Times-Advocate, 1983-03-30, Page 26Page 26 Times -Advocate, March 30, 1983
Poultry plant closing
United Co-operatives of On-
tario has announced the
closure of its Flavorite
Poultry Plant, in Stoney
Creek, effective May 13.
A special task force, under
the leadership of Manpower
Consultative Serice, Employ-
ment and Immigration,
Canada, has been set up to
help all employees search for
alternate jobs. The
employees, about 100 in
number, have been given
eight weeks notice. Severance
pay, equal to one week's pay
for each full year of service,
will be povided to those
employees who have worked
at Flavorite for more than
five years.
in making the announce-
ment, Russ Duckworth, UCO
vice-president, operations
group, said the closure is a
result. of current economic
conditions in the poultry in-
dustry, adding that "this con-
solidation of our operations
will improve efficiency and
our ability to compete in the
marketplace."
Duckworth added, the birds
scheduled for processing at
Flavorite will now be process-
ed at UCO's other poultry pro-
cessing facility, Tend -R -
Fresh, located at Petersburg.
Also, UCO poultry customers
in the Hamilton area will be
served from the Petersburg
facility.
April is
Junior
Farmer
�ryTAK.—
Membership Month
Now is your chance to become a
South Huron Jr. Farmer
Anyone between the ages of 15-29 years is
able to join this unique organization which con-
sists of 8500 members in Ontario with 350 in
Huron County.
With travel opportunities, sports, Leadership
training, community betterment projects and
endless social events there is something in
Junior Farmers that will appeal to everyone.
Remember "You don't have to be a farmer to
be a Junior Farmer"
April Membership Meeting Wed., April 16 -
8 p.m. Exeter Public School
For more info contact:
Gerald Johns 229-6184
Cliff Hicks 228-6312
Florence Ryan 237-3369
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THURSDAY SCENE IN HENSALL
controls activities in the ring while
The livestock sale is held every
— Vic Hargreaves of Hensall Livestock Soles Ltd.
Larry Gardiner auctions off three fat cattle.
Thursday.
CONFRONTATION -- Buyers and beef eye each other at a sale of fat cattle at Hen-
sall Livestock Sales Ltd.
Not much has been written
by eastern farm writers on
the biggest single item to hit
agriculture in 100 years; the
('rowsnest Rate.
This traditional rate is what
farmers pay to ship their
grain from Western Canada.
The railroads ,have, for 20
years, been saying the rate is
too low and that is one of the
reasons so many lines in the
Prairies have been allowed to
deteriorate. It is also 'being
blamed for the shortage of
hopper cars to ship the grain.
• Both the major rail carriers
have statistics to prove they
are losing so much money
they cannot afford to keep the.
rail beds in proper repair or
buy rolling stock to keep the
grain moving.
Their figures are awesome
to.behold. On paper, it would
seem they have a good case.
But a consenus in Western
Canada has never been reach-
ed on just how to change the
rate. They have talked of the
Gilson approach and the
Argue approach. The
Manitoba Farm Bureau
favors Gilson. Unifarrn favors
Agrue.
So much controversy is rag-
ing in the west that conflicting
reports have •been staged in
the House of Commons,‘ so
much so that some wesern
farm groups have accused
both Prime Minister Trudeau,
and Transport Minister Jean -
Luc Pepin of deliberately
misleading the House.
Most farmers across
Canada, both•in the east and
in the west, agree that some
changes should be made but
who should pay the piper, the,
railroads or the farmers?
As if cattlemen have nor
been hit hard enough in the
last five years, changes in the
Crow Rate will certainly
mean some changes in the
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west. More cattle will befat-
tened in Western Canada
simply because rail rates will
mean less grain will be ship-
ped, especially if farmers
have to pay those increased
rates. More beef in the west
will mean greater competi-
lion in Ontario. Feeders and
stockers from the west will
certainly go 'up in price
because the law of supply and
demand will take over.
An editorial in the Manitoba
Cooperator back in February
stated that a solid majority at
the Western Agricultural Cop-
ference favored amending We
Gilson formula to a pay -the -
railways policy.
Bill Zettler, a grain farmer
near Portage la Prairie, used
to farm in l3ruce County near
Walkerton.
In a letter to the editor of
the Cooperator, he said: If the
Crow Rate is lost, it will be the
swindle of the century. It
won't be a question of
whether the federal govern-
ment and the railways are
putting it to the farmer but,
rather, how much penetration
can he stand?
That is an indication of how
heated the argument is in
Western Canada and one can-
not help but question why
farmers in Ontario are not
getting More lnvolved in the
Crow Rate discussions.
