HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-01-26, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012.
Junior Farmers look back at year that was
For the Huron Junior Farmers
2011 was a busy year! To start the
year off, the group hosted a new
members bowling night on Jan. 16,
2011 at the Seaforth Bowling Alley,
which welcomed six new members
into the club. On Feb. 5, 2011, the
Huron County Junior Farmers
hosted Winter Games. Winter
Games is a provincial event in which
counties from across Ontario
compete in sports such as:
basketball, volleyball, dodgeball,
badminton and curling. The event
was finished off with a dance in
Holmesville. Also in February
members took part in a Learn to Curl
Jitney in Seaforth.
March is always a month the
members look forward to. In March
the Huron Junior Farmers attended
the Junior Farmers Association of
Ontario annual general meeting and
banquet in London, where Rachel
Haney was nominated and voted in
as the 2011-2012 Community and
International Programs Director,
Samantha Klaver was awarded an
exchange to Wales and the club was
awarded the Most Successful New
Member Recruitment Activity. In
April the group helped the Seaforth
Horticultural Society and the Lung
Association with their Annual
Breath of Spring. May and June
brought nice weather for roadside
cleanups.
Through the months of June, July
and August the group had various
members out helping and
participating in the Kinburn
Foresters Supper, an ice cream booth
at the Steve Greene Concert in
Clinton, Mud Volleyball in Paisley,
ran Huron County 4-H Association’s
Go for the Gold and attended
JFAO’s Fifth Annual Golf
Tournament in Guelph followed by
the Ambassador’s Banquet
celebrating incoming and outgoing
exchanges and helped organize. Also
in August they had several
volunteers out helping at P.L.A.Y.
(Positive Life Active You) organized
by 4H and the Junior Farmers
Association of Ontario in Listowel.
For a week later on in August, the
Huron Junior Farmers hosted
incoming exchange delegates from
England, Northern Ireland, Wales,
Germany and Austria. During their
stay, the delegates were given tours
of farms and facilities Huron County
can boast to call their own such as:
Thompsons, Ice Culture, the Walton
Trans Can, Steenbeek’s Dairy and
Broiler Breeder Farm, Bennett’s
Beef Farm, Robinson’s Maple Syrup
and the Goderich Gaol and Museum
to name a few.
At the end of August the Huron
Junior Farmers attended the
Celebration of Agriculture Banquet
in Belgrave, where the group
congratulated the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture on its 70th
anniversary and the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture on its 75th
anniversary. The club also sold ice
cream at the Huron County Plowing
Match. Congratulations to our
Provincial Director, Samantha
Klaver as she was crowned the
2011-2012 Huron County Queen of
the Furrow at the 2011 Huron
County Plowing Match.
At the beginning of September the
group helped out at the Seaforth Fall
Fair and had a successful dance. In
October several members went to
Markham to compete in Autumn
Profile hosted by the York Junior
Farmers. Autumn Profile is an
agriculture related skills competition
where clubs compete in various
competitions such as: livestock
judging, crop judging, automotive
competition and so on. On Saturday,
Nov. 19, 2011 at the Blyth
Community Centre the Huron Junior
Farmers welcomed friends and
alumni to come out for a Winter
Waltz Dinner and Dance. It was a
great evening and members look
forward to next year touching base
with even more alumni.
November was one of the busier
months for the Huron Junior
Farmers. Rachel and David Haney
hosted two Welsh delegates, Richard
Wilding and Dylan Bowen for a
week. What a busy week it was. It is
amazing how much of the county the
members got to see when showing
guests around. Along with the
delegates two members attended the
Ontario Young Farmers Forum
(OYFF) in Toronto. OYFF is a great
networking opportunity for young
farmers between the ages of 18-40 to
come together with other young
farmers from across Ontario and
listen to speakers and network. On
Nov. 26, 2011 several members
attended Sing Swing in Drayton
hosted by the Wellington Junior
Farmers. Sing Swing is a skills
competition where Junior Farmer
clubs from across Ontario come
together to compete in: dancing,
singing, public speaking, baking,
preserves, quilting and the list goes
on.
