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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1989-08-30, Page 13Times -Advocate, August 30, 1989 Page 13 It all starts here - Shown at the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board booth at Saturday's Zurich Bean Festival are from the left general manager Charlie Broadwell, Murray Dawson, market analyst Julie Johnston and Jack Coleman. WOW students graduate - Graduation exercises for this year's Work Orientation Workshop was held recently. With the co-operation of a number of area businesses, eight high school students got a practical look at the work place during the last three months. From. the !eft are SHDHS Guidance Counsellor Rick Graham, students Wayne Berends, Troy White, Tonya Riehl, Heather Hirtzel, Melissa Blue, Hazel Snedden and Krista Ford and program co-ordinator Dana Bozzato. Missing was Jeff Bur- ton. ne foot in the mow' bY6a.t Farm leaders have spent zillions of hours and millions of dollars set- ting up supply management mar- keting' boards. ar-keting'boards. Supply management means that farmers arc told how much they can produce and they usually know how much they will get for the final product. To manage properly, quotas are set. Farmers beg, borrow, buy or are given a quota. Naturally, the owners of these quotas are in a for- tunate position. They are, so to speak, in the driver's seat. They own a precious resource. Those quotas become in some cases, a ticket to prosperity. Under the wonderful old law of �► supply and demand, the price of quotas can increase markedly. It has happened in milk, cgs and chick - CUSTOM WORK YOUR SFFO MAI ER Corn Soybeans Wheat Forages DAVE HODGINS' R.R. 8 Parkhill, Ont. (Corbett) NOM 2K0 (519) 294-6758 Haylage, baled hay, corn silage, high moisture corn ',envy are aporet.aitd by Bob rroRer E (1Ne ROI Elmra Om N3112C7 ens. When prices increase so dra- matically, it becomes almost im- possible to buy more quota. Only the very rich can afford to buy more.. And therein lies the rub. Only the boys with the big bucks can buy and that defeats one of the the original ideas of supply man- agennent marketing. boards which were formed to preserve the family farm, to prevent concentration of agriculture in the hands of a few: Large corporations -seek to inte: grate their operations. Vertical inte- gration - the trend, for instance, in the poultry industry to have feed companies take over hatcheries and poultry processing plants and fami- ly farms - is rampant in the Excited States. Eighty-five percent of the industry over there is said to be in the hands of about five companies. Can that happen in Canada? You bet your stabilization payout it can. Ron Drohomereski, chairman of the national hatching egg marketing agency, is worried. "If we are at all serious about the preservation of the family farm and the prevention of vertical integra- tion of our supply management in- dustries, the trend of quota concen- tration must be .stopped and a .reversal must begin to take. place," he told a meeting recently. "Farm- ers have spent great resources to put these marketing systems in place...but those same farmers, rather than see to it that these sys- tems perpetuate. themselves in the Puppet time - Wednesday's closing session at the Centralia Faith Tabernacle Vacation Bible School featured a puppet show. In- volved in the action above are Billy Graham and Chrissy Parker. 'ATTENTION MASSEY FERGUSON OWNERS JOHN DEERE hands of future generations of fami- ly farms, seem content to let them - solve be sold out to the ever- increasing -sized, but fewer in num- bers, multi -quota holders;'. He accused farmers of navel gaz- ing on this concentration of quota and I echo his concern. The initia- tive to prevent it must come from farmers. If the trend is not halted, the multi -national companies will buy up enough quota to control the entire industry. And big companies do not favor supply management. They will get control and then dis- mantle what farmers have spent so many years building. This concentration of power is taking place throughout the econo- my. Big business and big industry, get bigger. Classic examples abound. The automobile industry, for instance, was down to the Big . Three - Ford, GM and Chrysler - until the imports stood them on end. In the newspaper industry, there are only about half a dozen indepen- dent daily newspapers left in Cana- da. Thomson Newspapers own about 35 of the 108 dailies. This kind of concentration in ag- riculture should not be allowed to happen. Food is too vital. We all like to eat. It's a habit picked up in infancy and is impossible to break. Vertical integration must be stopped. 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