The highlight of Roy's basement museum is a model replica of his family's barn in the middle of the room. Intricately painted in the original red, with a green roof and white trim, it reads "F. W. Yungblut & Sons" in white letters on the side...
There's nothing quite like a field of canola in full bloom, a barley field making waves in the wind, or a group of excited cattle mowing down on a field of clover. They are rare enough to see these days, with corn and soybeans more common...
Dr. Shari van de Pol brings cutting-edge technology to dairy farmers' fingertips...
The 22% interest rates of the 1980s and the Ontario farmers who pushed back ...
This month, we are heading back 30 years to the May 1995 issue of the Rural Voice and, as you could perhaps guess from the cover, it had a strong focus on barns and the building boom of the 1990s...
Imagine a place where people -- young and old, rural and urban -- come to learn about agriculture and food. Whether on a school trip or a family outing, people walk through both permanent and rotating exhibits which give them a fun and interactive...
LaVerne Weber walks us across a rolling, 110-acre field in northern Illinois, dotted with control structures along the perimeter and down a grassed waterway running through the middle...
A few weeks ago, a message came across my news feed letting me know that screech owls were having a tough winter. The thick snow cover has been protecting the mice, moles, and voles causing the owls to hunt in areas that they would not normally ...
It was a quiet morning when Bob Rowe toured me around Freedom Syrup headquarters back in the sugar bush, south of Walton, currently owned by Jeff and Shannon McGavin and family..
Maybe you haven't heard of Nick Szabo yet, but many of you would have. He was born and raised on a hog farm near Kirkton and was a manure contractor that liked to think big...
"Buffalo Ben" Van Haastert's love for his herd of prairie bison is tempered by a healthy dose of respect.
"They look very clumsy," he cautioned as we prepared to deliver a large round bale of hay into a feeder. "But that can change in three seconds."
Three young farmers share their experience growing for ethnic markets in Ontario....
While you may know John and Betty Stafford for their involvement in countless agricultural, community and sports organizations, we thought we'd treat you, dear readers, to their love story, in honour of Valentine's Day this month....
From a local shop to a globally-loved brand,
Mark Horst has built the equipment that saves the market for small square bales.
The rise of Ontario's hay co-op and growing exports to the Middle East.
On November 28, 2024, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that it would be moving forward with its plan to create a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) ....
Owen Riegling is a man with momentum. It has only been two and a half years since he won the Emerging Artist Showcase that kicked his Country music career into high gear, and a whole heck of a lot has happened since then...
From the moment she burst onto the scene earlier this year, two-year-old Chantilly has been making a name for herself in the highly competitive world of Ontario harness racing...
Residents from Palmerston and Kincardine are fundraising to purchase MRI scanners for their hospitals, bringing life-saving technology closer to home.
Deep underground, aquifers are genuinely mysterious, but many Rural Voice readers, like Finley Cameron, will find themselves living on the most curious of all, a karst bedrock aquifer...
What is a farmer, really?
That's a question I've been exploring the past 10 years as editor of The Rural Voice...
It's hard to believe the difference from the lush, healthy woodlot we were walking through compared to photos on a poster depicting the broken, barren bush left after the 2011 Goderich tornado.
The bush being explored this day during the Huron Clean ...
This is the third (perhaps not the final) installment of a series on land trusts and farmland access. In this month's story, a farm near Tiverton is continuing a life the original owners started for it, even now that they are gone...
Forage and grazing specialist, Christine O'Reilly, was having a hard time keeping farmers in line, which was necessary for safety. They couldn't wait to get into the rows of hay cut, raked, conditioned and tedded to compare the result from different ...