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The Rural Voice, 2003-08, Page 49OUT000R FURNACE THE HEAT IS HERE: Keep Cool With High Performance Circulating Fans • Variable speed, high efficiency motors. • Compact size • suitable for buildings with low ceilings. • Stainless steel hardware. • All fans tested as a complete unit prior to shipping. • Choice of 3 mounting systems available. For more information on 8SM Circulating Fans and why more producers are choosing BSM products please contact ATW00D LENCO SUPPLY LTD. (519) 356-2282 TARA H NICHOLSON & SON (519) 934-2343 GRANTON AVONBANK FARM EQUIPMENT (519) 225-2507 LUCKNOW MAITLAND VALLEY AGRI SYSTEMS LTD. (519) 529-3820 MILDMAY MIDWAY FARM SYSTEMS (519) 367-5358 WELLESLEY PROGRESSIVE FARMING (519)656-2709 DRAYTON CONESTOGO AGRI SYSTEMS INC (519) 638-3022 WALTON kEITH SIEMON FARM SYSTEMS LTD. (519) 345-2734 BSM Agri Ltd. R.R. #4 Arthur, ON, Canada NOG 1A0 Tel.: (519) 848-3910 Fax (519) 848-3948 Visit our website at www.bsmagri.com MANUFACTURING OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACES SINCE 1983 QUALITY • REPUTATION HONESTY • VALUE CANADA'S #1 SELLING STAINLESS STEEL CSA UL APPROVED GREEN ALLEY 1-800-261-0531 46 THE RURAL VOICE Advice Extra forage can help deal With market collapse from BSE crisis Continued from page 45 needed. Select fields that have been down for a few years as your first choice. In some parts of the province there are fields that have not been cropped or pastured for a number of years. Investigate the possibility of utilizing some of these for extra forage. There will be a cost for fencing. but that will need to be balanced against the value of the extra pasture that you will achieve. Consider harvesting cereal crops as forage rather than grain. These crops make excellent forage and greatly increase the amount of feed that is realized from the crop. Cereals are most successfully harvested as baleage or silage at or before the kernel reaches the soft dough stage and while the leaves are • still green. Early harvested cereal fields can be re -seeded to a cereal to provide forage in about six weeks time (seeding should be done by mid- August and requires sufficient soil moisture to germinate and grow the new plants). Oats work well for this but barley will also produce good late season forage. Broadcast the seed and work lightly to get good seed to soil contact. Stubble turnips are another alternative for early August seeding into a hay or cereal stubble. Stubble turnips will produce excellent quality grazing for the fall period. Livestock will graze both the tops and the tubers of the turnips. There are a number of ways to add to or stretch your forage supply for the coming year so that the need to sell animals due to lack of feed can be avoided. Look at all the opportunities that are available to you and utilize the one that will best fit your operation.°