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18 Till- Queens Park Report JULIAN Liberal Italian Burlington The Ontario Institute of whose member ship includes farmers soil scientists and other lure professionals has urged he Provincial Government to impose an immediate freeze on the conversion of farmland and to strengthen its proposed guide lines for food producing land In a statement to the Minister of Agriculture the Institute maintains that the Got err recent policy paper food land guide lines allows municipalities too much lee way In developing plans According to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture the acre per hour decline In Improved land during 19661971 was reversed during Meanwhile the decline in improved land continued The overall story is that in 196 there was less land in control of food producers but that more of the land on farms was improved land compared with 1971 From available statistics It Is difficult to ascertain the exact situation So much de pends upon the quality of the land in question which is not specified Also the official or of a form has been changed Prior to 1971 a farm comprised any unit of at least one acre producing for sale agricultural products worth at least A farm is now defined as a uni of one acre or more producing in cultural products The Food for the Cities Conference was held in To ronto on March 30th and March 31st 1777 Liberal Leader Stuart Smith said that In the short run we could let the market prevail More land would be taken out of production prices would rise and those re maining on the land would have a very good income But we must look to the future There is no more land being made we must husband and protect this product This requires a distortion of market today but it will pay dividends in the future changes In climate some of which are now being predicted by experts in that field could render our current land re sources must less productive Changes in the of may affect the optimum productivity of the land There may well be a time when food exports will become a vital part of the balance of pay of this province Al though It is not yet the case it seems clear to me that by present world trends our food resource could become some what similar to the oil re sources now held by the OPEC countries As we incur ever Increasing deficits to pay for energy resources we may be able to sustain our economy by exporting natural resources The energy crisis is not temporary and the price of energy will continue to rise It may soon become economical feasible to raise energy crops on agricultural land to produce methanol But we distort the mar pay In our view it should not be the farmer already struggling to make a decent living that would be patently unfair We all must find fair ways to share this cost We must pay at the supermarket and through taxes We must make wise use of marketing boards and tar and must recognize that part or the price must be paid through higher food prices If we want to preserve agrlcul turat land there must be some increases In Hie price of food Farmers must have on live to earn a decent living but It Is not enough to say pre serve the and he will preserve the land In some cases the growth of cities has put tremendous pressure an our best land In terms of soil capability and heat units This Is natural because many set in Ontario such as London Chatham and many others grew up as market towns But It is not responsible to say that could freeze all growth of such communities One policy alternative to consider Is the of buffer fringing areas of growth This land should be put to those agricultural uses relatively compatible with urban growth and large population centres In ad we would require a mandatory designation of pi r Inventory I ml Once land t in signaled as food land there be no development unless there Is a compelling reason to do so Of course decisions respecting In dividual parcels of land must be subject to a certain degree of flexibility and per ii il III HUH before a tribunal in eludes 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