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Hog sto • ilizati
The national hog stabilization
plan introduced recently repre-
sents a new concept in agricul-
tural stabilization.
Called the value added concept,
it lets the market follow its nor-
mal course based on supply and
demand. At the same time, it
gives producers an effective gua-
rantee that their returns to labor
and equity capital will be main-
tained�a reasonable levels. Pro-
ducers retain full responsibility
for their own decisions to main-
tain a viable operation.
Here's how the plan works.
Hog producers are guaranteed
a national average margin • of
$22.41 per hundredweight be-
tween the cost of their livestock
feed and hog prices. Only the
margin is stabilized. There is no
interference with either the price
of feed or the price of pork.
The plan covers hogs marketed
between April 1, 1974, and March
31, 1975, which index 88 or better
under the federal hog grading
program: Each farmer can claim
up to a maximum of 1,500 hogs.
Next April 1, the federal gov-
ernment will determine the
amount by which the average
price for hogs across Canada ex-
ceeded the wholesale cost of feed
required to bring a pig from 50
pounds to market weight, If this
amount is less than the guaran-
teed margin of $22.41 per hun-
dredweight, producers - will be
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CHESS TIME
Game
exercises
th� mind
By JOSEPH MILL BROWN
If you really want to know
why Valery Giscard
tang went as far as he did in
the ° French presidential
sweepstakes, it's verysin-
pie: he plays chess. The plc-
ture weekly Paris Match,
which caught him pouring
over a game with his son, im-
plied that he never went any -
re without a pocket chess
%tsing
bless
o gyflinastics of the mind,
which is whys it's so much
more interesting and exciting
than physical sports. At Ice-
land, in 1972; there were many
predictions about the' out.
come, but the conventional
ones were from nonplayers. It
was . the Dutch grandmaster,
Jan Hein Donner, who may
have provided .an.expIaz ation
for the man's subsequent
problems when be said Boris
Spas.* seemed to nurture a
secret desire to lose.
You do not get this mystical
calisthenics in other sports.
It's hard to envision Washing=
ton Redskins coach George
Allen telling "Meet the
Press" that President Nixon's °
problems stem from his fail-
ure to make the varsity at
Whittier College (and maybe
they did). •
What you do get in chess is
intellectual exploration: the
chance to (learn something
about the game you're play-
ing, and at the same- time
learn something about your-
self.
"Motive is the controlling
element in chess as in every
other line of success in life,"
wrote American champion
Frank Marshall early in the
century. "To conduct a game
of chess without a definite,
clear idea of the motive „in-
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sea of troubles in a ship with- ,
out a rudder" - which a mas-
ter understands but a potzer
does not. •
Because a game of chess is
very •muc' i like life, it's hard
to be immersed in one and not
think about your place in the
other. The cowirmer� \(with ex -
world champion Mikhail Tal)
of the prestigious 1963-64
Hastings Tournament was the
Soviet Union's Abram lams -
sin, who lost both legs in the
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Battle of Stalingrad.
His personal tragedy did not
keep Khassin from winning a
grandmaster title aiming the
toughest chessplayers in the
world - which points up an-
other reason for the game's
growing popularity: For suc-
cess,
uscess, you don't need a young,
perfect body as much as you
do a mature mind.
Some colleges now list
chess in their curricula. Itis a
university subject in Cuba;
the young Brazilian grand-
master, Henrique Mecking,
reportedly wears the title
"Professor of Chess" at a uni-
versity
niversity in Rio de Janeiro.
Chess apparently sharp-
ened the mental reflexes of
Emil Reubens, a founder of
the U. S. Chess Federation. He
was active in business and got
his masters ' degree a few
months before his death last
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moter of chess in the prisons;
a faithful believer in its thera-
peutic effect. (Today a for-
midable propagator of the
message is James Schroeder,
president of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Chess Foundation.) In-
terest in the game among the
prison populationis consider-
able, and not surprising when
you remember that - unlike
other games, which depend on
chance, or outside influences
- enjoyment of and success
in chess are predicated on the
player being completely hon-
est with himself.
Indeed, ethics are integral
to the game. Emanuel Lasker
compared certain doubtful
aspects of play to an evening
discussion he attended at a
debating society. The ques-
tion was: "Is it wrong to cheat
a lawyer?"
After a three-hour discus-
sion, which resembled a chess
game, the answer was, "No -
but it's too difficult to make it
worthwhile."
Petropolis, Brazil
-1973
Vladimir Savon
yUSSR)
Henrique Sleeking
(Brazil)
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paid the difference based on their
total marketing,* up to 1,500 ham.
lids will be a national payment
with all producers receiving
exactly the same amount per pig.
Thus individual area and re-
gional differences in hog pro-
duction costs and efficiency are
left unchanged.
The producer will geed to pro-
vide proof of sales such. as hog
grading certificates.
Why this particular program
with its built-in value added con-
cept?
