The Rural Voice, 1978-03, Page 13surplus, yet local plants cannot get enough milk to meet their
requirements."
While farm separating cream can produce more cream for
butter without increasing the surplus of milk powder, farmers
are having problems getting some creameries to pick up their
cream. The creameries would rather buy bulk tank loads of
cream from powdered milk plants.
Nick Whyte presented the brief for the county bean producers
again %Yarning about the dangers to his industry of a electric
power generating plant in the county. He also said that soil
erosion is a growing problem and called for better conservation
practices. such as grassed runways and planting of more trees.
John Beane for the Huron County Wheat Producers said that
the federal government had reneged on a promise which would
have .given them $4 a bushel this year under cost of production
increases but has instead only given a price of $3.55, 45 cents a
bushel under the promised amount.
George Adams delivered the Huron Cattlemen's Association
brief pointing out the relationship between the number of
females vs. males slaughtered and the price of beef in
subsequent years. The ratio varied from a low of 79 in 1970 to a
high of 125 females to males slaughtered in 1976 and 123 last
year. It indicates a decline in the cow herd and better prices
should he ahead. he said.
The meeting ended at six p.m.. six gruelling hours after it
began. Most of the farmers managed to stick it out to the bitter
end. unlike the press. Does it say something about the stamina of
the farriers or the fact they're used to working with large
amounts of biological fertilizer?
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Ontario Hydro has been mailing 25,000 questionnaires to their
farm customers on the possible results of a power blackout on the
farm.
Such questions as: What is "cost resulting from damage to
farm: spoilage of produce, lost crop or animals, cleanup and
possible extra labour" and such are obviously designed to scare
the farmer into support for the position on electrical expansion
that Ontario Hydro favours. The questionnaire raises the
prospects of power rationing at a time when the projected seven
percent demand for last year turned out to be only two percent.
The tactic is so obvious that we are surprised that a supposedly
sophisticated corporation such as Ontario Hydro stoops to it.
That some of the questions are needed and provide valuable
information only serves to obsecure the obvious reason for the
questionnaire.
The Huron Power Plant Committee has never questioned the
projections for more generating stations, only their location. But
the Committee has also kept abreast of the information that is
presented in reams of paper to the Royal Commission on Electric
Power Planning and, as mentioned before, found the forecasted
demand to be faulty.
It will, of course be, up to each farmer if he wishes to answer
the questionnaire, but we in our turn question the ethics of
Ontario Hydro in this matter.
Adrian Vos
Chairman Huron Power Plant Committee.
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