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NFU leader says GATT,
NAFTA about who
Brussels Livestock report
Steady demand at auction
controls farm
International trade negotiations in
agriculture are really about who
will control farm production,
Wayne Easter, president of the
National Farmers Union told a
meeting of about 60 Line in the
Dirt supporters in Reed's Comers
Thursday night.
Mr. Easter said that supply man
agement gives farmers control over
their own production and if negoti
ations under GATT and the North
American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) are successful, that con
trol will be taken away from farm
ers by taking away the border
controls supply management
requires to control supply.
If the problem spurring on trade
talks is export subsidies that distort
the market and create damaging
surpluses, he said, then why is sup
ply management being targeted
unless it's because it gives farmers
too much power instead interna
tional food companies.
He said Canadian farmers need to
go on the offensive internationally:
to talk about giving farmers in
other countries the benefit of their
supply management system rather
than lose that benefit to Canada.
"We have to reject the law of the
market", he said.
Mr. Easter said farmers must be
able to get the price for their prod
uct from the market, not from gov
ernment grants. Safety-net
programs like GRIPP, NISA and
tripartite end up in farmers financ
ing their own poverty, he said,
while providing cheap raw materi
als for food processors so they can
compete internationally.
Farmers must strengthen the
position of the Canadian Wheat
Board, must improve supply man
agement and must get more com
modities under supply manage-
OMAF holds NISA meeting April 10
Applications are now being
accepted for the 1991 Net Income
Stabilization Account (NISA) pro
gram.
John Bancroft, the Farm Manage
ment Specialist for Huron County
says an information meeting to
review the 1991 program and the
application forms will be held April
10 at 1:00 p.m. in the auditorium in
Huronview (Clinton).
Pre-registration is required by
calling the Clinton OMAF office at
482-3428 or 1-800-265-5170.
The NISA program is designed to
help farmers meet their long-term
planning and management needs.
Mr. Bancroft explained that for
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production
ment. He suggested a national meat
authority be set up to sell meats in
a complementary basis, rather than
have them compete against one
another. "If we do not co-operate
with one another then we'll contin
ue to be caught in ruinous competi
tion."
Farmers, he said, are generators
of wealth, starting the chain that
creates jobs. Industry, however,
looks at agriculture as a source of
raw materials for processing and
wants cheaper raw materials to
compete internationally. If Canada
is going to compete with Mexico, it
must not only have lower raw food
prices but lower wages. This kind
of competition will pit neighbour
against neighbour, province against
provinces and country against
country, he said. "The aim is
always to drive prices down. We
need to move to a system in which
we have control."
He warned against Bill C-54 cur
rently before the House of Com
mons that would amend the
National Farm Products Council,
the original thrust of which was to
develop farm products marketing
agencies. The new amendments,
however, will allow commodity
organizations to establish check
offs for research and development.
On his farm, the P.E.I. dairy
farmer said, he could end up paying
check-offs to nine different com
modity groups. If producers start
doing research and development,
he warned, the government may
pull back its funding of research.
There will be no plebiscite for
farmers to agree to such check-offs.
"You'd better be aware that it's
before the Commons and most
organizations are supporting it
because it will give them money,"
he said.
the 1991 tax year, the federal-
provincial farmer program will
continue to apply to grains,
oilseeds, special crops and edible
horticulture crops not covered
under National Tripartite Stabiliza
tion Programs.
The deadline for return of the
forms is June 30, 1992.
For more information on NISA,
call the NISA toll-free line at 1-
800-665-NISA or the OMAF office
in Clinton at 482-3428 or 1-800-
265-5170.
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Sales at Brussels Livestock for
the week ending March 27 were:
slaughter cattle, 1035; cows, 288;
veal calves, 235; lambs and goats,
110; stockers, 1250; pigs, 105.
The trade this week was on a
steady demand with second cut
cattle selling $1 - $2 lower.
There were 680 steers on offer
selling from $72 to $93.75 to the
high of $99.75. Six steers
consigned by Gordon Daer, Auburn
averaging 1271 lbs. sold for an
average of $88.65 to the high of
$99.75. Eight steers consigned by
Albert Middlekamp, Ripley
averaging 963 lbs. sold for an
average of $90.35 to the high of
$91. Fourteen steers consigned by
Maple Ridge Farms, Brussels,
averaging 1299 lbs. sold for an
average of $88 to the high of $90.
Forty-three steers consigned by
G. A. Stewart Farms, Ripley
averaging 1238 lbs. sold for an
average of $87.60 to the high of
$91.25.
