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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....
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by farmland lost. It is hard to know how to make an impact and preserve land for agriculture. But Farms at Work is stepping up and doing something about it. It is one of those changemaker organizations that sees an issue..
When Don Lobb fired up his tractor to start planting in the spring of 1980, he wasn't quite sure what was about to happen...
The Beaver Valley in Grey County, itself carved into the escarpment by the last glacier, exposes the underlying bedrock in a formidable, eroded face overlooking the village of Kimberley. Known as Old Baldy, tourists and Bruce Trail hikers like to have...
If you drove by Grazing Meadows Wagyu outside of Brussels the last two summers, you might have seen a group of Tim and Donna Prior's cows grazing a pasture in a strip. That would have been typical, mind you, but if you were driving by slowly enough...
The Community Hall in the corner of the IPM was filled with quilts from local guilds, but there was one you shouldn't have missed. The Quilt of Belonging is a ten-foot tall and 120-foot long collaborative textile art piece. It would have taken your ...
The Haas family discusses poultry, from the Old World to new regulations in Ontario
The Bruce County Federation of Agriculture worked hard in 2025 on behalf of its membership and rural neighbours.
The Grey Federation of Agriculture had a busy year, highlighted in their annual report.
Read all the news & updates from the Huron Federation of Agriculture in the 2025 Annual Report
