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The 2017 DSCIA tour to PEI

During their 2017 tour to Prince Edward Island in July, the Dundas Soil and Crop Improvement Association group are seen here at Trout River Industries Inc., in Coleman, PEI, in front of a massive live bottom trailer.

The company opened its doors to its production facilities where they specialize in live bottom conveyor and shuttle floor trailers. They have grown to become Canada’s largest live bottom trailer manufacturer with production and expansion worldwide. Story and more photos on page 3.

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August Crop Report

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this year. Lots of hay is being made into haylage.

Although it seems like a cold summer to a lot of growers, the weather data shows we are only 50 heat units behind the long-term average. The impact on crop maturity is that most are a week or so behind.

Crops that were not planted by the first of May might not have trapped some of those heat units.

There is considerable pressure by potato leafhoppers in alfalfa this year.

bETTEr WITh WarM TEMPEraTurEs, WITh IMProVEMEnTs In corn and soybEans.

Generally speaking, a lot more heat has perked up the corn. Soy has also improved but we are starting to see increased numbers of soybean aphids. Up to this stage they have not been bad.

In corn, there are increased numbers of Western Bean Cutworms, as seen in our traps in Eastern Ontario, with a jump in the last couple of weeks. That may be due to a greater potential for moths laying eggs, due to wind patterns that brought adults in. They are usually found more in southwestern Ontario. However, they lay eggs in corn silk and most corn is now getting past that stage.

Winter wheat is mostly harvested, although the timing has been spread out due to wet weather. Yields are average but quality low, with most being Grade 3 or feed wheat. Spring wheat is expected to be similar.

Regarding hay, there are good yields with lots of volume, but the challenge is trying to get dry hay.

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A group photo was taken at Point Prim Lighthouse, built in 1845, which is the first and oldest lighthouse in PEI and one of only a few round brick lighthouses in Canada.

The group stopped in at

Atlantic Soy Corp., a division of ProSeeds – Sevita International of Inkerman, Ont., located in Belle River, PEI. They hosted a barbecue lunch along with a tour of their state of the art separation, cleaning and storage facilities.

Next up was Brian and Amber Craswell’s Crasdale Farms in Hunter River, PEI. They have a high-pedigree herd along with the DeLaval Optimat feeding system and two VMS milking robots.

For a fun stop, some of Continued on page 4

North Atlantic Organics, located at Seacow Pond, PEI, process storm-tossed seaweed from the shores surrounding PEI and turn it into animal feed supplements and soil conditioners.

At the PEI Spuds plant in Vernon Bridge, PEI, the Dundas and Soil and Crop Improvement Association tour group saw potato packaging in progress and the warehouse storage facility with bagged potatoes ready for shipping.

Courtesy photos Graham Duke

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DSCIA trip to PEI Continued from page 3 the tour group went deep sea fishing and others went to Anne of Green Gables.

North Atlantic Organics, located at Seacow Pond, PEI, provided a tour at their facilities where they process storm-tossed seaweed from the shores surrounding PEI and turn it into animal feed supplements and soil conditioners.

At Coleman, PEI, Trout River Industries Inc, opened

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its doors to its production facilities where they specialize in live bottom conveyor and shuttle floor trailers.

They have grown to become Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest live bottom trailer manufacturer with production and expansion worldwide.

A great time was had by all and DSCIA would like to thank all participants and tour stop hosts for making this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tour, as well as other years, an enjoyable and successful fundraiser event for the organization.Â

Brian and Amber Craswell of Crasdale Farms in Hunter River, PEI, have a high-pedigree herd along with the DeLaval Optimat feeding system and two VMS milking robots.

Coutesy photos Graham Duke

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Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association announces new president at AGM

By Kalynn Sawyer Helmer AgriNews Staff Writer ANKLEEK HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THE OTTAwA VALLEy SEEd GrOwErS ASSOcIATION (OVSGA) HELd THEIr

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ANNuAL GENErAL mEETING ON AuG. 8, HOSTEd by THE VANKLEEK HILL AGrIcuLTurAL SOcIETy. durING THE mEETING, TwOyEAr PrESIdENT cEcIL cASS, Of Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;OrIGNAL, cOmPLETEd HIS TErm.

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During the AGM, the Board of Directors nominated and voted for David Blair of Pakenham to serve as the next President for the coming term.

Blair has a long history with the OVSGA and has served as first vice-president for the last two years. During Blairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s term, Robert Dessaint, of Sarsfield, will serve as first vice-president and Jeff Waldroff, of Newington, will serve as second vice-president. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Board of Directors, which has representatives from all across Eastern Ontario, is very excited to work with our new Executive as we plan forward for #OVFS18,â&#x20AC;? said Ross. The upcoming OVFS will hold its 91st anniversary in 2018 and will run for three days on March 13, 14 and 15.

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Cass will remain on the Board as past president and will continue to exhibit at the Ottawa Valley Farm Show (OVFS) presented by the OVSGA. Cass is a past dairy farmer and a large crop farmer. He has proudly exhibited at the Championship Seed Show during the OVFS for the past 68 years. In an email to AgriNews after the meeting, Arlene Ross, Interim General Manager of the OVFS, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We congratulate and thank Cecil for his dedication to and history with the

Cecil Cass was honoured at the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association AGM on Aug. 8, when he ended his two-year term as president. Pictured with Cass are his wife Maureen Cass and daughter Audrey Dumoulin.

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Ross explained the Board plans to expand on the local food concepts introduced this year with local beef, local chicken and local pork featured each of the days. Also in the works are featured speakers throughout the event.

The OVSGA is proud to support agriculture in Eastern Ontario, agriculture education programs, the local soil and crop improvement association and will announce in late September the winner of their first-ever annual Seed Growers Scholarship.

The rest of the meeting was business as usual, said Ross. The Board is currently advertising to hire a new General Manager for the OVFS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very excited to bring a new face to the organization,â&#x20AC;? she concluded.

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To view the ads, select the Hay Listings Menu located on the right side of the screen, or click the Ads tab at the top of the page. You can view the complete list of ads by scrolling to below the map, or customize your search by clicking your

www.agrinews.ca desired area on the map. This will limit search results to the desired area only. You do not need to register with the system to view the hay listings. Buyer and seller ads can be searched by many parameters using general or advanced searches. To optimize the security of the users of the site, you must log in to obtain contact information.

To post an ad, registration is required. This has been done to make the site more secure, and to protect users.

Registration provides buyers and sellers with a user ID that allows them to easily create and then revise the ads as time goes on. To register and begin posting ads, click on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Registerâ&#x20AC;? on the right side of the screen. Please note that none of the contact information collected on this website will be sold, or shared by Ontario Forage Council to other

organizations.

Postings will stay on this site for 60 days. Ontario Forage Council may delete or alter any listing deemed to be inappropriate.

The Ontario Forage Council would like to recognize sponsors Quality Seeds Ltd, and Can Grow Crop Solutions Inc. Their generous contributions make it possible for OFC to provide this valuable service. For more information on Quality Seeds Ltd., or Can Grow Crop Solutions Inc., click on the links provided on the website: www.ontariohaylistings.ca or contact the Ontario Forage Council: Ray Robertson, Manager or Patricia Ellingwood, Executive Assistant, 519-986-1484, or 1-877-892-8663; or email: support@ontarioforagecouncil.com.

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Andrea McCoy-Naperstkow committed to a grassroots approach if elected in OFA zone elections as director for Zone 8

by Dianne Pinder-Moss AgriNews Contributor

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She, however, is concerned that there is “a disconnect” between Eastern Ontario and the head office of the OFA in Guelph.

“People are just disillusioned, especially in Eastern Ontario, with the OFA,” she told The AgriNews in an interview.

Because federation membership numbers tend to be lower here than in Southern Ontario, according to McCoy-Naperstkow, there is “the feeling that agriculture ends on the west side of the GTA.” As well,

she points out, that while there is “a gamut” of commodity groups represented by the OFA – it is no longer just beef and dairy, she cites, but also cash crops, organic farmers, Christmas trees, honey, berries, etc. – not all commodities feel that they are being heard by the provincial body.

“There’s so much diversity in agriculture and that’s what the OFA talks about,” she remarked. “Sometimes, (however), they don’t emphasize the smaller commodities.”

McCoy-Naperstkow is determined to change that perception. That is why the resident of Beckwith Township resident has put her name forward as a candidate in the zone director elections against incumbent Debra Pretty-Straathof of Renfrew County in Zone 8.

Zone 8, which takes in the region of Lanark, Renfrew, Ottawa and Arnprior, is one of only two areas across Ontario in which elections are being

held. The other is also in Eastern Ontario – Zone 11 (region of Dundas, Frontenac, Grenville and Leeds).

A third-generation farmer in Lanark County, McCoy-Naperstkow lives with her husband Arvin Naperstkow on the family farm. The couple run a crop and beef operation with approximately 35 Highland cattle, as well as being involved in custom haying.

