Times-Advocate, 1981-09-23, Page 24r
Page 8A Times -Advocate, September 23, 1961
Manure
Application
with a big
Reel Irrigator
- No Compaction
- Fertilize field
- Even coverage
Reasonable rates
Call
Visscher farms
237-3442
No Sunday Calls Please
Big prices given
for top livestock
A & P Food Stores
dominated the bidding at the
Western Fair Market
Livestock sale for the fifth
consecutive year, paying
$11,865 for the grand
champion steer. The grocery
chain paid 810.25 a pound for
the 1,130 -pound Limousin -
Angus exhibited by John
Nostadt of Maidstone.
Emerson Gill,
representing Tenderspot
Meats, Grand Bend, bought
the reserve champion Black
Angus shown by James
Hasson, Guelph, for $4.75 a
pound.
The first -place market
lamb exhibited by W.B.
NOTICE
Martin J. DeBruyn has
been appointed a
dealer for Perth Farm
Systems, Newton.
DeBrijyn Equipment
Sales will be able to
look after all your feed
and grain handling
facilities.
Representing names
such as: Modern Mill,
Shivvers,Brock and
Farm Fans.
Martin looks forward
to serving the farmers
of this area.
DeB ruyn
Equipment Sales
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Harris, King, went to
Darling's Meats, Exeter, for
$5.00 a pound, and John
Knights of Blenheim paid
$4.45 a pound for the second -
place lamb shown by Brien &
Taylor et Ridgetown.
Mount Brydges Abattoir
bought the first -place
market barrow for 83.60 a
pound from Belidoon Farms,
Iona Station. Ralph Boa, RR
5 Strathroy, paid $3.30 a
pound for the second -place
barrow exhibited by Gerald
& Shirley Miller, Kerwood.
Janice O'Neil, RR 2
Denfield, showed the grand
champion 4-H junior barrow
which was sold to Wood Lynn
Markets, London, for $3.10 a
pound. Ray Filson, RR 4
Denfield, received $3.30 a
pound for his reserve grand
champion junior barrow
from Stan Wyatt, The
Permanent Real Estate,
London.
COARSE ON SHEEP
If you're a sheep producer,
or thinking about becoming
one, Centralia College of
Agricultural Technology has
an interesting course that
you should take.
"We're offering the sheep
management program in
three different locations this
fall" said Don Cameron,
Head of Communications
and Continuing Education at
Centralia.
The course will be offered
at the College beginning on
Thursday, October 15. It will
be offered also in Belmore at
the Community Centre
starting on Wednesday,
October 14 and it will also be
offered at the Wilmot
Township Hall in Baden
starting on Monday October
19. "These are evening
programs".
The course will consist of
eight sessions of classroom
training and discussion and
will conclude with an all day
tour of sheep farms in the
area. The tours will be on the
Saturday following com-
pletion of the course.
Because each course is one
session per week (the same
night throughout)the courses
at Centralia and Belmore
will have their tour on
December 5 but the Baden
course will not end until
December 12.
"There is no charge for
these courses" Cameron
said and they are made
possible because of the
cooperation of area Ministry
of Agriculture and Food
personnel and the funding
assistance of the Canada
Employment a n d
Immigration Commission.
If you are interested and
would like to register for one
of these sheep programs
contact your area OMAF
office or phone Centralia
College at 228-6891.
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Western fair market livestock sale was purchased for $5.00 a
pound by Darling's I.G.A. of Exeter. Shepherd Cy Lowden of
W.B. Harris from King, Ontario is holding the lamb.
SIGNING IN - Jon Trout of Kirkton signs in with Dr. Ralph
Topp as first year students at Centralia College registered
Sunday afternoon. Staff photo
Stewart is recipient
of company award
The first recipient of the
Ciba-Geigy Seeds "Architect
of Agriculture" award will
be honoured today "for
distinguished service to
Canadian farming." The
presentations are a highlight
of Corn Congress 1981 held at
the Honeywood Research
Farm near Plattsville in
Oxford county.
Over 500 people are ex-
pected to attend, including
Funk Stewart corn seed
dealers and their wives,
representatives of press,
radio and television,
government and university
research and extension
specialists, farm association
leaders and other guests.
Dr. William A. Stewart,
Ontario's former Minister of
Agriculture and Food, will
read the citations and
comment further on the
significance of the out-
standing and unique ways in
which each of these men
served Canadian
agriculture.
The six "Architects of
Agriculture" are:
James T. Grant,
Leam ington...entrepreneur,
founder of Funk Seeds in
Canada, well-known for his
leadership in crop im-
provement.
John A. Stewart, Ailsa
Craig...entrepreneur, foun-
der of a major seed business,
his efforts on behalf of the
ranadian seeds industry
have been significant.
Arthur H. Martin,
Toronto...served Ontario
agriculture for 38 years
within the Department of
Agriculture, made great
contributions to improved
cropping practices across
the province.
William G. Cunningham,
Orillia ..helped build Ontario
agriculture through an agri-
business career spanning 42
years, served farmers as a
salesman, advisor and
friend.
