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The Citizen, 1992-10-28, Page 10PAGE 10. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28,1992. 4-H beef club members get good prices by Meg Penstone Rural Organization Specialist for Huron County Strong bidding by many businesses and community leaders helped give good prices to 4-H beef club members in Huron, Bruce and Grey Counties. Seventy-seven calves sold at the Huron-Bruce- Grey Show and Sale on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Tri-County Sales Arena, Hanover. The average sale price was $1.20. Businesses from Huron County which bought calves at the sale included: Cargill, Falcon Spring Farms (Clinton), Hensall Livestock Sales Ltd. (Hensall), McKillop Mutual Insurance Company (Seaforth) and West Wawanosh Mutual Insurance Company (Dungannon). The top price of $1.65/lb. went to Suzanne Crawford, Owen Sound for her Grand Champion Steer bought by Formosa Mutual Insurance. Nominations needed for safety merit award The Farm Safety Association of Ontario would like to recognize individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the promotion and education of agricultural health and safety in Ontario. Any individual, or organization, who has rendered distinguished service in the field of Occupational Safety and Health in agriculture and is considered by the Board of Directors of the Farm Safety Association as being worthy of special recognition, may be selected as a recipient of a Merit Award. For more information contact: Bill Rose, Farm Safety Association Inc., 340 Woodlawn Road West, Suite 22-23, Guelph, Ontario. N1H7K6. Brussels Livestock report Continued from page 9 There were 277 cows on offer selling from $50 to $60 to the high of $69.75. Five cows consigned by Jane Hoggarih, Londesboro averaging 1700 lbs. sold for an average of $63.41 with sales to $69.75. Five cows consigned by Thomas Baker, Brussels averaging 1178 lbs. sold for an average of $61.27 with sales to $69. One cow consigned by Lyle Fischer, Listowel weighing 1140 lbs. sold for $69. There were 22 bulls on offer selling from $65 to $74.50 to the high of $82. One bull consigned by Steve Weishar, Teeswater weighing 2120 lbs. sold for $82. There were 130 veal on offer selling from $74.50 to $96.50 to the high of $114.00. Two veal consigned by Leon Coward, St. Marys averaging 655 lbs. sold for an average of $105.32 with sales to $114.00. Thirteen veal consigned by D & D Veal, Zurich averaging 569 lbs. sold for an average of $94.01 with sales to $110.00. Four veal consigned by George Ducharme, Dashwood averaging 575 lbs. sold for an average of $95.75 with sales to $106.00. There were 2500 Stockers on offer: Steers - 400 - 500 lbs., $112 - $125; 500 - 600 lbs., $107 - $120; over 600 lbs., $102 - $115. Heifers: 400 - 500 lbs., $105 - $120; 500 - 600 lbs., $102 - $110; over 600 lbs., $87 - $105. There will be a Beef Demo Day at Brussels Livestock on Friday. Speaking of Farming By Keith Roulston Pack journalism strikes again CFEP is extended Rural leaders who pull out their hair in frustration at how to get informed, fair coverage in the large urban media might learn from a happening last week that they might as well save their energy. Premier Bob Rae was in Goderich last week to speak at the 4th annu­ al conference of the Agricultural and Rural Restructuring Group (ARRG), a group of university rural development studies professors and more practically minded rural development officers from across Cana­ da. With the Premier came a horde of reporters and cameraman from all the major television outlets, radio stations and newspapers to cover his views on the constitution, something they'd covered a hundred times before in the last couple of months. They came in a flurry, disrupting the relative peace of the little conference, then disappearing almost as quickly. I wonder if any of them even asked who the people were at this conference and what they were meeting about. Meanwhile at the conference itself there were representatives of local weekly newspapers, The Rural Voice Magazine and Harrowsmith mag­ azine and a couple of visits by the local radio and television station. Not one daily newspaper was represented. CBC wasn't there. No one, in short, from larger urban media knew what was going on here. If they had stopped to take in a few of the sessions, they might have learned a little about the fate of the millions of Canadians who live in the country and in small towns across Canada. They might have learned something of the problems we face, and learned of some of the success stories in beating the odds. There were plenty of success stories, from Coldspring Farms to the Indian Agricultural Program of Ontario to the activism of the people of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia who have turned their lives around by working together in economic development But nobody stopped to take a little time at the conference. Nobody even seemed to ask any questions about what was going on. Instead, the reporters were swept along in the pack, hurrying off to the next place the Premier would speak, recording, and analyzing endlessly, the next version of the same speech he had been giving daily for weeks. Pack journalism by urban press makes it hard to get any thoughtful information about rural problems and triumphs across to the urban peo­ ple (and even to rural people in other parts of the country who can only get news from elsewhere in the nation through urban media). Editors don't like to be all alone on a story, despite the fact they talk about hav­ ing an "exclusive" on something. If you aren't comfortable that you know what you're talking about (as most editors aren't with rural and farm stories) then it's much more comforting to know other people are reporting the same things. You can't all be wrong. So don't expect the Globe and Mail or CBC to do any ground-break­ ing coverage of rural issues. Most of their reporters and editors wouldn't know a good rural story if it jumped up and bit them on the arm. It's sad, but true, that until we find more ways around the increasing urban monopoly on news coverage, rural people are going to continue to be frustrated. The Cash Flow Enhancement Program (CFEP), which assists Ontario grain and horticultural farmers with interest-free cash advances, has been extended for crop year 1992-93, Murray Cardiff, Parliamentary Secretary to Agriculture Minister Bill McKnight announced Oct. 2 on behalf of the Minister. If Canadian farmers participate in the program at the same rate as last year the flow of cash into the farm sector could increase by up to $1.2 billion in the form of interest-free cash advances. Cost to the federal government in that case would be about $41 million. The CFEP provides interest-free cash advances of up to $50,000 on crops farmers have produced but not yet sold. The advances are available on eligible crops through the Advance Payments for Crops Act (APCA). Advances of up to $250,000 are available, but only the first $50,000 is interest-free. Under CFEP the federal government pays the interest on the first $50,000. Farmers who already have taken out cash advances for 1992-93 will have the interest covered. "Farmers benefit from these programs, particularly during the fall when little of the grain has been sold and cash flow may be tight", Mr. Cardiff said. 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