“I have a passion for agriculture and farming,” she says in sharing how one of her best summer jobs was as an 18-year-old working with her dad on their then dairy farm.

Just as farming is in McCoy-Naperstkow’s blood, the same could perhaps be said of her involvement with the federation of agriculture. Her late mother Inez McCoy was a regional director for the OFA representing Lanark County in the 1970s. Likewise, she has discovered that her late Continued on page 9

Standing beside Phoenix, one of the Highland cows on her Beckwith Township farm in Lanark County, Andrea McCoy-Naperstkow is vying to be the next director for Zone 8 on the OFA board.

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The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Chapter of the Ontario Woodlot Association hopes to get a dialogue going with South Nation Conservationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agricultural Forest Cover Committeeâ&#x20AC;Ś and the sooner the better.

The SDG Chapter wants to make sure that the interests of tree managers are fully represented in the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final report, expected this fall. That shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be too difficult because in its interim report, the committee has acknowledged the 64 SDG woodlot owners as important stakeholders in the discussion.

The interim report recognizes the need to ensure a strong and vibrant forest cover. Rather than imposing intrusive bylaws, the committee feels the goal can be achieved through best management practices, education and outreach, and stakeholder engagement.

The woodlot owners say the initial report doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go far enough and discriminates against trees as a crop by suggesting top land classes should be held for food and feed production, leaving only marginal land to forestry and environmental protection.

Owners are becoming increasingly alarmed about the rate of clearcutting in the area and feel aggressive counter action must be taken.

That action could range from municipally imposed restrictions on tree removal, to a general ban on such activity. So far, the six municipalities within the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry represented by the chapter have shown a reluctance to intervene.

Woodlot owners understand that reluctance, says Elaine Kennedy,

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by Tom Van Dusen Frustration! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine the level thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s afflicted the Kemptville College Alumni since being run off campus while trying to carry on the legacy of the beloved college.

Still, the alumni carries on, including with its annual meeting which was set for Aug. 26 at Lombardy Fairgrounds.

While it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the same, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll mark the second time the annual reunion has been conducted offcampus; last year, at the invitation of alumnus and owner Gib Patterson, the gathering was held at Emerald Links Golf Club, at Manotick.

Past president Ron Burgess revealed last year that the Lombardy site with its tidy collection of orangeroofed buildings and campus-style layout was being considered as the alumniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new home away from home.

The main agricultural building on the grounds used for exhibits and lunches during the fair doubles as a roomy meeting hall with full facilities including kitchen. But the alumniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in transferring its base of operations to the fairgrounds doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop with occasional use of the hall.

A 24 by 36-foot building with LED lighting, propane heat and hydro has been designed that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with membership approval â&#x20AC;&#x201C; could be constructed at the fairgrounds to permanently house KCAT artifacts. Alumni members have collected hundreds of documents, awards and such items as lab equipment to prevent them from going into a dumpster and now have to relocate them.

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Some three and a half years after the University of Guelph decided to toss Kemptville Agricultural College on the scrap heap, the arbitrary decision continues to grate.

Many questions remain such as: Where did U of G get the power in the first place to close Eastern Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural focal point which was competing against it for students and dollars? The institution would be celebrating its 100th anniversary this year had it been left to prosper, perhaps in a restructured form.

Another outstanding question revolves around North Grenvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely ignored bid to take over the 857-acre campus and convert it into an educational hub specializing in agriculture and climate change. Municipal officials have hit a brick wall as solid as any on campus in trying to persuade the provincial government to download the college grounds and 50 buildings.

To date, all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened following several meetings is that the frustration levels of North Grenville Mayor David Gordon and CAO Brian Continued on page 30 Carre continue to grow. Now Carre sees â&#x20AC;&#x153;a glimmer of hopeâ&#x20AC;? for a positive resolution by the end of this year; in the past, such glimmers have faded out.

At one point, both North Grenville officials promised a 100th celebration for the college this Good luck to the new Riceville Wood & Forest Exhibition set for that comyear no matter the state of negotiations. That has munityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairgrounds Sept. 10. We wish it a large audience and the revenues since been modified to a celebration only following needed to repeat the show next year. agreement for municipal takeover of the campus.

The event is rising from the ashes of the Glengarry Wood Fair held for eight years at Dunvegan. Hosted by French-language woodlot owners Boises U of G sounded the death knell for KCAT in its Est, the objective at Riceville is to promote wood and forest-related products, 97th year. Most of the buildings on campus have as well as relevant services provided by local individuals, companies and other been shuttered, the staff let go, the dairy research organizations. barn closed and the herd dispersed. Part of the site is Exhibitors will include artisans, forestry consultants, maple syrup producbeing used by the regional French language school ers, sawmill operators, woodlot owner organizations, health-related agencies, board and Semex leases the former dairy facility. and many others. As it was in Dunvegan, the highlight will be an auction of 100 lots of slabs, boards, carving blocs, and burls representing several wood varieties.

The AgriNews is published by Etcetera Publications (Chesterville) Inc. As an anticipated, a high-profile event, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good place to get out a meson the first Monday of each month. sage about trees, says the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Chapter of the Publisher: Etcetera Publication Inc. Editor: Muriel Carruthers Ontario Woodlot Association which will have a booth there. The message it Staff Writers: Tom Van Dusen, Jeff Moore, Candice Vetter, wants out is that clearcutting must cease and that trees are a useful crop that must be assigned prime growing land.

Kalynn Sawyer Helmer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trees benefit from good land too,â&#x20AC;? says chapter executive member Production Manager: Chantal Bouwers Graphic Artist: Angela Billharz George Velema who has donated some of his own treed acres to South Nation Advertising Representatives: Brenda Fawcett: agrinewsads@gmail.com Conservation to protect for future generations.

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Andrea McCoy-Naperstkow Continued from page 7 father Gordon McCoy was a director and held a position on the executive of the Beckwith Federation of Agriculture in the late 1940s and 1950s.

McCoy-Naperstkow has taken on a greater role with the LFA board since she retired from working for the City of Ottawa in Social Services and Parks and Recreation in June 2014.

Along with being involved in organizing first-aid training courses for members and farm tours for local municipal councillors, she has been part of the Hill Lobby and is a member of the county Agricultural Advisory Working Group.

In addition, she has moderated both federal and provincial all-candidates meetings, as well as information sessions sponsored by the federation.

Currently a director with the LFA, McCoyNaperstkow believes she can be an effective and strong voice at the board table of the OFA. For her, being a zone director is all about â&#x20AC;&#x153;service to your community and service to the membershipâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; taking a

grassroots approach to the position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see my role really as representing the membership of the OFA that are in Zone 8,â&#x20AC;? she explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is bringing their concerns and issues to the table â&#x20AC;&#x201C; issues specific to the zone and Eastern Ontario.â&#x20AC;?

Among these issues is the adverse impact the record rainfall in the zone this year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; preceded by drought conditions in 2016 and a mild winter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has had on the planting, growing and harvesting of crops. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a situation, she says, that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretty devastatingâ&#x20AC;? to the agricultural industry here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to work with the county federations, as well as the OFA board, and move forward concerns to the provincial government to get support and solutions,â&#x20AC;? she noted.

Other issues that have been brought to her attention in recent months include: â&#x20AC;˘ Municipal land tax assessments; â&#x20AC;˘ Farm land values; â&#x20AC;˘ Land use planning and urban development; â&#x20AC;˘ Livestock kill compensation program changes;

â&#x20AC;˘ Minimum wage; â&#x20AC;˘ Wet land designations; â&#x20AC;˘ Noxious weeds; â&#x20AC;˘ Rural broadband; â&#x20AC;˘ Climate change; â&#x20AC;˘ Taxation on valueadded operations; â&#x20AC;˘ Hydro, energy and natural gas costs; â&#x20AC;˘ Rural schools.

Another matter of concern for McCoyNaperstkow is the mental health of farmers, particularly with what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to endure weatherwise the past two years. She points to an online stress and resilience survey undertaken by the University of Guelph from September 2015 to January 2016, in which 1,100 farmers across Canada responded. One of the survey findings was that stress, anxiety, depression and emotional exhaustion are higher among farmers than other groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mental health is a very important issue across the board,â&#x20AC;? she asserted.

The zone directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position carries a three-year term with the new term taking effect on Nov. 22. The job is a busy one entailing attending the monthly directorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meetings for each of the regions in the zone, as well as travelling to

Guelph for a few days each month for the OFA board meeting. Also, as part of being available to the membership, the zone director attends fairs, farm shows and other community and agricultural related events.

McCoy-Naperstkow says she is ready to make that commitment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have the blessing of my family and have worked it out with the farm that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough help so I can take time to go to board meetings (in Guelph),â&#x20AC;? she mentioned.

