The Goderich Signal Star, 1976-02-26, Page 36•
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pAGE 8B—GODERICHSIGN'AL-STAR, THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 26, 1976:
Letters areappreciated by Bob Trotter. Eldale Rd Elrmra, Ont. N 3�=7
'It.must have been the mflueh.ce of the full moon', the lunar says.it's up to' the' provinces to agree on a stabilization pro- `.
cycle: '_ gram•before the federal government takes action. '
.:This corner has been castigating the major Toronto papers • It's like the friends said: There s nothing I wouldn't do for
: fOr. many Months for their lack of _understanding when.deal-
. ing with farmers and, farm problems: Because the bigger
papers have circulation in the major' urban centres, they
tend to ignore' farmers. - ' `
• But the Saturday edition, Feb. 14, of the Toronto' Star'
carried a.lengthy, lead•edjtorial protesting the' loss of farm
land in Ontario:' In the time it has taken you to read this
editorial, the paper said, another acre of Ontario farmland
has gone out of. productieu::Fifty-six acres an hour; 1;344 »
acres a day: half a million acres a year. •
Now: that's what agricultural 'writers have been saying
for 10 years in the farm:press and in the smaller dailies
:and weeklies around this province. Not only that, but .the
. Star comes forward With 'a couple .of ideas to help arevent
' these astronomical losses and even goes so far as to.say that
,Ontario could look to British Columbia for ideas.,.._ • • •
- In B.C., a controversial plan is now in force whereby farm-
•ers pay into an insurance scheme ported one=third by the
province and one-th.ird..bv the federal government.
Payments to farmers under this stabilization pi-ograrn
are made' only when -prices. for farm •products fall below
a stipulated level 'and. the participation is voluntary. The
plan is a small incentive,. at least, to keep farmers farming
' the land and to'entice'younger men into agriculture.
A flexible freeze •on farmland has been. Unposed •in: •B:C.
to keep the land in production.;
The Star suggests that an absolute .prerequisite to any
restrictions' on farmland should include. some method of
assuring farmers a more secure existence and a•morestabie; '
income. a promise that has b en made by a,number of poli-
ticians.bet seems to. -be waiting for someone anyone with'
• the g.uts -•te introduce ie . •
iri:this loose:. federal, system .of Qurs, the ,province says it
is up, to the' federal government and the federal government •
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him and there's ;nothinghe sbuldn't 'do for rite and that's
the Way, we go through life: Doing nothing for each other,
•iyleanwhtle, back at the •ranch, farmland iS' stil1„disap-
pearing, the average age of farmers in Canada -remains at'
52, young»people leave rural areas at alarming, rates but the
population of the world keeps growing and growing and ,;
growing and growing. , •
And more bellies are empty. •
The editorial in the Star. was prompted by two reports,
one from the.Ontario institute of Agrologists who are uni-
versity-trained farmers and other agricultural profession
als, and the other from'the OntarioN«9.ssociation of Rural'
Municipalities. . •
Many ordinary'farmershave been making thesarne state-
ments.for.years:' The Ontario Federation of Agricultrure.
warned almostfive years ago that 36 acres of land. was going
out of production every hour of every "day but few people
paid a great deal of attention then. •
'Even if it takes the agrologists and the politicians of
rural Ontario to get the problem before the public eye,•
then farmers themselves should be grateful. Farmers have
been trying for .years, to -get someone .interested in their •
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plight. Too often they have been ignored .by the great, un-
washed millions out there in the'big cities of Toronto, H.amil
tori, London, Windsor and even in St. Catharines or Kitchen-
er or Kingston or Cambridge and' any other urban centre
with land -grabbing . tentacles reaching , out to gobble up'
forever some of the world's most fertile sail.
When it's gone, it's gone under miles of asphalt, concrete,
'high rises arid -harries. rt is another natural resource which
must be protected, nursed and nurtured as zealously as oil,
natural gas, iron ore. copper. nickel, hydro power and you-.
name -it.
If the •day ever comes' when Ontario is a net importer of
-foods everybody will suffer at great cost. -~ t
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ft" question dairy import program
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BY G.: L'STIN •
The 'Federal.. Government
announced in April, 1975, .a.
new long . term dairy policy
:fea'turing an' economic- for-
mula for adjusting sufficient"
. rurns
gic ing' prniererrs ' incentive •
and assurance to retake long
term plans and.investinents.'
