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Agriculture Diploma graduate Shannon Langridge of Picton receives the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Minister’s Leadership Award from the director of OMAFRA’s Research and Innovation branch, Michael Toombs. With the final crop of ‘Aggies’ graduating from the campus at the May 22 ceremony, Langridge becomes the likely final recipient of the school’s premier diploma award. More graduation coverage inside.

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Farmers must compete for political support, grads of slated-to-close ag campus warned

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According to Dewan, whose words were provided on a momento card with each programme: More and more farmers are coming to recognize the value of scientific knowledge in the use of soils, the growing of crops and the production of livestock.

They are appreciating that such knowledge is essential for successful farming. Like many other professions, farming is becoming highly competitive and only the most efficient farmers can hope to release adequate returns for their efforts. The efficient farmer in these

days must not only be industrious; he must also be well informed and business-like in his methods.

Saying the former ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advice was still timely today, the current speaker highlighted the second theme as being the highly Continued on page 3

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75 yEars EarLIbEraL MInIsTEr of agrICuLTurE, Howard Mains, a 1980 graduate and member of the Kemptville College Renewal Task Force, predicted there would still be some sort of occasion to mark the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100th anniversary in 2017 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one year beyond the planned final graduation of the last trades students trickling through the campus over the next couple of semesters. However, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s May 22 graduation marked the last handing out of diplomas in the agriculture, equine, horticulture and food-related disciplines that have defined the campus for generations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least under the auspices of the University of Guelph.

Mains betrayed some emotion in his voice as he repeated the expressed hope of the late Minister Philip Michael Dewan â&#x20AC;&#x153;that Kemptville Agricultural School, if only its services are fully utilized can greatly assist the farmers of Eastern Ontario. I trust that present and former students will go forward as missionaries for the school, demonstrating to others the value of its classes, its services to the general community.â&#x20AC;?

Mains, co-president of Tactix Government Relations and Public Affairs Inc., credited the campus with providing his own educational foundation, having launched him onto further post-secondary degrees.

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Grads Continued from page 2 competitive nature of agriculture. Except today, said Mains, agriculture also faces the competition of uncertain political support. He pointed to the Ontario governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned crackdown on the use of neonic-treated seed as an example. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regulatory decision is based on the weight of a political message, because 50,000 Ontario residents signed a petition for the ban, not scientific evidence,â&#x20AC;? he declared. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those of us in the farm and industry groups called on the government to base the decision on the weight of scientific evidence, but our voices were lost in the flashing symbols of a politically valued constituency. This is a competition agriculture faces. In Ontario and rural communities, agriculture has lost its political base to a competition of well-organized, wellfinanced certain interests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The competition you

The AgriNews June, 2015 Page 3 will confront in your chosen career will be much different than the competition your parents faced.

Ontario agriculture and rural communities need to rethink how they deal with the competing demands of political understanding and support.â&#x20AC;?

He urged the graduates to become better engaged in their communities, â&#x20AC;&#x153;on your local trade and farm organizations, become the next generation of leaders with the objective of gaining broader community support and engagement.â&#x20AC;?

He cast it as a matter of being well-informed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the third theme in Dewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passage. As part of that, he advised the graduates to expose themselves to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;diversity of perspectives,â&#x20AC;? as working with people of different viewpoints is â&#x20AC;&#x153;critical.â&#x20AC;?

Mains said he found it â&#x20AC;&#x153;quite surprisingâ&#x20AC;? the farm groups heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked with never have outside members on their boards of directors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why is that? Do they really understand the perspec-

tives of the larger community around them. Are they well informed?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be an active and engaged member of your community .. become a better decision maker. See the perspectives of others,â&#x20AC;? he advised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consider the choices before you,â&#x20AC;? he concluded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The choice to seek out knowledge, the choice to remain competitive, the choice to be wellinformed. The next time you hold that card in your hands, I invite you to think of the men and women who sat in those same chairs â&#x20AC;Ś 75 years ago. They faced very different challenges â&#x20AC;Ś they faced their challenges.

How will you face yours? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we look to the future of this place of learning, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll gather here again in 2017 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Kemptville Agricultural School.â&#x20AC;?

Ninety-two diplomaand certificate-program students graduated from the campus at the May 22 event.

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Editorial The struggle continues The day before Kemptville College held its second-last graduation ceremony in its decades-old configuration, Alfred College held its final graduation after 33 years as a provincial agricultural institution.

Both were cut loqse 14 months ago by the University of Guelph, which is focusing entirely on agricultural education in Western Ontario.

As it was in Kemptville, the Alfred grad exercise involving close to 60 students was bittersweet. On the one hand, Alfred director Dr. Renée Bergeron was sad to see the college arrive at the end of the line; on the other, she was happy to bid the best to departing graduates.

She was also pleased that the Alfred educational facility located in a former reform school will soldier on at least for a year as a rural and agri-food training and research centre operated by La Cité collégiale community college. Northern Ontario’s Collège Boréal will offer a veterinary technician program.

As in the case with Kemptville, no special financing has been provided. Presumably, La Cité will fund the Alfred effort through students’ fees and regular allocations from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

Also as in the case with Kemptville, a long-term solution to the Alfred debacle is being sought by local supporters who want to see the only French-language agricultural program in Ontario continue to operate beyond nest year.

For grad guest speaker Ron Caza, an Ottawa lawyer and avid defender of French-language rights, the battle to preserve Alfred as an educational institution is as much about defending those rights.

“You decided to remain at the college,” Caza told the convocation, referring to the confusion and troubles of the past year. “In so doing, you demonstrated that this establishment is very important to the Francophone community.”

Whatever it takes! If the volatile issue of French-language rights finally wins the day at Alfred ahead of the value of a locally-based agricultural education, so be it.

As in the case with Kemptville, Alfred supporters have to pull out whatever weapons they have at their disposal to continue making the case with politicians and bureaucrats – most of them located at the other side of the province - that the Eastern Ontario agricultural community has the right to keep the education facilities now in place… or at least some acceptable variation of them.

Words to live by As he would have wanted it, 104-year-old Glengarry County horseman Lloyd Howes was escorted to his final resting May 25 by a team pulling a wagon bearing his casket.

It was indeed a long life, one lived close to the ground, around farming, livestock and practical people, mostly in a bygone era. Lloyd’s lessons learned were simple ones, but ones we often overlook in today’s fast-paced society.

Not knowing for sure when the end would come, he took the time a decade ago to put some of them in a letter to his grandchildren, a letter that was read by grandson Doug during the funeral service in Vankleek Hill. The lessons serve as gentle reminders to all of us.

“I have lived almost 94 years and I wanted to tell you all a few things I have learned and I hope you will use them in your life.”

“Your grandmother and I started our life together with really nothing. When we got married, I had $11. I bought Edith a wedding ring for $10 and had $1 left for that day.”

“I think that your family is my best gift to you all. Remember you are no better than anyone else but you belong to good people.”

Lloyd urged his progeny to fix their mistakes and not repeat them: “Remember your past but don’t stay there.”

He went on to recite a few of his own errors: “I had a 1931 Model A Ford that was a good old car, but after six years, people were buying the new Durant car from a guy in Vankleek Hill and I decided to do the same… big mistake. That car was never half the car the Model A was.”

“Oh yes, try not to have any regrets. When your grandmother died, she said she had no regrets except she never learned to drive a bike or swim. I guess my regrets are I never learned to step dance or play the violin.”

He called upon the grandchildren to be honest and “try to keep your good name at the bank and, if you borrow money, always pay it back. I was able to get ahead because I always paid my debts.”

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Postcard from the past Howard Mains told it like it is May 22 when he addressed the second-last graduation ceremony to be held at Kemptville College, placed on the chopping block 14 months ago by the University of Guelph.

Basically, said the 1980 Kemptville grad, if he can make it in the world of agriculture, so can they. He didn’t become co-president of Tactix, an Ottawa government relations and public affairs company, the easy way.

From a farming background, the grad guest speaker quit high-school twice. He was admitted to Kemptville College after finally earning a Grade 12 certificate. He went on to get a BSc from Cornell University and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

“In a nutshell, that’s my story,” he told some 90 graduates and their families assembled for the occasion. “A high school drop-out who graduated from an Ivy League university… with full credit to the foundation of knowledge and learning acquired here on this campus.”

He acknowledged his “immense challenge” of imparting some wisdom “you’ll remember tomorrow after you wake up from a long night of celebration.”

But Mains proved up to the challenge. And he brought a prop to help him make his points… a postcard from the past which he distributed in the graduation programs. In so doing, he reached back 75 years to deliver messages for today.

On one side of the card, there’s a shot of the allmale 1940 graduating group including Mains’ father.

On the flip side, there are three pertinent messages about the value of scientific knowledge, of being highly competitive, and of being well informed. They were presented to the Class of 1940 by then Minister of Agriculture Patrick Dewan.

Back when the words were first addressed, the young men in the photo were about to enter an uncertain world and produce food for a nation and its allies then at war. Yes, it’s a different world but not without its challenges.

“They faced their challenges,” Main noted. “How will you face yours?”

“The competition agriculture faces today is a battle for political understanding and support. Rural communities and agriculture have lost their political base to the competition of well-organized, well-funded urban interests.”

Referring to the Dewan mantra, Mains issued three calls to action to students: “Be an active and engaged member of your community. You’ll be surprised how much you’ll learn. Become the next generation of leaders with the objective of gaining broader community support.” And… “Continue to learn and gain knowledge and understanding in your chosen field. Embrace life-long learning.”

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by Tom VanDusen Be guided by the postcard, Mains concluded: “I invite you, the next time you find the postcard in your hands, whether that’s tomorrow morning taking it from your jacket pocket or years from now taking it from an old drawer, to consider the choices you have before you.”

He invited graduates to cast away the shadow created by the trials and tribulations of the past year to celebrate their achievements while savouring the day.

Mains left the gathering with a final message of hope for the future of the campus as a place of learning in spite of it being jettisoned by U of G. He told the assembly he has no doubt the college’s new direction will be as the Kemptville Centre for Rural Advancement as promoted by the Municipality of North Grenville which has taken charge of the offloaded institution.

