The Rural Voice, 1990-07, Page 8SUMMER CAMPS
AgVantage —16 to 20 years old
This program gives teenagers a chance to experience a college program on farm
management. Participants will collect data from an actual working farm and evaluate
findings. Anyone who attends AgVantage receives one credit towards a diploma in
Agricultural Business Management.
Wednesday, July 25 (9 a.m.) to Thursday, July 26 (5:30 p.m.)
Location: Centralia College Campus
Cost: $25 (includes overnight accommodation and meals)
Fun with Food and Computers —11 to 14 years old as of July 1, 1990
For junior cooks and computer enthusiasts, this day camp promises good eating
and fun. Food themes include yeast bread, homemade noodles, and home-
made ice cream. Computer training covers operation and use of word
processing and spreadsheet applications.
Tuesday, July 24 - Friday, July 27 9 a.m. • 4 p.m. each day
Location: Walkerton
Campers participate in: basic recipe preparation, planning and serving
balanced lunches, computer workshops, etc.
Cost: $80 (includes food, lunches, use of computers, computer paper, extra
lunch on Friday for a guest, and more)
If you would like to register, contact Centralia College (519) 228-6691, ext. 245, immediately as
enrolment is limited.
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
ONTARIO
David Ramsay, Minister
CENTRALIA
COLLEGE
Huron Park, Ontario NOM 1Y0
(519) 228-6691
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FEEDBACK
raising, at whim, the maximum allowable
number of animals per farm. Someone
should tell Adrian Vos that he is writing
columns for The Rural Voice and not the
National Enquirer.
In the dairy industry the maximum
amount of milk allowed to be shipped
within quota is 5,000 litres combined #1
and MSQ per day per farm. This figure
was put into effect many years ago in order
to preserve the family farm and, contrary
to Vos's opinion, has never been raised.
Since milk production on a per cow
basis is increasing every year, maximum
number of allowable animals per farm is
decreasing every year. In 1978 the aver-
age milk production per Holstein cow was
6,321 litres, and by 1988 it had increased
to 7,301. In 1978 the number of average
cows required to fill the maximum eligible
quota would have been approximately 289.
By 1988 the number of cows required to
fill the maximum allowable quota would
have dropped to 250.
With productivity on a per cow basis
increasing by approximately 2 1/2 per cent
per year, the number of cows required to
fill the maximum allowable quota is de-
clining by approximately 6 cows per year.
If this trend continues, by the year
2000 a producer will only need to keep
200 average cows in order to fill the
maximum allowable amount of quota.
There is a trend in the dairy industry
toward more milk being produced under
fewer licences, but to counteract that there
is a trend toward each licence supporting
more families. Now the average number
of families being supported by each
licence has risen to 1.7. The industry may
be losing licenced producers at a steady
pace, but the loss of dependent families
isn't as great.
Adrian Vos goes on to blame wrong-
fully the executives of the OMMB for
defending high quota values as beneficial
to the dairy industry. I can't think of any
board member who thinks that high quota
values are beneficial to the dairy industry.
They are, however, staunch supporters of
our present system of quota policies and
the quota exchange and will continue to be
so until someone comes up with a better
system or offers improvements to the
current one.
For now, the value of quota is allowed
to fluctuate in accordance with supply and
demand, and unfortunately because of a
definite lack of stability in other sectors of
agriculture, demand to enter or expand in
supply -managed commodities is high, for-
cing the price of quota up.0
A disgusted reader
Bruce Schmidt
R.R.3,Walton