The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-02-21, Page 9Commodity groups speak to me:
BY ALICE GIBS He said there are
currently two trainsof
f
Art Bolton of McKillop,. thoughts among
president of the Huron producers about the
Cattlemen's Association, issue''
asked Huron County's.. Some producers want
three members of the quota to be purchased
parliament for their by the marketing board,
support in preventing put into a pool and re-
consumer over -reaction 1 distributed pro -rate to all
•to the high price of beef at the producers wanting it,
the annual, members of
parliament meeting on
Saturday.
Bolton and represen-
tatives from other Huron
County commodity
groups presented their
krie€s to. MPPs Jack
Riddell and (-Murray
Gaunt and MP Robert
McKinley at the dinner
held in Clinton.
Bolton,said the beef
price icrease results
from the decline in the
number of beef cattle and
the decline in value of the
Canadian dollar. He said
it's expected the number
of .cows will continue to
decline until 1980 and
relatively high prices for
beef will prevail until
1982.
Frank Vali, ark OFA
director fron'i the
Niagara •region, : asked
Mr. Bolton if -cattle
producers couldn't
maintain their production
at a 's;teady rate. He said.
there was again talk by
some consumers about
boycotting. beef due to the
high prices operation with quota
rather than buying ex-
QUICI WAY OUT pensive land andgoing.
into cash cropping.,
Bolton said cattlemen Murray Gaunt saidhe
are trying to , get better . had heard concern ex-
market information to pressed about a Cor
-
the producers in order to porate: concentration: in
stabilize; production` 'and the egg business. Scott.
price cycles. He added' " said at this point he `didn't
that. "mentioning - quotas see the industry getting
was the ``quickest way to
into corporate hands,
get yourself out of a . since individual farmers.
cattlemen's meeting that and not industries are
I know." leasing available egg
Lloyd Stewart,; quotas.,
secretaz'y, of the Huron The family farmer is
County Pork Producers- right out there coin-
calle, d.for an expansion of peting," Mr. Scott added.
the processing and Bert Elliott, chairman ,
Packingindustry in the of the Huron ,County
brief he presented to, the Cream Producers,
three politicians. reported. his organization
Jack Riddell said he is still fighting a drop in
understood pork con the consumption of
sumption will increase 'in cream in the market
the .,.future,.,due,.to, .h;ighex.,.,.1?lace and suggests a
beef prices and that good percentage .6f Ihe""iirie
pork prices are predicted
for the next two :years:
John Van Beers, of
R.R. 1, Blyth, said•
Ontario hog producers
need another
slaughtering plantinthe
province to keep up with
production,
Bill Scott of Seaforth,
Huron County director on
the Ontario Egg
Producers' Marketing
Board, said in his brief
that both Ontario and
Quebec require an in-
crease Q in their egg.
'quotas. He said under the
federal marketingplan,
until a •more realistic
agreement can be
reached, egg quotas can't
be stabilized .and will
continue to fluctuate.
MAJOR PROBLEM
The director told the
members -of parliament
the major problem facing
producers now is the
development of an
ongoing transfe policy.
at the same price.
Scott said, "This is- the
fairest, easiest and least
controversial plan to
implement.",
However, other
producers favor an open,
face to face . buy -sell
program • with
limitations, such . as
limiting purchases'to five
per cent of lyasie quota.
Scott said the marketing
board directors are now
working on=a program for
quotas to.be put forward
at their annual meeting in
March.
Jack Riddell, the
Liberal party's
agriculture critic in the
Ontario legislature, said
he is concerned how a
young person gets into
the egg business today.
Riddell asked,' "Have
we closed the door to the
young farmer who wants
to go into the business? "
Jim McIntosh, of R.R.
5, Seaforth, said a young
farmer, could probably
still jlustfy `.buying a
successful ":poultry
increase for producers be
paid ' through higher
subsidies. He also told the
three politicians that his
group is opposed to any
changes being made in
the Line Fence Act, and
feels each landowner
should, maintain' his own
half of the .•line fences
where livestock are
pasturing on neigh-
bouring farms.
Melvin Knox of the
Huron • County Milk
'Committee said his in-
dustryas a whole has few
major problems. .
ONTARIO LOST
Knox told the audience
Ontario has lost too great
an amount of their share
of -the quota, since they
didn't produce enough of
the. provincial allotment.
Now, "we'd just love to
produce more milk in this
province" but "we don't
want to be stuck with a
big surplus."
He said producers are
now living with a five per
cent sleeve on excess
quota, but this is "awful
tight."
Knox said milk
producers suffered when
the ' United Kingdom
joined the European
Common Market, since
Canada lost a major
cheddar cheese market.
He said there is now no
such thing as an export
market for dairy,
products " since there is
such a glut on the world
market from countries
dike Australia, New
Zealand and'the Common
Market'countries.
Jack Riddell said in the.
past, there has been "a.
damn poor job of selling
our dairy products" and
thathe would like to see a
better job done selling
these products to the
public:
DISCOURAGE
Bev Brown, an OFA
director from Bluevale,
Loci w Se,.tlimil, Waiwday, Febreasy 21, •i i - pal
said a resolution is
coming up at the
Canadian Federation of
Agriculture conference in
Ottawa this week to
discourage the imitation
of natural dairy products
by products like coffee
creamers and artificial
whipped creams.
She said, "In my
opinion, all farmers
should be supporting
dairy farmers in this
area."
,Robert , Anderson,
representing then, Huron
,County Bean Board, said
the major problem facing
his organization was to
find new markets' for
their product. Bean
production in Ontario is
currently in a surplus
situation, he. reported.
Allan . Campbell,
representing the Huron
Plowmen's Association
and Glen McNeil,
representing the. 4-H' Club
Leaders :Association also
presented briefs.•
At the end of the
rs' dinner
session, Bev Brown
thanked MP Robert
McKinley for bringing
the binder twine issue up
in the House of Commons
9..
and congratulated Jack
Riddell on his work on the
predator •b111 introduced
in the Ontario legislature.
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