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FARMERS FORUM 2011 photo contest

7th annual photo contest

This year's theme:
 LANDSCAPES


First Place
"Pink sky" — Lisa Flewellyn Kinburn, Ontario

Honourable mention to:

Elizabeth Vingerhoeds

Daniel Duquette

Kirsten Norlock

Rob Elmhurst
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 6th  Annual Photo Contest 2010
 Theme:
ANIMALS ON THE FARM


First Place
"Head to head" — Mike Komendat, Balderson, Ontario

Farmers get compensation increase for predator kills

 THEY SAID IT:       
 "Precious metals and farmland."
— Sprott Asset Management chief executive officer, Eric Sprott, on what he believes are solid investments in an unstable world economy.


                  
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CLASSIFIED ADS

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

FOR SALE – Two year old Hereford bull - $1500. Call 613-838-5502 after 3 pm.

FOR SALE – PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS. Yearling Bulls been on test at Douglas. Quiet and ready to work! Kirlene Cattle Call Kirby 613-475-3532.

FOR SALE – Charolais bulls, polled yearlings and two year olds. Call 613-473-4190 or 613-473-4743.

FOR SALE – One polled purebred Limousin bull. Two years old. R.O.P. tested at Douglas. Also yearling bulls, coming off tests March 1. Call (613) 257-2522 or (613) 623-3363.

PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS – 15 first-calf heifers, heifer calves and excellent young bulls from western Canada. Century farm since 1889. Call Murray and Heather Porter at 705-277-2298 or email porterblackangus@gmail.com.

FOR SALE – Polled shorthorn bulls, halterbrook. Also shorthorn females. Call Windyview Farm 705-340-1858.

FOR SALE — Show Horses. Broke and ready for the ring. 613-826-2538.

PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS – Several excellent yearlings, bulls ready to work. One great 2 year old, tested free of all generic abnormalities; deep bodied, stop in and see his calves. Call South Nation Farms, Michael & Bev Ault at 613-652-2403.

PUREBRED HOLSTEIN – service age bulls for sale. Full pedigrees. Delivery available. James Cooper, Cardinal 613-652-4145.

FOR SALE – Red Angus Bulls and Cows for sale call Tayside Farms in Perth 613-267-6100.

CHAROLAIS BULLS FOR SALE — Purebred papered. Polled from proven AI Sires. Call 613-473-2636 or 613-813-2494.

FOR SALE – 44 cows (39 registered Simmental and 5 Simmental, 10 Charolais) 3-year-old 100% Fleckvieh bull. Cows are vaccinated and bred. Cal 613-678-5411.

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE

FOR SALE – CASE IH 8312 disc bines with new steel on steel conditioning roles $8500- JOHN DEER 700 gallon spray cart with 60 foot hydraulic cross fold boom and mid-tech rate controller $7500 call 613-551-3998.

FOR SALE – New Holland 575 Baler, 2006, mint condition. $12,500. New Holland 1063 bale wagon. 160 bale pick-up. $12,000. Call Jesse Brook at 613-839-0257. Email jbrook@xplornet.com.

FOR SALE – Forage blower Gehl 1580 in good condition. Call 613-347-1549.

FOR SALE – 790 New Holland harvester with metal alert, two-row corn head and seven-foot hay head. Excellent condition, field ready. Call 613-551-7833.

FOR SALE – New Holland 782 harvester with hay and corn head. New Holland 28 blower and two Dion 16-foot forage wagons, left side unload. $8,900. Call 613-372-5766.

FOR SALE — Agrimental feed cart 542, 9hp Honda engine, good condition $1200, Dynavent round baler unroller, 13hp Honda engine, good cond. $2000 call 613-223-4191.

FOR SALE — Red Weightronic feed mill with mixer-unloader-silos for reserve feed-Blower with pipes and cyclone. Excellent condition, like new call 613-524-2896 or 613-795-2896.

FOR SALE – Gehl 1475 round baler, 4X5, high moisture option, excellent condition, $7,500; NH 315 high capacity, small square baler, like new, $2,500. Call 613-832-2988.

SERVICES

SANDBLASTING & PAINTING – of farm tractors and equipment. Specializing in restoring antique tractors. Call Linford Martin at Rainbow Restorations, 613-587-4293.

SILO GUNNITE — we will restore all makes of silos in Eastern Ontario with Spray Gunnite. Call Rob Sangers for a quote. 613-545-0855. Kingston, Ontario.

B & D DEADSTOCK SERVICE LTD. – prompt removal of dead and crippled cattle. Call the number nearest you. Tweed: 613-478-2713; Kingston: 613-548-8839; Gananoque: 613-382-4242.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

FOR SALE – Large square bales of straw & top quality first cut hay, delivered. Contact Hugh Fawcett 613-774-3363.

FOR SALE – Trade in your old outdoor furnace. E-Classic OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE. Buy NOW and save up to $2500! Call today (613) 524-3102.

FOR SALE – FIREWOOD PROCESSOR, Canadian made: Cuts 8-10ft logs, up to 16” diameter, 13hp Honda engine. $8,900. www. blackscreek.ca or 613-889-3717 or 888-989-3717.

VEHICLES FOR SALE Credit problems? In-house financing is easy, just apply on line & become approved. For clean, low mileage vehicles www.car-oline. com or call Car-o-line Autos @ 1-877-820-5598 or 613-448-2488.

FOR SALE — 20x60 400 tonne high moisture HMC Harvestore structure complete excellent condition call 613-293-9046.

FOR SALE — Aluminum irrigation pipe 18 lengths of 3 inch pipe. 12 lenths of 2 inch pipe. 6-3/4 in sprinklers. Complete system comes with Tee valves, adapters, reducers ext. Bought for $2935 asking $2000. 613-735-5127.

