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Times-Advocate, 1980-04-30, Page 15STOCKER SALE 1200 Head at Hensall. Livestock Sales Ltd., on Sat., May 1.0, 1980 at 1:00 p.m. Consisting of: Steers, Heifers & Calves Victor Hargreaves (519) 482-7511 (Clinton) Barry Miller (519) 235-2717 (Exeter) or 229-6205 (Kirkton) Doug Carruthers (519) 237-3734 (Dashwood) Greg Hargreaves (519) 262-2619 (Hensall) AUCTIONEER: Larry Gardiner Pi* nne insoras low - May 1st is the deadline for applications SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE BENEFITS FACT No. 1. SAVES TIME AND ENERGY Working around or reworking wet spots can be costly in terms of time, labor, energy and .machine repairs. Wet fields mean delays in field preparation and planting, slower cultivating speeds, more time and poor fuel economy. Muddy conditions can result in compaction to soil and costly repairs to equipment. With well drained fields you benefit from added flexibility in work schedules, savings in labor, fuel and repairs, For more information on how you can benefit from subsurface drainage, contact: P.O. Box 970 Exeter, Ontario NOM 150 (519) 235-0870 Plastic, Clay or Concrete Hodgins and Hayter Limited R.R. #3, Parkhill, Ontario (519) 238-2313 Allan Hayter ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW THE LABEL FOR ROUNDUP Roundup/3 is a registered trader lark of Monsanto Co.. Monsanto Canada Ltd. Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Regina, Catgaiy. RCN-I ao @Monsanto Company1980 There's never been a herbicide like this before. Surface application or shallow 'incorporation. It's your choice with Lasso®. Lasso" herbicide by Monsanto is usually surface applied before the crop emerges. Some farmers, however, prefer to incorporate their herbicides, and Lasso fits the bill. "Shallow" is the key word. Lasso should be shallowly incorpo- rated, prior to planting corn or soybeans. First-, broadcast Lasso; then thoroughly incorporate it into the'top two inches of soil. To make sure the incorporation is shallow, set your disc or cultivator to work the soil to a maximum depth of four inches. Shallow incorporation of Lasso plus atrazine suppresses yellow nutsedge in corn. To suppress yellow nutsedge for six to eight weeks, shallowly incorporate Lasso plus atrazine (mixed at new labelled rates) before planting. Suppressing yellow nutsedge with Lasso plus atrazine,gives your corn the chance to become established without nutsedge competition that can hurt your yield. Whether you surface apply or shallowly incorporate, you get outstanding grass control with Lasso. Lasso consistently controls annual grasses in corn and soybeans. With excellent crop safety. And no carryover. And you can surface apply Lasso or shallowly incorporate it. Because it's your choice, with Lasso. Monsanto Monsanto Canada Inc. MontreaL'Ibronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver. Always read and follow the label directions for Lasso. Lasso is a registered trademark of Monsanto Company. COVIonsanto Company, 1980. LII-IN-4/80 14 Exeter and area's headquarter; for BOLT & NUT SUPPLIES Buy what you want by the lb. no minimum package 517PS I lb. to purchase HIGH- PRESSURE WASHER Clean up quick with this compact new washer. It's right for dozens of tough jobs around the home 500-550 psi of nozzle pressure make short work of normally tedious jobs. PRICED FROM $469 We have John Deere Hose in 50 foot lengths. Ideal for hooking up your pressure washer. Made of good quality rubber. 5,11 inch diameter. CHAINED LIGHTNING... Whatever your woodcutting needs, we have a John Deere Chain Saw right for you. John Deere Chain Saws are highly rated by a leading comsumer magazine. Drop into our store and choose, the model that's lust right for you. BROOMS Check out our spring clean-up special on brooms. $9.95 Shop, barn and out- door type, 16" and 18" sizes. HURON WOR EXETER BLYTH $ 29 TImoo-Advecciti, April 30, 1000 Pa 00 1$ Want help for troubled agricultural industry Farm Union member outlines ipresentation to federal government By Vvi On April 22, thirteen farmers from this area joined in On the National Farmers Union demon- stration on Parliament MI in Ottawa to show their displeasure of low farm input prices of hogs, cattle, grain, corn, soyabeans, potatoes and some others. High interest rates, high seed and fertilizer prices are also major Concerns as. farmers feel they are being ripped off on Most if net. all, commodities reqttired to. plant a crop this. year. (1980). Our delegation joined in with ether farmers at Mit- chell to fill .0 chartered bus, leaving Mitchell at 10 p,m, on Awl 21, and arriving