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HARRISBURG - Swine
producers are not restricted
to buying a “pig in the poke”
anymore. Pennsylvania’s
second Performance Tested
Boar Sale, August 22, at the
Agriculture Department’s
Meat Animal Evaluation
Top market
NEWARK, Del. - Grand
champion in the 1979 4-H
feeder pig trials at the
Delaware State Fair was
Michael Gains (14) of
Newark. His Yorkshire
barrow also took the blue
nbbon in the middleweight
class. The 217 pound hog
brought the top price of the
day at auction, going to the
Esskay Buying Station, Wye
Mills, Md. for 76 cents a
pound. (Current market
price for hogs is around 39
cents).
Typical
Annual Return
~.. 21-46% (d)
3-23% (d)
ll% (e)
7.4% (f)
6.1% (f)
This was Gaines’ second
year with a feeder pig
project. Like a lot of other
New Castle County com
petitors, he raised his pig at
a bam made available to 4-H
through the interest and
cooperation of A. Felix
DuPont Jr. The facility gives
youngsters in the county a
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equipment, INC*
Performance tested boar sale slated
at Delaware Fair
OFFERS COMPLETE
• SALES
• INSTALLATION
• SERVICE
Center, offers the alter
native of buying boars with
good, reliable test records,
according to Secretary of
Agriculture Penrose
Hallowell.
Average daily grain, feed
efficiency and fat thickness
hogs chosen
chance to work with
livestock regardless of the
size of their backyards or
local zoning restrictions
where they live.
Reserve champion this
year was a 237 pound gilt
raised by Lin Martin (13%)
of Milton. A three-way cross
between Yorkshire, Hamp
shire and Landrace breeds,
she was purchased for
$167.90 (70 cents a pound) by
Dr. Robert T. Mmner, Jr.,
from near Houston. He will
use her to upgrade his swine
herd.
Other top winners of the
day included: Ist place,
lightweight hogs (Scott
Magargal of Landenberg,
Pa.) and Ist place,
showmanship (Steve
Majchrcak of Seaf ord).
Sixty-five hogs were en
tered in the show, held July
30.
Shenandoah
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11,1979
are important performance
traits which will be recorded
and available to buyers at
the sale. Hallowell said,
“These are the major
economic traits measured in
most performance testing
programs on pigs. These
traits also respond the most
rapidly to selection.”
Several traits contribute to
a herd’s performance.
“Each of these contributing
traits may need to receive
emphasis in a well designed
breeding program. The
problem arises when a
breeder must determine how
much emphasis should be
placed on any one trait to
produce genetically superior
animals,” Hallowell stated.
A selection index, a
mathmatically derived
formula which combines
performance information
from several traits, or dif-
1980
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sound conservation prac
tices are continued.
“We do not want to see
fragile lands brought into
wheat production in 1980.
Acreage not traditionally
used for crop production will
not be added into a
producer’s normals crop
acreage for subsequent
years,” he said. “In ad
dition, we are reviewing our
regulations concerning
normal crop acreages and
we may amend them to
encourage farmers to follow
good fanning practices. If
necessary, we may also seek
legislative changes to en
courage continued good
farming practices as a
ferent measures of the same
trait, will be available on all
boars sold.
A selection index can yield
the most accurate estimate
of an animal’s overall
breeding value. Hallowell
noted that selections based
on index values should result
in the greatest amount of
overall genetic im
provement.
Approximately 75 percent
of the tested boars will be
sold at the sale, beginning at
7 p.m., Wednesday, August
22, at the Meat Animal
Evaluation Center in
University Park.
The program is sponsored
by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
in cooperation with The
Pennsylvania State
University and the Penn
sylvania Pork Producers
Council.
wheat
condition for farm program
benefits.”
Bergland said department
officials have begun a
review of the reserve
program for wheat and other
grains for possible ad
ministrative or legislative
changes to make the
program function more
smoothly and in line with it’s
objectives of protecting both
farmers and consumers. A
detailed review of target
prices for all target price
commodities is also un
derway. Should ad
ministrative or legislative
changes be necessary in that
system of income protection,
these will be recommended,
he said.
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