The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-10-27, Page 22PAGE 22-GODERICH SIGNALSTAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27,1982
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by Bob Trotter
A groundswell of dissention is surging, through the boon-
docks, in case you city folk have not noticed.
I,'m a lover, not a fighter, but I just may join the ranks of
thousands of disgruntled farmers who are protesting these
days.
I do not condone the foolishness that a group of farmers ,
perpetrated in the Owen Sound area last year. They dressed
up in masks and at least one carried a rifle and pawned
themselves off as vigilantes. They hoodwinked a Toronto
paper into believing them.
Nor do I applaud those who leave dead animals tossed..
carelessly on the steps of banking institutions.
But the statistics prove conclusively that a great many
farmers are having a tough time and they may be forced into
taking a more militant approach.
The federal consumer affairs department reported last
month that more farmers had gone broke by the end of
August than in all of 1981. A record 261 farm bankruptcies
were reported in 1981 but by the end of August this year, 278
farmers were forced into bankruptcy, almost half of them
livestock producers whose rising costs and huge debt load •
were not matched by prices received in the marketplace.
Ontario was the hardest hit with 117 bankruptcies followed
by Quebec where hog farmers have been hard hit, Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta.
These figures do not tell the whole story, either. Just take a
look at the high number of auction sales in any rural area and
you can addthem to the attrition rate in agriculture. Instead
of waiting for foreclosures, many are selling out while they
can still salvage something.
Farmers, then, are justifiably angry. Further proof was
reported in September. An angry group of farmers applied
enough heckling pressure to an auctioneer's efforts to force
the end to a sale of machinery that had been seized by a'bank
the night before the auction sale.
Work created
Through the -.conservation
authorities' special • lOy-
ment program, fun by
the Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources and the
Department of Employment
and Immigration Canada,
375 weeks. of work have been
created in the past week .to
be shared by 27 laid -off
employees in' southwestern
Ontario.
The prole s recen ll ap-
proved for southwestern On-
tario will cost the Ontario
and federal governments
$197,016. The workers will be
involved in such activities as
rehabilitating streams to im-
prove fishing and studying
wildlife habitat.
At Hullett Wildlife
Management area,. workers
will be surveying beaver
dams and • cold water
streams• as well as examin-
ing deer yard's and deer
habitat.
This program is among
five federal/provincial job
creation programs initiated
earlier this year by Natural
Resources Minister Alan
' Pope and Uoyd Axworthy,
federal Ministerroof Employ-
ment and Immigration.
Fisheries, forests, parks and.
mines programs have also
been created to employ addi-
tional laid -off workers.
Since 'February, the
Government of Ontario has
contributed $10.7 -million to
all five programs, providing
• a total of 48,150 weeks of
work for 3,305 laid -off
workers in the province.
"There are many advan-
tages to the job creation pro-
grams. They provide jobs for
people in our province who
want to work, and they im-
prove the resources and en-
vironment of Ontario -for the
benefit of all residents. They
also.keep.skilled,.wnrkers_ixL.:.
their communities," Mr.
Pope said.
Under each program, the
federal government ..offers
an enhanced pay package so
workers receive their
regular UI benefits plus a
supplement which will in-
crease their benefits to a
maximum of $240 per week.
The Ministry of Natural
Resources. using funds pro-
vided through the job crea-
_ tion programannounced in
the Ontario budget, con-
tributes an additional 25 per
cent of the federal.contribu-
tion up to a maximum of $60
per week. The provincial
part of the programs is fund-
. ed by the Board of Industrial
Leadership and Develop -
I 1
I.1
ment (BILD) and ad-
ministered
through the
Ministry of Natural
Resources.
The province also pays for
family protection benefits,
and the ,cost of equipment
and materials to carry out
the project. In addition, staff
from the Ministry of Natural
Resources provide technical
guidance and support for
each-project-
By-law
ch p ect.-
By-law
simplified
SEAFORTH- Seaforth coun-
cil recently passed a revised
animal control bylaw,
similar to existing bylaws in
Clinton. and Tuckersmith
Township.
Seaforth Police Chief Hal
Claus said that the new
-bylaw has been simplified
from; the prvious law to give
owners streamlined
guidelines to follow. '
A crowd of about 200 came to the sale barn in Lindsay, Ont.,
for the sale of machinery which had been owned by Ross
Fisher, a cattleman. The protesters began shouting and the
auctioneer cancelled the sale.
Mr. Fisher ran a 2,000 -head cattle ranch north of Lindsay
for 25 years. His debt of $1 million was accumulated over the
years, he said. The combination of high interest rates and low
prices for beef made it impossible to make payments.
Bankers being bankers and not farmers demanded the
money. •
Mr. Fisher, taking advice from the Canadian Farm Sur-
vival Association, arranged for the removal of the equip-
ment. It was rumoured to be hidden in various spots all
across Victoria County.
The bank's people managed to find 11 pieces of equipment
and the sale started. But it never finished.
This is just one story from the naked country. There are
thousands of them out there, just as there are thousands in
the towns and cities. Bankruptcies are not confined to
agriculture.
There is a difference, though. Farmers raise food.
Everybody eats. It is a difficult habit to break.
Farmers constitute less than five per cent of the population
now. If these bankruptcies continue, that percentage may
dwindle to the vanishing point.
What, then, will we do for food'.'
Import it all, most of it from the United States? And when
there is as shortage over there, we'll pay a great deal more for
it than the reasonable price most farmers are asking right
now.
Those protests by farmers.. will be mild compared to the
foofaraw that will come if farmers cannot get a reasonable
price for their. products.
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