The Ottawa Valley Farm show is officially open for its 2025 edition, running from March 11 to March 13, 2025 at the EY Centre in Ottawa.
Video: Ottawa Valley Farm Show 2025 opens with busy first day
The show is organized by a volunteer group and has been running since the 1950s
New uses for agriculture drones and their data
Operators are measuring everything from methane to feed bunks
Operators are measuring everything from methane to feed bunks as uses expand for agriculture drones. TerraNova UAV talked about new uses at the London Farm Show 2025.
Pondering a World Without Cows
Documentary outlines the impact of cows on people, economies and the environment
Alltech hosted the Canadian screening of a documentary it created called World Without Cows. It’s a high-production-value documentary focused on livestock’s economic, social and environmental impact.
Most of the spots for lease at The Grove are now full
The Western Fair food and agribusiness accelerator in London provides start up support
The Grove, an incubator for food and agriculture businesses at the Western Fair District in London is almost full, with 16 of 20 spots filled.
Harvest Hands provides the link between producers of surplus food and hungry people
The southern Ontario organization redistributes about $225,000 worth of food each week
Harvest Hands, a southern Ontario organization, partners with farmers, retailers and processors to redistribute about $225,000 of surplus food each week.
Cleaning poultry barns improves disinfection results
There are now on-farm testers to check for how well barn disinfection worked
Arian de Bekker of Neogen says that cleaning poultry barns down to the bare surface means that disinfection products will work better.
Dairy LPI gets last minute updates
A dairy farmer figured out that the last index was over-weighted to milk production
The dairy Lifetime Performance Index will be updated April 1 and includes some changes in trait weighting, including milk production as a dairy farmer realized it was over-emphasized.
Herds eliminating feed pellets in milking robots
Cows shown to learn to be milked without pellets in the robot in guided traffic systems
Updated March 12, 2025 Feeding cows to entice them to visit milking robots has been a best practice since cows started being milked automatically in Canada about 25 years ago. Farms are questioning that rule and getting their cows to milk well without supplementing them in the robot. Why it matters: Lowering costs and simplifying […] Read more
New corn, soybean pesticides have no export concerns
Yearly review of 2025 launches protects against issues before products come to market
Three corn pesticides to be launched in the Ontario market in 2025 have been approved by a committee that makes sure there will be no export market concerns with those products being used in the province.
Top tips for successful dairy calf weaning
A step-down approach to weaning is critical as today’s calves consume more milk
Dairy calves weaned gradually are more likely to have greater gain, more feed consumption and fewer health issues than those weaned abruptly.
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