“I’m confident we’ll gather here again in 2017 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Kemptville Agricultural School,” the guest speaker said, turning once again to Dewan’s words of 75 years ago: “I trust that present and former students will go forward as missionaries for the school, demonstrating to others the value of its classes and services generally.”

Originally, this was to have been the final graduation at Kemptville. However, the extension of some trade courses resulted in 60 additional students headed for graduation in the spring of 2016.

Interim Kemptville director Pat Remillard has pledge that the last students won’t be short-changed, that they deserve and will receive the full-court graduation treatment.

The 2015 graduation began with a lunch for key alumni, community leaders and other special guests and ended with a reception. The occasion was bittersweet for Kemptville College Foundation president Mac Johnston and wife Sue who met while attending the college and eloped in 1969 after both had graduated.

“It was a good ceremony but it was also sad because it was the last full graduation,” Sue Johnston said. Her husband said it was apparent that, over the past year, everyone had come to grips with the smaller student body.

“Students came to feel, with special extra-curricular events, the administration had made it a successful year.”

Small consolation if Mains hopes aren’t realized and Kemptville College or some reasonable facsimile reaches its 100th in spirit only.

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Receiving, processing bulk milk no more at Cochrane’s Cochrane’s Dairy, a staple of the small community of Russell, Ont., since 1930, recently halted production and have now become a retail store for other companies’ products.

In left photo, Kevin Cochrane stands on the bottling line in 2013.

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The site now operates as a retail-only store carrying a competing milk label which they also deliver.

Since founder Floyd Cochrane passed away in 2013, sons Barry and Kevin have considered the change. “We were doing it for him and he was doing it for us,” said Kevin Cochrane. He also men-

tioned the health effects of walking on the cement floor for years.

Reasons for ceasing production include the tough competition. “Shoppers Drug Mart, Canadian Tire and Walmart are selling bags of milk for less than our own costs,” Kevin said.

“It’s too hard to compete in the current market.” The stores use this tactic as a loss leader to bring customers into the store.

Another major consideration was the cost of electricity. “The cost of hydro is ridiculous now and it’s going to get worse. Not too many little guys can exist anymore.”

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ter and resumed in the spring of 2014. The main builder of the 340-by-100foot structure was Sylvain Cheff Construction of Bourget Ont., who completed the barn last November.

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more cows to be added to the milking. Calves up to six months of age are hutched in the old barn and can be moved into the new barn if necessary, along with dry cows and heifers.

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Embracing the robotic future at Lachlan Glen Farms

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On June 27, Lachlan Farms, located at 20142 Fallow Field Road near Williamstown, Ont., will be opening their doors and welcoming visitors to their recently completed freestall barn featuring the Lely robotic milking system.

Lachlan Farms is run by brothers Donald and Andrew MacLachlan with father Lyall, who is a 2015 inductee into the Glengarry Agricultural Wall of Fame, providing a lifetime of dairy experience and education to his sons.

This family farm has recently completed a large project — building a We Cover free-stall barn measuring 75 feet wide and 218 feet long and utilizing the Lely robotic milking system. This was the result of many hours of research, which included investigating the options available and visiting “a lot of farms and talking to farmers.”

According to Donald MacLachlan, the newly completed three-row freestall barn has space for 95 stalls (currently there are 45 cows being milked), and special locations for dry cows, those about to fresh-

From left, Andrew, Lyall and Don MacLachlan are pictured inside the new barn with a few members of their commercial grade herd that moved into their new home on March 31 of this year.

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en or requiring special treatment. For manure removal, there are two alley scrapers (one in each alley) that slowly remove the manure completing a cycle every three hours. Not far from the new barn are a number of calf hutches and a five- to six-year-old heifer barn, with the “old barn” currently vacant while a decision on its next role is investigated.

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into the free-stall barn from the more traditional tie stall on March 31 of this year, the MacLachlans have noted that the cows seem to be more content and are producing up to 20 percent more milk, something Andrew attributes in part to the pleasant environment the cows now inhabit in the new building. An advantage of the free-stall style of barn, in Donald’s view, is that the cows are free to

walk throughout their area which enables them to get the exercise they require inside the barn, as opposed to being located in one stall.

He also noted that it has been decided not to pasture them this summer, but rather have them stay in the temperature-controlled barn during the entire year.

(Lyall mentioned that in the old barn milk production was negatively affected by

the heat.) It is felt that this should result in milk production being more stable, increased efficiency and animal contentment.

With animal comfort and contentment at the core of any farming operation, it was interesting to note that Lachlan Farms has installed a specialized brush to increase bovine comfort by easing “itching” and helping to clean the cows. The brush is located in its own stall and when the cow walks underneath the brush pressure is exerted on the wheels, which in turn initiates them turning and gently “scratching” the animal.

Lyall mentioned that this brush was running almost constantly during the first few days in the barn, an indication of the enjoyment it provided the animals.

At Lachlan Farms. there is great attention paid to the feed program, which utilizes a Total Mixed Ration, 50 percent corn silage and 50 percent balage (wrapped wet hay which ferments).

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The local International Plowing Match Committee will receive $50,000 to purchase advertising and marketing opportunities to visitors from across Ontario, Quebec, and northern New York, while the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SD&G) will receive $50,000 to showcase the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assets and local communities during the major tourism event.

The 2015 International Plowing Match & Rural Expo takes place in Finch, Sept. 22-26. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 visitors are expected to attend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the unique

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opportunity to host an International Plowing Match & Rural Expo in SD&G is a huge event and a real chance to bring people to our community and showcase what we are all about. I am proud to see the federal government and the local CFDC make sure that the resources are there to put the United Counties of SD&G and City of Cornwall on the map this

fall,â&#x20AC;? said Lauzon at the presentation last month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has never been a bigger opportunity than this International Plowing Match & Rural Expo to have tens of thousands of visitors come to SD&G, many of them for the first time. These EODP funds will make sure we are able to promote the event across Ontario, Quebec, and even northern New York in dif-

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Stormont DunDaS GlEnGarry 2015 intErnational plowinG match anD rural Expo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Better than two thirds of IPM visitors will travel more than 40 kilometers to the IPM,â&#x20AC;? says Jennifer Waldroff, IPM Exhibit volunteer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tented City offers businesses, organizations, service providers, artists and artisans in SDG an opportunity to reach a vast number of potential clients from outside the region.â&#x20AC;? Â Â June 15 is the early-bird deadline.

Covering hundreds of acres with an estimated 600 vendors and exhibitors the Tented City will showcase agri-technology, agri-food and the rural lifestyle of SDG. Local exhibitors can

book space at one of North Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest outdoor exhibitions by contacting Jennifer Waldroff by email at jwaldroff@xplornet.com The IPM will take place north of Finch, Sept. 22-26,

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Exhibitor information, downloadable exhibitor handbook and quilt/ artisan exhibitor handbook can be found at www.plowingmatch.org/exhibitors-2015.

ferent forms to draw visitors to our region this September,â&#x20AC;? Jim Brownell, chair of the coming IPM, said during the announcement inside the IPM souvenir store in Finch.

With this latest contribution, the event has now garnered about $500,000 in monetary and in-kind support from all levels of government.

An equivalent amount has also been raised through private sponsorship, he said, noting there are still plenty of opportunities for businesses and individuals to donate and become sponsors acknowledged at the IPMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;sponsorship park.â&#x20AC;? Soliciting for sponsors will continue until July 1.

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Local schools and daycares are invited to participate in the Scarecrow competition and can register at www.plowingmatch.org.

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Lachlan Continued from page 7 wrapped in bags for storage, as opposed to the more traditional method of silo storage, making note of the absence of silos on the farm.

A cornerstone in any dairy operation is the method used for milking the cows. The Lely robotic milking system was chosen by the MacLachlans for a variety of reasons, including its use by a number of area farms and a reputation of good customer service.

Like many of the other robotic milking systems on the market, Lely utilizes a system that has each cow wearing an identifying collar that contains information on the animal. The farmer can be alerted by phone to any issues in the barn and Donald mentioned that there was a smart phone app available for the system.

The cow can decide when to enter the milking area but the machine determines whether it is time for the cow to be milked. If not enough time has elapsed since the last milking (they are usually milked three times a day), the gate opens and the cow leaves the area. If it is time for the cow to be milked, the udder is washed, teat cups automatically attached and four to five minutes later (while the cow has enjoyed eating food pellets) the procedure is over and the cow leaves.

The era of traditional, labour-intensive methods in dairy farming seems to be drawing to a close and Donald suggests that the recent innovations such as free-stall barns and robotic milking systems that increase flexibility in farming might help get the younger people to stay in the industry.

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The AgriNews June, 2015 Page 11 Winemaker and cheesemaker Glenn Symons, of Lighthall Vineyards and Dairy, stirs a batch of Brie de Milford cheese in his working kitchen.

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Kolesnikovs, to create the national showcase.

“I’m proud,” Kolesnikovs concedes of his brainchild festival’s five-year anniversary.

“It’s the biggest cheese show in Canada in terms of exhibitors, products and attendance.”

He expects 5,000 people at the spacious festival village the weekend of June 67, where they can buy about 150 different cheeses made by producers from British Columbia to Nova

Scotia. The event is sponsored in part by the Dairy Farmers of Canada.

Lighthall Vineyards & Diary is one of 125 exhibitors expected at this year’s festival, held annually at Picton’s fairgrounds and the historic Crystal Palace.

St. Albert Cheese Cooperative will mark the festival’s opening by giving free curd to the first 1,000 guests to arrive on Saturday. The co-operative has a new and expanded

cheese plant in full operation following the devastating fire two years ago. The co-op is also celebrating a champion win for its extra old cheddar at the 2015 National Canadian Grand Prix, which is also sponsored by the Diary Farmers.

The first 1,000 guests to arrive the following day will find themselves eating a free grilled cheese sample made with products from Stonemill Bakehouse, Stirling Creamery and Cheddar & Ale Trail cheese

producers.

Whereas similar festivals emphasize age-ofmajority products, the Cheese Festival founder encourages families to attend.

“We have the water buffalo on site, which the kids can sit on to have their picture taken,” says Kolesnikovs of the familyfriendly Cheese Dairy Farm, featuring live animals.

