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Times-Advo00te. September 9,1982
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Ontario
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
huron farm
and
home news
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Winter wheat and spring
grain stubble fields give you
an excellent opportunity to
kill perennial weeds.
Especially twitch grass and
biin4weed.
For bindweed control you
have to wait until the plants
are in late bud or early bloom.
This will probably be between
September 10-15 In most of
Perth and Huron. If your field
has not been worked after
harvest, Banvel, Cytrol, Kil-
mor or Roundup will do a
good job in controlling
bindweed.
If you have red clover and
bindweed, you must sacrifice
the red clover to get the bind-
weed. There is some consola-
tion in knowing that the dead
bindweed roots will aid soil
structure.
Twitch Grass control is
more effective in early
September than early May or
late October. There are some
basic principles. For Cytrol or
Roundup, the twitch should be
at least 6-8 inches high. This
will probably mean spraying
mid to late September. Again,
this treatment will not be suc-
cessful if you worked the field
after harvest.
If the field is to be planted
to corn next year, use
atrazine and corn oil. The rate
of atrazine will vary with the
height and vigor of the twitch
grass stand. Use a range of 2
to 4 kg./ha. actual atrazine.
The lower rate for the lighter
infestations. If the twitch is
actively growing, be sure to
use corn oil or a corn oil
concentrate.
For all three products,
Atrazine, Cytrol and Roun-
dup, you will get better con-
trol if the twitch is actively
growidg and at least 6-8 in-
ches high.
Accumulated Heat Units
• May 11 to August 20
Centralia: 1982, 2257; 1981,
2232; Normal, 2196.
Ridgetown: 1982, 2435; 1981,
2312; Normal, 2325.
Pat Lynch, Soils and
Crop Specialist
John Heard,
Asst. Agr. Rep.
brainage pays off
with a longer
harvesting season
Good drainage provides mae time to harvest a crop
Surface water drains quickly and extends the harvest
penod Also. deeplooted crops often stand better whAe
waiting to be harvested These are big advantages in kite
craps such as some moieties d can .
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Adrian Vos, a well-known
farm writer and a farmer, hit
the nail on the head in Farm
and Country magazine last
month.
An outspoken marl, Adrian
expressed feelings about a
hoax perpetrated by farmers
which I share completely.
Farmers who block
highwn ys with useless tractor
parades and who throw dead
cattle on the steps of banks or
who make threatening
gestures by a display of ski -
masked faces and rifles lean-
ing against straw bales do lit-
tle to enhance the image of
agriculture in the eyes of the
general public.
In an age when four percent
of the public are actively
engaged in agriculture, it is
absolutely necessary to get
public support for the plight of
farmers. More than that,
farmers must gain the
respect of the nation if they
are going to continue to gain
concessions from all levels of
the marketplace and all levels
of government.
Mr. Vos decries the
methods used by a group of
farmers in Owen Sound last
year. The group literally
duped the press, especially
the Toronto Star, into accep-
ting a story about farmers
becoming vigilantes.
"As a -farmer and a farm
journalist who has, for many
years, tried to get the
farmers' message across to
the city public, I am outrag-
ed" by the' stupidity of the
group who pulled the hoax,
wrote Mr. Vos.
.Right on, Adrian. I share
your sentiments 100 percent.
Fifty years ago, most peo-
ple had some connection with
agriculture, perhaps were
even born on the farm. Most
had a relative still working
the land. But that is no longer
true. Most people do not know
a Hereford from a Holstein.
As an example, I offer you •
a program on television from
an independent station only a
few weeks ago. The
newscaster was talking about
the increases pending for
dairy products. On the screen
behind him was a film clip to
illustrate his. news. It was a
herd of Angus cattle, for
heaven's sake!
It is just another example of
how uninformed most people
are about agriculture. It is a
huge job that farmers have:
To educate the general public
about a agricultural problem.
I have castigated big -city
newspapers for years about
their lack of knowledge and
their reluctance to cover
agricultural affairs. When
they do, it is usually done by
a city -born reporter who is
afraid to get manure on his
boots.
Most of the readers - 96 per-
cent of them - are in cities,
towns, urban centres.
Therefore, the big circulation
bucks are not found in the
country. Which is why
farmers, quite often, are
ignored.
"We may only hope that the
(Toronto) Star won't hold the
actions of a few back -
concession clods against the
farm population as a whole -
and refuse to report farm con-
cerns except when it comes
from non-farm sources,"
wrote Adrian.
I echo that hope.
Farmers find it tough get-
ting coverage, accurate
coverage, ill any big, urban
newspaper. The Star sent one
of its best reporters to cover
the Owen Sound story. Fran
Reynolds is respected in the
business.
