Times-Advocate, 1985-09-11, Page 10Page 10
Times -Advocate, September 11, 1985
Next few days become critical
Wet, humid weather puts white beans in jeopardy
(;rowing white beans is always a
gamble. When good weather and good
prices coincide, the gamble pays off
handsomely, but when Lady Luck
withdraws her favours, bean pro-
ducers are in trouble. The next two
weeks will decide the fate of the 1985
crop.
After a meeting on Monday among
representatives of the field crop in-
dustry and OMAF personnel, farm
management specialist Brian Hall in
TALKING ABOUT IMPLEMENTS — Earl Becker, Doug Ford, Bill Weber and Chuck Ford talk to John
Becker of V.L. Becker and Sons at Thursday's Red Power Day sponsored by the Dashwood International
Harvester -Case farm machinery agency. T -A photo
It's a township road, unpaved, dus-
ty. Since March of this year, I have
been walking three miles along that
road every day.
When you're pushing 60, the old
body begins to wear out. I had an
artery replaced in February and was
told by the medical people to walk
every day. A good idea since the most
exercise I get is pulling myself up to
a typewriter or simply throwing a
saddle on the old mare once or twice
a week.
So I walk along the road in front of
our house.
It is a dangerous way to get exer-
cise. Let me tell you about it.
Tonight about 30 cars passed me. At
least three of them were driven by
young maniacs who should not be
allowed behind the wheel of a vehicle.
I know they were young because I
saw them.
One vehicle was deliberately
pointed right at me. I backed into the
tall grass before the drier suddenly
yanked the wheel and pulled the vehi-
cle to the centre of the road. A burst
of derisive laughter came from the
Cattlemen ask
tripartite plan
Cattlemen in Huron, Bruce and
Perth have urged the federal cabinet
to implement the policy of tripartite
stabilization for the beef cattle
industry.
At a meeting attended by 150 cat-
tlemen from the three counties, the
resolution wAs passed unanimously
and was sent to Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney and Agriculture Minister
John Wise.
Under the signature of Iluron Cat-
tlemen's Association president Ross
Procter and Ontario Cattlemen's
Director Glenn Coultes, the federal
authorities were advised that "a
coalition of 90 percent of the cattle
and 85 percent of the cattle producers
in Canada is sufficient concensus for
legislation".
This matter is very important to
the beef industry in Canada and we
urge your support", they wrote. ad-
ding "we expect your decision on this
matter mid-September as previously
committed by the Federal Minister of
Agriculture the Honourable John
Wise."
driver and two young people in the
car with him.
I repeat: I know they were under 25
because I saw them.
It was perhaps the tenth or twelfth
time in a few months that much the
same thing has happened to me along
our so-called quiet stretch of country
road. It is not my imagination. I am
too old to imagine that someone is out
to get me.
This foolishness on the road is a
game these people play. I just hap-
pened to be one of the props in the
game.
At first, when I came into the house
after my walk and kept the air blue
with angry words, my wife said I was
a mean, crotchety, irascible old man,
paranoid in my convalescence. But
recently, she began walking with me.
She has joined my club.
About a year ago, three young peo-
ple were klled in this area when a
21 -year-old driver slammed his vehi-
cle into a group of young people on a
hayride.
It is no longer safe to get right off
the road. As this is written, a youth
in Montreal has been charged with
driving his car right into a bus stop
killing two people.
And now we are told that, through
the Ontario Human Rights Commis-
sion that insurance companies may
no longer charge extra premiums for
young people under 25. I am dead
against this decision. After thisspring
and summer, I think insurance
premiums should be even higher than
they are. In fact, I would happily sup-
port any movement to increase the
age limit from 16 or 18 or even 21
when young people can get a driver's
licence.
I was a working reporter for more
than 25 years and saw too many ac-
cidents, too many bodies strewn along
the road, too many ruined lives, not
to support a plan to make it tougher
for young people to drive.
They simply do not seem to realize
that driving is a privilege, nota right;
that they have a lethal weapon in their
hands every time they get behind that
wheel.
What does it take to impress upon
them that they are potential killers,
that one split-second of foolishness
behind a wheel can snuff out a life?
1 support the action of insurance
companies to get higher premiums
from young people.
Becker's
Farm Equipment
Extends a sincere thankyou to our friends and
customers who helped make our recent
RED POWER DAY
An outstanding success
A special thanks to our host, Mr. Don Rader,
the special equipmentsuppliers ,the manufac-
turer's reps., the volunteers and our staff.
A JOB WELL DONE
Congratulations to Red Power Day Draw winmers:
Earl Datars, Dashwood Ron Vanderboek Lucan
Gerald Smith Parkhill John Jacobs Zurich
Ron Masschelein Parkhill Howard Datars Dashwood
Phil Dietrich Crediton Oswald Steeper Parkhill.
Stop in or call
to learn more >t
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It would be disciminatory to make
older people pay for the mayhem
caused by young and foolish drivers.
the Clinton OMAF ottice reported that
white beans in Huron are at a critical
stage. The primary concern is
sprouting, which is occurring in many
fields. This will -mean a financial loss
when beans are delivered to the
elevators.
Though color is variable, only a few
incidents of white mould have been
reported so far in the county, despite
the wet, humid conditions experienc-
ed over the last few weeks.
Hall said the potential still exists for
a good 1985 crop if it can be harvested,
but quality is declining. Some bean
fields are "awfully wet" and the nor-
thern part of the county has received
even more rain than further south.
Some mixed grain and barley that
had been swathed before the rains
began is also sprouting.
"We need a month of good weather,
starting now", Hall said. "It's been a
tough summer. At one time this area
was ahead in heat units but now it's
behind."
The first of the 1985 bean crop has
begun to trickle into local•elevators.
Bill Harvey, chief executive officer at
Cook's, reports the quality and colour
of initial loads received at both Cen-
tralia and Hensel) were surprisingly
, good, considering the amount of rain
that has fallen recently. Moisture con-
tent was 20.5 and the pick count was
quite low.
Hensall branch manager Lloyd
Whitesell said W.G. Thompson and
Sons, had received one load from the
Kippen area at the Hensall mill, and
six loads had been brought to the
Kirkton facilities from London
township. The moisture content was
20 percent, and yields were low.
Ben van Den Akker at the Hensall
Co-op said the few beans received
there had a high moisture content.
Beans tend to mature at the same
time as the weather patterns are
changing from summer to fall, and
this year the crop is caught in the
middle, van Den Akker remarked.
Producers are paying close atten-
tion to the weather forecasts. If the
predicted change to cooler, drier
weather materializes, those who bet
on white beans this year will receive
their reward.
FLOODED — Area bean fields, some as close to a drain as this patch,
hove been hit by heavy rains and high humidity over the past week.
Farmers are hoping for a quick reverse to the weather conditions
to salvage this year's crop.
PUMP REVERSED — Through the dry spell in August, the cole crop
fields at the fruit and vegetable stand in Elginfield were irrigated.
After a deluge on Sunday morning, the pump was reversed to pump
water out of the flooded fields.
You Can Deal With Confidence
When You Deliver Your
1985 White Bean Crop. to
Ken R. Campbell & Sons Ltd., Seaforth
Howson & Howson Ltd., Blyth, Ontario
Palmerston Elevators Ltd.
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are also white bean receiving satellites for Thompson's
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