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Times Advocate, 1995-11-15, Page 14Page 14 Times -Advocate, November 15, 1995 Huron Ross Haugh TA staff HOLMESVILLE - Marcel Beau- bien, parliamentary assistant to On- tario's Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Noble Villineuve was the guest speaker at Friday's annual meeting of the Huron Federation of Agriculture. Beaubien faced a number of questions which criticized the new provincial government's Common Sense policy. The minister's assistant started out by saying, "We are creating a stable environment by cutting red tape and are proud to give people what they want. We stand at a deci- sive moment of Ontario's history." He continued, "Our government is attempting to revive pride, hope and prosperity for farmers and all of Ontario. We want to restore the crucial balance with industry and unions. Ontario agricultural prod- ucts are well known for consistent quality. We c^.n't sit back and rest on our laurels." A Huron pork producer Doug Linton questioned Beaubien about the Farm Products Marketing Com- mission and the cutting hack of subsidies. Linton said, "We are being asked to delay going on the open market for one month. The packing indus- try is hiring a lot of people for their benefit. Pork producers have prob- lems with one packing plant." Beaubien replied, "The minister is well aware of the problems and also that small abattoirs have fric- tion with pork producers. We need all bodies to sit down together." Linton continued, "The packers haven't budged one iota. Producers have followed the agreement and this government says go back to negotiations. Recently 20,000 weaners and 6.400 market hogs have gone across the border. We are also concerned about pigs being brought in from Manitoba." FARM LJPDA TF. Federation of Agriculture meets He concluded, "There are too many discrepancies and difficul- ties. We are tired of having, we, the pork producers blamed for all of this." On the subject of property taxes and farm property tax rebates, Doug Garniss said, " We feel a real threat to our farm property tax re- bate. We can't afford to lose this until regulations concerning prop- erty education taxes are changed. In Huron we spend less in educat- ing our young people and pay more in property taxes for education." He added, " We can't be put far- ther behind by losing the farm tax rebate. Some communities in smaller rural Ontario pay 65 per- cent of their property taxes to edu- cation." Beaubien said his government would attempt to continue the farm tax rebate which was begun in 1971. He continued," We must keep a level playing field and stand up for our rights in the arena of interna- tional trade. We must not hack down on any disputes with our neighbors to the south.. We didn't back down on wheat and we were the winners." Members at the annual meeting passed two resolutions which will be passed on to the Ontario annual convention in the near future. In presenting a resolution which will ask Ontario Hydro to improve emergency services to rural area, Brenda McIntosh said, "Ontario Hy- dro sells most of its power to urban Public Utility Commissions and the level of services to their customers continues to increase." McIntosh continued, "At the same time there have been drastic cut- backs in emergency services to country customers. The recent storm in the Goderich area pointed out that it is practically impossible to get in touch with Ontario Hydro to tell them of a problem. We want them to bring back more efficient and quicker service than we are get- ting now." The second resolution is asking the Ministry of Health and the Onta- rio Medical Association to imple- ment reimbursement and recruit- ment of doctors for emergency services in small rural Ontario com- munities and hospitals. Ontario Federation of Agriculture vice-president Tony Moms of Mild- may told the audience of more than 100 that the government's Common Sense theory is lost on the rural community. He said, "What makes common sense for farmers makes dollars for the government." Morris continued," For instance, urban centres have state of the art telephones while in rural Ontario we have many party lines with crank telephones and the govern- ment says we are in business. As far as cuts go, they are not happening in most urban areas." In his annual address, Huron