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New Location ELMWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE v4
Registration & Lunch - $14.00 Registration Only - Day, $8.00 Registration Only - Evening, $4.00
CROPS DAY
Friday,
January 9, 1998
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Market Update
Colin Reesor, Commodity
Marketing Specialist, OMAFRA,
Walkerton
10:30 El Nino - How Will It Affect You
& Your Competitors?
Heather Auld, Environment
Canada
11:15 Exploring The Opportunities In
Alternate Crops - Hemp,
Milo, Millet, Mung Beans
Mike Columbus, Alternative
Crop Specialist,
OMAFRA, Simcoe
11:45 Market Grey/Bruce
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Farm Machinery & The
Highway Traffic Act
Hans Johns, Ministry of
Transportation
1:30 Switching Row Widths -
Pluses & Pitfalls
Bob McKinnon, Port Elgin
2:00 Soybean Weed Control - What
Works. What Doesn't?
Jim Shaw, Cargill, Harriston
2:45 Soybeans - How Much Is Too
Much Of A Good Thing?
Peter Johnson, Soil & Crop
Advisor, OMAFRA, Komoka
RABBIT EVENING
Friday,
January 9, 1998
PM
7:00 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
7:15 Ventilation
Panel Discussion - Herd Health
& Environmental Issues in the
Commercial Rabbitry
SHEEP DAY
Saturday,
January 10, 1998
9:00 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
9:15 Machinery Safety
Farm Safety Association
9:30 Market Grey Bruce
9:45 OSMA Update
Peter Canning, Provincial
Director District II
OSMA, Mildmay
10:00 Using Milk Replacer
Mike Cooper, Grober
10:30 Pasture Lambing
Janet McNally, Minnesota
Taught Iamb & wool courses at a
state college: has a 200 ewe
Booroola Dorset cross flock:
utilizes pasture year round
12:00 Lunch & Visit Displays
1:15 Economics of
Sheep Production
Alan Scott, Producer, Stratford
2:15 Refreshments
2:30 Winter Grazing in a
Cold Climate
Janet McNally, Minnesota
RATITE DAY
Saturday,
January 10, 1998
9:00 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
9:30 Market Grey/Bruce
9:45 Farm Safety Association
10:00 Alternative Farming Of
Ostrich, Emu & Rhea:
Breeder Pair Traits,
Incubation, Raising, Housing
& Marketing
Sharon Heutinck, Past President
of Ontario Ratite Association
11:00 Break
11:15 Question & Answer Period
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Panel - Raising Ratites Start
to Finish
Sharon Heutinck, Ostrich
George McBride, Emu
Dean Diemert, Rhea
2:30 Break
2:45 Questions to Panel
SPONSORING GREY -
BRUCE ORGANIZATIONS
Grey County Beef Improvement Club
Bruce County Cattlemen's Association
Grey County Cattlemen's Association
Bruce County Farm Safety Association
Grey County Farm Safety Association
Bruce County Federation of Agriculture
Grey County Federation of Agriculture
Bruce County Dairy Farmers Committee
Grey County Dairy Farmers Committee
Bruce County Pork Producers' Assoc.
Grey County Pork Producers' Assoc.
Bruce Soil & Crop Imp. Assoc.
Grey County Soil & Crop Imp. Assoc.
Country Roads Goat Association.
District 2 Ont. Sheep Marketing Agency
Market GreyvBruce
North & South Bruce Cow Calf Clubs
BREAKS
Sponsored by.
Grey County Women's Institute
Grey/Bruce Co-op
Simcoe District Co-op
Germania Insurance
CFOS/CFPS
Consumer & Agricultural Report
Daily Live Broadcast
Sponsored by: Farm Credit Corporation
Formosa Mutual Insurance Co
'GOAr DAY SAT., JAN. 3RD
BEEF DAY WED., JAN. 7TH
SWINE EVE WED., JAN 7TH
HORSE EVE WED., JAN. 7TH
DAIRY DAY THURS., JAN. STH
CROPS DAY FRI. , JAN. 9 rH
RABBIT EVE FRI., JAN. 9TH
SHEEP DAY SAT., JAN. 10TH
RATITE DAY SAT., JAN. 10TH
• Goat Program will be held in the
OMAFRA Board Room, Markdale
New This Year TRADE SHOW
Sponsored By: Grey -Bruce Farm Organizations
OATI (Dairy & Beef Day)
Co-ordinated By:
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
(Markdale) 1-800-265-9152 or (Walkerton) 1-800-265-3023
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