Open house: Dutch farmers build one of largest dairy farms in Ontario in 20 years
Posted on Jun 13th, 2018 by Rebecca Degelder
MT. ELGIN - Some farmers need months to recover from as much as a 30-per cent drop in production after moving into a new barn. Not the DeBeer family of Compass Farms in Oxford County. They saw an almost immediate production bump after moving the cows into a new six-row perimeter-feeding barn with a 50-stall rotary parlour....
Read MoreFarmer with 10,000 acres in Northern Ontario says there’s opportunity north
Posted on May 23rd, 2018 by Rebecca Degelder
EARLTON - In 1982, when Norman Koch moved a six-hour drive north from his home at New Hamburg, just west of Kitchener, he didn’t plan on farming. Koch’s business was building barns and silos, and he moved to the northern Ontario town of Earlton, (current pop. 1,266), to do just that....
Read MoreDairy brothers invite sales guy into the farm, get a new freestall barn inside of a year
Posted on Apr 26th, 2018 by Rebecca Degelder
RUSSELL - Two years ago, Tom Schoeni, 53, and his brother Martin, 61, weren’t sure if their children wanted to take over the family farm, so they looked outside the family for a potential successor and partner. They didn’t have to look far....
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