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Veterinarians Without Borders volunteers assisting farmers in west Africa

January 21, 2020 James Morgan Prescott-Russell, Russell Township 0 Comment agriculture, development, farming, Veterinarians Without Borders, volunteering, women

Two veterinarians from the region are taking their skills to a different part of the world. Dr. Ingrid Van der

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McCaig Honey: Sweet victories at Toronto’s Royal Ag Fair

January 16, 2020January 14, 2020 Barbara Lehtiniemi Dalkeith, North Glengarry 0 Comment

John McCaig of Dalkeith’s McCaig Honey is still celebrating the company’s award wins at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair last

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CN strike, propane shortage, and poor conditions complicate drying local corn crop

November 25, 2019November 26, 2019 James Morgan Champlain, La Nation, Maxville, Moose Creek, North Glengarry, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, St-Isidore, Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry, Vankleek Hill Canadian National Railways, CN, corn, drying, fuel, harvest, propane, strike, transportation, weather

A strike at Canadian National Railways (CN), combined with poor weather and crop drying conditions has caused considerable problems for

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ESCRH composting initiative

November 4, 2019 Jean-Michel Tweed Hawkesbury

École Secondaire Catholique Régional de Hawkesbury (ESCRH) has started a new composting and gardening initiative. In 2017, the school’s Club

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Grenville-sur-la-Rouge to ban domestic deer farming

October 28, 2019November 5, 2019 James Morgan Argenteuil, Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Quebec Chronic Wasting Disease, deer farming, municipal government

A draft by-law in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge will ban deer farming in most of the municipality if it is adopted. Council gave

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Liberal, NDP candidates speak at ag federation meeting

October 2, 2019October 1, 2019 James Morgan Fournier, La Nation, Ontario, Prescott-Russell agriculture, farming, federal election 2019, francis drouin, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, Konstantine Malakos, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Prescott County Federation of Agriculture

The politics of agriculture were front and centre at the annual general meeting of the Prescott County Federation of Agriculture

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Tagwi students tour local farms

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 James Morgan East Hawkesbury, Kirkhill, Laggan, North Glengarry, Ontario, Prescott-Russell agriculture, Dalgara Farms, education, farming, Kirkview Farms, learning, Starhill Farms, Stonehouse Vineyard, Tagwi Secondary School

Learning on the land is what a group of students from Tagwi Secondary School in Avonmore recently spent a day

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UCPR finds solution for stockpiled farm plastic waste

September 1, 2019September 9, 2019 James Morgan Ontario, Prescott-Russell farm plastic waste, recycling, UCPR council, waste

You could say that the United Counties of Prescott and Russell (UCPR) council was talking trash when it met on

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East Hawkesbury family among farm award winners

August 28, 2019August 30, 2019 James Morgan Moose Creek, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry BMO Ontario Farm Family Awards, IPM, Lafrance family, Quesnel family

The Lafrance family East Hawkesbury has been farming since 1882.  This year, they are one of 11 recipients across Ontario

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Beware of fake honey

August 28, 2019 James Morgan Ontario, Quebec beekeeping, bees, food, honey

Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery when it comes to honey. In recent months, studies and reports, including

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