McCoy-Napersktow says

she has a great deal of respect for Pretty-Straathof and considers her to be a friend. In her view, they simply have different skills sets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our views are different, our approaches are different,â&#x20AC;? she stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, I feel my approach may be what the membership needs.â&#x20AC;?

A mailout was sent to the approximately 1,500 federation members in Zone 8 in early August explaining the voting process. The mailout included information about

the candidates running and the three options for voting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; mail-in ballot, by phone or online.

Voting commenced on Aug. 21 and will close on Fri., Sept. 8. McCoyNaperstkow is hoping for a better voter turnout than the average five to 10 per cent previously reported in the past for zone director elections across the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People should vote because they are members of an organization that has the ability to work on their behalf on many issues,â&#x20AC;? she asserted.

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FarmLead.com: a new tool to buy and sell grains

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It is the first such online tool developed for this particular marketplace, and its concept is so simple it is surprising that no one has developed it sooner. Set up much like Kijiji or a similar online buy-sell database, it allows producers and buyers to post ads, much like classified ads, on the FarmLead.com website.

Then the buyers and sellers take over negotiations themselves, once they match up. It is free to register, free to post, and payment is only required if a deal is made. Both parties then pay a commission of $1/tonne for the first 80 tonnes (about two cents per bushel) and $0.25 afterwards. The founders of the business, Brennan Turner and Alain Goubau, say that the price is about 75 per cent less than through traditional grain marketing agencies.

Turner hails from Foam Lake, SK, where his family started farming the land in

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the 1920s. Turner holds an economics degree from Yale University, played professional hockey and worked as a commodity analyst on Wall Street before starting FarmLead.com. He provides daily expert analyses in the FarmLead Breakfast Brief, available most days about 8 a.m. Eastern time.

Goubau has a dairy and cash crop farm in Lefaivre in Eastern Ontario. His expertise is in building successful startups. He also conducted global agriculture strategy projects and brought his extensive project management and operational experience as a field engineer to projects throughout Europe and Asia. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish, holds a Bachelor

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FarmLead operates throughout North America and was named one of Canada’s top startups in 2015 and one of Forbes’ most innovative companies in agriculture in 2017.

Since starting a mere two years ago, they have hired 30 full-time employees, about 25 in their Ottawa office, which is where the software development and engineering takes place, and which serves as their head office, and the others in their Chicago office, which is the hub of their American operations, and their western office which has customer support. They also bring on interns.

The website works fairly

simply, requiring the buyer or seller to enter information in several fields and thereby identify exactly what they are seeking or selling. An advantage in grain marketing, as compared to, say, selling used furniture online, is that grains are very easily classifiable, especially if samples have been tested. Like in other online marketplaces buyers and sellers are rated, and anyone unreliable is quickly weeded out. Buyers go through a strict vetting process, including credit checks, monitoring of posts and verification of identification. Farmers must be transparent about quality, interactions online are recorded, there is a screening process for uploading photos (an option), and buyers must show what they will if they close the deal.

Other fields ask for timing, if it is this year’s crop or a previous year’s, who has to deliver or pick up, the distance within which transportation is feasible, quantity, how it is stored and other pertinent details.

“You can decide if you are making sales straight off the field or your own storage,” Turner said during an interview at their head office. He also said, “We’re not interested in disrupting local relationships,” referring to existing Continued on page 11

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Most sellers on the FarmLead website have their grain in their own storage. “We don’t work so much with commercial elevator storage,” said Turner.

Part of the beauty of the system is that producers range in size from 50 acres to 50,000 acres, and buyers range from small individual feedlots to the world’s largest grain buyers. The site is also popular within specialty markets.

Besides more common products, crops like spelt or malt barley can be found on the site too.

Turner’s daily analysis is valuable to help producers make decisions when to sell and he draws information worldwide. “We’re not just looking at our own backyards.” Taxes are charged as per local laws.

FarmLead is just about to launch a new feature, which is the ability for farmers to order grain testing online. “It’s not like an auction system or a fixed-price system,” Goubau said, and stated that FarmLead is the only company allowing for negotiation. As Turner explains it, “We’ve successfully replicated that phone call, but it’s like you can make a lot fewer calls.”

Turner and Goubau said they have very little trouble with either their farmers or their buyers, but they do ask that once a sale is made the post is removed quickly. “We are farmers,” said Goubau. “We understand how our customers are trying to optimize their time.”

For more information see FarmLead.com.

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Throughout the workshop, farmers learn to define soil health, explore soil structure, fertility, disease suppression, carbon, and applying the new knowledge to management practices. Compost Canada’s involvement with the workshop primarily will focus on education with the hopes that “if farmers are aware of soil health and interested in soil health, they may be more inclined to look into using compost,” said Special Projects Manager Glenn Munroe

who led the day’s workshop with the help of colleague Danielle Buklis.

On Wed., Aug. 16, the Compost Council of Canada held their third workshop in Manotick at the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA). RVCA hoped that by connecting themselves with the workshop, they could also promote their Rideau Valley Rural Clean Water Program. The program offers funding to both farm and non-farm properties in the form of a grant and technical assistance to protect water quality in the Rideau River watershed.

The workshop will travel to approximately three more locations across Ontario and will then be looking for suggestions from Ontario farmers hoping to see the workshop travel to an area near them.

Munroe estimated the workshop to have funding for a total of 10 to 12 workshops before another application will be made to take the workshop across Canada.

After the workshop, participants will receive a primer of 25 to 30 pages in

length with resources and an overview of the lessons learned during the day.

Munroe anticipated the addition of a webpage, linked to www.compost.org where anyone interested in soil biology and healthy soil can go to further their knowledge, read about the latest science and partake in or sign up for workshops.

During the actual workshop, participants are guided through a PowerPoint mapping out the biology of soil health. This is accompanied by videos and breaks for hands-on experience looking at soil through microscopes. Munroe kicked things off with the statement, “Soil is alive.

One handful of garden soil [of relatively good health] contains more living organisms than there are people on the planet.” The living beings in soil and those living beings connected to the soil make up what is known as the soil food web. The workshop focuses on a few integral parts of the soil food web – fungi and bacteria.

“One teaspoon of healthy soil contains between 100 million and

one billion bacteria,” and the bacteria act as the glue in a healthy aggregated soil.

Within bacteria there are three categories defined by where the energy comes from: pathogens, which get their energy through attacking; decomposers, which get their energy by breaking down molecules; and mutualists, which get their energy through partnerships with other living things.

Mutualists help the soil by forming an association with the plant. They will feed the plant in exchange for a service, like the distribution of nitrogen.

There are also three main types of fungi: decomposers which help breakdown tough materials, plant parasites and mutualists. Fungi mutualists will form a relationship often with the plant root in exchange for services.

All of these living things work together to engineer the soil structure and soil aggregate formation. “First, chemical and electrical forces attract particles to each other. Next, bacteria, earthworms and fungi secrete organic glues, bind particles of clay, silt and

gates are different shapes and sizes, they create pores to help stabilize the soil and “well-aggregated soils” are ideal environments for both Continued on page 13

sand into tiny aggregates.

Last, fungal hyphae (filaments) bind these into larger soil aggregates,” explained Munroe during the workshop. When aggre-

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The biology of soil health continued from page 12 microbes and plant roots.

Well-aggregated soil is easily spotted by its crumbly root-filled texture.

Microbes are vital in â&#x20AC;&#x153;making nutrients plantavailable in the right place, at the right time and trading nutrient for carbon, then sequestering that carbon in soil.â&#x20AC;? Underground carbontrading follows two basic systems where fungi create a two-way delivery system, as previously mentioned with mutualist fungi that trade nutrients for carbon and plant roots, which exude almost half of their photosynthate into the soil.

The workshop suggested that plants exude in order to attract microbes that will deliver specific nutrients when necessary. That is why Munroe insisted that

healthy soil is a diverse soil, one where plants can call on the microbes they need during crucial times.

This has led to scientific evidence to suggest that plants can communicate through the soil food web with neighbouring plants to fight diseases. This research, however, is still in the early stages.

As Munroe concluded, the soil ecosystem came down to three essential requirements: â&#x20AC;&#x153;sufficient food/energy, a safe habitat and diversity.â&#x20AC;? Munroe listed these principles to help maintain and foster a healthy soil: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep the soil covered, maximize diversity, minimize soil disturbance, keep live roots in the ground, integrate livestock, and use organic amendments wherever

possible.â&#x20AC;?

Keeping crops in the ground will help to prevent erosions and topsoil loss.

Minimizing soil disturbance will lower the risk of damaging soil structure by breaking up the aggregates.

Live roots in the ground will â&#x20AC;&#x153;optimize photosynthesis.â&#x20AC;? Diversity can help disrupt pest cycles and diverse root lengths will improve soil and differing levels.

Livestock will provide natural nutrients from the manure and add diversity.

