Times Advocate, 1984-10-24, Page 11T �
Huron farm and home news
Conservatlon equlpii.rit availability IIsi prepared, lead test eadorsed
In a continuing effort to pro-
mote the use of conservation
tillage systems throughout
Huron County, the Huron Soil
and Water Conservation
District, in co-operation with
the Huron Soil and Crop Im-
provement Association is
developing a list .01 people
who have conservation tillage
and planting equipment
which they would be willing to
make available to other
farmers.
The Equipment Availabili-
ty List is being developed in
an attempt to compile a ready
reference of farmers who will
make equipment available to
others, whether on a rental
basis, custom basis, or cost-
sharing arrangement.
This will allow persons in-
terested in using a piece of
equipment the opportunity to
try it on their farm, their soil,
and their residue and
management system without
the large capital expense in-
volved in a direct purchase of
this equipment.
The equipment sharing con-
cept may also allow the pur-
r
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Del O'Brien is a lawyer, a
farmer and a businessman,
not necessarily in that order.
'I have never met him per-
sonally but I have heard him
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own home
chaser of a piece of equip-
ment (i.e. chisel plow) to
justify the initial cost as it will
be used over a larger acreage
than his own, and it may
generate income for him from
the associated rental fees.
Custom operators will also
be compiled who are in-
terested in such conservation
tillage or planting operations
as custom chisel plowing, no -
till planting, soil -saving ridge
planting or ridge forming.
If you are interested in hav-
ing your name added to the
Conservation Equipment
Availability File, please con-
tact Robert Traut at the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food office in Clinton, at
482-3428 or 1-800-265-7044.
Robert Traut, Conservation
Agronomist, Huron Soil and
Water Conservation District
Beef finishing program
Computer use is becoming
commonplace.
The computer run, beef
finishing program is
available through the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food at the University of
Guelph.
Many beef producers test
corn silage and grains for pro-
tein, calcium and phosphorus,
but don't participate in the
beef finishing program.
What can you get out of the
program?
The usual reports give a
printout on mineral mix for-
mula, grain mix, batch
weight, financial analysis,
cost analysis of feeds, feed re-
quirement analysis and in-
ventories. Breakeven selling
price is included in the finan-
cial analysis.
Inputs needed are feed test
results of home grown feeds,
age, sex, weight, type of cat-
tle, purchase weight, selling
weight, expected death loss
and implants and growth hor-
mones to be used. For finan-
cial analysis, information on
purchase and selling prices,
discounts anticipated, vet,
medicine, marketing, truck-
ing costs and overhead costs
are required. By using figures
from his own feeding opera-
tion, a meaningful report is
returned to the producer.
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Phone 1-438-2931
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House Ltd.
London
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For Details On
WINTER
WHEAT
Insurance
After Oct. 31 you're on your own
Call: Don RR 1 Weigand
Dashwood Ont.
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speak a couple of times and
continue to be impressed by
his great understanding of the
Canadian agriculture scene.
He is chairman of an elite ad-
visory group appointed by On-
tario's Agminister Dennis
Timbrell.
He says he is going to use
the advisory group as a laun-
ching pad to trumpet the
cause of farming in Ontario.
He has a theory I have held
for a couple of decades: The
general public knows nothing
about farming. In fact, most
people look at farmers as a
bunch of chronic hitchers,
running to governments for
more subsidies while tripping
over government cheques at
their rural mailboxes.
Nobody, not even a farm
writer as stupid as I am, will
dispute the fact that
agriculture shares in govern-
ment largesse. But not near-
ly to the extent that most city
dwellers believe. If the truth
were known, -the urban
dwellers get more in grants,
loans and largesse than
farmers.
Mr. O'Brien has a whole list
of statistics and facts to pro-
ve that agriculture still gets
the short end of the stick when
it comes to money.
For instance: Commercial
farmers in Canada realized
only $7,000 net income in 1981
compared with $22,000 in
wages for the average in-
dustrial worker.
Also, farm families get no
transportation subsidies while
major cities get all kinds of
help from senior govern-
ments for transit systems.
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Custom combining
Ploughing & Trucking
Call
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K & J Elder Farms
236-4468
The Toronto Transit Commis-
sion gets a 75 percent subsidy
on capital costs and a 50 per-
cent subsidy on operating
costs. All of this from the pro-
vincial treasury to which
farmers pay a great deal.
Also, farmers cannot share
in the $9 to $10 billion paid out
in Canada's redistribution of
wealth scheme, Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
Mr. O'Brien maintains that
farmers make seven times.as
much money from off -farm
jobs as they realize in annual
profits. These figures dcnotin-
clude any money their wives
and children earn from off -
farm jobs nor is there any
provision for wages for the
work wives and children do on
the farm
He is absolutely correct in
his accusations. In fact, a•
great many more farmers
would be broke if they had to
pay wages to family
members, especially wives
and teen-age children. I know
a great many dairy farmers
and every one of those farm
wives is as good as - if not bet-
ter than - her husband when
dealing with tempermental
dairy cows.