In December the club had its
annual Christmas potluck party
and spent an evening putting
together the affiliation report of what
the group has accomplished in
2011.
What a great year 2011 was and
2012 is only going to get better for
the Huron Junior Farmers. On Jan.
15, 2012 the club held its Annual
General Meeting and voted in their
2012 executive; Congratulations to
Samantha Klaver - President; Matt
Van Miltenburg - Vice President;
Lisa Nethercott - Secretary; Rachel
Haney - Treasurer; Jacquelyn
Denham - Social Director and
Margaret Vincent - Agriculture
Director.
Below is a list of the upcoming
events for the Huron Junior Farmers.
They look forward to meeting you.
• Jan. 29, 3 p.m. New Member
Bowling afternoon at Molesworth
Bowling Lanes
• Feb. 20, Ice Rental Afternoon
(email huronjf@jfao.on.ca for
details)
• Feb. 4, Winter Games, Kawartha
JF, Lindsay, Ontario
• Feb. 7-9, Toronto Farm Show
• March 3, Farm Tours,
Kawartha/Peterborough Area
• March 17, Rocklyn Hockey
Tournament, Rocklyn
• March 30-April 1, March
Conference, Peterborough
If you have questions or want to
learn more, check out the group on
Facebook, “Huron Junior Farmers”
or e-mail huronjf@jfao.on.ca for
more details.
Total receipts for Brussels
Livestock for the week ending Jan.
20 were 1,777 cattle, 296 lambs and
goats. On Tuesday fed steers and
heifers sold $2 to $3 higher. Choice
steers and heifers sold $123 to $129
with sales to $136.25. Second cut
sold $115 to $116. Cows sold steady
to last week’s prices. On Thursday
veal sold steady to last week’s
prices. Lambs sold $5 to $10 higher.
Sheep sold under pressure and goats
sold steady. On Friday calves and
yearlings sold on a very strong
active market at prices $2 to $3
higher.
There were 79 steers on offer.
Melvin H. Sherk of Wellesley,
consigned eight steers averaging
1,538 lbs. selling for an average of
$124.82 with one limousin steer
weighing 1,510 lbs. selling to
Horizon Meats for $130.25. John
Wiersma of Blyth, consigned eight
steers averaging 1,479 lbs. selling
for an average of $121.40 with two
black steers averaging 1,470 lbs.
selling for $126.25. Elam S. B.
Martin of Wingham, consigned 14
steers averaging 1,433 lbs. selling
for an average of $125.20 with five
red steers averaging 1,376 lbs.
selling for $126.
Frank Foran of Lucknow,
consigned four charolais steers
averaging 1,495 lbs. selling for
$123.25. Dwayne and Lorrie Dickert
of Ayton, consigned four steers
averaging 1,539 lbs. selling for an
average of $121.60 with one red
steer weighing 1,660 lbs. selling to
St. Helen’s Meat Packers for
$123.25. Troy Fisher of Teeswater,
consigned one bwf steer weighing
1,515 lbs. selling for $120.50. Jim
and Les Stephenson of Ethel,
consigned two steers averaging
1,575 lbs. selling for an average of
$114.59 with one red steer weighing
1,515 lbs. selling for $119. Russ
Tree Farms of Arthur, consigned two
steers averaging 1,458 lbs. selling
for an average of $117.44 with one
red steer weighing 1,365 lbs. selling
for $118.50.
There were 148 heifers on offer.
Aaron F. Martin of Newton,
consigned six heifers averaging
1,353 lbs. selling for an average of
$132.57 with two piedmontese
heifers averaging 1,343 lbs. selling
to Horizon Meats for $136.25. Jim
Fritz of Brussels, consigned seven
heifers averaging 1,405 lbs. selling
for an average of $127.50 with one
limousin heifer weighing 1,310 lbs.
selling to Horizon Meat Packers for
$130.50. Robert Stewart of Mount
Forest, consigned 12 heifers
averaging 1,499 lbs. selling for an
average of $124.01 with six
charolais heifers averaging 1,545
lbs. selling to Ryding Regency for
$128.25.
Dave Noble of Glencairn,
consigned 22 heifers averaging
1,355 lbs. selling for an average of
$124.47 with five red heifers
averaging 1,281 lbs. selling to
Norwich Packers for $126.75.
