The Huron Expositor, 1979-05-31, Page 14L:1
HURON EXPO.
TOR, MAY 34, 1919
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Nobody likes a smart alec but I'm a smart alec this week.
Was it only a couple or three weeks ago this corner
;reminded' readers that quota -setting marketing boa . rds;
.may be in for some Back from consumers?'
Only a couple of days after that Column appeared, this
was the opening paragraph from a story in: the Globeand
Manz :Shoppers pay at least.9 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, presidentof the Agricultural Research
Council. "Of course, the producers are going to fight
that."
Of coursethey 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 ofq uotas. You see, the provincial egg boards and;
the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency tell: 'farmersholt
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 9 and 14 cents a a dozen. And those prices are
built in tothe retail price.
If farmers can afford to pay that. much for quotas; the
study concludes, they must be getting tea much for their.
product, making too much money,: 'In other word, • 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'sexplain,
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 board and
the milk board use the quota system. In addition,
quota -setting is.aslegal as speed limits, The legislation•in
thisprovince allows farm marketing boards to set quotas,
Only a handful have taken advantage of the' legislation.
Junior Farmers
'The .motto of the Junior
Farmers is Self' Help: and
Community Betterment but.
m
soon they • will be helping
someone else out.
• Professor , Josephine
Meeker ofthe geography
department at Brock.Univer-
sity is basing her PH. D.
thesis on century farms. In a
recent survey she found that
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Soybean
herbicides.
registered
BY: ALAN W. SCOTT
PAT LYNCH
BARRY SINCLAIR ...
Two new herbicides have:
been registered for use of
soybeans. These herbicides
have ;seen registered since
he Guide to Chemical Weed.
Control, was published.
Therefore, they do . not ap-
pear in this book.
This first product; is Dual.
It' can be used in soybeans
either 'preplant incorporated
or preemerge. It controls
annual grasses such as 'fox
tail. It also' controls nutsedge
Dual is the only . herbicide
that you can use that controls
nutsedge as it germinates,
Hoegrass is registered for.
use on' soybeans for annual
grasses after the soybeans
and. weeds are up Grasses
must be in. the 2 to .3 leaf
` stage for control. Hoegrass
also looks very good for
control of volunteer corn 'up
to 12" high. Volunteer corn
can seriously compete with
growing soybeans and may
result in marketing prob-
lems.
rob-lems..
DR. ROTHMEL ON
SICK LEAVE
Dr. Ted Rothntel: has been
on sick leave since. early
April. He's been resting up
at home and hopes to be back
to work by the end of May.
We've really missed Dr.
Ted at the office. In the past
few years he's made Perth
county a leader in the use of
the Dairy Feed Formulation
program.
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Huron County ro o my had more.:
century 'farms than in any of
the'counties
other
in Ontario.:
Since. the Junior . Farmers
have done a century farm
project they will assist Pro-
fessor'Meeker:
rey
trusts aro apo,de*al•d:br.'Dab cotta, Ric Mat t4rn4,a .�n* N3• 2
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.Lei
Canadian, farmers are only making a living, claims Max
o ytenber general -manager of the Canadian Egg
� $
a
ken
l ge
ncv Theye�
make only
average a three cents
dozen eggs gs as a re
turnont�eir,in�e
investment.
e
t, Beg g
Prices
yre stable and have risen only 10 cents a dozen in, three
ears. ,
y also; refuted the council's'conclusions by saying that
flI'le ew producers buy or sell quotas so the price of quotas has
little or no bearing on the price of eggs..
I; knew a number of men involved in egg marketing both
rovincially and federally and 1, personally* believe them
hen they flatly state that quota. nce5 are net reflec
ed in
the prices set by marketing boards in their formulae.
But I'm only one voice crying inthe boondocks. It is
what other people think that counts, especially consumers
ssociations:. They have the king's ear, so, tq speak,, and
•, o.0 d raise
one
na
heck of
a. fuss. Until egg m
arket
in 'bo
ardas
qss this nation can proveb}q ashadowofdou doubt that
quota prices are not reflected in the price paid by
,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
iii.
