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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-11-11, Page 31Huron farm and home news Provide details on beef assistance, Applications for beef cattle assistance on cattle sold as stockers or sold for slaughter in 1980 must be filed on or before November 30, 1981. Details for Slaughter animals 1. Amount of assistance - $40.00' per head. 2. Eligible animals - cattle owned by applicant and fed in Ontario for at least 60 days prior to slaughter. Animals must be sold for slaughter in 1980 and graded A, B or C. 3. Applicant must be a resident of Ontario in 1980. 4. Purchase and sales receipts must accompany application. 5. Applicant must have sold ten or more slaughter cattle in 1980. 6. Final application date is November 30th, 1981. 7. A properly executed affidavit may be requested. 8. All applications are subject to audit. Details for stocker cattle 1. Amount of Assistance - $20.00 per head. 2. Applicant must have been a resident of Ohtario in 1980 and sold a minimum of ten stockers in 1980. 3. Eligible Animals - purchased by the applicant as calves and fed in Ontario for 150 days and sold for finishing purposes in 1980. They must have weighed 600 pounds when sold. 4. Other criteria is the same as for the slaughter program. Remember, applications are available at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices. Apply on or Crediton East By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR Mr. and Mrs. Allan Brow- ning and girls Manitoba spent last week with the formers parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Browning Sr. Louie Masnica returned home from South Huron Hospital Exeter. Mrs. Gordon Slaght is a patient in Victoria Hospital London. also in hospital are Harry Hirtzel, Lorne Finkbeiner and Ed Hen- drick. Wishing you all a speedy recovery. Cecil R Squire Sales & Service Repair Shop Equipment 92 Waterloo St. Exeter 235-0465 before November 30th, 1981. Stanley J. Paquette, Associate Agricultural Representative Huron soil and crop Improvement association • If you're interested in improving crop production with up-to-date information on new hybrids, seed ger- mination, red clover plowdown, weed control and conservation, then plan to attend the Huron Soll and Crop Improvement Association Annual Meeting. This year's annual meeting will be held on Thursday evening, November 26, at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. The social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m. with dinner at 7:00 p.m. and the meeting to follow. Tickets are $10.00 each and include county membership for 1982. Tickets are available from township directors and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food office, Clinton. John Heard, Assistant Agricultural Representative Fall and winter manure • The benefits of manure for crop production are pretty well established. Most of you would accept, the "ideal system" for saving manure nitrogen is to incorporate the manure in the spring. Spring incorporation will give you the best nutrient benefit. Meanwhile you also have to get your crop planted. You are generally going to have about five good working days (when the soil is in good shape) between. May 3 and May 16. Delaying planting will cost you some yield potential and profit. Lower yield potential means it will cost you just as much to produce the crop but you probably won't get as many bushels of corn. You can compromise. If you delay planting for a week while you spread manure, you give up 5 to 6 bushels of corn per acre. You will reduce your fertilizer needs by 50 lbs. of Nitrogen per acre. Assuming a medium application rate of solid cattle manure or 4,000 gals.,acre hog manure. This saving of nitrogen could amount to $13. to $16. per acre. However, it could cost you $15. to $25. in lost corn. Assuming no further yield lass due to compaction. But manure spreaders do compact. Especially if they are used in early May. This means you will also lose corn due toconipaction. The irony of this is you may have wanted to apply manure in ATTENTION CORN GROWERS Watch for New Pride 1 169 in the plot results it is giving excellent yields with standability. this variety will definitely sell out early. For any information or placing orders contact Jim Cooper RR 3 Kippen 262- 6104. the spring so that you wouldn't lose nitrogen to the soil water. But if you com- pact soll while manuring, and apply enough manure nitrogen to grow 120 bushels of corn, but the field only produces 85 bushels - you have lost all that nitrogen anyway. You would have grown more corn and lost less nitrogen by applying that manure some time other than early May. Some people have equipment for side dressing manure or injecting it bet- ween the rows