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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-10-26, Page 15 (2)• IINIIIIIIIIIItn11111n111111111111111111nn111111nIWg11111111t111111111111111111111111111111110111111t1Nt1L I ' CUSTOM g E CORN COMBINING Re..,J.. ►ATL...._ v-•- Are E._ Donald Geiger 236-4865 M 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 G 4 FARMERS PUT THESE NUMBERS BY YOUR PHONE FOR FALL CUSTOM PLOWING AT REASONABLE RATES GRENIER BROS. George Rick 7-3444 or 237-3402 Thank you l Co -0P Aureomycin VITAMIN CRUMBLES ?5'9 co-6P� CO•oP G�Ittllr _5,5 NBLES :SKa Aureomycin VITAMIN CJUUMBLES 75 Former chairman issues warning some board faces so� By TOM NUNN - Cash Crop Farming The Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board must make some tough policy decisions soon or face its own demise. according to former Board chairman Phil Durand. "If major policy decisions are not made immediately, I believe producers will de- mand dissolution tof .the Board:'- .said Mr. Durand during a recent interview on his RR rZurich farm: -Ws -been -talk - among -Ther -Ws -been -talk - among producers of •cir- culating a petition to acquire the 1.500 signatures ne£essary_ •to have ,the Board's dissolution con- sidered by the Mini ry of Agriculture and the O'tario Farm Products Mark Board, fie said. Phil had a hand in adop- tion of the current agiftcy marketing by the Board 10 years ago but policy towards dealers and producers prompted him to abandon positions as Board chairman in 1976 and finally. as a direc- tor in December 1977. He was elected Board chairman' in 1972 and decided to resign completely from Board business in December, 1976 but sort growers talked 1 BONUS OFFER! 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In De ember; 1977, he resigned as a irector for several private reasons "taut mainly over disagreement with Board policy." "One of my major dis- agreements was our receiv- ing system from producers. My major concern was that the Board had not held dealers responsible for the _ quality they receive from • producers."- Currently roducers."-Currently the Board accepts portssLfrobt dealers that they have received all no. 1 grade beans and. then when the beans are sold - to trade, dealers report selling. lower gr. se t • : ns, he said. teli ve that all_ the .eans , chased from the produc s should be bought on the seine basis as they are sold to the trade." The Eastern Pea Bean ( Grade Standards, currently used by dealers to sell beans to trade,"should also be used when dealers purchase beans from producers. If dealers. originally report receiving all no. 1 beans they should not be able to sell them to trade at a lower.grade, he said. With the porad price pooling meth ism, growers who actually d4liver no. 1 beans _ will lose money. said Mr. Durand. - "Every time -we allow a bag, of no. 4 beans to be removed_ from the. pool. it replaces -no. 1. I believe chit to be most unfair !o producers who deliver no 1 beans into the pool. I thine it is very wrong." -. Nb. 4 beans are usually priced $5-$12lower thanno. 1 - beans and when a bag of no: 4 beans is removed from the .pool. the money zotnes directly out of producers' pockets. he said. The Board should make dealers respon- sible'for selling beim at the samet- grade as they are reported as beim received from the pr ucer, • he suggested. I believe it isvery wrong for a dealer to sell these beans as no. 4 after he has taken them in is no. 1," said - Mr. Durand. 'There is no 'reason why the dealer is not " held responsible for what he takes'in.' • An agreement between the Board and dealers states that dealers cannot offer• producers an incentive to ship through their facilities. "Not docking producers ac- cording to the agreement could be an incentive. It is quite possible that they don't dock producers the way they should be," he said. Other incentives -the ;dealers could offer producers would be a lower charge for drying or pay -- meat for shipping the bean to the dealer's plant. he said. - Ley/is Sherman. current Board chairman. agreed there coul r be problems with the agency- mar ting system and dealers c Id be offering incenti s to producers withot the Board's knowledge. "The whole4yster is bas- ed on honesty,". aid Mt - Sher "Hones ' is fine bu it's like limit. If you can break it,-rbu can get away with it. It'ydnipossible- to police." Th Board can pass regulat• ns on the dealers but forcing the regulations re- another matter, -he sa "We don' eafly- have viable alte ative to the agency ma eting system," said Mr. {herman. "The producers do not have an elevator Or does the Board have an Elevator. Somebody has to process the beans and if you'te not doing it yourself then the • dealers have .to o it. Dire,t sales by the Board could muse other problems, Mr. Sterman said. Dealers are grrrently handling and' maricting beans "and if you .emove part of their job• andc� you end up still having then employed to handle th beans, you would have sl�neone working for you t' tough decisions who wouldn't like their job. l:d say you'd by schnooked," • he Said. Mr Sherman said there is a clause in a Board agree- ment wit$ dealers which would allow the Board to. sell "in conjunction, with" dealers. "There are,.eertain instances where we could handle the marketing but we haven't really seer) a time where we can use, that clause. The clause could be used in marginal markets but it would define that the -Board- ani - pp-r—do ucers aT"e- responsible if a buyer doesn't pay." he said. Mr. Durand cited the wheat marketing system -as an example which could be followed by the Bean Board. The wheat board requires dealers to report the quality, quantity, price, grade, and present a certified. cheque before wheat is shipped to trade and the same re- quirements should be made of dealers acting as agents of the bean board. he said. Bean producers are also docked t9-10 cents. lb. by dealers receiving bad beans but dealers are still allowed to sell these beans. he said. "'Producers should not be charged for the removal of bad beans if dealers -are allowed to sell their intake." Besides the problems with receiving and dockage for bad beans, the Board also has a definite unwillingness to formulate policy and stick to it, he said. "'Phe Board has made policy and. after a meeting with dealers. has been prepared to change it. Most of the major po1ky decisions were' made to satisfy Mr. Durand cited the 1976 Hickling and Johnson report as providing the Board with some .good re_ commen- dations but the report has - remained confidential and - few of the'reeorpmendations have been -adopted by the board. Specific information regarding dealers' handling capacities and other private information should remain confidential but most of the report. about 95'7x, should have been released to producers. he said. When Phil resigned from Board duties he was asked to - Please turn to Page F7 4th Anniversary Tohonour our 4th year in business we're giving our customers a 1.0 % Discount October 30th and 31st THE DIFFERENCE IS WORTH THE DRIVE Chisel Plow Points Mould Boards Shins landsides Coulter- Blades Hand Tools Roller Chain • Wiese FARM TOOL MANUFACTURERS • 4o., C'�FORas,OM •,00► -eta"' Grade 8 Fine Thread Bolts Grade 5 Coarse Thread Bolts Plow Points Cultivator Points Disc Blades Shop Tools_ ALL TILLAGE TOOLS IN STOCK! 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