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Finding employees to fill positions on dairy farms and then keeping them has been a struggle in today's labour market. So how do two successful dairy farms manage it?
It comes down to recruitment, relationship, good benefits and finding a role...
Beekeeping in Ontario has experienced a surge in popularity over the past 10 years, with the number of registered beekeepers in Ontario growing by almost 40 per cent since 2008. No one is quite sure where to attribute the cause of this increased...
After winning the bid to host the provincial event called Sing Swing about a year ago, Grey County Junior Farmers have been busy planning to host members from across the province.
According to Barclay Nap of Wellington County, records show...
T. J. Klopp says he is known around the family farm near Zurich as a bit rushy and "rammy". However, on the day he was thrown from one side of the tractor to the other in a farm accident involving a power take off (PTO), he was slow and calm...
Making hay while the sun shines is such an uplifting, catchy phrase but the actual process is risky as all get out.
How to manage the risk for forage crops (including alfalfa, grasses and corn silage) became a common theme among speakers at the...
After hearing reports of farm families being worried and scared to be on their own yards plus receiving hundreds of letters about aggressive trespassing at food processing plants, it was time to introduce legislation to protect Ontario farmers ...
At ten o'clock on a fine morning in late September, I arrived at Alice Munro's house in Clinton, to pick up Alice and her friend Sally Gregson. We were taking a day trip to Grey County.
This excursion came about from a request Alice made a few weeks...
In my exuberance for the art of canning, I've spoken to my friends over the summer about canning experiences. I am taken aback at the number of 50-year-olds and older who no longer can. "Too much work," they say. "Not enough time," they explain.
As environmentally friendly products grow in popularity and people are becoming more aware of the harm that fast fashion is doing to the environment, so too is the demand for natural, locally sourced farm-raised fibre. Donna Hancock who farms near ...
Susan Chan likes what her family calls, her "projects". Carrying on the legacy of her father, John Hindmarsh, Susan has continued to create conservation projects on the home farm on Highway 21 just outside of Goderich.
Featuring several ponds...
What would compel a Bay Street actuary, someone who once managed a billion dollars of reserve liabilities, to abandon a secure, well-paying job with the potential for upward mobility for the precarious life of small-scale mixed farming?
Graham Learn does not hold back in his support for the Canadian Federal Skilled Worker Program.
"Honestly, it was life changing," said the Oxford County pork producer. "I've got to meet great people from a different country and learn about their ...
It's fitting that we are meeting for Geoff King's "goodbye" story in the Robertson Tract near Auburn. Back in the day, when he first starting working with the Ministry of Natural Resources, King spent many hours in the forest pruning white pine ...
When the goal is to make sure crops maximize the nutrients manure fertilizers and biosolids offer, farmers should be asking themselves three specific questions:
- What organic amendment should I choose?
- What is the purpose of it?
- How do I ...
Some people may look at art like it's a bit in left field. "But, you know, farmers are too," says Gord Lang, who contrived to bring both art and farming together on a silo that is just off-centre from left field...
The fire was so fierce, it literally tore sheets of steel off the walls and flung them around. Richard Keeso could see it happening through the melted polydoors even though he arrived on the scene mere minutes after an alarm revealed a heat sensor...
"This is a first," confessed Strathroy-Caradoc Mayor Joanne Vanderheyden with a smile, deftly inserting a vibrant UltraSour clone into rain-soaked Mt. Brydges-area soil. "I've never planted marijuana in my life."
Mayor Vanderheyden's growth opportunity..
Landowners, residents and farmers who live in the coastal fringe have confirmed that water quality is the most important issue to them regarding the health of Lake Huron.
Swimming and natural shorelines followed closely behind.
When circumstances prevent farmers from getting an animal to the abattoir, Aaron Wall brings his rolling abattoir to them.
AA Cuts Mobile Butchery converts pure loss into full freezers for producers with a healthy, yet injured cow which can't be...
When circumstances prevent farmers from getting an animal to the abattoir, Aaron Wall brings his rolling abattoir to them.
AA Cuts Mobile Butchery converts pure loss into full freezers for producers with a healthy...
This past Spring, on a beautiful evening after the sounds of the day had faded away, Carl Brubacher of Carlotte Farms Inc. near Arthur stood in the midst of a field of corn residue and listened to the earthworms.
When Sean Brady bought acreage in 2009 in Grey County's picturesque Blue Mountains, just south of Collingwood, probably the last thing on the mind of the former home builder and renovator from Toronto was reviving the property's defunct, 1960s-era...
Old farm tractors, like old soldiers, don't ever really die but slowly fade away. That is unless their owner doesn't want them to fade away in which case he or she might make a visit to Fawcett Tractor Supply Ltd. on the outskirts of St. Marys.
Cannabis's rich, pungent, slightly skunky aroma permeated the air as Jason Newton unscrewed and removed the lid from atop a litre-sized jar of dark green dried flower.
"This is the stickiest, stinkiest stuff I've ever grown," he smiled, extending the...