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BY JACKRII?DELL, MBP
if the Bean producers of
Ontario are holding out hope
that a 'settlement . might be
reached without much fur •
then delay between the Ontat
ioBean Producers: Marketing
Board nn4 same of the
,dealers, on the matter of
lawsuits. involving the 19"
bean crop. then my advice to,
the farmers is,.don't hold yµr,
breath.
raised a e - in
1 u scion, the
last session of the i„egisla
ture concerning; the delays in
the Examinations for Discov-
ery, relating to the litigation
involving the Ontario Bean
Pmdµcers Marketing •Beard.
Since raising the question
0
ourtset in the. MiniStrY of
the' Attorney` morat ttlok
Mite olal?o rtunityt to discuss;
the matter with Mr. ktarrY'
;Danie 1, lndependant Counselt
who, to ;been 'representing
the board in these matters. '1}
was inforned that there were
in fact rive different court
aM`trons involved. In four of
thee actions the Plaintiff is
the Ontario Bean Producers
M,aticeti;ng Board
represe
n
-
o beangrowers. �s ing
lotions bean
dealers with,
respect to the sale of. certain
of their crops. .In the fifth
fiction the person who ultima.
tel: was to receive the beans.
its suing the Co -Operative
who sold: the beans and the
eceiviing
AMPBELL
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Boa d; who was: to. del::0er the
beans.
Evidently' two of the aect-
sobs were commenced; over
:e year' ago and Pleadings,
were concluded around June.,
1978. Subsequently there
was a third action commen,
eed in the early summer of.
0 J.
19T0. and fell9w ins that two
actions, were started! in
January- , and February 1979..
'With respect to the first two,
,setons it would seem that
en several e s
there h,vebe. rl off r . e . _
Made ,to get Discoveries:
under way. However, these
shave been..adjourned....a ppa,.r
breath
ently due to :the unavailabil-
ity of Counsel on th.e other
side. There n?ay ,also have
been. some procedural dis u...
P p
•res, with respect to the
pt'odtrction of docuntents.:in
any:event, Mr. Dan.i.e1 inro a-
ted that the Pleadings in all
actions are .ppw ,cornP lete and
Huron
action
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BY ALICE ORM
Members of the Huron County Federation
of Agriculture: took their campaign against
foreign ownership of Ontario's farmland one
step, further at their regional, meeting in
Belgrave Thursday night,
Federation members from the north of the
county strongly supported a resolution put
forward by Vince Austen asking that "the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture request
the Ontario government to act quickly to
prevent further purchases by absentee
foreign farmland as an investment and
"Ontario residents cannot., compete with
them in money markets for the capital they
require to purchase land" and "foreign
absentee ownership of large parcels • of land
in any given area causes deteriorationof our
rural, community," . •
The resolution will be forwarded to the
• next meeting of OFA directors in 'Toronto,.
and 'report on.their action: will be brought
back. to Huron County members at their
• annual meeting in Brussel s . on. Oct, 19.
‘Before' presenting the resolution,.
audience members had challenged , guest
speaker Floyd Jenkins, the regional assess-
ment commissioner for Huron and Perth
counties, to defend statements he had made
earlier in the -week Mr. Jenkins had been
quoted as saying he felt the issue of foreign
land ownership in Huron. County had been
exaggerated in the press.. '
Mr. Jenkins told the audience any foreign
ownership purchase' of land 'by a non-
resident of the country .is.subject to a 20 per
cent land transfer tax, and that a survey of
land . transactions showed reports of
absentee ownership were exaggerated,
Adrian Vos, one of the federation
members who first raised ;.the issue of
absentee ownership, said all this proved was
"that the buyers have smart lawyers."'
M'r Vos claimed many foreign 'investors
are hiding. their involvement in 'Ontario
registered companies. •
Mr. Jenkins said, "I wouldn't disagree
completely that there isn't foreign money in.
the Huron County farming industry."
Vince Austen told the audience he had
researched the sale of.1,865 acres of landin
his township: Although the sale was to a
registered
Ontario company, on further
research he discovered the company was,
made up of four "tenants incommon," all
residents d. is of the RepublicofWest Germany.
