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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-11-16, Page 31HONOR FOSTER PARENTS — Family and Children's Services of Huron County held its annual banquet at the White Carnation in Holmesville lost Thursday evening and Foster Parent Awards for long service were given to, from left, Charles and Constance Kernick of RR 3 Exeter (10 years); GeraldandReta Van Engen of RR 1 Wroxeter (15 years); Bob and Helen Denomme of Hay Township (10 years); and Tony and Mary Von Dorp (and family) of RR 2 Seaforth (15 years). Absent for photo were Robert and Ruth Gibson of RR 1 Fordwich (5 years) and Garth and Ruth McClin- chey of RR 1 Auburn (15 years). Photo be Joanne Buchanan) Corn growers group claims decision unfair The Ontario Corn Pro- ducers' Association has writ- ten the Honourable Eugene Whelan, federal Minister of Agriculture, requesting an early meeting to discuss the need for federal deficiency payments for the 1982 grain corn crop. This request follows a recent statement by the federal Agricultural Stabilization Board that no federal deficiency payment will be paid for 1982 corn. The Corn Producers' Association claims that the Stabilization Board's an- nouncement was based on an unsatisfactory method of calculating the average corn price received by farmers. With a more satisfactory calculation, a federal defi- cienty of $4.46/tonne should be paid. According to Cliff Leach of Paris, chairman of the Marketing Committee of the Ontario Corn Producers' Association, the difference lies in methods of calculating monthly sales of corn. Such information is used in calculating yearly weighted average corn prices. With most field crops, in- cluding soybeans and winter wheat, the weighting is done on the basis of direct sales from the farm. However, with corn, the Stabilization Board uses sales to end users; this mainly Involves shipments from country elevators. The Board calculation seriously underestimates sales by farmers at harvest, and overestimates sales later in the market year. Using the same source of market information as was used by the federal Stabiliza- tion Board, the Ontario Corn Producers? Association has calculated that Ontario farmers sold 340,000 more tonnes in October to December 1982, when the price of corn averaged under $100/tonne, than was used in Board calculations. By con- trast, farmers sold 410,000 fewer tonnes in April through August of 1983, when corn prices averaged over $140/1 Anne, than was used in Board computations. The net effect of the above, in the view of the Ontario Corn Producers' Association, is that the Stabilization Board over-estimated the average price received by corn farmers in 1982-83 by $7.60/tonne. The difference is large enough to mean a $4.46/tonne federal deficiency payment to grain corn producers. If the Ontario Corn Pro- ducers' Association is suc- cessful in its request to Whelan. the change will also mean an increase in the corn payout under the Ontario pro- vincial plan. The total effect to corn farmers will be an in- creased payment of about $6.20 per tonne from both pro- vincial and federal stabiliza- tion programs. ALL AGES ATTEND -- Saturday's Exeter UCW bazaar was for all ages. Shown at a small favours table with Maxine Sereda are Julie and Sarah Megens and Alicia Hummell. USBORNE WREATH LAYING — Exeter Legion member Mahlon Ryckman is ready to assist Usborne Central School student Dianne Hamilton and Jamie Oke in a wreath laying ceremony for Remembrance Day at the school Friday morning. 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From the left are Cheryl Hockey, Kelly Talbot and Traci Tryon. T -A photo Industry is in trouble says Huron beef man Feedlot operators in Huron County are losing $100 to $150 on every cattlebeast they sell, and "anybody who derives all their income from beef is in trouble," says Bill Coleman of Kippen president of the Huron Cattlemen's Association. A typical feedlot operator bought feeder cattle last spring at 85 cents a pound, put 300 pounds on the beasts at 80 cents a pound and now "selling today you'd be for- tunate to get 72 cents," he says. it makes you wonder where the beef producers in Ontario are going to go," says Coleman, who feeds around 200 head of cattle in a mixed farming operation with his son. "We can accept the ups and downs on the market, but we can't buy feeders back for less than 80 or 81 cents." Part of the answer, Huron Cattlemen feel, is a Canada - wide voluntary three-part stabilization program. The program, proposed by the Canadian Cattlemen, would have the farmer, the province and the federal government each contribute to a fund. "it would be like crop in- surance, you'd have the op- tion of buying in or out." Well known to be indepen- dent, most beef producers Don't Pay till Spring Clean your seed oats barley. soya beans and mixed groin now No payment till March 21, 1984. Your seed is cleaned. treated, bogged or bulk on your form. 519-289-5602 for appointment Cmmedia■ Mobile Seed Mode" Limited would "be happy without any stabilization plan," Mr. Col- eman says. "It's the unequal part we object to. Right now, as Canada -wide stabilization is "thrown back between (federal ag minister Eugene) Whelan and (provin- cial ag minister Dennis) Tim- brell" all the other beef pro- ducing provinces except On- tario rrovide financial assistance tc, beef producers. With that help, Quebec farmers for example, can af- ford to pay more for feeders and establish the price. "It should be Canada -wide stabilization or nothing," the Huron Cattlemen's president says. Huron Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell has been asking for action to aid beef pro- ducers at Queen's Park. Huron Cattlemen have writ - RENTALS ten Mr. Whelan, asking him to deal with the beef stabiliza- tion proposal now. They've had no reply, except from NDP agricultural critic Mel Swart who got a copy. The Kippen area farmer says his own operation isn't in serious trouble because it's diversified. He'd hate to get out of beef because "it's been part of our farm for years." Others aren't as fortunate and he says anyone who