Purebred sheep meeting to run at Ohio State DENVER, Colo. Follow ing the theme of Progress with Purebred Sheep; Challenges and Change, a National Purebred Sheep Symposium will be held at the Columbus, Ohio, Hilton Inn, March 23-25,1980. Purebred breeders, com mercial producers and educators from all parts of the country will take a Namolco Mol-MixLPS liquid, supplements MARTIN AG SERVICE RED ROSE FEED & FARM SUPPLY PARAMOUNT FEED & SUPPLY c/oJohnZ Martin New Holland RDI Phone 717-354 5848 critical and forward-look at the place of the purebred in dustry in the total scope of today’s American Sheep In dustry Sponsored by the Sheep In dustry Development Pro gram and the Animal Science Department of Ohio State University, the* Purebred Symposium will get underway with ATTENTION ON THE FARM MIXERS registration at 10:00 a.m. Sunday, March 23, followed by a tour of the Ohio State University Sheep Facility and purebred and com mercial flocks. The Symposium will wrap up with the challenge of “Where Do We Go From Here Goals, Guideline for the Future” on Tuesday afternoon, March 25. Larry Mead, editor and publisher of the Sheep Breeder and Sheepman magazine and very well known in all purebred circles, will deliver the keynote address at a lamb banquet Sunday evening On Monday, the general session will open with a look at the purebred Industry from the standpoint of purebred breeders, commer cial producers and educators. The Monday program will include discussion of What is the Value of Breed Type; Structural Soundness. /5gV Old Guard GflooODDaQ Om§ffl[?aoQe© S©DDQpOOQ\y "Friend of Farmers since 1896.” ' ' v' Ask about our FARMOWNER’S policy It is designed to give you the very broadest coverage at the most reasonable cost. We believe it is the finest policy you can buy See our agent m your area GLENN C. FISHER, Bedford, Pa WAYNE A. FREY, RD #l,Germansville, Pa ROY 0. HALVE, 37 E Mam St, Bloomsburg, Pa. 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A panel of purebred breeders will also describe their breeding programs and how they work Following a lamb barbe que at Ohio State University, the evening program will look at Opportunities for Controlling Reproduction, Synchronization of Estrus, Ovulation, Induced Parturi tion, and the Use of Frozen Semen and A.I. for Sheep. Demonstrations and discus sion will be held on guidelines for carcass im provement, carcass data; the importance of blood grouping and typing, and icsearch in reproductive physiology including fer tilization and ova transfer. An open forum will pro- 25 W Long Meadow Rd Hagerstown MD Phone 301-733 8150 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,1980—C5S vide plenty of opportunities for participants to pose ques tions to the speakers. The Tuesday program will cover Group Breeding - A New Concept for Rapid Breed and Flock Improve ment; the Future for New or Synthetic Breeds and Types; Identifying Superior In dividuals for Flock Replace ment; and a panel on How I Like Performance Testing in My Flock. An overview of the current testing programs will balance out the session A panel of purebred breeders will also provide in sight into their breeding pro grams along with a free wheeling discussion of Managing the Purebred Flock for Production, Show and Sale. The role of the National Purebred Associations’ Future Purpose and Func tion will be analyzed with discussion of Centralized and Computerized Record Keeping, the Leadership Role and Copmg with the Problem of Crossbreeding, N.Y.-N.J. milk prices up to $12,25/cwt NEW YORK - Dairy farmers supplying milk plants regulated under the New York-New Jersey marketmg orders during December will be paid on the basis of a uniform price of $12.25 per hundred pounds or 26.3 cents per quart. Market Administrator Thomas A. Wilson, who announced December’s price, also stated that the uniform farm price was $12.62 per hundredweight in November 1979 and $11.42 per hundredweight in December 1978. The uniform price is a nationwide weighted and the Value of a National Purebred Organization. Advance registration fee for the symposium will be $4O per person which in cludes the banquet, lun cheons and a copy of the symposium proceedings. Tickets may also be pur chased at the door for $5O. Advance registration checks should be made payable to SID, Inc. and mailed to the Sheep Exten sion Office, Department of Animal Science, Ohio State University, 2029 Fyffe Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210, atten tion Sharon Evans. If you are unable to attend the entire symposium, single day rates are available at $25 per day. Advance hotel reserva tions are recommended with special symposium rates of $32 single and $3B double at the Hilton Inn, 3110 Olen tangy River Road, Colum bus, Ohio 43202. Be sure to specify you are attending the National Purebred Symposium. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel average of the value of farm milk used for fluid and manufactured dairy products. The total amount of milk received from the 17,567 dairy farmers supplying the New York-New Jersey Marketing Area was 824,323,298 pounds during December 1979. This was more than 20.0 million pounds above last year. The gross value to dairy farmers for milk deliveries was $103,185,244.81. Mr. Wilson explamed that this included differentials required to be paid to dairy farmers but not voluntary premiums or deductions authorized by the farmer. Regulated milk dealers utilized 394,080,064 pounds or 47.8 percent of the total amount of milk for Class I. The Class I milk is used for fluid milk products such as homogenized, flavored, low test and skim milks. For December 1979, handlers paid $13.50 per hundredweight, or 29.0 cents per quart, for the milk used in Class I products com pared with $12.43 a year ago. The balance of the milk, 52 2 percent, was used to manufacture Class II products including butter, cheese, ice cream and yogurt. For this milk the handlers paid $11.40 per hundredweight. The uniform price is based on milk containing 3.5 percent butterfat. For December 1979, a dif ferential of 15.0 cents was apphed to the price for each one-tenth of one percent that the milk tested above or below the 3 5 percent standard All prices quoted are for bulk lank milk i enured within the 201-210 mile ?one
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