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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-01-28, Page 16Page 16 Times -Advocate, January 28, 1987 Huron group presents proposals Federation ea//s for 100pereent crop proteetlon A dramatically different way of looking at crop insurance has been proposed by a committee of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture set up to seek ways of making crop in- surance more effective. the premiums would rise next year anyway if the Crop Insurance Com- mission is determined to wipe out the deficit. Mullin said one basic problem with the proposal would be that it would re- quire a change in the constitution of the commission by the federal government because the constitution says the maximum payout can be 80 percent of crop loss. He said the idea was a terrific idea as far as promoting sales of crop in- surance but he said the program must be ac uarially sound. Bev 'Hill of Varna, one of the com- mittee members who helped frame the proposal emphasized that the pro- . posal would mean crop insurance in- sures the loss of a crop the same way a barn would be insured for loss. Jack Wilkinson, second vice- president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture said after the meeting that the Huron plan sounded like a good .one, although he hadn't the chance to study the figures mace deEarlier, while taking part in a.panel discussion with Mullin and East Wawanosh crop insurance agent Neil Edgar, Wilkinson had said that it was important the crop insurance system was changed to attract more farmers tote insurance because Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell had said he doesn't want to get involved in help - Please turn to page 23 TAKING seminar SEMINAR REGISTRATIONS – Looking after registration for Wednesday's farm income tax at Centralia College are staff members Helga Stenzke, Carol Moore and Beth Clarke. Another free vote on capital punish- ment has been promised by the federal government and I wonder why. I thought the question was settled years ago but the rednecks in this country- have__persu-__ aded_ their members of parliament to do it all-- over again. We'll have interminable debates, lengthy arguments in the House of Commons which will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars. Every backbencher representing people from Petty Harbor to Pivot Mountain, from Pelee Island to Parry Cape will rise in the house to get two cents worth of rhetoric into the debate. Politicians who have never said a word in Parliament will take the opportunity to quote the Old Testament: "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death" and "whose sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." And "an eye for an eye; a tooth for adooth" and all the restof that Old Testament garbage upholding the death penalty. ., Yes. I said Old Testament garbage. [(you take the statements and the ac- tions in the Old Testament as true, then you also have to believe in a God that killed newborn babies. You have to believe in a God that allows polygamy and genocide. His servant Soloman, for instance, had 1,000 wives and wasn't it Samuel who destroyed the entire nation of the Amalekites? If, then, we are going to follow the Old Testament, we should return to the ancient practice of stoning. Or perhaps follow the text in l✓x- --odus-thatsays:_-"He that. cursethhis_ . father or mother shall surely be put to death." Seems to me half the teenagers in Christendom should be put to death if we believe this garbage. Christ came to this planet to challenge the narrowness; bigotry and cruelty perpetrated by some of the officers of that day and some of the laws of the time. He challenged and even repudiated the scribes and the Pharises, the lawmakers and interpreters. His whole message was of love and compassion. I have not found a text in the New Testament where Christ condemned capital punishment specifically but surely His message - the good news - included the .unspoken fact that capital punishment is morally wrong if, for no other reason than that it is final, leaving no room for correction. I have seen no statistics to give con- clusive proof that capital punishment is a deterrent. Ordinery people will be deterred by existing laws and existing punishment. Plan two sessions for sheep matters Anyone with interest is invited to attend a spec • formation pro- gram about the sheep business on Thursday, February 5 in the Agricultural Office Board Room, Clinton, commencing at 1:30 p.m. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Red Meat - Advisors, David Keuhner, Markdale and Bill Olan, Stratford will lead discussions about the current situation and future trends in the sheep industry as well as providing an update about the Red Meat Incentive Program for sheep producers. Moreover, there will be a very brief meeting of the Huron Coun- ty• Red Meat Sheep Improvement Association. Highlights will be world premieres of two videos - "From Hoof to Hook", featuring David Keuhner, Red Meat Sheep Advisor and Bill McCutcheon. IMPORTANT NOTICEI To: HURON COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS Take notice that the 1987 Annual Meeting of the HURON COUNTY p_ORK PRODUCER.n ASSOCIATION will be held on.... Wt1 Motor/ fl, 1987 M 11.M. Legion Hall, Clinton, Ont. for the purpose of