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of which are now being practised by her and her partner, Glenn Symons, of Lighthall Vineyards & Dairy in Prince Edward County.

This batch, being made for an audience gathered to preview this year’s Great Canadian Cheese Festival, will become what they call Brie de Milford, named for the hamlet near their home.

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Cheese Festival Continued from page 11 Anyone age 15 and younger is admitted to the festival free when accompanied by an adult.

General admission includes countless free tastings (tasting tickets are also available for sale), a souvenir tote bag, a glass for sampling beverages and

access to on-site seminars, the Cheese Dairy Farm, the food court and free parking.

Tickets for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival are available at the event, but guests are enticed to save money and time by purchasing admission in advance online at www.cheesefestival.ca. A promotional code, CF15FIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; entered at the time of online purchase â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will apply an advance discount.

Cheese maker Eugene Kyer is seen here inside the Union Cheese Factory at Upper Canada Village.

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Cochraneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Continued from page 5 Cochraneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dairy has been in operation since the 1930s and was founded by Floydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, Elwood and Irene Cochrane. Ancestor John Cochrane was one of the first settlers in the Russell area.

Also looming over the business is the possible financial hit it faces after being convicted in February on provincial charges of discharging some factory wash-water into the Castor River â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a decades-long practice that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a problem before.

The firm now awaits the size of penalty that may be imposed, with sentencing submissions originally set to begin this month.

Cochraneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industry pullout has also created waves for more than just the consumers who supported its niche brand; the end of milk processing in Russell has dried up the historic cheese factory at Upper Canada Village in

cles the rise and fall of local cheesemaking.

According to Rutley, the introduction of the cheese factory concept introduced in the 1860s and support of the various dairymenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s associations were important factors in the success of the cheese industry in Ontario.

Many of the buildings where farmers visited while unloading the heavy cans of milk have disappeared from view, but the Union Cheese Factory at Upper Canada Village, near Morrisburg, still provides Continued on page 13 Morrisburg as well.

Upper Canada Village Impact Cochraneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dairy had stepped in to supply milk to the tourist attraction last season, after the previous supplier, St-Albert Cheese, was knocked offline by its devastating fire the previous winter.

Village manager Geoff Waycik said he was optimistic about finding another source of milk to restart the vintage factory at the provincially owned park this season yet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on setting up an alternative supplier,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working very closely with some partners.â&#x20AC;?

Waycik said the Village is drawing from existing cheese stocks to sell at its gift shop, as it would normally do at this early point in the tourism season.

It takes 60 days of curing before the current seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheddar production at Upper Canada Village becomes available for sale, he pointed out.

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Cheesemaking in the past Continued from page 12 the opportunity to watch and learn as cheese is made using the historical techniques of yesterday.

The vintage facility at the tourist attraction opened in 1964 with Wilbur Kyer as first master cheesemaker, having previously run a cheese factory in Dunbar.

In the mid 1990s, Upper Canada Village closed its cheese factory but finally re-opened the place in 2000 — with Kyer’s greatnephew, Eugene — who studied cheesemaking at the University of Guelph at Kemptville — hired as the cheesemaker.

Eugene Kyer recounted that, in 1866 — the key year portrayed by the Village — the cheesemaking season lasted from May to October, as cows freshened in the spring, produced milk through the summer and then were dried up for the winter months. Kyer described

The AgriNews June, 2015 Page 13 how a young man could be apprenticed at age 14, receiving 50 cents a day for 12 hours of work. After four seasons, he would become a cheesemaker earning two cents per pound of cheese.

Inside Union Cheese Factory are two large milk vats. The original vat was lined with tin and had lead soldering in the sides and corners, while the one currently used for cheesemaking meets today’s production standards which include it being lined with stainless steel. The vat holds 900 pounds of whole milk that is heated by a wood fire and stirred by hand. Rennet (made from the stomach lining of a baby spring calf and that will solidify the milk) is added during the process as is salt and colouring.

Kyer described how the 900 lbs of whole milk would make 90 pounds of cheese, with one of the byproducts of cheesemaking being liquid whey, which farmers would use to feed their pigs.

Today, they use pasteurized milk from a licensed dairy establishment to make cheese at Upper Canada

Village, not raw milk from the 1860’s-style farm on site. According to Kyer, the Dairy Farmers of Ontario looks after the quota requirements for the Village.

However, no cheese is currently being produced in the Union Cheese Factory as the St. Lawrence Parks Commission searches for a new source of milk to replace previous supplier Cochrane’s Dairy. (The Russell firm has opted to bow out of the milk processing industry after more than 70 years). However, “Village” brand cheese remains available for purchase on site in the gift store, and the vintage cheese factory remains open for visitors to check out at the provincial tourist attraction.

While the small local cheese factories have all but disappeared from the countryside, they played an important role in the development of the dairy industry in Ontario. Cheese provided the farmer with a way to preserve milk as an exportable product, leading to an increased interest in herd management and development.

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Programs and Services

Growing Forward 2: What's New!

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rowing Forward 2 (GF2) offers cost-share funding assistance, free workshops and training for Ontario producers, processors, organizations and collabora-

tions.

What's New for GF2?

This year we’ve made it easier for clients to put together a good project application by making the following changes to the program: • Priorities are clearly identified in the program guides • All projects will be assessed on merit • Cost-share funding will be capped depending on the project category • Some project categories have prerequisites as a required condition before clients can apply • Approval of your project is needed before costs can be incurred and paid.

New Dates for GF2 GF2 cost-share funding assistance application intakes for producers and processors are: August 10 to August 27, 2015 November 16 to December 3, 2015 For more information visit www.ontario.ca/growingforward2 .

Local Food Week is Coming!

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ntario’s second annual Local Food Week is June 17, 2015! It’s our opportunity to celebrate the amazing food and beverages made, grown or harvested right here in Ontario.

There are already so many great things that individuals and organizations do every day to celebrate local food and beverages. The goal of Local Food Week is to share these ideas with each other and inspire even more celebrations.

Here are some quick tips on how YOU can participate in this year’s Local Food Week celebrations June 1-7 and all year long: Social media: Include #loveONTfood in all your tweets, Instagrams, Facebook posts, and other social media sharing; Join the Twitter party on June 3 at 8:00 p.m.

Websites & ads: If you have a website, blog or advertising options, visit www.loveONTfood.ca to download and include a local food celebration button so your readers can easily find everything they need to know about Local Food.

Barbecues & dinners: Host a local food celebration barbecue encouraging others to do the same, all the while enjoying delicious Ontario food, wine and beer.

Signs & posters: Do you or anyone you know have a road sign or counter space to display a local food week sign? Proudly tell those driving by or visiting to “Celebrate local food! www.loveONTfood.ca” by including the website or hashtag.

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Talk to food partners: Speak with your favourite local restaurant, market, butcher or grocery store and encourage them to join the local food celebration.

Talk with friends & family: Let your book club, school group, friends and family know it’s Local Food Week and share loveONTfood.ca with them in person, by email, Facebook or text.

Spread the word: Pass this tip sheet on to others you know who are passionate about local food.

Your ideas here...think creative and fun: Share what you did or plan to do to celebrate local food with us too by email at info@farmfoodcare.org or tweeting it including #loveONTFood

What you’ll find at www.loveONTfood.ca: • Downloadable local food celebration graphics for your use to help spread the news and to show your support • Links to fantastic farm sites, information, Q & As, and more • Links to great recipes, Ontario food buying tips, resources, and more • A link to RSVP & join the #loveONTfood Twitter party on Wednesday, June 3 • A listing of Local Food Week #loveONTfood events around the province • A Local Food Week photo gallery.

Food Safety Consultation with Small Businesses

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re you a small business in the food industry? If so, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) wants to hear from you!

Once in force, the Safe Food for Canadians Act will strengthen food safety rules. This new law will focus on prevention and your ability to quickly respond to food safety issues when they arise.

The CFIA is holding a targeted consultation to better understand your food safety challenges and to seek feedback on options that could reduce burden on your business.

Key food safety elements To improve the approach to food safety in Canada, we’re considering enhancements based on three key features of international food safety systems: 1. The identification of food businesses – to know who is involved in preparing and importing food and what they are producing or bringing into the country, and communicate directly with these businesses to share important information; 2. The ability to trace a food product’s path one step forward and one step back – to reduce the time it takes to remove unsafe products from the market; 3. Preventive food safety controls – to ensure all businesses preparing or importing food understand and control the potential hazards associated with their products and processes.

Get involved For the purpose of this consultation, small businesses are defined as those that generate $100,000 or less in annual food gross sales.

If you’re a small business in the food industry, visit inspection.gc.ca/safefood

Don’t miss out. Have your say before June 30, 2015!

Stay informed Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and like us on Facebook.

Sign up to our Listserv at http://inspection.gc.ca/english/util/listserv/listdsube.shtml

Technical Updates

Never Cry Wolf - Protect your herd from predators!

Barry Potter Agriculture Development Advisor, OMAFRA

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n Ontario, many livestock operations include extensive pastures which feature ravines, scrub land and woodlots. These situations are likely to be attractive to predators such as wolves, coyotes and bears.

Minimize Risk With Management • Use easy calving bulls. Difficult calvings weaken cows, and big newborns can be slower getting going, increasing predation risk.

• Take advantage of increased calf vigour and cow maternality through planned crossbreeding.

• Check cows regularly. Intervene when necessary.

• Have a defined breeding season. Calving seasons that drag on often see cow checks become less regular, leaving tail-enders at higher risk.

• Keep pregnant cows and young calves out of bush pastures. Bush = cover for predators.

• Maintain fences. This keeps young calves from wandering outside of the calving area.

• Use high-powered electric fences to discourage predators from entering the pasture.

• Protect your livestock with animal guardians. Llamas, donkeys, and guard dogs can effectively discourage predators.

• Select cows with high ‘mothering ability’. They will defend their calves against attack.

Know The Enemy Wolves primarily attack young calves, although they can prey on cattle. In a study of wolf kills conducted in Alberta (from 1980-1987), calves made up about 70% of the cattle identified as being killed by wolves. Wolf kills occur most often from July to September, when calves are in the 4- to-7 month-old range. The young wolf pups are being trained to hunt at this time, and domestic livestock represent ideal teaching aids. Wolf attacks focus on the hindquarters, including the tail, thigh, and rectal areas.

