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Big year for OA
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livestock guys don't mind the
heavy bags," jolced Fell.
This is *his biggest year for
soybeans with a heavy denawl
for the OAC Bayfield variety.
About five years ago Fell
built a storage shed that
attached to the seed plant. In the
past seeds were stored in a shed
out behind the barn. SQ every
time a load .of seed -had to be
moved by forklift, it depended
on the weather outside. Now the
whole operation is contained
under one roof.
The clipper/cleaner Machine
uses an air blower to blow out
light waste and screens seeds by
•'width. The gradingmachine
checks the seeds by length and
• takes out anything that's bro-
en, too long or too Short.
All grains aretreated with a ,
. .
fngicid - Vita -Flow 280 and
DCT, insocticide-fangicide
. combination.
Fell says you have t be care-
ful moving beans not to damage
'Ahern. "Augers and beans don/
got along too well.' For that
reason an air blower is used to
to
move beans into the cleaner.
Fell has built a conveyor
bring the beans from the clean-
ing ma to the bagging bins.
Itosebank Seed Farms' seed
ost
plant will be running alm
constantly processing grains,til
soybeans and white beans un
the first of June for this ye
crop.
Lek:.
flOseliank'Seed Farms was
recentl.y. filling 404% bags
of Morrison Barley at their
MK 2 Staffa seed #leaning
White beans are .treated with plant (David Scott photo).
Plant closures hard on people
Plant closures in three rural
communities in southern
Ontario bad a 'devastating eco-
nomic and emotional impact on
people's 'lives, a' .recent
University of Guelph study' has
•found, ° •° ,
The study of Elora, liarrision
and Mount Forest was the first
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of its kind to look at the effects
of Canadian corporate restruc-
turing in a rural- setting. Since
the late 1980s, economic
restructuring has resulted in
massive plant shutdowns in :the
industrial heartlands, Of Canada.
More than 400 plant closures.
occurred between late 1988 and
•
June 1990 alone, leading to per-
manent structural changes to the
economy.
In conducting the study,
University of Guelph sbciolo-
gist Tony Winson and anthrb-
pologist Belinda Leach wanted
to .determine the long-term
effects otplant closures in rural
communities.
"What are the viable econom-
ic -strategics for communities to
ensure longer-term sustainabili-
ty?" gays Winson. "These com-
munities have been. dependent
on multinational firms, and we
have to ask if that is a good
strateg3k"
Leach notes that many
• Canadian communities still
have the goal of attracting a big
multinational company for eco-
nomic growth. We wanted to
know what the new economy
was looking like, what firms
were replacing those that
closed," she says.
The Guelph study looked at
the 1991 closure of Canada
Packers plants in Elora and
Harriston, which put 130 and,
101 people out of work, respec-
tively. It- also looked at a
Westinghouse plant ,in Mount
Forest, which employed 250
workers in 1989, began layoffs
in 1991 and closed in July 1994.
The closures weren't tied to
localeconomic conditions.
Westinghouse's shutdown was
due to losses from high-risk real
estate speculation in the late
'80s; Canada Packers closed in a
restructuring bid by a British
fain that acquired the company
in 1991. .
Leach and Winson conducted
in-depth interviews with a sant-
pie' of 68 plant workers laid off
• in the last three.years and with a
variety of community people.
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