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

   ... the neighbour while grabbing any program or selling cash crop with the other. Very sad. reply ... not viable . I am all for competing on a level playing field and ethanol policy is and does exist in the USA so we are on a level ...

   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

   ... County, the other in Wellington County, confirmed today. Five of the eight cases are on farrow to finish operations; the others are on ... 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

   ... 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

   ... specialists 29 engineers 14 biologists Five research managers Three procurement officers For the 235 jobs ... 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

   ... 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

   ... Supreme Court decision concerning genetically engineered alfalfa. Supporters and opponents of commercialization of the glyphosate ... 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

   ... administrative and management people plus four to five laboratory workers and scientists. BF Description ... 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

    ... in Ontario’s Day of Action to stop genetically modified alfalfa from being commercially released in Canada is the support farmers got ... a different group of herbicide after you go back to another crop, but many farmers, such as myself, switch between different groups of ...

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