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ExE1,8 4.111•11•1110.1•014101111104 FEED and WEED PRE-PLANT STARTER PLOW-DOWN TOP-DRESS SIDE-DRESS : IRRIGATION Huron wheat growers ask for quota system Tines-Adv0Pate, February 244 1972 Page 13 Boost YOUR .HOME. TOWN It's Opc.)0 For You FATHERS CONFER — A short course was held at Centralia's College of Agricultural Technology this week for fathers of boys registered in the agricultural courses. The course on business arrangements and estate planning was convened by John Stephens of Want higher egg, turkey, hog prices the CCAT staff shown in the centre of the above picture. The others are from the left, Mac Hodgert, Theo Gysbers, Vic Hartman and Lyle Revington. T-A photo Farmers ask for assistance Then on Thursday last week Bill and his delegation met both the Liberal and New Democrat members, In more informal meetings, the federation members presented their sub- mission and discussed its con- tents. The Liberal's Robert Nixon and the NDP's Stephen Lewis both agreed that they should talk to federation people more often. loan would let these producers pay off their feed bills and get into a position where they can negotiate a better feed price. Under the F of A proposal the loan would be available at five percent interest repayable over five years, although the first two years would be interest free. "This program would just buy producers a .little time until Ontario adopts a marketing plan with supply management for eggs and the national scheme takes affect," Hill says. "Producers would not, of course, be allowed to use this loan to finance new expansion. In fact if Propose beef incentive plan A resolution asking that a quota System on the domestic marketing of the Ontario wheat crop be implemented — if the increasing flow of Western wheat. into the province can be con- trolled — was passed recently at the annual meeting of the Huron County wheat producers in Clinton. The resolution will be in- troduced by county delegates at the spring meeting of the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board in Toronto in March. The move comes on the heels of the federal government's decision to increase the price of top-grade wheat sold for domestic purpoSes to $3.00 per bushel from $1.951/2 . The increase will be paid to producers through a direct subsidy from the federal treasury and therefore will not increase consumer prices for flour and bread. Since the decision was an- nounced Jan. 22. agriculture officials have voiced fears that the subsidy will create watered- down prices by encouraging Canadian growers to produce More wheat than markets can handle, The quota system has been mentioned by officials as one method of curbing production increases. The clause in the Huron resolution concerning the control of Western wheat movement created controversy before being passed by a 15 - 9 margin. Jack Verhulst of Goderich, a Member of the producers' 1971 executive committee, argued • that the clause should be removed because it could lead to an interprovincial price war. Ontario wheat, he said, is F of A asks rural control The Ontario Federation of Agriculture urged Prime Minister William Davis and his cabinet Tuesday to introduce legislation prohibiting large corporations from owning and operating farm businesses. The Federation, making its annual submission to the Ontario government, said that an agricultural industry composed of many small units is preferable to an industry controlled by a relatively few giant corporations. According to the organization's brief the exact degree of control over the industry by corporations is difficult to measure, although there is no doubt that it is in- creasing. The brief advises the government ministers to look to the U.S. to see what could happen in Ontario, "There, whole segments of the industry are already controlled from big-city board rooms." "We consider it important," the brief continues, "and we insist that this government consider it important, that the rural community retain control over its own economy." The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has now developed a complete proposal for a beef-calf incentive program. Although the Federation has supported such a scheme in principle before, it was not until last week that Federation President Gordon Hill revealed full details of the proposal. Under the federation plan, the Ontario government would offer loans of up to $15,000 a farmer for purchasing breeding stock, Because beef cows generate no income during their first two or three years, the Federation proposed that interest charges for the first three years be forgiven. In the third year the farmer would pay back 20 per- cent of the principle. In the fourth year of the loan, and each year until the loan is fully repaid, the farmer would pay back 20 percent of the principle, plus interest at five percent of the unpaid balance. "We need this loan program to help improve farm income," Hill said last week. "Beef con- sumption is increasing rapidly and yet production is not keeping pace. If Ontario intends to stay in the beef business we need to produce more beef calves, and in my view, this Federation proposal is the way to do it." a producer did expand his facilities during the time he had a loan, it would become im- mediately repayable." The Federation's submission justified the request for income supplements by explaining that farmers' incomes are falling far behind most others in the province. The brief says that between 1965 and 1969 the average income of taxpaying Ontario farmers climbed just 18 percent, Accountants however earned 35 percent more in the same period. Lawyers earned 41 percent more and doctors earned 41 percent more. "It is a ludicrous situation", says the Federation brief, "when those earning already massive incomes enjoy the largest per- centage gains in income." When talking to the govern- ment ministers, Gordon Hill pointed out that since 1969, which is the last year for which taxation statistics are available, the