Companies which are regi'stered... in
Ontario aren't subject to the 20 per cent land
transfer tax paid when land i:s sold to: a.
non-resident of the. country.
Mr. Jenkins said if the company ' was
legally registered with the Ontario govern.
meant, then "that's legal and that's
possib1e.-
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
During the meeting, the federation
members elected their. three regional
directors, who represent them at the OFA
directors' nieetings in Toronto, and.
delegates to the annual OFA convention.
The regional director for' North. West.
Huron is Merle Gunby of Ashfield Town,
ship, North. West Huron includes Ashfield,
East. and West Wawanosh and Colborne
Townships.
Convention. delegates from the region are
Dennis Connally of Colborne Township,
Clete Dalton of Ashfield and Walter Elliott of
East Wawnaosh with alternate Vince
• Austen.
The' regional director elected from North
East • Huron, which includes Turnberry,
Howick .and Grey .townships, is Gerry
Fortune. •,
Convention delegates are Bev Brown from
Bluevate, Louise Marritt from Turnberry and
Max Demeray. from Grey, with alternate
Ross Veitch of Grey, Township,
The regional director. for East Central
Huron, which includes' Hullett„ McKillop
and Morris Townshipi,is John Van Beers of
Blyth.. Convention delegates are John
Nesbitt of the Blyth area, Mery Smith of
Walton. Bob Robinson' of the :Seafortharea;
with alternate ,Bill: Piullen of Brussels..
At the regional .meeting held at. Huron
:Centennial School; Brucefield, for federation:
members from the south of the county, Andy
Durand was elected regional director for:
South Huron.
South Huron includes Hay; Stephen and,
Usborne Townships.
The convention 'delegates .elected were
Hugh Rundle offtR.:1, Centralia; "Gerald
Thiel of R.R.2, Zurich and Paul 'Klapp of
R,R.3, Zurich.
In the Huron West Central Region, .which.
includes Tuckersmith, Goderich and Stanley.
Townships. the director is Jim Mclntosh of
R.R.4, Seaforth.
The convention delegates elected are Jack
Tebbutt of R.R.2, Clinton; Bud Yeo of R.R.3;
Clinton wick Walter 'Mcllwain of R.R.2
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Goderich. .
.No- alternates were elected in either of the
south Huron regions. •
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:Attention
.jean -,Growers:
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Strong stand• needed; on chicken
our -negotiators need."
He said the current .prh
blemwith chicken . imports
has developed because the
previous government had
procrastinated .in "" establish-
ing a national chicicen agency
A few Companies, in the hope
of treceivirig large import
quotas; have taken advan-
tage of the delay by increas-
ing .their chicken imports.
The result *is an oversupply
and .distress prices for the
processors and producers.
Hannam sent • a letter
earlier in the week to Federal
Agriculture Minister, John
Wise, urging him not to
reward these 'few companies
who have tried to destroy the
3o t:estie, industry,
Ontario chicken producers
will be seriously hurt unless,
the .Federal Government
takes .a strong stand in next
Week's negotiations with the
U,S. on broiler imports,.
Peter Hannam, President,
Ontario Federation. of Agri-
culture (OFA)
Hannam said farmers have
seen Canadians go cap in
hand to the Americans too
often to be optimistic about
the negotiations due to begin
on September 19 ` .
"The Americans know,
how to be tough," he, said.
"When Canada arrested a
few U.S. tuna fishermen.
what happened? The Ameri-
cans embargoed our tuna.
That's the kind of backbone ..
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l ,affidav'Its an production
have been presented. He has
,also informed us that he has:
retained Counsel to act on
this matter, Mr. Robert
Armstrong' of the firm :of
Tory, Tory. and that an,
,application was 'heard on,
April 26th, 1979, seeking an
Order to firstly, have, the -
matters tried together, Secon•
dlya have the venue be
London, Ontario. Thirdly,,
have Discoveries
onall act-
ions
t-
ions carried out at the same
time and fourthly, have a
single Discovery for all, Par-
ties
ties to all actions.
