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Grain consuming animals units could be reduced to the point where a short feed grain situation may have a long tail - watch out!” Roland Hendrickson, president of Pfizer, Inc.’s Agricultural Division, told the assembled poultrymen, “No one knows the price level poultry products will command if the national economy is in the severe recession or depression that, so many economists are predicting as a follow-up to the current inflation.” Hendrickson did say, though, that he expects egg prices will average 9 percent greater in 1975 than 1974. “My predictions are based on the premise that the number of egg-type layers on farms will average 278 million in 1975, the lowest figure I can remember. These hens should average about 230 eggs per hen. The lower total egg production should allow the New York wholesale cash egg price, m % People once believed that the heart shaped wood sorrel leaf could cheer the heart. Bleak grade A, large white to read) an average of at least 65- cents in 1975." Broiler flock reductions should boost broiler prices by a good 16 percent in 1975, Hendrickson said. That is small comfort to broilennen, however, because Hen drickson’s projected high of 46-cents per pound for ready to-cook birds is not enough to meet production costs. Turkey growers can look for a distastrous 1975, ac cording to Hendrickson, because of massive cold storage holdings and only slightly reduced hatchery output. In conclusion, he said, “I believe 1975 will be a difficult year for the poultry industry because exceptionally high production costs treaten to wipe out the advantage of improved prices. In the longer view, I am con siderably more optimistic about the future of the poultry industry. While feed grain prices will probably never retreat to the levels of the 1962-72 average, poultry production feed efficiency presents advantages which I cannot be easily matched by four-legged livestock. “With worldwide demand for grain expected to con tinue unabated, the American consumer will undoubtedly have to make substititions in diet to reduce the total meat protein intake. This should rebound to the benefit of poultry, since more ■ and less expensive - meat protein can be produced by poultry than any other source. After all of the production adjustments V? 'h are made this year, we should see better years ahead." In a panel discussion on Tuesday, Robert Grayblll, president of Lancaster’s Pennfleld Company, told the poultrymen that be has high hopes for the broiler industry in the Northeast. "But the industry will continue to be cyclical," he cautioned. "It will require a depth of capital and a management style geared to weathering the low points." While there are certain advantages for broilennen in the Northeast, Graybill pointed out that two big negative factors are a very competitive labor market, and the climate. Automation and better working con ditions will help solve the labor problem, but only more capital for production facilities can help the area compete with the more ideal growing conditions of the South. "Our advantages, and they’re big ones, are that we’re on the doorstep of the Boston to Richmond megapolis, we have an ex cellent product mix, and we have had generally good experience with contract growers. ' "Those with a com mitment to the industry, and with' the marketing ex perience they need today, will be hard to put down,” Graybill concluded. ORTHO-GUARD A TOTAL APPROACH TO TREATING AND STORING; HIGH-MOISTURE FEED GRAIN. ORTHO GRAIN PRESERVATIVE Ortho Grain Preservative offers a practical way of cashing in on the advantages of harvesting and storing high mositure feed grains. 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