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Sobering farm safety message delivered at the Ottawa Valley Farm Show

From left, Shelia James, a consultant with Workplace Safety and Prevention Services, was accompanied by farm accident survivors Dan Moore, Ken Paul and Kevin Gillan at the March 8 opening of the Ottawa Valley Farm Show. The Show, of course, always fals in the same month as Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, and Show organizers wanted to highlight that important theme as the 89th annual edition got underway at the EY Centre. Canadian Agricultural Safety Week officially ran March 13-19, a campaign jointly promoted by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and sponsored by Farm Credit Canada. See the story on the opening of the OVFS on page 2 inside.

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Farm safety brought home at OVFS opening

by Sandy Burns AgriNews Contributor TTAWA — The

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highlighTed during The OffiCiAl Opening Of The

89Th AnnuAl OTTAWA VAlley fArm shOW AT The ey C enTre, m ArCh 8.

After show organizers and volunteers were piped to the podium, the flag was raised in the Court of Honour to the singing of O Canada! Show manager Tom Van Dusen called upon representatives from the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association (OVSGA) and the Ontario Plowmen’s Association to make short welcome speeches.

OVSGA President Cecil Cass told the audience it was each of them who made this show a success.

“If we don’t have a good number of exhibitors and visitors, it doesn’t make a good show. But today is great. We have lots of exhibitors, and we have a great group of visitors,” he said. “I’d like to thank all our directors and volunteers who help make this show possible.”

Van Dusen noticed Ottawa Councillor Eli ElChantiry in the audience and, as an impromptu addition to the opening ceremony, invited him to say a few words.

“I’m proud to be here representing the City of Ottawa. It looks like you have a great show, and the free parking this year is certainly helping to make it such a success. Keep up the great work,” he said.

Van Dusen then introduced Sheila James, a consultant with Workplace Safety and Prevention Services, to speak about the importance of farm safety. “(James) is known far and wide across the Ottawa Valley as the farm safety lady and we certainly appreciate her being here,” he said.

To help illustrate the drastic consequences that can arise from farm accidents, James was accompanied by three men who have survived serious accidents while farming.

Ken Paul of Carp fainted and fell into a Power Take-Off shaft that sev-

ered both his arms in December, 2014; Kevin Gillan of Arnprior broke his neck when a round bale fell on him on Mother’s Day, 2015; and Dan Moore of Sandford, Ontario, lost both his arms in a silo unloader auger in November, 2013. James herself is no stranger to farm accidents; she fainted and fell off a hay wagon and was off work

for a year with a concussion.

James asked the audience members to consider the constant pain and suffering and ongoing hospital and doctor visits that come with a farm accident, and to ask themselves some very pertinent questions.

“If it happened to you, who will do your work on the farm? Who will take

you to all those doctor’s appointments? Can you handle the financial hardship? Do you have WSIB coverage or disability on yourself? Will you have to pay to have someone do your work? If it happened to your employee, are you prepared for the Ministry of Labour visit that will come, and the hefty fines that could be levelled against you?”

She said that while farm equipment has grown vastly safer over the years, farm safety lies in the hands of the humans operating the equipment.

“Even with safer equipment, if we don’t work smarter and safer, we’ll never combat the problem.

We’re in a hurry. We’re working long hours and are tired. We take guards and shields off for repair

and don’t put them back on. And we have to stop.”

Tractor rollovers are the biggest killer on farms because of their high centre of gravity and the uneven terrain they’re driven on.

They accounted for 22 per cent of farming-related deaths across Ontario between 1990 and 2012.

The second highest killer is run-overs, at 21 per cent.

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Perfect conditions enjoyed at 2016 Farm Show

by Tom Van Dusen AgriNews Staff Writer

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89th ottawa valley farm show marCh 8-10 a huge suCCess for exhibitors and visitors alike.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The conditions were excellent,â&#x20AC;? said Cecil Cass,

president of the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers which sponsor the show held at Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EY Centre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I detected a great mood as I walked through the show; you could tell everyone is looking forward to a new growing season.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to 340 commercial exhibitors offering everything from the latest in machinery to seed, feed

OVFS opening Continued from page 2 which involve PTOs. The rest of the fatalities include animal related (six per cent), struck by non-machine (six per cent), struck by machine (five per cent) and traffic collisions (five per cent). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March, and spring is just around the corner. Now is the time to do everything you can to make your operation as safe as it can be for you, your family and any workers you may employ. Now is the time to ensure your tractors have Roll Over Protective Structures and seatbelts. Now is the time to replace any missing guards and shields. Now is the time to ensure you have WSIB coverage.

and financial services, the show was rounded out with popular antique, quilt and 4-H displays, along with receptions, meetings and seminars. Three corporate mascots helped entertain young children at the show.

Every day at 12 noon at their booth, the Seed Growers hosted a different special event including the Official Opening with an emphasis on farm safety, the Seed Awards, and the

Now is the time for you or your workers to review operator manuals. Now is the time to take first aid and farm safety courses,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get ready now to have your most productive year, and not the year you lost because of a preventable farm accident.â&#x20AC;?

When asked after the opening ceremony for their comments about farm safety and what happened to them, two of the men accompanying James spoke up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Appreciate what you have,â&#x20AC;? Paul said.

Moore agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came out of surgery, my attitude was, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to stop me. It might slow me down a bit, but it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop me.â&#x20AC;?

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Prestigious Pedigreed Seed Sale for the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Some 11,330 visitors and exhibitors participated in the three-day show; paid attendance was up by close to 400 compared to 2015.

For the first time in 2016, children under 12 who enter free were tracked; about 580 attended even though the show was the week before March Break.

Several buses were welcomed at the farm show this year, most of them high school and college students who entered for a bulk rate of $6 per person compared to the single admission fee of $10.

One of the attractions for visitors was free parking offered for the first time, compliments of the Seed Growers. Free WiFi throughout the building was also provided.

In the past, EY management collected daily parking fees; the process caused traffic chaos at the end of each day. With the parking lot gates lifted for the show, entry and exiting went much smoother. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was our way of giving back to visitors and

The Mrs. Ed Wallace & Issac Wallace Challenge Trophy for the Championship Hay Exhibit went to Nandale Farms Ltd., Lanark County. John Nanne (right) accepts from David Blair.

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exhibitors,â&#x20AC;? Cass observed, noting many positive comments were received about the new parking arrangement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In many cases, farm families have been attending for generations. Some of our exhibitors have been coming for 40 years. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to thank them publicly for their ongoing support.â&#x20AC;?

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Editorial Milk money

With the announced closure next year of Ottawa’s Saputo plant, the National Capital’s once thriving milk processing sector will come close to drying up.

Ottawa… known for farm-based industry, for something other than politicians and bureaucrats! Maybe it isn’t that surprising.

Most major Canadian cities were once well served by dairies, cheesemakers and other milk manufacturers until closures, consolidations, relocations and modernization shrunk the sector in urban as well as rural Canada.

Saputo has announced it’ll cease its Ottawa operations by December, 2017, throwing more than 100 employees out of work. It expects to cut $7-million in expenses by shuttering Ottawa, a plant in Sydney, N.S., and one at Princeville, Que. The two other facilities will close this June and August respectively.

It’s all part of a Saputo master plan to “pursue additional efficiencies and decrease costs while strengthening market presence.” In all, 230 employees will be affected across the three locations, with some offered relocation to other plants, others given severances.

The former Clark Dairy in Ottawa was taken over by Saputo in 2008 when it acquired Weston Foods’ Neilson Dairy division. The decision to close will leave the Agropur Natrel Division plant in Orleans as the National Capital’s only remaining provincially licensed dairy operation.

Across Eastern Ontario, there are, happily, 22 other plants still on that list conducting a variety of dairy processing, everything from widely known Parmalat, Kraft of Ingleside, St. Albert Cheese Factory, Glengarry Fine Cheese of Williamstown and Brum’s and Reid’s dairies of Pembroke and Belleville respectively, to lower profile but equally respected manufacturers such as Limestone Organic Creamery of Elginburg, Black River Cheese Co. of Milford, and the retro Upper Canada Village Cheese Factory.

Hopefully, consumers will be able to keep dairy plants still listed… and even add a few new ones in years to come.

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by Tom Van Dusen made forest bearing his name that now occupies a large tract of the United Counties of Prescott-Russell.

After graduation, Delorme landed a Plantagenet-based job with the counties as assistant agronomist; he learned all about soil management but preferred to plant food rather than trees, Larose’s specialty.

In 1953, Delorme bought his first farm at Curran, close to a Larose plantation. He planted 10 acres of potatoes with little specialized equipment and a young family to raise with wife Yvette Montreuil.

From 1953 to 1981, Delorme became an established potato producer by acquiring several surrounding farms, installing drainage, and carefully considering varieties to be planted. The biggest shortcoming was lack of proper equipment to continue expansion.

Delorme solved that dilemma by becoming a potato and onion machinery distributor in Eastern Ontario and part of Quebec. As a salesman for Lockwood Corporation, he was crisscrossing both regions while trying to manage and work his farming enterprise.

His own chores didn’t hamper his salesmanship.

In 1967, ’68 and ’69, Delorme was recognized as Lockwood’s best North American salesman. But he had broader business interests, purchasing Plantagenet Printing in 1980 which today is owned by his son Louis. He sold the farm to another son, Daniel; today it’s owned by Nicholas Henrard.

After being asked to go to Cameroon to examine local soil to see how agriculture might be enhanced, at age 82 he became involved in establishing an agricultural college in Africa which would include arts, trades and commerce departments, even a caisse populaire. To raise the funds to get the job done, the foundation Vision Léon Delorme International was established.

Local fundraising and contributions from the Canadian International Development Agency kickstarted the project; for the following three years, financial aid continued to flow to Cameroon as well as Honduras.

Along the way, Delorme served as president of the Prescott-Russell planning board, president of the regional school board, president of the Plantagenet affordable housing corporation, and president of the local recreation centre… among many other volunteer activities.

Phew! I don’t know about you but, right now, I’m feeling like an underachiever.

You’ve got to hand it to the French language agricultural lobby group l’UCFO… l’Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens.

Roughly the equivalent of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture but much smaller and aimed at the province’s farming French minority, Clarence Creekbased UCFO knows how to do some things really well.

One of them is to provide steady recognition for francophone leaders in the Agricom, the union-operated agricultural newspaper which is the province’s only French farm paper. Another is celebrating these builders and promoters with two major annual awards.

The award streams were created partly out of necessity. When UCFO figured it would be a long time between inductions of Franco farm heroes to the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame, it decided to go it alone in recognizing deserving candidates.

The two programs are the Franco-Ontarian Agricultural Award of Merit and the Pierre Bercier Award of Excellence named for a past UCFO president known for his dedication to advancing the rights of Ontario’s rural and farming francophones.

The Bercier plaque has already been handed out for 2016, very deservedly to Sarsfield couple Bob and Rita Desseint who were feted early in March at the Hammond Golf Club. It was clear the award was an acknowledgement of not just Bob and Rita, but of the contribution of the entire Desseint family over five generations.

Next up is the Ag Award of Merit, with this year’s winner Léon Delorme to be honoured posthumously April 8 at former Alfred Campus of the University of In keeping with the standards set by its legendary, now retired, cheese Guelph, now known as IFRA… l’Institut de formamaker Rejean Galipeau, Parmalat Winchester just keeps racking up tion et de recherche agroalimentaire. There’s a mini awards for its products. hall of fame in the main building of the campus U of Most recently, cheeses selected by lead Parmalat grader Corine G cast adrift two years ago, along with its then 97Merkley scored some of the top prizes at the World Championship year-old campus at Kemptville.

Cheese Contest in Madison, Wisconsin. For many competitors, including Delorme is a very interesting and accomplished character, as deserving as anyone of being included Merkley and her boss Steve Wilson, Parmalat Winchester director of in the provincial hall of fame. I presume he was operations, Madison is the big enchilada among annual competitions. never nominated.

Parmalat ended up in first place for mild cheddar aged up to three He’s known primarily for establishing the potato months, best of class for medium cheddar aged three to six months, secfarm at Curran, one of the largest in Ontario, which ond place for sharp cheddar aged six months to one year under the still bears his name. But there was much more to Balderson label, and third place in the soft marbled category.

In addition, the Winchester team picked up a fourth for cheddar older Leon Delorme than spuds.

