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25 YEAR Al TECHNICIAN—Don VVatson, right, was honoured' at the
-130ent convention of the Canadian Assoc lOtion of Animal Breeders in
recognition of h 25 years in the artificial insemination industry. He has
become a well known member of the agricultural community in the
Clinton-Seaforth area. He and Mrs. Watson were presented with a 400
day clock by Dr. C.R. Reeds, General Manager of United Breeders• where
Don .is a technician.
Better calving
.
Ted Burnside of the University of Goelph
suggested there be more records matte of
calving ease, and of milk production when
he spoke at the annual meeting of the
Huron County Holstein Club held at the
Belgrave VV,I. hall on Wednesday.
"As we go to larger cattle, larger herds,
we have a significant number of cattle that
are stillborn that might have had a high.
genetic potential," Dr. Burnside. said,
adding that they would like to get the
farmer's help in gettting calving ' ease
recorded in the new year.
' We need to know more about reproduc-'
tion on the female side, I think we've got
cattle that have a lot nore milk and better
udders, than we had a decade 'Ago," he
said adding that this was the direct' result
of progeny testing programs.
Dr. Burnside also talked about milk
recording, stating he was convinced that
70-80 per cent of dairy farmers .should be
• recording milk production.
• . He said the DHAS program in Quebec',
• the largest milk recording program in
• Canada today. has seen a rapid increase.
He spoke about .the .Canadian ' Milk
. Recording Board which has been running a,
comparison between owner supplier pro-
• grams and supervisor programs and he
. said they, have been seeing an expansion in
tifilkrecOrding. Dr Burnside. Said that, milk
recording has a lot of benefits and he didn't
think it was emphasized, enough.
"It'll enable us to do a better job of
breeding cattle," he said.
Part of the improvement in test groups is
to get a type classgieation, he said. He
talked about 'Quebec, where it farmers
agree to go on test record, they have to
agree. to test young bulls on one third of
their herd. •
"If you supplied young bulls 9n one third
of your herd, we have plenty of evidence
• that this will .maximize the genetic pro-
gress," he told the farmers..
Not more than six per cent of cows are
being bred to young bulls," he said.
Be suggested that from now on, farmers
should arm themselves with the facts and
that it's going to take a lot more
• co-operation and participation from breed-
• ers to get the facts down in matter of feed ,
utilization, milk testing and other things.
Gordon Bell, for Fiel man the olstein-
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Friesan Association :presented the
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f 11 Win people with High Production
certificates at the meeting: Cliff McNeil Of
R.R,6. Goderich-three. certificates; Allan
Wylie of Clifford three certificates; the
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John: Franken Estate near •Anburn-ene
certificate. George Hayden of the Gorrie
area placed first with the Huron County
fligh Average and Ray Cox of Goderich
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BY ROSS HAL/GII
The four • Huron• ,
members of the board of.
• directors of the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board
were returned to office by
acclamation at Friday's
annual meeting at the
Hensall arena..
Named to continue their
• duties as directors were
Gordon Hill, Bob Allan,
Murray Cardiff and • Joe
Miller.
• It was the first time in
many years that an election
was not needed to fill the
board of directors slate,
• An election was needea to
complete the Huron district
bean producers committee of
• 12 members • when 15
• 't nominees •indicated they
were willing to stand for
• election,
Nine members Of last
• year's committee were re..
elected, They are Jack
• Coleman, Murray Dennis,• .
Cecil • Desjardine, • Bill
•Dawson, 'Victor Hartman,
Bev Hill, Ken McCowan Jr.
Bill McGregor and Larry
Wheatley.
New members are Ray
.Heut her, Jehn Maskand and
Jim • Love. Defeated
• candidates were Glenn
Miller, James Maloney and
Neil Murray. ,
•• Bean board manager
• Charles Broadwell said
acreage of white beans in
1979 was down by 47 percent
to about 6,700 acres.
Attendance at Friday's
meeting • was • down
• cOnsiderably from other
years. Decreased production
In 1979 was blamed for the
lower attendance,
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Pat Lynchso% uu4 crops specialist with
the Ontario MiniStry of Agriculbtre, od
Huron County bean growers the long term
solution for controlling white mppitt
hreedipgand the short -terra angWer
spraying; with chemicals.
Mr. Lynch was reportingiom current
white mould research during the annual;
meeting of the Huron County white bean
growers, held at the Hensall arena Friday.
Mr. Lynch told the growers experts are
still doing. "a lot of guessing" about the
;white mould disease, which affects both
white bean and soybean props, He said
research is increasing on problems assoc,
iateci with the disease organism,
The crops specialist said sclerOtia drop
from infected plants into the soil and Start
the white mould system again in the next
year's crop. He said crop rotation isn't the
solution to the white mould problem since
the black bodies (sclerotia) can remain in,
the soil for seven or eight years. He said
the sclerotia start prodeCing Mushroom -
type heads early in May. Once the spores
get into ,the air, they can transmit the
disease for great distances, He, Said
researchers have •fonnd the spores can
travel up to a height of seven miles in the
atmosphere.
Mr. Lynch said in order for the spores to
be produced initially, there has to be 10
needed -
,clays of Wet Soil. Once the spores are in the
air, they drop on bean blossoms and start
to grow, with the petals of the, plants acting!
asnutrients for the disease.
To start growing on the bloss9,111$,, the
spores need about another three days of
wet weather. Then they ,produce fine little
soots, which infect the remainder of the,
•tean plants.
Mr. Lynch, told producers by the time the,
white mould; disease can, be seen, it's too,
late to do anything.
