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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-03-09, Page 12BUY NOW Ford Super 6 (4-wheel drive) Choose from 2 John Deere 4020 Diesel with cab David Brown Cropmaster Case 430 Diesel Massey 333 Gas IHC W-400 Diesel Massey 44 Gas INC 460 Diesel IHC Model "C" row-crop & 4-row cultivator Ford 9N with loader Ford 3400 Industrial Diesel with 730 loader Ford 8N John Deere AR BETTER FARMING STARTS AT EXETER FORD Equipment Sales Ltd. EXETER 235-2200 Tractors Equipment $AVE NOW at Pre-Season Discounts COCKSHUTT 2150 DIESEL MASSEY 1100 DIESEL MASSEY SUPER 90 DIESEL MASSEY 65 GAS ALLIS WD-45 GAS FORD 5000 DIESEL CASE 411-B GAS IHC 460 GAS IHC 606 GAS IHC 624 DIESEL IHC 414 DIESEL FARMALL 350 GAS FARMALL 400 DIESEL FARMALL 656 DIESEL FARMALL 706 DIESEL 2 — FARMALL 806 DIESEL FARMALL 806 DIESEL WITH CAB N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "The best in service when you need it most!" LIQUID FERTILIZERS Provide Labor-Saving Ways to Extra Profits The liquid way is the modern way to fertilize your crops. You get prompt service with speedy liquid handling and with local mixing of complete fer- tilizers to fit your soil test. Custom top-dressing and side-dressing saves you time for other important jobs. Liquid starter or planter fertilizer speeds planting and gives your crops a faster start. Liquid fertilizer assures thorough coverage for uniform yields across your fields. You can mix in weed killers, essential minor plant foods and soil insecti- cides to your exact needs prior to spreading. A liquid fertilizer program provides the best and most convenient plant food service you can get. • LIQUID FERTILIZER HANDLING IS EASY AND FAST. All you lift is the end of a hose. By using liquids you eliminate bags which are heavy to lift, get wet, tear, clutter up the field or go astray between fertilizer plant and the field, Applying liquids is a one-man operation. Equipment now in use may cover from one row up to a 40.foot swath. FEED AND WEED APPLICATION of liquid nitrogen or mixed fertilizer plus herbi- cide does two important jobs in one trip across your fields. It saves cultivation and soil corn paction, thus reducing loss of available soil moisture. Feed and weed is a must for making high. yield narrow row planting work best. IMPORTANCE OF WATER SOLUBLE PHOSPHATES Have you ever said to yourself, "Well, I got just what I paid for?" You probably have, just as most everyone else has, after you bought what you thought was a bargain; only to find out later that the product was either of inferior quality, or did not have the advantages of a product that would have cost a few cents more. Bulk fertilizers cost less than liquid mixes. Liquids use 100 per cent water soluble phosphate, which is expensive. However, research at Iowa State University and other land-grant institutions has demonstrated why this more costly phosphate is important for crops, especially in starter fertilizers. Here are charts summarizing Iowa State University's findings. INFLUENCE OF WATER SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE ON CORN Percent of Phosphate Increase in Yield of Corn From Water Soluble 50 pounds of P..:0,; per Acre 14% 32 41 57 70 100 The phosphate was applied as a starter fertilizer, 11/2 " to the side, and 1" below the seed. Nitrogen and Potash treatments to all plots were the same. Information taken from Soil Science Society of America Proceed- ings, Volume 22, Number 6, 1958 - t••• . PLOW-DOWN, TOP-DRESSING and side.dressing applications of mixed liquid fertilizer provides a laborsaving way to supply the large amounts of plant food modern crops need. Speedy, thorough coverage of your fields assures you of fertilizing jobs done on time and done well. Local formulation gives you prescription fertilizing to your exact needs. • iip..416.414.A.F4.V. IN THE PLANTER OR GRAIN DRILL liquid mixed fertilizers provid,e the most readily available forms of plant food for the seedling crop. The young plants especially need readily available phosphorus with nitro- gen. The plant foods in liquid fertilizer stay readily available to your crop. ^0111.4. 11,8 bushels/acre 14.2 13.7 19.4 19.8 23.4 Percent Water Soluble Phosphate in Different Fertilizer Materials YOU CAN MIX IN SOIL INSECTICIDES and essential mi• nor fertilizer elements as well as weed killers. You can do the mixing in minutes and liquid application is so thorough that you get perfect coverage of your field. Minor elements stay in soluble form so they are readily available to your crops Percent Water Source of Example Soluble Phosphate Phosphate Analysis MODERN PUSH-DUTTON FORMULATION of liquid fertiliz- ers at a small, efficient local plant brings the analysis you need to your farm fast, often on the same day as you order it. A compact neighborhood plant in your area provides fertilizer sery ices of top quality that you can't improve at any price. 