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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-03-14, Page 166 JIM BEAKER CONSTRUCTION DASHWOOD 237.3526 Page 16 Times -Advocate, March 14, 1984 TImbroII q uells concerns Many cattlemen came to the annual meeting of the On- tario Cattlemen's Association in Toronto prepared to con- front the Hon. Dennis Tim- brell, Minister of Agriculture and Food over some features of the Red Meat Plan which he launched on January 5th. Two parts of the announce- ment have been particularly controversial, that a com- pulsory clearing house marketing agency for Farmer s Book Now To have your spring grain and beans custom cleaned on YOUR form. We clean, treat, bags or bulk and we offer germination tests. CANADIAN MOBILE SEED CLEANING LTD. 1-519-289-5602 or (416)775-6994 slaughter cattle would be established and that a goal of the development initiatives would be to increase beef cow numbers in Ontario by 170,000 head or 30 percent. The docu- ment entitled "The Restruc- turing and Development of Ontario's Red Meat Sector" tabled January 5 stated "the main functions of this Agen- cy will be to organize and operate a competitive central clearing house for all slaughter cattle marketed in Ontario. The marketing agency powers will incorporate pro- ducer licensing for financing, promotion through marketing and advertising and industry development." The impres- sion was clearly left in pro- ducers' minds on January 5th that the marketing agency was to be established under the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Act and would re- quire that all slaughter cattle be sold by some competitive bidding mechanism and that a producer would be unable to sell his own cattle directly to A good INSURANCE AGAINST CROP GA►LURE 15 TILE DRAINAGE DON'T MISS A good TNIN6. SEC... WUR EJB Udd FARM DRAINAGE LTD. R. Ra I DasuwooD; ONT. 238-2598 DIRECTOR'S MEETING DATE: Wednesday, March 14, 1984 TIME: 7:30 o'clock PLACE: Blyth Inn, Blyth, Ontario AGENDA: Minutes of February 13th Report of Huron County Cattlemen's presentation to commissioner s February 22nd, - Keith Strang Report of activities at O.C.A. Annual Meeting = Glen Coultes Report of new O.C.A. Market Price Information Committee form of result of resolution to O.C.A. An- nual Meeting in response to Red Meat Plan. - Graeme Hedley New Business; Adjournment; If the director wishes he may bring other concern- ed parties with him. a packer. Ali well, the impres- sion was left that all slaughter cattle transactions must go through the clearing house marketing agency. In a two and one-half hour session before 650 cattlemen at the OCA annual meeting, Timbrell answered many questions and, in doing so, quelled many of theps which had been expressed�ss . rHe stated that the specific goal of expansion of beef cow numbers by30 percent would be dropped and that the development initiatives would be aimed only at increasing production efficiency. In response to demands that a plebiscite be held on the detailed marketing agency proposal, Timbrell stated that he might hold a plebiscite but would reserve his judgement on that question until he saw the report of the three Commissioners. He repeated statements which he had made earlier that he had been misunderstood on January 5 and that the proposed agency would not prohibit a producer from selling his own cattle directly to a packer, provid- ed there was price disclosure and the cattle had been available for competitive bids. In response to a question about using the powers of the Beef Cattle Marketing Act to achieve price disclosure, Timbrell stated that he was not wedded to any particular method of doing it, except that it would not be run by government and it would not handle (sales transactions). By the end of the question period, the gun powder had been defused, but most cat- tlemen were left wondering why a Beef Cattle Marketing Agency was necessary to carry out a price assembly and reporting function. In the debate on resolutions which followed, delegates to the meeting defeated a resolution demanding a plebiscite on the marketing agency by a vote of 100 to 78, tabled a resolution "vigorous- ly opposing the compulsory aspect of the central selling clearing house concept" and approved a resolution calling on the Ontario Cattlemen's Association and under the jurisdiction of the Beef Cattle Marketing Act." 