They may also attack the face, front legs, flank and upper shoulders.

Coyotes tend to attack young calves. The Alberta study showed that calves one month old or less make up about 80% of all cattle kills by coyotes. One third of the calves were less than one day old when killed. Coyotes attack the flank of the newborn calf. They rip open the abdomen and devour internal organs. Coyotes may also leave bite marks on the top of the calf’s back.

Black bears tend to select calves under six months to kill. They will also kill yearlings and adults. Bears bite and claw the top of the neck and back of cattle. They often wound their prey, leaving claw marks along the shoulder and back, and tooth marks on the back and neck Ravens like to rake hair out of livestock in the spring to build their nests. They will also attack newborn calves, plucking their eyes out, before beginning to eat them.

Constant vigilance is necessary. If prevention fails, remove offending predators by lethal means. Provide protection for the herd by using solid management practices and disposing of deadstock and afterbirth prudently.

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by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer MBRUNâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; WoRld-faMoUs HolstEiN GillEttE EMpERoR sMURf (Ex-91-2E), fRoM EMBRUN daiRy faRM la fERME GillEttE, Was pUt doWN May 18, aftER a loNG aNd REMaRkaBlE 18 yEaRs. Smurf was recognized in 2012 for having produced more milk than any other cow in the world â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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When Smurf broke the milk production record, her owners, the Patenaude family, decided she would end her days out to pasture.

Last year, after 11 lactations, she was retired.

Smurf was bred on La Ferme Gillette, which has an extensive genetics program and has produced many superior (rated Very Good or Excellent) cows, including Gillette Blitz Second Wind and many famous bulls.

Smurfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classification changed from VG to EX late in her life, and she produced almost 250,000 kg of milk with fat content of 3.6 per cent, and protein content of 3.1 per cent.

Editorial: Words to live by Continued from page 4 And there was this sage advice: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh yes, when you decide to marry, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to change them. If anything, they will get worse, maybe you will tooâ&#x20AC;Ś though I hope not.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take them for who they are. Be good to who you marry. You will go through a

lot together over the years and it will be easier if you have a happy husband or wife with you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A grandfather could not be more proud of his family than I am of mine. Be good to your parentsâ&#x20AC;Śthey are still my fine kids you know.â&#x20AC;?

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couting is always the best method to determine if fields are actually at risk.

Spring time assessments help determine what impact winter and early spring conditions have had on the early season pests. Harsh winters can have a large impact on bean leaf beetles for example, while grubs are well protected from extreme temperature fluctuations by hibernating below the frost line. Spring scouting is also the best time to monitor for those pests that overwinter in the U.S. and migrate here in early spring (eg. black cutworm). Scouting prior to planting informs growers of field conditions that have increased their risk to pests. Some additional cultural control measures could be implemented or decisions made as to where to best target the insecticide seed treatments.

Fields found to be at low risk of the major soil insect pests can targeted for planting fungicide-only treated seed in and experience little to no crop loss due to these insects.

The Guide to Early Season Field Crop Pests provides additional information on how to scout for other soil insects.

To learn more about how to use baits to find wireworm populations and how to dig and assess for grubs and some of the key root feeding pests refer to OMAFRAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s webpage â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scouting for Soil Insect Pests in Field Cropsâ&#x20AC;?

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Participating communities included Northumberland County, City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox and Addington and Frontenac Counties as well as the Cities of Quinte West and Belleville, and community partner, East Central Ontario Training Board.

The foundation of the project was based on BR+E principles. BR+E is a community-based, volunteer-driven economic development program designed to encourage growth and stability of local businesses. BR+E works to improve the competitiveness of local businesses by evaluating and addressing their broader needs and concerns. The philosophy of BR+E is that existing businesses are the core of a communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic prosperity.

The project, though complete, presents a new beginning rather than an end, in that the project identified seven overarching recommendations to guide regional economic development efforts to support the local food sector over the next few years. These recommendations included finding ways to support labour force development, investment attraction, clarifying regulatory processes, and strengthening overall collaboration throughout the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The project highlighted the importance of collaboration, networking and sharing information. It presented an opportunity for partners to work together to develop and deliver best practices, and to work with local food businesses to create new partnerships and networks,â&#x20AC;? said Trissia McAllistar, project lead, Northumberland County.

One of the most significant outcomes of this regional local food BR+E project was the creation of the Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre (OAFVC), located in Northumberland County. The OAFVC is a 15,000 sq. ft. local food business incubator with a unique and innovative model that will strengthen the local food economy in east central Ontario by providing producers with the opportunity to add value to their products and expand secondary source income opportunities.

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ORNWALL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FARms WeRe smALLeR, the INteRNAtIONAL PLOWINg mAtCh WAs smALLeR, but It WAs A ReALLy bIg deAL WheN stORmONt duNdAs gLeNgARRy hOsted the 1936 IPm. Garfield MacLennan was 11 years old when the first IPM was held in Eastern Ontario. The tented city and most of the plowing at that historic match were on his grandfather D.L. MacLennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farm on South Branch Road north

of Cornwall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His name was Donald but everyone knew him as D.L.â&#x20AC;?    Being only a boy, some memories are more vivid than others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the horses,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember looking out and seeing the horses plowing.â&#x20AC;? He recalls seeing very few teams hauled in by truck and reckons many would have been driven to the match. The plowing alternated, he says, plowing a grain field one day, then working a sod field the next.

He still has a fondness for the animals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always had 10 to 14 horses around before we had tractors,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And my father always had a driving horse.â&#x20AC;? Mostly Clydesdales for working, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not entirely sure why the MacLennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chose those heavy horses over the equally popular Percheron. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just something to argue with the neighbours over,â&#x20AC;? he suggests in jest. Equally animated discussions could be Continued on page 19

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2015 IPM & Rural Expo-ites meet Harper

The Stormont-DundasSouth Glengarry Conservative Association landed Laureen Harper as keynote speaker at its annual spring dinner in Chesterville, where she met with a number of volunteers involved with this fall’s SDG International Plowing Match, including Kenda tePlate (right) and Lianne Acres-Hanna, who wears the signature burnt orange colour of this year’s IPM. Local MP Guy Lauzon also poses. Last time Stormont County hosted the IPM, in 1958, it drew Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and organizers of this year’s edition hope that Mrs. Harper’s husband might visit this September, too.

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IPM 1936 Continued from page 18 had over dairy cattle. D.L milked Ayrshires. “It was my father who switched over to Holsteins.”

“When you were a kid back then you didn’t get too far from where you lived,” he says. Having thousands of visitors arrive in the old Cornwall Township was a monumental event. He also recollects how excited the adults were leading up to the 1936 match.

Because he was in school at the time he spent only two days at the match. One day watching the horse plowing competitions and one day looking around the tented city where vendors and equipment dealers displayed all manner of goods. “Water

pumps, farm implements, anything of interest to farmers,” he says. He remembers a demonstration area near the tented city where mules were plowing and where he saw tractor plowing for the first time. “That was my first exposure to tractors.”

The IPM legacy, the lasting economic impact for the host county, varies from year to year, but for D.L. and the other farmers on the South Branch, it was significant. “My grandfather got electricity on his farm because of that plowing match,” he says. Electricity wasn’t available outside the city, but in preparation of the 1936 match it was brought out. It wasn’t too long after the match that the neighbouring farmers got power as well, he says.

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than 1,000 acres took place on 100-acre strips of land from one corner of the concession road to the next. He lived just down the road a bit on the 100 acres his father Allan farmed.

By the time the IPM returned to Stormont County in 1958, farming had changed considerably. The rubber-tired tractor had, for the most part, replaced the horse for field work. Shortly before that match, held near Crysler, Garfield, his brother Donald and father Allan decided to go into the farm machinery business. “Most of the International equipment (displayed/demonstrated) back in Crysler ended up at our place after that match,” he says of their decision to establish an International Harvester dealership.

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By the time Garfield stopped milking cows in 1985, the MacLennan farm was 400 acres, plus a couple hundred acres of rented land. He still owns 180 acres and remains on D.L.’s parcel which overlooks the site of the 1936 tented city and plowing fields.

It would be more than a decade after that first match in 1936, with the Second World War behind them, that Garfield would attend another IPM. No matches were held between 1942 and 1945 due to war time restrictions. But he’s been to just about every one since.

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Mark Comfort, Nick Thurler and family purchased Chantalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dam, Aija

Supersire Makea, at the Sale of Stars in 2013 for $40,000 and bred her to Larcrest Commander.

Makea was also developed locally, by Aime Jaquemet of Winchester. The Thurlers are very pleased that

Makeaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calf, Chantal, is the top-ranked heifer worldwide and she is Dundas County bred.

Makea is a very successful producer of embryos and currently five of Makeaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons owned by them are destined to three AI centres in North America. Makeaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Mabel is ranked number

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30 peR Cent peR ACRe. Always on the lookout for ways to improve their business models and designs, Josh Biemond ventured to Australia three and a half years ago, checking out various farms and farming models. During his onemonth stay, he noticed the unique pasturing systems that nearly every farmer had adopted. Sectioning off smaller areas of pastureland, Australian farmers discovered a systematic way of controlling their herds’ eating habits, without bringing them into the barn, by only allowing them to graze on one small area at a time.

Moving fences two to three times a day guides the livestock to the freshest new patch of grass, ensuring even foraging and complete regrowth of pasture, as well as naturally fertilizing the land with already distributed manure, thereby guaranteeing maximum nutritious value for the animals.

Josh learned that conventional pasturing gives cattle no consistency in which grasses to feed on, and as a result, most grasses end up being grazed too short. With a smaller number of pastures in which cows can graze, most conventional systems leave cattle to graze in the same large patch for a week, draining the meadows of nourishment, and leaving too little time before returning cattle to the same pastureland for the grasses to

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fully regrow and regain nutrients.

