The Rural Voice, 1999-02, Page 29Canadian Bean Company and Don
Thompson Jr. of W. G. Thompson
and Sons, tried to interest producers
to increase acreage, many growers
indicated they wouldn't be tempted.
At $30 the price wasn't high enough
to put beans inthe ground in Ontario,
one said.
Huzevka said, however, that of
the four district annual
meetings the Perth County
meeting was the only one where
producers reacted negatively to the
price offered. It may be the high cost
of land in Perth County or it may
have been a reaction to problems in
other sectors like the pork industry
that caused the pessimism, he said.
But since that meeting soybean
prices have dropped a dollar a bushel
while white beans have held firm, he
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says which should make white beans
more attractive.
Fotheringham feels high land
prices and rental costs have helped
turn producers to other crops. People
must maximize return to pay oft
those higher costs, he says. And there
must be a fair premium in favour of
white beans over other crops to tempt
producers to take what they feel is a
higher risk. There have been too
many memories of white beans
turning black in September rains for
many farmers to be easily convinced
to plant beans. Now that farmers are
combining direct instead of having to
pull and windrow beans, however.
the risk of wet weather has been
reduced, he said.
Land cost has been part of the
equation that has sent so much edible
beans production packing for the
West. As Thompson said at the
Brodhagen meeting, the same prices
that seem too low for Ontario
producers who may pay as much as
$4,000 per acre for land, look good
to Manitoba farmers who pay $400
an acre, even if they have to pay an
extra $2.50 per bag shipping charge
to get the beans to market.
Those prices look even better
when compared to wheat prices. In
Manitoba especially, low wheat
prices combined with higher
Hard Maple & Cherry sawlog
prices arc at an all-time high.
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