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MPP's Jack Riddell and Murray Elston, MP Murray Cardiff, members of Huron County Council and Mel Swart (NDP< - Welland - Thorold) were the politicians. on hand Saturday to hear briefs from various HCFA committees and commodity groups. HCFA's finance committee chairman, Hans Rasmussen, RR 1, Fordwich said the number one problem facing agriculture is lack of. fair prices. He also outlined pro- blems with the Farm Credit Corporation and solutions such as the agribond concept. Another problem is Section 31 of the Income Tax Act which states only $5,000 from off -farm income can be ap- plied to a farming operation. The $5,000 figure hasn't changed since 1952. "If this were updated ac- cording to inflation it would be in, the neighbourhood of $40,000 to $45,000. We don't feel it should be raised to that level but there is a happy medium," said Mr. Rasmussen. He said the figure should be changed immediately because many farmers off set their farm income by working off the farm. "None of this would be needed if the price wexeceive for our product was at a pro- fitable level," the Fordwich area farmer said. MP Cardiff assured Rasmussen that federal estimates indicate FCC funds Seminar on computers The Exeter Legion Hall will be the scene of an agriculture computer and marketing seminar on Thursday March 22. After a half hour of registration and coffee at 9 a.m. several area computer dealers will have products on display and will give presen- tations on products and ser- vices available. Dinner will be served at 12 noon. There will be two afternoon speakers. The first is former CFPL radio farm reporter John DePutter. He will be discussing marketing outlooks for 1984. DePutter has recentlytablished Ag Alert, a farm information service. Richard Smelskie, a Ministery of Agriculture specialist will talk about, "marketing one's self as a farmer." Displays of computers and Ag Alert will be set up all day. The charge for the day is $10 which will include dinner. The seminar is sponsored by the South Huron Junior Farmers. More information may be obtained by contac- ting Cliff Hicks 228-6312, Maurice Ryan 237-3768 or Gerald Jahns 229.6184. BARN PAINTING Modern Equipment Local References Work Guaranteed Airless Painting Book now for Spring Free Estimates CALL LES TURNER, CLINTON, ONT. 482.3563 would increase over $20 million from about $470 to $490 million. He added that Section 31 has been referred to a com mittee, but there is concern about changing that. "We don't want to create a tax haven," said Mr. Cardiff referring to "hobby farmers". MPP Elston questioned what interest rate the finance committee would really want for the Ontario Farm Adjust- ment Assistance Program (OFAAP) noting that when interest rates were high, 12 percent was the figure and now the committee is sug- gestin,' eight percent. OFAAFinterest ratesare now at 12 percent. "It depends on the price you're going to give for our - products," Mr. Rasmussen responded. MPP Riddell noted that in the figures presented by the finance committee that quite a number of OFAAP loans have been approved, but the province has been slow in coming through with the money. The Huron -Middlesex MPP also commerftpn the begin- ning farmer Usistance pro- gram. He said he has been receiving a lot of calls from beginning farmers being told they are ineligible for the pro- gram because they have ren- tal land or they have some off - farm income. Riddell said there has been a change in that beginning farmers are eligible for assistance even if they have rented land far up to 10 years. No move has yet been made regarding -the off -farm in- come, he said. "I'm telling all farmers to appeal," said Mr. Riddell noting it cost $100 to appeal.. "They stand a pretty good chance of winning." HCFA's drainage and soil committee presented a brief requesting Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food fun- ding for soil erosion research. "Also it is time Agriculture Canada and Environment ow so le No ow sr mmm e Canada got involved. They are involved in other pro- vinces and they need to give substantial assistance to the fight against erosion in On- tario," said committee chair- man Ray Hogan. He noted that the recently formed Huron Soil and Water Conservation District has a 1984 budget that is less than one percent of Huron Coun- ty's soil erosion costs. Huron County Warden Tom Cunningham commended the HSWCD's thrust of educating farmers and he suggested that the governments