Farm Use Of Electricity Shows
Greatest Increase Since 1959
US farms used .m aveiage of since 195!) aceoidmg to John D K ■ Jo'v.iUJiouis above
10,536 kilowatlhours of elccl-i- Tun el. executive m.macer of *" 1(l n,o,c lll,m ,slfJo ° kllowi,tl
city during ‘1969, anolhei .ill- the Faim Electi ifkation Conn- '»oms above the 1939 aveiage
time high and the greatest in- cil
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L M. HERR EQUIPMENT, INC.
R. D. 1, Willow Street
c<l by (he Ciop Rcpoiting Board
of the USDA, Turrol said that
.uci.igc amnia! f.um eonsump-
Inn of eh'di icilv last ye.u was
The Kinfic Noilhwtsl led <il
Cattle Equipment
Farrowing Crates
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• Sows cannot crush pigs
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While satin l ' a iccoul high
lor tonamUpion ol eleanuty,
fell nuns wcie pr.yng .1 iceoid
low in enci gy tost -- an avci age
|of 2 09c per KWH This com
paies with an avci.ige ol 2 15e
in 1968, and 2’/ic in 1959 Even
lower was the puce paid by
faimeis for all additional usage
of electricity, the incremental
rate, estimated by Tun el to be
IVisc per kilowatthour This in
cremental rate, he said, is the
one that farmers use in making
their energy choices
Turrel staled that a combina
tion of factors were responsible
for this increase in the farm
use of electricity They include,
a shortage of farm labor, a con
tinuing trend toward confine
ment production of livestock,
recognition by farmers that the
use of electrically-powered
equipment frees their time for
important management func
tions; development of new elec
trical equipment to handle a
wide variety of the big horse-
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an average annual consumption
of HO 024 KWH.
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powci iobs (Ifii..indccl by mod
fin iifi iculluie and the low on
cu'v. l,iboi. .md maintenance
eosts iiihoic.il 'in opei.itmg oloc
lut.ill} ion f.n m equipment
'l'hc FIX spokesman pointed
out tli.il oletti icily is the one
pi eduction input that has con
tinually decicased in pnee la
taimeis since 1950 "Today,
farmeis pui chase electricity for
C 9 pei cent of what it cost thorn
in 1950,” said Turrel. "Yet,
they’re paying from 183% to
275% of 1950 prices for inputs
such as farm machinery, wages,
and land.”
Energy of The Future
In Agriculture
Looking toward the futuie,
the FEC executive said that
electrical applications to agri
culture hold many exciting pos
sibilities. These include- 1. Us
ing lasers or microwaves to
transmit electricity through the
air to run unmanned tractors
and self-propelled field ma
chines 2 Using electric energy
as the source of heat in large
plastic “greenhouses” which
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