total income of Ontario farmers has dropped substantially. "In 1969 Ontario farmers earned $442 million net income. Last year we earned just $274 million, and according to federal government projections we will earn less again this year," "Individual farmers are going to suffer this year," Hill said. "They will have to cut back their already meagre standards of living to live within their in- comes." He accused governments of having failed to take the steps that would allow farmers to keep abreast of Canada's wave of prosperity. "I think it was a good meeting," Hill said later. "Of course they did not say they would do everything we asked them to do. But they gave us a good hearing. They are seriously concerned about the income predicament that farmers find themselves in." A delegation of farmers from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture met with Prime Minister William Davis and his Cabinet, Tuesday, to press for assistance to the province's egg, turkey and hog producers in view of the low prices received in 1971, In presenting their organization's annual submission to the Ontario government, they charged that the governments have some responsibility to supplement farmers' incomes because "even the most efficient farmers can't earn decent returns in the market place." Federation President Gordon Hill from Varna, who led the 15- man delegation, advised the government ministers to in- troduce a scheme for turkey and hog producers similar to that which has been established in Quebec. There, hog producers will get $1,75 for each hog marketed between November 1,1970 and March 15, 1971. For egg producers the Federation recommended a low- cost loan program to provide them with up to $40,000 repayable over six years. After almost two years of disastrously low egg prices, most, if not all, egg producers are in very severe financial dif- ficulty, In fact according to Ontario Federation of Agriculture President Gordon Hill, "the entire industry is on the verge of bankruptcy. "Most independent producers" Hill says, "have exhausted their credit sources and need help until prices improve." "Many egg producers owe as much as $40,000, $50,000, even $60,000 to feed dealers in unpaid feed bills," Hill explains. "Through no fault of theirs, these farmers find they have no bargaining power at all. They can't change dealers to get a better feed price. They can't negotiate with the dealer they owe money too." Hill says that a government already given some price protection by the Canadian Wheat Board,. Phil Durand of Zurich said the quota system would be of no value to producers unless the wheat flow from the West — sold to. Ontario grain mills at a lower price than provincial crops — could be controlled, "What's the good in having a quota to cut down on increased wheat production if Western wheat keeps coming in at cheaper prices?" he asked, Russel Bolton, a former chairman of the county organization, said in an interview the price set by the Canadian board on incoming top-grade Western wheat is two to three cents per bushel cheaper than Ontario crop prices. The province's prices are set during annual negotiations between the provincial marketing board and the grain milling industry, he said. The quantity of Western wheat coming into Ontario has jumped from half a million bushels to 21/2 million since 1966, Mr. Bolton said. He said the amount provincial producers sell domestically — 8.5 million bushels — hasn't changed in 13 years "when 'it should be increasing." Other clauses in the resolution introduced by Randy Collins, a Varna area farmer, are: o The quota system be based on the average number of bushels of wheat marketed in Ontario during the past five years. o The quota pertain only to milling-grade wheat. o Over-quota (export) wheat prices be published regularly to keep producers up to date. o Quotas be non-negotiable and revert back to the provincial marketing board on the death or retirement of a producer. Guest speaker M. R. McDougall of Blenheim, chairman of the provincial marketing board, said his group has no authority to put quota into effect and that it could be im- plemented only through a vote by Ontario producers or by an amendment accepted by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Board. Re-elected to the Huron producers; six-man executive committee were Bob Henry, Blyth; Russel Bolton, Seaforth; Gordon Ratz, Dashwood; Jack Verhulst; Randy Collins; and Lawrence Becker, Crediton. The committee reappointed Mr. Henry as chairman, Other appointments were: vice- chairman, Mr. Verhulst; secretary, Mr. Ratz. Cliff Russell R,R. 2 DASHWOOD, ONT. PHONE 238-2481 GRANTS BEND Short courses are planned A series of short courses in agricultural marketing have been arranged for the next couple of weeks at the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture and Food board rooms in Clinton. Huron's Ag Rep Don Pullen said applications are on a first come-first served basis with a maximum enrollment of twenty persons. The opening session will be on March 6 with Dick Heard, farm management specialist from London speaking on, "the framework of marketing." On Wednesday, March 8, Heard and Pullen will be the speakers on, "What makes farmers prices" and "cost and supply- Firm and industry under perfect competition." Friday, March 10 it will be Dick Heard and Jack Hagarty with Heard again on the topic of coast and supply and Hagarty touching on government policies relative to marketing and application of price theory. The futures market will be thoroughly discussed on Saturday, March 11 with Robert S, Tebbutt ,of a Toronto Stock broker firm. Wednesday, March 15, Norm Watson of the extension branch and Larry Campbell of the Meat Packers Council will discuss marketing legislation in Ontario and marketing programs in pork and beef. The final session is set for Priday, March 17 with Professor Bob Marshall of the University of Guelph speaking on International Trade and Canadian Agriculture. 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