built new slatted floor barns, touted as the modern way to raise cat- tle, hasn't had enough return to make interest payments. Meanwhile he and 265 members of the Huron Cat- tlemen's Association wait for some action. Without it, "all you can do is hope (the price) goes up the time you come to sell." RENTALS Times -Advocate, November 16, 1983 MEN'S RUNNERUP — Pat Ryan presents the Southwestern fastball league men's runnerup trophy to Bryanston coaches Carl Dunlop and Les Parnell and pitcher Dennis Carty. T -A photo Huron farm, home news Continued from page 13A ing some of the intensive management tools. The crop production techni- ques were paying off for these five percent of the farmers in their protected market. These farmers are selling in the E.E.C. The price of wheat that Dr. Effland quoted was $280. to $320 per ton. That is about double what we get for our soft winter wheat and maybe $60 to $100 per ton . more than what Monopol is contracted at in Ontario. Intensive Cereal Management in Ontario I think the key word is pa- tience. Growth regulators and fungicides will come to On- tario, but don't expect dramatic yield increases over night. King Grain, along with Chemagro and Union Car- bide, have done some ex- cellent field work this sum- mer. They have shown that we can increase some of our barley yields. To me, the results suggest that if you're already getting yields of 80 or 90 bushels per acre, you probably won't get much higher yields with in - ZURICH BOWLING Mon., Huron Hope HG D. Brownlee E. Klungel HB A. Volk M. Becker 104 90 113 113 Tues., Grand Cove Estates T. Jackson 549 A. James V. Wilde J. Girling N. Wilde S. Pincoe LH V. Wilde MH N. Wilde Wed. Exeter Ladies D. Kipfer R. Berends M. Buchanan H. Mickle A. Wilson P. Ferguson HS D. Kipfer 487 673 496 639 470 234 218 524 488 493 475 526 487 223- Thurs. Grand Cove Estates G. Hamilton R. Broad H. Kennedy •B. Kuntz R. Marshall K. Allen HA G. Hamilton R. Marshall Lil D. Abbott 585 552 435 426 650 463 184 184 168 Thurs. afternoon (:olden Agers HD B. Strachan HS L. Ayotte 152 HD E. Strachan 259 HS E. Strachanj 147 HL HS LST LHS Saturday Intertown Zurich vs I.ucan M. Bahter 2737 23 M. Bahter 265 J. Capitano 644 7 J. Capitano 233 Exeter vs Bowlmor Bowlmor HT M.L. Gray 677 27 HS M.L. Gray 331 Exeter HT D. Webster 551 3 HS J. Simpson 209 Mens Intertown Zurich HT R. Dicker( HS R. Crown 284 Bowlmor IIT D. Bailey 1316 HS D. Bailey 281 1115 23 RENTALS RENTALS Log splitters 15 ton - Can be towed behind a truck or tractor $3000 per Day or $110'° per Week Now available: Generators, Chain Saws, Pumps, Tillers. rMount Carmel 287-8456 .C. Rectal & Service Coitre RENTALS RENTALS RENTALS tensive management with our present varieties. If your yields have dropped 40 or.50 bushels per acre, you may be able to raise those yields to 70 or 80 bushels per acre. The present varieites we have tend not to respond to high nitrogen rates. If we app- ly more.N their yield will not increase. This is because of our breeding and testing system. In Ontario we do not breed varieties that will res- pond to nitrogen. Similarly, in our present variety testing system, all varieties are tested at the same low nitrogen rate. This system will probably not change. The odds of having a variety licenced that will yield well under low nitrogen and will also respond to high nitrogen rates are awfully small. Spring grain varieties just don't work that way. So then, where does that leave regulators and fungicides? Probably at the demonstration and ex- perimental stage on most farms for another three or four years. There may be a definite use for growth regulators on fields where you have to app- ly manure. Fields that you know will lodge. There is also probably a place for fungicides such as Bayleton for disease control on some fields some years. However, you will have to know which disease you have - which of those many brown spots on the leaf is a con- trollable disease. You will also have to know when to put it on. Increasing Spring Grain Yields In Ontario our five year average for spring grain yield is about 55 bu./ac. However, some of you are obtaining 80 plus bu./ae. That means that many fields are yielding closer to 40 bu./ac. What causes the dif- ference? I don't like to sound like a broken record, but the main problem is crop rota- tion. When you try to grow continuous corn, diseases build up. When you grow con- tinuous cereals, diseases build up. Il you want to in- crease your cereal yield, then lengthen the number of years between cereal crops on the same field. In fact, Dr. Effland stated that 20 percent of the income from intensive cereal management will come from soil conditioning. In Ontario the best soil conditioner is rotation. The other reasons that I see for low spring grain yields in order of importance are: 1) late planting caused by wet fields. 2) Poor weed control either twitchgrass, or hard to kill weeds that 2,4-D or MCPA won't control. 3) Spraying too late. 4) Growing varieties that are poor yielders or using Canada No. 1 seed. Even if this Canada No. 1 seed has grown from pedigreed seed of a good variety one year ago. In summary. intensive cereal management will come to Ontario. Probably on spring cereals before winter cereals. The reasons are ob- vious. We have more pro- blems with our spring cereals. We have more acres and that means a bigger market for companies to look at. However, we will have to learn a new technology. Most of the intensive management in Europe is on winter cereals. We will have to develop technology for spring cereals. I also hope that through all this you will be patient. In Europe, intensive cereal management started over 20 years ago. We have really on- ly three years experience. In the meantime, our big- gest yield increases can come from improving our present production practices. Pat Lynch, Soils and Crops Specialist FARMATIC BADGER Grand Opening of Avonbank Equipment Fri., November 25, 1983 at our NEW LOCATION Hwy. No. 7 between Edgewood and Elginfield Drop in and meet the new staff a1;d company representatives. Free coffee and donuts. 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