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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-10-09, Page 19Food for thought Agri -Food Week quiz Think about agriculture - it's more than food for thought. It's people at work - planting crops, milking cows, making fertilizer, building tractors, driving delivery trucks, baking bread and filling supermarket shelves. Agriculture in Ontario means all this, and more. Agri -Food Week celebrates all that farming and the related food service industries mean to this province. It will be held from October 7 to 14. It's a time when everyone involved in this vital industry can stop and take a well-deserved bow. A very small percentage of our population works the land. Through today's efficient methods, each farm - some 81,700 across the province pro- duces enough food to feed 90 people. The agri-food industry employs about one in five people, in jobs ranging HURON SCHOLARSHIP - Goderich township reeve Grant Stirling presents Huron county scholarships to Centralia College students Henry Vanderburgt, Dashwood and Margaret Devereaux, Seaforth. HURON -PERTH COUNTY ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD NOMINATIONS Notice is hereby given to the Separate School Electors from the Town of Exeter and the Townships of Usborne and Stephen in the County of Huron and Separate School Electors from a por- tion of the Townships of Biddutph and McGillivray in the Coun- ty of Middlesex and that in compliance with the Municipal Elec- tions Act. R.S.O. 1980 Chapter 308 the period for nominations is From 9 a.m. Thursday, October 17, 1985 to 5 p.m. Monday. October 21, 1985 at the office of the Clerk of the Township of Stephen, Crediton, during regular office hours, for the purpose of nominating fit and proper persons for the office of MEMEBER - ONE TO BE ELECTED AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that where the number of can- didates for an office who are nominated at the end of nomina- tion day is not sufficient to fill the number of vacancies to which the candidates may be elected, on the Wednesday, following nomination day, OCTOBER 23, 1985, the clerk may, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. receive and certify additional nominations for the office in respect of which there was an in- sufficient number of candidates. The required nominaton forms may be obtained from the Clerk's Office. They must be completed, filed and accepted by the Clerk by the above deadline. For further information regarding procedures under the Elec- tion Act, contact the undersigned. Crediton, Ontario October 12, 1985 WILMAR D. WEIN Clerk 234-6331 from harvesting tomatoes to serving restaurant meals. This means $15 billion a year to the provincial economy. Test your Agria-Food knowledge: (see answers below) 1. Name the newest chicken pro- duct in fast food in 1984. 2. What per cent of water does fresh fluid milk contain? a) .53 b) .74 or c) .87 3. How many litres of milk does a good Holstein cow produce per day'' 4. How many kg of pork chops come from one pig? 5. What is the most highly - consumed meat in the world? 6. How many kg of steak come from an average beef steer'? 7. What percentage of the total Can- dian hog production does Ontario produce'? 8. Which crop is tofu made from? 9. What is the current name for "rapeseed"? 10. In Ontario, soybeans were first tested in the experimental plots at the Ontario Agricultural College in: a) 1943 b) 1893 or c) 1923? 11. What is the first man-made grain to achieve commercial production? 12. Ontario grows two-thirds of Canada's vegetables - True or False? 13. How many calories does one medium apple contain? 14. Why do bees hum? Answers: 1. Chicken McNuggets; 2..87; 3.24 litres; 4. 14 kg; 5. Lamb; 6. 57; 7. 33 percent; 8. Soya bean; 9. Canola; 10. 1893; 11. triticale; 12. True; 13. 