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40 THE RURAL VOICE
a chair of a school committee and
president of the local branch of the
Christian Farmers Federation of
Ontario. The previous week, for
instance, there would have been 10
commitments to the various
organizations if she could have fit
them all in.
"We have so many different parts
of our life," she says. "We feel we
need to be involved in our church.
We feel we need to be involved with
our kids and we also feel we need to
be involved in agriculture."
Ken is still the chair of the
council at his church but has
finished his term on the
Agriculture Research Institute, a job
that was a big commitment, taking
him away from home 21 full days a
year. Despite the time involved, it
was fascinating work and Ken admits
he misses the chance to be on the
leading edge of agriculture. "I think
I've seen all the research stations in
Ontario except Emo," he said, as well
as all the Agriculture Canada
research stations in the province. It
gave him a chance to talk to top
researchers and academics: "To sit
down with George Brinkman over
lunch as say `George, what do you
think about where we're going with
the supply management system' and
to get not just his speech but his real
feelings about it."
Those ties are paying off in
practical ways. The deBoers, for
instance, keep the lights on in their
barn 16 hours a day. "That came
from visiting the research station at
Lennoxville (Quebec) where 10 years
ago this research was done and never
really published," Ken says. Some of
that research is now getting attention
in the media but they've been using it
for four years and got a 10 per cent
boost in production. Through talking
to the researchers Ken also learned
that dry cows have to be given
shorter days in order to gain the
benefit when they freshen and come
out in longer -light days.
At another research station Ken
viewed a barn on which their new
barn is modelled, though their barn
has such modern touches as a
cathedral ceiling missing in the
original barn.
They grow their own forages and
cashcrop soybeans on whatever land
is left in the rotation. They purchase