Zurich Citizens News, 1974-10-17, Page 5THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1974
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Elect members
to egg board
The Honourable William A.
Stewart, Minister of Agriculture
and Food, this week announced
amendments to the Ontario
Egg Producers' Marketing Plan
which will provide for the elec-
tion of committee men and
members to the Ontario Egg
Producers' Marketing Board.
The amendments to the Egg
Plan were requested by the
Egg Board in a proposal recently
submitted to the Farm Products
Marketing Board.
In making the announcement,
Mr. Stewart said: "At the time
the new Egg Plan came into
existence in January, 1973,
the Egg Board assumed the task
of developing an equitable
electoral system. This has now
been accomplished and the egg
producers of Ontario will have
the opportunity next month to
elect their representatives to
the Ontario Egg Producers'
Marketing Board."
Committee men will be
directly elected by producers
in 13 districts throughout the
Province on or before October
26. The Committee men elect-
ed in each district will then
elect (on or before November 2)
from among themselves a
member who will represent the
district on the Ontario Egg
Board. Committee men and
members will initially hold
office until February 29 and
March 31, 1976. Thereafter the
terms of office will be for 12
months.
"Registration of the producers
eligible to vote and the mech-
anics of the voting procedure
itself will be co-ordinated by
the present Ontario Egg Product-
ions' Marketing Board, " Mr.
Stewart concluded,
Agri -notes
03y Adrian Vos)
Due to crop failures in sev-
eral major producing countries
in 1972, farm, and consequent-
ly food prices, soared in 1973.
This year it isn't a crop failure
yet in all of North America,
but all indications point to a
greatly reduced crop in all
major commodities. Even to
the extent that the president
of the USA gas curtailed grain
exports.
A child can figure out that
this again will mean increases
in food prices. There are sev-
eral reasons for the reduced
Lutheran omen
hear chaplain
Rev. Otto, Chaplain at the
Lutheran Seamen's Centre,
Toronto, was the guest speaker
at the October meeting of the
Lutheran Church Women. Mrs.
Ray Fisher, Mrs. Bill Lawrence
and Mrs. Leona Rader were in
charge of the meeting. The
basement was beautifully decor-
ated with fall leaves and veget-
ables.
Rev. Otto showed slides and
told members of his various
experiences as Chaplain at the
centre. During the summer the
members had toured the Centre
and visited with Rev. Otto.
A business meeting followed
with Mrs. Claire Deichert in
charge. A number of visitors
were present including two lad-
ies from Dashwood Lutheran
Church.
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crop, the main one being spring
floods and summer draughts.
Another factor was the inc-
rease in fertilizer prices, in
some cases 3007/o higher. It
stands to reason that many
farmers put less of this stuff on
their fields, with resultant
lower yields. Since one of the
most importand fertilizer is
nitrogen, which is, for a great
deal, made out of natural gas,
one can readily see why this
costs more. Countries like India
simply didn't have the money
to buy and together with a sim-
ilar summer draught as we had
here, it made their almost
sufficiency in food grains coll-
apse.
In Canada and the USA the
shortage of grain caused the
price of feed grains to quadruple
from two years ago. As a res-
ult pork and beef producers'
costs rose so much that they
operated at a loss. Many pork
men sold or are selling their
sows and beef men their cows.
This in turn will bring less pork
on the market next year and
less beef the year after.
When there is a shortage the
price will go up and thus we
can expect to pay more for our
meat in the next couple of
years, We as farmers don't
like todays prices and we, as
consumers won't like next
year's prices.
otraulassannuamm
Orderly marketing through a
strong marketing board is the
only answer. They can stabilize
prices for farmer and consumer
alike. Look at the Egg Board.
When the price is low in the
USA traders brought 30 million
eggs into Canada. Subsequently
28 million are spoiling. Now.
US eggs are going up in price
and Whelan has put limits to
what graders can export or it
would pull our price sky-high.
If the Egg Board was strong
enough ft could say how many
eggs to reserve for Canadian
needs at a reasonable price for
both producer and consumer and
sell the surplus on the world
market. Now the graders have
to be stopped by federal order.
Is it any wonder that graders
try to destroy marketing boards.
It prevents them to rip-off the
public.
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