Front Page

• OFA annoyed with failure to pass Bill 81
• Coburn goes toe-to-toe with auditor - Minister defends food safety
• Hog operation proposal raises squeals of protest

News

• Down Under Dean visits Kemptville campus - New OAC head to meet with principal Curnoe, staff Dec. 11
• Japanese beating path to Inkerman - Visit Dave Hendrick's GMO-free seed operation
• Farm job service could soon be a reality
• Tax deferral for drought-induced breeding stock sales
• Order of Canada for Ottawa oat breeder Vern Burrows - Bred 37 varieties of oats including nine hulless
• Prevention rather than reaction - OMAFRA kicks in $2.7-million for HACCP
• Tree-cutting notions get axe
• Howe Island milk producer gets organic certification
• Dowlings host first organic producer barn meeting - Series over winter months
• Students ready to serve - Kemptville’s Food Management students willing to cater to their customers’ tastes
• Pharmaceuticals or nutraceuticals? - Finding a new way to keep your horse healthy
• Farm Tribute III in Toronto Jan. 12 - Features Jim Cuddy Band
• Lanark, North Leeds Counties get $1.16-million in RED high-tech funds - Funds to link region to Ottawa Technology Cluster, boost local sales
• 4-H Ontario and AALP forge unique fund-raising alliance
• Did you know?

Op / Ed

• AgriView 1 - What's with Lyle?
• AgriView 2 - That niggly gap
• AgriGab - Bernie’s brainstorm

AgriFocus

• Black River Cheese already being re-built - Landmark plant should be operational in spring of 2002

AgriProfile

• A growing passion in Prince Edward County - EDD produces primer for prospective vineyard operators, investors

AgriBusiness

• Local dealers prepare for robotic revolution
• Dairy robotics catching on in North America Canada far outstrips U.S. in adoption of new technology - Canada far outstrips U.S. in adoption of new technology
• GenerVations expands to beef, goat genetics
• NH honours Weagant for customer service

Federations

• Internet proposals outlined to Frontenac Federation
• Charlene Renkema heads Leeds Federation
• Successful consultation on Nutrient Management
• CFA heralds WTO dairy ruling

Dateline

• What's up and when

OMAFRA Update 1

• Fibre Digestibility - Moving Forward!
• Succeeding in Your Home-Based Business
• Grim future for deadstock recycling
• Pasture Records? What Pasture Record?
• Determining Corn Silage Energy

OMAFRA Update 2

• Ottawa Valley Seed And Farm Show - March 19, 20, 21 2002
• Farm Line Reaches Out to Rural Youth
• Legislation To Improve Ontario’s Food Safety System
• Agricorp Meeting the Challenge of Record Claims
• Kemptville and Maxville Dairy Days Planned

OMAFRA Update 3

• Ground Water Workshop
• Kemptville Winter Woodlot Conference
• Eco Farm Day
• Eastern Ontario Crop Conference
• 2002 Grower Pesticide Education Program - Who Needs to Take the Grower Pesticide Safety Course?
• How Can I Become a Certified Grower for the First Time?
• How Can I Renew my GPSC Certificate?
• What is Livestock Medicines Education Program?
• Freestall Housing Design Course