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3 Grey -Bruce Farmers'
BEEF DAY
Wednesday,
January 5, 2000
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Nutrient Management For
Beef Producers
Jim Myslik, P.Eng., Resource
Management Engineer,
OMAFRA, Fergus
10:30 Where Grass & Cattle Meet
Tim & Jan Singbeil, Recipients of
the Ont. Pasture Comp. Award
1999, Annan
11:40 Farm Safety Feature
12:00 Lunch & Visit Displays
1:00 Quality Starts Here - National
Identification Program •
Stan Eby, 1st Vice -President,
Ontario Cattlemen's Association
1:40 International Trade Issues
George McCaw, Manager, Trade
policy & International Affairs,
OMAFRA, Guelph
2:30 Producer Panel: Improving
Livestock Water Quality
Chairperson - Mike McMorris,
Special Projects Manager, Ont.
Cattlemen's Assoc.
Panel:
• Dr. Ted Coulter Veterinarian
& Beef Producer, Recipient
of 1998 Environmental Farm
Plan Award for Water Quality
Improvement
• Bob McKessock Chatsworth,
Spring Fed & Water Quality
Project for his Cow Herd
• Gary Smart Meaford,
Improving Creek Banks, Using
Rock as a Livestock Barrier
• Glen Wells Underwood, Bruce
Community Pasture, Recipient
of the Environmental TESA
Award 1998, Using Solar
Powered Watering System &
Fencing to Improve the Use of
Marginal Land
• Ray Robertson Manager, Big
Head River Project, Innovative
Water Quality Protection Has
Improved Both Livestock
Health & The Environment
DAIRY DAY
Thursday,
January 6, 2000
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Agriculture Safety Audit
Program
Ontario Farm Safety Association
10:30 Stray Voltage Analysis &
Detection on Modern Dairy
Farm
Jacques Dion, President, Agivolt
11:15 Sentinel Project - Tracks Herd
Health Problems on 60 Dairy
Farms
Dr. David Kelton, Project
Co-ordinator, University of
Guelph
12:00 Lunch & Visit Displays
1:00 DFO Board Update - Highlight
Quota Changes and WTO
Ruling
Bruce Saunders, DFO Board
Member
1:40 My Experience Feeding
Processed Corn Silage
Keith Matthews, 1999 Grey
County Masters Winner
2:00 Break
2:15 Nutrient Management Plans &
The Dairy Industry
Gord Coukell, President of
Ontario Farm Coalition &
Vice -Chair of the Dairy Farmers
of Ontario
3:00 Adjourn & Visit Displays
SWINE EVENING
Thursday
January 6, 2000
PM
6:45 Registration, Coffee &
Visit Displays
7:00 Breathe Easy, Respiratory
Hazards On The Farm
Farm Safety Video
7:20 Some Facts & The Myths -
Financing Hog Barns
Paul Reeds, Account Manager
Agri -Business, Farm Credit
Corporation, Guelph
7:50 The Enviro-Pig & Other Issues
Paul Knechtel, C.E.O., Ontario
Pork, Toronto
8:30 Break & Visit Displays
Week
8:45 Canadian Quality Assurances
for Local & Global Markets
Doug Richards, Senior Field
Representative, Ontario Pork
9:15 Pork Production In
Great Britain
Dr. Jaydee Smith, Swine
Production Systems Program
Lead, OMAFRA, Ridgetown
9:45 What's All The Controversy
About Nutrient Management
Plans?
Keith Reid, Soil Fertility
Specialist, OMAFRA, Walkerton
CROPS DAY
Friday,
January 7, 2000
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Market Update
Colin Reesor, Commodity
Marketing Program Lead,
OMAFRA, Walkerton
10:40 Is This Global Warming?
Jay Campbell, Meteorologist,
The New PL, London
11:20 What Is The Market Saying
About GMO's?
Dermod Mark, Market
Development Branch, OMAFRA
12:00 Lunch & Visit Exhibits
1:15 Looking Backwards Into the
New Millennium
Neil McGavin, Walton
UPSTAIRS
1:45 Opportunities in Edible Beans
Steve Twynstra, Great Canadian
Bean Company
2:30 Milk & Apple Break
2:45 Managing for Meager Margins
Keith Reid, Soil Fertility
Specialist, OMAFRA,
Walkerton
DOWNSTAIRS
1:45
Getting More Grass in the
Forage Mix
Andrew Barrie, Soil & Crop
Specialist, OMAFRA, Markdale
2:30 Milk & Apple Break
2:45 What's That Woodlot Really
Worth?
Jim Eccles, Lands & Forest
Consultants, Durham
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