Times-Advocate, 1983-09-07, Page 10Page 10 Times-Advocote, September 7, 1983
Get interest rebate up to five percentage points
Detalis finaily announced for Ontario's beginning farmer plan
The details of Ontario's
long-awaited Beginning
Farmer Assistance Program
have been announced by
Agriculture and Food
Minister Dennis Timbrell.
Timbrell said, "The begin-
ning farmer program is one to
which I have a strong com-
mitment. It will help bring as
many as 1,000 new people in-
to farming every year for the
next five years. We need ag-
gressive new people to bring
a new vitalizing force to our
agricultural industry."
Ontario will rebate interest
charges on loans in excess of
8 percent, to a maximum of 5
percentage points, based on
the Farm Credit Corporation
rate, currently 13I.2 percent.
At present, approved
Fall Harvest
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CANNING TIME — The corn processing season at the Exeter plant of Canadian Can-
ners is in Lill swing. Above, Murray Lee pushes a pile of corn to the conveyor.
Me dear mother sent me a
clipping last week, the last
will and testament of a
farmer.
The author is unknown so,
wherever he is, perhaps he'll
forgive me for using the piece
and adding my two cents to it.
I leave to my wife, my over-
draft at the hank. Maybe she
can explain it.
To my son. the equity in my
car. Now he will have to go to
work to tneet the payments.
To my banker, I leave my
soul. lie has the mortgage on
it anyway.
To my neighbor, I leave my
clown suit. He will need it if
he continues to farm as he has
in the past.
To the Farm Credit Cor-
poration, I leave my unpaid
bill. They took a chance on me
and I want to do something
for them.
To the Co-op, my grain bill.
I was planning to let them
take it next year anyway.
To the high -roller who deals
in the futures market, 50
bushels of corn to see if he can
hit the market right. I never
did.
To the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food, I leave
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my farmplan. Maybe they
can understand it.
To the junkman, my farm
machinery. He has had his
eye on it for years anyway.
To my undertaker, I have a
special request. I want six im-
plement and fertilizer dealers
for my pallbearers. They
have been carrying me for
years anyway.
To the weatherman, give
me rain, sleet or snow for my
funeral. No need to ask for
good weather now when it is
too late to do my crops any
good.
To the gravedigger. don't
bother. 1 am in a deep enough
hole now.
To the monumentmakers,
here is my epitaph: Here lies
a farmer who has now proper-
ly assumed all of his
obligations.
With thanks to the unknown
author.
And how about one more?
To Eugene Whelan, thanks
but no thanks for Canagrex.
We need another
bureaucratic bungle about as
bad as Lech Walesa needs
martial law.
This last will and testament
is not exaggerated. City
dwellers find it difficult to
understand the hardships in
rural areas. They think
farmers trip over subsidy
cheques at the mailbox. But
figures do not lie. StatsCan
has issued a report on
average net income of
farmers In Canada for the
year 1979.•
Farmers stake. on the
average, about $13,000 a year.
How many people do you
know with a huge investme•tt
in land and equipment who
make a pittance as a return
on the labor? Garment
workers in Quebec went on
strike because they wanted
more than $7 an hour for a
38 -hour week. They were
making more than fanners
before the strike.
Automobile workers make
an average of more than
$20,000 a year and have little
or no investment. Heavens,
even bank clerks make more
than farmers.
According to StatsCan, it
doesn't matter much whether
a farmer has a big farm, big
machinery, a big barn or
ungraded herds. The income
figures between the big ones
and the small ones are not too
far apart even when off -farm
income is used to balance the
figures.
The statistics are more
than just alarming. They are
an indictment of a social
structure which places
agriculture at the low end of
the income totem pole.
Agriculture is the most im-
portant industry in this
nation.
Wnen will the returns to
.farmers reflect this
importance?
A lot of people
call life
"The Survival of
the Fittest".
You know, a lot
of people are
right.
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lenders are the federal Farm
Credit Corporation, the Bank
of Montreal, the Toronto-
Doniinion Bank and the Cana-
dian Imperial Bank of
Commerce.
An individual may receive
the rebate on loans up to
$350,000.
The rebate will apply to
loans made to cover transac-
tions which were finalized on
or after May 10, 1983. Begin-
ning farmers may enter the
program at any time during
a five-year period which
began on that date.
'1'o be ellgiote, an applicant
must never have owed a
viable farm, must qualify for
a loan from the lending in-
stitution and must become a
full-time farmer, operating a
viable farm and earning the
majority of his/her income
from farming.
In addition, applicants
must be able to demonstrate
competence as a farm
manager through having
either sufficient agricultural
experience or an agricultural
education.
A farmer's eligibility for
the program will be determin-
ed by the ministry. Security,
terms, interest rates and loan
amount, however, will be sub-
ject to normal credit negotia-
tions between the lender and
the beginning farmer. Loans
from banks and other finan-
cial institutions must be made
at a fixed rate for a period of
not less than five years.
"The program will run for
five years, with $135 million
being made available for in-
terest rebates over the five
years," Timbrell said. "This
program clearly
demonstrates the Ontario
government's long -terns com-
mitment to agriculture".
The rebates are available
on that part of the loan used
to purchase land, fixed im-
provements, breeding stock,
quota and machinery, or to
make permanent farm
improvements.
The request to enrol in the
Hydro searching
for Huron route
Ontario Ilydro will begin a
search for a suitable location
for a 115KV distribution sta-
tion in the Clinton area the
planning and development
committee of Huron County
Council learned.
In a monthly report to coun-
cil, committee chairman
Leona Armstrong reported
that the proposed distribution
station is required oecausi
existing electrical circuits are
reaching maximum levels
and will no longer be ade-
quate to supply power to the
area.
Ontario Hydro says its
plans to locate the distribution
station near the existing 115
KV transmission line running
from Seaforth to Goderich.
Hydro plans to make an an-
nouncement concerning the
project in the local press and
the councils of the town of
Clinton and the Townships of
Hullett will be informed of the
study.
In other committee ne,vs,
council learned that Canadian
National and Pacific Railway
Companies plan to close
several lines of operation in
the Bruce, Grey County
areas. CN will close lines
from Southampton to Port
Elgin, Wingham to Kincar-
dine and Listowel to
Wingham.
Capsule sermons
As old-time threshermen
knew, the steam that blows
the whistle doesn't turn the
wheel never make,fun of an
idiot; he may have friends in
Washington...if humanity
would profit from its
mistakes. what a future we'd
have'...conscience doesn't
keep some folks from sinning,
it only keeps them from en-
joying it...take nothing for
granted...don't borrow money
from an optimist - he expects
to get it back...for mothers,
the son always shines.
Ontario Beginning Farmer
Assistance Program should
be made when the applicant
files a request for a loan.
A review committee in-
cluding representatives from
the farming community ap-
pointed by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food will make the final deci-
sion on eligibility for BFAP in
any disputed cases.
Full details of the program
are available from the
ministry's local offices, par-
ticipating lenders and from'
the Farm Assistance Pro-
gram Branch, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food. Queen's Park. Toronto,
M7A 2B2.
Application forms are
available from the approved
lenders.
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