HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-07-15, Page 19be notifiedof a person s intent.
to submit"a:brief by July 31;
the actual'' brief must . be
submitted by September 1.
Agriculture • and Food
Minister William'G. Newman
established the task force --in
May: At that time he said he; ,•
was concerned about ,^:a
situation where a producer
sells lifs entire crop to one or
two buyers and then, because,
of difficulties experienced by
the .buyers, may' be unable to •
collect' all or - part of the".
payment clue him. --•
The • task force said
.agricultural organizations
and individuals wishing to
submit' briefs should include
• the'followinginfortnation;
••'A'deScription of payments
defaults by buyers of `fdf1n
products in the previous five
years; •
Names . of producers • who
have suffered serious
financial'• loss :as a- result of
payment default by buyers of
fariiiproducts;
'Proposals which—would'
protect producers against'
payment ciefault in the future..
. Chairman of the task force
is Morris'. Huff, vice-chairman
• of the _Ontario Food Council:
Members from the Ministry
of "Agriculture =and' Food" are
Ontario.` Livestock : Com
• - hiissioner Hubert McGill;
Area Coordinator Richard
-Heard (London) and. Darr
Coordinator Joseph, Meiser
—-(•Toron-to)- Other members A.
are :Marshall Dawson of the '.
Ministry of Consumer arid•
Co-mme1rcial Ref,tians;
-Norman Harris of the
M-anagement Board of
Cabinet;. Hugh .Bair,d of
Saintfield, a •dairy ' farmer,
Sam` Piott, chairman of .
-Ontar•io Tender 'Frith
Growers! .Marketing Board
.and Charles • Gracey,
Manager, .Canadian
. tl'emen's Association.
Mr. Newman said• he ex-
pects the task force to report
its findings to him • early in
"1977:,
1
Goderich••township council Township, •Clerk Robin
altered a tree planting Thonripson said the changes in
program they are involved in the tree planting program
with the Ministry of Natural.. were prompted. by ' 'an
- Resources. putting a little unusually large cost
more financial 'responsibility . township faced' last ,.year tO.
on the land owner taking -part • plant trees.. on private land.:
in• the program. The costs to the township for
• Council =.' "e
.�? ,t 'with 'a residents .:taking part. nT' this
spokesni;an �'''ft'oin Natural, plan were ' $1,200 ,which
Resources • and looked at council. felt was;too: much to
several points' t.`, 1e ''con-
id• out of the.. a er.
4 be pa ,, g ln, al.
sidered in the tree planting-. tape,
reeme
pts
ag , .They,decided to' Council" felt that if :a 'lin-
continue the same cost downer wanted to plant trees"
sharing structure now in use . on his or her property they
• but on January 1,. 1977, urill should;'. be, prepared to' pay
shift one quarter of > the'ex- some of the costs,: They: felt
pense to the land.' «owner; that the general tax' --fund
directly. - should not Be used to sub-
.: The system retained for " sidi'ze'private landowners.:
• this year calls for the county Mr. Thompson said that the
to' pay half the costs and the ..$1,200was- ,the highest in the
/,lnts/ .. at... ye r
-to-ip�•Pa�Y-an-tinder-ars—,••e"`•`..-7-for.�.���s--and`-ad`c
existing county bylaw. In 1977. mitted that those costs may
the owner having the planting;, • never occur again but added
• done will be responsible to the " that if they 'do the' taxpayers
'township: for 25 percent of the will iot.:have to chip in quite
-costs and the other 25 percent so much.
Will be paid from the general '' A .. natural resources,
funds of the township:' Next spokesman said that the
year ,no application -for tree . planting program resulted in ,
planting - will ' be accepted . ;12 projects in five townships:
after ''August 31 • for . the involving about 65,000 trees.
follov'ing year: No ap - last year.' The costs for the
pticatinns with one owner will planting vary •according' to
be considered if it isfor less the methods: used. If 'the
than 24000 trees and no ap- 'planting has to. be.done :by
plication from one owner or hand the costs - are $50 per
any combination of owners acre. The land usually used
vyrll be.`accepted for more for the planting projects is
than 15,000 trees in one year. ;• non agricultural' land that is
Applications will also be wet, gravelly or steep..
taken . on a first come first Mr ''Thompson` said the
serve basis.
n
county bylaw, merely
'stipulates the cost sharing, it •
,does ` riot specify how the
of
towthenship costs. raises their portion
In. other `business- 'council
:received' an•"invitation from
:the council, of the town of
Clinton- to Meet together to
discuss, . the possibility` •of
appointing .one • building in-
-s • ector. f.pived the r,qn;estwtso
v munic. ipalites,
Council re ee
for.six building permits. They
issued::: permits to. William:.