Robert S. Sparrow, Kin-
burn...an Eastern Ontario
farmer whose impact and
untiring work on behalf of
livestock and crop
producers, contributed much
to his community and his
country.
William P. Watson,
Toronto...widely known for
his contribution to Ontario's
livestock industry, his an-
nual agricultural outlook,
and his leadership within the
Department of Agriculture.
Byron E. Beeler,
It could t : a record har-
vest across the nation this
year but by the time
everything is snugged down
for the winter, it may be a
harvest of red ink.
Farmers are notorious
gripers. They complain
when the crops are good
because a bumper crop
depresses prices. They
complain when the harvest is
bad because they cannot
make enough money to
remain In business.
They complain when it
rains. They complain when it
doesn't rain.
This year, I suggest, they
have great cause to gripe.
Western farmers lose 810
million a day when a handful
of grain handlers go on strike
in ThunderBay. Vegetable
farmers watch helplessly as
two weeks of rain destroys a
summer's work.
For thousands of years,
farmers have met these
vagaries of nature and the
marketplace with their
share of bitching. They have
accepted it, gritted their
teeth, and gone on with the
job of feeding the world.
However, a sense of deep
malaise is apparent in the
hearts of Canada's farmers
today.
The status of the nation's
farmers is the result of
unnatural events this year.
They have overcome
droughts, floods, strikes,
depressed prices, screaming
consumers, international
companies, chain stores,
kickbacks, surpluses and
shortages.
They have fought for or-
derly marketing in some
commodities and the fight
continues for others.
But fallout from the
combined effects of
decreasing income, rising
costs and skyrocketing in-
terest rates has hit them
harder than anything since
the Dirty Thirties.
Farm implement and
equipment sales are down.
The small, farm -related
industries throughout rural
Canada are suffering. The
credit of farmers has been
stretched to the breaking
point. Many had to borrow to
meet higher operating costs
this spring. Credit costs were
so high even then, profits
were hard to find.
Now, with costs for
production higher and in-
terest rates at the usury
level, the sickness is
becoming terminal.
Who can afford the interest
rates on a $50,000 tractor?
Who can keep a feedlot going
when loans in the area of
$200,000 are necessary to
keep the lot stocked? And the
poor cow -calf farmer is
getting it from both sides. He
has to keep his stock even
longer.
Executive Vice President,
Ciba-Geigy Seeds Ltd., was
pleased to announce these
six men as the first
recipients of the Architect of
Agriculture award. Mr.
Beeler indicated that this
award, recognizing an
outstanding contribution to
agriculture, would be
presented to other worthy
candidates in future years.
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Sat. October 3rd at 6:30 p.m.
Sanctioned by the W.O.T.P.A.
OPEN CLASS Powered Modified tractors 5500 lbs, 7500 lbs.. 9500 lbs.
4 wheel drive truck class 6500 lbs.
Antique tractor class 7500 lbs.
Out of field farm tractor class 8,000, 11,000, 14,000, 17,000Ib.
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"It's not the low farm
prices so much as thoee
killing interest rates," an
implement dealer told me
this week. "Farmers, when
they really need a piece of
machinery, could usually
find the money to finance 1t.
But not now with interest
rates killing the purchase
before !t leaves the lot."
"I don't know how much
longer we can go on," said a
respected feed dealer to me
the other day. "We just
cannot extend credit to some
of our best customers. We
can't get the credit."
One of the biggest feedlots
in our area, that of Gerald
Cavell near Harriston, went
into receivership this month.
They paid interest - interest
alone! - last year of $200,000.
This year, they faced loan
costs of $400,000 at 25 per-
cent.
"The whole industry is
going down the drain, not
just our farm," Cavell said.
"You can't pay 25 cents out
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of every dollar you get to the
bank and make a living
raising beef."
Bankruptcies in Canadian
agriculture were up more
than 35 percent at the end of
July and going higher every
week. As farmers give up,
more cattle are going to
market which, in turn, gluts
the market and forces prices
down for those still in
business.
It is a vicious, heart-
rending circle.
I attended an auction sale
only two weeks ago. It was a
third -generation farm. The
son was a solid, hard-
working farmer but got
caught In the high interest
rate squeeze.
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His father, one of the finest
Christian gentlemen I have
ever known, wept when the
auctioneer sadly started his
spiel.
How long can this go on?
I cried right along with
him.
Cecil R Squire
Sales & Service
Repair Shop
Equipment
92 Waterloo St.
Exeter
235-0465
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HONORED After
graduating from the O.A.C.
in 1941, John A. Stewart
served his country in the
R.C.A.F., following which he
joined his father's seed firm.
John A.'s vision and en-
trepreneurial skills were
responsible for the Stewart
Seed Company becoming a
major organization in
Canada. Active in communi-
ty, provincial and national
organizations, Mr. Stewart
has received much recogni-
tion and several awards for
his leadership and contribu-
tion to agriculture in this
country. Ciba-Geigy Seeds is
hustifiably proud of the
eritage brought to this
organization by John A.
Stewart and named him as
one of the first recipients of
their "Architect of
Agriculture" award.
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