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26 THE RURAL VOICE
the histories of the marketing boards
there isn't much mention of the
struggles of 10 or 15 years that it
took to win support for the idea, he
says. "I can't help appreciate the hard
work of those days," he says. "Some
just worked too damned hard," some
almost literally working themselves
to death in order to benefit their
fellow farmers.
An example of the kind of of
struggle Powers talks about was the
long battle to give hog producers
some control over the market.
The idea of marketing boards
had been discussed in the
1940s but after the war the
movement gained momentum,
and Bruce County farmers played a
large role. Packing companies were
opposed to any scheme that would
give a producer group control over
direction of the hogs to market or
minimum prices. In November 1945
a producer vote was held. Of 31,796
pork producers registered, 29,757
voted and of those, all but 205 voted
in favour of a hog marketing scheme.
Still the stalemate with packers
dragged on for years with packers
refusing to negotiate price with the
producer agency. But in 1952 when
the contracts, originally set up in
wartime to supply pork to Britain,
ran out, the pork board decided it had
to do something. First they set up
United Livestock Sales at the
Toronto Stockyards, hoping enough
farmers would voluntarily market
their hogs through this agency to give
them a significant say in pricing.
Although prices were higher through
ULS, only about 10 per cent of
Ontario hogs moved through the
yards. To overcome that problem
assembly yards were set up in seven
more locations across the province.
Grey and Bruce Counties, Powers
writes, led the way by organizing
farmers to demand truckers take their
hogs to one of the seven assembly
yards (prior to that a farmer might
not know where his hogs were
headed when they left the farm).
Some truckers, because of their long
association with the packers, were
reluctant to co-operate, but producers
placed advertisements in local papers
naming unco-operative truckers.
More and more hogs were directed to
the yards. This scheme was expanded
across the province and eventually all