Soybean growers in southwestern Ontario’s Essex County have a seven-day extension on the province’s crop insurance deadline to get their crop planted. Agricorp, the province’s crop insurance and farm funding agency, said Monday it would give Essex County farmers until July 7, 2015 to plant their soybeans for this crop year, and until July 10
SW Ont. county gets soybean planting extension
Ont. farmers file for stay of province’s neonic regs
Ontario’s corn and soybean grower group is taking the province’s planned regulations on the use and sale of pesticide-treated seed to court. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) said Monday it filed a request late last week with the provincial Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, seeking a legal “interpretation” of the province’s rules on neonicotinoid-treated
U.S. senators ponder voluntary COOL for beef, pork
Considering a repeal for a meat label law ruled offside by world trade regulators, members of the U.S. Senate’s ag committee are also asking aloud if a voluntary label law for beef and pork would do. At the agriculture committee’s hearings Thursday in Washington, D.C., chairman Pat Roberts told senators trade retaliation from Canada and
A new herbicide called Roundup, and a strike sets back grain exports
Our History: June 1979
This ad in our June 14, 1979 issue told farmers about some uses for a new herbicide called Roundup, which was handy as a spot or patch treatment for quackgrass and other perennials. The crop report for the week ending June 12 said seeding was 75 per cent complete for the province overall, but only
Non-quota laying hen limit tripled
Small-scale farmers can now have 300 laying hens without quota
Farmers in Manitoba can now have up to 300 laying hens without having quota, Manitoba Egg Farmers announced June 8. The new limit for producers operating outside of the supply management system is triple what was available before. Cory Rybuck, general manager for Manitoba Egg Farmers said 300 hens will lay about 90,000 eggs a
Buy out dairy quota with a retail price premium?
A former Liberal MP and a University of Calgary researcher are calling for an immediate phase-out of quotas
Drop the price of milk to the U.S. level, but then add a temporary premium to compensate dairy farmers for the loss of their quota. That’s the plan proposed in a July 10 Globe and Mail opinion piece by Martha Hall Findlay and Jack Mintz of the School of Public Policy at the University of
Canada ratifies UPOV ’91 seed treaty
Canadian crop commodity groups are hailing the federal government’s move to ratify Canada’s participation in the international UPOV ’91 treaty as a signal the country is “open for national and international investment.” Canada’s representatives to the World Trade Organization, on Friday in Geneva, deposited the government’s “instrument of ratification” for the 1991 Act of the
High-fat dairy demand leaving Ont. skim milk homeless
Strong demand for high-butterfat dairy products, soft demand for fluid milk and maxed-out capacity to make skim milk powder have led Ontario’s dairy farmers in recent weeks to dump surplus skim milk in lagoons. A letter to producers last Friday from Dairy Farmers of Ontario board chairman Ralph Dietrich, intended to “put to rest the
Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting
Early data from federal pesticide regulators appear to suggest Ontario’s bee yards are moving past a spell of unusually high death losses seen around the 2012 and 2013 planting seasons. Combining the numbers of acute honey bee mortality “incidents” by bee yard in Ontario in the 2015 pre-planting and planting periods, up to June 11, Health Canada’s
Clydesdale stallion takes first prize in Portage la Prairie
Our History: June 1888
The front page of the June 1888 issue of The Nor-West Farmer and Manitoba Miller featured the Clydesdale stallion “Splendour” owned by Mr. James Walker, Esq. It had captured the first prize and diploma at Portage la Prairie, and was son of the Prince Imperial, which won first prize at the Royal International Show in
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