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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-05-06, Page 22Page 6A Times -Advocate, Ma 6, 1987 .��••"•'!derMffi�wf �anIR9'.�.y'd."r3M1�`N'�`K,.-sz+, VOW At' HINTS ON RABIES PREVENTION — Jack McKinnon of the Huron Health Unit was at Exeter Public Sc o0 Wednesday telling students how to keep their animals from getting rabies. Students from the left are Ryan Ralph, Jamie Dawe, Jason Miles and Brent Armstrong. T -A photo FIRE POSTER WINNERS -- Doug Lightfoot of the Crediton fire department presents prizes fo Stephen Central School students who were winners in a recent poster contest. Back, left, Carla Taylor, Amberley Brunzlow and Lorna Miller. Front, Kenneth Desjardine, Ted Baker and Brian Inch. .T -A photo ��:3•'�.x'.�'3{.a:.'.�;��5,.:.,..:'�� :tea' :: OFA outlines debt board requirements to government Brigid Pyke, president of the On- tario Federation of Agriculture. has stressed that cases brought before the Farm Debt Review Board must result in a written agreement between the farmer and his creditors at the end of the process. Pyke said the OFA is con- cerned that cases completed by the Ontario Board often resulted only in Board recommendations which were not necessarily implemented by the two parties. Pyke was in Ottawa speaking on behalf of the OFA before the House Committee on Agriculture. • "As it is, the Board does not have the power or the 'teeth' to enforce its recommendations.There is nothing to . ensure their implementation. Without CHAPARAL FENCING R.R. 1, Lucan Ontario NOM 2,10 signed agreements. these recommen- dations are just nice suggestions," she said. "With a signed written agreement you've got a legal, binding contract which you can take to court to enforce if necessary." The OF'A has been one of the staun- chest supporters of a strong debt review process to help farmers in financial difficulty: it has lobbied for this since 1981. the same period which saw an escalation of the debt crisis in agriculture. ' In its submission to the !louse ('om- ntittee on Agriculture, the OFA detail- ed 15 specific recommendailons to snake the Farre Debt Review Board more effective. The OFA recom- mended that: *the Farm Debt Review Board be given sufficient resources to provide field reports to panelists within a month of application `one of the first' procedures in the field investigation be a verification of the initial creditor list. *all listed creditors be: kept fully and equally informed, involved in farmer/creditor discussions, and ade- quately notified of and be present at farmer creditor meetings `the wording of the legislation be im- proved so as to regularize the appoint- ment of the farmer as guardian, and to empower the board to appoint so- meone other than the farmer only in the exceptional case where it can be shown that the creditor's security would be materially damaged. `the Farm Debt Review Boards clarify the guidelines for: setup and use of the farm account during the stay period, and disposition of the balance in the farm account when the stay is lifted. "a means be developed to assure pay- ment to suppliers who provide necessary farm supplies during a stay and restructuring period. 'the farmer be given the option of refusing assigned panelists where there is reason to believe a full review may not be possible. *a thorough review involve farin visits not only by the field workers but also by the assigned panel. - *the Debt Review Board have on im- mediate call professional appraisal, legal, financial and emotional counselling personnel to assist in the preparation of arrangements. *the initial stay be for a period of 90 days, and that the Board be authoriz- ed to extend the stay initially for 69 days and subsequently for 30 days, but that the Board be clearly authoriz- edto lift the stay when. in its judge- ment, the process is complete. *the•role and mandate of the Farm Credit Corporation be redefined, so that it is able to provide a comprehen- sive, integrated credit service through which a "package" of short. intermediate, and long term credit would be offered in a flexible program adapted to individual farmer's needs *rather than establish -a second Debt Review Board, the existing Board within the province be expanded to handle the workload. - *the review process ensure where necessary that the farm family has recourse to a trained advocate to assist thein in negotiation. ideally, debt review and peer counselling within the Farmers In Transition Pro- gram should be integrated. *The Debt Review Board be given the manadate and resources to develop evaluation, taining. and support for all personnel in the review process. *The Act and the Board establish the objective of obtaining a signed, en- forceable agreement between farmer and creditor and put in place a mechanism to ensure compliance. 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To say that 30 percent of this coun- try's farmers are in trouble means lit- - tle-to a city person who is having ma- jor problems paying rent -or mortgage. "So what if they are in trouble?" Let 'em take their licks like everyone else!" said a union friend of .nine who toils in the bowels of a huge Welding shop making car frames. "If they go broke. so let them go broke'. But Canada has'more than 200,(H0 farmers. if Ottawa's figures are cor- rect. more than 39 percent have cash flow problems and eight percent are insolvent. To let them go broke will only add more to the ranks of the unemployed and leave land idle. It is more than that. though. Fifty years ago. farmers made up 40 percent of the work force. They have been decreasing in numbers for 80 years. These people have provid- ed industries in Canada with man- power since the turn of the century. A debt is owed to them. More than that: we are talking about a way of life here. not just a job on a production line in a factory or a clerk in a department store. it may sound corny but it is true: it is a way of life and to describe it in words is almost impossible. - ` Gordon Hill. former persident of the Ontario Federation 01 Agriculture and the man credited with turning the federation into a powerful force for griculture. used to say farming was even more than a way of life. Farmers are not just another group of.business people, he said. They are more than that. They are not production -line people. They have an investment in time. money, tradition and emotion that is not equalled in any other endeavor. Farmers are dif- • ferent, he would say. And he was right. Farmers are different. They are being treated that way. too. by the senior governments in this country. The federal and provincial governments will directly provide as much as $4.25 billion to Canadian farmers this year, a huge bite in anyone's eyes. probably larger than any other sector of the economy. Even so, many farmers see only tougher times ahead. But i suggest it is worth it. i believe everything possible should be done to keep the remaining farmers on the land and keep agriculture as nealthy as possible. keep land in production. 1 believe the family farm should be preserved even if it does put a severe AralTWMAMAVWXYWWWZROV strain on provincial and federal budgets. • We know France grows more grain than Canada. So does China and In- dia, two nations that purchased huge amounts of grain from us in the past. We know we have lost those tradi- tional markets. Will they be lost forever? Will prime growing conditions continue to Russia and China for all time? i do not think so. In addition, thousands of people in this world still go to bed hungry every night so Canada should do all that is possible to keep farmers on the land. Even with these huge subsidies for agriculture. a few more thousand farmers will be forced off the land in the next five years. This attrition is natural and has been going on for 50 years. But let us not do anything to hasten it. The day may come when every Canadian will be glad of the surpluses in this country. Too many of us have a predilection to forget that hard times -- and i mean real hard times -- can, and probably will, come again and we will all he happy that so few farmers are - capable of feeding so many. ALitikPMMArfanOMMAWKWVAMsara PUBLICATION HAS MISPRINT Please note that there is a misprint in Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food publication number 75. 1987 Guide to Chemical Weed Control. Page 44, winter whew and fall rye, 2,4-D (500g/L► reads 0.7to 11.1 L/ha. This should read 0.7 to 1.1 L/ha. 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