HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-08-29, Page 22ONTARIO BEAN DAY — Close to 300 Western Ontario farmers attended Wednesday's Ontario Bean Day
College. Above. Jim O'Toole of the College staff tells one group about weed control.
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TALKING ABOUT BEANS — More than 300 farmers attended Wednesday's annual On-
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staff and one of the organizers of the event, Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board
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Broaciwell added, "It looks
like they will be meeting us
head-on."
On the subject of the
decrease in white bean
acreage this year, the Board
Manager said, "It looks like
we have some 78,000 acres
this year as compared to
148,000 acres a year ago."
He suggested white bean
f armers would get a
reasonable return for the
1979 crop based on a
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means some weeds are
missed.
He said the only thing the
county can do is keep
working with farmers to try
to bring weeds under control,
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The need to return to more
research in the white bean
industry was stressed at
Wednesday's Ontario Bean
Day at Centralia College of
Agricultural Technology.
Ontario Bean Producers
Marketing Board manager
Charles Broadwell said, "the
subject of research is not
new, but, we need to pay
more attention to it. We have
built our reputation on
quality. In the last two years
in particular, quality has
suffered."
Broadwell continued,
"Michigan is really con-
centrating on research. They
expect to produce two bags
per acre more with the new
Fleetwood variety. That's
important, to produce more
beans on the same acreage."
In previous years, Ontario
has been getting yields of up
to 20 percent more than
Michigan: To this statistic
reasonably balanced supply
and demand situation. His
estimates were $28 per 100
pound bag for export and $29
for domestic use,
About the 1978 crop,
Broadwell said the yield was
about 10.5 bags per acre and
he expected the final
payment due November 1 of
this year would be about
$3.50 per 100 pound bag. He
added, "Hopefully I am a
little low with this estimate,"
He said only splits and No.
4's were left to be sold, but
added, "we have lost the
World Food Aid Market
because benefitting coun-
tries will no longer accept
beans below the No. 3 quality
level."
Broadwell suggested the
domestic market is levelling
off and may reverse saying,
"we are getting excellent
promotion from the can-
ners."
An increase in cash crop
farming and absentee land-
lords are probably
responsible for a growing
Huron County weed
problem, county weed in-
spector Joe Gibson said
Monday.
"It just seems to be getting
worse, and I don't know what
we can do about it."
August is the height of the
weed season and Gibson's
busiest time of the year.
Milkweed remains the No.
1 culprit, he said. "In
pasture fields, it crowds out
just about everything."
Patches of wild millet and
velvet leaf are becoming
more and more common in
Huron, he said.
Velvet leaf has about
60,000 seeds to the stock. "No
matter what crop it's in, it's
two feet higher. If it's in corn
that's 10 feet high, it's 12 feet
high."
The responsibility for
keeping weeds under control
on farms rests with farmers.
However, the peak of the
weed season coincides with
harvesting, when time is
precious to farmers.
Gibson, a farmer himself,
said he recognizes their
problem. "They haven't got
the time to be doing maybe
all they should be doing,"
Absentee landlords and
land speculators add to the
weed problem, he said.
"They buy a lot and then
they stick up a sign. You
usually can't see the sign for
the weeds,"
Gibson said the county has
the authority to cut weeds at
the expense of property
owners. However, com-
plaints may not be received
until the weeds are already
in seed.
The county and townships
have spraying programs, but
Gibson said the care that
must be taken to ensure
chemicals don't get on crops
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