Nick Parsons and his combine Prairie Belle rolled into Ontario this week atop a flatbed truck, on their way to a Jan. 29 farm rally on Parliament Hill.
A Saskatchewan organizer of the rally said Jan. 22 he expects a large crowd ready to demand more federal support.
Last week, Milestone, Sask., farmer Bob Thomas and other Saskatchewan and Manitoba organizers spent several days in Ontario, meeting members of provincial wheat, corn and general farm organizations.
Thomas said the two sides agreed that the need is for an early “cash injection” from Ottawa, based on acreage, plus adoption of a national farm safety net program designed on the model of the Quebec scheme, which takes production costs and the average industrial wage into account.
He said as many as 80 Saskatchewan and Manitoba farmers are expected to make the trip to Ottawa and join Ontario farmers.
“We have heard there could be thousands,” said Thomas.
