The Rural Voice, 1983-04, Page 27IN THE NEWS
Brenda Lamont. the new provincial director & editor of Jagwire was
the Junior Farmer of the Year Award by Glen Cummings. [Photo
Harrison].
presented
by Leslie
James Davey. lett. presented Bevan Weber of the Mildmay Club the trophy for
the most improved club at the Bruce County Banquet 8 Dance held recently.
[Photo by Leslie Harrison]
BRANDY POINT FARMS
Hybrid Gilts -York x Landrace
Open or Bred
Also R.O.P. Tested and Health Approved
PUREBRED LANDRACE, YORK & CROSSBRED BOARS
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Willy & Kurt Keller, R.R. 1, Mitchell 519-348-9753 or 348-8043
ESTABLISH STABILIZATION
TASK FORCE
A task force on farm income stabili-
zation representing the ten provinces
and four national producer groups
starts work on July 14 in Calgary.
This is the first of a series of
meetings to be held across Canada
where a proposal for three -party (fed-
eral, provincial and producer) income
stabilization for beef, pork and sheep
will be drawn up for approval July 17 at
the federal -provincial meeting of agri-
culture ministers in Brudenell, P.E.I.
Other commodities not under supply
management will be tackled later.
Farm income stabilization plans place
a floor under agriculture commodity
prices to prevent disastrous losses.
Producers pay into the plans and would
collect only if prices fall below a
pre -determined level. The support price
is set at a level which limits losses
without encouraging over -production.
The task force was unanimously
agreed upon March 1 at a Toronto
meeting of provincial agriculture minis-
ters and four national producer groups
-- the Canadian Federation of Agricul-
ture, the Canadian Cattlemen's Associa-
tion, the Canadian Pork Council and the
Canada Sheep Council.
The task force will develop a plan
which is national in scope. voluntary
and covers all commodities not under
supply management. Other criteria in-
clude equal cost-sharing among the
three partners and mutual agreement on
support levels.
In addition, the proposed plan should
be supervised by a national income
stabilization body and should operate at
a level which limits losses but does not
stimulate production.
The delegates agreed that individual
commodities, within the overall plan,
such as beef, should have individual
plans and these need not be identical
but "balanced and equitable".
The Toronto discussions stemmed
from Timbrell's proposal for a national
stabilization plan put forward in Halifax
last July at the annual meeting of
federal and provincial agriculture minis-
ters where majority agreement was
achieved among the provinces on the
need for such a program.
The plan was discussed in more
detail in Regina last November by the
provincial agriculture ministers who
reached near -unanimous agreement on
the main points of the proposed plan.
The Regina delegates agreed that a
stabilization plan should be national,
voluntary and equally cost -shared
among the three partners.
THE RURAL VOICE, APRIL 1983 PG. 25