Organic amendments can protect organic matter and protect the environment.

At the end of the workshop, guests were invited to examine their own soil samples from their home farms to apply the knowledge gained throughout the day. The Compost Council of Canada can be found online or email at info@compost.org.

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OSCIA and OMAFRA present soil management day

by Sebastian Belliard.

OMAFRA Soil Management Specialist Special to AgriNews ERNON — ThE EasTERN sOil MaNagEMENT Day ON ThuRs., aug. 10, aT VERNON VallEy FaRMs was a big succEss. OVER 40 pEOplE aTTENDED, REpREsENTiNg FaRMERs, iNDusTRy, aND cONsulTaNTs. It was organized and put on by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Soil Team staff in partnership with the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, and with support from agronomists and researchers in the region.

OMAFRA staff included Sebastian Belliard (Soil Management Specialist), Adam Gillespie and Jim Warren (Land Resource Specialists from the soil mapping survey), Nicole Rabe (Land Resource Specialist – precision agriculture), Deanna Nemeth (Horticulture Sustainability Specialist), and Adam Hayes (Soil Management Specialist – field crops).

Paul Sullivan of Sullivan Agro, and Prof. Joann Whalen from McGill also presented, and it would be remiss not to mention that Greg Millard of Vernon Valley Farms was a fantastic host.

The day was a good mix of sit-down presentations and hands-on, infield workshops and assessments. First, Adam Gillespie gave a presentation on the diversity of soils in Eastern Ontario, going into the geological history that explains how different soils form and how reading the landscape and using published soil reports can tell us a lot about soil characteristics we can expect to find in a given area. The soil survey is renewing soil maps in Ontario (starting with the Ottawa region and Peterborough County) so that this essential baseline information that farmers, consultants, and others need is as accurate and useful as possible. They will be sampling soils around Ottawa this fall in order to verify their models and will be contacting landowners to request access to properties so they can do this important work, led by Gillespie.

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Sullivan went into how to manage soil variability at the field scale. Among other things, he works with farmers to delineate management zones within fields where inherent soil characteristics (like texture and drainage) and management history create conditions that are distinctly different from other areas of the field, and advises them on how to manage those differences with different fertility programs, plant populations, and other management strategies.

After that, groups went into the field to three stations with soil pits that showed how different soils could be at depth within a single field. The first station taught proper soil texture evaluation and what that means for fertility, and water-holding capacity, and drainage. The second was about evaluating soil structure quality, and touched on why it’s important to provide a good environ-

ment for plant roots and soil biology, how management impacts structure, and how that structure influences essential soil functions like drainage and water movement even more than texture. The last stop was about organic matter and organic carbon, how different soils influence organic matter levels and carbon dynamics, how carbon is the food and fuel that makes the whole soil biological system run, and different options for organic amendments.

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Each participant received a sheet with instructions for performing and interpreting each assessment, and how those assessments are used. I talked about the development of the Ontario Soil Health Assessment, which was built, developed and evaluated by OMAFRA staff and University of Guelph researchers for Ontario conditions, and has so far

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Renewed hope for prison farms

by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer OLLINS BAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SAve Our PrISON FArmSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (SOPF) SuPPOrterS hAve BeeN hOLdINg A vIgIL At the eNtrANCe tO COLLINS BAY INStItutION everY mONdAY eveNINg SINCe the CAttLe were remOved FrOm the PrISON FArm ON Aug. 9, 2010, But theY Are hOPINg theY SOON wONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Need tO CONtINue theIr SeveN-YeAr PrOteSt. Supporters held the seventh anniversary vigil, Mon., Aug. 7, at the corner of Bath Rd. and Centennial Dr., Kingston, and with the federal government investigating the possible restoration of the prison farm program at Collins Bay and Joyceville Institutions, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anniversary vigil had special meaning. In May, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) appointed a prison farm advisory panel to prepare a proposal for the return of farming programs at the two Kingston-area prisons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Members of the citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; panel are very encouraged by the open and engaged discussions with CSC staff,â&#x20AC;? said Dianne Dowling, co-chair of the citizens advisory panel for the prison farms and a member of the SOPF organizing committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The panel met twice with CSC staff to discuss restoration of agricultural operations at the prison farms at Collins Bay and Joyceville Institutions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for two days in June and one day in early August. CSC staff members are preparing a report to be submitted to the Minister of Public Safety in September, outlining specific options.â&#x20AC;?

She said about 50 people attended the most recent vigil on Aug.7, showing their support for restoration of the prison farm program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As happens every week at the vigil, many people driving by honked their horns in support of the demonstration,â&#x20AC;? she told AgriNews in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Save Our Prison Farms campaign sincerely thanks the vigil-keepers for their amazing persistence in being at the site every Monday night since August, 2010.â&#x20AC;?

The persistence of people to keep vigil weekly for seven years illustrates the importance the public attaches to the prison farms program, especially in regions like the Kingston area where there are several prisons. The program closed officially on April 1, 2011, but effectively ended when the last herd of cattle was sold in August 2010. At each anniversary of the removal of the cattle, SOPF supporters joined a core group of vigil-keepers, to draw attention to the cancellation of the prison farm program in six federal minimum security prisons in Canada, and to show their support for restoration of the program. SOPF supporters campaigned for 18 months in 2009 and 2010 to keep the prison farms open, saying the farms provided an effective rehabilitation and employment training program for inmates, as well as producing millions of dollars of food for the prison system.

Post-doctoral student at York University Jessica Reeve wrote a major research paper for her Masters of Environmental Studies titled Kingston Prison Farms at Frontenac and Pittsburgh Correctional Institutions. In her executive summary she states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prison farms have been around since the establishment of correctional institutions in Canada. Many of the federally funded prisons had some kind of farm annex in their development plan or acquired substantial lands on which farming would be possible. This farmland was managed by prison staff, worked by the inmates, and produced food for the prison itself. The farms started as a way to ensure inmates worked hard during their time at the institution, and that they produced food for their own needs, but evolved over the years into a skills training and rehabilitation program using labour and employability as justification to produce food to meet institutional needs. Pittsburgh and Frontenac Correctional Institutions are part of a localized hub of correctional facilities in Kingston, Ont., that for several decades had fully operating farms complete with programming and employment opportunities for inmates. They had large operations that were able to offset the cost of food contracts with outside vendors for institutions across the province for milk, eggs, beef, poultry, and produce.â&#x20AC;?

Her case study produced several highlights. It stated that before the six farms were shut down between 2009

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Prison farms did not only benefit prisoners. The Pittsburgh Correctional Institution had an operating abattoir which had employed 10 inmates and five off-site workers. It processed animals for 300 small farms in the Kingston area. This is a community-wide loss, as the steadily decreasing numbers of small abattoirs, at a time when there are increased numbers of producers raising small flocks for specialty markets, is reaching crisis point

in much of rural Ontario.

The 900-acre Frontenac farm was the largest urban farm in Canada and housed a dairy operation, egg production operation, fruit and vegetable production, and a prize-winning breed of heritage cattle, all of which were essentially lost when the system was shut down.

Reeveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cast study indicated that prison farms provide beneficial employability and training opportunities, time management and responsibility skills, animal therapy, productive labour, physical exercise, access to nature, individual and team building work, and training in farm management and operation. It concludes that prison farms â&#x20AC;&#x153;have been proven to reduce recidivism and increase the likelihood for employment upon release for the inmates involved.â&#x20AC;?

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UniSeeds: The rise of hemp

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EaSTERn OnTaRIO. UniSeeds is a researcher and planting seed supplier that has partnered with ValleyBio, a seed genetics leader in Eastern Ontario.

As described on the website, â&#x20AC;&#x153;ValleyBio has established itself as the leading source for hemp seed genetics in Eastern Canada.

Our flagship variety â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ankaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was the first Ontario-developed hemp variety of the

Eastern Canada condition.â&#x20AC;?

Anka is by far the most popular of the seed varieties, however there is much more to consider when looking into hemp as a crop option.

In 2011, hemp tried to make a comeback in Eastern Ontario, but the initiative seemed to fizzle out due to regulations and tough working conditions, Bercier and agricultural technician Jean-Guy

Vaillancourt are working hard to raise awareness about the potential of the seed and give workshops on farming practices.

While hemp is difficult to farm, since it needs specific conditions and harvesting techniques, it has the potential to be incredibly lucrative due to the many markets available.

Bercier is on a team working to develop a solu Continued on page 17

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Hemp Continued from page 16 tion involving an attachment onto a combine which would give the farmer the ability to cut the plant at different levels to obtain the grain at the top and the fibres lower down the stock.

Hemp has many markets available to it. Hemp concrete made from hurd offers better insulation bringing more moisture out of the house. Bercier hopes to build 20 houses locally from the hemp concrete. He has already helped to build one.

