The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-03, Page 29Ladies not. forgotten at IPM
BY DAVE DINEEN
If anyone thinks' the
International Plowing
Match is just fon farm
men who like to look over
new machinery, see
demonstrations and
spend a day away from
the farm, there is a lot
more toit than that.
A lot of activities,
displays and com-
petitions have been
organized to keep,
women busy, ladies'
program committee
chairperson Carol
Armstrong of RR 4,
Wingham, said recently.
In fact, the committee
will probably have the
largest covered area in
the entire 87 -acre tented
city.
The ladies' program
which will include
numerous activities and
displays of interest to
men, will be held in two 50
by 100 foot tents and a
building of the same size.
The building will house
40 to 50 crafts people who
will display their wares,
and will feature •quilts
made by Huron County
residents competing in
the plowing match
quilting contest.
The ladies' .committee
organized the com-
petition, which is for the
best quilt depicting the
nature of IPM '78.
Judging of the quilts
takes place at the
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food office in
Clinton, September 18, so
the winning t quilts will
already, have been
- 1e--d-hm-t-he-time they
are on display at the
match, Mrs. Armstrong
said.
One of the big tents will
be set aside for fashion.
shows, with a seating
capacity of 500 to 600 Mrs.
Armstrong said.
Men's, women's and
children's fashions from
clothing stores
throughout Hump County
and even qutside the
county will be featured.
The tent will house
cooking demonstrations
by marketing boards, and
hairstyling workshops
and an afternoon exercise
class.
The other tent contains
horticultural exhibits and
seminars on care of cacti, -
tropical plants, showing
dried flowers and live
flowers and many other
topics of interest to all
gardeners.
It will be the first time
the IPM ladies' program
committee has had a
horticultural ten -t, Mrs.
Armstrong says. Hor-
ticultural displays
incorporated with of r'
displays in years gone by,
she said.
District 8 of the Ontario
Horticultural Society will
have about a quarter of
the large tent for its
displays, while the
remaining space will be
for shows by groups
which participate in the
seminars.
Programs will ,be
running continuously iffy:
G
.. -.-- ewers-are-appreeaTe, by Bob Trotter- Eidale Rd Elmna O.4 N38 2C7
I have had a friendly, running battle with the Consumers The CAC has decided to seek corporate funding. It is too
Association of Canada for almost 10 years. I have found CAC bad, they have to do it that way. Any money from big bu-
members, especially the executive members, to -be in- sigess in the form of grants is tainted money. The CAC's in-
formed, friendly and sincere. tegrity could be questioned although Mrs. Miles hopes -it can
At the same time, I have felt they were attacking the be done "in a way that will protect our integrity."
- g -food chain'-chain-atter-if-fisted"'to-fitid""- "•It-rs--diffitx'1'C-td"say WBich"-wa �-the-ass' ""- rni
wren _sec r -a -t e�fy ociaiion should
fault with marketing beards in this country. jump in times of restraint. Getting money to finance almost
This is not to say that all marketing boards are lily-white anything can be difficult but I would explore all other aven-
bastions of honesty and integrity; only that, for the most ues before accepting corporate grants. •
part, these boards have done their best for producers with- Membership in the association - it costs $8 a year - is
out ripping off consumers. Unfortunately, the consumers down from a peak several years ago of 120,000 to 95,000, a
groups have, on occasion, made unfair accusations against loss of 25,000, almost a quarter. I believe it is because con -
marketing boards. sumers have become a little complacent and they need a
Now comer a new president: Yvonne Miles..She started shaking up.
her term in office by saying high beef prices give her in:, •After reading stories iq,the newspapers during the legisla-
. digestion. tive committee's investigation of kickbacks in the food
Good, I do not know how good Canadian beef could give chain, I think it is a bad time for consumers to be compla-
anyone indigestion but perhaps the price might. But where,cent.
