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The Rural Voice, 2002-08, Page 34HYDRA -SPREAD v=a1:-)ix 285 BU. — 368 BU. — 421 BU. — 465 BU. — 550 BU. Eliminate some of life's problems (like chains, wom gears, shafts 8 bearings) with HYDRA -SPREAD The Canadian alternative in spreaders. N. E. HAGEDORN & SONS LIMITED — Paisley, Ont. website www.manurespreader.com 1-800-707-7271 L:. Delaval TMR Mixers Your recipe for healthy high producers DeLaval mixer wagons Total mixed rations help ensure cows get the balanced diet they need to produce, reproduce and stay healthy. DeLaval mixer wagons make sure your extra efforts pay off. Digi -Star electronic scales accurately measure each feed ingredient while 4 augers completely and gently blend the ration. DeLaval vertical mixers Ensure your well balanced TMR is evenly mixed. The DeLaval vertical mixer VM line is designed to handle all types of forage, round bales or square, wet or dry. For complete details call... L:. Delaval °^ SUPPLY LTD. Fire #308, Bruce County Road 16, R.R. #5 Mildmay 519-367-5595 30 THE RURAL VOICE of French cheeses, her favourite being roquefort, a cheese made from sheeps' milk. So when she was contemplating what kind of farm she might run she got wondering if anyone in Ontario was making sheeps' milk cheeses. Jn the spring 1998 she and her husband Phil Coleman went to England where there is quite a revival of the artisan cheese industry and milking sheep, a practice that had died out in the late 19th century as farmers turned to cattle exclusively for milk. They did a cheese course in Scotland then Stephanie stayed in England working with a woman near Bath who made cheese on the farm from goats' and sheeps' milk. The dream was to come home and get a dairy sheep flock going and then make artisan on-farm cheeses in the European tradition (they milk about 100 ewes now). The artisan cheese movement is becoming important in Quebec and the U.S. but is not happening in Ontario. she says. "Ontario has an incredible market within a radius of our farm," she said. There's the wealth of the Golden Horseshoe as well as the ethnic market, though it's impossible for Ontario cheese makers to go head to head with imports which have a long tradition with those who have moved here from Europe and come in at a cheaper price than Ontario's shepherds can match. France treats its farmers much differently than Canada, Bzikot says. "They want to support them and keep people on the land." In Canada, by contrast, regulations are put in place for big business and small producers have to find a way to live with them. The main challenge of trying to do something different like milking sheep is that Ontario has always based its dairy industry on cows, Diament says. There's no tradition of small scale ruminants like goats or sheep or even small-scale processing. It's difficult to convince people that there's room for these small-scale processing operations. Still this tiny band of believers is setting out to change the minds of governments, farmers and consumers, and perhaps even change the look of the countryside.0