Twelve cows in the Kitchener area have the Internet all a-twitter as they generate feeds on the Twitter social network detailing their robotic milking activities.

GUELPH - Five new topics and a competition date have been announced for the 2010 Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture (CYSA) competition. • Who will feed the world in 50 years?

EAST HAWKESBURY - The Prescott County Holstein Club held its planning meeting on January 13th, 2010. The executive remained unchanged as Glenn Conway returned for his second year as President of the Club. "We have a good group of directors.

WINCHESTER-This year, the Dundas Cattlemen’s Association (DCA) is holding Beef Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 10 at the Winchester Community Hall.

MORRISBURG — Forget about kissing babies. Swigging the public’s ‘purified’ sewage water is the new benchmark for the political class in this rural, Eastern Ontario community.

OTTAWA - Canadian pork producers now have more time to apply for government-backed long-term loans. The deadline to apply for a loan under the Hog Industry Loan Loss Reserve Program (HILLRP) has been extended from March 1 to March 26, 2010.

KEMPTVILLE— Researcher Dr, Gaëtan Tremblay offered farmers at Eastern Ontario Dairy Days in Kemptville, a farm-grown forage alternative to adding unpalatable anionic salts to rations during the transition period.

CHESTERVILLE - Dairy farmers in Ontario will soon have more opportunities to feed the hungry and support the province’s food banks.

• A crop or dairy farmer wanting to diversify into lucrative organic meat, fruit and/or vegetable production? • A conventional or non certified organic farmer wanting to transition to organic certification for health, economic, and ecological reasons?

The Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) has anounced that the executive has been elected from the 2010 Board of Directors. Don Kenny, the elected representative from District 13- Prince Edward, Lennox-Addington, Frontenac, Lanark, Leeds, Grenville, Renfrew and Ottawa- will be GFO’s first elected chair.

TORONTO, - The Ontario Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) is pleased to announce that Charlie and Kim Sytsma of Eighth Line Farm, Athens, are the winners of this year’s Environmental Stewardship Award (TESAward), sponsored by RBC Royal Bank and OCA. The Sytsmas run 220 Red Angus cow/calf pairs on their home farm and leased properties near Athens in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, and were ...

KEMPTVILLE-A crop management educator from Cornell University has some revolutionary ideas about same day haylage that can make a significant impact on your bottom line.

BERWICK - Holstein breeders from across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec will benefit from the second Celebration Sale to be held on Barry Smith’s Rosevine Farm here next month but the big winner will be the Canadian Cancer Society.

JOHNSTOWN — Make power while the sun is shining — and while provincial policy is aligned with the idea. It’s prime time for Ontario farmers and others wishing to install solar electricity panels on their rooftops, according to information presented to a Feb. 5 economic development conference here.

KEMPTVILLE-Estate planning isn’t easy for anyone, least of all for the owners of family farms.

ROEBUCK-Dairy farmers Jacqueline Fennel and John Conklin are, to say the least, "very happy" with a Newmarket court decision on Jan. 21 that acquitted Durham area dairy farmer Michael Schmidt of distributing raw milk and raw milk products.

KEMPTVILLE—Until better vaccines are developed and genetic advances in infection resistance are made, the best defense in the prevention and treatment of mastitis is management, Dr. Daniel Scholl, with the Canadian Mastitis Research Network, told farmers at Eastern Ontario Dairy Day in Kemptville on Feb 10. "While we’re waiting for these technological advances," he said, "we can do an awful lot ...

KEMPTVILLE - Are 300-bushels of corn possible or is this only a producer’s fondest dream? A University of Illinois professor who specializes in crop sciences attempted to answer this question during the annual Eastern Ontario Crop Conference on Feb. 18 at the University of Guelph Kemptville Campus.

KEMPTVILLE— The general attack on fat in the diet and the targeted attack on dairy foods continues to be a problem for the industry according to Peter Gould, general manager of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario.

KEMPTVILLE—They may have won the battle but the cheese war continues farmers were told at Eastern Ontario Dairy Day in Kemptville on Feb. 11.