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Corn Mountain
James Crites is on the
phone while Kiel Rutters sits on top of 1,200 tonnes of corn at Rutters
Elevators, west of Chesterville Nov. 26. The harvest is up and processors
have run out of storage space. This is the best crop year many eastern
Ontario farmers can remember. See story "Corn storage capacity
plugged".
LEAD
STORY
EDITORIALS
- Food security without farmers
Canada's inability to protect farmers
from economic disaster and instability will turn rural Canada into a
third-world agricultural ghetto.
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- OFA wasn't tough
enough for Wilkinson
With Paul Martin now ensconced at
Ottawa's helm, farmers may
expect a firm hand on the way
their industry is run, unless they decide
on their own future.
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ARTICLES
- Vanclief won't make Martin
cabinet?
Agriculture Canada staff
expect Paul Martin to replace Minister of Agriculture Lyle Vanclief in
the revised cabinet.
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- The Atkinson diet
Sid Atkinson wants to see a mind shift in farmers
to consider new ways to draw young dairy producers to the industry.
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to story
- Corn storage capacity plugged
A bountiful corn crop 20 per
cent above average has plugged eastern Ontario elevators, forcing some
farmers to leave corn in the field.
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to story
- Tribunal softens penalties
on Denby
The Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal has softened the
penalties for members of Dairy Direct, a milk export company run by
Bill Denby.
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THEY
SAID IT:
"We have to make the mountain
climbable. New blood will keep this industry strong."
— Roseneath farmer Sid
Atkinson on youth and dairy
farming.
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FARM FACTS:
Number of dairy farmers in Ontario......5,550
Number estimated in 10 years......4,000-4,500
Amount Renfrew's 820 farmers lost because of BSE.....$21 million
Average loss per farmer........$25,600
Number of incidents investigated since Bill 81 became
law in Ontario in September........50
Number of charges laid.........0
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