Good-quality used farm equipment continues to bring in solid dollars across Ontario
Posted on Apr 10th, 2017 by Jennifer Hannan
LINDSAY - Used equipment prices are continuing to soar across Ontario. Auctioneer Ab Carroll hosted a consignment auction in Lindsay on March 25 and prices, in some cases, were double what Carroll expected. He sold a 1987 Deutz-Allis 6265 four-wheel drive tractor with a cabin and a Q740 Quicke loader and 5,700 hours on it for $21,000 to a local farmer. “I would’ve expected between $10,000 and $12,000,” Carroll told Farmers Forum....
WESTERN ONTARIO - Early March cold snap saved maple syrup season
Posted on Mar 27th, 2017 by Jennifer Hannan
LAMBTON SHORES - A warmer-than-normal winter was threatening to produce a poor maple syrup yield this year until a late cold snap revived the flow of sap. Bill Vandenberg, whose son Ryan owns Ryan’s Sweet Maple at Lambton Shores, said the cold weather snap at the end of February and early March got the sap flowing again. On March 7, the farm made just under 400 litres of maple syrup, the second-highest amount ever in a 24-hour period for the farm....
Watch the Corn Market; It's Controlling the Wheat Prices
Posted on Mar 13th, 2017 by Jennifer Hannan
The total demand for Ontario grown wheat in this province’s flour mills is roughly 560,000 tonnes. Assuming that the North American Free Trade Agreement stays intact, we can traditionally move another 400,000 tonnes into the U.S. flour mills in New York, Ohio, and Michigan. The first million tonnes of supply is consumed in the human consumption market within the Great Lakes basin, but to find demand for the other half of the crop depends on the value spread between domestic corn prices (which is the gate-keeper for local feed demand) and export demand in order to move wheat into other parts of the world....