Agriculture Canada econo-
mists who worked out details of
the plan offer several reasons in
favor of the approach, ranging
from intricate complexities of
national and international econo-
mics to plain common sense rea-
sonings. /
First, there is a need to iron out
the boom and bust cycles that are
historically associated with
almost all agricultural commodi-
ties, including pork. In' years of
high ,prices, . uctier* in.
crepes. Aa . t g uP,
market: pricesfad and profit
margins shrink. Verniers cut,
beck production and some even
leave the busing supplies
tumble andpry ga
c�o�+nelC'
up.
With highOr prices for the p`o-
duct, the buss regains its et-
tractimesa and production goes
on the upswing. The cycle is re-
peated,
This is a basic cycle, A host of
factors can enter the picture to
play .major or minor roles in what
happens. In recent years, hog
producers have been hit with a
doublewhammy of rising feed
costs and falling hog prices.
The value added stabilization
plan is designed to give pro-
ducers more certainty. Pay-
ments are made on a one-year
period in keeping Aith the pro-
gram's intent as a stop -loss mea-
sure to prevent long-term losses
caused by factors beyond the hog
Concerns on hog
plan are clarified
The Agricultural Stabilization
Board gives the following re-
sponse to concerns expressed
about the . u federalgr ove nment s
new hog stabilization plan.
The plan covers all hogs index-
ing 88 or above marketed be-
tween April 1, 1974 and March 31,
,1975, up to 1,500 hogs per farm. It
guarantees producers a mini-
mum margin 'of $22.41 per hun-
dredweight between the whole-
sale cost of feed grain and hog
prices on a national basis.
Following are the six most
commonly heard concerns:
1. The Hog Stabilization Plan
will not guarantee producers a
profit.
It was never intended to! The
plan is intended to be a stop -loss
program. This is in line with the
position of the Canadian Pork
Council. The Council also sug-
gested that the program "not be
at an incentive level", because it
would not be reasonable to en-
courage production at a time
when marketings are outrunning
demand, A guaranteed profit
plan would do just that. The plan
gives producers the confide!) s��e �to
stay in business but the gilai -
teed margin is not at a levan
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2. -The support program should
be calculated on a quarterly basis
instead of over one. year.
The progran} is not intended to
cover short-term market losses
which can and do occur in any
business, agricultural or other-
wise. The program is intended as
a stop -loss program . to prevent
long-term losses caused by fac-
tors beyond the hog industry's
control and detrimental to the
long-terminterests of the pro-
ducer.
Normally, livestock producers
plan their operations on a yearly
basis and it is therefore logical to
calculate the hog stabilization
payment on a yearly basis. In
addition, quarterly averages
could lead to serious disruption in
marketing patterns as producers
attempted to change their mar-
keting plans in order to ensure
eligibility for quarterly pay-
ments. Thus on a rising market,
producers could tend to lump
their marketings at the end of a
quarter while on a falling market
the opposite might happen.
3. Regional disparities in pro-
duction cost and market returns
are not recognized.
This is a national plan but a
plan which recognizes regional
differences in production costs
and returns by weighting these
costs andet
r urns across the
country according to each
region's proportion of the total
Canadian hog slaughter. Any
payments made to producers
under the plan will be identical
across Canada. In this way the
plan will not alter any natural ad=
vantages or disadvantages that a
region may have and will not en-
courage production in one region
as opposed to another.
4. The plan does not include the
cost of producing weanling pigs
and other costs.
This isnot correct. All costs are
included in the guaranteed mar-
gin.
5, The support plan bases feed
efficiency on that obtained under
the ROP program; the ordinary
producer cannot achieve this
kind of feed efficiency.
The ROP feed and manage-
ment program is not out of the
reach of good farmers. The pro-
gram is based on common sense
practices that can be and are
adopted by serious hog producers
in Canada. In ' any event 'dif-
ferences
dif-ferences between actual feed
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doubt• about the " same as- they
were in the base period and thus
are recognized in the guaranteed
margin.
6. Feed calculations are based
on wholesale prices and not on re-
tail prepared feed prices. This
discriminates against, the small
producer who cannot buy in
wholesale lots.
Calculations are based on
wholesale prices of feed grains
because they are more reliable
indicators of feed costs than are °
retail prices which vary a great
deal within regions as well as
fromone region to another. If re-
tail prices were used as a base,
the guaranteed margin would be
reduced correspondingly, be-
cause the margin is the dif-
ference between theaverage of
the actual prices received by pro-
ducers in the base years and the
wholesale cost of feed during the
same period.
The ASB reminds producers
that grading slips or other proof
of sale and slaughter should be
retained by farmers to be used at
the end of the support period if a
payment is declared. Complete
details on claiming procedures
along with claim forms will be
made available at that time.
Consumer implications
What do stabilization, imports
and exports have to do with how
Much the consumer pays for pork
chops?
Plenty. That's one of the rea-
sons why agricultural stabiliza-
tion is considered good for every-
one -producer and consumer
alike.
