Aug. 19 Midday Ag News Report

By Rodney Hiemstra

August 19, 2016 - 3:51pm

The Minister of Agriculture is being applauded for applying the brakes to the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission.

Details on that and more in today's midday ag news report:

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