Ontario

The 95th annual Oregon FFA state convention gets underway Thursday at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond.  Ontario’s Kinsley Kemble, this year’s Oregon FFA Vice President said an estimated 3,000 members and guests will be in attendance over the next three days as the convention returns to normal post-pandemic.   “This year we wer...

The maple tree sap started flowing a couple of weeks early this year in eastern Canada and that’s not really a good thing.  Stretches of mild weather in January and in February is expected to produce smaller volumes of processed syrup, along with a less than perfect product.  Extended...

Farm Credit Canada has just released its mid-year National Farmland Values Report.  The report analyzes farmland purchases from January through June of this year.  Better known as FCC within the farming community, Farm Credit Canada is a federal government agency and the country’s largest agricultural lender for farm cropland, large machinery purchases, and commercial livestock operators. J.P. Ger

After just nine days in force, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau recently cancelled the Emergencies Act, deployed in response to COVID mandate protests, occupations and several border blockades that erupted back in January. The so-called Freedom Convoy has come and gone ...

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has acquired Broetje Orchards.  While the official purchase prices of one of the largest privately-owned apple orchards in the county has not been released,  the Washington Department of Revenue indicate that the real estate portion of the sale was valued at $288 million.   ...