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An- APPLES Phil Durand says • THEmkonoti Emicksi1r9R. .JANUA Durand, chairman of the Baord, Mr. Durand claim's one of his who was recently re-elected as a • main concerns is that the extra board member from Huron Coun- profits the dealers have made, ty. Mr. 'Durand was, re-elected, have allowed them to offer along with Richard Erb and John incentives to the bean producers. Hazlitt and new comer Joe Miller, This, he claims, has forced, the all from the Zurich 'area at the smaller dealers to compete and , annual meeting of Huron County ••• 'has hurt many of the smaller, • bean producers held in Zurich in December. The meeting saw many producers protest 'the lack of action on the part of the board in carrying out a direction by the producers at' the 1974 annual meeting that instructed the board to move towards ,selling the bean crop directly and bypassing the dealers. Robert Allan of Brucefield, a long time board member , who opposed the board bypassing the dealers, was defeated in the election of four board members from Huron County. Interviewed by the News on New Years Day, Mr. Durand was adament in his stand that the producers must bypass the deal- ers. "I believe that our marketing' program is one • of the most effective in Canada but it seems we have left some loopholes open that have allowed our dealers to use these loopholes to the disad- vantage of our marketing pro- gram," said Mr. Durand. "Under the present —• agreement", he 'continued, "the • dealers have the best of two worlds. Number one, we guarantee the dealers a' good handling charge so they can make a profit and we also guarantee them storage at double the rate they charge for storing corn." ' Mr. Durand said the bean producers are willing to pay double the storage rate to make sure the dealers hive sufficient funds to expand facilities in order to hindle an 'ever increasing production. "On top of this we ,have paid the dealers a seven per cent incentive on anything over an $11:59 net return to the producer," said Mr. Durand. He huedredweight and the Micigan price at $58,' the lioard instructed the dealers to sell all the beans and since its price 'was lower than 4 the current' U.S. price, expected this would be done. ',!.The board. felt M was most important that wL sell the. from Exeter Indep. News the dealers to sell the heans," IPernbers, with the exception of This is the second of a series of according of Mr.Durand. "They .19 Mr. Allan, if they were not happy interviews concerning the white did sell (mite a few into the U.S., with the way the board operated bean industr y in western Ontario, even at the • high price, but we in 1975, Mr.Duirand suggested Late in December, the News were left with $0,000--hundred- the producers did not know what '. . interviewed Robert Allan who weight." was defeated in, his bid for Asked if it was not strange that re-election to the Ontario Bean the board did not know what the Prqdncers _Marketinga BoarB„, price; the dealers were selling for 'this intereiewV•i with board over ' a six week period, Mr. chairman Phil bitrand• took placet; Durand admitted it was. a few days prior to 'the annual "Th is is true and this is my convention and election of officers POO concern," said Mr. Durand. of the board held in London en "Our, board does not hive the Tuesday, January 6, 1976. information it should about what Ontario's bean producers are in . is going on in the marketplace. ,I grave danger of losing control of know from investigating other their industry unless they are marketing ° boards that , they willing to make changes in the • require invoices and direct regulations currently'set down by information on who- bought • the the Ontario Bean Producers Mar- produce,,what the price was and a keting Board, lot of other information that the That is the opinion of Phillip board, shquld have." ; Bean produtets. was going on. , "One of the main problems is that the produceii do got 'have enough information on what is happening," said Mr. Durand. "kris vital 'that they turn out at the annual meetings. Asked if it was possible that a "middle-of-the-road" solution to the problem might be found, one • should sell their own estimated alew-gmtl/§ ftig010: also said that—other egporters Such as Chile,' Argentina, Ethiopia and Bulgaria have no beans to expert. "We feel we will be the only exporters," said Mr Durand. "Looking at the bean industry since opt present board was formed in 1968, our production has doubled and we have, returned more to our produters than, any other crop," said Mr. Durand. 'He said this was due to die type of =dieting, board the.` •• bean :rower's have ins, also because the board works ve Ty 4.4 mwch clody with 413411::rt:bit:iti the Pep extension "mother big feeter 14 the 4tsidi W pay 0n Vwhiehhas, reltdit a1tpqtsentgf Ontairn roducers using pedigree seed conipared to, cent thiogf pranwohoeurceeetsus only about puto2907epeer sped," said Mr. Durand. He s tated that Ontario' yields are consistently 35 per, cent higher than in Michigan and he feels that rthesephoingshiebkrusfeor thofp is. edt gr ee seed dealers and some of the larger ones. "This is one of the frustrating things," says Mr. Durand. -"They are using the extra profit to Make the board look bad and undermine their competitors," Mr. Durand claims that unless the bean producers are Willing to take some action, some of the smaller dealers are going to be forced out of business. "If we are going to have one or two large dealers controlling the bean industry it won't be good for the producers or the general public," says the bean board chairman. "Too counties which. produce beans.He said there was a motion . requesting the hoard