The mature rice plants in the field ready for harvest.
Photo: Jodie Aldred
Jim Hawkins and Andy Velle, left, completed the custom harvesting of the one rice field. They look at the rice straw with Wendy Zhang, centre, project and farm manager, with Sydney Boersma, of the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus looking on, right.
Photo: Jodie Aldred
A combine moves through the field of rice near Pain Court, harvesting the first crop for Ontario FangZheng Agriculture Enterprise Inc. with Jim Hawkins and Wendy Zhang in the cab.
Photo: Jodie Aldred
Newly harvested rice.
Photo: Jodie Aldred
Ontario FangZheng Agriculture Enterprise Inc. recently harvested its first field of rice, near Pain Court. It was a small test plot but the farm has plans to increase the acreage next year. Researchers have looked at the potential of growing rice in Ontario on and off, but this is the first commercial attempt at raising the crop here.
