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Serial Noi 501788 - LIST $8647.55 LESS 9147.55 7500 PONTIAC BUICK CADILLAC GMC TRUCKS: HAMILION OtiEti LIST 4941:80 LESS '1601.80 34 0$1 Of • ..-•" • . hannam to Clinton This special meeting has been called .by the Huron County Federation of Agriculture in order to give all interested persons an opportunity to discuss with Peter how the proposed property tax reforms' will affect the farming community and what the 0.r.A. ment.. • wino/ 'is towards these reforms. • Peter Hannam, President of,the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, will speak at the Clinton High School on Monday, February 27 at 8:30 p.m. on the subject of the O.F.A. policy on the property tax reforms being proposed by the Ontario govern- YOU ARE ,INVITED to come and see us at the FARM SHOW London Fein-wiry 28th to March 3rd. cGAV INS F RM EQUIPMENT LTD • WALTON Serving Agrkuiture Inc -t 1936 Seaforth ' Legion Hail Tickets available at the office or from directors 7-- We like 10 knoyi, our customers -J by name!" ' . , EAFO he importance -of farmers production increases be so high? Vartneri'have beeirqu to adopt new methods and adapt to new-ideas;-Yet, they a e painted as slow-thinking clods as old-fashioned as high-but ton shoes and seamed silk-stockings. They are called backward and 'stupid and are lampooned by most comedians. The truth is far different from the pic- ture most pedple have of farmers. I have said it before but it is worth repeating. I believe • the day will come when food will• become a political tool„ just the way 911 14.1.944Y.o. The big old Hew Hess Hay has traditionally supperted-Israel but is being forced to see the Arab viewpoint these days.to keep the oil energy flowing. I am convinced that every bit of food ,prOduetion that Canadian and American farmers can grow will be needed ears.„„tp come. It will be a tool with which the fate of nations wat.be decided especially if world population con- tinues to grow,. And'grow and grow. 4 Lester Brown of World Watch has put it succinctly. He says in a world of food scarcity, North America must decide • who gets how much food and on what terms. 'In grain- Short years, the United States and Canada, like! it or" must -cleeide who gets food and who "does not. Food policy can no longer be treated as an isolated agricultural Can you see the iMPlieations of that statement? It will be the agrieulttiral Sector citthete two ceinitriei -which will decide who will eat and who will go to bed hungry. Those Agricultural Week's activities in , from production into meeting as part of last weeks ,k. . prod udt Stratford. , " consumption channels and to try i electedo ,78 Tonyi t its neVi VanK producers send signals back to is required. He said,' how much At the meeting the Federation . marketing board versus free executiveo • trf p r ot iion R.R.#2, St. Pauli wasterelected ' "Theanistake we've made in the president of the organization -with beef industry is that we've, read Bob Yule of Atwood and, Harry the signals wrong." „. Greenwood of R.R.#2, Mitchell ' As a rfAult Gracey said, elected first and., second vice farmers have increased the presidents respectively. breeding herd much too rapidly at Although much of the meeting the wrong time and then blamed centred around elections, the the marketing 'systena -feiflheir plight. Federation , members attending? According to Gracey that's not also heard both sides oft the a ,fair acetbsationiThe said, "The market to ng debilte. • beef cattle is' one of the • finest marketiQ 'system we've got for Charlie. Gracey, • Secretary agricultural marketing systems Cattlemen's Association spoke to in. Cariada today." Gracey said that the challenge Manager of ', the ' Canadian the farmers on the advantages of is'to learn to read'those signals the free marketing system. Dr. better and "Tame the beef Board spoke on the other side of cycle." ifignals., continue as violently as , He did say though, "Certainly George Collin, chairman of:. the • , Ontario Farm Products marketing the issue, with his topic being, they . have then thsoe who the service provided to the advocate supply management will producer by marketing'Boards.__ BOnahe. ,Lkc-'P-e-t--hP•nd,'-'- -. ' are the kinds of decisionS'l can do without. It is a little_like.-'----- Aceording to Gracey the 'if there's a law of supply and Loners am srtiated by BobItnt. EWAN Rd . firm On N3B 2C* „0 , The Perth- Countyfederation of Agrictilture held' 'its annual .Gracey said the purpdse of any marketing ;system. is to Ow a. open marketing system'," He said all farmers deed now In Canada is to convert the current import controls into a permanent meat import policy, He said, "We certainly don't need a marketing board to. do that." - Cracoy • summetized 'his comments saYing,"Tbe ,debate we have .t.oday in agriculture • not between free marketing and marketing boards, the .debalte is' between free "marketing ,and supply control." • . On .the other side of the coin Dr. George ,Collin praised . -Marketing. Boar'diand what they have_aehieved - for farmers. Collin said, "The prime advantage &Marketing boards in Ontario 'is', to -O&M for farm pro.dlicers. orderly marketing from the farm