Born in Wendover in 1920 – he died in 2012 than two years made for an American partner. Merkley and some marketinto a family of eight children, Delorme obtained his ing colleagues will be in Wisconsin April 13 for the awards presentation.

BA at Ottawa; he then applied himself to becoming Wilson was predictably pleased with the outcome. However, he an agronomist, achieving a Bachelor of Agricultural admitted to expecting big wins from his team which includes 10 cheeseSciences from the University of Montreal. makers routinely and literally feeding potential show cheese candidates As a student, he worked alongside legendary to Merkley and her grading colleague Deb Kooistra based at the compa- agronomist Ferdinand Larose out of his Plantagenet ny’s Belleville plant. office. It was Larose’s work that resulted in the manHe noted his team, which also includes lab technicians and manufacturing staff, regularly pull off wins at other major competitions such as The AgriNews is Published by Etcetera Publications (Chesterville) Inc. the Royal Winter Fair and the British Empire Cheese Show in Belleville. on the first Monday of each month.

Now seeking selections for the American Cheese Society Awards in Editor & Publisher: Etcetera Publication Inc. Des Moines, Iowa, July 27-30, Galipeau protégé Merkley wants much Staff Writers: Tom VanDusen, Nelson Zandbergen, Jeff Moore and more.

Candice Vetter One of these years, she hopes to repeat a rare feat registered by Advertising Manager: Julie Lascelle, agrinewsads@gmail.com Galipeau who claimed Grand Champion in Madison back in 1987.

The local Parmalat plant produces 40 million kgs of cheese every year Advertising Representative: Norma Smith (613) 213-4006, agrinews.norma@gmail.com in 13,000 batches, with the grader required to sample each batch at least P.O. Box 368, Chesterville, Ont. K0C 1H0 once for texture, aroma and taste.

Merkley is biting off quite a challenge. But she seems to have the Telephone: 613-448-2321 Fax: 613-448-3260 www.agrinews.ca e-mail: rm@agrinews.ca nose, touch, taste buds and determination to someday make the grade in Annual Subscription $36.75 (HST Included) within Canada All advertisements appearing in The AgriNews are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced Madison. without the express written permission of the publisher.

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Farm Show Continued from page 3 total amount earned for CHEO over 25 years stands at $130,000.

Vintage Iron & Traditions of Eastern Ontario launched a first

annual sale of toy tractors this year, with a Farmall 460 as the featured model; a full-sized 460 parked in the EY Centre lobby helped draw attention to the event which sold out in an hour. Donated to the Seed Sale, Number One in the series earned $4,000

from collector George Tackaberry.

Also gaining from the sale was the Canadian Foodgrains Bank which got about 15 bags of seed purchased by exhibitors to support CHEO and then donated to the bank. New Foodgrains representative

at the show David Epp was pleasantly surprised by the generosity.

With the 89th edition come and gone, planning has already begun for next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milestone 90th anniversary edition of the Ottawa Valley Farm Show.

At the 2016 Ottawa Valley Farm Show, the Hal Botham Memorial Trophy for Champion Exhibitor of Forage Seeds was won by Bill (left) and Shirleen Duncan of Tritura Farms, Lanark County, presented by John Joynt, March 9.

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Garnet Ralph remembered for Eastern Hall of Fame

by Tom Van Dusen AgriNews Staff Writer

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ITH THE faTE of KEMPTVILLE CaMPus unCErTaIn foLLowIng THE fInaL sCHEduLEd graduaTIon CErEMony aPrIL 22, oTTawa VaLLEy sEEd growErs arE ConsIdErIng THE fuTurE of THE EasTErn onTarIo agrICuLTuraL HaLL of faME InITIaTEd by garnET raLPH now HousEd aT THE CoLLEgE.

For the time being, the hall – a collection of biographies and drawings of regional inductees – continues to be welcomed and protected at the hall.

However, depending on future use of the college, it may have to be relocated, members of the Seed Growers board of directors have been advised.

The hall of fame was one of the final major projects undertaken by the late Ralph whose contributions to Eastern Ontario agriculture are still being lauded two months after his death at age 91.

After graduating from the college in 1947, he purchased a farm near Richmond; he went on to become known as one of the most innovative farmers in the region.

A member of the Miltonbased Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame — as is his father — Ralph was an honorary director with the Seed Growers six years ago when he coordinated establishment of a satellite hall of fame to honour regional inductees.

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In so doing, Ralph pioneered in Eastern Ontario the concept of bulk fertilizer; the plant continues to operate as one of four locations in the region owned

by Synagri.

Over 35 years, Ralph was also recognized as an outstanding judge of live-

In a 2008 file photo, the late Garnet Ralph poses at the Eastern Ontario Agricultural Wall of Fame.

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!"#$%#&'()(*+,(!)-&. members to get their support for the project and invited them to an official opening of the mini hall located in a W.B. George Building meeting room.

The tribute opened with 20 inductee biographies and sketches reproduced from those on display at the Milton hall; since then, recent Eastern Ontario inductees have been added.

Central Hall of Fame Manager Reg Cressman, who attended the opening in Kemptville, praised the project as something that could be replicated by agricultural organizations in other parts of the province.

Ralph felt it was important to demonstrate support for both the Hall of Fame and its members from the east. Under his direction, the Seed Growers became major backers, contributing an annual membership fee to Milton and, at one point, $5,000 for upkeep of the central hall. The Seed Growers have also entered several successful nominations.

The Eastern Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame is only a small part of the Ralph legacy. Born in 1924, he grew up on the family farm at Burritts Rapids where he was active in 4-H and Junior Farmers. After acquiring his own farm, Ralph quickly introduced new techniques and technology to improve production.

He was one of the first in the area to install tile drainage, enhancing the capability of his land to grow registered and certified grains, grass seed, clover and soybeans. In the 1960s, he grew corn with an award-winning yield of 87 bushels per acre. He conducted field trials for seed companies and plot experiments for the college.

While managing a herd of 85 Holsteins, he developed local and export markets for purebred and grade replacement cattle. In 1963, he started Ralph Dale Fertilizers Ltd., building a bulk blending plant at his farm known as Twin Elm.

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The purpose of the BFA is to assess the concept of creating a municipal not-

stock and field crops. In his late 20s, he became an official judge for the Holstein Friesian Association. In his “spare time”, Ralph served on several agricultural boards and associations; in addition to membership in the hall of fame, he is recipient of several other

awards.

In paying tribute to Ralph’s contribution, Seed Growers board member John Joynt – who knew him for 60 years – said it’s important to keep the eastern hall of fame in a public location, either at the college or somewhere else.

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City shows disdain for rural neighbours Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer TTAWA—The

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COunCillOr sTephen BlAis. This reporter appeared at the meeting with the intention of asking questions for clarification about the rezoning, which could have a negative impact on Russell Township. On being informed only statements, and not questions, would be accepted, several points were made in hopes that responses from the City’s rural councillors would shed light on the larger plans for that intersection and area.

Nearby residents, both from the Edwards and

Carlsbad Springs areas and from Russell Township, have concerns about the uses the land will be put to.

The request was for rezoning of several parcels, making up a 35-acre area north of Devine Rd. and up to the highway, from either Rural Countryside (RU) to Rural Heavy Industrial (RH) or from Rural Heavy Industrial to a new Rural Heavy Industrial Exception zone—permitting additional land uses.

In his presentation, Eric Bays of Novatech, the firm consulting for applicant Michel Pilon on behalf of the landowner East Gateway Properties Ltd., said the new subdivision would “comprise five large development blocks, ranging in size from 3.74 hectares to 10.95 hectares.

Block 1, which is located along Boundary Road, is proposed to accommodate both rural industrial and rural commercial uses. The interior blocks, Blocks 2 to 5, are proposed to accom-

modate rural industrial uses.”

His presentation also said, “Vehicular access to the subdivision will be from a new signalized intersection with Boundary Road and Thunder Road…”

The same company, East Gateway, has a companion proposal for a long-combination vehicle (LCV) truck stop. It is also working with Taggart Miller (which is proposing the 450-acre CRRRC mega-landfill) in the Boundary Road Landowners’ Group, regarding expanding the Carlsbad Springs trickle feed water system, to service specified properties, including theirs, while excluding others owned by long-term residents—a project which concerns many residents nearby.

That amendment was approved by the City last July.

Both the proposed LCV truck stop and the proposed landfill would require high

numbers of very long, heavy vehicles to exit the highway, go south a few hundred metres on Boundary Rd., then turn left across traffic.

LCVs are specially equipped tractors which pull two full-length semitrailers. The proposed LCV facility would be for the purpose of dropping off and picking up trailers, which cannot travel through Ottawa and can only be driven on 400series highways.

Accordingly the LCV truck stop would require a complete redesign and rebuild of the Boundary Rd. exit and entrance ramps to the highway, as well as the recently rebuilt bridge. It appears that City and provincial taxpayers will be on the hook for this “new signalized intersection.”

At the meeting, this reporter stated that all these proposed land uses, including the landfill, although technically within Ottawa, are right near the border, and will have a much larger adverse impact, proportionately, on the Township of Russell than on the City of

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Councillor Stephen Blais, who represents Cumberland Ward, replied that rural townships need the City and that, “We’ve (the City of Ottawa) been trying to manage Eastern Ontario for a long time,” implying that Ottawa should have control over the province’s neighbouring townships.

In that he echoed statements made many times by the landfill proponents that, “People in the country are dependent on the city.”

This is a statement most rural dwellers, especially farmers, find laughable.

Cities can’t grow enough food to feed themselves, so the dependency model goes exactly the opposite direction. However, the attitude is prevalent among politicians in larger urban centres like Ottawa and Toronto—the belief that cities matter more to the world than the communities which support food production. It appears that rural ward councillors have not noticed the “Farmers Feed Cities” signs which dot the landscape.

Blais also referred to the

neighbouring townships east and south as, “a bunch of small municipalities working against each other.” He did not clarify why he appears to think the townships within UCPR or SD&G are working against each other.

In spite of the proximity of these proposed uses, there has been no consultation between the committee, or any representative of the City, with Russell Township’s mayor or councillors, about these proposals. When that was brought up, Blais physically snorted in response. Then he and Councillors Allan Hubley and Scott Moffat (committee chair) started aggressively throwing verbal darts—which all missed the mark.

The councillors began talking at once, claiming, “You use the city to commute, to get what you need, you work in the city, you drink city water.”

This reporter does not work in the city, does not commute to the city, does business and shopping locally, and has independent well water, so replied, “No, I don’t.”

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Unwilling townships set to host turbines

N. Stormont among approved projects

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A 100 MW project comprises approximately 30 turbines.

Both projects have been vigorously opposed by residents in these rural municipalities. Opponents are concerned about noise, shadow-flicker, health effects, adverse affects on livestock health, negative impacts on bats and birds, loss of farmland and reduction of property value.

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and The Nation townshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; councils adopted resolutions stating they were â&#x20AC;&#x153;not a willing host,â&#x20AC;? in response to pressure from residents.

However, the resolutions appear to be worthlessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though municipalities were assured the points system allotted by the province through the IESO would count the willingness of municipalities as part of its points system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although the provincial government assured us they would take into account the motion put forward by our Council to oppose the installation of wind turbines in North Stormont, this obviously has not happened,â&#x20AC;? said North Stormont Mayor Dennis

Fife. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this time we are meeting with EDP to discuss further steps.â&#x20AC;?

Nation Township Mayor Francois St. Amour was a bit more outspoken. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a subtle kind of way it tells meâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;get out of the way. You think you have power but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. The province has just kept municipalities out of it. So now we know the truth. The promises made about unwilling hosts were just something to put people to sleep.â&#x20AC;?

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“Uberization” is the latest buzzword to denote an efficient online market — one that might broadly describe the philosophy behind this new service as well —although FarmLead.com prefers to describe itself as a mix of Kijiji and Match.com, but for grains.

The FarmLead.com marketplace creates a better grain marketing and/or procurement strategy for all as it expands the potential counter-parties that one can deal with, says Adam Fortier, Ontario sales and business development representative at the firm that has recently relocated to the Nation’s capital.

Instead of calling

around to the local elevators for pricing, “you just post your grains on the platform and it gets sent out to multiple buyers at once,” he says, noting the Ontario grain market is particularly ripe for the idea to take hold With 300 “qualified buyers on the platform at any given time,” the effect is a 10- to 15-cent bushel premium for the average seller, he says.

