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30 THE RURAL VOICE
Charlie Mayer: saying what nobody
wanted to hear.
spring. Five to 10 per cent will leave
the farm."
Roger George, President of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
charged that the federal government
has reneged on its pledge to set up a
"third line of defence". When setting
up GRIP and NISA the government
had said there would be special
funding for unusual emergency
situations, George said. Safety nets
like GRIP and NISA deal with
normal conditions, he said. "There is
nothing normal about five years of
trade war; nothing normal about the
disastrous crop of 1992."
Paul Frayne, a Goderich-area cash
crop farmer, and one of the
organizers of the Line in the Dirt
meeting, pointed to the special grains
and oil seeds program of 1986-87 and
said the problem is worse today than
it was then. "Now is not the time to
turn away from farmers with an
empty hand and even emptier words."
Many speakers did agree with
Mayer's assertion that in the long run
farmers must get more for their
products from the marketplace.
Benmiller-area farmer John Moore
noted that farm families make 58 per
cent of their income from off farm
jobs. Ralph Ferguson, M.P. for
Lambton-Middlesex said that of the
$39,600 farm family income, $22,500
came from off -farm income. Of the
income earned on farm operations,
$9900 came from subsidies, meaning
that for operating the farm and
producing the crops, the average
farmers realized only a $7200 profit.
"Agriculture can't survive in a
situation like that."
A larger and larger share of the
food dollar is being taken by food