The Rural Voice, 1981-04, Page 5CONTENTS
Special features
4 SEED PATENTS: THE FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
Scrapping over seeds, the only path to
settlement is through discussion.
7 A WINNING TRADITION. Russell Bolton's hay
has won nine years running.
9 JUST ANOTHER CHALLENGE. Bob Forrest
talks about the long road to becoming a select
seed grower.
13 ONE RAT MEANS TWENTY. Just think, each
pair of rats can result in 350 million rats in three
years!
14 THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF WEEDS. Just
when you think you've got weeds beat, along
comes another and another and another.
17 BEEFALO: Lloyd Lostell says they're the cattle
of the future.
19 GUEST COLUMN E. Reinbergs, Crop Science
Dept., U' of G. talks about spring cereals in
Ontario.
Regular features
21 Keith Roulston
23 Voice of a Farmer
25 Rural news in brief
33 Advice on farming
35 Mailbox of the month
37 Farm management
39 The rural family
41 Gisele Ireland
43 The Young farmer
45 Up and Coming
47 Rural Voice want ads
49 Grey Federation
51 Perth County Pork Producers
53 Bruce Federation
56 Huron Federation
COVER -photography by R.R. Sallows,
Courtesy O.M.A.F.
COMMENT
Spring, when
farmers' thoughts
turn to seeding
Along about April. or even earlier. a farmer's thoughts turn to
one huge topic. seeding. Rural Voice has been doing some
thinking along those lines too and the result is un issue with a
variety of stories about seed.
We start off with a look at the breeders' rights controversy.
It's complicated long and involved but we think a little time spend
reading about the issue. it's supporters and opponents will be
rewarding.
As for the personalities who are involved with seed. we've got
a profile of Russell Bolton. of Huron County. world hay champ
nine years running at the Royal Winter Fair. You also may be
interested in the careful testing and time that's involved in
becoming a select seed grower. Bob Forrest, who also lectures at
Centralia College, is one.
Not so encouraging. but certainly informative, is a short piece
on rats in the barn and how they almost defeated an Eastern
Ontario farmer. We look at beelalo which one producer insists
are the cattle of the future.
Our Rural Family section this month picks up the seed theme
with whole grain and other bread and cereal recipes. In the
Young Farmer you'll find a report of a survey that concludes it is
still possible to start up in farming today. but it's a lot easier with
some family help.
As well as our usual funny and probing columnists we have a
guest column from a U of G crop scientist who talks about
developments in spring cereals in Ontario.
And. on page 38 you'll find the announcement of our annual
kids' issue, coming up this June. We're looking /or art, stories
and poems on the theme "The Family Farm " and the deadline is
April 30. There are lots of prizes: well reprint as many winners
as possible in our June issue: and we eagerly await your entries.
See you in May when we'll have a number of stories about
the farmer's right to farm.
the rural
Voice
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Herb Shoveller, Adrian Vos and Susan White. Bruce
Correspondent Gisele Ireland, Perth Correspondent
Donna Thiel, Staff Reporter Debbie Ranney.
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