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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-11-11, Page 25GODERICHSIGNAL-STAR,THURSSDAY', NOVEMBER 11,1$76 •PAOE15A.' Federal criflc claims farmers have lost "clout" in armers have lost their itical clout and most rnments are aware of it, Wise,- Federal"' Con- ative agriculture critic d at Vanastra recently. peaking to • the annual tier ,meeting of the -Huron deration deration of Agriculture, Wise lashed out at the federal government's agriculture policy and the low priority the government gave it. "The highlevel of cheese imports at a time of domestic over -supply is an indication of the dominance of. the department of industry, trade and :com.merce over the department of agriculture," he said. Mr. Wise said. that the Minister • of Agriculture Eugene Whelan was losing his influence in .the Trudeau cabiner 1 hich has been ob- sessed with the idea that food prices are too high.tq,:� "I think it•is.accui to to say that Mrs. Plumptre' has; had a greater influence on the, federal cabinet since corning on the scene in Ottawa than the minister. of agriculture himself who is a•membesr oto it," he said. ' Mr., Wise said that he saw the role of the government in society as a ''partner",.not a. "dictator':. successful, there must, exist a feeling of confidence and certainty among the part- ners. We live •in a w„tsrld of ...uncertainties and none of us, government included, can s.ay for sure today what may be demanded of us tomorrow. • ,But surely the role of If •thispartnership is to be "'"government is to diminish the 441 number of uncertainties and not to add to them," he said. Mr. Wise emphasized that• farmers and cgnsumers are partners also. '"In my opinion, our main challenges and objectives are to bringproducers and consumers closertogether, to . narrow .the gapand promote Ottawa onsumer should cash in. on bumper crop Record world' agriculture eduction in 1976 should can good news for, the anadian consumer. The umper crop Will likelykeep od Prices down, according the ,Bank of M,ontreal.''s. ovember Business Review. On the other .hand, the ,2eview says, a record world wheat crop indicates. that Canada's prospects of in- creasingwheat exports ap- pear slim. "Disposal of the huge crop . ..could he a significant problem in" the months- to come" the report. says. Meanwhile, the Canadian shopper is expected to benefit at .the supermarket as large feed grain stocks should contribute . to low, stable prices for beef, pork and poultry. The dairy industry, however., doesn't fit this pattern and further price increases are predicted inthe near future. . The Review 'suggests that -Canada's bumper grain crop should ease the cost squeeze which has forced cattle producers to reduce herds. Although cattle stocks have already . been • trimnyed significantly and prices are at their lowest. levels in some time and "several, factors indicate beef 'prices will stay lQw into 1977", Beef _supplies are expected to remain high as producers continue selling off surplus stock. As well, _lower grain prices result in: more cattle *vel�ot in' -f furrow' "'OM' Letters are appreciated by Bob Trotter. Eldale Rd Elmira Ont N3B 2C7 This corner usually agrees:almost•to the point of servili- .1 don't think that legislation went far enough. It should ty with the hard-hitting editorials and agricultural Stories' have made a competence test mandatory. • carried in that excellent rural magazine':, Farm •and Coun- I wrote a column a couple of . months. ago which was try.. • . strongly in support Of •stricter gun control.. l stand 67 -comment - by. tha t • „ .Ihewii.",h��..ln t..beer.csltg�t duost, tkue.lst _..-epinlon•_aIth u h .the__colunon. dltract c.Tur L.cn nt .- •supporting that paperin controversial issues: • One man. °than any in the last six months. even 'went s0 far as to -accuse me of. being on Farni and Those. with do not share eny views on gun control are. the ; • Country's payroll. people whit write letters; nasty letters, too. They are the I am not, This column' is 'sponsored by• nobody except people who descend•on-MPs and Cabinet ministers demand - the independent editors- of tthe 15 newspapers in Ontario ing the right to oWn a gun. Unfortunately, too many puliti-.' with brains enough to realized that a farm column is neves- clans listen to those people and the vast..silent majority • gory... sit•back and get the legislation they deserve hecause.(hey But 1 must take issue with the most recent editor.iul an are too lethargic to speak up. - • gun control. • ' And yes, I'm •fully aware- of the problems stringent• lays s, I've said it before and I'll continue to say it: 'Guns. are an may cause farmers., A gun' is usually a necessity c:uound.a. • instrument of- inlence. • I dislike guns.. 1 hate 'em and. my farm_ . . 