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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-01-29, Page 12FLY-IN FOR FARMERS — Area farmers who participated in the fly-in to the United States to tour John Deere manufacturing plants are shown boarding the bus which took them to Toronto where a plane was waiting to carry them the rest of the distance. After all, you couldn't very well call it a fly-in if they took the bus all the way. [ Bill Stewart's down to earth, Tenth meeting for milk board NEW TRACTORS 1—Farmall 766 D w/standard equipment 1—Farmall 1066 without cab 1—Farmall 1466 with cab, 20.8x38 tires 1—Farmall 1466 0, cab, air, 20.8x38 tires 1—Farmall 1566 D cab, air, 20.8x38 tires 1--Int. 674 D w/18,4x30 tires USED TRACTORS 1—Farmall 766 D w/roll guard Low hours 1—Farmall 1066 D w/cab, 550 hours, 1 yr. old 1—Farmall 1066 0 with cab, 1700 hrs. Real good 1—Farmall 1066 D without cab, 1700 hours, sharp 1—Farmail Hydro 70 wical), 200 hours 1—Int. 656 D Clean & good 1—Int, 275 gas. Reconditioned 1—Farmall 544 D New tires. 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Some of these privileges are: —No service charge for chequing, bill payment services, or traveller's cheques. —A specially designed cheque book that gives you a, permanent copy. —A $5 annual discount on a Safe Deposit Box or Safekeeping Service. —A special Bonus Savings Deposit Service with interest linked to the Consumer Price index. —Special term deposit that pays high interest monthly with flexible redemption privileges. So come on in and see me or one of my staff today. Or, if you'd prefer, give me a call. Iner Smith Manager Exeter 235-2111 ROYAL BAN K s.erving Ontario Farm accidents cited for rate increases The Honourable William G. stone, G. Long, W. Mickle and R, Newman, Minister of Agriculture Murdoch. and Food, announced that he has Mr. Jim Johnstone has been accepted the recommendations recommended as Chairman in in the report of the Farm the Board's report, Products Marketing Board on its recent investigation into the business conduct of all members of the Ontario Egg Producer's Marketing Board. In making the report public, Mr. Newman said he would act. immediately on the Board's recommendations. The Ontario Farm Products Marketing Board • has recom- mended that three members of the local board — W. Eckstein, J. Hudson and M, Marleau — who were found to be in violation of the local board's regulations, should not be permitted to con- tinue to serve as members of the Ontario Egg Producer's Marketing Board. In the interim, the Farm Products Marketing Board has recommended that the term of office of all members of the Ontario Egg Producer's Marketing Board be terminated immediately, and that eight of the remaining ten members who were found not to be in violation of the regulations, be appointed by the Minister as the members of the Board, Those appointed to the Board are: H. Beaty, T. Cericola, J. Huctwith, J. Hyde, J, John- Of the two remaining directors who were not found to be in violation, Mr. George Lindblad had previously resigned, and Mr. Tom Ottokar is no longer a producer of eggs. In addition Mr. Newman has accepted the recommendation of the Ontario Farm Producer's Marketing Board to introduce legislation to provide for the removal of any member of any local agricultural marketing board who knowingly con- travenes the regulations of a local board on which he is serving as a member. The Legislation will apply to all marketing boards in Ontario, whether under the administration of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Act or the Milk Act. "In the case of the Ontario Egg Producer's Marketing Board, it is morally unacceptable for a few board members to avoid the responsibility of complying with the regulations while the vast majority of producers live within the rules. I am confident once the Legislation is in place, normal election of members to the Ontario Egg Producer's and rehabilitation have made the increase necessary," he says. Allirates concerning farm em- ployees are up an average of about , 30 percent. The com- pensation rates are based on a formula per each $100 of wages paid to employees. Rate 943, the preferred rate, will increase from $1.95 in 1975 to $2.70 in 1976. The general farm rate, 953, is to be increased to $5.70 in 1976 from $4, Rate 876 will increase to $3.80 from the 1975 level of $2.85. The new rates came into effect January 1, 1976. Michael Starr, chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board, expects the total 1975 benefit payout to he roughly $300 million, compared to $261 million in 1974. Fifty area farmers departed via bus from Huron Tractor, Exeter Ltd., Tuesday for a fly-in to locations in the United State$ where they will tour John Deere tractor and farm implement factories to see how the equip- ment is built, The Exeter area group joined close to 600 other eastern Canada farmers in Toronto airport for the fly-in to Waterloo, Iowa and then to Moline, Illinois. The tour lasts three days. Herb Verbeek, one of the owners of Huron Tractor, ex- plained that the tour is arranged so that farmers "can acquaint themselves with what is involved By BILL STEWART Denfield The highlight of Ontario's dairy year is the Annual Meeting of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board