I know farmers take trespassing seriously. There are numerous risks associated with people wandering on and through the farm. There’s the risk of a biosecurity breach that could result in […] Read more
Opinion: Guard against electronic trespassers
Slow burn: Weed control at 0.2 kilometres per hour
A laser weeder helps with weed control in high-value crops
Kerr Farms was presented with a challenge by one of the buyers for its conventional carrots: could they grow them organically? Nature’s Finest, a major Ontario supplier of root vegetables […] Read more
VIDEO: Autonomous equipment evolves on the farm
A tour put on by Ontario’s Autonomous Working Group shows reliability and field uses increase for farm robots
Autonomous equipment use in Ontario agriculture is growing, but mostly in areas where crop value is high and the challenge of finding human help for crop care has dire consequences […] Read more
PHOTOS: Here come the crop robots
Here are some of the autonomous units in use and research in Ontario this summer.
At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility
Glacier FarmMedia – Slow-swimming bull sperm will have no place to hide. A Scottish company, Dyneval, has created a new semen analyzer that measures a wider range of concentrations of […] Read more
At Ag in Motion: Water trough monitoring made easier
Glacier FarmMedia – Imagine being able to run to the lake without worrying about water trough levels for grazing cattle. That’s the scenario that drove Katlin and his brother Dustin […] Read more
Farmtario launches DairyPlus
Visit new dairy site for latest, and archived dairy production information
Farmtario and our parent company Glacier FarmMedia, create a lot of dairy content, but it’s blended in with all the news, crops and other livestock stories, video and audio we […] Read more
Dairy Distillery plans fuel ethanol plant in Michigan
The plant in Michigan plans to produce 2.2 million gallons of ethanol per year to displace 14,000 tonnes of carbon
Ontario’s Dairy Distillery is moving into a new type of alcohol through a partnership with a Michigan dairy co-operative to process waste milk permeate into ethanol. Dairy Distillery is known […] Read more
Opinion: Farmtario celebrates five years
Five years ago, my colleagues and I at Glacier FarmMedia set out to change the agriculture publishing landscape in Ontario. We didn’t know how it would go, and it was […] Read more
Opinion: Don’t forget about managing crop price risk
By the time you read this, spring should be well underway, with March behind us, the sun feeling good and the soil warming. That sounds all warm and comfortable after […] Read more