Farmers get criticized for
forming provincial and na-
tional marketing boards but
almost every other sector of
the economy has organized
and set up some protective
barriers. Professors have
tenure. Unions are heavy in-
to job security. Teachers,
lawyers, doctors, engineers,
even garbage collectors, have
some method of protection
but farmers get heavy
criticism for seemingly aban-
doning the free enterprise
system, and forming
marketing boards.
I agree with everything Mr.
()'Brien says. 1 have been
saying it off and on for 20
years, perhaps to the point
where some regular readers
are getting a little sick and
tired of it.
But 1 do not think it can be
said too often. The bigger
organizations - and the more
affluent - have high -paid help
to trumpet their causes
across the nation. Farmers
have been lax in getting their
message into print, especial-
ly in the big -city newspapers.
It is heart-warming and
refreshing to hear Del
()'Brien going to bat for
agriculture. 1 hope he can
make more of an impression
than 1 have been able to
make..
ATTENTION FARMERS
WE NOW PAY $15.00 TO 550.00 FOR FRESH DEAD
OR DISABLED COWS, HORSES AND STOCKER CATTLE
OVER 500 LBS.
CALL PROMPTLY
A LOT DEPENDS ON THE SIZE AND CONDITION OF THE ANIMAL (FRESH)
LOCAL CALLS - 482-9811
TOLL FREE -1-800-265-7029
SOWS. PIGS AND CALVES PICKED UP "FREE OF CHARGE"
(Autopsy available by local vets)
FOR FAST EFFICIENT SERVICE
WE HAVE RADIO EQUIPPED TRUCKS IN YOUR AREA
EVERY DAY ---- 7 DAYS A WEEK
PLEASE CALL PROMPTLY
HURON DEAD STOCK REMOVAL LTD.
CLINTON, ONTARIO
LICENSE — 983-C-84 GOOD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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What better way is there to
help make those decisions on
cattle purchases and feeding
programs?
The first computer run is
$45.00, plus .$20.00 for addi-
tional runs within the same
feeding year. We are pleased
to assist beef producers in
completing the input form,
feed sampling and interpreta-
tion of the results. If in-
terested, please contact your
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food office.
John Bancroft, Farm
Management Specialist
Feed testing pays
Dairy production is an im-
portant means of marketing
home-grown feeds. For daisy
cattle to make efficient
utilization of these roughages,
the ration must be properly
balanced twelve months a
year.
The key to maintaining
good production and fat test is
to maximize on growing and
feeding quality roughages
such as hay, haylage or corn
silage, followed by balancing
the cow's roughage diet with
an adequate grain mix con -
taming all essential nutrients.
Roughages do tend to vary
in nutrient value from year to
year, so we encourage all
dairy producers to make use
of the feed analysis service,
along with having ration for-
mulations based on the
results of home-grown feeds.
The following services are
available through the Agri -
Food Laboratories in Guelph.
Food Analysis: Type I Dry
Matter, Crude Protein $10;
Type II Dry Matter, Crude
Protein, Calcium,
Phosphorus, Magnesium,
LEARN BREAD MAKING - More than 20 area ladies attended a break making
course Saturday at Centralia College. Above, instructress Deb Campbell gives tips
to Sharon Snell, Christine Scheonherr and Helen Keys. T -A photo
SoiLab
SOIL & CROP
MANAGEMENT SERVICES
•Soil Analysis •Crop Produchon Programs •Pest Monitoring
ATTENTION FARMERS
Bring your soil samples to us for full analysis and recommendations.
SoiLab is located on the corner of Goderich Street and Loftus Street in
the village of Auburn.
Yes we do Garden samples as well.
SoiLab
OFFERS: Sail Analysis for all field crops
Soil Sampling service
Pest Monitoring service
Crop Information Centre
and Computerized Programs for
• Production Records
•Production Costing
•Fertilizer Treatments
For further information please call Tom Perry
Box 46 -Auburn, Ont. NOM )E0 (519) 526-7513
• Pesticide Treatments
•Hybrid and Variety Selection
Potassium $17; Type 111 Dry
Matter, Crude Protein,
Calcium, Phosphorus,
Magnesium, Potassium,
Manganese, Copper, Zinc 819.
With one of the above:
Energy Estimate (Total
digestible nutrients/net
energy of lactation/acid
detergent fibre) 86; Digesti-
ble protein -measures heat
Please turn to page 12
Times -Advocate, October 24, 1984
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