OCTOBER  2004

Do you know where your children are?

Kemptville College frosh week has become five-days of messy, mucky Survivor-style challenges for first-year students. Above, are agriculture student John Crouch, of Wakefield, Quebec, and equine student Isabel Small. 

Krista Bowering photo

 LEAD STORY 

• Sale barns close
  Two Ontario sales barns - both east of Toronto - are the latest casualties in the closed border crisis.
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EDITORIALS 

• What Global warming?
  Canada's former environment minister David Anderson is jumping up and down demanding that Canada meet its commitment to the Koyoto agreement and reduce carbon dioxide or els.
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OPINION 

• Outrageous cuts to BIO and DHI
  A significant part of preventing another BSE crisis is through the animal tracking efforts of DHI and BIO.
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 ARTICLES 

• Friends save Bossels after fire kills 50 cows
  Mary-Lou Bossel was sitting in her car sandwiched between four revved-up firetrucks at a railway crossing waiting for the train to pass. A thought suddenly struck, "I hope it's not our farm."
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• The new wild west
  The Lanark Landowners Association has sparked a government investigation into its activities because of so-called "illegal" beef sold at farmers' markets across the Ottawa Valley.
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• How to direct-market your beef
  More and more beef farmers are launching web sites, erecting signs at the farm gate and heading to the nearest farmers' market in a new wave of direct marketing of beef.
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• He expands to improve family life
  It's a good thing Murray Carlow is not a worrier because he's got bank debt he never planned for and six growing kids, including his oldest of four girls who is going on 13.
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• Articles for our subscribers
  

• Two-year-old survives being run over by tractor - Two-year-old was airlifted by helicopter to the CHEO in Ottawa Sept. 19 after it appears he was run over by a tractor.

• Local sale barns vow to stay open - Although the recent closing of the Kingston Stockyards and the Lindsay Community Sales Barn has sent a ripple of anxiety through sales barns in Eastern Ontario, the price of cattle is on the upswing...

• Nutrient management to cost more than you think - The projected costs of complying with the nutrient management act will be higher than initially anticipated...

• American farmers prefer Bush - Suppose you were an American farmer, who would you vote for?

• Feds spend $448 million to re-position livestock industry - The Canadian Government has allocated $448 million for a made-in-Canada solution to the surplus of slaughter cattle.

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  THEY SAID IT:       
"It does take about two years to build up a clientele."

— Pakenham Beef farmer John Scott, on how to direct-market your beef.

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  FARM FACTS:
Amount federal government will spend to help cattle producers deal with surplus animals...$488 million

Number of livestock Gencor buys each week from eastern Ontario producers.......160