The Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency, Ontario Goat, along with the Canadian Sheep Federation, Canadian Sheep Breeders Association and the Canadian Livestock Genetics Association, would like to express their collective concern over the 41 missing Shropshire sheep.
On April 2, 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency notified the public of a breach of quarantine in [...]
On the morning of Sunday April 15 I headed up to Fergus to Ewenity Dairy and met Eric and Elizabeth Bzikot for the first tour in the Skill Building Farm Tours Ecological Livestock Series! In the morning we toured the dairy where they receive sheeps milk from a network of farmers who [...]
The Cornell Small Dairy Team has released a series of new resources to help small dairy farms. Although some of these resources are specific to the New York area, Ontario farmers may find the following case studies to be of interest.
Small Dairy Case Studies: Highlights unique solutions of how small [...]
FarmStart farmers can receive assistance through the seed capital program to purchase seeds, small tools and other equipment. This “pass on the gift” concept, introduced by Heifer International (one of our funders), requires new farmers who receive this funding to pass on the value of the assistance they receive as a gift to another [...]
CBC News Posted: Mar 16, 2012
The Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture is searching for ways to transfer more farms from one generation to the next as fewer young people are getting into the farming business.
Older farmers in the province who want to retire are often unable to find people with the desire and [...]
To Make A Farm, a feature-length documentary film exploring the lives of five new farmers, will premiere in Ontario in early March, with screenings on March 3rd in Walkerton and March 4th and 5th in Guelph. Filmmaker Steve Suderman and the featured farmers—four of whom live and farm in the area—will be in [...]
Published: Extension, March 2010 By Mike Gamroth
Often, convenience and bloat management dictate when groups are moved. However, there are inherent group behaviors that should be considered in the design and management of the grazing system. Individual animals differ in health and reproductive cycle, and will behave first as individuals in grazing selectivity. Practicality [...]
By Heather Walker SmallFarm Canada
10 Tips for Healthy Hen Housing
A well-designed and constructed coop is key to maintaining a healthy, productive flock of layer hens. If your housing isn’t up to snuff, you risk bullying and cannibalism, disease and pests, injury or death due to predators and a host of other challenges [...]
Shannon Hayes: Why are my prices higher than those at the super market? Glad you asked. by Shannon Hayes posted Jan 30, 2012, Yes Magazine
Every week during the growing season, my husband and I cart our family’s grassfed meats to market. We sell pork chops for $11 a pound; ground beef goes for [...]
CBC News Posted: Jan 30, 2012 8:22 AM ET
A unique herd of cattle south of Ottawa could be headed to the slaughterhouse because their owner is set to retire.
Greely, Ont., farmer Bruce Straby has bred “cottontail” cows, who have white, fluffy, wider-than-average tails, for the past 20 years.
Straby is [...]
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