Farm News and Events

Peterborough County Cattlemen Association - Update

We would like to thank everyone who took the time to attend the Peterborough County Cattlemen AGM on January 8, 2024.  

We recently held the inaugural meeting of the 2024 Peterborough County Cattlemen Board of Directors, the executive is as follows: 

Mike Fallis - President  - sunsetacres@nexicom.net   705-740-4878

Karen Paszternak - Vice-President - karen.paszternak@gmail.com 705-957-3739

Greg Cornish - 2nd Vice-President - gregcornish44@gmail.com - 705-559-1146

John Lunn -  Advisory Councillor - bonlunn@gmail.com  705-927-1455

Mike Telford - Past President - mishawcustomfarming@hotmail.com  705-872-7460

Pat Leahy - Secretary-Treasurer (pleahy@nexicom.net)   705-652-7317

Your other directors are:

Francis Crowley - 705-639-5691

Glenn Darling -  darlinghomesteadfarm@gmail.com   705-875-4256

Harry Ellis  - hairyellis@sympatico.ca     705-957-0907

Cole Fallis - sunsetacres@nexicom.net   705-740-4878

Gavin Faught - faughtp@gmail.com    705-750-8789

Rob Glover -glover296@hotmail.com   705-957-0567

Jason McIntosh - freshfrozenbeef@nexicom.net  705-743-5259

Paul McMahon - paulmcmahon@xplornet.com   705-930-0879

Guy Peel - gpeel@live.com   705-822-7726

Laura Robson - lrobson_11@hotmail.com  705-932-3216

Brittany Rogers - brittanys1712@gmail.com  705-868-9898

Wayne Telford - margtelford1@gmail.com  705-768-5333

Scott Vollering - scottvollering@gmail.com  705-772-9516

Our association's email address is peterboroughcountycattlemen@gmail.com , which you can send an email to at any time with any questions or concerns you may have.

We would like to thank all of the directors for their time and dedication in 2023 and look forward to working together in 2024.  If you have any questions or concerns that you would like to discuss, please contact any director.

We have several committees for the events that we are planning on hosting and attending throughout the year. If you'd like to help out at any of these, please be sure to contact a director.

The East Central Farm Show is returning to Lindsay Exhibition Grounds on March 6th & 7th.  The Peterborough County Cattlemen will once again be sharing a booth space with the Victoria Beef Farmers.  Be sure to stop by our booth.   If you have some spare time and would like to volunteer to be at the booth for a few hours either day, please let us know.

Watch for news and updates on our activities which are shared electronically via PTBOAgNews, Peterborough County Cattlemen's Association Facebook page or by email. 

If you don't already subscribe to the PTBOAgNews, it's easy to sign up.  Go to this site:  Farm News and Events | Peterborough Ag News (ptboagnews.com) and click on Subscribe to have your email added to their subscription list.  

Be sure to Like & follow our Facebook page to get the latest updates. 

Details for our 2024 Barbecue will be released very soon..  

Save this email address if you  peterboroughcountycattlemen@gmail.com or contact any director

Fleming students in the Sustainable Agriculture Co-op program are busy looking for co-op placements for this coming summer. 

As part of their program, students required to complete a co-op placement of 580 hours between May 1 and August 31, 2024.

If you have a paid opportunity at your farm/agricultural business or non-profit, consider posting your opportunity on this job board: https://www.outcomecampusconnect.ca/Home/Main

For more information, please contact Anne Torwesten, co-operative education and placement officer at Fleming College by writing to anne.torwesten@flemingcollege.ca

Looking for another way to market your Hereford influenced females (F1) or Purebred Hereford Cattle? The ECOHZ is accepting consignments for the WHITEFACE CLASSIC SALE which will be held on May 11th at Hoards Station Barn. This sale is open to anyone who uses Herefords in their breeding program.  We are accepting, open & bred females, cow/calf pairs, Purebred, non registered Herefords, F1 - one parent must be a purebred Hereford & breeding age registered Hereford bulls.  Cattle don’t need to be halter broke.  You don’t need to be a member of the CHA or live in the ECOHZ area.   We are accepting consignments until the 1st of March. For more information on consigning please contact us at eastcentralherefords@gmail.com .  

Would you like to receive the latest news from the Peterborough County Cattlemen Association and be kept informed of happenings from the Beef Farmers of Ontario?  We are currently updating our email list, and would like to be sure we reach as many beef farmers and those interested in the beef industry. If you don't currently receive our email updates and news, and would like to receive this information, electronically, please send your email address, along with your name to the peterboroughcountycattlemen@gmail.com inbox.  We will add your email to our contact list.  We do not share our list with any other organizations. 

Our condolences to the loved ones of Ronald Lloyd Windover who passed away on January 9th, 2024. In addition to Ron's own farming endeavours, he also sat on the Peterborough Agricultural Advisory Committee for several years.

Please use the following link to read his obituary and find visitation and funeral details: 

https://hendrenfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/5917/Ronald-Windover/obi…