Trailhead Ontario to discuss Land Managment Practices

An American logger received a standing ovation at a local farm conference Thursday for saying rural communities need to proclaim they’re good stewards of the land to rebuff vocal business-hating environmental activists claiming otherwise.

“Society doesn’t dislike us: they don’t know us,” keynote speaker Bruce Vincent told a packed audience at the Ontario Farm Animal Council and AGCare annual meeting.

But while activists have held sway with the public for years with a message of unrelenting environmental degradation, there’s a rising generation of youth who are turning away from doomsday scenarios and don’t hate free enterprise, Vincent said.