Elizabethtown FFA Agribusinessman
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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?
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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
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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.
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