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Ontario firefighters battle two barn fires over the weekend

December 19, 2016

Ontario Government investing in manufacturing

December 14, 2016

Goderich barn fire claims more than 600 pigs; another fire damages barn near Monkton

December 5, 2016

Ontario celebrates second annual Christmas Tree Day

December 2, 2016

Urban sprawl must stop

November 30, 2016

Ontario producer takes to Twitter after finishing field work

November 30, 2016

Ontario dairy cow tests positive for rabies

November 24, 2016

Canadian produce industry meets with Members of Parliament

November 29, 2016

Two barn fires occur in Ontario between Friday and Sunday

November 21, 2016

Canadian livestock a focus of leaked Trump memo

November 16, 2016

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Mushroom farm fined $75K for worker injury

May 17, 2019

Highline Produce Ltd. has been convicted of failing to “take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker at a workplace,' a court bulletin says. On May 15, 2018, a farm worker at the company’s Leamington, Ont. mushroom farm was caught in a moving cable and sustained a “critical injury.” The conviction came yesterday in a Leamington courtroom. The injured employee was working in a grow room, using a hydraulic net winch to pull netting across the mushroom beds and fill them with compost. While guiding two hydraulic winch cables into... read more

You can still apply nitrogen

May 16, 2019

It’s been a very wet spring in Ontario and wheat farmers are having challenges with spring fieldwork. One item of major concern is fertilizer applications. Nitrogen and sulphur applications are delayed by wet conditions and some farmers are reportedly seeing flag leaves emerge without having put their fertilizer down. Producers still have a chance to save the crop, though, Steph Kowalski, agronomy lead with The Agromart Group, told Farms.com. “The simple answer to ‘What do I do?’ is that you’ll usually get a yield response until the full flag leaf emerges,... read more

Ont. producers waiting to plant

May 14, 2019

Ontario cash crop farmers are still waiting for Mother Nature to give them a consistent planting window. Cool temperatures and consecutive days of rain have led to soggy fields and idle planters. For some farmers, spring 2019 is one of the wettest they can remember. “We spread some manure but it was getting packed too much so we had to quit, and we have no corn planted right now,” Gord Masters, a farmer from Kawartha Lakes, Ont., told Farms.com. “We have a book that we write down the dates we start, and last year on May 9 we had planted over 300 acres of corn. The... read more

Cdn. genetics companies wait for export licenses

May 10, 2019

China hasn’t renewed export licenses for two Canadian livestock genetics companies. Alta Genetics in Balzac, Alta. and Semex in Guelph, Ont. are waiting for Chinese confirmation that they can resume exports to China. China represents a significant market for Canadian livestock genetics. Canada exported $3.1 million of beef cattle semen, $6.5 million of dairy semen and almost $800,000 of bovine embryos to China in 2017. China was the top market for beef semen and the fourth-largest market for both the dairy semen and bovine embryos, stats from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada show.... read more

Ont. growers support local schools

May 9, 2019

By Jonathan Martin Ontario’s Fresh from the Farm school fundraiser is accepting submissions for 2019’s programming. Through this program, farmers sell produce to their local schools. The products are bundled with fruits and vegetables from other growers. Students secure bundle orders, which are delivered to their schools’ gyms for pickup. The participating school makes 40 per cent of the revenue. The average school raises around $1,200, the Fresh from the Farm website says. Don Poulin owns Don Poulin Potatoes Inc. He’s been providing potatoes to the program since... read more