Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News SPENCERVILLE — It’s fair time! Make that virtual fair time… at least in Spencerville! With other farm fairs falling to COVID-19 all around it, the Spencerville Agricultural Society decided…
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by Jackie Kelly-Pemberton, Director, Ontario Federation of Agriculture ONTARIO — Abattoirs and processing plants are essential for livestock and poultry farmers to market locally-grown and processed food to consumers. The COVID-19 crisis has revealed vulnerabilities…
by Drew Spoelstra Executive Member, Ontario Federation of Agriculture ONTARIO — Ontario farms are places of business, where animals are raised, safe and sustainable food is produced, and where a living is made. But they…
NATION VALLEY — South Nation Conservation (SNC) is reminding property owners from across its 4,441 square-kilometer watershed jurisdiction in Eastern Ontario that now is the time to plan for your spring 2021 tree planting projects! SNC…
by Paul Vickers, Director, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Farm safety should be at the forefront of everyone’s minds while working on the farm every day. However, as we all know, unfortunate events still occur. It’s…
See footage of those judged best overall in showmanship on Saturday (above). DUNDAS — The Dundas County 4-H Club went ahead with its annual Dairy Achievement Day at the South Mountain Fairgrounds yesterday, Aug. 15,…
FINCH — Thanks to significant rainfall in the last couple of weeks, drought conditions have eased in parts of the South Nation River watershed. South Nation Conservation’s Water Response Team downgraded the Lower South Nation,…
Around the Nation A column by Tom Van Dusen After some scratching and pecking, Russell Township councillors have implemented one of the few Urban Hen bylaws east of enlightened Kingston — possibly the only one…
STORMONT — This county’s 2019 Farmer of the Year winners are David and Pamela Phillips — as awarded by the Stormont Soil and Crop Improvement Association recently. Dave and Pam run the Avonmore Berry farm…
Watch the Aug. 9, 2020, procession (above). John Cinnamon leads the annual tractor parade through Winchester this afternoon (Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020), including a detour through the Dundas Manor Parking lot. The parade went ahead,…
Above, Cheryl Cooper and husband Hugh McEwen have become first on the wall with a barn quilt at their Heather Crest Farm, part of a new project coordinated by Osgoode Township Museum, which to date…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News VANKLEEK HILL — A third tractor parade has been announced for Eastern Ontario this month, this time as a partial replacement for the annual Vankleek Hill Fair crushed like…
VANKLEEK HILL — Hawkesbury OPP continue to investigate a man’s death at the Vankleek Hill Livestock Exchange earlier this week, a fatality sources close to the situation say was caused by a bull . The…
ONTARIO — As we gear up for Food Day Canada on August 1, it is the perfect time to celebrate the good things that grow in Ontario and across Canada. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture…
FINCH — With continued inadequate rainfall across South Nation Conservation’s jurisdiction, the authority’s Water Response Team has upgraded the drought advisory notice from Level I (minor) to Level II (moderate) low-water conditions for the entire…