Posting is free for those participating in the online market. But as part of a transaction, the company charges a connection fee of $1 per metric tonne, up to 80 tonnes, dropping to 25 cents per tonne beyond that quantity.

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FarmLead only started in 2013 and has been expanding ever since.

Company founder and CEO Brennan Turner studied economics and played hockey at Yale University before training in commodity and market trends at a Wall street firm. While Turner hails from a family farm of 40,000 acres in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Fortier says his boss is focused full time on FarmLead.com these days, not driving tractor.

The company’s latest endeavour has seen the move to new headquarters in Ottawa, now the “mothership” for the innovative tech-agribusiness startup. Employees of the firm had a booth at the recent Ottawa Valley Farm Show. The FarmLead.com team currently comprises seven employees, including Chief Operating Officer Alain Goubau, who grew up on an Eastern Ontario dairy farm.

continued from page 8 such as a gas plant or whether it’s going to be renewable energy, there will be an absolute requirement to have very significant engagement with the local community or communities that might be involved in the siting, particularly with respect to renewables. It will be virtually impossible for a wind turbine, for example, or a wind project, to go into a community without some significant level of engagement.”

Engagement, however, does not mean acceptance, as is shown in his remarks made moments later, “The actual procurement will require a precondition for the proponents that they will have engaged the municipality, and they have to bring to the table the level of engagement that they’ve been able to achieve with the municipality. It will be almost impossible for somebody to win one of those bidding processes without an engagement with the municipality. It does not provide an absolute veto, because an absolute veto could be an impediment to regional planning, so that would have to be dealt with, but it would be very rare indeed.”

Last September, during the International Plowing Match,

The AgriNews April, 2016 Page 9 Premier Kathleen Wynne suitable for this type of enerconfirmed to AgriNews that gy production. “They’re putthose votes in municipalities ting the biggest turbines in carry little legal weight. one of the country’s most Accordingly, municipalipopulated rural areas, with the ties have no say in the matter, lowest setbacks, in an area of whether willing or not. In the low efficiency,” said Dick in southern municipality of an interview with AgriNews Dutton-Dunwich, 84 per cent late last year. Turbine towers of residents were reported as planned for this area would voting in a referendum be some of the tallest in against allowing wind turCanada because Eastern bines, but the township will Ontario is a low valley which end up with them anyway. does not experience regular The IESO website gives a strong winds. different impression, saying, Dick also said the poten“The development and design tial for losing up to 10 per of the program’s requirecent of some bird populaments, including those for tions, particularly raptors, is community and municipal very high. Like many other engagement, were informed opponents, he suggests that by broad engagement with these projects would not be municipalities, Aboriginal going ahead if they weren’t communities, industry associ- being subsidized by governations, the general public and ment tariffs paid at a higher other stakeholders. The prorate than electricity is charged gram requirements were to consumers at. designed to strike a balance Wind energy is paid to between early community large producers at an approxiengagement and achieving mate weighted price range of value for ratepayers. Local 6.45 to 10.55 cents per KWh. support – either from the Solar is 14.15 to 17.85 cents municipality, Aboriginal com- and hydroelectric is 17.35 to munity and/or from landown- 17.70 cents. (The feed in tarers abutting the project – was iff for small projects pays at a factor in project evaluahigher rates which range from tion.”

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And that’s the way it should be, because since the Walkerton tragedy in 2000, where E-coli contaminated water killed seven people and sickened thousands, the province has worked tirelessly to introduce new legislation to ensure ground source water in every municipality is protected.

Regions usually affiliated with conservation areas were designated as source water protection areas. In Eastern Ontario, the RaisinSouth Nation Source Protection Region encompasses SD&G, and stretches as far east as Hawkesbury, north to the limits of the City of Ottawa, and west to just past the Town of Prescott.

It includes 26 municipal drinking water systems (13 groundwater and 13 surface water).

Under the Clean Water Act, which was passed in 2006, wells and water intakes from municipal systems across the province were identified, and areas for protection were delineated on detailed maps.

These delineations take into account things like soil type, the flow of the water, the directionality of the water, and the science behind the time of travel for the water to reach a municipal well.

With those maps in place, Source Protection Committees were established for each of the 19 Source Protection Regions in Ontario. The committees are made up of municipal, public and sector representatives appointed by the Source Protection Authority. The committees prepare the Terms of Reference, Assessment Reports and Source Protection Plans to meet the requirements of the Clean Water Act. It is each municipality’s

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Jacqueline KellyPemberton is the Agricultural Liaison for Source Water Protection with the Raisin-South Nation Source Protection Region. This is an 18month contract position that began in March, 2015. Her job is to help implement the Raisin-South Nation Source Water Protection Policy, which was approved by the Minister of the Environment in April, 2015.

“I’m one of three agricultural reps on the Source Water Protection Committee, and we were the ones who helped develop the policy. I have been involved in the process from the beginning. That’s one good thing about source water protection, that it’s developed locally,” she said. “With groundwater, we look at a 100-meter setback from the well where no activities can take place, and a two-year, fiveyear, and 25-year time of travel. So with all this science done for each area across the watershed, it’s determined by the province what activities could be a significant water threat, and there’s a list of them.

Things like waste disposal sites, sewage works, agricultural activities, salt and snow, and fuel and chemi-

cals, for example.”

She added the policy takes a “multi-barrier approach” to managing both current risk and future activities.

“This may prohibit any future activities in these areas if there are significant threats,” she said. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. We’re using existing legislation to help protect source water. Through the whole process of identifying where source water protection policies apply and delineating all the zones, we looked at all the parcels of land and what the use and zoning is, and the potential to have these activities occurring. So then it’s a matter of getting on the ground and talking to the landowners and seeing if they actually do these activities. I’m the first point of contact with the agricultural-based landowners. I set up a discussion with them on what agricultural activities they do on the lands that they manage, and I work with the farmer and the risk management official in developing risk management measures to meet source water protection.”

Kelly-Pemberton has already met with quite a few of the farmers and landowners, and said piecing together the proper contact person for the more than 800 parcels of land identified is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle.

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Liaison Continued from page 10 rent land too. When I meet with a farmer, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of finding out what other lands they manage and are they in source water protection or not. The way the source water protection policy works is that the risk management plan is with the person who is engaged in the activity,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I need to contact both the farmer renting the land and the landowner. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s putting all the puzzle pieces together, and what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m finding for the areas that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m covering is that, it could be, for example, 20 or 30 parcels of land have been identified, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think, okay thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 or 30 people but it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, it could be one or two people who are managing these parcels of land.â&#x20AC;?

In most cases, these parcels of land are the ones that have been identified as the higher vulnerability areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Agriculturally, what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking at are things like the application of Agricultural Source Material (ASM), which is manure, the storage of ASM, and the application of NASM (NonAgricultural Source

Material). Some farmers receive biosolids, whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re industrial or municipal, and they use it as fertilizer. So when a farmer is using that, we look at how to manage the risks. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also looking at the application and storage of pesticides and fertilizer, and the grazing and pasteurizing of livestock,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each wellhead protection area is a bit different, so fertilizer may not matter in one area but it does in another, depending on soil type and other factors.â&#x20AC;?

Since the farmers in these areas have been involved in the process for several years now, KellyPemberton said they have been very cooperative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once they were identified, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been receiving letters over the last few years indicating that they own land within source water protection. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been encouraged to be part of the public consultation on source water protection,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, the farmers that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met with are following best management practices and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve not seen anything that has been burdensome on our farmers or landowners.

The intent is to bring them to best management practices. When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m speaking to the farmers, I let them know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a result

of anything theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing currently and that water quality is not an issue, but going forward weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking measures to protect the drinking water for the future. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ensuring that the farmers are aware that the activities that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing in a certain area, if something were to go wrong, that they should have a contingency plan in place so they can act quickly, and have a notification system so that the drinking water system is in the loop.â&#x20AC;?

Most source water protection regions have Risk Management Inspectors and Risk Management Officials, appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here, we have two Risk Management Inspectors, and once we have the agricultural implementation done, it will be the inspectors and officials that will move forward on the files. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just setting the groundwork for agricultural files. The inspectors have power under the Clean Water Act, so they have warrantless entries, and the concern was that farmers would not be too receptive to someone coming in with a badge. Ultimately, in the end, it will be an inspector and an official who signs

off on these risk management plans,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have the conversation with the farmers about their activities and how they manage their lands. I summarize it and work with the inspectors and the officials to negotiate risk management measures together.

The good thing about it is that it is negotiable. The whole point is to try to make it less burdensome on the farmers. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve yet to come across anything that requires extraordinary measures.â&#x20AC;?

Kelly-Pemberton is also Chair of the Clean Water

Committee at South Nation Conservation. The committee provides funding for things like septic issues, well decommissioning, erosion, and manure storage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a site rep for that program, so I talk to farmers and landowners who are interested in having projects done and help them facilitate the application process, and I speak on their behalf to the committee that reviews the applications.â&#x20AC;?

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has sat on various other committees in the agricultural sector over the years.

Prior to accepting this position last year, she worked on contract with the City of Ottawa on a third-party audit of the land application of biosolids.

From 1999â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2003, she worked as Environmental Manager at Parmalat in Winchester.

She and her husband, Steven, own Pemdale Farm near Winchester. They sold their dairy quota in 2007, and now raise beef cattle and cash crop corn and soybeans. traders feel more optimistic about prices going higher but the USDA numbers do tell a compelling story. While many bulls (and farmers) may think that the UDSAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numbers are a joke, they are what they are & hate them or love them,everyone trades USDA numbers.

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Economic Development

Calling All Innovative Producers, Processors and Agri-Food Organizations

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he Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Program is Taking Applications. You’ve got until April 15, 2016 to

apply!

Now in its 10th year, the Premier’s Award for AgriFood Innovation Excellence Program is open. Past winners include innovations that found a better way of doing things, like: • getting product to market more efficiently; • creating a closed-loop system that produces organic greens and tilapia year-round; • developing a tracking system that makes food safety simpler; • increasing production time for making great cheese; • giving producers the tools and knowledge they need to expand their flocks and improve flock health; • taking the bugs out of greenhouse production.

Think you might have an innovation that deserves to be recognized? Have you developed and implemented a unique product or process that helps foster innovation in the agriculture and food sector? If so, you could be eligible to receive one of the following awards from the Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence Program: • Premier’s Award (one award valued at $75,000) • Minister’s Award (one award valued at $50,000) • Leaders in Innovation Awards (three awards valued at $25,000 each) • Provincial Awards (45 awards valued at $5,000 each).

Primary producers / farmers, processors and agri-food organizations are invited to apply.

Check out the Program Guidebook and Application Form, and information on previous award recipients online at www.ontario.ca/agrifoodinnovation or call 1-877-4241300.

Strategic Planning

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ave you wondered where your organization is going? Do you think about where your group or community will be in five years? Is your association or council equipped to operate successfully in the future? And how will you be affected by: • Environmental trends?

• Reduced resources?

• New demands of members, clients or residents?

If your organization has pondered these questions, the strategic planning process may help guide you towards choosing your path into the future, versus having to deal with situations as they happen. Strategic planning is a tool that any organization of people, such as a municipality, association, government body, business, agency, council or

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special interest group can use to proactively plan their future.

It is a process that: • examines where your organization or business is now, where you want it to be, and how you are going to get there; • involves your community or group in visioning your preferred future; • produces a flexible plan or road map of strategies derived from internal discussions and external sources of input; • steers your county/region in a focused direction for future success; • allows proactive thinking beyond your current activities and traditions; • deals with change positively by responding to it effectively; • involves making decisions that consider changes or anticipated changes in the environment; • sets priorities for action that are reflective of all aspects of your association or municipality.

Strategic planning is different from long-range planning. Long-range planning builds on current goals and practices and proposes modifications for the future.

Strategic planning, however, considers changes or anticipated changes in the environment that suggest more radical moves.

Contact your OMAFRA advisor for more information.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2) Funding: Next Round of Applications

Agricultural Development

Continuous Improvement Brian Pogue Beef Cattle Program Lead

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ustainable Beef Production is a term that is becoming much more common. As companies such as McDonalds and Walmart move towards marketing “sustainable beef”, we will hear more about how to achieve it. There are essentially three things that need to be considered to be sustainable: 1) the economic viability, 2) the environmental response, and 3) the social acceptance. In some respects, it is pretty simple, in that it is continuous improvement in “balancing environmental responsibility, economic opportunity and social diligence” (NCBA).

