ALASKA
KODIAK WOODBDRNERS
TOU’VE HEARD
THE TALK.
There’s a better way to dry grain. It’s called
CHILLCURING ,M because it means CURING
without heat. Here’s what the talk is all
about.
THE GRAIN
Every kernel of gram is alive when it comes out of the field
It is a seed, able to grow because it has the ability to take on
moisture Likewise, it can be kept in a state of preservation by
removing the moisture already in it.
But by heating the gram to dry it, the seed life is destroyed.
By removing heat and moisture from the gram, it becomes
dormant, and stays alive. Then it can ripen to full weight,
losing only water while keeping valuable protein, starches
and sugar.
THE SYSTEM
It’s simple. Gram goes from the field right to the bin. With
the unique AIRFRAME™ and AIRFLOOR™ the gram rests on a
solid bed that allows maximum ventilation.
Clean dry air is the best curing medium for the gram.
GRAINLAMPS™ provide electric sunshine, cleaning and
drying the air beneath the floor, before it passes through the
gram
Fans force air under the floor. Rising through the gram, this
dry outside air carries away moisture and heat.
At the peak of the bin a jumbo 40" turbine, the
WHIRLCOOLER”", puts nature to work for you. Wind and
rising air keeps it turning, venting the system naturally.
A special HARVESTAT Control System monitors the
curing process. A simple setting controls the GRAINLAMPS™
to make use of free, natural air.
prosperity to USD A policy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -
Secretary of Agriculture
Bob Bergland said last week
that administration food and
farm policies and programs
have been a significant
factor m restoring relative
prosperity to American
agriculture.
At the same time, he said,
“these programs which give
producers the freedom and
flexibility to make their own
economic decisions have led
to a substantial reduction in
costs of farm programs to
the American taxpayer.”
Bergland’s remarks were
prepared for delivery to
more than 3,000 agricultural
leaders from 13 states at
tending the 7th annual
Southern Commodity
Producers Conference here.
The Carter administration
food and agriculture
program begun nearly
two and one-half years ago
Bergland said, has been
“tested, tuned and is now
working for the benefit of
American farmers, con
sumers, taxpayers, and a
sizable portion of the world’s
population.”
Noting that prices U.S.
farmers receive for their
crops and livestock are
running about 16 per cent
higher in 1979 than a year
ago, Bergland predicted that
net farm income this year, in
current dollars, is expected
to match the record $33
billion reached in 1973.
Bergland links farm
Robert Bergland
Bergland said that higher
prices this year will also
result in about $1.4 billion
less in government
payments to farmers.
Bergland said the
restoration of relative
agricultural prosperity is
coming about in substantial
measure because of the new
programs proposed by the
President and passed by
Congress nearly two years
ago.
“But it has been the
gratifying response to these
new programs, particularly
the farmer-owned grain
reserve program and the
strong new thrust of the
administration’s agricultu
ral export development
plans that actually in
sured their success.”
Bergland said that this
year’s U.S. agricultural
exports are likely to hit.a
record $32 billion by the end
of September, a gain of
almost $5 billion over a year
ago and 53 percent more
than 1973.
Advanced Ag Products
RD 2 Box 174 Elverson, Pa. 19520
215-286-9118
THE FACTS
1. You can’t beat Nature. HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING" uses the same elements that ripen and
preserve grain if left to itself: free flowing air and infra red rays
(sunshine).
2. CHILLCURING™ has been tried and proven in 17 states on
over 3000 farms. The research is in: CHILLCURING" WORKS!
3. The CHILLCURING" system uses only the electricity to
power fans and lights, using about V/2 KW hrs. per bushel.
Compare that cost to other systems that use increasingly
expensive fuels to get disappointing results.
4. The grain goes from the field to the bin and stays there till
you need it. Save time and money at harvest with the one step
HARVESTALL CHILLCURING" and storage system.
5. If you’re in the market for grain storage, you owe it to
yourself to look further into HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING"
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4,1979
Export volume of major
bulk commodities is forecast
to rise this year about 4
percent from last year’s 122
million metric tons and
would represent a nearly 27
million-metric-ton increase
over 1973, he said.
Further increases in
tonnage, combined with
stronger prices, should boost
the value of U.S. farm ex
ports to new records next
year, Bergland said.
The secretary said the
highly successful grain
reserve program is rooted in
President Carter’s firm
belief that farmers should
control their own production
and marketing, and not the
federal government.
“What farmers really
want is more stability both in
prices and in markets,”
Bergland said. “What they
don’t need is dizzying profits
one year, embargoes the
next and catastrophic prices
in the third.
“This administration gave
American farmers the
stabilizing tools to do the
job,” he said, “and they
responded with en
thusiasm.”
Noting that prices are one
indication of the success of
the reserve, Bergland
pointed out that in June 1977
when the grain reserve was
inaugurated, wheat was
$2.03 a bushel. Last month it
was $3.73 a bushel, he said.
And in June 1977 the
average pnce for com was
$2.12 a bushel. Last month it
was $2.47, Bergland said.
“We have given U.S.
farmers the flexibility 10
take excess com, wneat ana
other feed grains off the
market when prices are low
and to step mto domestic and
export markets when prices
are to their advantage,”
Bergland told the con
ference.
Now that release levels on
both grains have been
reached, farmers have
redeemed about 29 percent
of the wheat reserve and
slightly more than 7 percent
of the com reserve stocks,”
he said.
Bergland noted that it was
only two years ago when
former Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture John White told
the conference that 1977
would mark a ‘turning point
in American food and
agriculture policies and
programs.’
“At that time,” the
secretary said, “he assured
you of die administration’s
commitment to policies and
programs that would
reverse the disastrous
decline in farmers’ income.
“Well, 1 can come before
you today and say that this
administration has carnet
through on that com
mitment.”
135