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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-12-09, Page 25MAKE EVERY WEEK ENGINEERING AWARD — The Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph held their awards presentation recently, The McKee pros. Ltd. Scholarship, offered to an engineering student in good academic standing and an interest and aptitude for agricultural engineering, was presented by Lorne Heslop. The recipient was Donald Jones, right, of Centralia. New Federation head seeks to unite farmers SAFE WORTH PRACTICING snow wonder Don't push yourself this winter . . . walk behind a new John Deere Snow Blower, If you're tired of shoveling .. . it's snow wonder. See us soon. 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Lanark County dairyman Ralph Barried was elected first vice president and Bill Wolfe, a Bruce County beef producer was elected second vice president. 6' Peter Hannam is a graduate of the University of Guelph and owns and operates a 600 acre cash crop farm near Guelph in Wellington County. In his acceptance speach. Mr. Hannam said that the Federation must find and concentrate on issues which will unite farmers and form strong effective lobbies. One issue, he said, could be the inequality in the trading restriction and tariffs on agricultural products. Hannam said the Federation should acquaint farmers on the situation and then acquaint the public. He said that years ago when tariffs were first set, Canada went for straight "cents" where other countries went for percentage values. As a result Canada now has inequities such as Canadian peaches which face an American tariff of $1.90 per case where Australian peaches enter Canada for 12 cents per case. ' Processed or pre-cut beef faces a 120 per cent American tariff (about 30 cents per pound), he said, but the Canadian tariff on pre-cut beef entering this country is only three cents per pound. The Federation must do everything possible to maintain the efficient production of food in Ontario for two reasons, Hannam said, first, to supply consumers with high quality food, and second, to maintain Canadian jobs in the processing and han- dling of food. Approximately 40 per cent of working Canadians are involved in some way with food, he said. The new president reminded the convention that Canada, at considerable international embarrassment refused to allow 23 Taiwanese athletes into Canada to compete in the Olympic games, but allows Taiwan to ship 23 million pounds of tomatoes into this country causing chaos in the tomato in- Whatever the project, call on us for Ready-Mix Concrete • RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • FARM (Including Manure Tanks) FREE ESTIMATES C. A. McDOWELL LTD. CENTRALIA, ONTARIO Plant: 235-0833 Office: 228-6961 .f Thames Road East Phone 235-2200 out, some spring grain planted only to be followed with frost and snow which delayed corn plan- ting and generally made a late spring. Summer haying weather only lasted about the first two weeks of June and then weeks of unending rain and wet weather. The cool weather delayed corn maturing and held up harvesting of the crop, Much corn remains in the fields, and seldom has there been more fall plowing left un- done. Seldom, if ever, do I remember snow coming in our area of London township on November 3 and staying, at least until November 26 when over an inch of rain fell. Despite the peculiar weather of the 1976 crop season there has been generally fairly good yields of most crops. Prices for most grains are less than the last three years, excepting soya beans which are climbing rapidly in price. It's possible soya beans will go even higher with the U.S.A. crop down considerably in acreage from previous years. In any event all we can really do about the weather is to complain, or make the best use of whatever does come our way. One thing all farmers can do at this time of year is to get their farm equipment in out of the weather and examine it to see what repairs are needed before next spring's rush. Parts sometimes have to be ordered ahead, so it's none too soon to be thinking about being ready for a busy 1977 spring season, par- ticularly with so much of 1976 fall work not yet done. Winter provides the op- portunity to attend Agricultural Short Courses and Special Days sponsored by the ;Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. There are always new ideas, new varieties, new methods being developed through research. None of them are much good to the individual farmer who doesn't take the time or trouble to learn about them, But it's not always possible to get away for a day or two, or to take in all the events of special interest and concern to his particular type of operation. However one can usually plan to attend if one really wants to. The Middlesex County office of the O.M.A.F. have ;planned a series of meetings • and short courses running right through from early December to mid- March. And I'm sure other county Agricultural Represen- tative's offices will be doing similarly. Special events are also planned for the various Agricultural Colleges. These practical sessions are well worth attending and might prove as profitable to those who attend as anything they could do during the winter. If you don't happen to have the information re topics, dates and places for these special events throughout Ontario give your local Agricultural Representative's office a call. It was good news to most people to see the drop in bank interest rates set by the Bank of Canada of 1/2 of 1 percent — not much, but a move in the right direction if Canadian farmers and businessmen are going to compete with their counterparts in the U.S.A. where interest rates are about 4 percent lower. Let's hope the trend to lower interest rates continues. It's also encouraging to see the drop in value of the Canadian dollar. A premium on Canadian money is a luxury Canadian farmers and manufacturers, who wish to export, can ill afford. Canada must export to remain economically viable, and the drop in the dollar from well over the U.S.A. dollar to 96c plus should help us sell, but slow down imports from outside Canada. dustry, from the grower through all of the people employed as pickers, peelers, packers and chippers, He said, "We need to be more aggressive as farmers at ef- fecting the general economy of Canada, and to publicize the extent that we are able to do this," He pointed out that maximum wage increases, as laid down by the Anti Inflation Board, have become minimum expections amongst labor. "If it was not for the dropping food prices," Hannam said, "the inflation rate in Canada would still be as high as it was a year ago." Maybe those scientists who claim that the world's climate is changing are right. With November 30th being the coldest in 100 years, not many will recall it being colder. All through the spring, summer and fall Ontario has had a peculiar weather pattern. Those two weeks of very warm weather earlier than usual last spring in mid-April got fruit buds breaking S