Mistyglen Creamery near Belmont, Ontario will open its doors this fall to day-trippers from London and beyond. The family owners are offering what they call “homespun dairy products,†pasture-raised poultry and nutritious specialty treats.
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Jan Kielstra, a 21 year-old dairy farmer from Saskatchewan, has developed an astounding YouTube following. SaskDutchKid, as he calls himself, has amassed millions of views of his videos that portray the highs and lows of everyday farm life.
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Take a dairy farmer with kids in 4H and a kindergarten teacher looking for remote learning opportunities, and you get an exciting, new farm-based program for school kids called ‘Adopt A Cow’. Modelled after a similar program in the U. S., farmer Heather Peters and teacher Melissa Pearce were overwhelmed by the response of local dairy farmers willing to participate.
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Switzerland is as keen about its picture-perfect farming as it is about reducing agriculture-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In fact, the country is home to two large corporations who are taking a lead in GHG reduction strategies. One has developed methane-reducing diet supplements for cattle, which has been field tested in Canada, among other countries.
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Owen Roberts is an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.