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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1992-04-22, Page 20t, l consumers should be ailing 'themselves a very funda- mental question these days: Do we want to be self-sufficient in food? Do we want to have a national food supply? Do we want farmers in Canada to rake a reasonable liv- -°ng, a reasonable return on their la- bour and investment? Do we have enough respect for the agricultural community to keep the family farm in business? Are we happy to spend less than 15 percent of our disposa- ble income on food, the second lowest in the world? It is my firm belief that these questions should all be answered in the affirmative and that any organi- zation that raises a negative answer should look at its own philosophy. With the issue of supply manage- ment so high on the international agenda, these questions should be asked:? Wender how many 6f -the people who would like to see mar- keting boards outlawed are old enough to remember the chaos that existed before the era of marketing boards. To revert to the chaos of those days would be a horrible step back- ward. In .those .days, the feathers indus- try was so, if you'll excuse a pun, fouled up that nobody was making much of a living. We had eggsand chickens coming out our ears.'We had turkey farmers going broke left and right. Only when those produc` ers took advprttage of the legisla- tion to form marketing boards was any kind of order restored. Dairying was in even more dire straights. Butter surpluses and milk surpluses were a burden on the tax- payers almost to the point where senior governments were Booking all over the country to fmd places in which to store butter. Tobacco producers were in such terrible shape that the big compa- nies were dictating starvation terms to farmers. 1 know of at least one farmer in those days who was told by a tobacco buyer to include his pretty daughter in the negotiations or his crop would go unsold. -He didn't include her and his crop was almost the last to be bought and it went for give-away prices. The dairy industry was complete- ly disorganized. The feathers indus- try was a disaster. And 1, for one, do not believe that consumers benefitted from that chaos. The unregulated market en- vironment meant that they did not know what they were getting. Pro- ducers had to cut as many corners as possible to remain in business and you know what cutting comers means? It always means that some- body gets burned or some of the qualfty 'disappears. lrr`> ing,--it meant a near -perfect food often spoiled. Those of us who remember sim- ply cannot take the disintegration of supply management sitting down. We have to fight because we remember others fighting for the privilege of forming marketing boards and the long, hard, often bit- ter struggles of the 1930s, 1940s and into the 1950s and 1960s. I be- lieve the family farm in Canada would disappear in one generation if we allow supply management to disappear. It is in these areas of agriculture that some semblance of order has been maintained in the toughest of times. To sec this go down the tubes would be a sad, sad thing. I hope farmers keep fighting, loud and clear. They have my un- stinting support because 1, like some of them, remember the chaos that used to be. Peas an alternative to soybean meal in pig rations REGINA - Field peas are an ex- ctslle nt,alteatative so soybean meal in pig rations. They offer high pro- tein and digestible energy levels, and because peas are grown do- mestically, they are not subject to price fluctuations like American - grown soybeans. There is nothing new about feed- ing peas to pigs. On-farm demon- stration trails conducted for the Saskatchewan Pork Producers Mar- keting Board and the Saskatchewan Pulse Crop Development Board have shown the efficacy of peas as a feed ingredient, says Barb Stefan- y$syn-Cote, an extension nutrition- ist with the Feed Testing Laborato- ry at the University of Saskatchewan. Thc demonstration trials com- pared pigs fed peas -- or a pea/ canola meal blend -- with those fed soybean meal, and found the aver- age daily gain and feed conversion were virtually identical in both cas- es. Peas exceed canola meal and len- tils as a source of digestible energy, ,she says. Although peas are slightly lower in protein and lysine than soybean or canola meal, they are theioestexpensiveof-the-three feed ingredients. "Pork producers will find they will feed more peas than soybean meal, but peas are about $100 a tonne Bess," says Stefanyshyn-Cote. She explains soybean and canola meals may have more lysine, but peas have a better combination of lysine and .energy. This -combina- tion is important to producing fast- growing, lean -indexing pigs. "Peas also compliment wheat.and barley, the other two main pig feeds," she says. Usborne 4-H By Lori Kernick EXETER - On April 13, the Us- borne No. 1 Let's Landscape 4-H club had another meeting when they visited the Exeter Nursery. Dan Mudge showed the group many different kinds of plants. Then they had an activity to name evergreen shrubs and trees etc. Some You Need To Change.., Your Tank -Mix Partner — NEVER! LEXONE® DF mixes with Pursuit® for better, weed control in soybeans. LEXONF. DF herbicide can handle up to 15 broadleaf weeds, inc ltrdtngpigweedand stIvetleaf. Pluc9annualgrasses like foxuils, crabgrass and fall panicum. With LEXONE DF as its unk-mix partner. Pursuit herbicide delivers even wider control. Including the No. I problem — ramed. 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