was Mrs. Miles during the last five years, particularly the' One of those corporate executives refused to answer some
last three, when beef farmers were a disaster area; when of the questions put to him by committee members, the
they were getting such low prices for their products that same attitude that has prevailed among some corporate ex -
many went bankrupt? ecutives for many years. A Royal commission would make
I do notrecall anyone suggesting that consumers should these people answer legitimate questions and_1,, for one,..
pay another 25 cents a pound fbr their beef so that producers think it is about time some questions were answered.
could stay in business when farmers were finding it so If there are ripoffs along the food chain, those ripoffs do
tough. not come at the farm gate or through marketing boards. The
And to suggest a beef marketing board would have sent ripoffs come in other areas of the food chain simply because
-• the CAC into a dreadful tizzy. But a beef board would help there is more opportunity. There are 338,000 farmers in Can -
considerably to ward off these terrible lows in the beef ada yet only three major meat packers and only a handful of
cycle. retail supermarket chains.
It is'oing to be a trying year for the association. It has a Individual farmers can't cheat to the detriment of the
deficit of more than $245,000 and the federal government is buying public but the opportunity is great for all the rest of
urging members to find a better way to finance the CAC' people in the fo• od chain.
than to rely on government grants.
'And that is where the CAC should -be focussing its efforts.
I hope they find the money to keep uptheir good work.
Beane day planned
Set aside August 22
Growers of white beans
will have an opportunity
to see the newest
developments in white
bean production at the
Ontario Bean Day on
August 22 at the Centralia
College of Agricultiiral
Technology.
The research plots at
Centralia College will be
featured during tours
throughout- the day.
Researchers from
% Centralia College,
Ridgetown College, and
the University -of Guelph
will be present to discuss
their research and to
answer questions about
bean production.
The tour will feature
irork being done on new
arieties, disease control,
weed control, ozone
damage and crop
rotations , ,Since many...,_.
White bean growers are
now growing soybeans as
well, information will
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soybean production in
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day beginning at 10 a.m.
and again at 1:30 p.m.
During the noon -hour
th;e Ontario Ban
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growers � pre
Board will u
g ers on market
outlook for the 1978 bean
crop. Also, during the
lunch hour, the
capabilities of aircraft
for applying chemicals to
bean crops will be
demonstrated, -
Throughout the day,
producers will be able to
visit a large area of
commercial exhibits.
Many „ dealers and
--Manufacturers of.
equipment and supplies
for bean .producers will
be present to display
their products and to
discuss them with bean
growers.
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Dozer and scraper available for a
good Wolfing job
the horticultural area,
and the proposals are
already getting so well
ac.cepte$1 that committee
members are., getting
"quite...excited about
this," Mrs. Armstrong
said.
The committee started
planning the ladies'
'76 in Bruce County at
Walkerton, Mrs. Arm-
strong said. She was
approached to chair the
committee before the
1976 match and watched
that area of the Bruce
match with great in-
terest.
In October 1976, the
committee, made up of
Joan Campbell, Seaforth;
Dorothy Coultes,
14elgra-ve; Shirley,
McAllister, Zurich; Betty
Cardiff, Brussels; and
Susan Wheatly, Seaforth,
met.
Thirty thousand
programs for ladies'
program activities will be
printed, Mrs. Armstrong
said, , but this may not
take care of all the
visitors to the exhibits.
The committee expects
"half . of the people who
come to the plowing
match to come through
our area", Mrs. Arm-
strong said. About'250,000
are expected at the
September 26 to 30
match.
Anyone who has gone
through the ladies'
exhibits in past plowing
ma tches:_and..think,s this.
one will be the same, is in
GODE RICA SIGNAL -STAR ,TIURSDA'.', AUGUST 3, 1978. --PAGE 15A
for a s-urprise, Mrs.
Armstrong said, because
"each year the whole
thing is different."
