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Annual Members of Parliament Dinner - Huron County Federation of Agriculture members
(left to. right) John Van Beers, first vice-president; president Gerry Fortune and Merle
Gunby (far right), chairman of the foreign ownership committee, chat with MPP Murray
Elston of Huron -Bruce at the federation's annual members of parliament dinner held in
Clinton on Saturday. (photo by Gibb)
Economic ills widespread
among farmers, OFA says
"Economic pressures on
Ontario farmers are forcing
many of Ahem to find a dif-
ferent wavy to earn a living",
Ontario Federation of
Agriculture President Ralph
Barrie said, "and not just a
handful of people are af-
fected".
This was evident April 1,
when over .500 concerned
farmers crowded into the
Chesley Community Centre
to meet with OFA executive
members. They went to
discuss passible solutions to
the pressures, that are for-
cing many of them out of
business.
The OFA executive
presented the farmers with
several possible courses of
action the 25,000 member
lobby group could take. After
voicing their opinions and
concerns, the farmers gave
almost unanimous support to.
a sixpoint program.
Top priority was given to
sspporuiee fort* of low cost, long -
rim financing, as well as a
replacement _ for last year's
prti�vincial �,eipte,�est�,_ rate
subsidy - r anal '.The
faritier$ wain the prbvinciai
plan to cover loans from both
-banks and farm suppliers up
to a maximum of $150,000.
The new provincial
program would be based on a
graduated scale. Farmers
who owned less than half of
their farm would receive 100
percent of everything the.
banks charged over 12
percent. Farmers with 90 to
100 percent equity would be
subsidized at the rate of 20
percent on , everything
charged over 12 percent.
Payments would be made
quarterly.
The farmers also called for
an -independent review
agency to look at each case
before banks could
foreclose. In .addition, they
want an improved federal
stabilization program, . an.
emergency rescue program
for young farmers and a
reduction in farm interest
rates by providing tax
benefits to farm lenders.
There was unanimous
agreement that there should
be a long range financing
program put in place as well.
This will require more funds
forFarm Credit Corporation
(FC`, ante t:view-of-tbe.
FCClending criteria.
Barrie said . the new
programs would save many
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These proposals will be
presented to the OFA Board
of Directors' meeting on
April 22 for ratification, he
said.
"Then the hard part begins
— we'll begin to work for
government action."
Protecting
the soil
Conservation affects
Ontario farmers in 'many
aspects of agricultural
production including soil —
the most basic resource of
all.
The Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food in-
formation branch recently
produced a film, "Lands:
Our Last Resource," to tell
the story of the need for soil
conservation.
The 20 -minute, 16 min
color film was produced for a
general audience, although it
is' aimed at primary
producers.
The film was written in co-
operation with Dr. Charles
Baldwin, Ridgetown College
of Agricultural Technology
soil scientist, and James
Arnold, ministry
agricultural engineer. This
ram looks at the causes of
soil erosion and shows
practical ,. methods of
prevention.
"Land: Our Last
Resource" is available 'for
loan to schools and groups
free of charge from the Film
library, Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food, Room
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of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
NIG2W1.
Foreign land ownership doubles, HF
By Rhea Hamilton
While the portion of Huron
County land under foreign
absentee ownership has
doubled in five years, the
land is still being farmed.
This was just one of the
points revealed by the se-
cond phase of the Rural
Development Outreach Pro-
ject (RDOP) survey for the
Huron Federation of
Agriculture.
Rental fees range from a
maximum of $95 to a verbal
agreement with no money
exchanged and the average
parcel size is 102 acres for
foreign owned, acres for
non -local but Canadian own-
ed and 73 acres of local
owners. The majority of land
is grain -corn with some
acreage under other crops
too diverse to mention.
While thelandis,being.us-..
ed, the Huron F of A learned
Thiusday night at Grey Cen-
tral School in an update of
the first phase of the RDOP
study, that the number of
acres under absentee owner-
ship has increased.
