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  • VIDEO: Regenerative agriculture and the importance of interrelationships in soils March 18, 2019
  • Ontario dairy farmers find opportunity in organic March 15, 2019
  • Familiar markets player starts organic consultancy firm March 12, 2019
  • VIDEO: The economic merits of more organic acres March 8, 2019
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VIDEO: Regenerative agriculture and the importance of interrelationships in soils

By OrganicBiz staff At a recent event held last month in Winnipeg, soil health educator Joel Williams of Integrated Soils discussed a wide variety of topics relating to soil biology and what farmers can do to build more diversity into their crop systems, the benefits of intercropping, the growing interest in regenerative agriculture and the […]

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Ontario dairy farmers find opportunity in organic

By Jennifer Betzner Glacier FarmMedia staff John Brunsveld and Justin Bell found opportunities in the Ontario organic milk market, and they talked about it at the recent South Western Ontario Dairy Symposium. Brunsveld produces organic milk on his farm, milking 125 cows. Bell farms in Chatham-Kent and was accepted into the Organic New Entrant Quota […]

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Familiar markets player starts organic consultancy firm

By Robert Arnason Glacier FarmMedia staff Millions of Canadians have obsessions and compulsions. Some buy lottery tickets. Others, for reasons likely based in insanity, have to root for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Brenda Tjaden has a different compulsion — running her own business. “I’m a serial entrepreneur. I just couldn’t resist it,” said Tjaden, the […]

  1. VIDEO: Regenerative agriculture and the importance of interrelationships in soils
  2. Ontario dairy farmers find opportunity in organic
  3. Familiar markets player starts organic consultancy firm

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VIDEO: The economic merits of more organic acres

March 8, 2019

At a recent event entitled ‘AgroEcology and the Economics of Organics,’ Brenda Tjaden of Sustainable Grain offered a presentation on the economic opportunities for organics in Western Canada. In this video, Tjaden looks at how converting over a million acres in Western Canada to certified organic can have little negative effect on price at the […]

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Organic price quotes: Late February

March 1, 2019

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Ample supply of organic feed grains putting pressure on prices

March 1, 2019

By Glen Hallick Glacier FarmMedia staff  With large quantities of organic feed grains in the commercial pipeline, prices have become soft, according to several participants. “There’s a fair bit of feed quality grain out there keeping that margin down,” said Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada Corp, adding this has been despite a very trying […]

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VIDEO: Regenerative agriculture and the importance of interrelationships in soils

March 18, 2019

By OrganicBiz staff At a recent event held last month in Winnipeg, soil health educator Joel Williams of Integrated Soils discussed a wide variety of topics relating to soil biology and what farmers can do to build more diversity into their crop systems, the benefits of intercropping, the growing interest in regenerative agriculture and the […]

Growing organic sector now faces macro challenges

January 11, 2019

By Laura Rance OrganicBiz editor In naming organic foods as one of its “Tops of 2018,” global analytics company Nielsen ends any debate over whether the industry now worth US$90-billion worldwide is a fad or a trend. “Organic appears to be an age-old growth driver that’s here to stay,” the company says in an online […]

Prairie farmers grow more organic crops

November 20, 2018

By Robert Arnason Glacier FarmMedia staff Organic is back. After a period of sluggish growth and a decline in the number of producers in the early 2010s, organic farming is expanding in Western Canada. Certified organic acres on the Prairies reached 1.824 million in 2017, up 29 percent from 1.4 million acres in 2015. The […]

Growing

Riding the learning curve on organic no-till

March 6, 2019

Farmers are pushing the boundaries of roller-crimping winter rye and direct seeding soybeans behind Planting soybeans into a just-terminated cover crop of winter rye is gaining popularity among Ontario’s organic community, as farmers strive to introduce minimum-till strategies into their rotations. No-till planting has so far not become common in any other crops under organic […]

Trials aim to find soybeans that will thrive under organic farming conditions

February 13, 2019

Farmtario – A four-year, multi-location study aims to find organic soybean varieties suited for Ontario and Manitoba. The study, funded through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP), will help find varieties better to grow under organic conditions. “There is still strong demand,” said Rob Wallbridge, organic specialist with Thompsons Limited. Wallbridge was joined by a number […]

Organic production an economic winner

February 8, 2019

By Gord Gilmour Glacier FarmMedia Staff Manitoba Agriculture has released its latest organic crops cost-of-production figures and once again the production system is stacking up well against conventional agriculture. Higher production costs are typically met by higher prices, which more than offset the production lag organic growers can experience, Roy Arnott, a farm management specialist […]

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