Insights and Stories of John Greig

At Ag in Motion: Water trough monitoring made easier

Jul. 22, 2023 at 8:08 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Imagine being able to run to the lake without worrying about water trough levels for grazing cattle. That’s the scenario that drove Katlin and his brother Dustin Lang, of Vibank, Sask., to found a company to provide a water trough monitoring system. Designed for troughs that are […]

Looking for carbon sequestration answers

Jul. 2, 2020 at 10:29 pm CDT

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Farmland versus nuclear waste

May. 15, 2020 at 2:20 pm CDT

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Carbon cost increases concern farmers

Feb. 21, 2020 at 10:03 am CST

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Rural Ontarians push back against pot production

Jan. 10, 2020 at 11:23 am CST

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New meat recall prolongs Ryding-Regency shutdown

Oct. 4, 2019 at 4:20 pm CDT

Ryding-Regency Meat Packers remains shut down, making an already tight processing capacity situation event more challenging for Ontario farmers. The Toronto company, along with St. Ann’s Food, announced a recall Tuesday of a long list of its products because of concerns with E. coli O157:H7. More products were added to […]

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Food, farming not expected to be big election issues

Sep. 17, 2019 at 9:10 pm CDT

Canadians don’t think that food and agriculture will be a significant issue in the current federal election. A survey conducted Sept. 9 and released Tuesday by Angus Reid Global with the support of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab shows 31 per cent of Canadians believe food and agriculture will be […]

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Dairy farmers to get direct cash payment as trade compensation

Aug. 16, 2019 at 11:00 am CDT

Canadian dairy farmers will be getting direct cash compensation after the government gave up dairy market access to other countries in recent trade deals. The compensation follows promises by the Trudeau government — and the Harper government before it — that dairy farmers would be compensated in some form for […]

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Agriculture foreign workers get new path to residency

Jul. 12, 2019 at 12:52 pm CDT

Updated, July 15 — The federal government has announced a pilot program that will make it easier for farms and food companies to maintain workers they recruit from around the world. Ahmed Hussen, minister for immigration, refugees and citizenship, announced the program Friday at Maple Leaf Foods in Mississauga. Why […]

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Ontario beef checkoff to rise by $1.50

Feb. 20, 2019 at 8:32 pm CST

Ontario beef farmers have approved an increase of $1.50 in checkoff per animal to fund an ambitious industry-wide marketing effort for Ontario beef. Producers at the Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO) annual meeting in Mississauga on Wednesday voted 87 per cent in favour of the plan. A similar plan was […]

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