A group of University of Guelph students placed second at the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) student competition in Kansas City. The 15 students finished second out of 29 teams with […] Read more
Lessons from a winning student team
A University of Guelph marketing team recently placed second in an North American student competition
Bringing high-tech down to earth
These Exeter-area brothers have embraced multi-hybrid planting — but so far results are mixed
When farmers Mike and Geoff Strang went looking for a new planter, they weren’t content with buying the latest technology off the shelf. They took their new Kinze 3600Tr planter […] Read more
A multi-hybrid planter rebuild
How do you take a split hybrid, twin row planter and make it plant dual hybrids one in the front planter row and one in the back? It takes ingenuity, […] Read more
Tracking farm tax reductions
Why have some counties managed to get farm tax rate reductions, while others have not?
Ontario farmers are starting to get tax relief from the massive increases in the value of their land, but the amount of tax relief varies. The reduction of the farm […] Read more
Welcome to Farmtario
Republished from our inaugural, April 30, 2018 issue of Farmtario I hope you are enjoying your first edition of Farmtario. A lot of work has gone into planning and creating […] Read more
Breaking down barriers to export success
Bringing more small and medium-sized businesses to where they are comfortable exporting can help drive agri-food growth
Canadian agriculture has huge opportunity, but the heavy lifting to meet a federal government goal of increasing exports to $75 billion by 2025, has barely begun. A recent gathering of […] Read more
Day-to-day work around the farm doesn’t have to be painful
Here are some tips to avoid injury by evaluating activities and preparing for them
Farmers take their aches and pains as part of their work, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Understanding factors that contribute to on-farm injury can be a start […] Read more
Ontario sets ag equipment export record
Ontario led the country last year in agriculture equipment manufacturing, breaking the national export sales record. About $773 million worth of implement equipment was sold from Ontario in 2017, driven […] Read more
Organic commodity prices still hard to track
Solid information on organic crop pricing remains elusive, especially for the Canadian market. There are similar problems in the rest of the world where fraud and a lack of data […] Read more
Eastern Canadian dairy quota cut
The amount of underproduction credits held by producers is causing concern and could result in more cuts
Dairy quota is being cut by 1.5 per cent in an effort to slow down growing milk production. The committee that manages quota in Canada’s five eastern provinces has cut […] Read more