"It was a tough spring for farmers," starts Blair Scott, a farmer, agronomist and co-owner of Sprucedale Agromart, in a conversation that quickly steers away from agronomy...
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair has been celebrating agriculture in the heart of the city since 1922. These days, the Royal runs for 10 days in early November and attracts over 300,000 people to downtown Toronto's Exhibition Place to see ...
When new agricultural studies, products or technologies become available the average person likely doesn't give much thought to how they are developed or where they are tested...
Ontario's drainage industry went through incredible shifts during the 1970s-2000s, and Dave and Doris were right there at the heart of it. In 2005, they were honoured with life memberships by the Land Improvement Contractors of Ontario (LICO) ...
In 1914, four Ontario farm leaders created an organization which, at its peak a mere five years later, had roughly 60,000 members, owned a newspaper, organized farm women, operated a large-scale consumer/ producer co-operative, and governed the province.
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....