The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-03-04, Page 27FARM NEWS Renewable sources must be used for energy
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Candidates speak
Huron County Federation
of Agriculture regional
directors listened as
members of the three pro-
vincial parties attempted to
state their agricultural
policies at the February On-
tario Federation of
Agriculture Board Meeting
in Totnto.
Michael Cassidy, NDP
leader, stated that his party
would preserve class 1, 2 and
3 farmland through a land
reserve. The NDP would
create an Ontario Foodland
Trust to acquire" land and
lease it back to young
farmers. This system would
be similar to the Saskat-
chewan Land Bank system
which has an option to pur-
chase clause.
The NDP, he said, would
also set up an "Ontario Food
Agency" to set up local food
co-ops, establish local pro-
cessing plants, find new
markets, establish food ter-
minals and handle research
into energy technology for
food production.
• Cassidy stressed the need
for self-sufficiency in food
for Ontario stating, "Ontario
can't afford the job deficit
from lost food production".
Declaring that the "food in-
quiry was a waste of
money," he said his party
would "persuade if possible,
—and legislate if necessary,
.for supermarkets to have
Ontario produce available."
Lorne Henderson,
Minister- of Agriculture,
speaking on behalf of the
Progressive Conservative
Party, said his party would
invest in one million acres in
eastern and northern On-
tario for food production:
Storage facilities would be
updated.
On the subject of foreign
ownership of farmland,
Henderson stated a registra-
. tion of such ownership is
underway. Those foreign in-
vestors with farmland,
holdings. of 10 hectares or
more must register. Hender-
son intends to take these
results to government every
month.
Jan McGuigan, represen-
ting the Liberal party, stated
the Liberals would double
the provincial Ministry of
Agriculture budget. He fur-
ther stated that rural hydro
rates would be reduced and
productivity value should be
used for farm property tax
purposes.
On. the subject of foreign
ownership, McGuigan felt
there should be a restriction
of foreign ownership of farm
corporations to 49 percent.
The Liberal Party,
McGuigan said, would
legislate and control unfair
practices in the food in-
dustry. Tile drainage loan
money would also be in-
creased.
Watch for killer
manure gases
BY RON FLEMING
Spring isn't far away. With
spring comes that hi -annual
eltail loved by all called
"spreading manure".
Especially for those with, li-
quid manure systems, it is
important to keep in mind
.certain facts about manure
gases.
Manure is broken down by
bacteria. When there is no
oxygen present in the
• manure, as in liquid manure,
certain undesirable gases
are given off. These include
carbon monoxide, methane,
ammonia and hydrogen
sulphide.
The most dangerous of
these is hydrogen sulphide.
These gases are produced all
the time, but they are not
usually released from the
manure until the manure is
stirred up. That is why pro-
blems with , these gases
usually occur when the
manure is agitated.
If you picture what hap-
pens when a bottle of pop is
shaken; you get an idea of
how- gas is released when ,
manure is agitated.
Hydrogen sulphide is
heavier than air so it will
tend to remain at the surface
of the rnahuire. So, if iranure
is stored under slats, doonn't
let the level get too high.
Keep six inches of clearance
below the slats, otherwise
the heavier gases may be
forced above the slats to
animal level.
Strong ventilation is im-
portant to safe agitation of
manure. The potential for
problems is highest when the
manure is stored under slats
in the barn. The ,building
should be ventilated as well
as possible when agitating
the tank. No one should be
allowed in the building. To
be on the safe side, the
animals should be removed
from the barn.
Because this last condition
is hard to meet, many
farmers empty these tanks,
without agitation: This will
eventually lead to a build-up
of solids.
Tanks outside the earn
should be connected to the
gutters by some system
which uses a gas trap so
gases cannot get into the
barn directly from the tank.
No operator should ever
enter a tank without a self-
contained breathing ap-
paratus and life line with a
buddy outside the tank.
Play it safe when handling
manure this spring.
Junior Farmers
have special week
March 20 to 27 is Junior
Farmers' Week in Ontario.
