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Clinton News-Record, 1969-01-09, Page 6REPORTS OF (Continued from Page 1) An Ontario farm machinery Crown corporation should be established to handle sales of all' farm machinery and prices abroad should be examined to determineif it is more advantageous to import farm machinery.. The good and field service of the department of agriculture should be re -organized and regional offices staffed by specialists in various aspects of agriculture. A national farm accounting system should be developed. Education programs in rural schools should be broadened and adult retraining programs should r be set up with farmers in mind. • Specialists should be hired by the department of agriculture to help farmers in credit buying. The Ontario Junior Farm Establishment Loan Board should ' be combined with the federal Farm Credit Corp. into a federal -provincial farm credit bank. ' The government should pass a• farmland rental act to • bring about improvements in present leasing arrangements. The act should be introduced over a five-year period to allow landlords and tenants time to adjust to new requirements. TAXATION POLICY TORONTO, JANUARY 6 - Fundamental changes in taxation, policy which would take account of the farmers' unique position in respect to both income and property taxes are recommended by The Special Committee on Farm Income, in its report, "The Challenge of Abundance," released today. On Income tax, the Committee recommends that: * Income tax on farm income invested in land purchases be deferred until the land is sold or transferred upon retirement from farming or upon death. * That a capital gains tax be introduced in Canada, but that the five-year averaging period proposed by the Carter Royal Commission on Taxation be extended to seven or ten years, as capital gains in agriculture 1..imdtypically•; occur over . a:: longer period. Under no'circumstences, should a capital gains tax be made retroactive. * Accelerated depreciation allowances of up to 100 percent in any one year be permitted for small businesses, including farming, and that they be made a permanent feature of income tax policy. On property tax, the Committee recommends that: * Some farm property tax be deferred when farm land values are inflated by demand for urban use. Assessment of all real .property should be at market value and the main basis for taxation should be 40 percent of this assessed value for working farms. A secondary assessment, based on present -use value, would determine a secondary tax rate. Where present -use assessment is less than market -value assessment, the difference in taxation would be the amount of tax to be deferred. This portion of the tax would be deferred annually until the farm is developed for non-farm, use. A municipality could charge interest on the deferred tax. * The cost of education be removed from property tax in view of the fact that education as a government service bears no direct relationship to property ownership or use. Provincial grants for education should be increased as soon as possible to cover 100 percent of education costs. The cost of education would thus be borne by income and other provincial taxes, a more equitable sharing of the burden. MACHINE AGENCY 'TORONTO, JANUARY 6 Creat\i,on of a central warehoildrig system under a Crown c^rporation through which all ma d ifacturers of farm machinery cowl\be required to distribute their iequipment is proposed by alae Special Committee on Farm income, in a report released today. •'•t The Committee, in its riport, "The Challenge of Abundance" says that individual farmers importing tractors from the United Kingdom have reported savings of up to $3,000 on almost identical tractors sold in Orjtario. "Since the market power of the farmmachinery companies is anchored in their dealerships, and one of the major sources of inefficiency lies in the excessive n umber' of dealers, the franchised dealership should be seriously questioned," the Committee states. "If farm machinery companies are reluctant to put their own house in order, interference in this dealership system by farm organizations or by government may be warranted, in order to sever the direct links between manufacturers and dealers." Under the proposed central warehousing system any dealers could handle any make of machine. The Committee sees a. number of advantages to be gained from the establishment of such an .agency: 1. The agency would have bargaining strength and thus would act for farmers• to counterbalance the strength of the farm machinery companies. 2. It would have the option to buy farm machinery in the U.K. or Europe if and when prices there are lower. 3. It would gradually replace a substantial part of the' expensive sales organization that each of the companies now maintains. 4. Since it would remove the major barrier to the entry of small companies into the farrn machinery industry, caused by their difficulty to retail their products through franchised dealers, it could conceivably stimulate manufacture of implements in various regions of Ontario. • The Committee acknowledges that this is a radical proposal which would drastically change the present system of retailing farm machinery and parts in the province. Government interference to this extent might notbe acceptable at present. The Committee sees several alternatives short of this step. The Committee recommends as a first step the creation of a centrai warehousing system for machinery parts by the companies themselves. These warehouses would be organized to provide an adequate parts service to farmers. Warehouses must be located at a number of strategic points in the province to distribute parts for all companies. If the machinery companies do not take this step immediately, then the Provincial Government should set up the system through the Crown corporation, the Committee submits:.ti , •..,..,,. ,.�„ "Irk becomes ei+ident that machinery companies are not proceeding fast enough in reducing the. number - of dealerships and 'making remaining dealerships more efficient, this Crown Corporation should expand *its operations into the large-scale purchase and sale of farm implements in the province. To eliminate exclusive dealerships, all manufacturers should be forced to sell through this agency, and the agency could exert pressure to reduce the number of dealers and improve the location of dealerships in the province.The Corporation would have the option of importing farm machinery from other countries, if suitable machines at reasonable cost are not available from' domestic suppliers." To make competition among the dealerships more effective, the central agency could take over the companies' practice of publishing suggested retail prices and maximum markups, the Committee suggests. LAND RESOURCES TORONTO, JANUARY 6 - Establishment of an Ontario Land Resources Commission to co-ordinate land use planning -in the province is proposed by the Special Committee on Farm Income in a report released today. The Commission would play a role for land similar to that now carried out by the Ontario Water Resources Commission for water. The Committee also proposed replacing existing Regional Development Councils with more powerful Regional Development Boards under the Clinton News -Record, Thursday, January 9, 1.969 5. THE COMMITT.. E ON I!ARM INCOME.... DeP artment of Municipal Affairs which could undertake' the planning of economic development and land use for specific geographic areas of the province. The Boards would submit their plans to the Ontario Land Resources Commission for approval, The Commission would, in turn approve financial grants to the Boards so that they could undertake, comprehensive land use planning. "'At the present time, land use planning and regulation in ,Ontario has reached a state of chaos," the Committee says in its report. "Municipalities act independently of each other and without adequate consideration of the effects of their plans on other regions and areas. Many municipalities have no plans at all, and others that have plans make no effort to see that they. are implemented." In- 1967 there were 397 Planning Boards operating in the. province. Approximately 445 or 48% of the municipalities had no provisions for land use planning, Of the 397 Planning Boards, only 44 reported having full-time technical planning staff. 