Events |
Buy Local Buy Fresh Chatham-Kent: |
| The Buy Local Buy Fresh Chatham-Kent map (second edition) is available at local Chatham-Kent libraries, municipal service centres and at a number of local agricultural operations. The Buy Local Buy Fresh website is now in the works and will be launched on March 23rd, 2010. Please check it out www.buylocalbuyfreshchathamkent.com If you would like to be included on the new website please contact the Kent Federation of Agriculture at 519-674-1595. Special thanks to our Partners and Sponsors who made this map possible
- and Thank them by shopping local. Please click on the Buy Local Buy
Fresh logo found on our home page to view the 2009 map. |
Permit to take water -info session |
OMAFRA's Rebecca Shortt will be making a presentation on "Permit to take water" followed by queston and answers. There will be time for one-on-one assistance for applicants. Pre-registration is required by calling the OMAFRA ag info line 1-877-424-1300. Workshop to take place on Tuesday, March 23rd, in Dresden @ 10 a.m. |
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Emergency First Aid / CPR course |
The Kent Federation of Agriculture and the Chatham Kent Farm Safety
are hosting an Emergency First Aid / CPR course on Saturday, March 13th,
2010. For more information or to register please call the KFA office
at 519-674-1595. |
MICRO-FIT SOLAR WORKSHOP |
Thursday, March 25th, 2010@ RDC bldg. Ridgetown Campus, UoG, Ridgetown, ON. There will be two sessions, 2-4p.m. or 7-9p.m. This is a workshop designed to provide farmers with information about micro-fit solar projects. Guest speakers will include Don Hillborn-OMAFRA, Ted Cowan-OFA Researcher, and Bert Rammelaere-area farmer. Registration is not required however a non-perishable food item for
the area food bank would be appreciated. For more information please
contact Gayle Bogart, MSR for Essex/Kent OFA. 1-800-222-8172 |
KFA Regional Meeting - 2009 |
| The Kent Federation of Agriculture hosted
their Regional meeting August 19th and was successful in electing a full
slate of delegates to attend the upcoming OFA convention. The elected
delegates are: Clayton Crow, Dennis Owen, Mark Huston, Allan Pollard,
Donna Pollard, Leon Leclair, Harry Lawson, Alice Uher, and Chris Quinton.
Also elected were the Policy Advisory councilors- also known as PAC members. They are Frank Byrne, Louis Roesch, and Mark Richards. Congratulations, and Thanks to our new delegates and PAC members. |
KFA Scholarship |
| The Kent Federation of Agriculture is
again offering two scholarship opportunities. Each scholarship will be
for $1,000 and each recipient must be from the family of a KFA member.
Application forms are available from the KFA office. New deadline for application form remittance is September 30th, 2010. |
Kent Cattlemen's beef dinner and dance - Feb 27, 2010 |
| The night is called the Kent Cattlemen's Beef Promotion Night.The
date is Sat. Feb.27 at the UAW hall on Merrit. The evening consists
of a roast beef dinner catered by Cheryl Ann's Catering and a dance
with music from Hippy's DJ Service. There is a silent auction with the
proceeds going to the 4-H beef clubs. As well there are door prizes
of beef as this is their annual promotion night.Why not promote beef
,right? The door prizes are sponsored by local agri businesses in the
Chatham Kent Community. Their business card accompanies each door prize.
Social starts at 6:00pm with dinner at 7:00pm. |
Round the County - Ag Tour 2009 |
| The Kent Federation of Agriculture held their 11th annual “Round the County Ag Tour” Sunday, Sept. 13th and it was a great success. There were upwards of 500 people who took in the event. We would like to thanks th host sites, the sponsors, and the community for making this event such a success. This year’s host farms included: This event was available free of charge because of the generous donations from various ag businesses and organizations. Special thanks to: Agris Co-Operative, Chatham-Kent Wheat Producers, Country 92.9 FM, Kent County Pork Producers, Kucera Can-Am Tractor Ltd., Ontario Sugarbeet Growers” Association, Seed Corn Growers of Ontario, Stewardship Kent, Today’s Farmer, and the Kent Federation of Agriculture. Plans are now in the works for next years tour which will focus on East Chatham-Kent. If you would like to be involved in next years tour please give the KFA office a call at 519-674-1595.
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2009 KFA Annual meeting |
| The Kent Federation of Agriculture held their annual meeting last Friday. This was a time to acknowledge and thank those who have worked to improve agriculture in our area as well as a time to elect directors for the new 2010 KFA board of directors. This year’s meritorious recipient was Hector Delanghe. The Ed Campbell memorial award was presented to Louis Roesch and the KFA scholarship recipients were Kyle Craven and Devon Clark. The new 2010 Kent Federation of Agriculture board of directors were
elected and they are: There are a few vacancies on the board so if anyone might be interested in getting a bit more involved with the Kent Federation of Agriculture please give our office a call at 519-674-1595. Thanks very much to both our 2009 and 2010 board of directors for all their hard work and dedication. |
