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The Huron Expositor, 1982-11-10, Page 14
A14 — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 10, 1982 i Fam Ire 's corn cuttin' time t Il Mary FoTheringham kkke A quilt made by a Seaforth woman will represent Huron and Perth Counties in the Canada Packer's competition in Toronto later this month. ' Mary Fotheringham's quilt was chosen from numerous quilts on show from. local fairs at the annual meeting of the Huron -Perth Agricultural Societies in How - ick Township on Nov., 2. Second place quilt was made by Mak. Wilfred Annis of Mitchell and third place was by Evelyn Dickson of Howick Town- ship. Last year's winner. Grace Drummond of Mitchell, was presented with a dried flower arrangement as her quilt went on to first plait in ' the Canada Packer's competition. The Canada Packer's competition is for the best quilts from agriculture societies for c test across the province. Each year the chosen. best is added to a collection of 12 and is displayed throughout the province. Guest speaker for the evening. Lavonne Ballagh of Wingham, portrayed a humorous character Jake Flett and then tin the serious side told how to live life at five levels. The first level is tic live with nature. live by doing a stint of bread Iabor,,carry on professional 'activities. sharing by constant association with others and finally. cultivate life of the ntilid and spirit.' The Ken Reaney .memorial plaque was presented to the Exeter Agriculture Soci- ety. The ,plaque is presented to the society with the largest number of delegates multiplied by the number of miles. Exeter had 21 delegates at the annual meeting in Howick Township for total points of 1.644., SHIP YOUR CATTLE THE CO-OP WAY 1 UNITED CO-OPERATIVES OF ONTARIO s ONTARIO STOCK YARDS f416] 767-1143 1 1 YOUR U.C.O. SHIPPER IS O'ROURKE TRANSPORT: t •1 • • • • DAVID OR BRYAN 1 345-2913 RESIDENCE - 348-9009 s 1 Shipping Day - Every Tuesday Morning 1 1 1 1 Established 1876 McKILLOP MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY Ph, 527-0400 91 Main St. South, Seaforth FULL COVERAGE Farm & Urban Properties DIRECTORS & ADJUSTERS Ken Carnochan 412.3354 Lavern Godkin Ross Leonhardt John McEwing Stanley Mcllwain Donald McKerrher John A. Taylor J.N. Trewartha Stuart Wilson AGENTS E.F. "Rill" Durst . Bob McNaughton Wm. Leiper 527.1177 345-2234 533-93'0 524.7051 527-1837 482-7527 482-7593 527-0687 527-1455 527-1571 523-4257 CALL AN AGENT OR THE OFFICE by DOb 4P© r? When it's corn cuttin' time in the county, I'll cuddle close to you. With apologizes to the writers of the original song. I doubt that corn farmers will be doing much cuddling this winter. Disastrous prices for the crop will have too many of them too worried to do much cuddling unless they are cuddling their bankers. . The amount off corn marketed commercially in Ontario has doubled in a decade. The corn industry has become bigger than the tobacco industry. it is, thh, an important crop. But corn farmers have no organization of any kind to help them market their crops. Because Ontario corn farmers are not organized, they cannot participate in the federal governnient advance -payment plan. Corn growers in Quebec and Manitoba can because • they have a producers organization. Which demonstrates that westerners and Quebeckers, although' they howl about the federal government, are the first to belly -up to the public trough *hen the opportunity arises. The need for this advance -payment plan is obvious: in Ontario last year, only 10 cash -crop farmers went bankrupt from January to the end of August. This year, that number has leaped to 37. • Which is not to suggest some of them did not deserve to go broke. There are bad managers in agriculture just the sarne•as in any other business, farmers who forget to figure drying costs or storage casts, for instance, and then wonder why their figures don't . tally with the bank's figures. Corn producers are not expeecting stabilization payments from Ottawa this year becatihe corn prices last fall came out at a weighted average of $116.26 a tonne, slightly above the federal government's support level. The price must fall below the support level before government stabfization payments are made. The figure is determined by taking a 90 -per -cent average of the previous five years and adjusting it to reflect current production costs, a silly formula, I think. Who else is accepting 10 per cent less than they made in the last five years? Sheep producers using pork yards? Building on the strength of the farm gate and freezer trade to improve the sheep industry should be the aim of the sheep producers. mem- bers of district three of the Ontario Sheep Association were told recently. . Sheep production and marketing specialist John Krauter of the Ministry of Agriculture and , Food sug- gested this aim at the district's annual meeting in Stratford. Working on the marketing system and pro- ducing larger Iambs are two ways Mrs. Krauter gave to improve the industry. He said sheep and lamb