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Alcohol, politics, computers highlight PennAg meeting
BERSHEY “Anyone
contemplating getting into
the production of alcohol
should be made aware of the
economics involved and the
possible pitfalls which could
develop."
Hiat’s the opinion of T. A.
Bailey, president of
Distillers Feed Research
Council, Muscantine, lowa.
Speaking at the Io2nd
convention of PennAg In
dustries Association held
here last week, Bailey said
that due to the recent energy
crunch, com raisers, who for
years had been battling
rising costs and lower
prices, have been caught up
in the dream of higher com
prices.
But for gasohol to be
competitive in the fuel
FFA members win
at Beaver Fair
BEAVER SPRINGS - At
the 52nd Annual Beaver Fair
in Beaver Springs, PA, the
West Snyder FFA members
went home as happy prize
winners.
The long list of prize
winnings include, showing,
dairy cattle, market hogs,
hay, grains, project books,
small display exhibits, and a
large FFA exhibit bootii.
The individual prize
winnings include: FFA large
exhibit booth which won a
first out of 4 entries. Of the
small class exhibits, the
Vocational Agriculture
classes won a Ist, second,
and a fourth place. James
Hassinger from McClure
took home a sixth place with
bis dairy heifer and a first
place with his entry of grass
hay.
Robert Waite placed tenth
with his dairy heifer and
second place with an entry of
Timothy seed. In the market
hog category, Bryan Kuhns
garnered the Grand
Champion and Reserve
Grand Champion, with
Calvin Romig following at
Ist place and Ed Mulaney in
second place. Ihe Grand
Champion market hog sold
for $2.70 per pound.
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market, it has to
sidized Bailey explained.
“Between 1.55 and 1.80
times as much energy is
expended to produce ethanol
as is recovered by burning
the ethanol," he explained.
“And that doesn’t include
the energy necessary to
produce the com."
Bailey noted that as com is
diverted away from
livestock into gas tanks, the
livestock wiU lose the
energy, which will probably
be replaced by more com
grown.- The doubling of the
corn demand will cause
price increases which will
not only put the gasohol
plant out of business, but will
drastically increase food
costs.
In the end, he believes, the
“protests of the housewife
In the Dairy Shows, Barry
Waite, Tim Reich, Annette
Sbirey, and Jackie Beaver
were the prize winners.
Barry’s winnings ‘include
Senior Champion and Grand
Champion in the Youth Show
with bis two-year-old
Holstein and Master
Showman with a junior calf
in the Youth Show. He
garnered a second blue with
his junior yearling in the
Youth and Open shows. He
also placed 2nd with his two
year-old in the open show.
Tim Reich placed second
with his two-year-old
Holstein and fourth with his
junior calf.
Annette Shlrey’s
were: In the Youth Show, Ist
with her senior calf, second
with her two-year-old cow
never fresh, first with her
four-year-old, Ist in the aged
cow category. In the open
class she won a Ist with her
senior calf, Ist with her two
year-old never fresh, first
with a four-year-old and Ist
with her aged cow.
Jackie Beaver garnered
the Master Showmanship of
the entire Youth Show.
Other activities included
livestock judging classes,
and a chicken barbecue.
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PREHEATER
'Overwhelm!
ENERGY
RECIAIMINq
UNIT
will drown out the moans of
the gasohol entrepreneur.” __
. “Use your Congressman
first, not last” to fight the
regulatory jungle facing ag
businessmen today. That
was the word from a panel
including Jeffrey Bdese,
Director of Member Ser
vices, Indiana Grain and
Feed Assoc., Indianapolis,
Ind.; Gerald V. livadas,
Manager, of Public Affairs
and Government Relations,
Agway, Inc., Syracuse, NY;
and Donald Parke, PennAg
Industries Vice-President.
Part of the problem in the
past with government
regulatory action was that
businesses ' were not
politically . aware, they
noted. In the future, this
attitude must change.
There will be seven key
states in the political race
for President, and Penn
sylvania is one of them,
according to Bernadette-
Budde, Director of Political
Education, BIPAC,
Washington, DC.
“Whoever carries Penn
sylvania will have a good
chance at winning,” she
noted. Other key states in
clude New. York, Texas,
Ohio, Wisconsin, lowa, and
Indiana. She also stated that
farm-related groups will be
one of the determing factors
in many states, deciding
which way the state will
vote.
Objectives of your farm or
farm business need to be
analyzed before one decides
whether to purchase a small
computer. Costs, needs, and
business objectives should
all be considered, experts
noted.
An afternoon session on
microcomputers and
calculators led by Earl
Fuller, University of Min
nesota, St. Paid, Minn.;
Richard S. Adams, Lester
Burdette, and David
Mac Kinsey, all from Penn
State, and Sandy
MacGilvray, Victor F.
Weaver Co., New Holland,
showed some of the varied
uses of computers in
agriculture.
Benefits are not all in
dollars and cents though
they warned, many of the
assets occur in terms of
personal satisfaction. But
the cash flow will have to
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Elected at its recent convention in Hershey, PennAg officers for 1981, are,
from left, front Morris Brown. Jr., Reading, president; Jay Wolgemuth, Mt Joy,
retiring president; George Blankley, Narberth, vice-president; .and rear, left,,
John J. Hess 11, Paradise, treasurer; Tom Zeigler, Gardners, vice-president;
William Brubaker, Lancaster, vice-president; and Donald W. Parke. Ephrata,
executive vice-president
stand the purchase of such
equipment or competitive
needs should be considered.
Programmable calculators,
and other kinds of farm
record books for cash flow
may be the answer.
Trucks were ateo the
subject of a special session
at the convention.
Deregulation, maintenance
and accounting were
discussed by Torn Mannix,
President, Transportation -
Advisors, Ft Lauderdale,
Fla.; Ernest Horn 111,
pennfield * Corporation,
Lancaster, William J.
Poorbaugb, Poorbaugh
Grain, Lancaster, and
William D. Angstadt,
Reading Bone Fertilizer Co.,
Reading.
Representing the
Governor’s Energy Council
in Pennsylvania, Robert
Shinn told his audience that
it is in everybody’s best
interests to support a plan to
help manage the cost and
availability of energy prices.
A bright future will be
maintained if all make a
massive commitment to
increased energy efficiency,
he stressed.
PennAg Industries
Association, the state-wide
trade association of
SPECIALISTS IN CABLEVEY
FEED CONVEYING AND AUTOMATION
agribusiness firms, for the meeting. The group's 1961
first time has over 900 convention will be held
members, it was announced September 15 to 17 at The Inn
at the general business . at Buck Hill Falls.
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