Management Is Biggest
Factor In Farm Success
Ability to manage is more im
portant in determining a farm
er’s success than the size of his,
farm, the quality of his land or
his particular enterprise, says
W. T„ McAllister, extension farm
management specialist at the
University of Delaware.
The real auierence between
the successful and marginal
businessman farmer or store
keeper is his ability to man
age all available resources: to
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have that “sixth sense’’ that an
ticipates problem situations and
the intelligence and skill to make
good management decisions at
the right time.
•Good farmers tend to gravi
tate toward the highest quality
farm land. Farms can be too
small or too poor and some en
terprises have such low earning
power that even a good manager
would find it difficult to be suc
cessful, says McAllister A good
manager will recognize the lim
itations of his farm and do some
thing about them rather than
letting them limit his success
for the rest of his life
He adds that one of the basic
weaknesses of poor managers is
their failure to control the little
things that make up the whole
management job. As an exam
ple, McAllister cites a farmer’s
failure to make sure corn plant
ers were working properly be
fore planting: instead he discov
ered a partial stand later. “The
tendency in this situation is to
blame the seed, the weather,
somebody except yourself,’’ he
says. In many cases, manage
ment, or lack of it, was at fault
—wrong size seed plates, worn
plates, failure to check plantc
accuracy, planting too deep, cr
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NEWS
The third meeting of the
Northern Lancaster County 4-H
Soil & Water Conservation Club
was held last week at the Twin
Pine Auto Sales. Twenty-seven
members were present.
Lucy Weaver demonstrated
how to use a slope finder, and.*
Mary Ann Weaver and Karen
Horst demonstrated the rate of
water infiltration into bare soil
and into ground covered with
grass
Associate county agent Jay Ir-
some other human error that
could be prevented through
proper management
Management is doing things
right or seeing that they get
done co rectly and this means
looking after details One of the
farmei’s big problems is that he
is co istantly under so much
pressure to get the 30b done that
he doesn’t take time to organize
his work and follow through on
details
Tins follow-through on details Larry and Dennis Rohrer dem
is likely to be the difference be- onstrated the flow of electricity
tween being average and being in the Engine’s Electrical Sys
in the top 10 percent of success- tem; Ken Risser, The Starter
ful farmers, concludes McAllis- and All Its Parts, and Jeff Uls
ter. ser. How a Fuel Injector Works.
vin spoke of the importance of
giving a demonstration. Aaron
Stauffer showed slides of con
servation vs. no conservation in
Lancaster County in 1967.
Lucy Weaver was elected as a
county council member
The next meeting will be on
March 1 at Twin Pine Auto
Sales, west of Ephrata.
SOIL & WATER CONSV. CLUB
The meeting of the Southern
"Lancaster County 4-H Soil and
Water Conservation Club was
held this week at the home of
David Charles, New Providence
R 1
Orval Bass of the Soil Con
servation Service was the speak
er and showed a film, “Beyond
Tomorrow”
Next meeting will be March 4,
8 p m , at the home of Ira Welk,
Quarryville R 3.
CENTRAL 4-H TRACTOR CLUB
Three demonstrations high
lighted the Central 4-H Tractor
Club meeting held at L H Bru
bakers, Strasburg Pike last
week.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24,1968
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Poultrymen Need To
Classify Decisions
Poultry managers should clas
sify their decisions into what
they are going to control or what
are they going to react to, ac
cording to Herb Jordan, Penn
State Poultry Specialist. Foi in
stance, wholesale egg price can
not be controlled bj one poultry
man so he learns to react to it
by (1) culling lazy layers dur
ing low egg prices, (2) mciease
home labor to sort eggs so the
egg processing plant need not
charge him so much for piocess
ing, (3) keeping a very close
eye on bird health or, (4) get
ting rid of or molting the whole
flock if the time is right
However, a situation like poul
tiy house management can be
controlled The poultryman can
install fans and thermostats for
ventilation control, and insula
tion and ventilation for house
temperature control; also he can
decide to increase or deciease
bird density, reanange equip
ment location or change light
intensity, day length, or air flow.
So poultry house environment is
controllable while wholesale egg
price is not. Good poultry man
agers know the difference and
control only the items they can
while reacting only to factors
they have no control over
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