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Friday
Night
.Beet industry hopes
pronounced 'dead'
Hopes of reviving the Ontario
sugar beet industry are "dead"
on . the first anniversary of the
official announcement that
Ontario's beet sugar refinery
would close,
That's the opinion of George
Higgs of Dresden, chain/tap of
the Ontario Sugar Beet
Marketing Board, after months
of negotiation to keep the
industry alive, followed by a
campaign to salvage everything
possible from the wreckage,
Kitchen groups
to be continued
Executive members of
District 5 of the Ontario
Farmers Union meeting at the
home of District Director Jerry
Huzevka at Petrolia last week
learned that "kitchen meetings"
being held in each area are
receiving good response.
The small get-to-gethers held
in the kitchens of local executive
members have been attracting
more non-members of the Union
than actual members. It was
noted at the Petrolia meeting
that the rate of signing potential
new members at these functions
is about 60%.
John Mcllhargey of the
Lucan local reminded everyone
in attendance that when one
farm organization becomes a
reality, farmers should not go
home and forget about it but
strive to achieve harmony within
the group.
Kitchen meetings have proved
effective and it is hoped will be
continued on a province-wide
basis. Meetings of this kind in
the Lucan local area have been
held at the homes of Joe O'Neill,
John Mcllhargey, Jack Harrigan
and Alfred Ovens,
Mr. Higgs said Tuesday he is
aware of current rumors of the
pending takeover of the
Chatham beet sugar refinery by
new interests. These rumors
found voice in questions asked
last week by Kent County
council members of an Ontario
Federation of Agriculture
delegation.
Mr. Higgs said the only way
the industry could be started
again would be " from scratch."
He pointed out the Chatham
factory owned by Canada and
Dominion Sugar Company has
been advertised for sale at
"junk" price levels, and inquiries
have come from a neighboring
state where a sugar beet industry
still exists.
The marketing board
chairman said it is doubtful
Canada and Dominion Sugar
Company would sell to a rival
firm.
"They'd let it rot first," he
predicted.
The marketing board
chairman said he understands
the company's position, the hard
business reasons for its decision
to end the Ontario beet sugar
industry, and he is happy his
board has been able to maintain
an amicable relationship with
company officials.
The marketing board tried to
get federal or provincial aid,
then concentrated on salvaging
anything it could for growers, an
effort that finally won a promise
of approximately $1,000,000 in
"severance pay" for growers
from Ottawa.
The board chairman said the
farm industry as a whole has
suffered as a result of the end of
,,sugar production, far more than
the $4,500,000 annual crop
value would indicate.
He said most area farmers
tied in their use of seasonal labor
for sugar beets with canning
crops, and the whole cycle has
been thrown out of kilter.
A Mount Albert, Ontario
barrister, John C. Medcof, has
gone on record opposing
proposed estate tax
amendments. In an open letter
he writes as follows:
The new Estate Tax
Amendments now before
Parliament must be changed:
Estate Tax aims to raise
revenue and prevent
accumulation and concentration
of wealth in too few hands. The
October Budget tried to reform
the Estate Tax and remove
inequities, but so far as the
farmers are concerned it threw
out the baby with the bath
water.
Estate and gift taxes are
eliminated between husband and
wife but the Budget aims to
recoup this by raising rates on
gifts and bequests to children.
The proposed basic
exemption is to be $20,000.00
plus $10,000.00 for each child
and rates on taxable value will
The Special Committee on
Farm Income recommends new
legislation, to be incorporated in
a Farmland Rental Act, to
improve present leasing
practices.
The proposed Farmland
Rental Act would, among other
things, require that:
All rental agreements be in
writing.
Leases be signed for a
specified number of years.
A minimum notice period be
required to terminate a lease. ,
Disputes between tenant and
landlord be sent to arbitration,
especially in respect to such
matters as rent charges for
long-term leases, compensation
to tenants for unexhausted
improvements to land and
buildings, and compensation to
owners where tenants wish to
stop farming before the lease
expires.
