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Prices set for white
bean seed crop
The Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board
has set the prices for white
bean seed to be used for the
1978 crop.
In a recent newsletter the
price of No. 1 foundation seed
is listed at $25 per hundred
weight and No. 2 certified
seed at $21.50.
Over the past 10 years the
formula for pricing seed has
remained the same. It is the
pool price of commercial
'beans plus the premium paid
to the seed producer plus the
seed handle paid to the
elevator to process seed. Any
seed treatment is separate
and additional to this for-
mula.
This formula has worked
well over the last 10 Years and
the seed producer has been
provided with a growing
market for his seed, as the
commercial grower has been
assured of sufficient seed at
reasonable prices and has
expanded his acreage.
The formula has not varied
despite wide variances in
commercially priced beans
over different years. It is the
board's hope that seed
growers will act responsibly
in this crucial year as Canada
attempts to get its feet back
on the ground in the bean
business, after the 1977 crop
devastation.
No. 2 foundation seed (for
colour only, germination 85
percent or better) will be Michigan together with
$24.50 and No. 2 certified seed Ontario production• will
with the same qualifications provide ample beans for the
will be $21. world market that demands
The elevators will be quality navy beans.
responsible for designating An announcement as to
seed that is No. 2 for colour whether there will be an
only. That is, seed that is No. interim payment for the 1977
2 either foundation- or cer- crop will be made to growers
ttified, with poor colour, but, in a newsletter to be
better than 85 percent ger- published immediately after
urination will be marked in a board meeting of March 14.
Corn committee wants protection
such a way to separate it
from No. 2 seed with helow R5
percent germination. The
elevators are aware of this
responsibility.
Preliminary acreage
forecasts for 1978 predict an
increase of seven percent in
Michigan. Navy bean
production is expected to top
five million cwt. if an average
yield is assumed for the 47,000
acres to be planted.
In Ontario it is expected
acreage for 1978 will be about
the same as was planted last
year. There will be some
declines in acreage in
southern countries due to
soyabeans.
This is because of record
yields on soya beans last year
and lower input costs than for
white beans.
However, important off-
setting factors in 1978 are the
price of corn and the decline
in winter wheat acreage.
The small fall wheat
planting leaves a lot of idle
land which must be planted to
some cash crops. Corn prices
forecasted at $2.10 will not
likely encourage increases in
that crop.
On the basis of this
reasoning the 1978 Ontario
acreage will likely be 160,000
acres. If Ontario returns to a
five year average yield of
1,265 pounds per acre
production will be in excess of
two million cwt.
The corn committee of the
National Farmers Union in
Ontario has been advised by
Agriculture Minister Wm.
N,ewman that a marketing
plan for corn must be
developed in accordance with
procedures outlined in the
Farm Products Marketing
the NFL, e'rh'alli-6 a"5rbpbshl
to 3VIr' Newman last
N°pvember requesting a
marketing commission be
established for corn, based on
cert'in principles that would .
provide controls over imports
and exports.
Chairman of the NFU corn
committee, Joe Casey of
Wallacetown, said he has
replied to Mr. Newman's
letter requesting that he
outline whether or not the Act
would facilitate such a
commission and, if not, what
would be required to ac-
com modate the proposal.
Fewer dairymen
• from page 16
region on the Ontario
Marketing Board as well as
chairman of the dairy far-
mers of Canada, 'told the
meeting 82 percent of in-
dustrial milk in Canada
comes from Ontario and
Quebec under a national plan.
Some milk producers in
Ontario don't like producing
within the limits of the
national plan, he said,
because consumption in
Ontario is going up faster
than any other province.
He warned it would not be a
good idea to move out of the
national plan because of the
benefits of protection the plan
offers the Ontario dairy
farmers.
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After having several
meetings with corn
producers, Mr. Casey said his
committee is convinced
growers want only a
marketing mechanism that
can be effective.
