tobacco
PC ag critic concerned new tobacco control measures will target farmers
Provincial government tightens oversight of raw leaf tobacco production
Delhi research station chopped in federal budget cutbacks
Station had become ‘a show case for alternative agriculture’ as tobacco industry wound down
Photo: Mark Wales
Audit takes aim at tobacco buyout
A federal program to buyout about 1,000 Ontario tobacco quota holders was too confusing says Canada’s fall auditor general’s report
Dollars to boost ginseng
Ontario’s ginseng growers net federal funds to promote their crop
Grower plans to take tobacco appeal to court
Poultry and dairy producers could lose licenses too, says former quota holder
Hearing on quota transactions to go ahead
Tribunal rejects tobacco board assertion that it has no jurisdiction to hear appeal
Feds change tobacco license eligibility requirements
Former growers’ family members now permitted to try their hand in the industry
The end of the family tobacco farm
Critic says transition program affects ‘the very structure of the family enterprise’
Photo: Larry Martin