several issues cited
$15 a day to care for budgie ‘excessive’: judge
June 4, 2009
Ontario SPCA wins suit, award falls $160,000 short

Photo: Steve Straub
Dairy industry monitors international milk prices
June 3, 2009
Policy advisor says competition in the domestic marketplace is the concern - if the Canadian dollar reaches par with the U.S. dollar and if U.S. milk prices begin once again to decline
New tobacco board can sue cigarette makers
June 2, 2009
Farm Products Marketing Commission appointments to run flue board for 18 months. Former chair says rapid transition was ‘not professional’

Photo: Fred Neukamm
Veal faces another hurdle before getting marketing board status
June 2, 2009
Ask dairy producers to support veal initiative, says Commission
Group wants to take ALUS province-wide
June 1, 2009
Support for the fee-for-conservation program is strong, but at least one farmer says it needs tweaking

Photo: Bryan Gilvesy
Wheat dust-up isolates director
May 26, 2009
John Vanderspank says he doesn’t know what confidential information he’s accused of releasing and the wheat board isn’t saying
Ontario lags in farm income
May 25, 2009
Province's farmers have the country's highest building depreciation expenses
Corn pest group urges refuge compliance
May 22, 2009
Survey indicates compliance has dropped nearly 17 per cent in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba since 2003
‘Aggregate trumps a lot of things’
May 22, 2009
Proponents continue to push for a specialty crops designation for Melancthon Township, even though it may not stop a quarry
Feds change tobacco license eligibility requirements
May 15, 2009
Former growers’ family members now permitted to try their hand in the industry