February 26, 2021 ·
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By Sam Odrowski
Monday, Feb. 22 was Agriculture Day in Canada and the Dufferin Federation of Agriculture (DFA) chair, Bill McCutcheon shared some of the ups and downs for local farmers over the last year.
The county’s $100 million industry has seen both positive and negative changes for the 550 farm businesses, registered with the DFA over the last year.
For Dufferin’s lamb farmers, everything’s almost been business as usual, if not better, according to McCutcheon.
“We’ve experienced increase in demand, because there’s not quite as much product coming in from New Zealand or Australia, so it’s been really good on the lamb side,” he noted.