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,• • decline in 1976 following record 90,000 acres from the, 99,725 Mr, Wltelatt siild a Tapt hese counttres are in desperate nee o
,P highs this year, according to a during 1975. Acreage of burley g overnment study predicted our food ..
Statistics Canada report to the cigar and pipe tobacco should' thdre will be a world•sho age of ."We can make that food
# Agricultural Outlook Conference. increase next year, the experts dairy products and meaty the available through trade or aid,"
Economists predict neat year's say. end of the decade, but the farmer shouldn't be
tsuorase. agross farm income could decline Cigarette and cigar sales to but
year people in Toronto expected to shoulder the bulk of
oixoa.wd s Boo Ttoitq. Etdai. Ra . Et+nv# ori N3B 2(7 to $9.4 billion from this year's consumers should also increase, each waste 300 pounds of food," the financial load, he said.
$9.8 billion*
add the experts.
North American farmers are .in much the game position We talk about what this problem is going to be in 25 years. Net farm income may be down Also at the Ariculture Outlook M
of power as the OPEC oil producers; they command a large "Indeed, we have the problem today. there are lechief-
share
P people about 25 percent next year to S3 _conference Iyionday, a , chief
share of an essential and limited resource. starving, there's malnutritt :All'•ov.er thq world. Yet the billion. Farm operating expenses government financial analyst said N
I have said this before in this corner but not quite as oil crisis was prophesied ltd ignored. That's why I 'think are expected to increase by more the Canadian economy will take a
succinctly. Although the thoughts behind diose words are that this world food problem needs to be reached on and •� �'%
y °� � P p than nine percent during 5976. gradual upward swing in 1976,
in complete harmony with mine. they wer*-said originally preached on. '
Feed grain prices are expected with price increases moderating
by a - man far more famous and more knowledgeable .than Thank you, Nir. Graflund and Executive Magazine.
I am. May I. join your congregation' This corner has been to hold at November levels slightly but unemployment ��; '� � \, �:�`, , - •,
He is John H. Graflund, president of John Deere Lid-, a through the winter months, but remaining relatively high.`
preaching about the problem for a dozen years. In fact. I
wholly-owned subsidiary of Deere and Company of,Illinois. gel reprimanded by man • for dwelling on it ad infinitum, nest year, s prices depend on the David Slater, economic analysis .
3 g size of crops in the northern director of the finance`
John Deere Ltd, had sales of $2.5 billion last year, $1,9 ad nauseam.
said the Canadian department, ,
billion in farm equipment and t:iat mattes John Deere the Ido not think it can be over -emphasized. Research by hemisphere.;C� � ,� � ��• ;< <
worlds largest supplier of farts equipment. The Canadian all 1976 prices of beef will hover economy is expected to move to
PP equip sectors of the economy is needed. Tremendous trees-
subsidiary more than $X10 million a year. The close to the 1975 average of 547 higher levels °f real output and to
grosses fives to keep people on the land and keep arable land in
company sells in more than 100 countries: per cuK., according to the report. experience lower rates of
A production are vitally needed today if the world food pr°ti- Z•lie size of the Canadian herd ,inflation." �
Mr. Graflund, then. has a voice that should be heard- lem is going to be solved.
He maintains that attempts to solve the prpblem .o€ The time of talking and bickering is past. should stabilize but beef "Prices are expected to rise
enough food is causing headaches now and "to IT# 7 But All levels of government must work together to preserve slaughter cattle will remain high. more slowly in 1976 than during
what about 1990 and the year 2000' If feeding the ha Canadian hog producers should the past few years."
ngry the farm land in this country. Al! levels of government, all
is causing problems today, think of the headaches 25 years g receive firm, high prices through He said the recover tia11 be
organizations even remotely connected with farming, must
from now. the first half of the year but gradual in the first half of 1976, i`•..;W\?.+.ya.•
be urged to support government measures to encourage
Sy that time. 3 billion more peop}e tett hate to he' fed increased supplies should deflate gain momentum in the second 4�
farmers and farming. If government subsidies to keep
in this ever -diminishing globe. The extra production of prices by year's end. half• and by 1977 the Canadian
tipeople on the land are necessary, then let us give those
grain alone will have to be two and a half times more than subsidies uncomplainingly.. Production oas Pdtif milk hthe and world economy should' be
If we dant give every farmer in this nation a reasonable .?a.