“Sustainable beef production can be defined as meeting current and future demand for safe, nutritious beef products while maintaining long-term business viability, stewardship of natural resources, and responsibilities to community, family, and animals. The optimum balance of the economic, environmental, and social aspects of sustainability will not be the same for each operation, due to differences across production systems including varying climates, available resources (financial capital, human capital, natural resources), and value judgements of both producers and consumers” (Sarah Place, Oklahoma State University).

Beef production is very complex and diverse. There are a large number of links in the supply chain from conception to consumer and continuous improvement should be made in all of them. See Figure 1. Because of the diversity of operations, there is not one solution for all, but everyone in the supply chain needs to do their part.

Processors: Applications for Growing Forward 2 costshare funding were due by March 24, 2016.

Producers: Submit your application for Growing Forward 2 cost-share funding starting June 17 to July 7, 2016.

Organizations and Collaborations: Applications are now being accepted until Thursday, April 21, 2016.

What Are We Looking For? • Good projects that align with one of the six areas of focus below; • Well-written and well-documented projects; • Required permits for the proposed project are in place; • New projects that have yet to be started.

Areas of Focus Eligible for Funding: • Environment and climate change adaptation; • Animal and plant health; • Market development; • Labour productivity enhancement; • Assurance systems; food safety, traceability, animal welfare; • Business and leadership development.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2) is a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.

Figure 1. Everyone in the supply chain needs to do their part.

Text Equivalent for Figure 1 There is some good news, as studies have shown improvement for beef production.

By simulating data from the beef production system of the USDA Meat Animal Research Centre (MARC), Rotz et al. (2013) found that the carbon footprint was reduced 6% Continued on page 14

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April 1 Continued from page 11 downside. Total wheat acreage is seen falling a whopping 9.3% year-overyear to just 49.56M acres, the lowest since the 1970 (and third smallest since 1919!). This includes spring wheat acreage dropping a significant 14.3% from 2015â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area to 11.35M acres, while durum acres are seen growing 3% yearover-year to almost 2M acres.

While that does appear bullish on paper, the quarterly stocks number came in at 1.37B bushels, a 20% increase from this time a year ago, affirming the soft demand fundamentals for U.S. wheat market as global competition is fierce.

Sidenote: Tregg Cronin of Halo Commodities makes a few great points in his morning commentary today but one that stood for me was that that all wheat stocks for central U.S. northern states (MN, ND, SD, & MT) sit at 435M bushels, or the highest in almost 20 years.

While the market was expecting roughly 90 million acres to be planted by U.S. farmers in 2016 (matching the USDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Outlook Forum number), they actually came out at 93.6M, a 6.4% increase over the 88M acres of the coarse grain planted in 2015 across America. With that bearish number in mind, quarterly stocks of corn rose almost 1% year-overyear to 7.81B bushels (inline with pre-report guesstimates), confirming expectations that demand isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keeping up with supply (but it is still above the average since 1980!) . For soybeans, quarterly stocks rose 1.5% from last Marchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report to 1.53B bushels (slightly below estimates) while 2016 acreage of the oilseed came in below expectations at 82.24M acres, which is just a 0.5% decline from 2015. More or less, as we mentioned earlier in the week, one could assume that farmers are betting on better returns of corn versus wheat and the better maximum yield potential of corn over soybeans.

Something to keep in mind about the stocks report is that the survey was done at the beginning of March, and with most American planters still two to three weeks away at this time of reading from getting into the field, these numbers could intuitively change (whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a million acres one way or the other, eh?!).

Growing Your Farm Profits Planning for Business Success Start the business planning process by attending this FREE two-day interactive workshop.

You will: â&#x20AC;˘ Assess business management practices â&#x20AC;˘ Determine priorities and key goals â&#x20AC;˘ Develop realistic action plans â&#x20AC;˘ Learn about cost-share funding opportunities

Canada-Ontario Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) Producers are invited to attend FREE EFP (Fourth Edition) Workshops to: Learn about best management practices Develop an action plan for their farm Learn about cost-share funding opportunities

Biosecurity Workshop At this one-day workshop, an experienced veterinarian or certified crop advisor will show you the benefits of having an on-farm biosecurity program, and identify key practices which will enhance biosecurity measures on your farm.

Maximizing Your Traceability Investment Workshop This in-class workshop will focus on how you can gain a competitive advantage and improve your bottom line with your traceability system. Real life examples and business profiles focused on traceability best practices will be examined throughout the workshop.

Food Safety Workshops/Webinars Looking to keep up to date on the latest food safety practices and help strengthen your Growing Forward 2 application? The Food Safety Workshop is a two-day in-class workshop to help you formalize your food safety program, or you can take advantage of a series of six, 1.5 hour webinars which cover the same topics (see schedule online).

Some of the planting activity seen in the U.S. southeast has been slowed by wet weather, an obvious contrast to some conditions in western Canadian Prairies.

Ultimately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my opinion that the market will likely see little pops to the upside, usual for this time of year thanks to seeding pace and grain movement concerns, which makes me inclined to revert to my old saying to make sales on rumours and profit on the facts. Markets get volatile around sitting time and when it comes to making sales on the highs, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not one to joke around!

(No Aprilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day jokes hereâ&#x20AC;Ś.) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brennan Turner With a degree in economics from Yale University, experience on Wall St. as a commodity analyst and trader, and over 40,000 acres of grain and oilseed production in Saskatchewan and North Dakota owned by his family, Brennan Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience in the agricultural industry is extensive. The FarmLead.com founder writes the FarmLead Breakfast Brief, read every week by over 12,000 subscribers and republished for free in over 40 community newspapers like this one in Canada and the U.S.

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The OYF Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to one individual entering post-secondary education from high school, and one individual who has already completed at least one year of post-secondary study.

Applicants must be pursuing a diploma or degree in agriculture.

The late Martin Streef, OYF alumnus, established this scholarship program to help future generations of Canadians pursue their passion for agriculture. Streef was the 1996 winner of both Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OYF program and president of Streef Produce Ltd, a familyrun fresh fruit and vegetable business in Woodstock, Ont.

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Kemptville

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Peterborough (Douro) Day 1 - June 13

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Marionville (French)

Day 1 - June 15

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Lindsay

Day 1 - Oct. 6

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Brighton

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EFP Workshop Schedule Carp

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Embrun (French)

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Brighton

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Millbrook

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Alexandria

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Page 14 The AgriNews April, 2016 Continued from page 12 from 1970 to 2011. Capper (2011) estimated that the U.S. beef carbon footprint was reduced by 16% from 1977 to 2007. Producing beef has reduced resources and thus has become more sustainable. Jude Capper reported that in 2007, it took four animals to produce the same amount of beef as five animals in 1977. Raising beef has become more efficient. Optimizing efficiency across the entire beef chain will be vital in striving for sustainability.

Figure 2 indicates what U.S. stakeholders listed when defining sustainability. Continuous improvement in all of these components is necessary.

www.agrinews.ca â&#x20AC;˘ Usage of distillers grains; â&#x20AC;˘ Improvements in packing plant water efficiency; â&#x20AC;˘ Use of right-sized packaging; â&#x20AC;˘ Optimizations in the case-ready phase; â&#x20AC;˘ Increased use of biogas capture; â&#x20AC;˘ Conversion from diesel to natural gas.

Keeping it Simple â&#x20AC;&#x201C; An Action Plan Here are a few examples of things producers can do to become more sustainable: 1. Get enrolled for updates like OMAFRA Virtual Beef and the Bulletin Board from Beef Farmers of Ontario (BFO). There are also a multitude of other newsletters available. Scan the articles and look for ideas which you can implement to improve at least one of the three pillars of sustainability â&#x20AC;&#x201C; profit, environment and social.

2. Attend educational workshops such as cattle handling

by Dylan Biggs and implementing the Beef Cattle Code of Practice by Dan Ferguson of BFO. 3. Improve feed efficiency in your operation (this will be my article in the next issue of Virtual Beef).

4. Plant trees. Place the trees where they will be of most advantage to you. Most farms can use more windbreaks.

References

Figure 2. Components of sustainability.

Text Equivalent of Figure 2 The National Cattlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beef Association (NCBA) has conducted the first and largest sustainability assessment in agriculture under the leadership of their Executive Director of Global Sustainability, Dr. Kim StackhouseLawson. The production of beef is very complex as it probably has more biological processes involved than any other food product when accounting for all of the inputs and outputs of the entire life cycle. The study made a comparison of 2011 compared to 2005 and looked at the entire life cycle.

Highlights from this study include: 1. Lower energy use; 2. Lower water use; 3. Lower land use; 4. Decrease in the number of working accidents, fatalities and illnesses associated with industries related to beef production; 5. Improved animal welfare at the feedlot and cow-calf sectors with adoption of Beef Quality Assurance as reflected in a third-party audit of packing plants; 6. Lower nuisance odours with installation of covered lagoons; 7. Identifying the need to quantify the value of open space and wildlife habitat; 8. Where a significant amount of the feed used for beef production is inedible to humans, consideration must be given to the conversion of this feed to human edible protein. There are other things like gelatin based foods, medicines, pet food all dependent on animal agriculture, suggesting the carbon footprint is kept low.

These improvements have been accomplished via â&#x20AC;˘ Improved crop production practices and increased crop yields; â&#x20AC;˘ Improved animal performance with better feed efficiency;

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Place, S. E. Sustainability: What does it mean and why does it matter? 2015 Beef Improvement Federation Annual Symposium Rotz, C. A., B. J. Isenberg, K. R. Stackhouse-Lawson, and E. J. Pollack. 2013. A simulation- based approach for evaluating and comparing the environmental footprints of beef production systems. J. Anim. Sci. 91: 5427-5437. http://www.beefboard.org/news/files/FY2015/Sustainabi lityExecutiveSummaryWeb1.pdf For more information: Toll Free: 1-877-424-1300 E-mail: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca

Crop Production Systems in Northern Ontario â&#x20AC;&#x201C; What About Canola?

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ne of the trends in Northern Ontario Agriculture has been the expansion of the cash crop sector in the last three decades. The north has been known to grow good quality forages and spring grains, which thrive under cooler growing conditions. Canola, another cool season crop, came to the north in the early 80s and gained popularity resulting in a tremendous acreage expansion. As much as 40% of the provincial canola acreage came from North Eastern Ontario a few years ago. Where are we now?

With fewer livestock farms across the north, less farm-fed grains, fewer acres of forages and the expansion of the farm acreage, producers have been looking at crop alternatives. Crop pricing and market demand for human consumption have led to more crop diversification on the northern farms. Producers have also been rethinking their entire crop production system since many of them have been growing fewer acres of forage.

Canola seems to fit in! Western Canada had 19.9M acres last year. A major crop out west! It is a cool season crop from the brassica family, great for the soil structure and does not require specialized planting or harvesting equipment.

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The insect has been identified in other regions of the north; however, populations are low enough with no yield loss. As for growers in Temiskaming district, they are trying out other crops to extend their rotation. Soybeans have gained acreage and some of the minor crops, i.e., flax, buckwheat, peas, and now faba beans, are gaining ground.

Employment Ontario Bulletin

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his is to inform you that the Canada-Ontario Job Grant (COJG): UpSkill pilot call for proposal (CFP) has re-opened. Applicants have until April 18, 2016 to apply for COJG: UpSkill. The application is accessible here.

COJG: UpSkill funds partnerships to develop and implement sector-specific, integrated essential and technical skills training for employees. The program will help employers meet their workforce development needs by providing employees with high-quality, short-term skills training aligned with their shared business needs.

The total funding for the COJG: UpSkill pilot will be based on the number of employees who will be participating in the training. The government will cover two-thirds of the direct training costs, up to $10,000 per trainee. Employers must contribute at least one-third of eligible costs in cash.

The targeted sectors for the pilot are: â&#x20AC;˘ Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; â&#x20AC;˘ Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction; and â&#x20AC;˘ Manufacturing including Food.

You can find more information about the Call for Proposal (CFP) for COJG: UpSkill on the Canada-Ontario Job Grant Employer page.

For further assistance, employers can contact the Employment Ontario Contact Centre toll-free at: 1-800-3875656, or through the TTY line: 1-866-533-6339.