Cannabidoil or CBD hemp oil is used to treat patients suffering from stroke, seizures and regulates the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state of balance. While this is still unavailable for production

The AgriNews September, 2017 Page 17 in Canada, Vaillancourt says the new marijuana laws may change that. As it stands the low-THC hemp oil can still be sent for processing in the U.S..

Hemp can be made into wild bird seed, but it is not permitted for livestock or domesticated animals as of right now. It also can be used to make hemp meal to attract wild animals for hunters.

Hempâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vast markets make it a crop Bercier is passionate about and he has been working with the crop for 10 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a new crop, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reinvent the wheel,â&#x20AC;? says Bercier. The company has been holding workshops to help farmers learn how to harvest and care for the crop.

It is an exciting time for the company, which is

working with a textile company by the name Logistics. Logistics is set to acquire a military contract to produce uniforms made from hemp fibre. UniSeeds has already applied one of their hemp fields to the program. As Vaillancourt explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hemp is more resilient, it breathes more and over time becomes softer allowing it to last longer.â&#x20AC;?

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County plowing match furrows ahead despite wet conditions

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“I think the day was enjoyed by all, except maybe the plowmen,” Barb Dowdall, secretary/treasurer of the Lanark County Plowmen’s Association commented in an email to The AgriNews following the

plowing match on Aug. 19. “Lanark County 4-H Association added many attractions. Lots of achievements.”

Organized by the plowmen’s association, this year’s match was hosted by Charlie, Evelyn, Marshall, Sarah and Braelei James at the James’ farm in Mississippi Mills.

Participating in his second match in Lanark County, Jean Guy Thivierge of Hammond was the winner of the antique class. He ended up being the only competitor to complete the class because of the wet conditions.

Continued on page 20

Dale Manson of the 4-H Plowing Club takes a quick look back to check on his progress as he commences plowing a plot as part of the club’s achievement day at the Aug. 19 Lanark County Plowing Match.

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The AgriNews September, 2017 Page 19 ducers from realizing the full potential of large-scale research; • Skilled labour shortages are potentially undermining Canada’s research capacity.

“The report includes key recommendations designed

to support agricultural research and innovation, make Canada more competitive, and support the idea that agriculture is an essential part of Canada’s future economic development.” said Serge Buy, AIC’s Chief Executive Officer, in

a media release.

Recommendations on policy frameworks, funding mechanisms, attracting private investments, participatory research and education are made throughout the report.

The report was partly

based on a research project funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

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Plowing match Continued from page 18 “I had a good friend to pull me out,” he remarked. “If it wasn’t for my friend, I would have quit.”

Regardless of the weather-related challenges this year, Thivierge says he enjoys the plowing. “It is a hobby and I like it.”

As part of the event, the plowmen’s association teamed up with the Lanark County 4-H Association for an Agriculture Day, in which various clubs took part.

Dowdall commended the 4-H Plowing Club for doing “a wonderful job considering the conditions.”

The secretary/treasurer of the plowmen’s association expressed appreciation to all those who helped to make this year’s plowing match a reality.

“A special thank you to the James’ family for the use of their land and all their hard work,” she noted, adding, “Thanks to the volunteers who worked the match, and to all who brought donations for the food bank.”

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Grenville Family Farm Day

by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer ECKSTON — Barry THOmpSON Of HECKSTON HOSTEd THE GrENvillE family farm day aT HiS SHOp ON THE dillaBOuGH rd. farm ON THurS., auG. 3.

Thompson farms with his brother Garry, who couldn’t be there that day, but Barry said that wasn’t a problem. “All I did was sweep the floor of the shop,” he said, “just provided the building.” The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, OMAFRA, Dairy Producers of Canada and other sponsors supplied the organizing and food.

Bryan Cook, secretarytreasurer for Grenville OSCIA, coordinated and acted as MC of the event, which included short, informative presentations.

Topics included Soil Texture and Tillage. About one-third of the attendees listened to the presenters and the remainder, including children, visited with each other.

“It’s a social,” said

H Lanark County Princess of the Furrow Elizabeth Dowdall was out in the fields taking in the plowing competition. Adrianna Dowdall was named the county’s new Queen of the Furrow.

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Doug Leach of Bathurst House Creations had on display at the Aug. 19 plowing match some of his tractor lookalike creations fashioned from old sewing machines.

Happy hosts

Rhys Brownrigg and Barry Thompson welcomed guests to the Grenville Family Farm Day hosted at the farm of Barry and Garry Thompson on Aug. 3.

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Sebastian Belliard, a soil management specialist with OMAFRA, was a recent speaker at both the Grenville Family Farm Day on Aug. 3 and the OSCIA’s Eastern Ontario Soil Management Day Aug. 10, at Vernon Valley Farms.

Vetter photos Thompson. “The neighbours have a chance to have lunch and get together with some

technical people with information and expertise.”

About 60 people attended.

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BroadGrain customer appreciation day

by Kalynn Sawyer Helmer AgriNews Staff Writer RINSTON – The BROadGRaIN’S

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SeafORTh, ONT. Some of the work done at the site includes storing grain, drying grain, processing food-grade soybeans and processing dry beans as of this year.

Matt Dale, Wheat Merchandiser, and Jeff James, Soybean Trader, gave

short speeches before a catered lunch by Winchelsea Events was served up for the guests to enjoy. James explained, “Export demand [for soybeans] has continued to shine from this part of the country and is impressive across Ontario and Quebec.

IP beans protein is what is seen as being favourable overseas and there is growth into the Chinese market for food-grade beans in the next few years.” He went on to say that IP beans take up about 10 to 15 per cent of the

acres in the area. “Global demand is growing and there is an opportunity to have a higher value to grow on a farm.”

BroadGrain Brinston will be the first processor to process dry beans in Eastern Ontario, a potentially lucrative market for farmers. The dry beans require a shorter season and so can be worked into rotation planted in late June, and harvested at the end of August or beginning of September. The field may then be used for winter

wheat.

After lunch and speeches were wrapped up, guests had the opportunity to tour the facility which applies a cleaner, colour sorter and gravity separation. Plant Manager Andrew Miller explained the cleaner works with 10 to 12 tons per hour.

Once ready to ship a 20-foot container can be loaded in approximately 20 minutes.

The facility is completely automated and is supported by the latest in grain cleaning technology which allows for operational flexibility.

The branch hopes to hold a customer appreciation event approximately every two years to foster their relationships with their customers. To learn more about the IP programs the BroadGrain facility offers, visit their website at www.broadgrain.com, or contact the staff at 10803 Cook Road, RR#2, Brinston, Ont., K0E 1C0, or by phone at 613-652-2069.

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The two Georges, Nesbitt and Tackaberry received special plaques during the Athens Truck Show Aug. 20, from Vintage Iron & Traditions of Eastern Ontario in tribute for their purchases over two years of model tractors at the Ottawa Valley Farm Show’s annual auction for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Tackaberry paid $4,000 for his collectable only to be topped last March by Nesbitt who paid $4,005 for his.

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GreenTech helps bring land levelling and top management to Eastern Ontario

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mOThER NATuRE. The importance of surface drainage and land levelling comes from more storm periods recorded in recent years and the increased risk of snow and melt periods in the area.

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Ludwig Bretzler Jr. of Crysler and Guillaume Bercier of St. Isidore are two Ontario farmers who are relatively new to the practice but have high praise for the effectiveness on the fields.

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by GPS, the information is taken to a company like GreenTech. The company makes a plan, based on the data provided to modify the field in order to provide the most efficient paths for water to exit the field. If the owner accepts the proposed changes, they are then input into a computer attachment on a tractor and blade, which calculates the exact amount of soil needing to move from one location to another. The system is relatively easy to use and soil is never taken long distances, but kept in mapped out areas.

Bretzler has been optimizing his fields through land levelling for two years with the AMW management software partnered with GreenTech. Bretzler drives over the field to create the topographical map and works closely with GreenTech to create the prescription. He has used this process in fields with low spots where tile drainage cannot manage the heavy water loads.

As Bouchard explained, tile drainage works for water that has infiltrated the

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In previous years, Bretzler tried to augment the field dynamics by moving soil by eye, but that’s just guess work. “I believe it will be the next step after tile drainage. If you can get the bulk to just run off, it makes a huge difference.

Tile drainage and top management complement each other,” he concluded.

Surface drainage can also help in the survival of winter crops and can reduce or even avoid erosion by decreasing the water speed during runoff. This was one of Bercier’s main reasons for accessing the program.

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Good surface drainage requires management of the whole field. There should

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Glen Haven customer appreciation day

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Maturity was a big issue for MacGregor who expects there will be a lot of corn left on the field through the winter. As it stands, fields are around three weeks behind schedule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good corn tassels early July, but we saw tasseling late July, early August,â&#x20AC;? explained MacGregor. While beans mature by the day, corn needs the heat of summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harvest will likely be around Halloween. Farming is a little bit like going to a casino, you just have to spin the wheel and see,â&#x20AC;? he con-

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Dekalb Agronomist Sean Cochrane led the info session for guests. He reiterated the sentiment that crops are delayed, however it is a good time of year to start looking at harvest order. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stand-ability is a big factor to consider even over maturity,â&#x20AC;? said Cochrane. Heat units are looking to be around average. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heat units have really just become a marketing tool. We need to look at solar radiation and other factors.â&#x20AC;?

