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Farmers in this country are, getting shafted by the two,
senior levels of government.
That's the way it aPPears as this is being written.
The „judge who. was aPPOinted, to chair Ontarie'S
CoMmISSiell to investigate problems in the -food industry has
'resigned. Judge James Ross of Thunder Bay submitted his
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resignation* early January because of serious illness,
The resignation could delay the hearings for weeks. They
were supposed to start last fall. I'm of the opinion the agri-
cultural community will come Out looking like roses when
the hearings are over. The_big. food, conglomerates don't
want the hearing.
In addition, the federal government's recent guidelines -
for the National Farm Products Marketing Council, the
•body which supervises marketing agencies in Canada, have
a let of farmers angry,
These guidelines indicate the federal government's agri-
cultural polieies are moving away from. producers to con-
sumers. Which, if you're a Politician, Is understandable.
Only about five per cent of the population is engaged in,
farming so the farm vote carries little clout.
Some feel the guidelines will not be followed to the letter,
notably Peter Hannam, president of the 23,000 -member On-
tario. Federation of Agriculture. Hannam says they are
"just mutterings and blubberings" by the federal govern-
ment to.pacify consumers. • • .
'Elbert Van. Donkersgoed, executive Secretary of the
Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, suggests the gui-
delines spell the end Of support f Liberals in rural Canada.
The guidelines—too lengthy to merate here—place a
• definite link between commodity an uota prices, Quota
values have nothing to do with price maintains Jim
Chalmers of Bamberg, chairrilaiLoPtlie 1 Writ) Chicken
Prodncers Marketing Board'. 7-7'
"That's wrong. That's crazy," he' said.
Both• Van Donkersgoed and Chalmers are ag inst the ap-
pointment of two non -farmers as directors of e new na-
tional chicken agency,
• Van Donkersgoed, one of the most articulate men in agri-
culture today, maintains marketing boards were set up to
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allow farmers to run their own; affairs.
He's right, too.
Letting back te Ontario'slood prObe, by the time you read
;this another chairman may be appointed. Its too bad the
,prebe has been delayed. Remember.back' n June of last
year when a committee of the legislature recommended the
:probe?
At that time, questionable practices were uncovered
which needed further investigation. Committee members
learned about discounts given by buyers, about suppliers of
food products being too frightened to give cud much infor-
mation fearing reprisals by the buyers.
And who are the buyers?
• About five or six major food chains in Ontario who control
about 90 per cent of the food chain. Suchcon lornerates as
• George Weston td.. Argus Corporation and tem ergs con-
trol the shipping., the canning, the processing, the wholesal-
ing, the retailing, the packaging and everything else that a
goes into getting food from the farm gate to the table.
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Centralia -College is spon-
soring a, program, for beef
gQW owners, en Thursday.
January 18th from 10:30.A.m.
to 3:301 p; at the gt04:
hagen Controttnity Centre,,,,
Four successful beef .cow
herd owners will discus
their prograniS, folhved by
presentations on pasture
management linci herd health
Participants asked •
bring their. awn ilinch for
neon, hour.
The registration
fee of S4'. per person will be
collected at the dbOr
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Regis:
ter by writing directly to
Centralia College or by con -
Committee members who voted in favor of the royal eotn-
ITIISSiQn learned that- the arranging of discounts is an itn
equal battle between the strong—the supermarkets—chains
and the weaker food processerS which may have the effect
of gouging.
Before resigning, Judge Ross said food suppliers afraid to
testify about supermarket rebate prices would be able to
give information in seeret..Sorne suppliers of food indicated
they.could be wiped out if the supermarket chains decided to
retaliate.
Now those statements smack of goon -squad tactics to me.
The goon squarls•clon't have, clubs or guns, mind you. 'The
chains are too sophisticated for that.
• They just hit you in the pocketbook. They refuse to buy
from you 'if you don't play the game by their rules.
I would love to be a mouse under thetables when evidence
is given in that royal commission.
That is, if the darned hearings ever get under way,
I don't care if it. does become the longest and 'costliest
commission in the history of the prOvince as predicated by
Bill Newman, Ontario's agriculture minister.
Se be it. The buying public has the right to know,
BY: BARRY SINCLAIR,
assoc. AG. RE*. PAT
'Mal* SOILS 4 CROPS
SPECIALIST, HAL
THOBIPSON, EXTENSION
ASSISTANT
• At 'the recent. Swine
Symposium, Dr. Harry
Brightwell says that vaccines
are useful' tool ,-tcr control
disease problems ,ant may
become more essential if we
continue to intensify swine
operation, experience more
resisthnce. problems to
antibiotics, and because'of
public demand for products
with no contamination.
Vaccines offer a farmer a
method of spreading im-
munity •to a disease. A
vaccine is a weakened pre-
paration of a disease -causing
organism which stimulates
the body to •produce
antibiodies. At present vac-
• - cines may be (1) made from
viruses or bacteria, (2) alive
or killed. (3) injected or given
• by mouth, (4) commercial -
made by companies for
general use or •(5)
autogenous - made froth a
bacteria that causes, a 'dis-
• ease on a particular farm (not
done with viruses).
Vaccines are presently
aVailable to combat a wide
'variety �f diseases. betas
on their exact use, costs,
ptc,, should be obtained from
• your local veterinarian. •
•SOVBEAN STUDY GROUP :
The Perth and Huron Soil
& Crop'Improvement As-
sociations soonsdred a soy-
• bean study ' in 1978. The
objective was to tabulate the
• production and problems of
growing, soybeans in this
area. In total eleven farmers
with 'a combined soybean
• acreage of 344 acres 'par-
--ticipated. The average yield
of this group was 35 .bu./
The lowest yield was on a
five adre field which was
ploughed down. The highest
yield was 42bu:/acre on a
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twenty-five acre field. ..
Seven of these cooperators
listed poor weed control as
the most limiting''factor.
Other limiting factors in-
cluded weather stress, poor
nodulation, harvest lost,. and
poor emergence.
There was a certain note of
optimism among all the
growers as most intend to
grow soybeans again, next
year. A complete copy can be
picked up at the 0.M.A.F.
te
WaterWell
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DOGS AND CATS. .-
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Wed. January -17 Blyth Community Centre
2:00 - 8:00 p.m.
• Fri. January 19 Brussels Fire Hall
2:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Mon. January 22 Ethel Fire Hall
3:00:- 7:00 p.m.
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fading; the County Agri-
cultural office.
Short course
on income. tax
A Farm Ineolne Ta X 1.1p*
date session
win o held at Mitchell on
Friday, January 26th. The •
Soil and Cropimprovement
Association is cooperating
.With the Listowel Co -7. on a,
,Pertilizer and. Her Kick
'Workshop on Thursday.
January 25th from 10:30 a,m;
to 3:30, p.m. Full details on
all: nwdininterthPer°401*chntsree"whi6e
fouch
was mailed to all rural hOmeS
on January -3rd, Additionol
information is availab)e'from.
our Offi0V at 4l3 !flibernia
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weights will be repotted rot ram
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beginning swine farmers.
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any interested party,
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