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Huron' Cennty Bean; ProdUPerS, Marketing apOSitiens by acelatnationa3t
directors on the Ontario Board Were reterned to thei" Friday' a anntial Meeting
held at the Henaall 'Cain- They are chalrinan Ger;
don Bill 9f Varna; Bob
Brucefield; Cecil
Desiardine, Grand Bend;
aria Joseph Miller, Zurich,
Desjardine was elected as
a conaMittee man at the 1979
annual ellrieeting and was
elevated to the board of
directorS When then chair-
man Murray Cardiff was
elected •as •Member of
parliament.
An election was held for
the 42 spots on the Huron
committee.
Manity Centre.
BEAN DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED—The four
Huron County directors on the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketina Board were returned by
acclamation, Friday. From the left are chairman
Gordon HW., Joe Miller, Bob Allen and Cecil
Desjardihe.
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Re-elebted were
Jack Coleman, Murray Den-
nis, Bill Dowsen, Victor.
Hartman, Bev Hill, Ray
Htlether, Jim Love, John
Maaskant, Bill McGregor
and Larry 'Wheatley.
Newcomers named to the
committee were Bob
Fotheringham and Don
Brodie.
'milar-meetings-for—the-
other bean growing counties
are being held this week.
The Elgin county meeting
goes today, Wednesday in St.
Thomas, Lambton groweis
meet Thursday in Warwick
and the 1 meeting will be
held Fri y n Thdmesville.
Every Wednesday is
Senior Citizens Day!
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As this ,is written, no
report has been tabled to my
knowledge from a study
group set up by the provin-
dal government to propose
ways of overcoming., the
difference in rural -urban
hydro rates.
In fact, the exact opposite
has been happening. Rural
hydro users will be paying.
even more for power than
_city, cousins.
Ontario Hydro has one of
the most efficient public
relations corps in Canada,
Every time I pen a piece
detrimental to Hyro, I get a
couple of letters explaining
Hydro's •position. When I
write something in favour of
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TOMATO SOUP
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Nescafe
INSTANT COFFEE
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Hydro, the OM relations
boys congratulate me.
They're good men and
women, all doing the job they
are paid to do.
Not long ago, I wrote a
snarky ocoltunn suggesting
that Hydro has not been fair
in land dealings with farmers
Not go, said the PR people.
Read our latest policies, they
said, and you'll find out we
are being more than fair,
, But I talk to farmers and
they tell a different story.
When I wrote another
column suggesting that Can-
ada has . no other choice
except that of nuclear energy
I got a whole batch of letters,
most of them from anti-
nuclear people but a couple
from Hydro thanking me for
the piece.
' I am about to create
another batch of letters.
Ontario Hydrer-Wilf'
it -
crease its bulk power rate to
municipal utilities by 9.3 per
cent. The rate to rural
consumers will increase 9.9
per cent by Jan. 1.
Why?
If farmers are to be kept on
the land, then some solution
to this energy problem will highest west of New Bruns-
0g010
have to be found. It just does
not seem fair to me that
770,000 rural Hydro custo-
mers -- most of them farmers
not served by Ontario's 324
municipal utilities should
have to pay more for electri-
city.
Rural customers now pay
about $38 per -1000 kilowatt
hours. Urban consutners pay
an average of $30.
In the spring of this year,
Premier gal Davis promised
his government would find ra
way to narrow this gap. This,
at least, is an indication that
the province is aware that
farmers are paying too much.
A special study group was
formed to propose ways to
overcome the gap.
But that gap keeps widen-
ing. It seems to be going
the ,,opposite way to that
which IvnIal „ prpmised by
Queen's Par10.1. xion't ,Isukkv
'Who- IS" 'bh "that cbMatiittee.:cr
that special study group. I
hope there are a few farmers
on it.
Liberal Leader Stuart
Smith has said that Hydro's
newest price increases are
going "to continue to make
our rural rates by far the
wick and roughly twice the
rural rate in our neighboring
prinHoveacskee.'d'
a cogent question
• "How come things are mov-
ing in the opposite direction"
to what was outlined.by the
Conservatives in April?
