The Huron Expositor, 1979-12-13, Page 24•
Huse* IPCIPOSITOR, DECEmiBER 13,19T9
Late.aoflC,aed by Bob TIOWIN
We're in trouble
'It is obVions to anyintelligent Person that this country
• in grave economic trouble.
North American, particularly Canadian, manufacturers
just cannot compete. Productivity in Canadian industry is
pricing our products right out of world markets, Only a few
smart, pmgressive manufacturers, have been.'able to
'0Yereome diffrenitY•
The trade deficits in manufactured goods, for the most
1Part. are offset only by agriculture and a few other primary
industries. And agriculture, it must be noted, has
lemained competitive in spite of the fact that tariffs to
'protect the industrial sector range between 20 and 40 per
cent yet agricultural tariffs average less than five per cent.
We spend millions of dollars subsidizing industry with
forgiveable loans and tax incentives but do little for
fumera. At the same time, farm produciivity has outpaced
inchistrial productivity by 450 per cent since the end of the
War.
What did the farmer get for making these great gains?
Nothing but a kick in the head. In 1972, 54 cents of the•
annual increase in the cost of food went to the fanner. In
1977, just five years later, only four cents of the increase
went to the fannerwith 16 cents going to importers and 79
cents to the secondary food sector.
How come? Because the corporate giants have the clout
to get a bigger cut of the food dollar. Those recent
hearings into discounts and allowances should be fair
warning to all of us; The corporate giants weren't shy.
They openly told the commission that they would vertically
integrate to a greater degree if they couldn't continue with
those discounts and allowances.
In my 52 years on this plane of tears, I have witnessed
the destruction of a nation-wide group of small retailers,
the corner grocery stores. We have been warned by the
giants themselves that they intend to destroy another
group by either absorption of takeover, the small
processors.
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It is well known that one of that 'what a hunter* is oftett
the basic Financial probleMa capable Of doing, physicallY4
with pork producers results Pork producers; 'who shoag
from a poor breeding per- be checking gilts and was**,
firma:we in the herd: A wide for heat, art: often cropping,
Ems* Rd Emma Oni 1•311 20, variety of reasons can cause attending meetings, etc'.
• '.`"er•••",. • •••',., a poor reproductive per- Carefully checking for signs
formance but the maid ones of estrus, and having the
are due to lack of time, ability to recognize estrus, is
boars and nutrition prebably the major cause of
Next comes the farmer.
Lau? Don't. You read it here in 1979. I predict that the
corporations will take over farming because they are the
last link in the food chain to be absorbed,
It is corning just as sure as there is manure in a goose.
Farmers are laughed at Few people respect them.
Their marketing boards are under fire from dozens of
sourceS. 'ranging from half-baked, women's libbers to
agricultural economists who have never been inside a.hog
stable and who woulcle't know the north end of a cow from
the south in an east wind.
Already, the courts have overturned marketing
legislation -
Fortunately, se far anyway, politicians have had the guts
to plug the legal holes in marketing legislation.
The clout of the major media outlets in this nation are
already against the farmer. I have heard of one big
newspaper in southwestern Ontario where editors have
informed reporters to steer clear of agriculture and farm
news "because nobody reads it anyway."
Pap! The bias of the big newspapers is evident in the
fact that they might lose a few dollars in food advertising if
they carried stories in favor of farmers and farm marketing
beards. The two, big newspapers --the so-called national
newspapers --the Globe and Mail- and the Toronto Star, do
not have a full-time farm reporter. Why? Because those
reporters might take the side of the fanner and farm
marketing boards. And marketing boards are on the hit list
of all the major food chains.
If a story comes along with anti -marketing board flavor,
watch the big papers jump on it. The television stations,
•too,
I'm a little steamed up over this question as you are
probably aware so we'll continue the discussion after the
holiday season when I'm cooled out a little.
Archer.•
Farm sales. c osin
Archer Farm Sales and
Service Ltd., Vanastra's
second largest industrial
employer, will be letting the
last of its, employees go just
before Christmas.
Russ Archer of Clinton.
saner of the business, said
the loss of the horse stall and
pig pen manufacturing com-
pany is a setback for the
industrial park at the former
Air Force base and he
blamed a combination of bad
kick and politicians for fail-
ing to support the "de-
* pressed area."
