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SHOP
LOCAL
You'll Discover that the
Best Bargains Anywhere Ca
B'e Found Right in Your Own
Backyard and Here's Why..
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You're more than a customer
To local merchants, you're also
a valued friend and neighbor.
You share community interest.
It's good for the economy, too
Much of the money you spend
locally isrecycled back in-
to the community thru taxes.
Service Is Very.
Important, Too
Your satisfaCtlon is the #1I
concern of local merchants.
Should problems arise with
a product you have purchased,
you can count onlocal mer-
chants to "stand behind"
what they sell. They want to
keep you as a good customer) 14
Whatever You Need,
Find It Locally
ave me, gas an money
by buying close to your home.
Your needs and the needs at your farm
• - ily are easily mot IT! local
merchants so there':, no rea-
son to go -out of town.
Foods to Fashions...it's
all right here. Qual;t,
products you ca.-) count
ion from local merchants.
'And everybody benefits!
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Pork producers meet in February
The Bruce County Pork
Producers' annual meeting is on
Feb. 1 at the Dunkeld Tavern,
northwest of Walkerton on Bruce
County Road #3. Dinner is at 6
p.m. and the meeting will start at 7
p.m.
This is the meeting where
resolutions are discussed and voted
on. If passed these same resolutions
will be on the agenda for the On-
tario Pork Producers' annual
meeting in February. Please bring
along any resolutions for discussion.
Hay Production and Marketing
A hay production and marketing
course is set for Feb. 10 from 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the OMAF
Board Room in Walkerton. This is
a one -day course designed to
demonstrate a better approach to
hay marketing. The cost is $10,
payable to Bruce Soil & Crop
Improvement Association.
Management using Computers
This course is scheduled for Feb.
16 and 23, Mar. 1 and 8, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the OMAF Board
FARM REPORT
Bruce Cqunty OMAF
Roorn, Walkerton. It is designed for
farmers who have a working
knowledge of microcomputers. Four
accounting programs - Simply Ac-
counting (Bedford), Quicken, Farm
Management Systems, and TSL
Accounting (Farmhand) will be
examined. Participants will have an
opportunity to test these packages
in order to select appropriate
software for the farming operation.
The cost is $100 payable to
Centralia College.
Swine Herdsman
This 'four-day course is offered
Feb. 18, 23, Mar. 4 and 11 from
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m at the OMAF
Board Room, Walkerton. This
course will update management
skills and knowledge for swine
. producers and employees. At the
end of the course, participants will
be familiar with: feed handling and
nutrition, ventilation requirements,
knowl ge of vaccination schedules,
herd health and drug residues, cost
of production and breeding. The
cost is $40 payable to CITAC.
Dairy Herd Managers Course
This course will be held Feb 17,
24, Mar. 3 and 10 at the OMAF
Board Room. in Walkerton from 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and is meant for
dairy farmers, dairy herdsmen and
relief milkers. It will be an excel-
lent opportunity for converted
cream producers to broaden their
skills in the dairy industry. On
completion of this course, par-
ticipants will be familiar with cor-
rect milking procedures and
hygiene, health and nutrition,
hands-on condition scoring and cost
of production. The cost is $40,
payable to CITAC.
For more information on the..
above listed courses or to register,
contact the OMAF office at 881-
3301 or 1-800-265-3023.
Farmers can increase bottom line
Forty dollars and two days can
improve a farmer's financial bottom
line. Ontario farmers attending the
Credit Management and Negotiation
Skills Workshops, sponsored by the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and
Food, now see the benefits of small
investments that bring returns for
years to come.
The workshops are part of the
Agricultural Investment Strategy, a
collection of programs introduced
• over the last year and a half,
designed to help farmers help them-
selves to become better financial
managers.
."Young farmers make very major
decisions early in life, often without
background, experience or training,"
says. Ralph Winslade, manager of
financial programs, Ministry of
Agriculture and Food. "We can't
provide, the, experience here, other
than working with case studies and
Report from
Brussels sale
The market at Brussels Livestock
saw fed steers and heifers selling on
a strong active trade, with cows
selling steady.
Steers
There were 573 steers on offer
selling from 95.00.ta 100.00 to the
high of 114.00.
Ken Eadie, Holyrood, 16, avg.
1492 lbs., avg. 96.81 to 99.75.
Percy Bros., Holyrood, 5, avg.
1346 lbs., avg. 92.09 to 94.75.
Andy Yoder, Lucknow, 1, avg.
1340 lbs. sold for 94.00.
Bill Phillips, Lucknow, 1,, avg.
1106 lbs. sold. for 90.00.
William Bennet & Sons Farms
Ltd., 25, avg. 1392 lbs., avg. 107.51
to 114.00.
Maple Ridge Farms, Brussels, 29,,
avg. 1286 lbs., avg. 97:66 to
101.25.
Heifers
There were 267 heifers on offer
selling from 95.00 to 100.00 *to the
high of 106.50.