He was also taught that when meadows remain short over long periods of time with little amounts of variety, it has little to do with what the farmer is introducing into the fields, but is rather an indication of management. The Biemond brothers have found that over the last three years since they have adopted this pasturing technique, varieties of grasses are appearing on their own, merely for the fact that it has the time to grow before it gets foraged again.

Upon Josh’s return to Canada, the brothers swiftly commenced dividing up their pastureland into 1-1½ acres, first using temporary posts, to mimic the Australian model. Manually taking down the posts to allow the cows to transfer from one pasture to the next, the brothers started out by moving their herd to a new patch of grass twice a day, placing water every 250m for short access. Last year, however, the system increased their milk yield even more when the brothers installed tumblewheels.

More commonly known as “rolling fences,” tumblewheels have six metal prongs protruding in a wheel formation, allowing farmers to stay on one side of the fence and manually roll the fence along the ground to move it with minimal effort, while two prongs continuously hold the fencing wire above ground. When the tumblewheel fencing has been moved to its desired location, farmers wait for cattle to move to the new feeding area, and raise the wired fencing into place on the opposite side to cut them off from the pasture they have just finished foraging.

With this system in place, Josh and Rudi are able to maintain their pastures with only one exterior electric fence, and maintain the remaining interior fences with no power at all.

They have also replaced all wooden posts with smaller metal ones, which allow Continued on page 24

Rudi Biemond demonstrates how to roll the fences to the next post, using tumblewheels, unveiling fresh grasses for his cows to forage every day.

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Amazing grazing — the cows at the Biemond family’s NewCare Farms keep back of the fencing that is easily moved by the owners each day for efficient and effective harvest of the pasture.

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Pasture Continued from page 23 them to simply move the fencing down to the ground, or back up again to keep cattle in, eliminating the need to move the posts entirely. This means that aside from the outside fence, the Biemonds have no posts to maintain, which is saving them roughly $2,000/year on pasture maintenance alone!

More importantly, because their 60 acres of pastureland is divided so efficiently, cows are now able to be moved to a new feeding area three times a day, and not return to the same patch of grass for 30 days or longer, ensuring time for complete regrowth and added nutrition before the cattle return to forage.

This is important, as the milk yield increases with the pasture’s nutritional value.

This methodic management has stretched the amount of time the livestock can graze in the pasture over the summer as well. Where in the past, cattle would be out to graze in May, come July they would start to head back to the barn to be supplemented because of the decrease in nourishment.

With the rotating pasture fences, cows are grazing full time from May 1 until October 1, with no supplementing needed. This helps in allowing the Biemond’s 50 cows to remain 95 per cent grass-fed, and decreases the amount of haylage the brothers need to grow and provide to half of what they needed before. It also cuts costs on fuel and energy to move the herds to the barn, and the machinery to move the feed to the animals while there.

The cows have already become used to the system as well, running to the fresher grass at every rotation. “The cows are happier,

they’re cleaner, and they love it!” Rudi muses.

Still, there are presently only three or four famers in Ontario who use the tumblewheel system, according to the Biemonds, though the fencing is easily available.

“We have to special request it, but they can order it in,” explains Josh. He and his brother ordered their fences locally, and Gallagher Fencing shipped the materials straight to Brinston. “[The system] would be perfect for beef farmers!”

Rudi explains, since it requires little effort, and nutritionally, it surpasses any other organic grassfeeding system for livestock. “It’s all about the management,” adds Josh, “the more often [you move the fences], the better for the cows. It could work for 10 cows or 1,000.” The Biemonds themselves are already on their second cut of the year.

Rotary parlour Pasturing has done the brothers well, and they plan on sticking with the system as a pivotal part of their operation, even as they undertake a major upgrade inside the barn. They don’t view conventional milking parlours and robotic milking as viable options because both take too much time away from grazing — if animals on farms so equipped spend any time outside at all.

So they’re again following the lead of farmers Down Under, who have been deploying external rotary parlours. Ordered from an Australian manufacturer, their new 24-cow rotary unit allows for one cow to be milked from behind, at a time, while 23 others already wait in their stalls.

Powered by two variable speed motors, it can be programmed to complete one rotation every eight minutes. This allows the farmer to stay in the same location while the cows rotate

around him/her. With the one-cow entry, and threecow exit, the rotary is so fast and efficient, it is

designed to milk 200 cows in an hour, which means the brothers’ herd of 50 cows should be finished milking

in a matter of 15 minutes.

When Josh and Rudi realized that their previous parlour needed to be replaced, they underwent looking for options, and came to the conclusion that building a rotary model by hand would come to roughly the same price as robotic milkers or a brand new parlour, especially since they were able to purchase many of the milking units and equipment used from fellow farmers who were switching to robots.

When the platform arrived in November of last year from Australia, the brothers were able to purchase used milking units and equipment to build the new rotary parlour for roughly $1,000 per stall.

With fewer farmers continuing with conventional par-

lours, parts are available for low prices. Comparably, in Australia, where robotic milking systems are uncommon and nearly all farmers use rotary or conventional parlours, they pay up to $3,000/stall for brand new milking units.

Still under construction, the brothers hope to have the parlour completed and in use by the end of July, depending on how the workload is on other areas of the farm. However, once completed, the design would make it easy to expand operations once organic quota becomes more readily available. In the meantime, the parlour will simply act as a timesaving device, allowing Josh and Rudi to spend more time with their yogurt factory and crops.

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Rudi Biemond (left) and brother Josh stand in front of their new rotary parlour, which will enable them to milk all 50 of their cows in as little as 15 minutes. See story on opposite page.

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The collectors are currently busy preparing the 25 acres at the festival site which will be harvested by over 65 threshing machines all running at the same time.

Judges from the Guinness Book of World Records will be there to ratify the record, which is currently for 41 threshing machines in Saskatchewan.

Francois Latour and other organizers are looking forward to seeing the Guinness

flag rise at the site once the goal has been achieved.

Committee member Garry Wilson of Lunenberg, who builds scale farm equipment models, was promoting the upcoming attempt during the Heritage Power show at the Cumberland Heritage Museum on Sun., May 24.

He has been advertising the once-in-a-lifetime event at fairs and farm shows across the area.

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www.agrinews.ca Dairy Farming, geared to the Grade 4 curriculum, compares modern day dairy practices with those of pioneer and medieval times; Dairy Goodness, one of the most popular presentations, which covers the nutrition aspect of dairy products; Careers in the Dairy Industry; Processing, which discusses the journey milk takes from the cow to the store; and Technology in the Dairy

Industry, geared to Grades 5 and 6, which looks at the machinery being used on the farm and the future of technology in farming.

Dairy Educators are equipped with reference materials, information packages for the teachers, and handouts for the students. Teachers choose a topic based on their curriculum and use it to enhance their lessons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first thing I ask when I walk into a class is, what do you already know?

Who has seen a dairy educator before? What did I teach you if it was me? A lot of times they can tell me things theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned, which tells me they were listening,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love it when they get it. I love when, at the end of a class, a kid will come up and hug me and say thank you, because you know they enjoyed it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to miss the kids the most. Kids are fun.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss the teachers too, because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a lot of

friends with them. And the other dairy educators. The programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been running for 20 years and there are some educators that have been doing it for 20 years. We meet twice a year, and you become friends with them.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still see them when I go to the annual meeting as secretary, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different,â&#x20AC;? she said.

One of the more popular props sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used is an inflatable cow, which she often lets the classes name.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely going to miss the kids,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The reason for the change is that, with her youngest daughter finishing high school this month, she decided she wanted to pursue a position that would take up more of her time, although at the moment, she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure what that will entail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no more kids at home, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what made me decide to retire from this. I need something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than just a few days a year. Because really, there are eight schools in Dundas County, so this job isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t every day. And even though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in a school for a day, I have maybe a half a day of prep work before that and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it.â&#x20AC;?

Her retirement is actually opening two Dairy Educator positions, as she has covered Stormont County for the past two years after their previous educator took another position at the beginning of the school year, leaving the Stormont Dairy Farmers scrambling to fill her place. ply as

Johnson will retain her role as secretary of the Dundas County Dairy Producer Committee, which she has held for the past few years. Part of this position involves handling paperwork and orders of promotional materials for the Dairy Educator, so she will be working closely with her replacement. She added that she is grateful for the support sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s received from the Committee during her tenure as Dairy Educator.

Johnson and her husband, Chris, own Donilyn Farms near Chesterville, a dairy and cash crop operation milking approximately 50 cows. They have three daughters: Rebecca, 21; Katherine, 19; and Ashley, 17.

She first applied for the Dairy Educator position in 2003, after about a decade in the restaurant and retail industry and another 12 years as a stay-at-home mother. Growing up near Mountain between two dairy farms and being married to a dairy farmer made her a pretty good candidate, but she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately get the job. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until about a year and a half later, when the position opened up again, that she stepped into the role of teaching the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elementary school children about dairy farming.

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The AgriNews June, 2015 Page 27 This corn field photographed May 26 near Morewood was off to a good start for 2015. See the crop report on pages 28-29.

Dairy educator Leslie Johnson also had the popular job of doling out free ice cream to young and old alike at community events, as in this 2010 file photo.

Educator Continued from page 26 Over the years, the cow has been called everything from Princess Moo to Bob. As much as Johnson has

made an impression on the students sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taught, they have made an impression on her as well. A few stories in particular stand out for her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My favourite one is there was this little girl, and

she was in Grade 1 or 2, and everybody was still coming in, and she puts her hand up. So I said yes, and she said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That just made my day,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was this one little

kid in kindergarten, and for the whole presentation, he stood beside me, put his hand on my knee and babbled to me. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand a word he said, not a clue. And every now and then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look over at the

teacher, but I kept going with the presentation.

Afterwards, the teacher came up to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop him but he never says anything and he was so excited.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That just kind of warms your soul

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Educator Continued from page 27 the kids arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so excited to see the milk lady. At least, not at first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was one time, it was a Grade 7 class, and the kids are walking in and this kid mumbles under his breath, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;milkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad for you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So after everyone is seated and the teacher introduces me, I say to them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;as you guys are walking in, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always listening and there was a young gentleman in this room who said milk is bad for you. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to ask him right now why he thinks that, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all brought up with different perceptions and maybe somebody has told him that or maybe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a bad experience. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to try to prove to you that milk is good for you, so I want to know what you know.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And the kid said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I just said that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say a word for the rest of the class. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid to call them out. A kid like that just wants attention, so okay, the floor is yours.

