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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-10-05, Page 18ocoornoNED FARM MACHINERY Tractors 2 — Farmall 806 Diesels Cockshutt 1750 Diesel Farmall 656 Diesel International 624 Diesel David Brown 990 Diesel Combines IHC 403 with 2 heads IHC 80 pull type Case 600 with 2 heads Massey Ferguson 60 with bean equipment. Oliver No. 18 Combine Corn Harvesting Equipment Gehl Forage Box IHC 55 2-row harvester IHC No. 16 one-row harvester This is just a partial list. Check our large stock of used equipment before you buy. N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "Tire best in service when you need it most!" P4ge 6 A Time-Advocate, October 5, 1972 Will provide guaranteed loans for farmers hit by June frost Area farmers whose crops were damaged by the June "killer frost" will be eligible for government-guaranteed loans for 1973 production, federal Agricniture Minister H, A. (Bud) Olson told audiences in Wood- stock and St. Thomas Friday. It was the first time govern- ment aid for Southwestern Ontario farmers who lost crops during the frost had been promised, Federal and provincial governments across the countr/ have announced aid programs for flood damage in eastern Ontario and Quebec and for poor crop yields on the Prairies. Applications for the loans, which won't be interest-free, should be made to a committee set up by the governments of Ontario and Canada for this purpose, he added. The loans will be made by Canadian banks. He said the extent of damage caused by the frost is not known yet because harvesting is not completed. Mr. Olson was in Southwestern Ontario on a speaking tour on behalf of local Liberal candidates Charles Tatham in Oxford and Harold Stafford in Elgin. He spoke to about 40 farmers in St. Thomas and attended meetings at Huron Park Seceondary School in Woodstock and at the farm of Ted Yeoman, RR 6, Woodstock. fAk The minister pointed out, however, that since Ottawa announced its accelerated program for grain drying and storage facilities last Febrnary„ commercial storage facilities have increased "dramatically." Mr. Olson also told the Elgin group that the federal govern- ment is encouraging the provinces to move fast into crop insurance plans. He said importing items such as canned fruit is an "ongoing problem" and noted that 30 per cent of agricultural production in Canada goes into exports. At Woodstock, Gordon W. Innes, former Liberal MPP for Oxford, said there should be a program to assist farmers where there is a shortage of seasonal help for the beef and dairy in- dustries or at harvesting time. He repeated a statement made in Wingbam Thursday that the government would "seriously _oak" at legislation giving the National Farmers Union full bargaining power for all Canadian farmers but said the NFU would first have to prove that it had the support of at least 51 percent of the farm com- munity. He noted that the NFU is reluctant to make public its membership figures and charged that it doesn't represent "10 percent of the farmers anywhere." He told the Elgin farmers that net farm income is increasing and said: "We don't expect farmers to produce without getting decent returns on their investments." "We want to make sure that farmers have more to say and are more deeply involved in the marketing of their products. There is so much to do, but the major changes we have been making had pretty difficult going in the House of Commons," Mr. Olson said his department has not received specific proposals for the proposed construction of a 1,6 million bushel grain elevator at Port Stanley. Plans for the privately- financed project were announced in Montreal in April and welcomed by the village council. AN ILDERTON FAIR WINNER — One of the top prizes in the hereford cattle division, at the llderton Fair was won by this animal shown by Keith Coates of RR I Centralia. Above, Coates attempts to get his animal into a proper pose while Flora Walker of Glencoe prepares to present the red ribbon. T-A photo NFU says egg plan has some shortcomings ,op In response to a student question at the Huron Park meeting, Mr. Olson defended the government's decision to ban the food additive DES tdiethylstilbestroll effective Jan. 1, 1973 and not immediately as had been requested by the Oxford Beef Improvement Association, He said the Jan. 1 date allows producers to get rid of their DES stock and to allow time for DES implants in the ears of cattle to be cleaned out. DES allows cattle to fatten in a shorter time with less feed. He said, however, that there is "absolutely no clinical evidence that DES has ever harmed anyone." Mr. Olson agreed with former Oxford warden, Ernest Garner of RR 1, Embro, that there is "some injustice" in the capital gains tax with regard to the milk industry and that it is being "looked into." Answering another student question about the possibility of stable prices for farm products, he said more co-operation is needed at all levels from the producer to the consumer, The agriculture minister said one of the problems in this area is that, when prices for one com- modity show an increase in one year, farmers who didn't produce that crop and got poor prices for their produce tend to switch to the crop that showed a price increase, The result is overproduction of that crop, decreased prices and the cycle continues. He released statistics showing that 64 percent of the increase in the price of food from 1961 to 1971 was caused by higher processing, packaging and distributing cost. Mr. Olson refused to lay the blame at the door of the processors, however, saying it was the fault of the consumer "who obsiously wants a fancier package." 