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APRIL  2004

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Randy Hillier, the leader of the Lanark County Landowners' Association, with Galetta Livestock Sales owner Ernie Smith on horseback, block traffic at the March and Carp Roads intersection, just west of Kanata, March 26. The landowners have now taken their protest into the city of Ottawa.

Patrick Meagher photo

 LEAD STORY 

  • Back Off
    Landowners block highway and threaten more action.
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EDITORIALS 

  • Cattlemen must challenge CFIA on border controls that are crippling trade
    In the past, we have blamed the Americans for by-passing OIE guidelines, designed to prevent disruptions in trade unnecessarily when a disease broke out, such as the single case of mad cow in Alberta.
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 ARTICLES 

  • A Big Mac is worth more than these two cows
    A beef farmer, north of Toronto, received a cheque for less than the price of one Big Mac for the sale of two Hereford cows.
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  • Gracey: I'm ashamed
    "I'm ashamed," Charlie Gracey told 150 farmers at the Eastern Ontario annual beef conference in Winchester. 
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  • One Voice gets mixed reaction
    Renfrew County's farm leaders are strongly in favour of one umbrella group to lobby for farmers, says the Ontario Federation of Agriculture's Arnprior representative, Eva Yantha.
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  • Show us the beef MPs tell packers 
    The Standing Committee on Agriculture has ordered the five major Canadian slaughter-houses to present detailed financial records of their businesses following the border closing to Canadian beef.
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  THEY SAID IT:       
"I'm ashamed. We (industry leaders and government) have all let you down. We did not plan ahead."
—  Charlie Gracey,  former manager of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association.

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  FARM FACTS:

Amount federal government allocated to farmers in March 2004..$995 million

Amount allocated for BSE assistance.........$680 million

Amount in dollars of surplus meat Cargill says it donated to food banks since mad cow crisis began.....$1 million

Amount that a Canadian cow devalued since the closing of the borders, according to Cargill...........$200

Meat packers gross margin per cow between September 2003 and February 2004, according to MP David Kilgour.................$431

Packer gross margin a year earlier...................$144

Number of road closing protests since Lanark landowners began their Rural Revolution this year......................3