Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 2, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba The province Winnipeg free press May Page 2 Richard provincial editor Dandy free chess Goldwin who is struggling to hang on to family feeds cattle on his Tilston area land grab killing family farm big institutions cause friction in buying up farmlands by Randy Turner Winnipeg free press Tilston the family farm in this Region is fast becoming an endangered agricultural species due to High debt and Low perhaps More than any other area in this pocket North of Melita and South of Vir Den experienced the grow ing trend toward larger As More acreage is or Falls into the hands of lending ins Titu much of it is being purchased by big operators getting Young Farmers Arent unless their parents happen to be so it is left to existing Farmers to buy out their neigh the same trend at one level or across Southwest Ern and it involves dire consequences for the Small towns that service the Rural a lot of the land right now is being picked up by larger opera tors and its causing some divisive Ness in the said Goldwin a Tilston area mixed people want to see Young people that the future of the Jones is chairman of the Melita Rural life support a self help organization for Farmers experiencing economic there Are Many potential Mem in the Rural municipalities of Pipestone and there Are More than hectares of land titled to lending according to a group that figure represents about 10 per cent of the Active Farmland in the it is significantly higher than surrounding which Benefit from Oil Wells and More frequent few new Farmers but even to the toward Melita and the same questions Are being As a Rule when a farm is its sold to another very few new said Ivan Reeve of the Rural municipality of were wondering the same How big can a farm really get if someone is working acres is he going to be work ing acres five years from now were really concerned about it out but what can we do the rising Cost of machinery and dropping Grain prices have left some operators with no Choice but to expand in an attempt to Cut production said who farms near farms in Manitoba have been getting on since largely due to advanced tech the average farm size in Manitoba increased from 118 to 283 Hect ares from 1941 to according to a Survey conducted by Brandon based West arc the obvious concern is How the dwindling population base affects nearby in for there is no farm implement there were six 10 years one big Farmer might Only still have three but eight smaller Farmers might have 16 Carey the trend is the Reeve we cant see it we feel like were kicking a dead it is that realization that has Many communities Here looking elsewhere for Job creating near Roblin and the trend to larger farms is also Evi the population of six area municipalities has dropped steadily from in 1956 to in Farmland prices in southwestern Manitoba have dropped up wards of 50 per cent in the last according to local real estate but Many Farmers wonder Why certain landowners continue to in Light of the current economic plight of the Industry Sinclair area real estate agent Ken Zelmer said the reasons some operators expand Are there you know what a Farmers like they want to get Zelmer there some of such in the midst of a can put a Strain on relation the sense of Community Here is not that Strong any Jones its sort of everybody for it leaves a bad taste in your pm postpones contentious Issue of livestock doors by Maureen Houston Clements Council has postponed a decision on a plan to give More residents a say in the approval of livestock the postponement came yester Day after Farmers and residents packed a Council meeting to argue the at Issue is a proposed change to criteria governing conditional use permits for livestock operations of More than 250 the change would provide notification to residents within kilo metres of the operation instead of the current 45 Farmers Are worried that increasing the number of residents notified would allow no Farmers too much say into How agricultural operations Are our main concern is that farming has to take place hog producer George Van who made a presentation to said in my agricultural lands Are set out for Farmers and any Rural residents there should have to put up with the Normal operations of farm Conrad Mlodzinski proposed the increased notification zone at a recent Council saying Resi dents living farther than 45 metres from an operation Are also affected by livestock Mlodzinski was unavailable for comment Reeve Alvin Meroniuk said the problem is a difficult one to re were in a situation where we have a setting that is both Rural and he we want to work it out and see a Compromise i think these regulations should be governed by provincial Legisla Tion to provide some Keystone manager Bob Douglas this is the kind of thing that has prompted farm groups to urge for what they Call rights farm Legisla we really need an improved system to Deal with right now its up to the individual municipal resident Ted who lives South of Van Aerts said it is not fair for no farming neighbors to raise a stink Over farm this is a Rural Farmers have to operate and they were Here Long before we came who moved out from the City five years i lived 35 years in the City and i had to live with a lot worse smells the matter will be forwarded to a special committee of the District planning Board that deals with live Stock waste besides officials of the Selkirk and District planning area live Stock producers and residents from four municipalities Are on the com Meroniuk said the Issue arose after hog producer Doug Martin applied for a conditional use permit to expand his but Mlodzinski also has firsthand knowledge of the problems residents near livestock operations must face he lives about Kilometres from Van Aerts Meroniuk denied Mlod Winkis input constitutes a conflict of Hes not the Only one who lives Hes working on behalf of the ratepayers in his drive on for new Golf courses expansion plans for Golf courses in Russell and Killarney Are on the in a project has been announced to install automatic putting Golf cart trails and establish a driving Range for the nine Hole the project recently received a Community places program Grant through the department of heritage and the Killarney Lake Side Golf club recently purchased about 64 hectares of land adjacent to the existing nine Hole layout to establish a residential development and expand the course to 18 the residential to take up almost five will hold about 30 the Sale of housing lots generated towards the while Loans from shareholders accounted for another the remainder of the funding came from Grants and club about 32 hectares of the Pur chased at a Cost of will be set aside for the eventual expansion of the English classes Prospect looks Bleak after protest by Lorna Dueck special to the free press stp1errejolys the Prospect of getting English classes added to this Community of French Only schools looks Bleak after an emotionally charged meeting Between school trustees and residents Mon Day Well organized Francais parents urged the red River school division Board to shun a proposed motion that they claim is backwards and would segregate their children and erode immersion the school boards motion dealt with four issues separating Francais from other expanding immersion to Grade establishing kindergarten Grade 4 English in Pierres High school and building a new High school for grades 10 to the meeting was meant to gauge Public opinion on the and it was almost entirely ratepayers blasted the school Board for trying to put too much into one motion As different parents groups attacked the various propos als within parents of English speaking Stu dents said they want no part of the divisions proposed English and insisted on the right to continue sending their children to neighbor ing Hanover school where they claim they Benefit from a mainly higher Quality As parents criticized trustees for not doing their Homework on the costs or needs Only one delegation of the 19 appearing before the Board asked for anglophone school classes in Ruby Gerand said Pierres future growth depends on English language classes being added to the school English is a great Benefit to our children and will bring an improved economic condition for our Gerand As Manitoba Only official Bilin Gual we can serve As a Model to live the Opportunity for English students should be Gerand said she Felt like a Lone voice crying in the wilderness and was discouraged that More sup port was not Given for an English school More than 100 students from red River school division attend schools in Hanover division so they can receive an English Ron school its a fairly costly thing per student plus we dont get the government Grant for students in neighbouring Perron local Farmer Mike Pankiw and his francophone wife drive their child 130 Kilometres each Day to attend kindergarten in an English they Are staunchly opposed to 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