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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-04-07, Page 31Rent to forty 10 to sio ng to Record, In yrs ure lent ers erers a -R0$ Paneling RM SVS irdine, 395.52I1 the age bring Ieet our Di ere Iles and argcs egg board run by graders By WIIma Oke egg marketing board n by producers but by paultry farmer Etzler of RR 4, • told the 35 egg ers attending a at the agricultural Clinton Thursday s a special meeting ecause of a concern possibte loss in the a local egg market "They are working our producersin- I feel no graders e allowed on the Egg cers' Marketing he said. Ellsworth, Toronto, manager of the Board, pointed out to oducers present how d is formed now -- ucers in the 13 zones rio elect their own committee for CS ucer to be eligible to mmitteeman has to een allotted an egg be a tenant with one. e committee mem_ each zone elect one r from among ves for one year. In there are 158 com- en. concern over the loss in the future of a ket arose when the a Co-operative egg station in Seaforth, n a month ago, lost a dozen -eggs -a -year with Loblaws when three very big r -graders undercut ce by three-quarters a dozen, reportedly of the producer - graders who got the Loblaw business, Joseph Hudson of Lyn, in Eastern Ontario, is a member of the egg board. He is one of the six egg producers who are also graders on the 1 3 -man board. rn effect, the board member was underselling the 115 independent Ontario egg producers who have their eggs graded at Gay Lea. Gay Lea's Seaforth grading station puts out about $75,000 a week to egg producers in Huron County, manager Tom Young reported. It has a -staff of 18 and an annual payroll of about $156,1100. Two em- ployees have been laid off after the Toss of the Loblaw contract. Presently the Seaforth plant is selling its eggs to the egg board. But if the trend continues and possibly in four or five years, Huron County eggs would g8 to Strathroy or the Niagara Peninsula where Gay Lea has larger plants, Mr. Young said. Ed Brady, general manager, and one of the officials of Gay Lea invited to the meeting, said: "There has been a lot of discussion here and in the papers because we lost a large order. This happens every day — lose it one day, get it back the next. Our concern is if this trend continues, where will the family flocks be in Ontario? "We are set up to serve the producer's and we felt we. should raise our concern for them. Basically the vertical integrators want to take over" the egg business," he said. One man said, "What happens if this .continues and .. puter farming puter may be able to u decide whether to or keep your farm. dgetown_College of al Technology, a ogram called Land Analysis is offering computer assistance make such critical N7A 10' s. Ross, an agricultural st and head of the says the computer e farmer analyze all ables before buying e are two things the wants to know," says . "He wants to know the purchase is a estment and whether ford it." omputer is helpful 'it highlights 11 points hould be considered. ample, it analyzes f recent sales, tax et income, interest land inflation and e costs. But before puter can give an , the farmer must it with accurate ip- n. If he does, the r will tell the farmer ice he can afford to the land. It will take e minutes. program can be an investment tool," Ross. "However, it GEST STOCK THE COUNTY ORK OOTS Industrial Farm " Factory or safety toe CTURE . PROOF SOLES 142 The Square G6dench, Ont. cannot make the final decision for the farmer." The program has been operating for three • months and is available to any far- mer seriously considering land purchase or sale. For more information contact R.W. Ross, -• Ridgetown College of Agricultural ' Technology, Ridgetown, Ontario. the business moves into the hands of three or four? Then where would we sell!" Some of the producers at the meeting were concerned about eggs coming into Canada from the U.S. when a producer -grader received a large order and couldn't fill it himself. Such producer- "riders are known to get permits to import the U.S. eggs at lower prices rather than wait a few days to fill the order with Canadian eggs. Mr. Brady suggested that if an advisory committee of producers or producer - graders was set up within the board, then this would leave the hoard to be made up of producers only, then "if we hada problem we could go to the hoard but with com- petitors on the board now, we cannot do this."' Bill Scott of Seaforth said he felt that advisory boards were never called on most of the time. One man suggested—an appeals hoard. Mrs. Mae Govenlock of Seaforth said after being involved with an appeal hoard with Ontario Hydro, she didn't want to get involved with any other appeal hoard again. After much discussion, a resolution was drawn up to be taken to the annual meeting of the Unturio Egg Producers` Marketing Board in Toronto April 13-1.1 which member, hope will he ap- proved and will protect their local markets by having only producers on the board and eliminating any producer - grader. •- Their resolution states that producers will not he eligible to he a committeeman if he as a quota holder has a con- trolling interest in a registered grading station license, with the exception of GODER ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRiL"7, 1877--PAGE 11 A. a registered station that grades products from five or less producers. In addition, the resolution states that the hoard of directors must 'be approved by a vote of all com- mitteemen at the annual meeting. 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