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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24, 1973
Pa. Feed Industries
Will Hold Conference
Eugene Eby, president, and
Donald Parke, executive vice
president, Penn-Ag Industries,
Ephrata, will be among par
ticipants at the Pennsylvania
Feed Industries Conference
meeting at Penn State University
March 6 and 7.
The Tuesday evening session
will include a banquet at the
Nittany Lion Inn. B. P. Garden,
president, Arizona Feeds at
Tucson, Arizona, will be keynote
speaker with the topic “Gram
Processing - Current Status.” T.
A Long, Penn State Animal
Nutrition professor, will serve as
chairman
Wednesday mornings con
ference will be chaired by Long.
Topics with speakers from Penn
State University will include:
9 15am - Fertilization and
Gram Quality, Dale Baker,
professor of Soil Chemistry, 9:45
a m - Fertilizers and Gram
Quality, John Baylor, professor
of Agronomy Extension; 10:30
a m - Peed Quality and Sup
plements Needed for Poultry and
Swine, Roland Leach, associate
professor of Poultry Science; 11
a.m - Feed Quality and Sup-
plements Needed for Dairy
Cattle, Richard Adams,
professor of Dairy Science Ex
tension
The afternoon session with B.
R Baumgardt, head of the
department of Animal Science at
Penn State as chairman, will
include speakers and a panel
discussion The session will in
clude :
1 ;30 p m - Grain Standards and
Grain Quality, Robert Pfeifer,
associate Professor of Plant
Breeding, 2 p.m. - Quantitative
Analysis of Aflatoxin, C. W.
Hesseltme, Chief Fermentation
Laboratory, USDA.
At 2-45 a panel will discuss
Cost Check Urged by U.E.P.
Egg producers should look
closely at their rising production
costs before planning very far
into the future, according to
United Egg Producers.
John R. Pedersen, U.E.P.
Director of Marketing and
Statistical Analysis, said today’s
egg producer will find his
production costs six cents to 10
cents a dozen above a year ago if
he is buying feed ingredients on
February’s market. Pedersen
says the best outlook information
available does not forecast any
sizeable relief from the current
high feed ingredient prices until
at least the fourth quarter of 1973.
“It is quite possible feed costs
could still go higher as corn and
soybean meal prices normally
peak each year in June or July,
Pedersen warned. “With the
domestic harvest already behind
us and an unusually strong in
ternational demand for protein
feed, there appears no way to
avert a continuing period of high
feed costs.”
Pedersen noted that USDA has
expanded the 1973 feed grain
program in hopes of obtaining a
1 5 billion bushel soybean crop
and six billion bushel corn crop.
Emergency Feed Programs -
Past, Present and Future,
moderated by Donald Parke. The
panel will include: Governmental
Representative, Edward Hews,
director, Commodity Loan and
Service Division*. USDA; Feed
Manufacturer representative,
Parke; User, Clarence Gummo,
livestock producer from Port
Matilda, Pa. A summation and
discussion will preceed ad
journment of the conference.
Reservations to attend the
conference should be made by
March 2 to The Pennsylvania
State University.
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keep them company. They
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USDA has stated the aim of the
program is to “satisfy domestic
and current foreign demand” and
see that feed ingredient prices
get no stronger than they are
currently running, Pedersen
continued.
Egg price patterns of the past
10 years would indicate wholesale
prices have peaked for 1973 and
will gradually move lower except
for the strong, four-week Easter
demand period. Egg prices are
expected to move well below the
cost of production levels after
Easter and remain there until the
Fall unless industry takes the
steps necessary to prevent this
from occurring, he said.
“One way to minimize the
severe price drop after Easter,”
Pedersen suggested, “is for the
egg industry to maintain weekly
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fowl slaughter close to last year’s
levels for the next four months.”
Producers whose break-even
N.Y. Wholesale Large Egg
Prices in February 1972 was 40
cents per dozen now need at least
46 and, in many cases, as much
as 50 cents just to meet all costs
of production. ,
“We suggest that each egg
producer check his production
records for costs, layer
productivity, grade-out quality,
and effectiveness of last year’s
force molting program before
ordering replacement pullets for
his operation this Spring,”
Pedersen said. “We also suggest
that all his old hens be sent to
slaughter as soon as they can be
booked. This is the quickest way
to get prices back above cost of
production.”
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