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Directors for the Belgrave and
Auburn United Co-operatives of
Ontario branches were elected
Friday night in Blyth. The directors
for the coming year are [left to
right] Chris Palmer [remaining
from the former board] Fred Meier
Jr., Bruce Campbell, chairman,
Wilbert Hewitt and Siebolt Siert-
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Inc.
A plea for farmers to work
together to battle their present
problems was issued by Gordon
Hill, former president of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
when he spoke to the annual
meeting of the United Co-opera
tives of Ontario Belgrave and
Auburn branches in Blyth Friday
night.
Mr. Hill, member of the Agricul
tural Hall of Fame and winner of
the Huron Federation of Agricul
ture’s award for outstanding con
tribution to agriculture said in
three decades of being involved in
farm organizations he had never
seen a time when farmers needed
tobe united more. ‘‘Itisacrime
what we are letting our farmers
suffer, ft is a crime that the
government of Canada is letting
farmers go through the turmoil
that they are.”
While 80 per cent of the
Canadian public has never had it so
good, Mr. Hill said, farmers are
showing a net return on their
investment of less than three per
cent. No other business could
operate on that return, he said.
The government claims there
isn’t enough money in the treasury
to protect Canadian farmers in the
international trade war between
the United States and the Euro
pean Economic Community but if
100 per cent of the Canadian public
can’t afford to save our farming
industry through government
help, how can the government
expect the three per cent of the
Canadian public who are farmers
to be able to carry the load.
Mr. Hill argued against those
who say government aid should be
given out evenly to all farmers.
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Instead, he said, it should be
directed toward those farmers who
are in trouble and who have the
management ability and enough
equity left in their operations to be
able to pull through.
He argued in favour of write
downs of debt by financial institu
tions saying it is in the best
interests of the banks and of other
farmers. Over 1100 farmers in
Ontario have made applications to
be considered under the debt
review process, he said. If the
loans of all those farmers aren’t
written down it will throw 1100
farms on the market, further
driving down theprice of land, thus
lowering the equity of farmers who
currently have enough equity in
their operations and perhaps
putting another whole group of
farmers in the crunch. Surely, he
argued, providing there is the
management ability there to ser
vice the reduced debt-load, it
makes sense for all concerned to
keep the farmer on the land by
writing down debts.
Mr. Hillalsocalledforfarmersto
take steps to control their produc
tion to meet the necessary de
mand. “It’s in our own individual
interests to produce all we can but
the cumulative effect is to smash
our markets.” Farmers have part
ners in their farms in the person of
the bank, the machinery company
or the fertilizer supplier, all of
whom tell the farmer what they
want out of his operation but when
the farmer sells his produce in most
cases he asks “what will you give
me for it?”
“ We’re the only ones whocan do
anything about it because we can
get control,” he said.
Mr. Hill warned about the
dangers of the animal rights
movement saying next to the
economic problem, animal rights
activists pose the greatest threat to
farmers. The activists may sound
kooky, he said, "but those people
can whip up a great deal of emotion
and support for their cause.”
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