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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-09-25, Page 14PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1991. Scrimgeour's Food Market Blyth 523-4551 Brussels LONDESBORO 523-4519 1X1 527-0245 WALTON 887-6366 Buy the Food Your Neighbor Grows CHEERS to our food providers Buy the food Ontario grows KNECHTEL Agri-Food Week celebrates Ontario food, glorious food! It is a showcase to the variety, the quality, the freshness and the abundance of the food we eat. Agri-Food Week is our annual harvest celebration in October, the week before Thanksgiving. All of us can participate because all of us are food consumers. Let’s recognize how wholesome and reasonably priced our food is. And let’s thank the people who bring it to us — farmers, processors, distributors and retailers. A pat on the back for us too for buying the food Ontario grows. It's the best and for good reason. The heart of Ontario agriculture is farming, but it’s also a dynamic high-tech industry, producing a second crop of ^processed foods and food-related products. iv. V-r- y ’~ 11 Food for the mind Ontario's agri-food industries generate about $16 billion in revenues every year. A taste of what you fancy An annual celebration since 1982, Agri-Food Week has been nurtured along by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and other interested agri-food groups. Local groups work with a provincial Agri-Food Week committee to organize special events in communities throughout the province. Often these events include public participation which helps to increase awareness of Ontario agriculture. Ontarians need little encourage­ ment to put fresh and delicious Ontario food products in their shopping carts all year long. Agri-Food Week. Everyone eats it up. ;• Ontario's agri-food and related industries, directly or indirectly, employs one in five people working in the province. »• Ontario produces more hogs, poultry, eggs, sheep and lambs, fruit and vegetables, corn and soybeans than any other province. << Ontario exports more than $2 billion worth of food and agricultural products every year around the world. Ontario, as part of Canada, has the second lowest food prices in the world after the United States. Canadians spend 15.5 per cent of their net income on food. This message is brought to you by these agri-food growers, distributors, handlers and suppliers: Village Market D i BrOMMllNlTV _Brussels Iw. uivwl 887-9226FOOD MARKET j McGAVIN FARM EQUIPMENT LTD.Ford Credit FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLES IN SEASON NORTH HURON GARDENS BONESCHANSKERS „„ 2/2 miles north & 887-6870 11/4 miles east of Brussels RADFORD FARM EQUIPMENT LTD BLYTH 523-4244 CO-OP LONDESBORO ■ tlowson Limited Flour <&. Feed Millers, Complete Farm o______♦_ TH__________________________ ORCHARDS EST. 1852 Walton, Ont.-Ph. 523-9279 BOYD & MURIEL TAYLOR The home of choice, quality cold storage apples. Howson & 11 Howson Limited Brussels 887-9740 Londesboro Co-op 523-4470