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MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "The best in service when you need it most)" 011011 • .1 4411..)0 OIN )11 Page 74 • Times-Advocate, May 13, 19715 Production cutbacks upset many local dairy 'farmers Parteeld iltaest Zeeee414, Peva by FRED YOUNOS Over 500 dairy farmers rolled into Atwood May 5 to complain to Gilles Morin of the provincial ombudsman's office over a 15 percent rollback in production quotas that they claim may force many of them out of business. The cutback in production, an attempt to reduce the amount of surplus milk being produced, has left many dairy producers in the difficult position of having ex- panded their farms on govern- ment loans in order to take ad- vantage of the higher quotas available without enough cash flow to meet their financial obligations. Since the inception of milk mark e ting boards, around 1970, and the Canadian Dairy Com- mission, dairy farmers had not been producing their full quota of milk. The almost open ended quota and the Industrial Milk Producers Incentive Program encouraged farmers to expand their operations. IMPIP is a provincial loan scheme for dairy producers under which they can obtain funds for ex- pansion. Farmers began to expand their operations, particularly in the 1975 dairy year, when the national quota was set at 425.7 million pounds of butterfat. The national requirement for but- terfat, the standard for quota measurement, was ap- proximately 340 million pounds. Archie MacDonald, senior ac- countant for the Ontario Milk Marketing Board, said the producers did not meet their 1975 quota, producing "around 390 million pounds." With a surplus, By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron,Middlesox There is still hope that Clinton Hospital ordered to close by the Minister of Health might he given a chance to remain in operation pending a decision by an Appeal Court Tribunal. Hospitals in Clinton, Durham and Chesley as well as Doctors hospital in Toronto, are ap- pealing the order to close, charging that the Province is exceeding its legal authority. Lawyers for Clinton and ('Lesley hospitals accused the Health Ministry of not allowing their clients a fair hearing. "We're riot satisfied with the reasons for closure given us", said the Lawyer Peter Fallis. "Closure is a very serious matter, especially in a small community where the hospital is often one of the biggest em- ployers." The appeal is expected to end after the lawyer for the Attorney- General's office submits his rebuttal. Following this the three judges hearing the appeal will make a decision as to whether the Ontario Government had the legal authority to close the hospitals. The Acting Minister of Health has warned that Ontario could face a moderate polio epidemic in an inducement or reward for a request for the performance of a lest in the laboratory. The Act provides for regulations to limit or prohibit the types of tests which may be carried out in a particular laboratory, and provides that a laboratory licence may not be renewed if it is considered "not in the public interest". Opposition Parties have called the bill superficial and not worthy of support, It is legislation aimed at cooling the current controversy around the abuse of some private medical laboratories, a bill which Stephen Lewis labels as a symbol of Tory "gratuityand irrelevance."Stuart Smith called it a shameful piece of superficial garbage put for- ward by a government that has allowerefor four years the public purse to be drained by un- scrupulous methodS of billing in the private lab system. Hugh O'Neil, Liberal M.P,P, (Quintet has called upon the Ontario Health Ministry to issue a directive ordering hospitals not to lock their doors at night. A hospital in Picton was locked when a 3. year old boy — later pronouced dead — was taken there for treatment. The Minister of Health said that many hospitals are locked in the evening for security reasons, and indicated that hospital boards are responsible for ensuring a proper level of care is maintained. government for having even less policy. He accepted the principle that domestic oil prices should rise toward world prices through "a gradual movement once the crunch is over in our economy". We will be running out of oil supplies in five years, and shall have to go to world prices at that time. The N.D,P, said Ontario's blended price proposal is out of date because it involves old oil at $8 a barrel — a price which "bears no relationship at all to the costs of production", They called for the nationalization of "a company like Imperial Oil", which operates across Canada in all stages of the oil business. The Attorney General has resisted growing pressure from Opposition Parties for a public inquiry into the operation of Ontario's private laboratories. He considers that such an inquiry would not serve the interests of the public in spite of a recent newspaper report, quoted in the Legislature, that an OPP officer had advised a physician in- vestigator with the College of Physicians and Surgeons to carry a gun during his investigation of the private labs. The Government has proposed a Public Health Amendment Act which would make it an offence for the owner or operator of a laboratory to "offer, give or agree to give money or valuable consideration" to any person as five or ten years unless children and young adults continue to have regular booster shots