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DISCUSSING FINANCES — Prior to Thursday's farm financial management course at Centralia College,
Exeter chartered accountant John McNeilly chats with College public relations officer Cathy Biondi and
Dorothy Stephens and Ray Paynter from the Kirkton area. T -A photo
Huron eattlemen wanting
more livestock producers
The National Stabilization. Pro-
gram, Red Meat Plan and beef adver-
tising were the topics Dr. Clayton
Switzer spoke on at the annual
meeting of the Huron Cattlemen's
Association, on January 28. Dr.
Switzer is the Deputy Minister of
Agriculture and Food for Ontario.
A service award was presented to
George Adams for his outstanding
contribution to the cattlemen.
Four resolutions were passed at the
meeting.
It was resolved that the Association
petition the Minister of Agriculture to
accelerate programs encouraging
small and beginning farmers to pro-
duce livestock. This was felt
necessary because fewer and fewer
farmers are engaging in beef produc-
tion due to low net dollar returns.
Also, cash crop farming is beginning
to have severe adverse effects on the
soil and environment.
A resolution is being sent to the On-
tario Cattlemen's Association annual
meeting requesting support to peti-
tion the Minister of Agriculture, ask-
ing that no more plans be made to
form a selling agency until there is a
vote, to be carried by a gra majority.
It was resolved that the O.C.A.
should get moving on positive cattle
identification. Because of complica-
tions of identification of cattle from
live to dressed it is very difficult for
a small producer to sell his cattle
dressed, because of getting mired
with the others. This motion has been
forwarded of the O.C.A. for at least
!!'s time
to talk business
three years without action. An
amendment was added suggesting
the O.CA. spend 10 percent of its
operating surplus from 1984 for
research on positive cattle
identification.
The Huron Cattlemen Association
has also decided to petition the Pro-
vince of Ontario to enact appropriate
legislation ensuring that livestock and
poultry producers are allowed to
shoot, without harrassment and
without being subject to prosecution,
dogs which are not under proper con-
trol and are found upon the premises
of the producers.
Allan Powe will stand as Director
of the Association for Stephen
Township. Glen Coultes will be the
director of the O.C.A.
The voting delegates to the annual
O.C.A. meeting are as follows:
Witham Armstrong, Brian Miller,
Ron Bennett, Bob Henry, Keith
.Strat1.Rs... t •.:. c. ..,...• 1.
Nei Rintoul, Neil Stapleton. Bill
Dowson, and Ross Proctor.
BRUCE GAGNIER, an FBDB represen-
tative will be in the EXETER area EVERY
WEDNESDAY. Come and meet him.
There is no obligation and no costs and
your business can gain a lot from it.
If you're looking for financial aid in
the form of loans, loan guarantees or
even selling an equity position in
your business, come and discuss it
with us. We have experienced
counsellors who can help you plot a
course for growth and success for -
your business. And we can provide
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"I have to laugh when animal
welfare groups scream over caging
animals because my little girl was
penned every morning and night in
the barn while I did chores.
"Where else could I put her?
There's no day care for us."
That is a sentence worth repeating:
There's no day care in the country. It
is quoted from Dorothy Middleton of
Crysler.
It is just another example of why
farmers do not need to apologize for
government grants or subsidies. Day
care is a big issue in almost every
province in Canada. All three levels
of government are being petitioned to
allocate money.
But where are day care centres?
Certainly: in the cities and towns, the
urban centres. Damned few farm
women can take advantage of a day
care centre. They - farm wives --
have to supply their own day care and
Dorothy Middleton, president of
Women for the Survival of
Agriculture, is not the type of person
who feels the need to apoligize.
The organization was started about
10 years ago. It has become a power-
ful lobby group, one that politicians
find difficult to ignore.
"We're fighting for the survival of
a way of life and an industry," says
Erva Durant, another active
member.
Farm women'have been an integral
part of the agricultural scene ever
since men -- and women - have tilled
the soil. They have worked right along
with the men to keep farms viable.
Without their help, few farmers would
be successful.
Unfortunately, they were the un-
sung and unseen heroines of the land
until recently. Such organizations as
Women for the Survival of
Agriculture have made some inroads.
Farm women can get bank loans now
although husbands must co-sign.
Farm women can draw a salary for
their labor and receive a pension
when they retire.
The organization has more than
2,000 members and will continue to
fight for the equality of farm women
and, specifically, for improvements
in the economic plight of farmers.
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Which brings up an interesting
point.
Gisele Ireland, a Teeswater hog
farmer with her husband Brian, is
also a writer. She maintains farm
economics have deteriorated so bad-
ly in the last two years that many
women cannot leave the farm to at-
tend conferences and lobby for
changes.
Always forthright and honest, she
says: "Farm women have bugger -all
for power because they don't have
money to do it. Why should they be so
concerned about saving the country's
agriculture industry when they're
facing foreclosure themselves? Their
first concern is home and family."
As usual, Gisele is right. Farmers
and their wives are working their
buns off just to stay in business and
have trouble getting away to support
many of their organizations.
It would be unfortunate if too many
of the articulate women in this pro-
vince were forced to stay at home.
Women have spent much of their lives
carrying half the workload -- perhaps
even more than half -- in running a
farm yet most of them are not even
legal partners in the farm. They run
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the farm chores, act as bookkeepers.
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hundreds of husbands who are facing
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They need an organization or two to
help them in their dilemma.
I hope they can keep Women for the
Survival of Agriculture a healthy and
growing force for farm families in
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March 30. •
This sale will be composed of
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The use of the sale facilities, auc-
tioneering, trucking and extra help
required are all donated so that the
entire proceeds will be given to the
Mennonite Central Committee for
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This year the proceeds will be
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matching this kind of aid in a 3 tol
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The Mennonite Central Committee
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