Hello and welcome to our October newsletter. It appears that the summer of 2005 is one of the hottest that has been on record for many, many years. Temperatures seem to be over 30 degrees for more than 40 days of the summer, which resulted in high heat and high humidity. I have noticed on our farm that the number of flies pestering our cattle has dramatically increased over last year, and we seem to have more problems with simple things such as pink eye in our calves. None of which seems to have affected the calves that much. However, on many farms, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether you have a hog farm, a dairy farm, a chicken farm, or a “whatever” farm-the heat seemed to take its toll on our birds and livestock. In many farms we have seen situations where farmers seem to be struggling with all kinds of problems. One of the greatest problems that we’ve seen this summer has been the high demand for electricity. This high demand seems to have unleashed-at least in the dairy industry-a high number of farmers battling high somatic cell counts, foot and leg problems or excessive mastitis problems. This is not surprising, given the fact that all of this electricity with its dirty pollution heading back to a substation, winds up influencing the farmer and his livestock.

Many farmers have also experienced severe problems with foot and leg as well as breeding problems. The other thing that’s of interest of course in the dairy industry, is now the fact that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board (or DFO as its become known) is now trying to decrease the solids not fat component and actually up the butterfat. My, my what a paradox.  Just a few years ago they were telling us as farmers-and you especially as dairy farmers-what you needed to do to get in line to get your butter fat suppressed. Now just a few short years later we are doing the exact opposite. Those of you in the dairy business would do well to use our nutrition services to help you with your rations and nutrition packages to try to do that very thing; to increase the butterfat. If you do this it will certainly result in healthier cows, that I can assure you.

One of the things I have noticed with farmers this summers is the more they used variable speed ventilation fans, the greater seems to be the problem inside their operations in their barns. And of course, dairy farmers are not the only ones: hog farmers and chicken farmers, with their variable speed motors, send all kinds of weird frequencies down the neutral path of the electrical wire back to the substations which are then reenergized and sent out to farmers all over the place. It seems that the more electricity we use, the more strain that we put on the grid, the worse the problem seems to become. This grid was built in the late 40’s, early 50’s and is woefully inadequate. Along with it come many health problems, especially on our four footed friends, who are on concrete, wet ground or wet cement a lot of the time. These surfaces are much more conductive and they will continue to conduct and attract much more of this insane type of frequency.

In talking with Dave Stetzer recently, Mr. Stetzer suggested that it was almost as bad, if not worse, than turning a microwave on with the door open because of the effect that many of these frequencies have in mimicking microwaves and also in how they attack various organs of the body; on both animals as well as people.

There’s no doubt in my mind that the incidence of health issues continues to rise in this here province of Ontari-ari-ario. We just never seem to get the drift that we should be treating the problems causing the symptom rather than constantly treating the symptom.

It seems that society is becoming more and more symptom based and wants a magic pill to fix the ill of the moment rather then looking at the long-term consequences of continuing these pills or of even trying to find out what caused the problem in the first place.

Of course this problem of transient voltage or of frequency problems is a problem that we can’t see, we can’t hear, we can’t taste, we can’t feel or touch. So therefore, it doesn’t exist. It seems to me that more and more, people seem to want to bury their head in the sand and hope that the problem goes away.

I remember as a young teenager in the early 60’s, in our high school talking about the fact that 1 in 18-20 people would have cancer in their lifetime, so called numbers brought out by the Canadian Cancer Society at that time. Today the figure is more like 1 in 3 people. We have collected millions of dollars for cancer research, we have spent millions of dollars erecting these monuments where we so called “treat” people for this dreaded disease, and yet we have done absolutely nothing to try to figure out what causes the problem in the first place. It is just but one more example of our narrow-minded approach to treating a symptom picture.

The question now becomes, what do we do about all this? Well, there are several things that we can do: we can spend some time learning about the problem; we can have our farms assessed and our houses assessed; we can put in Stetzer filters; we can put in neutral isolators; we can have our operations checked for faulty switches, faulty starters, faulty motors, whatever else that we have, so that we can protect ourselves and our loved ones. The other thing we can do is look at our diet. We can eat a diet that basically says “go around the outside of the store if you’re buying your groceries, and eat only what is around the outside of the store and leave the nonsense that is in the center aisles alone”. What great sense this would make. Even with that there are refinements that we can do by having our own garden or buying produce that we know comes from an ecologically sound farm, which grows nutrient dense food for us.  These farms will use a minimum amount of sprays or chemicals, and are concerned about the food that they are raising and are selling to the consuming public. And believe it or not, all of us are part of the consuming public.

So remember-

v    If you can’t smell it

v    If you can’t touch or feel it

v    If you can’t taste it

v    If you can’t hear it

v    If you can’t see it

It could be TRANSIENT FREQUENCIES messing up your life!

Murray

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Joke

A farmer was milking his cow.  He was just starting to get a good rhythm going when a bug flew into the barn and started circling his head.  Suddenly, the bug flew into the cow’s ear.  The farmer didn’t think much about it, until the bug squirted out into his bucket.  It went in one ear and out the udder.

 

 

 

 

Immune System Enhancement Protocol

 

With fall upon us, and winter approaching, many farmers will have situations arise that cause stress on their animals.

 

Incoming cattle perhaps create the biggest opportunity for infection or stress-related health concerns. Bio-Ag has recommended an alternative program for many years and clients have been pleased with the results.

 

This protocol would be equally applicable in any stress situation such as weaning calves, lambs or kids, if neighboring farms are vaccinating or if any respiratory or intestinal germ infects your barn.

