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The campaign. against marketing boards
The headlines are in the dally papers, Even the se -called
Canadian edition of the Readers Digest is doing n.
I'm talking about a campaign in this country, whether by
chance or design, todiscredit marketing boards., 'les.
insidious. It starts with a feww editorials in big newspapers.
Then,: some major magazines get on the bandwagon
followed by the electronic media,
Pretty Soon, everybody and his dog has a distprted idea:.
of farm marketing boards. By that time, itis too late to
stop the impetus. Farm marketing boards, eSpectalls' those
boards which practice supply management, are i
disfavor, The politicians see it as a great method of getting
votes,. They make promises during election campaigns..
The entire structure of orderly marketing, fought for by
farmers for 30 years; comes tumbling down,.
You think I, am painting too dismal a picture? Did you
read the indictment of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board
t in Reader's Digest in the June issue? The story was
condensed from a smaller circulation, magazine, the
prestigious Harrowsmith, .•
Here's another headline: Eggs cost 9 to 14 cents a dozen
too much in Canada, villian is the Canadian Egg •
Marketing Agency, Want more? Here it is;, Farm boards
blamed for milk price increase,; -
I could go on but I'm sure you get the point. The signs
are all appatent:'Farm's 'golden era' could be threatened
by more price rises,' said the Globe and Mail less than a
month ago, There are those, of course, who on testify that
the golden era has never arrived. But you'll have a tough
time convincing most housewifes; battling inflation every
week, that food 'prices are not too high in Canada.
The farming community; always divided in this country
and 'always fiercely independent, must collectively fight
this campaign before it gets to where it hastoo much
momentum: to stop,,
Too many people spent toomany years, too much time
and talent, to get the powers necessary to fight in the.
marketplace, to have it destroyed now. Those who
remember the early; days of the flu -cured tobacco board or
the early days of the ,hog marketing board can attest to, the-
great
hegreat struggles farmers went through to organize
themselves to have those rights demolished.
And'the buyingower ins .those days' from the large food
p g
corporations was not as concentrated' as it is today. To lose
the :right: to collective marketing now would be a disaster
for the farm community. -
But 1 can See it coming. There are only a handful of
people speaking out now for farmers. That handful gets
Smaller Aller every year as the farm cotnmunity continues to
y
Shrink. Less than six per cent of the population is now
activel • engagedin producingood,
y f
It's unfortunate, for instance. that stories against
Marketing boards get much bigger lav and publicity than
those in support. i do not reeall the big urban papers
givin much publicity to the fact that ;farriers accepted! a
smaller increase in the price of milk May 1 than they were
entitled to take, .:Le all farmers could hay a demanded
more. By the formula in price -setting. they could have
received more but they didn't. The Globe and Mail did
give it space but few other metropolitan papers, did,
The battle lines arerbeing drawnu it'goingto be the
F. s
rest of the population against 'farm marketing boards and,
the farmers again fighting a losing battle all by
themselves.
Now is the time to do something. about i. Whenever
these stories against marketing boards appear, a single,
strong farm voice should bert74ady to refute them. And.
farmers should be prepared now to spend shore dollars to
get people and politicians on their side. The big
corporations dont stint on public relations, budgets. The
more stories against marketing boards that get planted in
big circulation publications, the tougher the farm fight is
going to'be;
It's unfortunate that farmers aren't as experienced at.
planting good stories in their favour as they are in planting
crops. •
gricrew ready to work
A team of :experienced
young people will come to
your farm to help you catch
up on jobs that , have been
neglected.
Aminimal fee is charged
for.' one crew (five :Frew
I members) to come to your
farm for an eight hour day to,
"work. The tasks these crews
will undertake can range
from painting, fencing and
general, cleaning up:to hay-
ing, 'cleaning pens; to har-
vesting. : •
Farmers are encouraged to
call their local Ag. Office, as
soon as possible, in regard to
Agricrew, as the program•. is
basedon a first=come-first
L11GHT`LUNCH SERVED DAILY
Help: us celebrate the opening of
our•new 5,000'sq: ft. addition.
FREE PARKING
FOR OVER 50 CARS
served basis.
Many calls have been.•'
received now from farmers
and the crews are raring to'..
begin on the June 25th
starting date.
To hire Agricrew or.. for
more information, call Fern''
Cole; Huron -Perth Co-ordin-
ator in the Stratford Agricul-
tural Office at 271-0280.
There has -e been ,a number.
of barn firi:s cur near barn
fire* inrecentyears. Many of
them occur at this time of
',ear.. Damp. cut hay is often
theteason,
There: are three reasons
why we ,get caught storing
vtit 'hay too soon. Firstly,
today's hay nurtures have a..
higher per cent legurm and
they take longer to dry.
Secondly, we don't handle
t,cut hay and; thus we assume
that it's drier than it really is.
The trend tct,.°:tr14 Butting has
increased: the chances: of
"storing hay .0 little on the
clamp side."
Double cltekk cut hay" be.
fore you put it m. Check it
p .,,, `-tan-
�o
again in storage. Sp. n
eiolts combustion can hap,
pen. Barns are an expensive
item to repl.a.e.
P
: irese rvativt:s really aren't
th • answer, Ho. baled at
20°a moisture. is sure to be
safr . and won't need a pre-
servative. He
re-servative.:He sting problems
s m b' with bales are' not serious a e .
25°*0 moisture. provided the
aeration is adequate in stor-
age. H
tor-ttge.1•t i testing to 30%
ure
r i must reared
tc tst ._.
