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Clinton News-Record, 1981-08-19, Page 12a PAGE 12 -THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19,1981 news farm r.. Barrie ready for plowing match This summer, Ontario's newest tourist attraction, Canada's Wonderland, is. receiving lots of attention. At the end of September, however the focus will shift north to Crown Hill near Barrie where the Inter- national Plowing Match and Farm • Machinery Show's five-day run will become another Canadian wonder! From Tuesday, September 29 through Saturday, October 3, a 40,0 hectare site between highways 400 and 93 will awe visitors as surely as the commercial attraction down the road. The IPM with its famous tented city is the largest annual agricultural event in the world. Local organizers are excited at the potential for record attendance this year. The Barrie area location means the plowing match is ideally situated to permit those attending to take in the. match as part of a vacation. For instance, the weekend of September 26 and 27 is the closing weekend for Canada's Wonderland. Many rural families from across Ontario are expected to combine a visit to the theme park with the annual outing to the plowing match. The site is only a one hour drive from Canada's largest city, Toronto and the urban population is being invited to came get acquainted with the industry that feeds them. This may be a golden op- portunity to show consumers the intricacies of modern agriculture and demonstrate how farming is Canada's most efficient industry. Hundreds of interesting and educational exhibits include the latest in farm technology, machinery, livestock, seed, chemical, consumer products and automobiles. Other exhibits which make the IPM a popular attraction are steam engines, horse drawn wagons, antique and historical displays, banks, variety shows and the county exhibits which offer a taste of Simcoe County past and future. Parades, a children's midway and over 60 food concessions give the tented city a carnival atmosphere. The city of Barrie is the gateway to some of Ontario's most spectacular vacation country. Situated on Lake Simcoe, it is only minutes away from southern Georgian Bay's many historical sites, recreational facilities and beautiful sights. For those who wish to go further afield, the famous holiday regions of Muskoka and Haliburton are ' little more than an hour's pleasant drive away. There's something for everyone at the Inter - Director Paul Thompson and set designer Bob Pearson are shown here with the cow that starred in the 1977 version of He Won't Come in from the Barn. The play is being staged at the Blyth Summer Festival again this year and while the director and set designer will remain thesame, auditions are underway for a new cow to co-star with Ted Johns. national Plowing Math and lots , more close by in 1981. Plan now to attend the Match sometime between Sep- tember 29 and October 3. Huron Farm and Home News For more information, contact: R.T. ( Bob). McMahon, Secretary Manager, c -o Agricultural and Horticultural Societies Branch, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Legislative Buildings, Toronto, Ontario, M7A 2B2. Telephone: (416) 965-1091. Dairy farmin By Dennis Martin, Associate Agricultural Representative I've heard • a lot of talk lately about how good the dairy industry is—with quota to help guarantee a steady income and prevent just anyone from jumping into the business! To some ex- tent, this may be true. Milk prices are good and because of the total capital expense, it is very difficult for young people to consider dairy farming. However, fqr those who are in the business,, profits vary greatly. Well run, well managed herds are recor- ding record high incomes through milk sales. On the other hand, low producing herds are finding it more and more difficult to keep pace with rising input costs and interest rates. Direct ex- penses such as feed, vet and medicine, breeding fees, stable and milkhouse sup- plies can eat up 60 to 70 per cent of operating income. What's left gives you a return for depreciation, labor, management and capital. As one farmer in- dicated to me, it is important for dairymen to realize the first 3 to 4,000 litres of milk in a cow'slactation is required to feed and maintain a cow for one year. There is just no room in the dairy business for poorly managed herds. The total number of dairy herds has decreased sub - good but profits vary stantially in the last decade and promises to decline even more, leaving room for only the serious producer who can adapt to new ideas and technology. There are many management tools available to dairymen that can help ensure adequate income. Evaluation of your farm's performances is Qne useful tool that can help• assess overall management. To do this you need information: about your 'husinea'i and some basis for comparison. O.M.A.F. extension ser- vices publish "Canfarm Summaries" that can be. used to identify strengths and weaknesses in your business. identifying the problem is only part of the battle. Once the problem is known, some specific remedies can be tried. Danger signals include borrowing to