HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-09-29, Page 12PAGE 12.-..GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1977
rhite Bean producers face.
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By Jinn Fitzgerald way, but with each rainy, record rainfalls and cloudy
Huron County white bean cloudy day, the chances of days that have saturated the
producers face a Toss of $7 getting the $15,000,000 crop in soils, turning many fields into
million in income this year as the elevators is dimmer. swamps, and many of the
near monsoon conditions in Cathy. Cullen, a earlier beans that were ready
Huron, and in most of the spokesperson for the local for harvest two weeks ago are
white bean producing areas; Crop Insurance Agent Peter now -black, covered in mildew
threaten to produce the Roy, said that they are ad- and fungus, and sprouting
area's first crop failure. vising farmers NOT to plow right in the pods.
Already, even the most down the beans just yet, as Even lithe rain quits, many
optimistic officials are saying the country badly needs farmers say it will be a geek
tthat at least 50 percent of the thein. before they can get heavy
bean crop is already lost, and - machinery onto the _ land.
unless sunny dry conditions Miss Cullen said she was Many have said they will go
return ,soon, there is little told by Crop Insurance into the fields and combine
hope of getting the remainder headquarters in Toronto, that them where they
stand,
of the crop off. the Bean Board would be
The situation is so lowering 'their standards for
desperate, at this writing, grading the beans, and there
Wednesday morning that the was still a good chance that
Ontario Bean Prinucers many of the beans that
Marketing Board will either might have been plowed
have to lower grades sub- under could still be used, even
stantially, or face loss of the as cattle feed.
lucrative European Market,
with whom they had just She said that if the worst
negotiatesd, contracts. happens, the crop Insurance
Huron County, which Commission has enough
produces nearly half of all the money to cover all the losses.
beans grown in Canada, is a Unfortunately, only about
quagmire this week, after 60 percent of bean producers
record setting rainfalls have taken out insurance on
continue to plague the area. the,i beans. 'according to a
With only 10 percent of the Bean Board spokesman.
county's 63,000 acre crop off, The Bean Board a few
each rainy day makes the weeks ago was expecting a
chances of getting more even record crop of about 100,000
gloomier. tonnes (metric), up from last
Huron agricu1tura1 year's 83,000 tonnes but in -
representative Don Pullen stead, at presstime Wed -
said last week that earlier in nesday, the loss in Ontario
August, it looked like there beans could hit $15 million.
was a bumper crop on tete The problem stens from
Police report
The Goderich police
department reported four
accidents in town during the
past week, two of which
resulted in major damage
estimates.
A two -car collision at the
intersection of Elgin Avenue
and South Street resulted in a
total damage estimate of
$2,000 to vehicles driven --by
Grace Datema, RR 1 Auburn
and Dorothy Bedard RR 2
Goderich.
Damage to the Datema
vehicle was estimated at
$1,500 and $500 to the Bedard
vehicle. Ther were no in-
juries.
A second two -car collision
at the intersection of
Waterloo and West Streets
September 24 resulted in a
total damage estimate of $550
to vehicles driven by Ger-
trude Goldthorpe, 196
Victoria St. Goderich. and
Mark Westbrook, RR 2
Clinton.
The Goldthorpe vehicle was
travelling north on Waterloo
Street, stopped for the stop
sign at West Street and then
proceeded across West Street
striking the Westbrook.
vehicle that was ravelling
west on West Stre t. Gold-
thorphe was treated for -
undetermined injuries.
During the past week 16
charges were laid under the
Highway Traffic Act, 14
under the liquor Licence Act,
one under the Criminal Code
of Canada, two under the
Juvenile Delinquent Act, and
three under the Harbor and
Peers Act.
rather than try and pull them
first and then combine them.
Lloyd Whitesell, assistant
manager of the W .G.
Thompson and Sons mill in
1-lensall, said there was still
hope of getting the later
maturing varieties likt�
Sanilac and Kentwood off., .as
they are still green. But he
figured the earlier Seafarer
variety, which is the
dominant variety, is lost.
"A pian here that has been
involved with beans for 30
years says this is the worst
$7 million loss
year ever for quality,"
Whitesell said.
"It's a real job to process
them," he said. "We haven't
had any to speak of for two
weeks".
•'Michigan (the other North
American „bean producing
arta) is just as bad off now,
hut they had 20 percent of
their crop off," Whitesell
said.
He said that one small
,wagonload that went through
the plant on Monday graded
at 90 percent pickers (mouldy
or damaged beans).
"We're encouraging the
farmers to take them off," he
said.
Ilowever, many farmers
don't want to take them off if
there are so many pickers in
the loads, and coupled with
drying costs, they feel they
would be better off plowing
them under and collecting
their crop insurance, which
would at least cover some of
the costs of planting them.
Since the wet cloudy con-
ditions started in August over
375 mm (15 inches) of rain
has fallen at the. Goderich
Weather Station, with243 mm
(9.72 incheslbeing recorded in
August, a new all-time record
for any month going back to
1880, and 132 mm (5.28 in-
ches). so far in September,
twice the average.
Tony Chir, a weather
technician in Goderich said it
has rained every day but six
so far this month.
And according to the
weather office in Toronto,
even if the sun shinesthe rest
M1
of the month, we'
already seta new re
the cloudiest month
90 hours of sunstj w!
records were started''.
far below the (Juliets�'
134.5 hours Be
Because
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ditions, fanners as
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their winter wheat cr
nharvested get tlteir sila8
Most winter wheat'.
before the first of Oc4
order to have enough
before the winter sets
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