There is a palpable sense of angst in the agricultural community these days as farmers struggle with the immediate challenge of harvesting fields in weather the seems to keep turning against them. But it’s more than an exhausting harvest. All that talk they’ve been hearing in recent years about unlimited market opportunities has turned out […] Read more
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Opinion: Farm angst is about more than a challenging harvest
How the government is taxing income-splitting
What farm businesses need to know heading into year-end
In 2017, the federal government proposed changes to its tax on split income (TOSI). Since then, due in part to opposition by farmers and farm groups, those changes evolved. Now, after coming into effect for the 2018 tax year, financial advisers have more concrete knowledge of how TOSI actually applies. Why it matters: Tax on […] Read more
Fence disputes to fall to municipalities to resolve
The Line Fences Act has provided a province-wide system for fence dispute resolution
The provincial government is eliminating the Line Fences Act, which has kept the peace relating to property border fences in rural Ontario for generations. The act will be eliminated in two years if Bill 132, a large piece of legislation designed to reduce government regulation across 15 ministries – called an omnibus bill – passes. […] Read more
Getting “lean” onto the farm
Can principles that originated in car factories improve efficiency on the farm?
An OMAFRA project is exploring how farmers can apply the kind of practices that made Toyota a world leader in car manufacturing to improve farm profitability. The ministry’s Environmental Management Branch has been working with farmers and food manufacturers to see how conducting Lean principle audits of their operations can help efficiency and productivity. Why […] Read more
Bibeau remains federal agriculture minister in shuffle
Updated, Nov. 21— Quebec MP Marie-Claude Bibeau retains her role as federal minister of agriculture and agri-food in Wednesday’s cabinet shake-up for the Liberals’ minority government. Bibeau will join her colleagues — including returning Transport Minister Marc Garneau and new Labour Minister Filomena Tassi, a Hamilton MP and former minister for seniors — in having […] Read more
Currie wins fourth term as Ontario Federation of Agriculture president
Peggy Brekveld and Mark Reusser were re-elected as vice-presidents for the next year
Keith Currie is back as president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA). Currie won a fourth one-year term as president at the OFA annual meeting Nov. 18, 2019 in Hamilton. The Simcoe County farmer won a close election over Peggy Brekveld, who has been an OFA vice president for the past five years. She […] Read more
Editorial: Finding new ways of thinking
It pays to get out of your comfort zone sometimes, pushed to think a bit differently — especially if it’s about your line of work or something about which you are passionate. I recently attended a conference called the Sustainability and Digitalization Leaders in Agriculture. When the organizers first reached out to me — likely […] Read more
New trade order called bad news for Canada
A new report says Canada and its farmers aren’t equipped to deal with a move away from the ‘liberal world order’
Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers face a starkly worsened long-term world market for their crops and livestock, fears a Canadian agricultural economics analysis firm. And that means many basic assumptions of how farm markets and prices behave might have to be radically reconsidered. “Some of the assumptions of the liberal world order — price arbitrage and […] Read more
Drones helping farmers control pests, and keep kids in school
In addition to helping farmers map fields and fertilize more efficiently, they also annoy pests
Thomson Reuters Foundation – Ephraim Kofi Kenney does not like to work in the fields scaring pests away. But today he must. A flock of migratory birds has repeatedly invaded his parents’ rice plot outside Accra, Ghana’s capital, and the 16-year-old has been tasked with keeping the invaders away from the young crop. If he […] Read more
Action needed on trade talks, supply/demand report out Friday
MarketsFarm – There needs to be some kind of firm, tangible action when it comes to the partial trade agreement between the United States and China, said Steve Georgy of Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. He pointed to China, which recently said it wants some of the tariffs the U.S. has on its imports to […] Read more
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