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1. Protecting supply management a key provincial position at federal agriculture meeting

   ... and protecting the supply management system as Canada works out various trade deals is the number one item on the plate of the ... the neighbour while grabbing any program or selling cash crop with the other. Very sad. reply ...

   dstoneman - Jul 15 2014 - 15:02 - 15 comments

2. Two well-paid CEOs and an off-again on-again ADM

   ... deputy minister, policy division, $156,007.10 and $258.80 in taxable benefits. George Borovilos, business development branch ... reporting salaries included: The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, executive director Andrew Graham, $129,804.08 ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 6 2016 - 16:48 - 0 comments

3. Cattle prices slide

   ... back in July were at $3.45 (per pound); today we’re at $2.80; that’s significant,” Schaus said in an interview from his Elmwood ... population of participating farmers and a shift to cash crop production following Canada’s BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) ...

   Mary Baxter - Sep 30 2015 - 17:26 - 1 comment

4. Number of PED cases in Ontario begins to mount

   ... province for the first time Jan. 22. However, Cripps points out in an email today that older animals can recover and, “in fact, some are ... The program is being administered by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association. Program guides, application forms and ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 6 2014 - 20:24 - 2 comments

5. Ontario general farm reps protest treatment of Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers

   ... Farm Products Marketing Commission next month to find out why it’s proposing to rescind the board’s price negotiating powers. In ... of a farmer is to work with other farmers to produce a crop to actually make a living. We work with our partners, including the food ...

   Mary Baxter - Jul 29 2016 - 09:22 - 9 comments

6. Federal cuts target agricultural research

   ... Wales says “we’re not getting any straight answers yet out of the federal government about exactly what did these people do and what ... they represent are involved in several areas, such as crop management strategy development, minimizing the farming industry’s ...

   Mary Baxter - May 15 2013 - 18:17 - 2 comments

7. Wage hike spells disaster for growers

   ... These guys should try working for min wage see how far in life they get, then they would welcome the wage hike. reply ... The orchard worker gets his hourly wage no matter what the crop return - same for the diesel and fertilizer supplier The farm making ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 10 2012 - 14:18 - 6 comments

8. GMO alfalfa furor crosses borders

   ... advanced by opponents of biotech crops are completely out of pace with the need to sustain the future livelihood of larger world ... the substantially increased production risk of getting no crop at all. For my money, I can't accept the combined chances of lower ...

   dstoneman - Jun 24 2010 - 17:58 - 3 comments

9. Group will appeal Dundalk fertilizer facility approvals

   ... Lystek business development director, says they found out Oct. 9 their air, noise, waste plus storm and surface water environmental ... regulations, presents negligible risk to the consumer, to crop production and to the environment.” Myth #3: Governments have not ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 12 2012 - 09:46 - 7 comments

10. GMO-alfalfa protest united farmers and consumers, say organizers

    ... a different group of herbicide after you go back to another crop, but many farmers, such as myself, switch between different groups of ... your God Monsanto will even find a replacement for soil life some day... so until then lets just blast off all the round up we can and ...

    Mary Baxter - Apr 10 2013 - 09:28 - 12 comments