Times-Advocate, 1987-10-28, Page 14Page 14
Times -Advocate, October 28, 1987
Land Stewardship program
Rumours, gossip and occasionally
a bit of truth are currently being toss-
ed around the county with regards to
the new Land Stewardship Program.
A lot of the information which is be-
ing circulated is not correct or is be-
ing interpreted wrongly. Here are a
few guidelines before you go out and
spend your hard-earned dollars.
The grant provides assistance that:
a ) encourages farmers to adopt prac-
tical, cost effective conservation far-
ming systems, b) encourages the
development of a long-term commit-
ment toward a stewardship ethic. Any
applicant who proceeds with a project
before authorized approval has no
assurance that he/she will receive
financial support. Projects initiated
prior to September 1, 1987 are not
eligible for grant.
In order that you receive any grant
assistance, it is best you play by the
rules of the game. The foremost rule
is that all applicants must complete
a LAND STEWARDSHIP inventory
and action plan.
This details past management
practices, existing problems and new
planned land management practices
which will alleviate existing pro-
blems. The plan must exhibit that you
intend' to adopt a new and long-term
land stewardship approach. These
plans are then evaluated by an On-
tario Soil and Crop Improvement
Assocation committee as to their
validity.
As of the week of October 20, we
have yet to receive the official forms
for the program. Action which you
may start now would be to list pro-
blems which are currently plaguing
your fields. You will be notified when
forms are available.
Brent Kennedy
Senior Soil Conservation
Advisor
Modified Mouldboard Plow
The least expensive way to obtain
a conservation tillage tool Way be to
modify your existing mouldboard
plow.
Several farmers whoai a co-
operating with the District have
modified their plows by replacing
mouldboards with sweep teeth to
leave more residue on the soil surface
after fall tillage. A similar modified
plow is available this fall to District
co-operators.
The sweep teeth give all the
benefits of mouldboard plowing by
cutting, lifting, and shattering the soil
while maintaining crop residue on the
soil surface. This makes fall tillage on
clay loam soils possible without bury-
ing all the crop residue, an important
part in erosion control.
Very often farmers realize that
crop residue is required to control
erosion in a field - but they are reluc-
tant to no -till or spring plow the
heavier soils. A modified plow allows
tillage and residue management to be
carried out simultaneously in the fall.
The recently -announced govern-
ment incentives to encourage residue
cover greater than 20 percent after
planting will certainly increase in-
terest in this area. To achieve this
cover in spring it must be there in the
fall.
me District s recently -acquired
modified plow can be used with sweep
or chisel point teeth. It is available
free of charge to co-operators on a
l0 -acre trial basis. This will allow
farmers to "try before they buy".
To book the modified plow for your
field, call Geoff King at the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority at
335-3557, Brent Kennedy at the ('lin-
outlined
ton OMAN' office at 1-800-265-5170, or
Robert Traut at the Ausable Hayfield
Conservation Authority at 235-2610.
The Iluron Soil and Water Conser-
vation District is a joint agricultural
soil and water conservation program.
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Government projects
to improve forests
Twenty-two workers in
southwestern Ontario will spend part
of the fall building walking trails and
improving local forests as part of five
projects sponsored jointly by the
federal and provincial governments.
The projects, which will allow the
workers to supplement their
unemployment insurance benefits, of-
fer a total of 220 weeks of work at a
total cost of $119,543.
In addition to trimming branches
and clearing brush in tree planta-
tions, four workers in the Chatham
area will be developing local fuelwood
volume tables. The tables will allow
,Ministry of Natural Resources staff
to, for example, measure a 35 cen-
timetre diameter tree at chest height
and know the tree contains approx-
imately one square metre of wood,
based on the volumes of hundreds of
other trees with the same diameter.
"These are the kind of tools that will
help improve our service to lan-
downers who are managing their
woodlots for a variety of useful pur-
poses," said Natural Resources
Minister Vincent Kerrio.
In the Wingham area, three
workers will construct walking trails
in two conservation areas ad-
ministered by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority and make im-
provements to thg;tuthority's educa-
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At MNR's St. Williams Forest Sta-
tion, another six workers will upgrade
forest access roads and construct pro-
tective devices for young seedlings.
-Meanwhile, three workers will be
tending forests owned by local coun-
ties but managed by the Long Point
Region Conservation Authority. In
Grey County, six workers will also be
engaged in removing competing
vegetation and pruning trees in tree
plantations in four townships.
"Keeping skilled workers in their
communities is one of the goals of the
Canada Works/Section 38 program,"
said federal Employment and Im-
migration Minister Benoit Bouchard.
The federal -provincial job creation
program is jointly funded by Employ-
ment and Immigration Canada and
the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources. The program includes
fisheries. wildlife, parks. lands,
forestry and conservation authority
projects.
The federal government provides
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