Ontario’s farmers are using a town hall meeting in Stratford today to reach out to the public. The Save our Farms forum will focus on the beleaguered state of Ontario’s farming sector and on what the future of an Ontario without farming could look like down the road if nothing is done.

Here’s one for the “you’ve got to be kidding me!” file…
I read this article on the website of Farmers Weekly, an agricultural publication in the United Kingdom.
According to the story, a UK dairy farmer has been found liable for injuries suffered by a walker who was attacked by his cattle while walking across his fields [...]

Names are important to cows.
So much so, it seems, that they’ll produce more milk, say researchers in Britain.
A study by a research team at Newcastle University has found that cows with names will produce up to 500 pints more milk than those without names.

At any given point, there are more animals on the move in Canada than most of us realize.
Livestock – like cattle, sheep and pigs – travel our highways as they move from farm to farm or when they are sent to market.
And because our food and farming sector is dealing with the same consolidation issues [...]

Food safety in Canada received a boost today with the announcement that an e.coli vaccine with the potential to reduce risk to human health has been approved for use in Canada.
Econiche, a livestock vaccine that greatly reduces the shedding of e.coli O157:H7 by beef and dairy cattle, is now available to Canadian farmers.

Outbreaks of the deadly e.coli O157:H7 regularly make headlines – and this time, the headlines are hitting close to home, right here in Ontario. We also have a made-in-Canada solution to this ongoing problem, but we need the government’s help to implement it.

Do we care if our meat is made in Canada?
It soon won’t matter, says a report by a Guelph-based agricultural think tank, because there may not be any.