MAY  2004

Moose Creek crop farmer Alain Leduc has always spoken his mind. He talks about the drive for one voice (below) and his recent trip to Brazil

Patrick Meagher photo

 LEAD STORY 

• Divided we fall
  Why Ontario's farmers can't unite, according to one who's been down that road.
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EDITORIALS 

• One voice for farmers slips away
  Established farm leadership shows little interest in Cull's vision of "one voice"
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 ARTICLES 

• Quebec's Robofarmer
  With 10 robots, he says he has the most in the world
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• Don't close borders for any new BSE cases, Senate urges
  Any new cases of mad cow disease in North America should be considered normal and should not call into question the safety of Canadian, American or Mexican beef, says an interim report from the Senate committee on agriculture 
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• 22 Ontario farm deaths last year 
  Tractor is the biggest killer every year
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• Itching to build ethanol plant
  Seaway Grain Processors are trying to secure big bucks from feds to get an ethanol plant built at Cornwall
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  THEY SAID IT:       
"I'm looking at July."
—  Seaway Grain Producers Bud Atkins, on when construction will begin on a corn-fed ethanol plant.

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  FARM FACTS:

Number of Ontario farm fatalities last year.................................22

Number of fatalities involving tractors............................11

Membership to one-year-old Lanark Landowners Association...............1,000