Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1984 Manitoba Farmers walk away from risky business by Laura Ranee Winnipeg free press Goodlands Ron Nestebo has kicked the mud from his boots for the last the 40yearold Farmer int Bank Hes just fed up with he and his wife auctioned off their farm equipment this sold some and put the Cash into another he is putting his science degree to work taking a funeral directors after 16 years in the Nesti to has joined the ranks of Manitoba Farmers who Are choosing less less worrisome ventures for their time and in some they Are abandoning the farm on which their grandparents were but few would doubt their business they cite High input poor mar Ket and reports of neighbors squeezed out by As reasons for choosing to leave i just got to the place where i was a Little tired of the Nestebo said the Day of his we were just looking for something a Little easier on estate auctions and retirement sales normally make Spring a Busy season for but spokesmen for several firms say they see More farm ers simply choosing to quit before they become too heavily in Killarney based auctioneer Murray said eight of the 22 auctions his firm has held this Spring Are for extremely efficient Farmers taking an Early they just see the trend theres not a very Good he that one aspect of Good manage theres no sense sticking with it until youve lost everything you made in the past 20 Bill an auctioneer in the Riding Mountain National Park said half of the sales he will con duct this Spring Are for Farmers who see the writing on the there All Young Farmers who should stay on the farm there Good he some went a bit too and fear bankruptcy next year if they dont sell out theres really no incentive to grow a crop this they know there riot going to make he auctioneers in sout Central Manitoba say the number of Farmers Choos ing that option is not As but Many appear to be Basing a Simi Lar decision on this years there not All in trouble because they Are poor Butch an auctioneer who farms near Lowe the Price of wheat has a lot to do with the Way people the initial Canadian wheat Board prices for hard red Spring bounced this past week were per tonne lower than for last yet fertilizer costs alone have jumped nearly 25 per cent since last said who also theres no Way we can keep going at Money is Nestebo it would have Cost an estimated to sow his 800hectare farm this the Way the Market has been the last two its nip and tuck All the he showed few regrets the Day of As he watched the auctioneers coax the rain soaked bidders into out doing each Sigurd now retired after 30 years of said he has no qualms Over his sons though he still thinks farming offers a Good its tougher he machinery prices have increased Good help is expensive and hard to yet prices Are not much better than they were three decades Farmers need More but he Doest think the Banks Are the Bankers seem to get a lot of people into if the Home farm is paid off and youre debt yes there is a Dollar to be Ron Nestebo but if things dont turn around this i think youre going to see the biggest number of Young people Phil free press Ron Nestebo tries to Start sprayer for auctioneers Murray Rankin left and Bob Wright at equipment Sale on once the Young people leave the they never come Don and Jean Cuvelier of Killarney have promised their 17year old son help him get started farming but they themselves stand the goes to work for a local fertilizer company this Spring after 18 years of they recently sold their farm equipment and rented out their nowadays you see so Many people lose everything after years of he it was a heavy Burden on the we just got tired of living with the third generation family farm want in financial trouble but it would Only take one poor he we just we rent making anything anymore on our he says after growing up on the hell miss the i really enjoyed farming it was a Way of life for if we thought things had improved a its a possibility we would go he Barry Oakes of said he was offered As much Money to rent out his land As he could earn from farming the that combined with a Job offer from a local fertilizer prompted1 the former provincial agricultural representative to sell his his farm was paid and he had Only a few payments left on farm but the 42yearold Farmer said he was facing some equip ment purchases i want looking Forward to getting Back into the High in just a Little bit fed up with subsidizing the farm machinery he he now has the machinery Money to a full time and time to play Golf in the i dont want to be 65 and Only be Able to say Ive been a Farmer for 40 theres More to life than farm Farmer forced from land Grandfather Bush by Joscelyn Proby a Rose Farmer is expecting the farm which his French grand father broke from the Bush to be auctioned off any Day by the Canadian Imperial Bank of my complaint is that it took three generations to build up a farm like and in one Day the Bank can come and throw you Rene Leguet said in an at with three children to Leguet said farming is the Only Way he1 knows of making a Brian provincial manager of the agricultural department for the Bank of said he is still hoping Leguet will be Able to repay his loan and avoid an he said he didst know when the Bank might auction off the but he believed Leguet still has some time left in which to we have tried very hard for Many years to have the situation work out the Best possible for everyone in he Kelly would not disclose details of Meguess though he said i feel very him because his family is there and Hes worked very but he seems to have a real problem of grasping concepts of How finances Are its not some thing everybody can do other lenders have reached the same conclusions As Leguet said his loan with the Banks Dauphin Branch dates Back to he said he paid Back about from a Sale of beef cattle and farm machinery in and he cannot understand How he still owes so he would not divulge the size of the because he said he disagrees with the amount the Bank is demand he noted that one of his major difficulties stems from the Bank putting too much on his operating loan where interest rates have fluctuated As High As 22 per cent at it made my payments impossible every who used to farm 576 hectares since the 1982 Sale he has been working As a farm hand and was unable to make interest payments last he problems started in 1979 when the Bank demanded that he immediately repay another loan taken out in 1976 to buy 128 hectares 320 acres of he he noted the Bank originally agreed that he repay this loan Over 10 years at 10percent he was making regular he Kelly noted that farming requires a wide Range of skills in and financial and it needs a Large amount of at today a Farmer re quires about in equity to oper City Calendar fantasy theatre for children stages Snow White at 1 and 3 saturday and sunday in the Winnipeg Art admission salvation army heritage Park Temple drama group stages the Rich Young ruler and Joseph of at 4 and 8 tomorrow at 825 school poets Kate Bitney and Gwendolyn Macewen give readings at 8 saturday in Mary scorer 121 Osborne ate a 240hectare 600 acre wheat farm and make to live Kelly farming is Likely As bad As any time it has been since the he Roger provincial agricultural director for the Northwest said the Meguess have always been regarded As Good but in these hard economic Tynes there Are Many More Farmers faced with liquidation than there were in the he transportation farm fuel and fertilizers Are going while the Price of wheat is expected to come he land is hardly moving at he if Rene is trying to sell his land in sure he is having he Leguet said he has had no offers for his weather h High Preti ure l Low premure cold front i worm front warrant puzzles auditor provincial auditor Ziprick says he was not consulted about the governments decision to pass a special warrant just two weeks before the legislature went into session and is puzzled by the but he says he Hast decided whether it undermines the Legislatures control Over Public i Haven made up my mind about the implications on the legislative sys tem of that kind of Ziprick and legislative counsel Rae Tallin both said yesterday there is nothing illegal about the the size of the warrant is a political Issue and not a Legal Tallin said in an Ziprick said the size of the warrant has puzzled opposition finance critic Brian Ransom has accused the govern ment of showing contempt for the legislature by approving in a special warrant enough Money to tide it Over until the end of the thus ducking the need to introduce an interim Supply Bill in the House for the government spending authority ended with the March 31 end of the fiscal year and a special warrant was needed to allow it to pay its the present legislative session began a week finance minister Vic Schroeder argues that the opposition during review of estimates and in throne speech and budget debates will have Opportunity to 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