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No-Till Lays Foundation for Consistent Crops, Rain or Shine

Mike Belan is focusing on improving soil health to propel the farm forward.

“Farm & Food Care Champion” award presented to Carolynne Griffith

Carolynne Griffith has been named the 2017 recipient of the Farm & Food Care Ontario Champion Award.

After being handed soaring new property value assessments, Lambton County farmers are now turning to their upper-tier municipal government for a bit of tax relief over the next four years. Officials with the Lambton and Ontario Federations of Agriculture made

Switching the farm operation from conventional tillage to 100 per cent no-till was more of a financial decision, says Mike Belan, a cash crop farmer in Lambton County. Driven by high interest rates at the time, “Dad and my uncle

Area farmers reach out to local elementary school classrooms

City-dwelling elementary students at Sarnia’s Queen Elizabeth II Public School got a chance to learn about the ABCs of agriculture as a pair of local farmers talked to them about subjects ranging from agronomy to beef cattle to crop rotation.

Lambton SCIA Outstanding Farmer of the Year Award 2017 to Carolyn and George Cornelissen

Lambton SCIA Outstanding Farmer of the Year Award was presented to Carolyn and George Cornelissen by Clark Aitken of Parkland Farms (left) and Steve Arnold, SCRCA (right) Share:

If there’s a myth organizers of the Lambton Kent Agriculture in the Classroom program want to dispel it’s the idea of Old McDonald’s farm. “It’s not Old McDonald’s farm anymore,” says Wendy Hooghiem. “Modern farming is very different from what

It wasn’t an easy start into the greenhouse business for Roelands Plant’s owners. The Roelands bought a 100-acre farm in 2013 where they built a four-acre greenhouse. They went 13 per cent over budget. And since they couldn’t afford to

Adrian and Jodi Roelands, owners of Roelands Plant Farms near Forest, have been named Ontario’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2016. The couple that owns the expanding greenhouse operation on Douglas Line will compete in a national event that recognizes excellence

The money from Libro’s Prosperity Fund received ($5,000) is being used to rebuild 12 copies of the Farm Animals Agriculture Science Kits used by local educators to teach elementary students about farm animals.