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Home My WebLink About1973-10-30 Council MinutesA [A e FORM 149-P SPECIAL O 1 I, AGRICULTURAL SERVICE BOARD DISCUSSION MEETING Tuesday Evening, October 30, 1973 - 1'30 P.M. Minutes of previous Agricultural Service Board meeting. 2. A look into the past - the present - the future. (What have we done? Where are we going? How are we going to get there?) 3. Agricultural Report - Russel Horvey - D.A. 4 Agricultural Advisory Committee 5. Re conal Conference - Host - Municipal Diatriet, Of Foothillsi La er part of January,1974 - High River 6 Ca ada Weed Committee Meeting - in Palliser Hotel 7 Pr grams. Roadside grass -seeding Shelterbelt spraying Rodside mowing 10$0 Baits Ro dside spraying Bertha Army worm Pa ks Burning Permits Ca tle spraying Custom Work Rates a L FORM 149-P SPECIAL O ING OF COUNCIL AND AGRICULTURAL SERVICE BOARD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1973 Page 1 A spec al meeting of the Council and the Servic Board of the M.D. of Kneeh,ll was in the Municipal Office, Three Hills the of Tue day, October 30, 19739 commencing Present were Counc, lors Church 11 Poole it Bauer 14 Ferguson Schmelke � Campbell Farme Members of A.S.B. Mr, G don Ward Mr F lay C, ---e Agricultural held evening at 7:30 P .M - Mr R ssell Horvey, District Agriculturalist Mr. N rman Soder, Agricultural Fieldman Mr G1 nn Smyth, Assistant .°.gricultural Fieldman Miss taren Peterson, District Home Economist (portion of the meeting) Mr o G G King, Secretary -treasurer, was present and r corded the minutes Mr. CAbell moved adoption of the minutes of Septe ber 249 1973 as per copy which had been circu ated to all members Carried PRESENT MINUTES ADOPTED SEPT.24/73 Mr Soder explained that the purpose of the MEETING"S PURPOSE t A ,cultural meeting was to take a look a gr Servi e Board programs and to determine how staff and the public could better co-operate and t us find greater improvements Mr. R ssell Horvey, recently appointed District RUSS HORVEY Agriculturalist for this area, was introduced to th meeting Some opics discussed ,n a general way included: DISCUSSIONS 1 Oxtreach - It was suggested that the D.A. and A . Fieldman should get out to see the people Y•' on was made wi.th the OUTREACH at t ,r farms Compa_ ,s closer contact of farmE;rs and elevator agents regarding chemicals, etc It was also suggested that there is really no need to compete against the elevator agents Perhaps concentration could be given to other items of importance 2. eeds - Which are the bad weeds? Some suggsted that Canada Thistle is one of the wors but 41Tild Oats still cause the greatest loss s. Some of those listed as the bad weeds by the Department are not really considered as suchlocally. WEEDS A 0 M FORM 149-0 SPECIAL (MEETING OF COUNCIL AND AGRICULTURAL SERVICE BOARD TUESDAYS OCTOBER 30, 1973 Page 2 3 D monstration Plot; for Fertilizers or other Matters --- Thes,_ O.K. when tried at first but interest dwindled Perhaps they can DEMONSTRATIONS be tried a€°ain 4 Both Mr Horvey and Mc Soder stated they would like to spend mole time in the outlying areas and meeting with -the people, but Mr Horve in particular referred to the amount of office work required and stated he ishat bogged down and does not have sufficieYWHe pointed out the need for a -ull time ssistant or even two hel pei s The re—establishment of an Agricultural Advisory Commi tc;C was dis -I_ssed and those present felt that t could be very beneficial A quick search for minute , indica---ed that the last meeti g of that Committee !,,aas held October 19, 1971, bu", -io one present 1.,iew why further ra.eeti gs had not been helc'. Mr Soder advised that our A S B budget provides for $300 00 of expen itir--es for 'this com .aittee of which $150 00 could be earned back by c- grant from the Goveniment Miss Petersen stated that many and varied coarses are availEble but it is hard to de erms.ne what he pc -t ple i � .:nt and where these courses shou]-c. bc. i eld Considerable discu Sion follo-�r:c ' OUTLYING AREAS AG.ADVISORY COM. Mr P ol.e moven t',at ax iL-,ricultural Advisory Committee be ag,a. -1n forme -.1 and that Miss K PETERSON TO GET Karen PeUersor, J u f., e in charge of getting members tn, o serve cit ar d that she have MEMBERS autho ity to ca, _.. Le !. ": Carried Some ugges*ions for me- A' ars of the Committee were iven as follows- MEMBER SUGGESTIONS Review the old lis;: G. Dqsider Mrs Bob Painter Mrs. Aubrey Hogg, M -is jorothy Bergos, Mr Edgar Riep, Mrs. Hazel 'x vid-on, Mrs Dick Vickery, Mrs Donna Benedz.c t, Ma Kenneth Hoppins, Mr Elmer Meding, Mr. Ken '�'Johl, Mrs Verna Bauer, Mr. Dan Dole, Mr Waltrr Unruh, Jr , Mr Aloys Muchk , '1%iis Farvey El_ iott, Mrs. Mary Prowse, Mrs on Bayer, Mrs G- oenveld, Mrs Don Herman, Mrs jeona LoosmoreS M. Walter Landymore Tt was suggested that I.