The Rural Voice, 1992-12, Page 6TI
Ontario Agricultural Training Institute
1993 WINTER COURSES
OFFERED IN HURON COUNTY
FOR FARMERS MANAGING CHANGE
MISSION OF O.A.T.I.
To enable Ontario farmers to
enhance their skills to manage a
changing agricultural workplace
through self determined
programs
COURSES
WILL BE HELD AT THE
Ministry of Agnculture
and Food Office
100 Don Street
Clinton, Ontario
FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR YOUNG FARMERS
(30 hrs.)
January 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, 1993
Hours 1000 a m • 400 pm
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This workshop style course will assist
participants in developing a practical record keeping
system, prepare accrued financial statements,
understand strengths & weaknesses of their business
Registration tee: Approximately $100.00 + GST.
ESTATE PLANNING AND ASSET TRANSFER
(18 hrs.)
January 13, 27, February 10, 1993
Hours 1000am -400pm
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course will discuss a variety of
legal. financial & social concerns that a farm family
needs to address when parents plan retirement
& children are being brought into the business.
Registration fee: Approximately $50.00 + GST
INTRODUCTION TO COMMODITY MARKETING
(18 hrs.)
ebruary 2, 9, 16, 1993
Hours 10 00 a m -400 pm
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course will introduce participants
to the bases of commodity marketing It should
attract farmers who want to calculate costs,
develop a market plan & determine price
Registration fee: Approximately $50.00 + GST.
ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM (18 hrs.)
February 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3, 10, 1993
Hours 700 pm-1000pm
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This is a practical course in electricity
& electrical wiring around the farm Participants will
do a series of hands on electrical wiring
Registration tee: Approximately $45 00 + GST.
FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT USING
COMPUTERS (12 hrs.)
February 9, 10, 1993
Hours 10:00am-4:00pm
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course is designed for farmers
who want to explore & test computer accounting
packages designed for the farm business.
Registration fee: Approximately $45.00 + GST.
FEATURES
OF AN OATI COURSE
• participative, hands on format
• 6 to 16 participating farmers
• registration fee covering at least
25% of course cost
• practical
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MOTIVATION
(12 hrs.)
January 12, 19, 26. February 2, 1993
Hours: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p -m.
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course is aimed at improving a
person's communication skills. It also looks at
growth, achievement, responsibility & recognition.
Registration tee: Approximately $30.00 + GST.
DEVELOPING RURAL BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES (24 hrs.)
February 1, 5, 8, 12, 1993
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: A participative course to assist farmers
to evaluate, develop & implement secondary or
alternative business options. They will assess
the feasibility of new business ideas & prepare a
business plan.
Registration fee: Approximately $120.00 + GST.
INTRODUCTION TO FARM COMPUTING (12 hrs.)
February 2, 3, 1993
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course is designed to show
farmers the basic capabilities of micro computers
using DOS & WordPerfect
Registration fee: Approximately $45.00 + GST.
DAIRY QUOTA MANAGEMENT/DAIRY COST
OF PRODUCTION (12 hrs.)
February 3, 17, 1993
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course will review the milk quota
exchange system, set business goals related to
quota management & assist producers to analyze
their cost of production.
Registration tee: Approximately $35.00 + GST.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON THE
FARM (18 hrs.)
February 22, 26, March 1, 1993
Hours: 10:00 a m. - 4:00 p.m.
OMAF Seminar Room, Clinton
Objective: This course deals with employees on
the farm. It covers recruitment, job descriptions,
communications, motivation, incentives, payroll
& performance appraisal.
Registration tee: Approximately $50.00 + GST.
To register and receive course details call
482-3428 or toll free 1-800-265-5170
Registration cheques are to be made payable to O.A.T.I.
and mailed to O.M.A.F. P.O. Box 159, Clinton, Ont. NOM ILO.
Deadline for course registration is December 31, 1992.
2 THE RURAL VOICE
Feedback
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Make people aware
Re: Adrian Vos' column in the Novem-
ber issue:
I would appreciate your help in
"setting the record straight". When I
was involved with the Perth Federation
of Agriculture and represented a num-
ber of counties in this area on the prov-
incial Board of Governors, as I believe
the provincial executive was known in
the early 1950s, a move was underway
to get redress for the excessive contri-
bution to education costs by farmers.
While Perth has no township Feder-
ations now, we did have 40 years ago. I
cannot state the exact year when South
East Hope by way of resolution brought
this matter to the attention of the
county executive. From there it was
carried forward to the provincial level.
I can not be sure of the exact year
that the OFA brought the suggestion of
some relief for the farmer on education
costs. But when Leslie Frost was Pre-
mier of Ontario I was part of the dele-
gation which presented our annual brief
to the Ontario cabinet. This, therefore,
had to be at or before the middle 1950s.
We pointed out in our brief that a pro-
fessional person might own a home and
perhaps a small acreage and not pay
nearly the taxes that the farmers around
him paid on their stables, sheds, silos
plus the farm land. (The farms were
not as big then as now.) The cabinet,
as I recall, always gave us a courteous
hearing. On this matter several
members of the cabinet expressed their
agreement that the system was not fair.
"But" they could, for the present, see
no way to remedy what they admitted
to be an obvious injustice.
I have pointed out at times that it
took about 15 years of lobbying and
"briefing" to achieve results. Let no
one tell you that it was not the OFA
that saw the injustice and worked for a
remedy. South East Hope and Perth
may not have been the only initiators.
But I have been on the scene too long
to accept the version in the November
issue of The Rural Voice.0
Clayton Bender
Gowanstown, ON