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You guys came through at the crunch - so be proud of yourselves hay<I><B>!</B></I>  I know we are<I><B>!</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1086 WIDTH="729"><div> <I><B>West Nippising farmers involved in Hay West campaign!</B></I></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="723" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 276 WIDTH="239"><div> <I><B>‘</B></I><I><B>Farmers sending their</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>    surplus to help</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>       feed cattle in</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>          prairie provinces’</B></I></div> <div>      Local farmers are joining their counterparts across eastern Canada and sending hay to drought-stricken farmers in the prairie provinces.</div> <bR> <div>      Verner farmer Dan Olivier, who is donating around 250 bales of hay to help feed cattle, says farmers in West Nipissing reaped a good hay crop this year, with many pulling in an additional two to five per cent.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="41c5e00e0.jpg" border=0 width="480" height="270" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div>      It is this additional crop which he and other farmers will be sending West to help feed hungry cattle in parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.</div> <bR> <div>      "We have around 100 tones of hay arranged to go.  It will be three train car loads," explains Olivier about the grassroots effort to help western farmers.</div> <bR> <div>      However the relief has hit a snag<I><B>!</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      "We have lots of donations, but it is not leaving," adds the farmer, who explains the railway companies and the government need to get more involved in building a transportation plan to ship the hay.</div> <bR> <div>      "The railways have 170 cars, going once a week," says Olivier.  "But the reality of the situations their needs to be more of a commitment to get it out there."</div> <bR> <div>      He says because this is the third year of the drought, all the farmers' reserves are used up, so they need enough hay to last the next ten months or longer if next year's conditions are no better.</div> <bR> <div>      Benoit Serré, Member of Parliament for Temiskaming-Cochrane, has also added his voice to concerns, and is asking northern Ontario farmers to help their counterparts in western Canada.</div> <bR> <div>      "I feel that it is important to help fellow Canadian farmers who are in need and I am sure that our farmers will come to the rescue of their western counterparts," says Serré.</div> <bR> <div>      However, Olivier is concerned there may be difficulties getting the hay to its destination because the farmers in the west are not able to pay the cost of the shipments.</div> <bR> <div>      "They have no cash reserves, there is a limit to what they can do.  They can't pay, even if they wanted to pay it," he says.  "Many farmers have already sold the bottom third of their cattle.  The current donations will only cover ten percent of the herds that are left.</div> <bR> <div>      He says the average cow requires three tones of hay per year, and there are roughly three million cows in the drought stricken area."</div> <bR> <div>      Waiting next to the railway in Verner, he says that the hay will last only a few weeks exposed to the elements.  He hopes transportation can be arranged before the donation is wasted.</div> <bR> <div>      The Hay West initiative began last month, when farmers in eastern Ontario arranged to send their hay surplus as a thank you for the assistance they received during the Ice Storm a few years ago.</div> <bR> <div>      So far farmers from Ontario and the Maritimes have shipped more then 500 tones of hay.</div> <bR> <div>      "It's just like the war in Afghanistan," Olivier says about the situation in the prairies.  "The first seven days you send plane loads of food dropping over the country, well than food only last a few days."</div> <bR> <div>      Any farmer interested in donating hay can contact either Dan Olivier in Verner, Benoit Serré's Haileybury office at 1-800-461-1394 or (705) 672-2664.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#tusuptop" TITLE="Awards 3"><U><IMG SRC="41c33f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 182 ><NOBR><div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="541" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 158 ><NOBR><div> <B>THE INFORMATION SEEN HERE</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>ABOVE, WAS TAKEN FROM THE</B></div> <div> <B>PUBLICATION OF THE "TRIBUNE".</B></div> <bR> <div> Dated Tuesday, August 20th, 2002</div> <div> by Dean Lisk</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 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Box 900</B></div> <div> <B>Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada</B></div> <div> <B>P0H 2G0</B></div> <div> <B>Bus: 705-753-2930</B></div> <div> <B>Fax: 705-753-5231</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="#tusuptop" TITLE="Awards 3"><U><IMG SRC="41c33f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id1102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 8"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #8   </B><A HREF="id1100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 7"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #7   </B><A HREF="id1027.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 6"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #6   </B><A HREF="id1014.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 5"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #5   </B><A HREF="id772.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 4"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #4   </B><A HREF="id503.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 3"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #3   </B><A HREF="id502.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 2"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #2   </B><A HREF="id501.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards 1"><U><B><IMG SRC="41960b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> Award #1</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>