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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
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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.
Another activity of Far
mers’ Week is the annual
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announce new stronger
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No-till farming will grow
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Even before the recent
embargo on exports to
Russia, gram prices in the
U.S. were not high enough to
luncheon of the Garden State
Dairy Goat Association. This
year it will be held at Hyland
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with a luncheon at 1 p.m.
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energy-inefficient.
“For this reason we must
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agriculture.”
Wheeler pointed out that
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