The Rural Voice, 1983-11, Page 8All grades of nuts & bolts
Westward Tools
Keto Abrasives
Epps Pressure Washers
Scott's Industrial
& Farm Supplies
R.R. 4, Tara
519-376-0283
8 miles west of Owen Sound
off Highway 21
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We manufacture
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Our representative
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R.R. 3, WALKERTON, ONTARIO NOG 2V0
Plant location:
Four roads north of Teeswater,
one road west of Highway 4.
Use our Toll Free Number
1-800-268-3008
records a different message every
morning and judging by the number
of responses - over 7,500 since the
beginning of the season - the hotline
is very popular with producers. "Our
service to the producer is not to tell
him what to do, but to remind him
what could and should be done."
Wilson finds that every year of
apple production is different with a
new set of problems. Heat and
dryness caused sun scald and boron
deficiency to the apples this year.
While apples are considered very
good for us, more and more
consumers are becoming concerned
about the use of chemical sprays.
"We are unable to commercially
grow apples without the aid of
pesticides," Wilson responds. All
chemical materials are registered and
considered safe by the Ontario
Pesticide Laboratory at Guelph, with
growers required to quit using them
well in advance of picking. "I have
great faith that any apple grown in
Ontario does not contain a level of
pesticide above the Agriculture
Canada Pesticides Tolerance level,"
Wilson adds.
Wilson also works with the packers
in the area. Peter Hartman is one of
seven farmers who have shares in
Georgian Triangle Apples Ltd. of
Clarksburg which is one of the three
major packing and storage plants in
the area.
Apples are brought in on con-
signment by the producer who gets
paid for every unit (36 lbs.) of fancy
fruit that the packer gets out of his
bin. A bin contains eighteen bushels
of apples. The producer has the
choice of putting his apples in
controlled atmosphere (C.A.) storage
or selling them in the fall. C.A.
means that all the oxygen is pumped
out of air tight cooling rooms and
once a room is sealed no further
ripening of the apples takes place.
Apples should come out in the same
condition in May or June as they
went in, in September. "By storing
them, you're not necessarily going to
get more money for them," Hartman
says. "There's just too many apples
around in the fall." However,
producers hope to get enough money
for their fruit when the C.A. rooms
are opened next Spring to cover the
PG. 6 THE RURAL VOICE, NOVEMBER 1983
Georgian Triangle Apples Ltd., Clarksburg, is one of the three major pack-
ing and storage plants in the area. A producer has a choice of putting his ap-
ples in controlled storage or selling them in the fall. Speculation is that ap-
ple prices will go up since there aren't as many apples around this year.