 

We recommend: Formula 1 [Anti-Bacterial], Formula 2 [Anti-Viral], Formula 3 [Immune system fortifier]: Homeopathic IBR; BVD; Haemophilus Pneumonia

 

Use individual doses or group doses in a common water system. Use the following application combining all the above remedies:

1. 2 x/day for 10 days
2. 1x/day for 14 days
3. 1x/week for 7 days
4. 2x/month remainder of winter or stress period

 

Free choice Perma Guard minimizes scour concerns; free choice Black Earth helps to tie up and eliminate toxins; free choice Kelp Meal offers a rich source of trace minerals.

 

Nutri-Mins [formerly Hemoplex] our liquid Vitamin A, D & E chelated premix for dairy, beef, swine and poultry is to be used during times of decreased feed consumption. It can also be fed to ensure less susceptibility to disease and stress.

 

Hydrogen peroxide [35%] in the water at 30 ppm residual also offers many health benefits. Some clients have found that if a respiratory concern arises increasing the residual to 50 ppm for 10-14 days has aided in recovery.

 

Our probiotic-Bio-Lac dry and liquid-can also be of value. Using liquid Bio-Lac in the water as the stress period begins aids in keeping the good bacteria in the gut in balance. Adding dry Bio-Lac to a feeding program has been found to increase feed conversion, thereby reducing feed input costs.  

 

Please contact your dealer or call Head Office [1-800-363-5278] to ask any questions and to order products. We are happy to assist you in any way.    

Inventory & Pricing $ Changes $

 

Over the past number of months we have been reviewing input costs and pricing of products as raw material prices have been rising. As a company, Bio-Ag has

absorbed a number of these increases over this period of time. Now, in light of the ramifications of Hurricane Katrina and specifically extreme increases in fuel charges, we find we must reflect these increases in our pricing structure.    

 

We’re happy to announce a price decrease on our 4.5 kg pail of dry Bio-Lac. The packaging type and size is new for us. After review we felt that we can lower the price from $90.00 to $67.50.  

 

As of November 15 our premix prices will have to increase as well as several inventory items including Perma Guard D.E. and Hydrogen Peroxide. We are still reviewing the changes that will have the least impact on our customer base. These changes are all caused by increases imposed directly from our suppliers.

 

Effective immediately Tasco™ 14 [a Kelp product for finishing Beef] has been removed from our inventory due to low request rates. We always strive to provide the freshest product as possible. Due to low requests we are unable to move product quickly enough for our standards and therefore have ceased to offer this product. Our regular Kelp Meal will still offer excellent nutritional value throughout the entire feeding program. Kelp is our October calendar special offering a 5% discount as well as our regular volume discounts.

 

The supplier of BioPak-our water-soluble B Vitamin product-has informed us that they will no longer be making this product. We have ordered our last 100-2 lb pouches and will be receiving this product the week of October 10^th. We are researching another supplier of a water-soluble product. Our injectable Vitamin B combo Amino Complex can be used to supply straight B Vitamins for stressed and “off-feed” animals. Our water-soluble Nutri-Mins [formerly Hemoplex] provides a blend of B Vitamins as well as chelated A, D & E. As well all of our Premixes offer a water-soluble B vitamin package which aides in reducing stress.        

 

Bio-Ag’s Newest Employee

 

We are pleased to introduce the newest member of the Bio-Ag team.

 

Roy Wilhelm joined us mid-September as our Purchaser/Receiver. Roy has had many years of experience in the transportation industry and we are very pleased that he has agreed to bring that expertise to Bio-Ag.  With his practical experience as a transport driver; then as a Load Coordinator and Supervisor we know that Roy has the skills to develop many solid relationships with our suppliers and transporters.

 

Roy’s high service standards and excellent interpersonal skills will ensure many positive relationships with you, our clients, as well.

 

If you enjoy the outdoors Roy shares this interest. Over a number of years he took this interest to another level as he developed and coordinated an adventure therapy outreach program to allow persons with disabilities to experience nature from a kayak or canoe. I’m sure Roy has lots of experiences to share. 

 

We welcome Roy to the Bio-Ag team and invite you to introduce yourself the next time you are at Head Office.         

 

 

 

Head Office Staff Changes and Transitions

 

As a company grows and changes so too does the employee roster.

 

After many years with Bio-Ag Susan Cressman left in August to accept a job offer closer to her home in New Hamburg. Susan served our clients and vendors faithfully. We wish her every success on her new ventures.

 

Later this month our Warehouse Manager, Mel Lichti, will celebrate a special birthday. Mel has been involved with Bio-Ag for almost 10 years. He has worked diligently and enthusiastically as we built and renovated many areas of our office and warehouse. Mel’s patience and positive outlook has contributed greatly to our continued success. Semi-retirement seems like the best fit for Mel at this time. This will allow him time to enjoy his hobbies and to do some traveling. We are pleased that Mel has decided to continue to work at Bio-Ag 3 days a week. He’ll continue to do the deliveries for some of our dealers and to prepare orders for shipping. Best wishes Mel as you transition into this new stage of life. 

 

You’ll see some other friendly faces more regularly as you pick up orders now. Keith Snyder has been with us for almost 3 years and works in a variety of capacities at Bio-Ag. Keith has been managing the mixing plant for several months and will be overseeing the inventory warehouse as well when Mel begins his part-time hours.

 

Perhaps you’ve met Ryan Kneisel over the summer months. Ryan has been a summertime employee for the past two years. We are pleased that he is able to work for us part-time for this school year as he takes a few more courses at high school.

 

The entire Bio-Ag staff thanks each of you for your continued patronage and for supporting our philosophy of “Working With Nature Naturally”.