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Advice
Always get independent legal
advice before signing and review all
documents with your lawyer. A
verbal promise and 85 cents will get
you a cup of coffee. Get everything
in writing.
The mortgage brokers section of
the Ministry of Financial Institutions
responds to inquiries and complaints
concerning mortgage brokers. They
can be contacted at 416-326-9045 or
1-800-268-1142. If it's too good to
be true it ain't.°
H. J. Smith
Farm Management Specialist
The market's
the thing!
Farmers are looking around for
new products to grow. It's a frantic
search for new profits at a time when
everything seems to be risky.
There's a temptation to read about
something new and decide to try it.
One can usually find out how to grow
it easily enough.
But where are you going to sell it?
What price can you reasonably
expect to get for it? How big is the
market and what will happen to the
price when more people have your
new product to sell? Will you be
selling to a wholesale or to a retail
market? What is involved in
preparing your product for sale?
What will this cost? Can you do
something that will let you produce a
unit of sale at a lower cost than your
neighbour? Do you have the time to
do market research and to expand
your markets? Why should a
customer buy your product rather
than that produced by someone else?
There is a great opportunity in our
diverse culture to develop and sell
new products. But the easier they are
to produce and dump on the market,
the sooner the opportunity for profit
will disappear. Before you commit
yourself to a new enterprise, take a
hard look at the market potential.
Your ability to market may well
determine your profits.°
Bob Baxter
Agricultural Representative
Wellington County
Huron County's new 8900 square foot OMAF office was officially opened May
14 with two cabinet ministers present. Taking part in the ribbon cutting were
(left to right), Paul Klopp, MPP Iluron; Elmer Buchanan, Minister of
Agriculture and Food; Fred Wilson, Minister of Government Services; Murray
Taylor, Mayor of Clinton; and Bob Fisher, Warden of Huron County.
News in Agriculture
Huron hosts 4th
annual conference
on rural economies
Approximately 250 community
leaders, researchers, development
practitioners and policymakers will
come together this October in Huron
County to examine the future of rural
manufacturing and tradeable services
and the communities that depend
upon them.
"Stimulating Rural Economies for
the 2000s: The Challenge for Rural
Manufacturing and Services" is the
fourth in a series of five international
conferences organized by the
Agricultural and Rural Restructuring
Group (ARRG), a not-for-profit
organization of rural social scientists,
policymakers and practitioners from
Canadian small towns and rural
communities committed to improving
the economic and social condition of
rural people.
The 1992 conference will focus on
several key policy issues related to
rural manufacturing, business and
tradeable services. Among these
issues:
• How will the restructuring of
industrial production and tradeable
services affect rural and small town
Canada in the 1990s?
• What barriers hinder the creation
of rural and small town
manufacturing and service jobs?
• Can adding value to primary
products through local processing be
a viable option in the new global
economy?
• What lessons can successful
rural and small town entrepreneurs
offer?
• How can communities,
governments and the private sector be
partners in stimulating new
manufacturing, business and
tradeable service activities?
The conference provides an
opportunity to share experiences and
ideas on rural economic development
from across Canada, the United
States and Europe. In the end, the
goal is to generate greater policy
awareness amongst all participants
and develop new options for
economic opportunity in rural and
small town Canada.
For more information, contact:
Paul Nichol, Huron County Planning
and Development Department,
Godcrich, Ontario, N7A 1M2, Tel.
519-524-2188.0
Swine 2000 market
barrow competition
Western Fair is introducing a new
format for their market barrow com-
petition at this year's annual exhi-
bition. An entry will be made up of
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