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FARMERS FORUM 2011 photo contest

7th annual photo contest

This year's theme:
 LANDSCAPES

Submit entries to info@farmersforum.com

Deadline:
Feb. 18, 2011

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


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

Happy in Havelock

 THEY SAID IT:       
 "It’s just kind of overwhelming. The live and let live doesn’t really apply anymore. Everybody has to push their views on somebody else."
— Jason Racine on how much attention the Cornwall Fence Depot's first annual coyote contest is receiving.


                  

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CLASSIFIED ADS

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

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.

FOR SALE – PIGS AND SHEEP – Purebred Hampshires and Tamworths, imported bloodlines. Gilts and boars, weanlings and bred sows. $400 for reg. $300 unregistered. Shetland sheep and lambs. Call 514-901-0999 or 514-941-1510.

PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS – Be prepared for spring: we have several excellent young bulls in the yard. 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.

SERVICES

MORTGAGES – We provide mortgages on raw land, business or self. Up to 100 % financing. Previously bankrupt okay OAC. Call Martel Mortgages at 613-345-5284. Ask for Mike Martel. www.martelmortgages.ca. (FSCO11963).

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

HAY FOR SALE – Big squares of inside wheat straw and cattle hay for sale. Call 1-800-526-7412.

HAY FOR SALE – Small square bales, excellent quality, no rain. Delivery available. Call Don Greer, Brockville. Leave message at (613) 345-1655.

FOR SALE – Self-locking head gates, used milking pump. Contact Paul Mussell 613-826-2959.

FOR SALE – Great Pyrenees Sheep Dog Pups born December 14. Parents full blood, working guard dogs and puppies have started training with our goat herd. Email: galenhorst@rogers.com for pictures, $500.00 delivery available, Galen or Patricia 613-758-9902 Hardwood Lake.

FOR SALE – RED CLOVER HAY – 1st cut, small bales, ensure rich fodder in the fall, pick-up or delivery (additional charge) now, P & H Farms, Port Hope. Call 905-786-3043.

FOR SALE – Double-cut red clover seed, $1.50 per pound. 613-673-2996.

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.

WANTED

WANTED – Good used gravity wagons, preferably on good undercarriage and truck tires. Please call 613-587-4159 evenings.

WANTED – 22x38 Dion threshing machine with tool box on front. Call 905-983-9331.

WANTED – 6 row or 4 row Lilliston rolling cultivator. Call 613-587-4675.

HELP WANTED

Seasonal Sprayer Operator (April to Nov) needed for the Richmond to Renfrew area. Farm knowledge or experience a must. Physically fit and not challenged by long days. Exterminator and A-Z license preferred or willing to acquire. This job is weather determinate, willing to work a flexible schedule. Will train qualified candidate. Email resume to pgasser@ripnet.com.

PROPERTY FOR SALE

PARKLAND AREA OF MANITOBA – 2,080 acres ranch-crop feedlot with 1,750 cultivated, grain storage, machine shed, heated workshop, cattle handling facilities with shelters. Moderate home built in 1974, renovated in 2005. Excellent water. Call 204-732-2664.

AUCTION SALES

Saturday Feb. 12 at 9:30 am. Good household, antiques, outstanding tools. Quality sale. Saturday Feb. 26 at 9:30 am. Antiques from several estates. Both sales held at Cobden Ag Hall. Watch for signs. Stewarts Auctions, Cobden, ON 613-646-7649. More details at www.revelstewart.com.

 
FRONT PAGE
 Corn growers enjoy benefits of local ethanol plant
The second major ethanol plant in eastern Ontario is giving farmers another option for where to truck their corn.

MARKET REPORT 
 Grow corn and earn $350 profit or more per acre
Corn prices continue to rise as soybeans follow while the wheat situation is less clear, says commodity analyst Moe Agostino.

FEATURES
 Invest in my farm                    
New farmer sold bonds to investors to start farm that home-delivers meat once a month to customers' doors.

Where everybody knows your name
Jessica Sims shows what it was like at Hoards Station Jan. 28 for the much-talked-about livestock auction with prices nearing pre-BSE days.
                           
OPINION 
 Future of farming means doubling world food production in the next 40 years      
Biggest challenge to feed 9 million mouths by 2050 with only 12 per cent increase in available agricultural land.

John Steinbeck country is salad bowl of the world
If you travel to Salinas, California, as Maynard van der Galien did, you're likely to see the fields where most of the world's lettuce comes from.

Why supply management offers a fair price for milk and market prices don't
Bill Mitchell counters media claims that supply management increases retail prices and hurts trade.

Pasteurizing milk before feeding calves is a great idea - sometimes    
Problem bacteria often forms in the milk after it's pasteurized, Dr. Robert Tremblay explains.
 
  
Peter Archer, of Maizeing Acres, says area farmers are saving on transport costs thanks to Kawartha Ethanol just 20 minutes away in Havelock. (Jessica Sims photo)
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NEWS
Genomics, depressed world milk prices force EBI and Gencor to seek amalgamation
EBI administration and head offices move to Guelph, while Kemptville site will house bulls and process semen.

New record-keeping rules aggravate some dairy farmers, others say it only adds five minutes to their day
Canadian Quality Milk Program to be phased in over next four years.

Great show herd wins third Master Breeder shield
Sandy Crest Holsteins of Arnprior have won championships from Kemptville to the New York State Fair.

Hunter family scores third Master Breeder shield
A family with a 9,500 kg production average per cow per 305 days per year.

Local growers cry foul over GM contamination in IP soybeans
Farmers worry one GM kernel left over from another load could raise the red flag for their entire batch of soybeans.

How the cattle insurance program works
Terry Meagher breaks it down for beef farmers.

Win a truckload of gravel and limo service in Cornwall coyote contest
Store hopes contest will be a venue for hunters to gather and socialize, away from negative attention.

Province inundated with solar and wind project applications
OPA says high volumes creating application processing delays.

Valley Bio looking for farmers to grow hemp
Offering contracts starting at $1,210 per tonne, going up to $1,760 for organic.

Beef prices edge up at local sale barns
In some cases cattle fetch prices that haven't been seen since before BSE.
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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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