to sell all' the beans approved by the producers at each of the county annual meetings' and suggests that the motion' got about 98 per cent "In Perth county, at the December annual, meeting for 1975, the producers felt they wanted more information but I feel the majority of the producers', in Perth support the board selling • all the beans." said Mr. Durand.... "In Middlesex, the - producers passed a- elation instruetingwthe board to sell beans in competition to the dealers. This is legal, despite statements made at the Zurich 'annual meeting by Mr. Allan. That statement was misleading. It wasn't factual." Brazilian visitor likes farm chores that would satisfy the "sell the beans" faction without bypassing the dealers, Mr.Durand said he felt that it was possible if the producers could get enough information from the dealers. "The Board must have information such as the quantity and price of. beans sold and who -.they were being sold to," said Mr. Durand. "Right now the board does not have that information: 1 have tried ,to get the board of directors to pass motions demanding the. information but it seems that some of the board members are willing tq give in to all the dealers demands. This was a great disappointment in the past year." Thh question of 'why bean producers, members of the board,-.) would not be concerned about getting the best deal for bean producers was answered indirectly by Mr. Durand. "Some of our directors have suggested that soother of our directors are concerned 'that they won't be able to sell their corn or barley or soy beans or buy their chemical or fertilizer to the \best advantage it they stand up and state their case the way they should," concluded Mr .Durand. In London on Tuesday, January 6, the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board held its annual meeting and ' election of the executive.A report of that meeting appears elsewhere in this edition. Asked what the present situation for bean producers looked like, Mr. Durand said that it appears good as the P.5'. crop w I probably be 4,000 or 5,000 ndred "weight less than was m any corporations control too much ,of our society at the:present time." Mr. Durand Claims the dealers, are not living up to a contract they signed with the board. He said the dealers are forbidden from paying an incentive in the contract but have paid it to producers, ignoring the contract. The dealers have also accepted beans with a lot of pick and moisture in thent," claims Mr. Durand. 'The producer' that ' is delivering number one beans is subsidizing the one that is producing the poor quality." Mr. Durand is convinced that the 'board needs the dealers. and , must pay them a good handling charge so they can show a profit but he also feels the bean producers must be in control of their product and know what • is' going on in the industry. "The sterner the board makes all the sales, the better .off the program will be," according to.' Mr. Durand., "We would still have to 'use ihe dealers and p ay them well." • - , `Mr.Durand is also. concerned that the. members of, the Ontario also claims the dealers are able to, Bean Producers , Marketing purchase beans from the. Board, of which he is 'the producers without investing any chairman, did' not abide by the money and go out on the market wishes of the producers as they, and add on 'an extra fifty cents a were expressed at the annual hundredweight or a dollar or six meeting's in the various bean dollars or eight dollars." • producing counties in the fall of „ Mr. Durand is particularly 1974. bitter about a , situation which Mr. Durand says that support developed in 1974, He claims the for the "sell the beans" faction is producers had about 120,000 not just in Huron, as has been hundredweight, net sold. With indicated, but is , widespread the board's price at' $52.75 a •.-across the. southwestern Ontario remainder of the crop, because we have a very large crop ,coming on, 4 a 35 per cent increase over the year before," said Mr. Durand. '"So we decided to stay at that low price but due to the fact that the dealers were tacking on as much as six or eight dollars 'a bag, we were left • with 60,000 bags .not sold. The market started to slide .becaese of the big crop coming on and we were forced to-sell th ose beans for about $24 to $25 a hundredweight, a Jess of about a million and a quarter out of the producers pocket." ark Asked why the producers had re elected the tame board Mr. Durand claims that if the board had been selling the behns 'directly; the beans Would have been sold. "If they are able to make sale, the profit goes into their coffers," said Mr. Durand. "If they lose .a sale because they - • added on the extra martin of 'profit, it's the producers that Igoe." Asked why the board did not do , something; about the dealers selling at the high price during the six week period in, the summer of 1974 after the board had asked the beans be Sold,_ Mr. Durand claimed the board did not know what, was happening. He stated that the board was. depending .en the dealers to sell the crop and found that the „ dealers did not even like the board talking with bean eustorners. "There was all kinds of time for Correspondent Mrs. Robert Hulley Miss Bete Maia, Brazil,' staying with Sandra Hulley and Jesse Sotto Maior 'Lagos Neto of North Brazil who is staying with Ray McNichol for 21/2 m onths spoke and showed slides and pictures at' the Boy Scouts in Londesboro recently. JesSe says he likes farm' life and enjoys helping with the chores on the McNichol farm. Jesse 'is interested in all the Canadian ways, both town and country. Jesse says 'it isn't too hot where he lives, maybe 80° or 85°. In Brazil he likes to hunt and swim liAd motor boats.