4+ day, 50+ min ago   (153+ words) Ontario Farmer The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has pegged the global inflation rate at 4.1 per cent. Inflation rose in 13 countries and declined in 14, it said. Energy inflation was at more than 10 per cent for the fourth month in…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (150+ words) Ontario Farmer Canadian tariffs on dairy products from the United States that went into effect Sept 8 have drawn worrisome reports from Wisconsin and Ohio. Wisconsin news media reported that the dairy industry ships protein products that are in surplus from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (143+ words) Huron and Perth counties were hit particularly hard as winds topping 100 kilometres an hour, with torrential rain and large hail, swept across southern Ontario. There were tornado warnings for Clinton, Mitchell, Seaforth, Vanastra and south to Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (148+ words) In their campaign to pin the blame for high prices, the United States Department of Justice recently said it is expanding its investigation of record high beef prices to eight major grocery chains. In a post on X, the Antitrust…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (116+ words) Leading chip and snack companies, including PepsiCo, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Unilever, are under Canadian Food Inspection Agency investigations over false labeling by a supplier in India. Indian officials raided the plant and fake nutrition information and expiry dates on products…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (118+ words) Chicken Farmers of Canada is calling for production at 5.5 per cent above base quota for December 13 to February 6. Ontario’s allocation is at 5.1 per cent above base. Chicken Farmers of Ontario said the Ontario allocation is lower than national allocation this…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (297+ words) Global beef production is expected to decline by two per cent this year, according to Rabobank’s quarterly report on beef. Rabobank expects production to fall in the United States, Brazil, China and Europe, with the global contraction expected to continue…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (95+ words) Ontario Farmer Apple grower organizations have created Apples Canada with five provinces signing on. They are Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Apples Canada will operate in partnership with, and under, Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada,…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago   (139+ words) Successive storms have flooded large areas of the Niagara Region leading to emergency declarations and significant farm losses. Vineyards, orchards and floral farms have been flooded and waters have been slow to recede. Farm organizations are thanking municipal and provincial…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (162+ words) Saskatchewan has made a deal with the federal government to take over research farms at Indian Head and Scott. The federal agriculture department announced recently that it plans to close them but there was protest from farmers. The deal will…...