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Marie Henhoefier, of the Teeswater area. has been selected as the Bruce County Dairy Princess at the Bruce County Holstein dance In Teeswater, last Satur- day. The 17-year-old Grade 12 students at S.E. Madill Secondary School, In Wingham, is the daughter or George and Phyllis Henhoetier. She is no stranger to the dairy business, as she r helps milk 38 Holsteins and two Brown Swiss cows on the lamlly 90-hectare Nineteen-year-old ’ Donalda Duprey. oi Port Eigin raced to at Secondplace iinish in . .. r ‘.A farm. She Is also this year‘s Bruce County Queen of the Furrow. secretary of the 4-H dairy club and ol the A- H council in Bruce County, She will com- pete for the Ontario New Dairy Princess ,7“ r r Dairy Princess title at the CNE next August. Sandra Benninger, 17, at Mlldmay, and Sheila Osborne, 20, of Ripley. were runners- up in the contest. lhe women’s 400* metre hurdles event at the Commonweath' Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday at» ternoon. According the “the experts". Donaida didn't have much or a chance at reaching the finals of the event, let alone Winning a medal, but she changed all that McKinnon leaves OMMB for i iree- chairmanship of I732 Vanadian Dairy Commission A chapter in the history ol local dairy larmlng ended recently with the announced resignation ol Ontario Milk Marketing Board Chairman Ken McKlnnon. However. the record ol Mr McKinnon's years ol work on Dehail or milk producers Is lar lrom complete, as he will continue working tor the dairy industry as Vice Chairman or the Canadian Dairy Commission. When a new OMMB Member Is elected. II will mark the lust time since the Board was lormed that Ken McKinnen will not rep'esenl the dairy larmers oi Huron. Bruce and Gray Counties. Appointed to the original Board when the OMMB was set up in 1965. Ken oecame the llrst represen- iative or local Iaririers when regional elections were in» ’roduced three years later. He has subsequently been re- elected loui consecutive times by the milk producers ol Huron. Bruce and Grey Counties. Mr. McKinnon remembers the late 15505, when he itisl took an interest in the marketing or milk The local dairy in- dustry was a lot dlrierent in those days. 'lt was mainly an industrial milk area Delete the OMMB was set up." Ken says. "Grey County could sell table mllk In Owen sound. and a bit to Toronto. but Huron and Bruce didn't have access to trash milk markets. In many cases, Producers didn‘t know how much milk they could sell on a given day." That lack at security. combined with anger overa sudden drop In the lederel support prlce lor powder. opened the young McKinnon'a eyes about the marketing at mllk. He started attending maetlngs and was elected to the Board oi the Ontario Concentrated Mllk Producers' Marketing Board. The early 19605 were exciting years. Dnlry larmars realized changes needed to be maria to the milk marketing system. Supply management, however. seemed too radical tor many larmers. The result was a lot at heated debate. In the end, orderly marketing won the debate and supply management was Introduced otter the OMMB was establlshod In 1965. “The Board has helped dairy iarmers stabilize their in- come, given us the confidence to reinvest In our terms and Increase our productivity." he says. The McKinnon larm is a case in point. Alter taking over the larm when only 15-years-old, Mr. McKinnon had expand- ed the hard to 60 head by the late i950: With the introduc» “on or supply management. and the choice by the three McKinnon boys to larm, a major expanslon was completed in 19.75. A new barn with a milkan parlour was built and the land base was expanded. With additional land purchased In 1979. the McKinnons now larm 950 acres. About 110 cows are milked every day out oi a hard at 250 head. The llflh generation of McKinnons now share the management oi the larm with their lather. Despite his lull- time commitment to the OMMB since he was elected Chair- man in 1377. Ken still round time to handle the llnancial and management side at the operation. A great believer in improving aillclency. the larm how has a computerized reading system. Milk recording and com- puterized accounting also are an important pan or the larm's management tools. in terms or Region 11. Mr. McKinnon considers the Graduated Entry Program and the pooling or transportation costs two major benelits the OMMB has brought to the area. Although the OMMB Is much dllterenr today than in the late 19605 when the tluld mllk system was introduced and the nallontll industrial milk structure being debated. orthe 1970's when the dairy industry stablllzed, Keri still sees the need lor strong. local representation. “We need a new Member who Is willing to make a cam rriliment in Region 11." he says. “That commitment Is more than Just attendlng meetings or working long hours. It must be a commitment to serve the Region tor more than one term (tour years). because It takes that long to learn the complexities oi the milk Industry." Mr. McKinnon's new position to hosed In Ottawa, but he still plans to call Port Elgln home. He will commute and continue to take an active Interest In Cedarbanc Farms. Since he ls only a youthful 58. he also hopes to continue his eight grandehlldren and supportive wile. Fre'dn. tile litalbng Interest In minor sports and to spend thus with l Cattlemen in Bruce favour check off Dee. In; Bruce County heel producers have oiten led the way in- voicing complaints about their provincial association, bu thafllrdid not stop them rrom tracking the Ontario Caniem’eh's Assoclation at its convention in February, Meeting in Underwood last Wednesday. the Bruce Coun: ty Catliemen's Association voted to make it mandatory that a portion oi receipts from all cattle sales go to the provin- cial association. They also looked their I2 convention delegates Into a block vote tor the change. But-the local association maintained Its View. contrary to the provinCial group’s tree-market leanings. or a need tor a supply-management agreement. The cattlemen passed two resolutions calling on the BOA to help organize a arovmce-wlds reierendum ot all producers on supply 'nanagemenl. Local cattlemen voted 73-29 to and relunds, or in other} words, tor mandatory checkoth The provincial grou wants the money to help meet expected costs at has? advertising and a new market inlormation system Currently, the group receives one fifth oi one per cent 0 the selling price at cattle sold in Ontario, about $2 millio last year out it must relum the lee. known as 'a checkdir.t anyone who asks tor it Refunds amounted to about 19 percent at the total in 1986 Ontario Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell has said he will go along with a compulsory checkull it two thirds of the AAAAAAAAAA 'At delegates to next month's convention agree James Jackiin. a Chesleynarea farmer, introduced the checkolt resolution that was eventually passed, “The matter Is whether we're willing to pay a compulsory checkdlt, On a thousand pound steer that's about two dollars...will you pay your 32 like a good citizen and own your company?" Jacklin told the meeting. Former Dobbinton man is i honoured i By ivy Dlnllnger Melville Palmer. sort all Louis Palmer 0! Owen Sound. received the award for extension work as a pro- fessor oi agricultural engineering at Ohio State University. The society, with headquarters in St. Joseph. Michigan. has 11,000 members around the world. Mr. Palmer received the award tram the American Society at Agricultural Engineers tor his “contrlbw item: to the healthy climate 0' the American coun~ tryelde." A graduate oi Ontario Agricultural College and Ohio state. Mr. Palmer specialized In work on rural water supply and home sewage disposal Issues. He has directed an annual course tor land Improve- mlnt contractors tor 30 yearn and served as ex- ecutive secretary at the 0th Land Improvement Contractor's Aseoclntlan ior17 yearn. _ The Gunlogson Coun- trysice Engineering Award its presented annually to ihonour contributions to a ‘nenlthy country climate and "to a viable economy tor Itar ' small towns " fishnets nannahhh halt"