Also on the rise are a second generation of aphids but as long as numbers stay low, they should not have a big effect around this time of year. On that note, Cochrane ensured that fungicides were past their effectiveness date but Dekalb is testing on all their hybrids in two-year long studies. The findings suggests fungicides are worth it on average but with certain hybrids that are already resistant, results would vary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fungicide will not make a poor field good, it will make a good field better,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Sean Cochrane, Agronomist with Dekalb, spoke to guests of Glen Haven Farms during the customer appreciation day on Thurs., Aug. 24.

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Lydia Parker and Jen McDougal of Climate FieldView gave a short presentation to guests of the Glen Haven Farms customer appreciation day. The women showed guests the benefits of the data collection and organization device.

white mould is a big problem this year with the weather creating habitable environments for the mould.

Cochrane estimated white mould could be found in every soybean field in Eastern Ontario. This is because the crop needs 32 Celsius and dry in the canopy to kill the mould.

The summer has not seen a day like that as of yet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you find white mould, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch it,â&#x20AC;? insisted Cochrane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you can manage no till, do so. If it gets under the soil it can live there for up to seven years.â&#x20AC;? He continued that it is best to keep the disease on top as much as possible to lessen the chances of infection next year.

Just before lunch, Jen McDougal and Lydia Parker of Climate FieldView made a short presentation to guests about the digital platform which maintains all field data in one convenient place.

The program helps to uncover valuable field insights and prioritize for maximum efficiency. The device works with most equipment brands and is generally â&#x20AC;&#x153;plug in and play. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very simple to use,â&#x20AC;? explained Cochrane.

Lunch was a pig roast served up by Arden Carruthers and guests were invited to stay and mingle as long as they liked.

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Antique wheels in motion keeps rolling old-school

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A team of horses hard at work demonstrating original horse power for the annual Harvest Days Demonstrations, Aug. 19-20.

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Antique Wheels in Motion owns 20 acres of crop land on County Road 18 that it uses to plant and harvest crops relying on horse power in the original sense of the word, on belts and pulleys, on steam and on plenty of elbow grease.

While traffic through the site was steady, club cofounder and president Al Slater said participation has been declining with technology-savvy younger farmers showing less interest in the way things used to be.

Membership sits at about 60.

Slater predicted that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to become increasingly difficult to put on such demonstrations in future years, with less heritage equipment available and fewer people who know how to operate it.

Old machines of every description were on hand, including tractors, grinders, binders, plows, and threshers. Some are the personal property of members but many are owned in common by the club and stored in a 42 x 50-foot building on the site.

Members have collectively purchased some vintage machines and others are donated. Most are

restored by members and shown during Harvest Days.

Formed in 1996 by an enthusiastic group of agricultural equipment collectors in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville counties, club members using heritage machinery cultivate and plant the site. The crops â&#x20AC;&#x201C; wheat, corn and hay â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are tended by members to

ensure a good yield. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We held our event here for about 11 years and decided to buy the site when the owner said it might not be available much longer,â&#x20AC;?

Slater explained. While Harvest Days is the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual showcase event, it puts on other displays during the summer at various regional fairs and festivals.

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Home away from home Continued from page 8 The new alumni centre would mimic in style and colour buildings already in place and would be located directly across from the agricultural hall. One conspicuous feature would be that the new building would be windowless to allow for more wall storage space.

In a partnership with the Lombardy Agricultural Society, some expenses of operating the building would be traded off in return for part-time use by the society, said director John Joynt who has been working with Burgess on the concept.

Burgess has been surveying alumni to determine if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an interest in pursuing the new home which would require pledges to get up and running. Financial contributors would receive tax receipts and their names displayed inside the building. The project could get a nudge forward Aug. 26.

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Logjam Continued from page 8 president of the SDG Chapter. Most tree cutting is undertaken by farmers looking to expand cropland, and her members feel the same reluctance to step in the way of them increasing their incomes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But action must be taken,â&#x20AC;? she adds, noting that the region is below forest cover recommended for a healthy environment and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no end in sight. The water table may be high this year, but in a drought, healthy widespread forests

and wetlands are the sponges conserving water resources.

To help bring attention to their concerns, the SDG Chapter plans to meet with various municipal councils.

Meanwhile, those municipalities are hoping the Agricultural Forest Cover Committee will relieve some of the pressure against clearcutting. Almost all of the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members represent the agricultural community.

The clearcutting issue represents quite a pileup of interests and approaches, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be tough grind to sort it all out to everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satisfaction.

www.agrinews.ca believe that Kemptville College will return to its glory days when almost everything of importance to Eastern Ontario farming passed through its doors. The provincial government and U of G are conspiring against such an outcome.

A building at Lombardy would be the next best thing to actually being thereâ&#x20AC;Ś on campus, that is. The Lombardy Agricultural Society is an efficient organization run by people dedicated to the Eastern Ontario agricultural community and its causes.

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Prison farms Continued from page 15 logical answer, only an ideological one. Widely considered a questionable move by the Conservative federal government at the time, even by Conservative supporters, the reasoning for shutting down the program was never satisfactorily explained, other than a potential appeal to the hard right base expressing a desire to punish criminals. In 2010, Christa McGregor, of the CSC, was quoted in Macleanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saying that few ex-inmates were obtaining work in agriculture, and that the CSC was spending about $4-million annually on the program.

As usual, however, there is more value in some programs than simply dollar-value, and $4million is a drop in the federal government budget bucket. And if it results in some effective rehabilitation, it would take very few successes to offset the costs, compared to ex-

inmates reoffending and ending up back in the prison system, which is extremely expensive.

The damage caused by the years without operating prison farms, to communities, to inmates, to the prisonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; level of selfsufficiency, and to the genetics produced in their herds, gardens and flocks, is immeasurable, and will likely never be accurately gauged. However, if the current Liberal federal government does not want to be tarnished with the same unkind brush it will need to work quickly to reinstate prison farm programs, and will hopefully listen to the expert advice of people involved in those programs in the past, including members of SOPF. The CSC itself supports prison farms, and the other co-chair of the panel is Kelly Hartle, who is acting CEO of CORCAN, which is responsible for business and training programs within the CSC.

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Proposed changes to federal taxation bad news for farm corporations OFA commentary aRE INCoRpoRaTED.

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The proposed changes, slated to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2018 will increase uncertainty and complexity to any farm business that has decided to incorporate, and result in increased accounting fees for incorporated farmers to comply with the changes.

The federal government has opened up consultation on the changes until Oct. 2. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) has several concerns about the changes and the process, and is working together with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and other stakeholder groups across all industries to change the direction of the proposal.

Tillage demo brings out dealer, potential customers

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You couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really ask for greater dealer participation, Harbers observed. While he would have appreciated a few more farmers, he understood many were busy with outside work on such a rare dry day in this Eastern Ontario summer.

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merchants rolled out their latest tillage attachments, many of them valued in the $100,000 range. Complete with barbecue lunch, the event took place at Triple J Farms west of Winchester, conveniently located close to one of the participating dealers, Weagant Farm Supplies.

While many of the 150 farmers on hand had no immediate plans of buying a new disk harrow or ripper, they appreciated the chance to get down and sift through the end result created by the different brands.

Long-time Dundas Soil & Crop member John Roosendaal was typical of farmers who turned up at

Tillage Demo, taking the opportunity to see the latest equipment at work.

Roosendaal said Dundas was one of the larger and more active Soil & Crop branches in the eastern region.

The Dundas chapter of OSCIA is indeed a busy one.

In July, members were off on their annual tour which this time took them to Moncton by air and then by coach to Prince Edward Island. Over five days, the group toured 18 farms and businesses, including Atlantic Soy Corp., a division of Sevita International based at Inkerman. Another interesting stop was at North Atlantic Organics which

OFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns focus on three things â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the need to extend the consultation period, the need to rethink some of the proposals in the changes and the need to engage in meaningful consultation with farm businesses across Canada to fully understand the impact the changes may have on family-owned and operated businesses in Canada.

As part of the changes, any farmer who has incorporated their business would need to review their succession and tax plan with an advisor to ensure they make sense under the proposed changes. The tax implications of not being in compliance with the new rules could be severe.

processes storm-tossed seaweed into feed supplements and soil conditioners. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all work and no play, with members taking time for a little deep sea fishing and a visit to the iconic Anne of Green Gables attractions. All of their money wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spent on the trip: at its Spring Update Meeting, the association handed out close to $2,000 to various worthy causes.