It should be done right away. More and more people are
doing 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
fiercely independent as" well. But they had better get
t gether soon andpresent a united front in defence of
marketing boards.
if they do not, the whole structure could:come crashing
own around their.barnyards, a structure that has. taken
many years of hard work and determined: efforts by
hundreds of dedicated people to rebuild to a point where
fanners have definite clout in the marketplace.
If the structure is'. eroded, fartners will have noone to
blame but themselves. They should be completely honest
andforthright in their own defence.
And right now before it istoo late:
help
research.
le her survey, Professor
n y
Meeker plansto travel die
county and interview century
farmers to find, out the type
of farm, age. and reasons for••
staying on the farm. T ,
,According to Rick Archam
taxes u
Grey Township taxpayers having a resi-
dential assessment of 53,000. in 1979 will
have to pay taxes of 5368.52. This compares
with a.total of $351.51• intaxes last year..
The township council set their new mill
rates at the regular meeting; of council on
Monday, May 7. The residential mill rates.
were set as follows. The township mill rate.
increased from 37.57 in 1978 to 44.37 in 1979
while the county mill rate decreased from
17.65 in 1978 tq 10.85 in 1979. Elementary
school rates increased from 33.15 last year to
37,68 in 1979 and the secondary school rate
increased from 28..80 to 29.94 in 1979. The
separate school rate went from 34.37 to
39.37 mills:
In setting the commercial rate, the
township rate increased to 52.20 mills . up
from last year's rate: of 44.20 mills. The
county . commercial rate decreased from
20.76 mills in 1978 to 12.77• this year.
The elementary school rate dent from
33.15 to 41.87 mills, the secondary »school
rate went from 32.00 mills to 33.26 mills in
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bault, provincial; director or
the Junior Farmers' in Huron
County, Professor.Meeker
will send a questionaire to all
the century farms and ,one of
the jobs of the Junior• Farm-'
ers is :to'niake sure the
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1979• and the separate school rate went from•
38.19 to 43.74 mills in 1979
In Ethel, garbage collection payment on a
residential assessment is now S32a lot,
street lights are 8.49 mills and 'general'
expenses are: 4.26 mills. In 1978 these were:
all grouped •under the .category of street
lights at 15 mills. In Walton, street light
payment is now 8.48 mills 'compared with
'9.39 mills last year, Cranbrook street light
payment is 13.49 mills compared with 12.63,
mills last year and in Molesworth street
light payments are 5.20 mills compared with
4.74 mills last year. And the township
residents also pay .4 mills . toward the
Federation of Agriculture' if agriculturally
assessed. ,
In Ethel the commercial rates for garbage •
pick-up is S32 per lot, 9.99 mills for.street
light and 5.01 mills for general expenses. In
Watton the new mill rate for street lights is
9.98, in Cranbrook Street Lights it is 15.87
and for Molesworth street lights it is 6.11',:,,
mills.:.
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The Provhieiel, 00v111.
t`tt-
meet; has ;decided to batt
tempotarisy the u,se of .two
controversial herbicides (2,4,.
$-T' and 2, 4, 5 -TP) which:
contain, Minute quantities of
dioxin, even though a: govern-
rent appointed committee
.and the federal departments
of Agriculture and Health.
and'Welfare have r ecom
Mended that use of the
chemicals be allowed. in an
interview following his an-
nouncement of the two year
ban, the Minister of the
Environment, Harry. Parrott.
stated that the herbicides, are
being banned due to public
anxiety over dioxin - the mast.
Male of man-made ehemi-
cats, traces of which have
recently been found in two
take Ontario fish,
•Both the
suspect herbicides are known
to be contaminated by small
amounts of dioxin; and U.S.
researchers have stated that
a mete 1/1,200th of a drop.: of
pure dioxin would. prove
fo.
fatal. To replace these tw!
herbicides (which arc inciden'
tally: used to control vegeta-
tion on Hydro rights-of-way
and along highways) the
government will allow the
use oft, 4-D, other phenoxy
herbicides and picoram.
These are considered less
toxic, though less effective,,
and contain no detectable
leXels of dioxin, but can.
control vegetation.
