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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-11-10, Page 17BIGLWELLA FARM EQUIPMENT Would filo to than&aff who attended our successful NflV. 5tk J4VCTIOOSi.LE. SPECIAL q% w ($ to Auctioneers,ohn Shakgfton and Tom 9-fanudecki, the consignees and our entire staff PARM 1JPDA - One Foot in the 1urrow I3y Bob T'rottc'l Yanks can be tough If you want more proof of how tough the Yanks can be when it comes to dollars, all you have to do is look at the pesky countervailing duty they have been charging against Canadian hogs for more than two years. They -- the Yanks -- have lost the court battles and the deci- sions by bi-national disputes - settling panels set up under the Canada -U.S. Free Trade Agree- ment except for one. In that case, the duty was upheld but lowered from 9.27 cents a pound to 1.31 cents a pound. The U.S. government has said the countervailing duty will be reduced. Officials said it many weeks ago, more than three months ago, but the duty still re- mains and it appears that it will be another three or four months before they get around to doing what they saidthey would do un- der the international disputes - settling process. They may have lost the World Series to the pesky Canucks but they play hardball in other plac- es, too. Their farm lobby is per- haps one of the strongest'in the world and they will drag.their feet as long as they can if it means an extra dollar or two. Canadians are not used to playing his way. As a general Me, we actlike ladies and:gen- Itlemen. Whenwtheintles ,oftbe game are set ourbtstatute:and mutual agreement,-=weuaudlly play the game properly. The U.S. Government listens patiently to its farmers, too -pa- tiently perhaps, and then takes its own sweet time in imple- menting the decisions. The countervailing duty was set in place originally to offset the benefits of government sub- sidies paid here. Unfortunately, the duty reduced the price of Canadian hogs, some say as much as $18 per hog although the true figure may be closer to $8 or $10 a hog. That price gap may now decrease to about $2 a hog, if and when those reluctant Yanks decide to do what they said they would do. Packers and farmers on this side of the border, especially in Ontario, tried to fight the coun- tervailing duty. For instance, the Ontario Pork Producers Market- ing Board set up a new policy in May to sell hogs only to Ca- nadian packers. In other words, the deal effectively banned any exports to the Excited States. It also gave packers here enough hogs to keep their kill lines busy without interference from Amer- ican buyers. It's the old and time -tested law of supply and demand. The bigger the demand, the higher the price. When the Americans could not buy Canadian hogs -- and their customers love the lean, tenderness of our hogs -- the demand was lowered. In ad - dition, hogs have traditionally been marketed on a north -south basis. When this was stopped, the market became unnaturally manipulated. Canadian packers, of course, liked the idea of the export ban. Although the original deal with the Canadian packers meant the hog auction here was run with a bidding range of four percent of the daily average price in Indiana and Illinois, many Canadian farmers felt the bidding here was still too low anddemanded lifting the export ban. Does it sound complicated? Well, it is but, even so, the Americans play rough and tough. They will lift the counter- vailing duty slowly and reluc- tantly even though the bi- national panel decisions were handed down months ago. Is it any wonder that Canadi- an farmers and government offi- cials are looking for dfferent kinds of "subsidies' and aid pro- grams that cannot be included in the countervailing duty catego- ry? If the Americans drag their feet, set up all kinds of road- blocks, do their best to follow the rules reluctantly, thenCana- dians will have to play the same kind of under-the-table games. Maybe we'll be able to beat the Yankees at their own game just as we did in baseball the last couple of years. Times -Advocate, November 10,1993 ?Age17 Soil and Crop to hold meeting BRUSSELS - The Huron Soil •and Crop Improvement Association will be holding their annual meet- ing. and banquet on Thursday, No- bember 25, 1993 at 6:30 p.m. at the Brussels Community Centre. Tick- ets are available through your local soil and crop director or the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food office in Clinton. Ticket deadline is November 18. One of the highlights of the annu- al meeting will be the corn variety report. This year's report is being Farm health committee formed CLINTON - In November 1992, over 250 individuals responded to a Farm Health Survey conducted by the Huron County Health Unit. In March 1993, a task force of local farmers and farm agency represen- tatives met to examine the survey results and recommend a course of action. As a result of the action plan de- veloped by the task force, a Huron County Rural Health Coordinating Committee has now been formed to implement the recommendations. Currently this committee has repre- sentatives from O.M.A.F., Wom- en's Institute, O.F.A., Farm and Safety Association, Rural Connec- tions and ' Huron County Health Unit. Any individual or organization interested in joining the committee is welcome. A speaker is also avail- able to address your group or func- tion on the results of the Farm Health Survey. For information, please contact the Huron County Health Unit at (519) 482- 3416 or 1-800-265-5184. revised to include standability in- formation and a moisture ajpdex. Alan McCallum, Soil and Crop Ad- visor, Ontario Ministry of Agricul- ture and Peed t be ing on a number of sot trials conducted during the year. LOW PROFILE. 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