wh6it is being produced right now It will take an extra 225 potential for an increase next back at high levels. i<. i „y •
�� •' i % '!�%��/i �
million tons of grain. according to.Mr Graflund year, but government restraining
return sari tiffs labor and investment. the will be terribly As the guidelines take hold. he
"If we put it all in box cars it would stretch from St. - measures are expected to offset g
sorry in years to come. i
Johns to,,�'ancouver 10 trains abreast of f:tt one tram The grow Ls of an•emlity belly incite a man to desperation. such an increase. said price increases should
50'000 miles long. And a desperate man is a dangerous man. «orifi oilseed demand may decline and restraints on profits flr
"The only conclusion I can mach from all this is that If we want to survive in these affluent countries, we will MW er in 1976 but export should contribute to this decii ne.
the best years for the farther are certainly stili in the supplies will remain high, "8ecover is underway in the
future." be forced to flit a lot of empty bellies. ,
Statistics Canada predicts. A major industrial countries.* said
Mr Graflund's remark, are quoted from the October +' price increase is unlikely. Mr.Slater; and world commodity
-issue ti Executive Magazine. a Southam business publica- Consumers can expect larger prices are not expected to
tion, and he says he would like to preacb on the world food supplies of beef, pork and increase significantly.
situation once a month. poultry. accordingAgriculture i
15tiv preach' Canada economists The Canadian economy in the
Because preaching is neve-`sari because of what hap' Beef and poultry farmers can last half of 1975 already ahs \ �
pened in oil. Most Americans in the admrnt-strauon branch expect prices to remain relatively begun to recover, he said. due in
of the government over there are strangely silent about a €1 // steady' but pork prices should part to the recovery in the �'A��S
rt red about 25 years ago that actuati in- %' //
report P g S P j / /� gradually drop. housing industry and also an
pointed that the mid -1 M1 was a time when Americas Jig I U
Fgg marketings in thg first spending.
increase in consumer s engin
were going to have an off! crunch- three-quarters of 197 were about
"That report warned l'ou'd better do somettung about � �j E � the same as the same period in Mr. Slater said housing starts
itIThe rt_ maintains Mr Graflund. tras ltd. sub � % 19"4 with production down for this year should total "easily
pry slightly, according to the over" 200,000. He also said the Rs �• Z�i�RTH
mitted. and filed — and gathered dust rodurtion is n the final quarter. g
€ - economists. 1 significant increase in consumer
"1'm afraid the. came thing is going to happen on foq� '� inter wheat � mems after Jan expected tote do, -n
spending is due to "lar ge
Winter wheat �/ p increases" in disposable income.
• P 1 be seven or ei ht er cent p° '
compared to last year. P The two weakest areas in the #
A purchase and sales report winter .sheat crop for 1975 P Phone 527.0847
The decline is expected to economy have been foreign trade
r1eleased Det^ember 4th b\ the totalled 22.•"00.000 bushels. the P and a decline in business
Ontario Wheat Producers continue into the first half of
highest volume produced since inventories. _ An Authorized Associate Hatchery
marketing Board indicates 19S£ when 33.800.000 bushels 19"b. in the first quarter of -next
year. agricultural experts predict In opening the conference, -
114.3 0.000 bushels of 19'.5 crop %k ere produced. a 10 percent drop and a four to Agriculture Minister Eugene
Ontario winter wheat hasfive e been The marketing board also Whelan warned that Canadians Franchised to Produce feenuine
`� .told ro the board by producers up advised that there will not be an pent drop in the second
quarter. are flying "high off the hog"' in a tw
. i w ibe end of !roti ember. interim payment to producers Q, erall. experts say egg world threatened by increasing
' Completed board sales for both prior to the new year, and that the be i
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continue should coe o n food shortages.
es.
diem<::ir wad export markets to board would probably be in a. supplies''North America has been �
i ry e with demand.
date total approxiposition sometime after Januar} f
Concerning low flue -cured saddled with the responsibility of
I1 ,400.000 bushels for the s:me to estsimare when an interim
�;a� •- �?,,, �'� x a• P leading the world out of the �
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period, frith exports accounting faa� meat may be made by the tobacco rices iz, this year's g
f far about x.100,000 bushels baa
market. the etperts predict that if shortage." he said. "A crop
iinaudin� I.&)0.000 bushel, of The initial price for December the trend continues, acreages disaster in North America would
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19-4 crop rarr-o\er.
is 52.10 per bushel. The initial
grown next year will decline.
Board irman Fergus Young
chag
price, for future months are -
Prices on the flue=cured auction
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of R.R.I. Ennismares-id
January 52.13: February, March
floors at Tillsonburg. Delhi and
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additional export sales y of t=out
and April 52.16. May 52.08: June
Aylmer have been running about ,
S.W.000 bushels have been
S2.01. There is a Ic per bushel
three cents p« pound lower than
made but not yet delivered.
turd licence fee deducted from
the 94`c ent guaranteed minimum
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It h3< been estsimated that the
the initial price paid to producers.
Price•
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to express our greetings, thanks and good wishes,
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Best Wishes from the Management and Staff
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