100% Mixed Liquid Fertilizers 6-18-6 90% Ammonia Phosphate 18-46-0 60.70% Ammoniated Triple Super High Analysis Mixed Phosphate Fertilizer 4050% Ammoniated Ordinary Super Low Analysis Mixed Phosphate Fertilizer BUY LIQUID FERTILIZER and you will never need to worry, because the phosphate in liquid fertilizer is always 100 per cent water soluble, (ANN S MILL LTD X35.17 82 E XET ER Farm management course covers new tax legislation COURSE ON BUSINESS MANAGEMENT A two-day course featuring business management was held at Centralia's College of Agricultural Technology last week, Shown before the Thursday morning session are from the left, Jerry Boersrna, RR 1, Exeter; Norm Tait, Hensall, guest speaker Doug Miles, former Huron Ag Rep and John Stephens of the College staff. T-A photo Times-Advocate, March 9, 1972 A two-day short course has been scheduled for March 14 and March 15 at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. The theme of this course will be our Forage Crops in Ontario. All types of forage crops which may be used as livestock feed will be discussed. The major emphasis will be placed on feeding values, storage and handling, as well as production techniques. Some of the personnel who will be speaking and leading the discussion periods include Professor Bob Fulkerson and Dr. .Jack Winch from the University of Guelph. Mr. M. Kellam, a beef feedlot operator. Jack Underwood, Doug Jamieson and Jim O'Toole from Centralia College. Mike Miller, Associate Agricultural Representative in Huron County and Howard Lang When these special problems are added to the already complex subject of business arrangements and estate planning, the farmer is often bewildered as to how he should approach his own business. Here the services of the county Agricultural Represen- tative and the Centralia College staff are available for counselling the farmer in the right direction. Grain policy hearings Ask market boards Another in the series of two day short courses for farmers was held at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology March 1 and 2. Thirty-four farmers from the counties of Huron, Bruce, Grey, Perth, Middlesex and Lambton attended the course on Business arrangements and estate planning which was organized and convened by John Stephens, Head of Business Management Division, Centralia College. The guest speakers were Lyall MacLaughlan, area coordinator and farm management specialist, Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, Hamilton and Doug Miles, area coordinator and farm management specialist, Toronto. Mr. MacLaughlan and Mr. Miles both spent considerable time discussing the recent changes in the federal and provincial tax legislation and its affects on farmers and their plans in the area of family farm business arrangements and estate planning. Estate planning, like voting, is a privilege which all too often is not used. It is the privilege of planning and taking action as to know your life earnings will be distributed prior to and following your death. If one does not plan their estate, then the laws of Canada and Ontario will provide a plan of distribution for the estate, Such a plan of distribution may be quite different from what one has in mind. Estate planning is a complex field of law and taxation. However, it is entirely proper to do all possible within the framework of the tax laws to reduce taxes. Only tax evasion is punished, not tax avoidance. Since each case if different and must be treated as such, it is impossible to outline a standard plan. Usually the services of one or all of the following professionals — lawyer, ac- countant and life underwriter, will be used. Along with the normal problems associated with estate planning, in addition there are at CONTACT GEORGE EIZENGA 107 Main St. -- Lucan 227-4851 least four special problems faced by the farmer: 1. Land: Usually the farmer has one asset in which a high percentage of his capital is concentrated, and that is land. 2. Continuity: Many farmers have a deep desire to keep the farm in the family name and pass it along to their sons. 3. Liquidity: Traditionally, most farmers continue to plow earnings back into the business so that they have little or no ready cash. 4. Advice: There is a certain reluctance on the part of many farmers to engage the professional advice needed in estate planning and business arrangements; however, equally critical is the lack of such qualified services in many parts of the province. Both speakers stressed the importance of setting out goals and objectives based on the needs and wants of everyone involved in family farm business arrangements and estate plan- ning. Until this has been done to the satisfaction of all concerned, then successful planning will be limited. District man heads F of A Frank Vanneste. R.R. 2, Lucan has been elected president of the Middlesex Federation of Agriculture succeeding Meredith Robb of llderton. Vanneste is also president of the Huron-Middlesex Rutabaga Producers Association, Other members of the FRANK VANNESTE Federation executive elected were: vice-presidents Dick Veenstra, Kerwood and Clayton Karges, Denfield, executice members Don White, Denfield; Carl Aitken, Southwold and Mac Smithrim, Kerwood. Named to the executive as honorary members were Mr. Rnbb as past president and the county director for the Middlesex federation John Kavelaars of Appin, Requests to have all grains grown in Canada brought under a national marketing scheme such as the Canadian Wheat Board was heard Monday at Ridgetown in the first of a series of hearings on national grain policy spon- sored by the National Farmers Union. The second hearing was held in. Mitchell at the Royal Hotel, Wednesday. If necessary, a second day of hearings will be held at the same place today, Thursday. Ridgetown area farmer Leroy Stirling told the hearing that provincial marketing boards should be scrapped to be replaced with a national agency which would meet such needs as orderly marketing tailored to demand and have the power to negotiate non-negotiable quotas, equalize grain freight rates, make ad- vance or initial payments to producers and control provincial and interprovincial movement of feed grains. "Another very valuable at- tribute to selling grains through one channel would be the elimination of duplicating facilities and the more effective use of trained personnel in the grain marketing field under one roof," Mr. Stirling said. He called for a more aggressive sales policy by