The Rural Voice, 1990-04, Page 99INDEX
ABC Investments .. 4, 38
AgVise 83
Ag. Employment Sery. 16
Agro -Trend 77
Al Mar Grain Systems 53
Alton Pontiac Buick Ltd. 82
Aug -a -Bale 53
Axis Air Products 18
B & L Farm Services 53
BASF Canada Inc. 13
BSM 35
Barfoot's Welding 18
Becker C.A. Equipment Ltd66
Becker Farm Equipment 79
Big "0" Inc. 42
Big Bear Services 1985 Inc. 16
Bluewater Office Equipment 76
Bodmin Ltd. 42
Boumatic dealers 93
Brandy Point Farms 81
Bruce Tile Inc. 64
Buchanan & Hall 66
C & M Seeds 47
Can -Con Systems 93
Can. Organic Growers 92
Canadian Wool Growers 24
Carmichael Ivan J.H. 79
Carter's Farm Equipment 11
Case IH dealers F4
Centralia College 20
Chesley Agri -Fair 4
Clarkhill Feeders 85
Cliff's Plumbing & Heating 54
Co-op Independent Stores 56
Co-operators 57
Cook's 69
Cook's Portable Seed 14
Culross Mutual Ins. 47
Daco Laboratories Limited 23
Davenport Glenn & Sons 82
Davidson Well Drilling Ltd54
Design Concrete Systems 91
Dietrich Farms 81
Dietz Milton Limited 89
Dol-ar Livestock Exchange .. 81
Drayton Farm Show 2
Dufferin Mutual 20
Durham Three Way 91
Durham Welding 89
Easy Lift Doors 8
Elma Steel 57
Elmira Agri -Systems Inc. 63
Enercraft 91
Epp's Manufacturing 69
Fax Cellular Centre 3
Fettes Tours & Travel 91
First Line Seeds 26, 58
Fisher Poultry Farm Inc. 76
Ford dealers 62
G & B Farm Equipment 89
GBS Insulation 82
Gallagher dealers 19
Georgian Bay Fire 82
Gibson Feed & Seed 83
Gilmore Farm Supply IncB2
Goderich Home Show 6
Greener Acres 68
Grey & Bruce Salvage 70
Grey -Bruce Co-ops 7
Grober Inc. 93
Hackett Farm Equipment 67
Hagedorn & Sons Ltd. B1
Hanover Holiday Tours 52
Haugh A.J. Equipment 41
Haugh Tire Inc. 73
Highland Supply 9
Hill & Hill Farms Ltd. 70
Hills Feed & Farm Supply 37
Holliday Dave Ltd. 80
Hopper W. D. & Sons 82
Howick Mutual Ins. Co. 55
Howson & Howson 75
Hunter Trevor 78
Huron Dairy Equipment 89
Huronia Welding 2
Husky Farm Equipment .72, 80
In Search 3
Instant Forest 38
Jamco Machine Shop 67
KMM Drainage 78
Ken -Pro Limited 73
Kongskilde dealers B3
LAC 92
Lakeport Steel 87
Laning Robert H. & Sons 84
Leo's Liquid Waste Disposal..8
Lloyd's Small Engines ...61, 63
Logan Ford 74
Londesboro Seed Plant 84
Markdale Ford 59
Marquardt -Williams 82
Martin Elam 93
Martin Owen Manufacturing 64
McDermid Farms Ltd. 81
McGavin Farm Equipment .80
McKnight Gary 59
McKillop Mutual Insurance 87
Mitchell Co-op 72
Monoway Farms Ltd. 68
Mullin's Farm Service 79
Naturally Pigs 81
New Vic Manufacturing ..14, 61
New Zealand Fence 65
Nicholson & Son 77
Nuhn Bio -Tech 83
Nuhn Industries 75
Oil Check Labs Inc. 12
Ont. Hereford Association 24
Ontario Crop Insurance 15
Ontario Hydro 21
Parker & Parker Drainage 71
Parsons Hugh Bolts & Tools 83
Priestap Electric 85
Profit Line Feeds 41
Progressive Farming 77
Protekta 81
Quality Swine Co-op 49
R & R Manurigating 49
Radfords 71
Radio Shack stores 17
Ralhen Hampshires 81
Rathwell National Realty 6
Reavie Farm Equipment 71
Reid J.K. Manufacturing Ltd37
Robert O's Travel Mart 56
Roe Poultry Inc. 22
Roth Drainage 48
Schmidt's Farm Drainage 83
Scott Drainage 82
Scott's Ind. & Farm Supply 83
Seaforth Home Show 22
Select Building Systems 82
Shell dealers 27
Shur -Gain OBC
Siemon Keith 82
Smith Steel & Fabricating 49
Smyth George Welding Ltd. 76
Sommers Motor Sales 83
South Bruce Chimney 83
South Huron Agri Systems 74
Sprucedale Agromart 78
Stanley Farm Supply 80
Stihl dealers 39
Strassburger Insulation 87
Stratford Farm Equipment 38
Stubbe's Farm Products 65
