News from our rich agriculture history

The Farms.com farm and rural history website is dedicated to celebrating and digitizing the last 150 years of success in the Canadian agriculture and food industry. The agriculture and food industries in Canada have a rich heritage of innovation, and have laid a foundation of excellence upon which we continue to grow. We celebrate Canada’s food and agriculture innovations on these pages.

The Farmers’ Movement

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | SEPTEMBER 18, 1919 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

If this country ever needed sane thinking and right living it is in this year, 1919. Sobriety of life and thought will be just as necessary, too, in the immediate future, and it was in response to this feeling that the editorial was written which appeared in the issue of September 4, and entitled “The Provincial Political Arena.” For the same reason, W.C. Good’s friendly

This diagram appeared in the Summer 1978 issue of the Small Farmers’ Journal. It was not an advertisement, but actually part of an article on new methods for

This is a metal cheese press used in production of (you guessed it!) pressed cheeses such as cheddar and gouda. This device is used in the final step of the cheesemaking

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The Rural Woman and the Nursing Problem

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | SEPTEMBER 1934 | THE FARMER

Women living in the rural parts of Canada are sometimes puzzled when they hear that there are many hundreds of graduate nurses in all provinces who can find no work. Puzzled because the woman of the small villages and the countryside knows her own needs and sees just what an abundance of work awaits the hand and skill of the trained nurse in every neighborhood. Puzzled, unless or until she

Morris Sagriff

1955 - 2016

Agronomist; CCA-ON. Born in 1955 in Ernestown Township; died on Nov. 10, 2016 in Chatham, aged 61.

In his earliest memory of Morris Sagriff, Dave Harwood recalled recently, he was to speak following the highly-regarded, DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred agronomist at a crop information meeting in southwestern Ontario.

Sagriff was well known among colleagues for energetic talks. But Harwood, fresh out of school and working for a competitor, remembers thinking “that was a very tough act to follow.” They got better acquainted after Harwood joined DuPont

Daniel Massey

FEBRUARY 24, 1798 - NOVEMBER 15, 1856

Daniel Massey was a farmer and farm-implement manufacturer of Upper Canada, notable for being the founder of the Massey farm implement business, the predecessor of the Massey Ferguson company, an enormously successful multinational corporation that is currently one of Canada’s premier farming equipment manufacturers. His company and its legacy would revolutionize farming in southern Ontario.

Massey was born on February 24, 1798 in Windsor, Vermont, the son of American farmers Daniel and Rebecca. When he was only six years old his family emigrated to Upper Canada- to the

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News from our rich agriculture history

The Farmers’ Movement

Life Cycle of the Bloodworm

Metal Cheese Press

The Rural Woman and the Nursing Problem

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Morris Sagriff

Daniel Massey