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YORK-CENTRE MPP The Ontario Institute of Agrologists, whose membership includes farmers, soil scientists and other agriculture professionals. has urged the provincial govern- ment to impose an imâ€" mediate freeze on the conversion of frarmland to non-agricultural uses, and to strengthen its pr0posed guide-lines for food-producing land. In a statement to the Minister of Agriculture, the Institute maintains that the government’s recent policy paper on foodland guidelines allows municipalities too much leeway in developing land-use plans. According to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the 26-acre per hour decline in im- proved land during 1966- 1971 was reversed during 1971â€"19076. Meanwhile the decline in unimproved land continued. The over-all story is that in 1976 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 depends upon the quality of the land in question, which is not specified. Also the official definition of a farm has been changed. Prior to 1971. a farm comprised any unit of at least one acre, producing for sale agricultural products worth at least $50. A farm is now defined as a unit of one acre or more producing $1,200 in agricultural products. The “Food for the Cities Conference" was held in Toronto March 30 and March 31, 1977. 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 farmers remaining 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 the market today, but it will pay dividends in the future . . . Subtle changes in climate, some of_which are now being predicted by experts in that field, could render our current land resources much less productive. “Changes in the price of fertilizer 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 Councillor Dr. George Burrows of Georgina may have locked his office door when he went to last Thursday‘s meeting of York Regional Council, but he didn‘t leave his practise behind. Reporter collapses, Dr. Burrows was called from his seat at the back of the council chambers to the press table when reporter Christine Montgomery of the N e w m a r k e t E r a collapsed. Affer being . ad- ministered to by Dr. Burrows and another Ydrk Centre MPP By ALF STONG of Canada Limited \ call Heather Russell (416) 868-0234 Toronto Dominion Centre Royal Trust Tower. Suite 3706 PO Box 141 Toronto. Ont MSK 1H1 Member of the Canada Deposrt Insurance Corporation. '/ >4 9 V4 °/o poid semi-annually on 5 Year G.|.C.'s 1 8. 2 Years 8%, 3 8. 4 Years 8% °/o. Rates subject to change. \Jonguord Trus’r queen's park of payments of this proyi_nce._ Although it is not yet the case. it seems clear to me that by present world trends our food resources could become somewhat similar to the oil resources now held by the OPEC countries. “As we incur ever in- creasing 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 economically feasible to raise energy crops on agricultural land to produce methanol. “T‘ut if we distort the max et, who shall pay? In our v ew it should not be the farmer, already struggling to make a decent living â€" that would be patently unfair. raise energy crops on agricultural land to produce methanol. “T‘ut if we distort the max et, who shall pay? In our v ew 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 tariffs and must recognize that part of the price must be paid through higher food prices. “In summary, we believe that firm measures must be taken to protect food land for the future . . . a provincial plan including an inventory of food lands, mandatory, designation of such areas for agricultural use, an opportunity to appeal this designation, decentral- ization of growth away from our best agricultural land, and the applicability of the designation to govern- ment ministries and agencies as well as to the private sector." See you next week. “In some cases the growth of cities has put tremendous pressure on our best agricultural land in terms of soil capability and heat units. This is natural because many settlements in Ontario such as London, Chatham and many others grew up as market towns. Bit it is not responsible to say that we would freeze all growth of such com- munities." “This land should be put to those agricultural uses relatively com- patible with urban growth and large population centres . . . In addition . . . we would require a mandatory designation of all foodlands . . . proper inventory of our agricultural land . . . Once land has been designated as food land there should be no development unless there is a compelling reason to do so. “Of course decisions respecting individual parcels of land must be subject to a certain degree of flexibility, and persons whose land is affected must have the right to appear before a the land One policy alternative to consider is the establishment of buffer zones fringing areas of growth. doctor in the spectators’ gallery‘ Miss Mon- tgomery was taken to York County Hospital for treatment and then released. 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