The Rural Voice, 1979-09, Page 15Earlier this year, a number of cattle died after being given a
BVD vaccine, but Mr. Hayes said most people in his area don't
vaccinate their western calves. He said many of the cattle who
died from the vaccine were in farms in the Dobbington area.
Mr. Hayes said participants in the beef study met with Guelph
researchers in the spring to go through the results from the first
year of the study.
Doug Hayes and his family stand in front of the hay wagon on the
Hayes family farm near Cape Chin, Lindsay Township on the Bruce
Peninsula.
Doug Hayes, familiar with Huron County after studying at
CCAT, said he doesn't think there's a difference in general farm
management costs due to being situated in north Bruce. "But",
said the cattleman, "If the fuel shortage ever arrives, then it
would certainly hit farmers in the area. When you live on the
peninsula , driving longer distances is just a fact of life."
DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS
Although transportation and farm equipment costs are
necessarily greater on the peninsula there is one factor the
farmers in the south don't have to Luntend with - and that's the
Bruce Trail. Although the trail doesn't cut through any of the
farms owned by the cattlemen interviewed, it does cross some of
their neighbours' farms.
Until a few years ago, however, the Bruce Trail hikers .who
tended to litter or sometimes violate trespass regulations, were
tolerated.
Then in 1973, the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) was
set up to devise a policy of land use for the escarpment. which
contains the 430 -mile Bruce Trail which cuts across private
property for much of its' length.
The escarpment commission was given power under the
provincial government's Bill 129 to control development of the
land and ratepayers groups in Bruce and Grey counties have
been objecting ever since.
Ivan Mielhausen admits reeves in the peninsula area have
"taken a lot of hassle" over the whole issue ui the trail and
development control.
"the cattlemen said while "we never did need it (the NEC), but
we got it, so we have to live with it." He feels the fact townships
were slow in drawing up their own official plans may have
persuaded the government to institute the development controls.
Mr. Mielhausen is one of seven reeves who serve on a
committee that has asked for amendments to Bill 129. The reeve
said if opposition to the bill had started back in 1973 when the
commission was first formed, Bill 129 might have been
rescinded.
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THE RURAL VOICE/SEPTEMBER 1979 PG. 13