70 calories; 14. Because they don't know the words! Huron -Bruce 4-H Beef Calf Show and Sale 4-H beef club members from Huron and Bruce Counties will be busy on their Thanksgiving holiday. The members will be preparing their calves for ,the fifth annual Huron - Bruce 4-H Calf Show and Sale. The sale will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Oc- tober 14 at the Brussels Stockyards. In the 1984 sale, the grand champion calf sold for $2.00 per pound liveweight to the Tri -County Cattle Company. The sale attracts buyers,from the community, including car dealer- ships, fuel companies, private in- dividuals and meat markets. They all take the opportunity to support 4-11 members while filling the freezer with top quality Ontario Beef. Richard Hamilton Rural Organization Specialist ( Agriculture) Times -Advocate, October 9, 1985 Waste of Your Time A good time to start with a conser- `vation tillage system is now. Reduc- ' ed tillage should be considered when,,, Iplanting winter wheat into bean ground. Plowing to cover the bean residue is a waste of your time and money. Look at the amount of residue left after beans -- it's only minimal. One pass with your cultivator at,a depth of 4 inches should be sufficient to establish a good seedbed for winter wheat. Brian Hall Farm Management Specialist for Huron County •433strremwonswfirwwww001,01. ... ..... . ....... . . ... ........... ..!•jii1 SOYA BEAN �t .naCORNprodue•n when your crop is ready -we're ready! Contact our nearest location Pi :it 7 •:r• K266kJ/ HENSALL CENTRALIA 262-2410 228-6661 666/ KIRKTON. WALTON 229-8986 527-1540 Make COOK'S your . marketing centre for all your crops! Remember! You can BANK on COOK'S -"Where you Can trade with confidence COOK'S DIVISION OF OERBRO INC. You can benefit from a FALL FERTILIZATION program Come in and discuss the advantages We are a Certified Crop Care Centre 0 -ii kr-es. 111 STEW FOR HUNDREDS - Stew in Targe quantities satisfied the hunger of hundreds at Stephen Central School's Pioneer Days, Wednesday. Checking out the main course are John Brown, Jeremy Mason and Jenimae Pfaff. T -A photo Buying standing corn The question often arises -- what price can I pay my neighbour for high moisture corn or corn silage? In either case, I think it boils down to estimating the dry' corn equivalent. With corn silage, the amount of dry corn per ton of silage will vary with moisture content. When silage is 70 percent moisture, there is roughly 6.3 bu. of dry corn in a ton. Similarity, at 65 percent moisture, there is 7.35 bu. and at 60 percent moisture, 8.4 bus. of dry corn. Now that we know these figures, what should a ton of corn silage cost us to purchase standing? The calculation can be done as follows: 1) 32 percent dry matter (68 percent moisture) corn silage has 640 lb. of dry matter per ton. 2) At 50 percent corn grain in corn silage dry matter, 640 lbs. of corn silage dry matter contains 320 lbs. of corn grain dry matter. 3) 320 lbs. of corn grain dry matter is equivalent to 376 Ib. of corn grain at 85 percent dry matter. 4) 376 lb. of corn grain is equivalent to 6.7 bu. of corn grain. (Note: This grain 'content would result from corn that yields 16 tons of silage and 107.2 bu. of corn grain per acre). 5) If $4.00 is added per ton of corn silage to account for increased HENSALL COOP harvest, storage and harvesting costs, the equation that describes the cost of ton of silage standing is: Cost of 1 ton of silage equals (6.7) (X) - $4.00 where X equals the price of a bushel of corn grain. When calculating the cost to pur- chase H.M.C. the number of tonnes per acre must be found and converted to dry matter basis. Once this is done it is simply then a matter of multiply- ing dry corn prices times the H.M.C.'s dry equivalent and subtracting off transportation and harvesting costs. Producers should be mindful of all costs of storing grain (ie: construc- tion and maintenance of on-farm storage and/or commercial rates at the local elevator) when making the decision to sell or store. The "hidden" costs which are equal to or greater then the "visible" costs, are often overlooked. These "hidden" costs in- clude the lost opportunity of selling grain immediately and using the money to pay off operating loans or investing in interest earning ac- counts. The failure to consider both makes the decision to store in an- ticipation of higher profits, a 'GAMBLE'. From a calculation I have perform- ed, if corn is priced at $110./mt. or $2.79/bu. and is to be stored at an elevator with the rate of borrowed money at 11 percent, the full monthly storage cost is $2.15/mt. (5.5 cents/bu. ). Atthese prices and costs, grain,corn prices would have to rise by at least $2.15 mt. per month to make storage pay. For tax reasons it may be beneficial for some farmers to sell their crop in 1985 while for others there will be more advantage to hold corn until 1986. Lastly, some farmers are will- ing to forgive the storage costs, therefore, the price does not have to rise much to increase their profits. 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