trained grain salesmen rather than the "diplomats and at- taches" as the only sales force in foreign countries. "The difference might be that of the Soils and Crops Branch. Highlights from Silage Con- ference held in Toronto last fall have been recorded on video-tape and will be used for discussion periods. Registration in the course is limited to the first 50 applicants. Interested farmers are advised to file their applications im- mediately with their county agricultural representative in the counties of Bruce, Huron. Perth, Oxford, Middlesex, Lambton and Elgin. Farmers in other counties may apply directly to Short Course, Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Huron Park, Ontario. Meals and overnight ac- commodation are available at the College. A course fee of $6.00 per person will be charged. the grain sales people might be able to sell at a profit rather than the existing policy of moving products at any price in order to maintain an image," he .said. Mr. Stirling suggested a national agency such as the Canadian wheat board could issue permits to control imports of commodities that are in ample supply in Canada. He said this would eliminate price-breaking practices of large users of grain in Canada, thus eliminating cheap grains used to produce cheap products such as poultry, eggs, pork and beef. He also said the federal government should give producers the legislation to use collective bargaining in selling their grains with a farmer- controlled organization to bargain for producers, A brief from the SoutheastKent local of the NFU contained a series of recommendations similar to Mr. Stirling's including a proposal for national mechanism to control the movement of all grains and oilseeds with provincial and interprovincial controls. It went a step further in the area of negotiation, suggesting that the NFU negotiate annually, prior to planting, with the national agency on prices of all grains and oilseeds. It also suggested that any over- production should be classed as inventory that should be pur- chased by the federal govern- ment for aid programs, either foreign or domestic. "If subsidies are a must, all commodities should be sub- sidized in such a way that producers will not be switching from one crop to another, trying to come up with more returns on investments," the brief added. The NFU local said, to meet the farmer's need for a market with a realistic price based on cost of production, Canada's policy towards grain products must change. "Does Canada need the foreign exchange generated by exports of grains? If so, then the difference between the price a farmer must have to stay in business and maintain his family and that available on the subsidized world market must he met by the Canadian people. If on the other hand Canada does not need the revenue from the grain exports, farmers should be told to limit their production to approximate the domestic disappearance." Along this line, Howard Huct- with of Forest, a director of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said farmers are reluctant to give up their freedom to produce whatever and whenever they can, "Let me emphasize that we now have production control by the simple but cruel procedure of the most-efficient gradually eliminating the less-efficient. under this system, all farmers suffer while the consumers get tremendous benefits in the low cost of food we provide." Mr. Huctwith said money which urgently should be coming to producers through higher food prices in now'being used by urban society for luxuries which are practically unknown off the North' American continent. "Planning and controlling production is as distasteful to me as to anyone but we as farmers will continue to pay dearly if we ignore our situation as it exists. Perhaps action just short of quotas, coupled with continued aggressive selling and some system to dispose of the small surpluses which ruin our market prices, could be developed to bring reasonable returns for management, capital and labor to our farmers." Mr. Huctwith warned that some new national policy is needed because Canada will soon be producing more grain that it can possibly consume so it will have to turn to exporting food in some form. Also, feed grains will be in sufficient supply to grossly over-produce all end com- modities such as pork, poultry, meat, eggs, and beef and dairy products. The Ontario Soybean Growers Marketing Board called for duty- free entry to soybeans into the U.S. market as part of a new national grains scheme. It also wants growers protected from edible oils being imported into Ontario at depressed or subsidized price levels. It said it is essential that the federal government continue and even increase programs aimed at soybean production and variety research, The soybean board pointed out that the U.S. soybean enter Canada duty-free forcing Ontario growers to compete with a product solidly supported by U.S. government funds. It said because Ontario prices are based on the price of imported U.S. beans, Ontario growers have no price-bargaining strength whatsoever. The three-man NFU committee receiving the briefs includes Joseph O'Neill of Lucan, Douglas Yonge of Central Butte, Sask., and Keith Stolhandske of Swift Current, Sask. Page 12 TAX TROUBLE? II Let George Do It! Township of Usborne Notice to Cattle Owners WARBLE FLY PROGRAM DISCONTINUED in 1972 The Ontario Livestock Commissioner has advised the Council that there will be no grant in support of the program this year and they may discontinue it if they wish. There will be no spray service or inspection and cattle owners are advised to make their own arrangements for control. Plans are completed for course on forage