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Rain throughout the day
Saturday cut attendance and
the enthusiasm of com-
petitors at the 1983 Middlesex
plowing match held at the U-
derton area farm of Bev
Hughes.
The first portion of the
Queen of the Furrow competi-
tion was held Saturday as
Margaret Giles, RR 1 Ilderton
and Karen Peterson, RR 4
Komoka displayed their plow-
ing skills.
Final judging of the two
contestants will be held Fri-
day night during the annual
Middlesex Plowmen's
Association banquet being
held at the Delaware Coni-
munity Centre.
They will be judged Friday
on appearance and deport-
ment in addition to making
two minute speeches. The
new Queen of the Furrow will
be crowned by last year's
winner Heather Dawson, RR
1 Thorndale.
In the special plowing bvent
open to reeves, Jack Moir,
reeve of London township was
the winner followed by Earl
Doan, reeve of Lobo end
Frank Kanters substituting
for Adelaide reeve Bob
Feasey.
The antique equipment
open contest was won by Jack
Nethercott, RR 1 Arkona. A
tractor must be at least 25
years old to qualify as an
antique.
Dennis O'Neil, RR 2 Den-
field was the utility tractor
class winner. The other con-
testants were his father
Clayton and brother Doug.
The Manning family of RR
2 Highgate won three divi-
sions of the match plowing.
Art Manning bested four
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attendance at
other competitors to win the
open tractor class for two or
more furrows and two
daughters also were winners.
June was tops in the
women's open utility tractor
class and Carol was the only
competitor in the open tractor
Ontario
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
huron farm
and
home news
Farmers interested in im-
proving their profit picture
should plan to attend one of
the "Management For Pro-
fit" seminars planned for
eight locations across
Ontario.
Local farmers may attend
the seminar of their choice at
one of the following locations:
Mildmay on November 21,
Kitchener on December 1,
London on December 2 and
Ridgetown on December 3.
Dr. Hiram Drache, farmer
and farm management
specialist from North Dakota,
is the feature speaker. A local
top farmer, Richard
Hiscocks, and Ministry of
Agriculture and food
specialists will present
management ideas for the
'80s.
Registration forms are
available at local O.M.A.F.
offices. Fees for the day and
lunch are $20 per farmer and
$10 for additional members of
the same farming operation.
Custom farmwork survey
Survey questionnaires will
be mailed by mid-October to
custom operators in Ontario.
The annual survey provides
information on rates for
various custom operations to
farmers and custom
operators.
Custom operators are en-
couraged to complete and
return the questionnaire to
G.A. Fisher, O.M.A.F., Box
726, Chatham, N7M 5L1. New
customoperatorscan obtain a
copy of the questionnaire
from Mr. Fisher.
Summary results of the
survey will be available in
February from O.M.A.F.,
Box 159, Clinton, NOM 1LO.
Don Pullen, Agricultural
Representative for
Huron County
Attention Junior Farmers
The Open Junior Farmer
Livestock Evaluation Com-
petition will take place at the
Royal Agricultural Winter
Fair on Friday, November 11
at 9:00 a.m. Eight exercises
(Dairy Cow Selection, Dairy.
Cow Evaluation and Sire
Selection, Dairy Heifer Selec-
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Horse judge enthusiasts
If you are interested in
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Toronto, you should consider
entering the Robert Graham.
Memorial Judging
Competition.
This competition is open to
any resident of Canada who
has not reached his/her 26th
birthday on November 1, 1983.
Contestants are required to
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, John Bancroft, Rural
Organization Specialist
(Agriculture)
Gaunt gets
top award
Former Huron -Bruce MPP
Murray Gaunt of Wingham
has received the Huron Coun-
ty Federation of Agriculture's
. annual award.
The award was presented
at the federation's annual
meeting held on October 6 in
Seaforth.
Federation past president
Gerry Fortune presented the
award which, since 1976, has
been given annually for
outstanding contribution to
agriculture.
• "It's not a farmer of the
year award," commented
Mrs. Fortune.
The past president said
Gaunt is "known and
respected" for listening to
farmers' concerns.
A member of the legislative
assembly for 17 years, Gaunt
has resumed a former posi-
tion as farm editor with
CKNX radio and television.
"I like farm people," Gaunt
said in receiving his award.
The former MPP paid
tribute to his wife, Pat, who in
his words has "stuck by the
home fires."
Gaunt had two surprises
that evening. Prior to receiv-
ing the award, he had been
nominated as president of the
federation. He declined the
presidency.
Tony McQuail, 31, of RR 2
Lucknow starts his second
term as president of the
federation.
"An organization such as
the Iluron County Federation
of Agriculture can't work
without the support of its
members," said McQuail.
