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PAGE 14A --CODER ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1977
Grey County farmland
saved from annexation
The Ontario Municipal
Board (OMB) has saved one
of the best dairy farms in
Grey County in its recent
decision denying the town of
Hanover the right to annex
275 acres southeast of the
town, says the • Christian
Farmers Federation.
Dairy farmer, Orland
Magwood, his wife and son
were elated to learn that the
OMB had supported them in
their fight to save their
century farm. The Magwoods
fought the annexation
because it would soon result
in a road through the centre
of their farm, leaving half
their land and their farm
buildings inside Hanover.
They produce about 900,000
pounds of fluid milk per year,
enough to supply half the
population of Hanover.
Hanover wanted to annex
- 275 acres from Bentinck,
Township. But the board
denied the annexation
request, ruling that the
properties are good
agricultural land.
The OMB then directed
Hanover to annex about 200
acres northwest of the town -
half from Brant Township
and half from Bentinck - land
not asked for by Ha ver. But
the OM$ points at this
."land is "not farmed suc-
cessfully".
The Magwoods were
supported -in their appeal by
Bentinck Township.
"We were really helped by
Elbert van Donkersgoed,
Executive Director of the
Christian Farmers
Federation of Ontario (CF -
FO)," said the Magwoods
when asked how they had
presented their case to save
their farm at the OMB
hearings this summer. "He
argued convincingly that
once our farm is annexed, it
would soon be Lost to
agriculture."
In its decision, the OMB
cites Mr. van Donkersgoed's
evidence, "that once a farm
operation is within the Town
boundaries, then the farm is
outside agriculture. The
market value of developable
lands far exceeds the far-
mland values. The farmer
soon loses his incentive to
improve productivity and
make the necessary im-
provements knowing that the
money expended is wasted
because of impending ur-
banization. Herein lies the
inevitability after an-
nexation, not before."
(emphasis by the OMB)
"I have a lot of respect for a
farm family willing to put a
year's dairy profits on the
line in an effort to save the
farm from urban en-
croachment." said Elbert
van Donkersgoed in an in-'
Farm drain
engineers clean
up their act
Ontario drainage engineers
are cleaning up their act, a
move which includes cleaning
up their work sites on the
provinces farms.
At a day -long seminar at
the downtown Holiday Inn in
• London Thursday, about 60 of
the provinces' engineers
conducted workshops aimed
at improving their per-
formance.
"Our workshops are a
response to the Henderson
report criticisms of drainage
engineers voiced by far-
mers," said Prof. Ross Irwin
of the University of Guelph,
organizer of the meeting
which is -held twice a year.
Lorne Henderson, Lambton
MPP and now minister
without portfolio, conducted a
$500,000 across -province
review of Ontario farm
drainage in 1974.
Among criticisms levelled
by farmers were that
drainage jobs often left land
in less -than -adequate con-
dition for farming, cost too
much and involved poor
construction.
"Some of the complaints
weren't valid, but there were
enough that were that the
group felt it necessary to
respond," said Irwin.
A joint committee of the
Association of Professional
Engineers of Ontario and the
Association of Ontario Land
Surveyors has been formed.
A manual of practice has
been drawn up as guidelines.
"We hope to get a much
better level of engineering
performance," said Irwin.
Drainage became a more
apparent advantage to far-
mers because of the continual
fall rains experienced
province -wide this year,
Irwin said in an interview.
With the recent letup in rain
this week, he said farmers
with drainage will be able to
get on their land to harvest
such crops as corn and
soybeans probably a week
before those with undrained
land. Harvesting has been
delayed up to a month
because of muddy conditions.
In the last year a
significant technological
development has entered the
farm drainage field making
for easier installation of main
farm drains, said Irwin.
"This year we've got large
plastic piping" to replace the
large cumbersome concrete
pipes. "Engineers haven't
accepted this new pipe as yet
so a selling job is necessary."
WINDFALL
APPLES
Now Available
at
LASSALINE
ORCHARD
524-7772
2'/2 Milos From No. $ Highway,
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terview at the CFFO's office
in Drayton.„ Agriculture in
Ontario is in good shape
because there are people with
the Magwood's kind of
commitment to the industry.
They've made it a way of life.
Annexation would change
their land value from the
present $1,000 per acre as
farm land to probably about
$8,000 per acre as industrial
sites. It takes courage to stick
by your way of life and refuse
society's big speculation
dollars.'
met fecCera� gtiararitee
Agriculture Minister
Eugene Whelan announced
Octo¢er 17 that the Ontario
Soya -bean Growers'
Marketing Board has
received a federal guarantee
for a loan under the Advance
Payments for Crops Act.
"The 12,000 soybean
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year's soybean crop. The
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"The federal government
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These interest-free cash
advances will enable the
farmers to meet some of their
production costs after har-
vest. The farmers will be able
to store some of their crops
rather than market them
immediately after harvest
when returns would be
lower."
Individual growers, must
apply to the Ontario Soya -
bean Growers' Marketing
Board for an advance.
"Farm organizations must
meet certain criteria to be
eligible for advance crop
payments assistance. They
have to represent a sizabl?
portion of the production of a
storable crop. They must be
capable of administering the
payments to producers and
_the repayments as the crop is
sold. They must also be able
to show that such payments
will improve the orderly
marketing of the crop,"
Whelan said,
Storable crops such as
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