HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-12-01, Page 21Matter of Principle
Will Ontario Farmers
Follow West Example?
J. Carl Hemingway
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I took gome .pigs to 'the sales
yard this morning and as I
waited' for the weight receipt
some other producers were
complaining about the price ,—
first sale $32,90, latex* pale
$33.70 —* almost a dollar differ
ence in a matter of half an hour
or so.
‘ Those dirty packers taking
the farmers for a ride! Buying,
as cheap as they can and then
gouging the helpless consumer
by charging .all the traffic will
hear, '
The ‘ pot calls the , kettle
black! *
Just to get a real understand
ing of what I mean I suggest
you try selling some little pigs
or -feeder calves to a farmer,
Then try to', buy those calves
when they have become finish
ed steers and then stand around
'at the sales yard and hear the
griping about the price of hogs.
I can certainly agree with
the complaints that farmers are
voicing about the prices that
■farmers are receiving for their*
products but I am getting very
/fired of the' 'talking. Why not
d'o something?
•If these farmers are 'so-■dis
satisfied with their returns from
the packers, why didn’t these
complainers support -the oppor
tunity sthey had to be the pack
ers?
Why are some of oui* strong-1
est farm organization leaders
sniping at farm groups that are
breaking into livestock process
ing? ‘
In the last issue,'of one farm
organization paper, < crliticfeim
was. levelled at the Western
Wheat Pools who have a live
stock processing plant at Bran
don. The “integration” boogey
was drawn out and 'insinuations
inferred that this was: bad.
It isn’t.
It is not a question of inte
gration. It is a question of who
controls it.
This may sound like a broken
record but apparently state
ments must be repeated again
and1 again before people see the
light. Our farmer fore-fathers
were vertical integrators. They
milked' the cow, raised the calf,
churned the cream andzsold .the
butter to the consumer. The
calf became -the.’ finished -steer
and was butchered and sold to
the consumer.
1 Not many of our farmers will
admit it. but it is nonetheless-
true that the vast majority of
the prosperous farmers, of today
owe their property largely to
the accumulation of savings of
their ancestors'. And (they did it
by processing their products
and'selling direct'to consumers.
,We .can’t as individual farm
ers go back to the old days of
merchandising because of the
concentration of people in cities,
miles away but we can do it
collectively. ’>
There is an; alternative that
is getting quite a push by our
leading .farm organizations at
the moment. One iiis promioitiing
the idea that farmers push the
government, by pensuiasli'an, into
subsidizing the farmer to pro
vide an equitable income. The
other hopes to force the govern
ment, ' .by strike action, to '$o
the- same- tiling. .
In either case the farmer .be
comes a °wiard of the Crown".
It would probably be an im
provement hut I can't see how
a, party that is willing to sub
sidize the farmer to that extent
could ever get elected to power
let alone stay there, Fbpd has
been, tpo plentiful for too long
in .Canada to get that kind of
respect from the voters.
I cap only hope that the Wes
tern Wheat Pool is producer
controlled, as I -understand it is;
and that it can shpw the Ont
ario farmers an example that
they will -have the courage to
follow.
(Photo by Scott Studio, St. Thomas)
Married At Mitchell
MR. AND MRS. LEWIE POL are residing at
RR 1 Union following their wedding last month in
Free Christian Reformed Church, Mitchell with the
Rev. J. Overdum officiating. The bride is the for
mer Nellie Salverda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.
Salverda, RR 1 Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. A. Pol, Union
are the parents of the groom.
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