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• •
CORN CROP
SEMINAR
"Maximizing Corn Yields"
FEATURING . .
• "Marketing Your Corn Crop"
Ken Paterson — Chairman Ontario Corn Council
• "Soil Management"
Mike Miller —Assoc. Ag. Rep. — Huron County
• "Planter Servicing t Maintenance"
Bill Campbell'— Vincent Farm Equipment Ltd.
• " Monitoring Equipment"
Bill Verrall — International Harvester
Friday, April 14th, 1978
1:30 p‘m.
SEAFORTH 527-0120 di
representatives from the Ministry
of Agriculture, Ministry of
Natural Resources, municipal
government and producers would
be established to designate the
location, intensity and method of
predator control in regions where
increased predator control is
shown to be necessary.
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16 — THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 12, 1978
MPP introduces bill to control In Wingham
Lions offer'
Children with impaired hearing
enter a classroom where the
teacher's words are foggy, and
school becomes a confusing
jumble of misunderstood
instructions.
Next week the Wingham Lions
Club is bringing a mobile hearing
clinic to Wingham to test babies'
and young children's hearing.
The Hospital for Sick Children
mobile hearing clinic will be at
the clinic building behind the
Wingham and District- Hospital
Cattle outlook
Vern Ydrgason
Economics Branch
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
The cattle industry, after
suffering several •years of
depressed prices, now appears to
be in the midst of a long-term
recovery for both finished and
feeder cattle. While some
variability in production and
Prices can still be expected as a
result of changes in pasture
conditions, feed prices, and
demand, there is significant
evidence suggesting lower
slaughter levels and higher prices
on average for the coming year.
Total slaughter at federally
inspected plants in 1977 will
probably total some 3.8 million
head, to 3.8 percent from the 1976
level of 3.6 million. Slaughter in
Ontario plants should reach 1.1
million head, only marginally
greater than last year.
Prices of Al and A2 steers at
• Toronto are expected to average
$2.30 per cwt higher in 1977 than
1976, at approximately -$44.20,
with relatively all of the improve-
ment occurring in the latter half
of the year. This improvement is'
partly due to the declining
external value of the Canadian
dollar, but is also due to a
significant resurgence in
demand, despite general
economic conditions in 1977.
Feeder steer and calf prices
have shown much the same
trends as Al and A2 steers.
Prices for good feeder steers over
800 pounds increased steadily
from $37.36 per cwt in January to
$43.50 in November. Good
stocker calves weighing 400-500
pounds rose from $40 to $45 per
cwt over the same period.
The decline in steer marketings
in the latter half of 1977, coupled
with a reduced number of steers
on farms, suggests a Significant
decrease in production and
marketings of steers throughout
the first half of 1978. Higher
prices for feeder cattle and calves
may also induce a reduction in the
number of heifers marketed for
beef as well, with the result that
fed cattle slaughter of domeStic
origin may well drop 3-5 percent
below 1.977 standards.
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Installation
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Barn Cleaners
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Phone:
Brussels '887-9024
on April 18. to 21.
The basic hearing test takes
from 10 to 20 minutes, but other
tests are available on the parents'
request,
last year, the mobile clinic
visited 3,7 communities across the
province and conducted over
2,000 hearing tests.
' Parents of children tested will e
immediately `given the results of
the test and the family doctor will
be given a written copy of any
recommendations.
What happens in the Canadian
cattle ,market in 1978 will be
almost totally controlled by what
happens in the United States. It is
expected prices at Toronto Will
hover within a few cents of the
import level throughout 1978.
The U.S.D.A. is expecting a
reduction in cattle and beef
- production in 1978, but decreases
in the slaughter of fed cattle are
not expected to occur until late
spring. As a result, it is unlikely
that prices during the first
quarter will average much above
the late December lvel of $42-$44
per cwt for choice steers at
Omaha. Second quarter prices
may average in the $41-42 range,
and prices shoudl then trend
steadily upwards to the $44 level
at the end of the year.
Prices in Toronto will probably
range from $48-$50 per cwt for Al
and A2 steers throughout January
and the first part of February, but
will then begin to decline, adn
may be as low as $45-$46 in the
latter part of March and through
April. Price will then recover to
the $48-$50 level by early
summer, and should finish in the
low $50's' in November and
December. In all, prices should
average about $48 per cwt for the
• year.
Feeder cattle prices shoudf
follow those for fed cattle fairly
closely all year, perhaps being
discounted on average about
$2-$3 compared with fed cattle.
Feeder calf prices, however,
should break through the fed
cattle. price, and may well be
selling at a slight premium in the
fall of 1978.
predators in Ontario
Jack. Riddell, Liberal M.P.P. the problem - themselves. This.
practice of attempting to control for Huron-Middlesex, today has
predators by acting only after.
introduced an Act to provide for losses occur has been ineffective the establishment of local
and haphazard. predator - control committees
The Government has chosen to
throughout Ontario. Until 1972, ignore the recommondentation of
the main method of protecting the Provincial "Mammalian and livestock from wildlife predators Avian
Pest Management in Ontario was a provincial bounty Committee"
which was system. However, this protection established to examine this
was ineffective because it did not
situation. In fact, the differentiate between. the coyote Committee's report, submitted in
and the timber wolf. Moreover, June 1.977, has yet to be tabled no attempt was made to control in the House.
livestock predation in specific
The Private Member's Bill production areas of the Province
would where there was a serious
establish predator control areas problem.
which are primarily suited to
Although this should be a agriculture as opposed. to those provincial responsibility,
the areas suited to wildlife. Predator
Ontario Government is currently Control. Committees consisting or relying upon producers to solve
Corn planting to be
near 77 levels
Phil Regli unchanged. AS of December 15,
Economist 1977, No. 2 corn price paid to
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture farmers in the Chatham and
Ontario grain corn production London area was $74 per tonne.
for 1977 is estimated at 3,917
Prices of corn in Ontario may
thousand tonnes, about 14 show some improvement early in
percent greater than in 1976. 1978. However, large supplies
Average yields were estimated at currently on hand will probably
6,000 kg/ha (96 bu/acre) and area limit prices to farmers at
harvested was up 2 percent from Chatham and London to the
1976. '$75-$90 per tonne range.
Area of oats, barley and mixed
Despite a relatively low market
grains harvested in Ontario price in 1977, total area of corn
during 1977 were down by 17 planted•in Ontario did not change
percent, 14 percent and 2 percent much. Declines in southern
respectively.
On July 31, 1977, stocks of increased planting in western,
Ontario counties were offset by
Ontario corn on hand were 838.6 central and eastern 'counties.
thousand tonnes, about 50 percnt
The area of corn to be planted
greater than levels of one year in Ontarioln1978 is not expected
earlier. Available supplies of to decline below 1977 levels.
Whether any major increase Ontario corn (1977 production
plus 1977 carryover) are expected occurs will depend upon the
to be about 20 percent greater profitability of corn versus
than for the previous period. competing crops early in 1978.
Marketings during October and
November 1977 were up about 8
percent from last year's levels.
,In Ontario, prices for corn
received by farmers in the
Chatham and London area have
been about $15 per tonne below
the nearby Month in the Chicago
futures market.
Cash prices have improved
slightly since ,harvest, but the
basis has remained relatiVelY
hearing clinic
Will depend on
American market
D.N.Lefebvre, Manager
Listowel, Ontario