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Times Advocate, 1995-05-24, Page 10• Pugs' 10 Times -Advocate, May 24, 1995 FAR ]1/f 1 I R T) A T F South Huron Foodgralns project gives farmers and citizens like Alan Powe and Rob Pertschy a hands on approach to helping others. The corn from this field will go to those in need. There are two fields being used for the project. The first is along Huron County Road 4, just west of Highway 4. The other is on County Road 11 in Usborne Township. Farmers plant corn for Foodgrains Bank Several local church- es are involved in the project. Mary Peterson CENTRALIA - Area farmers are working in the fields during these busy planting days. On May 15 and 16, several farm- ers took time out from their own fields to work the fields and plant corn for the South Huron Food - grains Bank Project, a joint project of several local United churches. Seed was donated by Sereda Farms, Don Pullen, and Elwyn Kerslake. Many people are working together on this project. In addition to the involvement of the local churches, Calvary United in London and St. John's in Hamil- ton are both supporting the project. St. John's has planted an.,8' x 8' plot of field corn on the front lawn of the church to symbolically rep- resent the project. 'A day in the country', Saturday, September 16, will bring together the various partneri in this project. Margaret Hern, chair of the Food - grains Project, has arranged a meet- ing at Morrison Dam pavilion on Wednesday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. for volunteers to learn about this suggestion and provide some ideas for organizing it. Anyone interested in helping to plan this day is invit- ed to come to the meeting. If you'd like additional information, contact Margaret Hern at 229-8223. Next Sunday, May 28 is Confer- ence Sunday, and there will be no worship at Centralia and Zion Opportunity through teamwork theme GUELPH - Approximately 440 cattlemen and beef industry repre- sentatives attended the 33rd Annu- al Meeting of the Ontario Cattle- men's Association (OCA) in Toronto recently. The theme of the two day convention was "Opportu- nity Through Teamwork". The 240 voting delegates who represented their local Cattlemen Associations participated in discussions which will determine the policy direc- tions in 1995. A feature this year was a panel discussion about carcass size. Two retail spokesmen told cattlemen that today's larger carcasses are not meeting consumer demand be- cause of portion size and cost, which is too high. Two cattlemen on the panel described the industry trend to larger cattle which is driv- en by production efficiencies. Ontario Minister of Agricul- ture, Food and Rural Affairs, El- mer Buchanan, gave an address on the first day of the meeting. Mr. Buchanan reflected on a successful year in the agriculture industry and commended the Ontario Cattle- men's Association for its perse- verance in the introduction of beef grade labelling earlier this year. He also announced that MGI Pack- ers in Kitchener will receive job- sOntario funding to hire 48 new employees. Debate took place on several res- olutions that had been brought for- ward by county Cattlemen's Asso- ciations. Foremost of these resolutions was that OCA continue to oppose the federal govern- ment's intent to increase the tariff rate quota on imported beef. Also high on the agenda was that OCA lobby in opposition to the federal governments proposed firearms registration. Other resolutions were passed on various issues. OCA was asked to work with Beef Improvement On- tario (BIO) to ensure that there is no duplication between the work of Canada Beef Improvement and BIO. A motion for OCA to contin- ue to promote the humane han- dling of livestock in sales barns was also passed. The OCA will also look into the feasibility of joining the information highway and providing electronic access to this information by producers. Lobbying efforts will be focused on strengthening the rights of prop- erty owners, maintaining the farm tax rebate program, ensuring that funding of farm organizations re- mains refundable and that amend- ments be made to the Ontario Building Code to remove livestock production buildings from the Code. On the second day of the meet- ing, the new President and Execu- tive Committee were elected. The 1995 president is Harvey Graham of Durham East; 1st vice-president is Dale Pallister of Grey County; 2nd vice-president is Linda Barker of Haldimand County; and past president is Ken Summers of Vic- toria County. Also elected to the executive were Bob Brander, Peel/ Halton; Bob Dobson, Renfrew; Darlene Bowen, Temiskasming; and Stan Eby, Bruce. Denfield livestock sales DENFIELD - The market here at Denfield followed the downward trend on all but the fancy fed cattle. Good solid well fed cattle were still in good demand. Cows sold higher. veal lower, stockers steady and pigs steady. 