LOCAL HEADLINES

At the Ontario Agri-Food Discovery Centre’s 2026 annual general meeting March 26, board chair Steve Dolson introduced the team from Moriyama Teshima Architects, which developed concept designs for the future 10-acre site in Listowel.

Use of an amino acid that’s already naturally occurring in fruit trees could help tender fruit farmers offset rising labour costs associated with hand thinning.

There’s never a good time for war, but for Ontario’s grain farmers, there might not be a worse time. As farmers from across the province came to Niagara Falls to celebrate the industry with the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic, the situation on the other side of the globe was on the minds of many.

The word uncertainty was thrown around a lot at the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic last month, and for good reason given the state of the world.

Agritourism Ontario (AO) Chief Executive Officer Kevin Vallier was permitted a quiet moment of celebration this past December on the one-year anniversary of provincial Bill 186, The Growing Agri-Tourism Act.

It may be hard work, but it’s never been hard to convince Andrea Veldhuizen to head out to the barn.

Ongoing economic uncertainty is likely one of the main reasons farmers in Ontario are continuing to spend less on new machinery and other farm investments, and otherwise staying the course.

A crucial step in the process from barnyard to barbecue is getting some help from Niagara College. This fall the college will be launching an artisanal butchery program, following through on a long held priority to support an industry that could use an injection of fresh talent, said Craig Youdale, dean of culinary, tourism and beverage studies.

For anyone worried about the robot takeover, fear not. Matt Stevens has a perfectly simple solution should the machines try to rise up against humanity.

A Washington State University researcher sees opportunity in a new approach to a key step in agriculture that has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

An organization that started with a small handful of Ontario farmers who wanted to share ideas on how to grow food responsibly has grown over the years to include 1,000 members, offering a wide variety of research and education.

When Sun Tzu wrote about the importance of knowing one’s enemy, he probably didn’t have stone fruit on his mind.

In a province as big as Ontario, there are always going to be a lot of worthy recipients for any industry award.

She was creating tradition, but at the time, Alexis Szarek felt like all she was doing was creating headaches and a failed business.

The arrival of the spotted lanternfly in Ontario remains a question of when, not if, though efforts by industry and government officials aims to make the when as far into the future as possible.

A four-year effort to bring the ALUS program to Haldimand may seem like a long time, but for Anna Haupt, it was much longer than a quadrennial.

An icon in the Ontario grape and wine industry will be honoured by the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame later this year.

At the annual general meeting held in January, Renate McGillivray was elected as the new president of the West Niagara Agricultural Society.

Several volunteers, for the first time, from the Wainfleet Fall Fair recently attended the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies held from Feb. 19 to 21, in Richmond Hill.

After another tumultuous year in global geopolitics, leadership with the Grain Farmers of Ontario painted a picture of an industry still very much concerned about the near future, but one that has also experienced a few key wins in the past 12 months.