In the case of Canada's hog
industry, there has been a tradi-
tional swing between an export
and import position, occurring in
cycles.
Basically, it all relates to the
North American hog situation,
predominated by United States
market conditions: When U.S.
hog prices are higher than Cana-
dian prices, we become exporters
who supply much of the northern
states.
During an export period, our
consumer prices are usually
below those in the U.S.
However, this period eventu-
ally coincides with a cutback in
hog production because returns
to producers are squeezed to a
slim margin. The result is a
subsequent drop in pork supplies
and Canada becomes an import-
er.
In this case consumer prices
are driven to U.S. prices plus the
cost of transportation to Cana-
dian outlets. Despite the bargain
prices during an export period,
the cyclical swings can be annoy-
ing to consumers and costly
during import periods.
It is costly to consumers and
Canada's economy to go through
these boom and bust cycles.
The answer is to stabilize our
own production to assure con-
stant supply to the domestic mar-
ket. Consumer prices would then
maintain levels below what they
would otherwise be during import
periods.
At the same time, this consis-
tent supply to our local super-
markets would allow for sus-
tained long-term development of
export markets. Indications are
that we can expand livestock
sales to Japan and other Pacific
Rim countries, for example..
The interim hog stabilizatra
plan, provides producers with
cohfidence to stay in business.
A stabilized income strength-
ens his position to improve or ex-
pand his operation in an orderly
manner,
With this combination, the con-
sumer can count on a more con-
stant supply of pork without
boom and bust cycles at the
supermarket and their accom-
panying roller coaster prices.
industryss control' aed. q
v sl' longInterests
not intim to 'Omer
tern* market loss which can
and do ,act in any ,
agricultural or Otherwise.
The p prOvid011 hsu
against drastic mea in the
national average m which
would otherwise create instabi-
lity in production.
The value.. added, plan 140es
market prices to reach their own
levels- This keeps producer re-
sponsibility in the forefront. It is
still up to him to follow market
signals to earn a good living.
In the long -terra, the dram
allows for orderly expansion of
production to meet both domestic
and new export markets..
Compared with price • stabiliza-
tion formulas, value added plans
are better able to cape with, infla-
tion pressures. A guaranteed
price today may fall behind what
is deeded tomorrow.
The interim hog plan uses five-
year averages of feed costs and
hog prices because research indi-
cated the five-year base was
most effective in counteracting
the undesirable effects of the hog
cycle.
Feed costs have been selected
as a base for input costs because
they are the major input, and
have caused uncertainty in the
hog sector by drastic price
changes.
Hogs
i
ncex
ing or
more
qua-
lify
under the plan. This evens out
stabilization to provide genuine
risk reduction rather than just a
quality premium.
A limit On the number of eli-
gible hogs per producer discour-
ages -rapid overproduction.
The interim hog plan, operated
by the Agricultural Stabilization
Board, is a first when it comes to
putting the value added concept
to work in agricultural stabiliza-
tion. Research economists are
studying use of the concept with*
other commodities.
In the meantime, work conti-
nues between Agriculture
Canada and the hog industry to
develop an ongoing program best
suitedto producer and consumer
needs.
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BETTER EINGLISW,
By D. C. Williams
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What is wrong with each of these
sentences?
L 23 persons were injured
when the train jumped
the track.
2. Although she approves
of him working, she
thinks a life of ease is ,
more preferable.
34. This statement has been
proven wrong, ` and is
apt to cause trouble.
4. I had rather be tafethan
sorry.
5. He had no call to talk
to me like he did.
. What are the correct pronun-
ciations of these words? °
6. Clique.
7. Domain.
8. Coaxial.
9. Cliche.
-10. Cravat.
11. Circuitous.
Which six words in the following
group are misspelled?
12. Pompeii, Madagascar,
aribean, tenant, pen -
ant, pertinent, depend-
ant, misstatement, mis-
spend, missappropriate,
dispair, disparage, dis-
sidence, traipse, traffick-
ing, tranquility, seces-
sion, coersion, condes-
cension.
ANSWERS
1. It is not correct to begin a
written sentence with a num-
eral. Either write it out, as,
"Twenty-three persons," or
recast the sentence thus:
"When the train jumped off
the track, 23 persons were
injured." 2. Say, ",Although
the approves of HI•S work-
ing," and omit "mote." 3.
Say, "has been PROVED
wrong, and is LIKELY to
cause trouble." 4. Say, "I
WOULD rather be safe than
sorry." 5. Say, "He had no
REASON to talk WITH me
AShedd."
6. Pronounce as "leek." 7.
Accent second syllable, not
the first. 8. Pronounce koe
ack-si-al, accent second syl-
lable. 9. Pronounce klee.
shay, accent second syllable.
10. Pronounce kra-vat, ac-
cent second syllable. 11. Pro-
nounce sur-kyu-i-cuss, accent
second syllable.
12. Caribbean, dependent, mit.
appropriate, despair, tran-
quillity, coercion.
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