HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-06-15, Page 18Page 4A Times -Advocate, June 15, 1983
Education features
set for pork event
The topics being presented
during the education program
at this year's Pork Congress
were chosen as the primary
areas of interest at the initial
committee meeting in
December. The Congress is
scheduled for Stratford on
June 21, 22 and 23.
In addressing the topic of
Ontario's Position in the
North American Market, the
speakers will cover the con-
text in which Ontario pork
producers work in North
America. They will attempt
to point out the advantage we
can make of our position as a
part of the mid to eastern
North American pork
industry.
Sid Fraleigh from Forest,
Ontario, a past Chairman of
both the Ontario Pork Pro-
ducers' Marketing Board and
the Canadian Meat Council,
will speak on our production
in relation to the other pro-
duction centres of North
America. Larry Campbell,
from the Canadian Meat
Council, will discuss our posi-
tion in relation to killing and
marketing North American
pork. Ron Urquhart, who was
a member of the committee
investigating "Implications of
Alternative Marketing
Strategies for the Ontario
Pork Industry," will sum the
topic up and bring it home by
indicating what the whole
thing means to the Ontario
pork producer.
The "Helping Yourself"
section of the program is tak-
ing an informative look at
record keeping by emphasiz-
ing the concept of farm
records and what can be done
with them through summary
analysis and subsequent
management decisions.
John Gadd, from the United
Kingdom, a world-wide ex-
pert and writer, will be telling
us how to use records to im-
prove litters/sow/year and to
improve pigs weaned per
litter.
An update of the Wintario
project providing new infor-
mation is concentrating on
feeder pig productivity. I)r.
Robert Friendship from- On-
tario Veterinary -College will
concentrate on drug use and
diseases with new findings
from slaughter house studies.
Ralph Pieper. an economist
and co-ordinator of the pro-
ject, will deal with the
economic implications of the
recent findings. Dr. Michael
Wilson, from Ontario
Veterinary College since 1966.
will provide a summary of the
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Ontario Hydro has taken a
beating from writers over the
years.
Most of the time, that
roasting in the press has been
deserved.,I can recall talking
to farmers 15 years ago who
were so disgusted with
Hydro's land -buying tactics
that they refused to let Hydro
representatives onto their
land.
Those buyers, at that tinle,
gleefully played one farmer
'against the other. They would
tell ane farmer that his
neighbor had settled for $200
an acre. The naive farmer
would reluctantly agree to the.
low sum and find out later
that the buyer had told his
neighbor the same thing.
But that cavalier attitude
has changed.
Regional property directors
for the giant utility are mak-
ing on -the -spot adjustments
for disgruntled farmers. The
directors, although not ben-
ding over backwards, are try-
ing hard to be fair in their
dealings with farmers.
A case in point is along the
St. Thomas -to -Windsor power
corridor. Hydro bought the
land from farmers back in the
early 1900s whether the
farmers wanted to sell or not.
In turn, Hydro leased the
land back to the owners for $1
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an acre plus property taxes.
A fair enough deal even then
but it applied only to original
owners and their sons and
daughters.
It was not until 1983 that
Hydro decided to re -negotiate
the original deals and that
was when the fit hit the shan.
Angry farmers thought they
were getting the whole farm
when they purchased it but
found that Hydro owned the
corridors.
Hydro officials, on the other
WWI ars sppreasted by sob irons
hand, said the original deals
were made in good faith and
new owners would have to get
new agreements.
In April of this year, Hydro
officials sat down with the
disgruntled farmers to
discuss terms.
Stressing that Hydro
"wanted to be fair," Fred
Ellis, southwestern Ontario
regional property director,
gave the present owners the
same rights as the original
owners ' which satisfied the
Ontario
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
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and
home news
Starting June 14, a series of
seven regional meetings will
be held across the province to
elicit written and oral briefs
on the future of Ontario's red
meat industry.
Last month, the ministry
releaseda series of
background papers and
research studies on the red
meat sector at the Meat,.
Livestock and Grain
Marketing Outlook Seminar.
"The purpose of the
regional meetings is to use
these studies as a springboard
for gathering information and
opinion from individuals and
organizations on their in-
dustry," Timbrell said.
The meetings will be open
to all involved in the red meat
sector. The viewpoints ex-
pressed in the written and
oral submissions are ex-
pected to form the basis for
the minister's paper to the
federal -provincial agriculture
ministers' meeting in July in
Prince Edward Island where
a national farm income
stabilization program will he
a priority topic.
