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Members of Grain Farmers of Ontario sport a banner outside a provincial cabinet minister’s office in 2015. (File photo by Ralph Pearce)
Crops, Soybeans

GFO quits Grain Growers of Canada

Grain Farmers of Ontario flags national group's 'governance' and structure

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Grain Farmers of Ontario has dropped out of Grain Growers of Canada. The Ontario organization, which represents about 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean and wheat farmers in the province, cited a lack of representation in the national policy group. GFO publicly announced its withdrawal in a news release on Thursday, days after it informed the […] Read more
Even the fortune cookies are different 
in Ottawa. My friend got this message 
in his cookie at a Thai restaurant in 
Ottawa’s Byward Market.
Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Notes from a foreign country

Ottawa, that is...

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No matter how you feel about our newly elected federal government, I think all Grainews readers can agree on one thing: federal government employees in Ottawa can never really understand Prairie farms. Before I married a farmer and moved to southeast Saskatchewan, I had a provincial government job in Regina. I can tell you — […] Read more
young family with dairy calf
Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Production efficiency improves dairy cattle operation

Ontario: New technology means more milk, fewer cows


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Producing more milk with fewer cows has been the management focus of Eastern Ontario dairy farmers Jason and Amanda O’Connell, over the past few years. When they returned to farming in 2006 and began working with Amanda’s father on the family dairy farm at Carleton Place, west of Ottawa they were milking about 115 head […] Read more

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