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  <div class="message"><p>It’s been ten years since ‘Hay West’ shoved round hay bales into square rail cars to send to farmers in drought-stricken Saskatchewan and Alberta to feed their livestock. While there’s been no talk yet of ‘Hay East’ this year, one hay farmer describes the situation in Ontario as “the perfect storm”. </p>
<p>Alf Budweth, who farms 1300 acres in the Nobleton area with his brother Dave, considers their hay business to be a medium-sized operation in their area, selling horse hay and straw locally in large and small…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/208475/alf-budweth-from-budson-s-feed-on-hay">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"> (Published July 31, 2012 in the Ontario Farmer) 
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 The Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) released a Plan For The Future of the Ontario Horse Racing and Breeding Industry on July 24, 2012.&nbsp; 
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 It paints a picture of a contracted but viable horse racing industry in Ontario that will be depending upon enough government transition and development funding to see it through the difficult changes that lie ahead.&nbsp; 
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 Lawyer Stanley Sadinsky, who specializes in Gambling Law and Policy and is a… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/195250/ohria-plan-for-horse-racing">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">Good hay is when I can look at my mow and breathe a sigh of relief. I know what we grow so I know its composition, but getting it in well is a crapshoot. It's haying time once again. It's a nerve wracking adventure that is at the mercy of the weather, just like any farming.<br>
But when it is the largest component of our horses' diets it is well worth learning as much as you can about it.<br>
As a horse owner, what do I need to know about hay?<br>
If I was boarding my horse, I'd want to know about price. My board…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/185224/what-is-good-hay">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">Gentlemen
 Thank you for allowing the opportunity to share some of my thoughts.&nbsp; 
 I have a degree in Agriculture from the University of Guelph and worked full time on the broodmare farms for eight years as a midwife in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I am now a freelance writer, writing about agriculture and horses for ten years; I also train horses, coach riders, and breed and show Paint horses. I trail ride with my husband for recreation; we live on a farm and grow our own hay.&nbsp; 
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  <div class="message"> You thought you had found the perfect horse but after a few months you find out that he’s not so perfect. Maybe he’s developed a bit of attitude or taken a few bad steps. What do you do?&nbsp; 
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 In a perfect world, you’d take him back and the seller would give you your money back. But it’s not a perfect world. 
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 Karen Thompson-Harry is a family and equine lawyer in Erin, Ontario, who was one of the speakers at the 2011 Erin Fall Fair Equine Tent. &nbsp;She gets most of her equine calls about buying and selling… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/162523/the-legal-side-of-buying-a-horse">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"> Recent comments made by Dwight Duncan, Ontario Minister of Finance, have suggested that the Liberal government would review this partnership, known as the Slots at Racetracks Initiative.&nbsp;Duncan’s comments reflect suggestions in the Drummond Report that the McGuinty government, “Review and rationalize the current provincial financial support provided to the horse racing industry so that the industry is more appropriately sustained by the wagering revenues it generates rather than through subsidies or their… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/143999/slots-at-racetracks-backgrounder">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">&nbsp;Feb. 21/12
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 Dear Mr. Arnott, 
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 I am very concerned about the proposed changes to the slots revenue sharing put forth in the Drummond report. The report calls the present arrangements "unsustainable". I call them "successful". 
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 I earn my living from the horse industry: I am a freelance writer for agriculture and equiculture, which allows me to understand the strong chemistry that exists between the two. Just this week I have written an article about the Standardbred O'Brien Awards. I also breed and… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/142687/ontario-horse-racing-industry-a-letter-to-our-mpp">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">Those who know my Paint mare Holly know that she is a bit of a Diva. Well, actually she is the definition of a demanding Diva. Madonna in a horse suit. She was born to be beautiful and talented, raised to show, and came with a sense of entitlement regarding her life.&nbsp;<br>
And up until she came to Sweet Grass Farm she was indulged.&nbsp;<br>
This winter, however, she is living in the shed with her friends, and without a blanket up until last week.&nbsp;<br>
People ask me, how do you know when your horse needs a blanket? It can…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/135708/talking-horses">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">I walked home last night, Holly in tow. She's been cooped up in the yard with the ice we've had so she's getting a bit plump and bored so I thought I'd take her out for a ride.<br>
It was near dusk so the woods took on a whole different feel than they had in the light of day, one where the deer and heffalumps - those mystical characters from Winnie The Pooh stories who dwell in the woods - weren't as discernable. <br>
Is that a heffalump, asked Holly? How about that? Can't be too careful, being a horse and not…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/the-whinny/blog/133094/riding-alone">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"> (This was originally published in Country Routes in December 2010. For those who have been following our shenanigans for the past year, you know how it all worked out...)<br><br>
At this time of year a wish list usually covers the things you’d like to find under the tree on Christmas morning. But I’m a horse addict with a bad case of barn brain: for me, a wish list lays out what I would like to accomplish with my horses over the next year. 
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