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ATTENTION FARMERS
FLAX
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FLAX
AS A CASH CROP IN 1978
1. Flax Seed Varieties now available produce
greater yields than in the past.
2. The number of Ontario Flax Plantings in
1977 was the Largest in Ten Years.
3. input cost for Seed, Fertilizer and Spray is
less than $20.00 per acre as of March 31, 1978.
4. A ready market is available immediately
for all Ontario grown Flax.
5. Quick unload at Lucknow, Milverton and
Seaforth is available for this. crop.
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 18 available in 1978
(see your Agent for details).
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CARS, CARS EVERYWHERE?! — Bill Elston of
Morris Township and chairman of the traffic
committee of the 1978 international Plowing Match
discusses traffic patterns and roads around the
wingham site with Ed. Star, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Ontario Plowmens Association.
THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 29, 1978 — 9
CFF, says, family farms threatened
[by Rhea HarniItoPT
"The trend today is to turn
away from the family farm
enterprise and swing towards
industrialization of agriculture,"
said Albert Van Donkersgoed,
executive director of the Christian
Farmers Federation, at a meeting
Tuesday night in Blyth.
Society t?day t: ends not to
recognize the family farm and few
are interested in protecting the
quality of products, let alone
concerned for future generations,
said Mr. Van Donkersgoed. "I
see us moving down the road to
corporate enterprise with an elite
managing, and not knowing the
soil or the climate."
Mr. Van Donkersgoed pointed
out to the 20 at the CFF meeting
that industry is very different
from agriculture.
"Agriculutre is and has been
primary to life and industry has
been secondary. We have existed
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. butlding in a flood plain may have
to -include certain facilities. For
example they wouldn't be able to
have Basement windows below a
certain level.
"It's really a matter of what
level of protection you want to
give them," Mr. Davidson said.
A Road
Mr. Davidson also discussed
with council the possibility of
putting a road through land
owned by Bob Raymond because
without industry. The ideal of
industry is to eliminate the living
factor including the human
factor."
Farming consists of four
factors that determine its
makeup; manpower, manage-
ment, resources, and finances,, he
said.
Management on a family farm
is knowing where you fit, as
opposed to having unknowing
outsiders calling the shots.
In industry resources are input
costs from another source but in
farming "you need land, rain,
sun, and technology."
The manpower is drawn from
the family as opposed to unions
for industries. Where industries
suffer from walkouts, lockouts,
confrontation and lack of produc-
tivity, farmers enjoy working for
themselves.
Financing of the family farm is
the planners feel there should be
another access road to , the
proposed McDonald-Krauter-
Bryans subdivision. Clerk Bill
King said he'd like to see a road
reasonably close to the arena so
the arena can be serviced through
it.
Mr. Davidson said he thought
the best thing for the planners to
do would to be lay out a design for
the road and bring it back to
council. He .too agreed that the
road should come out near the
arena.
done on the assets and integrity
of the family as opposed to
shareholders for an industry
where their chief 'concern is
profitability. To the Christian.
Farmers Federation the family
way is a sounde, r working
arrangement.
"Years ago with a piece of land
and a strong back you could make'.
a go of it," said Mr. Van
Donkersgoed. "The financial
situation now is crucial as• to
whether a young farmer can start
up or even stay going."
"In the CFF there is a strong
concern that the marketing
boards are slow to recognize the
trends. The higher the quotas the
more control the financial institu-
tions have over our farms," Mr.
Van Donkersgoed pointed out.
The CFF is outspoken against
high quotas.
"There are many individual
things structured into society that
set our regulations and goals so
that we encourage the develop-
ment of corporations. Thus our
control is turned over to 'the-
enterprise structure and reduces
the family role again."
"Will the next generation be
able to reclaim that control?"
questioned Mr, Van
Donkersgoed. "Remember if you
don't have the finances, you don't
have the resources."
Mr. Van Donkersgoed left the
group with a -challenge.
It is too tempting, once
recognizing the loss of family
control, to argue--why doesn't the
government do something, or the
credit agencies, or the univer-
sities professors who keep telling
us to do that or this, or the
general farm leadership? We
know what is going on better than-
others. Are we up to giving the
family farm a future chance, the
CFF head asked,
"We should not let consumer
associations browbeat us vrith
words on efficiency," commented.
Mr. 'Van Donkersgoecl. "I have
yet to see any member expand his
enterprise in order to be efficient.
They always expand towards
profits.'
Mr. Van Donkersgoed said the
profit margin has dropped on a
good thany items. When farmers
expect they can weather through
a slump in the market they may
not realize that they will be in a
loss position a lot quicker than
five years ago, he said.
Zoning