—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22, 1965
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IBM Says 10,000
Farmers Using
Data Processing
Ten thousand American
farmers aie using modern
data processing methods to
help their farms yield a
profit'.
This is what Dr Joseph
Ackerman, managing duectoi
of the Farm Foundation le
poited at a four-day agncul
tin at symposium here spoil
soied bv Intel national Busi
ness Machines Corporation
The sjmposium which end
ed yesteidav was attended
by 48 agncul'tmal specialists
from universities, banks, gov
ernment pmate industry and
major land-holding compan
ies They came from the
United States, Australia and
Canada.
Accoiding to Dr. Acker
man, today’s farmer must
have a great deal of scientific
knowledge and must know
many more details about the
enterprises on his particular
farm. He said that the re
cent availability of electronic
data processing for farm rec
ord-keeiping has opened great
opportunities for the farmer
bus inesistman as a means of
planning for the future
In California about 350
crop and livestock enterpris
es are cooperating in the
IBM computer program A re
search project in Farm Ma
chinery Management is ex
amining about 250,000 items
of information on farm equip
ment to deteimine the best
investment in this equipment
for various sizes and types of
California farms.
In Vermont, some 711 in
dividual farmers, mostly lo
cated m New York, Veimont,
Maine, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, are enrolled
in the electiomc program. It
provides its clients daily
men, poultrymen, potato
farmers, orchardists and oth
er livestock and crop produc
ers with an accounting
service and also serves as a
centralized source of informa
tion and coordinates the vari
ous states’ computer agricul
tural activities
It was reported that with
commercial farms as large as
they are today, over-all fi
nancial information has prov
ed just as critical as produc
tion efficiency information
He said that the electronic
data processing programs
have helped sorrie marginal
farm operations improve their
profits greatly Some actual
case histories involving the
use of electronic data pioc
essmg were outlined at the
symposium
—A -Nebraska farmer using
his detailed records foi com
puter hneai programming
learned that neither moie
money nor more land would
allow him to impiove his in
come as much as adding moie
hours of labor during the
month of Octabei
—At the end of his first
eight months on the North
Caiohna daily farm records
program, a farmer realized
that he was not making any
profit. A simple analysis of
the computer record's showed
that his labor costs were ex
cessive, machine costs were
high and a haymaking enter
piise was unprofitable The
dairyman i e organized his
faim business to conect the
weaknessess and his income
improved
—Arizona’s dairy farmeis
now can deteimme accuiate
ly by analyzing computer rec
-01 ds when a cow has become
Farm Bureau Co-Op
Ficldmen Honored At
Awards Program Here
"The continuing education
of Man is one of the ways to
afsuie progress and success.”
This comment wias made by
A. F Kish, Feed (Consultant
for Lancaster County Farm
Bui can at the awards pro
gi am foi the Lancaster Coun
ty Farm Buieau Fieldmen.
The piogram featuied the
picsentation of certificates
for completion of the Penn
syhania Slate Univeisity
Conespondence Couise in
Vgucultuie by the field
foice
Each of the paiticipants
completed a senes of couises
totalling 75 study points The
courses included Farm Man
agement, Stock Feeding,
Dairy Cattle Feeding, Beei
Production, Commercial
Swine Production, and Farm
Fallout Protection.
The enrollees were Victor
J. Denhnger, 100 West Stan-
unprofitable and should be
culled from the herd.
Whether youngsters ai e
mechanically or artistically
inclined . . . from the country
4-H has some-
or city
thing for them More than 30
different programs are geared
to boys and girls between 9
and 19 years old.
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EIGHT FIELDMEN FOR LANCASTER COUNTY FARM BUREAU CO
OPERATIVE recently completed a series of Penn State University correspondence
courses, and were presented with plaques at a special awards program at the
Farm Bureau Bldg. The fieldmen and Co-Op officials shown above are: (seated,
left to right) Arthur Shenenberger, Harold Kinsey, Donald Rutt and Roy Spamgler,;
(standing), Richard Hann, Heber Shelly, Charles Burkins, Aladar Kish, Harold!
Geib, James Weaver, Victor Denlinger, and Melvin Koser. L. F. Photo
and Janies M. Weaver, Con
estoga Rl.
A special award of a $25.00
Government Savings Bond was
presented to Harold S. Gclb
for outstanding performance
in completing the course of
study.
Also attending the meeting
■Charles IC. Burkins.
were
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Kish and Ilann were Jn
charge of those correspond
cnee courses for the Field-
men.