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Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Rain responsible for poor crops this season Soybean plants in mid July last year. This year's soybean crop will be poor due to excessive moisture. Crops have been hard hit due to excessive moisture this year. , "The weather has gone against us," said Andrew Dawson, Assistant Manger of W.G. Thompson & Sons,' the grain elevator in Pontypool. "We've had a lot of rain and 'poor planting conditions," he stated. , On top of that, prices are weak," Dawson said. U.S. crops are looking superb, while the Canadian crops look poor. It is questionable whether touch of the corn planted locally this year will mature. Com is dependent on heat units to reach maturity. When farmers couldn't get their corn in on time, many planted soybean. Soybean is day length dependent, and provided provided we don't get an early frost, could still reach maturity. Crop prices are established on the Chicago stock exchange, and what happens in Canada is a mere blip on the market. The U.S. produces produces approximately 80 mil lion acres of com and soybean annually, while Canada produced produced 2 million âcres. This year is the fourth in a cycle of low crop prices. Last year good weather during planting season, in the American mid west, and throughout the summer, produced produced an overabundance of. crops. "There is an excess of supply in the system now," stated Dawson, "it will take a year or two of poor, crops to get the system straightened out." Dawson stated that about 10% of the fields locally have not been planted. Though we got a lot of rain, it gets worse the further east 'you go. Prince Edward County was very hard hit," Dawson stated. ncoivi ents buoyed to changes to land acquisition plant Residents along Clarington's lake front will be sleeping much easier after Monday night's council meeting. meeting. Council heard from several residents who expressed they had been subjected to a high level of stress and anxiety following following the release of the latest 'Land Acquisition Strategy Report'. The portion of the report causing most of the grief was the section dealing with future land acquisitions along East Beach, West Beach and Bond Head. The proposed by-law was intended to meet the Çlarington Official Plan objective to establish a lake - shore park. Mayor Hamre told lake residents who filled council chambers, that Clarington does not expropriate property. The word 'expropriate' had been used several times in the report. Sections of the 'Land Acquisition Strategy Report' dealing with the làkeshore were removed from the report, so a public information information session could be held; •and resident's concerns addressed. Besides the deletion of the word 'expropriate' three additional changes will be made. The Municipalitys 'first right of refusal' was eliminated, eliminated, and all time lines were removed. Wording used to describe West Beach property as 'a damaged centre' will also be deleted and replaced with wording similar to that used in the Official Plan. Former Councillor Pat Pingle relayed the fears and anxiety of the proposed bylaw bylaw claiming she represented 119 residents of the waterfront waterfront communities. Lynda MacGregor, representing representing the Bond Head (continued page 10)