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Macmillan said that in one day on Wed., March 30, he collected 1,000 gallons of sap, which they were boiling on Thurs., March 31. MacMillan has helpers who watch over the boiler to make sure the quality is good. They are Robert, Marg and Glennie Merkley and Beth Barkley who sit out in the comfortable little shack in the woods for hour on end taking turns making sure

Richard MacMillan (right) and his helpers Beth Barkley, Marg and Robert Merkley are hard at work boiling this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bumper maple production at their family shack. The maple bush has been in the MacMillan family since the early 1900s.

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MacMillan has between 1,500 and 1,600 taps, which feed into a vacuum line that runs from tree to tree. He bought a new vacuum system for this season specifically made for the collection of sap. His last

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Paynebranch Farms was Reserve Premier Exhibitor with 82 points.

Other winning exhibitors were new exhibitors Jim and Nick Cummings, and Threeloos Farms; as well as Burkhome Farms, Bill VanLoon, Murray

Dunbar, and Corsare Farms.

In addition to the awards, the farm show vendors and associations filled the hall, which was filled by the time of the afternoon awards.

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At Moose Creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recycling and landfill facility (formerly known as Lafleche), water treatment plant operator Emily McDonald looks on as President Brian King explains the process to visiting students from several local schools, North Stormont Public, Tagwi, Notre Dame du Rosaire, Roxmore, and others. Below, King shows the electronic trash at the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s e-waste transfer station. Suitably impressed, each school received a $500 cheque from the company for recycling projects.

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Hemp Trade Alliance meets in E. Ontario

by Lea Downs AgriNews Contributor INCHESTERAppRoxImATEl y 65 fARmERS fRom All ovER oNTARIo ANd QuEbEC gATHEREd AT WINCHESTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CouNTRy KITCHEN oN WEd., mARCH 16, foR THE oNly CANAdIAN HEmp TRAdE AllIANCE mEETINg To oCCuR EAST of mANITobA. Though the alliance committee members educated those attending on the benefits of hemp, as well as production, demand, supply, regulation, and agronomics in general, the focus of the meeting was to rally signatures in support of a hemp levy that the alliance is hoping to set in motion.

Larry Marshall, an organic hemp producer and member of the CHTA, explained that a mandatory levy would be beneficial to all hemp growers, even those who are not in favour of paying the levy fee. The purpose of the levy is to institute a PRA (Promotion

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and Research Agency), which would hopefully â&#x20AC;&#x153;raise money to undertake promotion, research, and development on behalf of the [hemp] sector,â&#x20AC;? explains Marshall. Once the funds are raised, the agency would then decide how it would be best distributed.

The PRA would also be responsible for further developing the industry, and for leveraging the government for additional funding, though both require start-up costs from within the industry, which will be supplied by the levy fee. The CHTA has found that individual processors are also willing to contribute funds to start up the initiative.

To ensure these funds, however, the levy fee would be mandatory for all hemp growers. Though the fee would only be a third of a cent per dollar, to be deducted at every hemp sale while at the processor, hemp producers are able to apply for a yearly refund, if they are unhappy with the

automatic deduction.

Marshall insists that the PRA would continue to be beneficial for even those requesting refunds, however, as the work done for the hemp sector would still directly influence them.

Marshall and the other CHTA members still have four more meetings in rural Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to promote the levy. Additionally, the annual three-day convention being held in Saskatoon, November 1517, is a great source of information on the levy and all things pertaining to the hemp industry. The convention draws crowds from all over the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, and even attracts farmers from the Maritimes. In fact, the CHTA had a field day last summer to Prince Edward Island, as they attempt to expand further east, encouraging producers in Ontario and Quebec. Currently, half of Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organic crop is being sent to Quebec City every year, validating

the eastern demand for hemp products. More large hemp farms are retiring out west, and smaller farms are emerging in Ontario and Quebec, Marshall elaborates. In fact, farmers from as far out as La Pocatière and Rimouski, Que., made the trek to attend the Winchester hemp meeting, and Quebec attendees made up approximately one third of the crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was very surprised at the turnout,â&#x20AC;? he expressed, as the room designated for the gathering was so full that some attendees had a hard time finding seats. The Alliance is aspiring to hold the convention in Quebec in the near future, though locations currently alternate between the three Prairie Provinces. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The purpose [of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance] is to disseminate information, promote use of nutritional and industrial hemp, and coordinate research,â&#x20AC;? Marshall elaborates. Established in 2003, the Alliance aims to dis-

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anywhere near a marijuana grow-op, they reduce the THC level by half because of the pollen,â&#x20AC;? he divulges.

THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana which is responsible for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;highâ&#x20AC;? effect of users.

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MacMillan’s maple Continued from page 15 five-horse power electric motor with a cooling fan.

The vacuum pump is attached to a line that runs outside to a small building and is connected to a collector, which has an electric switch.

When the collector is filled to a certain point, the pump kicks in and pumps the sap to a reverse osmosis filter which separates about 60 per cent of the water from the sap. The remainder of the product is pumped to one of three bulk tanks set up in the main lodge.

One tank is 1,000 gallons and the other two are around 500 each. When the tanks get full they start the boiling process. The sap is then pumped into the boiler.

First, the sap enters an evaporator, which turns some of the water into steam and is cooled and removed.

The sugar-filled sap then moves on to the boiler itself, which is heated using firewood. MacMillan fills the firebox with as much as two-foot pieces of wood every 14 minutes for the fastest and best results. The hotter the better, he says.

His helper, Robert Merkley, sits by the boiler and waits for a gauge to reach a certain measurement and he opens the tap to collect the final product into a five-gallon pail.

There is a cloth filter on the top of the can to remove certain large particles such as minerals and ash.

When the pail is full, it is replaced by sliding another one into position.

Merkley then takes the full pail and dumps it into con-

tainers ready for sale.

Samples are taken throughout the day and are measured with a Brix locator meter. The optimum measurement on the Brix meter

is 66.9 per cent. MacMillan said this year’s production has been great and have already produced at least 205 more this year than last.

MacMillan markets his product just through friends and family and one of his

MacMillan’s system includes a reverse osmosis sytem (left) and it filters out about 60 per cent of the water in the sap. The new vacuum system makes the collection of sap so much easier, according to MacMillan. It has a self-cooling fan and can run all day and night. The finished product pours out of the boiler (top right) into a pail which is then used to fill the bottles for sale. The maple syrup is tested by a Brix locator meter to ensure the quality.

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STA wins Ontario’s Global Innovation Competition

by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer ORONTO—The FiRsT LegO League Team FROm sT. ThOmas aquiNas Chs, The aveNgeRs, COmpeTed iN This yeaR’s FLL gLObaL iNNOvaTiON COmpeTiTiON iN TORONTO ON Feb. 27.

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plastic but is fully biodegradable and does not require recycling. They also produced a business model of how their product could be brought into production.

A parent of team member Kelly Forrester said the event was similar to Dragon’s Den. The Avengers were made up of Grade 8 and Grade 9 students Sam Barret, Alec Campbell, Logan DeVerteuil, Rachel Fiset, Kelly Forrester, Morgan Foster, Noah Hill, Jack Miner, Ethan Warnock, and Rachel Wood. Coaches were Blair Fitzsimmons, Ann

Jackson and Brad Reid.

The group now has a potential opportunity to compete at the world competition in Washington, DC, this spring. However, they are first considering patenting their product, to reduce the chance of their idea being used by someone else. They also need to apply to the competition, but are feeling quite confident that they will be accepted. The group is now fundraising, both for the patent application costs and for the trip’s expenses.

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STACHS students with the Lego League club produced an innovative product and won the Global Innovation Award in Toronto recently.

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Now that he has left the hugely successful band he cofounded and overcome alcoholism, seeing him onstage means sharing a connection with him and a small crowd of quiet patrons.

McCann’s new career as a solo act brought him to the Old Town Hall in Winchester in February, where he performed to a sold-out crowd of about 100.

Gone are the bright lights, big sounds and smoke that accompanied GBS; now, he is armed with only two guitars, his bodhran, and his voice, and it’s his voice that rings louder these days than any GBS concert ever could.

When told it was like seeing a completely different person, he said, “it’s the real person.”

“The mask is off. The Great Big Sea show had power in it, it had the power to make people jump in the thousands. It was high speed, high volume, lights, flashy. But you can’t say very much when you’re talking to 10,000 people.

You have to speak broadly and simply. Every night for us was like a Friday night, but the truth is, not every night is Friday night so you end up pretending a lot of time. And it becomes an act. We were good at that.

We were a great party band, but you also live the life, and I’ve lived through that and I survived it. The ability to come out and move 10,000 people, that’s powerful. And we used the lights, we used the volume, we used every trick in the book to do it. So what I’m doing now is taking all the tricks away, taking my mask off and standing there with no armour on, just my guitar, and sharing my self and my songs with people.

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And what he’s getting people to listen to are the words of a man who has overcome his personal demons and found authenticity in himself through his music. Since leaving GBS, McCann has released two solo albums; Help Your Self, a sometimes dark collection of songs depicting his journey toward sobriety, and The Séan McCann Song Book Volume 1: You Know I Love You, which reveals the deep-rooted love and affection McCann feels for himself, his fans, Newfoundland, and his wife, Andrea, who was in the audience in Winchester, and their children. This year, he’ll be working on Volume 2.

The Gull Island, Newfoundland, native may now live in Manotick, but the influence of the ocean and the music he grew up with will always play a part in his songwriting.

“I still sing those songs.

The best representation of me as a sincere songwriter is a song like England, for example, that I wrote and rings true,” he said. “I’m from Newfoundland and I’m very much affected by the ocean. I don’t live the

party lifestyle anymore, and you won’t catch me at a kitchen party. But I love to write songs and I love to tell stories, which is very much a Newfoundland thing, because for hundreds of years, we had no source of entertainment other than ourselves, and that’s how we’ve evolved.”

His move to Ontario was prompted by his desire to play in small venues like the Old Town Hall, something he said wasn’t possible back home.

“The reason I’m here is because I have more opportunity to actually work. I was stifled at home. The only thing worse than leaving Great Big Sea, is leaving Great Big Sea and living in St. John’s,” he laughed. “Everyone keeps asking you why’d you do that, and you have repeat yourself. But I never had much to do. There’s no little theatres. Those opportunities just don’t exist in Newfoundland. From here, I can foresee doing about 50 shows a year, just in Ontario.”

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28-year-old mayor finalist in rural youth showcase

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oNE of fouR fINalISTS IN THE youTH ENgagEMENT SHoWCaSE SpoNSoRED by RuRal oNTaRIo INSTITuTE. Youth Engagement Showcase Project Lead Ryan Deska confirmed for The Agrinews that, at the end of March, a film crew was set to begin shadowing Duncan while speaking with friends and colleagues about his contributions to the community.

The Youth Engagement Showcase is a new program in 2015 which sought nominations of dynamic and inspiring rural residents aged 29 and under. Forty four people were nominated and Emily Morrison of Beaverton, Megan Raftis of Harriston and Branden Trockymchuck of Thunder Bay join Duncan as finalists.

Deska mentioned that

the program looks to engage youth with the hopes of making rural communities an attractive place for youth and young adults to return to following postsecondary education.

Norman Ragetlie, director of Policy and Stakeholder Engagement for the Rural Ontario Institute, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Communities need engaged youth to succeed and we are proud to recognize these individuals and share their stories.â&#x20AC;?

Finalist video profiles can be found at www.ruralontarioinstitute.c a/blog/. Deska suggested that once the short films are made, they will be available on the Rural Ontario Institute website and social media and other opportunities to share the stories are being investigated.

First elected to township council straight off his high school studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; council a decade ago, the 28-year-old Duncan said it was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very nice honourâ&#x20AC;? to be one of four finalists, suggesting

the program â&#x20AC;&#x153;shows that young people can be involved and successful in their communities.â&#x20AC;?

He added that he enjoys sharing his experiences with young people, encouraging them to set goals with a view to reaching them.

The mayor has indicated he wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be seeking another term at the township and is anticipated to seek higher office upon the future

retirement of longtime local MP Guy Lauzon, 72.

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Dietrich further noted that one of the primary objectives of the Ontario ingredients program is to competitively position the ingredients listed in Class 6 for dairy processing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Current industry and market conditions have only reinforced the fact that new investment in ingredient capacity is an absolute necessity. This new pricing will go a long way to make that happen.â&#x20AC;?

Dietrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments reflect the interconnected problems of soaring demand for butter and the resulting oversupply of skim milk as a byproduct, which existing drying facilities in the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supply-managed processing sector canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn into powder quickly enough.

