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Welcome to the Grow.North blog! Visit the blog regularly to learn about different topics relevant to agriculture in Northern Ontario and to meet different farmers from around the north!
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Bruce Moore, OMAFRA North Team Lead
- Apr 18, 2019
- 4 min
A Path Forward for Northern Agriculture Development
Taken from the Spring 2019 issue of Breaking Ground Pierrette Desrochers and Barry Potter, Agriculture Development Advisors with OMAFRA's...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Apr 17, 2019
- 2 min
From the Ground... Up! - Grazing Management with Steve Kenyon
Recently, NOFIA partnered with FBC to bring Steve Kenyon to Northern Ontario for 5 one-day grazing workshops (Cochrane, Manitoulin, Rainy...
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Stephanie Vanthof, Administrator
- Mar 8, 2019
- 2 min
Breaking Through the Social Media Noise
With excerpts from Josh DeVries, speaker at NOAC2019 Social media provides the opportunity for a business to directly interact with their...
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Emily Potter, NOFIA Project Development Advisor
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
Northern Ontario Ag Conference 2019
February 12th saw NOFIA’s first Northern Ontario Ag Conference in Sudbury put on in partnership with Ontario Soil & Crop Associations in ...
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Emily Potter, NOFIA Project Development Advisor
- Feb 1, 2019
- 2 min
Managing Risk On Your Farm
Managing farm risk requires you to take a look at the factors that affect your farm but are out of your direct control. Farm profitabilit...
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Emily Potter, NOFIA Project Development Advisor
- Jan 25, 2019
- 2 min
Cost of Production & Your Farm
The Agri-Food Management Institute, Grain Farmers of Ontario and Grant Ag held a two-day “Women in Grains” workshop in New Liskeard. The w...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Dec 21, 2018
- 1 min
Merry Christmas from NOFIA
If you had to wait until chores were finished before opening gifts on Christmas morning, you might be a farm kid. Farming is hard work ye...
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Tanja Gahwiler, Crop Specialist
- Dec 14, 2018
- 5 min
A Look Back at the 2018 Growing Season
As the snow is softly falling across the country side, covering our fields and marking the start of winter, many producers are releasing ...
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Emily Potter, NOFIA Project Development Advisor
- Dec 7, 2018
- 3 min
Forage Focus 2018
NOFIA was proud to sponsor 4 remote locations in Northern Ontario for the Ontario Forage Council’s Forage Focus this year in Bruce Mines,...
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Emily Potter, NOFIA Project Development Advisor
- Nov 30, 2018
- 3 min
3 Tips for Stretching Out Your Feed Supply
With the very wet spring and fall and a bone-dry summer, feed shortage is a major concern for many farmers in the area. Dr. Katie Wood fr...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Jul 21, 2014
- 1 min
Rethinking Food
Thinking outside the food box a little bit is leading to some innovative and profitable food notions. In France, a supermarket chain is s...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Jul 3, 2014
- 1 min
Soil Mapping in Northern Ontario
Field specific agricultural landscape maps for much of Northern Ontario have not been developed by OMAF/MRA – in 2013, the Ontario AgRI m...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Jun 10, 2014
- 1 min
Vintage Dairy at the Claybelt Museum
The newest exhibit at the Claybelt Museum focuses on the history of dairy in the Temiskaming District. Did you know: there were 7 creame...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- May 21, 2014
- 1 min
Incredible Edible Plate
The Incredible Edible Plate movement in Todmorden, England is based on the common language of food and began with a simple seed swap and ...
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Emily Potter, Executive Director
- Apr 25, 2014
- 1 min
Rotational Grazing
A recent talk given by Jack Kyle (OMAFRA Grazier Specialist) at the Muskoka Farmer’s Meeting emphasized the importance of active pasture ...
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