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Bill Martin, a fork lift operator at Champion Road Machinery Ltd., placed first,
at an Industrial Accident Prevention Association competition in Tillsonburg
recently, Martin weaved a fork lift through an, obstacle course to win the event
and now goes to the All -Ontario finals in Windsor early in June. It is the fifth
time the 16 year employee at Champion has won an award and here he is
congratulated by production control manager Jim Gilchrist. (photo by Jeff
Seddon)
New sheep programs
Agriculture and Food Newman also con -
Minister Bill Newman, firmed that Ontario's
has announced some participation in the
changes to programs Federal -Provincial Sheep
affecting sheep. Assistance Policy has
producers. come to an end as a result
As a result of the in- of the federal govern -
creasing number of sheep ment's decision to ter -
producers in Ontario, two minate the program. The
new programs will be policy, which paid the
established to provide whole cost of tran-
information . and con- sporting ewe lambs from
suiting services. western Canada, and two -
central and western 4hirds of the cost of
Ontario, part-time shipping ewes, came to
,consulting services will an end on March 31, 1979.
be provided on such Newman urged farmers
practical matters as
management methods,
nutrition, predator
control and other areas of
improving sheep
production.
In 'northern and eastern
Ontario, a program to
promote modern sheep
production methods will
be initiated in, co-
operation with local
farmersthrough a
demonstration system.
Co-operating farmers
and ministry staff will
develop demonstration
projects in such areas as
housing, lambing,
feeding and predator
control,
These services will be
added.. to the sheep
production advisory
service already available
through the sheep
specialist and through
various county offices of
the ministry.
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lurrow' by
Nobody likes \a smart alec but I'm ,a smart alec this
week.
Was it only aecouple or three weeks ago this corner
reminded readers that quota" -Setting marketing
boards may be in for some flack from consumers?
Only a ,couple of days after that column appeared,
this was the opening paragaraph from a story in the
Globe and Mail:
Shoppers pay at least nine to. 14 cents extra for a
dozen eggs because of problems in Canada's
marketing board system, according to an independent
research study.
Farmers, the story said,' are making too much
money "and if you drop the price to producers and
expand the quotas, (retail) prices would drop," said
Gordon MacEachern, president of the Agricultural
Research Council. •
"Of course, the producers are going to fight that."
Of course they will. Why shouldn't they?
The agricultural research council is a highly -
respected body. They maintain the high price of eggs
is caused by the cost of quotas. You see, the provincial
egg boards and the Canadian' gg Marketing Agency
tell farmers how many eggs they can produce. Each
farmer gets a quota. He is not allowed to produce'
more than his quota of eggs.
Therefore, those quotas become. valuable. Farmers
who want to produce more eggs must "buy" someone
else's quota. And the research council figures those
quotas cost between n-i•n-e a -n -d -14 cents a dozen. And.
those prices are built into the retail price.
If farmers can afford to pay that much for quotas,.
the study concludes, they must be getting too much for
.their product, making too much money. In other.
words, the formula used for setting the wholesale
price of eggs is too high.
. The findings of the council have been pooh-poohed
by people who support marketing boards. And let's
explain right now: all marketing boards in Canada
and in Ontario do not use quotas. Only half a dozen
such as the egg board, the tobacco board, the broiler
chicken hoard and the milk board use the quota
system. In addition, quota -setting is as legal as speed
limits. The legislation in this province clearly allows
farm marketing hoards to set quotas. Only a handful
have taken advantage of the legislation.
Canadian farmers are only making a living, claims
Max Roytenherg, a general -manager of the Canadian
Egg Marketing- Agency. They make only ah average
' of three cents a dozen eggs as a return on their in-
vestment. Egg/prices are stable and have risen only 10
cents a dozen in three years.
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Colborne accepts '79 budget
Colborne Township's
1979 budget was
presented at a May
council meeting by ac-
countant Ben Straughan.
The 1979 budget calls
for ai total gross ex-
penditure of $750,329 and
a total gross' revenue of
$738,799, leaving a deficit
of $11,530.
The 'budget was ap-
proved by council.,
Ben Straughan, of
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He also refuted the council's conclusions bysaying
that few producersbuy or sell quotas so the price of
quotas has little or no bearing on the price of eggs.
I know a number of men involved in egg marketing
both provincially and federally and I, personally,'
believe them when they flatly Mate that quota prices
are not reflected in the prices set by marketing boards
in their formulae.
But I'm only one voice crying in the boondocks. It is
what other people think that counts, especially con-
sumers' associations. They have the king's ear, so to
speak, and could raise one heck of a fuss. Until egg
marketing boards across the nation can prove beyond
a shadow of.doubt that quota prices are not reflected
in the price paidby consumers for a dozen eggs, those
marketing board officials are in hot water. They will
have to 'get research statistics to prove their point
before consumers will believe it.
It should he done right away. More and more people
are going to take potshots at quota -setting marketing
boards — and all other marketing boards; too '- if a
stand is not taken to defend the marketing policies of
many farm products in this province and this nation.
Farmers, as Pierre said, are great complainers.
They are fjercely independent as well. But they had
better get together soon and present a united front in
defence of marketing boards.
If they do not-, the whole structure could come
crashing down around their barnyards, a structure
that has taken many years of hard work and deter=
mined efforts by hundreds ofdedicated people to build
to a point where farmers have definite clout in the
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If the structure is eroded, farmers will have no one
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