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Award winners
keep bees
working happily
Happy bees mean more
profits for thousands of farmers
whose crops depend on the tiny
insect for pollination. Two
researchers, who have
developed two products to keep
bees working happily, were
recently awarded the 1997
Manning Award.
Dr. Keith Slessor of the
Department of Chemistry and
Dr. Mark Winston in the Centre
for Pest Management, at Simon
Fraser University in British
Columbia, shared a passion for
honeybees and a curiousity
about the role of the queen bee.
They identified five chemical
components of the queen bee's
mandibular gland pheromone.
They then developed an
appropriate blend of these
components and created two
commercial products named
"Bee Boost" and "Fruit Boost".
Bee Boost acts like a
pseudoqueen, exerting a
fundamental level of control
over bee behaviour and
governing many bee activities.
The product can stimulate bee
performance for greater pollen
collection, calm a queenless
hive, and improve other
activities.
Fruit Boost is a sprayable
formulation that can be applied
to crops in bloom. It stimulates
bees to forage in treated flowers
with greater intensity. This
increases the success of
pollination and in tum
dramatically increases crop
yield and the weight and grade
of fruit produced.
With the annual value of
crops in Canada requiring
pollination running at $650
million, the two products could
substantially increase earnings
for growers.0
— Source: Manning Awards
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1998
Training Courses
for Huron County
> Understanding your farm income taxes - the basics (2 evenings, Jan. 28
and 29; repeated March 23 and 26) $70
> Buying vs leasing: machinery replacement strategies (Jan. 17) $60
> Animal agriculture: issues and actions (Jan. 31, repeated Feb. 4) $50
> Negotiating skills and conflict resolution (Feb. 21) $75
> Marketing your crops effectively (3 days - Jan. 10, 24 and Feb. 7) $95
> Opening your gates to tourism (March 11, 12 repeated 25, 26) $70
> Making Win95 work for you (4 evenings - Jan. 20, 27, Feb. 10, 11) $125
> Upgrading to Windows 95 technology (2 evenings - Feb. 17, 18) $60
> An introduction to the Internet (4 evenings - Feb. 9, 12, 23, 26) $120
• Using the Internet in a farm operation (2 evenings - March 11, 25) $75
Computerizing farm records (4 evenings, Mar. 18, April 1, 8, 15) $125
> Farm accounting using QuickBooks (4 sessions - Feb. 24, 25, Mar. 3, 4,
repeated March 10, 17, 24, 31) $125
• Register now! Courses with insufficient registration will be cancelled.
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OATI Coordinator: for information about the courses
Alison Lobb, (519) 482-7167
OATI Registration Site: to register for courses
Clinton OMAFRA office, (519) 482-3428
1-800-265-5170
Suspended Free Stalls
Designed with your cow's comfort in mind.
Mount on wall or on headrail pipe.
Longer dividers that accomodate up to an
8' platform.
Headrail supports stall. Heavy duty wrap
around clamps are attached to stall,
spreading weight of each stall over a
larger surface.
All free stalls made of heavy duty,
hot -dipped, galvanzied 2 3/8 O.D. tube.
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ATWOOD
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(519) 356-2282
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(519) 934-2343
GRANTON
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FARM EQUIPMENT
(519) 638-5076
WALTON
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(519) 345-2734
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