The Rural Voice, 1979-05, Page 52Three programs provide
summer jobs on the farm
The
Young Farmer
Fresh country air. A chance to work
outside for the summer. And lots of good,
healthy exercise. For a student looking for
a summer job, working on a farm just could
be the answer.
In the three counties covered by the
Rural Voice Huron, Bruce and Perth there
are three programs that could help out both
the farmer and the student. They include a
Junior Agriculturalists program, Agricrew
and the Ontario Youth Employment
program.
The junior agriculturalist program
brings city students with an interest in
agriculture but a non-farm background to a
farm for about nine weeks in the summer.
The junior agriculturalists help perform
activities related to the farm operation
where they are sent. Wherever possible
they are assigned to the kind of operation
they have the most interest in.
Junior agriculturalists must be boys or
girls 16 or 17 years of age and must be in
good physical condition. Selection is based
on their interest in agriculture, and their
plans for further education and a career.
Host farmers for the junior
agriculturalist program must have a
commercial farm and be engaged in
farming full time. They must be interested
in helping inexperienced young people
develop the skills required on a farm and
have the ability to supervise and work well
with young people.
Host farmers must also provide suitable
accommodation for the junior agri-
culturalist.
Each junior agriculturalist will receive a
training allowance of $18 per day on a six
day week, $6 of this will be provided by the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
and the host farm will provide $6 per day in
cash as well as supplying room and board
worth $6 per day.
Len McGregor extension assistant to the
Huron County OMAF office in Clinton said
they hadn't received many applications for
that program yet this year. He thought that
was because Huron County's mainly a
rural area and most of the students around
Huron would probably have been exposed
to farm life in some way.
About five applications from farmers had
been received at the time of the interview.
The deadline for farmers to apply is May
1 and for the junior agriculturalists April
15.
What they are looking for in a junior
agriculturalist Mr. McGregor says is
"someone who is keen and willing to learn
about agriculture.
"We've had some really good kids," he
added.
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THE RURAL VOICE/MAY 1979 PG. 51