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"It's my role to report. It's your role to press for reforms"

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Carson’s sold

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  Robert Van Nes of Evergreen Holsteins has bought Carson Farms and Auction Services of Listowel. The deal includes the 143 acres, 110,000 s...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Scholars push for better TFW housing

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  A group of 29 scholars and clinicians has drafted a document outlining what they consider reasonable housing standards for temporary forei...

Heat-treating hog trucks ineffective

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Heat-treating trucks and trailers is not as effective as washing and disinfecting to get rid of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, a new Iowa ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Two PED outbreaks

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  There have been two new outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, reports Swine Health Ontario. One is at a nursery in Perth County an...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Maple Leaf sales surge, profits steady

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Maple Leaf Foods reported first-quarter sales of $1.24 billion, an 8.2 per cent increase from the same period last year and profits of $50 m...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Mexico reaches trade deal on tomatoes

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Mexico has reached a trade deal for tomatoes with the United States, avoiding new tariffs of nearly 22 per cent due to come into force July ...

Police arrest chick thief

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Huron County Ontario Provincial Police believe they have caught the thief who stole thousands of chicks. They have charged a 41-year-old fro...
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Jim Romahn
Journalist who has been reporting on agriculture since 1963; winner of more than 100 awards, including two Govenor- General Awards for Public Service in Journalism plus an honourable mention as one of five finalists plus the 1987 Michener-Deacon fellowship to study and report on biotechnology research in agriculture.
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