pres- ident Stephen Thompson said, "We are blessed with over 2,000 mem- bers. We now have a good financial base and in addition to our own pro- jects we are able to help other groups that are without additional finances." Thompson added, "In early Sep- tember we helped sponsor a leader- ship camp with the Huron Junior Farmers. Some of these young peo- ple will come back to serve us. We also assisted the Huron County .,Jlealth Unit with a farm hiker tour and I was one of the host farmers." The Huron president said, "It's a real disappointment to me in the way we are having continued diffi- culties with the Ministry of Natural Resources, not so much in our over- all organization, but individual members. Only today, a member re- ported to me that a MNR employee was pounding on a vehicle to get s, point across and this is happening too often and over insignificant and petty matters. We can't allow our farmers to be harassed over such trivial things." Huron's Ag Rep Bob Humphries urged the Federation to continue Co participate in the land use plannini' process now underway. He adde , "This is a total new concept i planning.'' Planning has always been a prior- ity in Huron county. In 1973, Hu- ron was the first county to develd3 and adopt an Official Plan. Unditr the new Planning Act, Huron hS to have a new Official Pian by De= cember of 1997. On this plan, Humphries said, "Agriculture has an opportunity to Brussels livestock sales BRUSSELS - Sales at Brussels Livestock for the week ending November 11, 1995. Fed cattle 710 Cows 331 Veal calves 214 Lambs & Goats Light run Stockers 3214 Pigsl63 Fed steers and heifers at Brussels Livestock were sell- ing on a strong active trade. Cows sold $3-5 higher. On Thursday veal and Iambs sold on a strong active trade. On Friday stocker calves were selling $3-5 lower and yearlings were steady. There were 552 steers on offer selling from 84.00 to 88.00 to the high of 100.00. Twenty-one steers consigned by Bill Herron. Tara averaging 1546 lbs. sold for an average of 82.75 with sales to 100.00. Twenty-six steers consigned by Jim Howatt. Londesborough averaging 1398 Ihs. sold for an. average of 87.01 with sales to 93.75. .Forty-five steers consigned by Russel Halliday. Chesley averaging 1312 Ihs. sold for an average of 87.23 with sales to 92.75. Eighteen steers consigned by Johnston Farms. Bluevale averaging 1364 lbs. sold tor an average of 86.91 with sales to 92.50. Forty-two steers consigned by Cunningham Farms, Lucan averaging 1377 lbs. sold for an average of 85.67 with sales to 90.50. Five steers consigned by Percy Bros.. Holyrood averaging 1312 lbs. sold for an average of 82.63 with sales to 88.75. Twelve steers consigned by Peter Ryzebol. Orangeville averaging 1289 lbs. sold for an average of 79.26 with sales to 88.00. Forty steers consigned by W.B. Pletch Co. Ltd.. Rockwood averaging 1367 with .ales to 87.75. Two steers consigned by Clayton McClure. Seaforth averaging 1063 Ib;, sold for an average of 85.09 with sales to 87.50. Nineteen steers consigned by Lorne Forster. Lucknow averaging 1302 lbs. sold for an average of 85.27 with sales to 87.00. There were 132 heifers on offer selling from 84.00 to 86.00 to the high of 87.75. One heifer consigned by Ron Gordon. Blyth weighing 1 170 lbs. sold for 87.75. One heifer consigned by Aaron Fischer. Ayton weighing 1245 lbs. sold for 87.(x). Fourteen heifers consigned by Mux Lea Farms. Woodstock averaging 1 192 lbs. sold for an average of 83.70 with sales to 86.50. Three heifers consigned by Mark Fisher, Ayton averaging 1273 lbs. sold. Four heifers consigned by Amos L. Martin, Wallenstein averaging 1050 lbs. .old for an average of 81.57 with sales to 84.751. Three heifers consigned by Paul Seifried, Mildmay averaging 1096 lbs. sold for an average of 83.81 with sales to 84.50. Four heifers consigned by Machan Construction, Monkton averaging 1 181 lbs. sold for an average of 83.51 with sales to 83.75. Five heifers consigned by Earl Benenwies. Bornholm averaging 1110 lbs. sold for an average of 82.54 with sales to 83.50. Three heifers consigned by Wallace Lewis. Holstein averaging 1043 lbs. sold for an average of 82.85 with sales to 83.50. Eleven heifers consigned by William Alderson, Clifford averaging 1243 lbs. with sales to 83.00. There were 331 cows on offer selling from 30.00 to 48.00 to a high of 62.50. Three cows