always held the first week in January. This year the Board held its tenth annual meeting since being established on November 1, 1965, following the proclamation of the Ontario Milk Act. 1965. with the subsequent in- troduction of a milk marketing plan, bringing together the Whole Milk Producers, the •Concentrated Milk Producers and the Cheese Producers Marketing Boards. As Minister of Agriculture and Food at that time I placed my political future on the line when I brought the plan in without a producer vote and appointed the first Board with George McLaughlin, of Beaverton, as its first Chairman. He still retains that position 10 years later, a dis- tinct mark of his leadership ability. All the Board Members are now elected in the various milk production areas of the province. While no one can ever hope to be all things to all people, George McLaughlin has done an outstanding job of welding together in a cohesive, unified force the milk producers of On- tario. He and his Boarcldeserved the approval of the producers so generously given in this, their tenth, annual meeting. Many changes have taken place over the past ten years. To illustrate, I quote from the Chairman's address: "From 1966 to 1975, the number of milk producers declined from 30,773 to 15,964. or by 49 per cent. The total number of milk cows in the herds of these producers declin- ed from approximately 760 thou- sand to about 561 thousand or by 35 per cent. During the same time, the volume of milk has dropped only from 5,557 million pounds to about 5,365 million pounds. or three per cent. This means, of course, that the production per milk producer in- creased by 86 per cent• and per cow by 31 per cent." Perhaps there could be no better illustration in Ontario Agriculture of demonstrated, improved efficiency. And yet there is still much room for im- provement. A current dairy research program underway in Eastern Ontario. aimed at reduc- ing the incidence of mastitis and improving herd health, leading to increased production. is prov- ing the value of better manage- ment including feed testing, resulting in the use of better dairy rations conducive to in- creased milk production. The greatest concern express- ed during the annual meeting was the world-wide surplus of skim milk powder. Much of this surplus has come about due to near perfect weather conditions for milk production the world over in 1975. Coupled with this in- creased production is an alar- ming decline in consumption of fluid milk. butter and skim milk powder in some countries. Cheese consumption continues to escalate. Criticism has been levelled at the Federal Minister of in the building of farm equip- ment, especially since they pay a lot of money for it." Verbeek said that the company has sponsored several such fly- ins, "In our past experience it would seem that farmers have developed an appreciation for the equipment as a result of taking the tour, They get an ap- preciation and an understanding for the complexity and engineering," he said. The contingent of farmers leaving on a bus from Exeter included men from Lambton and Middlesex as well as Huron County and was the largest single group in Canada taking the tour. Agriculture and his Canadian Department of Agriculture of- ficials for the reduction in the in- dustrial milk subsidy and the proposed reduction in industrial milk quotas. It would seem a justifiable criticism, particular- ly when one realizes cheese im- ports, of varieties that are being made here in Canada, are to be allowed to increase over last year and are proposed to be in- creased substantially over the next four years. The net result is the announced intention of the Federal Government to allow cheese imports to capture not less than 10'", of the manufac- tured dairy product market of Canada over the next few years. If this irresponsible proposal is allowed to happen industrial milk production will be forced down by at least 18'''r by 1980. When I recall the exhortation by the Federal Government to produce sufficient quantities of milk to supply Canada's domestic market and meet Canada's export market re- quirements with, the result that several Provincial Governments, including Ontario, introduced industrial milk production incentive programs, entirely based on the allotted quota to each province set by the Canada Dairy Commission of the Canada Department of„ Agriculture, only to now find the rug is to be pulled from under our milk producers through a precipitous increase in import permits for foreign produced variety cheeses with little, if any, discussion by C.D.A. with the milk producer represen- tatives of Canada's dairy provinces, one is left wondering about the credibility of Canada's Government. One would be inclined to believe the Federal Minister of Agriculture. the Hon. Mr. Whelan. who has appeared to be. at least verbally. the farmers' champion, has lost his political clout with his fellow Cabinet Ministers at Ottawa. It. seems in- credible in the extreme that no explanation has been forthcom- ing from Ottawa as to why this enormous increase in cheese im- ports is to take place while at the same time Ontario, and indeed all Canadian. industrial milk producers are being asked to drastically reduce production. One is prompted to ask, did the Federal Department of