Times-Advocate, 1978-04-13, Page 12Times-Advocate, April 13, 1978
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Farmers must be more visible
FEDERATION_________ ______ _
speaker at the Hay and Stanley Federation of Agriculture annual banquet and dance. Talking with Mr. Hannam, second from
the left, are Jake Van Wonderen — Stanley Federation president, Allan Walper — president of the Huron County federation
and Glen Thiel — president of the Hay farmers. Staff photo
Hannam at Hay, Stanley event
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The farmers of Canada
must make themselves more
visible to the consumers and
politicians of this country,
according to Peter Hannam,
president of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture.
Hannam was the guest
speaker at the annual dinner
and dance sponsored by the
Hay and Stanley Federation
of Agriculture held Friday
evening at the Pineridg’e
Chalet.
Hannam told the crowd of
250 “We are very fortunate
in Canada to be eating like
this, tonight. Canadians have
become accustomed to
having so much food.”
Agriculture has been
ignored as an industry by the
politicians and that farmers
could be producing more
food which would mean more
jobs.“It’s time that we don’t
there,” Hannam
farmers are
to take the
Riddell introduces ideas
for new predator controls
SUMMARY RE 1978 REPORT OF ONTARIO HYBRID CORN PERFORMANCE TRIALS
SEED
COMPANY
NO. OF
ENTRIES
no. or
HYBRIDS
NO. OF
TABLES
BROKEN
STALKS MOISTURE YIELD
FUNK’S 29 16 7 5.5 25.1 103.0
WARWICK 20 10 8 9.3 25.5 99.1
ASGROW 20 11 5 7.5 25.9 97.8
PRIDE 28 15 8 6.2 25.0 97.4
PIONEER 32 16 8 3.4 25.6 101.9
ST Eh'ART 27 15 8 7.9 25.7 101.4
UNITED 6 3 4 6.5 24.6 100.8
CO-OP 22 12 7 7.3 26.2 96.1
P.A.G.15 7 7 6.3 25.0 100.0
SPEARE 5 2 5 5.4 28.0 102.8
TROJAN 23 11 6 7.6 24.8 97.2
PICKSEED 22 11 6 4.9 25.3 99.7
HYLAND 19 10 6 5.3 24.9 99.8
CARDINAL 12 6 6 3.6 24.8 102.0
AG LAND 4 3 3 7.5 26.7 99.8
CARGILL 6 3 5 6.2 ‘24.7 96.8
SENECA 9 5 5 12.1 25.3 95.6
EMBRO 5 3 3 1.8 24.7 98.4
RENK 13 7 4 2.9 24.9 98.4
OSECO 15 8 6 7.3 25.4 99.6
DE KALB 37 17 6 5.6 24.8 99.6
GARNO 10 4 5 10.9 24.1 101.0
N.K.23 10 5 7.6 24.5 99.1
TODD 2 1 2 8.5 25.0 102.5
SUPERCROST 7 4 4 3.9 24.5 99.4
AVERAGE
stand behind our fence and
react from
said.
Some
beginning
initiative in the telling of
their side of the story and
that this is a role which the
Federation can play a part
in, Hannam said and he
urged the farmers to take the
initiative in the telling of
their story.
“We must put our stories
first and put accusers on the
defensive,” the Federation
president stated.
A food strategy meeting
held in Ottawa recently was
disturbing to Hannam with
the federal government
saying that food prices
should be kept low.
New directives such as the
above would spell hardships
for farmers as farmers are
unable to lower their costs
while the retailers and
wholesalers of food can
reduce their payments to
farmers.
According to Hannam
“Consumers have had one
whale of a bargain (on food)
and they still have.”
One of the Federation’s
new moves into getting the
farmer’s position across has
received a “great response,”
the Guelph area cash crop
farmer said.
A Farmer’s Price Index
has been devised by the
Federation to help the
consumer better understand
the position which the
modern farmer finds himself
in. In the farmers index, food
is broken into imported and
non-imported categories.
Hannam said that
domestically grown food
prices have been constant
while imported food prices
have gone up considerably.
Another important role for
the Federation is that of a
watchdog on governments
and their agencies.
Hannam cited the Farm
Products Marketing Act as
an area where Federation
lobbying had had a positive
effect.
On the provincial front, the
proposed occupational
health safety bill which has
passed second reading in the
house was the cause of some
consternation on behalf of
Hannam.
The bill as constituted
Hannam said would cause
severe hardships on farming
community if it was passed.
Calling some of proposed
regulations “’utter non
sense" Hannam stated,
“There will be a riot in rural
Ontario if this bill is not
changed.”
In a question and answer
period Hannam said that his
group was solidly opposed to
the establishment of hydro
generating plants in
agricultural areas and have
maintained this position for
three years.
A Federation brief will be
submitted to the Porter
Commission stating that
stand.
The Federation leader, in
a reply to another question
said that the OFA is firmly
opposed to specific areas of
property tax reform that
were mentioned in a
provincial while paper back
in January.
McKeough has accepted
many of the suggestions
which the OFA has put
forward but Hannam said
that the farmer’s want all of
its proposals implemented.
Jack Riddell, Liberal
M.P.P. for Huron-
Middlesex, has introduced
an Act to provide for the es-
tab 1 ishment of local
predator control com
mittees throughout Ontario.
Until 1972, the main
method of protecting
livestock from wildlife
predators in Ontario was a
provincial bounty system.
However, this protection
was ineffective because it
did not differentiate
between the coyote and the
timber wolf. Moreover, no
attempt was made to control
livestock predation in
specific production areas of
the Province where there
was a serious problem, he
said.
Although this should be a
provincial responsibility,
the Ontario Government Is
currently relying upon
producers to solve the
problem themselves. This
practice of attempting to
control predators by acting
only after losses occur has
been ineffective and
haphazard.
The Government has
chosen to ignore the
recommendations of the
Provincial “Mammalian
and Avian Pest Manage
ment Committee” which
was established to examine
this situation.
“The Private Member’s
Bill which I have introduced
would establish predator
control areas which are
primarily suited to
agriculture' as opposed to
those areas suited to
wildlife.” the MPP explain
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mittees consisting of
representatives from the
Ministry of Agriculture,
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would be established.
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