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Harsh winter devastate
Alfalfa and winter barley will bite4ru''
need to be replanted, says
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Dan Schwab which has finally now been harvested.
111.11111.12=00 Some producers lost about 40 per cent of the
This year's harsh winter has devastated yield in their corn crops but the quality overall
some crops around Seaforth, but farmers are is still good, Johnson says.
still "moving forward into the spring," says Pe-
ter Johnson, a cereals specialist with the Min- Huron County Federation of Agriculture
istry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. president Wayne Black is calling the Huron
"It's been an extremely hard winter," John- Clean Water Project a worthwhile program to.
son says. "A lot of the alfalfa and winter barley complement the Environmental Farm Plan.
fields are not going to make it." "It makes more money available for farmers
Johnson says both crops vvill need to be re-
planted. .144-,—.4,----94- ,,n1. ance on what works best," he says.. . •
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Some of the alfalfa crop has suffered from Funding for the project is provided br. the•
Grants available
in Huron County and more assistance for guid-
frostCounty of Huron and delivered through the
heave, which causes the soil to lift arid
Ausable 13ayfield and Maitland Valley Conger! % ..- .
can uproot the plants, causing severe damage
or killing much of the crop. w .'--; -' .- 7---- ‘'---- - - vation Authorities. ,
Farmers will be provided with financial as
He also -says farmers are finding more holes
in their wheat crops than they'd hoped for sistance covering up to 50 per cent of the costs
"The wheat is morevariable than we'd like of projects to improve and protect water qual- •
to see," he says. "Maybe about 10 per cent will ity in Huron County
need to be replanted." . _ - Maximum grants worth $5,000 are available
He says someproducers have inter -seeded for erosion control projects that include esti&.
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their spring crop into the winter wheat fields, Robing gratified waterways, catch basins_ and.-7'
which will not be iniping' quaiii;sy bu rAn be berms to reduce soil erosion. --
harvested for animal feed. , , *- . , 'Other grants from $500 to $3,000 are offered-
"Last year at this time, the wheat crop was for other projects such as manure storage de
incredible," Johnson says. "This year, I'd say Commissioning and wellhead. protection. .1 .
In the first three years of the program, incire,-
it's good to fair, with about 10 per cent of it be-
ing poor quality". . . , , -:
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than 800 projects were completed by laticlown–ome producers have already planted about ers
Huron County, including fencing cattle
25 per cent 'Of their corn crop, but overall, only out of streams and.planting Windbreaks. : • -- -.
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Huron COUntY98- committee
ground.
A significant of the- whole endorses
acreage of corn
producers'egg
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last year's season,
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ducers' request to allow producers to continue to manage business as they
see fit.
In moving the motion, Coun. Joe Seili (litulm East) said, "In this province
we have freedom of choice of what we want to buy."
The resolution was crafted in response to a growing movement that is ask-
ing various government bodies and suppliers to only purchase organic eggs
produced by free range chickens.-
In noting there are all types of eggs in the province, the county warden
questioned the assertion Chinese eggs are in the marketplace.
"I didn't know we had eggs from China in Huron County," said Oke.
"We do," asserted Seili.
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