The Committee recommends
that appropriate legislation be
introduced as soon as possible
but staged over a five-year
period to adjust to the new
requirements.
To increase the amount of
good agricultural land available
for renting, the Committee
recommends that the Farm
Enlargement and Consolidation
Programme of ARDA be
expanded immediately and that
the present restriction on $100
per acre be removed.
If the ARDA programme is
not extended to meet present
requirements, the Committee
proposes that the provincial
government should establish an
Ontario Land Corporation. The
necessary capital would be
provided by the provincial and
federal governments with the
balance raised .through sale of
bonds and shares.
The Corporation could
undertake the present ARDA
program and extend it to all
areas of the province, regardless
of land values. Land purchased
would be rented to qualified
farmers on long-term leases.
The Committee recommends
that these and other supporting
steps are necessary to establish a
desirable renting pattern in
Ontario. "Desirable renting
pattern" is defined as a situation
where farmers own a basic farm
unit and rent the extra land
needed to expand the farm into
the full size desired.
There has been an
encouraging trend toward this
system, but the Committee feels
that it should be hastened in
order to relieve the pressure on
farmers to sacrifice present
income and decent living
standards to obtain the land
necessary to support a viable
farm unit.
As supporting measures to
the above approaches, the
Committee also recommends:
Educational programs to
stress the benefits of security of
land tenure, model types of
contracts and other information
on leasing and renting.
Promotional programs to
encourage investment
institutions to hold farm land as
part Of their portfolios and to
Show Marketing and credit
range from 1.5% to 50%, This
may be the death knell of the
Family Farm.
The Family Farm is the basic
unit of Canadian agriculture.
Modern mechanization has made
the 100 acre general farm
obsolete; 350 acres and up is a
common holding in Eastern
Canada and acreages into the
thousands are frequent in the
West. The failures of Chinese
communes and Russian
collectives illustrated by their
purchases of Canadian wheat
and the sorry financial records
of some of our Canadian
Corporate farms contrast with
the surpluses commonly
produced by the North
American Family Farm. With all
its faults, the Family Farm is the
best agricultural system going
to-day.
A typical Ontario farm will
have $78,000.00 invested in
land, buildings, stock and
equipment subject to variation
depending on the type of farm,
agencies the benefits of dealing
with those farmers who hold
long-term leases.
Effective land use planning
and regulation immediately.
Farmers week
set for Guelph
Management techniques to
meet the challenges facing farm
operators today will be accented
in OAC Farmers' Week, 1969, at
the University of Guelph,
Tuesday, February 18 to Friday,
February 21, 1969.
On Tuesday and Wednesday,
the program will deal with some
of the findings and implications
of the Report of the Committee
on Farm Income, a document
soon to be made public.
Among the aspects of the
Report to be considered will be
the kind of farm operation likely
to remain economically viable,
long-term farm financing, and
farm marketing problems. On
Tuesday, in particular, the
program will be of interest to
both ladies and men,
Thursday, there will be a
special Ladies' Program on the
theme "What's Happening to
Food?" Members of the faculty
of Macdonald Institute, along
with home economists from the
Ontario Food, and other experts
will produce this full day's
program.
For the men on Thursday,
the program will examine the
modern systems approach to
management adapted to
boosting farm profits. Friday,
the program will look at the
corn crop, its yield potential for
livestock feed, and how it may
best be used with different kinds
of livestock.
The program this year will
provide increased opportunity
each day for questions and
audience participation in
discussion periods.
As usual, there will be plenty
of free parking on the campus.
Hot noon meals will be available
in one of the university dining
halls at moderate costs.
number of operators, etc. In
prime farm areas, 350 acres at
$300,00 — $500.00 per acre
may be worth $100,000.00 to
$200,000.00 and yet yield only
a modest living. On a taxable
value of $130,000.00, Estate
Tax would be $23,700.00 plus
30% on the balance over
$130,000,00. Such crushing
taxes may force sale or breakup
of the Family Farm. With this
sort of tax, how can the farmer
pass the Family Farm to his son?
