Front Page

• Sagging numbers leave Guernsey in RBC’s "vulnerable" category - only 430 registrations of new breeding females in 2000
• OFA mild in criticism of 2001 budget - Despite only modest mention of agriculture

News

• Producers helping Napanee tackle intensive farming issue
• Wilton Creek landowners still have no answers - Left scrambling to find out what it is that Environment Canada expects
• OMAFRA metes out quick justice in Kleiboer case - Slaughterhouse licence revocatiaon scotched
• Solidarity petition on hold until crops in - Downloadable petition in this issue
• AgriEst back in business, keeps name - St. Albert re-opens, three more by end of June
• April driest on record - 12.7mm at Central Experimental Farm
• Crops in early, doing well - Five days ahead of normal
• High marks for hands-on from apprentice grads - Student-teacher interaction, flexible entry highlights of Ontario’s first agricultural apprentice program
• Large South American crop helps keep spring prices low
• Secrets of "motivational response training" - Horse whisperer's advice
• Coburn returns to his roots at Russell DHI awards night - Branbantdale takes top honours
• Regional open houses postponed but area llama farms remain open to visitors - Fear of FMD postpones June event
• Leeds, Grenville Federations meet with County Council
• Sunnylodge Glacier semen released
• Input costs outstrip prices
• Ottawa crop research days
• Renfrew plastic recycling days - At Baron's June 16 and October 16
• Library's "agri-portal" launches
• Prairie Oyster at Ormstown Fair - 87th fair runs June 7 - 10

Op / Ed

• AgriView 1 - Whither the OFA?
• AgriView 2 - ...and whither the Guernsey?
• AgriGab - Something's off

FMD Focus

• One case of FMD and Canada’s export markets would be gone
• Education key to CFIA effort
• Industry, government join forces - Information meetings held across province
• Modern measuresModern measures to fight FMD at historic site - Visitors to Upper Canada Village must use disinfectant foot mat, livestock displays will be restricted
• Experience in Britain convinces vet Canada must remain on its guard

AgriFocus

• Straw houses a growing phenomenon - Organic grower produces own raw material

AgriProfile

• Waupoos Estates Winery set to uncork in June

AgriBusiness

• Eastern Ontario Agri-Business Support Centre officially opens - Partnership among OMAFRA, Kemptville College and HRDC
• 1,000 accident free days - Prescott Masterfeeds plant reaches four-year milestone

4-H Update

• 4-H Ontario Members attend National Citizenship Seminar
• Regional 4-H activities
• Members at Career Conference
• Farm Animal Tracking is topic of IVOMEC Scholarship Challenge
• Young Speakers gearing up

Dateline

• What's going on in Eastern Ontario
• 2001 Eastern, Central Ontario Holstein Shows
• 2001 Fair Dates

OMAFRA Update 1

• Potato leafhopper in alfalfa
• Sprayer calibration: do it right and do it often

OMAFRA Update 2

• Foot and Mouth disease resources
• Market Revenue Program announces interim payment for 2000
• Pick Of The Crop
• Keeping foaling records a good management practice for horse owners
• OMAFRA Field Crop Hotline
• Hort matters on the web
• OATI Has some new products that help you explore alternatives
• New OMAFRA Publications
• Farm machinery — your rights and responsibilities
• Agricultural fairs in Ontario 2001
• Cryptosporidium: could it be in your water
• Feeding Systems Day copy of proceedings available
• South Nation Conservation Authority forms partnership with Ducks Unlimited
• Research for Clean Water
• Bale plastic stretch wrap recycling and collection days
• Agriculture Plastic Recycling Days
• Runovers are preventable
• Environmental Stewardship Award Nominations sought
• Ontario announces first step in OSTAR
• Protecting environmental health and safety
• Young Speakers For Agriculture Competition

OMAFRA Update 3

• Renfrew Hay Day
• 2001 Eastern Ontario Dairy Cattle Judging Conference
• Eastern Ontario Crop Diagnostic Day
• Eastern Ontario Workhorse Workshop
• Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association summer tour
• Dundas County offers volunteer training on Spice of Life 4-H project
• Organization News