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PG. 60 THE RURAL VOICE, SEPTEMBER
YOUNG FARMER
J.F. Exchange :
Farming by comparison
by Mary Lou Weiser
"I've had a really smashing time"
is how William Hamilton of Northern
Ireland describes his recent exchange
visit to Ontario. Hamilton is one of
ten Young Farmers from the United
Kingdom who have been staying with
Junior Farmers throughout Ontario
as part of the United Kingdom Ex-
change. There are seven zones of
Junior Farmers in Ontario and the
group has spent a week in each zone,
recently staying with Junior Farmers
in the Zone 7 counties of Huron,
Perth, Grey, and Bruce. This has
given the delegates the opportunity to
see a wide variety of agriculture and
the many different crops grown
throughout Ontario.
Hamilton was impressed with On-
tario's vastness and "tremendous
abundance of land", with the average
size here much larger than at home.
He felt that Canadians "don't have
efficient use of land and don't have to
because there is so much land". Such
is not the case in Northern Ireland
where land is at a premium and every
bit must be utilized. "Because our
farms are really small, we have to be
efficient in order to survive,"
Hamilton said.
Hamilton lives on his father's 70
cow British Friesian dairy operation
near Ballymena in county Antrim and
1983
is employed full-time as a general
foreman to a building contractor.
The dairy operation is supported on a
total of 125 acres, 32 of which is own-
ed and the remainder rented.
Hamilton noticed a difference in land
prices between the two countries with
prices in Northern Ireland of $4,000
TO $5,000 per acre. Land is sold by
private treaty whereby interested
buyers phone in their bid to an auc-
tioneer who then determines the pur-
chaser by the highest bid received.
The Hamiltons have recently in-
stalled an Alfa -Laval computer feed
system as well as a new herringbone
eight aside walk through milking
parlour with automatic cluster
removers and vacuum gates. Each
cow has a transpondor attached to a
strip of nylon around her neck which
transmits a signal to a computer
whenever the cow enters one of the
three feed stations. Each cow is pro-
grammed according to milk produc-
tion and feed is administered accor-
dingly.
Dairy cattle in Northern Ireland are
not fed concentrates while on pasture
during the summer as our Canadian
dairy herds are, Hamilton noted.
Milk production averages about
1,300 gallons per cow per year with
the farmer receiving 16.7 pence (ap-
prox. 33.4¢) per litre for milk. The