HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-12-03, Page 7Federation of Agriculture asking
for the bonding.
In the' meantime,Mr. Austin
i advised, all farmers buying cattle.
(should check them before they
leave the salesbarn. If the cattle
look suspicious, have a vet look at
them. If he finds anything wrong
the sale is void. But once the
cattle leave the salesbarn it is the
buyer who takes the loss.
The meeting saw the final four
places on the executive of The
Huron group filled. Beverly
Brown, Glen Miller, Ralph Foster
and Doug Fortune were named to.
the posts. They join president
Vos, Vice-president AlanWalper
and second vice president
Maurice Bean. ,
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Pork producers say vet hard to find
in treating animals. Miss Brown The problem of sale of sick
agreed saying the man in animals through sales barns also
question has a reputation for this , was aired at the meeting. Vince
sort of practice of docking all hogs Austin of Dungannon told the
over 180 lbs. $15. Adrian Vos, of story of a young farmer he knew
Blyth, President of the Huron who bought cattle at a sale% and
Federation commented that he took them home only to find out
was sorry to see that negotiations they were ill with I.B.R. (a kind of
between the Ontario Pork pneumonia). Not only did the
Producers Association and the animals die but he lost two of his
meat packers had not resolved the own herd as well and several
matter. The pork producers had others were affected. The person
hoped for a gradual method of who sold the animal meanwhile
docking for overweight pigs had sold out and gone west. The
rather than the present set up young farmer lost close to
where a pig one pound over the $2,000.
limit can cost a farmer a lot of Wh ile all cattle at a sale are
money. supposed to be checked by a
Another present argued that government-appointed
the packers would still sell that veterinarian there is little that can
hog one pound overweight at the
same rate they would for a 180
pound hog yet were paying $15
less for it.
Getting a veterinarian who
knows much about hogs seems to
be a big problem for many Huron
County pork producers.
Several pork producers at the
Huron , County Federation of
Agriculture meeting in Clinton on
Thursday night complained about
how hard it is to get a veterinarian
who knows much about hogs.
Beverley Brown, a Wingham-area
operator said that a graduating
vet often knows less than the
farmer abaft pigs.
She said she and her partner
had talked to the dean of the
Ontario Agriculture College
veterinary school about the
problem and had been well
received and that changes are
being made.. In the meantime,
though, vet students are still
getting little education in the
problems of pigs.
The schools have great
problems, she points out. In many
ways a vet student, who has only
five years to learn about several
different animals and their
systems, h a ve it harder than
medical students who have_only
one body to study. In the past the
teaching idea was if students
studied the husbandry of chickens
they could then apply the
knowledge to other animals.
Students only worked with pigs
for a few days in their final year.
Vet students regularly visit her
farm, Miss Brown said and are
surprised at how interesting it is
to work with pigs. Last year the
graduating class at Guelph
recommended doubling the time
spent on the study of pigs from
five days to 10.
Another hog farmer at the
meeting complained about a
London vet who seemed more
interesting in selling drugs than
Mr. Vos agreed and said the
only solution for the present
seems, to be for the pork
producers to weigh their hogs
carefully and ship them before
they go overweight.
Dairy producers were also
upset at the meeting. Alice Burt,
who said she had only recently
entered the dairy industry
complained about a 25 per cent
reduction in the subsidy on
industrial milk because of the
oversupply of milk and the fact
huge international stock piles of
powdered milk have built up.
First, she said, the government
spent millions to encourage
people to get into or stay in the
dairy business and now it cuts the
subsidy.. The cut, she said, would
cost $300 a month on her
operation' alone and with just
trying to get started caused real
hardship.
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be done if an animal is doctored
emiugh.to look healthy on the day
of the sale and disreputable seller
such as the one in question signs
the card saying the animal is
healthy, Mr. Austin said.
He said the operator of the
salesbarn was concerned over the
problem but that the salesbarns
act only as a selling agent to bring
seller and buyer together. The
operator asked that the
Federation press to have all cattle
dealers be bonded. This would
also help, he said, in cases where
packing houses got broke leaving
farmers high and dry like the
Essex packers case.
A motion was passed by the
meeting and sent to Ontario
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