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THE. BRUSSELS POST,. FEBRUARY 21, 1979 15.
Consumer over-reaction worries cattlemen
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BY ALICE GMB
Art Bolton of McKillop president of the
Huron Cattlemen's Association, asked
Huron County's three members of parlia-
ment for their support in preventin2
—5. consumer over-reaction to the high price of
beef at the annual members of parliament
meeting on Saturday.
Mr. Bolton and representatives from other
Huron County commodity groups presented
brief to MPPs Jack Riddell and Murray
Gaunt and MP Robert McKinley at the
dinner held in Clinton.
Mr. Bolton said the beef nrire inorease
results from the decline in the number of
beef cattle and the decline in value of the
Canadian dollar. He said it's expected the
number of cows will continue to decline until
1980 and relatively high prices for beef will
prevail until 1982.
Frank Wall, an OFA director from the
Niagara region, asked Mr. Bolton if cattle
producers couldn't maintain their production
at a steady rate. He said there was again talk
by some consumers about boycotting beef
due to the high prices.
Mr. Bolton said cattlemen are trying to get
better market information to the producers
in order to stabilize production and price
cycles. He added that mentioning quotas
was the "quickest way to get yourself out of
a cattlemen's meeting that I know."
Lloyd Stewart, secretary of the Huron
County Pork Producers, called for an
expansion of the processing and packing
industry in the brief he presented to the
three politicians.
Jack Riddell said he understood pork
consumption will increase in the future due
to higher beef prices and that good pork
prices are predicted for the next two years.
John Van Beers, of R.R.1, Blyth, said
Ontario hog producers need another
slaughtering plant in the province to keep up
with production.
Bill Scott of Seaforth, Huron County
director on the Ontario Egg Producers
Marketing Board, said in his brief that both
Ontario and Quebec require an increase in
their egg quotas. He said under the federal
marketing plan, until a more realistic
agreement can be reached, egg quotas can't
be stabilized and will continue to fluctuate.
The director told the members of parlia-
ment the major problem facing producers
now is the development of an on going
transfer policy. He said there are currently
two trains of thoughts among producers
about the issue.
Some producers want the quota to be
purchased by the marketing board, put into
a pool and re-distributed pro-rata to all the
producers wanting it, at the same price.
Mr. Scott said, "This is the fairest, easiest
and least controversial plan to implement."
However, other producers favor an open,
face to face buy-sell program with
limitations, such as limiting purchases to
five per cent of basic quota. Mr. Scott said
the marketing board directors are now
working on a program for quotas to be put
forward at their annual meeting in March.
Jack Riddell, the Liberal party's
agriculture critic in the Ontario legislature,
said he is concerned how' a young person
gets into the egg business today. He asked,
"Have we closed the door to the young
farmer who wants to go into the business?"
Jim McIntosh, of R.R.5, Seaforth, said a
young farmer could probably still justify
buying a successful poultry operation with
quota rather than buying expensive land and
going into cash cropping.
Murray Gaunt said he had heard concern
expressed about a corporate concentration in
the egg business. Mr. Scott said at this point
he didn't see the industry getting into
corporate hands, since individual farmers
and not industries are leasing available egg
quotas.
"The family farmer is right out there
competing," Mr. Scott added.
Bert Elliott, chairman of the Huron
County Cream Producers, reported his
organization is still fighting a drop in the
consumption of cream in the market place
and suggests a percentage of the price
increase for producers be paid through
higher subsidies. He also told the three
politicians that his group is opposed to any
changes being made in the Line Fence Act,
and feelseach landowner should maintain his
own half of the line fences where livestock
are pasturing on neighbouring farms.
Melvin Knox of the Huron County Milk
Committee said his industry as a whole has
few major problems.
Mr. Knox told the audience Ontario has
lost too great an amount of their share of the
quota, since they didn't produce enough of
the provincial, allottment. Now, "we'd just
love to produce more milk in this province"
but "we don't want to be stuck with a big
surplus."
He said producers are now living with a
five per cent sleeve on excess quota, but this
is "awful tight." •
Mr. Knox said milk producers suffered
when the United Kingdom joined the
European Common Market, since Canada
lost a major cheddar cheese market.
He said there is now no such thing as an
export market for dairy products since there
is such a glut on the world market from
countries like Australia, New Zealand and
the Common Market countries.
Bev Brown, an OFA director from
Bluevale, said a resolution is coming up at
the Canadian-Federation of Ag (culture
conference in Ottawa this week to dis-
courage the initation of natural' dairy
products by products like coffee creamers
and artificial whipped creams.
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