It is all very well to tell
farmers to set up family
corporations or to make their
sons partners as soon as possible,
but this just doesn't happen.
Many farmers are reluctant to
give all or part of their farms to
their sons at 21 or 30 or 40.
What will happen to the father?
What if the son soon decides to
give up farming or marries a wife
who will not stay on the farm?
What if the son is impractical or
unsuccessful? What if a
"generation gap" dispute
develops? The farmer,
understandably, hesitates to turn
the farm over and in fact if he
does he is immediately subject
to gift tax.
The farmers' sons usually go
along with the arrangement and
contribute their labour, often at
low rates, on assurance of
inheritance. They spend the best
years of their lives building up
the family business. Now it may
be crushingly taxed on the
father's death. The son can
either leave the farm or risk the
confiscation of years of labour
unless his father transfers his
farm how.' The father who wants
to leave the farm to his son must
either surrender the farm now or
risk taxes so heavy as to force a
sale on his death. And if he does
turn the farm over to the son
now, gift tax exemptions are to
start at $2,000.00.
One solution would provide
that where farmers' sons have
contributed to the joint family
business, estate tax would only
be levied on the father's share of
the joint venture. Another
answer is a drastic alteration of
exemption schedules.
There may be still further
answers, all of which should be
explored.
It has been truly said
"Farming is no longer a way of
life. It is a business.". But
farming is not a business like the
others, Governments need
revenue and farmers should pay
their fair share of taxes, but no
tax should be imposed without
considering the special
circumstances of the part of the
economy on which the tax will
fall. While aiming at revenue and
fairer shares, the new Estate Tax
Act may impose an intolerable
burden on the Family Farm on
which 10% of our people live
and on whose food 100% of our
people depend.
It must be changed.
Huron County council
learned Thursday of the habit of
some nursery stock companies
to give European Buckthorn as a
bonus and agreed with a
resolution from the county of
Ontario to petition various
influential offices of the
discontinuance of this practice.
Huron Agricultural
representative Don Pullen,
Clinton, advised coUncil that
European Buckthorn was a host
to the rust spores that cause
damage to the grain crops in
Ontario,
Pullen said European
Buckthorn was a large shrub
commonly confused with
barberry. It grows wild in fence
rows and along the banks of the
Maitland River but even with its
small flowers in the spring of the
year, Pullen said he would "not
call it a bonus" for the garden.
The matter of grants to
universities will be studied by
the executive committee soon.
There has been some
dissatisfaction voiced in council
that students attending
universities other than those
financially supported by county
council should have an equal
opportunity at bursaries
provided by council.
The tender of The Seaforth
News was the only tender
received by Clerk John Berry for
printing the minute books for
1969. The price is $4.34 per
pae. g
Roy Pattison, East
Wawanosh, chairman of the
county development committee
(the former agricultural and
reforestation committee) asked
council to be a sounding board
for problems affecting farmers in
Huron.
Girls begin
meat project
By MISS ELI-A MORLOCK
CREDITON
The 4-H Club is beginning a
new project "Meat on the
Menu" Saturday, February 1 at
1:30 p.m. in the Community
Centre. All girls who are twelve
by March 1 are welcome.
Rev. and Mrs. Howard
Zurbrigg were in Kitchener
Sunday. Rev. Zurbrigg was guest
speaker for a special youth
service at Calvary Memorial
Church, the church of which Dr.
J.V. Dahms is pastor.
Monday evening, January 20,
the young people of C,rediton's
churches went tobogganing at
Pinery Park. After fun on the
slopes they returned to Crediton
United Church for hot
chocolate.
Shawn Michael, infant son of
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dinney, has
been released from hospital and
is now at home with his parents
and brothers, Tommy and Daryl.
Crediton's newly organized
social club held its first dance in
the Community Hall Friday
evening.
J. Howard Campbell of Blyth,
a representative of Alcohol and
Drug Concerns Inc., was guest
speaker at Zion United Church
Sunday morning.
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Income committee
asks rental changes
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