The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-01, Page 18 (2)Most farm costs
continue to rise
By Adrian Vos
Some interesting statistics
came to my attention regarding
farm costs. It showed that all
farm inputs are up. with fer-
tilizers leading with an increase
of 41 percent. Only one cost factor
is down from the same month a
year ago and that, curiously
enough, is one that is produced by
farmers.
While the livestock producer
may have some short term relief
because of lower feed prices, this
comes out of the pockets of the
cash -crop farmer who gets less
for his grain. One feed ingredient
that didn't go down is minerals
and vitamins and this of course is
not produced at the farm. It
shows clearly that everyone has
some sort of income insurance
but the farmer.
You may have read in the news
that the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture wants something
done in this regard. We need
some government assistance to
get the ball rolling and the vast
majority of farmers who have
been polled so far support the
farm income insurance plan. It
simply stated, says that the
farmer with help of the govern-
ment build up a fund in times of
high prices and pay out of it if
prices fall below cost of
production.
To show the difference in the
way a farmer sells his product
with the way an urban
businessman does, Mrs. Joan
Stadelman of Blyth sent me the
following. "A farmer bought a
new car after spending a lot of
time pricing them. By coin-
cidence. a few days later, the
dealer who sold him the car
appeared at his farm gate and
wanted to buy a cow for his hobby
farm.
The farmer quickly wrote out
the following and handed it to the
dealer: Basic cow $200; two-tone
experior $45; extra stomach $75;
produce storage compartment
$60; Dispensing devices (4
spigots at $10 each) $40 ; genuine
cowhide upholstery $125;
automatic fly swatter $35; dual
horns $15; plus tax and delivery
$595. Total charge S1190."
Imagine the options on my sow
with 16 spigots and a build -in
vacuum cleaner.
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Suggest research to save
energy in farm operations
Ontario's Minister of
Agriculture and Food, Hon.
William A. Stewart, has an-
nounced that in conjunction with
the overall government policy of
conserving energy throughout
the Province by a comprehensive
Energy Management Program,
his Ministry will be conducting a
number of research projects to
provide answers to ways to
reduce the consumption of
energy as it applies to agriculture
and the production of food.
Stewart's statement follows the
speech tabled in the Legislature
on March 26 by Hon. Dennis R.
Timbrell, Minister of Energy for
Ontario, in which he stressed the
need for the Province to take
action necessary to ensure a
reduction in its total demand for
energy in the years ahead.
"Ontario currently imports 80
percent of its total energy
requirements, and has one of the
highest per capita rates of energy
consumption in the world," Mr.
Timbrell said.
'By the early 1980's there will
no longer be sufficient crude oil to
meet Canadian feedstock
requirements west of the Ottawa
Valley. An even more alarming
fact is that Canadian -produced
natural gas supplies are already
beginning to fall short of total
Canadian needs and committed
exports."
The goals of the Government
Energy Management Program
include the improved
management of energy
distribution and consumption,
ar 1 the encouragement of
voluntary conservation across
the Province. The Program will
coordinate, on a long-term basis,
energy management projects
undertaken by other ministries,
industries and the public to
reduce the rate of growth in
energy consumption in Ontario
by one-third over the next five
years, resulting in a cutback in
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back in time for the' wedding, so
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1'lf you refuse to marry me I'tn
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"Ah, that's just a bluff."
total energy expenditures by
about one billion dollars a year by
1980.
Outlining the steps to be taken
by his Ministry, Mr. Stewart said
the primary objective would be to
encourage the reduction of
energy consumption in farm
operations across the Province.
The drying and fertilization of
corn. for example, accounts for
82 percent of the total energy
costs in corn production.
-One of our research ob-
jectives will be to reduce the
dependence of high cost propane
for drying," said Mr. Stewart.
-At present it would take 4.4
million gallons of propane each
year to dry 100 million bushels of
corn." Preliminary investigation
of grain drying systems has been
done by a mission sponsored by
the Ontario Grain CornCouncil; a
contingent vi'ited Europe to
study methods of conserving
energy and preserving grain
quality.
Other areas of research have
been planned to get the best
possible value from the energy
used in food production, such as
the reduction of fuel usage in
greenhouses, particularly in the
vegetable production industry;
greater efficiency in the kiln
drying of tobacco; evaluation of
existing heating and ventilation
techniques and systems used for
space conditioning of farm
buildings, and evaluation of
production techniques of field
and horticultural crops
associated with field
mechanization.
Dr. J. C. Rennie, Executive
Director of the Education and
Research Division of the Ministry
will supervise the im-
plementation of the research
projects and resulting technical
date will be widely disseminated.
Combine spray program
to aid fungus control
Tying both the weather and
pesticide spray programs
together to provide more ef-
fective control of fungous
diseases is one of the aims of a
cooperative research venture by
the Ontario Agricultural College,
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, and Agriculture
Canada.
Professor T. J. Gillespie, an
agricultural meteorologist and a
researcher in OAC's Land
Resources Science department
involved in the project, points out
that weather plays a big part in
the development of most crop
fungous diseases and insect pests
in Ontario.
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sometimes in combination with
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fungi and insects. While these
ideal conditions are sporadic, the
idea of weather forecasting for
pesticide application is to predict
the appearance of these weather
patterns. Growers can then be
informed of the need to spray
through code -a -phone systems
using. recorded messages at
locations within each area.
"This is unlike the normal
practice in which pesticides are
put on at regular calendar in-
tervals," states Gillespie. "By
weather monitoring, we're at-
tempting to relate pesticide
application to the life cycle of the
desease, or insect, then attack at
a time when the disease or in-
sect -is present, or is most
susceptible." Professor Gillespie
has been involved with this
research since about 1970, when
southern corn leaf blight affected
Ontario's corn acreages.
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southern shores of Georgian Bay
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"1 know of one orchard that,
two years ago, saved about $50
per acre by using less chemicals
and in which disease control was
very good. Results like this show
the program is working," he
says.
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