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Some Mid-West areas are build
, , ~ , basin While this is not a com
cated this is becoming an in- pj e t e solution to the problem,
dustry-wide situation Bmdette said it does keep or
‘Some of you people who sell gamc matter out of water rim
off road frontage, then drop of £
manure in the back yards, I
don’t really have much sympathy A settling basin should be a
foi you.” he added concrete structure of one square
Many farmers are diverting foot for each square foot of lot
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 27,1971 —11
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feed lot drainage into a settling
mg a retention pond capable of
holding a six inch run off from
their lots
Commenting on two actions by
Fred A. Hughes
Warns of Cadillac Farming
the Pennsylvania Sanitary Water
board m which he was called to
assist fanners, Burdette said he
found the boaid to be fair
As long as the faimer’s opeia
tion show evidence that the farm
er is doing a good 30b of keep
ing and maintaining a neat and
orderly operation, rather than a
sloppy opeiation, the state has
shown so far that it will be len
ient, Burdette said
While considerable work is
underway to find better solutions
to the animal waste problem,
I Burdette repeatedly said that
“we don’t have the answers ”
1 Burdette also advised farmers
to run performance and weight
tests, at least on a few of their
animals, so they will know how
the animals are performing
Hughes Speaks
Hughes began his comments
by asking how many of the 80
01 more farmeis present are xu
the cattle business to make a
profit After getting an indica
tion that everyone present want
ed a profit, Hughes noted that
“there aie some people in farm
ing today who aren’t there to
make a profit, but when you
have to pay your bills from
pi of its from the farm, you have
to be interested in piofits”
In the following hour, Hughes
analyzed the relative costs of
different types of silo systems,
pointing out the wide variation
in the costs and indicating his
concern that some may not be
profitable.
In his comments, Hughes indi
cated that farmers must analyze
their practices and procedures
on a dollar basis and make de
cisions on the basis of their
profitability He said he “gets
disturbed by farmers who say
they have feed and are going to
go ahead and feed it without
any concern about costs and re
turns.”
Hughes repeatedly emphasized
the importance of considering
the silo as part of an overall
management system The silo
must fit m well with the general
layout and operation of this sys
tem, he emphasized, while noting
that many farms develop hap
hazardly over the years without
any regard for an overall op
erating system The result of
these hodge podge operations is
often an unprofitable and un
workable system, he indicated.
He emphasized that many fac
tors go into determining the type
of feeding system which any par
ticular farmer should develop.
This includes the amount of capi
tal with which the farmer has to
work
The Cadillac Farm
Some farmeis act as though
capital is unlimited, according to
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