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The slowdown of the prices farmers get for their commodities continued in February. Statistics Canada says the prices went up 3 point 4 per cent from February of 2011. The agency says that index has trended upwards since August of 2010. But the increase has been slowing since October of last year. Statscan says...
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Holstein Canada considers Genotyping an important growth area. President Glen McNeil says they’ll be launching a new service called GenoID in June. HOLSTEIN-McNeil-1 McNeil says the service will also be used to register animals and provide a genetic evaluation. Holstein Canada also has plans to expand their field service staff and commercialize the Canadian...
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The Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario calls it a definite step in the right direction. OMAFRA and the Ministry of Environment are apparently looking at alternative ways to regulate the management of agricultural waste water. And they appear willing to involve stakeholders in the process. The CFFO says the current approach has farmers needing...
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Proposed changes to the federal Fisheries Act are getting the thumbs up from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. CFA President Ron Bonnett says it’s a chance to fully re-engage the agricultural community in conservation and the protection and enhancement of fish habitat. The Federation says the old rules didn’t recognize that farmers rely on...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is toughening up it’s avian influenza rules dealing with domestic poultry. It’s added low pathogenicity H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses to the list of reportable diseases. Those viruses typically cause few or no visible signs of illness in infected birds. But they do have the potential to mutate...
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Ontario farmers could be planting record corn and soybean acres this year. Statistics Canada has released it’s early planting intentions survey. The survey says Ontario farmers expect to seed 2 point 24 million acres of corn for grain. That’s up almost 18 per cent from last year and would break the previous record of...
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A Huron County man is the new president of Holstein Canada. Glen McNeil of the Goderich area took over the organisation’s top spot at it’s recent annual meeting in Manitoba. McNeil moves up from the Board Chairman position. The two Ontario directors for Holstein Canada are John Buckley of Lindsay and Ron Sleeth of...
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PigTrace Canada is looking for some ‘early adopters’. PigTrace is working on a system to report information and movement data nationally. They’re hoping to get some industry stakeholders involved to trial the PigTrace system while it’s still voluntary. The goal has been to build a simple and easy to use system. The thinking is...
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The Ontario Cattlemen’s Association has it’s first Leadership Development Program grads. The program is in collaboration for the Rural Ontario Institute. It’s goal is to recruit and train a group of visionary organisation leaders capable of moving the Ontario beef industry forward. The first year was a pilot. It graduated 15 people. The list...
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Lock up your ATV’s. Two of them have been stolen from Perth County farms recently. Perth OPP say both theft reports came in to them this past Friday. One was stolen from a farm on Line 29 in Perth South. The other ATV was stolen from a farm on Perth Line 86 in North...
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