Protecting Pollinators Helps Keep Ecosystems and Crops Healthy December 15, 2016 12:00 P.M.Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Ontario is continuing its work to support a sustainable food supply, resilient ecosystems and a strong economy by implementing its plan to protect the province...
Efforts to reduce phosphorus loss into Ontario waterways and the Great Lakes will progress thanks to the funding announcement of $203,000 from Growing Forward 2, a Federal agricultural funding program administered through the Agricultural Adaptation Council. These funds will be matched with $100,000 ...
John Morrison -Alliston Herald photo Warden satisfied with local planning standards By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The province’s growth policies either need to be more restrictive or more flexible, depending on what side of a municipality’s settlement boundary one farms on, say members of Simcoe ...
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from the Ontario Farmland Trust For the first time, all of Ontario’s major farm organizations, representing some 52,000 farms and 78,000 farmers, have come together to present a strong, united message to the province: freeze urban boundaries now to stop urban sprawl and protect farming in the Greater...
Some of the concerned Wasaga Beach residents who attended a county council hearing on the Easdale wetland. Among them – front row, fourth from right – is Town Councillor Sylvia Bray. -AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries – AWARE News Network Some 30 Wasaga Beach residents watched from...
Health Canada Proposes Ban On Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid by Cory Knutt Pembina Valley Health Canada has now completed its re-evaluation of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, which is used in pest control products. Scott Kirby, director of Environmental Evaluation at Health Canada, revealed the findings ...
Plaque presentation: from left, Andrew Campomizzi, Research Scientist, Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario; Richard Kelly, OTF Grant Review Team member for Simcoe-York; Zoé Lebrun-Southcott, Executive Director, Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario. -Gerald Morris photo News release from Bird Ecolo...
From the Ontario Federation of Agriculture Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) newest president, Keith Currie, was elected at the organization’s annual general meeting in Toronto this week. A Collingwood-area hay and sweet corn farmer, Currie becomes the 31st president to lead the 36,000 farm m...
from New Tecumseth Free Press A Markham based developer is proposing to build 157 residential units along Patterson Street in Beeton between the 9th Line and Wright Street. The Flato Group – which is paying Markham $1 million for naming rights to that municipality’s theatre – has a...
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