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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Farm worker Michel Van Hauve milks
cows on Pierre Elter's farm, east of Ottawa, two days before he went into
hiding. After he was ordered out of Canada, the Ontario Landowners'
Association came to his rescue.
(Patrick Meagher
photo)
LEAD
STORY
EDITORIALS
- Jim Peterson offered to give away
supply management
- Many farmers will remember meetings in
Belleville when hundreds of farmers sought assistance from the Liberal
government and were repeatedly rebuffed by then Minister of
Agriculture Lyle Van Clief.
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OPINION
- Elbert's new year's wish
I propose three New Year resolutions for
governments...
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ARTICLES
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Canada betrays farmers in Hong Kong
Headline in Chinese newspaper reads: "Canada
ready to give away the farm"
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Forced to face farm crisis- farmers
chase down political leader
When Prime Minister Paul Martin when
politicking to Trenton, a farm
tractor belonging to Picton's Lloyd Crowe was standing in the way...
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Stories for our subscribers:
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Beef farmers upset but corn
countervail needed, producers say- Beef farmers don't like
the new duty on grain corn that will add another $1.91 to a
bushel.
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Landowners spill milk on gov't- The
newly formed Ontario Landowners' Association organized its first
demonstrations with four protests across the province last
month.
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Ethanol plant faces another delay- A
proposed corn-fed ethanol plant has run into another
delay.
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Dairy open house attracts 1,500- An
astonishing 1,500 people stopped in at the Lindmilk Farm's open house
Dec. 10 near Renfrew to view the van Lindenberg family's new barn and
state-of-the-art rotary milking parlor.
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Kawartha Lakes group fears animal
rights will trump people's plans- Fearing new government
regulations, landowners living on the Carden Plains, 250,000 acres of
land partially located in Kawartha Lakes, want municipal government to
assure them that the "alvar" designation is not the county
draft Official Plan.
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Guess who own 19 of 20 top Holstein
sires in Canada?- The Semex Alliance, which includes Eastern
Breeders at Kemptville, had a banner year owning 19 of the top 20
sires in Canada.
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Who gets the big bucks?- While
2004 was the best year in Canadian history for agri-businesses, it was
the second-worst year for farmers in Canada.
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Ottawa still fighting over rural
'wetlands'- Goulbourn-area landowners in Ottawa's rural southwest
thought that the wetlands designation would be dropped from the Ottawa
Official Plan.
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THEY
SAID IT:
"I still believe there's good
money. You do it right and you can make a living."
-Former dairy farmer Martin Roth on
farming in Canada.
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FARM FACTS:
Duty imposed on imported U.S. corn per
bushel.........$1.91
Number of volunteers signed up for this
year's Peterborough IPM......................500
Number of volunteers
needed..............1,500
Number ofd visitors at Renfrew dairy farmer
Arie Van Lindenberg's open house...............1,500 Number
of doughnuts available.............1,000 Number
of cups of coffee that were drunk on the last night of the World Trade
Organizations talks by negotiators in Hong Kong....................250
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