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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-07-29, Page 8CASE FIELD DAY at C G FARM SUPPLY LTD. RR 3, Zurich, Ontario Cool Down with a Hot Deal from Case 5000 BTU Home Air Conditioner when you purchase a new Case 43-80 pto hp tractor between July 1st and August 31, 1976. See your participating Case dealer today! Test D rive these Tractors FRIDAY, JULY 30 at I p.m.. 2'h mi. south of Zurich DANGER! Don't buy a steel building until you talk to me. BOB HOLLOW Your local Sales and Service Steel Building man • 61 r "*.•?4,' • will give local service, the best quality and the lowest prices. Contact me before steel prices rise., Good Luck and Good Farming.. t4r-62.4r-eJ BOB HOLLOW k WONDER STEEL BUILDINGS St. Marys, Ont. 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The Hank of Nova Scotia presented special Rose E4111111111111(111ffitIlffiltlitliltlitifiliffitlIMIMMIIIIIIMMIIIIIIM11111111111111111111$11111111111Ma Bowl Trophies to the Grand and Cattle show small but very exciting IT WAS A BATTLE ALL. THE WAY—Kathy Love of Zurich had a hard time getting her calf to do what she wanted in the cattle jud- ging competition at the Zurich fair on Saturday. However, despite opposition from her entry, Kathy managed to come 4th in the beef showmanship category. photo by McKinley Hyde Bros,, urge rot/ lcs stack Op. I Mean .540 e#e 444 11 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 11 11 11 11 1 11 1 1 1 1I II 1I II the Reserve Grand Champions of the male and female sections of F the Polled and the Horned P Hereford classes, As a farmer- :. member of the Board of Direc- tors of the Bank of Nova Scotia it was my good fortune to be asked = to make the presentations to the winners. A young man, John Parker, of Three Hills, Alberta, won the Grand Champion female Horned Hereford award with his former 4-H heifer calf. It gives all those who have contributed so much as leaders and members of 4-1-1 a great boost to realize that among 4-H members are Canada's future farmers and purebred livestock breeders. To win such an honour in that kind of com- petition was a great tribute, not only to the winner, but to the fact he was building a herd of such quality from one of the females he had started with in 4-H. There is no doubt about the enormous popularity of the Hereford Breed in Western Canada and the U,S,A. Canada was honoured to have been able to host the World Hereford Congress. Visitors came from over 20 countries, some touring Ontario Hereford farms and visiting interesting attractions in the Province, others visiting in other provinces before all arriv- ing in Banff for the Conference, It was reported that over a thou- sand people had registered for a successful and useful discussion on matters pertaining to their Breed and to the beef industry generally. It was a privilege to attend a Hereford Field Day following the Conference in Banff at the B & 11 Farms, at Millet, Alberta, which is a few miles south of Edmon- ton. There were well over 1000 people in attendance. Several northern Alberta Hereford breeders had brought some of their cattle to the B & H Ranch to be shown to the visitors along with the fine breeding herd on the B & H Ranch. It was a great day with typical Western Cana- dian hospitality in generous abundance. It was a great opportunity to meet and to talk with visitors from Australia and New Zealand. If Canadian beef producers feel that we have financial problems making ends, meet these days we might con- sole ourselves by realizing that market cattle are selling for about $30 to $40 per head in Australia—and calves and yearlings are hardly worth keep- ing around. It's little wonder that Australia is trying to move beef into the North American market, even with its depressed beef prices. Their sales to Japan and several other markets have been lost or greatly reduced because those countries are using curren- cy normally used to buy meat to buy oil on the inflated world oil markets. There doesn't appear to be any early solution to the currency difficulties in many countries dependant on off-shore oiI sources, according to conver- sations I had with delegates and others who have just returned from trade missions to the Far East. Crop conditions in Alberta appear excellent. In, fact, a bumper wheat crop is expected throughout the Prairie Provinces. With 4 million acres more planted to spring wheat in 1976 than in 1975, Canada could have its greatest wheat crop on record, Some areas are dry. Some areas have had too much rain. Hut Western Canada is so big that what appears to an Easterner as a sizable area to be affected by weather, pro or con, doesn't seem to make much difference to the ever-all totals, but must be severe on the in- dividuals involved. There appears to be much less land left in summer fallow than noticed on previous visits to Alberta, although south of Calgary in the Vulcan, Picture Butte and Lethbridge areas it looked as though summer fallow- ing was still being used as a moisture conservation method. In the "short grass" country of southern Alberta range limits are imposed on the number of cattle that can be graied, in some areas no more than one animal unit to 43 acres and in other areas no more than one animal unit to 67 acres. Sur- prisingly even on pastures where nothing seems to be growing, the cattle look well and make reasonable gains. Irrigation is being used far more than ever before.' While' some farmers are making good use of flood irrigation by gravity, others are using. the "Wheel" systems that carry aluminum pipes from which nozzles rotate under pressure, covering wide swaths with water. These systems are easily moved across the fields and can be moved from field to field. The "Pivot" systems are also becoming popular. Water is supplied through 6-inch' un- derground pipes to a pivot plat- form, from which it is forced through pipes mounted on steel structures about 10 feet high. Each of these pipe-carrying towers is mounted on rubber tires. These overhead water carrying pipes extend out from the central pivot making a circle usually covering 125 acres. This huge length of pipe mounted on these steel structures is moved by a stand-by electric generator run by a diesel or propane gas engine. When one circle is covered by the sweep, the operator just hitches on to the