With a pure acid" product at a
2' rate, Such a product is
not available in Perth county,
to the best of our knowledge,
in addition, a preservative
only means a: ,one to two
hour, earlier start, as: nay
loses moisture at a rate of Z
to 5 per ceitj; ooa geed drying
day. -
Iesearcners don't support
the practice of spreading salt
on top of the bay in a mow,.
The moulds causing heating,
are found throughout the
U '
hay, niform coverage is.
Necessary: Treating the first
Slice of bread with a dash of
salt won't stop the loaf oa ff from
spoiling.
A temperature tester is
easily made, .Drill: a few holes
in the bottom six inches of a
14 inch by 8 foot steel pipe,
Place 5 sharp plug t
lug in he end
g
of the pipe and force it into
the hay. Lower a Veterinary -
type thermometer down The.
pipe en a string,.
The hay should be checked'.
daily, if the , temperature is
150°F. It should be checked.
every four hours Wit's 160°F.
At 175°F fire pockets may be
developing;. The fire depart-
ment should be called to wet
down and remove the hay. At
temperatures higher than
175°F the hay will burst into
flames on contact with air. A
pumper should be on stand-
by, Workers in the mow
Should stand on planks and
have safety ropes to avoid
falling into burnt out areas:
Horsetail is
BY PAT LYNCH,
ALAN W. SCOTT,
TED ROT111ML
This past a intep' we told.
you :at Crop uneetings not to
worry= abouthorsetail it.
doesn't reduce yield. This
past sprung, many farmers
told us of fields *here horse-
tail has reduced yields. In
two cases': the horsetail grew
to 1 i to 2 feet tall.
Field horsetail is a peren-
nial weed. 11 is often de-
scribed As "that.: little plant
that looks like a pine tree." .It
generally only grows
8 high, In June, the plants.
have green, Slender,' erect'
hallow stems. The stems are•
leafless but with whorls of 'b'
sting the
BY CLIFF MATTKEW$,
1gricultural,C Rep, t?xford County
Some may ask O y cattle cycles must he.
There will be cattle eyeles as sure as
Weather affects crops and the time span
from conception: to .consumer takes three
years.
The ,business; is. highly conpetiti%e.. It is
a fundamental characteristic or 'the 'beef
production business. Ontario beef :pro-
ducer's compete on world market. Even
economists agree, Virtually perfect fect.amp"
etition exists on'thetproduction side of the
industry. Over a complete cycle, the price
to producers equalsthe cost of production.
The 'range :iia individual costs dictates
which producers will receive the greatest.
return for their labour, investment and
management. Producers must be efficient
in all major factors of beef production. That
is - if they wish' to stay in business through
nvo or three cycles,
A well known cattleman in Oxford
°County sums it up quite well. He feels most
years only one of the three sectors of the
cattle industry gets a good' return - the
grain producer; the calf producer, or the
feedlot operator. Sometimes twO out of
three, Rarely, if ever, all three.
This leads to another consideration
to
coping with the cycle. Risk. The impli-
cations are greater for the potential new
producer. Risk and the cattle cycle go
hand-in-hand, The low equity operator has
little to fall back on, Perhapls even one turn
cattle cycle
of high cost feeder cattle and low price
tinished cattle can cause a gttiek exit from.
the business. A smallloss can be
Compounded if purchased feed prices rise
.osier the feeding period.
New producers with low equity can offset.
risk by growing their basic feed require.
menns„ Generally there is less risk in
feeding calves. Anegative margin on
short -keep cattle can produce a loss in
excess of the cost of grain. Another hedge
is .13,1,:lown only a,;potf n; of the cattle and.
fceding the rest on a inistom basis,
,
Cowfcalf operators are .also subject to
ups and downs of the cattle cycle.
However, with an average herd sine of
twenty-five cows in Ontario, most herd
owners reduce risk with income from
another .enterprise or off -farm work,' The
commercial cow/calf operator with calves
rind cull cows as the only sources of income
cannot look to alternate sources of income,
Stabilization programs can soften the
crunch, but are not very palatable to many
producers. This is especially so when calf.
prices are on the upturn. Perhaps the only
other way a newt', specialized cow/calf
operator can hope to cope with the cattle
cycle is with a high level of equity.
.
The present state of the business. side
Of
the cattle cycle dictates ` efficiency, a
relative high level of equity and risk
reducing methods coupled with sound
financing,
indeed reducing
to 8 branches at nearly every
node. It is on page 13 .of
Publication 505, Ontario
Weeds.
We checked the research-
ers: and there is some dis-
agreement among then!: One
thinks that there is no yield.
reduction , another thinks
there is, One thinks we have'
a., giant horsetail while anoth-
er thinks we just have ordin
My , horsetail •growing under
ideal conditions, it seems
that yourown experience will
be the best guide as to
whether°you are suffering
crop loss due to this weed.
How can you control it?
The most effective chemical
is MCPA: MCPA sprayed
on grain, should keep horse-
tail in check. ,In corn, if the
corn is 'more than 6'' : high,
you have to use drop pipes -to
make sure that no 'MCPA
gets in thewhorl of the corn
plant. MCPA is- registered
for use on corn, but it can be
hard on the corn: However, if
you are carefulof how and
whenyou use it, there is no
problem. Read the label for
application directions. Corn
plants can be brittle after
spraying . with 'a hormone
herbicide. Do not 'scuffle for
2 to 3 weeks after spraying
with a hormone herbicide
The bad news about all.
this is the horsetail .. will
regrow again this veal.. The
yields
tis to merely burn of rain will brine new growth
MCPA ten
the to off. The next; shower . Classified Ads a
p pay dividends.
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