The problem has been compounded by the previous pricing regime that made eAtiNg the

Christena Lewis of the processor group, the Ontario Dairy Council, spoke of the need for â&#x20AC;&#x153;modernizationâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;or an â&#x20AC;&#x153;ingredients strategy,â&#x20AC;?

Feb. 11 at the Kemptville Dairy Day. The longawaited new pricing regime for dairy ingredients was ultimately approved in Ontario at the end of March. these domestic powder products more expensive than imports, unless they were larded into even cheaper animal feed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; creating a disincentive for

processor capacity upgrades.

At the Feb. 11 Dairy Day conference in Kemptville, Christena Lewis, president of the Ontario Dairy Council, told chagrined producers the current lack of drying capacity would mean continued incidents of skimmilk dumping through mid 2016.

Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently approved â&#x20AC;&#x153;ingredients strategyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Â a term favoured by milk producers â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Â is alternatively described by processors as â&#x20AC;&#x153;modernization.â&#x20AC;?

Deitrich thanked the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs for their support and assistance with making the necessary regulatory changes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is an important step for the Canadian dairy industry to modernize its current infrastructure. It will position our industry to be more competitive. While Ontario has taken a leadership role, it is important to have a national ingredients program. DFO is hopeful that compromises can be found to allow all provinces to have an ingredients program in the near future,â&#x20AC;? said Peter Gould, DFO CEO and general manager. The Manitoba Dairy Farmers have recently announced that they will be adopting the Ontario Program in August 2016.

DFO is working with the Ontario Dairy Council and scheduling on-going processor orientation and training meetings to review changes to milk and ingredient utilization reporting arising from the implementation of the new class.

But at the Feb. 11 session, Spencerville-area milk producer Paul Henderson noted another problem â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Â lack of available processor quota. Challenging Lewis from the audience, Henderson suggested that even if the Gay Lea Foods farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; co-op wanted to add drying capacity, it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do so because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no additional processor quota to go around.

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The award is the brainchild of Tara Bullock, a dedicated dairy farmer and mother of three from Continued on page 38

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Food samples were located at various stations inside the creamery and festival-goers were able to taste test a selection of delicious and nutritious treats at an affordable cost of a $1.00 ticket per sample.

These included Belgian waffles from Jambel with Biemond frozen yogurt,

barley apple porridge courtesy of Against the Grain topped with Biemond yogurt and maple syrup, Biemond yogurt parfaits topped with a choice of granola toppings from Against the Grain accompanied by maple syrup. The frozen yogurt sandwiches had to be one of the crowd favourites, appealing to young and old alike as were the Smoothies’ station run

by Emily Biemond and Miriam Biemond with Kyleigh King running a blind taste test station with Biemond yogurt coming out on top.

Jennifer Biemond said that the Upper Canada Creamery is putting together tour packages, which include a tour of the barn and creamery followed by a yogurt-making demonstration afterwards in the kitchen area. These packages are geared towards schools, youth organizations, as well as other groups.

Stormont, Dundas and South Glengarry MPP Jim McDonell is joined by Jennifer and Rudi Biemond, Marc D’Costa (of Jambel), and Josh and Ellen Biemond just outside Upper Canada Creamery in South Dundas where the first Yogurt Fest was held on March 12.

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Chesterville Ag Society gearing up

Preparing for its 85th fair this August, the Chesterville Agricultural Society met last month for its annual general meeting and reviewed the books. The meeting included assurances from the Society’s accountant and official auditor, Benjanin Mann, that last year’s $13,000 deficit and the previous year’s $16,000 loss were not unusual for a not-for-profit entity that usually does better. The fair — subject to uncontrollable challenges like weather and carnival operators that don’t show up — last turned a profit of $4,000 in 2013, according to President Tina Asselin.

The board recently refinanced its long-term debt of $62,600 and is confident of a return to black ink.

Shown are board members (front, from left, VicePresident Sara Dillabough, President Tina Asselin, Treasurer Deb Angel, and Past President Des Desarmia. Back, from left, directors Dale Myers, Carol Johnson, Andrea LeClair (daughter Emilie, 3, peeking over shoulder), Homecraft Secretary Heather O’Neil, Brad Johnston and Ashley Johnson.

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Hemp continued from page 17 Hemp contains less than 0.3 per cent of THC, nowhere near enough to get the same effect. The hemp pollen can travel up to 10 km, and can alter the genetic make-up of marijuana, however, it is a one-sided distortion. Since marijuana plants are all female and contain no male pollen, hemp crops will never be altered by being within range of a marijuana plant. Additionally, all crops must be planted with a pedigree seed, which is widely controlled by Health Canada.

“Even police need to be educated,” Marshall continues. His crop has all but eliminated the marijuana grow-ops within a 10 km radius of his farm, but he has still had police come search his 1,500 acres three times

over the 12 years he has been in operation, to ensure he wasn’t hiding any marijuana.

However, even if a marijuana producer was ignorant enough to plant product in a hemp field, “a dog can’t tell the difference, because they give off the same turpenes,” he explains, rendering the search futile.

For any farmers interested in commencing a hemp crop, it is quite easy to do, Marshall remarks. “It’s a great companion crop!” he says, as it actually aids the growth and protection of crops such as alfalfa, grass, and clovers. Hemp grows quickly, so it can be planted and harvested by the time the grass comes to full growth, and harvesting won’t damage the grass beneath it at all.

Additionally, the long stalks leave tall stubble when harvested, which protect the grass from the elements if left over the winter.

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The internationally acclaimed program is celebrating its 50th anniversary supplying Ontario farmers experiencing domestic labour shortages with seasonal workers from Mexico and the Caribbean.

Approximately 17,000 seasonal workers from Mexico, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad/Tobago and the Eastern Caribbean States are expected to be placed at

Ontario fruit and vegetable farms this growing season as a supplement to local labour through SAWP. Approximately 1,450 farms will benefit from the program this year.

“We’re extremely proud that we’ve been able to help our horticultural industry thrive and grow over the past half century,” says Ken Forth, president of Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.AR.M.S.), which administers the program. “Ontario produces some of the highest quality fruits and vegetables in the world. Without the supplemental labour they hire through SAWP, many of our growers just wouldn’t be able stay viable.”

A watershed moment At the South Nation Conservation Annual General Meeting, March 17, the Board of Directors re-elected the Executive for another term. From left: Chair Doug Thompson; ViceChair François St. Amour; and PastChair Bill Smirle.

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The store will also provide information about the surprising range of types of products now available, including food items and teas for those who do not wish to inhale smoke and products which are targeted for specific pain or conditions. In addition, InfoCannabis will sell side products associated with the use of the medicine.

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Ayrporte Farm co-owner Tracey Porteous receives the Premier Forage Exhibitor award from a Scotiabank representative.

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Tibbens Farms Inc. won Premier Seed Exhibitor and Champion Corn Silage.

William Lillico won Champion Shelled Corn.

David Chambers won Champion Ear Corn, Champion Cereal and First Place Wheat. Fabienne Puenter won Cahmpion Soybean, Norm Tinkler was Champion Whitebean, Cassidy Porteous won Premier 4-H Exhibitor, and Trudy Westervelt was named Champion Baker.

At the annual Dundas County Seed and Forage Show, a trio of local politicians judged entries in the baking contest.

From left, South Dundas Mayor Evonne Delegarde, MPP Jim McDonell and North Dundas Mayor Eric Duncan try out one of the treats at the March 4 event. There were so many delicious choices the judges had a tough time but in the end they chose a cheesecake made by Trudy Westervelt.

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JED Express among best managed in the nation T ORONTO— EasTERN ONTaRiO’s JED ExpREss LTD. Of sOuTh MOuNTaiN was NaMED ONE Of CaNaDa’s BEsT MaNagED COMpaNiEs iN 2015 fOR ExCELLENCE iN BusiNEss pERfORMaNCE. The Best Managed program is a prestigious national honour that recognizes Canadian-owned and managed companies with revenues over $10-million demonstrating strategy, capability and commitment to achieve sustainable growth.

“Best Managed companies embrace innovation, seize opportunities and inspire talent. They really set the bar high. They are all great Canadian business success stories,” said Peter Brown, Partner, Deloitte and Co-Leader, Canada’s Best Managed Companies program.

Strong consideration of JED Express for this award came from the innovative core strategy for embracing technology for constant improvement of business practices to increase business volume and sustainable profitability without additions to their fleet of trucks. This unique ‘get better with what we have’ approach allows JED to build on the established

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SĂŠan McCann Continued from page 20 this year. But the crowd in Winchester, that really moved me. That was a great group of people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not perfect, I made some mistakes and there were some ghosts in the room, and some jokes at my expense, but I was sincerely moved by it. People really listened. It was all about the music, and about everyone coming together. For that hour and a half in Winchester, we were all there together on a really intimate level, and it was a genuine conversation, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare, that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always happen. The more I got into the music business, the less I found that, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to find it again, and I definitely found it in Winchester on Saturday. There was love in the room, I could feel it.â&#x20AC;?

McCann no longer sticks to a set list with his performances the way GBS did; instead, he writes out a few songs he really wants to sing, but lets the show take its own course.

Between stories and friendly bantering with members of the audience, he sang a mixture of songs from his solo albums and his Great Big Sea repertoire. He took requests from the audience and encouraged everyone to sing along, and he serenaded his wife with love songsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one notso-love-song call Little Miss Know It All, after which he spent the rest of the show apologizing profusely to her (she forgave him)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and afterward, he took the time to meet with patrons in the lobby and sign autographs.

Doing small, intimate shows such as this has has given McCann a greater sense of purpose and authenticity than GBS ever could. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was lost for a while and I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m finding my way out. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked really hard. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been sober four and a half years, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve overcome a lot of things. Music is my therapy; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the greatest medicine for me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve identified now that this is something I want to be a part of my life for the rest of my life. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 49, and I want to do this. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do what I was doing. I was in this big band and I was doing this music successfully for money, but it left me wanting. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t saying what I wanted to say. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being true to myself,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I decided to live an authentic life, and for lack of a better description, let that be the show. Then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at least being true to myself every night. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky in the fact that it resonates with people. Everywhere I go, people say the same kind of thing, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;oh you seem happier,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I can relate to your songs because that happened to my mom,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I drink too much,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I can have these sincere interactions with people, and I have a sense of purpose and I want to pursue it. I feel better about it, and if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keeping me gainfully employed and out of trouble.. and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big if, you know? I spent a lot of time on the road and part of my issues were living the life, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not in a bus with 10 dudes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not Friday night every night, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about something more than that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about stuff we can say and places we can go in this solo set that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid to do, and it would certainly never be allowed on the Great Big Sea stage.â&#x20AC;?

When asked if GBS became more successful than he had anticipated, McCann said the success itself wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the problem, it was in not knowing what to do with it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we wanted. We always wanted to be massive and we wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done anything to make that happen.

But you have to be careful what you wish for, because once you get to the top, then what? You just try to stay there. You let your decisions on what you say and do become dictated by this desperate need to stay on top and in control,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found that doing that for the sake of doing that became a soul crusher for me. Initially when we started out, the intensity of those desires were genuine, we all wanted the same thing. But when we got it, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know what to do with it. But then it became, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it every night. It became an act, it was a costume you put on and wore. I can only speak for myself, but the band was an act. We went up and we had our set list and we did our show. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal, but after you do that for 20 years, you look for something more than that. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at now. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I want to do.â&#x20AC;?

Fame and fortune are the dreams of a lot of aspiring musicians, but McCann warns that success can bring its own set of problems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be careful what you wish for. The choices you make.. itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to know when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re young what you want to do, but if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen to yourself and watch for warnings, and if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with problems, things wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get better,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way I live my life now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fearless.

And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever want to be afraid again. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

www.agrinews.ca what makes people drink a lot of the time, is they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to deal with their problems. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lightened up and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in a happier place. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see where this journey takes me. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a big year for us, we just moved, but I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always busy and stuffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting done and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m finally on the right path.â&#x20AC;?

One thing is for certain, wherever his journey leads him from here, Winchester will be a part of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told Gina, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think in terms of just one night in February, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking once a year for the next 10 years, or 20 years. This to me, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve built this beautiful room at the Old Town Hall, and that speaks highly of your community to have the foresight to create this for your kids.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely coming back, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to tell people to go there and play. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great for intimate concerts,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small towns have the biggest hearts, and Winchester just showed me its heart, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive. I was melted.â&#x20AC;?