In a slide presentation
made by Julius Mage who
spearheaded the study,
graphs and maps illustrated
the concentration of foreign
ownership purchases in the
northern lakeshore area of
Ashfield, Colborne, and in
the inland township of
Howick.
In Huron county foreign
owned land increased .from
4,658 acres (.61 percent) to
7,823 (1.03 percent) in 1980.
While foreign owned includ-
ed American interests, the
figures showed that
American owned land was
down from 37 owners in 1975
to 24 in 1980 with the average
size of the holding in 1980 be-
ing 100 acres. On the other
end of the scale, European
based land owners increased
their holdings from three in
1975 to 21 in 1980. The
acreage involved is up to
8,000 from 1,815 in five years.
The average land holding
is 400 acres.
2,800 acres of Huron,
South -Bruce farmland
formerly classified as
absentee foreign owned
became legally owned in
1980 through resale to locals
or by immigration of the
owners.
The study was broadened
to include the four southern
townships in Bruce county
after reports indicated that
there were several concen-
trations of absentee owned
land there that could be
documented with the Huron
report.
With these additional
townships the figures of
foreign ownership for the
area rose from 5,327 acres in
the Huron -South Bruce' area
to 10,674 five years later.
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The other classification for
absentee ownership showed
little or no change in trends
over the past five years.
Non -Ontario Canadian'
owned land was scattered
throughout the area. The
2,000 acres or .02 percent of
the total farmland fluctuated
from 850 acres in 1975 to 2,142
in 1979 and 1,982 in 1980.
The third category of non -
local, but living within On-
tario, remained stable dur-
ing the past four years. This
group controls 40,000 acres
or 75 percent of absentee
owned farmland or slightly
over 4 percent of the total
farmland in the area.
Dr. Mage pointed out that
a continuous monitoring of
land purchasing would assist
in the next phase of the
study. The third and final
stage will,.assess.the -impact -
of absentee foreign owner-
ship on the rural community.
The RDOP group stressed
that the importance of the
non -local Ontario absentee
group not be overlooked.
This type occurs in all the
townships and has maintain-
ed an acreage which is still
four times the amount of
farmland owned by the
absentee foreign group.
Tony Fuller, director of
RDOP, Dr. Mage and
George Stock, who worked
on the study, as well as Dr.
John Fitzsimmons,
answered questions for the
audience in small groups.
Members were interested
in finding out how farm
prices are affected with
foreign investment. Dr. Fitz-
simmons intends to use a
study similar to the one used
in Saskatchewan some years
ago with some modifica-
tions.
In measuring the impact
of the communities the
group foresees many dif-
ficulties in proving just
where the effects begin and
stop. ' It may be far more dif-
ficult to pinpoint retail dif-
ficulties with foreign and
absentee ownership.
Further. questions or sug-
gestions for the third phase
can be directed to Louise
Marritt, field co-ordinator
for RDOP, at R.R.1,
Wingham, 335-3906.
--In other hatless tless the
Huron F of A agreed to sup-
port a couple's request to
Huron county that 15 acres of
swampy scrub be cleared
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stipulated that they support
the county bylaw in principle
which restricts rampant tree
cutting; and that only 15
acres be cleared and that ap-
proximately 30 acres of bush
will be left on the 100 acre
farm.
The land use committee in-
spected the acreage in ques-
tion after Mr. and Mrs.
Sheldon Ward approached
the Federation for help.
They had anticipated pro-
blems in getting the tree cut-
ting Permit.
Mel Knox reported that the
impact of the clearing would
not be detrimental to the sur-
rounding land. It was
pointed out by members that
each farm should be judged
as a separate unit from the
neighboring farms and that
one farmer not be responsi-
ble for maintaining bushland
for a large area while his
neighbors strip their land.
Another member applaud-
ed the fact that the federa-
tion is doing something
about this matter before the
final decision is made.
Anyone interested in being
kept informed or getting in-
volved with a farmer's co-
operative waste disposal site
can contact Tony McQuail.
The energy committee sent
out questionnaires to
municipalities on waste and
the idea of an alternative to
land fill sites. Of the 16
responses three were not in-
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