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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006. PAGE 19.
Agriculture
Brussels Livestock report
Fed steers sell on strong active trade
Total receipts for Brussels
Livestock for the week ending Nov.
24 were 2,485 head of cattle, 469
lambs and goats. On Tuesday the fed
steers and heifers sold on a strong
active trade with prices $1 higher. The
choice steers and heifers sold $88 to
$92 with sales to $110. Second cut
sold $85 to $88 with the cows selling
on a barely steady market. On
Thursday veal sold on a steady mar-
ket. Lambs and sheep sold on a strong
active trade. Goats sold on a steady
market. On Friday calves and year-
lings sold on a good active trade.
There were 351 steers on offer. Eli
Brubacher of Listowel, consigned
fourteen steers averaging 1,545 lbs.
selling for an average of $89.05 with
one limousin steer weighing 1,575 lbs.
selling to FAB Meat Products for
$96.50. Rick Hintz of Milverton, con-
signed three steers averaging 1,378
lbs. selling for an average of $84.87
with one roan steer weighing 1,450
lbs. selling to FAB Meat Products for
$96.25. Alex Van Osch of Lucknow,
consigned nineteen steers averaging
1,284 lbs. selling for an average •of
$89.95 with one gold steer weighing
1,190 lbs. selling for $93.75. Schmidt
Brook Farms Inc., consigned fourteen
steers averaging 1,550 lbS. selling for
an average of $90.16 with one limou-
sin steer averaging 1,465 lbs. selling
to Dominion Meat Packers for $93.
Murray Shiell of Wingham, con-
signed twenty-seven steers averaging
$92.50 selling for an average of
$90.50 with four black steers averag-
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and its affiliates including the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture as well as
the Christian Farmers Federation of
Ontario.
ALUS, he said, mirrors some of the
funding under the U.S. Farm Bill but
is community-driven, not top-down.
The U.S. and European countries are
all spending a lot of money on envi-
ronmental goods and services, he said.
• A pilot program to make ALUS
work in Ontario is taking place in
Norfolk County. Dave Reid, steward-
ship co-ordinator with the Norfolk
Land Stewardship Council explained
the three-year project grew out of
meeting of groups in the area.
The program pays farmers from $10
to $150 per acre for land that is
enrolled in the program depending on
how much their farming practices will
be affected by the environmental
restrictions. They can apply for fund-
ing for up to 20 per cent of their land.
The program targets environmental-
ly sensitive lands, some of which can
be retired from cultivation or farmed
in a different manner to benefit the
environment.
One of the issues is protection of
wetlands, which in Norfolk are most-
ly swamps, Reid said. Changes to
drainage ditches are helping preserve
these wetlands.
Brian Gilvesy is one of the farmers
who have taken advantage of the pro-
gram. A former tobacco farmer, he has
been trying to diversify into other
commodities. Many tobacco farmers
are growing corn and soybeans and
ripping out the fencerows, endanger-
ing the fragile sandy soil, he said. He
chose instead to plant grass and grow
longhorn cattle, selling beef directly
to consumers.
He wanted to move his cattle across
ing 1,449 lbs. selling to St. Helen's
Meat Packers for $92.50. Terry
McCarthy of Dublin, consigned thir-
teen steers averaging 1,442 lbs. selling
for an average of $87.03 with one
black steer weighing 1,435 lbs. selling
to St. Helen's Meat Packers for
$92.50. Laverne B. Martin of Mount
Forest, consigned seventeen steers
averaging 1,496 lbs. selling for an
average of $88.58 with one limousin
steer weighing 1,310 lbs. selling to
Ryding Regency for $92.50.
Levi M. Martin of Harriston, con-
signed ten steers averaging 1,353 lbs.
selling for an average of $89.35 with
one simmental steer weighing 1,325
lbs. selling to FAB Meat Products for
$92. Davidson Farms of Monkton,
consigned two limousin steers averag-
ing 1,465 lbs. selling to Dominion
Meat Packers for $91.50.
Cunningham Noland Cattle Co. of
Lucan, consigned twenty-four steers
averaging 1,537 lbs. selling for an
average of $88.06 with three red steers
averaging 1,442 lbs. selling to
Dominion Meat Packers for $90.75.
There were 244 heifers on offer.
David Bowles of Brussels, consigned
ten heifers averaging 1,316 lbs. selling
for an average of $90.18 with one
blonde heifer weighing 1,355 lbs. sell-
ing to FAB Meat Products for $94.50.
Kevin Masse of Dashwood, consigned
five heifers averaging 1,173 lbs. sell-
ing for an average of $92.17 with one
limousin heifer weighing 1,275 lbs.
selling to Dominion Meat Packers for
$94. Lorne Benedict of Kerwood,
a ravine to pastures on the other side
of a stream but didn't have a source of
water other than letting the cattle
drink from the stream. He heard about
ALUS and made a call.
"It was scary to invite 'a govern-
ment man' onto the farm," he said of
his first visit from Reid. "We invited
him because he could help us finan-
cially. He had a cheque in his pocket."
Programs like the Environmental
Farm Plan weren't helpful on his farm
because he had been proactive and
didn't have problems to clean up,
Gilvesy said. ALUS allows farmers to
make proactive changes to their farms.
He quoted a leader of the program
who said that farmers "can be nature's
scrub brush" in helping clean up soci-
ety's environmental problems.
In Gilvesy's case, the program pro-
vided money to buy solar-powered
pumps to pump water to the cattle so
they wouldn't have to drink from the
stream. He also fenced the cattle out
of woodlots.
Program funding helped him plant
an eight-acre prairie grass pasture,
returning a native grass to the region.
Because prairie grass performs better
consigned twelve heifers averaging
1,252 lbs. selling for an average of
$89.59 with two limousin heifers
averaging • 1,248 lbs. selling for
$93.75.