One of the things that
fall under the com-
mittee's jurisdiction is
the ordering and sales of
IPM '78 souvenirs. The
committee has plowing
match charms, pens,
mugs, trays, frisbees and
T-shirts.
It won't just be com•
mittee members staffing
- the three main areas of
ladies' grogram ac-
tivities, Mrs. Armstrong
said. Women's Institute
groups will provide about
12, helpers each day and
there will be scores of
volunteers helping to
provide information and
enjoyment for the 125,000
expected- -at --the .. ladies'
exhibits.
Unusual conditions
for wheat harvest
he 1978 Ontario wheat
ha vest has commenced
wi 'h unusual conditions.
coording to reports by
th Ontario Wheat
Pr ducers' Marketing
rketing
Bo rd, the harvest is
ge erally ' about two
we ks later than normal
in the southwestern area.
However, producers are
harvesting in eastern.
areas at the present time,
somewhat earlier than
usual.
It will mean 'a short
harvest --period and the
crop is estimated to be
only one-third of last
year's record volume due
to reduced seeded acres
and substantial loss
through winterkill.
Board chairman
Russell Rogers, RR 1,
Kingsville, said total
production for the '78
crop has been estimated
by the board at about
326,000 tonne. Production
last year exceeded
817,000 tonne.
The board official, said
initial price to producers
remains the same as last
year at a base $73.50 per
tonne.
The board official said
initial' price to producers.
remains the same aslast
year at a base $73.50 per_ .
tonne after deduction of
the board licence fee of 37
cents per tonne-.
The initial price
escalates $1.10 per tonne
per month beginning
October to a peak of $5.50
per tonne in February
1979.
The chairman em-
phasized an additional
special payment -is
available from the board
of- producers if their
wheat is stored on the
farm.
The special ... on-farm
storage :payment was
initiated last year and
amounts to 73 cents per
tonne per month
beginning October,
reaching a peak of $3.67
`per -tonne iii'"Fe15'ruary
1979.
Rogers also em-
phasized that producers
must apply to the board
for the special storage
payment- by September
30, 1978. The on-farm
storage payment is in
addition to the escalation
initial price.
Other price factors
remain unchanged with .
agents' handling charge
at $5.50 per tonne plus
$1.10 per tonne con-
ditioning fee for wheat '
delivered to the board 'at
ubsidy coming
Ontario's 3,500 white -
bean producers will
receive a government
subsidy of up to $2.14
million to offset last
year's major crop
disaster, federal
Agriculture Minister
Eugene Whelan said last
week.
Agriculture Canada
has set the support price
at $379.85 a tonne, which
--is-about 90 percent of the
average 1977 market
price of $320.77 a tonne, or
$14.55 a hundredweight,
Whelan said. --
This works out to be a
deficiency payment of
$"59.08„ a tonne, or $2,68 a
hundredweight.
Individual producers will
be eligiblefor assistance
of up to 160 tonnes, he
said.
Charles Broadwell of
London, manager of the
Ontario Bean Producers'
Marketing Board, said
Thursday he was "ex-
tremely pleasedv with
tlTedeeisibn. ---
He said the 1977 crop
was "the worst disaster"
in the marketing board's
55 -year history with
heavy rains falling at
harvest time..,
The board anticipated a
record-breaking crop last
year, only 920,000 bags
(100 pounds each) of the
estimated 2.5 •million..
bags were harvested, 'he
said. •
Broadwell said it is too
early to predict the size
--
or quality of this year's
crop. "It's been suffering
from the drought, the
same as everything else.
It's too early to tell until
we start harvest' around
the first of September."
Market prices Last year
were set in advance, with
the - board expecting a
record crop, he said:.,
However, this year the
board will not be making
any advance sales.
Ontario exports about 75
percent of its white bean
crop, largely to the
United Kingdom.
About_ 99 perce,pt.. of all
white beans produced in
Canada are grown in
Southwestern Ontario, he
-said.
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