The Rural Voice, 1983-02, Page 17exports, which is seen as having very
positive possibilities for agriculture.
Canagrex also offers the danger of
allowing any Federal Minister of Agri-
culture too much power. Dr. Gurbin
assured the audience the P.C. party will
continue to do its best to have that
measure removed from the bill. Private
export sales are not excluded with this
bill, but could be a disadvantage to
private enterprise in finding markets
and Canagrex could be very selective as
to whom it deals with.
Fourthly, Dr. Gurbin fe6ls that pro-
ducers should be lobbying with energy
input costs in mind. Eight to 32% of a
farmer's input costs go to fuel expen-
ses.
The following resolutions were tabled
and passed, chaired by Jim Jacklin.
(1) That the O.C.A., through the
C.C.A., continue to lobby the govern-
ment for 95% of the cost of production
for subsidy payments.
(2) The Bruce County Assoc. support
the new stabilization plan.
(3) The O.C.A. lobby the provincial
government to subsidize the payout for
1982 cattle.
(4) The O.C.A. petition the Ont. gov-
ernment to make the check -off manda-
tory and that no refunds be rebated, on
the basis of a recorded vote at the
O.C.A. annual meeting this year.
(5) The O.C.A. request the federal and
provincial governments to rebate federal
and provincial revenue taxes on natural
gas and petroleum products.
(6) The O.C.A. lobby the Ontario gov-
ernment for long term financing for new
farmers and for refinancing with interest
at 8°i° for the first five years and 10%
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for the next five years, up to 500,000
dollars per loan, through existing finan-
cial institutions.
Re-elected as director to the O.C.A.
is Clarence Ackert and as alternate
director to the O.C.A., Ron Oswald.
Harry Fedy was elected Bruce County
President for 1983.
COMPUTER NEWSLETTER
FOR FARMERS
Ontario is one of the few places
worldwide where a newsletter is being
published specifically for farmers who
own computers.
The Agricultural Microcomputer
Newsletter is a free, five page news-
letter produced quarterly by the Ridge -
town College of Agricultural Techno-
logy. It contains general information
about computers and agriculture. artic-
les about on-farm computer use and the
types of programs already on the
market. It also features a list of other
computer magazines and newsletters
for more information.
The majority of subscribers are from
Ontario, but other requests came from
farmers across Canada. the United
States. South America and overseas.
Ross says he decided to produce a
newsletter because he was receiving a
lot of calls from farmers who wanted
information about computers.
"They wanted to know the names of
other farmers who own computers and
where they could purchase programs. I
was receiving two or three calls a day
from farmers interested in computer
use. I wanted to design something that
could be sent to farmers with informa-
tion on buying and using a computer."
He adds that the college has done a
lot of work in the computer field during
the last six years and he wants the rest
of the province to be aware of this
work.
Ross says he has no doubt the
coming trend will be computers in
agriculture. He notes that this year all
first year students at Ridgetown Col-
lege, as in all other agricultural col-
leges, are required to study one course
in computer science.
To obtain a free copy of the next
issue of the newsletter, write Farm
Economics Section, Ridgetown College
of Agricultural Technology. Ridgetown,
Ontario NOP 2C0.
GUELPH GRADUATE AWARDED
WEED SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP
A detailed study of the control of
wild mustard in canola has earned
Michael J. Donnelly, a graduate student
at the University of Guelph, the Mon-
santo Weed Science Scholarship for
Eastern Canada.
Donnelly, who earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in agriculture at Guelph,
began his Masters program in May 1982
under Dr. David Hume, studying the
physiological effects of triazine com-
pounds on various canola. Among such
weeds, wild mustard has been a parti-
cular problem, causing serious crop
yield reductions, and it is believed
studies such as these could lead to the
selective control of this weed with
triazine-based herbicides.
Reserve Champion at the 1982 Ontario Pork Congress. A product of our
breeding program.
16TH PRODUCTION SALE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH. - 1:00 P.M.
65 BOARS 90 OPEN GILTS 35 BRED GILTS
Sale being held at the farm of Warren Stein located 1 mile south and 2
miles west of Tavistock.
We offer you one of Ontario's largest selection of R.O.P. tested and
veterinary approved breeding stock. Our herd is maintained as a closed
minimal disease operation.
A good selection of boars and gilts available for sale at all times.
For further information or catalogues. contact: -
RICHARD AND WARREN STEIN
R.R. N6, Woodstock, Ont. N4S 7W1
Ph. 519-655-2942 or 462-2704
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