May 26th - Are We Heading For Another Farm Financial Crisis Mini-conference addressing key issues around the state of the farm economy OMAFRA Building - 1 Stone Road West, Guelph 1-4:30 p.m. No cost but registration required - email Debbie Harkies - dharkies@uoguelph.ca Sponsored by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy
Dairy Farmer Workshops on Stockmanship For Better Production With Doctor Don Hoglund For farmers, farm emloyees and anyone else who works with dairy cows Free, but pre-registration required - www.farmIMPACT.ca May 27th - London June 1 - Embro June 2 - Woodstock June 3 - Ilderton JUne 4 - Glencoe June 5 - Ilderton
May 28th - Livestock Research and Innovation Centre Dairy Facility Grand Opening & Open House 6185 2nd Line East, Centre Wellington Centre will house 240 free-stall dairy cows in 8 groups for replication of research trials - 24 cows in tie-stalls for projects where more research instrumentation and cow monitoring is required. Open to the public from 11-4 - lunch served from noon until 2.
June 4 - CAFA Annual Ontario Current and Connected Conference Woodstock Quality Inn Topics include the direction of federal research and capital gains deductions and rollovers for farmers. www.cafanet.com/conferences
June 14th - Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame Induction Country Heritage Park, Milton 7 inductees - including Don Lobb and Earl Wagner from Huron County.
July 7th - Ontario Forage Expo 2015 Celebrating 10 years of Hay Making in Motion Ontowa Farm - 2600 Northfield Drive - Elmira Includes demonstrations from the leaders in forage production equipment. Presented by Ontario Forage Council and the Waterloo and Dundas County Soil and Crop Improvement Associations. Second day is July 9th - Westergreen Farm - near Brinston www.ontarioforagecouncil.com
July 8-9 - Southwest Crop Diagnostic Day University of Guelph's Ridgetown Campus 8:45-4 Register online by July 1st - www.diagnosticdays.ca
June 17-18 - Ontario Pork Congress Stratford Rotary Complex, Stratford
July 15-16 - Beef Farmers of Ontario Summer Advisory Council Meeting Sarnia
July 30 - August 2nd - Canadian Simmental Convention Lindsay http://www.ontariosimmentalassociation.com/
August 6-8 - Beef Sense Trent University, Peterborough For participants aged 18-25 Application deadline July 2 Register through the 4-H Ontario website.
August 12th - Innovative Farmers Soil Health Day Hewitt Creek Farms, near Innisfil Topics include How to Reinvigorate Your Soil and Optimal Use of Manure in a No Till System www.ifao.com
September 15-17 - Canada's Outdoor Farm Show Woodstock
September 22-26 - International Plowing Match & Rural Expo United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry www.plowingmatch.org
October 24th - Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Autumn Profile Farmer-style olympic competition At the Listowel Ag Society Fairgrounds, Listowel. Hosted by the Perth County Junior Farmers Public encouraged to come and watch.
