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OM ONTARIO **ARM
TAX REDUCTION
PROGRAM
Some farmers in
Oxford will receive ap-
plication forma and in -
for mation pamphlets in
the mail . on the tax
reduction program
before the end of
November. Hopefully all
farm propertyowners
will receive application
forms before 1980 passes,
There are a few
changes worth, noting in
the 1980. • program.Any
farm property qualifies if
it : is part of_a farming
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operation that produces
at least $4,000 value of
farm products in a year,
The minimum amount of
municipal taxes on which
a rebate will be paid. has
been increased from $20
to $50
Residences. are eligible
if occupied by actual
farmers, retired farmers.
or family • members of
eligible farrrners, Rebates
on property benefiting
from the Ontario Pen-
sioners PropertyTax
Assistance Act, will be
calculated on net taxes
after deducting the
pensioners tax
assistance.
Interest charged on
repayments due to
development of farm
properties has been in-
-creased—from- -ei-gh-t
percent to ten percent.
SWINE SYMPOSIUM
Swine Symposium '80 is
a day designed and
developed by area pork
producers to bring
together some of this
continent's top speakers
in the areas of
reproductive efficiency,
nutrition . and growth
management and
marketing.
Two simultaneous
sessions will be held.
Session 1 covers several
aspects of reproductive
efficiency and session 2 is
about living with the new
pork cycle.
The Swine Sympos um
will be held at he
Stratford Fairgrounds' on
Wednesday, December 10
starting at 9 a.m.
Advance registration is
preferred. Tickets are
available from your local
pork producers'
association or O.M.A.F.
office.
PROJECT
The new , • 4-(H
homemaking project is
on basic sewing. This is a
project that members
and leaders all over
Ontario have been asking
for. There is something to
interest everyone in this
project - whether you
have never sewn before
or have some p sewing
experience.
Members will have the
opportunity to sew a vest
or skirt (guys) you can
learn to sew a vest, too).
Some of the sewing
techniques you will learn
include seam finishes,
applying interfacings and
facings and finishing an
edge with bias tape.
Why don't you become
a part -of the winter 4-H
homemaking project and
get Ready ... Get Set
Sew!
• Leaders are needed for
this program. All you
require is an interest in
helping young people
develop a desire to learn
new things and club
members to work with.
Two-day workshops for
leaders will be held to
provide guidance and
background for teaching
the lessons.
Leadership workshops
will be held throughout
the county as follows:
Clinton - Friday, Janury
9 and Friday, January 16;
Clinton - Saturday,
January 10 and Saturday,
January 17; Gorrie -
Monday, January 12 and
Wednesday, January 21;
Wingham - Tuesday,
January 1q and Thur-
sday, January 22; Exeter
esday. January 14
and Friday, January 23;
and Walton - Monday,
January 19 and Monday,
January 26.
If you would be in-
terested in leading a club
in your area, please
contact Loralee Marshall
at 482-3428 or Zenith 7.
3040.
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I:,i., inn avoid Thonsfl:.s
Localele ates attending!the Ontario Federation of
d g.
Agriculture Convention in Toronto • from West
Huron are (left to right), • Harry Swinkels, Jim
McIntosh, Walter McIlwain and Jack Tebbutt.
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news farm news
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The highest number of
heat units for corn in
Huron and Perth counties
during the summer of
1980 were achieved at
Centralia College of
Agricultural Technology.
The Centralia heat
units. reached 2,965 as
compared to 2,779 the
previous year. The
normal figure for the
Centralia area is 2,811.
This information was
revealed at T'hursday's
annual meeting of the
Huron Soil and Crop
Improvement
Association at the
Seaforth Leg�io
At the It Scott farm at
Staffa, heat units were
measured at 2,819 up 26'3
from 1979 while figures at
Elora were 2,562, a slight
increase from the year
before.
On the subject of corn
rootworm, a report from
Andy Megens of.