producers could possibly make use -of the pork 'pro- ducers' marketing yards. He noted the 25 marketing yards across the province are not used every day and provide a great potential. Currently most sheep and lambs not sold at the farm gate or to local butchers are taken to the Ontario Stockyards in Toronto. Mr. Krauter said strength at the producer level. such as is experienced by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. would be a boon to the sheep industry, "The day has gone where producers could sell common sheep and expect to get top prices," commented Mr. Krauter. Large packing companies prefer a larger animal. a• round 95 to 105 pounds. where as smaller buyers prefer a smaller animal., about 60 to 75 pounds. The ministry specialist en- couraged the producers to sell quality grade animals at the size required by pur- chasers because if Ontario producers won't. producers in other•provinces or out of the country will. , Producing more lambs at CATTLE SPRAYING FOR LICE AND WARBLE CONTROL HOEGY'S FARM SUPPLY Brodheagen LIMITED 345-2311 345-9941 0 less cost, in Mr. Krauter's opinion, is a goal producers should work toward. Hem realizes fixed costs cannot be changed and there would be fewer breeds of lamb avail- able but the quality could be improved. It would be more profit- able," added Mr. Krauter. Feuding neighbours report weeds Requests for the services of the Perth County weed in- spector and tree commission- er arc now to go through the clerk -treasurer's office, ex- cept for weed identification. County council approved this policy at its Oct. 12 session. (immunity services com- mittee chairman Reeve Glynn ( oghlin said it is hoped the new policy will cut down on the number of calls from feuding neighbours. '"'We don't want to give the farm community a hassle." explained Reeve Coghlin. Up till now. complaints.of weeds have been made di- rect!) to the weed inspector. individual municipal officials. or the clerk -treasury's' office. Reeve Coghlin said the count)• would compromise to the extent that if thc call is for aced identification. the weed inspector will respond with- out the ' caller having to contact the lerk•treasurer. "We feel if it is explained thes have to call the clerk• treasurer's office. Ihcy may hesitate.•- said Reeve C'ogh• lin referring to feuding neigh• hors. He noted that some of thc calls the weed inspector gets arc from neighbours fighting thus complaining 'about the other's weeds. Riegel V -P The Huron County Dairy Producers met in Clinton on October 10 and as a result have named this year's executive. They are as follows; Eldon O'Brien, RR 5 Clinton; chairman, Don Diegel, Seaforth; vice-president and directors; John Bell, Seaforth, John Dickson, Gorrie, Richard H. Porter, Goderich, William K. Porter, Goderich, Doreen Taylor, RR1 Belgrave, Jean Vollmer, RR 2 Wingham and Ralph Metcalfe, Mildmay. • And yes, I know why it was done, Mr. Whelan: because the province's were doing too much toploading. But it's still a silly formula. The same trap that hit livestock producers last year is being sprung on cash -crop farmers this year. They were encouraged to expand. to buy more land,. bigger tractors and harvesters, even storage facilities and dryers. Banks gave little resistance to loan requests. Now, those ,loans arecatching up to the cash croppers. The bills payable are higher than the receipts, especially when corn appears to be eliding down to 52 as this is written. it seems a dreadful pity, as the tea -drinkers say, that so many farmers are being backed into untenable positions. Lord knows, there are few off them and the ranks continue to diminish. it is the loss of so many young, progressive farmers that will hurt the industry sorely in years to come. A. few years ago, the average- age of farmers across Canada was 52 years. That average dropped to 43 when many young men and women deliberately chose agriculture as a future. But with the terrible commodity prices out there, young people will not go into the industry and too many of those young people who did are among the casualties in the high rate of bankruptcies. Cuddlin' at corn-cuttin' time? Not this year, I'm afraid. Warbles mean .$ in beef feedlots systenii- cally treated cattle can return up to 530.00 for each $1.00 spent on a systemic insecti- cide for Warble control. Beef *cattle should be treated prior to December I to control warbles. Late treatment may cause problems, such • as choking or paralysis, and should be done under veteri- nary supervision. For a cost of 40 to 50 cents per head reduced weight gains. hide value and trim loss can be avoided. Follow label directions and avoid treating sick animals. -Stanley J. Paquette Assoc. Agr. Rep. 4/444006. ROOFING �®��� CONTRACTOR ) _ "ROOFS INSTALLE- D IN ANY TYPE OF WEATHER" LOCALLY CALL PAUL -5274819 75 KEEWATgR1 AVE. KITCHENER 579-3015 the co ,hm, . ro,,,9 holy BRUCE Si'vi<1Th Sales. Representative Mitche0l Co-op Store 130 Georgina Street Mitchell, Ont. 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