The Rural Voice, 1979-04, Page 36
Inside this month
Special features
On the land P 2
Beans pay the mortgage P. 6
Spring means new beginnings P. 9
Anything that can go wrong P. 11
Swine Health Program P 19
Pigs are movie stars P 21
Changes in stabilization P 22
Keith Roulston P. 23
Bruce Folk Singers P 50
Regular features
A matter of Principle P 14
Up and Coming P 20
Voice of A Farmer P. 26
Rural News in Brief P. 27
Advice on Farming P. 37
The Rural Family P. 42
Mailbox of the Month P 46
The Young Farmer P. 48
Perth Federation News P. 51
Bruce Federation News P 52
Huron Federation News P 55
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Opinion
It's planning time
Many of the farmers interviewed in Alice Gibb's On the Land
story which starts on page 3 of this issue say they spend this time
of year planning, reviewing last year's crops, yields and prices,
looking over their equipment and financial arrangements.
It's a time of assessing, these farmers told the Rural Voice
reporter, and of putting into practise changes and improvements
that ought to make 1979 a better year than 1978.
Here at Rural Voice, we've been doing much the same things.
This April issue is the tenth since a new editorial board began
putting out the magazine last summer.
We've slowly made changes and improvements and we hope
readers are happy with them. This month after a lot of planning
and hard work, Rural Voice appears with a new glossy cover.
This month also marks the debut of a new hard hitting
columnist who has a lot of value to say about the rural scene.
He's Keith Roulston who grew up on a farm near Lucknow, a
popular writer who's former publisher of the Rural Voice. His
first column, a sympathetic look at the pressures which drove
American Farmers to invade Washington this winter, appears on
page 23.
We at Rural Voice think our farm magazine is unique because
it zeroes in on issues and people in Bruce, Huron and Perth. . .
Ontario's bread basket counties. Sure we talk about national and
provincial trends in agriculture, but we get local comment on
them. We ask how changes in federal farm policy for example
will affect our readers in Bruce, Huron and Perth.
Rural Voice welcomes your comments on the stories and
columns in every issue. We encourage letters to the editor.
We're looking for news tips and for advice, news about the small
improvements perhaps that have worked well for you on your
farm.
Up and coming in the May Rural Voice we have stories on that
most uncontrollable of all the pressures farmers face, the
weather. In future issues we plan to feature individual
commodities and local people who have something important to
say about them, a long the lines of our March, pork issue. Drop
us a line and tell us which commodity you'd like to see Rural
Voice cover next.
Our planning and assessment isn't complete though without
comment from our readers. Will you write and tell us what you
do and don't like about Rural Voice?
June is tor kids
In its June issue Rural Voice is going to pay special attention
to those very important people in the rural scene. . .the kids.
On page 13 of this issue we are asking young readers to sena
us their artwork, poems and stories. A rural theme, perhaps
"what I'm going to be doing on the farm this summer", would
be fine but subject matter is open. .
Rural Voice will reprint the best of these and the top three in
each age group will win prize money.
We'll also be talking to school kids in classrooms in Bruce,
Huron and Perth about what they like about living on the farm,
and perhaps about the differences between growing up in the
country and growing up in town.
Ask the kids in your household to read the announcement on
page 13. There'll be Tots of room for their contributions in the
June Rural Voice.