Farmers are taking a ‘closer 100k 9
0 By JOAN LIESAU
HARRISBURG - “In the
next three to five years, the
economy of the livestock
sector is m for some pretty
good years” stated Earl
Ainsworth, Keynote speaker
at the Pennsylvania
Livestock Association’s
annual awards banquet,
November 4, at the
Crossgate Inn, Harrisburg.
Ainsworth, associate
editor of the Livestock Farm
Journal, said we were in the
most profitable stage right
now. “June 1, 1978 showed a
low total m beef numbers,
and this trend will continue
into 1980.”
He felt the mood of far
mers was “extreme distrust
throughout the livestock
sector.” Farmers have a
fear of price control on
foreign beef, he stated,
nitrates and drugs are also
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subsidising dairy product
imports.
“At a first glance, fear
may seem unfounded” he
said, “but farmers are
taking a closer look and
seeing the real meaning
behind it.”
Ainsworth felt that in 1980
‘ ‘herd expansion would set in
and calf crop would increase
expansion.” ‘‘This
boomerang effect” he said,
“will aggravate an already
critical shortage. An in
creased jump in heifer calf
feeding, and for longer
periods of tune will increase
the total cattle number on
feed” he said. “There will be
fewer stocker operations and
non-fed cattle slaughter will
decrease for a few more
years” he predicted.
He said that “somewhere
over 40 per cent of our beef is
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was part of a “cultural
phenomenon” he said, with
our fast food culture. Ain
sworth felt that in a “few
years we will see a severe
hamburger shortage.”
He sited McDonalds m one
example, saying they are
looking for more uniform
hamburger. The fast food
business is finding a serious
problem m flavor and tex
ture uniformity with im
ported beef. “Uniformity is
the name of the game” he
said.
“Farrowing will increase
this fall with a moderate
expansion until 1981” he
predicted. “Prices will spur
this low expansion. Returns
will be in the mid to high
40’s, well above cost” he
said. Ainsworth said the
“gram reserves seemed to
be working. It doesn’t seem
to be affecting the market”
he said. “The prospects tor
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cheap feeds are not there,
but the pnces look tolerable
and favorable” he said.
“Political turbulance from
consumers and regulators is
not a passing phenomenon of
“what is m what we eat.” He
felt consumers were ill in
formed and needed better
sources of information made
available to them. He feels
regulators are “only con
cerned with the length of our
lives and not the quality. If
we banned everything on the
cancer list, we would not live
more than one to one and a
half years more.”
“Historically farming is
less organized during the
profitable years. I worry the
next few good years the
farmers will let up in taking
up political problems they
will encounter.”
With all things considered,
Ainsworth said “we must
enter the livestock industry
with better than average
certamity.”
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Herr fares
with market
By JOAN LIESAU
HARRISBURG - Barbara
Herr, Narvon, walked away
with two more honors, the
reserve grand champion
market lamb and the grand
champion pen of three
market lambs of the open
market lamb show at the
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition,
Harrisburg.
Banbury Livestock of
Danville Ohio took the grand
champion market lamb and
reserve grand champion pen
of three market lamb titles.
The grand champion
carcass lamb, on-foot, was
exhibited by Williamson
Hampshires of Xema, Ohio.
The Hampshire entry then
placed eighth on-rail.
The reserve champion
carcass on-foot went to a
Suffolk entry exhibited by
Walt Johnson of Alliance,
Ohio. Johnson’s entry later
placed second in the on-rail
competition.
The grand champion
cracass on-rail went to a
Dorset entry owned by
Banbury Livestock, Dan
ville, Ohio. The winning
entry weighed 118 pounds
live, dressed out at 63 pounds
and graded average prime.
It had two per cent kidney
fat, .1 inch fat thickness, a
loin eye area of 2.9 square
inches and a carcass yield of
2.1 per cent. The judges
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lambs
remarked the carcass was
uniformly covered and well
muscled.
The reserve grand
champion on-rail was
exhibited by the Kenneth
Staver Family. Their Dorset
entry had placed twelfth in
the on-foot competition.
Their entry weighed 103
pounds live and had a hot
carcass weight of 54 pounds.
It graded average prime and
had three per cent kidney. In
fat thickness the reserve
carried .12 inches and had a
loin eye area of 2.7 square
inches. The carcass yielded
2.5 per cent.
The largest loin eye in the
class measured 3.4 square
mches. It was a Hampshire
entry owned by Clyde
Brubaker, Lancaster.
The following is a list of on
foot and on-rail carcass
results.
ON-FOOT
Carcass Wether Lamb 80-
100 pounds; 1, Walt Johnson,
Alliance, Ohio; 2. Angela
Banbury, Danville, Ohio; 3.
Johnson Bros., Hillsboro,
Ohio; 4. Banbury Livestock,
Danville, Ohio; 5. H.J.
Showalter, Akron.
Carcass Wether Lamb 101-
120 pounds; 1. Williamson
Hampshires, Xenia, Ohio; 2.
Banbury Livestock; 3.
Shannon Banbury, Danville,
Ohio; 4. Angela Banbury; 5.
Hans P. Groff, Ephrata.
Champion Carcass Lamb,
Williamson Hampshires.
Reserve Champion Car
cass Lamb, Walt Johnson.
ON-RAEL
Lamb Carcass (80-100 lbs.
live wt); 1. H.J. Showalter,
Akron; 2. Walt Johnsonj
Alliance, Ohio; 3. Johnson
Bros. Hillsboro, Ohio; 4.
W.G. Carpenter & Son,
Jefferson, Md.; 5. Elvin
Witt, Champion.
Lamb Carcass (101-120 lbs.
live wt.); 1. Banbury
Livestock, Danville, Ohio; 2.
Kenneth Staver Family,
Palmyra; 3. H.J. Showalter;
4. Johnson Bros.; 5. Clyde
Brubaker, Lancaster.
Grand Champion Lamb
Carcass, Banbury
Livestock.
Reserve Grand Champion
Lamb Carcass, Kenneth
Staver Family.
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