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Galvanized lids available
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Height — 40"
Length — 48"
Width — 34"
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PG. 28 THE RURAL VOICE/SEPTEMBER 1982
FARM NEWSMEN'
OFA REPORT
The Canadian Federation of Agricul-
ture semi-annual meeting was held in
Winnipeg in July. Ralph Barrie and Ron
White as well as Brigid Pyke, an OFA
director who is the eastern Canadian
woman representative on the CFA board.
Harry Zwerver, new general manager of
OFA was also present.
In his report to the OFA executive, Ron
White noted while OFA continues to be
critical of the Canadian Federation of
Agriculture for not pursuing their policies
aggressively or quickly enough it is the
only forum we have where farm pro-
ducers from all across Canada can discuss
agricultural policies and their impact on
farmers in different regions of our
country. "We had better see that it
works" he said.
The current effort to change the
"Crow" freight rate could have vastly
different effects to the farm economies in
different regions of Canada. The Gilson
Report recommends in part that payments
be made to producers rather than direct
payments to the rail companies for the
difference between the crow rate and the
real cost of transporting grain. It is feared
this would upset the agricultural equili-
brium established by transportation
policy in the past. It was decided to ask
for a delay in implementing the Gilson
Report until CFA has studied the impli-
cations for all producers and prepared
alternate transportation policy sugges-
tions.
Back in Ontario, the government has
recently proposed a fund be established to
compensate producers if a processor goes
into receivership. This fund would be
established by a 60c per head check -off,
20c each from the producer, dealer and
processor. UCO and the Ontario Stock-
yards, after discussions with OFA, sug-
gested the plan be combined with one that
has been in effect at the stockyards for
several years whereby the buyers supply a
bank letter of credit up to the amount of
any purchases. A combination of these
two plans would not only virtually
eliminate the possibility of non-payment
(letter of credit) but if a default did occur
the fund would be there as insurance. The
cost of the combined plan would be the
same as the original government pro-
posal. When this idea was presented to
government officials, it was met with
considerable hostility.
OFA executive recently requested the
Ontario Farm Stabilization Commission
to offer a plan for barley for 1982, '83
and '84. Merle Gunby
Regional director
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