Excellence
2003 Presentations
Here are the actual slide presentations
for some of the most popular speakers
at the conference. Download files by
right-clicking and selecting "save
target as" or "save link as"
and choosing a folder in your computer.
View and print files using the free
Acrobat Reader program.
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The
2002 U.S. Farm Bill
Al Mussels, PhD., George
Morris Centre
mussels.pdf
(34 slides, 318 kb)
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Wind
Power - New Crop for Canadian
Farmers
David Boileau, Superior
Wind Energy Inc.
windpower.pdf
(43 slides, 1.68 kb)
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Organic
Farming - Growth, Impacts, Lessons
Janine Gibson, Canadian
Organic Growers
organic.pdf
(23 slides, 2.96 kb)
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POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS
Here are the other 2003 presentations
in PowerPoint. To obtain information
about the speakers, click on the topics.
To download, right-click on the PPT
links, choose "save target as"
or "save link as" then choose
a folder in your computer.
Farm Management
Clubs
belzile-eng.ppt
(292 KB)
Biodiesel
Demonstration
biodiesel-eng.ppt
(3.3 MB)
Canada's
Outstanding Young Farmers 2002 (Bowman)
bowman-eng.ppt
(LARGE FILE: 16.8 MB)
Canada's
Outstanding Young Farmers 2002 (Jolin
& Laurent)
laurent-eng.ppt
Land Use
Issues and Conflict Resolution
caldwell-eng.ppt
(443 KB)
Family Farms
Faced with Globalization
Desrosiers-eng.ppt
(554 KB)
Finacing
in Today's Agriculture Industry
fcc-eng.ppt
(2.28 MB)
Strategy
for Innovation in Agriculture
innovation-eng.ppt
(159 KB)
Recycling
Raw Materials
rothsay-eng.ppt
(3.93 MB)
Agriculture
in the New Economy
watt-eng.ppt
(3.76 MB)
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Excellence
2003 Summary Notes:
Delegates heard from a number
of speakers that demographics are changing
rapidly with more immigrants coming
to Canada from Asia.
For farmers, that means developing value-added
farm products aimed at this growing
consumer segment. Keynote speaker David
Watt, Financial Economist for BMO
Nesbitt Burns remarked, "It's
not unusual now to see sushi packaged
in large grocery stores."
Farm Credit Canada outlined its new
venture capital group to help fund new,
qualifying farming ventures; John Fast,
Executive Director of the Centre for
Family Business at the University of
Waterloo emphasized the need to express
concerns openly in family-run farm businesses;
Al Mussel from the George
Morris Centre recommended looking
at niche markets and diversification
to combat the U.S. Farm Bill; Janine
Gibson of Canadian
Organic Growers said more organic
food is now sold in grocery stores than
in health food stores; and David Boileau
of Superior
Wind Energy said farmers can earn
between $30,000 and $40,000 a year on
100 hectares of land selling energy
from wind turbines.
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