The Rural Voice, 1981-02, Page 5CONTENTS
Special features
4. FARM WOMEN, A RICH UNTAPPED
RESOURCE
6 SUNFLOWERS, THEY FOLLOW THE SUN
8 SASKATCHEWAN, A FARMER'S PROVINCE
11 FROM QUEBEC TO PERTH COUNTY, by
Donna Thiel.
11 NORTHWESTERN CANADA, THE LAST
FRONTIER FOR FARMING
12 AGRICULTURE: A MOST UNCERTAIN
INDUSTRY BY ADRIAN VOS
13 A FUTURE IN MOHAIR, a look at the Angora
goat industry.
15 EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT ROP TESTING BUT WERE
AFRAID TO ASK.
Regular features
16 Rural News in Brief
19 Keith Roulston
23 Voice of a farmer
25 Advice on farming
25 Mailbox of the Month
27 The Rural Family
29 Gisele Ireland
31 The Young Farmer
32 Up and Coming
33 Rural Voice want ads
35 Grey Federation
37 Perth Pork Producers
38 Bruce Federation
40 Huron Federation
COVER:
Ken Gascho, a Zurich area farmer has been growing
sunflowers for more than 20 years. Photo by Yvonne
Reynolds.
the rural
Voice
COMMENT
February - what does it hold? The Farmers' Almanac is
predicting milder temperatures, and it's the month when
romance is supposed to bloom no matter what the thermometer
reads outside.
This month, instead of focussing on a special commodity,
we've decided to touch a number of bases at Rural Voice.
For example, there's an interview with Brenda McIntosh, who
recently attended the first ever national conference for farm
wives, held in Ottawa. The conference delegates, from across
Canada, were advised to become more visible in the community
and to take a more active role in farm organizations. One
speaker, Prof. J. Gilson of the University of Manitoba, suggested
it is farm wives who can best deliver the message to urban
consumers that Canada's cheap food policy must end if those
employed in the agriculture industry are going to get adequate
returns on their dollar.
Although we doubt sunflowers will ever be grown in quantity
in our area, their brilliant yellow blooms make an attractive and
profitable crop on a small scale. Yvonne Reynolds talked to
Zurich - area farmer Ken Gascho who grows seven acres of the
sunflowers every year to market as birdseed and says they make
a good rotation crop.
Rural Voice also talked to two families who decided to try
farming in other parts of Canada. Alex and Gail Glanville left
their Walton cash crop operation last spring to try farming in
Melfort, Saskatchewan, discovering in the process that
Saskatchewan lives up to its name as a "farmers' province." The
Rose family. on the other hand, sold their farm near Sherbrooke,
Quebec and moved to Perth County, where they operate a
successful father -son dairy operation. Both families accepted a
challenge to leave the familiar and try something different - and
neither have any regrets.
Since we're talking about farming methods in different parts
of the country. we decided to explore the differences in
provincial tastes - so our family page features recipes from the
Maritimes, pork pie from Quebec and an interesting suggestion
for preparing whitefish from Western Canada.
Next month Rural Voice will be devoted to the beef industry.
We're going to talk to some producers raising the exotic breeds
of beef or the "imports" as they're often called, Adrian Vos will
explore the controversy regarding a beef marketing board, and
we'll revisit some of the beef producers we talked to last year to
see how their operations have changed. Also, we hope to
interview a cattle drover, and there will be reports on some of the
many winter short courses and seminars.
Hope you aren't snowed in, and we'll be back in March to talk
about beef.
EDITORIAL BOARD Bev. Brown, Alice Gibb, Sheila Gunby, Rhea Hamilton,
Herb Shoveller, Adrian Vos and Susan White. Bruce
Correspondent Gisele Ireland, Perth Correspondent
Donna Thiel, Staff Reporter Debbie Ranney.
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