Tag: Farmland
With forage acres shrinking, how can growers reverse the trend?
With the area under grass and legumes shrinking, expanding forage acres remains a tough sell.
Mahon: A savings plan with an uptake of just a third
It is like a three-way cross between Registered Education Savings Plans, Agristability, and a pension plan.
Ontario gives Oxford housing efforts $7M boost
Oxford County is getting nearly $7 million from Queen’s Park to help build and maintain infrastructure to support potential construction of nearly 4,800 homes.
Provincial election call launches local parties into campaign mode
With Ontario Premier Doug Ford sending people to the polls Feb. 27, local politicial parties have a lot of work ahead of them. The Conservative leader has confirmed he will be visiting the lieutenant-governor Tuesday to dissolve the legislature and have the writs issued on Wednesday. That puts fire under the feet of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound […]
Sheep To Defend US Solar Industry With Agrivoltaic Projects
The solar grazing phenomenon is taking off like a rocket as more developers incorporate agrivoltaic design into solar arrays on farmland.
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Grey-Bruce farmers told to be ready to adapt to changing climate
While Grey-Bruce and the rest of southern Ontario is expected to be less affected by a changing climate than many other areas, it still doesn’t mean farmers here don’t need to be ready to adapt. Mark Robinson, a meteorologist and storm chaser with The Weather Network presented to a packed Elmwood Community Centre during Crop […]
A Better Way To Bring Canada & The US Together
No matter where you go for news and commentary, it’s hard to have missed some crazy commentary from President Elect Trump in recent days. Not only is he saying that he wants to buy Greenland (perhaps because it looks bigger than it is on Mercator maps), but he wants to … [continued]
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Trump Vows To Crush Booming US Wind Industry, Or Maybe Just Windmills
The modern US wind industry deploys many different kinds of wind turbines, none of which are anything like the windmills of olden days.
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120-unit affordable housing project on former school site moves ahead
Two apartment buildings are planned on a long-vacant former school site
Politicians set to balance industry, farmland, heritage with south London land plan
An industrial subdivision may rise in southeast London as the owner wants to tear down homes on a large agricultural site to prepare it for development, according to a staff report going to politicians on Tuesday. The 44 hectare (108 acre) plot of land at 1361 Wilton Grove Rd. is home to nine buildings and […]