The Rural Voice, 2002-08, Page 33ONTARIO
STOCKYARDS
INC.
R.R. #1, COOKSTOWN, ONTARIO
We Will Serve All Your Livestock
Marketing Needs For:
• Sheep, Lambs, Goats • Cattle • Veal
• Horses • Stockers • Bred Cows
In addition to our regular weekly stocker
and feeder sale held every THURSDAY at
11:00 am, we will be holding the following
special sales.
SPECIAL FALL
YEARLING SALES
Starting at 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, September 24
Tuesday, October 8
Tuesday, October 29
Tuesday, November 19
SPECIAL FALL
CALF SALES
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17
- Leeds -Grenville Counties Sale. In
with our regular sale
2:30 p.m. (approx.)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
- Ottawa Valley (Renfrew) Sale
at 11:00 a.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
- Cdn. Angus Certification Program
Sale. In with our regular sale
2:30 p.m. (approx.)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
- Simcoe-Dufferin Counties
at 12:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Ontario Stockyards Inc.
Vaccinated Sale at 11:00 am
NOTE: Starting Thursday, October
3rd, 2002 and every 2nd Thursday
until December 19th, 2002, we will
feature vaccinated cattle starting al
11:00 a.m.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE CALL
Murray Morrison or Wayne
Small • (705) 458-4000
Sheep, Lambs & Goats
Call Bob Bennett
Visit our website at.
www.ontariostockyards,on ca
E -Mail: info@ontariostockyards on.ca
After selling their dairy herd and
farm in southeast England close to
London in 1984 the Bzikots moved
to Manitoba where it was "night and
day" from their homeland, Elisabeth
says. They had dreamed of leaving
the drudgery of livestock behind and
make their living growing grain,
allowing them to travel in the winter
when the crops were off.
The dreains were quickly
shattered. After one year of decent
grain prices the prices dropped.
"You'd think 'it's got to come up'
but it never did come up," Elisabeth
recalls.
They realized there was no money
in grains so Elisabeth ook a teaching
job off the farm and tip 'y gradually
got back into livestock with cattle
and sheep and wild boar.
The family packed up and came
to Ontario in 1998. They were
fortunate in that they lived in a
good potato growing area so both
McCain's and Nestle's were buying
land in the area.
They brought the sheep and wild
boar with them but in 2001 sold the
wild boar back to Manitoba and
concentrated on sheep, moving to
dairy sheep last year.
They imported embryos of British
Milking Sheep and are now milking
80 ewes with a total flock of 250
sheep, not all dairy sheep.
Milk production means a sheep
farmer can hedge his or her bets,
Elisabeth says with wool, and milk as
well as meat. Woo! prices have been
bad for years and meat prices
dropped this year but dairy producers
still have income from milk.
Diament grew up a city kid but
her family had a farm for the last 30
years near Shelburne. During the
summers and weekends she spent
there she went through the 4-H
program, then went to University of
Guelph in agriculture. She got
involved in medical research while
living in Calgary.
Coming back to Toronto in 1988
she worked in several medical labs
and got disillusioned by medical
research. She decided to go back to
the farm and use her agricultural
education.
While she had been studying at
Guelph she had spent a summer in
France working on a pig farm. While
there she was introduced to the world
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Highway 4, south of Blytti
(519)523-4595
www.theoldmill.ca
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British Bloodlines
Registered Rams, Ewes
and Commercial Ewes
Available
Kim and Doug Smith
R.R. 2 Wroxeter
NOG 2X0
Phone 519-291-9767
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