HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-05-13, Page 12Last year Lasso 4
was a brand new herbicide
and we made a lot of promises.
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been proven.
A Lasso 4/atrazine mix needs
no incorporation.
Lasso 4 /a trazine will not
damage your crops or ruin your
rotation plans because there
is less carryover.
Lasso 4 /a trazine controls
both broadleaf weeds and
grasses (including crabgrass,
fall panicum and barnyard-
grass) in corn. '
Lasso 4 is available
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dealer.,
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its uses, write
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Supplemental
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AQUA
For BETTER Corn Yields
PRE-PLANT or SIDE-DRESS
Contact Doug Lightfoot
Phone Crediton 234-6287
Or
EXETER
DISTRICT
Phone 235-2081 Beside CNR Station
Used Planting
Equipment
MASSEY FERGUSON 15-run drill, on steel
MASSEY FERGUSON 2-row planter, with
disc openers
MASSEY FERGUSON 2-row planter, with
shoe opener
COCKSHUTT 13-run drill
IHC 13-run drill, on steel
IHC 15-run drill, on steel
IHC NO. 10 semi-mount drill
JOHN DEERE 1240 4-row plateless planter,
like new
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Interest rate drops
Less demand for farm loans KJ M
CONSTRUCTION vomr mroppo.
REDI-MIX.
CONCRETE
(ALSO FORM WORK)
McCann Const. Ltd.
DASHWOOD
Farmer demand for long term
mortgage funds from the Farm
Credit Corporation was less
during the fiscal year ended
March 31, 1971 than in the
previous year.
Figures show that 4,117 loans
under the Farm Credit Act
amounting to $115,213,000 were
approved during the 1970-71
period, This compares with 5,829
loans valued at $160,466,000 ap-
proved during the preceding
year.
The largest portion of the loan
decline is reflected in the amount
borrowed to purchase land.
Reasons for this are seen as (1)
the unwillingness of some far-
mers to expand their business
during a period of ,uncertainty in
the agricultural industry, and (2)
lack of opportunity in the
economy for low-income farmers
to find satisfactory alternatives
for earning a living and thus a
reluctance to sell their proper-
ties,
The interest rate under the
Farm Credit Act was 83 4 percent
for the first six months of the
1970-71 fiscal year. It dropped to
81 2 percent for the last six
months and is currently 73,4
percent.
Geographical distribution of
loans by FCC Branches with the
previous year shown in brackets,
was as follows: British Columbia
188 (248) loans for $7,004,000
($8,251,800); Alberta 814 (1,492)
loans for $23,854,800
($42,767,700); Saskatchewan 992
(1,488) loans for $24,830,800
($38,602,300); Manitoba 485 (604)
loans for $14,030,500
($17,295,900); Ontario 961 (1,116)
loans for $27,578,100
($32,612,800); Quebec 521 (715)
loans for $13,166,400
($16,149,400); and Atlantic
Provinces 156 (166) loans for
$4,748,700 ($4,786,100).
Loans made by the Corporation
under the Farm Syndicates
Credit Act also declined during
the fiscal year. One hundred and
twenty-four loans totalling
$1,763,210 were made, compared
to 202 loans totalling $2,888,409 in
the preceding year. Since in-
ception of the Act to March
31,1971, the Corporation made 904
loans totalling $9,287,420.
Free membership
in Huron F of A
One farmer in Huron County
will receive a free membership in
the Huron Federation of
Agriculture for 1972.
At the regular May meeting
held in Clinton, Thursday,
directors decided to award a free
renewal to the 1,000th member
signing up.
The present membership is 950
and the lucky farmer should be
named shortly.
The Federation passed a
resolution asking governments to
enact a law limiting feed com-
panies in primary hog production.
The resolution was based on the
fact feed companies are moving
more and more into pork
production and their main ob-
jective is selling feed regardless
of the supply of pork.
By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR
Edward Preszcator of R.R. 1,
Crediton is a patient in Victoria
Hosital, London.
Master Murray MacDonald
returned home last Tuesday after
having his tonsils reme‘yed in
South Huron Hospital.
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Preszcator
and girls spent Sunday with Mr.
& Mrs. Ed Regele and Mrs. Joe
Thornton of Walton.
Mr. & Mrs. Bev Hirtzel and
boys of Lucan spent Sunday with
Mr. & Mrs. Russell Clark.
