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PG. 18 THE RURAL VOICE/MARCH 1982
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Big Jim Silo Unloaders
Volume Belt Feeders
Convey -n -Feed Cattle Feeders
5ngle Chain Conveyors
Barn Cleaners
Oswalt Ensilmixers
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Bender Hammer Mills
Blender Roller Mills
Blender Mills for Ground Hi -Moisture Corn
Augers
Lag Elevators
ACORN
Cable Barn Cleaners
WESTEEL•ROSCO
Grain Bins - 1350 to 250,000 bu.
Bulk Feed Tanks
ACME Fan -Jet Ventilation Systems
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Liquid Manure Pumps, Cleaners, Steel Trusses
B&L
Complete Hog Confinement Systems
SLURRY -SLINGER Uquid Manure Spreaders
CLAY
Parts and Service for Clay Equipment
ALSO Fibre -Funnels
Bectric Feed Carts Ritchie Heated Bowls
Straw Choppers Hurst Equipment
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Duncan Allen
speaks to
meeting
The Concerned Farm Women held an
"Education Day" at the Walkerton High
School recently.
President of the Concerned Farm
Women, Koleen Garland, welcomed the
two hundred men and women who came to
hear the speakers and take part in the
afternoon workshops.
Leaders of local farm organizations
addressed the gathering on what they had
accomplished and what they hoped to
accomplish in the future concerning the
present depressed state of agriculture.
Among the speakers were Harold
Poechman, president of the Bruce County
Federation of Agriculture, Mel Tebbit, of
the National Farmer's Union, Carl
Spencer of the Canadian Farmers Survival
Assoc. and George Nickel of the Junior
Farmers' Assoc.
Duncan Allen, the Deputy Minister of
Agriculture attempted to give the
audience some guidelines and information
regarding the Provincial Assistance
Program. The information mailed out was
not very clear to most people and therefore
there were a lot of questions. Mr. Allen
said the provincial government was taking
the risk in regards to interest rates for
capital borrowing for spring planting. The
bank can lend the money at prime and is
guaranteed the interest ...but there is no
5 per cent rebate on this capital
expenditure. The 5 per cent rebate would
only apply to floating interest
expenditures already made.
Allen informed the gathering that
the 510 million beef subsidy paid to Grey
and Bruce Farmers totalled 75 per cent of
their interest rate on the floating debt in
those two counties. Arguments on
whether this was actually true sprang
emphatically from the audience.
Duncan Allen gave a brief view of the
proposed Farm Credit changes that some
of the MP's present reinforced. Allen
claims that if farmers had harrassed the
federal government as much as the
provincial, these changes could have been
implemented last July. Bob McKessock,
Gary Gurbin and Murray Elston all
questioned and debated with Allen on
situations in their riding. Allen made
it clear to the audience that the Provincial
Assistance Program would only work if
farmers applied for it and urged them to
do so.
The afternoon session consisted of five
workshops dealing with the subjects of
Women and the Law. The Trespass Act,
You and Your Financier, Bankruptcy vs.
Receivership and Corporate Farming and
Estate Planning.