McCann is in discussions with Gina Welch, Community Development Coordinator for the Township of North Dundas, for another performance within a year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It went great. Everybody loved it. Sean was very easy to deal with and I really enjoyed working with him. We have discussed him coming back within the next year, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a definite possibility,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal going forward with the township and bringing in more events like this is that I want to keep them intimate. I want to give the members of our community an experience that they may not get somewhere else. Anybody can go buy a $100 ticket to Garth Brooks or whatever, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to get to meet him after the show and chat with him, and have that interaction during the show.â&#x20AC;?

There are other entertainers in the works, but until plans are solidified, she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t elaborate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep your eyes open on Facebook and on our website, because as soon as things are booked Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll post it,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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The money flows through the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund and the Connecting Links programs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intended as a stable, predictable, annual funding mechanism to build and repair bridges, roads, water and wastewater infrastructure, according to the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reflecting consultation feedback and the progress municipalities have made on their asset management plans, the OCIF will triple from $100-million to $300million per year by 201819, with $200-million in

predictable, formula-based funding and $100-million in application-based funding, allowing smaller municipalities to apply to invest in critical infrastructure projectsâ&#x20AC;ŚConnecting Links will provide $20-million in 2016-2017, up from $15-million announced in the 2015 Budget, to help municipalities pay for the construction and repair costs for designated connecting links â&#x20AC;&#x201D; municipal roads that connect two ends of a provincial highway through a community or to a border crossing. Funding for this program will increase to $30-million per year by 2018-2019,â&#x20AC;? the minister said in an official press release.

The province will also launch an interest-free loan program to help more communities access natural gas.

In an interview with The AgriNews, Leal described the initiative as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;total revamp of the Community

Infrastructure Fund.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The costs of 48 per cent of roads, bridges and other infrastructure were downloaded to municipalities. Now some of those bridges are 60 to 70 years old,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding with an urban parallel: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In rural Ontario, good bridges are the equivalent of good subway connections in Toronto.â&#x20AC;?

During the interview, the minister had time to answer another question, which was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is the province considering the protection of farmland?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our job is to protect prime agricultural farmland,â&#x20AC;? he answered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So that the last crop is not houses. We need plans and zoning appropriate to protect prime agricultural land.

The two big questions for the 21st century are food supply and water.â&#x20AC;?

Part of the plan for that protection is updating the mapping of agricultural

land in the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The soil map in use is over 40 years old,â&#x20AC;? Leal said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For effective planning we need accurate maps.â&#x20AC;?

When asked about the issue of land which is not considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;prime,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all important, forests, hedgerows and wetlands.â&#x20AC;?

He stated he did not have time to answer questions about other land uses, such as landfills proposed for rural, agricultural areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be better off speaking to my counterpart, Glen Murray, at the MOE,â&#x20AC;? he said. When AgriNews replied that sacrifice zones for the sake of landfills, wind turbines, asphalt plants and other disputed uses was a rural problem, he agreed, but did not comment.

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In a media release, the FCC said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The FCC AgriSpirit Fund is about enhancing rural communities. If your organization is raising money for a capital project (hospitals, medical centres, childcare facilities) â&#x20AC;Ś it may qualify for a donation between $5,000 and $25,000.â&#x20AC;?

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Eligible groups include registered charities, nonprofit organizations capable of partnering with a municipal body or provincial government â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if the municipal body agrees to receive contributed money and issue receipts in the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, and municipal bodies fitting the criteria of being under 150,000 people, a rural municipality or a First Nations community.

Applications are open until April 18.

Projects must be located in a rural community, recognize FCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contribution, be completed within two years of receiving funding, and be a capital project.

Only online applications will be evaluated.

Organizations or programs receiving AgriSpirit funds in the past four years are not eligible. Preference may be given to organizations that focus on agriculture.

For more information on eligibility, or to apply see www.fccagrispiritfund.ca.

Projects approved last year in Ontario include four community splash pads, fire department equipping, furnishing and equipping community centres, a child care centre, a residential hospice and arena, as well as buying and installing items like emergency generators, fold and go bleachers, accessible parking lot, a covered ramp, and others.

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OSMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Sheep Day was held in Embrun at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Sat., March 5. Laurie Maus runs through her power-point presentation on sheep health. There were about 50 sheep farmers in attendance who were informed by numerous speakers from sheep health, habitat, feed and veterinary care.

Continued from page 7 At that point Moffat blurted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you get here? On city roads!â&#x20AC;?

The response, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came here on a provincial highway,â&#x20AC;? was not answered.

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Panelists included Ben Snyder, feedlot operator and stock buyer, James Watt of Manotick Village Butcher, Marc Peladeau who owns Lefaivre Abattoir, and Jim

Beveridge of B&H Your Community Grocer in Kemptville.

They were followed by a seminar on selecting for conformation, productivity and production testing by Johanne Cameron, CEPOQ. Keeping Your Market in Mind featured Delma Kennedy, Sheep Specialist Genetics, Reproduction and Performance Programs, OMAFRA, who discussed choosing the right genetics and keeping accurate records of basic information, as well as breeds suitable for different end products such heavy, light

and feeder lambs. The final talk of the day was from Dr. Paul Luimes of Ridgetown College on the topic of feeding to finish market lambs.

Information was also available on forage, breeding programs, breeds, economics, cuts of lamb, diseases like footrot, scours and scrapie, and a comprehensive guide to the care and handling of sheep.

Attendance the last few years has been down somewhat from previous-

ly, which is partially attributed to fewer producers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are not as many producers,â&#x20AC;? said OSMA President Colleen Acres, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but there are many larger flocks, especially in the eastern regions.â&#x20AC;? She said the industry is becoming less of a cottage industry and more mainstream. It often attracts women farmers as sheep are smaller and easier to handle than cattle. About half of the attendees at the conference were women.

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The former mayor, J.P., used to talk to me regularly. The new mayor has not reached out once.â&#x20AC;?

Councillors George Darouze and Eli ElChantiry did not join the debate. Although presenters were informed that an audio recording of the meeting would be on the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website the following week, it does not appear to be available.

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Marrow and Spice in Cornwall to feature local products Carolyn Thompson Goddard AgriNews Contributor ORNWALLâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; SpeCiALiziNg iN LOCAL pROduCe, MARROW ANd SpiCe, A heALth fOOd tAke-Out ReStAuRANt ANd StORe,

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Marrow and Spice is owned by Mike Merriam and Kim Woolley.

Merriam said that this unique name was chosen â&#x20AC;&#x153;because we wanted to remind people of things we all used to cook (marrow, fat innards) and the fact that anything can taste multiple different ways with the educated use of spice.â&#x20AC;?

The proprietors of this facility are committed to stocking foods of the

highest quality and produced under the highest farm management practices possible from within a 100-km radius of the location. In situations where foods such as pears or peaches are not grown locally, Merriam plans to source items such as this from as close to this area as possible.

He also described arrangements with local suppliers to have fruits and vegetables brought to the store as they are harvested, ensuring freshness and quality.

Heather Vallieres and Gord Patterson from McCrimmon Corners near Vankleek Hill produce Gordz Hot Sauce, which will be one of the pre-packaged food items for sale at this location.

Vallieres mentioned that it was great â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have a store that is offering all local foodâ&#x20AC;?, adding some products will be cooked on site while others such as Gordz Hot Sauce are pre-packaged.

Marc Da Costa of Jambel was at the restaurant/store providing customers with samples of some of his delicious creations and proudly displayed some of the items his company will be selling there. DaCosta describes his style as taking local food and giving it a Jamaican/Belgian twist. Some of the other local enterprises which will have products for sale at this store include Against the Grain from Winchester and Road Apple Ranch in Finch.

While the restaurant and store is newly opened, Merriam is looking forward to the future with plans to hold cooking classes for people of all ages and providing customers with an opportunity to enjoy food grown locally.

At the grand opening of Marrow and Spice on March 4, the crowd attested to the success of this store selling only locally produced food.

Specializing in local produce, Marrow and Spice, a health food restaurant and store, opened its doors to the public in February in Cornwall. From left, Mike Marrian (Road Apple Ranch), Gord Patterson (Gordz Hot Sauce), Roger Caron (Marrow and Spice), Marc DaCosta (Jambel).

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AUCTION SALE

FARM & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

Ǥǥ ʹͺ͡ʹ Ǥ Ǥ ͳʹǥ Í&#x201C;ͳǥ ÇĄ Ǥ 1km South of Finch, ON, Cty. Rd. 12, 5km West on Con. 1-2. South from Ottawa on 417 East to Cty. Rd. 5 (Limoges Rd. S), turns into St. Albert Rd. W. to Cty. Rd. 12 through Crysler.

Ǥǥ ÍťTHÇĄ ʹͲͳ͸ ͝ǣ;Ͳ Ǥ Ǥ McCormick XTX tractor, 165 HP, 4WD, cab, air, heat, 437 hrs.; Landini Ghible tractor #100, 93HP, 4WD, 3,285 hrs.; Cockshutt #1655 tractor, diesel with cab; Cockshutt #560 diesel tractor; Massey Ferguson #245 diesel tractor; JD Combine #4435; JD 15â&#x20AC;&#x2122; grain head; JD 4-row corn head; Pick-up head; 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; swather; Grain preÂ&#x2026;Â&#x17D;Â&#x2021;Â&#x192;Â?Â&#x2021;Â&#x201D;Ǣ Â&#x2021;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2013;Ď?Â&#x2039;Â&#x2021;Â&#x17D;Â&#x2020; ͡ͳǯ ͺdz Â&#x2030;Â&#x201D;Â&#x192;Â&#x2039;Â? Â&#x192;Â&#x2014;Â&#x2030;Â&#x2021;Â&#x201D;Ǣ Â&#x2021;Â&#x2022;Â&#x2013;Ď?Â&#x2039;Â&#x2021;Â&#x17D;Â&#x2020; ͜͡ǯ ͚dz Â&#x2030;Â&#x201D;Â&#x192;Â&#x2039;Â? Â&#x192;Â&#x2014;Â&#x2030;Â&#x2021;Â&#x201D;Ǣ ʹͲǯ ͜dz Â&#x2030;Â&#x201D;Â&#x192;Â&#x2039;Â? Â&#x192;Â&#x2014;Â&#x2030;Â&#x2021;Â&#x201D;Ǣ ͳ͸ǯ ͜dz grain auger; 7 Gravity boxes & wagons, 13 ton to 2 ton; Sweep auger; 550 gal. plastic tank on trailer; Case IH #2500 sub soiler; Case IH #340 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wheel disc (like new); Land leveler, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Cultivator, 3PTH; Case IH #5100 seed drill, 18run; Packer roller on wheels, suits seed drill; Salford #6200 4-furrow plow, HYD, Adj.; NH hay rake; Schulte R544 stone picker; Schulte

5RW stone rake; Woods 8860 bush hog; Finishing mower, 4.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Cat 924 loader, 7,130 hrs.; 1999 Case 9030 shovel, 4,000 HRS. with thumb; Komatsu dozer with root rake D41A; Case 450 dozer, 4,819 hrs.; Screening plant; Case Super M Backhoe, 5,758 hrs.; 2 ton pallet forks; 3 sets of scales; 1-ton Ford 450 dump truck, duals; Round bale forks; Antique transit; Modern transit; Water tank, 80 gal.; Fuel tank, 12 volt; 18.4 x 42 duals; 18.4 x 34 duals; Sewing machine for feed bags; ͡Â&#x2013;Â&#x160; Â&#x2122;Â&#x160;Â&#x2021;Â&#x2021;Â&#x17D; Â&#x2013;Â&#x192;Â?Â&#x2020;Â&#x2021;Â? Ď?Â&#x17D;Â&#x2018;Â&#x192;Â&#x2013;ÇĄ 20 ton; Float, 8 ton; Lots of parts for Cockshutt #560 tractor.

1.5 hrs of Misc. Shop Tools and Wagon Items to be sold at start of sale.

NOTE: If you are looking for SUPER CLEAN EQUIPMENT this is the sale not to miss.

FARM HAS BEEN SOLD.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash or cheque with ID. Owner and auctioneer not responsible for loss or accidents. Trucking can be arranged. No items may be removed until payment has been made in full. Abandoned items will remain property of the owner.

PROPS.: NEVILLE BROS.