Michael Schmidt of Mildmay,
consigned one red heifer weighing
1,550 lbs. selling to St. Helen’s Meat
Packers for $126. Darren Johnston
Farms of Bluevale, consigned 17
heifers averaging 1,350 lbs. selling
for an average of $125.17 with six
charolais heifers averaging 1,353
lbs. selling to Ryding Regency for
$125.75. Walter McKenzie of
Dublin, consigned five heifers
averaging 1,323 lbs. selling for an
average of $124.04 with three
black heifers averaging 1,355 lbs.
selling to St. Helen’s Meat
Packers for $125. Lloyd Weber of
Conn, consigned 11 heifers
averaging 1,361 lbs. selling for an
average of $117.19 with four red
heifers averaging 1,445 lbs.
selling for $124. Mathew Weber of
Mount Forest, consigned 10
heifers averaging 1,411 lbs.
selling for an average of
$121.26 with one limousin heifer
weighing 1,310 lbs. selling for
$124.
There were 513 cows on offer.
Export types sold $64 to $74.50 with
sales to $85; beef cows, $71 to
$87.50 with sales to $95; D1 and D2,
$57 to $62; D3, $52 to $57; D4, $37
to $47. Mike and Theresa Portena of
Monkton, consigned five cows
averaging 1,597 lbs. selling for an
average of $72.30 with one holstein
cow weighing 1,660 lbs. selling for
$85. Isaac Stutzman of Lucknow,
consigned two cows averaging 1,693
lbs. selling for an average of $82.46
with one charolais cow weighing
1,665 lbs. selling for $85. Ronald
Menary of Lucknow, consigned two
charolais cows averaging 1,855 lbs.
selling for $83.
There were 21 bulls on offer
selling $63 to $80 with sales to $92.
Neil VanLoo of Wroxeter, consigned
one holstein bull weighing 1,645 lbs.
selling for $92. Ron Trickey of
Kenabeek, consigned three bulls
averaging 1,717 lbs. selling for an
average of $79.68 with one red bull
weighing 1,600 lbs. selling for
$84.50.
There were 110 head of veal on
offer. Beef sold $140 to $170 with
sales to $173; good holstein, $120 to
$133 with sales to $145; medium
holstein, $110 to $120; heavy
holstein, $120 to $130. Lamar Frey
of Listowel, consigned 10 veal
averaging 726 lbs. selling for an
average of $150.65 with one
limousin steer weighing 750 lbs.
selling for $173. Mike Durnin of
Auburn, consigned five veal
averaging 779 lbs. selling for an
average of $144.63 with one
charolais steer weighing 725 lbs.
selling for $152. Lawrence
Brubacher of Harriston, consigned
four veal averaging 741 lbs. selling
for an average of $145.74 with one
grey heifer weighing 765 lbs. selling
for $161.
Lambs under 50 lbs. sold $255 to
$282; 50 - 64 lbs., $255 to $258; 65
- 79 lbs., $219 to $254; 80 - 94 lbs.,
$191 to $222; 95 to 110 lbs., $210 to
$225.
Sheep sold $85 to $135 with sales
to $145.
Goats: kids sold $100 to $130 to
$150 per head; nannies, $100 to
$125 to $140 per head; billies, $150
to $250 to $300 per head.
Top quality stocker steers under
400 lbs. sold $100 to $206; 400 -
499 lbs., $150 to $206; 500 - 599
lbs., $133 to $196; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$142 to $172; 700 - 799 lbs., $141 to
$156.50; 800 - 899 lbs., $119 to
$150; 900 - 999 lbs., $126.50 to
$145.75; 1,000 lbs. and over, $100 to
$138.
Top quality stocker heifers under
300 lbs. sold $100 to $185; 300 -
399 lbs., $138 to $179; 400 - 499
lbs., $111 to $164.50; 500 - 599 lbs.,
$115 to $158.50; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$123 to $147; 700 - 799 lbs.,
$135.50 to $145.50; 800 - 899 lbs.,
$133 to $143.50; 900 lbs. and over,
$133.25 to $138.
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