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38 THF RURAL VOICE
FARM NEWS
Perth County recognizes
conservation efforts
To recognize and encourage
outstanding efforts in soil, water, and
forestry management in Perth Coun-
ty, the Conservation Award was
created. Peter Jordan, recognized for
his conservation efforts, says he
would like to see each nominee
receive a sign to post in his field. If
several field signs were awarded each
year, he says, the countryside would
soon show that farmers are interested
in conservation. And urban attitudes
toward farmers would improve, he
contends.
Jordan, of Downie Township, is
one of six Perth County farmers
recognized this year for outstanding
efforts in conservation. A modest
man, he gives much of the credit for
his conservation achievement to the
Upper Thames River Conservation
Authority. Jordan worked with the
authority in correcting water erosion
cont. on page 39
Lowry Farm Systems hosts workshop
From left: Lynn Lowry, Les Frayne, John Hill, and A4urrav Emke
checking the readout on an electronic weigh scale.
About 50 farmers assembled in
Lynn Lowry's workshop at Amberley
on November 19 to share some cof-
fee, doughnuts, and an evening
discussing the weather (it was
terrible), corn prices (they were
worse), and the cattle business (there
was some encouragement).
The evening was sponsored by
Lowry Farm Systems. Les Frayne,
agrologist with the Bank of Montreal,
presented a film program outlining
basic accounting procedures and did
a little crystal -ball gazing. Murray
Emke, red meat specialist with
OMAF in Bruce County, explained
the Red Meat Plan. John Hill of the
Butler Manufacturing Company
demonstrated Butler's electronic
scales.
Aside from helping with income
tax returns and presentations to the
banker, a good accounting system
gives a businessman or farmer a
"sense of organization and control,"
according to Frayne. He suggested
that beef farmers market cattle more
often to minimize the risk of price
fluctuations. He anticipated that land
values would decline a further five
per cent until farm incomes improve
and he foresaw a trend to smaller,
more labour intensive, and more effi-
cient agriculture.
"Free trade is a bunch of
malarkey, a pipe dream — it's more
likely to go the other way," was his
contention.
The Red Meat Plan is not a
stabilization program, Emke em-
phasized. It provides assistance to
beef farmers to purchase equipment
such as cattle head gates, squeeze
shutes, scales, pasture fertilizer and
seed, fencing, and subsidies for
weighing cattle. The plan helps to
provide management tools for the
Ontario cattle producer, he said. ❑