Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest producer and processor of hogs, has a significant plan to reduce carbon emissions from its operations. The company has set a goal of reducing its […] Read more
Smithfield looks through whole supply chain to limit carbon impact
Manure remains the largest impact on carbon for the worldwide swine production company
Search still on for blockchain business value
The secure ledger system was supposed to revolutionize food transactions, but a lack of data sharing has hindered adoption
The world has been hearing about blockchain for years, but several advocates and innovators of the system admit that there’s not that much to show for it yet. Why it […] Read more
Fence disputes to fall to municipalities to resolve
The Line Fences Act has provided a province-wide system for fence dispute resolution
The provincial government is eliminating the Line Fences Act, which has kept the peace relating to property border fences in rural Ontario for generations. The act will be eliminated in […] Read more
Getting “lean” onto the farm
Can principles that originated in car factories improve efficiency on the farm?
An OMAFRA project is exploring how farmers can apply the kind of practices that made Toyota a world leader in car manufacturing to improve farm profitability. The ministry’s Environmental Management […] Read more
Currie wins fourth term as Ontario Federation of Agriculture president
Peggy Brekveld and Mark Reusser were re-elected as vice-presidents for the next year
Keith Currie is back as president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA). Currie won a fourth one-year term as president at the OFA annual meeting Nov. 18, 2019 in […] Read more
Editorial: Finding new ways of thinking
It pays to get out of your comfort zone sometimes, pushed to think a bit differently — especially if it’s about your line of work or something about which you […] Read more
Maple Leaf hits carbon neutral
The company has been working throughout its operations to reduce environmental impact
Maple Leaf Foods says its operations are carbon neutral, a status achieved through improvements in its own operations and investments in offsets elsewhere. The company claims to be the first […] Read more
Straw moves up in the world
The golden stems of cereals have increased so much in value, they are nearing the price of hay
Straw is having a big year. The golden-stemmed bottom half of the wheat plant has always been the low-priced also-ran, compared to wheat kernels and hay. Over the past 15 […] Read more
Western bean cutworm trait availability slowly expanding
Other than trait owner Syngenta, few companies have released a wide range of hybrids
Updated Nov. 6, 2019 Western bean cutworm is now the most economically significant pest of corn in Ontario, and its rise took seed companies by surprise. As a result, genetically […] Read more
Editorial: Exporting agriculture’s productivity miracle
Global productivity in agriculture production continues to grow healthily, but not yet fast enough to feed the expected 10 billion people on the planet by 2050. That’s according to the […] Read more
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