Tillage Demo was the regional associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main summer field event, a fitting followup to last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ontario Forage Expo, also held close to Weagantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to mix it up this year, try something a lit-

The changes would also penalize farmers who choose to transfer their incorporated farm business to the next generation. It is completely unacceptable that legislative changes would make it easier and lower the tax bill for a farmer to sell their farm business share to a stranger, rather than their own child or grandchild.

OFA is encouraging all members to contact their local MP and let them know that the proposed changes, as currently worded, will be devastating to Ontario farm families and their farm operations and must be changed.

The full consultation paper and draft legislation are posted at ofa.on.ca.

Andrew Harbers at the DSCIA Tillage Demo Day, Aug. 17, at Triple J Farms, just west of Winchester.

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On display all day Saturday was the poultry barn, where visitors could view over 550 birds that were entered into competi-

ages. Some of the more popular rides were the bumper cars, merry-go-round, and Area 51. The midway also offered many carnival games and concessions.

A dedicated childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tent was set up where kids could colour, have their face painted, or be amazed by a comedic magic show.

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Event organizer Ross Dillabaugh explained that the judging took place on Friday, and that there were approximately 70 classes represented within the competition. The overall grand champion for the event was a Black Cochin.

4-H was well represented als with dairy competitions on Saturday and a beef show on Sunday. Also on Saturday was the Pre 4-

Saddle & Harness Show was the traditionally competitive option with a variety of classes of horses being shown. The second show was the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fun Pony & Horse Show.

This event included participants aged 6 to 15. Event organizers Quinlan Dangerfield and Sarah Holmes explained that the primary purpose of the event was to see the children laughing and playing

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Hemp Continued from page 17 Bercier hopes that by helping introduce the hemp seed and farming practices, he can create a monoculture in which the profits are spread out to everyone involved. He explained his desire for everyone to exchange ideas and create a new way of doing business.

Over the last 10 years, Bercier has improved the seed and techniques but more still needs to be done.

“Hemp doesn’t need pesticides, they have a natural protection. It also grows very fast in June and July but needs the right technique. It is easy to plant but difficult to harvest,” said Bercier.

Bercier will attend a conference in Ottawa later this year in which he will be presenting his findings on hemp seeds. This is the first year that UniSeeds has sold the hemp seed and has sold out already. Bercier estimates around 6,000 acres in Quebec and some in Ontario as well as 4,000 to 5,000 acres sold in the U.S. “We want to compare with competitors, evaluate better varieties and determine what is best for farmers. It’s about respecting people and being responsible for future generations,” said Bercier.

Luckily, the regulations for growing hemp are becoming more lenient. In order to get licensing, a farm will need to identify that hemp will be grown on the farm but will not have to detail where until after planting. Once planted the field must be mapped and explained how it was planted and for which market the hemp is intended for.

Although there is now more leniency that market should change. It is currently required that the farmer or planter can have no criminal record.

“The education side is so important,” said Vaillancourt. This is to help neighbours and locals realize the field is an extremely low THC-hemp that will have no effect when ingested and is therefore neither dangerous nor practical to steal.

Hemp grain sells for approximately $4,000 per metric ton of organic, $1,800 conventional and $0.5 or $0.45 a kilo for straw.

The organic seeding rate is around 44 kilos per hectare, a heavier seeding is required for organic. Fiber makes up 25 kilos per hectare and grain 14 kilos per hectare.

For more information about hemp seeds, contact www.valleybio.com.

South Mountain Fair

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Crowds gathered to watch the blast from the past Hand Milking Contest.

Dianne Scheepers (centre) won out of 12 competitors by having the heaviest pail (4 lbs) at the end of the one-minute timed contest.

Poultry Show Volunteers

Organizers and volunteers for the Poultry Show stand together in front of the poultry barn. From left, Doug Boyd, Danny Johnstone, Walter Patterson, Ross Dillabaugh, and Daniel Trumper.

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Continued from page 32 A special highlight of the weekend’s festivities was the Heritage Parade that took place Saturday afternoon. Alan McCaslin, one of the volunteers for the parade, said that they were expecting approximately 40 floats. He went on to explain that the special event was meant to celebrate the 125th year of the fair, and that participants were asked to bring anything that would take spectators back in time.

Entrants varied from antique cars, to tractors, and decorated horses and wagons, to a float carrying previous Dairy Princesses of Dundas.

Another anticipated event for the day that drew a large audience was the Hand Milking Contest. There were 12 competitors, and three heats. Participants were randomly assigned a cow, and they had one minute to extract as much milk as they could from their cow. Once the minute was over, their

pails were weighed. The winning competitor was Dianne Scheepers, with four pounds of milk.

Scheepers beat her next closest opponent by over half a pound.

The fun continued on into the evening with a pizza-eating contest, mutton busting for brave youngsters, and a full night of musical entertainment planned. Ben and Noel Haggard – “The Strangers” – led things off, followed by Sticks N Stones. The musical entertainment on Sunday was not to be missed either beginning with Unwound, followed

by Gail Gavan, and closing off the Fair was country music star Tanya Tucker.

When asked how he felt about the attendance at the Fair so far, firstyear Fair President Alan Burns said, “I haven’t seen all the numbers, but I know our gates person has been run ragged keeping up with the wrist bands that they’re going through at all the gates.”

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supply companies sponsoring the show gave away about $8,000 worth of livestock husbandry products, which organizers said owners really appreciate.

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4-H Calf Club members from the region met in Metcalfe on Sat., Aug 5, to attend Stock Show University and learn cattle showing techniques. Shown here in front, from left, are Dante Farina, Kylee Gray, and Samantha Hamilton; at back from left are Gracie Hamilton, Justin McCafferty, Alex Stone, Abby Bedor, Teegan Hamilton, and Dominic Knapp.

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4-H Regional judging in Russell

by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer UsseLL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JUdges WeLCOMed 4-h CLUb MeMbeRs TO The RUsseLL fAiRgROUnds On sAT., JULy 29 fOR A JUdging COMpeTiTiOn. The RegiOnAL finALs

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The entries that members applied their judging instructions to included beef heifers, Ayrshire dairy calves, eggs, cucumbers, hay, and chocolate chip cookies, so there was a wide range. The members also did an identification quiz and a general quiz.

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Jasmine Uhr of Stormont, Haleigh Jo TePlate of Stormont, Olivia Leroux of Glengarry and AudrĂŠe Brisson of Russell were some of about 60 4-H members who took part in the regional judging event in Russell on Sat., July 29.

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Prescott County, were eligible to enter.

Some participants were asked if they intended to become judges in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No,â&#x20AC;? said AudrĂŠe Brisson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a fun day out.â&#x20AC;? However, many of the participants enter competitions themselves, both with 4-H and at fairs, and some said knowing what judges look for would give them an advantage in the future.

About 60 members took part.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have numerous community-minded partners providing funding to projects to help reduce landowner costs,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Danford, RVCA Forestry Program Manager in the news release last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We offer planting programs that make it easy and affordable for landowners.â&#x20AC;?

To be eligible, landowners need at least one acre of land and are willing to plant a minimum of 500 trees. If you have the space, RVCA can help get trees growing on your land for 15 cents a tree. Since 1983, RVCA has planted over 5.25 million trees on private property for landowners. Tree planting is one the most practical ways to take care of our watershed and the wider environment. Trees improve local biodiversity by providing shelter for birds and wildlife, while at the same time providing us with windbreaks, screening and shade. Forests act as a major filter and cleansing system for water that soaks into the ground and feeds our wells and underground water systems. The program is made possible thanks to the RVCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18 member municipalities, the City of Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Acre Program, the Province of Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 Million Tree Program, Forest Ontario, and numerous private businesses and watershed residents who donate to the tree planting program.

For more information or to book a free site visit, contact Danford at 613-692-3571. or 1-800-387-5304, ext. 1175.

Forest stewards Continued from page 35 SNC also offers a Woodlot Advisory Service for landowners in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through our Woodlot Advisory Service, a Forestry Technician will visit your property and suggest management options based on a preliminary site evaluation.

Landowners will also receive information about programs, such as the Ontario Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program, which can provide a tax reduction of up to 75 per

cent on privately-owned residential land in Ontario,â&#x20AC;? said SNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Forestry Technician Cheyene Brunet.

Landowners who complete an Ontario Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program plan may also be eligible for a subsidy of up to $500 through SNC. For more information: Holly Stemberger, 1-877984-2948, ext. 288, hstemberger@nation.on.ca ; and on Tree Planting, Woodlot Advisory Service, and Ontario Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program: Cheyene Brunet, ext. 295, cbrunet@nation.on.ca.

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Navan Fair results

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Some of the results are: Belgian 4-horse hitch: 1st – Pro-Motion driven by Pierre Gagnon; 2nd – Maple Creek Belgians driven by Stewart and Brian Crabb; 3rd – Foster Farm driven by Chris Kelly.

