The Rural Voice, 1993-02, Page 30®in PERTH FARM SHOW
Feb. 17 -18, 1993
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM
Wednesday,
February 17
Thursday,
February 18
11:00 a.m.
1:30 p.m.
Current Milk Marketing Situation
Eric McLeod - OMMB Fieldman
Exporting Canadian Pork -
Exporter & Market Development Speakers
10:30 a.m. Barley, Red Wheat, Spring Wheat
Weather
Break
Motivational Speaker
Grass Control in Corn
2:30 p.m. Adjourn
11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m.
STRATFORD FAIRGROUNDS - ADULTS $2.00 - Lots of Free Parking
Ontario
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
ATI
Ontario Agricultural
Training Institute
PERTH COUNTY OATI COURSES
Agr. Industry Cost
Location Date Course Fee Recovery Fee
Mar. 9
Mitchell • 16,23 $50
Mitchell Feb. 12, 24 $55
Mitchell Feb.'4, 5 $55
Course
Farm Financial
Management III
Negotiation Skills
Developing Bus.
Opportunities I
Developing Bus.
Opportunities II
Advanced Swine
Feeding Management
Commodity
Marketing I
Commodity
Marketing II
Cost of Production - Dairy
Dairy Quota Management
Mitchell
Feb. 25, 26 $55
(Not Finalized) $35
Feb.2
(6 evenings) $50
Mar. 2
(6 evenings) $50
Late Feb. $30
Early Mar. $25
Stratford
Stratford
$200
$220
$220
$220
$140
$200
$200
$120
$100
Please register if interested in any of the following courses: DOS, Intermediate Computer,
Advanced Lotus, TSL Farm Accounting, Introductory Computer.
For course details and
registration, please call the
Stratford OMAF centre at
271-0280 or 1-800-265-8502
4 PERTH Courses
COUNTY organized by
Perth Agricultural
TRAINING Needs Identification
COMMITTEE Committee
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agriculture/agribusiness course are
going to stay in Bruce County,
Brown predicts. All of them see
agriculture contributing to their
careers somewhere in the future. Last
year's students came mostly from
large farm operations and were
looking at going into farming full-
time. This year's students come from
a more varied background and many,
while thinking they'd like to get into
farming eventually, are looking at
related careers in the meantime.
Students in the course get to see
lots of options in the industry. As
well as hearing in -school speakers
from agencies like Farm Credit
Corporation and the Royal Bank,
students last year took part in a
special soil study program with
Centralia College and had a chance to
tour the college. They also took a trip
to Guelph where they toured research
facilities and visited United Breeders.
During the year they also took many
shorter trips to area farms and
businesses.
The program is open to students
from any school in Bruce County but
most of the students come from the
area served by the Walkerton school.
That can be a big area, however, with
students from Tara in the north to
Teeswater in the south to Ripley in
the west attending (students from
Kincardine District Secondary School
regularly attend Walkerton for special
programs not available at their own
school). Jason Emmerton of Lurgan
Beach, almost at the Huron County
border, says he liked working with
the cows on a dairy farm during his
first placement, even though he isn't
really interested in going into
agriculture in the long run. His aim is
to be a game warden or forestry
technician. The study of soils has
helped him in his Long-term goal, he
says.
It's only the second year of the
unique program: too early to know
the long term success of the program,
or of the students who have gone
through it. Already, however, it's
obvious that some students who
wouldn't be in school are continuing
their education and getting their
grade 12 diploma because the course
is available. For them, school is more
relevant than it has ever been
before.0