JANUARY 2005

Best bean in Canada

Dundas 4-H member, Christina Lillico, had the best white beans at the Royal Winter Fair. She says her winning formula is simple: Clean your beans. 

Patrick Meagher photo

 LEAD STORY 

• Leaders wanted
  Corn growers ask: When do I pack it in?
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EDITORIALS 

• Toughen up - use countervail
  The unequal government support prices for crops give new meaning to the real estate mantra "location, location, location."
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OPINION 

• Gun registry guarantees more crime
  It's tiring to hear the same old whine about needing the long gun registry to prevent tragedies.... but that's how the $1 billion gun registry debacle got its momentum.
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 ARTICLES 

• Chris Judd suffers stroke
  Well-known Quebec dairy farmer Chris Judd is recovering at home after suffering a stroke before Christmas.
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• U.S. border expected to open in March
  Despite two new cases of mad cow disease discovered in Alberta this month, an avalanche of opinion and one new lawsuit south of the border, the American government appears to be sticking to a plan to open the U.S. border to young cattle March 7....
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• 13 cases of mad cow likely needed to keep U.S. border closed
  Excluding lawsuits and public pressure, Canadian investigators would likely have to find 13 cases of mad cow disease for the U.S. to keep its border closed to Canadian cattle.
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• Talking Civil disobedience
  Relations between the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) and the provincial government have dropped to a new low. 
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• More tractor blockades ahead
  Police tried in vain to dissuade the in-your-face Lanark Landowners' Association from starting weekly road blocks on four-lane highways.

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• Articles for our subscribers

• Mayor attacked over Seaway Valley shares - Petty councillors in Cornwall have attacked Mayor Phil Poirier over his undeclared ownership of shares in the Seaway Valley Farmers Energy Cooperative.

• Lyle's big mistake: Cutting NISA - "I won't forgive Lyle for getting rid of NISA (Net Income Stabilization Account)," says Lloyd Crowe. Lyle is Crowe's neighbour Lyle Vanclief, former federal minister of agriculture.

• Peterborough Abattoir will process 1,000 cattle a week - Freedom Foods, a Peterborough meat processing company, hopes to have a federally inspected slaughterhouse in operation within 18 months.

• Nation-wide survey says farmers are in the doldrums - A nation-wide telephone survey reveals wide-spread pessimism in farming, although there is hope among farmers that the farm economy will improve.

• OFA slams limit of two coyote kills - The Ministry of Natural Resources will  limit the hunting of coyotes and wolves to two kills per hunter, a decision heavily criticized by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.

• U.S. farm families earn more than Canadian farm families - The average income earned by American farm operator households in 2004 is forecast to be US $70,675 (CDN $99,000) per household, up 3.2 percent from 2003.

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  THEY SAID IT:       
"I won't forgive Lyle (Vanclief) for getting rid of NISA."

—  Lloyd Crowe,   Vanclief's neighbour

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  FARM FACTS:
Number of cattle in 12 months that need to test BSE positive for Canada to lose its minimal risk status....................13

New limit on coyote kills per season.......2

Highest speed at which soybean rust can travel through the air..........500 km/day