Lobb . for a t, B
Nyman' for a hogcarporbarn, Franken
Graham for a storage shed,
Robert Glen for a house
addition and Anne Mitchell
fd .seasonal . residence. A
request;. from : Jan,Keene , to
build a_.s.ow'. barn was held
• pending a certificate of
mpliance for,, the building
fro the department of
ag'ri 'lture_
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▪ Staid
• I;op EIeirators
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Liquid.Manure".Equipment
Hog Equipment' -
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•, •Cleaners
:7 geared Waterers
ZERO --
Bulk Tanks
Pipeline & parlour Equipment
WESTE Et.ROSCOOGranaries
B &, L HOB Panelling
Bulk 1 Tank Pipeline cleaning
,Detergents, Teat; Dip, etc.
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Huge amounts. of money are being spent on promoting
everything from. elephants to elbow wrestling ire .this coup
try. ' ...
For Man ea'r f
Many Y s, ew agi•icuituralists felt the' needa -
t , Pfio
Ce their roducts'b,i t all he.evi
p u t . iden�et='• iy111 "
11 Ls....'tsI"" " . wand
more enlightened att'tude.in recent � n years . -
Probably first organization to a •la¢ate.: i of
g ,l a of mop
in - Which e�'
promotion•was the Ontario. Milk Marketing Board w{.ic
.will spend mote than' $2 mU1 on this, year, I can't say•I'm
enamored with - the television dv
a ertisements :which must
have been okayed bythe board.but ,
Y bu that s.their business.
In, fact, I .still do not understand:wh. "the .'call 'i a mous-
. Y liy t
'tache. My nine- ..ear -old daughter says 'it
Y g y is a milktache.
My.wife calls. the milk-moustachecommercials obscene.
But the unlit board •doesn't have to sell my familyon
prnduct. I drink' more. than a quart a milk everyday. •
The "everything -is -better -with -butter" slogan
pubii -fans " R few years a i� hit the
. Ygo-a�nEi-140I�ni--wondeixingy why -the
dairymen didn't stick with that slogan longer.
"The: egg producers hive some intriguing ideas in pro:
motion, too. Their newspaper and television advertisements
are excellent: When that: psuedo-Chinese.'chef•'giggles at
the end of his on: camera: stint; I can'.t:help but giggle along
with him. ,
Some years ago, the milk bo• ard came up with some ter-
rific summer drink- recipes using milk one of • them was
called .a mootini and I looked for the formula�over the
weekend but.couldn't find it. If `Hynes Davies or any of 'his
staff /read this deathless prose, maybe . he'll send me an-
other copy. •
Al the annual meeting -of the egg. producers in. April, the
promotion and public relations staff spent considerable
„ time telling all producers just what they have done, what
they are °doing and what -they °plan to do to keep their pro-
duct in the' public, eye.. Not one. producer•suggested:thatrtoo
much money was being spent on promotion: •
The members were certainly more vocal about a rot of
other things. It took `them" three days to. make a decision
Lettersare appreciated by Bob Trotter, EJdaie Rd.. Elmua, Ont, 1430 2C7
' on raising their production` quota unilaterally. They spent
:Monday; ,alni'bst•all.°day :Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wed
- nesdaydiseussi'n'g the move -before adecision.w s
a
Thank heaven .they. gecideli to contlnae spending. as 'much
as,possible on advertising and promotion. •
Anyone who thinks farmers areinarticulate particulate should have
attended that Meeting. Those fellows were. never at.a loss
h
for words:
The Ontario h arro , Pork Producers MarketingBoard isalso.
Ontario fo�d, producers
needment pr�t�ction
spending time and ,money, on:projecting a new tnage'and I,
for one, think they are doing an excellent job.
To millions of Cana:dians.livin in
g towns: and cities;those:' >
engaged in, the business of praising' hogs ar-e`generally re
• ferred to as. pig .farmers: a term.: that- lacks. the romance
and status of other agricultural endeavors.
The pork board, trying to get a. little more glamor into
the' business; has sent a letter to all members of the news
• media suggesting that the actual business of breeding. rais-
ing, ing, transporting, buying and selling hogs is highly sopliisti
Electronic • tape and closed-circuit -television hookups
with processing plants to . data-processing equipment' at
marketing board offices are parallel to the action generally
associated with. clrporate•"boardrooms. I've said it before
but it is worth repeating. I know a coupleof pork producers
with equipmentso highly technical that they canfeed, water
and clean barns just bypushing a couple of buttons and pull-
ing a switch.
--In'•gther words, farming is a highly technical industry'
"and should be -promoted and advertised the same way. "
I've forgotten what the automatic checkoff, is far beef
cattle — I think -11 is now 25 cents a head:— but when cattle-
men met at-their:a'nnual' meeting in the Grey -Bruce area,
,-one producer said why not make the checkoff a dollar a
head?' . t '
Ile could have -been kidding because that figure. is. pretty
-high but it is certainly that same spirit which will bring agri-
culture promotion out of the back 40 and into the 20th cen-.
tury. •
The . Ontario ' Financial
Protection'Task Force today -
asked food producer groups
and individual fariners . fbr
t
c en a ons on. ways to
provide protection against
payment default by buyers.
The task force said it shotild
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