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Prices Plunge: Beef farmers face falling prices this year
Prices Plunge: Beef farmers face falling prices this year

Prices Plunge: Beef farmers face falling prices this year

Date9/7/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Prices Plunge: Beef farmers face falling prices this year.
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Food prices have been increasing rapidly in recent months and consumers will have to pay even more in the future, Ontario farmers warn. Joe Alexander,(...)
Food prices have been increasing rapidly in recent months and consumers will have to pay even more in the future, Ontario farmers warn. Joe Alexander,(...)
5/30/1974
Walter Gimbel has seen grain prices plunge but he has faith that he'll survive
Walter Gimbel has seen grain prices plunge but he has faith that he'll survive
12/1/1986
Borrowing money is the only way farmers are able to keep off welfare, according to Del Busche, whose income has dropped sharply with the falling price of grain
Borrowing money is the only way farmers are able to keep off welfare, according to Del Busche, whose income has dropped sharply with the falling price of grain
1/16/1970
Food prices are going up and city people will just have to get used to the idea, according to Ed Thompson, who farms 350 acres near Guelph. The farmer(...)
Food prices are going up and city people will just have to get used to the idea, according to Ed Thompson, who farms 350 acres near Guelph. The farmer(...)
5/30/1974
Showing their displeasure, some 1,300 members of the Ontario Farmers' Union mass in Queen's Park to plead their cause for higher prices. [Incomplete]
Showing their displeasure, some 1,300 members of the Ontario Farmers' Union mass in Queen's Park to plead their cause for higher prices. [Incomplete]
4/5/1966
Mood of the Angry Farmers is expressed by this Banner carried by Demonstrators outside Queen's park yesterday, Irked by the prices paid for their prod(...)
Mood of the Angry Farmers is expressed by this Banner carried by Demonstrators outside Queen's park yesterday, Irked by the prices paid for their prod(...)
4/6/1966
Fall Time: Apple farmer Ben Falk, above, says farmers can't afford higher wages
Fall Time: Apple farmer Ben Falk, above, says farmers can't afford higher wages
10/1/1988
Star food writer Anne Wanstall (left) who reported the falling prices during the supermarket war in November, explains why the food bill bas risen again in recent months
Star food writer Anne Wanstall (left) who reported the falling prices during the supermarket war in November, explains why the food bill bas risen again in recent months
6/21/1971
Jim Hewson says his father's farm might as well be used for housing because soil quality has been depleted by tenant farmers
Jim Hewson says his father's farm might as well be used for housing because soil quality has been depleted by tenant farmers
1/25/1984
Bart Johnson: President of the York Federation Agriculture says free trade will hurt farmers
Bart Johnson: President of the York Federation Agriculture says free trade will hurt farmers
1/29/1986
Model farmers: Housing and industries are spreading across Alliston, but the Morrisons - John, Pat and Emily, 5, David, 8, and Jeffrey, 10 - are taking the changes in stride
Model farmers: Housing and industries are spreading across Alliston, but the Morrisons - John, Pat and Emily, 5, David, 8, and Jeffrey, 10 - are taking the changes in stride
10/22/1988
Two views: Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell (above) sees research helping farmers but Tony McQuail believes in returning to the old ways
Two views: Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell (above) sees research helping farmers but Tony McQuail believes in returning to the old ways
11/11/1985