—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 31, 1973
12
Feed Cost
“If farmers fulfill their plan
ting intentions for this growing
season, then we’ll see a decrease
in feed prices with the harvest of
this year’s feed crop,” Dr.
Thomas Culton told a group of
dairymen Thursday afternoon.
Culton was speaking at Pennfield
Corporation’s second annual
dairy awards luncheon, attended
by fanners from throughout the
state as well as Maryland. Culton
is Pennfield’s staff nutritionist.
Culton said that largely
because of government in
centives, midwestern farmers
had upped both their corn and
soybean planting intentions for
this growing season. Corn
production nationally is excepted
to be 5.8 billion bushels for the
1973 season, up from 5.5 billion
last year. Soybeans are expected
to go to 1.5 billion bushels, up
from 1.3 billion last year.
The nutritionist pointed out,
however, that there were still a
number a factors that could
unfavorably influence crop
yields. Chief among these is the
fact that midwestern farmers got
very little field work done last fall
because of muddy conditions.
There’s a shortage of certified
seed, especially for soybeans.
And, of course, there’s that
perennial imponderable, the
weather.
While Culton expects feed
prices to be well under current
levels by the fall, he did feel that
soybeans prices in July and
August might be very high.
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tangled hay! Cuts, conditions,
windrows, or swaths in one
pass through the field...
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fluffy swath or windrow of cut and con
ditioned hay. The Cut/ditioner excels in
heavy down and tangled hay; unsurpassed for
making wilted grass silage. Travels in any
direction, handles back swaths without
trouble. Use it for corn stalk shredding, weed
cutting, pasture clipping, cutting straw stub
ble and conditioning straw for easier baling.
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A.L. HERR&BRO.
Quarryville
KINZER EQUIP. CO,
Kinzer
LANDIS BROS., INC.
Lancaster
N. G. HERSHEY & SON
Manheim
ROY H. BUCK, INC.
Ephrata, R.D. 2
Outlook Cloudy, Group Told
After Culton’s speech,
dairymen with outstanding 1972
records with Pennfield-fed cows
were honored.
The winners were announced
and awarded engraved trophies,
statues, or plaques by Robert E.
Gregory, Pennfield’s dairy and
livestock marketing manager
and host for the luncheon.
Gregory introduced a new award
this year, that of honors for
owners of herds with a herd
average increase of 1000 lbs. Milk
and-or 40 lbs. Butterfat.
Winners in the new category
were: John E. Kreider, Lan
caster; Eugene M. Kilgare,
Airville; Roy and Frank Feeser,
Hanover; John J. Lapp, New
Holland; Sinking Spring Farm,
York; B. Frank Eshelman,
Landisville; Norristown State
Hospital; J. Z. Nolt, Leola;
Barley Brothers, Conestoga;
Young Brothers, Peach Bottom;
Donald Ensor, Parkton,
Maryland; lager and Sons,
Fulton, Maryland; and Christ R.
Beiler, Quatxyville.
Awards were also presented to
owners with a herd average of 600
lbs. Butterfat and or 17,000 lbs.
Milk: Sinking Spring Farm,
York; J. Z. Nolt, Leola; Paul
Zimmerman, Ephrata; Bare
Brothers, Lebanon; Barley
Brothers, Conestoga; Paul W.
Chronister, Carlisle; Norman L.
Rothermel, Pitman; John S.
Stolzfus, Atglen; G. Hershey
Hostetter, Gap; Clarence Good,
Blue Ball; Maple Lawn, Fulton,
Selective conditioning.
Knives hit only the
stems of plants.
conditions the stems
without damaging the
leaves.
LONGENECKER
FARM SUPPLY
Rheems
CHAS. J. McCOMSEY
&SONS
Hickory Hill, Pa.
STOLTZFUS
FARM SERVICE
Cochranville. Pa.
A, B. C. GROFF, INC.
New Holland
Maryland, Kingstead Farm,
Clarksburg, Maryland; and
Norristown State Hospital.
Owners with individual high
cow records meeting these
requirements: Holsteins—looo
lbs. Butterfat and-or 25,000 lbs.
Milk; Brown Swiss—7so lbs.
Butterfat and-or 20,000 lbs. Milk;
Ayrshire, Guernsey or Jersey
-750 lbs. Butterfat and-or 15,000
lbs. Milk, were honored at the
luncheon. Recipients of these
awards were; Dwight Rath,
Wawa; Don Brown, Oxford;
Leader Farms, Sinking Spring
Farm and Rutter Brothers,
York; J. Z. Nolt, Leola; Dan
Fisher and Ben Fisher,
Strasburg; Crumdale, Berwyn;
Young Brothers, Peach Bottom;
Kingstead Farm, Clarksburg,
Maryland; Maple Lawn, Fulton,
.Maryland; Harold Good, Air
ville; Nelson Young, West Grove;
Jesse Balmer, Lititz; Paul B.
This
Certainly Lasso® plus
atrazine controls
fall panicum.
Plenty of growers last year learned
late in the season that the “foxtail”
they thought grew through their
herbicide was really fall panicum.
And plenty of growers this season
will learn that if you tank mix Lasso
plus atrazine, you control fall
panicum. Plus you’ll control foxtails,
crabgrass and other annual grasses
P. L. ROHRER & BRO., INC.
Smoketown, Pa.
Zimmerman, Ephrata; Donald
Ensor, Park ton, Maryland;
LiseterFarm, Newtown Square;
Christ R. Beiler, Quarryville;
Norristown State Hospital and
Elmer Kauffman, Christiana.
• STAY ON TRACTOR
• PLANT AT NIGHT
• CONTROL POPULATION
• SPOT PLUGGED RUNNERS, BROKEN
CHAIN AND SHEARED PINS
• INCREASE YIELD AND PROFITS
• WARNING BUZZER ALERTS THE
OPERATOR IF THE PLANTER NOT
WORKING PROPERLY
SHENK'S Farm Service
R.D.4, Lititz, Pa.
Fall Panicum
Congrettiot\al Payroll Up
In 1960 the House of Rep
resentatives had 3,850 em
ployees on the payroll. In
1970 that number had in
creased to 7,372 —or almost
double. The Senate was not
far behind. Though it is
roughly one-fifth the size of
the House, it upped its labor
force from 3,496 to 4,315 in
four years.
DICKEY
JOHN
D MONITOR
YOU CAN
... and lots of broadleaves like
smartweed, pigweed, and lambs
quarters. Lasso plus atrazine
for your corn.
That’s what you expect
from your herbicide!
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Ph. 397-3539
Ph. 626-4355