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Opinion: Celebrate Ontario foods, but also fight to protect threatened farmland

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Ontario farmers are proud to celebrate local food, farm products and farmers all year long .

Less than five per cent of Ontario ’s land is suitable for agricultural production of any kind, says Drew Spoelstra .

Ontario is losing an average of 319 acres of farmland to urban sprawl and other uses outside of agriculture and food production.

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informal

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English

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