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Trade injury letter to Minister Hardeman – NFU-O & CFFO
February 21, 2020 Dear Minister Hardeman, As Ontario farmers prepare their cropping, livestock and business plans for the 2020 farming season, the obvious...
Response to Bill 156 – Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, 2019.
February 18, 2020 Dear Minister Hardeman, On behalf of the membership of the NFU-O, we would like offer our backing for Bill 156...
Bill 136: An Act to enact the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act
To the Honourable Sylvia Jones, The National Farmers Union – Ontario gratefully received a copy of the first draft of Bill 136, An Act...
Bill 132: Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019
The National Farmers Union – Ontario is an accredited general farm organization. We believe that agriculture should be economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. Our organization...
Submission to the Provincial Policy Statement Review
The National Farmers Union – Ontario (NFU-O) is an accredited farm organization representing thousands of sustainable family farmers in Ontario and has advocated for farm...
Farming as Collateral Damage in the Age of Trade Wars
Current trade tensions between China and the United States continue unabated while the trading world watches anxiously. The US. will pay its farmers $16 billion...
Submission re Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Agriculture Meeting
July 5 2019 Canada's Food Policy Concerns - Focus on developing domestic markets and localized distribution systems with direct, fair, and transparent distribution chains;...
NFU-O response to Ontario animal welfare consultation
Communications Branch Ministry of the Solicitor General 25 Grosvenor St, 10th floor Toronto, Ontario M7A 1Y6 The National Farmers Union – Ontario (NFU-O) is...
NFU- O’s Response to Bill 66: Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act
January 16, 2019 RE: 013-4293 Bill 66: Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018; 013-4125 Proposed open-for-business planning tool; 013-4239 New Regulation under the Planning Act...