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fourth quarter. He said these were "pretty
good prices".
Many factors affect the price of pork, he
said. One, not considered before, is the
devaluation of the Canadian dollar.
Weather can also affect prices. Bad
weather in the U.S. recently has led to the
Toss of weaner pigs in the south meaning
prices could go up.
The pork revolution in Quebec is
something to keep an eye on, he said. That
province, he feels, may be self-sufficient in
weaner pigs in the next three years leaving
Ontario with a surplus of weaners. The
business is big there. he said. with 11 per
cent of the hog producers producing 70 per
cent of the hogs.
However, he said. large scale operations
with up to 1500 sows in a herd are running
into disease problems.
While Ontario has seen some increase in
hog farrowings. Quebec has seen a
whopping 30 per cent increase, he said. '
Mr. McLean said that the new hog
grading system in Ontario is giving
heavy -hog producers more scope but is
costing producers of lighter hogs up to
$2.00 per hog. He said he feels Ontario
producers can make the switch to produce
the kind of hog the market is demanding.
Hydro lines still
target of unrest
Property owners from Holstein and Conn
v.ere involved in February with yet another
dispute over Ontario Hydro power lines.
Bernie Cummings, R.R.1, Holstein and
John Mulhall, R.R.2, Conn set up picket
lines'because they were unhappy with the
settlements offered by Ontario Hydro. Mr.
Mulhall said Ontario Hydro began
construction before settlements were
reached and had broken promises made
earlier. "There are many miles of line
Hydro could be building on while
negotiations are completed" he said. Mr.
Cummings and Mr. Mulhall say that once
the line is built they won't have any
bargaining power.
However, Ted Johnston, a spokesman
for Ontario Hydro said that the utility had a
right to be on the land and there was a
need to get the line built so that power
from the Bruce Nuclear Power Develop-
ment could be delivered. "If the fourth unit
at Bruce isn't completed next year we'll
suffer huge losses," he said. "We have a
responsibility to the people of Ontario."
Mr. Johnston said the construction of "a
few towers shouldn't effect beef cattle
farming." There were no costs involved to
the farmers, he said.
Mr. Cummings however, claimed that
the line crosses the farm diagonally and
would cause problems in planting and
harvesting crops. He also said the line is
the highest voltage of any Ontario Hydro
line.
Jack Johnson. M.P.P. for Wellington-
Dufferin-Peel held a meeting to try to get
the two parties together and said that
Ontario Hydro came within 10 per cent of
the price asked for by the two farmers. "I
think Ontario Hydro was being a little
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stubborn," he said. He proposed a three
man panel to study the discrepancies in the
different property appraisals and to
investigate the cost of relocating for the
beef farmers.
Munro retires
as CFA president
BY ADRIAN VOS
Charles Munro of Embro, Ontario
decided not to stand for re-election as
president of the Canadian Federation of
Agriculture. He had come full circle, he
said, and it was fitting that he would end
the presidency where it has begun, in
Quebec City, nine years earlier.
On food prices he presented statistics
compiled by U.S. agricultural attaches,
that showed that in almost every food item
costs less in minutes worked than
anywhere else in the world. "Canadian
consumers take it much too much for
granted that they will continuously have
available to them an adequate supply of
high quality cheap food. I doubt if it ever
crosses the minds of Canadians at all that
unless they are prepared to pay the price,
the farmers will simply cease to produce."
He challenged every farmer and every
farm organization to better aquaint
consumers with the real cost of producing
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THE RURAL VOICE/MARCH 1978, PG. 15.