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Big crowds, few buyers
The Galetta sale barn fills
each week with farmers watching prices but buyers are few, says Galetta
Livestock sales owner Ernie Smith. Cull cows are selling for 7 to 14 cents
a pound.
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STORY
EDITORIALS
- BSE not an insurmountable problem
The time for governments to act is
today, not a date sometime in the future.
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- Say something, Bob
Following meetings with the United States, Mexico,
Japan and North Korea, Canada's Minister of Agriculture Bob Speller
has made no progress towards opening borders to Canadian cattle.
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to story
ARTICLES
- Seaway ethanol gets $10.5
million
One farmer rubbed his eyes
like a television actor who had just seen a miracle.
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to story
- Hendrick expands Japanese
market for his IP soybeans
Dave Hendrick has capitalized
on high quality eastern Ontario soybeans in the Japanese market. And
he's only beginning to roll.
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- Farmers to get $320 per
cull cow
The federal government
announced Feb. 16 that it has changed the cull cow assistance program
and will now give farmers a flat rate of $320 per cull cow over
30-months of age.
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- Standing Committee on Agriculture
will investigate beef price gouging
An inquiry into Canada's mad cow crisis is designed
to examine price gouging in the beef industry, says Peterborough MP
Peter Adams.
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- Farmers give away cows to draw
attention to BSE
Three Hastings County farmers
said they would rather give their cows to families who couldn't afford
an adequate diet "than to donate to the profit of the meat
processing industry."
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- Ag. minister compared to
Rip Van Winkle
Conservative MP and agriculture critic Gerry Ritz
told the House of Commons that although the cattle industry provides
225,000 jobs and grosses $30 billion annually, it was ignored in the
throne speech.
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- McBride wins appeal against
DFO
Harry McBride, once barred from producing milk for
Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), has won his appeal to continue
supplying DFO.
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THEY
SAID IT:
"He's so laid back he makes
Rip Van Winkle look like a disco dancer."
— MP and Conservative ag.
critic Gerry Ritz, commenting in the House of Commons on
Minister of Agriculture Bob Speller.
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FARM FACTS:
Number of tonnes of IP soybeans Dave Hendrick will send to Japan in
2004.............8,000
Percentage market increase expected in
2005...................50
Average 2003 Ontario corn yield in bushels per
acre.................135
Five-year average for Ontario in
bushels.............117
Amount Seaway Valley received to build $52-million
ethanol plant from federal government.....$10.5 million.
Percentage of farm businesses that used a computer in
2000..................39.4
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