pivot at the central point and moves it to the next water outlet, where the process is repeated. Visiting some, farms where these various irrigation systems were in use was a great ex- perience. It proved that water in abundance and used at the ap- propriate time, can make the difference between certainty of having a crop or not. Now that grain prices have strengthened over the last 3 or 4 years farmers have more confidence in making the substantial investment re- quired. It would appear that irrigation is the "last frontier" to be exploited in Canada if in- creased agricultural productivi- ty is to be achieved. But if is to be increased then the price had better be right, otherwise what is the use of farmers making such enormous investments to produce crops that can't be sold at a profit. Oil seed crop acreage is down in Western Canada. There appeared to be too much uncer- tainty re oil seed prices at plan- ting time. Some corn is being grown in Southern Alberta, much of it un- der irrigation. It looked pretty good although not nearly as tall as the Ontario corn crop. The corn silage we saw from last year's crop left much to be desired, very little grain and very wet, but some of it had been badly frozen before storage in bunker silos. From comments of some growing corn, and others, it will be a long time before grain corn or corn silage become a serious threat to Ontario's corn industry. High moisture barley, haylage, barleyage and grass are in- creasingly being stored in various types of bunker or tower silos. As irrigation increases so will the use being made of high moisture storage for livestock feed. This is a trend very noticeable today, and is greatly improving the digestible protein content of feed, thereby reducing the outlay of dollars to buy pro- tein supplements. We never met any happy beef feedlot operators with today's prices, unless they were operating custom feedlots, with someone else owning the cattle and the feedlot operator supply- ing the feed and service at cost plus profit. Unless there is an in- dication of much stronger prices for finished beef next year, it would appear that many Western cattle feeders will be un- enthusiastic buyers of feeder cattle this fall, They're not likely to go on losing money for another year, particularly if feed grain prices maintain their present strength, as is expected. Feeders were paying 0.20 bu, for barley and $1,50 for oats. One can understand the cost of feeding when one realizes that cattle were eating from 15 to 25 lbs. of rolled grain daily. We visited one feeder who was pasturing over 2000 cattle on a few hundred acres of irrigated pasture. These cattle were eating about 12 to 15 lbs. of rolled While the cattle show at the Zurich Fair was not large, it was exciting for the participants, most of whom were 4-H mem- bers. Winners in the dairy showman- ship class were first, Dianne Steckle, R.R. 3 Bayfield; second, Robert Steckle, R.R.3 Bayfield; third, Adrian Rasenberg, R.R.3 Zurich. In the senior holstein heifer competition Dianne Steckle of Bayfield again took first prize, with Robert Steckle of Bayfield taking second, Adrian Rasen- berg of Zurich took first place with his entry in the junior hols- tein heifer competition, In the beef showmanship class Paul Klopp, R.R.3 Zurich, took first place with Marty Becker of Dashwood, second and Adrian barley free choice, and were making satisfactory gains, some being ready for market. We did not see many hog feeding operations in Alberta. No doubt there must be some, but there are several egg and broiler production units to be seen. There are many fine dairy farms with top quality dairy cattle in evidence, although most of the milk is being used for fluid or bottled trade, Dairy farmers are receiving $12.85 per cwt. for fluid milk with payment at that price based on fluid sales. One dairy farm visited had a 3900 lbs. fluid quota daily. He estimated his pay-out at 85% of quota with the balance going for industrial price of $8.65 per cwt. plus Federal subsidy. Of course, trucking and marketing fee charges and levies were deducted. Alberta is a great province, abounding in many natural resources—oil, gas, coal, land and several enormous rivers fed by-the snow-capped Rocky Moun- tains. Anyone who believes that Canada is becoming short of agricultural land ought to take a trip through Western Canada. If consumers, and we're all con- sumers, are willing to pay for food in comparison with what we pay for everything else, then there need never be any shortage of food production in this great country. Rasenberg third. Kathy Love, R.R.I Zurich was fourth and Robert Willert, R.R.I Zurich was fifth. Robert Willert also took first place with his entry in the senior beef heifer competition with Paul Klopp finishing second. In the senior beef steers class, Marty Becker of Dashwood was first and Adrian Rasenberg of Zurich was second, Adrian Rasenberg also won the B.S. Becker Award for the best 4-Fl calf and Paul Klopp won the Zurich Chamber of Commerce award for Campion 4-H show- man . Agriculture grads up 10% Graduates from Ontario's colleges of agricultural technology numbered 460 this year — a 10 percent increase over 1975, it has been announced by Agriculture and Food Minister William Newman. A total of 1,153 students were enrolled in the two-year diploma courses offered at the colleges in 1975-76. About 1,300 students are expected to be enrolled this fall for the new school year, Mr. Newman said that about 200 of this year's graduates will take up farming as their per- manent occupation and the remainder will go into agri- business. Ontario has four colleges of agricultural technology — at Kemptville, Ridgetown, Cen- tralia and New Liskeard. The Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph, through a contractual arrangement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, offers similar two-year diploma courses. Diploma education in agriculture and food began in Ontario in 1904 with 46 graduates and only at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. By 1976 the total number of graduates had swelled to more than 9,000. Bill Stewart's . Allis Chalmers 2 CYCLE OIL 75c QT. and that's not all the savings. Here's more to stack (there I go again) stock up on . . BATTERIES 10% OFF GREASE $3.25 5 Lb. 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