The Rural Voice, 1988-08, Page 43NEWS
CONSERVATION IS
CRITICAL, DAILY SAYS
If you don't do it, society will do it
for you. This was the message brought
forcefully to more than 200 farmers by
CFPL-TV farm broadcaster Ross Daily.
Farmers seem to resist change, he
added, but there are already various laws
that force agriculture to co-operate with
a society increasingly determined to
save this planet.
Daily was speak ng at Conservation
Farming '88, a two-day event held in
Woodstock this summer.
It is obvious that conservation pays,
Daily said, especially in the present
drought. Comparing fields lying side by
side, the crops on the "conserved" field
are visibly better than the others.
All of Ontario's class l land has been
classified by slope and by soil type to a
depth of one metre, he said. In the near
future, it is likely that row cropping will
be prohibited on certain slopes.
There are pesticides in wells and no
one seems to know how they got there,
Daily added. Chemical companies are
already defending themselves by assert-
ing that farmers mishandle the product.
"This makes it a farmer's problem.
But if it persists, it is society's problem,"
Daily said.
Government may also soon have
hand in deciding which tillage methods
are most suitable for individual farms.
"Whether one believes in no -till or
not, it may be dictated by government,"
he said.
But it seems that farmers can't win,
Daily said. Society fust asked for blem-
ish -free fruits and approved the chemi-
cals needed to achieve it; society ap-
proved of chemical use that keeps down
the cost of food. And while people
bemoan the erosion of farm land, food
land is annexed for sub -divisions.
Daily, who said he speaks about 50
times a year to fanners, commented that
he knows ahead of time who will be in
the audience. The 200 faces in the
audience at Woodstock, he said, were
the same faces he sees everywhere he
speaks.
But it's the farmers who seldom turn
up at such meetings, he added, who tend
to be the poor managers.0
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