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Len. MacGregor. Extension
. Assistant kir Huron County,
for the past eleven years. will
transfer. effective October 1,
1981. to the Agronomy Divis-
ion, Kemptville College of
Agricultural Technology.
POting his- s,tay' in Higony
Len's main responsibility has
focused on 4-H' and Junior
Farmer Clubs' programmes.
He has also worked with the
Canadian farmers are among the best in t e world. They
have risen to the technological challengesin, the last 50
years to a greater degree than most natiO.'
Almost every area in • agriculture could increase
production dramaticallyright new. Milk producers. if given
enough quota, could expand immediately. Chicken broiler
producers are operating at much less than capacity.
Egg producers have proven too many times they can get
their chickens to glut the market. Most chicken barnsare
below capacity. •
'Many more hogs could be produced and many more cattle
could be fattened, but low market prices and high
production costs and much-too-high interest rates mitigate
against those farmers.
Why' should they 'produce more? To geed the hungry
people in the world? Good reason, but why not teach the
hungry people in. the world to feed trmselves?
Some notable farmers from Canada lave done that.
Increasing •production here. thoub, could cause more
problems than would be solved. Farmers run , the risk of
turning field from gardens into deserts.
Farmers have not been listening to eggheads and
professors for years. Many of them are sounding warnings
now that cannot be ignored. The Agricultural Institute of
Canada ilia tio•dy Ofinen
and women must be heeded.
Canadian farmers, say members of the institute, may be
able to increase production by65 to 100 per cent but it could
ruin our soils. Land erosion, soil salinity, toss of organic.,
matter, depletion of non-renewable energy sources, the
breakdown of the system of chemical pest controls and
increasing costs for land, credit and production inputs are
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of the benefits if the land rental for their land
management is good. If the change fpr a good cropping
land management practices program. This improves their
of the tenant aren't good. . long,term itty estment since a
then theowner should be able good crop rotation makes that
to gut the leaSe short. land appreciate. - •
The. ollars per acre paid in Pat Lynch,
rent each year comi4be tied Soils .4c Crops $peci a
my opinion, a lease
might reasonably be present-
ed as a cropping and land
management plan. The mini-
mum term of the lease should
then be the length of the crop However, the final word is
rotation plus maybe a year. with the landlord. I strongly
The tenant should reap some urge landlords to accebtot less
ex-
the commodity price index or
the average price of corn or
some other mutally agreeable
index.
A1$ THEHUR • N POSITOR SEPTEMBER 30, 1001
Len MacGregor leaving Huron
Limn eta appre4.4ten by DOC TrOltim WOW Fla Elmira Onl N38 2C7
Worn out so it th e long term -problem t ,
' A survey Idone in the
American Corn Belt suggest.
ed that close to half the crop
producing land was not farm-
ed by the owner. It was either
rented or share cropped. The
high costs of ownership make
some form of rental agree-
ment the only viable situation
for many young farmers.
Mistime of year we get a
• lot, of inquiries about land
rental. "What is land renting
for in this area?" is the
typical question. Frequently
you have to pay the going
rates, just to get laud The
price squeeze is Making mare
producers stop and think.
There will be some hard
negotiating take 'place in
many cases ,before next
year's rates are hammered.
out.
I'd like to offer a few points
•
Putting a value on rented land
ne coot in
urrow' byaabt
Huron' County Farm Safety
Association as well as assist- -
ing in general extension dui--'
ies in the area of swine, sheep
and crop production.
In his new position he will
be working- in research with
the Oilseed Cropar of the
Agronomy Division. He will
also be, lecturing Students in
the cultural practices of these
crops at the College.
Huron ag. rep. Don Pullen
says: "We are looking for-
ward to having Len return,for
the Huron County 4-H Agri-
'cultural Clubs' Awards.Night
programme to be held at the
Central Huron Secondary.
School, Clinton on Friday.
November 2'T at 8:00 p.m.
We want to thank Len for
all his work and wish his
success in his new job."
Value
s !age :
pack it
$3.00 a bushel corn makes
your corn silage worth $21.00
per ton. The corn you harvest
to yield one ton of silage
would normally shell about I
bushels of dry corn. At $21.00 ,
per ton it is still a valuable
feed.
We have noticed few
producers not packing their
silage as much as they should
when filling bunk orhorizont,
al silos. It is very'important to
exclude the oxygen when silo
tilling. The presence of ex-
cessive oxygen results in
excessive heating. browning,
mold grovth and dry matter
'oss. Under good conditions a
5% plus loss in. silage is not
uncommon,
Ideally corn silage should
be 35% dry matter. 65%
moisture, fine cut for beef,
and packed regularly and
well, while filling.
A few loads 'of 30% dry
matter silage to top off the
silo will help seed, Plastic
may be used, butt should be
sealed down well to eliminate
the oxygen.
