Early May took a turn for the chilly when about 50 members of the Huron-Perth Chapter of the Ontario Woodlot Association joined for their spring tour around Belgrave. The group started at the field on the east side of the Maitland River ...
If you've had a cat or two dropped off or just appear in the barn and thought, "No problem, they'll keep the mice down," you're not alone. Barn cats are just sneaky, beloved characters that come with the territory...
Pulling into the laneway near Duntroon, there is a stunning black building on the hill, with solid lines of windows across it. It is only after a longer look do you see it is actually an old barn....
Doug and Devin Johnston of Maplevue Farms headlined the evening with their family's story, Pitchforks to GPS: A Century of Rural-Urban Change...
It was the most efficiently run meeting I've ever attended and in under an hour the group had raised over $10,000 for a local charity. About 50 women were abuzz at the Drayton community centre in March, dressed in green attire for St. Patrick's Day...
When you rip open bags of corn seed this month, do you ever wonder about all the work and science that goes into it? It's a wonder really. While a corn hybrid will take several years to breed and bring to market, it is also part of a much longer history.
At any farm show, it is apparent that Shannon Bieman -- currently working with Maizex Seeds -- is in high demand among farmers, as they wait around to chat with her about a challenge they may be facing. And she's equally accessible when she's home...
Anyone who fears that society is doomed with the next generations could have changed their minds after walking through the AgRobotics Ontario Challenge at the London Farm Show on March 5...
At the John Deere dealership, the salesman asked what type of farming Nick Alafogiannis was into, livestock or cash cropping. Nick hesitated. On one hand, he does grow a crop. He's a no-till guy and buys in manure. But on the other hand, he's raising ...
What happens when you give curious minds the chance to ask big questions and the time to look around the world for answers? Well, you get the Nuffield agricultural scholarship program...
Frontier Mushrooms - Deb McKee and Darin Kelly- are growing big ideas on a small footprint outside of Holstein, ON
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds carries generations of knowledge and genetics forward
Two years ago, we were blindsided. On March 9, 2024, two representatives of Canacre, an American company, visited six farms and six residential homes in Wilmot township, Waterloo Region, Ontario...
Nitrogen rate trials and a novel de-risking program have some farmers rethinking timing and rates on corn.
Three Huron County farmers have been recognized among Ontario's leading organic producers by OCO last month. Katrina McQuail of Meeting Place Organic Farm; Bill van Nes of St. Brigid's Dairy; and Gemma James-Smith of Bayfield Lavender Farm...
Just south of Punkeydoodles Corners is Pumped Environmental Services, and owner Larry Bearinger's shop is a hub of manure drag-lining equipment and innovation...
People have said it takes a village to raise a child, and in rural Ontario that might look like dedicated 4-H club leaders and community members gathered at a Youth Show and Sale, ready to bid on a kid's first market lamb.
It is the first snow day of the year near Kincardine and, while most kids are sleeping in, Lindsay Dykeman's three boys -- aged nine, eleven and thirteen -- are doing barn chores while she sits down for a phone interview with the Rural Voice.
For a week every January, farmers in Grey and Bruce Counties brave the snowy roads and crowd their trucks into the parking lot of the Elmwood Community Centre. Inside, they are greeted with the smell of a roast beef lunch coming from downstairs....
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by farmland lost. It is hard to know how to make an impact and preserve land for agriculture. But Farms at Work is stepping up and doing something about it. It is one of those changemaker organizations that sees an issue..
When Don Lobb fired up his tractor to start planting in the spring of 1980, he wasn't quite sure what was about to happen...
The Beaver Valley in Grey County, itself carved into the escarpment by the last glacier, exposes the underlying bedrock in a formidable, eroded face overlooking the village of Kimberley. Known as Old Baldy, tourists and Bruce Trail hikers like to have...
If you drove by Grazing Meadows Wagyu outside of Brussels the last two summers, you might have seen a group of Tim and Donna Prior's cows grazing a pasture in a strip. That would have been typical, mind you, but if you were driving by slowly enough...
It was 1940, a time of national emergency. At the start of the Second World War, Hitler's army ruthlessly swept across western Europe. Britain suffered devastating bombing raids and food shortages due to German blockades.