NOVEMBER  2004

Trucking in the corn

Trucker Tim Vangilst waits for the Port of Prescott to open at 8 a.m. on Oct. 29. The trucks line up every morning, their bins filled mostly with corn and soybeans. This year's bumper crop of corn will likely mean longer lines at the elevators and a possible shortage of storage space. 

Patrick Meagher photo

 LEAD STORY 

• Eat the cost
  Early nutrient management upgrades will get no funding.
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EDITORIALS 

• Bigger is not always better
  The municipal amalgamation craze swept the country when Toronto merged five municipalities in 1998.
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OPINION 

• Should we blanket test for BSE or not?
  The Texan cattle farmer, who swears he was the one who killed the one cow infected with BSE in the United Stataes last year, is adamant that Canada can regain its lost beef markets with blanket mad cow testing.
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 ARTICLES 

• Lanark Landowners take-over turns Natural Resources lot into festive farmers market
  The feisty Lanark Landowners Association has turned its defiant sales of "illegal" beef into a business bonanza.
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• Ontario to set manure odor standards
  The province will start testing manure odor next spring to determine levels that can be tolerated by neighbours.
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• In case you missed it - rules for on-farm slaughter
  Rules for on-farm slaughter changed on Sept. 1, 2004.
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• Farmers' favorite job? Cutting hay
  After polling 90 farmers, Renfrew County's indefatigable agricultural columnist Maynard Vander Galien found that a farmers' favorite job is cutting hay. 
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• Get money for keeping cattle at home - $200 per calf
  Two provincial programs will offer farmers money to keep their cattle at home

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• Articles for our subscribers

• Break the growing cycle with turnips for sheep and beef - For farmers considering reseeding a pasture, one option for breaking the growing cycle is to plant a crop of turnips.

• Reserve cow sells in flash - Within the hour of his three-year-old being named reserve champion at the Eastern Ontario Western Quebec Championship Holstein show, Herb Henderson sold his prize cow to the show judge.

• Nutrient management to cost more than you think - The projected costs of complying with the nutrient management act will be higher than initially anticipated...

• Farmer escapes from fireball combine - Lanark area farmer John Vanderspank bailed from his combine as it burst into flames Oct. 13 in a hemp field.

• Building a pig barn that's environmentally safe - If your car broke down near Mark and Sarah Slack's new pig finishing barn you'd probably wait awhile before another vehicle came along.

• U.S. election could decide when border opens to live Canadian beef - Canadian cattlemen anticipate that the U.S. election will have an affect on the closed border to live Canadian cattle.

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  FARM FACTS:
Amount federal government will spend to help cattle producers deal with surplus animals...$488 million

Number of livestock Gencor buys each week from eastern Ontario producers.......160