Canadian Canners in
Exeter indicated . there
was no . significant in-
crease in the number of
adult corn borer moths
during 1980.
Other speakers said
excessive corn stalk
breakage this year could
not be blamed on the
rootworm.
Jim O'Toole of Cen-
tralia College reported on
proso millet, a weed
which has been spreading
rapidly in Huron during
the last two years.
O'Toole said proso
millet is a very com-
petitive tall grass and no
chemical control has yet
been registered,
He indicated two other
weeds are becoming
more prevalent in Huron.
They are poison hemlock
which appears in alfalfa
seeded in 1979 and Indian
hemp which looks like
milkweed.
District director
Lawrence Taylor
reported that the Ontario
Association has cir-
culated about 60
resolutions during 1980.
They were centered on
municipal drains,
research, insect
monitoring, gasohol and
crop insurance.
Considerable
discussion took place
Thursday on foundation
seed and problems in-
curred in germination
being below the
prescribed limit.
Near the end of the
meeting, a resolution was
passed asking the Plant
Products branch to
control seed companies in
guaranteeing seed
quality and amend crop
insurance regulations to
cover grower loss
because of poor seed. '
Soils specialist Pat
Lynch said fhe seed
Huron whitebean
producers at their annual
meeting Friday in H,ensall
voted to boycott the
premises of W.G. Thompson
and Sons until present .legal
procedures are brought to
court.
The motion proposed by
John Hazlitt and seconded
by Bev Hill as led produchrs
to refuse to deliver eny
beans to Thompson Milli `un-
tilall discoveries in, the
litigation ard completed;,
Raz litt said :he hopes this.
move will bring the matter
before the courts.
It all stems from the 1977
bean crop when four dealers
including Thompson's refus-
ed-to
efus-ed to complete payment of
beans they ' had . received
from area producers.
According to Friday's
meeting, the other three
dealers, the Hensall District
Co -Operative, Onta
Growers Co -Op and
Ferguson Bros. of St.
Thomas had completed their
discoveries in court, but, the
Thompson discoveries had
been delayed.
A note in the . financial
statement presented at
Friday's meeting reads as
follows:. "The litigation is
companies and not the
government put tags on
bags.
A second resolution
asked for greater funding
for extension services in
the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food
budget.
A new Huron County
soil conservation award
was presented for the
first time.
It is named in honor of
Norm Alexander and was
won this year by John
Hazlitt, R.R.4, Goderich
for his project of tree
planting odd shaped
areas and conservation
tillage.
Huron still tops in Ontario
Huron county continues,
to be one of the top
counties in the province
of Ontario as far as farm
production is concerned.
According to statistics
released last week by
Don Pullen, Huron's
Agricultural
Representative, Huron
leads in five categories
and is second in five
others.
Huron leads other
counties in barley, white
beans, rutabagas, silage
corn and total corn and is
second in cattle
marketings, total cattle,
grain ,! corn, hog
marketings and total
Decision rejected
The Ontario Federation
of Agri -culture's annual
Convention unanimously
passed a motion to send a
telegram to Prime
Minister Trudeau,
several of his ministers,
and the leader of the
opposition asking that the
decision to discontinue
assistance to CanFarm
be reversed and that the
commitment of
assistance for the three
year period be renewed.
It was pointed out by
OFA Past President
Peter Hannam, that the
money which will be
necessary to close down
CanFarm if support is
withdrawn at this point,
could be used instead to
transfer control to the
company. CanFarm
would then be able to
continue and expand as a
private business.
A major discussion
paper, "The farmer's
right to farm", pointed
out that the agricultural
industry supports 1 out of
5 jobs in Ontario today,
obviously playing a
major role in deter-
mining the prosperity of
the province. However,
agriculture tends to be
regulated in many areas
by those who know very
little about the industry.
The paper concluded by
saying that the Ont. Min.
of Agriculture and Food
should assume the key
role in setting out
regulations concerning
farming operations with
the other ministries
working through OMAF
rather than directly
affecting agricultural
matters.
