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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-05-10, Page 8III SEAFORTH - AYR - CAMBRIDGE III SERIES 84 TRACTORS' Several Units in. Stock Call for a demonstration The going is good vvith special row crop features Born and bred to meet the tough challenges of Canadian farming, Series 84 Tractors Offer the kind of performance that proves Itself over many years of use. Standard features include toil synch's°. mesh transmission, Shuttle shift reverse, clear deck, total hitch control, big hydraulic pump capacity', greater stability and faster . — easier maintenance. To meet the requirements of row cropping, Models 584, 684 and 784 have good crop clearance and power adjustable rear wheels. Available is a 13.6 X38 or 15.5 X 38 power shift on the Model 584 and a 15.5 X 38 power shift on Models 684 and 784. Also, the 784 row crop model comes with a torque amplifier (16F — AR transmission). With all these great performance features, shouldn't you look Into a Series 84 Tractor for your farming operation? INTtNNMtONAINANYESTEN CANADA. INT ZONAL '4. 554 • SEAFORTH 527-0120 OPP has busy week During the week May 1-7, OPP of the Wingham detachment conducted thirty investigations. TWenty charges were laid - tinder the Highway Traffic Act and twenty-six warnings were issued. Five charges were laid under the liquor licence act. During the week, there were six motor vehicle collisions which caused an estimated $7,735.00 in property damage and injuries to two persons. On Saturday, May 6, Barry T. Okrafica of R,R.1 Blucvale was injured in a single car accident on county road 12. :north of highway 87, Turnberry Township. On Sunday, May 7, Murray .1. 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Phone 881949.7 ...;,1— •:f; It, , ‘16, 1,e6 411% V` /00 • !, Ilk I IiFr: 1.9// — THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 10, 1978 F of A hears al7out selling cdttie on TV by Keitb RouMon. Television has become the newest weapon used by farmers to seek a. better deal for themselves in the marketing of cattle, Video tape recordings of market cattle are now being used, by the Ontario Beef Exchange, a marketing company set up by six Bruce county beef producers. Harvey Davis, head of the exchange (OBEX) told members of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture Thursday night in Belgrave that the tapes give cattlemen a chance to sell the way any other seller does, on his own property. In the past he said, the farmer has been at a disadvantage. because he has had to load up his cattle and take them to a community auction or ship then to Toronto at considerable expense and with resulting stress on the cattle. If he didn't like the price offered, he had little choice but to sell. But OBEX's video tape system allows a farmer to keep his cattle on the farm while buyers in Toronto bid on them, If he likes the offer he can sell. If he doesn't he can wait until the next week. Mr. David explained that a farmer wanting to sell cattle through OBEX would list the cattle with the exchange at the cnd of one week, the truck with video tape facilities would be sent out to photograph the cattle from front, side, rear and an overall shot then the tapes arc taken .back to Toronto where they are on view to buyers from all packing houses. On the Thursday of the second week OBEX telephones the farmer with the top bid. and the farmer either accepts the bid, or holds the cattle over for offer again the next week. If he accepts the bid the cattle are then shipped to their destination where OBEX will have them weighed before being processed at the packing house. The cattle can be listed by live weight, carcas weight and grade and yield. There can be up to 11 bids on the cattle, Mr. Davis said, and OBEX usually gets at least five. About 95 per cent of the 35,000 head sold in the first nine months of Operation have been . sold on the first listing. Because of the danger of bankruptcy on the part of a packing house, Mr. Daivs says, OBEX. is bonded and guarantees payment to the farmer within 448 hours.OBFX started out making a charge of $3,75 per animal, he said, but now with lie use of expensive vicicot ape equipment, has increased thc. charge to. $4 for heifers and $4.50 for steers. This is still very competitive or lower than other methods of marketing Mr. Davis claimed, Because of the expense of the videotape truck's travel, small lots of cattle a considerable distance from Toronto are not taped but arc listed .and sold by dressed weight, He said the concept of videotaping the cattle has been received well by buyers and. some packers are setting up their own playback units to use the OBEX tapes in their °Ain plants. Mr. Davis said that while the success of OBEX has been encouraging, the six partners must • get more listings to make it a viable operation. we can get to the point where we handled a minimal part of the cattle trade in Ontario then there will be a spinoff effect in the entire industry," he said. In other business, the Huron Federation gassed a resolution, that would ask that a deposit of 50 per cent of the value of the product be placed on the glass container for tily soft drink or liquor sold in glass bottles. It was noted that the damage done on -farms by broken glass is a major problem to farmers. It was hoped that a high deposit would make people think twice before hurling bottles out the windows of speeding cars into ditches or farmers' fields. Another resolution passed called for farm implement manufacturers to be compelled to put 'a second point of attachment on farm equipment. Farmers complained that while the law says they must have a second method d attachment when towing a piece of farm equipment. there is often no place to make that attachment. Paul Ross was present representing the Clinton merchants to urge farmers- to take advantage of the opportunities to sell produce through the Clinton Farmers market. Tony McQuail said there will also be a farmers market in Lucknow this 'summer.