The Rural Voice, 1988-09, Page 49L
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Beef Benefits through
the Red Meat Plan
The Red Meat Plan, now in the last
of its five years, has been very good for
the beef business, says Ron Wettlaufer,
Chairman of the Perth County Beef
Improvement Club.
The club was set up to administer the
program, which helps to finance im-
provements in cow -calf and stocker -
slaughter operations as well as in the
sheep industry.
Scott Banks, red meat advisor for
Perth, Huron, and Waterloo, reports that
just under 300 producers in Perth
County are enrolled in the program.
Beef producers are now hoping that
the program will be extended in some
form. "Five years is not long enough, in
my opinion," says Wettlaufer.
Wettlaufer, who farms with his wife,
Dikkie, and family near New Hamburg,
has 35 purebred Charolais and Li-
mousin beef cows. They sell breeding
stock, test bull calves, sell calves to 4-H
members, and finish the rest of the ani-
mals to market weight.0
Association Works to
Ensure Farm Safety
Ruby Rennick, Perth County Farm
Safety Association president, says if she
could give one piece of advice to farm-
ers, it would be "take your time."
Most farm accidents, she says, occur
because farmers are pushing too hard.
The Perth association works year-
round to educate rural people about
safety through displays, talks to groups
and schools, and a contest for school-
children with farm safety as the theme.
Last year, unfortunately, Rennick
reports, Perth County had the highest
number of farm accidents causing death
in 10 years. Five people were killed.
To help prevent such tragedies, the
Perth association offered a workshop
for women this year. "The women,"
Rennick says, "are more apt to listen to
the farm safety message than men are."
The Perth group has about 20 mem-
bers. Rennick, in her ninth year with the
organization, farms near Monkton with
her husband and his father. They run a
50 -sow barn plus a cow -calf operation.0