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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-19, Page 27GOUERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1979—PAGE 9A 3 FARM PAGE NFU discusses wheat board performance During a recent District 6 National Farmers Union meeting.; held in Ridgetown, of ' members in south- western Ontario, there was a considerable discussion on the ap- parent lack of marketing performance by the Ontario Winter Wheat Producers Marketing Board. Joe Casey, Region 3 (Ontario) NFU co- ordinator, said it was reported that a motion at the annual wheat proquce;rs com- mitteemen's meeting, held in Toronto last month, calling for a full investigation into the selling practises of the Wheat Board, resulted in a tie vote. The tie vote was broken when in a tie vote the chairman of the Wheat Board voted against the motion. Casey said there have been various charges by (wheat board) com- mitteemen that certain Board members in terfered with staff marketing people to the detriment of the end price received by wheat producers. The District 6 NFU meeting unanimously went on record by passing a motion demanding that the Caltadian Wheat Board become the selling agency for the Ontario Winter Wheat Producers Marketing Board. "It is idiotic for the Ontario Board to attempt to train staff in the various functions of marketing and tran- sportation when the CWB already has experts to maximize returns for western farmers, and could easily handle the production of Ontario growers," Casey said. "The Canadian Wheat Board has access to world markets and deal" in them every day not just in panic when glut production occurs. Last year the CWB directed into export some 896 Junior agriculturalist program sponsored This year the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food will once again be sponsoring the Junior Agriculturalist Program during the summer of 1979. The program is designed to provide. a practical learning ex- perience for young people from -non-farm homes who have a serious in- terest in agriculture and who have had no ex- perience working on a farm. As a Junior Agriculturalist, a person will be placed on a selected commercial farm, where he or she will perform regular activities relative to that farm operation. In ad - rural life through living with a farm family, and through participating in the local 4-14 and Junior Farmer programs and in other rural activities will be developed. The prospective Junior Agriculturalists will be either boys or girls 16 or 17 years of age who must be in good physical and mental condition in order to withstand the vigorous physical effort. Selection will be based in part of their reasons for being interested in agriculture and their plans for fur- ther education and a career. A11 Junior Agriculturalists will be required to participate in an orientation program to help prepare them for their farm stay. This program will be held about mid June and on- farm assignment will be a nine week period, comrnencing on June 18 and terminating on August 18, 1979.. A Junior Agriculturalist will be assigned, wherever possible, to a farm with the type of enterprise in - which he or she is most interested. The duties involved will vary con- siderably depending on the individual farm operation, the demon- strated ability of the Junior. Agriculturalists - and the kind of enterprise fouria-on"i ►I -e farm ----- Theinterested host farmers are to be com- mercial farms, with the operator engaged in farming full-time. They must be interested in helping inexperienced young people develop the skills required on a farm and are expected to have the ability to work well with and supervise young people. Host farmers must also provide suitable accommodation for the Junior Agriculturalist during his or her stay on the farm. Each • Junior Agriculturalist will receive a training allowance of $18 per day on a six day week; $6 of this will be provided by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and :Food; the host farm will provide 46 -per -day -in -cath-; as well as• supplying room and board worth $6 per day. billion bushels - 30 million ton - of western grains for 150,000 producers. Our, top crop of Ontario wheat, 1977-78 year, was, 30 million bu." Casey said the NFU first made this suggestion , back in 1972 when the Ontario Board was asking for agency powers to handle Ontario winter wheat. "It is time the Ontario Wheat Board stopped trying to protect its political structure at the expense and interests of wheat producers." Casey said the 1977-78 production of Ontario winter wheat was 9.5 million bushels and was priced at $3.25 for the domestic market, FOB millers. The cost of marketing was 50 cents per