of corn. The main limitation here is time. Manure spreading may conflict with bean planting, spraying or having. Bad weather can still 'keep the heavy equipment out of the field until the corn is too advanced to get full benefit from the manure. It's a good option, requiring some extra investment but possibly limited to the farms with available time (and money?) . Irrigation also has some possibilities. The field equipment is relatively light. It can be custom done at a competitive cost. Here again timing is important if your crop is to get the full benefit. There is a real seasonal rush to get manure irrigating done. Fields that are more than a couple thousand feet from the manure storage soils program, manure also pose a problem. You may end up over manuring the fields close to the storage and ignoring the fields that are farther away. We're seeing farmers try out other options that may not be "ideal" but get the job done. Selves Farms at Fullerton are evaluating a cropping system using a rotation of 2 or 3 years corn and one year of barley un- derseeded to a red clover plowdown crop. After the barley is off the red clover will receive 10-15,000 gallons per acre of hog manure during the fall. The red clover and manure is plowed down about this time of year. The first corn crop after this treatment is not fertilized. The second and third crops may get some nitrogen. The barley has yielded very well with no fertilizer at all. The rates of N required are still being tested. Probably the second crop will need a little bit of N and third may be close to a normal N ap- plication but we don't know for sure yet. Selves have just harvested their first corn crop following the red clover and manure treatment. The crop stood well and yielded 20-30 bushels per acre more than a neighbouring continuous corn field - equally fer- tilized, planted the same day and growing the same f ,' r THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL A'WINDING - A long line of farmers wait to unlood their corn nt o Hensall elevator. Some figured they would be in the line-up for three or four hours, and used the occasion to rotch up on neighbourly news. ittInc t •y _ , c„, Jurrow' " "Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the coun- try," William Jennings Bryan once said. It is just another way of saying that when agriculture prospers, so does everybody else. I followed an American car for a few miles the other day with an Ohio licence plate. A bumper sticker proclaimed that Farming Is Everybody's Bread and Butter. It surely is. At a time when the world is experiencing its greatest population growth, when the supply of food in the world should be doubled, farmers are facing the toughest time since the Great Depression. Bankruptcies have in- creased phenomenally. Farmers are being forced to sell off stock to pay interest on bank loans. This makes for less production next time around. The ramifications of these things haven't hit home on this continent yet. But they will. It couldn't be happening at a worse timd. It has been mentioned before in this column, almost to the point of boredom: A hungry man when he sees his children starving with bloated bellies PROPANE CONVERSIONS DAVE BEAVER Service Manager. • SAVES 1/3 OFF YOUR FUEL BILL • LENGTHENS LIFE OF LUBRICATING OIL & SPARK PLUGS We're converting our fleet of pickups and cars If you're interested in having yours done come in and see us for a quotation. • $400 FEDERAL GRANT FOR CONVERSIONS • SAVE ON PROVINCIAL SALES TAX HURON g2 TRACTOR FYFiEkAlY N ti10 7]5 1115 sl9 521 4744 WEN VERY Na ON UNICE and bald heads is a desperate man. A desperate man will kill for his family. Much more grain is available in Canada this year and there are fewer hogs to eat it. In the five major grain producing and exporting areas of the world, production is up 12 percent but demand has inched up only one percent. In the rest of the world, re- cent data released by the Canadian Wheat Board in- dicated production is drop- ping. The world wheat harvest is estimated at 447.5 million tonnes, down three million tonnes from forecasts in July. Them as has, gets. The nations which are not star- ving have more than enough. In addition, the price paid to the producers is dropping because the supply is greater than the demand. It is, says the wheat board, an illustration of how power- ful the influence of the United States is in the rest of the world. They have a sur- plus. Down goes the price of letters are apprec aced by Bob Ironer Eidate'Rd Etm,,a 0"i N3B 2C7 grain. just when producers need more for their products to circumvent mortgage foreclosures and bankrupt- cies. It is a vicious, endless cir- cle. And don't start placing the blame at the feet of marketing boards, especial- ly quota -setting boards. Their prices are monitored so closely that the ripoffs, if there are any. are not being engineered by farmers. If you want a good exam- ple, look at chickens. You would think with a surplus of feed grains, prices for those grains would he lower. They aren't. Feed mills are charg- ing about three percent more this year for chick feeds than last year. The markup between what supermarkets paid processors and charged con- sumers was about 23 cents in May of last year. The markup by September had jumped to 42 cents a pound. That's an increase for super- markets of 19 cents a pound in 16 months. Not bad even when you consider that their SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE - The Centralia Scouts conducted a successful bottle drive, Saturday. Shown with some bottles are Clyde Kooy and Deric McCann. T -A photo McCANN CONST. LTD. REDI-MIX CONCRETE All Types of Concrete Work Precast Feed Bunks Precast Slats RR #3 Dashwood Phone 237-3647 Precast Concrete Steps Porches Ornamental Iron Railings costs have not increased any more than that of farmers, vet they are getting the biggest hunk of the con- sumer buck at least on chickens. While many farmers struggle to make ends meet and are producing more than ever. half the world starves and farmers are going broke. There's got to be something wrong with the system. 4 hybrids. A further note is that the soil seemed to be in better shape at harvest - more porous and not as water-logged. Another farmer tried leaving part of a corn field unplowed for winter manure application. There were problems. It was a clay field and the manure kept the field from drying very quickly in the spring. When plowed, the soil turned up with a waxy appearance and worked up into a seedbed that looked like broken bricks. The corn crop that followed was very uneven and finally ended up with about half the population of the fall plowed strip beside it. The moral of this story is that if you are going to leave a field unplowed - try to pick out a loam or sandy loam field that will accept the spring plowing more forgivingly. Another method that is used is to leave a 10 or 15 acre field of forages. Generally a field that is running out. You can take a first cut, manure it, plow it in early June and plant. The problem is that about the only crop that can be planted is beans. Even then you can not have any perennial grass control. If this field is planted to corn, say on June 5, you lose 20 bushels (t60.- $80.) per acre assuming you can spring plow that field. In this case it is better to manure that field in the fall and then fall plow it and plant the corn on time. An option that not too many people try - and I'm not sure why - is to work the field once after it is fall plowed. Don't try to make a seedbed - just a smoother surface to run your spreader on. If you know you're going to have to spread manure on plowed ground in the winter time anyway - there's no point punishing both yourself and your machinery. A rough surface is good plowing - as long as you don't have to drive on it when it's frozen. I'm not recommending winter manure spreading as a system you should work towards. It is, however, a fact of life that is sometimes necessary. Most of us can't afford the outlay required to have the best system so we just do the best we can af- ford. Pat Lynch, Soils and Crops Specialist Art Lawson, Associate Agricultural Representative Perth County Homemakers fight lack of programs Members of the Town and Country Homemakers met for their monthly Board meeting on October 28 at South Huron Hospital. The administrator of the hospital and the director of nursing were guests for lunch. A report was given on the various fund raising ac- tivities. Winners of the lucky draw from the variety con- cert held at F.E. Madill. Wingham were as follows. Glenn McMichael won the box of goodies donated by board members. Harold Robinson won a Terry Fox memorial book donated by Harris Stationery. Harvey Timm won a bag of white beans donated by Underwood Farms, Mrs. Bert Garniss won a subscrip- tion to the Village Squire and Mabel Bos won a silk flower arrangement donated by Mrs. Marg English. Members were advised that the amaryllis bulbs were now available for sale. Directors were urged to write to their MP or Ministry of Health deploring the lack of programs being made towards the introduc- tion of chronic Horne Care to this area. We are advised that this may not be available to us until the end of 1982. Since the agency feels there is an urgent need for this service in our county we felt it necessary to ad- vice government of this im- mediate problem. Members were advised of a one day Seminar to be held on December 1 at Listowel. 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