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Ontario Growers Cut Back On Soybean Planting This Spring

Ontario farmers planted less soybeans and about the same amount of corn this year compared to a year ago.

Statistics Canada reports soybean acreage of 2 point 7 million acres - down about 6 and a half per cent from last year.

Ontario corn acreage was steady at 2 point 1 million acres.

Nationally, soybean acreage was 5 point 5 million acres - up 1 per cent - largely based on record acreage in Manitoba.

Canadian farmers reported planting 3 point 3 million acres of corn for grain this year, up almost 2 per cent from 2015.

Statscan reports an almost 4 per cent drop in overall wheat acreage so far this year, a slight drop in canola acreage and lower seeded areas for both oats and barley compared to 2015.

The agency says total lentils acreage reached a record high of 5 point 8 million acres this year - up almost 48 per cent from 2015.

Saskatchewan accounts for 90 per cent of the total lentils acreage in Canada.

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Youth volunteers practice coastal conservation

Nine young volunteers aged 11 to 17 spent three days exploring and protecting the Lake Huron coastline during the Coastal Conservation Youth Corps' inaugural program in Grand Bend from July 21 to 23.