By CBC News Ottawa, March 13, 2014
Farmers in Eastern Ontario are worried where the next generation will be
educated, after the University of Guelph announced it will be closing its
Ontario Agricultural College campuses in Alfred and in Kemptville in 2015 for
financial reasons. Ron Burgess, the Kemptville College Alumni president, who’s
also a Lanark County cash crop farmer, says technological advances in farming
will leave young farmers behind the eight ball. (CBC) For generations, young
farmers have attended the college in Kemptville to learn techniques to take back
to their family farms, said Ron Burgess, the Kemptville College Alumni president
and Lanark County cash crop farmer. via
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