The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-03-04, Page 24PAGE 8A-GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1981
The great
turnip
caper
BY ALICE GIBB
Security guards are still on
the premises of a number of
local rutabaga producers
and processors, in-
vestigating suspected low -
pricing of turnips shipped
from the plants. Security.
guards were posted two
weeks ago Tuesday at
Stovel-Siemon Ltd., RB5
Mitchell; the Hubbard. Tur-
nip Plant in Blyth and at Ex-
eter Produce and Huron Pro-
duce in Exeter. The guards
arrived at the plants bearing
letters from the Ontario
Rutabaga Producers
Marketing Board (ORPMB)
in Lucan, which advised pro-
cessors the guards were on
the premises to gather infor-
mation on what is suspected
to , be illegal low -pricing of
rutabagas being ,shipPed.,
from the plants.
Eric Vanneste, the
manager of the marketing
board, ordered the guards
into. • plants; when he
discovered turnips were sell-
ing for $6 per carton at the
Ontario Food Terminal in
Toronto. The • marketing
board has set a minimum
price of $6 'per carton for
Canada No.1 rutabagas with
$3.25' going to growers. Mr.
Vanneste said when the Food
Terminal can offer
rutabagas at $6 per. carton,
there are discrepancies
.somewhere: He said plants
are suspected of delivering
extra cartonsof turnips to
buyers and not recording
this.. -
Security guards are no
assigned to processing'
plants to check bills of lading
before trucks are loaded and
to check paperwork to deter-
mine • destinations and
buyers of the rutabagas.
Mr. Vanneste said smaller
processors, who wax their
own turnips and ship, them,
are being asked to phone the
board whenever they have a
load ready to ship. It's then
"yup to Mr. Vanneste whether
a security guard is sent to
their farms to check bills of
lading.
Mr. Vanneste said agents
(producers and processors)
and the directors of the On-
..:_tario Rutabaga_.,Producers
Marketing Board met in
Cambridge three weeks ago
to discuss the situation and
suspected discrepancies. He
said the consensus was that
the board had to do
something about the situa-
tion, and Mr. Vanneste said
it was left for him, as
manager of the board, to
decide what action should be
taken.
Three of the directors are
producers and shippers
themselves, and they now
also have full-time security
guards posted at their turnip
plants, including the one
located in Tavistock.
Mr. Vanneste said one pro-
blem facing the board is that
many of the agents or pro-
cessors are also growers,
Shippers and truckers. While
the board manager admits it
-would be naive to Zink
security guards will catch
anyone in the act of selling
turnips that aren't recorded,
he said the security guards
were -called in "to shake
things up a little bit."
While George Hubbard of
the Blyth turnip plant said he
wasn't concerned at having
a security guard on the
premises, Lloyd Siemon,
however, the grower -
processor who is a partner in
the Mitchell area plant isn't
happy with the situation.
Mr. Siemon asked how
anyone would like the idea of
someone looking over your
shoulder, when Canada is
supposed to be a free coun-
try.
Mr.Siemon said the pro-
blem is the rutabaga board
"has made a bungle from
start to finish" and that ex-
ports of the crop are down.
As a result of the high
minimum price, sales to the
U.S. declined 187,000 bushels
last year, and this year are
running 255,865 bushels
below the pre -board levels
according to figures provid-
ed by Mr. Siemon. Many of
the Ontario -grown
rutabagas are marketed in
the United States.
The board was formed two
years ago in July, 1979, after
fluctuating prices for the
crop made the market a
"free-for-all" in manager
Vanneste's words. The
marketing board manager
said there were problems in
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