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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 24, 1989-11 Durham East Agri by Joel Bagg, Farm Management Specialist Sheep Tour: The Durham Sheep Producers have organized a farm tour to be held on Sunday, May 28th, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The Club will visit the sheep operations of 3 local flock owners to see how they house, feed and pasture their sheep, organize their barns and pastures, and how they handle their flocks. This meeting will be a social as well as an educational opportunity, opportunity, so spouses and children are welcome. The tour will start off at Lloyd Skinner's farm, which is immediately immediately east of the village of Tyrone and then proceed on to Barry James' farm and finish up at Leslie and Wesley Glaspell's at Taunton. Sheep Producers vote to keep sheep agency: Results of the sheep referendum show seventy-two per cent of producers who voted support support the continuation of their marketing agency. As a result of the vote the agency, operating under the authority of the Farm Products Marketing Act, will continue to represent Ontario's sheep, lamb and wool producers. The referendum was held in response to a request from the Ontario Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency earlier this year. The request reflected the 1984 recommendation of the Ontario Sheep Commission that the agency be established without an "expression of opinion" from producers, but that they have the opportunity to vote on con tinuation of the agency after a period of operation. A total of 1,529 producers cast valid ballots in the April 14 referendum. Beef Producers Vote "No": Seventy-two per cent of producers who participated in Ontario's beef cattle marketing vote siad "No" to the establishment of a producer- controlled marketing commission. These producers have voted to maintain all of their marketing option^, option^, including direct-to-packer sales. Twenty-one per cent of the voters "yes" to the ballot's second question, which asked should a marketing commission, if formed, work towards a marketing plan with the authority to manage supply and determine price. The mail-in vote, which had a deadline April 14, 1989, gave Ontario's Ontario's beef cattle producers an opportunity opportunity to express their opinion on the future of their marketing system, as recommended by the Beef Marketing Task Force. Nearly 20,000 beef cattle producers cast valid ballots. More than 9,000 producder attended attended information meetings across the province. An information package and the questions, both prepared by a committee made up of representatives from the Ontario Cattlemen's Association, Ontario Beef Producers for Change Inc. and ministry staff, were sent out to beef producers. Irrigation Field Day: An Irrigation Field Day has been scheduled for May 31st from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 Mainstream Canada Wilson's 'goods' tax a disservice By Ann M. Smith If you're one of many Canadians feeling out of sorts as a result of the recent federal budget, take heart: you're not alone. Virtually no one, it seems - , was immune from the all-out tax assault launched by Finance Minister Michael Wilson and his government. According to John Bulloch, president president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, there are no winners from this budget. For example, as taxpayers begin to grapple with thé immediate hard-core rdality of higher taxes, he says, the small business community community has been given a reprieve of little little more than a year before it will face a tax complexity of unprecedented . proportions: the all-new goods'and services tax. Bulloch is worried that the advent ' of this new federal sales tax will provide provide Ottawa with a new and controversial controversial money generating machine worth' literally billions of dollars each year. Rather than tightening their own belt, he says, the government has opted to let Canadian taxpayers shoulder the burden of their deficit reduction responsibilities. (Under Wilson's recent budget, for example, taxpayers will be responsible for approximately 75 per cent of the deficit reduction costs. At the same time, however, Ottawa will contribute just 25 per cent in the way . of spending cuts.) Key CFIB concerns about the goods and services tax are: • that the paperburden component of this new tax will be a nightmare for all small firms. If the exemptions proposed in Wilson's budget remain intact, small business owners (already swamped with government red tape and paperburden) can expect to sink even further in the quick-sand. The new two-tiered sales tax requires business to forward the difference between the tax levied on sales minus the tax levied on purchases. The compliance costs, Bulloch Bulloch says, will slam retailers, who lack the cash registers to administer both a federal and a retail sales tax system especially hard; • that it wilfprovide this and future federal governments with an everpresent