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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1992-07-29, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, July 29, 1992 Fine weather allowed Jack Blair and Clarence Thomson a chance to demonstrate this vintage threshing equipment for the sesquicentennial visitors Saturday afternoon. The equipment hark- ened back to a day when pitch forks and belt drives were still state of the art farm imple ments. 3. John Core is the chairman of the Ontario Milk Producers Marketing Board. Through the years, the OMMB has been able to find excel- lent people tor this most important position on the board. I listened to'an old farmer pontifi- cate: just a few weeks ago. He was sounding oft about how the board has accepted and even encouraged the drop in the number of milk pro- ducers in this province. He blamed the boards policies for forcing many producers out of business. I think he was wrong. 1 tried to tell him so but he was not in a lis- tening maxi The men who have chaired the board have tried, over the years, to soften the blows when dairy farm- ers had to leave the business. They are still trying to do the same thing because, as most of us knoll , the consumpuon of dairy products is decreasing. There arc several reasons for this but the most discussed reason is that of choleste- rol. In spite of the fact that the milk board and the Canadian dairy com- mission have been spending great amounts of money to promote milk and its by-products, consumption continues to decline. Markets keep shrinking and consumers continue to switch to lower fat products. John Corr, writing in the June ediuon of the board's excellent magazine, the Ontario Milk Pro- ducer, makes some important state- ments. "Supply management," he wrote, was never designed to guarantee a livelihood for everyone. The sys- tem s purpose - and the basis for its survival is to provide an opportu- nity for efficient producers to earn a lair-retum " Note that phrase: tor efficient producers. The opponents of supple management often suggest that these marketing boards reward the incoMpetent. I think nothing is fur- ther from the truth. In fact, the OMMB rewards its efficient pro- duces and challenges every dairy farmer to improve production. Core suggests that greater chang- es in the industry are inevitable. An editorial in the same edition puts it quite bluntly: Consumer de- mand for butterfat may be falling in Canada but dairy farmers should re- mind themselves that the sky isn't falling with it. The industry is far from doomed although customer de- mand is changing for the kinds of products offered. The change might be painful but a future remains for dairy farmers who make the transi- tion (from butterfat to a solids -non- fat, protein or total solids basis). There is, however, a healthy de- mand for milk and dairy products. That demand will remain because milk is still the almost -perfect food. But big changes have already tak- en place and will continue to take place. I personally think the milk board took too long in recognizing that the buying public wanted two percent and now one pea -eclat milk in preference to whole milk. I think the dairy lobby fought these chang- es too long before coming to the conclusion that the change was in- evitable. I ant convinced now, though, that with intelligent, forward -thinking people like John Core at the top; the Ontario board will continue to hsten even more closely to what consu- mers arc saying even if it means that the number of producers contin- ue to decline. Twenty years ago, there were about 20,000 producers in Ontario. 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