The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-05-11, Page 33Representatives of the Ontario Grain Corn Council and the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) were in Goderich last week to
tour the grain handling facilities at the Goderich Elevator and Transit'
Company-. The tour was set up to allow the CIDA people to get a -first hand
look at potential ports for grain shipments destined for developing nations
receiving Canadian assistance. Here (from left) Lyndon Hooker, secretary
of the grain council, Alan Pearce of CIDA, William Harvey of the United Co-
operatives, George Parsons of Goderich Elevator and Nicolas Norcott of
CIDA chat about some of the facilities at the Goderich Elevator. (photo by
Dave Sykes)
elevator may ship
Ont. corn for CIDA
BY JEFF SEDDON
,When the Goderich
Elevator and Transit Com-
pany tells the Canadian
International Development
Agency (CIDA) it can load an
ocean going vessiwith grain
for shipment overseas it
won't need to prove it. A
delegation of CIDA
executives and represen-
tatives of the Ontario Grain
Corn Council were in
Goderich recently to check
out the terminal themselves
and disc overed" Goderich
could s'hip directly overseas.
'The tour of the Goderich
elevator was part of an
exercise by CIDA to get to
know what type of grain
handling and shipping
facilities there are along the
Great Lakes shipping routes.
By looping at the facilities
firsthand CIDA hopes to
remove any doubts that may
arise if Goderich or arrtither
Great Lake terminal is listed
in a tender as the port used
for shipping grain tendered
for CIDA use.
Ken Patterson, chairman of
the Ontario Grain Corn
Council, said the tours were
set up to promote grain
handling facilities on the
Great Lakes and to promote
Ontario corn. He said the
CIDA representatives
planned to tour terminals in
Sarnia, Windsor and Port
Colborne as well as Goderich.
By showing CIDA the
Ontario terminals Patterson
felt that potential doubts
about the abilities of a Great
Lakes terminal to meet the
specifications of a CIDA
tender would be removed. He
said the effort may mean that
corn shipped overseas by
CIDA may be loaded in
Goderich in the future rather
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of it is handled now.
Patterson said the council
is also promoting itself in
another protential market
area. He said Ontario corn
was used in $5 million worth
of CIDA shipments of
1,200,000 bushels sent to
developing nations.
Patterson said the biggest,
advantage in . shipping the
corn from a Great Lakes
terminal close to the area the
corn is grown in is main-
taining quality. He said the
grain's quality is reduced
each time it is handled and by
shipping from Montreal.
overseas the g -rain is •handled
unnecessarily. He said CIDA
did not want to dump poor
quality grain on nations it
assists and quality can be
kept high by reducing the
handling. He added that
shipping directly from a
Great Lakes .facility also
reduces costs.
The tenders submitted for a
CIDA shipment must detail
costs, time limits and points
of departure. Patterson said
in the past tenders listing a
Great Lakes port as the point
of departure created some
doubt among CIDA
executives because of
ignorance of the facilities
available. The CIDA people
knew the shipment could be
handled from Montreal but
had some doubt about more
obscure ports like Goderich.
CIDA basically gives; the
corn to developing nations
with no foreign currency
enabling them to purchase on
a world market. The
government agency monitors
the nations to ensure the gift
is not abused demanding that
money earned from the sale
of the corn in that nation is
used to finance public
facilities such as schools,
hospitals or other medical
facilities.
Patterson said there was
some room for expansion of
the Ontario corn market
overseas sales 11ut added that
there Was not an unlimited
supply of grain here. He said
-the corn industry had . ex-
panded considerably in the
past decade, growing at an
average rate of 10 percent a
year. He said from' 1963 to
1971 a constant 10 percent
growth rate was achieved and
in 1979 a poor growing season
resulted in a poor yield. Last
year he said an excellent
yield was realized pointing
out that the grain corn council
is not expecting yields to be
up this year over .last.
He said the council was not
trying to guarantee any
supplies of corn it couldn't
meet but was merely at-
tempting to show that there
was room for consideration
by CIDA that Qntario far-
mers can perhaps supply
more food for world markets.
He said that combined with
the fact finding tour of
provincial grain terminals
.may open another market
area for Ontario corn,
something the grain corn
council was very happy to do,
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Methane energy found in pig manure
Methane from swine
manure may be an alternate
energy source for the future,
but it is not practical for most
producers now.
That's the opinion of Dr.
Jack Pos, school of
engineering, Ontario
Agricultural College in
Guelph, who is currently
working on methane
research.
Methane gas is produced
when manure, mixed to near
liquid consistency with water,
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In addition to cost; storage
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Funded by a research grant
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Agriculture and food, Dr. Pos
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Guelph; During the next three
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the efficiency of • methane
digesters and the utilization
Ken Patterson (right), chairman of the Ontario Grain Corn Council, said Thursday that
shipments of corn used by the Canadian International: Development Agency could be
another market for corn grown by Ontario markets. Patterson said about $5 million worth
of Ontario corn was bought by CIDA last year and there is a possibility for more in 1978.
Here Patterson speaks at a press conference held after representatives of CIDA toured
the Goderich Elevator shipping facilities while Alan Pearce of CIDA looks on. (photo by
Dave Sykes)
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