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"Our system is designed not to
reward farmers for being good
business men, but for being good
farmers," Mr. M cGrath said. "If
the farmer wants to speculate he
can go and buy on the futures
market."
Both Mr., McGrath and John
Hazlett of the Bean Marketing
Board were very concerned about jarred with the same brush" Mr,
publicity. McGrath said. "We are not
involved in restricting freedom in "There is a lot involved and a any way, we're not the milk or hell of a good story could come
out," said Mr. Hazlett. "If the egg marketing boards,. Anyone
wrong things do come out it could who wants to grow beans can
grow them." do harm to the industry as a
whole."
We like to keep people in
. . business over a period and keep
"Marketing boards tend. to be our good growers :growing."
Consumers aren't villains
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anybody anything, just echoing
each other;" he said.
Mr. Baynton said that farmers
are constantly looking for a villain
in the food chain.
"If the agricultural community
would ease off the search, for one
,big villain and foster under-
standing with the consumer at the
other end of the chain things
would be much better," he said.
"Farmers carry a big stick
because you feed everyone. I
suggest try speaking softly and
you will be amazed how far, you
can get."
At their meeting on Thursdy,
the Federation passed a
resolution in support of the
Ontario Milk Marketing Board.
Several ,members present said
they were disturbed with the
proposed suit by Ethel area
farmers against the Milk Board
'for financial 'losses they had
• suffered.
One federation member pointe
out that it was the 'dairy farmer
who financially, support the Milk
Board and it the suit was
successful it would be , dairy
farmers who paid. ,
The Huron Federation also
rejected most of a proposal from
the Perth Federation calling for a
one pool milk system to be set up
by October 1977.
Although federation members
felt that a single pool system was
, the best, they objected on the
basis that one year was too little
' time for industrial farmers to
upgrade their operations for fluid
'milk production. '
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Bean board says
Smuggl mg may hurt system
(By John Miner and Doug Firby)
Smuggling of white beans into.
Michigan "may undermine the
whole marketing system," if it is
not stopped, Allan McGrath of
the Ontario Bean Producers
Marketing Board said Friday.
"There has been an'incrase (in
smuggling) over the last year,"
Mr, McGrath said. "The Board
felt it had the problem solved, but
it keeps cropping up again:"
It is illegal for farmers in
Ontario to sell their white beans
to anybody but the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board.
Under the Farm Producers
Marketing Act a violator is
subject to a maximui..1 fine of $500
for the first offence and $5,000 for
any subsequent offences.
Mr. McGrath said that it was
impossible to estimate the volume
of beans being smuggled across
the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia,
but said the volume was minimal
in relation to the entire crop in
Ontario.
"It is the principle of the thing
that bothers the Board. It
undermines the credibility •of the
whole system," he said.
When a farmer in Ontario
delivers his white beans to an
elevator he is given only a partial
payment for his beans, depending
on what grade they are. Number
one beans brought $7.26 per cwt.
this year. A further payment is
made in the spring depending on
how successful the Board has
been in marketing the beans. The
final payment for the crop is not
made usually until the following
November when the Board has
sold the entire crop.
This delay in payment is part of
the motiviation for smuggling ,to
the United States where a farmer
can get immediate full payment
for his crop, Mr. McGrath said.
"1 think it is a lot of the lousy
farmers who do it," he added.
Mr. McGrath suggested that
radical elements in the farm
community did not like being
restrained by a marketing board.
"They're free enterprisers,"
he said.
In the bean belt through Huron
and Perth Counties there are,
individuals who. act as contacts.
These men find out who is
interested in having their beans
smuggled across the border to
Michigan mills. The contacts then
make arrangements for the
farmer with the individual who
will actually truck the beans
across the border.
A farmer has the choice of
either selling his beans outright
to the Michigan Mill or storing
them in.hopes that the 'price will
go up.
The Bean Board has moved this
year to shut off the traffic across
the border once and for all.
The Board has told the federal
government that they will
prosecute anyone who is caught
smuggling.
"Ottawa is unwilling to
investigate unless we say we are
willing to prosecute," Mr.
McGrath said.
The Board also tried to obtain
the records from the U.S. customs
of those who are bringing beans
into the States, but were told by
Canadian officials that it would be
too cumbersome to get the
records, Mr. McGrath said.
The Board has met with little
success.
"To my knowledge, so far,
there have been no cases tried,"
Mr. McGrath said. "We won't
prosecute unless we have an air
tight case."
Part of the smuggling is due to
ignorance on the part of the
farmer, Mr. McGrath
suggested.
He pointed out that the
Canadian price is higher and the
farmer has to pay transportation
costs- and duty to the. United
States if. he decides to smuggle
them out of Ontario.
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