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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-04-10, Page 8 (2)Times -Advocate, April 10, 1975 By JACK RIDDELL M.P.R. . Last week in the Legislature the Minister of Agriculture an- nounced that •the Milk Com- mission .of Ontario will hold a public inquiry into certain ' aspects of the Milk Industry, in view of the several price in- creases in recent months. Milk prices have increased by about 40 percent over the past year—more than twice as quickly as other foods. In Toronto a year ago a quart of homogenized milk averaged 37c, today it is about 56c. The Minister- of Agriculture indicated that consumers in Ontario have a right to know how certain elements in the chain of milk production and sale affect the final price paid for a quart of milk. These factors include the cost -of production, processing and marketing fluid milk products, By MISS ELLA MORLOCK Allan Grose, Fullarton, was • guest speaker at the Sunday morning service of Zion United Church. He brought a message on the three mistakes made by the rich young ruler in his approach to Christ. Next Sunday Rev. Harold Snell will conduct the service. 'To tell of Holy Land • 'The April meeting, of the UCW was cancelled because of the blizzard. Plans- made for the April meeting will be carried out May .1. These plans include en- tertaining the Centralia UCW and the local Explorers Group with their mothers, and a visit from Clare McGowan, Goderich, with slides and souvenirs of her tour of the Holy Land. Attend Garden Club The 441 leaders attended a one - day training session, at Exeter United Church Monday. The topic oT the spring session is "The Garden _Club'. Leaders who attended were Mrs. Cliff Kenney, Mrs. Don Finkbeiner, Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Ed Nethercott. Mrs. Barry Clarke. Mrs. Norman Hyde. Patti Tasko, Mrs. William Muller and Mrs. Glenn Hodgins. . Personals Guests at the .home of Nola Faist Wednesday were Rev. & • Mrs. Fred Faist. Stratford; Mrs. Ronald Zophy, Allen and Ann Marie. Brown Deer. Wisconsin; Mrs. Dennis Jutzi and Heather of Si. George. Mrs. Douglas Gill has returned home after welcong a grand- ' daughter at the ho r. & Mrs. Lee McCutcheon, Willowdale. The Gills' son John returned home with his mother. Mrs. Ellis Rendall, Mr. & Mrs. Allen Rendall and family of New York. spent last week with Mrs. Margaret Clarke, and attended the 25th wedding anniversary in Dashwood 6f Mr. & Mrs. Jim Clarke. * Sunset Travel Trailers * Corsair (By Bendix) Travel Trailers * Champion Motor Homes • SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS Graham Arthur Motors Exeter 235-1373 .To hold inquiry on milk industry • trade practices, price spreads, management policies and methods of financing. The public . inquiry will begin as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. At the end of March the Milk . Commission, an,•agency of the Ministry of Agriculture; which was set up in 1965, denied an appeal by milk processors against another milk price in- crease set for April 1. Loss of the appeal means that farmers will get an extra $1.L6 per hun- dredweight for whole milk; for a total of $12.01 per hundredweight. The Milk Commission upheld the farmers' ease for an increase, to meet. increased costs,' as put before the Commission by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board, which represents the. milk producers. The increase means farmers who received about 25c a quart of milk sold in Ontario last April will receive about 32c a quart in future. Some of the price increases are 'due to removal of a 5c a quart federal government subsidy which was introduced in 1973 to -cushion effects on the .:onsumer of earlier increases in prices to inilk producers. However, in- creased production costs have contributed tremendously to the higher prices. °Milk production in Canacja in ' 1973 was 16.9 billion pounds, which was 4.6 percent•less than 11 a 1972 production of 17.7 billion pounds. Ontario produced only 4.25 billion pounds of milk last year, compared with 5 billion pounds 10 years ego. In '1973 - Ontario milk production declined St percent fromihat of 1972, and in the first 6 months of 1974 the province's production .was down 2.6 percent. Many small operations have gone out of business, and larger milk producing operations have taken up the . slack in milk production. In fact, we now have in Ontario 29 percent'fewer milk producers than -five years ago, producing 8_ percent less milk. 'Some 17,000 Ontario, dairy far- mers out of a total of 34,000 have gone out of operation since 1964, One challenge facing the milk industry - in fact the agriculture industry generally - is ensuring that consumers understand the problems Involved. ` . Since the end of World War 1I, the people of Canada have en- joyed a higher -standard of living - one of the highest in the world and until recently incomes have risen faster ih n the costs of the three basic ess ood,. clothing and shelter. Understandably, farmers wish to have a fair share of this high standard of living, and if they are to continue producing the food so vital to us all, they must be able to achieve a living standard comparable to that which they could gain by taking their capital, their management skills and labour into other areas of en- deavour. • The newly announced inquiry will investigate pricing. practices and margins between procesilors, distributors and retailers of fluid milk products, and inquire into the manner' in which these practices may vary within a corporate organization, as well as lrom one part of the province to anothtr, and compare dif- ferent processors, distributors and retailers and their retail. margins, discount practices in and after the, year 1972. Retail practices, margins and discounts in Ontario will be compared with other jurisdic- tions. • I during enOntariot ter/ "For a buck a throw, she sure sounds like she's a ring-dang-do of a Iofterv!' 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