Zurich Citizens News, 1977-01-19, Page 10Page 10 Citizens News, January 19, 1977
Huron Federation of Agriculture
Discuss new lar
The Federation of
Agriculture's new land -use policy
was called everything from
"regressive" to "realistic" at the
Huron County Federation
meeting in Clinton Thursday
night.
Township councillors and
farmers packed the meeting to
standing room only to hear Bill
Benson, a member of the
Provincial executive of the
0•F.A, explain the Federation's
change in policy.
The policy which was adopted
at the Federation's annual
meeting in Hamilton called for
the Federation to reduce its
demands for Provincial land -use
control and to give top priority to
nine alternative measures of
improving the competitive
position of food producers in
Ontario.
"It is more of a change in
strategy than a change in
policy," Mr. Benson said. "Deep
down inside the majority of
farmers believe farmland should
be preserved for future
generations to use."
The nine measures are aimed
more at saving the farmer than
the farmland, Mr. Benson said.
The measures include lobbying
for the lessening of odour
restrictions in the agricultural
areas, noise by-laws revised to
allow for normal farming
operations, import controls,
taxation reform, and greater
farm income security.
The measurers call for the
County Federations to develop
land -use and severance policy
suitable for their own county
conditions.
"I'm glad to see the Federation
use
adopt the policy of local land -use
planning," Reeve Gerry Ginn of
Goderich township told the
meeting. "It should not be
provincial planning, it should be
local people who do the plan-
ning."
Mr. Ginn said that under Huron
County's planning system the
township council was responsible
for each individual township
plan.
"If you are not satisfied, don't
blame the County planning
board, blame your local township
council as they are the ones who
interpret the public meeting and
'set the plan," he said.
George Underwood, however,
said he was most disappointed
with the OFA policy. "I think it
was a regressive step taken at a
time when farm prices are low.
We need to push and push."
Merle Gunby suggested that
the Federation should also look at
oliey
preserving the farm, community
as well as the land. Urban
development seriously impaired
the agriculture community and
destroyed many of the intangible
benefits of rural life, he said.
"Coming from an urban fringe
area, I find the lifestyle in Huron
County so much better to live in
and to work in agriculture," he
said.
In other business the
Federation learned that many
townships were receiving less
money in tile drain loans from the
provincial government. McKillop
Reeve Allan Campbell told the
meeting that his township had
been cut back from $131,000 in
1976 to $118,000 for 1977. Reeve
Bill Elston of Morris township
said that Morris had been cut
back from $37,000 to $33,000.
A motion was passed that the
matter be referred to the
development committee for
study.
Annual 4-H meeting
The annual meeting and dinner
of the Huron County 4-H Club
Leaders Association will be held
today, Thursday at 11 a.m. at the
IOOFHallon Princess street east
in Clinton.
The morning activities will
include the election of officers
and a review of the 4-H statistics
and programme during 1976.
In the afternoon, leaders will be
evaluating last year's program
and establishing objectives and
recommendations for activities
in 1977.
Today's meeting will mark the
25th anniversary of the Huron 4-H
Leaders Association,
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