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ARTHUR WONG
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Ph. 653-4121 (Since 1925)
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Farm Management:
An Attitude
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Good farm management is a
matter of attitude. How you view
your position can determine your
success as a manager. When you
make a decision to borrow
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money, how do you approach the
banker? Do you approach him
with the attitude of wishful
thinking or do you tell him
exactly what he needs to know in
order to approve your loan?
Do you gather up last year’s
tax records and a rough sketch of
the new addition you plan to build
or do you come in prepared with a
cash flow statement and unit
budgets showing what effects on
your business the use of the
additional capital will have? This
will be answered mostly by your
attitude. Do you want to be a
businessman or a farm worker?
Attitude is one of the big
reasons for decreasing farmland.
ERTH-RITE
SEA-BORN
ALGIT
ZOOK &
RANCH, INC.
R.D. 1 Gap, Pa. 17527
Phone 717-442-4171
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9, 197 Z
Donald Robinson
A farm manager may look at an
offer to double his investment by
selling out for building lots in
stead of realizing that he might
be able to triple his investment
with better management and still
keep the farm.
You have all read many
“success” stories in farm
magazines. What do all suc
cessful men have in common 7
They all seem to want to talk
about efficiency of production,
quality, cost per unit, or profit
per unit. As I visit farms each
day, so many managers want to
talk about how much they
“saved” by cutting corners,
rather than how much they made
by investing in a production
boosting practice. This reflects
attitude.
Do you as a manager realize
what aspect of your business
returns you the most for your
time and investment? Do you
know how much it really costs
you to produce a CWT of beef or
milk, or a dozen eggs, or to raise
a feeder pig, or an acre of corn or
tobacco
Knowing costs will help place
appropriate priorities. For
example, most farm managers
will let corn planting take
priority over haymaking, yet
when both are properly
managed, hay may return more
dollar value per acre than corn
Where a manager places his
priorities reflects his attitude
Many a dairyman will brag about
how fast he can finish his milking
and how much field work he can
do. A look at his field equipment
may reveal large, new,
machines, but a look in the barn
may show old, used, inadequate
milking equipment and housing
facilities. How many dairymen
realize everything they do on the
farm all year is done for those
few precious moments with each
cow each day?
But the farmer’s attitude
toward records probably reflects
more about him as a manager
than any other aspect of his
program. The records he keeps,
the use he makes of them, and his
attitude toward keeping them are
the keys to his success because
all of his major decisions should
be based on his records.
No cuticle can ten you now 10
develop attitude. This is a per
sonal matter for each of us. You
must evaluate what you want as a
farm manager It is my belief
that the manager who is solving
tommorrow’s problems today
has few problems today and
knows where he is going instead
of worrying about where he is
Donald M Robinson
Adult Farmer Advisor
Eastern Lancaster County School
Dist.
Starfish’s Arms
The common staitish has
only five aims, but the sun
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aims if they aie broken off
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