The Rural Voice, 1979-12, Page 25just sitting back and waiting.
He said that usually resistance to smut is
bred into the plant, and maybe it's a case
of waiting to see what develops.
In Perth County, soils and crop specialist
Pat Lynch said very little was happening
with the corn smut and he said in his
opinion its a potential problem, but is
overrated as a threat, especially to Huron
and Perth.
He said a lot of other things are more of a
threat to corn crops then corn head smut
and he cited the corn rootworm problem as
an example.
The corn smut problem was found in four
fields in Perth County, but Mr. Lynch said
he had to walk and walk to find a plant with
the problem.
"We may have lost (at a gross ex-
aggeration)" he said, 1000 bushels of
crop."
He said that corn rootworm has
resulted in more individual farm losses
than the whole county has lost to corn
smut.
Probably 300 tons of corn rootworm
insecticide has been put on in Huron
and Perth, and after five years, the
problem still hasn't been solved, he said.
On one Perth County farm where the
corn head smut infestation was found, Mr.
Lynch said the infected corn could have
been carried out in their hands. In one
other field he said the man may have lost
20 bushels of corn.
He said four fields have been positively
indentified as havine the disease and
OMAF will be checking to see if the
disease is carried over.
He said that to date, the disease has only
been found on a limited number of hybrids.
Marketing boards
potential for abuse?
There is no other country in the world
where marketing boards are more ex-
tensive, and as result there is more
potential in Canada for marketing board
abuse, June Menzies, chairman of the
National Farm Products Marketing Council,
told a meeting of the Eastern Canada Farm
Writers Association in Toronto.
Some of the marketing board problems
she cited were: inflexibility, provinces
being unable to achieve self-sufficiency,
and escalating production quota prices.
"Marketing boards have helped many
Canadian farmers stay in business but the
system is not perfect and the debate must
go on," she said.
There is a necessary place for consumers
in the farm marketing debate, she said,
adding that "informed and constructive
criticism can lead to new solutions."
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