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Greenhouse vegetable and fruit sales were up 5 and a half per cent in Canada last year. They were worth a total of 1 point 1 billion dollars Statistics Canada says the value of greenhouse vegetable sales in 2011 exceeded sales of field vegetables. That’s the fifth straight year that has happened. The numbers...
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Grain Farmers of Ontario’s Ontario Production Map is back. It’s an online interactive map that shows planting and harvesting rates for corn, soybeans and wheat. Farmers in each district provide information to GFO weekly to keep the data as accurate as possible. GFO launched the map last year. They say it’s back this year...
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Hog farmers aren’t the only ones where Tim Hortons would like to see some changes. The restaurant chain is also calling for enriched hen housing systems for it’s egg suppliers. Crystal MacKay is with Farm and Food Care Ontario. She says Canadian farmers have been very proactive in animal welfare, with lots of examples of...
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Canada’s Chief Veterinarian has issued a strongly-worded statement about the control of scrapie. Doctor Brian Evans says this country’s control measures for the disease are critical to animal health and the economic sustainability of the livestock industry. CFIA spokesperson Penny Greenwood says getting rid of scrapie is necessary to get the U-S border re-opened...
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Rural community groups across the country have a chance for some capital project money from Farm Credit Canada. FCC’s AgriSpirit Fund awards between 5 thousand and 25 thousand dollars for community improvement initiatives. Those initiatives have to meet specific criteria and need to be completed by the end of 2014. The AgriSpirit Fund has...
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A move by Tim Hortons’ doesn’t come as a big surprise to Ontario Pork. The restaurant chain is calling on the pork industry and the company’s suppliers to eliminate gestation stalls for sows. Ontario Pork officials say they have been working with Tims through Farm & Food Care Ontario. Spokesperson Mary Jane Quinn says...
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Loblaws is gearing up to roll the Ontario Corn Fed Beef program to more stores. The company is adding 46 Ontario grocery stores to the program. That makes a total of 200 of the chain’s stores involved. 500 Ontario beef farmers are involved in the program with more expected to join to meet the...
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Ontario farmers are being encouraged to have some input into a provincial initiative to create a food and nutrition strategy. Ontario Federation of Agriculture Director Bette Jean Crews says some of what the initiative is looking at involves farmers directly. CREWS-Sustain-1 Crews suggests some of what was recently included in the National Food Strategy...
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The Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership is getting funding for an agri-rural development consultant. Lambton County council is contributing up to 40 thousand dollars this year for the position. The Lambton Federation of Agriculture and the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance are also contributing to the position. The county’s contribution is on top of the more than one...
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OMAFRA specialists are reporting freeze injury is a serious concern in the winter cereal crop. They’re saying that leaf damage is significant in most fields. But they advise it’s head damage that’s critical. Farmers are being advised to split stems in frost prone areas. Heads should be bright green to yellow. If the head...
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