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Top Coffee Tables That Instantly Elevate Any Living Room

A living room rarely feels complete without the perfect centerpiece. While sofas, rugs, and accent chairs often grab attention first, the right coffee table...

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New strip-till tools available from Case IH

Case IH’s latest addition to its Nutri-Tiller series of strip-till tools is now ready for dealership order in Canada. Select dealerships have been able to...

Weighing cattle ‘can make you as much money’ as anything in the feedlot

Beef cattle are at record-high prices, which means shipping overweight or underweight cattle carries an even higher profitability penalty than ever before. Ken Schaus, of...

OPED: Food security can’t wait. Canada needs action now

Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves credit for beginning an important national conversation about food security with the National Food Security Strategy. As this work...

Rapid-gain feeding wins for beef-on-dairy calves — but watch the backfat

The number of beef-on-dairy calves continues to rise in Canadian feedlot inventories as dairy producers use beef sires to add value to surplus calves....

Meet FINCH, the U of T crop residue satellite the size of a house cat

FINCH is a confusing acronym. It stands for Field Imaging Nanosatellite for Crop residue Hyperspectral mapping. Translating that into plain English — University of Toronto...

450 Organizations Push Congress to Unlock Local Food Funding for Schools

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) spends roughly $4 billion buying food at the lowest price possible, and American family farmers are locked...

USDA Staffing Crisis: Widespread Loss of Conservation Staff

Editor’s Note: This series draws on analysis the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) conducted in partnership with Bernie Kluger, Managing Partner at Prospect Partners,...

Lyme disease cases rise as Ontario farmers face growing tick threat

Lyme disease is no longer a distant concern for Ontario farmers — it is a growing threat spreading across the province. The numbers tell the...

Palmer amaranth spreads further through Ontario

Herbicide-resistant weeds continue to be a growing problem across Ontario. That includes Palmer amaranth, one of the most concerning weeds for farmers in the...

Farmers rally on Parliament Hill against Alto high-speed rail project

Hundreds of protesters descended on Parliament Hill on June 10, demanding the federal government scrap the proposed Alto high-speed rail project before it cuts...

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