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* FEAIURE P apdFer l s flce is | 6 Cosgor m taperge a â€" â€"af i ik*Sj Canine OX 42 u> CASTEETON Of | goy y o e \ hel‘d. * §M mentality ( ~ wa m i [ Page 6 ~ Thursday, August 21, 2003 Serving Apple Country for over 40 years! 70 cents +5 cents GST i ioi â€"&lIyC, yc t â€" S en ; . M l y( D CCI Ttarmers No l Sn t ol 1U1g) ; Rerrruca dn 4 / 4 oi on Meautt | s i & ‘o PC T fi â€" o. it N Q) OSlng ; l litine * iWOlnbbmwts 6 %) d e CC o wa ) c i 0 4 ‘/v Souailitis "“‘».\ s k:t‘::’f'l t TDR( f "‘ Pa |,) 4 l'.',""‘,"”. ': 640090 5 izmen M , 2# sns ce d ~euts n * lsak mb 9 C Imnone ,/ 7‘ :‘.‘_; ;“} .&;‘rm‘hm} 14 v,/g "-\;':PJ‘N‘ " + Cal {' )) ‘ ? ABCLS * .\ ol p * l s e § â€" u222 B\ B ho i\ We Cl e y ts Â¥ MlSh ; W Pn np A & $ | o. it . s PW h l, * rlrlfl,' ?u‘: . / f Pale "‘Si.fi'&\""\ % Pa p / L | C ‘{” [ [ By Karen Lloyd ' x ,)"'\1 K aa "" y f minddy 2/ 6? ' M ¢ klloyd@northumberlandtoday.com im >\ e M in 8" . ul * T I Pss J 0 B\ ; 4 | J.':'fl'":“ § "I m ~â€"7) $ C A \| _ "It‘s hard to imagine how one cow has caused so fi,,-‘f;:'*'-.‘ oD o \/ -..ua / onl i || much grief and turmoil." s 5‘.,‘.?[{;4"“. ht ._,.,.;â€";;»‘--ff"}f- (A } 5 Wl _.; Poet ||_. That‘s what Eugene Brahaney, a Campbellfordâ€" ( e t ar, en ; 3\ ) ® Seymour Township cattle/calf farmer, said Monday f ""'Mi E{ P _ "M]m mogh $ 1 about the mad cow disease disaster affecting ad W 3 zn j la ©â€" P Mldh | ,-"f?‘f'»;f / 9 , ! j Canada‘s beef industry. 18 olX) _ ( 20 %h | 'r W l j a 074 § ( Mr. Brahaney sells his calves and young cattle to 4 $# .04 23 % ) r'\‘.\:. ; F j is ‘ ( area feed lots, where they finish off their life cycle d ‘: AZ * | 8 7 Jms & ‘j before being shipped to the slaughterhouse or live to ,‘\""- s:; \f pie:. > l l 4 the United States. 1('( es .0 ."â€" ""k’%’\ . f P wC 1 ‘ B Pubel But with beef trades on hold between the U.S. and “,i Pn t 0n io *X p | _ uo i\ Canada, his calves will likely be given away or sold £ uP ~ Wtc ‘ eb < /‘ for less than half of what they‘re worth. | M § compom=â€" LW s z "We‘re certainly not making a living off of it," s ul a $ : . I{* [ . } Mr. Brahaney said. "If it wasn‘t for my wife‘s nursâ€" o P S o M ult \ 1 ing job, we‘d be starving." _ f | s - t oBuF Acy ud .. Canada‘s beef industry injects $30 billion a year "f,»,‘ j Mz 2l 6 in .Â¥ ".“,;3‘; c h m ( || into the economy. That was slashed to practically m 1 ce fl ~elm 94 P | nothing when beef exports to the U.S. â€" this counâ€" | M @ ’u,\‘;;\cf"-' | ' try‘s biggest customer â€" and 83 other countries W Wl e d Boge : . us Wl were halfed on May 20, aft_er bovine_ spongiform PumpEb Up: Colborne‘s Olco gas station remained open until after 11 p.m. during the August 15 power outage. Powered with | encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in one cow in three generators, it was all hands on deck pumping gas for the lineups that formed at the King Street East station. Inside the Alberta.h f the di f store, "They were buying anything that wasn‘t nailed down," coowner Brice Cotter, right, reports. Helping out Monday were upl\ilr?g;n:g;ases of the disease have since cropped Bruce Cotter, right and Tammy LaSalle. Proto ey Manoy Martin Gaye Hoskin, president of the Northumberland o o o Federation of Agriculture, is a good example of just how much money has been lost individually. Mr. Hoskin said he sold seven steers this year for a total of $2,600. Last year, each steer would have been worth $1,500. "I don‘t think people realize how hard farmers 0 are getting hit by this," he said. "It‘s hard to say c what‘s going to happen in the future." ra I I I a e l I Sl I I eSS eS Sid Atkinson, president of the Northumberland ’\ 0 Cattlemen‘s Association, said the situation in % Canada is pathetic. continued on page 6