Elizabethtown FFA Agribusinessman IConUtwid from Pap 1| Following his sophomore year in high school, Dwight’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Martin, moved to their present home in Marietta Rl. Since that time, Dwight has been Involved in the family grain business using work experience as his FFA project work. Dwight explained that his father had gotton into the grain business quite by 'chance. "We were hauling In com for our steers and soon many farmers were coming to our farm to buy com when they ran low.” "Before long we found ourselves buying up com and either selling it to the mills or dealers. We’ve expanded to small grains now and also can do custom harvesting work." Dwight’s Job has been truck driving as well as much of the mechanical work around the operations. Three days a week, the youth leaves school at noon and works the remaing school hours with his father. The other two days he remains in school for his regular academic work. Although Dwight has done a little of everything to help out in the grain business he admits that the mechanical work as well as the truck driving is the most in teresting to him. I’ve found the business to Hi'ißiWli'giffl FERMENTABLE FEED WHAT CAN BE THE ADVANTAGES OF HARVESTING AND STORING ALFALFA AS IM-PRUV-ALL ALFALFA HAVLAGE OVER BALED HAY ON AN ACRE BASIS? These projections are based on figures from U.S.D.A., “Feeds and Feeding” by Morrison, “Applied Animal Nutrition” by Crampton and Harris, Nutritional Bulletins from N.R.C., and Triple S Lab, Inc. Results will obviously vary in individual cases. Figures for pounds of meat and milk per acre assume that the alfalfa is being fed in a balanced ration. Lbs. Dry Matter Harvested per acre Field and Handling Losses Lbs. Dry Matter Stored Storage Losses Lbs. Dry Matter to Feed Feeding Losses Lbs. Dry Matter Consumed Lbs. Protein Consumed per acre jg 2% Lbs. TDN Consumed per acre Lbs. Beef per acre • Value .of Beef at Lbs. Milk per acre Value of Milk (2) ss.o(Vcwt. IM-PRUV-ALL IS A SCIENTIFIC COMBINA TION OF INGREDIENTS THAT AID NATURE IN ACHIEVING AN EFFICIENT, RAPID FER MENTATION OF FERMENTED FEEDS. IM-PRUV-ALL HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO IM PROVE FERMENTABLE FEEDS. OVER ONE MILLION TONS OF VARIOUS SILAGES WERE FERMENTED WITH IM-PRUV-ALL DURING ITS DEVELOPMENT PERIOD. The following specific IM-PRUV-ALL formulas have been developed to afford maximum im provement of different fermented feeds: #lOl Com "and #H44 Haylage #GSS Grain #BT66 Beet Tops #DH77 Dry Hay Sorghum #202 Legumes #303 Grasses In addition to improving standard silages such as corn. IM-PRUV-ALL makes it possible to direct cut and successfully ensile alfalfa, clover, sudan, oats, wheat, sudex. pasture grasses, beet tops, and others. be quite interesting as the prices fluctuate every day but I guess I like doing the mechanical work on the trucks as well as driving the best.” As the Martin’s grain business could be considered a "middle man operation” since the Martin’s buy grain from farmers and resell it to dealers, Lancaster Fanning ask Dwight Just how he felt concerning the pressure by consumers in outstanding the middleman. “Everyone naturally complains about the high prices and I guess that we get most of the blame, but really we pay prices com parable if not exactly to what the dealers do.” “The farmers must feel they need our kind of business or they wouldn’t keep coming.’’ “I think most consumers fail to realize that prices could be higher elsewhere then in this country.” FFA Leader As an FFA member for the past four years, Dwight has served as president, vice president and news reporter for the chapters he has belonged to. One of his main obligations this past year was to pur chase a van for the FFA Chapter at Elizabethtown. 