GUELPH — Peggy Brekveld has been elected as the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s 32nd President and the third female President in the organization’s history. Brekveld will serve a one-year term. Her election comes on the…
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Should be standard practice, says Birket Foster Nelson Zandbergen Nation Valley News NORTH DUNDAS — Rural roads are routinely dug up for repair — yet, while the trenches are open, municipalities never think to throw…
‘Thanking Our Frontline Workers’ one of this year’s float themes One-way traffic entering and exiting Rideau Auctions site on the event’s TWO evenings, Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 WINCHESTER — With the North Dundas Display…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News KEMPTVILLE — Closed down tight after University of Guelph pulled out four years ago, the Kemptville Campus Power & Equipment Building workshop is to get a new lease on…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BRINSTON — A Quebec-based company which specializes in reducing the risk of costly, emotionally draining barn fires is making inroads into Ontario, including at five-barn Thurler Farms. Operated by…
Watch the proceedings of the Nov. 17 council meeting, above. WINCHESTER — North Dundas Council has wrapped up an agreement with Sevita International for a $200,000 upgrade to a portion of Sandy Row Rd. to…
See the presentation video, above. SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Ninety-one years ago, a little boy helped his father walk their Winchester-area dairy herd eight miles to the cattle show at the South Mountain Fair. Allison Fawcett,…
No Homestead Organics reboot Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BERWICK — Tom Manley has reinvented himself once again, this time as Executive Director of the Eastern Ontario Agri-Food Network, a non-profit dedicated to development…
Winchester connection ALMONTE — Having pioneered a process that turns waste milk sugar from Winchester’s Parmalat/Lactalis cheese factory into a celebrated vodka named Vodkow, Dairy Distillery has just launched a cream liquor version of the…
Around the Nation A column by Tom Van Dusen We’ve all done it, including me and I know a fair amount about farm equipment and its safe operation. You fall in, maybe 10 cars back,…
AVONMORE — “A long road to recovery” is ahead of an engaged couple seriously hurt this week when a car collided with their horse-drawn buggy, according to a gofundme campaign set up for Carmen Regnier…
NORTH STORMONT — Two adult passengers in a horse-drawn buggy were taken to hospital with serious non-life threatening injuries after being struck by a westbound vehicle on Fairview Drive in Avonmore late yesterday afternoon, a…
ST-ISIDORE — A farmer from the region has been honoured as this year’s recipient of the $10,000 Dave Reid Award by ALUS Canada. Marc Bercier operates a family farm — La Ferme Agriber Inc. —…
Above, Olivia Wright of Brinston donated her watercolour painting of a redheaded woodpecker to help SNC raise funds for tree planting. Courtesy photo FINCH — South Nation Conservation’s (SNC) first ever Art for Trees online…
CHESTERVILLE — With a pair of new butternut trees, the beginnings of a planned arboretum have taken root at the Chesterville fairgrounds. The Chesterville Agricultural Society put in the two butternut saplings last week as…
