| The Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association will provide $20,000 over the next three years to extend two Eastern Ontario crop research programs.
As recommended at the Feb. 12 meeting by Bob Dick, OVSGA director and research committee chair, a total of $15,000 will go to Scott Banks of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to continue over three years an investigation of Proline Fungicide for leaf and fusarium head blight control in spring and wheat barley. OMAFRA’s Gilles Quesnel will get a one-year grant of $5,000 for his ongoing study of the efficacy, timing, and yield benefits of foliar insecticide and fungicide treatments for the control of soybean aphids and soybean rust. At the same meeting, directors heard from Connie Prosser and Rosemary Bennett, directors of the Leeds-Grenville International Plowing Match and Country Festival, about plans leading up to the Sept. 18-22 show at Crosby in the Rideau Lakes. The OVSGA awarded $2,500 to assist the extensive educational component of the 2007 IPM, the first to be held in Leeds-Grenville since 1939. In addition, the association will mount an information booth at the show and directors will help staff other exhibits. In other business, director Jim Arbuckle reported on the OVSGA-sponsored Field Crops Judging Workshop held in Kemptville Feb. 7. The first-time event drew 31 enthusiastic participants and “certainly didn’t do our image any harm”, Arbuckle said. Directors spent much of the meeting putting the finishing touches on the program for the 2007 Ottawa Valley Farm Show set for Lansdowne Park in Ottawa March 13-15. To help celebrate the 80th anniversary of the association, logo caps have been ordered and will sell for $10 each at the show. “The latest edition is shaping up as another very interesting and successful show,” said General Manager Tom Van Dusen. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Tom Van Dusen, 613-445-3407 Related Photo: Click photo to access High Res version. |
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| February 13, 2007 |
| OVSGA AWARDS $22,500 TO AGRICULTURAL CAUSES |
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Seen here displaying their new information kit, Connie Prosser and Rosemary Bennett, directors with the Leeds-Grenville International Plowing Match and Country Festival at Crosby Sept. 18-22, left happy after making a presentation Feb. 12 to the Ottawa Valley Seed Growers Association. Directors voted to give the 2007 IPM $2,500 to be applied to educational programs. They also decided to sponsor an OVSGA booth at the IPM and to help staff other exhibits. |