Farmers Forum

2020 Innovative Farmer of the Year Says Growers Need to Focus on Return, not Yield

Lambton County cash crop farmer Mike Belan remembers as a kid the horror stories of how the tough financial times of the 1980s led to his family having to sell much of their farm machinery and some of their 3,000-acre

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