HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-10-20, Page 31Wm. J. Turnbull, Brussels,
had the top indexing
Yorkshire -boar among the
75 "graduates" which
recently completed test at the
Ontario Swine Test Station
near New Hamburg.
This top Yorkshire, with a
performance index' of 135,
combined low back -fat
thickness of 12.5 mm (.49
inches), average daily gain
on test of .87 kg. (1.88 pounds)
per day and good feed con-
version of 2.39 kg`feed per kg
gain. High indexing hoar in
the entire group was a Duroc
from the herd of Jim & Mary
Field. Port Dover, with an
index of 137„
Also among the six top
indexing boars were two
Yorkshires from the herd of
Murray Bancroft, Newton
and two Du rocs from Lloyd
Skinner, Bow nianville, alt
with performances indices of
between 133 and 126.
The performani'e index
used at the Test Station
evaluates the overall per-
formance of each hoar and
combines the important
economic traits of backfat
fy
D
rich
op
urance
dline
tended
Ontario Crop
ce Commission has
ed an extension of the
for winter wheat
tions and final,
reports from October
ober 31, 1977.
okesman for the
sion said,' that in
years, winter wheat
has taken place later
eason. The extended
takes account of this
cultural practice,
year was a record
r winter wheat in -
with more than 2,700
tsbeing sold to
roducers,
insurance is sold
local agents.
s may obtain names
esses of their local
rom county and
agricultural
Ives. Applications
available from the
Crop Insurance
ion, 1200 Bay Street,
7A 1B7,
lam not an armchair lawyer and do not pretend for one
minute to understand all this foofaraw about a recent court
ruling that could devastate farm marketing boards.
In fact,, 1 keep.my head down and walk with my back
to the wall wherever the law is involved. It's a rule Of
self-preservation learned man
ile servin
in Her Majesty's navy. If you st stood with y our years ahback to the
wall nobody could attack from behind,
But if Peter Hannam, the articulate young president of
the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, is worried, then
I guess I will worry right along beside him. It has been
no secret over the years that this corner favors market-
ing boards. And not just commodity boards which help
farmers market their products but full-fledged, produc-
tion and quota=setting marketing boards.
1 think the Ontario Milk Marketing Board, for one, has
shown the way for orderly marketing and most boards
can take some pages from the OMMB's book. Not all
the pages, mind you because some mistakes have been
made, but that board can point with pride to an excellent
job, well done, even though massive subsidies from the
public purse have been Necessary.
Apparently, a potential loophole in the marketing
system came about when the Ontario Supreme Court made
a ruling that could exempt any product controlled by one
group from all marketing legislation if that group grows
and processes and sells the product.
The marketing acts. in other words, were legislated for
raw products, not finished products, But many market-
ing boards have set up their own processing systems
and control the product all the way along the line until it
reaches the consumer. The court said this was a no -no.
Dr. George Collin of Toronto, chairman of the govern-
ment -appointed Ontario Farm Products Marketing Board
which oversees all the 2I active marketing boards in-
volved in selling food produced in Ontario, has said the
ruling could wreck the entire system of organized market-
ing that farmers have so painstakingly developed during
the last 40 years.
Anyone who remembers the early years of the tobacco
board or the pork board or the milk board' is -Well aware
Litten are appreciated be Bob Tiotter (Wale Rd Elm,a Ont N38 2C 7
of the controversies that raged and the name-calling that
went on when the boards were formed. A more recent
example. of course which is. fresh in everyone's mind, is
the egg board. And the name -catling is stilLrampant there.
The loophole came about when the Supreme Court ruled
that the Eastern Ontario Vegetable Growers Co-operative
is owned by farmers, The co-operative is selling a pro-
cessed product. Therefore, it does not have to abide by the -
marketing legislation.
This ruling could expand to cover any product mar-
keted through a board because all marketing boards
are run by farmers.
I do not want to risk the wrath of such an august body
as the Supreme Court of Ontario but I cannot help but won-
der if those tough -thinking men knew the problems the
ruling would cause.
If the power of these boards is broken, the marketing
of farm products could return to the terrible high -
production -low -return days when farmers took all, the
risks and buyers laughed all the way to the bank.
Peter Hannam fears that top government officials will
not appreciate the danger posed by the decision and the
federation is quietly lobbying for a solution that will
close the loophole.
The danger, as I understand it, is that any processing
company — Swifts, J.M. Schneider. Burns, etc. — or
even fried chicken chains — could approach any group of
farmers and ask them to share in the processing risk.
When they did,. they would be exempt from all market-
ing legislation.
Sounds drastic, doesn't it? I'm sure everyone has
heard stories about huge companies going to a small manu-
facturer and giving that manufacturer a huge order. The
maker gears up for it and perhaps makes enough to
expand, The next order, though, involves a price cut,
And the next. And the next, Until the manufacturer goes
broke and the buyer finds another guy to exploit.
If this happens in farming to all the marketing boards.
then we can kiss goodbye the great system which has
been built up by farmers over 40 years of blood, sweat
and tears.
ARM Brussels breeder has
—T --topYorks.hire'bodr
d enrolment
e ag. colleges
e 1,343. pupils
rd enrolment in
five colleges GT
al technology has
rted by Dr. J. C.
ecutive director of
tion, Research and
ervics Division.
s are 11 per cent
n last year, with a
18 full time and 25
students. Greatest
were recorded at
emptville and
colleges where
mbers are up 12
II time students at
are as follows;
le, 311; New
75; Ridgetown, 276;
320; and Guelph,
nie said that he Ts
d by the interest
ence in the future
ure shown by the
numbers of young
o are enrolling for
ary education in
and food -related
ational programs
re offered at the
colleges cover such topics "as
production and management,
business and commerce,
engineering and mechanics.
Course programs in other
areas include horticulture,
food service management,
home economics, animal
health technology,
agricultural laboratory
technology and equine
technology.
thickness, average daily gain
and feed conversion into one
composite index with the
group average always 100
index.
Twenty-nine of the top test
station "graduates" in the
October group, including the
top indexing ones, mentioned
above, will be sold at the Test
Station on October 27th at
7:30 p.m.
Only those boars which
index above average and are
approved by'a committee for
physical soundness are of-
fered for sale in these mon-
thly station tested hoar sales,
As all boars at the Test
The use of human heart
valves to replace damaged
valves was pioneered in
Canada.
Up to middle age, heart
attacks are five times more
common in men than in
women,
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