And yes, I know, politi-
cians get elected because
they Make promises and
politkians are notdrious for
not keeping promises, a fact
that this old-fashioned scrib-
bler cannot get used to. A
promise is a promise. It
becomes fact when it is
stated.
I am also of the opinion
that the Davis government
has tried desparately hard
over the years to keep its
promises. It would not have
remained in power for almost
30 years otherwise. Most
people in this province
believe in promises.
But someboy goofed here
unless the report of this
special study group -- which
may hit the press before you
read this epistle -- comes up
with some answers.
I've been waiting these
many weeks for a report.
I'm glad I didn't hold my
breath.
Bean producers to
boycott Thompson Mills
Huron ' white bean
producers at their annual
meeti g Friday in Hensall
vote,.d to boycott the
prenala es of W.G. Thompson
and S s until present legal
procedures are brought to
court
The motion proposed by
John Hazlitt and. seconded
by Bev Hill haqed producers
to refuse to deliver any
beans to Thompson Mills un-
til all discoveries in the
litigation are completed.
Hazlitt said he hopes this
move will bring the matter
before the courts
It all stems from the 1977
bean crop when our dealers to decide where liability
including Thompson s refus- rests regarding undelivered
ed to complete payment • of beans that resulted from ad -
beans they had received vance sales that could not be
from area producers. satisfied due to the poor crop
According to Friday's year. The Board has named
meeting. the other three the Ontario Farm Products
dealers. the Hensall District Marketing Board as the
Co -Operative, Ontario Bean third party to the dealer
Growers Co -Op and claims "
Ferguson Bros of St In explaining the
Thomas had completed their background of the 1977
discoveries in court, but the problem. Board chairman
Thompson discoveries had Gordon Hill told the T -A Sun -
been delayed day night. With increased
A note in the financial acreage and heavy yields
statement presented at predicted for the 1977 crop,
Friday's meeting reads as the Board and dealers
follows a -The litieation is agreed that advance sales
would be a good idea. Ex-
tremely bad weather came
along and the quality of
product was not as expected.
The dealer complaint was
that the beans were of a
lesser quality than they had
agreed to purchase in ad-
vance and they incurred con-
siderable expe rying
to fulfill thei sale m-
mittrnents
Hill said the nly monies
received by prsducers for
the 1977 crop s the initial
payment
The nanciai statement
indic'tes the initial
paymen a amounted to
610.856 ith sales of slightly
over $14 million
The balance in the 1977
pool as of August 31, 1980
was $4.156.669 Legal ex-
penses already paid by the
board are 955.105
The 1977 pool of $4.156,199
Ile ludes 55.242.480 awing to
the board
Don't stop CanFarrn
The Ontario Federation
of Agriculture's annual con-
vention unanimously passed
a motion to send a telegram
to Prime Minister Trudeau.
several of his ministers. and
the leader of the apposition
asking that the decision to
discontinue assistance to
CanFarm be reversed and
that the committment nf
assistance far three years he
rerteived. It was pointed out
by OFA Past President Peter
Hannam that the money
which will be necessary to
close down CanFarm if sup-
port is withdraw n at this
point. could be used instead
to transfer control to the
company . Ca n Fa rm would
then be able to eontinuc' and
expand as a private business
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A major discussion paper.
"The Farmer's Right To
Farm". pointed out that the
agricultural industry sup-
ports one out of five ;lobs in
Ontario today. oby ;ouch
playing a mapor role in
determining the prosperity of
the province However. agn•
culture tends to be regulated
in many areas by those who
know vers iittle about the
industry The paper con•
eluded by saying that Ontario
ministry of Agriculture and
Food (OMAR should assume
the key role in setting out
regulations concerning farm-
ing operations with the other
ministries working through
OMAF rather than directly
affecting agricultural
matters.
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