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Grey Bruce Farmers'
Week
CROPS DAY
Wednesday,
January 6, 1999
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Market Update
Colin Reesor, Commodity
Marketing Program Lead,
OMAFRA, Walkerton
10:40 New Opportunities for Wheat
Marketing
Jim Whitelaw, Ontario Wheat
Producers Marketing Board
11:10 Biotechnology & the
"Terminator" Gene
- How Will It Affect Your Farm?
Dr. Gord Surgeoner,
University of Guelph
12:00 Lunch & Visit Displays
UPSTAIRS
1:15 Forage Production On
My Farm
John Beer, 1998 Ontario Forage
Master, Arthur
1:35 Profitable Pasture Production
Panel
Moderator - Stan Young
Panel: Gary Ballagh, Teeswater
Harvey Lyons, Dundalk
Steve Eby, Kincardine
DOWNSTAIRS - Precision Farming Workshop
1:15 How to Lie With (Geo)
Statistics
Keith Reid, Sod & Crop
Specialist, OMAFRA, Walkerton
1:30 Putting Your Data Together
Bryan Ashurst, Green Starr
Peter Spriel, Precision Farming
Technologies
2:30 Milk, Apple Break & Visit
Displays
2:45 Resistance, Rotations &
Roundup Ready - Weed
Control for the New
Millennium
Dr. Francois Tardiff,
University of Guelph
SWINE EVENING
Wednesday,
January 6, 1999
PM
6:45
7:00
7:15
Registration, Coffee &
Visit Displays
Coping With Stress
Farm Safety Video
Another Look At Forward
Contracting
Stu De Vries, Forward
Contracting Specialist,
Ontario Pork
8:00 A Quality Weaner Pig = A
Healthy Market Hog
Dr. Tim Blackwell, Veterinary
Scientist, OMAFRA, Fergus
8:30 Break & Visit Displays
8:45 Nutrient Management Plans -
What are they & why are they
needed?
Keith Reid, Soil & Crop
Specialist OMAFRA, Walkerton
A Township's Perspective
Clare Willard, Councillor
South Bruce
1 Need "WHAT" to Get a
Building Permit?
Richard Ahrens, Swine Producer
Bentinck Township
9:30 Quality Assurance for the
Local & Global Markets
Doug Richards, Agriculture &
Rural Representative, OMAFRA,
Clinton
BEEF DAY
Thursday,
January 7, 1999
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Nutrient Management for Beef
Producers
Don Hilborn, P.Eng., Resource
Management Engineer,
OMAFRA, Woodstock
10:50 MaAimizing Animal Units Per
Acre Per Day On Pasture
Tim Singbeil & Jan Platt, Annan
1999 Ontario Pasture
Competition Award Recipients
11:40 Farm Safety Feature
12:00 Lunch & Visit Displays
1:00
Overview of Western Beef
Industry And A Presentation
on Selection for Structural
Soundness & Function
Jim Nugent,Livestock Acquisition
Officer, Prairie Farm
Rehabilitation Administration
Regina, Sask.
(Jim selects over 700 bulls for
use on the pastures under this
program.)
2:15 Producer Panel - Improving
Livestock Water Supply
Chairperson - Ray Robertson,
Project Manager, EFP, Big Head
River Project
• Dr. Ted Coulter, Veterinarian &
Beef Producer, Winner of
Environmental Farm Plan Award
for Water Quality Improvement
• Bob McKessock, Chatsworth,
Spring & Water Quality Project
for his Cow Herd
• Gary Smart, Meaford,
Improving Creek Banks, Using
Rock as a Livestock Barrier
• Larry Parkin, Owen Sound,
Using Solar Powered Waters &
Fencing to Improve the Use of
Marginal Land
DAIRY DAY
Friday,
January 8, 1999
Dairy Day is sponsored in part by OATI
9:30 Registration, Coffee & Visit
Displays
10:00 Farm Safety
10:15 Dairy Farmers of Ontario
Update
Bruce Saunders
10:45 Processing Corn Silage &
Variety Selection
Jock Buchanan Smith,
University of Guelph
11:30 Slides of the Ice Storm: What
It Was Like, What We Have
Learned
Leo Brisson, Dairy Farmers of
Ontario Board Member,
Eastern Region
12:15 Lunch & Visit Exhibits
1:30 Canadian Government
Position on World Trade
Organization Negotiations
(formerly GATT)
Suzanne Vinet, Executive
Director International Trade
Policy Directorate
2:15 Break & Visit Displays
2:30 Preparing Your Farm for the
Year 2005
Jack Rodenburg, Dairy Cattle
Production System Program
Lead, OMAFRA Woodstock
3:00 Adjourn
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