consigned by Janet Farrell, Ripley averaging 1223 lbs. sold for an average of 52.00 with sales to 62.50. Eleven cows consigned by Eldon MacKinnon, Paisley averaging 1112 lbs. sold for an average of 43.83 with sales to 59.00. Eight cows consigned by Kladon Farms. Kincardine averaging 1229 lbs. sold for an average of 44.84 with sales to 59.00. There were 19 bulls on offer selling from 48.50 to 61.75 to the high of 72.25. One Char bull consigned by Bill Herron, Tara weighing 1775 lbs. sold for 72.25. One Limo hull consigned by Dr. Dave Biesenthal, Walkerton weighing 1960 Ihs. sold for 65.00. There were 214 veal on offer selling Hol. 75.00 to 90.00. beef 80.00 to 109.00 Three veal consigned by Henry Tenhove, Monkton averaging 700 lbs. sold for an average of 88.88 with sales to 109.00. One veal consigned by Allan Mckinnon. Shallow Lake weighing 630 lbs. sold for 105.00. Four veal consigned by Don Smith, Mount Forest averaging 660 lbs. sold for an average of 94.68 with sales to 104.50. Stockers Steers: 400 - 499 lbs. 75.00 to 144.00 500 - 599 78.50 to 100.50 600. 699 73.00to 102.25 700 - 799 70.00 to -93.50 800.899 80.00 to 107.50 900 and over 78.50.to 108.00 Heifers: 300 - 399 lbs. 68.00 to 100.00 400 - 499 73.30 to 79.00 500 - 599 70.00 to 83.00 600 - 699 69.50 to 83.00 700 - 799 73.75 to 87.00 800 and over 75.7510 89.50 Huron Federation of Agriculture president Stephen Thompson is shown here at the left talking with Pat Down and Harry Dougall of Usborne township at Friday's annual meeting in Holmes- ville. be involved from the beginning through public workshops and the use of self administered communi- a a tt a a ty action kits. Environmental con- cerns will he front and centre in discussion groups. About the 1995 harvest, Hum- phries said, "It was a good year for crop production and prices were acceptable, but long overdue." In a ;`1 lighter vein he added , "It would be f2 nice to see $4 to $5 corn for the next five years." The reeve of Howick Township and a member of the Huron county ag committee, Norm Fairless, brought greetings from the county and said with expected provincial funding cuts the county works de- partment will likely pull snow plows off the roads between mid- night and 5 a.m. except ill emer- gency situations." tt The Huron Federation's Agricul- ture Award for outstanding contri- butions to agriculture in Huron this a year goes to Mason Bailey. He cer- tainly deserves this award as he has . tt more than 40 years of dedicated tt service to agriculture with achieve- ments too numerous to mention. i tt Bailey, now a fruit farmer with 1,600 trees, has served on Huron tt county council, been a member of •n the Huron F of A for many years, a provincial director, school board trustee and chairman of the Hydro tt Transmission Line committee and l :2 is currently reeve of the village of Blyth. 11 I a FREE OFFER! . 4 0 Ia �tt Denfield Livestock Sales The market at Denfield traded actively at im- proved prices on all classes of fed cattle. American orders were strong on the thicker type cattle. Cows sold steady. veal steady, stockers steady. pigs were high- er. There were 410 cattle and 220 pigs on offer. Don Eedy and Mark Vanderploeg, Dentield sold 8 heifers average weight 1303. average price 91.41, sales to 94.75 purchased by Norwich Packers and 94.50 purchased by Dendekker Meats. Brad Scott. Lucan sold a Limo heifer 1295 lbs. at 91.00. Gwen Coulter. Parkhill sold 3 steers. average weight 1388. average price 90.00. Morley Hodgins, Parkhill sold a load of heavy mixed steers average weight 1419. average price 84.50. Choice steers 86-91 sales to 95.00 Plain and heavy steers 77-80 Choice exotic cross heifers 86-91 sales Good heifers 82-86 DI and D2 cows 35-40 Bulls 50-75 Good veal 80-85 Yearling steers 80-92 Holstein bull calves 50-200. Pigs 40-60 lbs. 65-80 Sows 34-38 Good steers 82-86 to 94.75 Common and medium 65.75 Shells 10-25 Choice veal 90-1.00 Plain veal 55-70 Yearling heifers 80-90 over 60 lbs. 60-70 Boars 32-36 NOTICE Township of Tuckersmith Township of Tuckersmith Council requests the cooperation of the ratepayers regarding the parking of cars and other vehicles on township roads during the period in which snow clearing operation is necessary. The Township will not be held responsible for any damage done to these vehicles. 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