Sometimes you get into a

classroom where the kid is a farmer and knows it all.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep putting up their hand over and over.

So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say to them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;okay, the next thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about is processing at the plant and homogenization, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to come up and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to tell the class what you know.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That way, they get their five minutes to say what they know and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all proud and we carry on.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the kids who enjoy having her there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have one teacher who invites me every year, and she told me that every time I come in she learns something new,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Of course, kids (and often times, teachers too) have a lot of questions for Johnson at the end of her presentation. Among the most common questions are, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;did you bring us milk?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you bring a real cow in to show us?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and, naturally, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;where do cows go to the bathroom?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The only question she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss answering is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;do brown cows give you chocolate milk?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

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Limited impact from May frost

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only make a difference of about five days in the fall whether you plant the whole field or just patches.

There was also a slight breeze that night and that helped in some areas. The most affected soybeans were the ones planted in a sandy soil, a mucky soil and no-till corn stalk fields because theses soils do not hold the heat from the previous day as well. He also

said that dry soil (and most were dry) also doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold heat so there was a potential for a bigger problem.

But all in all most farmers who planted beans averted any problems and it is business as usual.

Corn Corn crops in Eastern Ontario look to be doing fine and were seeded about 7-10 days sooner than the average year. Most of the

7-10 days ahead

of average.

soybeans Soybean crops were the worst hit by the May frost but only between 2-3% had to be replanted in the Eastern Ontario area. The frost was not an even frost according to Quesnel some parts of the area reported temperatures of -7° C being the lowest while parts didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it to 0° C. The frost seemed to be localized and it affected areas around Williamsburg, Brinston, Prescott, Brockville and the Navan area. Quesnel explained that if you change the beans to a lesser heat unit during replanting it will

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by Nelson Zandbergen AgriNews Staff Writer AXVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; By suMMErtIME, MyLyn FArM

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The owners are working toward that goal by incorporating a flock of 300 dairy goats into the operation, complete with separate parlour, milkhouse and a fabric-covered addition for goat housing. The recently constructed facilities are attached as a new wing onto the existing vintage tie-stall barn, home to a production herd of about 55 Holsteins.

About 80 goats were already being milked twice daily in a double-16 parlour specially built for that purpose when The AgriNews visited in late April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By summer, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be milking 200,â&#x20AC;? said Charlie Jack, who runs the operation with fiancee Tammy and his father, Peter.

Fifty-five kids had been

From left, Charlie, Tammy and Peter Jack, inside the new Winkler Structure goat barn that will contain 200 producing dairy goats by this summer, on the way to 300 animals with a total combined output of 240,000 litres of goatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; milk annually. But they could accommodate 500 goats, nearing the total production of the existing 54-head Holstein milking herd at Mylyn Farm.

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born to that point in the year, with many more to come from the approximately 120 pregnant doelings then still slated to give birth over the spring and summer of 2015.

Their new goat facility could technically accommodate up to 500 milking

goats.

Milking began March 12 after the first round of kidding. Gearing up to that point followed a year of buying young female goats, feeding them without financial return, and undertaking the barnyard building project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Half of the herd came

from Manotick,â&#x20AC;? says Charlie, adding they bought the balance of animals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a combination of popular goat dairy breeds like Alpine, Sannan, and the floppy-eared Nubian â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from four Western Ontario flocks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We bought all of the goats not bred.â&#x20AC;?

Tammy, a trained Personal Support Worker, handles the milking of the goats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She wanted something that was more manageable for her,â&#x20AC;? Charlie explains of their decision to pursue the goat option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We researched this for a little over a year before

making the leap,â&#x20AC;? he says.

His fiancee, not originally from a farming background, was smitten by goats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a choice of having five or six goats as pets, or a barn full of them,â&#x20AC;? Charlie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also looked into meat goats, originally.â&#x20AC;?

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The milkhouse for goatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; milk is separate and differentiated by an exterior sign.

The goatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; milking parlour draws them with a feed supplement.

Goats Continued from page 31 They settled on establishing a serious dairy concern, linking up with the Ontario Dairy Goat Co-operative in Teeswater, Ont. A co-op tanker picks up their goat milk twice weekly from the separate milkhouse labelled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Milkâ&#x20AC;? sign to ensure no confusion with the cowmilk bulk tank. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really enjoying it,â&#x20AC;?

Tammy says of her new career as herdsman overseeing the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burgeoning goat population. That includes handling the 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. milkings.

Curious as cats and eager to stand up and look their human masters in the face, goats are a different ballgame from cows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They race into the parlour, and when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done, they race out,â&#x20AC;? observes Peter with a smile.

A goat produces about one-tenth the amount of milk as a dairy cow, and the Jacks hope eventually to average three litres per animal. It begins with animal comfort, and the flock certainly seems to enjoy lolling about on the bedding pack within a new 42-by-150-foot Winkler fabric-covered barn sold by Joey Van Koppen at We Can Contracting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built exceptionally well, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we purchased it,â&#x20AC;? says Charlie. The structure also features side turkey curtains for ventilation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For animal health, these buildings seem to be the way to go.â&#x20AC;?

The Winkler structure hooks up to a more traditional addition, 68-by-38 feet, location for the heated nursery (for those sensitive kids) that also features an automated kid feeder, parlour and milkhouse. With its goat-sized dimensions, the parlour includes special sequentially locking head gates from Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stabling Developments.

Lawenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dairy Supply was contracted to assist with the parlour as well as refurbishing and installing milkhouse equipment the Jacks

bought used from a neighbour.

The milkhouse equipment was inspected by OMAFRA directly, not DFO, and strangely enough, according to Charlie, there was some deviation in the interpretation of the regulations between those entities.

Unlike the milkhouse for the cow dairy, the goat version required the exterior hose door to be self-closing.

He estimates their investment in the goat project to be $300,000 and expects a seven- to 10-year payback.

At about $1 per litre paid by the co-op for milk production, the farm nets about 92 to 95 cents, he points out.

All of their production will go into goat cheese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endless demand right now.â&#x20AC;?

He says the right to ship 240,000 litres annually through Ontario Dairy Goat requires the purchase of 60 co-op shares at a cost of about $6,000. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bargain, he says, compared with the $750,000 to $800,000 quota price for an equivalent output of cow milk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if quota was even available.

Still, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about [going into goat-milk producton], look into it seriously first,â&#x20AC;? he advises. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more work than you thought it was going to be.â&#x20AC;?

He adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometime in the near future, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning on hosting an info day for people interested in getting into the industry. It can be a good fit for anybody; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better if you do have a farm background. And you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to build a new barn.â&#x20AC;?

The feeding regimen sees a combination of haylage, whole corn and custom supplement given to the goats four times a day. Fertility and reproduction strives for year-round kidding, in groups of 32 in this case.

The young, sensitive kids are fed a customized milk replacer, in a heated environment to lower the mortality rate.

Mylyn Farm includes 600 acres of both owned and rented land. Peter and his

wife, Lynda, sold the operation to their son in 2012, â&#x20AC;&#x153;under a part sale, part loanâ&#x20AC;? arrangement, the elder Jack says. But 68-year-old Peter still works on the farm seven days a week. He has also specialized in producing spring heifers and commercial bulls for the Holstein market.

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Stittsville The following students have completed the first two years of the Bachelor of Bio-Resource Management Equine Management program at Kemptville Campus and will be moving to the main campus of the University of Guelph: Darian Lynn Allison, Kirkland Lake Darci Marie Anderson Strathroy Sacha Andree Arseneau, Ottawa

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Above photos, from left: Andrew Peeples of Cambridge, a Food Science and Quality Management graduate and recipient of the Alumni Association Award in his discipline, receives the W.B. George Memorial Award â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for exemplifying the worthwhile qualities in the best tradition of life in residence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from Residence and Recreation Supervisor Krista Kennelly; Colby Huybregts of Crysler, Agriculture Diploma graduate and recipient of the Alumni Association Award in his discipline, is flanked by U of G OACâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Dean Robert Gordon and Kemptville Campus Interim Director Patricia Remillard; Agriculture Diploma graduate Amanda Murphy of Carp receives the Pioneer Hibred Limited Agronomy Award from Dr. Ashraf Tubeileh for attaining the highest overall achievement in agronomy courses. Murphy also received the Ontario Agri Business Award and the Ottawa Valley Retail Feed &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Seed Award.

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The value of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institutes to rural Ontario

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Throughout the last year, members have engaged in advocacy activities, including attending an information night about a controversial landfill proposal; exhibited group displays for handicrafts; donated to local fairs and worked on fair committees; made and delivered plates to shut-ins and seniors at Christmas; donated money to the Federated Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institutes of Ontario in memory of deceased members; donated to charities and special causes; sent cards to community members; attended fundraisers for medical research; hosted or attended Tweedsmuir Teas; attended all-candidate forums and spoke to politicians on concerns about Kemptville College, Russell Library and proposed dump sites in Russell Township and rural east Ottawa; contributed stories to the FWIO life stories project for Canada 150; raised money and contributed to other community groups; attended numerous educational workshops; volunteered with the International Plowing Match committee; increased community outreach; laid wreaths on Nov. 11; sent articles to publications; held Rose Program events; supported 4-H; hosted card parties; and put flowers in their villagesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; public spaces.

In addition, they raised thousands of dollars for various charitable causes, supported local families in need, learned about health and safety â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a primary function of WIs, organized

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Some of the stories told at the annual Russell District Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institute meeting at the Russell Curling Club on May 22 included the story of how this memory quilt (left) was made by Russell Village WI member, Ina Henry. Members from the five Russell District branches enjoyed the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme of Our Life Stories, including a talk by Ron Lajoie of Write It Now.

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a blood donor clinic, took trips, supported local initiatives such as library programs, offered learning opportunities to seniors, and supported local youths requesting financial help for competitions, post-secondary studies or causes.