In the Cobourg-Campbelh
ford area, the Northumber-
land and Newcastle Board: of
Education has angered:. par-
farms
farmers geta the question-
naire baick to her.
Professor
Meeker also is
loolcing into the..background
of century farms. She wants
allthe different -information
such as who sold their farm
lately and any information
thatshe doesn't have she
wants the Junior Farmers^to.
digit up for her according to
the director. .
bic
sem. �/yrfMA
,encs , by voting to continue
spraying weed kilter on
sch•oc?l grounds* in spite of
parents' pleas for ti rnpreter-
"iutnuntilquestions on the
safety of the herbicide 2,,4:.D
have been, :settled.: This, con-
frontation
arose • ;o4'er an
incident last. year*, When a
contractor hired by the board
sprayed the grounds at Percy
Centennial School in Work -
worth children r
worth we_e
,playing outside during t4eess.
The spraying contractor arri-
ved 10• minutes before recess
and despite •parents' galls to.
the board offices, the princi-
pal was instructed by board
officials to allow the children
outside for recess while the
spraying continued. After
hearing from a Provincial
Ministry of Environment off.
cial; who said he felt sure the
herbicide would be found
safe regardless of some
reports questioning it, the
board has voted to go ahead
with: the spraying.
A team of three physicists
and an engineer have relea-
sed a report stating
rt that
P
excessive radiation from X,
ray machines is causing.
some 20 leukemia • cases a
year in Ontario. The. Univer-
sity of Toronto's Dr. Kenneth
Taylor and his colleagues,
who, have been working on
this, problem, believe »that
these 20 cases can be redu-
ced te 2.
edu-cedto2.
Dr,'Taylor has been
awarded $300,000' over the
next three years for• a pro-
gram tominimize radiation
levels. Basell on a survey. of
20 hospitals during 1977 and
1978; some 5% of hospital
X-ray machines emit excep-
tionaily. high` doses of radia-
tion. because they are not
adjusted properly. This fig-
ure is a est statistical ' i
mate
based -on preliminary find-
ings.' s.
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In addition, the presi-
dent of the 2,700 member
Ontario Society for .Radiolo-
gical Technicians has stated
that in this province anyone
isa rmi ed
pe tt t,„ run an X-ray
machine without specialized
training or a•license. She also
stated; that; Ontario was.
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of discussion. .The Federal
Minister of health has stated
that Qntario's contribution to.
health. costs has dwindled
down to close to milling - a
statement denied bythe
Provincial; Treasurer, Frank
Miller, Meanwhile, the Pro-
vincial Minister :of h,
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that Ontario residents don't
have to worry about a
reduced standard of health
care due to the federal threat
to cut health care payments.
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it may ask for a private
health plan in contract nego-
tiations if doctors continue to
drop out of OHIP.
Each year at this time"Pol-
,,
:ice, Week", is celebrated all
over Canada. This . special
week to promote police/pub-
lic co-operation is traditional-
ly the week which includes
the 15th of May, running
from Sunday to . Saturday.
This practice was established
in 1969,.largelythrough. the -0
efforts of the Canadian Asso-
ciation of Chiefs of Police.
There are opening ceremon-
ies, special . exhibits (for the
most part in plazas) and the
public are welcome to tour
police stations. It's a wonder-
ful opportunity to pay tribute
to our police forces, and tp.
in
become more knowledgeable
about their worlf and their
problems.
:Harry Parrott, the minister,
of'Environ.:ment introduced. a'
hill in the )<e8islature that
will eliminate the Pesticides
Appeal Boardand incorpor.
ate •its responsibilities with;
those of the Environmental.
Appeal Board. The members
of the Pesticides . Appeal
appointed board will, FPoted as .be
members of theEnvironnien-
tal: Appeal Board, Under, this.
ltmepdment„ .the `Envtr4tt-
Mental Appeal Board will
hear, appeals from decisions.
of the director under The
Pesticides Act, which amnia'
-
i relate ,to, matters, of
licences or permits concerti*
hie ; pesticides. The prom,
duces for these appeals will
'remain unchanged atleast
for a period of time. At some
future date. these proce-
dures may be amended to
parallel other appeals to the
Environmental Appeal Board.
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