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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-08-17, Page 11....... �......... i ........ .............................. .... � �..•..........�...................v.......�... pv........t..:. �i�';•:: �:?ti:.i: � �':S i:ii F{: �Si:tii'.ti':::•%.:::;•�:ti•}::. �:.f.}:i::: �::::•:,+.:•:i:% � i .}y: •:•:�:�?::ii � �i± '� �� $::5: By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron -Middlesex The price of many farm commodities is most discouraging this year for the farmers in Ontario and, as a result, the Farm Income Stabilization Commission in Ontario has received requests for stabilization plans for the current year for the commodities of corn and white beans. In response to these requests the Commission has discussed and virtually finalized plans for the two commodities. I expect that both plans will be in place in early September and I will be glad to provide more information on these plans as soon as it is available. The information that I can provide at the present time is that there will be no enrolment fee payable at the time of enrolment. For 1977 only, the producers' fees equal to one third of any payment Prices discouraging will be deducted from the pay out at the time of payment, If present deadlines are met, the final enrolment date for both plans will be October 15, 1977. Sales of corn -or beans between September 1, 1977 and August 31, 1978 will be eligible for stabilization. Shelled corn, high moisture corn and cob corn will be eligible in the corn plan. This includes all sales, even farmer to farmer sales which are properly documented as prescribed by the Commission. The present thinking is that sales must at least be weighed and signatures appear from both the buyer and the seller. All sales will be calculated into equivalent quantities of shelled corn at 56 lbs. per bushel and 15.5 percent moisture by the Commission. White beans will be eligible in the bean plan. There are minimum and maximum requirements for white beans. The minimum requirement is 100 hundredweights per eligible applicant and the maximum requirement is 2,000 hun- dredweights per eligible ap- plicant. For corn the minimum requirement is 500 bushels per eligible applicant and the maximum requirement is 30,000 bushels per eligible applicant. An owner -operator is an eligible applicant on all farm units. On multi -manned operations the second and third BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN THEATRE LTD. BEECH ST. CLINTON — NOW PLAYING — WED. thru SAT. — AUG. 17, 18, 19, 20 Where virvigar anything can and usually happen.. does! ' The sights, sounds and actual sensations_ of_combat. So real you can feet it. A ONTVERSAL PICTURE r , TECHNICOLOR' i - "CAR WASB" Gutesl Scars franlilgn Ajage Gem Cirfin Iralessor Irwin Coreg Ivan Dixon • Anioiio fargas larraine.Garq ADULT ENTERTAINMENT CHARLTON HESTON HENRY FONDA wasmaammosimanimmammair SUN., MON., TUES. — AUG. 21, 22, 33 91,000People. 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The maximum for any farm unit will be three times the quantity of the first applicant, The Ontario Stabilization Program permits the Com- mission to pay from 90 to 95 percent of the average market price for the previous five years, plus an adjustment for added cash cost or the cost of produc- tion, whichever is the lesser. After considerable discussion the Commission has agreed that the 95 percent maximum will be the limiting factor for the corn plan for 1977 and thus the corn crop would be stabilized to 90 percent by the Federal Government and, using today's figures, that amounts to $2.18 per bushel. This Provincial plan can then pay an additional eleven cents per bushel,bringing the calculated stabilized price for corn in Ontario to $2.29. This figure may be adjusted when more current costs and marketing information are available. For white beans, the Com- mission has deemed that the cost of production is the limiting factor and therefore this year's crop would be stabilized at $12.20 per hundredweight or up to 76 cents per hundredweight if the price falls that amount below the $12.20. Currently the Federal Government has made no commitment to the white bean producers that they will stabilize Citizens News, Augu t 17, 1977 Page e11 at the 90 percent level. The Commission would request producers to submit all sales slips to the Commission im- mediately after the plan year has been completed. The Commission intends"to make payments to the producer as soon as possible following August 31, 1978. The Ontario Government has released an information package on the contamination of fish in Ontario waters. Signs are to be posted at public access points where some species of fish are known to be contaminated. Where there are problems, many species of fish are still safe to eat — some in limited quantitites only. However, others should be avoided. Members of the public are urged to check their catch, to identify species, to measure length of fish, and to check charts for the respective lake or waterway to make sure of the amount of such fish safe for human consumption over a specific period. Anyone fishing, on and off, for more than three weeks during the year, and eating their catch, should con- sider themselves a long-term consumer, according to charts or information given concerning the waterway. Children under 15 and women of child -hearing age should eat only those fish designated as totally safe, and it should be remembered that a meal is considered equivalent to 230 grams or 8 oz. Fish should not be taken home for freezing and eating, unless it is from the totally safe category. Information about the waters in which you plan to fish can be obtained from regional and district offices of the Ministries of the Environment and Natural Resources, or by writing to the Ministry of the Environment, Information Sergices Branch, 135 SI. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, M4B 1P5. Fish in many parts of the world have been affected by natural and industrial contaminants, and as an industrialized province, Ontario has not escaped this problem. Metal mercury is the most widely found toxic pollutant, although man-made materials such as DDT, mirex and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) have also been found in fish in dangerous amounts. Apart from industrial pollution, fish can only become contaminated by mercury from natural sources, from concentrations of mercury naturally occurring as mineral deposits in the bedrock. The Government's information package on this problem points out that since contaminants were first discovered in fish in the 1960s, governments have developed extensive monitoring programmes to detect con- tamination, and have used their powers to restrict the manufacture or use of the of- fending substances. There were six Chlor -alkali plants using mercury in Ontario in 1970. They were ordered to curtail mercury losses. All complied and contamination dropped from several pounds per day to a few ounces. Today, only two plants use mercury and their losses to waterways are ex- tremely low. One of the two plants is to close this year. 0 Quality Materials - Fair Prices - Personal Service Let us •„, ir17 nt h 1p you! N irm This sumrner let BALL-MACAULAY'help you. with all your This is.the time for painting, putting up a storage shed, building a deck, putting up eavestrough, repairing roofs, insulating an attic. 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