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ONTARIO POTATO RESEARCH DAY IS AUGUST 21

The annual Ontario Potato Research Day is scheduled for Wednesday, August 21 – rain or shine at the Elora Research Station. Start time is 10:30 am, with lunch provided. The event ends at 2 pm.
 
Come out to see 100-plus potato varieties for both processing and fresh markets. Researcher Vanessa Currie, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph will guide the plot tour.
 
Growers will appreciate seeing freshly dug hills of potatoes and the architecture of the potato plant beside them.
 
Guest speaker is Virginia Dickison, biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Fredericton. She will be speaking about program modernization and variety development. 
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Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.