Rural

The Huron County Sodbusters 4-H Club met at Monoway Farms on Aug. 9 under ideal conditions for plowing. The club meets during the summer months to learn more about the art of plowing, and many members have gone on to perform quite well at competitions. Andrew Fear smiles for the camera while maintai

It has been three long years since the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has been able to conduct its province-wide Ambassador of the Fairs competition. It’s also meant three years of representation for most regional fair ambassadors, whose reigns were extended with the arrival of the pandemic in e

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Although the Wingham Ecological Park is celebrating 30 years since its establishment, the beginning of this revolutionary project began many years before.

The fourth meeting of the South Bruce Dairy Club, joined by the Arran Tara Dairy Club, was held at the Teeswater Fairgrounds on July 23.

On July 14, as the parade celebrating the Listowel Fair’s opening night concluded, Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae congratulated members of the Listowel Agricultural Society (LAS) on the work done since receiving a $22,600 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF)

Council is hoping the engineer of the Blyth Creek municipal drain project will take on some of the financial burden of cost overruns on the project.

Serious warning signs from local forests in the Maitland Conservation (MC) coverage areas have Watershed Ecologist Erin Gouthro concerned, with more than 80 per cent of the wooded plots showing signs of a “disturbance signal.”

What started in the summer of 2002 as a group of 13 goat milk producers is now almost 100 strong, a major player in agriculture, and growing.

Author, journalist and barn expert Jon Radojkovic was on hand at the Mill Pond Gallery and Bruce County Bookstore on July 16 to demonstrate barn building techniques and show some of his collection of tools used in constructing these remarkable buildings.

Mayor Chris Peabody said he plans to bring forward a motion at Bruce County council in response to the federal government’s plan to reduce fertilizer emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.

Doug Johnston sits comfortably and confidently at the controls of his New Holland combine harvester, and makes the turn onto Perth Road 147 that runs adjacent to Maplevue Farms just north of Britton.