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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-11-22, Page 15Lan Lanett .ate ,ww.aatedbeCob irettef Odet.,pol Einem pnc:Nag 2ci and in;iIation Land is always a good investment because they just don't make it any more. I think it was Mark Twain who said it originally but it is not listed in my book of quotations. No matter. The truth of the saying remains; constant. Farm writers have been screaming for some compre- hensive land use policies across this nation and only three •provinces have put any teeth in the preservation of good. farmland, Prince Edward Island, for instance, has put a limit not only on foreign ownership but on anyone outside the, province, Land has become one of the greatest hedges against. inflation, What farmers should be considering is who, owns the land? Pm not too concerned at this point in time about foreign ownership: Pm concerned about absentee land- lords. Recent surveys in the Hew Hess -Hay have revealed some startling facts, Once upon a time, the vast heartland of America was largely owned by the people who farmed that land. But today, as much as 35 to 40 per cent of all U.S, farmland acreage is farmed by tenants. In other words, freeholding farmers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Farmers in many areas are only tenants.. And you thought the days of serfdom were over in Amercial These days the price of farmland has, risen so much that. literally thousands of young farmers without capital simply cannot afford to buy the property. Land prices have skyrocketed all across Canada since the early 1960'5. The same is true in the U.S. Midwest prices ,have increased 30 Per cent in one year. in Indiana, farmland is. up 300 per p. Y P CATTLEMEN Get this $19.95 value :bat- tery powered pencil sharp- ener FREE with the purchase of 4 tonnes . PURINA RECEIVING•.CHOW, Offer Good until Dec: 31/79 f In addition get free 4 `coupons [160 kg value] on the purchase hase of Purinacatt le supplements up to March 31, 1980. ``MILTON J. DIETZ LTD " P " °ti then9I exfro' SEAFORTH Purina �527-0608- Custom Drying e are now receiving the 1979' Buy - Sell Storage available KEN R. PBELL MS LTD. utblin 527-024 cent since 1971. In, Illinois, it's :up. 315 per cent .and in Iowa„ 300 per cent, • And who is buying that land? You bet: the big. powerful.. ruthless, multi -national corporations. Those hard-headed businessmen know that ',land. values will' continue to climb, They know, too, that up; to 18'; cents of every disposable income dollar is: spenton food, and: they want as big a chunk of that 18 cents as they can get, They • want to control food production from the farm gate right to' the table, That recent investigation kite discounts, and allowances. given by the major food -buying chains; can serve as a warning to farmers. Those companies,, if their competitive. advantage is wiped out by some fair-trade legislation, will: surely become more vertically -integrated. Some officials of those companies, served notice at the hearings that they would do just that buy up more processing plants, buy up more production units which willinclude more. farmland. As l see it,: that is what farmers must be concerned about now, not just developers arottpdi the major and minor cities. As Forbes magazine puts it in the Oct'. 29, issue, there are two ways of looking at the situation. •. You can argue that a farmer need not, own all the land he works any more than a shopkeeper need own the building: that houses his business—or for that matter, a magazine need ownthe press it is printed on. Why can t the farmer just rent theland and the machinery, in the same way as any other businessman leases plant. and equipment? The other argument would say that with the risks find the hard work involvedrfarming, few farmers can in fi gr. mes r ride out the ups and downs of crop prices unless they have the protection of owning their own. land. Not only does that ownership free them from paying rent, it gives them a: kind, of subsidy from the appreciation in the price of Land. And a final, statement from Forbes: This is not a trivial debate., Unless inflation can be checked and investment • redirected to more normal channels, we Will be hearing a :great deal more of it.: ' 1 can only echo the logic in the statement: r«. ;Huron County ,mot ,pro ducers chose a !Dairy Princ- ess Friday to at;t as. goodwill; ambassador for them in the county. Susan Lielrrran, 18. of R.R. 2« Dail -mood, was crowned: ;princess at the an- nual dairy princess .ball in Hoimesville. Miss Velum, who, suc- ceeds dean Siertsemaof Myth, was ,ore of five con- testants. The others are: 'Brenda Feagan. R.R. 4. :Goderich, .utanne ildiield. R. R 4. .S'eaforthl Peggy Schneider, R R. 