20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4, 1967
Efficient Production Holds Key
To Future Profits, Dairyman Says
Making a profit in the dairy ly that daiiying can pay, even
business is still the same— today, for efficient managers
having some money left over who keep up with the times,
at the end of the year. But profit has to be geared to
when you’re the owner of an production per man, as well
SOOocre, $400,000 daily farm, as production per cow, accord
you better come up with the j ng to Messer. High-producing
right answers or you’ll soon C ows alone won’t offset the
be out of business. high cost of labor, equipment
Such a farm owner is Allie and land. “Farm land costs
Messer, dairyman from Churc- ten times as much as it did
hill, Md.; He believes he can when I went into tills busi
keep right on coming up with ness; the corn planter I bought
the answers that spell profit, then for $99 costs me $4OO
Messer told the audience at now. Feed costs more and la
the University of Delaware’s bor is pretty hard to find at
Farm and Home Week recent- all Dairymen have to be ef-
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LIQUID PROTEIN
“We can not recommend
free choice feeding of liquid
protein supplements, at pres
ent,” savs associate county
agent Victor Plastow. He sug
gests there is a lack of data to
indicate that dairy cows will
balance their protein or nitro
gen needs with free choice
feeding. In fact, he stresses,
there is considerable indica
tion to the contrary.
In some research studies,
dairy heifers have averaged as
much as 5 to 6 pounds of liq
uid supplement per head daily,
he reports. Cows have aver-
ficient if they’re going to stay
in business.”
Messer believes milking par
lois are one of the best ways
to increase production per
man. “Ono man can milk 125
cows by himself, if he has to;
that’s quite a change from the
time when 18 cows were the
most I could ever milk a day.”
Every dairy farm should
have enough storage for ten
month’s use in case of drought
—the larger and more eco
nomical, the better “High
moisture corn silage looks the
best to me; I can produce it
on the farm and it keeps well
under most conditions. I make
my own sealed storage, cheap,
by putting the corn on the
ground and covering it with
plastic. It keeps just fine.”
Messer admits there are
some disadvantages to being a
large d'auy farm operator,
can’t take as many vacations
as I’d like to. A big farm de
mands good, close manage
ment I have to use that $9OO
- milking parlor and use
it well if it’s going to make
money for me.”
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mg about 2 pounds per head
daily, when pinwheel feeders cows, he concluded.
were used. However, some "
high-producing cows ate little e ~
or none; while others con- some UQV6 Up fllli
sumed 6 to 8 pounds. A group Cried,
of dry cows averaged about 4 Others Tried A
pounds per head daily,” Plas
tow said. , ,
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