Insights and Stories on Ontario

Dec. 29, 2016 at 11:56 am CST

A rural municipality north of Kitchener, Ont. wants the region’s growing farms to pay more of the cost to fix its crumbling roads, which could set a worrisome precedent for farmers. The Township of Mapleton is struggling to find ways to pay for road upgrades and is proposing to add […]

By John Greig

Dec. 9, 2016 at 1:06 pm CST

Statistics Canada has confirmed what most farmers in Ontario knew this past summer: Hot and droughty conditions drove production of corn and soybeans almost 10 per cent lower than 2015 levels. StatsCan’s harvest report, released this week, also showed the large wheat crop in Ontario was a record, with a […]

By John Greig

Nov. 30, 2016 at 7:41 pm CST

With an Ontario duck farm depopulated and disinfected, and no new outbreaks in the three following months, Canada has again declared itself free of notifiable avian flu. The federal government announced Wednesday it has informed the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is considered free of avian influenza […]

By Staff

Nov. 30, 2016 at 5:37 pm CST

A strain of salmonella resistant to multiple antimicrobials is spreading in Ontario and Quebec cattle herds. There have been 23 cases of Salmonella Dublin in 15 herds reported in Ontario since 2012, but the numbers have been increasing each year. There were eight cases reported in 2015 and four in […]

By John Greig

Nov. 26, 2016 at 4:21 pm CST

Farmers will be able to protect their livestock and families from Algonquin wolves in any areas and hunting will only be restricted in areas near four parks, allaying some concerns of farmers after the wolf was declared a threatened species. Kathryn McGarry, Ontario minister of natural resources and forestry, spoke […]

By John Greig