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Farm study enters third phase
First two phases of local project having provincial impact
BY SCOTT HILGENDORFF: available to support the belief
Expositor Editor that agriculture had a
significant impact on ,the
.Work begun a couple years local economy:
ago on a study that -revealed - Paul Nairn; . local
in detail the importance of
agriculture to Huron County
is having province -wide
effects. .
.The study was spearheaded
by Seaforth area's Bill
Wallace. chair: of the
economic impact committee
under the- Federation of
Agriculture. -
Thc first phase of the
study. begun. about three
years ago. determined that -
two but of every. three jobs in
the. Huron County economy
was supported by agriculture
when looking at direct and
indirect employment.
The second phase of the
study. being conducted
through.the University of
.Guelph. involved creating it
manual of how the study was
dome. This was shared with
other counties across the
.province which have been
Jrve,Ioping the;r own
statistics based on the first
one done in Huron_ County.
"Now we're getting close
to getting a cumulative total related to . farming, the
for the pntvincc," said indirect johs-(those who sell
Wallace. as more and more to lir .provide services to a
studies are conducted. fa •
rmer) and the further spin -
It's really interesting to off effects from other
see something von inrtgincd business thine by each
and got going-strike'ra chord ,farmer.
across the -whole Tprovince. For example.. the farmer
he said. may directly employ several
Thc.htcaf study was donepeople at the operation.
because there were no figures creating direct employment.
He then makes purchases of
federation president,' said it
was at a time when the
OntafI Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs office in Clinton
faced closure. The Huron
Federation of Agriculture -
lobbied to save it based on
the importance of agriculture
in -this area but it didn't have
the figures to hack it up. -
it has since shown that, if
Huron County was a
province it would he the
seventh largest producer of
agriculture in -Canada,
beating all of the Atlantic
provinces,
According* to the 19.96
census. Huron • .County
generates $512 million from
direct agricultural sales. New
Brunswick is the.closcst with
around S3(0.million.
In Huron County. 'about
20.000 jobs out of about
40.00 people over the age of
19. relate to agriculture.
The study looked at the
number of jobs directly
Minor, injuries in crash
A Walton than received
minor injuries durinr* a two-
( vehicle collision on County
Road 12 'in 10cKillop
Township Match 15 at !:15
p.m. . • 1.
Steven Scehach was a . of Clinton caused damages
passenger in a 1990 Nissan,. .to a rear .window of 'the
driving southbound by 36- .building and to the lock of a
year-old Mary Wcrnhatn. of :parked )995 Nissan Altima
Walton. which collided with in the parking lot. reports the
a 1990 GMC van.. also HuronOPP. -
driving southbound by 29- An employee was working
year -gild Darren Beuerman. inside the building at 2 a.m..
df McKillop Township. • heard breaking glass and
The vctlicles:rollidcd when called the police.
one attempted to turn into a Anyone with any
private drive in front of the information is asked to call
other. which was' attempting Crimestoppers or the Huron
OPP
OPP
report
to pass.
Sechach was treated and
rclea.sed at Seaforth
Community Hospital..
Attemptcd.hreak-in
An attempte -break-rn---tn-the -family-driveway in
March 19 at Epps Products Hullett Township March I5.
in Hullett Township justeast reports Huron OPi'.
Stereo stolen
A ~25.(}00 stereo+system'
was stolen from a 1995
Grand Prix parked unlocked
equipment at a farm
dealership providing indirect
employment. Then, he heads
into a community to buy. .
groceries, clothing or
vehicles, which are -spin-off
effects that further support
other jobs in the community.
"The whole gist of this is.
there is much more to
agriculture than you see," he
said. -
"There isn't a small town
in Huron County that would
exist without the agricultural•
Kase around it." .
Wallace said the
information in the study
helped influence Huron
County's new official plan. A
draft of the plan -seemed to
overlook the itnportancc of
agriculture and the
information was presented to
• county staff.
"They recognized the
importance of agriculture and
formulated their revised plan
around it," Wallace said.
adding that plan included
protection for agricultural
land. ,
The information was also
used by the various
organizations who have been
studying•the water quality of
Lake Huron in the past year.
MPP Helen Johns. 'had
asked for figures like those
generated by the study to
help her support farm issues
at the provincial level. •
"There is,all kinds of spin-
off," said Wallace of having
. the statistics available._
For example. the study
involved conducting an
inventory oft the types of
business relating to
agriculture and _ now,
someone looking at servicing
the agricultural industry can
see what types of.husinnsses
might be neciied.
And now. a report from a
third and final phase ot"the
-.project.is- expected any day
'now. •It •. will reveal
information about
.transportation. • and the
infrastructure used to ship
agriculturally produced .
products from Huron County.
It will also show"where those
products go.•
"One ofthe big surprises in
the first study was the dollar
value of products exported
out of the county and out of
the province." said Wallace.
That suggested a third and
final phase to examine where
.and how the product -goes.
A draft of that 'study is
expected at the end of the
month with a final'rcport
coming within a month or
two after.,
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