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40 THE RURAL VOICE
NEWS
FINANCIAL CRISIS
RESEARCH PROJECT
The fall of agriculture from the
relatively prosperous period of the
1970s to the current financial crisis
of the 1980s was originally felt in
the Grey -Bruce area where the beef
industry was most predominant.
When beef prices dropped,
farmers began to face the harsh
reality of farm foreclosures and
severe financial and emotional
stress. Further into the 1980s,
almost every commodity group in
agriculture has become affected,
with the tobacco industry in South -
Western Ontario being particularly
hard hit recently due to changing
market demands.
The University School of Rural
Planning and Development,
through their mandate to reach out
to rural communities, has, in con-
junction with Canada Manpower,
sponsored a summer project
designed to research and make a
concrete contribution towards
helping rural support groups and
farm families.
The Farm Family Financial
Crisis Research Team, supervised
by Jackie Wolfe, is composed of
the following students; Farjam
Masrour, Rural Development,
Michele Kempster, College of
Family and Consumer Studies, and
Ruth Coursey, Ontario Agricul-
tural College.
Three major outputs are an-
ticipated from the project. The
first is an annotated bibliography
on the financial crisis and its ef-
fects on the farm family and the
rural community. The emphasis is
on the stressful effects on the fami-
ly as a unit, its individual
members, and the rural communi-
ty. The bibliography includes the
organizations and individuals in
the organizations which interact
with the farm family. This encom-
passes the financial community,
farm organizations, and the public
and volunteer social service
delivery agencies.
An inventory or directory of the
range of social services which are
available and emergent through
public and volunteer agencies is
also being assembled. Each entry
will show the mandate and ac-
tivities or programs of support be-
ing offered by an individual group
or association.
The information compiled by