HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-11-16, Page 18PAGE 18—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1978
Onions, biggest crop yet
Ontario onion growers
know their onions. This
year they produced more
than 87 million kg - the
largest crop on record.
"This year's crop is up
about 70 percent from
last year," says Matt
Valk, Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food
muck crop specialist.
In Ontario, the average
person eats about 5kg of
onions each year, he
says. This year there are
enough onions to double
the average annual
consumption.
Mr. Valk 'attributes
the success of this year's
crop to the beautiful
growing conditons last
summer. The 1978 crop is
not only exceptionally
large, but is also of ex-
cellent quality.
"Drought conditions
don't have the same
effect on muck soils as
they have on clay," he
says. "When it comes to
growing onions, the drier
the weather the better,
because muck soils retain
moisture well."
Most of the onions
grown in Ontario are the
yellow cooking onions.
The most popular
varieties are Rocket,
Autumn Spice, Super
Spice, and Exporter.
These varieties can be
baked, fried, boiled, or
served raw in salads or
relish.
Onions are valuable
sources of important
minerals, phosphorus,
calcium, and iron. A
mature onion weighing
100 g contains 38 calories.
Ontario's onion crop is
grown primarily in the
Bradford and area
marshes. However,
onions are also grown in
the Thedford, Blenheim,
and Port Colborne areas.
"We have about 400
ionion growers in the
province," says Mr.
Valk. "The total growing
area is about 1645 hec-
tares."
New oats show promise
A new variety of oats,
Oxford, has added
another page to the
success story of the
University of Guelph's
cereal breeding program.
Crop scientists,
sponsored by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, developed this
new variety to withstand
the red leaf virus.
"Three years ago, red
leaf was a very
destructive disease,"
says Dr. Ernie Rein -
bergs, crop scientist. "At
that time, none of the
recommended oat
varieties had much
tolerance to this
disease."
In several years of
regional tests, Oxford
showed good tolerance to
red leaf and septoria. It
Nuclear power a
set back, farmers say
According to farm
leaders, they have only
been given sympathy in
the Porter Royal Com-
mission's interim report
on nuclear power: "A
Race Against Time",
released . in late Sep-
tember.
At a meeting of the
Food Land Steering
Committee, in Waterloo
the report was seen as
another set back in the
already four-year-old
battle with Ontario Hydro
to get agriculture con-
sidered seriously in
Provincial planning.
"Agriculture in rural
.Ontario, ntario, has once more
been relegated to the
position of hinterland for
Ontario's urban -
industrial complex",
says Lloyd Moore,
Chairman of the Food
Land Steering Committee
and Chairman of the
Concerned Farmers of
• the United Townships.
"The Royal Com -
,mission's report
recognizes that
agriculture will bear a
disproportionate share
of the risks and in-
convenience of large
scale electrical
generation but it has
made no recom-
mendation to eliminate
these risks and in-
conveniences. Instead the
Commission has ac-
cepted Ontario Hydro's
definition of demand: - if
you can predict that
someone will desire the
power then Hydro must
produce it."
The Food Land
Steering Committee is
made up of seven farm
related organizations
established in 1975 to co-
ordinate the farm
community's par-
ticipation in the Royal
Commission's hearings.
It includes the Ontario
Federation of
Agriculture, the
Christian ,-Farmers
Federation, the National
Farmers Union and the
Ontario Institute of
Agrologists.
The Commission said
that the demand for
electric power will in-
crease 4.0 percent an-
nually. Hydro has
predicted an increase of
5.5 percent from now
until 1987 and 4.5 from
then until 2000.
"We are encouraged by
the lower prediction,"
says, Lloyd Moore. "But
Porter's report still
leaves us with having to
accept all these risks and
inconveniences for every
alleged need for elec-
tricity in Ontario's urban -
industrial complex. We
are convinced that many
of those alleged needs are
not as important as the
risks the community has
to accept under Ontario
Hy,dro's proposed
generation and tran-
smission system."
The farmers pointed
out that the Royal
Commission was ap-
pointed as a result of a
major uproar about
Ontario Hydro's
proposals for new
transmission lines in
Bruce, Huron. Grey,
Wellington, Dufferin and
Waterloo Counties. The.
farmers want to know
what the power is and
whether it is a real need
before they accept any
more stations and
transmission lines.
They are not about to
accept the risks, the
inconvenience, and the
loss of farm land in
return for some sym-
pathy.
