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The Great Ontario Clean Farms Challenge

Canada's leading agricultural stewardship organization, CleanFARMS, is calling all Ontario farmers to take The Great Ontario Clean Farms Challenge and help profile the positive contributions they make to the environment through good waste management. >> Read full article

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Researchers look to farmers in saving lake

Farmers have long been regarded as stewards of the land, but now researchers at the University of Waterloo (U of W) are proving that restoring Lake Erie absolutely requires agriculture’s help.

Phosphorus (P) is feeding Lake Erie’s problematic algal blooms, and one of the many ways it’s getting to the lake is from field runoff. Merrin Macrae is an associate professor at the U of W who is particularly interested in surface-water chemistry research. Macrae recently concluded a monitoring study that attempts to identify where all the water in the lake is really coming from. >> Learn More…

 
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Farm Progress Show

June 17, 2015
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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

November 6-15, 2015
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