Jim Steed of Creemore, consigned
twenty-three heifers averaging 1,189
lbs. selling for an average of $90.83
with one limousin heifer weighing
920 lbs. selling for $93. Dave
McClinchey of Auburn, consigned
two limousin heifers averaging 1,303
lbs. selling for $92.25. Andy Vander
Veen of Blyth, consigned eleven
heifers averaging 1,340 lbs. selling for
an average of $88.83 with one limou-
sin heifer weighing 1,330 lbs. selling
to Dominion Meat Packers for $92.
Corgercrest Farms Ltd., of Seaforth,
consigned two heifers averaging 1,413
lbs.selling for an average of $88.67
with one limousin heifer weighing
1,435 lbs. selling to I5ominion Meat
Packers for $91.75.
Art Bos of Blyth, consigned five
heifers averaging 1,266 lbs. selling for
an average of $87.58 with one red
heifer weighing 1,093 lbs. selling for
$90.50. Keith Dunstan of Mildmay,
'consigned two heifers averaging 1,183
lbs. selling for an average of $88.28
with one limousin heifer weighing
1,200 lbs. selling to Holly Park Meat
Packers for $90.50. Randy Pentland of
Goderich, consigned twenty heifers
averaging 1,301 lbs. selling for an
average of $87.83 with three black
heifers averaging 1,462 lbs. selling to
Dominion Meat Packers for $90.
There were 309 cows on offer. Beef
than regular pasture in hot, dry weath-
er, he turns his cattle into this field in
mid-summer when other pasture is
failing.
"I use it two months a year when the
rest of the pasture doesn'•t perform,"
he said. "The rest of the year the grass
provides wildlife habitat."
The grasg also helps sequester car-
bon in the soil because of its dense
root system. In return he receives $40
per acre per year from the program.
He also built a a 400-foot hedge of
switch grass that helps provide cover
to migrating wildlife from one wood-
lot to another and he created a blue-
bird box nesting trail.
"You won't get rich on this," he told
farmers present, "but you get some
money for marginal land, which is
what they want (to protect) anyway."
Also speaking at the meeting was
John FitzGibbon, University of
Guelph professor and chair of the
Ontario Farm Environmental
Coalition who outlined some of the
issues in designing an ALUS program
such as the need to determine what
kind of projects are merely good stew-
ardship expected of a landowner and
cows sold $37 to $47 with sales to
$49.50; D1 and D2, $35 to $42; D3,
$30 to $35; D4, $22 to $30. Ron
Douglas of Clifford, consigned three
cows averaging 1,578 lbs. selling for
an average of $35.54 with one charo-
lais cow weighing 1,770 lbs. selling
for $45. Robert Blackwell Jr. of
Ripley, consigned four cows averag-
ing 1,384 lbs. selling for an average of
$38.08 with one charolais cow weigh-
ing 1,480 lbs. selling for $44. Scott
Kernighan of Goderich, consigned
four cows, averaging 1,449 lbs. selling
for an average of $40.55 with one sim-
mental cow weighing 1,535 lbs. sell-
ing for $43.
There were 16 bulls on offer selling
$34 to $40 with sales to $44.50. Vince
and Joe Gordon of Markdale, con-
signed one charolais bull weighing
1,215 lbs. selling for $44.50. Dawn
Riley of Seaforth, consigned one lim-
ousin bull weighing 1,950 lbs. selling
for $44.
There were 134 head of veal on
offer. Beef sold $110 to $120 with
sales to $135; good holstein, $105 to
$118 with sales to $126; medium hol-
stein, $90 and $105; good heavy hol-
stein, $100 to $120. Mike Kikkert of
Zurich, consigned nine veal averaging
743 lbs. selling for an average of
$110.17 with one charolais steer
weighing 750 lbs. selling for $135.
Jacob A. Yodar of Lucknow,. con-
signed one grey steer weighing 750
lbs. selling for $126. Robert F.
Bronsard of Parkhill, consigned five
veal averaging 671 lbs. selling for an
what should earn funding and issues
of documenting the benefits of the
improvements.
The meeting broke into five discus-
sion groups which brought back rec-
ommendations.
Phil Beard, general manager of the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority, said it is the hope bf the
Meetings organizers that there will be
a grassroots call to local politicians to
support and ALUS program to :eward
farmers for the environmental good
they do for society.
average of $112.68 with one black
heifer weighing 695 lbs. selling for
$117.
Lambs, 50 - 64 lbs. sold $220 to
$260; 65 - 79 lbs., $205 to $241; 80 -
94 lbs., $157 to $183; 95 - 109 lbs.,
$156 to $158; 110 lbs. and over, $142
to $147.50.
Sheep sold $87 to $102.50 with
sales to $125.
Goats: kids sold $70 to $125; nan-
nies, $80 to $100; billies, $200 to
$317.
Top quality stocker steers under 400
lbs. sold $116 to $147; 400 - 499 lbs.,
$114 to $135; 500 - 599 lbs., $106 to
$136; 600 - 699 lbs., $107.50 to
$124.50; 700 - 799 lbs., $97 to
$118.75; 800 - 899 lbs., $94.50 to
$111.25; 900 - 999 lbs., $88 to
$108.50; 1,000 lbs. and over, $91 to
$115.50.
Top quality stocker heifers under
300 lbs. sold $110 to $127; 300 - 399
lbs., $113 to $133; 400 - 499 lbs.,
$109 to $125; 500 - 599 lbs., $82 to
$129; 600 - 699 lbs., $92 to $126; 700
- 799 lbs., $91 to $118.75; 800 - 899
lbs., $92 to $107; 900 lbs. and over,
$92.50 to $102.
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