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1992
OCTOBER
11:00 a.m. New Liskeard -
1200 Yearlings/Calves
11:00 a.m. La Sarre - 1200 Head
11:00 a.m. Amos - 1000 Head
11:00 a.m. Stratton - 1800 Feeder Sale
10:00 a.m. Lindsay - 700 Mixed Head
10:00 a.m. Wiarton - 2000 Yearlings
11:00 a.m. Thessalon - 800 Calves
10:00 a.m. Galetta - 900 Yearlings/Calves
11:00 a.m. Hoard's Station -
Featuring Yearlings
Lennox -Addington -
400-500 Calves
Stratton - General Livestock
Lindsay - 1200 Yearlings
Wiarton - 1500 Calves
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NOVEMBER
10:00 a.m. Linday - 1600 Pre -con
& Vaccinated Calves
12:00 p.m. Thessalon - 150 General Sale
10:00 a.m. Lindsay - 1500 Mixed
11:00 a.m. Hoard's Station - Feature Calves
2:00 p.m. Simcoe County - 500 Calves
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60 feet. New drainage was being put
in at that spacing. Now they're going
through and they're twinning those,
or splitting them to 25 or 30 feet or,
in heavy clay soils to 20 feet apart.
"We're experiencing farms that
have been drained maybe twice
before where the original systems are
still functioning adequately but to
improve the productivity, farmers are
splitting the systems."
While the tighter pattern of
systematic drainage started in flat
lands it is spreading more and more
to rolling land, Kime says. "If you get
into areas where you have a lot of roll
in the property it's very difficult. You
have to drain through those water
runs ... maybe that's where the
mains go . . . and then they're
running more laterals off and you
would probably still end up with a
herringbone system."
Drain systems being
doubled to improve
efficiency
Can there be too much drainage?
Kime says he doesn't know if too
many drains in a field could cause
problems when the weather is too dry
but the principle of drainage is to
control the soil moisture in the
critical area around the roots of the
plants, he says. In the spring the
plants can be left with "wet feet"
from too much moisture around the
roots. The roots won't move down to
reach toward the moisture because
they're surrounded by moisture. If
you have proper moisture control in
the early part of the growing season,
the roots will move down to seek the
water at lower levels in the soil. "The
deeper they go, the better chance they
have of surviving drought (later in the
growing season)", Kime says.
"Drainage controls two types (of
water problems): it controls the
water table which is water moving up
from below, and it controls excess
water from precipitation that comes
from the top."
He praises the Ontario Tile
Drainage Act and the funding
provided for farmers to install
drainage as the best program he has
encountered anywhere in the world.
"There's nothing touches it." The
only way it could be described as a