—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7, 1973
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factor, Bowman feels, in
producing lean choice-quality
cuts. “If a housewife buys a tough
cut of meat at the supermarket,
she only ruins one meal. If I’d sell
her a tough carcass, she’d be
mad at me for ruining her whole
year. I can’t afford to sell tough
beef. That’s why I finish all my
bulls on grain.”
In his first year of part-time
operation, Bowman sold six head.
Now he averages around 150 head
a year, and it’s a full-time
operation for one man.
Knwman’s 17-year old son also
helps out with the chores. The
operation is at the point where
Bowman feels he’s got to make a
decision on whether or not to
expand enough for his son to get
into the business after_„he
graduates from high school.
Bowman follows a fairly
standard program in getting his
bulls to market weight. He buys
Virginia feeders at 300-400
pounds, takes them up to 700
pounds on silage, and finishes
them to 1000-1200 pounds on grain
corn.
In his barns now, Bowman is
rearing Angus, Hereford,
Holstein, Charolais and
crossbred bulls, including some
Brahma crosses Part of the
reason for having this mixture is
that some customers ask for a
particular breed. Bowman also
likes to experiment with the
profitability of each breed. As for
raising bulls. Bowman says he
hasn’t experienced any more
problems than he might expect
from a herd of steers.
When he started the operation,
Bowman owned only nine acres,
the same acreage he owns today.
He rents another 47 acres, on
which, he grows part of his grain
and silage requirements. In a
typical year, he might grow
enough feed to see him through
about seven months. When he
runs out of feed, he buys from a
mill.
Asked if he’d like to rent
another 50 acres or so to grow
more of his own feed, Bowman
replied that he didn’t feel the
economics of buying feed were
that much against him. “When
you figure that you’ve got to buy
seed, you’ve got to plant, spray,
harvest and store, and add those
exoenses to taxes if you own the
land and rent if you don’t, I don’t
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One problem that Bowman
feels might intensify is getting a
butcher who’ll process the
animals for his customers. The
slaughtering must be done in a
federally inspected shop. New,
tougher meat inspection
regulations have driven some
small butchers out of business.
Many of the butchers who are left
are unwilling to take on the extra
burden of cutting up sides of beef
for Bowman’s customers. Right
now, there are two butchers who
handle all Bowman’s work, about
four bulls a week. The
arrangement seems to be
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all concerned, but conditions
could change overnight.
Raising beef for today’s
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meat boycotts and the threat of
government control have been
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environmental regulations and
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educational scholarships.ln
addition, funds from the foun
dation treasury are being used to
finance the scholarship program.
All senior guidance counselors
throughout the county’s school
districts are being informed of
these scholarships
Interested high schools are
urged to contact their Senior
Guidance Counselor for details
and an application blank. Ad
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available from M.M.Smith,
Chairman of the Scholarship
Committee, 1383 Arcadia Road,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601.
(394-6851) Application forms
must be forwarded by May 1,
1973.
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