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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-11-25, Page 26Page 84 Times -Advocate, November 25, 1987 Exeter C..Op faces loss despite sales increase Zone 11 Co -Ops, reported a $5.1 million profit overall and said he re- mained "cautiously optimistic" for the coming year. Although the president's and two directors' terms of office had ex- pired, all three were nominated for return to office. President Wayne Rowe, Alan Powe, and Jim Wind- sor all accepted the nominations and agreed to stand re-elected. Despite sales increases in all areas for the 1986-87 fiscal year, the Ex- eter and District Co -Operative has reported a net loss of $72,737 to its members. Friday's annual banquet brought the bad news to the membership and Co -Op directors were clearly disap- pointed with the results. "Although we would all admit that agriculture is in the throes of difficult times, a sense of optimism must prevail," director Wayne Ratz told the audience. General Manager Murray Insley, in his first year with the Exeter Co - Op, said he was disappointed with this year's results, but not discou- raged. He attributed the $72,737 loss to an extension and necessary repairs to the fertilizer plana. The annual financial statement shows a loss from operations of $113,145 this year compared with only $15,040 last year. ' This year's loss compares with a profit of more than $47,050 for 1986 and of more than $67,000 in 1985.. Because of the operating loss, sec - CO -OP DIRECTORS - At the annual Exeter Co -Op meeting and banquet Friday night general manager Mur- ray Insley (right) welcomes the re-election of some of the directors: Wayne Rowe (Ie t),president, Cliff Ilicks, secretary, and directors Alan Powe and Jim Windsor. Well now, isn't it grand that somebody else besides the Con- cerned Farm and the Women for the of Agriculture is speaking up for farm women? The whole world seemed to be ig- noring the fact that farm women have been a driving force in agricul- ture for a hundred years in Canada. They have kept farm families to- gether; they have poured their life's energy and earnings into keeping the farm viable. But little or noth- ing has been done for them in this terrible crisis that still exists in ru- ral Canada. Farm women make up 21 percent of the agricultural labor force. They are flooding into agriculture pro- grams at colleges and universities. Statistics also say that 35 percent of farm women have off -farm jobs to supplement the family income and then they come home and work another 36 hours a week doing cooking, cleaning, sewing and farm- ing chores. The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women has just re- leased a 222 -page report to prove that all levels of government have ignored the farm wife. Called Growing Strong: Women in Agriculture, the report describes the challenges faced by women on the farm in trying to become visible to poliiicians and legislators. For instance, the report says the Unemployment Insurance Act should allow women who work on family farms to contribute to the unemployment insurance plan and to receive benefits such as maternity leave and training programs. One of my biggest complaints in recent years concerns day-care pro- grams. Many are available for city mothers but few of these programs, many of them subsidized by provin- cial and federal funds, are available to farm women because so many farms arc in isolated areas -- or areas. far from the mainstream. Urban pro- grams fail miserably, too, when it comes to the peak agricultural peri- ods. Help is sorely needed at plant- ing time and harvest time yet urban day-care supervisors would probably scratch their heads in great conster- nation if such requests were made. I have yet to see a home for bat- tered women in thc country. They are, of course; in the cities where the people congregate. Statistics also indicate that wife abuse is just as prevalent on farms as it is in the cities but rural women get little help. In addition, they get Tess un- derstanding in the country. They grin and bear it rather than suffer the ignominy of reporting abuse. Mtich of the reason farm women "are ignored is because their hus- bands foster the idea. They, the hus- bands, do not take their wives into their confidence. Too many of them know little or nothing about farm financing and are at a complete loss when -loans are negotiated. Too many farm women arc ig- nored by their husbands when it comes time to get a formal agree- ment about the farm business, a le- gal partnership in the family enter- prise. The report says that, in 1981, 87 percent of the family farms in Cana- da still belonged to a single owner, usually the husband, and that is an indictment of the farmers in this country who do not take the time and the trouble to make the busi= ness a legal partnership on paper, just as much a partnership as the workload. Few farmers to my knowledge have ever made it without a great and wonderful woman right beside them. It is time the rest of thc country realized it and removed thc veil which has surrounded farm women for far too many year.. ID is ar lob •aft a t< 1140 Iv is. au to ✓ I�� air en wait a11110el& AI� a `v, as Aa; as 4 was r• V as `+ a▪ u. all ebb as aI& eftalbR } MO Ow. weft 111. a is 4 yes aL s retary Cliff Hicks declared that no patronage dividend could be returned to the membership. Insley did, however, predict a bet- ter financial outlook for next year's report due to increased sales to date. 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