replace machinery, borrowing more and more operating money each year to plant crops of buy replacement cattle and using more credit for feed bills and supplies. If this is happening on your farm, then it is time to take a close look at cash flow along with total farm expenditures. A profit check list in- cluding such factors as size of business, rates of production, labour efficiency, and capital efficiency can also help evaluate your farm's overall financial health. Support consumer reps on marketing boards The Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario has come out in support of hav- ing consumer represen- tatives on agricultural marketing boards. The CFFO Provincial Board at its regular June meeting called for such representatives and insisted that they be nominated by the Consumers Association. "We have nothing to hide frgm consumers," Tom Oegema, a member of the Federation's executive said after the meeting. "It will be to our benefit that con- sumers see the planning that is needed to make supply management work". Elbert van Donkersgoed, CFFO Research Director, emphasized the need for get- ting consumer organizations involved. "We don't want just anyone at all appointed rman Alexander award to be given Conservation Award The Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Associa- tion is looking for Huron County land owners who have managed their farms to conserve soil, water and other natural resources, thereby qualifying for the Norman Alexander Con- servation Award. Such management practices may involve erosion control (grassed waterways, proper tillage, crop rotation, etc.), stream improvement (buf- fer zones, tile outlet protec- tion, ditch bank stabiliza- tion, etc.), woodlot manage- ment, windbreaks and reforestation and manure management. Individuals or groups wishing to nominate a can- didate should send the nominee's name and address by August 31, 1981 to: Con- servation Award Commit- tee, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Box 159, Clinton NOM 1LO. John Heard, Assist. Ag. Rep. Weed Control To everything there is a season. A time to sow, a time to reap. Or so a popular writer once wrote. If he knew much about crops he would have added a few more lines. He would have written that late summer- early fall is a time to control perennial weeds - especially bindweed and twitch grass. Now, there are some of you who know this treatment works, but not all of you. Simon De Witt of the Dublin area knows it works. Last year he had a field of wheat and a terrific stand of bind- weed. The bindweed didn't hurt his wheat much, but he was afraid of what it would do to the white beans this year. So Simon wanted to know what to do. ti I told him to cut the wheat and then wait for the bind- weed to come back into bloom. Then spray , with either Kilmor or Dicamba. Simon wanted to know which was the best. I told him that the resear- chers were a bit divided on the issue, but they collective- ly thought Kilmor would do a better job. He asked me what I thought and I sug- gested, "Why don't you run your own test? Do one-half of the field with Kilmor and the other half of the field with Dicamba." He sprayed Dicamba at one gallon per acre and Kilmor at one gallon per 10 acres. I said the main thing was to wait as long as possible in- to September before spray- ing. He had to wait until the bindweed was in late bud or early bloom. On the other hand, if he waited too late and had an early killing frost, there would not be enough good weather to let the plants translocate the herbicide to the roots. Well, last year that first two weeks of September, Simon got quite anxious. He would call the office and ask "Is it ready to spray?" I would ask him if the bind- weed was in bloom. He would say no and then worry some more. Three or four days later he would call again - same conversation. Finally, about September 15, the bindweed came back into bloom and he sprayed. Last week (August 11) I walked Simon's bean field, comparing the two treatments. He has at least 90 percent control of the bindweed - possibly 95 per- cent control. And there was no difference between the side sprayed with Kilmor versus the side sprayed with Dicamba. This year Simon has another field. Another bind- weed problem, but with a dif- ferent slant. This year he sowed red clover with the nitrogen on his wheat. The red clover is about two to four inches high now. The bindweed is quite general throughout the field: Simon is concerned that when he sprays the bindweed, he will also kill the red clover. I tried to lessen Simon's con- cern by telling him that if this September is the same as last year, his bindweed will bloom again aboTtt September 15. That will give his red clover a good six weeks of growth after harvesting the wheat. This should give him 80 to 90 per- cent benefit of his red clover. True, he will not get the full benefit of his red clover, but he will certainly get enough value to pay for his seed. Twitch grass getting worse You know, this twitch grass problem is worse now in Perth and Huron counties than when I came here nine years ago. I don't want to take all the credit for that, but it is a