Biomass producers and researchers gathered March 19, 2024 for the Ontario Biomass Producers Co-op (OBPC) Annual General Meeting at Country Heritage Park in Milton. Attendees…
JPD Angus Wins 2024 Mapleseed Pasture Award
February 21, 2024 (Toronto, Ont.) – The Beef Farmers of Ontario, Mapleseed and the Ontario Forage Council, sponsors of the Ontario Mapleseed Pasture Award, are…
Grazing, Wildfires, and Emissions
Are cattle a secret weapon for taking on California wildfires? That’s the headline of a recent article in Beef Magazine, which summarized a new study…
2023 OBPC AGM Presentations
The Ontario Biomass Producers Co-operative AGM was held Tuesday, March 21, 2023. The presentations ranged from the role of biomass crops on soil health, to…
Dufferin County Farmer Receives Mapleseed Pasture Award
October 2023 – Mike Swidersky and family, of Riverview Ranch Meat Co. in Melancthon, Dufferin County are the recipients of the 2023 Ontario Sheep Pasture…
Preventing and Extinguishing Silo Fires
Key Points: What Causes Fires? The process of forage heating up and then burning is typically called spontaneous combustion. In silos, forage can dry down…
Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years
by Marni Ellery, University of California – Berkeley As published by https://phys.org/ on April 12, 2023 Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding a…
Switchgrass Growers Find New Business Opportunity in Poultry Bedding
Tom Venesky, tvenesky@lancasterfarming.com Mar 31, 2023 HUNLOCK CREEK, Pa. — Two years ago, Bruce Trumbower had 50 acres of switchgrass and nowhere to sell it.…
Mapleseed Pasture Award – Entry forms 2023-2024
The Beef Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Sheep Farmers, Mapleseed, and the Ontario Forage Council, invite you to nominate a deserving producer for the Mapleseed…
Managed Grass – The colour of money…
Grazing Advice from Birgit Martin “Currently, the margin in the beef cow-calf sector depends on reducing costs and improving gains.“