bushel, leaving only $2.75 for producers. The remaining 20 million bushels' marketed into export apparently only returned $2 per bushel net to producers, "indicated by the final pool price of $2.26 per bushel. "Either there were some ridiculously low prices accepted by the board or the tran- sportation and marketing costs were terribly ex- cessive," he said. Tbne foot in the - - furrow' byo.e It's only 320 acres now. Double that for auxiliary services. Triple it for farm land because no farmer will be able to work within 10 miles of the place because the land will be too damned expensive. I think it's a shame. A downright, rotten, lowdown shame that so many acres of land will be buried under ticky-tacky, buildings, stores, pavement and asphalt, circus rides, boutiques, games and cartoon charac- ters. Land sharks, I understand, moved into the area a year ago offering fantastic prices for land surrounding the proposed park. I still maintain the project, if needed, could have been located on poor land instead of good land. But no. The bucks talk. Listen to the words of Charles S. Mechem, chairman of Taft Broadcasting. "In total, within 150 miles of the park location are 9.5 million people." It matters not that less than one-fifth of the total' land mass that is Canada is viable agricultural land. It matters not that, in 10 years time, more than 1,000 acres of that land Will be .lost to farmers forever. It .. matters not to the money boys that someday, Canadians will be weepingbecause there is not enough good land left within 100 miles of Toronto to supporta decent dairy herd. Aw, shucks. I wrote about this latest desecration almost a'year ago when the Ontario Cabinet gave consent to Family Leisure Centres for development. I said then that nobody seems to care any more about green growing things in this proviine,,e.. It''s like banging your head. against the wall. Nobody -pays-any-atten t i o i r-to-yov-untrlyou-stop---- .---- - Are there only a handful of people left who are concerned about disappearing farm land? Letters are apprec alect by Bob Trotter EI,ale Ra Eob' Ont N30 2C7 The headlines in last week's daily papers looked great: Amusement park near Toronto to provide 2,000 'student jobs. Great news, huh? An agreement signed, to build a $105 -million amusement park in Maple, 32 kilometres north of Toronto. Scheduled to open in early 1981. Canada's Wonderland, it will be called. Owned and operated by Family Leisure Centres of Canada Limited. Family Leisure owned 75 percent by Taft Broadcasting Company, a yankee firm in Cincinnati, and 25 percent by Great West Life Assurance Company of Winnipeg. Total equity of about $58 million. Balance of funds in long-term loans from Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Standard Life Assurance Company, Toronto Dominion Bank and Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company. Permanent staff of 250. More than 2,000 high school and college students will find seasonal employment at the site. Two million visitors a year. Great stuff for Ontario, right? Right, if you're only looking at figures and jobs. Wrong if you're trying to save farm land in Ontario. It is another classic example of selling farming short. It is proof that this province is paying only lip service:,to the idea of preserving farm land. Because that amusement park will gobble up 320 acres of land. It will also gobble up a few hundred more acres in peripheral building such as fast food outlets, motels, roads, gas stations and everything else._ that surrounds a metal -and -tinsel, phony fairyland which_ wiU probably have an over- abundance of yankee bullroar attractions. In -1-0-year s-thrie, the- "entire are-a-wi-ll-betransformned- into a summer=time mess, a blot on the landscape, a sore on the side of progress. Smile Quick way to dry your kid's tears: throw in the sponge. + ++ All you need to grow fine, healthy grass, is a crack in your sidewalk. + + + Maybe money does grow on trees. Why else would banks have so many branches? + ++ Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you really feel like stripping your gears. CLAY — Silo Unloaders Feeders Cleaners Stabling Leg Elevators Liquid Manure Equipment Hog Equipment BUTLER — Silo Unloaders Feeders Conveyors FARMATIC — Mills Augers, etc. ACORN — Cleaners Heated Waterers WESTEEL-ROSCO Granaries The grasses coming. art B A L • Hog Panelling LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS 11 1, Kincardine, Ont. Phan, 395-S2116 Control the foxtails, fall panicum and crabgrass— in corn and soybeans — with Lasso® 'herbicide by Monsanto. Lasso® is now also registered for sup- pression of yellow nuthedge. See your dealer today. 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