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a killer if Fran was left to try to keep
the farm going on her own. They
loaned their sheep to another organic
producer who carried on their retail
lamb business and rented the land and
farm buildings, along with their
horses, to an Amish neighbour.
He wasn't completely naive in
stepping into the job. He's worked
with bureaucracies before, both with
the Hydro hearings and as a trustee
on the Huron County Board of
Education. He'd even lived in
Toronto before, studying at the
University of Toronto on scholarship
in 1972. Still, he says, life in the city
wasn't a lot of fun. "The drive home
from Toronto was a lot more
rewarding than the drive to Toronto."
He found the people in the OMAF
bureaucracy generally devoted,
honest people and feels good about
some of the things the government
has been able to accomplish yet
learned the degree to which a
provincial government can have an
impact in these days of Free Trade
and GATT is more limited than he'd
have liked.
He's happy that one of the first
things Mr. Buchanan did was to send
Pat Hayes across the province to talk
to farmers about what could be done
about farm financing. The results of
those hearings are now showing up in
legislation to attract money from
sources other than government or
banks into farm financing. He is
happy that something has been done
to institute stable funding for general
farm organizations while still leaving
an element of choice to the farmers
so the groups can be kept
accountable.
Little things like support to set up
more farmers' markets may have a
long-term effect by re-establishing
the link between the producer and the
consumer of food, he says.
He's still worried about the issue
of getting a fair price for farm
produce, yet he also admits
frustration that some groups refuse to
look at all the possibilities for giving
themselves greater control over
pricing. Ontario, for instance,
produces 95 per ,cent of Canada's
soybeans and Ontario and Quebec
together produce 95 per cent of
Canada's corn so if farmers in those
commodities wanted, they could
explore the option to set up some sort
of supply management, but