Places & Times

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Atlantic Agriculture Leadership Program now accepting applications for 2009/2010 program. Starts November 2009 for 18 months. For more information, see www.agleaders.ca. Deadline to apply is July 31, 2009.

JUNE 10
Kent Co-op in New Minas, Nova Scotia will host more than a dozen Annapolis Valley food producers whose products are available in the store. They will be doing tastings and demonstrations and talking with customers about their local products. From 6-9 pm. For more information contact store manager Leigh Johnson at 681-7738, or manager.kent@co-opsonline.com ?


JUNE 13
Maritime Shorthorn Association Annual Meeting and Field Day, Atlantic Veterinary College (Main Entrance), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island beginning at 10:00 am. Lunch at 12:30 followed by tour of AVC, Following lunch at 12:30 there will be a tour of the tour of Meredian Horse Farm, and Seymour & Janet Hurry's Evergreen Farm Shorthorns in Winsloe.

JUNE 16
Training session in biodiesel. Eastern Greenway Oils Inc., 908, Route 590, Waterville, Carleton County, New Brunswick, from 8:30-5:00. Includes an "Introduction to Biodiesel" by Dr. Rex Newkirk of the Canadian International Grains Institute. Contact www.easterngreenway.com or Helen Green at (506) 375-6608. The registration deadline is June 10.

JUNE 23-25
International Potato Convention, Delta Prince Edward Hotel, Charlottetown, PEI. See www.potatoconvention.com

JULY 7-8
Canadian Swine Health Forum, Radisson Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Contact: www.swinehealth.ca

JULY 17-18
Maritime Bee Tour, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Guest speakers include Dennis Van Engelsdorp of Penn
State University.

JULY 18
North Shore Antique Tractor & Engine Club annual Tractor & Engine Show, Verstraten's Farm, Lorneville, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia (20 miles east of Amherst on Route 366). Show includes: antique farm machinery, horse-drawn wagon rides, a 4-H canteen, antique tools, miniature donkeys, oxen a 4-H woodsmen display and much more. Contact Vincent Hollis at 902-447-3062 or Pauline/Francis Verstraten at 902-661-9534.

JULY 21-22
Dairy Farmers of Canada annual meeting, Delta Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan. Contact: 613: 236-9997.

AUG 21
Maritime Simmental Association Salt Walter Classic Elite Sale, Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition grounds, Truro. Contact 506-756-2550 or 506-459-7066.

AUG 27-30
Kent County Agricultural Fair, Ste. Marie de Kent, New Brunswick includes: Draft Horse Show with Six and Eight-in- Hand competitions; the largest Sheep Show in the province with well over 100 entries of purebreds and grades; a Market Lamb Show and Auction; and a dairy and a beef show. Livestock exhibitors from all three Maritime provinces; www.expokent.ca

SEPT 5
Atlantic Sheep Sale, Agridome, Provincial Exhibition Grounds, Truro, Nova Scotia starting at 11:00 am. Purebred rams and ewes, grade and crossbred ewes. Sponsored by the Purebred Sheep Breeders Association of NS. Contact Rosemary Wort 902-671-2410 or herngatefarm@ns.sympatico.ca or Gwyneth Jones 902-369-2969.

SEPT 26-27
2009 New Brunswick Beef Expo, Princess Louise Show Centre, Sussex. Contact: Duncan Fraser at 506-856-2277 or Duncan.fraser@gnb.ca