In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, many businesses have been forced to significantly change the way they operate. While agriculture and food production...

In northern Ontario there aren’t any jobs, it’s cold 12 months of the year, and the climate and landscape do not allow for agriculture. None of those are tru...

On February 13 2020 Susantha Jayasundara, Research Associate in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, gave a presentation at the ...

The Northern Ontario Farm Innovation Alliance (NOFIA) held its second annual Northern Ontario Ag Conference in Sudbury on February 12 and 13, 2020. The event...

Farmers from across the province gathered at the Beef Farmers of Ontario’s annual general meeting this week. The north had a strong representation, with dele...

Kathy and Jean Genier returned to their roots when, in 2010, they moved back to the Cochrane area from Vancouver, and since then they’ve put down a lot of ro...

Horst Bohner, OMAFRA soybean specialist, spoke at Co-op Regionale’s Annual Grower’s Day in December. Bohner opened his presentation by mentioning that it was...

Meghan Moran, OMAFRA’s Canola and Edible Bean Specialist, recently spoke at Co-op Régionale’s annual Grower’s Day in Temiskaming. Her presentation was about ...

Joe Lawrence of the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University in New York State gave two talks at the Ontario Forage Council’s Forage Focus 2019 Con...

Joe Lawrence, of the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University, was the keynote speaker at Ontario Forage Council’s Forage Focus 2019 Conference. He...

Candace Schiestel, a Dairy Specialist with ADM Animal Nutrition, was the second speaker at Forage Focus 2019 conference on December 5. Her presentation was t...

On December 5 the Ontario Forage Council’s annual Forage Focus Conference and Trade Show was held in Stratford, and was live streamed to remote locations acr...

A strong Northern presence was seen once again at this year's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in downtown Toronto, held from November 1 - 10 at the Exhibition...

When driving past the Wand Family Farm outside Powassan in late spring you could be forgiven for thinking that an unseasonably late and very localized blizza...

“I got into beekeeping accidentally,” says Kathie Hogan, who organizes a beekeepers group in Powassan that now includes 150 members. It all began when Hogan’...

Soils were under scrutiny as part of the Northwest Soil & Crop Improvement Association tours in 2019. Sebastian Belliard, OMAFRA Soil Management Specialist, ...

This week, OMAFRA Poultry Specialist Al Dam and Chicken Farmers of Ontario Community Programs Operations Manager & Flock Advisor Carl Stevenson are touring N...

These days, garlic is a staple ingredient in just about every Canadian kitchen. And why not? From its pungent heated taste when raw, to the umami balance tha...

Taken from the Spring 2019 issue of Breaking Ground Pierrette Desrochers and Barry Potter, Agriculture Development Advisors with OMAFRA's Northern Team, rece...

Recently, NOFIA partnered with FBC to bring Steve Kenyon to Northern Ontario for 5 one-day grazing workshops (Cochrane, Manitoulin, Rainy River, Kenora and T...