The Rural Voice, 1980-04, Page 471
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NEWSLETTER
Huron County Federation
of Agriculture
Area Office Vanastra. Box 429. Clinton
Your insurance plan
The Huron County Federation Insurance and Farm Safety
Committee met on Feb. 26 at the Vanastra Office with Grant
Wallace. Director of Insurance Services for the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture.
Committee members learned that the "Extended Health Care
Plan'has better coverage than many other available plans and is
also considerably less expensive. The Federation's Extended
Health Care Plan. which was designed for farmers, costs $45 and
other plans start at $105. Thi best time to join the Fed. Plan is
when you renew your I.S.M. membership.
The Ontario Federation "Farm Family Group Life Insurance
Plan" is available to any ISM and family. They may join without
a medical in March as the plan is open then, or whenever their
membership is up for renewal. The cost is $52. per year. ($1.00
per week) for a maximum coverage of $25,000.00 on the
member. plus $12.500 on the spouse and 52.000 on each child
between the ages of 5 months and 23 years. Of course these
coverages drop with advancing age of the member.
For further information on the Extended Health Care Plan or
the Farm Family Group Life Insurance Plan you may contact any
of the members of the Farm Safety and & Insurance Committee:
Mery Smith. R.R.#1. Walton. NOK 1ZO 527-0778 (Chairman);
Max Demeray, R.R.2, Bluevale. NOG 1G0, 887-6706; Hugh
Rundle. R.R.1, Centralia, NOM 1KO, 235-1406; John Nesbit.
R.R.2, Blyth, NOM 1HO 523-9595; Dirk Logtenberg, R.R.1,
Dungannon, NOM IRO, 529-7349; Bill Mann, R.R.1, West
Monkton, NOK IPO. 887-6717: Paul Klopp, R.R.3, Zurich, NOM
2T0. 236-4606.
Any of these Committee members would be available to the
Township Federations to answer questions about these
Insurance Programs.
Attention Huron farmers
To Farmers in Huron County
From Huron County Federation of Agriculture Energy Committee
This is the first year of the HFA Energy Committee. Our Committee has two
basic areas of concern The first is to keep track of energy projects, such as power
plants and transmission corridors, which could affect Huron County. The second is
to examine current energy use in county farming and look at alternative methods of
meeting our farm energy needs.
We would like your help in working on the area of farm energy use and alternate
energy sources. We have prepared a questionaire which we hope you will take the
time to answer.
ENERGY OUESTIONNAIRE
How much energy do you use in a year?
Diesel Fuel gallons
Gasoline g •nous
Electricity �h
Natural gas
Propane gallons
Heating oil gallons
Other
What is your farm operation like?
type of farm
dollars
dollars
dollars
dollars
dollars
dollars
acreage total. workable, bush,
pasture.
Livestock produced , number per year . _ . . . . . . . .
Crops produced quantity per year --
Do you do much custom work?
Type of custom work ... . , number of acres
Do you have much custom work done on your farm?
Type of custom work . . . . . number of acres . Do
you have special situations on your farm which increase or decrease the amount of
energy you use?
What should the energy committee's first priorities be?
Are you interested in particular types of alternative energy sources?
Have you. collected information on alternative energy sources or your farm? If yes
would you list them?
Are you working on developing and using alternative energy on your farm?
Have you developed ways to use less energy (energy conservation) in your farm
op eration.
Please print your name and address:
Name
Address
Return to Federation Energy Committee
P.O.B3x 429
Clinton. Ontario NOM 1L0
OFA awaits promises becoming law
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, the monthly
Directors meeting was held at the Yorkdale
Holiday Inn, Toronto. Ralph Barrie opened
the meeting by telling the directors that the
OFA executive spent the last week at the
Canadian Federation annual meeting held
in Winnipeg. Ron White informed us that a
brief had been prepared and would be
presented to the Ministers of the Cabinet
regarding Student loans. The present
system limns students of farm families
with large net worths from receiving these
loans. The OFA executive hopes the brief
to be presented will change these inequit-
As letter from the Liberal Party regarding
membe.roposed agricultural policy was read
PG. 46 TITHE RURAL VOICE/APRIL 1980
by Ralph Barrie. The OFA receiv ed the
letter before the Feb 18 election. The
Liberals proposed the following: Total
exemption of excise tax on all farm fuels:
an export corporation would be established
to increase the sales of Canadian produce
abroad; all imported food produce has to be
clearly labelled. The difference between
farm gate prices and prices at the
consumer level will be published regularly;
income tax act to be changed to assist
farmers in the area of Capital Gains tax;
allow wages to be paid to the spouse:
import chicken quota to be renegotiated;
Farm Credit Corporation will have more
money available; finally. programs will be
initiated to encourage the development of
alternate energy forms for farmers. As a
result of these proposals the OFA will send
a telegram to the Prince Minister thanking
hint for his concern in the agriculture
community and impress upon hint that we
will be waiting for these promises to
become law.
Frank Wall gave the meeting a report on
the finances of the CFA which is supported
by each. province. The OFA contributed
$90,000 to the CFA last year. The CFA
ended the year with 539.000 to the good. At
the convention the Ontario Federation
members were unable to get sufficient
support to abolish capital gains tax
farmers in Canada. The feeling of tltc