The Rural Voice, 1998-02, Page 5Cover
Producers attending Beef Day at the Grey -Bruce
Farmers' Week (and there was a large turnout)
heard about new markets for Ontario beef on the
international scene. They also heard that new
preconditioning
programs can add
value to calves for
cow -calf operators
and give feedlot
operators an edge
with cattle that will
jump ahead.
These and other
stories from
Farmers' Week
are included in the
news section this
month.
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Ontario farmers aren't used to
the idea of growing crops that
can be turned into fibre for
things like clothing, but Mike
Columbus, an alternative
crops adviser with OMAFRA in
Simcoe, (here showing a Tilley
Endurables jacket made of
hemp) says thousands of
acres will be seeded to hemp
in 1998 in the first legal
commercial crop of the plant in
half a century. The crop can
also be grown in this region.
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