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1. Wynne anxious to get started as agriculture minister

   ... as the province’s minister of agriculture. Speaking to a group of agriculture and rural journalists earlier today, Wynne said that ... in earlier years, there might be one or two or a dozen pork farms that will remain not as hobbies, what then what are we really saying ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 22 2013 - 17:26 - 98 comments

2. Review of land use plans prioritizes protection of agricultural land

   ... sheltered zone in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, according a report released Monday. From 2006 to 2011 the Greater Golden Horseshoe ... economic sections of the region,” the report says. The farms in the Greenbelt are particularly productive and produce 55 per cent of ...

   Mary Baxter - Dec 10 2015 - 09:29 - 0 comments

3. Several farm organizations on this year’s Sunshine list

   ... additional pay period in the 2014 calendar year. “This is a rare occurrence that happens once every 11 years.” Other factors include ... several dozen doctors, dentists and lawyers, some living on farms, some not. About the only singularly-identifiable employee of any ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 30 2015 - 20:33 - 36 comments

4. More farmers vie for OFA’s top seat

   October 31, 2011 A farmer from Lambton County and another from Huron County declare their ... president he has broad based support from people across the industry and province. “They have faith in how I present myself. They have ... given income for spending 200 days a year away from their farms on OFA business, who takes up the slack manual and managemment work on ...

   Mary Baxter - Nov 1 2011 - 18:09 - 1 comment

5. Ontario farm registration fee increase moves to next step

   ... by SUSAN MANN Farmers have until Nov. 2 to comment on a controversial proposal to increase the farm business registration fee to $195 ... all the while with their hand out asking for more. If 85% of farms belong to this useless organization then they deserve what they get. ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 10 2012 - 14:06 - 5 comments

6. Make RMP permanent say grain farmers

   ... Ontario grain farmers’ message outlining the need for a permanent risk management program was well received by the province’s rural ... more government funded jobs? The pennies that reach the farms and the policies and paper work that's required to get them are not worth ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 24 2011 - 21:54 - 13 comments

7. Canada’s livestock traceability initiative presents a daunting task

   ... Thursday October 16, 2014 Canadian farmers should see a fully traceable, national records system for livestock by late 2015 or early ... requires records for the movement of breeding stock on to farms. What began with metal ear tags and paper records for scrapies ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 16 2014 - 15:23 - 0 comments

8. Grain Farmers director resigns after two months

   ... Dundas and Glengarry, will meet next week and elect a new director, says Grain Farmers chairman Don Kenny of Ottawa Carleton. ... management thinking farmers are too busy manageing their farms and won't run as organization directors, resulting in aclaimed voted ...

   dstoneman - Mar 27 2010 - 10:33 - 6 comments

9. George Morris Centre folds

   ... dissolving the organization later this year was greeted by a mixed reaction from Ontario’s farming community. “They will be ... is another pork/beef producer who purchase two new livestock farms to grow more corn for the newly acquired livestock in the barns. Lots of ...

   Mary Baxter - Jun 20 2014 - 19:38 - 28 comments

10. Ministers meeting to focus on national ag policy

    ... Ontario’s agriculture minister wants to obtain a fair share of funding for the province and reduce the strings on how it’s ... be listening to the average farmers not the big corperate farms , at which they dish all the money out too. reply ...

    Mary Baxter - Apr 19 2012 - 07:56 - 18 comments