Many of the events and activities rural WIs organize would otherwise not be available in small towns and rural communities and would require trips into cities, or would not be available at all. Non-members can attend events and workshops as part of the WI mandate, which is to educate women on the betterment of themselves, their families and their communities.

That need for womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education was the foundation of the WI. In 1889, the infant son of Adelaide Hoodless died of â&#x20AC;&#x153;summer complaintâ&#x20AC;? which was likely caused by tainted milk.

From that point on, Hoodless, a woman of great social conscience and strength of will, was determined that women should be taught how to help prevent tragedies in their families and communities.

Hoodless had been raised on a farm within a large family, then married, moved to Hamilton and became part of Victorian society there.

She became second president of Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s YWCA, established and taught classes in domestic science, wrote the handbook Public School Domestic Science, travelled and spoke until she caught the ear of Erland Lee who asked her to speak at a Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institute meeting.

At that meeting she suggested the idea of a similar institute for women and a

week later 101 women showed up for the first WI meeting. Within a decade, Canada had 500 branches and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long until it expanded worldwide. Even today Queen Elizabeth II is a member. Hoodlassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other accomplishments include co-founding the Victorian Order of Nurses and National Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council.

Advocacy is a strong part of the WIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose.

The WI has been instrumental in the formation of the first Cancer Society, as well as the motive force behind many hospital improvements, street lighting, standards for hygiene in food services, well-baby clinics, blood donor clinics, chest clinics during times of tuberculosis, preservation of local businesses and services â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including recent support for small abattoirs, public health nurses, expansion of telephone calling areas, public swimming pools, public parks, sidewalks, fire department equipment, food banks, war yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; care packages, supplies for disaster relief, and other projects far too numerous to mention.

Life in towns, cities and countryside has improved immeasurably because of the works of these women, most of whom reside in rural communities, but WIs are shrinking as fewer members join and existing members age. In Eastern Ontario, most districts have lost one or more branches and new members barely replenish those lost. So the amount of work and advocacy these groups produce is even more impressive.

For more information on the WI, see www.fwio.on.ca.

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Consult with a lawyer before signing with wind company, farmers urged F

by Nelson Zandbergen AgriNews Staff INCH — AltHougH AN

From left, addressing an audience at the Finch Arena, Ontario Federation of Agriculture President Don McCabe, Wind Concerns’ Ontario Jane Wilson, Stormont Federation of Agriculture President Alan Kruzel, and the Canadian Wind Energy Assocation’s Director of Technical and Utility Affairs Tom Levy.

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“It’s your land, and the only way somebody gets access to your land is by you signing the lease,” said Don McCabe to the audience of 200 gathered at the event independently organized by the Finch Lions Club. “And if you have signed a lease without taking it to a lawyer, then towNsHIp by

guess what? We can now have all kinds of discussions about what happens in these leases and how they really, really can make your life hell …

“When you sign that lease, you have to make

sure, where are these roads going to go, what’s going to happen to the gear oil, or is it [the turbine] even going to be on my land? That’s the reality. [The] lease is the key.”

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tions for farmers considering doing business with wind developers, hiring a lawyer came second on the list. “Make sure you have one, and make the wind company pay for one that Continued on page 38

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Lawyer Continued from page 37 works for everyone in the area â&#x20AC;Ś Get a lawyer!â&#x20AC;?

He added later, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush or allow them to rush you. Make sure it fits your plans, and if you have any doubts, get legal advice and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use your cousinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer. This is your future youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about.â&#x20AC;?

He also urged holding out for an escrow fund to pay for decommissioning of a project after 20 years.

For point number three, McCabe warned against signing any lease that could be transferred to other parties without the farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard all the horror stories. Guess what? They signed a bad lease.â&#x20AC;?

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately clear how this advice might fit with the practice of wind developers using their land leases with farmers to acquire a type of financing that has recently raised eyebrows elsewhere in Ontario.

Lease from farmer, yields credit from bank Also known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;notice of charge of leaseâ&#x20AC;? or a â&#x20AC;&#x153;demand debenture,â&#x20AC;? this type of credit facility does not constitute an actual lien against the land, but the eye-popping project debt owed by wind developers still appears as an entry in the publicly accessible registry. That infor-

mation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the huge dollar amounts and interest rates involved â&#x20AC;&#x201D; recently came to light at a 140-turbine Western Ontario project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not involving EDP â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where a $1-billion mortgage was uncovered in the land registry.

However, EDPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbouring 10-turbine South Branch project in South Dundas was revealed at the Finch meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by wind critic Jane Wilson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to have a $70-million notice of charge of lease applied on the lands of five involved farmers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They use that lease as security for financing from the lenderâ&#x20AC;Ś. The problem is, because it is registered on the land, it can affect the property ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to get more financing,â&#x20AC;? she said, referring in general to this type of instrument during a question and answer session.

Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assertion is disputed by others, however, including a couple of the participating farmers in Brinston. $70-million for 10 turbines â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went through that agreement with the lawyer, and it basically has no effect on us at all,â&#x20AC;? Mark Tibben, partner in Tibben Farms, told The AgriNews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The long and short of it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of no concern to us.â&#x20AC;?

Tibben explained that the entry in the land registry only applies to the physical assets of the wind farm itself, not the Tibben

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www.agrinews.ca familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actual land. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our lawyer was very, very cautious about any of the wording. He was very comfortable, and so were we.â&#x20AC;?

Nick Thurler of Thurler Farms expressed much the same sentiment when contacted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never had any issue of borrowing against the land,â&#x20AC;? said Thurler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The banks actually like it,â&#x20AC;? he said of the revenue generated by the farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lease with EDP. The AgriNews investigated one of the Brinston registry entries at the provincial office in Morrisburg to confirm that EDP does have a $70-million credit agreement with the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation of Canada â&#x20AC;&#x201D; inked in January 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on which the firm pays a hefty interest rate of 25 per cent.

Tom Levy of the Canadian Wind Energy Association naturally promoted the sector, saying

that wind-energy development in Ontario was part of a necessary investment in the grid.

There was some audience confusion about the absence of the actual developers on the panel that evening â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although EDP representatives were in attendance, sitting quietly in the crowd.

Audience questions concerned neighboursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights, alleged health effects of wind turbines and timelines to construction. All of the queries were critical or negative in tone.

Levy repeatedly used the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;annoyanceâ&#x20AC;? to describe the turbinesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; impact, citing a Health Canada study, while Wilson pointed out that annoyance is a defined â&#x20AC;&#x153;medical term.â&#x20AC;?

EDP was also slated to hold its own open house meeting about its plans for North Stormont, the following evening in Crysler.

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DateLine All Regions June 20 - 21 7th Annual Cuisine-Art Festival 1402 Queen St, Alton, ON Contact information: Harry Posner; Email: harry@altonmill.ca Phone: 519-941-0559 July 12 - 17 20th International Farm Management Congress Quebec City Theme: HealthyAgriculture for a Healthy World Start Time: July 12 at 5:00P.M. (Cocktail Dinner) End Time: July 17 at 1:00P.M. The International Farm Management Congress takes place every two years in host countries around the world.

The objective of the Congress is to further the knowledge and understanding of farm business management and to exchange ideas and information about farm management theory and practice throughout the world. For this edition of the International Farm Management Congress, we have chosen a theme that is fundamentally important to the entire world: Healthy Agriculture for a Healthy World.With an increasing world population, an agricultural sector that is in good

financial health, economically viable, environmentally sustainable and capable of supplying the necessary components for a healthy diet, will be crucial for our future.

The 20th International Farm Management Congress will offer a unique opportunity for participants to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented to the agricultural sector and its stakeholders.

For more information, visit: Program at a glance: http://www.ifma20.org/en/Ata-glance Contact Person: Mathieu Lipari Website : www.ifma20.org July 21 2015 Eastern Ontario Crop Diagnostic Day University of Guelph Winchester Research Station, Kempville ON 8:30A.M. - 3:30P.M. Details to be announced.

August 20 Wellington County Plowing Match 6404 Wellington County Road 109, Harriston, Wellington North, ON Plowing starts at 10A.M. Horse, antique, and modern plowing. Food booths. Free parking and admission.

Queen of the Furrow plowing competition. For more information contact wellingtonplowmen@gmail.com

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Expected to draw over 80,000 visitors, the 2015 IPM & Rural Expo takes place Sept. 22-26 in Finch,

North Stormont, but is branded as part of the entire United Counties.

Launched at a fundraiser breakfast in Iroquois last month, the beautification contest has four categories: residential; schools/ churches/senior residences; business/commercial; and farms.

And it’s as easy as 1— creating your own display, 2 — entering the contest (visit the 2015 IPM website for entry form) and 3 — gathering your friends and family to join in the fun! Entry is free.

Open to addresses in SD&G, Cornwall and Akwesasne, photos of the displays are due Aug. 30.

(Hint, hint, there’s still plenty of time to actually grow some sunflowers.) Points will be awarded for the inclusion of a 2015 IPM lawn sign, use of theme, originality, curb appeal and overall appearance.

Visit www.plowingmatch.org/committees2015/beautification. Or contact organizer Sandra Donnelly at 613-551-8997 or e-mail her at beautification@ipm2015.ca The contest kickoff in the Seaway village also served to draw attention to the upcoming Galop Canal Bluegrass Festival — set for June 18-21 at the Iroquois Locks.

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Wind developer hosts English-only meeting in francophone village Faux pas

by Carolyn Thompson Goddard AgriNews Contributor RYslER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A DAY AFTER FINCH & DIsTRICT lIONs Club HOsTED A wIND pOwER INFORmATION NIgHT IN FINCH, EDp RENEwAblEs CANADA pROvIDED NORTH sTORmONT REsIDENTs wITH

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But the English-only documentation and presentations by the American developer in francophone Crysler came off as a cultural faux pas by some observers at the event.

Director of Development for EDP Canada Tom LoTurco explained that the evening was planned â&#x20AC;&#x153;to get the information on the project we are proposing out to the general publicâ&#x20AC;? and Ken Little, EDP Renewables Project Manager, commented that it was a coincidence that the Crysler meeting was held the day after the Finch event as the Crysler Community Centre had been reserved in

early to mid-April for this meeting by his company.