'L Fordwi,r b; and Mary 1 Ann�,Van ?a Seaforth. Miss Ztelntari's objectives will be to improve nutritional` knowledge and the under-. standing of modern dairy clubs, [women's groups'= various knit fossa ,farming, by visits to 'service hOok and pparticipaWM in; AlgrinB the . ; 4 everance Huron County Federation of Agriculture has expressed alarni and concern,. over recent statements made by the Honorable Lorne Hen- derson, Ontario Minister of. Agriculture and. Food. Mr. Henderson has recently stat' - ed. that" a farmer should be allowed a lot on which Report from Queen'sP rk p • BY MURRAY GAUNT MPP During the Ministry of Natural Resources Estimates held this week, I; had the opportunity to express the. concern felt by fishermen in regard to the fish -stocking program in Lake Huron and Georgian BaYy. . $ The efforts of the Ministry over the past twenty years to introduce.splake have been a failure, and the tourist industry has suffered serious harm from poor angling. I told the committ ee that the constituents of Huron -Bruce are up in arms over the failure of this program and the Ministry's decision tb continue with the experiment: "The. •natives are restless. The Grey -Bruce area, has:: been deserted by anglers. You might just:. as well be out there fishing for passenger pigeons -you just can't find : these • fish. You spent twenty years and; a lot, of money' to find a fish which could survive the lamprey.-. but they seem to disappear. out of the bottom of the lake.' The Legislature's :Select Committee on Hydro Affairs has concluded that Ontarib's: nuclear reactors are "acceptably safe",. !However, the final; report of the all -party fourteen member . committee adds "there are real • risks' in .the peaceful use of nuclear power and.. absolute safety can never be totally assured." The report makes several recommendations to. improve nuclear safety. while pointing out weaknesses inthe design, opet ation and regulation of Ontario's nuclear industry. "Tlie committee, learned that it is impossible to assure.thait there is absolute safety in the Operation of Ontario's reacfors.:There is a broad range of possible accidents and subsequent consequences with varying likelihoods of occurence. "Even;' so;' given the clear commitment ' '.,of Ontario,: Hydro to safety, the past safety record of the existing reactors and the design •mechanisms :to limit the NOTICE November 30, 1979 OUR YEAR END IS FAST APPROACHING Please check your account and help us clean up the loose ends by Nov. 19th 1979 Your co-operation would be greatly appreciated. Ma We most EAFORTH FARMERS CO-OP' 527-0770 A • DAIRY PRINCESS—Susan Zielrrlan of R.R, 2, Dashwood, centre, was named Huron County Dairy Princess at the dairy princess ball in Holmesville Friday night. The other contestants L to R are Mary Ann Van Dorp, R. R. 2, Seaforth, Dianne Oldfield, R.R. 4, Seaforth, Peggy! Schneider, R.R.1r Fordwich,, Brenda Feagan, R.R. 4, Goderich,, (Photo. by Oke), stand retire or to help get his children started on the farm:" Merle Gaaby. President of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture noted,. "These Statements appear to run counter to Government policies; asoutlined in the consequences of possible • accidents; •,the contntittee found that the risk of ar serious accident occurring in. any • single reactoris extremely small and: that the • reactors "were, therefore, acceptably safe,": Catastro hie; accidents are: very'.mucN'ori people's :minds. at.. present, with the potentially very- dangerous situation • in ',Mississauga` following the accident to CP rail freight train. When the train was 'derailed; a tatiker containing Lethal.. liquid chlorine sustained' a twa-foot tear; it immediately.. began leaking chlorine and it wtts'feared that explosions of other chemicals being transported by the .train would connpletcly rupture the container. The disaster closed three major highways, caused' 700 patients to be ntoved:' from two hospitals, .. and somptliing; •like half a' Million people in the area to bd evaeuate'd'•and housed private residences, elsewhere, in high schools, shopping centres, etc. The crippled freight train was' one of dozens which :pass through the city of Toronto evey day hauling deadly