gate to the marketplace," o As well' Collin said there, are several other minor advantages such as product promotion; suppOrt research in both = production and marketing, and • the strong lebbying influence, this, influenee can help sway govertirnenron import • controls but admitted marketing beards couldn't solve • boarder disputq over , imports. Theie services he said, couldn't "be provided by the free marketing system. "It's very difficult to do, because to provide• funds for these types of services you must levy fairly and equitably these charges to' each ,farmer," "Its nearly impossible to do well in an open 'system." Bill Newman, Ontario's'minister of agiletilture and fd9d, is a busy man these days. He must have great amounts of energy beCause he manages t6 speak at numerous meetings. I have been, involved in a few meetings-myself over the years and the meals served by mostfarin -organizations are certain to add -an inch or two to the waistline. I don't know .how Bill keeps his schoolbgy figure. I don't. I've gained eight pounds in_the: last three ntionths and eight pounds en my five-foot-five frame is as bad as 20 pOunds on a six-foot- er. It is interesting.to read accounts of these annual meetings . being held across the province. The big problem for most farmers is over-production. It is absolutely amazing to me that 'the agricultural sector is able to produce so much in this country. There are fewer farmers on the land yet those • who are left produce more and more. Productivity by farmers outstrips, all other sectors of the economy, Agricultural-production for the last 10 .years has increased 5.1 per cent annually. That's ,_five per cent ,every year for 10 years, an increase of more tilan 50 per-bent in a_ decade, Compare...this to.most other industries'' and you begin fa un- derstand why there is a surplus of most agricultural prod- ucts in Canada. In the non-agricultural goods-producing sector,. the production increase in 10 years has been four per cent - four per cent in 10 years!.The increase in the commercial sector was also three per cent in 10 years. In the-serviceindustries;theincrease in 1-0-years was 2.1 per cent: cent I don't know what the next figure indicates but here it is: government employee output dropped three per cent since It,is clear to me that agriculture is in the forefront when it comes to radical changes and pew ideas. How else could But if half the world suffers a drought oneibf these years deciiions on -production and who will get what -is proclueed will -have to be made. Maybe then the rest of this country will appreciate just how important farmers are. playhjgped, _ The chief negoti: • upcoming agriculti •---:lateral Trade Negoti to Canada's farmers, convention of 'the ' Canadian • Federation 'of ' Agriculture recently. Arnbassador Charles Warren said that agrieulthre is of vital importance at'the talks, and •may spell the difference between success or failure. There 'is a'."` difference approach between the cciunfiles of the Eur-opean Economic Community and the., United States. The EEC wants a managed world ' market for agrictOturewhile the U.S:wants a free, market, he said' Canada i§. as•usual, in the middle with the • . attitude that it doesn't really matter what system you use, as long as it brings results. ' ' Mr. Warren said that he expects the U.S. to open, their border more widely for agricid: tural products before We can open ours, but it is inevitable that we have to giye something .in •return. Non tariff barrier§ will be looked at very closely, he said. Such things, as • support prices 'must be considered ak being unfair trading practiees:7" The Canadian government has firmly • s tat e d tharthey ri ' be-S-atigiod - with anything leSs • than full reciprocity 'in agriculture. rade negotiat aks r number' one advantage of an -unregulated' marketing systeiii is simply; "The freedom of supply and demand.." However Gram', admitted there are major problems encountered. • He said, "The trouble that we have is that most people misinterpret loW prices as being the fault of the-- marketing system." AccOrdinWto Gracey the poor prices, in the •.,zof industry OVe? the past "3. or 4 years has led a.lot of people to condemn:thefroe marketing system. He said, "But the marketplace is not to blame, the problem was, the. severe level denrand4hat -determines -price- then its the responsibility of pioducers to learn more about that law." •• The free marketing system, according to Gracey„ could handle any of the duties marketing boards ;do currently, just' as efficiently. "One of the _great miscon- ceptions is • that if you have a marketing board you could have -import controls more easily." Gracey sighted the American farmers, as example, "They've had a meat import law, in place for yeati' to' protect their producers ana l-they have a very free and CHAMPION P1,41.1.EpS • L- Brian (left) and..David Vincent are two, of the 'fop ' mime -t ractor puilers in,Ontari6. Aeoehtly back from the Canada Farm Show L Brian Seaftifth placed first in the 12001'b. -ore-riaTaTiricf - David from Ayr placed second in the 1200 lb. stock class. Both boy ere points leaders in theft classes over the past year. • (ExDOsitor Photo.).