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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1977-04-06, Page 12• ATTENTION FARMERS FLAX . WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT .FLAX AS A CASH CROP IN 1977 1. Flax Futures for 1977 continue at an attractive level. 2. Flax:Plantings in our area have continued to grow. 3. Input Cost for seed, fertilizer and spray less than $20.00 per acre as of March 31, 1977. 4. A market is available' immediately for all Ontario grown flax. 1 5. Quick unload as, compared with other cash.' crops. 6. Forward selling available (ask. Manager for details) 7. Storage available (ask Manager for details) 8. Contracts available (ask Manager for details) 9. Crop insurance for flax is available in 1977 (See your Agent for details) Don't delay because interest in this seeds high • To avoid disappointment call today. For' seed please contact' . 0PNOTCH or ANDERSON FLAX PRODUCT .Lucktio4ti Ontario phone 128,2026. ..TOPNOTCH FtEbt LIMITED Ontario, phone 5954041 Rotary Tillers John Deere. - and 6-hp Tillers prepare. deAp, fine seedbeds.: save hoe *for*. Turbo tines mix,and .muloh thoroughly to depth 13- to 24-inch widths. Reverte gear badkililler from tight .gootg:Pre86ure,' adtivatedtafetyblutdh-treleae it and All. action stops. .Extension tines available. FRED McGEE AUTO ELECTRIC LTD. SALES BACKED BY SERVICE' W INGHAM. "1416 12-THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 6 1977 Fewer raderda roducers on board There won't be as many producer-graders on the Ontario egg marketing board if a Huron County resolution gains provincial approval. Local egg producers voted Thursday night at a special meeting in Clinton to disqualify any producer from becoming a director' on the board if the producer had a controlling interest in a registered grading station licence. An exception was made for registered stations that grade products from five or less producers. The meeting was called after the Gay Lea Co-operative egg grading station in Seaforth lost a The market at Brussels Stock- yards Friday was active on choice `steers and heifers with cows trading $1.00 lower. Pigs sold higher. There were 923 cattle and 1354 pigs on offer. Choice Steers - 41.00 to 43.00 with sales to 43.50. Good Steers - 39.00 to 41.00. Five steers consigned by Jack Cardiff of Brussels averaging 1144 lbs. topped the market at 43.30 with his 39 steers averaging 1176 lbs. selling for an overall price of 42.50. Nine steers consigned by Earl Cox of R.R. 2, Goderich averag- ing 1121 lbs. sold for 42.00. Two steers consigned by Ross' Higgins of Brussels averaging 1175 lbs. sold for 42.35. Two steers consigned by J.S. Rohb of Ripley averaging 1260 lbs. sold for 42.25 with his 13 steers averaging 1182 lbs. sold for 41.90. Six steers consigned by Mac Cardiff of Ethel averaging 1162 lbs. sold for 41.80. Choice Heifers - 37.00 to 39.00 with sales to 39.85. Good Heifers - 35.00 to 37.00. Four heifers consigned by J.E. LONGSTAFF - OPTOMETRIST • SEAFORTH 527.1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 - 5:30 Wednesday, Saturday 9:00 -12:00 CLINTON 482-7010 Monday 9:00 - 5:30 By Appointment, six million dozen eggs a year contract with Loblaws when two or three big ,producer-graders undercut their price by three quarter cents a dozen, reportedly at a loss. One of the producer-graders, who got the Loblaw's business, Joseph Hudson of Lyn in Eastern Ontario, is a member of the egg marketing board. Gay Lees Seaforth man ager Tom Young told the Expositor at the time if the situation continued the Seaforth plant might be forced to close. At the meeting. Thursday night in Clinton Ed. Brady, general manager of Gay Lea qualified the George Blake of Brussels averag- ing 1020 lbs. sold for 39.85 with his offering of 22 heifers averag- ing 959 lbs. selling for 38.35. Two heifers consigned by Roy Buddenhagen of Bornholm averaging 955 lbs. sold for 38.25. Choice Cows - 27.00 to 29.00 with sales to 29.25. Good Cows. 25.00 to 27.00. Heavy Bulls traded to a high of 31.50. Light bullS to a high of 35.00. 30 to 40 lb. pigs traded to a high fo 41.25, 40 to 50 lb. pigs to a high of 50.25. 50 to 60 lb. pigs to a high of 54.00. 60 to 70 lb. pigs to a high of Brussels Stockyards are having their Special Spring Stocker and Feeder Sales on May 3rd and May 17th. r BERG Sales - Service Installation FREE ESTIMATES o Barn Cleaners ° Bunk Feeders o Stabling , Donald G. Ives R.R.02, Blyth Phone:' Brussels 887-9024 earlier statement saying the Seaforth plant would not close in the forseeable future. "We lost some egg business to large integrators. It, happens every day in the business world," he said. ' However, Mr. Brady said he was concerned if the trend continued and the business was controlled by three or four lar ge processors. "What will h appen to the family flocks in the future r he asked. Gay Lea was not worried about losing business as they gain markets too, he said, "but how we lose it is a concern." Mr. Brady said the present make up of the Board made it impossible for Gay Lea to go to the board to discuss problems because they would be talking to their competitiors. "It would be an advantage if the producer board was made up of producers and we could go to them," he said. Bill Mickle, director of the egg board for Huron, told the meeting that barring producer graders from the board would • not stop integration. "Regardless of whatever happens there is still a battle in the marketplace," he said. The resolution calling for an end to producer-graders on the board passed by a 15 to 1 vote. The resolution will be presented at 'the annual meeting of the Ontario Marketing Board in Toronto, April 13 - 14. Mr. Mickle said in a later interview that other areas of the province may not support the Huron resolution because more producers are involved in processing. "Huron is unique because there are no cities in the county. Therefore there are not any small producer-graders. What we have is a grading service here, while other areas have their own 'grading units. It will be very interesting when the resolution is brought before the rest of the province," he said. Mr. Mickle pointed out that the resolution only isolates processors from being on the board while parts of the egg industry are integrated with feed Companies. .0 "It is very difficult to draw a line because the egg industry is so highly, integrated in all directions," he said. Mr. Mickle agreed that the Huron resolution if accepted still T does not prevent producer. 'issu graders from sitting on the egg ; till marketing board. It just ores eliminates those who grade eggs land from more than five producers, he A said. „ ill Mr. Mickle said he didn't , 'believe having producer-proces. • !cm that if an advisory committee producers or producer-graders , Ti was set up within the board then :Liid sons on the board had had any detrimental effect up to now, ion, mrA.tBthraedmy su ggested eoeftiGnagyThLeuarsd to the committee and talk yabnoiugthti "if we had a problem we could go all of ;:hotlrev: offic and leave the board to be cone producers only, but with competitors on the board now we cannot, do this." Bill Scott of Seaforth said he felt that advisory boards were never called on most of the time. °he man suggested an appeals board. Mrs. Mae Govenlock of Seaforth said after being involved with an appeal board with Ontario Hydro, she didn't want to get involved with any other appeal board again. 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