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Survey indicates there’s a job boom in Ontario’s agri-food sector

The pricing model has helped create stability in the industry says Grape Growers of Ontario CEO

Unionized employees at Cargill’s beef processing plant in Guelph will vote on a new collective agreement on Sunday

Industry must provide matching funding for grants to help Canadian dairy exports such as genetics and high value cheese

Launched Wednesday, a new Dairy Farmers of Canada website aims to counter criticisms about its supply managed marketing system

The federal government has made no secret that it plans to cut spending for its upcoming budget. If there are cuts to spending on Canadian agriculture, where should they be? What should be sacrosanct?

Wilma Jeffray helped steer the provincial commodity organization through industry downsizing, restructuring

photo: Wilma Jeffray

A recent scientific panel study recommends that Canada adopt a more diverse approach to pesticide testing

Biofuels production is eroding Canada’s livestock and meat sector claims a George Morris Centre study. Grain Farmers of Ontario disagrees

Ontario Ministry of Labour mediator will meet with the Guelph beef processing plant’s management and unionized staff Thursday

An Ontario court justice has stayed a large fine and jail sentence for an Oxford county manure spill pending an appeal

The Canadian Organic Growers will be among those taking court action against Monsanto in the United States

Cleaning fluid found in milk

Crosby Devitt, Grain Farmers of Ontario’s manager of market development and research is one of three recipients of this year’s Nuffield farming scholarship

The justice of the peace ‘said my men were good men and he believed everything they said and then he found us guilty’ – hog farmer Eric Van Boekel

It has over 150 solar ground units installed in southwestern Ontario, but 550 more of AGRIS Solar Co-operative’s units have yet to be connected to the grid

Industrial wind turbine developments are pitting neighbours against neighbours and raising concerns about human health as well as the loss of farmland says the Ontario Federation of Agriculture

Canadian cattle under 30 months are being allowed back into South Korea

Organization is an amalgamation of familiar AGCare and OFAC

Ottawa based company cites potential for value of property it invests in to grow by four to five per cent annually over long term