everpresent money generator. As a source of extra revenue, the goods and services services tax is expected to provide the federal federal government .with an . extra , $2.5-billion in revenue for every one per cent increase in the tax rate. Bulloch Fund established to encourage hospital proposals The Ministry of Health has established a $10 million incentives incentives fund that will encourage hositals to produce innovative ways of achieving more effective effective delivery of quality care, Health Minister Elinor Caplan announced today. . The Hospital Incentives Fund is part of the transitional funding funding initiative which is being developed by the Ontario Hospital Association, the Ontario Ontario Council of Teaching Hospitals, and the ministre. Hospitals will be eligible to receive matching funds of up to $500,000 from the ministry to p.m. Equipment will be displayed and field demonstration will be presented. In particular, the field day is meant to highlight alternative uses of irrigation; featuring: Evaporative cooling for maintaining maintaining strawberry and possibly vegetable quality during hot days; Frost control for strawberries focusing on timing of water application; application; Fertigation/chemigation for horticultural crops to highlight advantages and disadvantags of applying applying materials through over-head irrigation; Irrigation scheduling relating to timing of water applications. applications. Irrigation industry represen-, tatives are invited and will be in attendance. attendance. The demonstration will be held at Ted Watson Farms Ltd., just east of Bowmanville on Highway 2. All interested horticultural horticultural producers are invited. For more information contact: Frank Louws, Bowmanville 416-623-3348 or 1-800-263-8023. likens this "to giving away the keys to the candy store"; • that the new tax will have a negative negative effect on the rate of inflation. Some experts are predicting a three per cent increase in the Consumer Price Index by 1991, the year the goods and services tax is introduced; , • that the tax will hurt our tourist sector. Although benefits will fall to manufacturers and exporters, jobs will be lost in the more labor-intensive service service sector; • and that consumer purchasing will also be hurt by the implementation of this tax. The impact of reduced consumer consumer spending is, bound to be felt in the overall health of the economy. If the. finance minister's recent proposals are any indication of what small business can expect from the newly re-elected Tory government, the next four years could get down-right nasty. CFIB Feature Service develop new approaches for the more effective management of hospital resources and the provision provision of enhanced care to patients. patients. "I hope that some exciting new ideas and concepts will be developed in response to this fund - proposals that could be significant to the entire hospital community and the patients that they serve," Mrs, Caplan said. "In partnership with the ministry, hospitals will be encouraged encouraged to try out new approaches, approaches, ideas and methods for , better management of resources." Projects will be funded for up to two years. Hospitals will be required to present an evaluation evaluation of the project at its conclusion conclusion so that the entire hospital system may benefit. All departments within a hospital, including medical, nursing, finance and administration, administration, are eligible to make proposals to the fund. More than one hospital can be involved in a proposal as can a ONTARIO ^I^ENHOUSE VEGETABLES No need to wait until summer for the fresh, cool tastes of Ontario Greenhouse Cucumbers and Tomatoes. Fully vine-ripened, hand-picked and rushed to your neighbourhood produce counter, Ontario Greenhouse Cucumbers and Tomatoes provide the perfect ingredients for great meals in a hurry. Cool, crisp Cucumber adds superior flavour and texture to your favourite salads, soups and entrees with barely a calorie to count... ideal for those light, springtime meals! Beautiful red and rosy pink Tomatoes provide blemish-free skins and firm, plump pulp for the best tomato recipes in town. Don't wait til! summer! Use Ontario Greenhouse Cucumbers and Tomatoes in these fast and fresh ideas ... today! local district health council, or any third party, if it is done in conjunction with two or more hospitals. Projects submitted for funding funding will be assessed by a joint review committee consisting of representatives from hospital management, health professionals, professionals, university and government. government. Northumberland Meat Packers Government Inspected CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING CUT - WRAP - FROZEN BEEF KILLINGS FOR THE HIDE ONLY PIGS - $10.00 FOR THE KILLING Pigs & Beef ■ Cut, Wrapped, Frozen 17c. lb. Beef Patties Sausage - Smoking 797-2134 JOIN US DOWNtOWN for Orono's PARTI Cl PACTION Wednesday, May 31st at 12:30 p.m. for a walk through the WOODS WALK PARK , Meet at the Bank Parking Lot