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By_JACK RIDDELL
MPP Huron-Middlesex
The Ontario Institute of
Agrologists, whose membership
includes farmers, soil scientists
and other agriculture
professionals, has urged the
provincial government to impose
an immediate freeze on the
conversion of farmland to non-
agricultural uses, and to
strengthen its proposed guide-
lines for food producing land.
In a statement to the Minister
of Agriculture, the Institute
maintains that the government's
recent policy paper on foodland
guidelines allows municipalities
too much leeway in developing
land-use plans.
According to the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture, the 26
acre per hour decline in im-
proved land during 1966-1971 was
reversed during 1971-1976.
Meanwhile the decline in
unimproved land continued. The
overall story is that in 1976 there
was less land in control of food
producers, but that more of the
land on farms was improved
land, compared with 1971.
From available statistics, it is
difficult to ascertain the exact
situation. So much depends upon
the quality of the land in question,
which is not specified. Also the
official definition of a farm has
been changed. Prior to 1971, a
farm comprised any unit of at
least one acre, producing for sale
agricultural products worth at
least $50. A farm is now defined
as a unit of one acre or more
producing $1,200 in agricultural
products.
The "Food for the Cities
Conference" was held in Toronto
on March 30 and March 31, 1977.
Liberal Leader Stuart Smith
said that "In the short run we
could let the market prevail.
More land would be taken out of
production, prices would rise,
and those farmers remaining on
the land would have a very good
income.
"But we must look to the
future. There is no more land ,
being made; we must husband
and protect this product. This
requires a distortion of the
market today, but it will pay
dividends in the future...Subtle
changes in climate, some of
which are now being predicted by
experts in that field, could render
our current land resources much
less productive.
"Changes in the price of fer-
tilizer may affect the optimum
productivity of the land. There
may well he a time when food
exports will become a vital part of
the balance of payments of this
province. Although it is not yet
the case, it seems clear to me
that by present world trends our
food resources could become
somewhat similar to the oil
resources now held by the OPEC
countries.
"As we incur ever increasing
deficits to pay for energy
resources, we may be able to
sustain our economy by ex-
porting natural resources,
"The energy crisis is not
temporary and the price of
energy will continue to rise. It
may soon become economically
feasible to raise energy crops on
agricultural land to produce
methanol.
"But if we distort the market,
who shall pay? In our view it
should not be the farmer, already
struggling to make a decent
living - that would be patently
unfair. We all must find fair ways
to share this cost. We must pay at
the supermarket and through
taxes.
"We must make wise use of
marketing boards and tariffs and
must recognize that part of the
price must be paid through
higher food prices. If we want to
preserve agricultural land there
must be some increases in the
price of food. Farmers must have
an incentive to earn a decent
living but it is not enough to say
preserve the farmer and he will
preserve the land.
"In some cases the growth of
cities has put tremendous
pressure on our best agricultural
land in terms of soil capability
and heat units. This is natural
because many settlements in
Ontario such as London,
Chatham and many others grew
up as market towns. But it is not
responsible to say that we would
freeze all growth of such com-
munities."
One policy alternative to
consider is the establishment of
buffer zones fringing areas of
growth. "This land should be put
to those agricultural uses
relatively compatible with urban
growth and large population
centres-In addition... we would
require a mandatory designation
of all foodlands,..proper in-
ventory of our agricultural
land...Once land has been
designated as food land there
should be no development unless
there is a compelling reason to
do so. Of course decisions
respecting individual parcels of
land must be subject to a certain
degree of flexibility, and persons
whose land is affected must have
the right to appear before a
tribunal which includes concern
for the agricultural use of land,
"Reliance on the property tax
continues to constitute a great
burden on our municipalities, It
encourages development for non-
farm uses. We would reform that
system so that municipalities
were not dependent on property
taxes to pay for soft services;
we would remove the incentives
which now exist both for in-
dividuals and municipalities and
which encourage non-
agricultural uses inap-
propriately."
"In summary, we believe that
firm measures must be taken to
protect food land for the
future_a provinCial plan in-
cluding an inventory of food
lands, mandatory designation of
such areas for agricultural use,
an opportunity to appeal this
designation, decentralization of
growth away from our best
agricultural land, and the ap-
plicability of the designation to
government ministries and
agencies as well as to the private
sector,"
Times-Advocate, July 28, 1977
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