In June of '75; tho'Industry
of . Grade and Commerce
Department ' introduced • a"
quota systern on cheese
im'p'orts •to ; support the
Canadian supply
managerrient ,grogram for
industrial milk. The quota for
u19/5s set at 50 million
pounds_ •
In November '75, the ,
Canadian Dairy Commission
reduced the !• subsidy
payments for industrial milk
to 75 percent of Market Share •
Quota as supplies were going
toexceed 'the amount that the
• ,federal " government had
committed itself to jay the
subsidy •on in . 19.75-76. The.
amount was 10.0 million
hundredweight. •
The • federal government
announced that.. for 1976-77
there will be a five per cent
cutback on the:` amount- of
milk and cream that subsidy
will he paid: on. The
maximum amount . is 95 The . _Canadian ' . Dairy
Million hundredweight, the Industry is being asked to
amount allocated is • $262 share -its market by 'allowing
million; 'to Cover -,dirpet, imports to nearly; double over.
payments and .marketing a period- when -domestic
costs. , production will be forcefully
-- F13e fele-ral-governmetit- red uced by -at least 1• ,6 per,
als& announced that •an --in- • -cent-This•is beingrmposeda-t
i:rease, of dairy products the samel.time as producers,
being imported will be per- in .response to federal and'
Milted to gradually rise over provincial government
the- next 'several. yea'r's until • persuasion and :incentive,
.they reach.not less than ten ,have increased their
per cent of the•total amount of .production at yery con-
• manufactureddairy products sidera6le capital expense to.
needed in this country.
Producers
meet
The County Annual Meeting
of the Ontario Egg. Producers
Marketing Board for all. Egg
Producers in Huron County
` was held in the Board Rooms
t>f' . the • Ministry of
Agriculture's- ClintonOffice,
on Monday, February .1 6, . .
1976. ' .'
2 rt,e: lector, Bill. Mickle
• • of Hensall reported on the,
• ' . Board's activities sincethe
semi=annual meeting in
Toronto in November..
Mike. Miller, Associate Ag.,
Rep. for Huron conducted the Area Leaders attend Conferenee,on 4-H Delegates representing 1400 4-H leaders:•from
election of Committeemen for
Huron for the year 1976-77.
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•!cross Ontario took part in a two-day Provincial Leaders' Conference recently h Toronto.
.\mong those from the area attendingwere,(left to right) Glenn McNeilp RR 6 Goderich;
:Seventeen were nominated, . Hill Leeming, RR 4 Wilton; ,Debbie .Hill', South "Mountain; and Richard. Gilmer, South
and after the election the .y Mountain:
following will represent
Huron: Bill Mickle: Hensall,-
Bill Morley: Usborne, Jim.`
McIntosh: Tuckersmith, ; Bill
Scott: McKillop, • Richard
Kootstra:. 'Stanley, Howard.
Cartwright: Hullet, Walter
Arnold: Ashfield, Bev
Wallace: Hull,et, ' Ralph
Lubbers: East Wawanosh,r.
Ken .Moore: Tuckersmith,
Max Demeray: Grey, Gordon
Haasnoot: Howick, and Mae
Govenlock, McKillop.
supply Canada's domestic
requirements. •
.The ' federal minister of
agricultero is :telling" the
far. rso,that they must get•
mo 'of --their- ret'arns-frog -
the marketp'lac'e, in line with
long,''terin dairy policy. An .
increase in the p' ice of milk
tothe cprisumer tends to
bring ';on • a drop in, milk
consumption which hurts the
clairytpan. •,
Lice a biting problem i -n: -O t•a-rio herd --_-
Right. now, Ontario-, cattle
herds are facing the' peak of,
the lice season and they're
trying-: to 'rub and scratch
their way out 'of it: Professor
R.E. Wright; of the. Depar-
tment of , E.nirenmental
Biology at the. Ontario.
Agricultural College, is
presently in the process of
surveying,dairy cattle to find.
out more about the lice
• problem. -•
"W e know that, there .can be
four kinds of lice on cattle,
but we're not sure which ones
are causing the most severe
problems. The information
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we have is fairly general,
with more. information being
available concerning the
problems of lice in western
Canada and the, United
States, "-•he.says•. •
Dr: Wright says that lice.
populations glart to build in;
cold weather, when the
animals • produce heavy
winter coats. The three
species of sucking lice and
one of biting lice reach their
peak 'production during ,late
December, January' ' and
February By April, when the
cattle • are., shedding their
coats, the populations begin
to drop off naturally.
Treated herds can alsb be
°reinfes'ted 'by any animal's
that may haye been•missedin
treatment ler lice. In the fall, nymphs.
"carriers- - animals that'
carry lice populations :wit•h
them -=: may be the main. Attention
•- dairy herds and get rid of
them. •• •
`• `We knowthat heavy in-
festations of.sucking•lice. can
produce aneini:a if untreated,
. and that there's some energy
expenditure from scratching -
and rubbing. I am convinced
personally that we have a lice
problem. in Ontario. Scyme
herds With heavy infestations •
will benefit from treatment,"
says Dr. Wright..„
, He suggests that -farm-ers
consult the label of the
productebein.g used and follow
manufacturer's . directions
completely for good control..
With dusts; he recommends
t• reatment at -least twice, at a
• three-week interval, in order
to catch •the newly hatched
source •of reinfestation;; • If.
herds are treated annually
fir, lice birheavy m-TeS atrons
still ocdur, farmers should
consider the possible
existence of carriers in their
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