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1. Conference Board critical; dairy industry bristles

   ... organization of dairy researchers with a mission to create a better understanding of world milk production. When farmers don’t have ...

   Mary Baxter - Apr 10 2012 - 14:22 - 5 comments

2. Ontario’s agriculture headquarters up for sale

   ... Ontario spokesman Daniel Cayley says by email there are 1,200 staff working in the building, including 650 OMAFRA workers. As for ... says. “The private sector can manage office space much better and at a lower cost,” the press release says. The move to sell ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 27 2012 - 09:18 - 1 comment

3. Ontario beekeepers renew call for neonicotinoid ban on field crops

   ... on best management practices, which didn’t work last year and probably aren’t going to work this year.” The working group ... tremendously low in toxicity for humans and animals and much better for the environment, he says, noting “of course it’s toxic to ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 21 2014 - 15:12 - 5 comments

4. Tractor attraction

   ... who said their business was down by 50 per cent last year. “Their yards are full of equipment and they’re discounting like ... they are telling me that they will search auctions for a better deal . There has been much equipment upgraded in the US over the past ...

   Mary Baxter - Feb 5 2016 - 19:46 - 4 comments

5. Network fills communication gap

   ... to the animal health lab. It’s part of a five-year, $1.3 million per year, federal/provincial program through the University of ... expertise to lend. And if we work together I think we’re better off than if we don’t.” Although the animal health network’s ...

   Mary Baxter - Nov 18 2015 - 11:39 - 0 comments

6. Report exaggerates transport deaths says federal committee chair

   ... less than 0.5 per cent of animals die in transit each year by SUSAN MANN An animal welfare group’s report ... as well as and incentives and deterrents to promote better animal welfare practices. Mayers says most Canadian producers and ...

   Mary Baxter - Jun 7 2010 - 18:06 - 0 comments

7. Letter to the editor

   ... dogs and long hours. Business minded farmers might be better to consider total confinement rearing or dry lot sheep production where ...

   editor - Jun 3 2010 - 10:18 - 3 comments

8. Ontario environment commissioner wants phosphorus strategy

   ... will have to keep adding it to their soil, he says. A much better option is to start developing techniques and technology “that allows ...

   Mary Baxter - Oct 15 2013 - 16:13 - 2 comments

9. Agriculture ministry should enforce farm animal welfare says MPP

   ... need to fix the OSPCA. We Canadians like to think we are better than a lot of countries, pointing fingers at police corruption in places ... a Ms. Liz Marshall on a radio show. (I believe it was last year) She was introduced by the host as the "foremost expert" on land patents. ...

   Mary Baxter - Mar 15 2012 - 06:43 - 2 comments

10. Storm halts corn harvest

    ... of North America, Phillips says, noting it stretched over 1,600 kilometres, knocking down trees in Halifax as well as causing high water ... at least 80 per cent of crop has already emerged and is much better able to handle the excess moisture. “If we had these ponds on wheat ...

    Mary Baxter - Oct 30 2012 - 17:59 - 0 comments