Places & Times

Agricultural and forestry organizations and farm and woodlot owner associated groups may send notices to be published free of charge in this column. All notices must be received a month in advance of publication date. Send notices to Farm Focus Places & Times, P.O. Box 128, Yarmouth, N.S. B5A 4B1 or fax (902) 742-2311



SEPT 18-20

DEMO International® 2008, hosted by Ledwidge Lumber, Enfield, Nova Scotia. Daily show hours: 9-5. Contact www.demointernational.com .



SEPT 20-21

New Brunswick Beef Expo, Princess Louise Show Centre, Sussex. Contact Duncan Fraser at (506) 856-2277.



SEPT 21

Open Farm Day



SEPT 27-28

Pacafiesta & the International Fibre, Sept-, Exhibition Park, Halifax, NS



OCT 10-19

Maritime Fall Fair, Halifax, Nova Scotia



OCT 14-16

Farm Credit Canadas Drive Away Hunger Nova Scotia tour: Objective: collecting over 100,000 pounds of food for Ns food banks. Three tour routes: Oct. 14: Amherst to Oxford and Antogonish to Masstown Market and Annapolis Royal to Coldbrook; Oct. 15: Masstown Market to Elmsdale and Coldbrook to Windsor; Oct 16: Elmsdale to Halifax and Windsor to Halifax.



OCT 16

World Food Day



OCT 30-NOV 1

Maritime Sheep Producer Conference, Holiday Inn Express, Dieppe, New Brunswick. Contact Beth Barczyk at (506) 536-1177.



NOV 22

Sheep Producers Association of Nova Scotia (SPANS) annual meeting, Glengarry Convention Centre, Truro, NS.



NOV 24-26

HortEast 2008, Cunard Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Contact Rebecca Wetselaar at (phone) 1-866-383-4711, (fax) 1-866-833-8603, or (email) rebecca@canadanursery.com or visit www.horteast.ns.ca to register.



DEC 4-6

Maritime Beef & Pork Conference, Delta, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Contact Rinnie Bradley (902) 368-2229.



DEC 9

Crowfoot Cattle Co.s Two-Year-Old Black & Red Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch Standard, Alberta 1 p.m.