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NEWS
INNOVATIONS FEATURED AT CROPS UPDATE
Bob Down of Hensall, a director for the Huron County Federation of Agriculture,
samples some ice cream made with white beans at the Centralia College of Agricul-
tural Technology Crops Update last month. About 250 farmers attended the update
to hear reports on markets and research and to take a look at Centralia's new research
building. The three laboratories in the building employ 5 technicians, a farm
manager, and 10 seasonal workers. Centralia's research focuses on field trials of white
beans, coloured beans, canola, soybeans, rutabagas, field corn, sweet corn, lupins, and
plowdown forages. Laboratory trials include projects on bacterial blight control in
white beans, physiology work on soybeans, and storage studies on rutabagas.
Dr. Violet Currie (right), co-ordinator of the Food Service Management program
at Centralia, started making ice cream with bean flour more than 12 years ago. While
her recipe is a secret, she has come up with a method of using whole white pea beans
cooked and pureed, seed coat and all. The rich ice cream she produces also contains
milk, eggs, cream, and sugar and comes in a variety of flavours. Dr. Currie has
received some funding from the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board, and is
hoping that a food company will step forward to buy and market the product.
GUIDEASSISTS IN FOOD LAND PRESERVATION
A citizen's guide to preserving food
land is now available from Friends of
Foodland, a coalition group assisted by
the Jubilee Foundation for Agricultural
Research.
The guide was written to encourage
more citizens to get involved in oppos-
ing the growth of cities on Ontario's best
food land.
"Preserving foodland is an urgent
issue," says Elbert van Donkersgoed,
volunteer executive director of the coa-
lition. If the present pattern of urban
expansion were to continue, it is esti-
mated that Ontario's prime food land
could be lost by the year 2025.
Money seems to talk louder than the
real needs of people or their interest in
stable communities, van Donkersgoed
says. "The guide gives the citizen or
citizen's group a basic handle on how to
be effective in the land -use planning
process."
The cost of the guide and the updates
that will be added over the next two
years is $25. To order a copy, contact
Jubilee, 115 Woolwich St., 2nd Floor,
Guelph, Ontario, N1H 3V1, telephone
519-837-1620.
Jubilee is the research arm of the
Christian Farmers Federation of On-
tario. Funding assistance for the guide
was provided by the Ontario Environ-
mental Youth Corp.O