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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-06-11, Page 30GREAT GARDEN SALE UP TO 40% DISCOUNT On — SEEDS SPRAYS RAKES SPADES FORKS HOES PEAT Visit COON'S FARM & GARDEN CENTRE mines.A4vec.te, Jun. I lr 1980 huron farm and home news A HARROWING EXPERIENCE — Rain Saturday turned the Exeter Saddle club, show ring at Huron Park into a muddy mess. Shown attaching harrows to a truck are club president Brion Hicks and executive member Adrian Brand. The latter part of the Mid-Western. Quarter Horse show was cancelled, T-A photo There's more to your farm than your fields. District farmer seeks supply management You do every- thing you can to • .14 control weeds in your fields. But even the best weed management pro- gram can be under- mined by weeds growing in road- sides and ditches, along fencerows, and around buildings and storage areas. Because there's more to your farm than your fields. Left untreated, per- ennial and annual weeds in non-crop areas can grow and spread. Reaching right into the crops you've worked so hard to protect. You can control those tough, ugly weeds with Roundup herbicide by . Monsanto. Applied to the foliage of actively growing weeds at the proper stage of growth, Roundup acts fast. Destroying treated weeds in days, OnteriO Ministry of Agriculture and Food The concentration of progesterone in milk is an accurate reflection of the status of the ovary in cows. After ovulation, the corpus luteum secretes copious quantities of progesterone and if the insemination was successful, the secretion of progesterone continues throughout pregnancy. If the cow is not pregnant the corpus luteum dies and Consequently the con- centration of progesterone declines to a very low level. This difference in the production of progesterone in pregnant and open cows allows the diagnosis of pregnancy by measuring the concentration of progesterone in a sample of milk taken 23 days after breeding. sCOWS have been diagnosed' correctly. This milk progesterone system has now been adopted as a commercial venture on a trial basis by United Breeders Inc., Western Ontario Breeders Inc., and Eastern ,Breeders Inc. and has been applied in various herds as an aid in diagnosing problems in herd. management and in in- dividual cows. Dennis Martin, Associate Agricultural Rep Feeder Hog Payment We have just learned that copies of Federal Hog Stabilization Payment forms will not be, mailed to each producer, However, Forms are now printed and available at Ontario Pork Producer Marketing Board Assembly Yards. Contrary to earlier reports, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food office at Clinton will now have applications available for • the convenience of producers, Don Pullen Agricultural Representative Dear Sir. We are all aware of the drastic price slump in the hog industry which saw prices go from the high 70's to the low 40's in less than a year. We also realize that the present production level has been completely ab- sorbed into the market place and is doing no more than meeting the market This is demands. mainly because the Th Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board is doing such a fine job of promoting our pork. But as pork producers, we have not got the means by which we can obtain the cost of production from our product. As a result of this, coupled with high input costs, many new producers are in serious financial trouble, and the es- tablished producers are do- ing well to meet their com- mitments. These drastic price fluc- tuations can no longer be ab- sorbed by the sale of other produce. There is an answer. Our fellow farmers in the egg and chicken and dairy production industry realize what that answer is. It is supply management with the cost of production includgcl in the price of the filial product. I do not have all "ihe answers but to start with would like to see supply management at the sow end of the hog production business. Pigs from these sows could also be marketed with the cost of production tied to the final price. This would allow any farmer who wanted to feed these pigs the right to do so without suffering losses, provided be is a good manager, In the last ten to fifteen years smaller farms have disappeared and family farms are disappearing and just recently foreign ownership has become a problem. I suggest to you there is only one reason for all those mysterious happenings, lack of earning ability in the hands of in- dividual farmers on which to base long range manage- ment decisions. If farmers had the securi- ty that a cost of production formula would guarantee them, the rural community would remain in the hands of the sons and daughters of the present farmers because farming would finally and for the first time be a business where a profit, could continually be realized by hard work and good management. In the past months since last fall, I have spoken to many worried farmers. A great majority of them are concerned for the farming industry and for rural Canada as a whole, Most of them realize that without the cost of production for- mula on which to base the price of our produce, we will be free, free to go broke, each at our own speed. With our present federal minister of agriculture, Eugene Whelan asking for the support of Ontario farmers and Canadian farmers in promoting National marketing boards and supply management on several kinds of products such as hogs, beef and corn and therefore security and prosperity, I feel we as con- cerned pork producers should give him our support. Because if we do not, we have no one to blame for our loss of buying power or our lower standard of living but ourselves. I would like to get in contact with anyone who shares my concerns. The Huron County Pork Producers Marketing Board, I am sure would call a meeting to hear the views of the pork producers. If you as a producer of pork are tired of being manipulated, and would like some dependability in our prices, now is the time to speak out with a united voice if you would rather have an income you could count on from the market place rather than an existence from the tax- dollars of the Canadian citizens I would very much like to hear from yctu. My address and phone number is: Andre Durand R.R. 2 Ziiich, Ont. NOM 2TO 236-4668 roots and all. Cleaning up the farmstead, and help- ing to prevent re- infestation of your crop. Roundup is ideal for use in sensitive areas. There's no residual soil activity. It won't wash or leash into untreated areas or sur- rounding vegetation. And, Roundup is non-volatile.' Naturally, care must be taken to avoid direct contact with desirable vegetation. Use Roundup all around the farm. Because weeds mean trouble where- ever they grow. Roundup is now available in a trial size. There's never been a herbicide like this"before. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW THE LABEL FOR ROUNDUP. Roundup') is a registered trademark of Monsanto Co. oMonsanto Company 1980 RCN-8/80. From September 1979 to March 1980, approximately 5,000 cows in Ontario herd." were diagnosed by this method and each diagnosis was checked by a veterinary examination. To date 95 percent of all open cows and 83 percent of all pregnant Monsanto MONSANTO CANADA, INC. TORONTO, MONTREAL, VANCOUVER, WINNIPEG, REGINA, CALGARY DAIRY FARMERS RECEIVES SCIENCE DEGREE — Janet McKinley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McKinley, RR 1, Zurich graduated recently from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology. Ms. McKinley is a graduate of Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton. JUNE IS YOUR MONTH FOR GOOD NEWS FROM MASTERFEEDS * SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON 16% AND 1 8% COMPLETE DAIRY RATIONS * ENTER THE MASTERFEEDS CALF GROWING COMPETITION FOR DAIRY FARMERS OF ALL AGES FULL DETAILS & COMPETITION ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE FROM APPROX. 10,000 Ft PER BALE AVERAGE TENSILE STRENGTH-285 LBS. GROSS WEIGHT APPRO)C 22 LBS. "Farm Thrift Line" '24" ",lie 2549 Line" '26" GRADUATES -- Donald Van Raay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Case Van Raay, Dashwood graduated recent- ly with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Univer- sity of Waterloo. He has accepted a position with Jaeger Machine Company of Canada in St. Thomas. MULL 262-2410 DIVISION OF GERBRO INC. CENTRALIA 228-6661 K1RKTON 229-8986