The NFU proposal
requested that, in order to
Rrotect producers from a flow
cheap corn from the U.S., ;
the Ontario Government urge
the federal government to
vest the power to control corn
imports with the Canadian
Wheat Board, which now has
control over imports of
wheat, oats and barley. •
CLINTON NEWS RECORD THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1978—PAGE 17
Sep. Brd. sets budget
By Rick Shaw
At a special meeting
Monday night in Dublin the
Huron -Perth Roman Catholic
Separate School Board ap-
proved its 1978 budget of
$4,481 ,799. That figure
represents an increase of a
little more than $168,000 or 3.9
percent over last year's
expenditure.
The areas with the largest
increases include instruction,
with costs up 3.6 percent,
plant Operation and main-
tenance which is up 2.3
percent, administrative costs
up 3.3 percent, and tran-
sportation up an alarming 7.9
percent over last year.
Of the total hudget the local
taxpayers must pick up 15.68
percent, again an increase
from 1977.
In 17 of the 51
municipalities in Huron -
Perth the rate will rise 5
mills. Those municipalities
fortunate enough to escape
some sort of increase are
Morris, Tuckersmith, West
Wawanosh, and the town of
Mitchell. Theirs will remain
That's a big tractor wheel these two men are standing
next to. Bob Caldwell, left, and Larry McLean, right,
both of Hensall, were at the Western Fair Farm Show in
London last week working at a farm machinery exhibit.
(News -Record photo by Ashley Geddes)
news farm news
Snowstorms set TV records
In the chaos created by
heavy snowstorms in Ontario,
the majority of people turn to
increased television watching
- and an astounding amount of
it
According to the recent
mid -winter survey conducted
by BSM Bureau of Broadcast
Measurement in Toronto on
Thursday, January 26 when
the 'first major snowstorm of
the year virtually paralyzed
central and southern Ontario,
viewing soared throughout
that part of the province by
nearly 7 million additional
hours over the previous
Thursday - an equivalent of
800 years of television wat-
ching.
That afternoon, teenagers
and children staying home
from school, watched three
times more television than
normal. During the 6:00 - 7:00
p.m. traditional news hour, ;
adult audiences -increased by
a third over the usual level.
The 11:00 p.m. National TV
newscast audience was also
up by some 30 per cent over
normal for a Thursday.
On the day following the
storm, Friday, January 27,
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BBM figures reveal that
teens and children again
stayed home from class ;
daytime TV viewing among
, the younger set was 60 per
cent higher than on the same
day of the week before. A
slight increase in adult
audience indicated that while
most people struggled back to
work there were a few who
decided against battling the
elements.
the same for 78.
This information sparked
lengthy discussion among the
boards trustees. According to
superintendent of finance
Jack Lane, the increase to the
local taxpayers i,s of direct
consequence to the decrease
in provincial grants. The
reduced provincial support
has increased the need for
local support 6.9 percent.
Five of the system's 19
separate schools are yin
Stratford and this. was
reflected by the fact that the
city will pick up 23 percent of
the tab.
The finance committee has
come up with a hudget that's
only $6,700 helow ceiling.
Lane said, "That means the
$6,700 must cover all items
which are non -resolved." He
was referring to any items
not previously foreseen and
any salary increases which
might come in 78.
The board's requisitions
are to be paid in two in-
stallments, June 30 and
December 15, by all
municipalities in Huron and
Perth.
Whoops, our mistake
There was a light mix up
in the pictures and in-
formation in last week's
paper on the Farmer's Spiel
in Vanastra.
Once the pictures are put in
their place, when preparing
the paper, cutlines explaining
the photograph are added
underneath. Occasionally,
the identifying marks under
the photos telling which one is
which is cut off and then it
takes an educated guess to
match the pictures and
cutlines together.
However the News -Record Smile
made an uneducated guess on
two photos last week and
inadvertantly got the second
place rink finishing in the
second draw and the second
place team in the first draw
mixed up.
Along with this, the cutline
for the second place rink in
the first draw noted that Mrs.
Rogerson was standing in for
her husband Ken. This might
have been a surprise to Ken
since it was Eleanor Shields
who stood in for him not Mrs.
Rogerson.
The'
News -Record
apologizes for any in-
conveniences these errors
may have caused.
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now, how come we spend so
much time working for it?
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