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FARM NEWS
Grey -Bruce Simmental Club Picnic
Beef producers must be more aggressive if they are to survive, says Jim
Wideman, General Manager of the Ontario Livestock Exchange at the Grey -
Bruce Simmental Club Picnic held recently at Briar -Dale Simmental Farms
near Holstein in Grey County.
Wideman described the operation of live and electronic sales at the Ontario
Livestock Exchange as well as the Video Stocker Sales, and spoke on the rela-
tionship between live animals and carcasses and the grading system involved.
Marianne Braun is the owner and operator of Briar -Dale farm and the 100
Simmental club members and their families in attendance had the opportunity
to look over Braun's 20 cow/calf herd of Simmentals (Photo by Mary Lou
Weiser).
Plenty of Nothing
An hour-long documentary from
the National Film Board of Canada
focussing on the need for farm wives
to ensure that they are legally entitled
to their fair share of the family
business, has just been released in
Canada.
Filmed in Quebec's Richelieu
valley, by Dagmar Gueissaz, a film-
maker who is herself a farmer, this
film reveals the economic vulnerabili-
ty of women who assist their
husbands in small, family-owned
businesses.
In Canada, Plenty of Nothing may
be borrowed free of charge in 16mm
format from NFD film libraries
across the country. It may also be
purchased on either 16mm film or
videocassette.
For further information contact
your nearest National Film Board of-
fice.
Seed Company Fined
A Canadian seed company has
been fined for the improper sale of
seed in Newfoundland following an
investigation by Agriculture
30 THE RURAL VOICE, SEPTEMBER 1983
Canada's Food Production and In-
spection Branch.
On May 18, 1983, Garden Seed Co.
Ltd., of Roxboro, Que., pleaded guil-
ty to three charges under the Canada
Seeds Act.
Garden Seed was fined $125 for
selling non -pedigreed perennial
ryegrass by variety name and $125 for
selling seed labelled as being a par-
ticular fescue variety when it was not.
It also was fined $25 for selling seed
in non -metric units.
"The investigation was prompted
by complaint from a seed company
which felt that the varieties involved
could not be sold by Garden Seed at
the price they quoted without
resulting in a loss," explains Carl
Stewart, a Branch official.
The seed, which amounted to
about 3000 kilograms, was destined
for the fairways of a new golf course
at Parks Canada's Terra Nova Na-
tional Park.
"Legal action is taken in cases
which we believe to involve flagrant
misrepresentation in the sale of seed.
We have to protect the users and the
seed companies which operate within
the law," Mr. Stewart says.