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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-12-07, Page 36PAGE 14A-0:ME RICH SIGNAL,STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 , 1978 Farm folk need fair prices BY JOANNE BUCHANAN The potential for the agricultural industry in this country is "tremendous", William Stewart, former Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, told a group of area farmers gathered at the Maitland Country Club for a meeting sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia last Wed- nesday afternoon. "We've only scratched the surface," he told his audience citing examples of how irrigation and tile drainage could be used to help increase land productivity. "But farm prices have .to be high enough to warrant investment .in these things," he con- tinued. He said that farmers are no longer content with "living poor and dying rich" as they once were. They want fair prices for their products these days and they should get them, he said. • "Sure food prices have gone up but so has the . average take-home pay. An average hour's wages will buy more food in Canada today than ever begoce," he added. He stated his belief that consumers were upset because now that they have to pay the farmer a decent price for his goods, they,have to give up some of the other luxuries they have become used to like a second automobile or color television set. Stewart said that there is no ,shortage of food or land available for agriculture in this country. While some land has been taken out of productivity for housing and industrial development, not much damage has been don,e when one looks at. the total picture, he' don - eluded. "The future of farming rests on the economic viability of the country. Industry generates jobs and jobs generate money for food," he reasoned. Stewart said he heard more about land use preservation in 1974 than he had heard in all his previous years in office. But the screams of ur- banites saying that we are running out of land and food are false, he eontinued. He gave several examples to back up this statement. It was only in the late sixties and early seventies that the government was actually paying farmers not to grow crops through, such programs as LIFT (Lower Incentives for Tomorrow). And it was WIN...NS/N/0 Cam Driedger, District Manager for the Bank of Nova Scotia, thanks former Ontario Minister of Agriculture, William Stewart (right) for speaking to area farmers at a seminar sponsored by the bank and held at the Maitland Country Club last Wednesday. Stewart told his audience that farmers must get -decent prices‘for their goods to warrant investment in such things as irrigation and tile drainage to improve agricultural potentital. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) not long ago that farmers were selling their corn for 85 cents a bushel antteggs at one dollar for four dozen because the supply exceeded ' the demand, Stewart said. Many fedi:lets ".61114;gtheir land and 'tOOk on ,other jobs just in order to make a• living, he said. Then came the disastrous crops of Russia in 1972 and this created a demand for wheat again. (Cash crop prices often depend on the yields of other countries.) It was then that urbanites began screaming about running out of land and food, he said. Stewart told the audience thatCanadian farmers produced 167 million bushels of'corn in 1977 as compared to 40 miaion bushels 15years agO - and 30 million bushels of wheat in 1977 as compared to 14 million 15 years ago. North America has the potential to have the greatest agricultUral food production in the world, he said. Narrowing down_ to Huron County, he said some of the finest land, best farmers and greatest productivity was to be found here. He told the farmers present that one of their most useful tools could be a sharp pencil for planning things out on paper. PLEASE DON'T READ THIS GARBAGE COLLECTION r CHRISTMAS MON. DEC. 25th will be picked up SATURDAY.DECEMBER 23 BOXING DAY TUES. 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