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    Mike Belan

    Innovative farmer Mike Belan is building healthy soils and a brighter future

    Innovative farmer Mike Belan is building healthy soils and a brighter future

    Mike Belan’s commitment to soil health, environmental stewardship, and progressive thinking made Belan a deserving recipient of the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) 2020 Innovative Farmer of the Year award.

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

    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

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    Lambton Farmer Reaps Benefits of No-till Agriculture

    Lambton Farmer Reaps Benefits of No-till Agriculture

    Mike Belan and his family made a decision in 1991 would have a profound impact on their Oil Springs-area family farm. Breaking with tradition, the family – including Mike’s father Mike Belan Sr. and uncle Tony Belan – decided to

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    October 2018 Tailgate Talk – Interseeding & Grazing Cover Crops

    October 2018 Tailgate Talk – Interseeding & Grazing Cover Crops

    On October 3, six local farmers (Mike Belan, Woody Van Arkel, Mark Richards, Joe & George Dickenson, and Steve Aarts) shared their cover cropping experiences to a crowd of 25 people at Belan Farms, near Oil Springs. They discussed their

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    Belan Farms Wins ‘Outstanding Farmer of Year’ 2018 for its Work on Soil Improvement

    Belan Farms Wins ‘Outstanding Farmer of Year’ 2018 for its Work on Soil Improvement

    Belan Farms, a 1,200-acre cash crop operation in Dawn-Euphemia that’s operated by three generations of the Belan family, has won the 2018 Outstanding Farmer Award from the Lambton Soil and Crop Improvement Association.

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

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

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

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    No Till – A Blessing In Disguise for this Family

    No Till – A Blessing In Disguise for this Family

    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

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    Learning from organic agriculture

    Learning from organic agriculture

    These conventional farms are adapting techniques from organic agriculture — with a little time and care

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