Nineteen steers consigned by
Alton O'Neil, Lucan averaging
1464 lbs. sold for an average of
$86.50 to the high of $93. Sixty-
two steers consigned by George
Adams, Wroxeter, averaging 1327
lbs. sold for an average of $86.10
to the high of $91.90. Twenty-three
steers consigned by Cunningham
Farms, Lucan, averaging 1485 lbs.
sold for an average of $86.05 to the
high of $92.75. Fifteen steers
consigned by Ken Eadie, Holyrood,
averaging 1480 lbs. sold for an
average of $86 to the high of $93.
Twelve steers consigned by Glen
Johnston, Bluevale averaging 1319
lbs. sold for an average of $85.80
to the high of $91.50. Twenty-four
steers consigned by Martin Metske,
Lucknow averaging 1341 lbs. sold
for an average of $84.56 to the high
of $89. Twenty-seven steers
consigned by Gerald Geisel,
Elmira, averaging 1484 lbs. sold
for an average of $83.40 to the high
of $87.90.
New commodity loan program
announced by Ontario government
The Ontario NDP government
recently announced the formation
of a new program to help farmers
with their short-term operating
credit.
Il's called the Commodity Loan
Guarantee Program and is expected
to provide up to $100 million in
loans at interest rates close to
prime, stated a press release issued
by Huron MPP Paul Klopp March
25.
"This will save most farmers in
the program hundreds of dollars in
interest costs," he stated in the
release. "Some farmers will save
thousands of dollars."
In order to make use of the pro
gram, farmers must be enrolled in
crop insurance or GRIP contracts to
There were 344 heifers on offer
selling from $78 to $90.60 to the
high of $104. Twenty heifers
consigned by John Barbour,
Orangeville, averaging 1276 lbs.
sold for an average of $93.70 to the
high of $104 purchased by
Norwich Packers. One heifer
consigned by Clayton McClure,
Seaforth, weighed 1240 lbs. sold
for $96.75. Three heifers consigned
by Geo., Paul and Mark
Pennington, Mildmay averaging
1173 lbs. sold for an average of
$88.50 to the high of $90.60. Four
heifers consigned by Greg Hackett,
Lucknow averaging 1060 lbs. sold
for $88. Six heifers consigned by
Jim Laverty, Orangeville averaging
998 lbs. sold for an average of
$87.60 to the high of $88.75. Nine
heifers consigned by Lome Forster,
Lucknow averaging 1243 lbs. sold
for an average of $87.35 to the high
of $88. Ten heifers consigned by
Groenberg Farms, Lucknow
averaging 1092 lbs. sold for an
average of $87.20 to the high of
$93.
Eight heifers consigned by
Randy Pentland, Goderich,
averaging 1092 lbs. sold for an
average of $84.15 to the high of
$85.75. Ten heifers consigned by
Lome Hackett, Lucknow averaging
1016 lbs. sold for an average of
$83.85 to the high of $87.50.
There were 288 cows on offer
selling from $52.25 to $59.75 to
the high of $68. Two cows
consigned by Wilhelm Wagner,
Kincardine averaging 935 lbs. sold
for an average of $56.70 to the high
of $65. One cow consigned by
Kevin Pfeffer, Palmerston weighed
1310 lbs. sold for $64.50. One cow
consigned by Greg McPherson,
Teeswater, weighed 1390 lbs. sold
for $62.75.
There were 235 veal on offer
selling from $64.50 to $88.50 to
the high of $95. Two veal
consigned by Mark Pfeffer,
provide security on money bor
rowed to plant a crop. The Ontario
government provides a further 25
per cent guarantee on the loan. If
the crop fails for weather or market
reasons, the crop insurance or
GRIP contract provides the first
level of security to the bank. If this
is insufficient to cover the loan, the
government guarantee kicks in.
Mr. Klopp said the NDP govern
ment is planning to introduce other
programs in the future which are
aimed at cutting farmer's interest
costs.
For more information on the
Commodity Loan Guarantee Pro
gram, call Mr. Klopp's constituency
office in Clinton at 482-3132 or 1-
800-668-9320.
Clifford averaging 610 lbs. sold for
an average of $73.30 to the high of
$95. Four veal consigned by Dave
Elphick, Lucknow averaging 643
lbs. sold for an average of $76.95
to the high of $92.50. Two veal
consigned by Charles Codd,
Fordwich, averaging 610 lbs. sold
for an average of $82.70 to the high
of $91.50.
There were 105 pigs on offer
with 67 paper pigs. Fifty to 60 lb.
pigs sold to a high of 77 cents per
lb.; 60 to 70 lb., to a high of 75
cents per lb.; 80 lbs. to a high of 60
cents per lb.
The paper pig sale at Brussels
Livestock has been working well
for both buyer and seller, with a
number of order-buyers quite
interested in buying larger
numbers.
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