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Asparagus is a vegetable of
anticipation.. We wait through
the .ioiig cold winter for the first,
fresh, green, Ontario -.grown
vegetable each s04sonp wait for
asparagus served drizzled. with.
butter or under a silky cheese
sauce„, ohasta ma a pram vera
or blanched in, a spring. salad.
And for'. people whtrulyrenjoy
as .ara Asa ;A April can seer' very
long indeed,
F
armers wait for asparagus,
too From setting the seed to
cutting the first full harvest they
have to wait four. years. Then*
a vegetable
each spring, they wait for the
green spears to shoulder aside
the want* ludo lroaihat day in
early May until near the and of
June, they know _their lives will
be consumed by asparagus,
This is the 15th spring
o eph K ngl has: waited for
this crop. Once the asparagus..
pushes through$dose h . and his :;
son, Mike, will be focused on
the, harvest¢ like took over the
farm's: operatic n: a year ago; to
Joseph's delight gel ot: a
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tion," he. said with a chuckle.
:Wow I'm the hired hand."
Ona heavy peak day Mike,
his wife Lori, along with .1 g
employees car* harvest 2,000
pounds ,or more. aat remember in
1988, itwas really hot" - said
Mike. °°e cut 33 acres and got
6,000 pounds 4 in one day! -0a
After picking, the aSpara u
goes directly into the cooler to
help preserve its ft eshne s,
Erten there„ ,it's trimmed,.
washed, :graded, and packed for
delivery. "We were one of the'
first to std washing asparagus,
and, we' grade it by diameter as
.veil as la th and
quality," g w d q. � said
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selike.. Their customers app. Seip
ate the extra service. Within two
.seasons after the Kungls began
washing and trimming all their
customers :had doubled their
orders.
Now that Mike has taken
over the day -today operations
of the farm, his father Joseph. .
can focus on deliveries, 'Tye
had soinegood customers: for
over 10 years now. They kaiow.
what :they're getting and it's
never more than two days from
picking 4o .delivery.' Although
the Six or seven weeks of bar -
vest is very hectic, Joseph likes'
the' cash flow. "Twe weeks after
it's done you know whether you
10syour-pantsor o a
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e said„,
laughing
John Jaques of the Asparagus
Marketing Board sees renewed
optintisui among Ontario-
aasparagus growers aaLast year
we had .the strongest seed sales
in ten years,” be aid, "aid we've
had strong nrketsfor the last
two or three years: Supply.
across North America is Iaggmg
behind demand. With the
weather 'co-operating; the board
anticipates a total; Ontatio bar-
vest in the four million pound.
range, re Kungl fate expects:
'to account for about 75,000'
pounds of that, but will certain-
lyest�.e
ep Wale of theheaarvv st for
their own table,
For Mike, the wary to enjoy
asparagus is rolled in egg and
bread crumbs and fried in but-
ter. Joseph likes his with a
cheese sauce. "It brings the
sweeties_
s out,"
he said, buil then
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started thinking aloud, about
asparagus rolled in ham, on a
pizza, in a stir fry... and the crop
was not yet pushing through the
soil..-
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Manure 'Application Rates44
Minutes to Unload' 2 4 6 8 10 12
(15' spread width) Tons per acre at 6 mp,h
3229 (14.0 ton load) 15,3 10.0 12.6 .°9.5 7 6 '6.3
.3222 (11.0 ton load) J -19.9 14.9 9 9 7.5 6 u 4.9
3214 (75. ton `load) 13.6. 1.0.2: ' 6.'S` 5,:1 4.1 3.4
(Spreader Capacity Varies. Krlweiglr ta,f Mar#ure)
*T( obtain desired unload tithe, , a,seilower expeller gate
Optiniuin gate height Krilll vary ac'c°or dirig.•to'mahara consistency
rte nutrient management easier.
o . Twin conveyor augers and vertical
expellers create an even spread
pattern for'unform manure
application over the entire spread
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You control application rate by
hydraulically controlling the gate
to apply, manureit.the rate your
crop and soil 'requires.
r Pla1etary drive system powers
conveyor augers through even the
toughest manure...long oat straw to
gritty poultry litter to. dry
to;.slurryy with ice chunks.
.e Steep, law sidewalls prevent
manure from bridging.
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Materialand::workmanshicovers'
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all ;; (except normal ear
items).and labor.;.Tank is
warranted a full 10 years.against
- rust -through.
*united States only. 90 -day warranty for
conninercial applicators. One year in
-Canada for all-applications.4 Seedealer
for details.
With an estimated four minion pounds of asparagus due
for harvest' in Ontariothis year, producers such as
Joseph Kungl will have their hands fuel meeting the
growing demand. Froin' early May until the end of June,
Kungl will harvest 75,000 pounds of this'jspear-it raising'
spring vegetable.
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Agriculture and .Agri -Food
Canada has extended a prohibi-
tion on the irnpurtaation` of.
cervidae (deer family) and
cameiidae (earner family) from
the United States until Dec. 31,
1997.
The original prohibition was
put in place because some elk
imported into Canada in the late
180s were found to be infected
with tuberculosis.
The prohibition has been
extended until an. adequate test-
ing regime has been developed
tO allow the safe importation of
cervids and camelids from U.S.
Ranched deer and elk have been
the most common cervids
imported to Canada. Among
camelids, alpacas and llamas
have been the most conurttnly
imported species.
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