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OMAFRA engineer Alex Barrie examines the damage done to the soil and to his pressure sensor by a fully-loaded gravity wagon during a Compaction Day event hosted on Aug. 5 by the Perth County chapter of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association.
Crops, Machinery

Making the case for low-pressure tires and waiting out the wet

Last fall’s harvest weather increased compaction risk

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Signs of soil compaction are evident across Ontario this year due to persistently wet weather during the harvest and wheat planting seasons in fall 2021, crop consultant Peter Johnson told attendees of a Compaction Day on-farm demonstration in Rostock Aug. 5. Under soil conditions purposefully manipulated to mimic a wet spring, a recently harvested wheat […] Read more
File photo of soy-based milk alternatives. (SherSor/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

Lactalis to shift from milk to near-milk at Sudbury

Facility to halt fluid milk processing, switch to plant-based product lines

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The processor of the Beatrice and Lactantia milk brands plans to put its fluid milk processing plant in northern Ontario over to plant-based dairy substitutes. The Canadian arm of France’s Lactalis said Wednesday it will stop fluid milk processing and packaging at its plant at Sudbury effective Sept. 30 and convert that plant to a […] Read more
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on July 19 attended an event in Winnipeg marking the 50th anniversary of Cereals Canada with that organization’s CEO Dean Dias. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

Direct compensation for fertilizer tariffs not on table

Eastern farm groups call for help ahead of fall seeding

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Farmers in Eastern Canada who rely on imports of Russian-made fertilizers aren’t going to see direct compensation for the federal government’s general tariff on those products. A clutch of farmer and ag industry groups on July 15 put forward a new request to Ottawa for compensation to farmers “negatively impacted” by a 35 per cent […] Read more
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Crops

Denmark’s Royal Unibrew to buy Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery

Brewer seeks new capacity in North America

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Corrected, July 18 — Copenhagen | Reuters –– Danish brewer and beverage maker Royal Unibrew will acquire Toronto craft brewer Amsterdam Brewery in a deal valued at around 250 million Danish crowns (C$44 million), Royal Unibrew said in a statement on Friday. “The acquisition we are doing today is very important for the future growth […] Read more
Corn seedlings in southern Ontario in 2021. (Farmtario photo by John Greig)
Crops

StatCan trims Canadian corn, soy acreage estimates

Grain corn acreage still expected up from 2021 level

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New Statistics Canada projections show the country’s grain corn and soybean growers have slightly curbed their enthusiasm for those crops compared to their intentions earlier in the year. StatCan on Tuesday released the results of its 2022 June field crop survey, conducted between May 13 and June 12, projecting Canadian corn area at 3.633 million […] Read more
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Crops

Rain helps Ontario crops as last of seeding presses on

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MarketsFarm — Rains were timely in helping with crop establishment, according to the latest report from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). As some spring planting remained to be completed, amounts of precipitation ranged from 12 to 55 millimetres. While herbicide applications on cereals continued in southern Ontario, planting in the […] Read more
Sougata Pahari (r) and Jim Clark (l) of Korechi Innovations, pictured with one of their company’s prototype RoamIO robots at Haggerty Creek in 2020. The robot design was the foundation of a larger farm platform now used by the Bothwell business.
Machinery

Why is Ontario a hub for ag tech development?

Diversity of industry, prolific expertise and other factors help propel innovation

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Robotics and autonomous equipment are taking the agriculture sector by storm, or at least appear poised to do so in some areas. For technology developers in Ontario, a diverse economic environment and comparatively large pool of expertise have helped make the province one of many artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics development hubs. Daniel Bath, research […] Read more
suburban development
News

Home Grown marks one-year anniversary

OFA's campaign champions the protection of agricultural land

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The Home Grown campaign underscores one unalienable truth – you cannot farm without farmland, said Peggy Brekveld. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) advocacy and awareness campaign is now one year old, and is beginning to gain traction around responsible land planning policies that acknowledge the importance of preserving farmland to support the production of […] Read more
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Crops, News

New large-scale distillery an opportunity for grain growers

Crown Royal parent company announces plans for distillery near Sarnia

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More than 60 years after the most recent large-scale construction of an alcoholic beverage distillery in Canada, Britain-based Diageo is set to break ground this summer near Sarnia on a facility to dramatically boost production of its flagship Crown Royal Canadian whisky. It will, according to Spirits Canada CEO Jan Westcott, “be a very sizeable […] Read more
Lisa Thompson. (LisathompsonMPP.ca)

Ontario ag minister returns in another Tory majority

Lisa Thompson retains seat in election

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Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives will head back to the legislature with their incumbent agriculture minister at the caucus table. Lisa Thompson, Premier Doug Ford’s minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs since June last year, easily held her southwestern riding of Huron-Bruce in Thursday’s provincial election by a spread of 15,594 votes over Liberal challenger […] Read more

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