HomeMy WebLinkAboutFarming '91, 1991-03-20, Page 17FARMING ’91, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1991. A17.
Farming ’91
Programs help farmers adopt conservation measures
A farmer operates a ridge tillplanter.
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private landowners on a cost recov
ery basis. Last year a total of about
4,500 trees, including hardwood
and coniferous were supplied.
With the end of the OSCEPAP II
program in 1989, the construction
of conservation farm structures
slowed almost to a halt. Fortunate
ly OMAF announced two programs
that will provide sources of funding
in the future. Land Stewardship II
begins in April and will run for
three years, providing grants for
numerous conservation practices.
The National Soil Conservation
Program is also three years in
length. This program will provide
funds for landowners interested in
retiring fragile lands.
MVCA Soil and Water Techni
cian Chris Hoskins said there is
$38,000 available through the Land
Stewardship II program for helping
farmers adopt new management
practices in conservation and to
provide financial assistance for
these practices.
Up to $20 per acre will be given
for residue management, provided
there is a 20 per cent soil coverage
from the previous crop. This could
be from immediately after harvest
to immediately after planting. To
plant a cover crop so the soil isn’t
exposed, the program offers $30 an
acre. Ten dollars an acre is
available for part of an accepted
United Breeders
reports profit
for 1990
Members attending the United
Breeders Inc. annual meeting held
January 23 heard the member-
owned and Guelph-based artificial
insemination livestock centre re
ported a profit of $433,053 in the
fiscal year 1990.
Total revenue increased almost
three per cent to $13,129,135
giving 1990 to the second-highest
annual revenue in the history of
United. Expenses were held at less
than three per cent.
Semen sales increased 2.2 per
cent to exceed $4.35-million.
Total incentives returned to
United members amounted to
$686,364, resulting from payment
of classification fees, breeding fee
reductions, the 40:40 program, and
rhe VIP program.
strip cropping system if up to 30
per cent of the acres were planted
in the previous year to a maximum
of 100.
There is funding for conservation
equipment with grants up to $3,000
for 50 per cent of the costs toward
the purchase, modification or ren
tal of equipment.
For the building of soil conser
vation structures, like grassed
waterways, water diversion and
fencing of water courses, funding
of 50 per cent of the costs to solve
the existing erosion problem is
offered. For manure storage and
handling systems another 50 per
cent is available to eliminate the
need to spread and store manure.
The Land Stewardship program
will also fund 50 per cent of,
salvaging environmental protection
regarding milkhouse and parlour
wash water.
Through the National Soil Con
servation Program up to $10,000 is
available to retire and protect
fragile land, especially farmland
strips adjacent to streams and open
ditches. This helps reduce erosion
and chemical run-off and it is being
administered through Ontario Soil
and Crop on behalf of Agriculture
Canada.
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Though Mr. Hoskins says his
impression is that response to the
program has been good Mr. Weit
endorf admits that there are still a
few who don’t see themselves as
the problem. “Some farmers are
skeptical; they have done things for
so long the same way. The reality is
that usually there are only one or
two days a year when you can
actually see soil erosion happening.
It occurs so slowly that farmers just
can’t believe it happens.” He
explains that in magazines the
pictures of soil erosion always show
such a “horrendous example” that
people can’t relate to it. “They are
not the typical situations that
everyone sees.”
“People don’t look at the cumu
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lative perspective. There are over
200 cattle access points in the
watershed. When you think of it
that way, most people agree that it
is a problem and society at large
has to help farmers clean it up. We
struggle with trying to make them
aware it’s happening.”