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Grain farmer attack ads come with risk

Many of the frustrations of grain farmers are with issues outside of COVID-19 impact

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The tone of a new advertising campaign created by Grain Farmers of Ontario has created division in the agriculture sector during the COVID-19 crisis. “You’ve already seen the empty shelves. The food supply chain is breaking,” says the advertisement, which comes from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO). A worried-sounding narrator talks about food shortages over […] Read more
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Crops

Bayer reporting progress in Roundup settlement talks

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Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer said on Monday it had made progress seeking a settlement over claims its glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide causes cancer, after Bloomberg reported the company reached a verbal agreement on about 50,000 to 85,000 cases. The drugs and pesticides group is keen to draw a line under the legal dispute, which it […] Read more
Logistics prove to be a bigger challenge than food supply in terms of resilience, says a report.
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New report identifies challenges of COVID-19

Supply isn’t a concern, but processing and moving food have proved to be a challenge

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Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute has identified short- and long-term issues affecting the food system’s resilience. Why it matters: By identifying key obstacles affecting food production and distribution systems, government and industry can draw up action plans to meet the challenges. In a report resulting from discussion with 40 stakeholders, the Ottawa-based […] Read more
A fuel bundle used in Canadian nuclear reactors.
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Letters: A gift horse must sometimes be rejected

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Dear editor, There is a saying that goes, never look a gift horse in the mouth. The origin, centuries old, is that if gifted a horse, don’t look in its mouth to see how old it is by checking its teeth. But what does that mean today? The best definition found is you should accept […] Read more
The Norwood Fall Fair is a popular local event, including a midway.
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34 Ontario fairs cancelled due to COVID-19

Community safety and financial risk cited as reasons not to run in 2020

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Many agricultural societies across Ontario have cancelled their 2020 fairs due to continued concerns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Vince Brennan, manager with the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies (OAAS), says that as of April 29, 34 of the 214 fairs that are members of the OAAS have officially cancelled their events for the year. […] Read more
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Editorial: Tricking out planters has become popular

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Few areas of agriculture see more farm-level innovation these days than we see in planters. There are hundreds if not thousands of permutations of planters and much of that variability is driven by farmer modifications. My wife and I recently were thumbing through various social media feeds. She wondered why I was so intently examining […] Read more
Signs are being created to lobby against the waste facility in South Bruce.
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Farmland versus nuclear waste

Farmland is often taken over for industrial uses, but the debate goes a bit deeper in southern Bruce County

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A proposal to use Bruce County farmland to build a deep repository for spent nuclear fuel bundles has some area farmers worried. The southern part of the county is one of two sites left on the list developed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the national agency created to manage Canada’s nuclear waste. The […] Read more
File photo of a quality control check on fresh peppers in a Canadian vegetable packing plant. (Jeffbergen/E+Getty Images)
Markets

Laid-off foreign workers may get conditional clearance for other jobs

Workers allowed to start new jobs while permits are processed

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Approved temporary foreign workers (TFWs) whose jobs disappeared before they could begin work in Canada this spring can now get much quicker approval to start at other workplaces, including farms, where the workers are needed. The federal government said Tuesday it will, effective “immediately,” temporarily waive its rule requiring a TFW to receive federal approval […] Read more
Cargill-led fund to pay U.S. farmers for carbon capture
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Cargill-led fund to pay U.S. farmers for carbon capture

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Reuters – Global commodities trader Cargill Inc. starting this spring plans to pay American farmers for capturing carbon in their field soils and reducing fertilizer runoff, an executive said. The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund, a partnership with the Iowa Soybean Association and third-party verification company Quantified Ventures, will then sell the environmental credits created […] Read more
Dirk Boogerd is president of the Oxford Federation of Agriculture.
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Oxford County stands apart for tax ratio review

Committee recommends decreasing ratio for second year running

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For the second year in a row, Oxford County is poised to scale back its farm tax ratio – something other rural Ontario municipalities have not done, despite pressure from agricultural lobby organizations. Why it matters: Farmers have seen double digit increases in their tax bills due to the most recent round of MPAC evaluations, […] Read more

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