Times Advocate, 1984-10-31, Page 14:,0
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Times -Advocate, October 31, 1984
Huron farm and home news
Iluron dologat. off to login. Agribition; mapping proect is underway
A tour person team will be
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Competition at the Canadian
Western Agribition in Regina.
The four people were selected
as a result of having the
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ing Competition.
Elizabeth Stewart, RR 1
Dublin (Huron County) -
representing Rural Youth
Connection in Stratford.
Also, accompanying the
group is their chaperone Ken
Mewhinney, RR 1 Lucknow
who is a calf club leader in
Huron County.
The Ontario team will be
competing with other 4-H
teams from across Canada
and the U.S. As well, the
group will have a chance to
visit the Agribition and other
sights in the Regina area.
This 4-H travel opportunity
will take place from
November 22 to November 26
and is sponsored by Pioneer
Hi -Bred Limited, Chatham.
Karen Rodman, Rural
Organization Specialist
(Agriculture)
Mapping project
The Ontario Soil and Crop
Improvement Association in
cooperation with the Ontario
Institute of Pedology and the
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food are
presently In the process of
upgrading portions of the soll
maps for Huron, Perth,
Bruce, Grey, Wellington and
Waterloo counties.
The objective of this pilot
project is to collect pertinent
data that will compliment the
existing soil information. It is
hoped that this additional in-
formation will allow for bet-
ter and more accurate soil in-
terpretations (i.e. improved
C.L.I. maps, soil conservation
and soil management
recommendations) .
Eight employees have been
hired for the project through
a Canada Employment and
Immigration Centre Job
Creation Program, which
sponsors the employees for
the six month duration of the
project.
Five field workers are
travelling the study area in
private cars making slope
length, slope angle, crop,
stoniness and erosion obser-
vations, as well as taking soil
samples. The soil samples are
taken with a small hand
shovel a few meters into the
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6 mill 20' x 100' 49.75
32' x 100' 83.00
40' x 100' 98.00
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TEACHERS MEET — The Huron Women Teachers Association held. their annual
meeting at the Pineridge Chalet. Shown from left are Joan Perrie, convener, Ila
Mothers, president of the Huron association; guest speaker Edna Parker, provin-
cial president of the Federation of Women Teachers Association of Ontario; Mary
Moffatt, 2nd v/p of the Huron branch and Mary Ellen Walsh, 1st v/p.
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"Canada may be headed
toward the greatest en-
vironmental disaster in its
history, a disaster that would
produce harmful economic ef-
fects unparalleled since the
Depression.
"The threat is nothing less
than destruction of the land's
current capacity to continue
producing food."
Does this sound like a con-
versation out of a horror
movie or the scare ta,;tics of
a subversive group? The
words are from a book called
"Will The Bounty End?" It
was written by Garry Fair-
bairn of Saskatoon, a former
reporter for Canadian Press
and, now the managing editor
of Western Producer
Magazine.
He was commissioned to
write the book by the
Agriculture Institute of
Canada, a group of organiza-
tions and people dedicated to
the business of farming.
It is difficult for most of us,
sitting in our comfortable ci-
ty homes or,rsuburban ranch
houses, to conclude that land
in Canada is finite. We take a
drive in the country and see
acres and acres of it, some of
it in crops, some of it with
contented cattle grazing
peacefully on it. To tour
Canada by either car or train
is an unforgettable ex-
perience. The land does seem
endless.
But it isn't.
All those miles - oops,
kilometres - and all those
acrea - oops, hectares - seem
enough to provide farm land
for thousands of years. But to
think this way would be
wrong.
Less than five percent of all
that land is worth farming. It
is a narrow strip possibly a
hundred miles wide, with
pockets of good land here and
there above the strip, that can
be classed as Class A.
And that land is slowly dy-
ing. Soil erosion, soil saliniza-
tion, the loss of organic mat-
ter from Prairie soils and ur-
ban development on this
prime farm land are ex-
amples of this environmental
disaster which could be com-
ing to pass, according to
Fairbairn.
It is a problem this reporter
has been warning the country
about for 20 years. Super-
markets across this country
ire filled with an amazing
variety of goods of high quali-
ty, probably of higher quali-
y than any other nation in the
world. And in site of what -
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"The basic choice confron-
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destiny to industries that will
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"If Canadians do not
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bairn. "Imminent decisions
on a host of environmental,
economic, social and political
issues will enhance or cripple
future agricultural produc-
tivity ... the nation is in
danger of following the wrong
path."
The choices for improve-
ment are still open but we are
heading into a crisis. These
opportunities will pass and
might find ourselves in a
crisis far worse than the
energy crisis in the last
decade.
And make no mistake:
most farmers know exactly
what to do to prevent this
great resource - farmland -
from being ruined. But they
cannot afford to do it. AsFair
bairn writes: "The twin
pressures of low market
prices and rising farm costs
push farmers into choosing
short-term gains over long-
term health of the land."
Fairbairn constantly states
that the problems facing
agriculture should not be left
to a small group of people in
agriculture departments or
universities or solely to
farmers themselves. It is a
national problem and should
be faced nationally.
It is a good book and the
agriculture institute should be
commended for sponsoring it.
As well, Gan -y Fairbairn may
sound like a prophet of doom
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The date collection phase of
the project will be completed
during the first 10 to l3weeks
of the program, after which
the data analysis and inter-
pretation phase will follow.
The final stage of the project
will involve teh synthesis of
new information and its
presentation on 1:50,000 scale
maps. These maps will then
be distributed to the in-
terested parties in the above
mentioned areas.
If successful this project
will demonstrate the ability to
upgrade existing soil maps
without a full scale soil
survey. It is anticipated that
in the coming year this pro-
ject will be expanded into
areas of the province not
slated for regular soli survey
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