Jan 23, 2020 | blog
OFA provided its support for a proposed comprehensive business plan to advance large scale agricultural development, expansion and investment in north-eastern Ontario’s Great Clay Belt. Ontario’s Great Clay Belt represents a significant opportunity to expand the...
Jan 23, 2020 | blog
OFA presented to the Ontario Legislative Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs as part of the Committee’s Pre-budget Hearings. OFA outlined its key priorities for growing Ontario’s agri-food sector and our rural communities. Sound investments in rural...
Jan 23, 2020 | blog
OXFORD COUNTY — One year ago, Western Ontario real estate appraiser Ryan Parker said he wouldn’t be surprised if 2019 saw land price hit $30,000 an acre. It happened. Parker, of Valco Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants, saw several pieces of land sell for at least...
Jan 23, 2020 | blog
By Connor Lynch On-farm, farm-related fatalities in Ontario hit a new low last year. According to reports gathered by Farmers Forum and the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, there were three on-farm, farm-related fatal accidents in Ontario in 2019. None were...
Jan 23, 2020 | blog
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University of Guelph is home to the only federally licensed university abattoir in Canada. The almost 50-year-old facility recently underwent a $2.5 million overhaul, re-opening last year as a modern meat science laboratory. Why it matters:...
Jan 23, 2020 | blog
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) marked its 40th anniversary during its annual educational conference in December in Belleville. But it is also looking ahead, as the ideas that it has espoused, regenerative farming and...
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