ee July 26, 2024 Stratford Times Stratford Farmers Market a happening place to be Saturday mornings at the Rotary Complex GARY WEST 4 —— Z Times Correspondent 1a z Saturday mornings at the Stratford Farm- ers Market are still a happening place to be between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the Rotary Complex off McCarthy Road. There continues to be an indoor market there year-round where there are two area meat vendors, baked goods, bird-feed sales, amicro brewery and many more local sellers of various handmade items from local resi- dents and area farms. Come to the market hungry since the a Stratford and District Agricultural Society members are there bright and early at 7 a.m. to serve up Perth County back bacon or sau- 4 sage on a bun, and the smell of frying onions [7s 2 ESa entices hungry market goers to their outdoor [ke a i i fs LI EST PHOTOS) barbecue. Sweet corn eS were brisk on Saturday as Diane Mit chell, Chloe Knoll and The gentle sounds of the harp were ringing in the air Fresh sweet corn has made its first appear- Maria Chesney are eager to show off the full cobs of sweet corn produced for entertainment at the Saturday farmers market i ance of the year and the ears of corn look from their Thames River Melon Farm near Innerkip in Oxford County. They Stratford. Elysha Vorstenbosch, (Elysha V Music) from better than ever. also said their homegrown musk melons are also now selling at their ity the Mitchell farming area kept market goers entertained market stand, along with many other vegetables and fruit. throughout the morning market. Perth County Holstein club’s 2024 Sweepstakes winners announced GARY WEST é HF Times Correspondent Every xe, the Perth County Holey Club, one of the longest-running Hol- stein associations in Ontario, holds their Sweepstakes competition, open to all Holstein breeders in Perth County. The Sweepstakes entries are measured by their profitability for their farm owners. This year in the two-year-old class, there were 61 entries from 14 different Perth County farms, and in the 80,000- plus kilograms of milk class, there were 29 entries from 13 different farms. In the two-year-old class, the winning entry was from the Newmorning Holstein ; : Herd of Dennis and Nicole Noom and es : ONTRIBUTED PHOTO) pauly whose dairy farm is near Monk- > 9 A fe =) Sweepstakes winners from Bill Killing (Impact Farm), TJ de (PATTY JONES PHOTO) Wit and Geoff McMullen (Perth County Holstein Directors), ner in Perth County, Sonehg ane Nicole Noom (Newmorning Farms) accepting the award for their winning two-year-old entry. “Their winning cow was N y Id Holstei Legend Lester with 14,560 nity of tae Lester, for Denis and Nicole Noom and family near Monkt milk in 305 days, amassing a total of 940 é jen | ae points out of a possible 1,000, and showed a profit of $14.82 per day. ¥ The family also had the second-place | winner, Newmorning Duke 513, who had a total of 12,756 kilograms of milk with a $12.64 per-day profit. Third place went to the Impact farm of Bill and Alicia Killing near Stratford, with Drewholme Aristocrat Leisure P’s $12.58 per-day profit. In the 80,000-plus kilogram lifetime class, the winning entry was from the Stratford area Squibb Farm, Squibbland Rita Windbrook, which won with $32.05 per-day profit and over 144,101 kilograms of milk in its lifetime. Second place went to the Noom family | 5 a . - KY Patty) Yoses with their entry Newmorning Bookem pi, (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) with $30.09 per-day profit and third place Pictured are Steve Squibb, owner of the Suiespstales winner was Newmorning Bookem Lester 1922 bs the 80,000-plus kilogram class, Perth County Holstein (PATTY JONES PHOTO) rs Club president TJ de Wit, club director Geoff Mc- Sqibbland Rita Windbrook, the winning RS racy entry in the 80,000-pius stratford. with $28.67 per day. kilograms class for the Squibb family near S' Mullen and Nicole Noom.