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We Now Have TRACTOR CHAINS Move It The Easy Way .... VVith A "The greatest assurance we can have of an abundant food supply is the profit motive ex- pressing itself in a free market place, Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron-Middlesex, told the 100 members of the Perth-Huron Shorthorn Association attending the annual meeting and banquet at the Community Centre at Brodhagen. "Profit and the expectation of profit is the engine that drives our food machine, The lack of profit, the reality of losses, the growth of agriculture's public dependence leads ultimately and inevitably to reduced food supplies, increases inefficiency and higher costs," he said. Speaking of the market situa- tion and outlook, he said beef cow numbers grew over 40 per cent from 1969 to 1975 while per capita beef supplies have grown from 84 pounds in 1970 to 110 pounds in 1976, an increase of 30 per cent. Present supplies and prices are the result of the rapid sell off of the breeding herd. The beef cow herd has been reduced from six to eight per cent according to various estimates and a 'repord number of heifers' hthre- been routed to feeding instead of returning to the breeding herd. To show how sharply cattlemen are reducing their breeding herd he said while it is normal for heifers to make up about 22 per cent of the feed beef supply, in the past two years heifers have made up over 30 per cent. He said the offshore imports in 1978 will be controlled by a beef import law promised by the federal minister of agriculture which will certainly control the importation of beef coming into Canada. Aggravating the supply problem of 1978 will be the abun- dant supplies of cheap feed, both grain and silage, as well as pro- tein concentrate, he said and these will draw all available cat- tle onto feed and will probably tend to increase carcass weight. On the demand side he was pessimistic saying the beef in- dustry is just beginning to realize the serious degree to which it had over-produced with the in- dustry about 20 per cent over- built, He said a study commis- sion by the Canadian Cattleman's Association has determined that the industry losses have totalled over $400 million over the last three years. It is important to recognize that these losses were caused primarily by the over supply of cattle and rising'impuecosts and not as some have claimed, by an inefficient or poor marketing system, he stated. Study after study have been conducted, he said, and little or no fault with, Your vital farm equipment need never be shut down 'because of a power failure , . not if you have a Generac Tractor Driven Alternator standing by. Just hook it up, engage the tractor PTO and in seconds you have up to 40 KW of electric power. 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He recommended that a larger number of feedlot operators in- vestigate custom feeding and the custom feeding clients, wherever possible, could be cow- calf operators who retain overnership or partial ownership of the calves or yearlings right through to slaughter. Discussing the present cattle marketing system he said many producers do not use market in- formation wisely or well. "While the marketing system has been critized by the unin- formed, industry leaders on both the producers' side, the packers' side and within government, have been quietly building a solidly better system", he said. "We have a system that is ver- satile, flexible and with many op- tions. Few would cash it all in for the stictures of a compulsory system." Mr. Riddell expressed concern about retail marketing practices Says no need for more help Ontario Agriculture Minister William Newman says there is "no justification" for the govern- ment to provide additional assistance, other than crop in- surance, to the province's white bean farmers. Newman said in a brief news release he has considered the situation of this year's white bean crop which sustained con- siderable damage from wet weather this fall. The minister said about 100,000 acres, or two-thirds of the white bean acreage, are covered by crop insurance. He said that as of Dec. 1, $7.5 million had been paid in claims and the total is ex- pected to rise to $9 million. "On the basis of facts known to me and on the basis of represen- tation made to me by the bean producers' marketing board, I am of the opinion that there is no justification for the government to provide assistance other than crop insurance," he said. Bean producers in Huron, Perth and Middlesex counties are expected to claim nearly $12 million in insurance to compen- sate for the loss of almost 80 per cent of this year's crop, Until the wet weather hit in the fall, bean producers had predicted a record crop. The bean marketing board's statistics show this year's crop to be the worst in 55 years. JIM SIDDALL & SON LICENSED it INSURED TRUCKER o LIVESTOCK • GRAIN * FERTILIZER • FARM SUPPLIES KIRKTON 20.6439 J Wheat acres decrease The acreage of Ontario Winter wheat seeded this fall has been estimated at 35 percent less than the harvested acreage of the 1977 crop. Irving Kleiman, RR 1, Simcoe, chairman of the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board said recent surveys indicate an average reduction of 35 percent for the province, or 203,550 acres. Based on 590,000 acres harvested this year, the reduction means about 386,400 acres have been seeded. The board chairman said wet weather conditions during the September and October normal seeding period prevented producers in many areas of the province from getting intended wheat fields seeded. In projecting production, Kleiman said if average yields of 50 bushels per acre experienced this year are experienced again in 1978, a total crop of about 19 million bushels, or 517 000 tonne could be expected. This year, estimates place the crop at 30.2 million bushels, or 821,900 tonne, an all-time record for the province. Kleiman said producers have sold over 28.5 . million bushels, or 776,800 tonne of the 1977 crop to date. Board sales to date for domestic and export total 15,380,000 bushels, or 418,700 tonne leaving approximately 4,700,000 bushels or 129,600 tonne unsold, increase in premi urns The Ontario Crop Insurance Commission will increase premiums on some farm com- modities next year because of a record $20 million plus pay-out in 1977, commission chairman Henry Ediger said in Chatham Monday. Ediger spoke to, the annual meeting of the Ontario Seed Corn Growers' Marketing Board and answered questions from growers who wanted to see in- surance benefits and coverage increased. He predicted premium in- creases in commoditites where the claim experience was bad this year, as the commission wants each commodity to be self- sustaining. Ediger said the $9-10 million in insurance benefits going to hard- hit white bean growers took almost half the total pay-out. "Thatt the one that blew the bank," he said. Hay producers will get about $4 million in benefits because of an unusually dry season. John Cummings, a marketing board member, asked after more than an hour of complaint-type questions, isn't there anyone happy with crop insurance?" He experienced a "complete wipe-out" for two crops, but said insurance coverage prevented it from being a total disaster. We Also Have A Good Selection of Walk-Behind SNOW BLOWERS - about our almost complete dependency upon the retail chains through which most of our beef moves. Hopefully, some developing trends like boxing beef at packer level may break this stranglehold. My main point was to demonstrate first, that those marketing issues common to us are all of the issues from producer to consumer and that if we have any problems they are not primarily at the producer- packer level." He concluded by saying that "profit is indeed the name of the game and that the intelligent combination of our production and marketing systems can, if we have the will, yield those profits on a more continuous basis than has been the case in the past." Ken Mewhinney of R.R.1, Lucknow, was re-elected presi- dent. Other officers are; Past president, Ross Proctor of R.R.5, Brussels; vice-president, Ronald Shelley, R.R.1, Gorrie; and William Lannin, R.R.2, Dublin; and secretary-treasurer, Charles Procter, R.R.5, Brussels. Special guests at the meeting were members of 4-H beef calf clubs who own Shorthorns and they were presented with che- ques. Glen Frost, Puslinch, sales agent of Ontario Shorthorn Association, said in his remarks that there was the biggest Shorthorn showing this year at the Royal Winter Fair and predicted that in five years it will be one of the best of all breeds.