c: Faming, Saturday, January 19,1980 Embargo, fertilizer costs COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A recent embargo on U.S. gram shipments to Russia presents only the first jolt in a cost-price squeeze being clamped on this nation’s grain farmers. The other half of an economic one-two punch is upward-spiraling fertilizer prices, reports V. Allan Bandel, Extension fertilizer specialist and professor of agronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park. Bandel bases his gloomy outlook on a talk given recently by Edwin M. Wheeler to 975 farmers and N.J. dairymen to FLEMINGTON, N.J. - Dairy Interests Day, an annual activity of New Jersey Fanners’ Week, this year is scheduled to be held m Hunterdon County on Thursday, January 24. The place is Pfenninger’s Hilltop Inn. Meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. Traditionally, Farmers’ Week activities were held in Trenton, but as facilities adequate to handle the many events became scarce, locations were sought out side the State Capitol. This year many of the activities, including the annual State Agricultural Convention, will be held in the Cherry Hill-Mt. Laurel area. Featured on the Dairy Day program will be two young dairymen from neighboring counties, Warren and Somerset. They are Kenneth VanNuys, Hillsboro Farm, Belle Mead; and Robert Connolly, Oxford. They will appear on a panel in the afternoon session on “Programmed Herd Health.” Both will describe their farming operations in their introductions. They will then discuss their herd health programs, the practices and procedures that they use to reduce the mcidence of disease, respond to health problems, maintain satisfactory breeding ef ficiency m the herd. Connolly has a top producing herd of 65 EXTRA PROTEIN IN MOEWS WAXY-MAIZ HYBRIDS Cattle and hog feeders in this area should plant WAXY-MAIZ hybrid seed corn. College feeding trials show 10% better gains on 7% less corn with WAXY fed to cattle. We have several WAXY MAIZ Hybrids for this area. They yield the same as yellow dent corn, but have higher energy starch. Hogs gain better and get to market faster on WAXY MAIZ. We can show you how to boost cattle and hog feeding profits. Contact Our Dealers or GENE HAAS District Sales Supervisor 4911 Bradley-Browniee Rd. Farrndale, Ohio 44417 Phone 216/637-0749 Dealer Inquiries Welcomed! agribusinessmen attending the sixth annual Mid- Atlantic No-Till Conference at the Hunt Valley Inn north of Baltimore. Wheeler is president of the Fertilizer Institute, headquartered in Washington, D.C. “You will be shocked by fertilizer prices this spring,” Wheeler told his audience. And he predicted that by 1985, when natural gas prices have been fully decontrolled by the federal government, anhydrous ammonia will be selling for at least $2OO per ton, f.o.b. the processing plant. Holsteins, ranking con sistently high on the State DHIA herd performance list. Last year his herd averaged 17,976 pounds of milk, with 659 pounds butterfat. VanNuys is associated with his father in the operation of Hillsboro Farm, a long-time Holstein breeding establishment. Interestingly, Hillsboro Farm, then owned by Ken’s grandfather, Peter, was the first home for sires m the first artificial breeding cooperative founded in the country back in 1938. The VanNuys herd has recently been moved mto a new modem 100 plus cow facility. Ken has respon sibility for breeding and health care in the operation. Both work very closely with their veterinarian, and in the discussion on the dairy day program, will indicate the importance of developing a strong relationship with the veterinarian in carrying out an effective herd health program. Also on Dairy Day program will be Patrick B. Healy, Secretary of the National Milk Producers Federation. He will “The Dairy Farmer and National Affairs. ’ Dr. Sidney Nusbaum, Assistant Director of the New Jersey Division of Animal Health, will provide an up-date of the diagnostic laboratory. Meeting hosts will be (Current price is about $135 pertonf.o.b.). Record exports of fer tilizer to friendly ’Gantries are also exerting upward pressures on the domestic market, Wheeler said. Here are ways to combat the problem: Reduce fuel consumption wherever possible. If U.S. farmers start planting all at once this spring, there won’t be enough fuel to go around. We need legislators in Washington, D.C., who will assure U.S. agriculture of adequate sources of energy. But energy will not be cheap. meet January 24 Woodson W. Moffett, Jr., Director of the Division of Dairy Industry, and Edward Oleskie, Extension Specialist in Dairy Science, Cook College. Tickes for the luncheon are available at $6 each, by writing the Dairymen’s Council, do Division of Dairy Industry, PO Box 1999, Trenton, NJ 08623. 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