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The Rural Voice, 1988-07, Page 45AMBERLEY GRAIN ELEVATOR (DIVISION OF PARRISH & HEIMBECKER) A Complete Marketing Service Receiving: WHEAT – Winter & Spring CANOLA BARLEY Junct. Hwy. 86 & 21 519-395-3601 519-395-3602 A protein analyser for grading red wheat is on site. ONTARIO MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOL CENTRALIA COLLEGE — part of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food — celebrates OMAF's 100 years of service to farmers and rural families Centralia College proudly proclaims two decades of graduates in careers throughout the agriculture and food systems. Centralia College offers two-year diploma programs in: - Agricultural Business Management - Food Service Management - Animal Health Technology Applications for diploma programs are now being accepted. For more information regarding campus tours or for free brochures contact: AQYsuyAgncuntre and Food ONTARIO CENTRALIA COLLEGE Huron Pork, Ontario NOM 1YO (519) 228-6691 44 THE RURAL VOICE NEWS tions may have influenced the results. "The milk industry was clearly out to capture a market share held by the soft drink and fruit juice industry. Its cam- paign was aimed at getting young people — who may be quite open to the influence of advertising — to drink milk instead of pop and juice. But the butter industry ads were more general in both their audience appeal and in their mes- sage." Goddard thinks butter may also have been negatively affected by its price and by the cholesterol scare of the early 1980s. "Even though they're both dairy products, consumers view milk and butter as very different commodities," she says. "They seem to think that milk is something they must have in their homes regardless of its price, while butter is perceived as somewhat of a luxury that can be substituted with margarine. There just doesn't seem to be a nutritious substitute for milk." Goddard adds that no other aggre- gate analysis of milk marketing cam- paigns has ever been done in Canada.0 PORK RECEIVES MEATY REVIEW Pork recently received high ratings from American researchers who say that it is no longer true that pork contains more fat than beef. "Pork has improved dramatically in the ratio of lean to fat," says Gary Smith, head of the Department of Animal Sci- ence at Texas A and M University. Smith cites "remarkable progress" in the pork industry in the last 20 years in reducing fat content in swine. "That's not to say they don't still have excess fat, so they must continue to try to reduce the white material and increase the red material ... Pork still needs to reduce its fatness, as does beef, as does poultry." Smith attributes the pork industry's success to the lack of government grad- ing standards like those that "encourage the overfattening of beef and lamb." Since pork is graded differently, Smith says the industry was able to get the jump on beef producers in breeding leaner animals and lowering fat con- tent.0