Randy Pentland, goderich, 14,
avg. 1048 lbs„ avg. 96.80 to
102.00.
'Dale Gammie, Lucknow, 6, avg.
1128 lbs., avg. 96.41 to 98.00.
Lanesview Farms, Holyrood,
avg. 1228 lbs., avg. 94.68 to 96.75.
Ronald Menary, Lucknow, 4, avg.
1150 lbs., avg. 92:73 to 96.00.
Edward Gingerich, Lucknow, 2,
avg. 1085 lbs., avg. 87.82 to 91.75.
Cows
There were 244 cows on Offer
selling from 54.00 to 65.00 to the
high of 87.50.
John Van. Roy, Goderich, 5, avg.
;1124 lbs., avg„ 65.98 to 80.00.
Dave MacDonald, Lucknow, 1,
weighing 960 lbs., sold for 76.00.
Wm, Dickie, Lucknow, 4, avg.
1288 lbs., avg. 68.38 to 71.50:.
Lambs
Hank VanDieten, Seaforth, 12,
avg. 62 lbs., avg. 161.70 to 182.00.
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examples, but we can provide the
training."
Winslade says that workshop
participants will acquire a better
understanding of the security.
instruments they will have to sign
when borrowing money. Security
instruments such as mortgages,
general security agreements and
security over personal property are
explained in detail as well as liens
assignments and guarantees. Farm
families also have an opportunity to
review the sources and cost of
agricultural credit, as well as oppor-
tunities to improve their negotiating
skulls when borrowing money.
Bob. Humphries, agricultural
representative for Huron 'County,
says that there is a wide interest in
the seminars in his area.
"I'm very pleased with the
response we've had since we an-
nounced the workshops in the. fall.
The first two seminars in Huron
were sold out, we had.larger groups
than expected and we even
scheduled an additional workshop
for March," he says.
Humphries also notes that the
participants' reaction is positiye.
'One of them, Rowena Wallace,: of
Seaforth, operates a dairy farm with
her husband Bill and has attended
with him the first day of the
workshop.
"I found it very interesting," she
says. "One particular point was an
illustration used to demonstrate how
to find out "who offers the best deal
on a loan. In this example we had a
dealer and a banker, who offered
different packages. We sat down
and did the calculation. Although at
first glance the dealer appeared to
offer the best deal, ,it was in fact
the banker•who had the . most •
interesting offer. This sure en-
courages you to sit down and pencil
through your operation."
• As with much of the Agricultural
Investment Strategy, these
workshops were developed in con-
sultation with . farmers, to 'ensure
that the information is not only
accessible, but also that it •is
relevant.
Fifty-five workshop locations
have been chosen throughout the
province and others will be added
as required by local demand. For
more information on worts hops
dates and locations, farmef? can
contact their local OMAF office.
Bruce county farmer
appointed to committee
A Bruce County farmer is one
of 15 appointed to the Advisory
Committee on Rural Develop-
ment.
Gerald Poechman, of R.R. 2,
Walkerton, is the owner of a
500 -acre organic family farm.
He is an agricultural business
graduate of Centralia College, an
editorial advisor and contributor
to the Rural Voice magazine,
and is president of the Board of
Directors of OntarBio Co-op, as
well as founding member and
past chairperson of the Queen's
Bush Rural Ministries:
Poechman is a member of
several committees, including the
boards of directors of Rural
Connections II and the Bruce
County Federation of Agricul-
ture. He introduced Catholic
Rural Life to Hamilton Diocese.
Poechman has extensive
teaching, training and leadership
experience, and is involved with
community, supported agriculture
on a family farm as well as with
the local food banks.
The committee members, ap-
pointed last week by Ontario
Minister of Agriculture and Food
Elmer Buchanan, are already
working at reviewing existing
rural, development issues and
initiatives and making recom-
mendations.
"The committee will help us.
obtain and review rural develop-
ment ideas from different
perspectives," says Buchanan,
who chairs the committee.
The creation of the Advisory
Committee was announced last.
year after the Rural. Develop-
ment Secretariat was established:
It concerns itself with rural
development issues and acts as
sounding board to the Minister
of Agriculture and Food on
topics including: identification of
provincial, regional and local
rural development issues; recom-
mendation of priorities for policy,
and program developitent;
evaluation of the progress of
rural development initiatives and
provision of a link . among rural
development networks.
Other appointed members,
include: William Brant, Has-
tings; Charlotte. Clay, -Ireland;
Bewdley; Reg Cressman, Water-
loo; Elbert van Donkersgoed,
Guelph; Diane Duncan, Al-
nonte; Margaret `Eberle; Kent;
Pierre Glaude Clarence Creek;
Susan Maxwell, Bancroft; Lynn
McDonald,Guelph; Al Payne,
Jerseyvrlle; Gladys Schmidt.
Cannington; Barry . Robinson,
Beachburg; Dona Stewardson,
Thedford and, Murray Stewart,
Bolton. •