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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1991-03-20, Page 28Page t28 Times -Advocate, March 20, 1991 FARM 1JPD Hardl sprayer clinic - Bect(er Farm Equipment Ltd. of Exeter, hosted a Hard! sprayer clinic last Tuesday at the Three AARs Restaurant. Agronomists' Margrethe Hostgaard of Denmark and David Coorts of Dav- enport, avenport, Iowa, spoke to approximately 25 farmers and Becker representatives on the various aspects oa the sprayer. The annual sprayer clinic is hosted at 12 Hardt dealers in Canada and 18 dealers in'the United States. ,Spraying begins in May and runs through to July. "You just don't know what you're talking about," a dairy farmer said to me the other day. She was referring to a recent column when I said, that dairy farmers are going to have to find a different method of measuring milk quality. Butterfat just will not hack it any longer in this calorie - conscious, fat -hating society. "The public," she said, "have no idea what butterfat means." I guess she is right. The public do not know about milk quality but it does know about skim milk and one percent and two percent and homo milk. The consumer in Canada has eschewed butter be- cause of the cholesterol scare. The sales of butter have dropped. All you have to do is ask about the mountains of surplus butter being stored by the Canadian govern- ment. The Canadian Dairy Commis- sion does not know what to do with all the butter. It will be sold at a discount just to get rid of it and it will cost millions of dollars to move it off storage shelves. Granted, much of this surplus has been caused by the phenomenal success of one -percent milk. I love milk. I could drink gallons - oops,, pardon me, litres - of it. I have been warned of my choleste- rol count. It went off the scale. So I quit drinking homogenized milk 20. years ago and switched to two per- cent. Not good enough. The count continued to spiral. So I had to switch to skim milk. Not good. It Imus 1/e.0prewted by Bob Tioti.,.Etdlte Rd N3B 2C7 Milk, as any dairy producer knows, has been losing the popularity con- test in the last decade. Sales have fallen steadily in the past 10 years. The average Canadian drank 109 li- tres of milk in 1979 but only 105 li- tres in 1989, in spite of all the won- ' derful promotion by provincial milk marketing boards and national marketing boards. In an attempt to defend its claim that milk is healthy and nutritious, the dairy industry and nutrition ex- perts agree that some work needs to be done on labelling. Many high-fat foods are allowed to advertise that they are fee of cholesterol. Yet tests prove that dairy products are just as free. Labels, in other words, are de- ceptive and, sometimes, inaccurate. Some brands of French fries, mayonnaise and margarine contain as much fat as dairy products and yet those same products are al- lowed to advertise "cholesterol - free". The dairy industry has been assured that the federal nutrition evaluation department will "take another look at the labelling regula- tions". And speaking of government reg- ulations, it is only fair to mention that the Excited States has finally scraped a countervailing duty on Canadian pork exports. The duty costs jobs in Canada and reduced the value of pigs sold in Canada and those exported by as much as $15 a head. I said in a column not long ago that it could be a long time before the U.S. made a move. It is comforting to report that the move has finally been made by our big, bad neighbours to the south. Wildflower planting to begin OTTAWA - Hundreds of Canadi- an municipalities including Exeter will plant wildflowers this spring in celebration of National Wildlife Week which takes place April 7 - 13, 1991. "Planting wildflower gardens is a great way to create habitat for all kinds of wildlife including butter- flies, bees and some types of birds," said Colin Maxwell, executive vice president of CWF. "We thought this was a fun way to get commu- nities involved and to show Canadi- ans that there arc simple things they can do to help wildlife." looks too much like what we used 1, The Canadian Wildlife Federation to use to paint the barn with. It does (CWF) obtained over 4000 packag- not have that rich, wonderful taste es of wildflower seeds from Aimers of cool, beautiful milk. Quality Seeds and Bulbs to distrib- When one percent milk hit the ute to municipalities and media out - market, I was ecstatic. Now, as a lets across Canada as part of a ma - diet -conscious old man, I enjoy my jor public awareness campaign for favorite beverage and do not add to my health problems. But psychologically, I'm still drinking one -percent butterfat. IF milk could be labelled differently, I could drink it and not worry about the fat content. I am convinced that there arc mil- lions, perhaps more - maybe even thousands - of people out there who feel the same way. Diet -conscious people, including teenagers who are the people the dairy industry must reach to increase sales, will leave the soda pop in the refrigera- tor and drink milk, especially if it doesn't look like whitewash. Getting milk back into the diets of young people is a great feat. FREE Anti -recession will bring OMAF office to Clinton CLINTON - A new $1.6 million Huron County agriculture office will be built in Clinton for the Min- istry of Agriculture and Food as part of the Ontario Government's anti -recession program, Frances Lankin, Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet and Minister of Government Services and Paul Klopp, M.P.P. for Huron, an- nounced today. "This project was chosen for its value to the delivery of provincial programs and to spread the fins» cid benefits derived to communi- ties and regions experiencing' seri- ous economic problems," Lankin said. "The construction of the new County Office will bring much needed work to this area and is ex- pected to result in 800 person weeks of work," said Klopp, who is also Parliamentary Assistant to Ag- riculture and Food Minister Elmer Buchanan. "Not only that, it will provide an up-to-date seeing for local food producers to meet and gain access to the consulting services the min- istry offers," he said. The Huron County agriculture office is cur- rently located at 20 King Street, Clinton. The project is expected to be fin- ished by the end of the 1991-92 fis- cal year. This is part of Ontario's overall $700 million anti -recession pack- age outlined by Treasurer Floyd Laughren in December. The Ministry of Government Ser- vices will be encouraging consul- tants and contractors who wish to be considered for this project to provide apprenticeship and em- ployment opportunities for women, native people, Francophones, visi- ble minorities and people with dis- abilities. ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS & HUNTERS Custom Stone Picking Phone Jeff Borland 235-0567 FUNK'S 1 ran ID INVITE YOU TO A SEED CORN & SOYBEAN PICK-UP DAY Location: Borland Farms, R.R. #1, Woodham Take advantage of our • Early Payment Discounts • Quantity Discounts Date: Sat., March 23 Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Hot'and cold refreshments FUNK SEEDS AND JEFF BORLAND LAST CHANCE TOREGISTER wu+ci SPRAYER Wriii" National Wildlife Week. National Wildlife Week (NWW) was created in 1947 by an Act of Parliament to raise awareness about the importance of wildlife and wildlife conservation. Each year during NWW, the Fed- eration produces educational kits in co-operation with federal, provin- cial and territorial wildlife agen- cies. These kits are distributed tO schools across Canada in an effort to encourage students to conduct wildlife habitat improvement pro- jects in their schoolyards and com- munities. Along with the school program, communities across Canada hold local festivals to celebrate National Wildlife Week which include wild- life displays, film festivals, lec- tures and fundraisers to help wild- life. Attend The 1991 066 ititk Thursday March 21' 9:30 - 12 Noon LIMITED REGISTRATION Phone Today Exeter 235-2121 or 1-800-265-2121 * Introducing the all new "Twin Spraying System" Nardi Inc. specialists will be on hand to discuss "how to spray your fields with confidence" CALL NOW TO RESERVE YOUR CHAIR SEED PICK-UP DAYS and receive 10% Cash Discount* March 21 & 22 10 a.m. to 4 pm.. Ford Brothers 237-3767 e Minimum 10 units of corn only agle.d FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. 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