Front Page

• Where do we go from here? - Grassroots protest movement remains ready for action
• Foot and mouth is déja vu for Frontenac’s Arnold Mangan
• RCMP seek help in naming foals - Canadian kids eligible to enter contest
• Grassroots petition availabe on-line - Printable version in this month's edition

News

• Glengarry breeder heads Ontario Cattlemen’s Association - Concerned about FMD outbreaks
• Child-proof your farm, safety consultant urges
• Farm Practices Board gives Emburys green light - Stone Mills Township bylaw overturned
• College seeks answers to low enrolment riddle - Focus group chosen to help reverse trend
• Farm comic muscles in on CBC - Manotick producer rushing off madly in all directions
• DFO lists precautions to stop FMD from getting foothold
• Canadian livestock producers can learn from animal rights activists - Facing an organized, effective lobby group
• Want to expand your horizons? - AALP puts out call for candidates
• Sunnylodge Bull entered in Progeny Test Program
• Stormont’s Neil Robinson receives OJF Retiring Member Award
• Agricultural Societies to meet - Districts I and II to meet in Merrickville April 28
• Chris Johnson heads Dundas dairy producers
• Kemptville College’s Jason McIntosh just an old "soyfty" - Places first in Project SOY diploma category
• CFIA regulations on horse importations - Additional procedures from countries with FMD outbreaks

Op / Ed

• AgriView I - Environmentally Correct
• AgriView II - Keys to success
• AgriGab - Just a focus groupie
• Letter to the Editor - Hog "factory" questions still unanswered
• An Open Letter - Coburn "disappointed" in Vanclief
• Letter to the editor - A taxing matter
• Letter to the editor - Joe Who? Joe Where?

AgriFocus

• Re-establishing Ontario’s once-native elk population - Being re-introduced in North Hastings, Frontenac Axis and Ottawa Valley

AgriProfile

• Replacement becomes permanent business - Kenview Holsteins grows from 50- to 500-head heifer operation

AgriBusiness

• AgriBusiness Support Centre opens at Kemptville College

4-H

• Ultramar donates $2500 to Carleton 4-H - "This is a chance to give something back": Ultramar’s Russ Campbell
• "Future Leaders In Action" gather for workshop
• Opportunities of a Life Time distributed to Ontario 4-H families
• Rosemary Peer new Foundation head
• Two Fabulous 4-H Volunteer Leadership Workshops
• Head, heart, hands and hyper-linked - On-line 4-H keeps pace with technology

IPM 2001

• Shout it out: Horse whisperer at IPM 2001
• Horse whisperer shares secrets of "motivational response training"

OV Farm Show

• OVFS 2001 wrap up
• SRO crowd at first Holstein sale - 33 Holsteins average $3,776
• It's all in the timing says the King of Hay - Gary Gordon takes top hay award at 2001 OVFS
• 2001 Seed Show Winners
• 2001 OVFS Award Winners
• High prices for OVFS Hereford sale
• OVFS Simmental sale results
• $1,979 average in Limousin sale

OMAFRA Update 1

• Foot and Mouth Disease Information
• Alfalfa Autotoxicity
• Including a refuge with Bt corn
• Make succession planning a process not a crisis
• To paraphrase Nike — "Just Tag It!"
• Use of electric prods on cattle

OMAFRA Update 2

• Application forms ready for Farm Income Disaster Program
• Ontario announces $90 million for grain and oilseed producers
• Positive response to Farm Succession Pilot Course
• Found pet
• Crop insurance pilot program for forage available again in 2001
• Crop insurance an ideal tool for risk management
• Ontario Farm Analysis Project
• "Ask The Expert" now part of the farms succession website
• Obsolete Farm Pesticide Collection and Disposal Program
• Spring Credit Advance Program applications available
• Task force on rural economic renewal accepted
• Consultation document on the regulation of genetically modified food
• 2001 Pick Of The Crop publication and products available
• We’re here to answer your call
• Pioneer Farmsteads Heritage Site
• OMAFRA has field crop hotline
• Ontario farmers to receive additional payment from AIDA

OMAFRA Update 3

• Custom Work Survey now on the Web
• Fusarium head blight risk management in spring wheat
• The Farm Line
• Eastern Ontario Agr-Business Support Centre gets established
• Eastern Ontario Crop Diagnostic Day
• Organization News
• Leeds Community Pasture