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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1984-11-07, Page 26n that land CUNTON NEWS- , WEDi+> SD,Y, NOVEMBFR 7,1984 --PAGE 5A i"0 . . '4 Crop and soil meeting will see format (changes This year the annual Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement meeting will take on a new format. Comments received after the past two annual meetings have dictated a change in the format of the meeting. Far 1984, the annual meeting will feature the usual banquet format This will be followed by mostly crop production infor- mation. This information will include the results of the corn hybrid trials, wheat variety trials and soybean varieties. The soybean and corn trials will be dependent on getting enough farm trial results from you. There will also be a presentation from the researchers at Centralia College highlighting the 1984 research. As well, there will be a summary of some of the other Soil and Crop projects, including the no -till plots. One part of this year's annual meeting will be changed. There will not be any awards or plaques presented. Instead the Conservation Award, promoters of Soil and Crop. Improvement plaques, etc. will be presented at a banquet on Friday, January 11, 1985. This banquet, complete with a guest speaker, hopefully will attract Soil and Crop members and their wives. This evening is planned as a social event. Hope to see you on Thursday, November 29 at 6 p.m. at the Seaforth Community Cen- tre for the 198' Soil and Crop Improvement Annual Meeting, and again on January 11 at the first annual Soil and Crop Improvement Social Banquet. - Gerrit VanKeulen, President, Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association. Mothers attend 4-H club meeting - CLINTON The final meeting of the Clinton I 4-H Fabulous Fitniks Club was held Oct: 29 at St. Paul's Anglican Church. Mothers were welcomed to the fitness meet. A film was shown about nutrition and everyone exercised to music. Members brought nutritious dishes to the meeting and these were taste tested. Macaroni, cheese and tomato, along with fruit custard were two of the dishes. Work books should be handed in to Carol by Nov. 12. Achievement Day will be held Monday; December 3 at the. Stanley Township Hall, Varna. Management tor Profit is the topic of an upcoming seminar, to be held by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) at the Goderich Township Community Centre on Dec. 6. The OMAF Farm Management team from Clinton, including (left to right) Agricultural Representative Don Pullen and Farm Specialists Brian Hall, John Bancroft and Dennis Martin are preparing information for the seminar. Featured speaker will be - Dr. John Ikerd, of the Georgia University Agricultural Economics Department. Agricrewfor •winter - The Ontario Youth Secretariate has ex- panded the summer agricrew program, due to an excellent response, to a new ex- perience program. Winter Agricrew 1984-85 is a pilot project situated in Southwestern and South Central Ontario that will still be administered by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, but funded. by the Ontario Youth Core. There will be two crews of four agriculturally experienced young people, and two crews of two young people between the ages of 15, and 24 years of age serving the counties of Bruce, Grey and Huron. Interested youth will be eligible if they have been out of school or out of work for a period no less than 12 weeks prior. to November 19. Working odd'days in that time period will not matter. Application forms are available at your local O.M.A.F. office. Winter Agricrew will, like the 'summer program, work from one to five days per farmer, at a cost of $90.00 per day per four - man crew. The two-man crew will work the same, but at a cost of $50.00 per day per crew. The program will start November 19, and run until the end of March 1985. Agricrew will be available for a wide assortment of odd jobs including tearing down small buildings, trimming hooves of sheep, laying foundations, piling wood, blowing snow, or any other odd job usually done in the fall or winter months that farmers may not have time to get finished. For more information about obtaining an agricrew, contact Chris Robson at the On- tario Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Walkerton at 881-3301 (1-800-265-3023), or in Markdale at 986-2040 (1-800-265-9152), or in Clinton at 482-3428 (1-800-265-7044). Soun management is key to profit gains Risk and decision making are two facts farm families face in their day to day lives on the farm. There is a saying that Where there is no risk, there is no potential gain. The key to survival and profit, however is not to avoid risk but to manage it. Risk management on the farm involves making decisions on production, marketing and investment that minimizes the risk, maximizes the gain and achieves what you set out to do. `Risk, the Game of Survival and Profit" will be a feature presentation at an upcom- ing Management For Profit Seminar in Huron County. The seminar will feature Dr. John Ikerd, head of the Agricultural Economics Depart- ment at Georgia