C3S—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28,1980 COLLEGE PARK, Md - Major news on the farm equipment scene this year has been a big increase in forage harvester sales and a sharp decline in sales of tractors and combines compared with a year ago. John W. Wysong, professor of agricultural and resource economics, noted that dairy and beef cattle farmers have enjoyed fairly good tunes, starting in 1977. They now appear to be reducing their potential income taxes by investing in forage-harvesting ’ equip ment to replace obsolete or worn-out machinery. Gram farmers exhibited a similar pattern m 1978 and 1979, following a favorable trend in gram prices. But depressed cash gram prices currently are not en couraging farmers to buy tractors and other gram machinery. 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Chambersburg, PA 717-263-8424 ARNETTS GARAGE Rt 9 Box 125 Hagerstown, MD 301 733-0515 UMBERGERS MILL Rt 4 Lebanon, PA (Fontana) 717-867-5161 ZOOK’S FARM STORE Honey Brook, PA BINKLEY & HURST BROS. 133 Rothsville Station Road Lititz, PA 717-626-4705 Hay outlook good on Md. farm scene hay than for com, says Lester R. Vough, extension forage crops specialist and associate professor of agronomy Vough points out that the pleasure horse industry in Maryland is a big consumer of hay, along with dairy and beef cattle. Thus, it is hay deficit state. Alfalfa acreage in Maryland suffered sharp cutbacks 15 to 20 years ago when farmers could not control the ravaging alfalfa weevil with then-legal in secticides. Switching from hay to com production was made easy by cheap nitrogen fertilizer and rising prices for land and feed grams Now the weevil can be controlled with new in secticides and scouting programs. Nitrogen fer tilizer is no longer a “cheap” commodity for corn growers, and gram prices are currently depressed AGWAY, INC. Chapman Equip Center Chapman, PA 215-398 2553 CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SONS Hickory Hill, PA 215-932-2615 WERTZ GARAGE Lmeboro, MD 301-374 2672 LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO., INC. Richland, PA 717-866-7518 CLAIR J. MYERS Lake Road R 1 Thomasville, PA 717-259-0453 COLUMBIA CROSS ROADS EQUIP. RD 2 Box 62 Columbia Cross Roads PA 717-297-3873 717-297-2991 PETERMAN FARM EQUIPMENT, INC. 225 York Rd Carlisle PA 717 249-5338 Vough does not advocate a rapid switch back to hay growing, however “First, we have to develop a marketing system. We need to organize a hay-growers association ’’ He noted that horsemen generally discriminate against Maryland-grown hay becuase of its reputation for poor quality and lack of an efficient marketing delivery system. Most alfalfa growers in Maryland last year found a DRAINAGE PROBLEMS? 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DRAINAGE & EXCAVATING RD #3, DENVER, PA 17517 develop a hay management program to “sell the best and feed the rest.” The Maryland extension specialist noted that big, round bales are not the answer for producing good quality hay, and they are not suited to leaving in the field during typically rainy Maryland winters To provide farmers an opportunity to see what he considers a new, practical way of handling hay, Vough has set up a public ★ We Stock Heavy Grade Tubing which Exceeds SCS Specifications. In sizes 4", 6". 8". 10" and 12". NOW AVAILABLE 15" & 18" Tubing ★ Also Pipe And Fittings For Tile Outlet Terraces. demonstration of a disk mower-conditioner, in troduced from Europe The new haymaking machine will be on view July 31 during the annual statewide family field day at the University of Maryland forage research farm near Clarksville in Howard county The U.S. imported more meat - 1.36 million metric tons - than any other country in 1979, says the Department of Agriculture PH: 215-267-3808
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