Insights and Stories on Ontario

Saskatchewan, Ontario ban birds at events

Oct. 3, 2022 at 3:44 pm CDT

At least two provinces now have bans in place on birds being brought to fall ag fairs and other such events, as cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza pick up again in Canada’s domestic birds. Ontario — which had such a ban in place this spring — reinstated it effective […]

Sollio to exit southwestern Ontario grain handling

Sep. 20, 2022 at 8:33 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Avian flu returns to southwestern Ontario

Sep. 19, 2022 at 1:58 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Ontario halal processor to buy poultry packing capacity

Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:43 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Prices waiting on harvest

Aug. 31, 2022 at 4:31 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

Lactalis to shift from milk to near-milk at Sudbury

Aug. 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm CDT

The processor of the Beatrice and Lactantia milk brands plans to put its fluid milk processing plant in northern Ontario over to plant-based dairy substitutes. The Canadian arm of France’s Lactalis said Wednesday it will stop fluid milk processing and packaging at its plant at Sudbury effective Sept. 30 and […]

By Dave Bedard

Direct compensation for fertilizer tariffs not on table

Jul. 25, 2022 at 7:47 am CDT

Farmers in Eastern Canada who rely on imports of Russian-made fertilizers aren’t going to see direct compensation for the federal government’s general tariff on those products. A clutch of farmer and ag industry groups on July 15 put forward a new request to Ottawa for compensation to farmers “negatively impacted” […]

By Dave Bedard

Denmark’s Royal Unibrew to buy Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery

Jul. 15, 2022 at 3:52 pm CDT

Corrected, July 18 — Copenhagen | Reuters –– Danish brewer and beverage maker Royal Unibrew will acquire Toronto craft brewer Amsterdam Brewery in a deal valued at around 250 million Danish crowns (C$44 million), Royal Unibrew said in a statement on Friday. “The acquisition we are doing today is very […]

By Reuters

StatCan trims Canadian corn, soy acreage estimates

Jul. 6, 2022 at 1:38 am CDT

New Statistics Canada projections show the country’s grain corn and soybean growers have slightly curbed their enthusiasm for those crops compared to their intentions earlier in the year. StatCan on Tuesday released the results of its 2022 June field crop survey, conducted between May 13 and June 12, projecting Canadian […]

By Dave Bedard

Rain helps Ontario crops as last of seeding presses on

Jun. 10, 2022 at 3:53 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Rains were timely in helping with crop establishment, according to the latest report from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). As some spring planting remained to be completed, amounts of precipitation ranged from 12 to 55 millimetres. While herbicide applications on cereals continued in […]

By MarketsFarm