• it now seems to he a fait ac-
complait: there will be some
changes in the Crow Rate and
the federal government will
bei making those changes
even though a consenus has
Let buyer beware.
during auction sale
A farmer in Chatham
thought he'd made. a good
deal. Last December. he
bought a combine for 820.000
al an auction. Saved a bundle.
so he thought. Two months
after the purchase. the hank.
is one combine richer and the
farmer is $20,000 poorer and
minus a vall►able piece of
farm equipment. •
Unfortunately, this is an ex-
ample of what is happening
all too frequently. The
reason? The • farmer never
thought to ask for a cerlil led
search of cleat title.
Ontario Consumer
Minister, Dr. Robert Elgie,
warns people purchasing
anything at auctions to to
aware that the item could be
subject to a lien. "A bank, a
finance company, a dealer, in
effect any fender,-may'have
loaned money on the security
of things being offered for
sale at the auction. if the loan
has not been paid back in lull.
the lender may be paying you.
the new owner, a visit and
.claiming his collateral, that
is, your new property."'
The next time you're at an
auction. before you pay for
the item you've successfully
hid on, ask the auctioneer to
produce'a "certified search"
to prove there is no lien on the
property. Though the auc
tioneer is under no legal
obligation to conduct such a
search with the Ministry's
Personal. Property Security
• Registration Branch, it is to
his advantage to allay the
'fears of prospective buyers.
• One search serves the needs
of all the people present at the
auction. 11 also saves money
for, those individuals eon-
• lemplating a sale but failing
to make a purchase.
'An individual wishing to
search the title hirnself and
willing to pay the $10.00 fee
can do so in any Land
Registry .office where per
soma( property security
registration. is offered. MI
that is needed is the name of
the individual who currently
owns the property.
Auctions can be fun. No one
need get stung if the buyer
follows a few. "consumer
sense" rules.
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Hensall sales arena a busy spot
Each Thursday one 01 the
busiest places in Nensall is
the livestock sales building on
Mill Street. last week ap-
proximately 700 fat cattle
were herded into the ring in
ones or twos or threes by Vic
I largreaves and auctioned off
by Larry Gardiner.
The price, ranging that day
from 78 to 83 cents per pound,
was judged good for sellers.
After Lorne Eedie of
Uolyrood watched his three
steers with a combined
weight of 1.371 go for 78.20, he
said, "They'll work all right
till 1 go to replace them.
Harold McHugh, guying for
Canada Packers, judged the
day's prices good and strong
on a market basis, and his
helper Stewart McColl. a
retired farmer, said those
selling that day were doing all
Creativity theme
for Huron PD
Exploring the roads that
lead to creativity and self ex-
pression in language arts is
the theme of the April 29
Huron County elementary
school professional develop-
ment day at Howick Central
Public School.
A noted autn' rity in this
field, Dr. Mary Bigler of the
University of Eastern
Michigan, will start the day's
program off at 9 a.m.
Sixteen workshops will be
• held throughout the day with
Huron County teachers and
co-ordinators and represen-
tatives of other school boards
and faculties of educaiton
leading the programs.
Some of the workshops are
'geared toward both teacher
and parent involvement. The
board's media co-ordinator
Dave Bieman will conduct a
workshop on critical viewing
of television at home. A
workshop on assisting a child
to learn to read will be con-
ducted by the board's junior
co-ordinator Carol Simons
and primary co-ordinator
Louise Wilson.
Parents are being en-
couraged to attend any
workshop during the PD day
through a newsletter from the
Huron County Board of
Education..A babysitting ser-
vice will be available at the
school during the day.
, Other workshops include
the child as a journalist, uses
Qf language, _meeting in-
dividual needs ih reading, tur-
ning kids on to reading and
other language related topics.
not been reacned among
western farm organizations:_
Whatever happent, this
much is certain: changes to
the Crow Rate will have pro-
found . effects in eastern
Canada, especially in Ontario
and particularly for beef
farmers.
right.
Other farmers felt the fact
cattle weren't bringing
enough, considering the price
of replacements. One old-
timer. comparing the present
situation with the 1930s. said
50 years ago costs and prices
were on a par. but now energy
and fertilizer costs are
"wild."
More than 50.000 cattle a
year are sold through Hensall
Livestock Sales Ltd., owned
by Vic and Greg Hargreaves
and Barry Miller. Besides the
weekly sale. there are five
special stocker sales each
year in the spring and fall.
Western cattle arriving dai-
ly are initially kept at the
firm's stocker barn on
Highway 4 north of Hensall.
The bank of seats looking
down on the sale ring are oc-
cupiPd each week by pro-
ducers, buyers, retired'
farmers who have never lost
interest in the beef industry,
and young people starting up
who stili have a 1M to learn
This is the place to talk shop
with old friends, make new
ones, and keep current on the
ups and downs of an impor-
tant, sometimes discouraging
but always interesting
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