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Burnbrae operates the largest solar-powered egg farm in Canada.
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Burnbrae solar farm wins Excellence in Agriculture award

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Burnbrae Farms is one of the recipients of the Ontario government’s Excellence in Agriculture awards. The province made the announcement at the start of the recent Ontario Agriculture Week. Burnbrae Farms operates the largest solar-powered egg farm in Canada, operating off the electricity grid. Four barns use high-efficiency motors, lighting and ventilation systems to ensure […] Read more
Canada Brand gets update for digital world
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Canada Brand gets update for digital world

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The federal government will refresh the Canada Brand platform to ensure access to new graphics and tools optimized for today’s digital platforms. The refresh will also enable them to reach more consumers and enhance virtual connections with international buyers, and will include a modernized look, signature, messaging, and suite of digital-first marketing products for the […] Read more
Ursula van den Heuvel O’Neil farms in Lambton County and has for years worked to obtain payment for farmers missed by the Ontario Cattle, Hog and Horticulture Payment program.
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Long-term lessons from a problem program

A farmer worries that conditions that led to the OCHHP program could still be in place

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Some Ontario farmers who failed to get a payment from an OMAFRA program more than a decade ago are concerned that the reasons the program failed could be replicated in new programs with the same poor results. They continue a sometimes lonely fight in the courts and in the court of public opinion to get […] Read more
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How OMAFRA methods changed after critical report

An Auditor General’s report in 2017 looked for changes in disaster funding and interim payment

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OMAFRA has increased its monitoring of overpayments as part of its response to a 2017 Auditor General’s report that criticized farm support programs. Interim payments – faster flowing payments to help farmers – and their accuracy, were at the core of the Auditor General’s concerns. After the 2017 audit, OMAFRA and Agricorp (which administers many […] Read more
What can we expect Ontario's livestock sector to look like in a post-COVID world?
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Comment: Are livestock industries prepared for life after COVID?

Labour, consumer trends, accountability and cross-sector co-operation have to be managed

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Are we there yet? Every parent has heard that phrase coming from the backseat. Now, as adults, we are asking that question relative to the pandemic. The end date is unknown, but what can we expect the Ontario livestock sector to look like post-COVID? I heard once that “life can only be understood backward; but […] Read more
Machinery, News

AGCO appoints new CEO

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AGCO’s long-time chief executive officer and chair of its board of directors is retiring and being replaced from within the company. Martin Richenhagen’s 16 years with the company have been a time of expansion and stability for AGCO and its main Massey Ferguson, Challenger and Fendt brands. Eric Hansotia, the company’s current senior vice president […] Read more
Kathryn Enders is executive director of the Ontario Farmland Trust.
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Locking farmland in a trust ensures succession potential

Land won’t end up split off and sold to developers if it’s under a trust

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The Ontario Farmland Trust can ensure that agricultural land retains that designation in perpetuity with a Farmland Easement Agreement, whether or not owners have a succession plan in place. The agreement – permanent and legally binding – is between the farm owner and the trust. It is registered on the title of the land, which […] Read more
The food supply chain continued to get enough food to people across Canada during COVID-19 lockdown periods.
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Supply chains held during COVID stress, but showed vulnerability in some sectors

Dutch research finds that people have reduced their food waste during COVID restrictions

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Agriculture and food supply chains bent and held during the early COVID-19 pandemic, but it depends on your point of view whether that means change is needed, especially to encourage more reliance on local supply of food and agriculture inputs. Bayer Crop Science hosted a panel of agriculture and food supply chain experts recently as […] Read more
Farm & Food Care's Gala in a Box is the base for an online event Nov. 14.
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Box gala replaces Harvest Gala in COVID year

Farm & Food Care Ontario online gala box purchase deadline is Oct. 23

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Farm & Food Care’s Harvest Gala is a gathering place for the agriculture sector, a celebration of the year. COVID-19 has cancelled that event, as it has most others, but the organization has created an alternative that aims to give people some social experience, the chance to help support the organization and some of the […] Read more
Ken McEwan, Ridgetown Campus director, left , Rene Van Acker, Ontario Agriculture College dean, Malcom Campbell, vice-president of research for the University of Guelph, Randy Petttpiece, parliamentary assistant to the agriculture minister, Rick Nicholls, MPP for Leamington and Chatham-Kent, Lorne Hepworth, Chair, Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario (ARIO), Crosby Devitt, CEO of Grain Farmers of Ontario, and Darrin Canniff, mayor of Chatham-Kent, recently helped launch a new crop science building for the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus.
Crops, News

New crop research facility coming to Ridgetown

$6.5 million structure to be completed in spring 2022

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The University of Guelph is constructing a new field crop services building at its Ridgetown campus in an effort to modernize research operations. In an on-campus announcement Oct. 19, public servants and university staff described the soon-to-be 12,000 square foot facility as a long-awaited replacement for the current and much-dated field crop services building.   […] Read more

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