Ministry officials of the
Attorney General discrtssed
the hatter with Mr. Arm-
strong's office and they
indicated that on the applica-
tion, Master. Garfield or-
dered that 'firstly, the mat-
ters .be tried together. Se-
condly, that he declined to:
order one '.Discovery only,.
with respect; to the represen-
tative of the Board and
thirdly, cost; to the Respon-
dent on the; application,
Under the' ruling' there was
no alternative but toproceed
to have the Examinations for
Discovery on all five separate
rases and these Examina-
tions commenced around. the
middle of August.
it. is my understanding that'
at this point in time the
Examinations for Discovery
of the Bean Boardh vebeen
completed in all but• one of
the cases, Apparently, all'
sides had good arguments.'to
put forth and the. Discoveries
have not changed 'very much
at the present time, There
are .still a llarge number of
legal arguments :that have
not. been agreed upon.
The matter will likely go to
trial which could take one to
oneand half years and
whatever the :result maybe, it
could well ge to the Court of
• Appeal and eventually to the
Supreme Court which could
consume . a Period of six. or
Seven years. •
It is unfortisnate that such
disputes arise over; the pay-
ment of crops harvested by
the farmer as very seldom is
thefarmer given a period of
six
or seven, years . to .make
.payment for the supplies and'
services which they require
to grow that Crop. It is to: be
hoped that the Parties in
dispute will take thisfact into
consideration.
Last week the Middlesex
Federation oration of Agriculture
'met with the federal and
provincial Members. Of
Par-
liament representing Parts
Middlesex s County to discuss
with. them 'problems' 'which
are presently being encoun-
tered by those involved in the
agricultural industry.. One of
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Doug Jamieson, raised', on a family farm;
3n
Hullett Township has been named the,
new principal of .the .Centralia College :of
Agricultural Technrtlogy.
Mr. Jamieson. its ,taking over the post
'from Jim, MacDonalk1 who has been,the
n
only pri cipa! at the college since it was
• established in June, 1967,
Mr. MacDonald: is moving to Rdgetown:
College• ,of ,Agricultural, Technology as;
principals; .replacing W.W. Snow who is,
retiring.
Poug Ja tesqn has been on the Staff'
of
Centralia College since ,its inception. He
will continue to carry on some of his.
teaching duties :until Christmas, before
relinquishing them entirely to handle the
„duties of prine,inal.
' The exfro top expected en ll. _ eat at the nolle n
p e
this yearis 315 students,: u : 20' students;
from last. year.. a lar st ti#caber of
students
toenrol1a the, school. was X20; in,
.t, ...
1977. Since that ti a fashion- ro cant•.
ifile p $
has beers phased' out.
before going to Centralia, Mr. Jamieson
spent twe years asan assistant ag rep with;
OMAF in Lincoln and Welland counties,,
He then lectured; for two years in animal;
husb n
drx at Kemptville College
Mr. Jamieson is a graduate. of Seaforth
District High School.
His brother Leonard Jantiesoastill farm3:
the home farm in Hullett Township,
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Logone seed' is very expeesire,. ' so it
pays to fertilize: properly for
along lasting. stand.
Many Growers have been asking, lately
"WHAT IS WINTERKILl,?"
• Winter kill is essentially 4' things:
1. It is heaving. Freezing - -and thawing soil' literally
heaves plants from the earth, breaking and exposing, roots,
2. It is smothering: Plants can't breathe, actually smother
from ice sheets, formed over the soil with little snow cover..
.A fast -breathing plant will choke on toxic by-products of its
own res iration when those toxins .can't get out.
3. It is drought, Plants. cant get enough to drink from:
frozen soil that is like a dry 'soil:
4. It is rupture. Plant cells rupture as the plant freezes,
cells loose water. and ice crystals form in ;the plant tissue
and rupture. cell walls.'•
How -does fall 'fertilization winterize a crop?
Adequate fertility 'lowers the` freezing point of cell sap,
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loss.
With the adequate moisture we received this past summer,
hayyields were excellent. Be sure to replace your soil
inventories of phosphorous andpotassium.
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