Mr. Archer was unable to
recover from a $200,000 loss
involved in bonding a new
type of epoxy coating to his
metal products. This move
cut the manufacturer in a
poor debt -equity position
which resulted in his credit
dr),ing up.
Mr. Archer said he could
be saved by a $100.000
• injection of risk capital from
private sources, but said it
wasn't likely to come in time
to forestall closure.
The manufacturer is losing
his company, his house and
other assets and said there's
astrong chance he'll accept a
job offer from a firm in
Kansas City.
Mr. Archer criticized fed-
eral politicians for failing to
give special support to Van-
• astra.
He was quoted as .saying,
"The politicians have got to
-get off their butts and
declare tis a depressed
area.
The manufacturer said
with such a.designation,
industries could be given
special incentives and assist-
ance through regional
expansion programs.
If he'd had research and
development assistance, Mr.
Archer said he would still be
in business.
The only other major in-
dustry remaining in the
Vanastra industrial park is
the Bayfield Boat Yard Ltd.,
with about 50 employees.
Other industries are small
operations with a handful of
employees.
Huron County's industrial
development officer, Spence
Cumming, who has pro-
moted the Vanastra indus-
trial park for the past eight
years, admitted with the
expected closing of Archer
Farm Sales, the situation in
Vanastra had never been
bleaker.
He was quoted as saying,
"It's gone downhill. It's
worse off than it was even
three years ago."
Since becoming develop-
ment officer. Mr. Cummings
has tried to get the provincial
reproductive failures.
Time is money awlcon- Boars are 50%of your
sequently human nature has herd, but when they stop
ustrying to do mach more' breeding, they soon assume
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One should plan the
breeding program well in
advance for purchase of
boars. Over -use or under -use
reduces the boar's, per-
formance. Similarly, it
should be recognized that
each boar, regardless of
breed , has different
breeding abilities. Boars
deserve special attention.
Nutrition is often blamed
for causing major upsets in a
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planning breeding program' at PO fat
and justly so. Mycotoxins,
Vitamin E -Se, vitamin levels, Each problem situationis &
protein levels, quantities fed, little different. It is rare to
and fibre levels have all been have one major reason for
implicated in breeding breeding problems and often
problems. It appears the it is ii combination of several
greatest problem is having small reasons that. cause the
sows,and especially gilts, tee major catastrophe. Only
fat. At the sank time, under- good record -keepi
ng system
feeding can cause lack of can identify the weakest
estrus after weaning. There- portion of the system. Deter,
fore, a common sense mining pigs/sow/year is it
approach is the best method, - good start.
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and federal governments to
provide assistance or else
relocate offices at Vanastra
which was purthased for
about $500,000 in the. early
1970's by a group of busi-
nessmen,
(which built the former air
base in 1942) has an obli-
gation but they've never
done anything about it, the
development officer said.
In an effort to attract •
businesses to the area,
Tuckersmith Township
council, in whose Munici-
pality Vanastra lies, cut taxes
toabout one-third of what
they were but the most
recent industrial arrival was
Koma I3oats a couple of years
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R.R.# 4, Seaforth
527-0699
MILTON DIETZ
4, Seaforth
527-0608
VARNA OttOmn.t. TED LANSBEAGEN
482-9219' • R.R.,# 2, Zurich
236-41,49
ALLAN HAUGH
H.R. a 1, Brocefield
527-0138
HAROLD ELDER
R. R. a 2, Henson
262-5592
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229-8856
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237-3307
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527-0550 Seaforth
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Fred. Lawrence
Electrical
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HOME FARM ar
COMMERCIAL WIRING
Phone Auburn 526-7505
or
Mitchell 348-8684
ELECTRICAL--\
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HARDWARE
MERCHANTS
PLUMBING HEATING
& ELECTRICAL EXPERTS
- Phone: 527-1620
Seaforth
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SUPERMARKET m
Over 100 achines on display
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'for good old
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527-1964
CONSTRUCTION
Excavating
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JOHN
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North Main Street
Seaforth, Ontario
527-0104
Whitney-Ribey
Funeral Home
ROSSW.RIBEY
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87 Goderich Sts, Seafooh
Phone, 5?T-1390,
CEMETERY
MONUMENTS
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527-1610
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527-0053
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87 Main St., South
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24 hrs. a day
CLINTON
482-3438
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WELDING AND
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Winnipeg Rd.
Vanastra
4824931
SALES AND SERVICE
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