Set Aside Program

[jensend]

the auditor phoned from melville; i assume he's a prov. employee. we're near ft. qu'appelle. we won't see the cheque until he's done his audit. with a foot and a half of snow now it will be a treat to count animals. even the calves are still swath grazing although i think we'll probably be putting out some feed for them for the rest of this month. we put out some good bales for them two days ago but about half of them want the feed under the snow. have seen some debate about letting cows lick snow and we made sure the calves had access to water this fall but as soon as the snow came they quit coming the quarter mile back to the water. when they come into the pen they have a good drink but don't want to make the trip back for it.

[ALICIA]

15444- Just got word. The goverment has reinstated the set-asside program for Ontario. They want a total of 115,000 calfs enrolled and the new date for sending in the tag numbers is now Feb.15/o5 but you still have to be enrolled by Jan. 15/05