Agriculture

Soon there will be another beautiful new barn quilt going up in South Grey, as the Grey County trail continues to grow. More details about that unveiling will come in the weeks ahead. Another quilt recently went up in Meaford.

Bumblebees in mass decline

Seeds are democratic. For now. Last month, the Canadian Seed Growers Association, which represents 3,500 Canadian seed growers, voted against a proposed merger with four other seed industry organizations.

All canola should be conditioned immediately after combining to cool it down, even out the temperature throughout the bin and remove any moisture released through natural seed respiration that occurs in the first hours to weeks after harvest.

Farmers made significant harvest progress again this week. Sixty-two per cent of the crop has been combined, up from 43 per cent last week and well ahead of the five-year (2015-2019) average of 48 per cent.

The Canadian Barley Research Coalition (CBRC) announced today it will invest $2.

This fall on farms throughout the Fraser Valley, heaps of blueberry compost will tower as lasting monuments to the COVID-19 pandemic.

INDIAN HEAD — As a data and numbers guy, Jim Halford never intended to get into the blunt, greasy work of farm machinery; his graduate research in the 1960s at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) focused on the economics of farming.

Food is cheap. So cheap, it’s hurting the planet. Food systems — the paths meals take from farm to fork and beyond — are among the largest anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Ranchers team with federal and provincial governments