During this time, Junior
Farmer clubs in each coun-
ty, region and district will
organize special fund-
raising events.
The week's activities
culminate at the Junior
Farmers' annual conference
'at Toronto's Constellation
Hotel, March 27 to 29. All
money raised during the
w�e�k 's activities will be"
p ented to the March of
Dunes in honour of the Year
of the Disabled.
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Amber Gibbons, of the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food extension branch,
The association also hopes
to promote awareness of
their motto "self-help and
community betterment".
By Alice Gutta
Farmers who attended the
recent Alternate Energy
Update seminar at the
Clinton OMAF office were
warned there's going to be a
rapid escalation in world
prices for , non-renewable
resources like oil and natural
gas.
The man delivering that
message was Lucknow area
farmer .Tony McQuail, who
is now using both solar and
wind power to cut rising
energy costs on his own
farm.
Mr. McQuail told the 40
farriers who attended that
he hopes farmers can
develop energy from
renewable sources such as
crops ^ and manure as a
marketable commodity. He
said the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture (OFA) is
currently working to per-
suade both the government
arid Ontario Hydro to be
more responsive to farmers
and other individuals
developing energy crops.
He said two possible on-
farm products that can be
used as fuels are oils from
seeds like rapeseed and the
alcohol -based fuels produced
from crops.
Mr. McQuail said he
personally has reservations
about turning over control of
the renewable forms of
energy to multinational
companies, and would prefer
local control of • companies
who might produce fuel from
these sources.
He advised individual
farmers to study ways they
can do the same amount of
work using less energy.
Predicting a price of $100 per,
barrel for oil in the future,
Mr. McQuail said if we were
using energy produced
locally, citizens might have
more control of energy
collection. He concluded by
saying we're now in a
"volatile time" trying to
determine. energy needs 10
years down the road.:
Helmut Speiser, of the
Energy Resource
Management Centre,
•Ridgetown„ discussed some
of the solar energy alter-
natives available to farmers.
He said there are now a
number of barns and farm
workshops in south-western
Ontario heated by the sun.
He said in the agricultural
industry, if an investment
pays off within a ten year
period that's considered a
good - investment. _Mr
Speiser said the payback
period for many solar in-
stallations is now in the five
to seven yea r period.
In a slide presentation, Mr.
Speiser showed several solar
collector installations on the
sides of barns and
workshops. He said a farmer
who decided to build a solar
ebllector on the side of his
farm workshop to provide
heat for the buiding spent an
additional $500 for the
collector. The payback
period was only three to five
years and the. collector
provided the only means of
heat in the shop.
Tlf costs on installing a
similar collector on a new
farrowing barn were $4 per
square foot, but Mr. Speiser
said the payback period was
still within five years. He
said vertical wall collectors,
rather than horizontal' roof
collectors are more practical
in Huron County, easier to
build anddon't have the
same problem of heat
buildup in the summer. He
added roof collectors do have
a problem with snow ac-
cumulation, even when built
at a 60 degree angle.
Mr. Speiser said farmers
considering a rock storage
system to collect heat should
remember they need only
one cubic foot of rock per one
foot of collector. The energy
expert said oversizing + the
rock storage area will prove
useless. Healso told farmers
he doesn't think solar energy
for grain drying is the an-
swer in Ontario. He pointed
out it takes one month to dry
the average -sized bin of
corn, and said the large
producer just can't afford
that much time.
Safety Assoc
to hold conference
The Farm . Safety Associa-
tion of Ontario is holding its
eighth annual conference on
March 9 at the Cara Inn, Air-
port Road, Toronto.
More than 300 delegates,
representing farm
employers, county farm
safety associations, school
boards and other safety
organizations, are expected
to attend.
"The purpose of the con-
ference is two -fold," says
Larry Swine, association
public relations co-
ordinator. "The annual
meeting including election of
the executive is held in the
morning followed by an
educational program in the
afternoon and evening."
