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—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 6, 1973
Urea Feeds Suggested
As Protein Conserver
Farmers not currently using
either liquid or dry feeds con
taining urea should consider
switching to such feeds in order
to combat extremely high prices
for soybean and other proteins,
Oil Firms Boosting
Environmental Funds
Petroleum companies are
spending an average of some
$3.3 million a day to protect
the U.S. environment, accord
ing to preliminary results of
an American Petroleum In
stitute survey.
The survey indicates that
estimated environmental ex
penditures during the past
year totaled $1.2 billion, of
which more than $1 billion
was spent on air and water
conservation. The rest of the
money went for land restora
tion, solid waste disposal and
noise control.
This year’s estimated
spending on air and water
conservation is four times as
great as in 1966, the first
year for which figures were
gathered. The total for the
seven-year period is expected
to reach $4.5 billion.
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Singing Fish
The sapo, which lives un
der stones near the shore, is
often called the singing fish
on account of a peculiar
humming noise that is made
by its air bladder.
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Lewellyn S. Mix, vice president
farm merchandising of Agway
Inc., has advised.
In a letter to dairymen, Mix
suggested alternatives as means
of coping with reduced supplies
and high prices.
“The December differential
between a 16 percent protein
dairy ration containing urea and
one not containing urea was over
$l2 per ton,” he stated, adding
that the differential was $l9 for 20
percent protein, and $45 for 32
percent protein.
For farms in areas where
liquid protein supplement is
available, Mix recommended
meeting part of protein needs
with liquid supplement fed free
choice on top of poor quality hay
or silage.
Mix described some of the
savings that could be realized by
feeding urea rations. “Saving in a
50-cow herd when cow is fed 15
pounds of 20 percent protein
ration containing urea amounts
to $7.13 per day or 31 cents per
hundredweight of milk
produced—a savings potential of
$2,600 per year,” he pointed out.
Dairy cows fed well-balanced
rations can safely and effectively
use one-half pound of urea per
day, he said, continuing, “If self
fed, balanced, total mixed rations
are used or liquid protein sup
plement is offered free choice,
cows can use three-fourths of a
pound of urea per day.”
He cautioned against
simultaneously feeding silage
treated with urea, liquid protein
supplement, and grain rations
containing urea. Changeover to
urea feeds should be made
gradually over a two-week
period, he said.
Mix cited research data on
thousands of cows indicating that
urea properly used in balanced
rations has no adverse effect on
milk production or breeding
efficiency. Michigan DHIA
records over five years show no
difference between urea and non
urea-fed herds in regard to
calving intervals, sterility, or
level of production.
“About two-thirds of Agway
dairy feed users consider feeds
containing urea a better buy,”
Mix noted. “A sample of 297
Agway-fed herds producing
16,000 pounds of milk and-or 550
pounds of butterfat showed that
over 69 percent were fed rations
containing urea.”
“Your use of urea-containing
feeds would help conserve tight
protein supplies and help control
high protein prices,” Mix stated.
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