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The Rural Voice, 2006-11, Page 1814 THE RURAL VOICE first plan offered up to 31 days of hospitalization for husband, wife and each dependent. child for a premium of $23 a day. With payments of $6 per day for ward care, the co-op paid out $6,000 in the first year. By 1951 Bruce County Medical Co-op had 4,800 members and paid out $23,000 in claims. In 1969 23 county medical co- operatives across the 'province amalgamated. Tn the 1940s OFA also established a Young People's Committee that led to the formation of Junior Farmers Association. While the Federation was entrepreneurial and building social programs in this era, it could also be radical. The cause was the farm price and farm income crisis that enveloped Canadian agriculture at the end of World War II. During the war farmers had been urged to produce all they could to help feed Britain which had been cut off from some of its normal sources of supply like Denmark. Prices had been strictly controlled, however, and farmers were promised in return for foregoing increased income that they'd have a floor price created after the war when the high production no longer had a hungry market to grab up all the production. ' They didn't get it. Instead, Federal agriculture minister James Gardner argued, as Powers recalled in 2003, that prices should be allowed to reach their own level. Farmers were suddenly getting 20 cents a dozen for eggs that had been worth 50 cents during the war. The Federations of Bruce, Grey and Huron decided to call a meeting one wintery night at the Walkerton town hall. When traffic was lined up right outside of town, it quickly became evident there wasn't enough room in the hall and a second location was set up at the arena. In the end, Powers estimated the crowd at 5,000. 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In 1969 23 county medical co- operatives across the 'province amalgamated. Tn the 1940s OFA also established a Young People's Committee that led to the formation of Junior Farmers Association. While the Federation was entrepreneurial and building social programs in this era, it could also be radical. The cause was the farm price and farm income crisis that enveloped Canadian agriculture at the end of World War II. During the war farmers had been urged to produce all they could to help feed Britain which had been cut off from some of its normal sources of supply like Denmark. Prices had been strictly controlled, however, and farmers were promised in return for foregoing increased income that they'd have a floor price created after the war when the high production no longer had a hungry market to grab up all the production. ' They didn't get it. Instead, Federal agriculture minister James Gardner argued, as Powers recalled in 2003, that prices should be allowed to reach their own level. Farmers were suddenly getting 20 cents a dozen for eggs that had been worth 50 cents during the war. The Federations of Bruce, Grey and Huron decided to call a meeting one wintery night at the Walkerton town hall. When traffic was lined up right outside of town, it quickly became evident there wasn't enough room in the hall and a second location was set up at the arena. In the end, Powers estimated the crowd at 5,000. In front of Walter Harris, the federal minister of finance, farmers passed a motion to go on a buyers' strike and not buy any new equipment until the government provided a floor price. Other counties also organized protest meetings. Reports of the proposed buyers' strikes were read by Massey Harris executives who ideas "GRO Ing BRUCE GREY FARM One -dab conference agriculture and food and strategies and L YOUR OPPORTUNITIES" & FOOD CONFERENCE to investigate emerging trends in and explore new marketing for todag's changing agricultural food markets. 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While the Federation was entrepreneurial and building social programs in this era, it could also be radical. The cause was the farm price and farm income crisis that enveloped Canadian agriculture at the end of World War II. During the war farmers had been urged to produce all they could to help feed Britain which had been cut off from some of its normal sources of supply like Denmark. Prices had been strictly controlled, however, and farmers were promised in return for foregoing increased income that they'd have a floor price created after the war when the high production no longer had a hungry market to grab up all the production. ' They didn't get it. Instead, Federal agriculture minister James Gardner argued, as Powers recalled in 2003, that prices should be allowed to reach their own level. Farmers were suddenly getting 20 cents a dozen for eggs that had been worth 50 cents during the war. The Federations of Bruce, Grey and Huron decided to call a meeting one wintery night at the Walkerton town hall. When traffic was lined up right outside of town, it quickly became evident there wasn't enough room in the hall and a second location was set up at the arena. In the end, Powers estimated the crowd at 5,000. In front of Walter Harris, the federal minister of finance, farmers passed a motion to go on a buyers' strike and not buy any new equipment until the government provided a floor price. Other counties also organized protest meetings. Reports of the proposed buyers' strikes were read by Massey Harris executives who