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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-09-12, Page 18 (2)Page 2A Times -Advocate, September 12. 1 97 9 Corn committee has had growing pain By ALICE.GIBB Bruce Shillinglaw, a Londesboro farmer who's a member of the provisional' corn marketing committee trying to organize an ac- ceptable grain corn marketing, told federation members there likely won't be a vote on the proposed John Deere Oil -Less Air Compressors These gas -3 ane-er c, ne ana electric-^,otor cor-p-esso•s combine oorac. ,,. high performance arc ow maintenance -^'e s,3 -he ae- sign features i-eep the oil out of the a,' e nate the neeo for ; 3 ano increase co `e you need a . __s_ we've got o^.e • )0C �JORN OEERE u simnel Blyth 523-4244 Exeter 235-1115 board for at least a year and a half. Shillinglaw was speaking at the regional meeting for Huron County Federation of Agriculture members in the north of the county. held at East Wawanosh School. Belgrave. Thursday. night. Shillinglaw said the volunteer committee studying the cord marketing proposal has had "quite a growing pain problem.' whieh had included losing a number of members and changing t he original concepts of the board. Shillinglaw said the committee now suggests fashioning the coria board after the soybean marketing board This means the corn koard would be a non -agency type of • board, which will deal only with the grain corn beign resold by the farmer. rather than with corn sold in farmer -to -farmer deals or used on the grower's own faun. Shillinglaw said the .proposed cost for the board handling the grain..corn would be 20 cents per metric tonne The corn grower said there is currently 1.7 million acres of grain corn grown in the province of Ontario, but a large percentage of this is either fed to livestock on the grower's farms or is in storage at elevators. He said it would be too great a problem for the proposed marketing hoard to try and control all the corn in storage. Shillinglaw said the board has been proposed because ••we need a spokesman for corn, growers in Ontario". He warned corn growers in the audience that the price of -seed corn will be going up 25 per cent next year. since the Seed Corn" Growers Association voted to raise their prices. 1p� MIR DRAINAGE Farm and Municipal Drainage Systems Drainage Plan Provided Free Estimates Phone i 519)271-4777 after 8 p.m RR # 4 STRATFORD, ONT. • shillutglaw said the corn marketing board could deal ith seed corn companies Also. it could negotiate ad%ance payments- and . assist in administering them in, corn growers can't obtain ad- vance paynnents for their crop Shillinglaw said the stabilization plan currently in effect has been developed by the government. with n'o input from growers. He said a corn marketing board could also negotiate these payments on the growers' behalf and "could be a watchdog to keep handling and storage rates within reason .. Brinsley folk welcome new family Mrs. Jack Hodgson and Mrs. Myra Glenn. Strathroy were supper -guests Thur- sday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey. Morley. Sympathy of the com- munity is extended to the Feltz families in the death of their father Wilbert , Bill Feltz. Liegry who was buried Saturday from the \I. Box and , Son Funeral Home Parkhill. Allen and Jean Amos and Bryn and Donna Gillies attended a car race in Oswego. New York last week. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Blaauboer apd family moved from -London in August to their new home north of Ailsa Craig and their two boys Pete 2nd and Pete 3rd are attending McGillivray Central Public School. Cathy Amos, Karen Lee and Sherri Wells started to kindergarten last week. Mrs. Joe Durand, Aimee Jayne and Allison Marie visited Saturday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morley. Tom Ryerson. Terry Lewis and David Corbett started to North Middlesex High School last week. The nicest thing about an egotist is that he never goes around talking about other people. . ATTENTION FARMERS This Fall Sow Thompson's /EL\ HYLAND BRAND SEED WH -EAT t• Sow early & Use Your Drill to encourage a well developed & strong root system to,combat winter kill, frost upheaval We ,have a w't I �.r•:.»= iii�lteed , plant for custom application for wheat & plough down programs. Bulk delivery service 8 5 ton sprea6rs for rent. Our seed corn plot, says to order your next spring Hyland seed corn now. We have some excellent varieties for you. Bring in your soil samples & we will have them analysed for you at W.G. Thompson's & Son's Crop Advisory Service. Fast, eff'cient and honest grading for- your 1979 white beon harvest. 10 unloading pits at our 3 -- branches. Ready to 'serve you. We are also receivers of SOYBEANS Ile told audience -members a marketing board could also ; try and get a share of the good quality corn by large firms such as Kelloggs. Right now, Shillinglaw said, the elevator owner, rather than the grower, is getting these payments, which may amount to as much as an extra 50 cents per bushel. He said the proposed board would also have a WATTS line for growers which would supply daily updated reports on current corn prices. ' The speaker said the board should also investigate export opportunities for the grain corn grown in Ontario. He said once you get beyond what the industry can use, this tends to depress the prices and "while this may be good for the livestock producers, it isn't for the corn growers." Shillinglaw told federation members 15,000 brochures are being printed up on the corn marketing proposals and will be circulated to growers across the province. There will also -be. county- wide meetings set up this Premium payments paid for SERVING LUNCH -- Eonna 'oerman serves up a delicious lunch of sauerkraut and Bavarian sausage to Ironwood mens golf club members. Sunday T -A photo winter to discuss the proposals further. Shillinglaw. was asked about a National Farmers' Union (NFU r proposal asking the Canadian Wheat Board to take over control of alll grains in Canada. He replied he- didn't feel the NFU was a force to be worried about" since they don't have 15,000 -names ori their petition. The speaker told the audience the earliest vote growers could expect on the marketing board proposal would be a year from next -April. In response to a question on who would be eligible to vote on the proposal, Shillinglaw said it would likely be anyone receiving money through the corn stabilization program or else growers who could swear by affadavit they were eligible corn growers. When asked if there wasn't "a good deal of opposition" to the marketing board proposal"across the county. Shillinglaw agreed there was, saying "that's natural any place where white beans have been grown or - marketed." 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