Category: Guelph Mercury

Lack of access seems to be behind the surprising results of a study showing Canadians overall aren’t thinking local when purchasing beer and wine. The survey by a group called LoyaltyOne showed that less than 40 per cent...

Growing local food is a farmer’s everyday job, and it’s also a major buying decision for certain commodities, including meat. Ontario Pork’s fledgling branding campaign capitalizes on this. The campaign clearly and simply...

Something happening in the research community is exciting and a great source for news coverage. It’s important that people receive research news in an understandable way; after all, they have a stake in it through funding,...

Guelph chef Brian Schmeler makes prepared food at Valeriote’s Market, supplies customers with raw ingredients, and is always on the lookout for what’s next. Last week in New York, he was part of a pan-Canadian team of chefs for...

Canadian opinions on supply management vary; some say it protects commodities, while other say lack of competition drives up prices. But hopefully everyone agrees another country should not be telling us what we can do inside...

With planting season in sight, Ontario farmers are turning their attention the weather and their soil. Though they can’t do much about the weather, soil’s fate is in the farmer’s hands as they plant record numbers of soybeans in...

Though ineffective in the past, the honest and endearing image that Joe Clark embodies so well is now being welcomed — most recently, by more than 700 participants at the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic. There, the...

  When is a 14 per cent jump in average farmland values in this province actually a relief? When it’s compared to the 23 per cent jump that took place from 2012 to 2013, that’s when. The 14 per cent figure, last year’s...

Challenges like the recent outbreak of highly contagious bird flu on some poultry farms in Ontario could have been a threat to Ontario’s trade mission to China – but with the Chinese government’s blessing, the delegation was...

Research results are everywhere, and Canadians owe a lot to the people behind them, the people who have dedicated their lives to making our lives better. We’re lucky to have a strong culture of research support in Canada, which...

Social media means people have more freedom to say whatever they please about anything they like (as long as they don’t libel or slander anyone). And though social media can be a valuable tool, and one crucial to modern...