HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-12-08, Page 20DIRECTORS ON BEAN BOARD — At Friday's annual meeting of the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing
Board, four directors were named for Huron District 5. At the left, chief executive officer congratulates Joe
Miller, Murray Cardiff, Bob Allan and Glenn Hayter who replaces the retiring Phil Durand. T-A photo
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The responsibility of the
Ontario Bean Producers'
Marketing Board in fulfilling
obligations on bean sales
generated considerable
discussion at Frithy's annual
meeting for Huron growers at the
Pineridge Chalet at Hensall,
Manager Charles Broadwell
said the board had made forward
sales of 815,300 hundred weight of
1977 crop white beans by August
31 and another sales agreement
for 38,000 hundred weight were
made with Ontario bean dealers.
In turn bean dealers made
sales to brokers and processors
on the expected crop and are now
unable to fill the orders.
Due to the wet fall weather, the
bean harvest was badly cur-
tailed. Broadwell said only
819,000 hundredweight had been
delivered by Ontario growers,
creating a shortage of 34,000
hundredweight.
Broadwell said the board has
received legal opinion that they
are not "legally liable for com-
mitments, to forward sales
made."
Grower Ed Krauter suggested
the producers and the board
accept the moral liability and
supply the beans to "bail the
dealers out."
He said "If we fail to come
through in this crisis it will hurt
the bean industry for years."
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agreed that the board had a
moral obligation,
Broadwell countered "we could
possibly be held responsible if we
had the beans, but, we don't,"
Crediton area grower John
Govers said the problem of
scarcity of beans was due to the
producer who "sold beans to
Michigan and others who are
holding beans in their barns."
In reply Broadwell said the
board had no idea how many
beans were still on the farm. He
added, "the amount could vary
from 20,000 to 200,000 bags."
In answer to several ac-
cusations about bean deliveries
to Michigan and a bonus possibly
being paid for top grade beans,
Broadwell replied "you tell us
who these people are and we will
prosecute,"
Insurance Claims Paid
Helmut Loewede of the Ontario
Crop Insurance Commission said
more than 7 million dollars has
been paid to date for white bean
claims.
Helmut said about two thirds
of white bean farmers were
covered by insurance paying
premiums of seven million
dollars. The same amount is paid
by the government.
The insurance man said he
expected all claims would be
completed in the next three
weeks and should reach close to
10 million. He added "the amount
of claims tells us what kind of
year you had,"
He said insurance premiums
could be up by about 25 percent
for 1978 crops. The premium this
past year was in the range of
$5.50 per acre depending on the
price option,
Later in the meeting a motion
to have the shortage respon-
sibility accepted by the board
was soundly defeated.
Chairman of the meeting
Gordon Hill told the press
Monday, "one of the points
brought out in considerable
discussion was the share of
financial responsibility which
should fall on the grev,'er who was
not able to harvest h is crop and
was paid by crop insurance.
In addition Hill said, "all four
Huron directors are in favour of a
grading system but one point not
brought up was the need for a
different pool for every grade."
Directors and manager
Broadwell were concerned with
the lack of suitable beans needed
for 1978 planting. Broadwell said
he thought only about one-half of
the necessary seed is now
available. He added, "again it
depends on the amount and
quality of beans still on the
farms."
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Times-Advocate, December 8, 1977
Responsibility of filling orders
major topic at bean session
Now that the harvest season
has ended and machinery has
been stored for the winter, far-
mers should start thinking about
the 1978 growing season,
John Kessler, secretary-
manager of the Farm Machinery
Board of Ontario, says that-
winter is an ideal time for far-
tilers to sit down and assess their
machinery part needs.
"A good number of farmers
suffered undue downtime last
season because farm machinery
parts were not available. In
many cases the waiting periods
could have been avoided."
Mr. Kessler says some farmers
place the blame on manufac-
turers and suppliers. This is not
really fair. The blame must be
shared by the whole industry,
including farmers.
"In some cases the waiting
periods are caused by heavy
demands for replacement parts
during peak periods."
Mr, Kessler says farmers could
help alleviate the problem if they
replenished parts •
"If the parts business could be
extended from the present three
or four months per year to 12
months, the system would have a
better chance of success."
Mr. Kessler says farmers
should put to good use the lessons
learned from breakdowns and
waiting periods last season.
Ordering replacement and
spare parts now will give
manufacturers and suppliers a
better chance to meet the far-
mers' needs.
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