Answering
service sought
by Exeter
The Exeter and Area
Fire Board members still
haven't decided how fire
calls will be handled next
year, but they'll be
making their decision
within a month.
The Exeter Times -
Advocate explained that
the board has been in-
vestigating its alter-
natives and will probably
opt to for a telephone
system that will see
phones installed in the
homes of 10 members of
the fire brigade as well as
the clerk's office and the
fire hall.
If the system is ap-
proved, it will be put into
operation as of January 1,
1979.
The board has advised
Mrs. Lorna Dale,
operator of the Exeter
Answering Service, that
her contract will not be
renewed in the upcoming
year.
Thank you to the voters of Colborne
and Gdderich Townships.
was available com-
mercially on a limited
basis last spring, and
produced well, says Dr.
Reinbergs.
Oxford hasseveral
other advantages for
commercial growers. It
has less double oats, and
stronger straw than the
popular Elgin variety .
These traits make it even
more resistant to lodging
than Elgin:
In the 1978 regional
tests, it yielded 3.5 tonnes
per hectare, ap-
proximately the same as
Elgin. However, on a
three-year average, it
showed slightly higher
yields.
"Oxford is a little bit
different in appearance
from mot lodging -
resistant oats," says Dr.
Reinbergs. "It is a little
taller than Elgin, and has
finer straw, and well-
filled yellow kernels."
Oxford was released
two years ago to a
private seed company. It..
was increased in New
Zealand last winter, and
in Ontario in the summer
of 1978.
"There should be lots of
Oxford available next
spring," says Dr,
Reinbergs._
Dr. Garnet Leitch of the South Huron Vet Clinic in Zurich explained the fine art
of treating incoming feedlot cattle during a special feedlot day at the
McGregor Feedlots in Kippen last Friday. The McGregors kindly loaned
several of their 3,000 heifers for the demonstrations. (News -Record photo)
news farm news
Forage conference set
Farmers are reminded
of the Forage Conference
to be held at the Skyline
Hotel, Toronto,
December 13th and 14th,
1978. The Conference,
sponsored by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, the Ontario
Soil and Crop
Improvement
Association and the
University of Guelph will
feature 60 top speakers
(30 of which are farmers)
fromCanada and the
USA ori forages.
The program will in-
clude separate sessions
for each producer's
group, exhibits, as well as
personnel from com-
panies servicing forage
producers. In addition, a
ladies' program will be
held. A copy of the
proceedings will be
provided to all par -
ti c ip ants .
articipants. Further
program details and
application forms are
available at the
Agricultural Office.
- Because of strike and
delays the registration
date has been extended
beyond the November
10th date and organizers
will accept registration
on a first-come basis.
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New barley variety
Bruce barley, —a -
promising new variety
developed at the
University of Guelph, will
be available to com-
mercial growers next
year.
This early -maturing
variety achieved the
highest average yield in
three years of extensive
variety testing, says Dr.
Ernie Reinbergs,
University of Guelph crop
scientist.
Bruce, and its
predecessors, Perth and
Trent, were developed
through the crop science
department , breeding
program, sponsored by
the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food.
This variety has good
potential for Ontario
farmers, says Dr.
Reinbergs. Yields are
above average, with
records of 3500 kg per
hectare. The provincial
on-farm average yield for
barley is 2800 kg per
hectare.
One of the most at-
tractive characteristics
of Bruce barley is its
genetic tolerance to spot
blotch, a fungus disease
that affects older Ontario
varieties.
"This . variety is also
resistant to mildew, the
major disease affecting
barley crops in the
Guelph area," says Dr.
Reinbergs.
Lodging has always
been one of the problems
facing barley growers.
But Bruce, because it has
short straw, has good
lodging resistance.
Regional tests con-
ducted last summer in 19
locations in Ontario in-
dicated that Bruce
performed best in nor-
thern Wellington County
and Huron County and in
the New Liskeard and
Ottawa areas, says Dr.
Reinbergs.
"It did not fare well in
Lambton and Kent
counties this year
because of drought,"
This variety was
released to SeCan., a co-
operative Canadian seed
---dlitii5utor in 1977. Last
summer it was
distributed to seed
growers.
"There will be plenty of
Bruce barley available to
growers next year," says
D'r. Reinbergs.
"However, to ensure your
supply, order early."
For more information
about Bruce .pud.,,„oth r
barley varieties,,,,constilt
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Agriculture and Food
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