The Rural Voice, 1978-09, Page 22Agricultural boards
face re-evaluation
Five agricultural bodies. including the
Ontario Milk Commission, the Ontario
Farni Machinery Board. the Ontario
Agricultural Research Institute,. the
• Ontario Cream Producers Marketing Board
and the Ontario Food Council may be
facing the hot scat as they go before the
Ontario legislature's committee on proced-
ural affairs in September.
. The committee is calling a random
sampling of these boards, commissions
and institutes. together as part of its drive
to get rid of outdated rules. regulations and
bureaucracies.
Probably the organization that will come
under the most tire however. is the Ontario
Food Council which has been strongly
criticized for its lack of action to investigate
rebates among food suppliers. wholesalers
and retailers.
Among its critics are NDP farm critic
Donald MacDonald of Toronto. Peter
Hannam of Guelph. president of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture. and
Peter Lindley. president of the Ontario
Fruit anti–Vegetable Growers Association.
MacDonald-. id the food council "may
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be redundant" in its role as promoter of
Ontario -grown food becayse the marketing
division of the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food has the same
mandate.
MacDonald was most angered however,
by the excuses offered by food council
chairman Doug Williams for not making
the inquiry into the rebates. Williams said
he had no specific complaints to investigate
and lacked funds to launch a fishing
expedition.
William Newman. , Minister of Agri-
culture and Food said he opposes a
full-scale inquiry of the rebates issue
because it would be costly and the food
industry has already undergone a number
of studies.
MacDonald said the point was that
"we've had study after study because
nothing has been done."
Prizes awarded at
Perth Holstein barbecue
Prizes were given out for cattle when the
Perth County Holstein Club held a pork
barbecue recently at the farm of Lois and
Ron McKay of Stratford.
Gordon Bell of RR 3. St. Marys
conducted the judging and Jack Fraser of
Streetsyille acted as the official judge for a
class of two year old cows as 4-H members
of the Stratford Dairy Club led the animals.
Winners were: Elaine Dietz and Karen
McLaga RR 5, Mitchell; Harry Van Nes of
St. Pauls; Roy Ready of RR 7, St. Marys
and Carl Krentz of RR 4, Stratford. Prize
winner for the 4-H Girls was Ann
Hawthorne of RR 1, Listowel and for the
4-H boys, Steven Priestap of RR 1
Sebringville. Prizes for guessing the size of
a cow went to Mrs. Margaret Scott of RR 3,
Stratford for the ladies and to Jonn
Hunyady of Listowel for the men. Lyle
Ballantyne of RR 3. Stratford, president of
the club, was chairman for a short
program.
Also at the barbecue were Allan Bain of
RR 3, Stratford. national director for Perth
who brought greetings from the Holstein
Association. Linda Lantz of RR 1,
Stratford. Perth Dairy Princess, who talked
about her activities with the Milk Market-
ing Board. John Kirkpatrick a, Young
Farmer delegate who brought greetings
from the Young Farmers Association of
Australia, and William Grieve of Dor-
chester. Natinnal Director for Middlesex
who presented past president pins to all
who were present.
About 320 people were served by the
Hillcrest Women's Institute and the
committee in charge of the evening was
Barry Dietz of RR 5. Mitchell. Lloyd Kipfer
of Brunner. Morris Willows of St. Pauls
and Winston Jibb of Mitchell.
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