The Rural Voice, 1983-02, Page 16FROM THE BRUCE
CATTLEMEN'S ANNUAL
by Diane Jones
The Bruce County Cattlemen's Asso-
ciation held their annual meeting in
January. at the Hartley House in Walk-
erton. In attendance was the president
of the Huron County Cattlemen's
Assoc., Doug Walker; representative to
the B.C.C.A. from the B.C. Federation
of Agriculture, Murray Thompson and
representatives of local and area bank-
ing institutions.
Mr. Imke, of the County, Carada
Farm Labour Pool office reminded pro-
ducers to plan for their labour needs,
There has been an amendment to the
U.I.C. Act which eliminates the exemp-
tion of seasonal help from paying U.I.C.
Deductions must be made to and above
the level of 15 hours a week and $74. A
meeting is being planned by the Farm
Labour Pool in March at Hanover to
discuss the payroll deductions and
labour needs.
Lorne Peters gave the president's
report with a review of the past year's
activities; a tour of Canada Packers;
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FARM NEWS
June's Ladies Night at Red Bay; July's
Beef Barbecue; Information Night on
Supply Management and Dec.'s Ladies
Night. The executive made submissions
to the Senate Study Committee on
Finance & Trade of Economic Affairs on
the cost of production and five year
averaging and competition between the
provinces and feed grain supply. Pro-
vincial Minister of Agriculture, Dennis
Timbrell is pursuing the new stabiliza-
tion plan with provincial governments
and cattlemen's associations across
Canada.
The Ontario Cattlemen's Association
had a busy year. working with the
Ontario Government on the Livestock
Protection Act, which came into effect
on Sept. 1, 1982. It is the responsibility
of the farmer to insure that the live-
stock dealer he is doing business with
is licenced. If you are not certain about
a dealer being licenced you can call
George Fleming, Toronto. 416-965-5841
before doing business. It is now law in
Ontario. O.C.A. gives full support to
the proposed new stabilization plan but
are awaiting word on a proposed three-
way split between the federal, provincial
governments, and the producers.
Clarence Ackert stated his concept of
the new plan is that of an insurance to
protect the producers against the un -
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known factors such as cost of produc-
tion, in4luenced by variable feed and
interest expenses, and government in-
fluence policies. Also unknown is the
selling price and we cannot go on
producing at a loss. Other provincial
subsidy plans are causing inequality
and are unfair to the Ontario producers,
sighting the example of the Saskat-
chewan government's 550 million dollas
to subsidize interest rates down to 8%
on Farm Credit Corporation loans.
The Electronic Auction Committee
has financed a three-way deal for a trial
period and hired a co-ordinator man-
ager, Dan Sadeen. The first auction will
take place Feb. 7th.
Ron Oswald reported from the Cana-
dian Cattlemen's Association. Early in
1982, the Federal Minister of Agricul-
ture sent out questionaires to producers
of beef. Several dairy operations had
recieved the form and several beef
producers did not, thus the C.C.A.
helped to straighten that out. They have
some concerns that subsidized beef
from other countries is being dumped
on the world market. There should be
some type of income averaging with a
trust account for cattle farmers. On the
positive note, there were 120 million
pounds of beef exported to the USA
last year and that is a record. C.C.A.
has been lobbying the government to
make changes to the Bank Act and the
Bankruptcy Act. The Crow Rate
changes are coming and even though it
does not directly effect the livestock
industry internally, there are concerns
that it may be of some problem to
producers in Ontario, indirectly.
Dr. Gary Gurbin M.P., addressed a
number of issues. Firstly, interest rates
noting that there have been some
improvements and sees it very unlikely
that they will rise in the next six
months. However interest rates are
greatly affected by the demand for
money and our governments' demand
for money will likely be high enough to
later drive that rate upward. There is
some question about how the US will
effect our rates later in the year when
they look to refinance their national
debt.
Secondly, some type of long term
financial package is needed to enable
producers to make some clear produc-
tion decisions. The Red Meat Strategy
of Mr. Whelan's is lacking pressure to
have it brought forward. Mr. Whelan
says he is awaiting the cabinet's ap-
proval on the strategy before he meets
with the provincial ministers of agricul-
ture. The Agri -Bond concept which Mr.
Whelan supports could be handled
through F.C.C. for long term financing.
Thirdly, Canagrex, in Dr. Gurbin's
opinion, does bring together the export
marketing to allow more development in