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The Greenbelt lands are back but why stop there?

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | December 2023 The NFU-O Calls on Rural Voice readers to help advance Environmental Protection, Food...
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The fight to protect Ontario’s finite farmland continues: We need you to join the fight!

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | July 2023 Once again, farmland is under attack in Ontario. On April 6, 2023, the...
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More Farmland Lost Faster: What Bill 23 and Development on Greenbelt-protected Land Will Really Accomplish

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | January 2023 Undemocratically pushed through before the window for public consultation had been closed, let...
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NFU-O members weigh in on Ontario’s Greenbelt: to grow or not to grow?

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | May 2021 Ontario’s Greenbelt is the world’s largest with two million acres of protected farmland,...
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Farmland, water protection and new farmers should be top priorities for new government

National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | September 2018 Recently, the NFU-O asked you how the new Ontario government could best support...
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Supporters Welcome Prison Farm Feasibility Study

June 8, 2016  KINGSTON, Ontario -- Prison farm supporters welcomed the announcement last week that the federal government will conduct a feasibility study on restoring...
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