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hogs.
The local county is
third • in poultry and
fourth in dairy cattle and
shipments and has the,
most improved farm
land.
Grain corn is the.leader
in Huron with 196,000
acres worth pver
$53,430,000. Silage corn is
next with $17,238,000 from
68,000 acres.
The most acreage
89,000 is taken up by hay
with a value of over $13
million.
White beans are the
next most valuable,
deriving $8,559,000 from
33,000 acres.
The total value of field
crops is $116,409,000;
fruits and vegetables
bring in $3,726,735; while
livestock production
totalled $168,936,602.
The total estimated
value of overall
production from all farm
sources was $289,072,337.
An analysis of land use
capability for agriculture
indicates 716,440 acres of
Class 1, 2, and 3 land or 86
percent of the land area
as suitable for .most well
managed cropping
systems and 16 percent of
the land is in classes 4, 5,
and 6 with progressively
more severe limitations
of crops.
There is no class? land
in the County. This class
has no capability for
arable culture or per-
manent pasture and
inventory indicates 34,490
acres of organic soils.
Mixed farming
•operations have been
traditional, however, the
province -wide change to
fewer farms and larger
acreage has affected the
County.
Specialized enterprises
are the trend with beef
feedlots fed from
homegrown corn, feeder
hog operations, farrow -
to -finish pork production
units, poultry, and an
increase in specialized
cash cropping.
Popular cash crops
include grain corn, white
`beans, turnips, winter
wheat, as well as sweet
corn and green peas for
canning.
TOWNSHIP of GODERICH
GRAVEL PIT OWNERS and OPERATORS
are invited to attend a meeting in the Goderich Town-
ship Hall on
Wednesday, December 106/80 at
1:30 P.M.
to obtain information on regulations coming into force
regarding gravel pits.
to decide where "liability
rests regarding undelivered
beans that resulted from ad-
vance sales that could not be
satisfied due tothe poor crop
year, The Board has named
the Ontario Farm Products
Marketing Board as the
third party to the dealer
claims."
In explaining, the
backgroundof the 1977
problem, Board chairman
Gordon Hill told the T -A Sun-
day night, "With increased',.
acreage and heavy yields
predicted., for the 1977 crop,
the' Board and • dealers
agreed , that advance sales:
would be a good idea. Ex-
tremely bad weather came
along and the; quality of
product was not as expected.
The dealer complaint was
that the beans were of a
lesser quality than they had
agreed to purchase in ad -
Vance and they -incurred con-
si era a expense in eying
to fulfill their sale com-
mittments."
Hill said the only monies
received by producers for
the 1977 crop was the initial
payment.
The financial statement
indicates the initial
payments amounted to $7,-'
610,E with sales of slightly
over $14 million.,
The .balance in the 1977
pool . as" of August. 31, 1900
was .$4,166,669. Legal eXM
penses already Paid by the
board are $55,105..
The 1977 pool of $4,156,199
includes $5,248,480 owing to
the 'board ,
Russell Bolton's
hay wins again.
Contrary to a report in
last week's paper,
Russell Bolton of
McKillop township won
the World's Hay
Championship title for
the ninth consecutive
year at the recent Royal
Winter Fair.
Mr. Bolton grabbed the
award by defeating 82
other entries to bring the
crown to Huron County
for the 1 7th time in the
last 22 years. •
Mr. Bolton first won the
award in 1972, and he
hasn't lost since.
"Last year the corn -
petition wasn't so stiff,
but this year it was much
stiffer, the 79 -year-old
Winthrop area farmer
confessed. .
Mr. Bolton's win keeps
Huron's name in the hay
limelight, as it has been
in the last 22 years
starting with Bob Alen of
Brucefield who' won the
title in 1962. and 1963,.
followed by Wilber Keys
of Varna in 1964, Bob
Fotheringham of
Tuckersmith in 1965 and
1966, , and Russell Dallas
of Brucefield in 1969 and
1970.
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