University. Dr. Ikerd, who has made his career studying agricultural marketing, market analysis, and risk management into producer decision mak- ing, will be speaking on risk management. Credit and money management will also he arirlre'ced at the ca>'minar by a Hanel of bank, Farm Credit Corporation, farmer and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food rep Presentationsresentatives. on "Making Way for the Next Generation" and farm record analysis will be part of the day program. The seminar is to be held on Thursday, December 6 at the Goderich Township Com- munity Centre, Holmesville from 9 a.m. un- til 3:30 p.m - Deadline for registration is Thursday, November 29. Please send your cheque or money order, made payable to "Education Account", along with the names of persons wishing to attend, to Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Box 159, Clinton, On- tario. NOM 11.0. I would encourage farm families to register early for this seminar., Cost is $20 for the ft-st family member and $10 for each additional member. -Don Pullen, Ag. Rep. for Huron County Banks must help farmers, Pelissero tells bank meeting OTTAWA - The banks should take a bigger part in handling the financial affairs of the rural community, the president of the On- tario Federation of Agriculture, Harry Pelissero, said at the Canadian . Bankers Association agricultural credit conference in Ottawa. "I believe the new era of agricultural credit will demand more and better advice from your branches, your credit oficers and your agricultural extension staff," Pelissero said. He suggested several ways bankers could help farmers reduce their debt load. "You can offer time, still the scarcest commodity ... You can help make the transition from the dated equity -financing method . to the Behind the Barn D�or.filrn depicts farming in the '80s What exactly goes on behind the barn door? People who aren't familiar with con- temporary farm practices or who don't per- sonally know any farmers might think farmers are still milking their cows by hand and -piling hay with a pitch -fork. To set the record straight, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture presents "Behind the Barn Door", a 13- minute video introduc- ing non -farmers to the farm practices and practitioners of the 1980's. The film is nar- rated by GordieTapp, host of the television program "Hee Haw". 'Tapp has been mak- ing people laugh with what he calls his "bucolic buffoonery" for years. In the video, he gives his viewers a different look at the "agricultural engineers." The video takes the viewer on a tour of` four impressive farm operations whose owners. discuss subjects ranging from the impact of . foreign competition on the domestic food industry and the -extensive use of computers in the barn, to the need for daycare in rural Ontario. pragmatic science of cash flows." The delgates were asked to treat farmers "as well and as fairly as other creditors. If you ask for a waiver of rights against equity to .secure a loan, then you should offer something in return, like a better rate or a more . favourable repayment schedule," Pelissero said. He said bankers should work with farmers to investigate co-operative ownership of machinery and should consider encouraging some farmers to rent additional land in- stead of buying it. The OFA's two major thrusts to stabilize the farm economy are agri-bonds and market risk insurance (stabilization). .Pelissero- said that if the banks joined the DFA in lobbying the government for agri- bonds, "we would be as certain of success as you could ever be in politics. . Agri -bon& are an investment vehicle that offer low interest rates in return for tax con- cessions. The provincial government has in- dicated its support of the agri-bond concept. Market risk insurance, or stabilization, would take care of the income side of farmers' financial problems, Pelissero said. He said the OFA's market risk insurance plan "would stabilize farm income without leading to over -production, like in the U.S., and without hampering the laws of supply and demand, like in Europe." Farmers and both the federal and provin- cial governments would pay into a -market risk insurance plan. When the market price for a certain commodity drops below a pre- determined level, farmers would get a pay- out. Pelissero challenged the banking in- stitutions to work "co-operatively" with the farming community towards workablae §olu- tions. "That means new approaches and new partnerships, partnerships that include creditor and client, farmerand banker." BACHERT MEATS "Try our own smoked pork chops for the bar -b -q season" CUSTOM KILLING, FREEZING Cutting & Wrapping • KILL DAY ON TUESDAY All meat Gov't. Inspected on the farm 1 MILE EAST OF WALTON 887-9328 ...Make an excellent combination for fall plow -down and twitch control ,For twitch infested fields, start next years' weed control. program THIS fall. ...ter . 110 • r"rlen A plow -down applica- tion of fluid fertilizer AND Atrazine plus an Atrazine- and oil com- bination next year, results in a tough one- two punch on twitch. 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