problem. I am now convinced that you can make twitch grow better by apply- ing one pound of Atrazine per acre. And many of you are doing that. Putting on an annual grass killer plus a bit of Atrazine. This low rate of Atrazine merely gets rid of the annual weeds and gives the twitch a better place to grow. I am convinced that Atrazine, used this way, makes the twitch grow bet- ter. ' So what do you do about it? Any fields that are going to be sown to corn next year should have Atrazine applied this fall. If it is a sod or cereal field this year, you can put that 2.2 kg. per ha. of actual Atrazine on any time. If you are applying it while the twitch is actively grow- ing, then use corn oil. Not those surfactants or soaps or corn oil concentrates, but the corn oil in the 45 gallon drum. By using oil this fall, AL\ OPEN \firalid/ HOUSE Hyland • Seeds invites you to join us for a tour of our hybrid corn, soy beans, white beans and colored beans research plots on Tuesday, August 25 2-8p.m. Location: 'h mile south of Hensoll on ' No. 4 Highway. Refreshments will be served. NOTE: In case of rain the date will be Wed. August 27 Hyl=;nd Seeds is a division of you burn off that top growth and hasten the route of Atrazine to the twitch roots. If you are ° applying this Atrazine later this fall - say October - there is no point of putting oil with it. You are merely applying the Atrazine to the surface and plowing that down. That Atrazine will be right where those twitch grass' roots are. Those roots will grow right into the Atrazine as soon as they start to grow next spr- ing. If you aren't growing corn next year on those fields in- fested with .twitch, you can use either Round -up or Cytrol. For both products the. twitch must be six to eight inches tall and actively growing. The companies that sell both products would far rather you use them in the late summer than in the spring. The main reason is more consistent results. In fact to encourage this late summer use, Monsanto has a sale on Round -up. Buy 30 litres and you get four litres free. ( They are calling it a sale, but at the price of this product the word sale may be questioned). You are getting at least one more chemical to battle twitch grass. It is a product called Poast. It is marketed by BASF. I spent part of a day in late July, with Barry Gordon front Seaforth. He is the area representative for - BASF. fie showed me some of their plots. They had sprayed Poast on white beansand on soybeans that had either annual grasses or twitch grass. The product looked very impressive. It was controlling twitch grass in both kinds of beans. The good new is.that it will pro- bably be registered for edi- ble beans for next year. The price will probably be com- petitive with Round -up. The beauty of this product is that you will be able to clean up bean fields of twitch without residue. You will be able to spot spray fields that have just "a bit of twitch" around the outside and in those low spots. Now, it has a couple of drawbacks. The first is that it does not 'give dramatic kill. • The plants remain green even though they are dead. The second is that it only kills twitch grass that is up. That means if you plan on us- ing it next year DON'T PLOW DEEP this year. If you bury those rhizones eight inches deep this fail, next year many of the plants will not emerge until late in the season. Poast will not control twitch that is not up. Pat Lynch, Soil and Crop Specialist John Heard, Assist. Ag. Rep. to our marketing boards to represent consumers", van Donkersgoed said. We prefer that these represen- tatives be nominated by the Consumers Association. They should at least have the endorsement and support of this Association. On other issues, the Federation has decided to ask the Ontario Farm In- come Stabilization for a beef cow -calf stabilization plan. The Provincial Board also confirmed the CFFO's sup- port for most of the interest rate help being sought by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. The. CFFO seeks an interest assistance program on a maximum of $150,000 and wants it limited to those who really need it. Junior Gardeners set for Clinton flower show by Michael Tait The Junior Gardeners met at the Clinton Town Hall on Tuesday, August 11th. We had four new people who were interested in joining Junior Gardeners. They were: Shelley Pearson, Anne Tyndall, Patti and Douglas Maguire. We talked about the flower show, and discussed some of the entries of the upcoming flower show on August 21st. Gwen Holland brought us a special treat, candy made with rose petals. Mrs. Powell showed us how to make bread dough for modelling figures for an en- try at the flower show. The door prize was won by Shelley Pearson. The next meeting will be held September 15th at the Town Hall. Smile To belittle someone is to be little yourself. l Ship your livestock with ART.HEFFRON Blyth Shipper for United Co-operatives of Ontario Livestock Marketing Division Ontario Stockyards, Toronto CALL BLYTH 523-4221 by 8:00 a.m. Monday Stockers and Feeders Also Available a Hundreds of walking reasons for Shur -Gain Animal Health Care. 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