against the disease, She said that inoculation cannot be made mandatory, but a regular anti- polio program should be main- tained by everyone until the age of forty. First inoculation shots are important, but it is equally vital to maintain a program of immunization. The Ministry of %Health has estimated that as many as 25 percent of children entering Grade 1 in this Province this year will not have received proper immunization against diseases such as polio, diphtheria and rubella (German measles) — probably because people have tended to become complacent about these diseases as there has not been an epidemic for some years. Ontario's Energy Minister has strongly condemned the federal government's energy strategy, but both opposition parties in the Legislature have been very critical of the provincial govern- ment's alternative of a "blen- ded" price for oil. The federal government wants domestic oil prices to rise to the world level over two or three years, which would add 18 cents a gallon to the price of gasoline and about 78 cents to the price of 1,000 cubic Peet of natural gas, which is set at 85 percent of the price of the heating equivalent in oil. The Provincial Energy Minister called the federal policy "not only folly but basically irresponsible". Liberal Leader Stuart Smith criticized the federal government which he said has not had "a coherent energy policy for quite some time" and the provincial Summer program This year cut your lawn care chores down to size, and have fun doing it with a Case Compact Trac- tor. There are ten fast mowin', hard UMW models to choose from and they are available with a variety of power-attachments for all seasons. And if you buy now during our special Spring Sale you will receive: A Junior Agriculturalist will be assigned, wherever possible, to a farm with the type of en- terprise(s) in which sherhe is most interested in. The duties involved will vary considerably depending on the individual farm operation, the demonstrated ability of the Junior Agriculturalist and the kind of enterprises found on the farm. The interested host farmers are to be commercial farms, with the operator engaged in farming full time. They must be in- terested in helping inexperienced young people develop the skills required on a farm and are ex- pected to have the ability to work well with and supervise young people. Host farmers must also provide suitable accommodation for the Junior Agriculturalist duringhis,/her stay on the farm. Each Junior Agriculturalist will receive a training allowance of $16.00 per day, based on a six day week. $6.00 of this will be provided by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food; the host farmer will provide $5.00 per day in cash, as well as supplying room and board worth $5.00 per day. Persons interested in par- ticipating in this program as either a host farmer or Junior Agriculturalist should contact Len MacGregor at 482-3428 or long distance Zenith 7-2800 or write to the Ontario .Ministry of Agriculture & Food, Clinton. (87e iolior .•••••••••.'4 to suffer financially to solve a problem" she said. "Farmers are being told to expect a cut in pay." The initial suggestion, to defer payment on IMPIP loans, is already being considered by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board said Mrs, Burt. They are considering the possibility of deferring the next four months payments. She had little faith in the idea however, because she felt it would only defer the problem forcing the farmer to make a five month payment in September. Despite what many producers claim is governmental "bungling" on the part of the marketing boards and the CDC, Mrs. Burt remains a staunch supporter of the boards, who deserve "a sharp rap on the knuckles" but removing them "would defeat what farmers have been working for," The farmers went to Morin and the ombudsman's office prematurely Although the office is set up to mediate disputes and intervene for interest groups, it can not step in until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted. The farmers have yet to formally appeal to OMMB or the CDC. The 15 percent cutback is not the first one to come from the CDC; it is, however, the first one that will force production below levels of the previous dairy year. In 1975, the quota was cut twice, first in April by five per- cent and then a further six per- cent in July. This was, as chairman of the CDC Ellard Powers said "recognized by all participants (provincial marketing boards) that it was not brought down to the appropriate leycl." Powers said the original quota was set "much higher than required to meet Canadian consumption" in 1970, but because farmers were not meeting the quota from 1972 to 1974, there was "very little need to pay attention." When farm expansion and the subsequent production increases started to affect the quota in 1975, the overproduction problem had to be dealt with. The 1976 quota, about 351.7 million pounds of butterfat, is slightly higher than the national need. This is done, said Powers, to provide a cushion from the farmers who do not meet their quota. The five percent discrepancy is considered a "normal toleran- ce " that, will make sure the national need for milk is met, Although many farmers lay the blame for the overproduction problem on (he OMMB and the government, spokesmen for farming associations see farmers as part of the problem. Terming some farmers "inefficient farmers" they said often some producers would have trouble meeting personal requirements, no matter how open and high the market is. Mrs. Burt plans now to take a group to the OMMB, a group that will include five county representatives and members from - the OFA, CFA and NFU. They hope to •hammer out a compromise solution that will allow overproduction to cease in the future, while leaving farm finances intact, because, as Mrs. Burt said the present cutback "in the short run is disastrous for farmers," e„:e qx - • ABSOLUTELY FREE! Case-built Mower with the purchase of any New Case Compact Tractor Sale priced from$1,050.00 to $2,500,00depending on the model that best fits your needs. 