The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-04, Page 377,"
The fur Hilton
directors on the Ontario' tiOard were retUrned to theV.
.trec
County Bean Prodacera ',Matketing
980. 13
poslftons j:4014.1ildtt011 tOt
Friday's annual meeting
belt'lie
at thp nqa11 COM't 'They Etre .,ebairtrian Gr(i.
, .
'nullity Centre, On Pa Of Varna; Bob
PrUcefield; Cecll
Des)arciine, Grand Rend;
anodeilsoialhitielYliwialesre, iZecurteic.
dh4.s
a comMittee man at the 1979
amulet meeting and was
elevated to the board of
directors when then chair-
man Murray Cardiff was,
elected as Memberof
Parliament.
An election was held for
the 12 spots ,on the Huron
caHjHmoanuaaderamc
Jack
,khin3ael aotarri,ny,eiete,
Wheatley.
Re-elected were
Coleman, Murray Den-
nis,Dowsen, Victor
Bev Hill, Ray
Jim Love, John
Bill McGregor
Newcomers named to the
committee were Bob
Fotheringham and Don
_Brodie.
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 Kent meeting will be
held Friday in Thamesville.
BEAN DIRECTORS
RE-ELECTED—The four
Huron Cougty directors on the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board were .returned by
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acclamation, Friday. From the left are chairmarr
Gordon Hill, Joe Miller, Bob Allen and Cecil
Desjardine.
As this is written, no
report has been tabled to my
knowledge from a study
group set pp by the provin-
cial 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-cousin s,
Ontario Hydro has one of
the most efficient public
relations corps in, Canada;
Every time f -"a piece
detrimental to Hyro, I get a
couple of letters explaining
Hydro's position. When I
write something in favour of
Every Wednesday is
enior Citizens Day!
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Hydro up again
Hydro, the pan 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 column suggesting
that Hydro has not been fair
in land dealings with farmers
Not so, 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 1 wrote another
column suggesting that Can-
ada has no other choice
except that of nuclear energy
1got 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 Hydro will in-
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
have to be found. Ifjust does
nbt 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 consumers pay
an average of $30.
Irrthe spring a this year;
Premier BM Davis promised
his government would find a
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
oveycome the gap.
But that gap keeps widen-
ing. It seems to be going
the opposite way to that
which was promised by
Queen's Park. 1 don't know
who is on that committee,
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
highest west of New Bruns-
.*"
wick and roughly twice the
rural rate in our neighboring
province." ,
Re asked a cogent question
"How conic 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
politicians are notorious for
norkeepIng 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 iP 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
meeting Friday in Hensall
voted to boycott the
premises of W.G. Thompson
and Sons until present legal
procedures are brought to
court
The motion proposed by
John Hazlitt and seconded
by Bev Hill ha.led 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 four dealers
including Thompson s'refus-
ed to complete payrnent of
beans they had received
from area producers.
According to Friday's
meeting. the other three
dealers, the Hensall District
Co -Operative, Ontario Bean
Growers Co -Op and
Ferguson Bros. of St.
Thomas had completed their
discoveries in court, but the
Thompson discoveries had
been delayed
A note in the financial
statement presented at
Friday's meeung reads as
follows . "The litigation is
Don't stop CanForm
The Ontario Federation
of Agriculture's annual con-
vention unanimously passed
a motion to send a telegram
to Prime Minister Truderau.
several of his ministers. and
the leader of the opposition
asktng that the decision to
discontinue assistance to
CanFarrn be reversed and
that the commiument of
assistance for three years be
renewed 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 withdrawn at this
point. could be used instead
to transfer control to the
company. CanFarrn would
then be able to continue and
expand as a private business.
A major discussion paper.
"The Farmer's Right To
Farm". pointed out that the
agricultural industry sup-
ports one out of fiye jobs in
Ontario today. ribs musty
playing a major role in
determining the prosperity crf
the province Howes er. agri-
culture tends to be regulated
in many areas hy those who
know very little abut the
industry. The paper con-
cluded by saying that Ontario
ministry of Agriculture and
Food (OMAF) should assume
the key role in setting out
regulations concerning farm•
ing operations with the other
ministries working through
OMAF rather than directly
affecting agricu I tu ra I
matters.
to decide where liability
rests regarding undelivered
beans that resulted from ad-
vance sales that could not be
satisfied due to the poor crop
year. The Board has named
the Ontario Farm Products
Marketing Board as the
third party to the dealer
claims"
In explaining the
background of the 1977
problem, Board chairman
Gordon Hill told the T -A Sun-
day night. "With incredsed
acreage and heavy yields
predicted for the 1977 crop,
the Board and dealers
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 expense in trying
to fulfill their sale- com-
mitments ' •
Hill said the only monies
received by producers for
the 1977 crop was the initial
payment
The financial statement
indicates the initial
payments amounted to f7.-
610.356 with sales of slightly
over 314 million
The balance in the 1977
pool as of August 31. 19S0
was 34.156.669 Legal ex-
penses already paid by the
board are 355.165
The 1977 pool of 34 156.199
includes 35.243.480 owing to
the board
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