Agriculture Environment News 

Local couple keeping woodlands diverse, one seedling at a time

May 23, 2019 James Morgan Alfred-Plantagenet, Ontario, Plantagenet, Prescott-Russell Boises-Est, nurseries, trees, woodlands

A conversation with François Gour reminds one of the French story The Man Who Planted Trees/L’homme qui plantait des arbres. 

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Agriculture Food & Drink 

Kirkview Farms takes a regenerative approach

May 23, 2019 James Morgan Kirkhill, North Glengarry, Ontario, Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry beef, cattle, chickens, farming, Kirkview Farms, organic, pigs, pork, poultry, regenerative, turkeys

Kirkview Farms looks and feels like an old-fashioned place, but new ideas are at work here. Mike MacGillivray and his

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Agriculture Community Building Education Food & Drink Life 

Community Agriculture Project in Argenteuil returns for fifth season

May 18, 2019 James Morgan Argenteuil, Quebec food security, local food, MRC d'Argenteuil Community Agriculture Project, sustainability

The fifth season of the Municipalité Régional du Comté (MRC) d’Argenteuil’s Community Agriculture Project began on May 6. The project’s

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Agriculture Community Building Education Educational Life 

UCFO focused on future during 90th year

May 18, 2019 James Morgan Alfred, Alfred-Plantagenet, Ontario, Prescott-Russell College d'Alfred, Ferme d’éducation et de recherche du campus d’Alfred (FERCA), Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens (UCFO)

The Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens (UCFO) is looking ahead with new partnerships and maintaining its interests in the former Collège

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Agriculture News Police and Fire Top Stories 

Fire destroys barn in Lochiel, livestock lost

May 7, 2019 James Morgan Alexandria, Lochiel, North Glengarry, Ontario, Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry, Vankleek Hill barn, cattle, D'Aoust Road, fire, horses, Rose Huxted, Wayne and Linda Lothian

It was a profoundly sad loss for a North Glengarry farm family. The barn at Wayne and Linda Lothian’s farm

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Agriculture Local Business Press Release Top Stories 

Up to $1.5 million for St-Albert Cheese Co-operative

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 Louise Sproule St-Albert

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced an investment of up to $1.5 million under the Dairy Processing Investment

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Agriculture Community Building Food & Drink Life Local History Top Stories 

125 years of cooperation and cheddar in St-Albert

April 25, 2019 James Morgan La Nation, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, St-Albert 125th anniversary, cheddar, cheese, curd, dairy, milk, St-Albert Cheese Cooperative

Like the famous cheddar it produces, the St-Albert Cheese Cooperative has aged well.  The cooperative is celebrating its 125th anniversary

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Agriculture Community Building Family Life 

Community, competition, and crops are part of rural life for Pat and Murray Wilson

April 24, 2019April 25, 2019 James Morgan La Nation, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, Riceville agricultural fairs, competition, judging, Pat and Murray Wilson, seed crops

A conversation with Pat and Murray Wilson of Riceville proves that farm life and community life are one and the

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Agriculture Business Local Business News 

Soybeans stabilize after struggle, new Asian markets offering export opportunities

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 James Morgan Champlain, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, Vankleek Hill Asia, canola, corn, export, kevin wilson, soybeans, wilson farms

Sanctions and subsidies have affected the soybean market in recent months, but export opportunities are increasing, according to a local

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Agriculture Community Building Life 

Event hopes to bring threshing world record back to St-Albert

April 23, 2019 James Morgan La Nation, Ontario, Prescott-Russell, St-Albert breast cancer, Guinness record, threshing machines

Rural folks of a certain age often reminisce about threshing and threshing machines of years past.  But not many have

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