Trade and Commerce unilaterally decide to trade off Canadian in- dustrial milk production to gain some as yet unexplained trade concession for Canada? By OOROON MORLEY Mr. & Mrs, George Wilkinson, Mr. Si Mrs. Brian Hodgins of Exeter and Mr. & Mrs, Edwin Morley were recent dinner guests with Mr. & Mrs. Earl Lewis, The community extends sympathy to Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Hodgins and family in the loss of her mother Mrs. Sawyer. Mrs. Fred Wells has started nursing at the Craigholme recently. Sympathy is extended to Mr. & Mrs. Laverne Daley and family in the loss of his uncle last week, Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hodgins and Mrs, Edwin Morley visited with their aunt Mrs. Mary Gagan and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brunswick of Parkhill, Sunday afternoon, Marketing Board can take place," said Mr. Newman. "The actions I ah taking in the case of the Ontario Egg Producer's Marketing Board will receive serious study by all Ontario marketing boards. However I am confident the Legislation, when executed, will be received by all boards as another tool in maintaining Ontario's position as the most advanced marketing board jurisdiction in North America." Any interested board or person can receive copies of the Farm Products Marketing Board report regarding the egg in- vestigation by writing to the Farm Products Marketing Board, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, Ontario. By MISS JEAN COPELAND Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Pfaff of Crediton and Mr. & Mrs. Rea Stephen of Kirkton visited on Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Brine. Miss Mary Jane Rixon of London spent the weekend with her aunt Miss Rhea Mills. Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Jeffery, Alan and Connie of Thames Road were Sunday visitors with Mr. & Mrs. John Rodd, Pamela and Calvin, Congraitilations to Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Robinson on the arrival of a baby sister for Sara. Mr. & Mrs. James Miller of Exeter, Mr. Fred Doupe of St. Marys and Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Brine were Sunday guests with Mr. & Mrs. Don Brine, Cheryl and Daryl. Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Grain • Feed • Cement Building Supplies Coal 228-6638 The, column that's read for a purpose . . . %MO by Scotty Homilton III ,.,• Mail your problems to "Impact" c/o this paper. All letters 1 will be answered provided a stamped addressed envelope i. , is enclosed. Some of general interest will be published. rah Letters must be signed but we will NOT reveal your identity. 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Canada's dairy industry is far too important to the national economy to treat it with what would appear to be such incon- siderate action. I was particularly pleased to be honoured at a special luncheon sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board and the Ontario Milk Producers on the con- cluding day of the Annual Meeting. I was deeply touched and more than appreciative of the many kind and all too generous comments made con- cerning my efforts on behalf of Ontario Milk Producers during my term of office. I was pleased that my wife received a beautiful bouquet of roses and I was presented with a framed Cer- tificate of Appreciation from the Ontario Milk Producers signed by the Chairman and Vice Chair- man of the Ontario Marketing Board. However I was surprised and overwhelmed to learn that the County and District Milk Com- mittees had personally contacted thousands of milk producers in their respective areas to collect funds for the establishment of a Fellowship Fund bearing my name to be administered by the O.M.M.B. The income derived from the almost $37,000. collected will be used annually to support a student in his or her' Masters or Ph.D. degree in sub- jects related to research in dairy and food sciences at the Univer- sity of Guelph. I can think of no better way to pay tribute to anyone than the method chosen. I accepted this great honour with profound humility. But I made it clear in accepting, and I re-emphasize, that any success achieved in bettering the economic position of Ontario dairy farmers is the result of a joint effort of all those associated with the industry at every level. It was my good for- tune to have been surrounded with sincere, honourable, dedicated people of integrity, determined to make the milk marketing plan work. It was re- asuring to hear my successor. the Hon. Wm. Newman. pledge his full support to the continued strengthening of Ontario's dairy industry. More serious and more costly accidents among farm em- ployees are cited as the prime reasons for increases in the compensation rates for 1976, according to the Farm Safety Association. Association spokesman Mr. L. Swinn says that in 1974 there were 1854 lost-time claims in which farm workers lost more than one day's work due to an accident. While figures to date. show a 7 to 8 percent decrease in the number of arm accidents, both the severity and overall costs have risen appreciably. "Although we're running slightly behind 1974 in com- pensable farm accidents, more serious accidents and higher costs for medical care, liability Minister accepts marketing board's egg recommendation A