183 had made use of consultants from time to time, and the remainder reported neither full-time 'nor part-time trained staff. The Committee sees the proposed Regional Development Boards consisting of representatives of local municipal councils as well as a limited number of appointments made by the Provincial Government. Financing of the Boards should be shared by the Provincial Government and the municipalities. The new Boards would assume responsibility for existing municipal land use plans and would co-ordinate them with other plans in the region. "The situation is urgent. In the opinion of this Committee the Government of Ontario must immediately begin a serious programme to • re -direct the pattern of industrial development in the province. Such a programme requires planning." The Committee recommends the proposed Ontario Land Resources Coniniission be administered under the Department of Energy and Resources Management. The „,Corrkreission ,would „proceed to establish •.policy', guidelines for the future regarding the development of land use consistent with economic and social development policies for the province. CREDIT CHANGES TORONTO, JANUARY 6 - The Special Committee on Farm Income recommends that any subsidies that encourage unwanted production of farm products should be phased out. The Committee, in its report released today, said that most of the existing subsidy programmes "are not capable of fulfilling their objective, which is to improve the net farm income of the individual operator". The subsidies hold less capable farmers on farms that cannot support them without subsidization, thus tying up land that more efficient operators could use. The Committee also calls for an end • to capital grants to farmers who are not operating viable farms or who are not working toward a viable 'farm operation. The policy of subsidized interest rates should be re-examined and "discontinued as soon as possible". The Committee is emphatic that federal and provincial governments must work to standardize credit policies in all. regions of Canada. To assist this development, the Committee proposes a Federal -Provincial Farm Credit Bank. It would replace the federal Farm Credit Corporation and the provincial Junior Farmer Establishment Loan Board, which now provide almost GIBBS & FAMME PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 23 Ontario Street Stratford, Ontario Phone 271.7581 Fen Li 'Giblas, A.P.A. Howard Fainme, C.A. identical • services to Ontario farmers. "Better co-ordination of farm lending and better use of field staff would be achieved if these agencies were replaced by a single agency", the report nates, The Committee also recommends that local farm management specialists provide a credit counselling service to farmers and co-ordinate loans made to farmers, Local specialists would be supported by regional credit specialists and loans approved by both should be guaranteed to the banks on the -same basis as present farm Improvement loans. LIMIT ENTRY TORONTO, JANUARY 6 - The possibility of restricting the num'aer of farmers entering the industry in Ontario was raised by the Special Committee on Farm Income in its report released today. In examining some of the educational problems within the industry, the Committee said that regardless of the impact of any changes in the educational system and in rural training programmes there is. likely to be a surplus young hwanting of menantin _...g to enter the farming industry. For this reason, the Committee foresees a need for some niethod of restricting the number of farmers entering the industry. - Attempts to restrict credit or other indirect, methods have serious drawbacks, the Committee comments. A more direct and effective device would be for the marketing boards or for the proposed new Food Supply Agency to limit the number of quotas granted new entrants. Initially, this limitation would have to be based on tests or trial periods in which new entrants would demonstrate their ability to manage a farm. "Over a longer period of time formal training requirements could be introduced, which would have the dual function of giving the new entrant a good chance of success, and equipping him with useful skills which could be used in an alternative occupation if this proved necessary". y The Committee considers that the two-year diploma course in agricultural technology fills both these requirements. "It should become ' the minimum entrance requirement for entry into farming by 1980 or sobner if possible". One of the principal hindrances to the mobility of farmers and rural workers has been a lack of the broad education and skills which would allow them to shift into other occupations, the Committee reports. Although the number of years of schooling has risen considerably for both rural and urban young people, there is still a wide gap between them. For example, 70% of the rural farm population aged 45-64 has only an elementary school education whereas in the 15-19 age group, 43% has not gone farther in formal schooling. The equivalent • figures for the urban population are 48% for the older group and 27% for the 15-19 group. The Committee said rural children must be kept in school longer if they are to be given increased opportunities, But the educational system, which tends to be .urban -oriented is not succeeding in this difficult task. ACCOUNTING SYSTEM TORONTO, JANUARY 6 - The Special. Committee on Farm Income today recommended that a comprehensive, simple and accurate accounting system - the Canadian Farm Management Data System, or CANFARM - be made available to every farmer in Ontario. The CANFARM system should be mandatory for every farmer using government programmes such as credit, management counselling, input grants, or ARDA assistance. The CANFARM system would also play ;a major role in the proposed, Food Supply Agency, which is proposed for the marketing of all Ontario farm products, Resulting data will assist in determining prices and allocating production quotas. T.•he Committee proposed that efficient farmers shouhl earn additional production quotas through their ability to produce economically. This would also be determined from their CANFARM accounts, The Committee sees ". the computerized • CANFARM system as being of substantial assistance to the proposed General Farm Organization;. the Food Supply Agency, and to the individual farmer. Many drivers cling to the, old practice of leaving a car engine idling to warm up. The Ontario Safety League says that modern cars should be driven off,at a moderate pace, as soon as the engine is running smoot=hly. Idling when cold wastes gasojine, and can hurt your engine. SHOP NOW AND REALLY SAVE AT STEWART • BROS. 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