Mrs. Jack Dye spent Monday in
London.
Statistics show farmers' sons
are rejecting the idea that they
should follow in their father's
footsteps.
Instead, farmers' sons are
choosing for themselves and
choosing higher paying non-farm
jobs.
Dr. Helen Abell of the
University of Waterloo school of
urban and regional planning
noted the trend when she spoke to
members of the Federated
Women's Institutes of Ontario at
their officers' conference at the
University of Guelph. More than
600 women attended the con-
ference.
She blamed the trend on
government policies and
programs and on the relatively
low wages and lack of benefits for
farm labor.
Wages and the continuing idea
of the farmer as an independent
operator have combined also to
keep farmers' sons from working
for other farmers. Instead they
leave the farm sector altogether.
Dr. Abell based her evidence on
a survey of 60 farm families in
Ontario in 1969. There were 73
adult sons on the farms in that
year.
Nine years later an attempt
was made to trace the
occupational situation of the
same 73 sons. Eighty-five percent
of the sons were re-interviewed
and it was found that 17 percent
had moved out of farming.
Dr. Abell labelled her study a
hypothetical agricultural ladder.
The top rung of the ladder is
occupied by self-employed farm
operators. The next highest are
the paid farm workers while the
second lowest rung is occupied by
those combining non-farm work
with farming. On the lowest rung
are the unpaid sons working for
their fathers on the family farm.
In 1959, 52 percent of the far-
mers' sons were on the top rung
of the ladder. By 1968 this had
increased to 63 percent. But it
was the other three rungs of her
hypothetical ladder that told the
story.
The number of sons who were
paid farm workers had decreased
from 27 percent to 11 per,cent.
Those sons who were combining
farm work with non-farm work
had decreased from 11 percent to
nine percent.
The men on the lowest rung of
Dr. Abell's ladder were generally
the youngest sons of farmers and
of the nine percent in 1959 at this
stage, there were none left in
1959.
Dr. Abell told the WI officers
according to the study "it was
most often those paid farm
workers who left agriculture.
"These findings . . raise the
question of the adequacy of
wages offered for farm work."
Farmers' sons combining
farming with non-farm work
tended to be at an intermediate
stage, she said, a stage "per-
mitting the goal of self-employed
full-time farmer to be reached.
"For the men in this study
occupational shifts over time for
the unpaid family workers and
for those combining farming and
non-farm work were most often
to the desired status of self-
employed farm operator."
She noted those being paid for
farm work shifted usually into
one-farm occupation. Few self-
employed farmers' sons shifted
but those who did added non-
farm employment totheirfarming
work.
The self-employed farmers'
concept of himself as "in-
dependent" or "his own boss",
she noted, led those who were
self-employed in 1959 either to
supplement their farm income
with a non-farm job or to move
right out of the farm sector
rather than to move into hired
man or dependent farm em-
ployee status.
The study also showed "the
older sons remained on the
agricultural ladder and the
youngest left for non-farm oc-
cupations."
Dr. Abell also noted that if the
family of the parents stayed on
the farm then their son was more
likely to become a self-employed
farmer,
The study shows that
"government action to assist the
withdrawal of farm families from
agriculture through farm con-
solidation and similar Agric-
culture and Rural Development
Agency (ARDA) programs would
seem to be an inhibitor of future
entry into farming by the sons of
the affected families." Along
with the programs she noted
support is given to widening the
scope of extension courses for
rural boys and men to include
training of a non-farm type.
She foresees difficulty in hiring
experienced farm workers for
large scale commercial farms.
She went on to say that
although improvements in farm
wages and benefits (such as
unemployment insurance) do not
seem to have been expressed to
date by either the workers
themselves, by the farm em-
ployers or by farm organizations,
it is unlikely that they can be
neglected much longer.
PROVINCIAL AND ADVANCED HONORS — The annual spring Achievement Day of the Zurich and
district 4-11 clubs was held Saturday at South Huron District High School, Girls receiving provincial
honors were from the left, Judy Guy, Dashwood; Debbie McKinley, RR 1 Zurich; Cora Van Raay, RR 3
Dashwood; and Sandra Webb, RR 2 Zurich. At the right is Donna Whitehouse who was presented with
an advanced honor certificate. T-A photo
Government policies blamed
as youth leave family farms
Phone 237-3381 or 237-3422
First Year
Report from Hundreds
of Farmers: