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A declining domestic market
and increasing competition
abroad have put. the Ont ario
white bean industry in a
vulnerable position, Huron
County bean producers were told
Friday.
"The market for beans isn't
increasing so if production goes
up we're going to have to go for a
larger sh are .-of the present
market," Ontario Bean
Producers' Marketing Board
manager Charles Broadwell told
the *annual meeting of Huron
. County producers in Vanastra.
Mr. Broadwell said that more
money has to be put into reserach
and into developing new products
in order to keep Ontario farmers
competitive. He also outlined a
five year marketing strategy
aimed at gaining a larger share of
the European market fyom
Ontario's chief competitor,
Michigan.
Huron producers approved the
plan, agreeing to up the grower's
licence fee from six cents per
hundredweight bag to 16 cents to
help cover the costs,The
increase, which must be approved
by other bean growing counties as
well, will also cover the present
operating deficit the board is
faced with.
The election of directors to the
board saw'two directors voted off
the board and two retained.
Bean producers want
more share of market
persistent telling the Board
officials 'that "it really makes me
mad to vote for a report and then
can't see it."
Lloyd Taylor replied that the
report contained confidential
information that could not be
made public and that a person
could not understand the full
meaning of the report unless he
sat down two days with a
consultant- and went over it.
Mr. Miller asked if the Board
of Directors understoOd the report
and when Mr. Taylor said he did,
asked if he could' see the report if
he sat down with a director and
went over it with him for two
days.
"That would have to be a
decision by the Board," Mr.
Taylor said.
Board officials were • also
questioned about a story in the
Huron •Expositor which quoted
market analyst, Allan McGrath,
as saying that? farmers who
smuggled beans to the United
States were "lousy farmers".
• One Board official suggested
that the story might have
Misquoted Mr. McGrath, but the
chairman of -the meeting, Gordon
Hill, interjected saying "1 think,
any farmer who sells beans over
the border to the States is a lousy
farmer. The question is are we in
an Ontario system or not."
Producers were informed that
66 percent of the 1976 crop had
already been sold at an estimated
net return of approximately $17
per cwt.
Mr. Broadwell said that the
1975 crop should be all sold by the
end of January with the final
payment to producers about 30 to
40 cents per cwt.
director for the first time and-
Robert Allen, who had been a
director before but lost in last
year's election,
Named as committeemen to the
board were Victor Hartman, Bev
Hill, Nick Whyte, Don Moylan
Glen Miller, Jake Van Wonderen,
Glen. Hayter, John Paul Rau,
Murray Dennis, Glen Ribey and
Ken McConan.
Director Phil Durand voiced
-sharp criticism of the Bean. Board
telling the packed meeting that
"if the Board of Directors were
not prepared. to change the
marketing system, you are not
going to have it very long."
Mr. Durand said that the Bean
Board was much too lenient in
dealing with the dealers and was.
willing "to bail-them out" when
the dealers accepted lower grade
beats than they were supposed
to. Mr Durand also cited figures
from a confidential consultant's
study of the Boards operation
which he said showed that:
Michigan producers were getting
a higher price for their bean s.
"If this marketing system is not
returning at least equal to
Michigan we had- better be
prepared to improve it or dissolve
it," he said.
- Lloyd Taylor, chief executive
officer of the Bean Board, said
the fi gures used by the
Joe Miller and Phil Durand consultants did not tell what the
were elected to another one year actual return was to the farmer
term while Richard Erb and John and therefore were n of valid.
Hazlitt failed to hold onto their Several farmers demanded that
seats. the report presented to the Board
Replacing the two directors are last spring be made public.
Murray Cardiff who will be a Glen Miller was the 'most
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