Percheron 4-horse hitch: 1st – Grier Family Percherons driven by Todd Greer; 2nd – Allanholme Farms driven by John Borer; 3rd – Panaten Percherons driven by Paul and Greg Bourbonnais.

Clydesdale or Shire 4horse hitch: 1st – George’s Clydesdales driven by Allen George; 2nd – McLaughlin Clydesdales driven by Ray and Amber McLaughlin.

Belgian 6-horse hitch: 1st – Pro-Motion driven by Pierre Gagnon; 2nd – Maple Creek Belgians driven by Stewart and Brian Crabb.

Percheron 6-horse hitch: 1st – Grier Family Percherons driven by Todd Grier; 2nd – Panaten Percherons driven by Paul and Greg Bourbonnais; 3rd – Allanholme Farms driven by John Borer.

4-horse Hitch: 1st – Allanholme Farm - John

Borer; 2nd – Nesbitt’s Riverview Farm - Gordon Nesbitt; 3rd – Trout Brook Farm Belgians - Michael and Claudine Smith.

North American 6-horse Hitch Classic Series: 1st – George’s Clydesdales, - Allen George; 2nd – Grier Farm Percherons, - Todd Grier; 3rd – Pro-Motion - Pierre Gagnon.

Commercial 4-horse Hitch: 1st – Ferme Dajo Aumond; 2nd – Shawn Findlay.

Clydesdale 6-horse Hitch: 1st – George’s Clydesdales Allen George; 2nd – McLaughlin Clydesdales Ray and Amber McLaughlin.

Best Canadian Clydesdale Stallion: Gor-Day Seattle Thor – Carson Farms and Auction - David and Margo Carson.

Best Canadian Clydesdale Mare: Carson’s Glamour Girl – same.

Team of Purebred Belgian Mares: 1st – Maple Creek Belgians - Stewart and Brian Crabb; 2nd – Nesbitt’s Riverview Farm - Gordon Nesbitt.

Team of Purebred Percheron Mares: Allanholme Farms - John Borer.

Horse pull light class: 1st – Brent Gabie; 2nd – Jonathan Robert.

Horse pull heavy class: 1st – Brent Gabie; 2nd – Vince Perrier.

Beef Simmental and Angus: Grand Champion Bull – Cedarview - Tyler Fulton; Reserve – Ironhill Chiara Farina; Grand Champion Female and Reserve Female – Hawthorne Farms - Barry Stewart. continued on page 40

Horse Pull Competition

The Navan Fair is one of the region’s earlier agricultural fairs. The Horse Pull Competition, Aug. 13, in the Outdoor Ring at the Navan Fair, included both Light and Heavy Classes. Vetter photos

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Curdfest celebrates cheese, agriculture and summer

by Candice Vetter AgriNews Staff Writer T. ALBERT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FRom WEd., Aug. 16 To Sun., Aug. 20, ThE LiTTLE viLLAgE oF ST. ALBERT BEcAmE FiLLEd WiTh ThouSAndS oF viSi-

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anniversary of Confederation, the festival also featured 10 actors roaming the grounds as historical characters. Another new item this year was a very popular balloon jump,

in which participants jumped from a scissor lift onto a giant inflatable bag.

The wine and cheese tasting event on Saturday afternoon was also a big hit, with hundreds attending.

Navan Fair continued from page 39 Jersey Show Jr. Exhibitor and Breeder: Michael and Monique Bols and Jenna James; Premier Exhibitor and Breeder â&#x20AC;&#x201C; same.

Holstein Show: 1st â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Breeders Herd â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Delcreek Farms - Jonathan Rylaarsdam; 2nd â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Knonaudale Farms - Chris Uhr; 3rd â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wenalt Holsteins - Diane Powell.

Culinary Arts: Baking Queen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Victoria CoteDasilva; Baking Princess â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dominique Deschamps.

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Stormont/Glengarry 4-H Judging Day

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Winners for Glengarry County were: Novice 9-11 years old: 1st - Evelyn Cumming and Madison MacRae (tie); 2nd - Cassie MacIntosh; 3rd - Emmett Leroux.

Junior 12-14 years old: 1st - Pierre-Luc Hurtubise; 2nd - Katherine Thomson; 3rd - Isabella Poirier.

Intermediate 13-17 years old: 1st - Olivia Leroux; 2nd - Brenna Thomson; 3rd

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Williamstown Fair marks 206 years as Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest annual fair

by Kalynn Sawyer Helmer AgriNews Staff Writer ILLIAMSTOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The WILLIAMSTOWN FAIr hAS beeN

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The Eair is attended by hundreds, even thousands each year and hosts a full schedule of activities and attractions to enjoy.

One of the Fair directors Karen Dixon explained that the committee finds great pride in their many local vendors and clubs who set up shop around the grounds, like the hockey and skating clubs which offer a barbecue and ice cream to help augment registration fees for the local kids wanting to get involved in community sports.

Tons of midway rides were enjoyed by kids of all ages and the baby contest continues to grow every year as one of the more popular events.

Attendees get the chance to learn about agriculture at the many information booths, including the heritage livestock tent where members of the Heritage Livestock Club bring their animals for visitors to see and learn about the important species and the maple sugar shack by Wightmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sugar Bush with samples of maple butter and maple sugar. Some of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maple sugar has even travelled as far as Antarctica.

The Heritage tent is by far one of the most interesting agricultural attractions at the fair. It was made possible through the support of the fair board and has been present at the fair for six years. Run by the Heritage Livestock Club of Eastern Ontario, the tent offers one of the largest displays of heritage animals in Canada.

Member and organizer Ron Eamer

explained that nearly three quarters of the fairgoers travel through the tent during the weekend and often young farmers make livestock decisions for their own farms right there in the tent.

Experts are on hand to explain the background and history of the animal. As their information packets explain, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are a group of like-minded individuals, formerly known as the Eastern Ontario Chapter of Rare Breeds Canada. We share a common goal of conserving heritage livestock and poultry by encouraging farmers to raise heritage livestock, educating about heritage livestock, helping out members to source registered heritage livestock to raise and helping members to establish niche markets for their livestock and poultry products.â&#x20AC;?

Many of the animals have played a key role in Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural history and

must be preserved for their genetic integrity. Eamer went on to note, many breeds and genetics are used to capitalize on product and quantity is considered over quality.

However, the club believes these breeds â&#x20AC;&#x153;more than make up for that time [to raise] with quality of meat they produce. They are, generally speaking, hardy easy to raise, disease resistant, longer lived and good mothers.â&#x20AC;?

Some of the livestock on display included, Icelandic Sheep, Barbados black bellied sheep and a White Galloway Cattle.

The club will host another display in September at the Russell Fair and for those interested in learning more can visit www.heritagelivestockclub.com.

The agricultural shows continued throughout the weekend rounding out the Continued on page 43

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Williamstown Fair Continued from page 42 winners list. Glengarry Holstein Show winners were: Grand Champion Lochdale Goldwyn Martini; Reserve Grand Champion -Kirklea Denzal Jiffy Cake; Honourable Grand Champion - Cherry Crest Dartmouth; and Highest Composite BCA Cow - Kirklea Devans Remark Ramsey.

4-H Dairy Winners were: Grand Champion Showman - Kelsey MacIntosh; Reserve Champion Showman Katherine Thomson; Honourable Mention Brenna MacDonald.

Eastern Ontario Horse Pull winners included: Heavy Pull - 1st Brent Gabie, 2nd Alex

Thiabault, 3rd Vince Perrier; Light Pull - 1st Brent Gabie, 2nd Shawn Gabie, 3rd Jonathan Robert.

Maple Syrup winners Amateur Class: -1st Appledale Farms; Pleasure Class-Producers DisplaySue & Steve Derochie; Champion Syrup ProducerFarlinger/Ledoux; Champion Sugar Maker Sue & Steve Derochie; Commercial Class: Champion Syrup Producer - Debbie Zoeller; Champion Sugar Maker Wightman SugarBush.

The full Fair weekend was a huge hit once again with a lot of credit deserved by the volunteers and committee members.

Barbados black bellied sheep

The Barbados black bellied sheep were one of the many livestock breeds on display in the heritage livestock tent at the Williamstown Fair.

Sawyer Helmer photo

White Galloway

The White Galloway was a popular attraction at the Heritage Livestock tent and can reach heights between 4.5 feet for males and 4 feet for females with weights of around 1,790 lbs for males and 1,250 lbs for females. Ron Eamer estimated the bull shown to be close to 2,000 lbs.

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The oldest antique

Charles Osborne of Bainsville brought his three horse power gas engine International â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mâ&#x20AC;? to be displayed at the Williamstown Fair. The machine last used in 1939 was likely built around 1910 before the use of tractors or hydro. The engine was used to chop wood and milk cows.

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