*36—Lancaster Farwimi, Saturday, April 12,1980
County Guernsey breeders hold annual spring tour
LANCASTER -
Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders annual spring tour
was held last Monday.
Breeders visited a
processing facility, dairy
farms, and a shoe factory.
The group saw the newest
and most modem milk
processing plant in the east,
the Mt. Holly Milk
Cooperative Plant. It was
processing whole milk
powder, nonfat dry milk, and
Milk support price
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The support price for
manufacturing grade milk
containing 3.5 percent
milkfat will be raised from
$11.22 to $12.07 per hun
dredweight on April 1,
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Hog producers slate
special meeting
LANCASTER Lan
caster County will hold a
special meeting for all swine
feeders and breeders.
The meeting will run this
Wednesday evening, April
16, starting at 7:30 p.m. m
the basement meeting room
of the Farm and Home
Center.
County Agent Max Smith
said the meeting was to help
swine producers, already
faced with a tight financial
situation, to reduce pig and
hog losses and increase
margins.
Speakers for the meeting
will include a pair of
veterinarians. Dr. Neil
Becker and Dr. Larry
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buttermilk powder very
smoothly.
The 30 Guernsey breeders
could witness a continuous
flow of butter, coming out of
two machines at the rate of
8000 pounds per hour. This
butter was then swiftly
packaged into 68 lbs. con
tainers.
The
This plant will play a very
important role in the
coming milk flush month,
because the perishable milk
Bergland said Monday.
For milk with a U.S. an
nual average milkfat content
of 3.67 percent, the new
support price is equivalent to
$12.36 compared with thei,
present $11.49.
Current law requires the
Dr Becker, from the
University of Florida, will
discuss health problems of
young pigs.
He olans to cost an un
thrifty feeder pig at the
meeting and discuss what he
finds on the inside.
Dr. Hutchinson, a Penn
State vet, will discuss
Haemophilus pneumonia
This infection is becoming
quite serious in the
southeastern part of the
state, according to Smith,
and swine producers need to
know more about this threat
to the swine industry
The meeting is free and
open to any interested swine
producer.
will be dried and can later be
use for chocolate, such as
M&Ms, cakes, pies, shor
tening, and other products.
Guernsey breeders then
saw the dairy of the Lester
VanArsdale family in
Biglerville. Close to 200
Guernseys are kept in an
enclosed loose housing
system. A herringbone
milking parlor with
automatic takeoff milkers
works very well here. One is
impressed with the
increases to $12.07
milk support prices be ad
justed semi-annually to
reflect the estimated change
m the parity mdex (mdex of
prices paid by farmers for
commodities and service,
interest, taxes and wage
rates) during the first half of
the marketing year.
Bergland announced
March 28 that the support
price for manufacturing
milk would be mcreased
based on data published in
the “Agricultural Prices”
report.
The parity mdex on Oct. 1,
1979-the beginning of the
marketing year-was 866
(the period 1910 -1914 equals
100). The index published
today is 932, which is 7.6
percent higher than six
months ago. Thus, the
support price was raised by
7.6 percent, or 85 cents per
hundredweight.
The prices at which
USDA’s Commodity Credit
Corporation will offer dairy
products for sale for
unrestricted use will con
tinue to be 105 percent of the
current purchase price for
these commodities. '
However, for September
1980 the sellback ices will
cleanliness of the milk area
and the lack of any strong
smells in the area.
All the manure from the
loose housing area is pushed
underground and stored in
an adjacent building with a
wide overhanging roof. No
surface water can go into
this building and a man
could actually walk on the
pack. This system seems to
be the most efficient for their
system.
be increased to ap
proximately the projected
purchase pnces to be in
effect after the new support
price is announced for the
1980-81 marketing year
beginning Oct. 1.
The support for milk is
achieved by CCC purchases
of butter, cheese and nonfat
dry milk at prices calculated
to enable manufacturing
plants, on the average, to
pay producers the support
price for their milk.
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The washwater and the
milkhouse wastes flow into a
pond-like lagoon. It takes
large equipment to operate
this 600 acre dairy in Adams
county, but all this is
possible through their in
come from their Guernsey
cows.
The emphasis was on the
cows at the next stop,
Mervm K. Myers and Sons,
Piney Lane Farm, Lit
tlestown.
While these fanners were
given a review of the herd
which features Sniders
Prince Lily (E 90) a two time
National Class Leader.
Lily won the Tarbell
Trophy m 1978 with her 2-09
fat record of 1203 pounds of
fat in 305 days.
The group saw her first
embryo transplant, a March
heifer calf by Maverick.
Also at the Myers is Mc-
Donald’s Farm Darimost
Linda (E 91) the dame of
McDonald’s Top Pilot whose
current proof is +1173 and
+2SF. Linda is still working
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hard and has out over
SOOOlbs. of butterfat in her
lifetime. Many other out
standing cow families en
thused the Lancaster County
group.
Progress could also be
seen on this farm with its
new manure storage system
and pickett fence. This farm
is bordered by housing from
nearby Littlestown and the
environment has to be
carefully observed.
For dairy fanner it is good
to see other people working
in factories. How are shoes
made? Well, Hanover Shoe
Factory gave the group a
very good inside view. The
piece work of the assem
blying is done in a new
facility and there are many
single jobs involved m its
production. Laborers have to
work fast and intensely.
The Guernsey men gave
thanks to the generous
hostesses and to the com
mittee of Kenneth Garber,
Willow Street; and Jesse
Balmer, Lititz, for arranging
an enjoyable tour.
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