8-10 H.P, the government has rolled back the quota to about 351.7 million for the 1976 dairy year. The farmers at the Atwood meeting were led by Alice Burt, an Ethel dairy producer who was involved in the dumping of milk on Queen's Park steps in April. Mrs. Burt, who said the "government has pulled the rug right out from under me," placed much of the blame for the cut- back on provincial boards, and the rollbacks may create a "panic situation" where there is a shortage of milk. Mrs. Burt went on to explain that farmers will be forced to sell their cows now there is a rollback, but in future years, there may not be enough production to meet domestic needs. She pointed out the time it would take to develop a herd of cows to their full potential is two years, If there is a shortage, farmers would either have to buy fully developed cows or wait until their herds developed before they could meet the needs. The cutback comes at a time when the price for milking cows is at a low point, and if farmers want to sell in order to meet their obligations they will be forced to take a loss on the cows. She suggested that many U,S. far- mers are coming into Canada to purchase cheap cows in order to produce more for the USA which is currently experiencing a milk shortage, Mrs. Burt's main area of concern is the producer like herself, who has expanded his herd and operation in the past years only to be strapped by the cutback. She has suggested the govern- ment come up with a scheme "to get us out of this mess now." She suggests that one of the ways to help would be going to a single price for both powdered and fluid milk, This has met opposition from some farmers who are reluctant to meet the Grade A milk standards, said Mrs. Burt. • One farmer who attended the Atwood meeting, Derk Woestenek, came prepared with four ideas for Morin to con- sider. He proposed that the government should: * wave all interest on IMPIP loans and defer payment of the loans until the crisis passes. * the government should sub- sidize the difference in price between good and bad market times for cows in order to allow the farmer to meet his com- mitments by selling portions of his herd at a reasonable price. to open a school milk program that will reduce the surplus of milk and • the government should pur- chase excess powdered milk to either donate to the world market or store it, An other possibility would be to convert the powdered milk to animal feed use, The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has agreed that over production has to cease, but wants safeguards from the government to insure that far- mers are not harassed by creditors and the monitoring and handling of market share quotas taken over by the OMMB. Market share quotas are in- dividual producers portion of the provincial quota and can be transferred and sold individually. The OFA would like to see the OMMB handle it to avoid quota hoarding in order to allow far- mers wishing to maintain their current production level access to unwanted quotas from other farmers. Bev Brown, publicity director for the OFA agreed the over- production has to be stopped, but not at the expense of farmers. "No other group has been asked Asor.4e3f4f.10,7; This year the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food will once again be sponsoring the Junior Agriculturalist Program during the summer of 1976. The program is designed to provide a practical learning experience for young people from non-farm homes who have a serious interest in agriculture, and who have had no experience working on a farm. As a Junior Agriculturalist, a person will be placed ,on a selected commercial farm, where he/she will perform regular activities relative to that farm operation. In addition, a Junior Agriculturalist, will have an opportunity to develop an appreciation of rural life through living with a farm family, and through participating in the local 4-H and Junior Farm programs and in other rural activities. The prospective Junior Agriculturalist will be either boys or girls 16 to 17 years of age and must be in good physical and mental condition in order to withstand the vigorous physical effort. Selection will be based in part on their reasons for being interested in agriculture, and their plans for further education and a career. All Junior Agriculturalists will be required to participate in an orientation program to help prepare them for their farm stay. This program will be held about mid June and on-farm assign- ment will be for a nine week period, commencing on June 21 and terminating on August 20, 1976. And remember, Case Compacts feature the Case exclusive hydraulic drive for single lever control of speed and direction. Come on in! 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