the proper business of the Annual Meeting: The election of three (3) County Alternate for a two year term. This election will be held between the hour of 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Good Sohl: Bob Sloolsliir WAYNE FEAR LLOYD STEWART President Secretary Treasurer 4 • OMAF Sheep Specialist, as well as "Lamb in the Microwave". starring Jane Muegge, ROS Specialist, OMAF, Clinton and Deb Campbell. OMAF. Centralia College. Huron Agricultural Representative. Don Pullen, will cover "gems of infor- mation" from the Iluron County Sheep Suifimary taken from the On- tario Farm. Management Analysis Project. Input folders will be available for analysis of 1986 records. ,This no -cost computerized records analysis is a great opportunity to find out where you stank financially and identify just what makes your sheep enterprise "tick" (-not to be confused with sheep ticks). District 3, Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency, will have a meeting of in- terest to everyone in the sheep business one week later. on Thursday. February 12. in the Agricultural Of- fice Board Room. commencing at 8:00 p.m. The:topic for this meeting will be "Electronic Marketing". Alternate date in the case of poor weather conditions will be February 26 at 8:00 p.m. These are two meetings sheep pro. ducers will really want to attend! Don Pullen Agricultural Representative for Iluron County —BRANDY POINT-. FARMS CENTRED AROUND ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION • Our breeding stock provides our buyers with proven genetics from the top 3% animals tested across Canada. • Our program enables us to offer quality and health of a price that is hard to beat • We hove on ongoing supply of A.I. sired • •Hamp/Duroc, York/Landraee boars & F1 York/Londrace gilts • Our closed herd is ranked "Good" by the OMAF standards of Herd -Health Classification. Como and take a -soak of our stock anytiltlael Delivery avail ble KURT KELLER R.R. 1, Mitchell, Ont. 519-348-8043 1 ut murderers are not ordinary people. Psychopaths won't be deter- red by any form of punishment. Even then, 'talking about psychopaths, nobody is past the point of no return. No one is beyond redemption. It is, therefore, stupid, cruel, savage and barbaric to return to capital punishment because o a few people whose thinking is somewhere right of Attila, king of the Huns, and he died in 453. Surely, mankind has progressed since then. I am still convinced that brutal, ir- revocable punishments will simply provoke an increase of hatred -and violence. Violence begets violence. We do not need another vote on capital punishment. • I { I 4 The proposal, accepted as Huron Federation policy by the approx- imately - 50 perople present at the January meeting in Clinton, calls for a 100 percent co-insurance coverage which means that farmers would begin to get a percentage coverage of any loss, not just a loss below the cur- rent coverage ceiling offered by the Canada' -Ontario Crop Insurance Commission. John Van Beers, chairman of the committee in presenting the proposal noted that currently crop insurance covers 80 percent of the loss and the farmer 20 percent but the farmer's loss is always the first 20 percent. "By sharing the harvest at an equal share of risk, a farmer would have more in- centive to harvest damaged crops," the report said. Van Beers said returns from a survey printed in the Rural Voice magazine showed the lack of incen- tive to harvest damaged crops, the lack of provision under the current plan for spot losses (where only a part of a field is badly damaged by something like hail) were among the major issues farmers raised. The Federations plan has four proposals: I. That the crop insurance program be changed to a co-insurance pro- gram based on 100 percent of the farmers' historic yield calculated on the best seven out of eight years. 2. That all. .the coverage be established at a 80-20 risk share basis with price options available at dif- ferent premium rates. - 3. That reseeding be based on cur- rent replacement seed prices (instead of a set per -acre rate as presently offered). 4. That preseht participating incen- tives be maintained. According to an example included in the proposal the cost of the new plan should not be much more than the current plan. The plan, based on crop yields of one of the committee members for white beans over a nine- year period, would have seen payouts in six of the nine years with only the current year showing a major loss. The cost of the program was ques- tioned by representatives of the Crop Insurance program present. Bill Mullen, area manager for the Crop IusuranceCommission said he felt the proposal would be a terrific plan for corn coverage where the risk of crop- loss roploss is not,high but would not work for white beans. The example showed a payout in 'six years for crop losses that would normally have meant. a payout in only one year. To cover the extra payouts,. he said, premiums would really have to go up. He pointed out that the white bean portion of the insurance plan already has a $7 million deficit after last year's crop disaster and accumulated losses over the years. But John Nesbit asked how much FARM INCOME TAX QAY —.A seminar on farm income tax was held at Centralia College, Wednesday. 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