S.J. Paquette, Associate
agricultural Representative
to consider in your negotia-
tions.
sou,TYPE
Most of the land in this area
is tlailiparn. Loam and sandy
loam soils are worth a bit of
Prenthutt over clay loam. You
will do better in adverse
weather on a loam or sandy
loam farm-even if it has had
several years in row crops.
Muck spits wilt be worth
less, than of
problems with:some nutrients
and weed control. Soil ap-
erted'Oentivais won't work
tl,;NVelL•Miteksolls tendto be
ity areas, which are prone
to early and late frosts. •
.5dy.$oiler eroded knolls
should be discounted if tl.Ky
have a history drought .r
nutrient ptoblems. These
eroded knolls, will appear as
lighter coloured soil, once
in producing
STEREOS
HEADPHONES
CLOCK RADIOS
thingi such as weed problems
and herbicides that have been
used. Every year you'll hear
about somebody getting their
beans planted on a newly
rented farm only to floc' that
the prior tenant used lots of
atrazine the year before. The
new tenant drops a bundle of
money On a destroyed crop.
The fertility_ and past 'per-
formace of land is often
good indicator of what can be
expected. Fertility alone.
however, can be misleading.
For4itomple. turnin area
heavily. OrtilkOrl 'crop. Corn
or beats following turnips.
hovfoyer. will rarely produce
eire;ti average 15yTelds. Soil
condition, rather than fertil-
ity, becomesa limiting factor.
All the working and compac-
tion takes a heavy toll on clay
'loan soils. In fact. I wonder if
you can afford to pay more
than $25 an acre for land that
was in turnips the previous
year.
If you grow beans, for
example. and the farm you
are consideAng has already
had a couple of years in
beans, be careful. Each suc-
cessive year of beans makes
the land worth 5 to 10% less
for another crop of beans or
corn. Similarly a corn crop
following two or more years of
corn won't have as high a
yield potential and the land
value slroutd reflect that fact.
Land that has had a crop-of
wheat and some re d clover
to plow down is worth a 10 to
15% premium when compar-
ed to land growing corn after
corn or hemp after beans,
Land that has had a good crop
of Alfalfa may be worth a 20%
or greater premium.
Another factor to keep in
mind is the treatment of the
land in the prior year. If it's a
clay loam, it should be fall
plowed or youlllikely drop 10
to 15 bushels per acre in corn
yield-potential. Land that was
churned into a mud bath at
harvest and plowed in ext-
remely wet condition will
also have lower yield potent-
ial. Excessive tillage and
compaction will reduce yields
even a year later. Land is
easier to break down than to
to pay more than land is
'worth' to rent it? You liave
two choices. If the land isn't
worth the rent asked don't
rent it. OR, try to work out a
longer range plan with , the
owner.
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they are ploughed.
DRAINAGE
The weather of recent
weeks reminds us of the value
of tile drainage. Well drained
land that doesn't need tiles is
rare. If land is well drained
because of slopes, you're
probably looking at erosion
problems as weir as machin-
ery problems in coping with
the slopes. Add to this lower
organic matterlevels and this
increases -. your chance of
herbicide darnage.
0enerally, if laud is not
fairly ".level and not, tile•
drained, the rental should he
discounted by 2O to, 40%. The
lower yield „potential and
higher risk -factor of poorly
drained land should be ac-
• counted for.
PRODUCTION HISTORX
There are • the Onions
all cited by the institute as reasons fro caution
more food.
Most important is the woildtilth.
It doesn't,mean much to the city-dweller ensconsed in his
hi h-rise Apartment or the urbanite sitting .in his
po tage-stamp backyard. But is has great meaning for
f
ou simply cannot put too much strain on the soil. When
the good earth becomes silt, it becomes useless. To
continue aver-producing will turn soil into a desert.
Dr. W.D. Morrison of the University of Guelph maintains
big is not necessa ly better. Conservation must be given
more. attention in re arch and an increase in the size of
- farms with resulting ewer farms is not necessarily., the
trend of the future.
Most agricultural o anizttions are dedicated to
preserving the family fa m and rural communities; to
maintain and increase self-sufficiency. Optimizing teed
production (the, big getting bigger and the small getting
out( is not compatible with preserving the family farm.
So, agriculture in Canada can and should grow but not to
the detriment of the land itself.
I am too young to remember it but the stories of the dirty
Thirties and the dust bowls of that day are, enough .....xestereta. top condition:
Off -over production a sin. Only leaderptp and What do you do if you have
national goals can prevent the same thing happening, as
more and more people go hungry in, the world.
It is a dileminit`WhICH hatittOt be sOlv d in a few Roca of
type. It will tike the hest brains in' this co tyto, solve the,
many problems fading 'farmers.
Unfertunately. farmer's are too busy making interest
paytnents to address this awesome question.
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