"Ultimately, we hope these
meetings will be the first step
in a new direction for the red
meat sector in this province,
a direction leading to a
significant and sustained
recovery for the industry,"
Timbrell said.
The meetings, to be chaired
by OMAF's assistant deputy
minister of marketing and
development, William Doylb,
will begin at 7 p.m. in the
following locations: June 14 at
the Country Barbecue
Restaurant in Orangeville,
June 15 at the Royal Canadian
Legion Hall in Walkerton;
June 20 at the Middlesex
Municipal Building, 367
Ridout St.. N., in London;
June 21 at the Itockhaven
Motor Hotel in Peterborough;
June 22 at Kemptville College
in Kemptville; June 23 at New
Liskeard College in New
Liskeard and June 27 at Strat-
ton Hall in Stratton.
Producer groups such as
the Ontario Cattlemen's
Associatioo, the Ontario
Federation of1Agriculture, the
National Farmers Union, the
Christian Farmers' Federa-
tion, the Ontario Sheep
Association and the Ontario
Pork Producers' Marketing
Board have also been invited
to participate.
Interested groups and in-
dividuals can write for copies
of the background papers to
assist in preparing their sub-
missions to the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food, Assistant Deputy
Minister of Marketing and
Development, Legislative
Buildings. Queen's Park.
Toronto, M7A 2B2.
Manure storage grant
We've been getting a lot of
questions about the new
manure storage grant. This
new program started April 1
and a completely separate
program from the one which
expired on that date. The of-
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Conservation and En-
vironmental Protection
Assistance Program. There
are two parts: Erosion Con-
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far, most of the interest in this
country is in the manure'
storage part of the program.
As the name suggests, en-
vironmental protection is one
of the aims of this program,
By containing all the manure
and possible runoff from the
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farmers involved. •
Although Mr. Ellis definite-
ly said that the settlement
should not be a precedent
when other regions of the pro-
vince are re -negotiated, the
St. Thomas -Windsor corridor
is being viewed by farmers as
a refreshing step forward.
Ellis has said he hopes
farmers won't take it• as a
precedent because the St.
Thomas -Windsor corridor
was a unique situation. But
the farmers concerned saw a
new spirit of cooperation in
the situation and are hoping
for fair treatment when the
rest of the lease agreements
on.• older lines are
re -negotiated.
It is certainly a far different
attitude than that, displayed
by other utility demands in
years past.
Gas companies have had to
be taken to court in a long line
of litigation before land
owners got satisfaction.
Only recently has Hydro
agreed to erect power lines in
patterns that do the least en-
vironmental damage instead
of a straight swath hundreds
of yards wide through
farmlands, swamps, forests
and rivers with no regard for
damage caused.
Hydro has developed a set
of guidelines for Land
acquisition --and com-
plainants now have the en-
vironmental protection agen-
cy behind them.
Compromls. approved
over tax rebate sch•me
Legislating the 50 percent
rebate program for farm
owners is a "satisfactory
alternative to the proposed
100 percent tax rebate says
the Huron County Federation
of Agriculture's task force
looking into the proposed pro-
perty tax changes.
The task force has
presented six major recom-
mendations with an addi-
tional three requiring further
review by other agencies. The
recommendations were tabl-
ed at the Jw lemeeting of the
Federation wifh discussion to
take place at its June 27 direc-
tor's meeting.
"The committee felt the
present 50 percent rebate plan
had addressed in pact the
known inequities to farm
owners. The program has
also common acceptance by
the farming community as a
whole, and possesses an ele-
ment of universality which is
deemed desirable,:' states the
task force's report.
The five other recommen-
dations are:
- That the farm house be
assessed separately as a rural
residence;
That all the farm land and
farm buildings be assessed on
their productive value;
- That educational taxes on all
farm land and farm buildings
should either be removed or
rebated;
- That farm residences will be
taxed on the same basis as
other rural residential units
receiving the same services.
including educational taxes;
- The the concept of an acre of
land under the farm
residence being assessed
separately for tax purposes
from adjacent land is totally
unacceptable.
Other recommendations
which the task force feels
should be handled by other
agencies are:
--Financial impact to the
overall subsidies program;
- Eligibility criterion;
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will come up for discussion at
the July Ontario Federation
of Agriculture meeting in
Toronto.
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