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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-11-08, Page 33a, Lucknow Sentinel, Wirdeesd iy, November *5,197$-410Se $ New Zealander here on farm exchange A young farmer from New Zealand who is visiting area farms on an international farm exchange has been most impressed by the "tremendous amount of machin- ery" used by Canadian farmers. In New Zealand farmers do not have heavy machinery because they are grass- land farming. Their climate permits the stock to stay outside all year and .they do not need to crop farm. Peter farms with his father 'on their 350 acre farm at Pukekohe, North Island, about 30 miles from Uuckland Cuty. They run, 1,100 sheep and about 250 cattle. Peter has been travelling since April 18 when he left for the United States. He has toured California, Iowa and Maryland and cameo Canada on October 25. He has spent one week in Essex before coming to Huron last week. He has been staying here with Russell Irvin, R. 7 Lucknow, and Bill Armstrong, Wingham. He goes on to York, Lennox, Addington and Oxford counties before leaving to tour Britain and Europe. He will be away from home for a full year. While ip-the-States, he went through the fruit farming belt in California and in Iowa farming consists of "corn and hags". The farms in Maryland are small and chopped into small lots for houses because of the urbanization. In Peter's county at home, there is legislation preventing sub -division of farms into a farm or lot less than 50 acres in size. Peter has a Farm Management Certifi- cate which will help him with the business end of farming which has changed since his father started farming. But he would rather spend his time working on the farm than sitting at a desk. Much of Canadian farming is not applicable to the type of farming Peter does at home. Farmers here are concerned about the nutrient value of livestock feed, the mix of feed and concentrate, the percentage of protein. This isn't necessary in New Zealand because livestock t is on CASE LOT Algt G.E. 130V I -LINE LIGHT BULBS grass year round. Peter intends to use the experience gained, while on the farm exchange, as background, to draw on, when he starts farming on his own. He wants to buy a hill country farm, further out from the urban area where his father farms, because the land will be much cheaper. He can buy hill country land for $300 an acre, while his father's land is worth $1,500 an acre, because it is in a dairy belt near an urban centre. He plans to continue raising sheep and cattle. Peter found that our American neigh- bours don't know much about the current affairs outside their own community. Many receive only the weekly community news- paper and do not read a daily. For them the Canadian postal strike or the Common- wealth games ,in Edmonton did not exist. Peter admits that the only things he had heard about Canada, before he came were "The Mountie always gets his man" and "snow". 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Toronto Stock Yard Report Receipts at the Ontario Stockyards for the week ending November 10 total- led, cattle, 9,361; calves 4,141; hogs, 6,400 and sheep, 1,636. There was a good selection of both Western and Ontario stockers and feeders this week. Short -keeps weighing 800# and up sold from $64 to $72 with sales to $77/cwt. Steers weighing 500-750# sold from $70 with sales to $77/cwt. Western steer calv- es sold from $85 to $95 with sales to $102. Ontario steer calves from $75 to $82 with sales to $89. Yearling and shortkeep heif- ers sold from $54 to $62 with sales to $68. Western and Ontario heifer calves were selling from $72 to $80 with sales to $88.50/cwt. Veal sold easier. Choice veal sold from $80 to $90 with top choice to $101.50. Good calves 200 to 300 lbs. sold from $70 to $80, 400 to 500# calves sold from $65 to $75, 500 to 750# calves trades from $50 to $60/cwt. Plain, heavy and light calves sold from $35 to $50. ' The lamb trade was sharp. ly lower. Good handyweight lambs sold from $70 to $77 with sales to $80. Light lambs were selling from $80 to $95 with sales to S103. Sheep are selling from $28 to $40 with sales to $42. Heavy fat sheep went for $20 to $25.. Price range on hogs at Toronto was $74.75 - $76.25. Stocker. sale Cattle sales at the Luck - now Stocker Sale on Monday, November 13 totalled 390. Five steers averaging 1,002 lbs. were sold by Earl Jamieson to Dave Elphick at 67.50. Eleven steers were sold to Russell Irvin by Orville Schmidt, Formosa, for 77.50. They averaged 652 lbs. MacDonald Bros., Ripley, sold eight steers averaging 455 lbs. to Russell Irvin at 97.75. Two heifers averaging 680 lbs. were sold by Doug Scott to Rick McOuillin at 66.25. Eleven heifers averaging 279 lbs. were sold to Keith Hardy by Ray Hogan at 85.75.