The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-05-24, Page 25Peter Kretch,a psychometrist with the Oxford
Regional Centre in Woodstock, watches as
Bluewater Centre resident Mike Lieutvinks, part
time worker, Conny Sorensen, and activity
director, Ruth Chapfnan work with the horses on
the Bluewater Centre farm. Raising farm animals
was found to be good therapy for some of the
developmentally handicapped residents at the
centre. Krech was one of the many professionals
who took part in Professional Education Week at
the centre last week.(Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
FARM P
ane loot in
furrow'.,0.4
Nothing but a thorough search of all the records in
all the registry offices across this province would give
an investigator a solid idea of the absentee ownership
problem in Ontario.
Many farmers, if you can believe the reports coming
from the candidates' meetings ,before the election,
have great fears about foreign ownership. of far-
mlands. Huron County, for instance, is said to have
considerable foreign money invested in farmland.
Perth County farmers have the same fears. These
fears were expressed during the election campaign
although nobody seemed to think the problem was too
serious. Yet.
That is a big three -letter word : Yet,
Because the Canadian dollar has, been hovering
around the 85 -per -cent mark for many months,
Canada has become an attractive investment market
for money from all over the world.
It isn't just yankee money this time. It's money from
Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Italy and the United
States, too.
Maybe it is time a study was made. Foreign
ownership is insidious. It starts, with a few hundred
acres here and a few hundred there until, suddenly, no
more land is available to serious farmers wishing to
expand. Eventually, huge parcels are no longer owned
by family farmers. Then, those foreign owners can
control the very breadbasket of the nation.
Ways and means to fight this insidiousness are
available. For one thing, a solid land -use policy in
Ontario would help considerably. This writer has for
may years decried the present system whereby the
best farmland in the country can be buried under
highways, power corridors, shopping plazas, sub-
divisions and that monstrosity now being allowed by
the province north of Toronto called Canada's Won-
derland. Heck, in a decade that area will have lost
about 1,000 acres of farmland to this Leisure World
and all the. ancillary outlets connected with a
Disneyland of the north.
Instead of a toothless Green Paper Policy, let's
designate the best farmland now and make it so
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think twice about taking it over.
We could also severely restrict foreign ownership of
farmland, a method which seems to be working in
British Columbia and a couple of the Atlantic
provinces. I understand some people in the Maritimes
were getting greatly concerned about foreign
ownership so the provinces did something about it.
This would be another way of helping to preserve the
family farm which, in my view, is the most efficient
way of producing 'food ever devised by man. It is
certainly no secret, even to Soviet officials, that
private food plots in Russia consistently out -produce
the state-owned collective farms.
But it seems few people give a fiddler's flatulence
whether farmland disappears or not. In reading some
of the weekly papers from across Ontario during the
election campaign, I made it a point to ferret out
concern. Only a handful of voters broached the subject
and I read papers published from Goderich and
Dresden to Iroquois, Marmora and Perth.
Am I out of step with the rest of the world? Does
nobody care about green, growing things? Most
candidates were quoted as saying the problem of
foreign ownership was blown out of all proportion and
no alarm need be sounded.
"If farmland disappears, we'll start growing grain
on rooftops,” said the owner of a feedmill to me some
years ago. "Why worry about it? Technology will
discover new ways to grow food."
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Maybe. But maybe not. I like to eat. It is a habit I
picked up when I was only a few hours old and it has
been with me now for more than 50 years. It's a tough
habit to break. Technology has a,.way of messing up
our environment. For every new product introduced
by technology, four more problems are caused.
For my money, the best way to produce food is on a
family-owned farms and senior governments as well
as municipal governments should do everything
possible to preserve family farms.
Are you listening Pierre, Joe and Ed?
GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1979 -.--PAGE 11A
Proper handling, please
Rinse pesticide cans before discarding
The safe use of
pesticides requires
proper handling from
start to finish including
proper disposal of
pesticide containers.
Since pesticides' are
used to control un-
desirable insects, weeds
and other farmful
organisms, containers
should not be saved for
other purposes, in case of
contamination, pays Russ
Johnston of the
Agricultural Chemistry
section, Ridgetown
College of Agricultural
Technology.
Farmers can discard
pesticide containers
safely by following the
proper disposal methods
he says.
Before disposal, all
metal and plastic con-
tainers should be well -
rinsed to reduce the
amount of material left in
the can.
Containers should be
punctured and buried in a
pit with a covering of 45
cm (18 inches) of soil.
The bottom of the pit
should be at least 1.8 m (6
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feet) above the water
table.
"If the water table is
too high, or if there is any
doubt, farmers should
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advice," Mr. to the fumes. be taken to keep
Johnston. When possible, spray pesticides away from
Combustible packaging
for insecticides should
not be burned, warns Mr.
Johnston. However,
combustible herbicide
containers can be burned
providing people and
tanks should be empty at
the completion of a job.
Excess mixtures and
spray tank waste should
be buried in the same
manner as containers.
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creeks, streams, and
other water resources.
Local offices of the
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food and
the Ministry of the
Environment can provide
more information about
pesticide container
disposal.
'79 Agricrew can help you, too
As a successful pilot
project in selected
counties during the
summer of 1978, the
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food is
expanding the "Agricrew
Project" and making it
available across the
province. This program
has been designed to
provide a practical work
experience for young
people during the sum-
mer of 1979.
As a part of an
Agricrew, a team will be
placed on farms and
asked to do jobs that may
not have been done by the
farmer during the busy
summer months. An
Agricrew can also be
hired by Agricultural
Societies and other
agriculturally oriented
groups.
Agricrew consists of
one foreman and four
crew members and the
crew will supply their
own lunch and `tran-
sportation to and from
the job site. Farmers
must supply all,
the
equipment required to
complete the task.
The crew will work "for
a minimum eight hour
day and maximum ten
hour day for a maximum
of five days over the
program period, June 25
to August 17.
The farmer must be
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farming and will be
required to sign a work
agreement indicating
work to be done and
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At -the conclusion of the
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Agricrew was
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