The conference program
features Dr. E. J. Tyler, Pro-
fessor Emeritus of Brandon
University, Manitoba' who
will diec'.izs the psychology
of safety. Douglas Wilson of
the Ontario Ministry of the
Environment will 'explain
some of the difficulties of en-
forcing the safe use of
pesticides. The Stratford 4-H
Safety Club will demonstrate
what 4-H members are lear-
ning about farm safety.
"A highlight of the 1981
conference is the banquet
speaker Hon. Lincoln Alex-
ander, chairman of the On-
tario Workmen's Compensa-
tion Board," says Mr. Swine.
"Mr. Alexander will outline
the structure of the
TOWN OF GODERICH -
NEW POUND FEES
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1981
This is to advise that the following rates scrip be'
charged for animals Impounded by the By-law Enfor-
cement Officer or Town of Goderich Police Depar-
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-Any pound animal brought In by the Police or the
By-law Enforcement Officer. out of regular hours.
a minimum charge of .'23.80 admission. plus,
regular fee schedule bo in effect.
-Minimum 'charge for any animal be °18.00. An
animal repossessed by the owner within the 'first
three days to have a minimum pound fee of '18.00.
The Town will not bear this rise In cost, but the ,
owner will receivlls it as an additional fine. .
Councillor Mages, Chairman
Traffic Committee
Town of .t oderlch
workmen's compensation
board and howit relates to
farm employers."
The Farm Safety Associa-
tion, a provincial organiza-
tion with more than 23,000
members, is responsible for
safety, education and pro-
motion in the agricultural
community.
The speaker also outlined
uses of heat pumps and heat
exchangers. He warned dust
can be a problem when
farmers use heat exchangers
in swine and poultry
buildings and also warned
freezing is a potential hazard
with exchangers. He said
farmers must be able to
wash heat exchangers often
to o-vercorne_ _ _the _dust
problems. He recommended
farmers consider some of the
pre -manufactured 'ex,.
changers, but also demon-
strated a plywood model a
farmer could make himself. -
Mr. Speiser pointed out these
warp and must be replaced
every few years. The energy
expert said the disadvantage
with heat exchangers is -the
heat you recover can likely
, only be used in the building
you recover it from, unless
you use ducts and heat
pumps to transfer the warm
air to another building.
Tony McQuail, describing
his experiments with a
wl� dmill erected on a hill an
his farm, said the generator
has only been operational for
a short time, but in that.
period reduced the hydro bill
from seven kwh to four kwh.
Mr. McQuail said when the
windmill and generator are
fully operational, it looks like
• it will produce more power
than they can use on the
farm. He said the most wind
is produced in December and
January on his farm, the
same period wtten Ontario
Hydro has the most drain on'
its system. • Mr. McQuail
hopes he can eventually feed
his excess power back into
the Hydro grid system.
Jack Pos, from the
University of Guelph School
of Engineering, outlined
experiments toproduce
methane gas on the farm. He
said China now has seven
million methane -producing
digesters in operation on
farms and communes. He
said most are buried ung
dergound, and, the gas
produced has to be cleaned
before it can be used in in-
ternal combustion engines.
in Vancouver, Prof. Pos
said, the city's entire fleet of ,
small trucks have been
modified to use methane gas
produced at the city's
municipal waste plant.
The professor, involved in
the ARCAL pilot methane
plant project at the
University of Guelph, said
their research has shown it's.
better to use methane gas as
it's produced. He cautioned
farmers they'll still have a
manure disposal problem
even if they have an on-farm
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manure to produce gas will
at ie,ast remove the
significant odours, so the
effluent which remains has
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Prof. Pos also showed
slides of a variety of
methane gas projects now in
operation. One of the largest,
at Hooker, Oklahoma, was
producing enough gas to
supply the needs of 4,500
homes in a Chicago suburb.
Experiments at the large
plant were also being carried
out to clean the liquid waste
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system, to be re -fed to cattle
on a nearby beef feedlot.
In a question and answer
period at the end of the
seminar, Prof. Pos warned
there's no use in farmers
producing methane if they
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