'Dwight’s committee was responsible for ordering the truck and taking care of the details. Would you like to make more money from the ALFALFA you grow? a I, 1....f*,^ Dwight has traveled to Penn State to participate in PFA days both on the livestock Judging team and the meats Judging team. He has also won several awards for his record book keeping. This past year, Dwight was awarded a gold medal on state level for his record book on work experience. A Keystone Degree holder, Dwight was the Star Red Rose Farmer last year and has been named the most valuable FFA member in the Elizabethtown Chapter. When asked what FFA had meant to him, Dwight commented, “I think FFA has to be the greatest organization in school.” “FFA has much to offer youth - there is the challenge to win awards and the op portunity about FFA is that you get out of it only what you put in. Conserved with the en vironment, Dwight has .used .the topic for many of his *FFA public speaking contest talks. Last year his speech was on the Food Crises. “I learned a lot about the true meaning of agriculture by working on that speech, “ Dwight commented. “I guess once you move off the farm you begin to realize that the land is quickly being taken for development.” “That is the main reason that I wanted to speak on land use and the food crises, it meant a lot to me. 80% Moisture 60% Molsture :, AII Im-Prnv-AU Alfalfa Silage Alfalfa Haylage 10,000 10,000 1,200 8,800 12% 8,800 1,600 5,368 910 $227.50 10,395 $519.75 Rye silage makes a very good feed. If cut and ensiled at the proper stage of maturity, 2 lbs. of rye silage on a dry matter basis can have as much protein as 1 lb. of soybean meal. . For more information, contact your ROBERT KREIDER So. Lane. County 717-569-6042 RAY WEILER N. Lane. Co. 717-733-4302 808 SMITH Adams County 717-528-4383 MARTY STEWART Perry, Juniata-Cumberland Co’s. 717-766-9307 Dwight enjoys doing the trucks. One of his projects in school mechanical work, around the grain has been repairing a garden tractor, business especially working with the Dwight would like to stay in the agribusiness field following his graduation in June. For the present he plans to continue working with his father in their grain operation • a field he finds quite interesting and crucial to agriculture. 10,000 600 6% 9,400 7%* 660 8,740 8,740 1,625 18.6% 57% 4,980 655 $163.55 9,130 $456.50 Im-Pruv-AII Dealer 40% Moisture Alfalfa Haylage 10,000 1,300 ~s7m 610 8,090 13% 7%* 8,090 18,0% 1,456 54% 4,370 532 $133.00 7,645 $382.25 CLARENCE WEILER Lebanon Co. 717-866-6710 MARC LEHMAN E. York Co. 717-252-2217 RICHARD BRECKBILL Chester Co. ' 215-932-3307 NORMAN BROUSE Union & Snyder Counties 717-524-5454 Urwiter Farming, Saturday, May 17.1975 Growing Degree Days The Average temperature in Lancaster County for the week ending May 12 was 60 degrees-nonnal for the season. Growing degree days for 40 degrees from April 1 numbered 436 quite Baled Hay 10,000 22.4% 2.240 Tfeo 280 7,480 3.6%* 380 5% 7,100 16.9% 1,200 55% 3,905 518 _ $129.50 7,330 $366.50 ■Mtm a ■it*'-* less than normal. 50 degree growing days numbered 144 or 28 less than the normal. Rainfall for the week totaled .39 inches with the total from April 1 being 6.21 indies. WEATHER SUMMARY The past week began with mostly cloudy skies and an easterly flow of cool moist air. Temperatures on Monday afternoon remained in to 50’s to low 60’s. Showers and thunderstorms broke out early Tuesday in western and central sections of the Commonwealth and spread eastward during the day ahead of an approaching low pressure area. Following the passage of this system the weather began to slow but steady improvement that continued into the weekend. Sunny skies and .light winds produced pleasant spring weather with temperatures in the 60’s to low 70’s Wed nesday gradually rising to the mid and upper 70’s by the weekend. The warmest temperature of the season was recorded Sunday the 11th when Huntingdon recorded 80 degrees. Nights were generally fair with quite cool temperatures mid week when most areas fell to the 30’s and low 40’s. Philipsburg recorded the lowest temperature of the week with 26 degrees Thursday morning. By the weekend over night low temperatures were mostly in the upper 30’s to low SO’s. Some widely scattered showers and thunderstorms broke out over the weekend, but in general the mildest and most pleasant weather of the spring was noted across the state. Weekly temperatures averaged 2 to 4 degrees below normal in the north central region near normal in the east and north west and about 2 degrees above normal in the south west. Rainfall ranged from 0.5 to 0.75 inch along the northern border to less than 0.1 inch in the mid Susquehanna Valley. NOTICE I AUCTIONEERS! I We print sale bills. * Call 394-3047 for price. XCi 1 i* % J n f xxm »&»m j*-» I 13
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