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THE ASSESSMENT ACT
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS
AND TENANTS
As a result of a delay in the passage of recent amendments to
The Assessment Act, the normal return of the assessment rolls in
municipalities and localities in Ontario will be delayed.
The Honourable Margaret Scrivener, Minister of Revenue, has
therefore extended to January 19, 1978, the date upon which the an-
nual assessment roll is returned in all municipalities and localities in
Ontario EXCEPT those municipalities located in The Regional
Municipality of Waterloo where the day upon which the assessment
roll is returned will be extended to March 16, 1978.
This extension affects the time period during which owners and
tenants may appeal their assessments. As a result, the final date for
lodging a complaint with the Assessment Review Court in respect of
any assessment contained in the assessment rolls is extended from
January 19, 1978 to February 9, 1978. In The Regional Municipality
of Waterloo the date for lodging a complaint has been extended to
April 7, 1978.
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"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,
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the marketing system has been
found. The cattle industry still
has one of the best, most com-
petitive marketing systems
anywhere.
Discussing the cattle cycle
which is peaking at the present
time and will be for some months
to come, he said a cattleman or
creditor who ignores the beef cy-
cle can expect a lot of grief, He
advised a much higher level of
understanding among cattlemen
and a higher degree of co-
operation to establish a much
more stable industry to tame the
beef cycle, thus moderating
supply swings.
"This is easily the most impor-
tant thing that our industry
should do and perhaps the most
difficult." he said.
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.
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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.
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- 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.