'abhorrence colors my'opinions. 1 freely yidmit it. But .stringent gilt-c°ontrri.l laws: • woulil be a'minnr nut . 1'armand Country magazine•believes the death of•the gun lance.• to farmers, nothing more. If -such legislation would -, control law• Which withered with the end of the- last Parlia- save one life in this country. it would he Worth it. • mentary session is a good thing: that the old bill Was a bad going r, pleceo1kgislation:• People who dant to tr guns il•egillv.arc going to get The. farm magazine suggests that measures arc still those guns 00 matter how difficult it is. 13u1 so rnziny hun- necded to curb the misuse Of firearms. I say amen to that: dreds of people a•re Iioundcd•.oa:..killed by the On that ryas-' n't supposed to he lo But rather than produce a neW.bill, the magazine Suggests• loaded, the gun c•arclessl}••stored and a simple amendment to the Criminal Code. carelessly handled. The amendrhent-the magazinesuggests;.,• hould i.T•rapoaf a- 1 -agree wholeheartedlwith Geoffrey Stevens, a crack•" • mandatory jail terin of • at least true vedrs Citi anyone caught•in.g good columnist with the 'Toronto Globe -and Mail. who. committing a .crime or loitering with intent to commit a wr'ote.recently:- "A c•ivilizcd society•has a responsibility to . . crime who has a firearm in his possession: .. guarant'ee the r.ightof the eitl'/.en to -live. to work and to walk • • Builroar•. • • . ,the streets ors free from fear as the• law can •posstbly pro • Anv gun•c•onlrol law has to do more than. that, much mitre. vide: This responsibility Find this right in' my view, trap - •If the original legislation Was'weak and 1 don't think it scend the privikgeo'f.privafe ownership of firearms.. went far enough then•an amendment such as that suggest- - As a former• reporter for hall' a •dozen ne''.paper" or ed by Farm and Country is useless. radio • sttitions, 1 , have covered • too many • "accidental- • •.The original legislation, watered dotiin as it was. propos deaths, too many murders and or suicides to make me he- - ed that anyone seeking to buy a rifle or a shotgun' or am lieve in anything less•than very.stringent gun control1aws. • munition be required t'o.have•a' licence. •• I can only repeat. tow what was said after the first viol-. TO obtain a licence.' that person woiild have to submit an umn on gun contrcil was printed:. That those who disagree . rpplieation signed hy_ two guarantors Willing to certify. that' will be ve.herrrent and outspoken in their opposition. Again. - they 'knew of no rca:ison why . the applicant was unfit to I say. 1 .just hope' they aren't as quick on the. trigger. as iis p.essa guivOrammunititin. • they are in getting their opiniohsin print._ • rices and weather gloomy for Huron By -.Jinn Fitzgerald Both prices and weatlier are gloomy for Huron County grain corn producetrs this fall, as the coldest October in 50 years and the lowest prices in five years ' are plaguing the farmers.'• Huron County's 95,000 acre corn crop, valued at • $19 Million, is about two weeks behind in harvesting, and depressed - prices • aren't AttefltiOn Farmers.;' B- CUSTOM .WORK WANTED Custom. Fall . tillage, Glencoe Soil saver, or Moleboard plough. Call Clete . Dalton, 529-7124.-46,47,48 E - FARM SERVICES • helping the•situation.any. Mike Miller; associate • agricultural representative at the -Clinton' office of the ministry of. agriculture •and food, Said Tuesday that farmers are only • getting about • half the . number of normal working days' to take off what he described as an "outstanding. corn' `crop" in terms of yield. _ Even at an excellent yield of 100 bushels per acre .though, ,the low price of $2•.03 - per. bushel means most' farmers could be losing money on their crop this year 'at the rate of $4;per acme. That figure includes drying the . corn down from 30 per cent moisture content t9.15.5 per cent, and taking into consideration _input costs such as fuel., depreciation of equipment, seed herbicides and land rental at $50 per acre. The . late corn harvest is also delaying -fall plowing, so necessary on Huron's clay soils, and the wet. coon, dull H.OEGYL FARM SUPPLY LTD. BRODHAGEN 345-2941' AFTER HOURS- • 345.2243 ~,;...x Cottle 'spraying for.lite and warble control. Barn Washings, Disinfecting and Spraying with "Carboia" whitens and disinfects as it dries; as well as+tentrallin flies 45-48 er weather is making the corn high in moisture content, and thusly. more expensive to dry down. Mr. Miller said the frost free fall, until the last week of October, helped the yield .a great deal, despite a cooler thannormal summer. The wet fall also delayed the harvesting of the white bean crop and consequently pushed back the sowing offall wheat, which Mr. Miller now says is "quite vulnerable to bad weather" this winter and next spring. "Some of the wheat is just, barely.up through the ground and we're hoping for a good snow cover this winter," Mr. Miller said. There is a bright spot 'being placed on feed lots and. . these grain -fed cattle reach -the market faster.tthan range - fed cattle. In addition, beef imports.are 60pe.rcent ahead ' of 1975 for the first 'nine months of this year, as•Major exporting countries have also' 'thinned' down overstocked hs, Develop.t tg industryerdwill moderate eef ments in h prices too, the Review says. 