The Rural Voice, 1993-02, Page 34H. NICHOLSON
& SON
CONTRACTING
FARM AUTOMATION SPECIALISTS
ANNUAL
OPEN HOUSE
and
CUSTOMER
APPRECIATION DAY
Wednesday, February 24, 1993 — 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
at our location just south of Tara on Bruce Cty. Rd. 10
You are invited to join us for beef on a bun, coffee and donuts.
INTRODUCING NEW BOU-MATIC HEAT DETECTION TAGS
SPEAKER: BRAD RODENBURG • Bou -Matic Product Manager
TOPIC: Heat -Seeker Pedometers and their use in cows and heifers.
TIMES: 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL ON HEAT -SEEKER TAGS
If you attend one of these meetings the regular price will have a $50.00 REBATE. This applies
to each tag purchased from H. Nicholson & Son after Feb. 1/93 until closing Feb. 24/93.
No other deals apply.
INTRODUCING NEW DESIGN CONCRETE PASTURE MATS -
for the ultimate in cow comfort
10% OFF ALL PARTS & SUPPLIES - Cash & Carry only.
OTHER IN-STORE SPECIALS
Company Reps! Door Prizes! Equipment Displays!
MATIC
Tara
VRLrOETAL 1
519-934-2343
Head
Office
Dufferin Mutual
Insurance Company
Contact our Broker in your area
and ask for ... DUFFERIN MUTUAL
Atwood Cockwell Insurance Brokers Ltd. 519-356-2216
Collingwood ..... Culham Insurance Brokers Ltd. 705-445-6100
Howard Noble Insurance Ltd. 705-445-4738
Simpson & Company 705-445-3151
Dundalk Howard Noble Insurance Ltd. 519-923-2313
Durham ........... Chapman, Graham & Lawrence Insurance 519-369-3131
Grand Valley ..... Grand Valley Insurance Brokers . 519-928-2851
Hanover Chapman, Graham & Lawrence Insurance 519-364-2790
Markdale ....... Tebbutt Insurance Brokers Ltd. 519-986-2167
Chapman, Graham & Lawrence Insurance 519-986-4351
Meaford ' Georgian Bay Insurance Brokers Ltd 519-538-2102
Owen Sound ... L.A. Chester Insurance Ltd. . 519-371-0232
Shelburne Crewson Insurance Brokers Ltd. 519-925-3145
Southampton ..... Stan Hills Insurance Broker Ltd. 519.797-3431
Thornbury Howard Noble Insurance Ltd. 519-599-3812
Walkerton ......... Chapman, Graham & Lawrence Insurance 519-881-0611
Shelburne, Ontario
110 Adelaide St., P.O. Box 117, LON 1S0
519-925-2026 1-800-265-9115 Fax 519-925-3357
1895 — 100 years — 1995
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bleak, it will cost farmers more to get
retrained," Biondi worries.
CCAT excels at collating and
dispensing information. Inadequacies
in reading ability became apparent
through the presentation of some
highly technical courses. Rural
literacy officer Barbara Shipley
devised a plain -language course to
prepare pesticide handlers for the
qualifying exam that becomes
mandatory by 1996. The video and
workbook can be borrowed from the
OMAF office for home study.
CCAT instructor Jenny Girard
heads a county -wide volunteer one-
to-one literacy tutoring program
begun last April in partnership with
the Huron County Library Board.
ABM co-ordinator Robert Forrest
is carrying on the Farm Business
Management Resources Data Base, a
project begun by John Stephens three
years ago. Over 1,500 elements
pertaining to farm business
management — video tapes, books,
teaching manuals, software, etc. —
are already in the collection, and
available for teaching and learning to
anyone within Canada, or outside our
borders. Forrest hopes that early this
year access will be available by
phone hook-up to the CCAT's
computer.
"For the price of a phone call,
someone who wanted to know how
the futures market works could call
up 50 pieces of information," Forrest
gave as one example.
Agronomist Jim O'Toole has
compiled an impressive reference
library on organic farming, gathering
some of the data on a six-month
assignment studying non-traditional
farming in Europe and the U.S.
CCAT is a leader in agronomy
research. The initial program,
focussing on the field bean and the
rutabaga, began on six hectares of
leased land in 1975. Emphasis on
weed, insect and disease control,
variety testing and evaluation of
production systems broadened in
1983 to include canola and edible
soybeans.
Acquisition of a 60 -hectare re-
search farm three km north of the
campus in 1985 enabled CCAT to
expand further in this area, adding
corn testing the same year, sweet
corn for processing in 1987, and
canning peas in 1991. The farm is