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Jul 4, 2022 · According to the new statistics from the 2021 Census of Agriculture, the rate of farmland loss in Ontario has increased to 319 acres per day. The total acreage of farmland in Ontario decreased from 12,348,463 in 2016 to 11,766,071 in 2021, averaging out to a decrease of approximately 319 acres of farmland lost per day during this time period.
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The rate of farmland loss in Ontario has increased...
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"There's significant issues with MZOs and the lack of long-term planning," said OFA president Peggy Brekveld, a northern Ontario dairy farmer. She pointed to a number of recent examples where Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark used his extraordinary power to override local planning processes, including fast tracking a housing develo...
The problem of urban expansion is of particular concern in the fast-growing London region, where large swathes of some of the best farmland in Canada have been paved over in the last half-century for shopping malls and suburban housing developments. "Look at how much London has grown," said Crispin Colvin, a Thorndale area farmer and an executive m...
The OFA argues the current practice of destroying farmland in favour of urban development at a rate of 175 acres daily is unsustainable because if it continues, it could one day affect the country's food sovereignty, whereby a people have control of their own food and nutritionfrom growth to consumption. "We lose sight of the fact that food is the ...
Jun 18, 2022 · Data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture shows Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily, equal to the loss of one average family farm. That's a sharp increase from the last census in 2016,...
Jun 16, 2022 · Farmland is being gobbled up at an alarming rate in Ontario, according to the 2021 census. “The last census (2016), the loss was 175 acres per day. Now, it’s 319 acres per day, and this...
Jun 18, 2022 · Data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture suggests Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily, equal to the loss of one average family farm per day.
Jun 18, 2022 · Data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture shows Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily, equal to the loss of one average family farm per day. That’s a sharp increase from the last census...
May 24, 2023 · The rate of farmland loss in Ontario has increased dramatically since the 2016 Census of Agriculture, from 175 acres to 319 acres of farmland being lost every single day. Straathof indicates that with the increased rate of farmland loss, Ontario’s 11.8 million acres of today’s farmland will be gone within the next 100 years .
