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REGINA — Will Robbins has been in the process of taking over his family farm southwest of Saskatoon. The 43-year-old grows organic wheat, oats, lentils, peas and occasionally flax and mustard on 445 hectares of land near Laura, Sask. In 1996, when he was still a teenager, prices in west-central …
Read More »Ontario abandons proposal to sever farmland lots in response to farmer opposition
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 30, 2023 11:21 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario has backed off a housing proposal that farmers say would have had a “catastrophic” impact on farmland and livestock operations. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark proposed a series …
Read More »The rest of the province is losing farmland, but London’s is growing
Farm-rich Ontario has lost nearly seven per cent of its land to development over the last decade, but London has increased its agricultural footprint by more than 23 per cent, new census numbers show. The province is losing a significant amount of farmland every single day. This coupled with rising …
Read More »Vertical farmers say they can play bigger role as Ontario farmland disappears. Critics aren’t so sure
Lenny Louis says when people visit his vertical farming facility in Welland, Ont., they’re often surprised by how much produce comes out of that one squat, two-storey building. But inside, things look very different. Stacked rows of lettuce, arugula and basil grow 365 days a year, and, Louis says, the produce travels less than …
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