The story she wrote was on-
ly recently revealed as a hoax
by the group responsible.
"We may only hope that
this reporter, now with the
CBC, won't carry a grudge
against the farm community
for the cruel and cretinous
joke inflicted upon her," said
Adrian.
This type of stupidity is
reprehensible. It makes it
doubly difficult for farm
writers to continue to plug
away at trying to help
farmers educate the rest of
the public.
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Advice given Huron F of A
'Dig In and tough it our
'Dig in and tough out' the
current economic hard times
and let the school of Rural
Planning and Development
help. That's what the Huron
Federation of Agriculture
was told at its September 2
. meeting in Clinton.
Dr. Mark Lapping, director
of the school located at the
University of Guelph, told the
group of farmers to ask what
the school could do for them.
The school, which was started
a year ago, is an offshoot of
the Rural Development
Outreach Project which con-
centrated its efforts in Huron
County, Halton Region and
Northern Ontario.
"It seems everyone is cav-
ing in," said Dr. Lapping of
giving into the current
economic situation.
He suggested that if people
give in now to the idea that
the sky is falling economical-
ly, they'll never be able to
prove their worth again.
"These times test who we
are as people," said the
professor.
Not only can the rural plan-
ning and development school
help, but Dr. Lapping sug-
gested the entire university
be utilized by farm people. He
has found in his two years at
the university, that it's more
of a 'people school' than most
universities. He added thepeo-
ple must tell the university
what they need to do for them.
RDOP and the university
have assisted the Huron
federation previously, par-
ticularly in a report on
absentee foreign ownership.
Dr. Lapping added it has
recently assisted Dufferin
County farmers in dealing in
planning issues with the
Niagara Escarpmegt Com-
mission. The school will also
be assisting those same
farmers as it deals with On-
tario Hydro on a proposed
transmission line corridor
through the area.
Dr. Lapping said he
desperately believes in the
need for planning. Communi-
ty involvement is also
necessary in the planning pro-
cess, he said. The school is
fortunate to have a lot of fine
students emphasized Dr. Lap-
ping. He described them as
students who want to live and
work in a rural area and work
with and for rural residents.
The four faculty members
of the school, himself includ-
ed, spend a third of their time
teaching, another third in
research and the remaining
time in community outreach.
This is where the school can
help the people.
Together, the school and
the university are currently
working on a project involv-
ing issues relating to an aging
society in a rural context.
Rural leadership is another
area being looked into.
"These are some of the new
thrusts being taken...and as I
pointed out before, you have
to ask of us," repeated Dr.
Lapping.
Another area in which the
farmers could ask for
assistance with technical pro-
blems on the farm. The
school's director said it would
try its, best to aid in any way.
He envisions the demands
on the school to be such that
it won't be able to comply
with all requests. For now, he
admits, "the plate's not full."
Of the four faculty
members, two are former
residents of Huron County,
George Penfold, a former
planner with Huron County
and Harry Cummings,
previously of Clinton. Joking-
ly, Dr. Lapping said this
would give the school an
"awfully distorted 'perspec-
tive" in Huron.
• Regional directors
Prior to the guest speaker,
the• federation named its
directors for the five regions
In the county.
In Huron north east, the
director is Gerry Fortune of
RR 1 Wingham with delegates
Eric Prescott of RR 3,
Brussels, Doug Fortune of RR
1, Wingham and Brian Jef-
fray of RR 2, Wingham.
In Huron north west, the
director is Merle Gunby of
RR 1, Dungannon and the
delegates are Walter Elliott of
RR 1, Lucknow, Jim Hunter
of RR 1, Belgrave and Tony
McQuail of RR 1, Lucknow.
In Huron east central the
director is John Nesbitt of RR
2, Blyth. The delegates are
Doug Garniss of RR 4,
Wingham, John Van Beers of.
RR 1, Blyth and Carol Finch
of RR 1, Clinton.
Huron west central's direc-
tor is Jim McIntosh of RR 4,
Seaforth. The delegatesare
Bob Coleman of Kipper, i
McClymont of Varna and
Stan McIlwain of RR 2,
Goderich.
Paul Klopp of RR 3, Zurich
has been named direcctor�
the Huron south reg'
delegates are Albert Erb of
RR 2, Zurich, Ralph Geiger of
RR 2, Zurich and Gregve
of RR 1, Zurich.
A new president, vice-
presidents and directors -at -
large will be elected at the an-
nual meeting on Friday. Oc-
tober 8 at the Brussels,
ru mun
smo Mor-
ris and Grey
Centre.
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