Front Page

• Jane Behnke wins raft of honours at third annual Beef Debut - Top Showman, shows Supreme Champion Female
• Cure for unwanted livestock drugs is at hand
• ‘Yield won’t bust the bins’ - Y2K Bug is in the weather

News

• Llama ranchers term joint open house a success - Wil hold event again next year
• The County gets wine region status - Prince Edward’s first estate winery to open in fall
• A Taste of the County
• Sheepish? Not on your life
• Trenton’s Rosemary Davis heads FCC board of directors
• Mashila Freight Services helps growers export their own hay takes mystery out of foreign hay markets
• Maple producers anything but bush when it comes to tech
• Buckwheat in 2000 cropping season
• Agnes Hagerman has no beefs with rabbitry
• It’s the ultimate in turf protection
• New OATI board
• Correction - Maple winners incorrectly identified
• Sights, sounds of bygone era in Inverary
• Frontenac Federation, OPP hold information session on gun registration laws
• Ontario Whole Farm Relief Program deadline extended - You now have until Sept. 25

Op / Ed

• AgriView 1 - Jumping right back into it
• AgriView 2 - Well train-ed
• AgriGab - Whither the weather?
• Letter 1: - Should agriculture be removed from OMAFRA's name?
• Letter 2: - Balanced editorial, news story

AgriNotes

• Ontario proposes strict environmental safeguards for agricultural practices - Legislation to be introduced this fall
• Backgrounder to proposed environmental legislation
• Intensive Agricultural Operations in Rural Ontario consultation report
• Agriculture has sought legislation for years - OFA backs need for enforceable regulations

AgriFocus

• Far from being on decline, agriculture is a growth industry - $534-million industry provides 11,600 jobs in Leeds-Grenville, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
• Study gives farming hard financial facts
• Grenville producer "pleasantly surprised" at study's findings

AgriProfile

• Jay Johnston ruminates on nutrition - Study provides a window on digestibility of ration formulations

AgriFeature

• Hastings Agricultural Museum preserves county’s proud farm heritage - First of series of buildings opens for Canada Day, tractor display ready this summer

DateLine

• Regional/Provincial
• Dundas County
• Kingston and Area
• Grenville County
• Leeds County
• Brighton and Area
• Year 2000 Fair Dates
• Year 2000 Eastern Ontario Holstein Shows

AgriBusiness

• Eastern Ontario seed companies join Hyland Seeds in strategic agreement

Federations

• Grenville Federation - Kemptville College speakers address GFA
• Frontenac Federation - FFA funds local ag groups
• Leeds Federation - Leeds Family Day Aug. 7

OMAFRA Update 1

• Lanark County opens Tourist Information Centre
• Teen Farmer 2000 presentation and display competition
• Education Opportunities
• Beef Symposium, Kemptville Aug.24th
• Sheep Production And Management Series
• Eastern Ontario Workhorse Workshop
• Ontario Draft Horse Days 2000
• Disease And Insect Management
• Dundas Soil and Crop celebrates 60th anniversary
• Avonmore Fair Hosts Open 4-H Calf Rally
• Bennetts Of Rideauside Farm to host Grenville Farm Family Day

OMAFRA Update 2

• Ontario East Municpal Conference
• Master Gardener Program hotlines and webpages
• Centre for family farm succession
• Efforts continue to prevent spread of raccoon rabies
• Pick Your Own Guide no longer published
• Cattlemen’s Stocker Sales
• Feast Of Fields 2000

OMAFRA Update 3

• Hay: Is it too hot?
• Coping with poor hay crop quality
• Bring it back! Return unwanted livestock medicine
• Drift or spray tank contamination?
• Extended season grazing