6th annual photo contest This year's theme:
ANIMALS ON
THE FARM
First Place "Head to head" — Mike Komendat, Balderson, Ontario
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5th Annual Photo Contest
2009
Theme:
HUMOUR ON
THE FARM
First Place "Nothing like working in the dirt." — Sydney DeVries of Finch, Ontario
The Corn Supremacy
THEY SAID
IT:
"She’s
tough. She’s a fighter."
— Joyceville dairy farmer Bryan Dickson on his wife, Cheryl, who
was paralyzed from the waist down after a farm accident.
MARKET REPORT
$5 corn, undervalued soybeans
Wheat price will follow corn and soybeans, says commodity analyst Moe Agostino.
FEATURES
POSTMODERN
FLINTSTONES
From second-hand clothes to second-hand solar panels,
do-it-yourself family has no hydro bills, no heating bills, not
water bills, no clothes dryer — no kidding!
The new speech law: agree
with me or shut up
You can say whatever you want today unless, of course,
you actually believe in hard truths like life is sacred from conception.
There's no freedom of opinion for you, says Michael Coren.
This year’s corn harvest was a
bin buster across eastern Ontario with estimates of farmers reaping 15
bushels more per acre than the five-year average of 145 bushels per acre.
Here, a worker at Andre Menard and Sons’ grain elevator, north of
Winchester, loads a truck with corn.
(Patrick Meagher photo)
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NEWS
10-year jump in corn yields
Does anyone remember the corn yields of the 1940s?
About 45 bushels per acre. We've come a long way baby!
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