FOR SALE — John Deere 88-20, 4 wheel drive 3200 hours-2400 sep hours, excellent shape. 6 row corn head and a 9-15 stainless flex head. Field ready asking $31,000 or best offer. Hardy sprayer 500 gallons, dual axel, $3200 call 613-657-1708 or 613-498-8292.

FOR SALE — Hagdorn 225 manure spreader like new, Gleaner FZ combine,3 heads air conditioning (organic spreader), class 350 rotary rack,20 foot steel hay wagon,40ft bail elevator on wheels, feather light 28ft gooseneck flatbed trailer (2-10,000 pound axels and winch, 20 foot closed in trailer new axels, black Baldy Cows. Belleville 613-969-1345.

FOR SALE — 20x60 400T harvestore structure complete. Call 613-293-9046.

FOR SALE — Hay conditioner Recon 300 purchased 2005 $6000, Sittler compost turner purchased 2004 12 foot $8000, Horst 2800 corn processor/blower purchased 2002 big tonnage per hour $8000. All in great shape. View www.formanfarms.ca - 613-382-4949.

WANTED

WANTED – 1 to 3 acres for residential. Area of Georgetown, Caledon or Milton. Please contact Paul 415-554-0389,  paul@softotal.com.

WANTED — CLEAN STRAW, small square bales, Kaladar, delivery mid-end October. Straw Chopper for small square bales. Ross 416-418-3372/breen@immi.ca.

PASTURE FOR RENT – Good for 10-15 head, water, in shade, south of Martintown, $650. 514-245-3742.

URGENT – Wanted Hesston 510 hay bind, running or not. Call 1-877-538-3018.
FRONT PAGE
 Province updates 30-year-old wildlife compensation program
Farmers see drastic improvements to what they can earn for a head of livestock killed or injured by predators.

MARKET REPORT 
 'Beans in the teens' — price rarely this high in 40 years
Soybean prices hit unusual highs as corn waits on weather and wheat braces for Russia.

FEATURES
 90-years-old, still going strong
Joachim McNichols and Francis Coburn still put in full days on their beef farms, despite being almost a century old.
                           
OPINION 
 Did you know that the banks were out of cash and you gave them money? 
Investment advisor Paul Poggione talks about what you might have missed during the economic meltdown of September 2008.

Don't be fooled by chocolate dairy 'beverage' and 'frozen desserts
Be sure to read your labels carefully, writes Renfrew-area columnist Maynard van der Galien.

CBC is for the left, Sun TV for the right
Michael Coren defends recent news station Sun TV from its critics.

Dairy cow lameness is top animal welfare issue
Lame cows who aren't producing milk can be expensive for the farmer.
 
  
CARP IS KING — Carp Farmers’ Market, west of urban Ottawa, boasts of the largest producer-is-vendor market in eastern Ontario, with 80 vendors on any Saturday. "It’s incredible," said former farmers’ market president and vegetable grower Dave McCreary. "It’s all local growers. We don’t allow anyone beyond 100 miles." The Carp market gets 20,000 visitors for a two-day garlic festival held every August. This year it’s on August 13 and 14. (Jessica Sims photo)
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NEWS
Robinson goes to court on animal cruelty charges
Second pre-trial ordered in mid-September for Chesterville dairy farmers facing animal cruelty charges.

Trace your food to fork and get 75% of your costs covered
Government will cover costs for bar code scanners, software, tag readers and other equipment used to trace animals and crops.

Animal review board says farmers can use the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in defence
Farmers have new grounds to argue OSPCA inspectors searched their land illegally.

How the animal welfare police conducts a flawless investigation
OSPCA inspectors told to be careful of Charter issues that may arise from entering a property without a warrant.

Farmland good investment amidst speculation of interest rate hike
Bank of Canada expected to start raising interest rates this fall.

Promising young dairy farmer killed in farm accident
27-year-old hoped to earn Master Breeder shield one day.

Beware the attack of soybean aphids
Dry weather has brought over 2,000 aphids per plant in some fields.

'Refuge in a bag' will make planting easier in 2012, say seed dealers
Canadian Food Inspection Agency allows seed bag mix to replace practice of planting part of a field with corn that doesn't have insect-killing genes.

Will perennials ever get respect? Researchers work to make them profitable
Planting perennials could save fertilizer costs and prevent soil erosion.

O'Brien's got a gun
One Greely farmer vows to make a stand against the hot-air balloonists who keep landing on her property without permission.

Raw milk enthusiasts must wait for final decision
A Newmarket judge has delayed his final report over the Michael Schmidt case.

Ottawa food shop on the prowl for local farmers
Newly expanded retail store is open to farmers of all kinds.

Prince Edward County reigns for most predator attacks on livestock
Between 2010 and 2011, the region had 492 reports of livestock animals being injured or killed by wolves and coyotes.

Tractor traveler seeks company of farmers — documentary to follow
Professor of agriculture crosses Eastern Canada on a tractor, plans to hit Ontario in early August.

This company will build you a free barn if you let them put solar panels on the roof
In exchange for the revenue from the solar power generated, you get a maintenance-free barn or shed at no cost.

There are now 185 farms selling shares for produce in Ontario
Although the small, grassroots farms can be hard to track, there's no question that interest in them in growing.

Is Wagyu for you?
Alberta group looks for eastern Ontario farmers to raise beef breed known for its marbling.
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VIDEO CLIPS

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Amazing light display using sheep

Lamb born with two heads

How Not to Market Your Corn
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 LINKS:
OMAFRA
 ONTARIO CORN PRODUCERS
 ONTARIO SOYBEAN PRODUCERS
 ONTARIO CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION
 ONTARIO FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURE
 NATIONAL FARMERS UNION
 CHRISTIAN FARMERS FED. OF ONTARIO
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