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Stewart's executive
lists challenges
Byron Beeler executive
vice-president of Stewart
Seeds of Ailsa Craig ford
visitors to the firms annual
Mingo Day that a lot of
challenges are ahead.
(Mingo Day in honour of a
new breed of barley was
formerly known as Media
Day. Following are the
remarks of Beeler'
These are exciting times.
These are depressing times.
These are good times. These
are bad times These are
times of high energy needs
and dwindling energy
supplies. These are times of
food shortage and times of
food surplus
All of these points of view
are valid depending on each
persons' perspecti'e
Regardless of one's view-
point, I think we' can all
agree that these are
challenging times'
In a world Is here ;::Stant
communication shrinks the
size of our planet to a global
village and increases clearly
the pressure is on
agriculture to produce
Pressure is on our
Canadian farmers to
produce more food for
rapidly expanding
requirements. . In com
parison to the food
production capabilities of the
United States. Canada's
potential. is small -but non-
theless' very important
As a general statement I.
would say that our Canadian
farmer does not have as
favourable a climate in
which to produce food as
does his U.S. counterpart.
As a company engaged in
basic plant breeding we have
an obligation to keep per-
manently in our minds
today
Such research is ,not
cheap. nor can it be done
poorly. for -if our Canadian
food producers do not sur-
vive neither do we
We are committed. to
Canadian agriculture and
that cornnitttnierit is best
reflected in the scope and
scale of .our research
program. the annual cost of
which exceeds 5500 (kio
We have accepted the
challenge facing agriculture NEW BARLEY VARIETY -
in this country for there is no
doubt in our minds that the
From n,e lett are director of
most exciting. the most 1 -area farmer Gordon H.11 •
challenging future is in
agriculture' •
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'Key issues are ignored
say Christian Farmers
A quota study by five
• marketing boards has
ignored a key issue un-
derlying quotas and quota
values according to Elbert
van Donkersgoed, Executive
Director of Christian Far-
mers Federation of Ontario.
Earlier this year,
Ontario's five marketing
Boards that use quotas to
control farmer production
levels issued a report on
quotas and quota values. The
report was written by two
University of Guelph
professors.
In an interview from the
CFFO office in Drayton, Mr.
van Donkersgoed stated that
the study did not give
thorough consideration to
why quota transfers are
necessary.
"The study appears to
assume that quota transfers
are necessary to make sure
that efficient low cost
producers get a chance to
produce more of a product,"
said Mr. van Donkergoed,
"in itself, that is a good
thought but it is not reality. A
freely negotiable system,
which the study appears to
favour will not guarantee
that quota will move from
high cost to low cost
producers:
According to 141r. van
Donkersgoed there are many
reasons why quotas need to
transfer. He pointed out that
transfering farms from
fathers to sons was the
biggest reasons why a quota
transfer is necessary. -
Mr. van IYonkersgoed
believes that only 5 to 10
percent of actual quota
transfers are done for the
efficiency reason.
"By far the largest
number of quota transfers
relate to one generation
turning the enterprise over
to a younger generation,"
said Mr. van Donkersgoed.
"This should -lead us to
develop a quota transfer
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The •rev, Mingo breed cf barley was unveiled at Stewart s research form near Ailsa Craig, Friday.
na.:L€.e ria Red htocInge, Mind° c,ecrtor Dr Keh Mir a Ho. sales manager lorry Morris and Varna
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Four years of testing
Unveil Mingo barley at Stewarts
Viewing a plot of Mingo
barley was the highlight of
Friday's Mingo Day held at
'the Stewart Seeds research
farm on Highway 7. east of
Ailsa Craig
Close to 100repr --n-
tatives from all the fir of
media throughout
were in attendance. In
previous years. the special
event was named Media
Day
Progress of Mingo the new
strain of,barlev was outlined
by Dr. George Jones.
director of research and
development for Ciba-Geigy
Seeds Ltd and its division
Stewart Seeds
The name Mingo comes
from its creator Dr. Keh
Ming Ho. a native of Taiwan,
who came to Stewart's six
years ago and started the
dihaplotd breeding technique
five years ago.
Rod Maclnnes director of
marketing ' commented.
When one thinks hack to
1974 when Stewart's
pioneered the commercial
use of dihaploid technique
one rust stand in awe of the
outstanding ach:evement in
1980 there s'.ili he com-
mercial quantities of this
licensed sarietfor sale
'` ',1dd to this achievement
of speed and planning ilii•
fact that Mingo is simply the
best barley. in Ontario today
and the combination is
powerfully impressive".
continued .1aciines.
Dr Jones said the licen-
cing of Mingo barley was a
major accomplishment. He
continued. •-From here on in
we expect to have a con-
tinuous flow of new barley _
rarities Our next release
will likely he another six -row
feed barley for Eastern
Canada followed by a two -
row feed possibly as early as
1981
According to Jones,
Stewart's expect to have
developed their first malting
barley cultivars forboth east
and west.
Mingo barley was tested
got four years in a total of 49
trials. 21 at Stewart's and 28
eastern co-op trials.
Dr. Jones believes that
barley production in Eastern
Canada can be increased by
More than four million
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E W Stahl. President of
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bushels because of Mingo. It
has produced average yields
of 94 bushels per acre.
Mingo the product of
crossing of Vanier and
Laurier. Says Dr. Jones,
"It's crossing the best with
the best."
Stewart's sales manager
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marketing program is
committed to offering seed
to our dealers .of the very
best of the licenced cultivars
and Mingo barley certainly
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system based on this need
while making'.sure that the
quota is not a burden on the
next generation."
Mr. van Donkersgoed
pointed out that it doesn't
make any sense to allow
quota values to be set by the
5 to 10 percent transfering
for efficiency reasons while
perhaps 75 percent of
transfers n involve one
generation taking over from
the .next.
When asked what the next
step should be he suggested
that each of the marketing
boards should study why.
their quotas are transfering
by looking at the past five
years. "The Boards should
find out how many transfers
are in fact from father to son
or from one generation to the
next."
"I'm convinced that these
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significance of transfers for
efficiency reasons and .help
us develop a family farm
oriented transfer system,"
concluded Mr. van
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