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PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986.
Federation has high expectations
With three members of the
ruling parties representing Huron
county and two of them cabinet
ministers, farmers have high
expectations of government action
to improve their lot, Doug Garniss,
president of the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture told the
assembled politicians at the Feder-
ation's annual member of Parlia-
ment dinner Saturday in Clinton.
Provincial Agriculture Minister
Jack Riddell, provincial Health
Minister Murray Elston and Murr-
ay Cardiff, M.P. along with Huron
County Warden and representa-
tives from several townships were
in attendance to hear briefs from
various commodity groups presen-
ted.
"Our industry is in very difficult
times, in a situation I would term a
crisis," Mr. Garniss said. "We
have to have action to preserve our
land, our industry and the family
farm." We believe in the family
farm but segments of our society do
not, including, from some studies
we've seen, segments of our
governments."
"The time for our MPs and
MPPs to tell us that we do not speak
with one voice and to use that as an
excuse for inaction is past. You are
elected as representatives to make
1985 was 'year of
accomplishment'
for Ontario Egg Board
Egg producers attending the
21st Annual Meeting of the Ontario
Egg Producers' Marketing Board
last month were told 1985 was a
sound and stable year as far as
financial, production, and market-
ing situations were concerned.
Nevertheless, said Board Chair-
man Jim Johnstone, 1985 wa a year
of significant achievement for the
Ontario Egg Board.
"The past year has been most
satisfying for me as your chair-
man," he said. "There were no
major controversies. No new policy
initiatives, only minor amend-
ments to several existing policies
... The move to our new office went
off without a hitch; the contract for
the `Ontario Egg Producers' Chair'
at the University of Guelph was
signed. All in all, a year of many
accomplishments."
The Chair established at the
University of Guelph will investi-
gate new uses for eggs with the
aim of improving markets and so
enabling producers to increase
their production. The research
Chair is the first at the University,
and represents the only such work
of its scope being conducted
anywhere in the world.
The pastyear also saw the Board
move into its first Board -owned
office building, in Mississauga. It
had been renting office space in
Willowdale, north of Toronto.
Ontario Egg Board General
Continued on page 28
choices, however difficult."
He pointed to the danger of the
U.S. farm bill which will channel $5
billion per year in subsidies to the
American farmer. He pointed out
the hardship for farmers who are
not allowed to use Alachlor
herbicide, an important crop man-
agement tool, while crops using
the same chemicals are still
allowed to enter Canada.
Farm Credit Corporation statis-
tics point out there are 35,000
farmers in serious financial trou-
ble, he said. Other FCC statistics
show the average family farm
wind -down means a loss tothe FCC
of $100,000. In the current econo-
my those 35,000 farmers are either
going to go out of business or have
their debts written down, he said
which means someone will lose
$3.5 billion.
He said there was also a
challenge to the producers of all
commodities. "We can no longer
afford the luxury of charging in all
directions, or conversely, circling
and shooting inward", Mr. Gar-
niss said. "We cannot blindly
favour free trade and ignore U.S.
tax laws, which mean a large
percentage of U.S. cattle are not
farmer owned, or the U.S. farm
bill, which they do not consider
subsidization. We cannot blindly
oppose free trade and ignore the
huge amounts of agricultural
production we must sell to the rest
of the world."
"Free enterprisers cannot ig-
nore the fact that, in a world food
glut, our exports become `free': we
cannot get our cost of production
from them. Supply management
advocates cannot ignore the tre-
mendous burden quota values,
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