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Farmers
Forum Second Annual Photo Contest
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| "I can't
believe I ate the whole
thing!"
First Place: Judy Caird of Sydenham, Ont.
"A boy and his cow at
rest" Second place:
Dawn Patterson, of Osgoode, Ont.
"Geesey gaggles" Third
Place: Achim Mohssen of Picton, Ont.
"The bovine and the
feminine" Fourth Place:
Brenda Lane of Peterborough, Ont.
"Mirage with
Merlin"
Fifth Place:
Laurie Maus of Dunvegan, Ont.
"Ginger"
Sixth Place: Mark Lemke of Petewawa, Ont.
"Sunset over farm" Seventh
Place: Rita Dessaint of Sarsfield, Ont.
"Let's take a ride, eh?" Eighth
Place: Ian & Diana de Zeeuw, Lyn, Ont.
"Yaaaaawn, is it morning
already?" Ninth Place: Cora Beking of
Kemptville, Ont.
"The sun's setting
sunflower" Tenth Place:
Cora Beking of Kemptville, Ont.
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Mark
Beaton, above, and brother Terry owned the world's best cow in 2006.
Her
genetics are in Canada's top four bulls.
Farming genetic
Gold
Unpretentious farm
produced world's best cow and Canada's four best bulls.
Go to
story
LEAD
STORY
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Rebels cash in quota
Go to
story
The recent price cap on selling quota has
prompted numerous dairy farmers to quit the business, including some
farmers well-known for questioning and challenging the milk marketing
board, the Dairy Farmers of
Ontario.
EDITORIALS
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Honour the family in farm families Go to story
While farmers argue for the
preservation of the traditional family farm, the state is paying lip
service. It is not the understanding of "farm" that is
problematic. It's the understanding of "family".
OPINION
Relax,
the environment is getting better Go to
story
Bombarded with hysteria from the news media
about all sorts of environmental plagues, you'd think we
should all be dead by now. American novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is the
latest alarmist to rant. Expect civilization to die out with the last
human being in about 100 years, he says.
ARTICLES
- Seaway ethanol leaders not interested
in Greenfield
Seaway Grain Processors are preparing a
response to a letter from vice president Bliss Baker, of the
Greenfield ethanol project at Johnstown.
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story
- Some corn still sits on fields
Between three and five percent of the corn crop was still on eastern
Ontario fields by mid-January, said OMAFRA crop specialist Gilles
Quesnel. In some cases, corn had yet to be harvested because fields
were muddy quagmires. But in most cases, the corn had to wait because
the farm ran out of storage
space.
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story
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Another suspicious barn fire in
eastern Ontario
Commodity A storage barn was destroyed by
fire Jan. 8 in South Glengarry, fuelling suspicion in the area that an
arsonist is back at work.
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story
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Is "natural beef" the new
market niche?
Robert Kerr believes he's found a way back
into beef where he won't lose his shirt. Finishing beef for the
regular market paid too little and the cost of producing organic was
too high because of the cost of organic feed. He figured he might be
able to able to make it with what has been labeled Natural Beef, beef
raised without hormones, antibiotics and away from insecticides.
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story
Stories for our subscribers:
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Farm couple gets death threat for
hunting deer
LANARK — A farm couple near
Balderson in Lanark County have received a death threat and were
warned not to to hunt on their own property. The words painted over a
Lanark Landowners' sign that was nailed to a tree read: "Leave
the deer alone or ---- off and die." Their mailbox was filled
with manure.
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Hillier quits OLA
PERTH- After an internal struggle, the in-your-face president of the
one-year-old Ontario Landowners Association,. Randy Hillier, has
stepped down. The vice-president and the entire Glengarry County's
Association have also dropped out of the OLA.
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Farmers want compensation for crop
damage
RICHMOND-
Eastern Ontario corn producers (District 2) passed a resolution to
have the Wildlife Protection Act amended to provide farmers with
compensation for crop damage from predators.
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Chesterville Nestle plant sold for
development
The Nestle plant at Chesterville (pop. 1,500), south of Ottawa, has
been sold to a Toronto-based developer.
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Spencerville farm offers raw milk
lovers shares in cows
A farmer, south of Kemptville, is challenging Canadian health agencies
that have unanimously condemned selling raw milk because it endangers
lives.
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Leeds County feed ban lifted but
scare could affect U.S. border
opening.
OTTAWA — A quarantine
has been lifted on farmers in Leeds County whose herd was believed to
be in contact with bone or meat meal has been lifted.
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Carmichael farm raided again
SPENCERVILLE- The Egg Farmers of Ontario investigators and about 20
police officers raided the egg operation of Spencerville farmer Shawn
Carmichael Dec. 12. They concluded that there is no evidence that
Carmichael has destroyed and buried his 8,000 chickens as a judge
ordered him to do. Carmichael says the birds were moved to a safe
place.
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Lindsay Exhibition landmarks
gone
The new owners of the Lindsay Central Exhibition grounds will begin
demolishing the grandstand and turn the 20 acres into a neighbourhood
of houses, high rises and a restaurant.
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THEY
SAID IT:
"Are we ones who just
react to this or react to that, or is our goal property rights, which is
why Glengarry joined?'
— Dairy farmer Ian
Cumming on the future of landowner associations.
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FARM FACTS:
Amount of eastern Ontario's
corn crip still in the field......3 to 4 %
Corn yield in eastern and
east central Ontario....(approx.) 135 bushels an acre
Number of months after
forming Ontario Landowners Association that three executive members
resigned, including its president..............13
Cost of new vaccine to
prevent one cow from releasing E.coli into the environment.........$30
So called "junk
food" banned from advertizing on children TV shows in
England..........cheese
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