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Kemptville Continued from page 6 multi-tenant campus. The BFA will form the basis of the decision by Council whether to proceed with securing the campus of Kemptville College.

The municipality partnered with a number of regional stakeholders in the preparation of a report which outlined a vision for a renewed Kemptville College: Its transformation into a multi-tenant campus offering research, education, training and economic development opportunities to various strategic, collabo-

Sap flowing, spring has sprung!

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The BFA will focus on a description of the proposed multi-tenant campus and an assessment of the market, technical, financial and organization details associated with such a venture. The report will provide a conclusion on the appropriateness of the Municipality of North Grenville proceeding with its vision for the future of Kemptville College, based on sound business principles. Â Â Members of the former task force are encouraged by this development and are keen to learn more with the release of the BDO report.

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Duff, who runs Liberty Lane Farm near Inkerman, will host the first annual symposium from August 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;28.

Schulte is a personal performance coach, a cutting horse trainer, equine consultant, author, speaker and clinician. In 2000, she was awarded the prestigious National Female Equestrian of the Year Award by the American Quarter Horse Association and the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Foundation. In 2012, she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Tom, reside in

Brenham, Texas. This will be Schulteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever visit to Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really excited to have her come to Canada,â&#x20AC;?

Duff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a privilege and an honour to have her here.â&#x20AC;?

Four Equine Canada coaches, representing Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Newfoundland, will be on-hand throughout the symposium to learn firsthand Schulteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tried and true methods for training and riding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The coaches are going to be in corrals and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to, very individually, help a coach help a student, and they can learn different ways to coach to better everybody, and everybody in the audience gets to see that happen in real time,â&#x20AC;?

Duff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of what (Schulte) wants for this

symposium is for the coaches to have students who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the coach; she would prefer the students be people who have limited access to coaching so that they can get the most from this. It is something to look forward to.

She offers a unique background, and we need her education, her knowledge, and her experiences, and for us to achieve that, we need to have her in a symposium setting and listen to her and have her teach us, and to help our coaches learn her very successful strategies.â&#x20AC;?

The symposium will also feature a hot shoeing demonstration by farrier Johnny Edwards, a wine and cheese party for a select few to meet Schulte, and a custom saddle raffle, with proceeds benefitting

the Make a Wish Foundation.

Duff and Schulte first met through a mutual friend, professional horse trainer Stacy Westfall.

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Duff Continued from page 36 out to her one last time, and we did a conference call and I asked her if she would come to Canada, and she said yes,” Duff said. “We conference call every week now to go over everything that’s happening because it’s brand new to her, brand new to me, brand new for everybody. That’s why people are excited, because it’s never been done before. She is an iconic foundation for all women in the equine industry. She is a phenomenon, and that’s why people are calling me and asking ‘how did you get her?’”

When she’s not donning her boots as a western coach and equine trainer, Duff works in consulting and project management services, managing land development and commercial projects. So while pulling an event of this magnitude together is nothing new for her, doing it for herself is.

“This is a huge undertaking. There’s a lot of work involved in putting this together. As a professional consultant, I’ve never done anything like this for myself before, but I’m approaching it as though it was a client,” she said.

Duff held a much smaller event on her farm in February when she hosted approximately 50 people at an Equine Education Night.

The event featured talks about nutrition and horsemanship.

Events like this, along with opportunities to speak and share her knowledge and expertise, are what Duff enjoys most.

“I like speaking to people. I had a lady recently ask me if I would be a motivational speaker to a group of troubled youth between the ages of 18 and 29, and of course I said yes. If there are 50 people in that room, if I can help one person for 10 minutes or even change their path just a tiny bit, then it will be worth it,” she said.

“I want to pay it forward. I have had the opportunity to work with great people and I hope I have a lot more opportunities to work with even greater people.”

Duff grew up on a dairy farm in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, and has lived in Ontario for the past eight years.

“You learn a lot of things growing up on a farm. You learn to work hard. It hum-

The AgriNews April, 2016 Page 37 bles you every day,” she said. “I saw my parents work hard every day raising a family, and that made them the great people they are today. My family means everything to me and they have always supported and believed in me. Being from Newfoundland and my culture are things I am very proud of.”

She started riding with her son at the Avalon Equestrian Centre when he was three. He is now 18, and she has a daughter, 14.

“I eventually bought my first horse, Maverick, from Wendy Hudson, and I still have him today, and he’s my everything. He’s the foundation that built me in this industry. He put me through a lot of hard knocks and I had to learn a lot of things the hard way about lots of different things, and that’s why I kept searching for the education. I kept searching through all of what I did to get to where I am today, and I’m still searching. My equine education, my knowledge and my experiences has all led me onto

different paths.”

Years ago, that path led her to Equine Canada, where she helped and participated in a revamp of the Recreation Division strategic plan in 2007. She was also a member of the board of the Newfoundland Equestrian Association in 2006-07.

Today, Duff has three personal horses on her farm, a few others in training, and she travels off property to teach and train others. She has adopted her own style for training and coaching, and is completing the steps necessary to become an Equine Canada certified coach.

“I don’t follow someone else’s horsemanship program, I follow me, what I feel I want to do, and I feel I want to just keep educating myself. I draw from everybody, and when I do that, I want to share it,” she said.

“We all learn from each other, I believe. One thing I learned in talking with other people in this industry is that we are all humbled by the fact that horses don’t

ever change. Every horse in every pen in every part of this world are the same.

That’s what humbles me to keep going. I want people everywhere to help each other and not withhold information. Horses heal in every part of our lives; we connect on a different level.

It’s all part of natural horsemanship.”

Sometimes, however, it takes being forced off your path to make you refocus your energy, and this has happened to Duff several times.

“Two years ago, I woke up one day and I was paralyzed on the right side of my body. I ended up having an emergency spinal surgery and it took until last April to completely recover. This wasn’t a horse riding accident, it was just circumstance. But that kind of thing changes you; it changes your mindset. It put me on a different path to what I want to do with horses,” she said. “I realized my forte is the training, spending time and having all that hands on with the horses. I

love starting new horses, and I love helping people get those a-ha moments where they see me do something and understand it with the horse and they get it. I love helping others learn and grow.”

This past December, her children were involved in a serious car accident that very nearly claimed both of them.

“Thank goodness they’re okay now, but that kind of thing really changes you to the core,” she said. “Life is so short and when your life happens to you like that, you have no choice but to go along with it. I am grateful every day for the blessings in my life. My children are everything to me.”

The symposium will hopefully be an annual event; Duff is already working hard at lining up special guests for the 2017 and 2018 events.

Tickets are available now for this year’s symposium, but are going fast. Regular tickets are $165 for the two days, and include a voucher for snacks and beverages.

VIP tickets are $235 for the weekend, and include admission to the live entertainment on Friday night (performer to be announced) and a catered lunch for both days of the event. There will be gifts and giveaways throughout the weekend, and the RCMP will conduct a ceremonial presentation honouring Schulte for being a guest speaker at the equine educational symposium.

Separate tickets for the Friday night show will be sold; the price of admission has not yet been announced.

Duff is selling Schulte’s books through her firm, including Ride with Confidence; The Gift, A Treasury of Practical Mental Strategies to Empower Your Riding; Healing Thoughts on Loss, Grief and Horses; and Cutting, One Run at a Time.

For more information about the symposium, or to purchase Barbra Schulte’s books and products, contact Lorie Duff at dufflorie@yahoo.com or call 613-867-0776 or visit www.libertylanefarm.net.

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Vogel continued from page 22 Lakefield, Ont., who has since passed the torch over to a panel of previous winners to continue the tradition and select the annual winner. Past recipients of the distinguished award include Heather Parkin (2011), Elaine Standeaven (2012), Nancy Beerwort (2013), Sandy O’Hara (2014), and Karen Velthuis (2015).

The committee presented Vogel with a framed print and a bouquet of flowers at the recent meeting. Before presenting the award, Parkin spoke of the various qualities that led to Vogel’s selection as this year’s winner. “When I went over Ruth’s nomination, I found it hard to believe that one person could be so involved in so many activities, and still have time to farm,” she said. “No one really knows how she is able to accomplish everything she does, but whatever she does become involved with, [it’s clear] she puts her heart into the project.”

Vogel’s references echoed the sentiment and highlighted her dedication to the agriculture industry, and the Holstein breed in particular, which she enthusiastically supports and champions whenever she is

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Ruth Vogel (2nd from right) is this year’s winner of the Outstanding Service Award for Dairy Women. Presenting the award is, from left: Sandy O’Hara, Karen Velthuis, Nancy Beerwort and Heather Parkin.

Courtesy photo given the chance. For the past 20 years, the busy Portland native has served as the secretary/treasurer of the Leeds-Grenville Holstein Club and acted as the secretary/treasurer of the local Dairy Producer Committee for 13 years.

She has also served as a DHI delegate, volunteered her time with her local agricultural society, acted as a director for her local Soil & Crop Committee and been part of several show committees in her region.

Beyond her countless years of dedication to these committees, the recipient has also been instrumental in organizing a very suc-

cessful “Ag in the Classroom” workshop for teachers and was part of the organizing committee for the International Plowing Match when it was held in her area. In the community, she has been involved in the local Conservation Authority and Hospital Foundation committees, helping to develop long-term fundraising ventures for the latter. On top of all this, she has been a major contributor to her family farm and now assists her parents with their needs as they age, while still managing to

excel in her day job as a member service representative for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.

In 2012, she was presented with the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her volunteer work in the community.

According to her nominator and supporters, “Ruth embodies the spirit of a true volunteer who selflessly gives her time to others” without expecting anything in return. “We are pleased to recognize her as the deserving winner of this year’s Outstanding Dairy Woman Service Award.”

To qualify, inductees must have demonstrated visionary leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the advancement of agriculture in Ontario.

“Ontario agriculture is rooted in a rich history and innovations that continue to drive our sector,” says President Barry Fraser, OAHF Association. “The five inductees for 2016 represent a cross-section of our industry and each of them has left a lasting legacy for the benefit of future generations.”

This year’s inductees will be recognized during a Sun., June 12 ceremony at Country Heritage Park in Milton: • Bruce Christie’s career was with Shur-Gain

and championed responsible animal care through best management practices. He worked to build public trust in food and farming through his leadership with Farm and Food Care.

• Graeme Walker Hedley impacted the beef cattle industry from animal welfare to electronic auction sales, risk management programs and marketing.

• Tom Sawyer was committed to a viable and sustainable Ontario crop input and production industry. That included his vision for the Certified Crop Advisors program.

• Deborah Whale has been involved with ag research and poultry disease prevention and environmental sustainability.

• William Lyall Campbell will be honoured posthumously; he was a leader and innovator in the North American sod industry for 42 years.

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2016 a big year for maple syrup

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Crisscrossed across the managed forest is a series of blue food grade pipelines, which take the sap from the tap to the holding tank and then to the sugar hut.

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Barkley explained that the 70 gallon capacity evaporator located in the rustic hut “can process anywhere from 50 to 70 gallons of sap an hour depending on boiling conditions and sap quality”.

He continued that the heat is produced by wood as they like the slower cooking process, but once it is begun “it is a continuous process as we draw off syrup, more raw sap flows in”. Once the

17th annual Eastern Ontario Crop Conference

Above, from left, Sevita Genetics Research Coordinator Richard Germain, dairy farmer and grower PROSeeds representative Braeden Verhey and PROSeeds Regional Sales Manager David Guy manned their company booth in the Feb. 18 Kemptville conference’s trade show. At right, soil guru Frank Gibbs of Ohio preached no-till and the goodness of worms in soil health.

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“Ever since it first came out, it’s the first thing we go to.”

— Joe and Amber Price

BUTLERVIEW FARM, Jeff Butler, owner CHEBANSE, ILLINOIS — Registered Holsteins 4 EX95 or higher 3 VG89 2-year-olds RHA 30,115M 4.0 1204F 3.2 964P Cookview Goldwyn Monique EX96-2E: Her current 6y3m record in progress, 34,602M 4.5 1564F 3.0 1037P (2x) at 315 days sold along with 4 daughters in the Butlerview Dispersal March 5. Above, she is with Butlerview Farm managers Joe and Amber Price and show cow manager Chris Curtiss at World Dairy Expo where she was 2012 and 2013 Reserve Grand Champion Holstein.

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Butlerview sold 155 head of elite cattle on March 5. They will continue to house cattle with a focus on high genomic donor dams as well as some show cattle in the future.

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