-fte total membership shoull be about 14 including the Agricultural Service Foard and that men and ladies should be ab ut evenly repres-rated Mr P ole moved that mileage, at 140 per mile be pa'd to members of the Ag Advisory Committee MILEAGE for a tendance at meet_ngso Carried 3 A 0 FORM 149-P SPECIAL of term optioa decidid ii -au OF COUNCIL AND AGRICULTURAL SERVICE BOARD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1973 Page 3 reed without motion that the length of the members of the Conuui.ttee be 1 and that the number of meetings be after the Comii.ittee is formed MEMBER TERMS MrR2snll Horvey, D.A., briefly outlined thevus programs which are handled through RUSS HORVEY his o fice and the list clearly pointed out LIST OF PROGRAMS the n ed for assistance Items mentioned 1n c lu ed 1 A ricultural Development Corporation - lend' g programs to assist in Dairy Enterprises, AG.DEV.CORPORATION Farme s Programs, Debt Consolidation, and many other items. He estimated these took about 60f of his time. 2 Water Programs under P.F.R.A. such as applica- tions for dams, dug -outs and other matters WATER PROGRAMS 3 A R.D.A. for such thinEs as livestock watering systems, etc, 4 Labor Assistance - placing of help on farms, etc 5 Grassland Incentive Program which is a Federal Program to get some land seeded back to GRASSLAND INCENTIVE grass and to encourage keeping of cattle. 6 Tree Applications TREES 7 E tension work and advice in regard to live - stock weeds, and many items EXTENSION WORK $o General circulation of pamphlets and many other items PAMPHLETS Ideas were invited for to_)icsfor the Regional Conference to be held at High River in the REGIONAL CONFER. latter part of January, 1974. One topic suggested was Wild Oat Control Mr. S hmelke moved that 11r. Norman Soder and Mr G rdon Ward, or alternates- be authorized to attend the Weed Control Conference for Western Canada to be held in Calgary November 27 to 29 and t at Mr Soder get programs concerning this sours . Carried A number of other items were discussed briefly, including 1 Roadside Grass Seeding - Suggested that all future agreements show what grass is preferred by th farmer The need for a new double disc with travel wheels alsc was mentioned 2 don ide Mowing - All secondary roads were 973. This appeared satisfactory 3 Roadside Spraying - Perhaps all secondary roads should be done plus the previous year's new grades plus some brush, etc, 4 0� WEST.CAN .WEED CONTROL CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS ROADSIDE SEEDING ROADSIDE MOWING ROADSIDE SPRAYING Iq IM 14 FORM 149-P SPECIAL O A Ni.0,6ili4G OF COUNCIL AND AGRICULTURAL SERVICE, BOARD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1973 PaEe 4 4 Prks - Vandalism is a problem and recent DISCUSSIONS CONT. damag has been done at Keiver°s Lake All table are now in storaEe Some new toilets PARKS are n eded for Tolman Park for 1974 5 C ttle Spraying - Now being done for lice and w rbles and this can be continued until about the end of November if weather is satis actory 6 Selterbelt Spraying - Present prograr,i appea s O.K. 7 180 Baits have been authorized by Council Where requested and with a $10 00 charge for each alto There have been four requests to date One sheep would be about the right sizeor two baits The AF. Fzeldman is to proce d $ Bertha Army Worries - Survey clone does not forec st any outbreak here for next year but this s never definite CATTLE SPRAYING SHELTERBBELT SFR.A.Y . 10$0 BAITS BERTHA ARMY WORMS 9 Burning Permlts and the Arcs t By-law should BURIIIING PERMITS be re iewed Only two people have requested. perm' s this fall This whole matter needs to be r iewed 10 ustom work rates - These should be reviewed afte wage rates, etc are decided for 1974 CUSTOM WORK RATES 11 Demonstrations - Where and what kind? Mr. Soder mentioned he had been asked about having DEMONSTRATIONS one demonstration in the area at the Trochu Hosrjital No decision was made., Sortie discussion followed in regard to hours of w rk New Provincial re.ulations state WORK the tours shall not exceed hours a day and a 44 hour week without overtime Mr Poole HOURS move that this be tabled and referred to Coun il. Carried Mr lerguson moved that this meeting adjourn Carried Time of adjournment 11 00 F.M. ADJOURNMENT Secretary-treas er,/� NOTE -- A further search was made on Octob6r 3 regarding minutes of the Kneehill Extension- Coun i1 and it was found that its last meeting; was actually on November 29, 1971,