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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-07-24, Page 6TH HURON OSITOR, JULY 24, f975 jse loot in. the nirrour Ltnen ra wes&Yte4 by Bob irons PO 8a. 267 Ebnwa saying is that when the hue and cry against subsidies for farmers gets loud and clear, don't sir quietisi,bacis and agree. When big business and industries in this country survive unprotected in the free market places of the world, then perhaps it will be time for farmers to be treated the same. Perhaps, too, it's time to add that a lot of the troubles dogging farmers today rests at their own farm gate. They are still fiercely independent individuals. They rarely speak for themselves and are quite content to sit back and let others do the talking for tle.:n, somethinglike making snowballs and having someone else throw them. And if that sounds as though I'm a little chees• ed off with farmers, so be it. Their independence - their "I'm-all-right-jack- it ' s-the-other-guy-who-is-in-trouble" attitude - is sounding the death knell for many struggling enterprises who need help. Small farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to remain on the land. Some of the big operators who have been around for a while and do not find it necessary to float huge loans at high interest rates are doing fine, thank you. They'll tell you so, too. They'll tell you that marketing boards and commodity groups and income stabilization plans are only to subsidize the inefficient farmer. But if many huge corporations need aid from time to rime then there must be some inefficiency in big business as well yet we, as taxpayers. see fit to help them out. What. then, is wrong with helping farmers along the road to a successful enterprise? Still, I can't figure out why farmers themselves are content to sit back and take little action or write few letters or become vocal in the mass media. They are having massive problems and the general public knows little about them. it's about time fai'ni news got back on the front page where it belongs instead of being stuck back with the truss ads where only farmers read it. FOUR GENERATIONS — Visitors from Alberta were in Seaforth last week and posed for this four generation photo. Visiting John L. Reid, centre, here was his son, Arnold, left, his grandson Donald and great grandson Jamie Reid. Th'e three younger generations are all from the Peace River Country in Alberta. Directors of the Ontario Fed- eration of Agriculture in Toronto have directed the OM to'publicly condemn the provincial govern- ment's new beef-calf income stablilization program • and then work -with the Ontario 'Beef Improvement Association and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food to improve the plan for 1976. The meeting stopped just shrill of urging cow-calf producers to boycott the stabilization program, because as one director put it, cow-calf men "need the money--- and now." (The Ontario government is offering a floor price of 50-cents a pound. about three-quarters of the cost of production. In return producers are being asked to pay a S5 per-cow premium and sign a .five-year blank-cheque contract that gives no indication of what premiums might be charged in the last four years of the contract.) The meeting expressed serious concern because farmers were not consulted in the development of the plan. Director after director express- ed fear that the unilateral devel- opment of a stabilization plan was setting a precedent. They made it clear that they wanted a negotiat- ing role for farmers in the New farm column this week There is a new agricultural column starting in the Huron Expositor this week. 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These tariffs raise prices both for imported goods and domestic goods. The protection is given to petroleum and coal producers, poultry processors - not producers - shoe factories, the rug industry; knitting mills, the copper processing industry, toiletry manufacturers, sugar refiners and dairy factories. And those are just the top ten. Dozens of other industries are included in the list prepared by the Economic Council of Canada. The council is suggesting free trade between Canada and the U.S. This may be a good idea, depending on the industry, but my point is that the agrichltural industry s not the only industry getting government help, So many times, farmers are accused of being a drain on the country's economy. They are said to be constant complainers asking for more government handouts than they deserve. When farm prices increase, every major newspaper in the province screams to high heaven But when labor strife on the west coast last year caused demurrage costs of SI 7 million, Prairie grain farmers paid those costs and few newspapers that I read ever mentioned it. And a couple of weeks ago this column mentioned that farmers are now forced to pay an extra 45 cents per hundred-weight for powdered milk sales outside of Canada, a total of 90 cents now for every hundred weight. This extra change cuts dairy profits considerably at the farm gate yet no major newspaper nor consumers associations has come foPward with any sympathy for famers who haye already planned their dairy year and are now faced with that much less for their product. This is not a treatise to agree with the Economic Council since Lam not an economist. I'm not suggesting that all protective barriers be concelled although the council may be right. All I'm Indiana visitors enjoy Huron 4-H hospitality The 27, 4H club members and chaperones from Indiana who visited Huron County had a wonderful time, according to Len McGregor, extension officer with the Department of Agriculture in Clinton. "Everything has gone well and I think it has helped generate enthusiasm: for 4H programs here", Mr. McGregor said. The Indiana group returned a visit that 4H club members from Huron County made to their state ,at the beginning of. the summer. Unlike Ontario where there are two separate 4H programs, the homemaking clubs and the agri- cultural clubs, in Indianna 4H is one program, incorporating both types of clubs. The horn'-making club mem- bers from this province miss out on exchanges like these, Mr. , McGregor says. There is some work being done on bringing the.„, two programs together, as in Indiana, he said, but there have always been the two separate 4H branches in Ontario. °He said that local 4H members have gotten a lot of good ideas, plus the experience of travel out • of the exchange. Indiana is about 400 miles from here. The local clubs put on a number of entertainments for their visi- tors. "We're lucky that we didn't get any rain", Mr. McGregor says, "just a sprinkle during the picnic on Sunday and then it cleared up." The , Indiana exchange is the largest one yet for Huron County. The group left for home Wednes- day morning after spending five days with 4H dub members and their families all over the county. xpominolmilmommommosur WE WANT YOUR NEW CROP Don't forget to use GRAIN PROTECTANT for your farm stored grain. Available from us.