410 cattle and 200 pigs on offer Don Eedy and Mark Vanderploeg, Denfield, sold 7 steers, ave. wt. 1152 lbs., ave. price 91.86 to a high sale of 1.0125 purchased by M.G.I. Gord Hardy, Lucan, sold 12 steers ave. wt. 1320 lbs. ave. price 89.70 sales to 95.75 purchased by Norwich Packers. Bill Woodburn, Parkhill, sold 18 steers ave. wt. 1410 lbs. ave. price 87.00 sales to 97.50 purchased by Holly Park. Choice steers 87 - 92 sales to 1.0125 Good steers 82-86 Choice exotic cross heifers 85 - 90 sales to 96.00 Good heifers 80-84 DI & D2 cows 50-56 Shells - 15-35 Yearling heifers 85-98 Heifer calves 85-1.10 Beef type calves 150.00-300.00 Sows 35.42 cents Common & medium 70-78 D3 & D4 cows 40-50 Yearling steers 90-1.00 Steer calves 95-1.19 Hol. bull calves 125.00-200.00 Pigs - 40-60 lbs. 65 cents -70 cents Over 60 lbs. - 60 cents to 70 cents Boars 20-30 cents • j West. However, the Community of Eight Area Churches has planned a service at Thames Road United Church which begins with a sing song at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is 'welcome to attend this service. The following Sunday, fune 4, will be the Centralia Sunday School Anniversary, and a service will be held at Centralia only at 11:30 a.m. Zion Sunday School Anniversary is the following Sun- day at 11:00 a.m. Euchre party At 'Heywoo d's Restaurant, the Special Award in euchre was won by George Adams. Mary Wallis and Percy Noels were Lone Hand winners, and High Hands were won by Jean Noels and Walter We- ber. -/P.- 1hr One Foithe By Bo cotter Canadian pork so important to agriculture I cannot help but wonder how estranged the factions on the Ontario Pork Producers Market- ing Board have become. Late last year, a report was made public which said the board was dysfunctional and se- riously divided, spending to much time on issues seen to be neither of critical importance or top priority. I know of several pork producers who circumvent- ed the board completely by ar- ranging their own private con- tracts with American companies. They made these ar- rangements simply because they were fed up with the petty poli- ticking, the snide remarks, the endless wrangling that went on at pork board meetings. "The situation (at the pork board) can be likened to that of standing on a raft which is burn- ing out of control," the Price Waterhouse report stated. Not a good place to be, huh? The report was adopted. As a re- sult, the long-time manager was fired. Several other staff mem- bers were told that their heads were on the chopping block, too. One of my producer friends welcomed the changes with great glee. "If something hadn't been done, the entire (pork market- ing) system would have col- lapsed under its own weight of inertia," he said. At the time the changes were Brussels livestock sales BRUSSELS - Sales at Brussels Livestock for the week end- ing May 19, 1995. Fed Cattle: 926 Cows:281 Veal: 185 Sheep & Goats: 148 Stockers: 1274 Pigs:97 The market saw top quality steers and heifers selling under pres- sure at prices $2.00 (ower, with the second cut selling 53.00 lower. Cows sold S1-2 higher. On Thursday veal sold steady. Lambs for fully steady w last week. On Friday the grass cattle sold actively. There were 573 steers on of- fer selling from 86.00 to 90.00 to the high of 102.00. Forty steers consigned by Bill Hayden, Goderich averaging 1461 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 87.09 with sales to 102.00. Twenty-one steers consigned by Cunningham Farms, Lucan averaging 1431 lbs. sold for an average of 86.64 with sales to 97.50. Fifteen steers consigned by Wayne O'Brien, Centralia averaging 1401 lbs. sold for an average of 82.47 with sales to 97.50. Five steers consigned by Charles Ready. Si Marys averaging 1359 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 91.98 with sales to 95.25. Two steers consigned by Jon Miller, Ayton averaging 1260 lbs. sold for an average of 92.36 with sales to 94.75. Twenty-five steers consigned by Glen Milsap, Creemore averaging 1395 lbs. sold for an average of 86.61 with sales to 92.25. Twelve steers consigned by Johnston Farms. Bluevale averaging 1357 lbs. sold for an average of 97.94 with sales to 92.25. Thirteen steers consigned by Schmidt Brook Farms Inc., Woodstock averaging 1446 lbs. sold for an average of 84.54 with sales to 91.75. Thrix steers consigned by Gordon Dacr. Auburn averaging 1193 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 91.09 with sales to 91.50. Thirty-nine steers consigned by Lorne Forster. Lucknow averaging 1439 lbs. sold for an average of 84.07 with sales to 91.00. There were 318 heifers on offer selling from 86.00 to 90.00 to the high of 97.50. Fourteen heifers consigned by Mux Lea Farms, Woodstock averaging 1248 lbs. sold for an average of 87.16 with sales to 97.50. Five heifers consigned by Gerald Vandewall, Dublin averaging 1 189 lbs. sold for an av- erage of 88.44 with sales to 94.00. Eleven heifers consigned by Grocnberg Farms, Lucknow averaging 1104 lbs. sold for an average of 86.08 with sales to 92.75. Three heifers consigned by Ross Baird, Wingham averaging 1 125 