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Renfrew style cow comfort
Renfrew
County's Randy Briscoe figures the unique features of "cow
comfort" in his barn are why production is up 10 to 15 per cent.
LEAD
STORY
EDITORIALS
- Would Martin sell out supply
management?
Will a multi-national prime minister
protect Canadian farmers?
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- Canada favours end
of any ag support
Under Martin, farmers will have
to consider the future of
supply-management.
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ARTICLES
- Cow shooting backfires
A group of Quebec farmers
cheered as one of their own pulled out a shot gun and dropped a
Holstein cow. Go
to story
- New ag minister embraces Bill 81
Hog
farms and the new nutrient management act have found a friend in
Ontario's new Minister of Agriculture Steve Peters. Go
to story
- EBI bull grosses $10M
The
mad cow crisis is a $100,000 problem for Allan Simpson.
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to story
- Small businesses feel the
pinch of mad cow
At least one cow-calf operation closed its doors in
western Ontario this year and more than 20 communities in Ontario have
declared themselves economic disasters....
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to story
- Six eastern Ontario
communities are facing
economic hardship
Six eastern Ontario
communities have declared themselves
economic disasters or are under severe hardship...
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THEY
SAID IT:
"They're all using the
disaster word."
—
Lanark Highlands township mayor Larry
McDermott on the 26 Ontario communities declaring economic hardship.
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FARM FACTS:
Amount Semex Alliance grosses from its bull Stouder Morty in one
year......10 million
Increased cost of slaughtering an animal because of BSE............$40
Amount federal government will give for ethanol plant
expansion.....$60 million
Percentage of Alberta and Saskatchewan businesses that
say they have been hurt by BSE........21
Number of eastern Ontario communities that declared
they are under economic hardship due to BSE....... 6
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