Around 70 local residents listened as representatives of EDP Renewables explained the process whereby their company will submit a proposal to the Independent Electrical System Operator in Ontario regarding the planned construction of 20-40 turbine wind farm in this predominately agricultural township.

According to Ken Little, EDP Renewables is planning to submit a bid to the IESO for a wind farm in the 50-100 MW range but the size will be determined once more information is provided to stakeholders by the IESO in the coming weeks.

In response to questions as to why locate a wind farm in North Stormont, Little explained that many factors such as physical geography or lease availability are considered. There were a number of strategically placed maps which provided a view of the probable location of wind turbines in the township. The planned construction corridor flowed north â&#x20AC;&#x201C; south and was mainly

west of Berwick, Crysler and Finch close to the North Dundas-North Stormont municipal boundary.

There were many opponents to the proposed North Stormont wind farm at the meeting who were not hesitant in letting the company representatives and others in attendance know their opinions. Some of the more common comments were of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;not in my back yardâ&#x20AC;? variety, while others

questioned the need for wind technology in power generation and the high cost of electricity was a matter of grave concern to many in attendance. Discussion related to the future need of alternatives to nuclear power generated electricity, some residents mentioned that increasing the power generation at hydro (or water) stations such as at Niagara Falls might be more cost effective.

Arthur Beckstead looks on as long-time Crysler resident Lorna Armstrong expresses concern to EDP representative Ken Little regarding the possible location of wind turbines on some of the best agricultural land in the township.

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Shelly was purchased by Don and Bev Donnan at the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sale of Starsâ&#x20AC;? held at the Royal Fair, and later, Boyd and Jim Nelson joined as partners in ownership on her.

Shellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sire, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Braedale Goldwynâ&#x20AC;? was breaking onto the scene with some really good calves. Don says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt from the very beginning, this just wasn't another nice black Goldwyn calf, there was something special about her.â&#x20AC;?

And indeed there was: Shelly went on to score Very Good as a two year

old, and is now Excellent with 92 points. Not just a pretty face, she milks too â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with two Superior Production records, and well above the herd average.

Shelly has 46 milking daughters, 35 of which scored very good as two year olds and they are from 14 different sires. Her ability to transmit her superior type is well shown here.

Shelly is only one of two â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goldwynâ&#x20AC;? daughters that are Star Brood cows, with over 15 stars.

On the male side, Shelly has sons in A.I. units all over the world, as well as close to home.

The Donnans and Nelsons have been very successful with using embryo transfer with Shelly, with 245 embryos produced, and over 100 embryos exported to five different countries, as well as used in their own herds.

A humble Don Donnan accepted the award, and paid tribute to his excellent friends and partners, the Nelsons.

Cows are nominated and a group of four finalists are selected. The final decision is made by a membership vote.

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The Ontario government touts the new Elora barn as a state-of-the-art livestock research and innovation centre â&#x20AC;&#x153;to develop new food products that are healthier, safer, and produced in an environmentally sustainable manner.â&#x20AC;?

The unique multi-discipline research centre will allow industry stakeholders as well as staff and students from Canadian universities to collaborate on dairyrelated research projects including: ď&#x201A;§ Enhancing livestock health through the use of advanced technologies ď&#x201A;§ Improving the quality of milk and meat through genetics and nutrition research ď&#x201A;§ Supporting best practices in livestock management, operational efficiencies and innovative technologies to improve competitiveness of Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dairy farmers.

Through the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, the province committed $20-million to the creation of the new centre.

The facility is a joint initiative between the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, the University of Guelph, and the Ontario dairy industry, represented by Dairy Farmers of Ontario. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new Livestock Research and Innovation

ue to lead in sustaining and enhancing Canada's agrifood industry.â&#x20AC;?

Ralph Dietrich, Chair of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, described the DFO as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;proud partnerâ&#x20AC;? in the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are the envy of other jurisdictions with our partnerships ... that sustain and enhance Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agrifood sector and fuel a productive economy,â&#x20AC;? said Stewart Cressman, Chair of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario.

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Farm & Food Care Canada AGM

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ILTON — The FarM & FOOd Care FOuNdaTION BOard OF dIreCTOrs MeT FOr ITs aNNuaL MeeTINg IN MILTON ON aprIL 14, aNd heLd eLeCTIONs FOr New aNd reTurNINg BOard seaTs.

Joining the 16-member board is Derek Schoonbaert, current managing director for Cargill Value Added Meats (CVAM) at Cargill Canada. Schoonbaert originally joined Cargill in 2005, and has worked as marketing manager for Cargill AgHorizons in Winnipeg, as a team member of Cargill’s Tartan Project –an initiative to employ common business

processes, data and technology across the company – and as general manager for CVAM. In his current role as managing director of CVAM, he is responsible for supplying beef and poultry products to McDonald’s restaurants across Canada.

Schoonbaert is also the vicepresident of the board of directors for Ronald McDonald House Southwestern Ontario.

Along with Schoonbaert, the Foundation also reappointed four returning directors – Leanne Cooley (L.H. Gray), John Geurtjens (Farm Credit Canada), Ian McKillop (farmer) and Jean Szkotnicki (Canadian

www.agrinews.ca Animal Health Institute) – to serve additional three-year terms.

These directors join Bruce Christie (Nutreco), Adele Buettner (Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan), John Jamieson (PEI Federation of Agriculture), Carolynne Griffith (farmer), John Maaskant (farmer), Rick Martin (Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd.), Kim McConnell (Strategic Advisor and former CEO of Adfarm), Gwen Paddock (RBC Royal Bank), Barry Senft (Grain Farmers of Ontario), Diane Squires (Smith Valeriote Law Firm LLP) and Paul Wettlaufer (farmer) on the Foundation Board.

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The company owned another 4,000 acres too.

Opponents state that the laws of Ontario must be changed to protect farmland from speculative ventures such as the proposed quarry, which was backed by a Boston hedge fund. The proponent’s plan to scrape off topsoil, dig more than 60 metres below the water table, and when the limestone was exhausted to put the soil in the hole and start farming down there, was considered ludicrous by farmers in the area. The plan to continuously pump 600-million litres daily forever from the remaining pit was also widely regarded as a disaster waiting to happen, and the effect on local

surface water, including the headwaters of five major rivers, was feared.

After much publicity, including the support of the Chefs of Canada who organized Foodstock, a major concert and food fundraiser, the plan was withdrawn and the land purchased by a farmland investor, which has since sold or rented most of it for potato production again. A number of organizations opposing the destruction of farmland and contamination of water sources sprang up and they now work together to pressure the Ontario government to put agriculture ahead of industry. It is estimated that almost half of Ontario’s farmland is lost to development. Food and Water First is dedicated to protecting all Class 1 farmland in the province, particularly from large quarries and landfills, which render land completely unusable in the future.

The province finished a consultation period at the of May, in which it sought input into ways to grow smarter communities and preserve its farmland, water and natural heritage. This new petition says, “We think it is a key time to send an email to the Premier to remind her that while she looks at ways to build a better Ontario, now is the time for her to correct the past wrongs...Our food and water must come before corporate greed and backroom deals.”

The current Provincial Policy Statement, the Aggregate Resources Act, and in a few cases The Green Energy Act, allow

non-farming development to trump the wise use of land and water. Unless legislation is changed farming communities across Ontario will have to spend much time and energy fighting to save the land and water that sustain Canadians, and the world.

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Ontario residents can drop off an unlimited number of used tires for free at participating auto recyclers during business hours. For each tire dropped off a donation to the foundation is generated. The six-day tire collection period was to run from June 1 to June 6 at over 60 auto recyclers across Ontario. Farm locations with more than 50 tires can arrange pickup by calling OARA at 519-858-8761 or go to http://rethinktires.ca/tiretakeback.

Last year in Ontario over 46,000 tires were collected and over $90,000 was raised. The Sunshine Foundation uses funds to fulfill dreams for children with severe disabilities or life-threatening illnesses, including trips of a lifetime, meeting an idol, or providing adaptive mobility devices. The first event was in 2010 and since then $820,000 has been raised.

See the website above for the nearest participating auto recycler.

Farm and food Continued from page 46 The Board also passed a special resolution to amend the organization’s name to Farm & Food Care Canada to more accurately reflect the national charity’s active work and vision to build public trust in food and farming across the country.

The Farm & Food Care

Foundation cultivates appreciation for food and farming in Canada by connecting farm gates to dinner plates.

Farm & Food Care is a coalition of farmers and associated businesses proactively working together with a commitment to provide credible information and strengthen sustainable food and farming for the future. To donate or invest in this important work, visit www.farmcarefoundation.ca.

Looking a little like the arctic in Eastern Ontario

Formerly not seen all that much, now abundant snow geese have been feasting on some fields around Eastern Ontario. This group was photographed near Russell.

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Organizers of the 27th annual Winchester Dairyfest —Aug. 7-9 — have confirmed that Ambush will rock the dance floor on Sat., Aug. 8.

Tickets will be $10 in advance and $15 at the door and will go on sale

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“They are a lot of fun and have a big local following,” said committee chair Gina Welch about the Kingstonbased rock and country band. “We're happy to have them coming back to Dairyfest.”

This year's Dairyfest will feature something new for Friday night, with the village’s arena floor transformed into an old-time roller rink, complete with DJ. “We're hoping to capture a retro, “best-summer-ever” sort of vibe, noted Aaron Dellah, adding the com-

mittee hopes to have some skates for rent for those who don't have any.

Also on the Friday night will be a Little Ray's Reptiles presentation and an outdoor movie.

This year's festival will see the return of the Amoozing Race, Vintage Travel Trailer Show, Belt Sander Races, and Bingo, as well as long standing favourites such as the vendor fair, Dairy Dash, LEGO car races, tractor parade, and more Get involved or volunteer with Dairyfest by contacting info@winchesterdairyfest.com. The committee could use your help. Visit www.winchesterdairyfest.com to stay updated on the event.

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— Michelle Hasheider-Burianek

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“Fresh cows are separated after going through the robot. We check them and apply Udder Comfort at the head gates for 2 to 3 days after calving; heifers 4 to 5 days. We see the benefits of udders stay soft and milk out evenly.”

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