The crop specialist said between
$1,40,090-$150,000 was spent on white
mould control in this general area. He said
10 per cent of the white bean growers
were surveyed and most reported they
ididn't think spraying their crop with
chemicals had done any good, but with the
good yields, they felt they would spray
again.
Mr. Lynch, said the crops that weren't
sprayed actually out -produced those that,
were, but he said this may have been
because white mold hadn't spread to the
fields which were left untreated.
He said monitors must he developed for
Penn fields to tell growers the optimum
time to spply fungicides to prevent the
spread of white mould.
• SPRAYING ADVICE
He said research has shown the products
registered to fight the disease should be
•Holstein clu
Township was second.
Bob Vodden ofHol-Den Farms near
Clinton received the Premier Breeder and
Premier Exhibitor certificate for Huron,
County.
Dennis Martin, fieldman from the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
office in. Clinton presented the Honor
Certificates.
The Holstein Club also elected its 1980
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executive. they are: President Bob McNeil
Past President -Bob Vodden, First Vice -
President -Bill Gibbings, Secretary -Treas-
urer -Don . Watson, and directors Dave
Marshall, Keith Johnston, Murray Howatt,
Glenn Hodgins, Murray Donaldson, Ken.
Ramsey, Jim McKague, WilbertFreeman,
Stu Steckle, Joe Van Osch, Bob Carter and,
Hank Binnendyk.
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—prayed about (Our 4.. above the ground,
•so ttie spray will get Own in the plant to
cover the blossoms.
He said tests. done by researcher Ron
Pitblado, of the Ridgetown College of
Agricultural Technology, on the use of
,aerial versus ground sprays to control
white mould, suggested that ground
spraying got bette,r Penetration into the
crop. However, Mr. Lynch said there isn't
enough ground -coverage equipment avail-
able to get around to all the white bean
• acreage. so growers will likely have to work
With aerial spraying and be satisfied with a
• lower coverage,
• The MPS sPecialist said if next year
• Proves to be a wet season, the prime areas
growers should be concerned., about are
• fields that contained white mould in 1.9,.77
• and 1979,
Mr. Lynch told the growers until further
research is, completed, crops specialists
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• BY ROSS HAUGH
A promotion started in
1979 by the Ontario Bean
Producers Marketing Board
appears to have • been
successful..
Committee chairman
Frank Vanneste told Friday's
annual meeting�f the board,
"It was money well spent."
• Vanneste was referring to
S80,000 allocated at • last
year's annual meeting to
promote the sale of white
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will again be recontmentling asPIVIng
progriim for bean crops.
Be said researchers in Michigan have
.1 developed some genes in new bean
varieties which are showing a tolerance to
• thewhItebeanmould. Mr. Lynch saidTesearchershope:o•ret:patierauce
eanbebredintooosotherxt,v
year period. •
He said the four common white bean
varieties grown now have no tolerance for
the white mould. He said two varieties now
undergoing testing at the Harrow research
station seem to show better tolerance, but
their yield potential isn't known yet.
• He told growers the best time to spray is
when the bean plants are in blossom. Mr.
• Lylast hwwarned
ays, wb
the
growers
t means new
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onlybooms
on the plant could be completely ittiprotec.
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Bean producers still waiting
BY ROSSHAUGH
Huron white bean farmers
attending the annual
meeting in Hensall Friday
were told the litigation
holding up payment on the
1977 crop would not be
completed for some time yet.
• Board chief executive
officer Murray Cardiff read a
statement from Ontario Bean
• Producers Marketing Board
• lawyers outlining progress of
the legal process.
Cardiff said legal
discoveries of W.G. Thomp-
son and Sons Limited had not
been • completed. • The
n a success
beans. An additional S26,500
was provided by the province
of Ontario. '•
• Wayne • Churchill, the
publicity cO-ordinator for the
board said great progress
was made in introducing
beans to the food and
restaurant trade.
• He continued, "Before we
started, most restaurants
would only use baked beans
with toast. Now, they use
beans as a bed for chicken or
ribs instead of rice."
testimony ?f board manager
Charles Broadwell and
officials of the other three
dealerships were completed
recently. They are Hensall
District Co -Op, Ontario Bean
Growers Co -Op and
Ferguson Brothers of St.
Thomas Ltd.
Board trasurer John Mum-
ford said S400,000 from the
1977 pool is now invested in
term deposits and will being
in more than S50,000 this
year.
Further on the litigation
the financial statement said,
"The board has entered into
litigation with the • four
dealers claiming payment for
beans sold and delivered to
them. ' The outstanding
• litigMion is to decide upon
the selling value of delivered
beans. •
Inre arin and P g
pre-
senting the 1977 crop pool as
at August 31, 1979 a
conservative estimate of
selling values was used so
that the resulting assets and
liabilities of the pool reflect a
conservative position
regarding delivered beans. •
In addition. the litigation is
to decide where nubility rests
regarding undelivered beans
that could not be satsified
due to the poor crop year.
The amount of ' this
potential liability and the
outcome of this legal
question cannot be
reasonably determined at
this • time. The • legal
discoveries have not been
fully completed at the date of
this report and therefore the
value • of dealer claims
. regarding undelivered beans
is unknown.
Upon completion of e
litigation the resulting
chareg or credit will be
accounted for as a 1977 crop
transaction.
• Subsequent to the year
end, the Board has named
• the . Farm • Products
Marketing Board as third
party to the dealer claims."
In reply to a question from
• growers, treasurer John
Mumford said legal fees for
the board on the litigation to •
date was 529,000. He added.
"We expect to win and ,
recover solicitor fees." •
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