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I Closed Saturday | r* ■ HURST TIRE SERVICE 1 W PHONE (717)354-4931 | f 1 Mile West of Blue Balfanßt 322 OFFICUi INSPECTION STATION SNOW TIRE SPECIALS Sale FET 28.00 .. 1.63 30.00 .. 1.98 33.00 .. 2.04 35.00 .. 2.15 36.00 .. 2.19 35.00 . . 2.89 29.00 . . 2.93 36.00 . . 2.43 39.75 .. 2.92 41.00 . .3.43 FREE MOUNTING & BALANCING ON TIRES RADIAL SNOW TIRES . 44.00 .. 2.08 -13. *-14 1-14. -14 . .. 49.50 .. 2.49 .. 52.50 .. 2.67 .. 55.00 .. 2.80 1-14 -14 56.75 . .3.10 56.75 .. 2.95 58.00 .. 3.09 59.75 .. 3.36 All Season STEEL BELTED RADIAL WHITEWALLS ★ LEGAL ON SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE FOR MUD & SNOW TIRES 52.00 55.00 There’s an old agricultural adage that says farmland prices will continue to in crease because we aren’t making anymore land That philosophy has taken farmers to the point where they’re willing to pay $6OOO or more per acre for selected parcels of prime farmland. And everybody seems to be wondering how farmers can pay so much for land and still make money. A number of factors are a\ work suggesting that far mland prices, at least in the foreseeable future, may not continue to spiral as they have over the past decade. Maybe farmers have reached the limit of what they can pay based on existing economic cir cumstances. It may be almost true that we aren’t making any more land these days, but we are doing some things to make the same land go further and that’s having an effect. Look at the double and triple cropping that goes on in this part of the country com- ELEVATOR and LUMBER CO Mavfntvßlt, MU. , F-E.J, $1 96 $2 09 $2 29 $2 34 $2 59 $2.69 $2 68 $2 74 $3 16 $3 17 young’s BREEDER'S CHOICE "Free Choice" SUPPLEMENT l5" O Lb. 'Jg-, YEAR 'ROUND COMPLEMENT Bog I * I TO THE FEEDING PROGRAM OF: ftafSce 1 * DAIRY t BEEF CATTLE • SHEEP . 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Add to that all of the land that has been cleared and drained and otherwise brojught into farm produc tion, and you realize that the agricultural base has grown over the past several decades. Through their ingenuity and necessity, farmers have in effect created more farmland. While they were doing that, however, inflation has been beating hard at their heels And so the hoped for effect of a large productive ===?» i, mmAwmAvmwxm&m ELEVATOR and LUMBER COMPANY - Maugansvilla, Md. 739-4220 Lancaster Tanning, Saturday, November 1,T980—C31 unit has been wiped out by the high cost of farming. So what about the future 7 Can farmers continue to pay more for land than they’re already paying 7 By the same token, can they pay higher land rents 7 Some agricultural economists feel that farmers have been pushed about as far as they can go in this regard. That the cost-pnce squeeze is catching up to them in a way that will force them to back off from the high land costs. Consider this data from Illinois studies conducted in 1979. That year the average com yield for 1000 farmers in the survey was 128 bushels per acre. The average for soybeans was 38 bushels per acre. They received an average $2.46 a bushel for com and $6.38 a bushel for soybeans. Figuring actual costs of production, the economists point out that it cost those farmers $228 per acre to grow the'com and $l6l per aert for the soybeans. That’s not counting the cost of land. So_, the average return above, costs, .excluding the land, were $B7 per acre for com and $B5 for soybeans But that was last year, and farmers have seen dramatic increases in their cost of production for 1900 Granted, price per bushel is a little better, but at least in this area yields are going to be off. That means the cost-pnce squeeze could be even worse. u'% ' PRO-LIX Liquid Feed Supplement Gives you these advantages for your dairy herd . . . • Increases milk production and sustains this in crease through the latter stages of lactation • Reduces total feed costs through better effi- ciency • Stronger, big frame heifers at lower cost than grain feeding. • Eliminates labor in care and feeding of both dry cows and replacement heifers. Using Illinois conditions economists figure the in come prospects for this year to be even more dismal than 1979, with an average return above non-land costs at $64 an acre for both corn and soybeans. That’s a decline of about a third since last year And they project 1961 at about that same level. What that says in reality is a farmer who is renting land would have only about 60 or 65 dollars per acre available to pay for the land and still break even, based on Illinois production figures and cost estimates. If that’s the case, a lot of Illinois farmers are going to be hurting because their land rent costs typically run much higher than that. What the Illinois economists, and others for that matter, are suggesting is that the cost-pnce squeeze is such that unless fanners get relief m some other areas, they’re going to hav to pay lower land renUl rates and lower land pur chase pnees, because in the long run they simply cannot produce at/ below-cost figures The Illinois economists are projecting, based on the substantial survey, what a lot of farmers and agricultural economists across the country have been saying that land prices and land rents are just too high. Every spring reports abound of what farmers are paying for land reports . son yyO TEST It pay* to da soil tasting! The pay off comes in the form of higher yields and better utilization of fer tilizer and chemicals. Call FRANK, GARY, or ROGER today' (Turn to Page C 32)
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