The Citizen, 2000-09-13, Page 16THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2000. PAGE 15.
Young speakers prepare for Royal
While this year's Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair may be
some time off, plans are well
underway. The Young Speakers for
Agriculture committee is no
exception.
Young Speakers for Agriculture is
an exciting, national opportunity for
young people, between the ages of
16 and 24, to present a prepared,
five-to-seven minute speech at the
prestigious Royal Agricultural
Winter Fair, held this year on
Saturday, Nov. 4.
There are many issues currently
facing the agriculture industry.
The organizing committee
strives annually to select topics
that will reflect those issues, a
national scope, and provide the
participants with the opportunity to
prepare both entertaining and
informative presentations.
Presentations may be made in either
English or French.
The topics announced for this
year’s competition are:
1. Agricultural Research and
Technology - My Perspective
2. Challenges Facing the
Agriculture and Food Sector in My
Province
3. The Changing Face of
Agriculture - Mergers, Alliances
and Consolidations
4. Sustaining Our Land and Water
Resources
5. Addressing the Challenges of the
Rural Community in My
Generation
6. Making it in Agriculture -
Facing the Future with Optimism
The competition was first held in
1985 in honour of International Year
of Youth. It is held annually to
provide young people with the
opportunity to develop their public
speaking skills, to provide an
incentive for them to take an interest
in agriculture, to give them an
opportunity to express their concerns
and to showcase their public
speaking skills.
Last year’s winner, Heather Honey
is from Warkworth. She received a
cash prize of $1,000 and a framed
print from the Farm Credit
Corporation, a framed poster from
the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
and was presented with the L.
Wilhelm Memorial Trophy.
Sponsors of the programme are
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Farm Credit Corporation, the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs and the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
If you are between the ages of 16
and 24, put your thinking cap on
this summer and come up with
an exciting presentation for one of
the above topics. The “Young
Speakers for Agriculture’’
Committee is hoping to hear from
you! Application deadline is Sept.
15.
For more information on how you
can become involved, contact your
local offices of any of the sponsors
or call 905-873-6811 or email
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com silage.
Work on this at Ohio State showed
that com provides soluble sugars to
speed up the fermentation and
dilutes the fat content in the
soybeans. Be careful to ensure
relatively uniform mixing of the two
in the silo, so that composition and
intake will not vary at feedout.
Poor seed set obviously will
dramatically reduce forage quality.
Harvesting procedures and maturity
will have a large impact on
nutritional value, so a feed test is
extremely important. Some
southwestern Ontario soybean plants
harvested during the first week of
September showed protein levels
varying from 12.8 to 21 per cent
depending on pod formation and
plant height. Be sure to sample at
ensiling time and analyze using wet
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Be sure to check the fat level
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can be adjusted. Normal forage
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energy from fat. Recheck soluble
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If the soybean forage contains 10
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should be fed to milking cows is 10
lbs. (4.5 kg) of dry matter. This
keeps the total fat levels from
soybeans under 1 lb. (450g). Do not
feed soybean forage in combination
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