in OttaWa on April 22 at the Ch.auteau Laurier Hotel. After a rest and getting a good breakfast, we went to the main meeting hall, where farmers from all over Ontario, the Maritime Provinces and some from Western Canada assembled. The N,F,U. president, James Mayne, together with our coordinator Joe Casey of Wallacetown, gave a run down of the sehedule of events to take place for the day. We were told our National president would lead the delegation to Parliament Hill and everyone would follow, and on the way out everyone would be given a picket sign to carry, and hold high as each sign would carry a message of importance. , At 11:00 we took off on the march and walked con- tinually for one. and .a half hours (in front of the Parliament Buildings.) At the height of the demon- stration there were around five hundred farm men, women and some children on the march. Around 12:15 some were getting sore feet and blisters so the group was told to gradually disperse, get a bite to eat and be back at the Chateau Laurier Hotel at one o'clock when we were to make our presentation to the government of Canada. Eugene Whelan our federal minister of agriculture and Andre Ouellet our minister of consumer and corporate affairs, together with a group of secretaries and assistants, came to represent the government of Canada' Some highlights in the presentation . If the government ob- jective of fighting inflation is to bring down prices, the battle against food prices at the farm gate level has already been wen, A has been achieved by a dog eat dog approach which permits the economically strong in the food system to plunder the weak. While consistent in the pursuit of a cheap food policy at the farm gate, it is a strategy that allows the strong to exploit the profit opportunities, created by inflation, at the expense of the weak. Farmers have the least capability of any resource producing sector to influence the prices, they receive for their products. They endure in large measure the whims of a highly imperfect market system which dictates their income levels on both the domestic and world markets. No one should know this fact better than government itself. It pointed out Canadian consumers are sheletered from world wheat prices (at farmers' expense) by amounts as much as one million dollars per week when world wheat prices were in the range of $6.00 per bushel.' It also pointed Mt that the U.S. embargo on U.S,S,R, grain shipments, which the government of Canada hastily endorsed, have resulted in keeping all grain prices at lower levels at the present time. veryorte in the cattle and hog business knows full well what has happened to their income. These examples convince us that farmers are not contributing toward the economic problems created by inflation, but rather are bearing the major brunt of its effects. Although the government may not con- cede that the nation is in recession, it .is a reality for thousands of farmers. The two ministers' response to this section was that Maritimes and all Eastern Canada have failed to put their house in order to obtain realistic marketing mechanisms. It was pointed out that in this country, provinces must establish marketing boards and concede their powers to the federal government to acquire national marketing structures that can control imports. The brief also touched on the penalty of productivity, first of all farmers are praised for their produc- tivity, yet are punished for producing too much by receiving prices below the cost of production. This system forces many farmers to seek off-farm employment which is estimated to be' around 60 per cent. In allowing this to happen, we are becoming more dependent on imports of some classes of food that we are capable of producing at home, If this is allowed to Continue unchecked, this will lead to our national deficit balance of payments and further contribute toward national farm problems, Mr, Ouellet commented that as minister of consumer and corporate affairs this last article effects his ministry and he intends to pursue this to the utmost to try to correct a situation where imports are used to undermine our home grown markets. Bank interest charges according to Statistics Canada show farmers paid interest on 9 billion dollars in 1979 resulting in $1.240 million in interest charges. (This is an increase of 71 per cent over 1977), greater by 35 per cent than in 1978. We anticipate that interest payments by farmers on projected farm debts of $10 billion in 1980 will exceed all other farm operating items including food costs and farm machinery costs, which now head the list of major cost components. As