FS PARTNERS is pleased to share with you the formal news release by Great Lakes Grain. Click here to read

Members who attended yesterday's Inland Co-operative Inc. Annual General Meeting voted in favour of the sale of substantially all of the co-operative's assets to GROWMARK, Inc., expected effective date of May 1, 2009.
Please follow this link for the full press release: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Growmark-Inc-966101.html

Members who attended Waterloo-Oxford Co-operative Inc.'s Annual General Meeting on Monday voted in favour of the sale of substantially all of the co-operative's assets to GROWMARK, Inc., expected effective date of May 1, 2009.
Please follow this link for the full press release: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Growmark-Inc-966104.html

250+ PESTICIDES BANNED FOR COSMETIC USES
McGuinty Government’s Pesticide Ban Takes Effect April 22
Please follow this link to the Ministry of the Environment: www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/news/2009/030401.php

The Greencover Canada program is a five-year, $110-million Government of Canada initiative to help you, as a producer, improve your grassland-management practices, protect water quality, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and enhance biodiversity and wildlife habitat. - See if you qualify!

Press Release
July 22, 2008

Ontario Forage Council Launches New “Hay Listings Service”

The Ontario Hay Listings Service was created by the Ontario Forage Council to provide livestock producers with information on forage availability. This service is provided free of charge. This Hay Listings site is a self service tool, that enables buyers and sellers of hay (and straw), in Canada and the U.S. to announce and search available or needed hay lots.  
 
Ontario Forage Council will officially launch the “Ontario Hay Listings Service” “www.ontariohaylistings.ca ”, at the Ontario Forage Expo, being held on the farm of Don & Robin Rowntree, south of Georgetown, on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008.

Both hay producers and consumers have often commented, that there is a real need for a hay (and straw) listings service here in Ontario. This site has been designed with dial-up users in mind, and with the objective of being as simplistic, and yet efficient as possible. Our mission is to provide an easy and effective process of bringing hay producers and buyers together. We trust that the format will be user-friendly, and enable people to readily obtain the information and service they are requiring. 

Further information can be obtained by contacting the office of the Ontario Forage Council at 877-892-8663 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please follow this link to the Government of Canada website: http://www.agr.gc.ca/cb/index_e.php?s1=n&s2=2008&page=n80626a