provide some incentive to farmers so they can practise conserva- tion and yet maintain yields. Hogan said HSWCH's main thrust has been to conserva- tion tillage on row cropping but he would like to see it ex- panded to all crops. Govern- ment funding would aid this expansion he said. MPP Riddell suggested that if soil and water conser- vation districts were established across the pro- vince, the government would be compelled to address the problems' of soil erosion. Absentee foreign ownership There was no brief this year on absentee foreign owner- ship, but it did not pass unnoticed. Riddell said he would like to see the provincial govern- ment restrict such ownership as has been done in other provinces "We have been hitting a stone wall for several years on this issue and it remains at - major concern in Huron County," said Huron federa- tion vice-president Doug Garniss. "Mr. Timbrell says the closing of the 20 percent tax loophole has virtually stopped foreign buying. We hope he is right, but our information is that south Huron and north Middlesex may be a new area of absentee foreign- buying while presently threatened areas in north Huron and south Bruce could face pur- chases again in the spring." mmmm "When," said the wee voice on the other end of the telephone line, "are you and Nana coming to see us?" It was Kalli, our fourth and youngest grandchild. We had not seen her for almost a week. "I miss you, Pa-Bob,"she said. The Pa -Bob is her ab- breviation for Papa -Bob, a name the other three gran- dkids have been using for a decade. "Well, okay, Kait. We'll come and see you tonight," 1 replied. "At six -thirty?" No matter what time of the day or night is suggested, it is always six -thirty to Keit. For a while, it was nine o'clock. But now it is six -thirty for everything, for bedtime, for breakfast, dinner and supper, for Sesame Street and even the Flintstones. At two -and -a - half, time stands still. Shelled not, of course; dial- ed the number herself. Her mother did it because she had repeatedly asked to speak to her Pa -Bob. She can carry on an intelligent conversation on the phone but maybe it is grand -parental pride talking. "You come at six -thirty and I will show you my picture," she said, coyly. "I drew a pic- ture of you and Nana. It's on the 'fridgerator." Pretty plain talk for two - and -a -half, what? So Nana and I went to see her. She ran gleefully down the hall and, with the im- pulsiveness of the very young, threw her arms around me and planted a wet kiss in the neighborhood of my left ear. Two minutes later, she came out of the bedroom in the briefest of jumpsuits and wearing a New York Yankee baseball cap. Grinning from ear to ear, she proceeded to demonstrate the exercises she does with her mother every morning. What is it about little girls that is so appealing? Her stur- dy little body gyrated this way and that, hands poised on hips while she did torso exer- cises, knee -bends and back stretches. Not satisfied with this, she asked for the long mirror from the bedroom and pro- ceeded to watch herself while exercising. Have you ever tried to do exercises while looking in a mirror? It is not impossible - as Haiti demonstrated - but it is dif- ficult.Occasionally, shebrush- ed back her hair in that wonderfully feminine way that only little girls have. "Pa -Bob will baff me," she announced when it was time to get ready for bed. After her "baff" came story time. She chose a book about Tweety Pie and Sylvester because she chuckles with great delight when Pa -Bob imitates Sylvester. We headed for the bedroom and she snuggled under the covers. "Thing my thong, Pa -Bob." And I did. It's a parody of an old Harry Belafonte song entitled Come Back, Liza, on- ly we change it to Come Back, Kaitlin, Come Back, Girl, wipe the tear from my eye. And she reaches with her chubby arms to brush an im- aginary tear from my eye. Ah, the wonder and in- nocence of a child. especially a grandchild and a little girl, at that, who wriggles into the pillow, turns her face for a goodnight kiss and says: "I love you, Pa -Bob." As I left the room, the tears were not imaginary. She broke the spell, though, by sitting bolt upright in bed and completing the joke set up by her mother. • "It's six -thirty, Bob. Seven o'clock in Newfoundland." --- -- -- it's not too late... We still hove some good seed corn numbers lett. But you'd better call now. 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