you can see the brief so far talks about low income and high interest rates, and the inability of a primary producer powerless to price his products to reap a profit, Who profits from inflation? Farmers, like other sec- tors of small independent businesses, shopkeepers and working people, are among the economically weak who do not profit from inflation. It is apparent however, that those profit-oriented economic groups able to wield the most economic power over our lives are major benefactors of in- flation. Canada's major banks now exercise major power over the production management decisions of farmers by virtue of their ability to control credit, Banks in- creasingly insist on farmers consolidating their debts with them which they may then secure through first mortgages and land titles. Bank interest rates now in some cases exceed farm machinery finance plans. The brief said in as clear a way as possible that survival of the family farm structure is in severe danger. Our brief called for a moratorium on all farm debts that threaten security of farmer's tenure, ownership, rights of ac- eupancy and of production thereof, This was proposed through 1930. Mr. Whelan said if anyone has personal problems with lending institutions, that they are unable to plant crops in 1980 they should write him a personal letter in their own hand writing (no form letters) that he would look into each case per- sonally. (Personally I am afraid he will have his hands full.) Our brief again calls for a National Meat Authority that can regulate imports and exports at a time when our supplies of meat are high. Another major concern is the intrusion into the food in- dustry of corporatations, including contract farming which market through vertical integration. (90 per cent of hogs and poultry are corportation controlled in Quebec Province.) Mr. Ouellet responded to this last concern and stated he Is very seriously con- cerned abeut large conglomerates, getting into the farming business and forcing out small efficient producers, 'Mr. Whelan also scolded many farmers who have used and abused subsidized farm credit loans to add on their home, buv cars and so on rather than for what they received their loans for and he said if interest rates are subsidized, it would only be done for the most deserving farmers, The National Farrneh Union strongly feels that we need the power M set prices of our farm products that will bring a price cost, pins a reasonable profit, and subsidized interest and more credit will work to the disadvantage of the efficient family farm. We only need to look to Quebec to see what has happened with their sub- sidized interest. Poultry and and hogs are mostly owned by feed companies and if that is what farmers want in the rest of Canada let them get into debt deeper and deeper, With no cost plus profit price mechanisms, producers will become only hired men. call: DONALD WEIGAND R.R. # 1 Dashwood Ph. 237-3418 GET PROVINCIAL CERTIFICATES — Provincial certificates for completing 18 4-H projects were awarded at Saturday's Perth Achievement Day at Kirkton. Back, left, Ellen Copeland, Karen Hensel, Faye, Evans and Linda Wydeven. Front, Joanne Vink, Jane Simpson, Lynn Robinson add XerrhiV Lemmon. --`Staff photo Before you till quackgrass this springilet it grow until it's at least 8 inches high. Then, apply Roundup®. You really can get ready to control quackgrass by letting it grow undisturbed this spring. Don't touch it or till it, until it's actively growing.and most weeds are 8 inches high —(3 to 4 leaf stage). Then, apply Roundup® herbicide by Monsanto. Tillage may break up and spread live rhizomes throughout your field and all plants may not re-grow to the proper stage in time , for treatment with Roundup. Roundup, however, controls emerged quackgrass above and below ground, when used properly. Roundup is so effective, that many farmers, using it as the keystone of their quackgrass control programs, have been able to achieve manageable control for up to 3 years after one application. And since Roundup has no residual soil activity, you can till and plant wheat, oats, barley, corn or soybeans only 5 days after treatment, without risk of crop injury. In those infested fields you plowed last fall; quackgrass may not beTeady for Roundup before planting. If so, we recommend you wait to apply Roundup as a spot treatment in the crop— or after harvest, when quackgrass has regrown to the proper stage. See your dealer soon about Roundup. Roundup controls quackgrass —but you have to let it grow up a little bit first. Monsanto To keep quackgrass down, you have to let it grow up.