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The Rural Voice, 1987-10, Page 50'Pr& ED'S CONCRETE See our new style of weaner feeders is MANUFACTURING PRE -CAST HOG FEEDERS Three or four feet long, 36 or 42 inches high, with albwance for water nipple installation. Designed for high moisture corn, pelleted, or dry feed. Hog slats and weaner slats STRATFORD 519-271-6590 NEW & USED STEEL for Gates, Pens, Supports, Pipes, Fences, Farm Buildings & Equipment See us for all your building and repair projects Hwy. 6 & 10, Owen Sound, 519-376-0420 igatit FaU1! R YORKSHIRE DUROC HAMPSHIRE LANDRACE & HYBRIDS 48th PRODUCTION SALE Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7:00 p.m. At the farm of WARREN STEIN. Located one mile south and two miles west of Tavistock. We are offering approximately 85 Open Gilts, 65 Boars, and 10 Bred Gilts of York, Hamp, Duroc, Landrace, and various hybrid breeds; including a good selection of Hamp x Duroc boars. We also have a good selection of boars available at all times. Ontario's largest selection of R.O.P. tested and veterinary inspected boars and gilts. Ranked "Good" by the Animal Industry Branch. Delivery arrangements available. For further information, or for catalogues please contact Richard Stein Warren Stein R.R. 6, Woodstock, Ont. R.R. 2, Tavistock, Ont. 519-655-2942 519-462-2704 48 THE RURAL VOICE NEWS NEW FACES ON REVIEW BOARDS James Lochead of London and George Demeyere of Tillsonburg have been appointed to the Ontario Farm Debt Review Board. Lochead has 37 years of experience with the Bank of Montreal, mainly in the agribusiness commercial loan sector. Demeyere has served as director of the Ontario Flue -Cured Tobacco Grow- ers Marketing Board for 29 years.0 SOY PARASITE IDENTIFIED HERE Researchers recently identified soy- bean cyst nematodes in Ontario for the first time. The soybean nematode is a small parasitic worm first seen in the southern U.S. in 1954. It has since spread up the Mississippi Valley to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario. The nematodes were identified in two isolated cases in Southern Ontario. There is potential for yield loss to nema- todes, although losses can be made in- significant through good crop rotation. Ontario soybean breeders are now working on nematode resistance.0 C -B LOANS SEEM POPULAR Although greeted with reservations, commodity -based loans from the Farm Credit Corporation have earned clients. About a third of the loans made by the FCC in the year ended March 31 and since have been commodity -based. Farmers who are FCC borrowers are eligible if they have Tess than 40 percent equity and "reasonable long-term pros- pects." The loans are then fully indexed to commodity prices and carry a six per cent interest rate. The loans convert to conventional loans after 10 years. FCC borrowers with less than 55 per cent equity can get partially indexed loans with interest between six per cent and the current FCC lending rate. The government guarantees that the cost of the loan won't be higher than a loan taken out at a rate two per cent higher than the prevailing FCC rate.0