lbs. sold for an aver- age pf 83.15 with sales to 92.25. One Heifer consigned by John Denier, Harriston weighing 1140 lbs. sold for 90.75. Eight heifers consigned by Ron Jackson, Stratford averaging 1089 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 85.27 with sales to 90.00. Four heifers consigned by Gary Van Camp, Brussels averaging 1167 lbs. sold for an av- erage of 81.20 with sales to 89.50. Four heifers consigned by Tyrone Farms, Staffa averaging 991 lbs. sold for an average of 82.53 with sales to 89.00 Three heifers consigned by Bert Elliott, Kincardine averaging 1065 lbs. sold for an av- erage of 85.30 with sales to 88.50. Twenty-four heifers consigned by Russ Faber, Kippcn averaging 1068 lbs. sold for an average of 84.98 with sales to 88.30. There were 281 cows on offer selling from 40.00 w 62.00 to the high of 66.75. Eight cows consigned by Doug Powell. Dobbinton averaging 1354 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 59.51 with sales to 66.75. One cow consigned by Murray and Lome Rennick, Monkton weighing 1070 lbs. sold for 66.50. Two cows consigned by Brian Mcllroy, Gowanstown averaging 1275 lbs. sold for an average of 57.05 with sales to 60.75. There were 27 bulls on offer selling from 54.75 to 70.50 to the high of 809.00. One Limo bull consigned by Cranbrook Farms. Brussels weighing 1920 lbs. sold for 80.00. One Limo bull consigned by Ralph Locking, Brussels. weighing 2220 lbs. sold for 80.00. There were 185 veal on offer selling hol. 70.00 to 85.00: beef 80.00 to 98.50. Three veal consigned by Ron Smart. Mount Forest averaging 705 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 85.70 with sale% to 98.50. Fourteen veal consigned by Jack Flanagan. Dublin averaging 781 lbs. sold for an aver- age of 86.58 with sales to 97.00. One veal consigned by Elgin Hogg, Wingham weighing 640 Ibs. sold for 96.50. Lambs: under 50 lbs. 152.50 to 187.50 164.00 to 190.00 49.00 to 110.00 35.00 to 140.00 109.50 to 127.00 92.00 to 122.50 90.00 to 115.50 84.00 to 118.30 86.50 to 114.00 81.75 to 108.00 100.00 to 123.00 80.00 to 117.00 91.00 to 120.00 50 to 79 lbs. Sheep: Goats: Stockers: Steers: 400-499 lbs. 500-599 600-699 700-799 800-899 900&over Heifers: 300-399 lbs. 400-499 500-599 PROMECHANICAL ,TRUCK AND FARM REPAIRS • SAFETY INSPECTION STATION • 3 MECHANICS ON DUTY • DIESEL ENGINE REBUILDING 88 Main St. R.R. 3, Lucan, Ont. NOM 2J0 Ph: (519) 227-0077 Fax: (519) 227-4179 Da♦a V'r'?etatt"an Au►nar made, I also quoted another friend just a few miles down the road who said the board mem- bers took the report too literally and, if left alone, the board members would have solved their own problems without all the hullabaloo., I believed him then but not any more. Not after that report hit the press this month about board members trying to "limit" alcohol consumption at direc- tors' meetings. Information about the booze consumption and the attempts to curtail it were brought to light in minutes of the board from away back in 1992 when a motion was introduced that described the cost of alcohol consumption by directors at meal times as an unnecessary expense. Two quite prominent produc- ers, by the way, sponsored the motion: Ray Howling of Water- loo Region and Ross Small of Wellington County. They sug- gested the board members should be responsible for their own drinks even when on board business. That motion was de- feated but two other directors moved that responsibility in the purchasing of alcoholic beverag- es should be shown. One drink per meal was suggested. Both these resolutions sound sensible to me. As a reporter for five or six publications over the years, I have always felt that the press should pay its own way at any function although being bought one drink would not change my perspective. What is significant here, though, is that two prominent directors should feel it neces- sary to instigate such a motion. Were some directors so dis- gusted with the behaviour of others that these somewhat petty resolutions were necessary? I wrote several months ago that this marketing board had rocky beginnings 30 years ago and had been knocked around so much dirty, inconsequential dis- cussions should hit the media. Feelings must run very deep. Canadian pork is so important to agriculture that this board should make every effort to get back on an even keel and pro- mote the great product they rep- resent in a proper professional manner. Julien Den Tandt, a resident of Heidelberg in Waterloo Region, was named to the newly -created position of chief executive offi- cer of the troubled board in a re- cent move. He has a reputation for achieving his goals within a few years and moving on. He brims plenty of experience to the post but this, I believe, is probably the biggest challenge he has ever faced. As I said back in January, don't hold your breath. These pork board members have been nattering at each other for 30 years. Brussels Livestock Division of Gamble & Rogers Ltd. 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