—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 12. 1972
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factors to consider in evaluating
if your ' operation is profitable
and some practices to follow:
Here are some of the hidden
management profit factors ag
economists and computers bring
to light:
Do you have enough volume to
generate a living wage for your
time and effort?
Do you handle hired labor
efficiently? Is your operation big
enough to keep you, personally,
busy 12 months a year?
Do your crops and livestock fit
the farm and fit each other?
Do you produce crops and
handle livestock efficiently?
Are you willing to spend money
(or borrow it) to make
money on such things as
machinery and supplies?
Are you timely with your farm
operations, buying, marketing?
Are your buildings adequate
for your farm program and so
designed that labor and
machinery can be used ef
ficiently?
Are you an impulse buyer of
supplies and machinery, or do
you carefully figure your options
first?
Wherever you farm, there are
all sorts of ways you can whittle
your cash inputs and increase
your farm outputs to be among
the winners in 1980, say farm
management specialists here
are a few:
Keep your money at work, they
Over 20 years ago, Wayne introduced Tail
Curler Pig Starters to the swine industry
and took much of the work and worry out
of starting and weaning pigs
Wayne Pre-Starters are rich in natural
milk products and other sweet-tasting,
palatable ingredients that appeal to baby
pigs. All three Tail Curlers, Tail Curler
Rockets . . . Tail Curler Junior and Tail
ROHRER’S MILL
R. D. X, Ronks
HEISEY FARM SERVICE c E SAUDER & SONS
Lawn Ph: 964-3444 R D x East Earl
H. JACOB HOOBER
Intercourse, Pa.
DUTCHMAN FEED
MILLS, INC.
R. D. 1, Stevens
say. Take advantage of 2 per
cent, 10-day cash discounts where
they’re offered. Two per cent for
10 days is 72 per cent at yearly
rates.
Buy supplies in volume to get
volume discounts, if you can,
even if you have to pool orders
with neighbors.
Take 30, 60 or 90 day discounts
on farm machinery purchases if
they’re offered, whenever you
can.
Keep a weather eye on future
markets. They can act as a
barometer for your marketing
plans, purchases of feeds and the
like
Check built-in services
provided by your suppliers of
feed, chemicals and other items.
Sometimes they involve an
appreciable difference in the
price tag.
Pick out machinery dealers
who are going to be around for
awhile. That way you have more
insurance on service and parts.
Make it easy for your em
ployees to do a good job. They’ll
do a better one for it.
And, above all, in the opinion of
Ohio State’s John Moore, don’t
chart the course of your farm
business while flying in a fiscal
fog. Get radar!
The kind of radar he envisions
is the new breed of recordkeeping
aids, soil tests and the
like, and the detailed analysis of
those records and tests made
possible by the computer and
other devices that short-cut the
GRUBB SUPPLY CO.
Elizabethtown
FOWL’S FEED SERVICE ma „ eTTWBr
R, D. 2, Peach Bottom HERSHEY BROS
Reinholds
H. M. STAUFFER
& SONS, INC.
amount of human effort needed.
A survey of computerized
record-keeping, testing and
business analysis services being
offered to farmers show that
Pennsylvania State University is
one of the leaders in this field.
The fees they charge for even
the more advanced of these
services are well within reach of
most commercial farmers in the
state. Many others now offer
similar services, and the starting
point to find out about their
availability is no further away
than your agricultural Extension
Service office.
Included among the many
things these record-keeping and
analysis services can do for you
is to figure out the best
mechanized feeding system for
your particular farm, determine
the least-cost ration for your
livestock given the crop con
ditions you actually face, let you
know which are really the high
profit crops for your farm, and
tell you whether or not you should
buy a piece of machinery without
first buying or renting more land
on which to use it.
Farmers who have used Penn
State’s linear programming
service since it started
operations in 1965 say it gives
them an objective look at their
farm operatrions. It often
shatters long-held management
habits, they say, and sometimes
points the way to changes which
they had never considered.
Peter Minuit, a Dutch col
onist in America who was
appointed governor of New
Netherlands by the Dutch
West India Company, landed
on Manhattan in 1626 and, in
the same year, purchased
the island for $24 in goods.
ayne
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Curler Pig Starter, contain the ideal bal
ance of essential ingredients and move
gently through his delicate undeveloped
system, easing him into solid food the
“natural” way.
The Wayne Pig Starting Program offers
the “difference” that comes only with ex
perience Tail Curlers were good 20 years
ago ... 20 years better today.
HAROLD H. GOOD
Manhattan’s Buyer
MOUNTVILLE
FEED SERVICE
R. D. 2, Columbia
Terre Hill
WHITE OAK MILL
R. D. 4, Manheim
Help Us Serve You
If your organization didn’t make our farm calendar
this week, it’s not because we don’t like you or your or
ganization.
We may have missed it in the rush, Or maybe you for
got to tell us.
Either way, we’d like to extend our farm community
service to you.
To get on the Farm Calendar, remind us by calling
394-3047 or 626-2191 or by writing to Lancaster Farming, 22
E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543. And help us serve you better.
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Stevens, Pa.
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