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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Dec. 14, 1974
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From Local Ag Teachers:
Donald M. Robinson
Adult Farmer Advisor
Eastern Lancaster County
School District
“Get With It Agriculture,
There’s a New Year
Coming”
It is time that farm
management got treated like
the big business it really is.
In a business where in
dividual investments run
into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars like they
do on many of your
operations, there is no room
for decision making based on
tradition, assumptions, and
guess work. Currently we
are seeing all too many farm
sales and people leaving
farming, often because they
have not been able to realize
a profit with similar assets
and resources, is able to
continually return a
reasonable return on his
investment and an adequate
return for his labor. Why?
Don’t always say low prices
for your product and high
input costs. Your neighbor is
subject to the same.
One big answer to this
question may be your record
system, or lack of one. Those
who keep records for tax
purposes only, can leam
nothing from them except
how much tax to pay. But a
record system can be -
designed for you to analyze
your business and provide
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Thoughts
in Passini
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Donald Robinson
data that can be used to give
direction to production and
expansion decisions that you
must make. With a properly
organized set of records,
your farm can be subjected
to a business analysis.
The primary objectives of
a farm business analysis are
to analyze the financial
structure and production
efficiency of the farm. These
help the farmer to measure
the financial health of his
business and to determine
possible weaknesses in
production and
management. A farm
business analysis is useful in
obtaining credit and in
planning to use capital more
wisely. Properly used, a
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business analysis is a tool in
solving management
problems.
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These record analysis
systems can be as elaborate
as you want, from simple
income, expense and
inventory records you keep
yourself for no charge, to
computer programmed
systems for several hundred
dollars requiring little work
on your part. But the key is
knowing what information to
gather and how to use this
data to tell you what you
need to know.
Help in this area is readily
available. Farm records and
business analysis services
are available on a fee basis
from organizations such as
Pa. Farmers Assoc., Far
mer Cooperatives, the
Extension Service, or you
can hire an accountant. With
many of these services you
get expert tax advice and
some even file your tax
return for you. The cost of
this service should be con
sidered as valuable an ex
pense as fertilizer, feed,
seed, or any other input into
your business. For those
more cost conscious, your
local vocational agriculture
instructor or Adult Farmer
advisor, if your school
district has one, or the
Extension Agent specializing
in farm management, can
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help you set up a records
system that can be analyzed
and used in decision making.
Your objectives may not
be to make the largest return
on your Investment but
rather to Just have an
adequate income and
preserve your way of life.
That is well and good and I
applaud those who seek for -
treasures greater than
materialistic rewards, but, if
you want to continue to
remain in farming during
economic conditions existing
today, you must begin
employing better business
management practices. And
the basis of management
begins with reliable records.
The new year will soon be
upon us, won’t you plan now
to improve your record
system and the use you make
of those records.
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Torches In Dairy Baras
Winter Is a time of the year
when water pipes freeze,
especially those which
supply water to dairy barns,
says Dexter N. Putnam,
Extension dairy specialist at
The Pennsylvania State
University. Anyone using a
flame torch to thaw frozen
pipes should be careful. This
is because the flame is very
hot and can easily start a
fire. Putnam suggests it
might be safer to use a
special electric cable, rather
than a torch, particularly for
pipes which run through
areas that are near hay or
other flammable materials.
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