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THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 21, 1977 —21
'77 was record year for corn
By Debbie Ranney
The increase in corn production
in Ontario is 'one of the most
dramatic things that has
happened to Ontario agriculture,
Dr. Terry Daynard, a professor at
the University of Guelph told a
meeting of the Huron. County
Federation of Agriculture in.
Londesboro Thursday night.
"This has been a record corn
year," Dr. Daynard said, citing
Statistics Canada, who show an
average yield of 96 bushels to the
acre.
"Corn production has
continued to go up in this
province," he said.
Dr. Daynard said it looked as
though corn production would
"The failure of governments to
recognize the importance of
agriculture to the economy is
nothing short of criminal," Peter
Hannam, President of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture said
Thursday, in a speech to the
Kingston Rotary Club.
Mr. Hannam added, "In the
processed fruit and vegetable
sector alone, we have lost 6,500
jobs in Ontario. That is 6,500
people who could be in farming or
in the processihg and packaging
industry instead of on unemploy-
ment insurance.
"And that is just one sector.
When we consider that nearly one
in four Canadians is presently
employed in some sector of the
food industry, then the numliers
could be immense. We could be
talking about tens or even
hundrecls'of thousands of jobs lost
because of our short-sighted
agricultural policy.
"If the various governments
are serious about' ‘Curing our
economic problems they should
look, and look hard, at our
agricultural industry.
"The first step must be a major
revamping ofour tariff 'structure.
Our negotiators in Etirope, who
are now revising the world tariff
system; must see that agriculture
gets a fair shake. They must insist
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continue to climb, and said this
could create problems. for other
small grain crops such as barley.
He said we still have half a
million acres. of small grains in
this province but that it was
dropping rapidly,.
• ''It seems to me that more and
more of that acreage is going to
shift over into corn," he said.
"As that acreage shifts into
corn, we're going to have more
corn than demand for it," he. said..
Professor Daynard said
increased average could have a
damaging effect on prices. The
Ontario price here is relative to
the Chicago price, he said, and
for the past few years that has
that we have access to foreign
markets and they must insist that
our foreign competitors stop
dumping their agricultural
products."
Mr. Hannam concluded that,
"This, plus a major program of
encouraging domestic
consumption could lead.to a major
stimulus for the whole Canadian
economy."
been getting lower and lower. He
said the Ontario price is 50 cents
below the Chicago price and said
he imagined that's what the
future price would be.
Dr. Daynard said another
problem he sees is that we don't
have good strong grain crops and
that farmers are going to have to
start hybrid breeding programs in
the near future.
"It looks like we're going to
have to work hard just to hold our
own," he said.
However, he suggested that if a
farmer was going to depend on
just one crop, corn was as good a
crop as any but he added that
corn does better rotating with
another crop.
Dr. Daynard also talked about
the energy problem as it related
to crop farming. He said the price
of energy is the main reason that
the• cost of production of corn is
going up.
He said the cost of drying corn
right now is about 12 or 13 cents a
bushel but that with technology
this could be knocked down to 3 or
4 cents a bushel.
;"Technology is probably the
answer," he said.
The rest of Canada was
discovering corn as well now.
Corn production in Manitoba
doubles every year and certainly
corn production in Ontario is
going to increase, he stated. [bitted to this as much
"I think research has contri- lanything," he said.
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