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• Lanark, Renfrew, Ottawa studies due this month
• "After-OMAFRA" business centre planned
• High-speed wireless Internet irrigates the "Digital Desert" - CDS-Storm leads way in shining light on the "Black Hole"

News

• OFA seeks county help with $350,000 shortfall - Cost created by OMAFRA’s refusal to collect fees
• "New" OMAFRA gets failing grade in first year - More work lands on shoulders of farm leaders
• Benchmark Dairy 2000 results may be ready by end of Jan.
• Producers want safeguards in cruelty bill
• Addition of Limousins boosts OVFS cattle sales to four
• Glengarry Seed, Feed and Forage Show back for encore Fri., Feb. 16 - Show to be held Feb. 16
• Jan. 20 development day kicks busy year for Zone 1 Junior Farmers
• WSA 2001 Rural, Farm Life course
• Red deer breeders may change association’s thrust - Members vote by mail on switch from promotion to marketing
• Students share ideas on Articulation 2000 program
• Sarah Kroetsch heads list of Alfred College bursary winners - Over $16,000 awarded in December
• Farm Line phone counselling service hits responsive note
• Last-minute "lawyering" delays ethanol plant

Op / Ed

• AgriView - Bruining means business
• AgriView - So where's the package, Ernie?
• Agrigab - Life after OMAFRA
• Letter to the Editor - Wilkinson seeks "equitable treatment"

Farmers Week

• Area conferences replace Farmers Week
• Farmers Week Sheep Day program - Regli family’s experiences one of day’s highlights

AgriFocus

• Problem resolution - AALP grad puts study to use to diffuse possible conflicts before they arise

AgriBusiness

• Round bales in square holes - Mobile service creates easily-trasnportable square bales from round
• Select Sires settles into new home

Federation

• Grenville reviews convention resolutions - Local federation to work with county’s municipalities on farm issues
• OFA continues services to members on number of fronts

DateLine

• Brighton
• Dundas County
• Carleton County
• Frontenac County
• Glengarry County
• Grenville County
• Lanark County
• Leeds County
• Prescott County
• Renfrew County
• 2001 Regional and Provincial

OMAFRA Update 1

• Farmers’ markets offer producers direct sales opportunities
• Eastern Ontario and Carleton Russell host Ontario branch annual meeting
• Farm business registration delivered by agricorp
• International Year Of The Volunteer-2001
• Rural Youth Job $trategy Fund deadline approaching
• Popular reference for beginner and experienced maple producers
• Livestock nutrition information on line
• OMAFRA updates custom work survey

OMAFRA Update 2

• New seminar series on Farm Succession launched
• Kemptville Dairy Day and Maxville Dairy Day
• Kemptville Winter Woodlot Conference
• Dr David Kohl headlines New Crop Conference
• Eastern Ontario Sheep Day 2001
• Earning a Living in Organic Agriculture
• Surface water quality - a key to healthy communities
• Grower Pesticide Safety Courses
• Livestock Medicine Courses
• Free Stall Housing Design Seminar

OMAFRA Update 3

• Ontario Dairy Symposium - Leading Edge 2001
• Earning a living in organic agriculture town hall meetings
• Introduction To Ecological Agriculture
• OATI launches new training programs
• Nutrient Management Courses planned for 2001
• Cow Profitability Seminars
• Computer training in your home
• OMSPA Eastern local information day and annual meeting