The federation president
paid tribute to his past ex-
ecutive and various commit-
tee members who have work-
ed in the farming
organization.
"Many segments of
agriculture are in difficulty
these days. Nothing will be
accomplished on behalf of
farmers unless we do it
ourselves," said McQuail.
Doug Garniss, 33, of RR 4
Wingham was named to fill
the position of federation first
vice-president. Ile replace
Jim McIntosh. of RR 4
Seaforth who, alth ugh
nominated for the coming
year, declined the
nomination.
Paul Klopp, 26, of Zurich
was named as second
vice-president.
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Middlesex plow test
class for two or more furrows.
Winner in the novice class
was Vicki Bedggood, RR 2
Thorndale and Bob Dale, RR
2 Ilderton was the only contes-
tant in the tractor open split
two furrow class for Mid-
dlesex residents.
Taking the top award in the
two or more furrows tractor
class for Middlesex high
school students was Dwayne
Lyons, RR 2 Lucan. -
Other winners were: one
furrow garden tractor Jason
Small, RR 7 St. Thomas; ppen
split two furrow tractor under
18 years of age Kory Lyons,
RR 3 Lucan and open split two
furrows 18 to 25 years Dennis
White, Lucan.
HONOR GAUNT — The Huron County Federation of Agriculture presented former
Huron -Bruce MPP Murray Gaunt with its annual Huron County award for his con-
tribution to agriculture. The federation's past president Gerry Fortune presented
Gaunt with a trophy. In the photo, from left to right are: Mrs. Murray (Pat) Gaunt,
Mr. Gaunt, Mrs. Fortune and Doug Fortune. Gount served as Huron -Bruce's MPP
for 17 years and is currently farm editor at CKNX TV and Radio.
kit. 4 -
Do farmers in
enough respect?
That was the interesting
question posed a couple of
weeks ago on the farm phone-
in portion of CBC's Radio
Noon .show. Even more in-
teresting was the response the
question generated.
Nine out of 10 callers were
emphatic in agreeing that
farmers do not get enough
respect in this nation.
Although one or two of the
callers were farmers' wives
or former farm women, many
others were not. in fact, if I
remember correctly, only one
caller said they got too much
attention from governments,
too many subsidies and too
many bail -outs.
"They're nothing but a
bunch of cry babies," said the
man who called.
It was also interesting tc
note that at least one caller
suggested the Radio Noon
show does not pay enough at
tention to farmers. The farm
phone-in portion was limited
to less than 15 minutes, she
said, but a whole hour was
devoted daily to, a phone-in
portion far more urban
oriented than farm oriented.
Many of us with a lot of
grey around the ears can
remember when the noon -
hour show on CBC was entire-
ly devoted to agriculture.
Over the years. this emphasis
has switched to the point
where the farm portion of the
show is now a recitation of the
livestock and produce
markets with a few reports
from field reporters. It is a
token amount of content and
not nearly as agriculturally
oriented as it should be.
A number of excellent
reporters have been cut from
the show through austerity
measures because the other
news and public affairs
departments have gobbled
too much money from the
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CBC allotment.
The National and the Jour-
nal are costly showpieces for
the CBC. It takes great gobs
of money to keep them going
and Radio Noon was cut back
more than a year ago. It was
used as fodder to feed the.
prestige shows. •
Which is not to say that
those programs are not wor-
thwhile. They were in-
novative in their infancy,
especially when the pro-
ducers defied tradition and
moved them back to the 10
p.m. time slot. Some radio
and television people i know
figured they would fall flat on
their respective cans and
even Knowlton Nash and Bar-
bara Frumm could not hold
an audience at 10 p.m.
The doomsayers were
wronp,. Both programs have
been successful and Mark
Starowicz, the executive pro-
ducer of the Journal, has gone
on record as saying he was
overjoyed at the size of the
viewing audience.
They are good shows but
that is no reason to stifle the
other excellent CBC produc-
tions. Money should be found
forthwith to keep the farm
portion of Radio Noon and
build on it.
When the national - and na-
tionalized - radio and televi-
sion system constantly erodes
the agricultural content of
both radio and television pro-
ductions, it will do nothing to
prompt private stations into a
greater emphasis on farming.
Yet, here is a basic industry
that is more important to the
country than anyothersector
of the economy.
Farming accounts for more
than 40 percent of the jobs in
this country. The food chain,
if you follow it from the field
to the table, is the most essen-
tial industry in Canada.
Yet farmers continue to he
left out in the back forty in
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budgets. As I understand it,
Canada spends less than two
perceni of the national budget
on agriculture.
No. Farmers do not get
enough respect. And yes, it is
time they did.
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