The Rural Voice, 1989-01, Page 56BRUCE
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County Federation of Agriculture NEWSLETTER The Rural Voice is provided to Bruce
County federation members by the BCFA.
446 10th St., Hanover, Ontario N4N 1P9
519-364-3050
ONWARD IN '89
As 1989 gets started, the Bruce
County Federation of Agriculture is
preparing itself for another busy year.
1988 closed off with the BCFA taking
a positive outlook on how we are
going to approach the farm situation.
We fully realize that the farm
financial situation has not improved
for many farmers and others are seeing
their position deteriorate after a diffi-
cult 1988. Many of the old problems
still exist and we are not going to
ignore the people involved in these
problems. We have reaffirmed our
position to help organizations such as
the Queen's Bush Ministry in meeting
their mandate to help farm families.
Having said this, I believe our
organization must also be looking to
the future. We have to build upon the
positives that exist in the farm com-
munity. To do so, we must look back
upon our successes and failures and
use these as building blocks.
To achieve this goal, we have
struck a special committee to establish
where we would like to see agriculture
10 years down the road. This commit-
tee as well will recommend ways to
assure a farm future for our members.
Under the chairmanship of Gerry
Poechman, it will be looking for ideas
from any and all sources and you may
forward your thoughts to Gerry
through our office in Hanover.
We will also be looking at ways to
get our membership more involved.
We believe it is very important to get
this involvement to keep our organiza-
tion in touch with the community. To
achieve this goal, our meetings
committee will be setting up special
interest meetings throughout 1989.
As the new president of BCFA, I
am very pleased at the quality of dir-
ectors on our board. They represent a
very broad spectrum of the farm com-
munity and bring a very diversified
base of experience and ideas to your
county federation. We have many
new electors to blend in with our
older veterans to give a good sense of
direction for the BCFA.
The 1980s have been hard times
membership -wise for the BCFA. For
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the first time in many years, our repre-
sentation on the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture board has dropped to
three. We will be trying very hard in
'89 to regain our fourth voice.
When a federation representative
calls on you in 1989 for a member-
ship, consider the pluses. You have
the opportunity to get good prices on
equipment from the Ontario Farm
Machinery Agency. You receive The
Rural Voice and Farm & Country free.
Your membership gives you a voice in
a recognized lobby organization.
You share in the gains we make
and we only ask that you help shoul-
der the cost of achieving these pro-
grams that put dollars in your pocket
every year. It is up to you to help the
BCFA to ensure that there is a profit-
able future for farmers. As our motto
says: "In Unity there's Strength."
The time has come for us all to
look ahead. Help us to be a proactive
federation planning for the future
instead of a reaction group responding
to others' failings.0
Ron Garland
BCFA EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Allan Smith, Bob Bregman, C. Lynn Fielder, Gerald Poechman
BCFA COMMITTEES, 1988-89
Membership
Public Relations
Meetings
Lobbying
(Ad hoc
committee)
Environment
and Properties
Area Office
Allan Smith
Tony Morris
Jerry Hellyer
Ted Zettel
Jayne Dietrich
Ken Kelly
Gerry Poechman
Murray Howe
Bill Davis
Dave Keith
Bob Bregman
Wayne Fitzgerald
Ron Garland
Bill Davis
Ted Zettel
Jim Cullen
Byron Monk
Adrian Dykstra
C. Lynn Fielder
Ted Zettel
Gary T. Fischer
John Travis
Ron Garland
Bill Davis
Ted Zettel
Lorne Eccles
Elmer Scarrow
Allan Kinney
Donna Spitzig
Gerrie Blake
Finance AND Policy
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