chemicals, Yard Marshals often place the tanks' of dangerous substances. between other, cars that act as buffers, but the practice is not required by law. Fifty or sixty tanks of deadly chemicals are sometimes strung together, according to a CP Rail official, Brucellosis should'. be eradicated in: Canada in ten vears. according 10 an official, of Agriculture Canada. The prediction is based` -on computer projections on the federal campaign to eradi- Cate the disc}se that causes abortionandi a d reduced milli production in Cows, Since the campaign h,as been stepped; up, the number of known infected .herds across the. country has dropped from 1,230 in 1976 to 227. Staceybutter winner a Stacey Brothers Ltd. of Mitchell won the Grand Chanipionslip for butter at. the Royal Agricultural Win- ter Fair again this year. Stacey 'butter was awarded ril1:7 points out of a possible•. 100 to capture the top award: The win at this . year's 'Royal' was for the ' Stacey firm's "cultured. butter; a specially processed gourmet• type of butter. Last year at the Winter Fair the Grand Chantpionship was awarded tb Staccv $ros. forits "salted, butter." Earlier this year, at the C.N.J ., the Champion - Ship was Won, by Stacey unsalted butter. ` It is believed this is, the first 'time any exhibitor has had three canSeCilltivc Ns ins at, the RoyalandC.N.E. cans- petitions in the three major categories of butter,'. WEED HARVEST CLINIC Friday,. November 23rd Date Time Place 9 a.m. - 4 p.mY MILTON J. 'CSIETZ LTD. R.R. 4, Seaforth, Ontario Coffee and Donuts Bring your weed samples and your harvest problems. • • Sponsored by Statlt E'r Food Land Guidelinespub- lication,'" which states... "If a farmer who has been farming a substantial num- ber of years' .and who is retiring from active working life,needs to sever one lot on which .to build a house in «hich he intends to retire - because the lotmay sub• sequently be taken 'over by others and create problem's. for adjacent farm operations, the farmer should be encour- aged to consider retirement in .a nearby village or town. Alternately. if a farmer wishes to retire. to a relocate - able house on his ,farts; he should be permitted to do so. "If a residential lot is required to provide ac- commodation' for full-time tarns help -this may be for hired; help or family ,mem- bers (son or daughter). whose working activity is primarily devoted• to 'the farm :oper- ation and where the nature of the farm operation requires. :this help to be accommo- dated close to the farm. This accommodation should be provided as part of the `farm unit rather than on a separ- ate .lot. The accommodation. could be a conventional dwelling or a mobile home." The tollontmg Quote taken ;from a regent Huron' County Federation'E''tecutive' letter.. to Mr. Henderson sums up our concerns, said Mr. Gun - by. "Since statistically so called retirement homes are used for their original pur- pose for less than five years, the Directors of HCFA would like to know what proposals you would bring forward to protect the Agricultural in-.' dustry from these non` =farm interests? We would suggest • • Huron thatpermitting residential severances in an agricultural • arca ;is a very shortsighted policythat has historically caused harrassment of far- mers and created pressures for further development Causing serious social ani economic disruptions in our agricultural oriented com- munities which are trying to plan meaningfully for our agricultural industry in , Ontario." AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Here s' 'a sample of dur auto. mobile rates for persons between age 25•1i0 years Compare then) kith vourprrsent rates S500 000 'Bodily injury,, and property damage 5 25;000=Accident benefits S 250—Collision deductible $ 2S—Comprehensive deductible. 6'.month premium No. Application Fee Required ABOVEPREMIUM' BASED S D ON 1, No accidents or convictions in :1 nears, - ?. Driving to work 9 miles or IeSS. :1, On a 1979 Pontiac 4. ;tilarried`person betHeen 25 and 60 5., li'e also apply further discounts for 2 cars_ and . farmers receive reductions of another .$14.00 every -6 months. • INSURANCE. T Md1AAS ER AGENCIES LTD. icons'—Business— %uto—Farm —hire Life' YOU CAN CONTACT KEITH MURRAY BY CALLING: Mitchell Brodhagen 348-9747. 345-2022 On-Hw . 23 north of Residence y • Mitchell -,south of Wards 345-2787. Box 793, Mitchell, Ont... • Stratford Head Office 1.800-265-8532 Toll Free CALL ANYTIME!! 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