Taylor Sales & Service 71
Thames Bend Farms Ltd. 5
Thompson Dairy Supplies ...82
Thompson W. G. & Sons 25
Treleaven'sMill 10
Valmetal Inc. 82
Van Eyl Farm Supply 80
Vanbrook Farms 81
Vanden Heuvel Laurence 83
Verdonk, John 80
Vincent Farm Equipment 77
Walco 34
Ward & Uptigrove 82
West Wawanosh Mutual 5
Westeel dealers F2
Western Tractor 80
Willits Tire Service 48
Yard Pro 43
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in The Rural Voice
there are for future funding. It is our under-
standing that the last payouts for beef and
pork were only 70 per cent of what they
should have been.
There are many serious environmental
problems arising out of modem farming
practices. We are well aware of estimates
that half of all non -point source pollution
comes from agriculture. Soil losses, figured
at $1 billion a year in Canada, pollution of
lakes and rivers, and the increasing threat of
groundwater contamination affect us more
directly than any other segment of the popu-
lation. We also face what is now more
widely recognized as a significant health
risk; the danger of handling the toxic materi-
als that have become part of the way we farm.
Today's governments, pushed by a ris-
ing wave of environmental awareness, must
begin by recognizing the large role they have
played in causing this. With absolutely no
regard for ecology, assurances were made
that a more specialized, capital -intensive,
input -dependent agriculture was the only
way. A super -efficient, industrialized agri-
culture would feed the world. After two gen-
erations of this propaganda, the world is now
telling us that it was all a mistake. Farmers
are understandably defensive and skeptical.
Agricultural universities and govern-
ment agencies alike lack the basic expertise
and the credibility to effect change. They
must accept full responsibility, but even
assuming the best intentions they face a
difficult task. We recommend the following:
1. Direct financial incentives: many
innovative farmers are developing their own
alternative systems. These should be en-
couraged through direct funding.
2. Indirect financial incentives: eco-
nomic stability fosters long-term planning
and the consideration of environmental fac-
tors in management strategy. In the absence
of orderly marketing with guaranteed re-
turns, there must be an effective safety net.
3. Education: government should chan-
nel education dollars through farm groups
already leading the alternative agriculture
movement. Extension personnel must be
retrained. Along with the academic commu-
nity, they must emphasize ecology as the
basis for long-term efficiency.
If government wishes to pursue sustaina-
bility it must compromise the stated goal of
trading in a completely free, market-driven
global economy.
In summation, the federal government
and its agencies have a large stake in agricul-
ture. We sec that agriculture needs govern-
ment support in financing, tax issues, and
trade regulations. What we don't see is a
commitment to aid farmers in coping with
rising interest rates, new taxes, and the
predatory tactics of our trading partners.
The last half of the eighties saw the
Canadian economy grow and prosper. We
arc sorry to say that Canadian agriculture did
not enjoy that prosperity. In fact it would
appear that Canada's farmers will be forced
into another recess ion al period by high inter-
est rates and less than favourable trade prac-
tices and philosophies.0
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