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1. Federal buyout gives 74 pork producers $10.5 million to leave

   ... Council encourages producers to consider the loan program. Farm Credit Canada, the Bank of Montreal, the Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 10 2012 - 14:10 - 0 comments

2. Canada’s pork producers want trade agreement

   ... pork industry needs a trade deal with South Korea within the year to avoid losing market share to the United States says Canadian Pork ... pending. Vincent has been a farmer for 43 years. His farm sells 25,000 pigs a year. He farms at Sainte-Séraphine,Quebec, near ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 21 2012 - 21:19 - 0 comments

3. Cattle producers rally around new research funds

   ... has been working on a funding strategy for over a year and is “very supportive” of the funding program. “Ultimately, the ... The Canadian beef industry is the largest source of farm cash receipts with around $25 billion generated annually representing 11 ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 25 2010 - 17:23 - 3 comments

4. OFA stands its ground on need for natural gas for rural Ontario

   ... of instances where suppliers have borrowed propane from farm customers with large storage facilities in order to meet the needs of ... Wholesale electricity prices in January and February this year were higher than at any time in the past eight years, Miller said. The ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 1 2014 - 13:48 - 2 comments

5. Government takes another stab at Local Food Act

   ... bill with the same name, introduced at Queen’s Park last year, died after former premier Dalton McGuinty suspended the legislature in ... For the past 15 years, that week has been earmarked by farm organizations to celebrate the production of food and farming. “I ...

   dstoneman - Mar 25 2013 - 16:38 - 2 comments

6. Proposal to tax craft cider along the same lines as craft beer earns sweet accolades from Ontario apple growers

   ... per cent of all apples grown in Ontario by 2018. That same year the craft cider industry is projected to hit $35 million in sales in ... Gov is showing how they are not supportive of farms and farm products produced unless they are getting tax dollars . Further Gov is ...

   Mary Baxter - Nov 10 2015 - 10:29 - 7 comments

7. Quinoa test plot shows encouraging results

   ... the growing demand for quinoa on a first-hand basis, at the family-owned garden market across the road from his farm. “We have a big market for it,” he says. Quinoa is planted with ...

   Mary Baxter - Dec 18 2013 - 21:59 - 1 comment

8. Montreal processor now Ontario’s only supplier of kosher chicken

   ... What do you mean by halal chicken when Sargent farm used electricity before slaughtering their chicken. According to Shariaa law an animal is halal as long as it ...

   Mary Baxter - May 31 2013 - 16:51 - 1 comment

9. More monitoring for Ontario’s greenhouse growers

   ... environmental regulations. The inspections began last year and the program is being done over three years, says Justine Taylor, ... to agriculture then you best start to question your general farm org position on supporting the growth of employment in Agriculture . Was ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 24 2016 - 09:45 - 2 comments

10. Company to appear on Dragon’s Den to seek funds for quinoa processing

    ... had hoped to have the plant operational in the fall of that year. However, the plant hasn’t been built yet because he has been going ... exist to improve the crop’s performance at the farm and processing levels to be able to capture end-market demands more ...

    Mary Baxter - Mar 3 2015 - 18:46 - 1 comment