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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-10-27, Page 23Ask About Our SAVINGS Si •\' it 1 SS EAVESTROUGH "i "SIDING • Stoico Shutters • Aluminum Storm Doors t Windows • Aluminum Awnings • The energy window roll shutters system • Renovations General Construction Stock CLE,AR,ANCE of Odds and Ends Trector Belt pulleys Small used trailers 361 Dodge truck motor (rebuilt) 350 car motor G.M Several gas engines New plow points many makes Round Hay feeders 6150" (ea) Steel stock racks $250a• (ea) Tractor chains new and used Small grain rollers U AN ARM QUIPMENT 149 William St. Liman, Ont. Phone 227-4401 I.il♦ Canada -Ontario 0rop �rance WINTER WHEAT INSURANCE Featuring: Winterkill Benefits — Mufti Peril Coverage Buildup Equity during good years — Subsidized Low Cost Deadline for Winter Wheal Insurance • Oct. 31st For More Details CaII: Donald Weigand RR 1, Dashwood Ont. NOM 1NO , etio Agriculture Oniono M,n.W of E Canada Agriculture and Food Suggest time change would help Vegetable meeting ti •Iicits .little interest n Bruce county would like to Ridgetown, Guelph and meeting, and often the et) evaluated see an earlier date for con Simcoe. be markets become very active The growers reso•l le r"1 to ask tracts for cucumbers. He said The t78,txlo collected bet around Christmastime. that a premium be paid some growers, unsure about ween May19t30 and May1982 size.minipeas, based on sieve whethr or not they would get paid{or such things as studies size, a contract, went ahead and into early tomato lines and planted wheat which had to be testing for disease -resistant ripped up after a contract varieties, pest control with a processor was signed strategies for corn rootµ arm later. and the tomato cutworm, John Mumford. secretary- cucumber mulching, and an manager of the Ontario evaluation study of pea Vegetable Growers harvesters. Marketing Board, informed Huron directors • were all the growers the one-tenth of returned to office. They are: one percent of gross returns district chairman Don Easton .tunnelled into research has and Keith Strang, Murray been used for projects at Keyes. John Oke and Bill Pincombe The annual meeting of the Huron Perth Bruce vegetable growers' association drew very few members to the Elimville hall on Tuesday night. This launched a discussion on the merits of pushing the dateof future meetings on to November; when the harvest is over and more growers would 'be likely to attend. It was also suggested the annual provincial meeting be held in the new year; many reports are not completed now in time for the traditional December Pea growers are concerned about the poor job the old pea combines do, compared to the new podstrippers, on the smaller size peas. They pass- ed a resolution asking the pro- cessors to reduce the harvesting charge to the grower when the older equip- ment is used. (Canadian Can- ners in Exeter leased one of the new podstrippers this year, on an experimental basis. The results have not yet A third resolution; that all fields be measured prior to planting, aimed at ending disputes that sometimes arise between canner and groove(• near the end of the season. For example, a processor may say he has already harvested the contracted 15 acres, and leave a further acre of peas in the field. A cucumber grower from VEGETABLE GROWERS' MEETING — Don Easton; chairman of the local board (left) Sandy Strang (filling in for husband Keith), Tony Csinos, chairman of the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Marketing Board, OVGMB secretary - manager John Mumford and Harry Dougall, past chairman of the Ontario Board, attended the annual meeting of the Huron Perth Bruce association in Elimville. A groundswell of dissension is surging through the boon - Armstrong Farms and Elevators Wish to announce that we are ready to handle your 44 lituuiwili�y u�ilit�iitiulti i la10.4.04.fer0i. /// cif) . 1 1 , ,r ‘,10,y,,,,... %:. ..,,,. _ ,, ,.....,..,!, ' %iI i•l r . air,„,...,, t, 1982 • Corn Crop • Soyubeofls We forward contract corn and Grain Bank Corn • We also have 2 combines,aa�field irandYcorn buggy r 30 and 36 inch rows. Trucks Phone Elevator 565-5032 Res. 262-5393 ne loot in the furr�w! byaa.t Letters are apprec.alea by Bob Tiotter EWaIe Rd Elm'b Ont N38 2C 7 docks, in case you city folk have not noticed. ' I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I just may join the ranks of thousands of disgruntled farmers who are protesting these days. I do not condone• the foolishness that a group of farmers perpetrated in the Owen Sound area last year. . They dressed up in masks and at least one carried a rifle and pawned themselves off as vigilantes. They hoodwinked a Toronto paper into believing them. Nor do I applaud those who leave dead animals tossed carelessly on the steps of banking institutions. But the statistics prove con- clusively that a great many farmers are having a tough time and they may be forced into taking a more militant approach. The federal consumer af- ' fairs department reported 'last month that more farmers had gone broke by the end of August than in all of 1981. A record 261 farm bankruptcies were reported in 1981 but by the end of August this year, 278 farmers were forced into bankruptcy. almost half of them livestock producers whose rising costs and huge debt loads were not matched by prices received in the marketplace._ Ontario.was the hardest hit with. 117 bankruptcies follow- ed by Quebec where hog farmers have been hard hit; Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. These figures do not tell the whole story, either. Just take a look at the. high number of auction sales in any rural area and you can add them to the attrition rate in agriculture. instead of waiting for the foreclosures. many arc selling out while they can still salvage something. Farmers. then, are justifiably angry. Further proof was reported in September. An angry group of farmers applied enough heckling pressure to an auc- tioneer's efforts to force the end to a sale of. machinery that had been seized by a bank the night before the auc- tion sale. A crowd of about 200 came to the sale barn in Lindsay, Ont., for the sale of machinery which had been owned by Ross Fisher, a cat- tleman. The protesters began shouting and the auctioneer cancelled thersale. Mr. Fisher ran a 2,000 -head cattle ranch north of Lindsay for 25 years. His debt of $1 million was accumulated over the years, he said. The combination of high interest rates and low price for beef made it impossible to make payments. Bankers being bankers and not farmers demanded the money. • Mr. Fisher, taking advice. from the Canadian Farm Sur- vival Assof.iation, arranged for the removal of the equip- ment. It was rumored to be hidden in various spots all across Victoria County. The bank's people manag- ed to find all pieces of equip- ment and the sale started. But it never finished. This is just one story from the naked country. There are thousands of them out there. just as there are thousands in the towns and cities. Bankruptcies are not confin- ed to agriculture. There is a difference. though. Farmers raise food. Everybody eats. It is a .dif- ficult habit to break. Farmers constitute less than five percent of the population now. If these bankrupcies continue, that percentage may dwindle to the vanishing point. What, then. will we do for food? Import it all, most of it from the United States? 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