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1. Caution urged on laying blame for honey bee deaths

   ... more research to be done, they say. They are hoping that a consensus can be reached as the freshly appointed Bee Health Working Group ... organization. Grain Farmers of Ontario, doesn't represent farms it funded by farmers but represents BIG AG, they have zero credibility ...

   dstoneman - Jul 19 2013 - 18:46 - 36 comments

2. Pigeon King migrates north to new roost

   ... BETTER FARMING STAFF © Copyright AgMedia Inc It takes a full day to drive roughly 900 km from Waterloo, Ont., north to Cochrane, a ... in PKI. As more and more former PKI investors lose their farms and properties the anger towards Arlan Gailbraith will surely continue to ...

   an online visitor - Apr 5 2012 - 14:53 - 5 comments

3. GFO sues government over neonics

   ... interpret the province’s neonicotinoid regulations as “a legal absurdity” and delay their enactment which is scheduled for next ... people think bees should be protected and do not like large farms. reply The rallies ...

   dstoneman - Jun 29 2015 - 17:32 - 20 comments

4. NFU-O hearing raises questions and admonishments

   ... ended with some jarring questions and an admonishment from a Tribunal member. Tribunal member Mary Field repeatedly asked NFU-O ... NFU Sean McGivern Practicial Farmers of Ontario www.practicalfarmersontario.ca reply ...

   Mary Baxter - Jul 19 2012 - 15:31 - 38 comments

5. Canadian dairy farmers take steps to recapture specialty markets

   ... prices. Senior vice president Dominique Benoit says in a telephone interview “we have been very clear for many months now that ... banks typically don't lend more than $3,000 per cow to dairy farms which, on a 150 cow dairy farm, would amount to $450,000, yet many ...

   Mary Baxter - May 12 2016 - 17:40 - 16 comments

6. Grocers dictating farm gate prices says former ag leader

   ... Jack Wilkinson by BETTER FARMING STAFF A highly consolidated grocery industry dictates prices paid to processors and ... survived the Great Depression without problems. How many farms were destroyed during the depression? Truth of the matter is that ...

   dstoneman - Nov 24 2010 - 09:05 - 19 comments

7. Pork producers blame supply management

   ... be in lobbying government to curb supply management. Despite a failed attempt to soften it, a resolution calling on Ontario Pork to work ... Who but supply managed farms and foreign governments like the Chinese outside of supply management can ...

   dstoneman - Mar 22 2013 - 08:59 - 48 comments

8. Amish dog breeders face opposition

   ... December 20, 2012 by BETTER FARMING STAFF A “dog rescuer” who claims responsibility for alerting the Ontario SPCA and ... its not an excuse to start breeding family pets. Ive been at farms where dogs are bred in trailers no water, no hydro, no air, ramped ...

   dstoneman - Dec 20 2012 - 16:32 - 21 comments

9. Tribunal denies CFFO accreditation

   ... by BETTER FARMING STAFF A bid by the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario (CFFO) to be reaccredited ... . Some get it on "A" farm and some get it on " MANY " farms so why give a rats a$$ about the next guy or the organisation . This too ...

   dstoneman - Nov 9 2012 - 13:47 - 35 comments

10. FCC targets young farmers with loan program

    ... $500 million program offers young farmers half a million dollars each to buy or improve a farm ... on a very tight budget, because that's what small dairy farms have to operate on. Your sons have a leg up on other would be new ...

    dstoneman - Apr 14 2012 - 09:23 - 29 comments