'After peaking..late last ,year, pork prices have tumbled as ,Canadian producers ex- . �panded output sharply: At the same time large production *increases •in the U.S, have led ' . to record pork exports to Canada. Since supplies are expected to increase well into 1977, falling pork prices will hold the cost of. beef down as shoppers concentrate on the better buys. • A similar_result is also - ;.expected 'in tlil -poultry in- dustry, the Review 'says. • Rising•.poultryprices in 1975- • r iii ced can ir`rltpli-bi "- as Canadians switched to lower- priced beef. By September of this year, poultry prices had dropped and lower feed grain costs stimuilated production. However,i the dairy in- dustry offers little comfort to• the .consumer. Despite • a continuing oversupply -situation, •prices •havg„,; remained on a steady upward course, rdSulting in shrinking per capita demand. In fact, the federal government or- dered a 15 percent cutback in industrial milk quotas early this year •because of over- production and spiralling subsidy payments. However, later • this year the government raised ..the quotas when possible. shor- tages were forecast. "All this -muddle raises a question .as to where the in-' • dustry is heaeled,' the Review says. "Certainly the -. present system is, resulting in a severe downtrend in milk consumption and in a level of: retail fluid milk pr.,ices•that•is . To'ti.t;.__,t t—Th 'hi•ghes't'--thong..... " . major milk -producing nations". a better understanding and voted in; appreciation between these•,-M.„,.a.Allan Walper replaced two segments of our society!"Adrian Vos as president. he said: Morris dean was named first vice - -president and Bey. `'One, group simply cannot " Brawn second"vice-president -exist without the other," he said. Mervin. Smith, Gerry For - In the latter part of the . tune,: and Lyle Pettapiece meeting, a new executive for ' were : acclaimed as directors the Huron Federation was atlarge.' 'NON. LEADED' SHELL ULTRA NOW AVAILABLE FROM EDWARD FUELS LTD. 202 Angiesea St. Goderich 524-8386 • Publisher receives Huron award Keith Roul.ston of Blyth was elected president for the new the first recipient of: an award. donated by the Huron Agriculture for outstanding contributions' to agriculture . • in the area. The presentation was made, at the •Federation's annual dinner and meeting - on October 28. Mr. Roulston; awns the Blyth Standard and Te'eS ater-' News. He also publishes the Village Squire and Rural Voice. Allan Waiper, Parkhill was year. Maurice Bean; Auburn, was voted vice-president and Miss .Bev Brown of RR' 1, Bluevale, was elected second vice-president. • Three directors -at -large were elected to tht board of directors. They are Merve Smith, ,RR 1, Walton, Mrs Doug Fortune, RR ' 1, Wingham •. and Lyle Pet- tipiece, RR 1, Monkton. though, for -Huron' County bean producers as bean prices' are • holding at. about $1.9 per hundredweight, and 'could average out to $15 per hundredweight : to the far- mers. The yield this year on Huron bean fields was 'about 1,300 pounds per acre, so Huron's, 65,000 acres should gross farmers , about; $12• million, O g A AB WE NEED ALL TYPES BE A REGULAR BL000 DONOR WATER 'DRILLING NEW HOMES and FARMS Free Estimates You and your family deserve the best of water so don't hesitate to call TOM LANG. PHONE 524,4410 1 MILE NOR1 H ON HIGHWAY 21, GODERICH iM 4®H awards • (continued from page IA) representatives Harold G. -Elder .and J.D. Etherington will be .exhibiting their field crops while.Judith Smillie of Smiling Acres, Hensall will beshowing her breeding horses. Mrs. Lloyd Dale of Seaforth will be exhibiting her Jersey cattle, while R.T. and Arthur Bolton,also of Seaforth, will be showing their field crops, Robert J. Robinson of Walton will be exhibiting his Hampshire swine while Mr. and Mrs. James McKague of ' Wingham will be showing their breeding horses. Zurich • area residents, Howard And Gregory Arm- strong, Bernard and Anthony Denomrne., . Isadore Ducharme;. Henry Rau and Mrs. Charles, Pergel will he displaying their field crops. CLAY — Silo Unloaders Feeders Cleaners Stabling Leg Elevators. Liquid Manure ' Equipment Hog Equipment BUTLER—.. 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