4i WE PICK-UP Propose changes in loan insurance The Canadian Life Insurance Association has proposed a change in life insurance regulations that would extend insurance coverage on short- term loans taken out by farmers. The proposal was submitted to the annual meeting of the Association of Superintendents Insurance of the provinces, a rule-setting agency composed of provincial government insurance supervisory officials, It urges that an insurance company be allowed to life insure a farmer's credit with a bank even though the farmer may not have drawn the total amount, John . Graham, of Reliable Life Ins. Co., said insurance is "im- portant for the agricultural community of the country." He cited the example of a farmer who has $25,000 one-year credit with a bank, but has only drawn $13,000, Should this farmer die the life insurance would cover the $25,000 rather than the amount of loan outstanding. Such coverage is important to the farmer's survivors, who must still carry on with the farm for the remainder of the year, perhaps using the full credit, Mr. Grahm said. Cattle And Hogs,For Custom Killing And Processing Deadline set for egg quota Slaughtering Every Wednesday Plan help for smaller farms The Small Farms Development Program will be implemented immediately in Ontario. The Small Farms Development Program is designed to help farmers who own small farm to develop larger and more profitable operations. The federal government has set aside $150 million to be spent throughout Canada over seven years on this program. "Implementation of the Canada-Ontario agreement is the first phase in the introduction of the Small Farms Development Program on a national basis," Mr. Olson said. Cutting, Wrapping & Sharp Freezing . . Per Pound The National Farmers Union says the proposed National Egg Marketing Plan, while "a step in the right direction," is not without its shortcomings. In a brief prepared for the National Farm Products Marketing Council meeting in Calgary, the NFU welcomed the shift of supply management for egg production from a provincial to a federal basis but warned that this "must not be allowed to create the illusion. . . the marketing and pricing problems of producers will disappear." Indeed, the brief warned, "the trend toward corporate domination of egg production might even be encouraged with the advent of more stable marketing and pricing unless specific attention is given by the national and provincial agencies toward redirecting the recent course of events in this respect." To prevent this, the NFU suggested, the new agency should phase out the quotas of corporate integrators and set 30,000 laying hens as the maximum flock size. The NFU said the pricing proposals of the plan are meaningless in terms of guaranteeing producers a price related to production costs since prices under the plan would be established in the "free market," it. recommended instead a system of collective bargaining for egg producers be introduced into the plan, The Farmers Union expressed concern about "several kinds of piecemeal and indefinite ap- proaches to production, marketing and pricing in the plan and believe it would be preferable that the agency be established as a full National Crown Agency." Such an agency, The NFU said, should: —Allocate provincial production quotas; —Handle orders requiring import licenses; —Handle interprovincial and export trade through an aggressive marketing force; —Establish a minimum price related to the cost of production; —Provide collective bargaining right to farmer-producers through periodic negotiations with their representatives. The Union also recommended surplus eggs intended for hatching be regarded as non-quota surplus eggs to be processed for food aid programs. • • es Addition on Fair cattle FREEZER SPECIALS Sides of Beef 69r lb. Hinds of Beef 77a lb. Fronts of Beef 57ct lb. Sides of Pork 55(t lb. Prices Include Complete Processing Why risk an empty heating oil tank on a blizzardy day? In last week's report of winners of the cattle show at the Exeter Fair one division was inad- vertently missed. Lorne Hern was the top Holstein exhibitor with four red ribbons while animals from the Hank Brand farm were top winners in two categories and Jim Lynn's herd took one first prize. Automatic Refill is how Shell makes sure you don't run out of heating oil. The first time you purchase Shell heating oil, we start a record of your oil consumption and relate it to weather records and forecasts. We use a Shell offers two words of advice to homeowners: Automatic Refill. mathematical formula to figure how much oil you'll need during the year, and exactly when you'll need a refill. You won't end up the day of a blizzard saying: "I can't believe we used the whole tank." Call us soon. • E.R. Hoover, Chairman of the Ontario Egg Quota Allocation Commission, announced today that the Commission will only consider applications for an egg marketing quota from producers who have filed before the deadline date of Monday, October 9, Producers submitting com- pleted Information Returns later than October 9 may have to wait an indefinite period for the allotment of their quota. Until a quota has been allotted to a producer, all eggs which are offered for sale will be directed to the surplus pool. The prices for such eggs will be considerably lower than those marketed under quota. Thereafter, marketing eggs without a quota will be prohibited. All commercial egg producers and hatching egg producers with flocks of 500 or more during the period January 1, 1969 to April 20, 1972 are required to complete returns. 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