A32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1980
MIDDLETOWN, Del. -
Starting January 1,1981, the
Delaware Cooperative
Extension Service will be
offering a new service for
farmers-a record keeping
program.
The system makes use of
the University of Delaware
Computer and can be ac
cessed through terminals
located in county extension
offices. To begin with, the
service will be available to
farmers in both New Castle
and Sussex counties. (The
Kent county extension office
Grange hosts Farm-City activities
TRAPPE - The Annual
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Grangers filled the hall to
capacity.
A delicious roast beef
family style dinner was
served by William Gotshall
and his committee.
The dinner prayer was
offered by Mrs. William
McCoy, Chaplain of the
grange.
Mrs Franklin Blank,
Master, gave opening
remarks and welcomed
everyone to an evening of
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Delaware extension to offer farm
doesn’t have the necessary
terminal yet).
To acquaint farmers with
the new service its
developer, extension farm
management specialist Don
Tilmon, will be holding two
meetings in December.
The meeting for Sussex
county farmers will take
place Thursday, December
4, at 7 30 p.m. at the
university’s Georgetown
Substation.
The New Castle county
meeting will be held at Chris
fellowship.
A short business meeting
was held after dinner It was
announced that the annual
Corn-Husking Bee and
candlelight tour at the Peter
Wentz Farmstead was a
success in spite of the cold
ram that night. Winners
were Paul Neumann and
Mindy Wismer and Betsy
Wismer and Dale Nice.
Director of Montgomery
County Parks Robert
Rothenberger announced the
Farmstead is looking for a
middle-aged person to be
keeper of the stock on a part
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record keeping service
Wick’s Lazy Boy Farm on
Route 896 near Middletown
on Monday, December 15 at
7; 30 p.m.
The meetings are intended
to introduce farmers to the
system and run through
procedures for dialing up the
computer, signing on and
running through a typical
program.
The new record keeping
service will make it possible
for farmers to keep records
on every major crop grown
m the state, plus broilers,
time ~ basis and perhaps
growing into a fulltime
position with living quarters.
Entertainment for the
evening was Miss Rosemary
Campanova of Worcester
who sang “My Favorite
Things” “I Could Have
Danced All Night”.
Also performing was Mrs.
Maryann Knarr of Gilbert
sville. She performed a
melodious collection of
patriotic and secular music
on the marimba.
Mam speaker was Deiter
Kreig of Lancaster County.
He told his life story of his
family’s escape from East
Germany in 1955. His father
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dairy cattle and hogs. It will
keep track of on-farm gram
storage as well as
depreciation on field
machinery plus any
facilities that are involved in
livestock enterprises.
It will also keep a labor
summary on all these en
terprises
The program will also
permit growers to keep
continuous record of some of
their farm management
practices, such as how much
fertilizer they apply or the
now has the largest dairy
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over 1500 dairy cows He
spoke of the perils of the
family and how they all
stayed together thru it all.
He was well received and
entertained a standing
ovation.
Remarks were heard by
Master of the Pa. State
Grange. Charles F. Wismer
and Pomona Master F
Robert Zimmerman, who
invited all sth degree
members to the quarterly
Pomona meeting, Dec 13 at
Valley Grange Red Hill.
The program closed with
group singing.
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ticular field.
Eventually Tilmon hopes
to expand the model to in
clude irrigation enterprises
as well, including irrigation
expenses and depreciation
on equipment. This in
formation would probably be
proprated across fields
where water is applied.
A computer can do
anything you can do with a
paper and pencil, says
Tilmon, stressing that
there’s nothing miraculous
about the service which will
be provided. It just does it a
lot faster.
It can also store, recall
and update large amounts of
information
A farmer who uses this
service can save several
hours a week, he says. On a
large-scale farm, it could
even save you the full-time
services of someone. The
system requires just a few
minutes a day for filling in
data on an input form. Then
once a month you would
spend about an hour up
dating this information on a
terminal in your county
office.
Information stored would
be strictly confidential
Each user would have a
secret number and
password, though the ex
tension service would like to
in
be able to use certain data on
general yields and
management practices in
determining statewide
averages.
Nominal cost to use the
service will range from $75
to $lOO for an average size
farm. The amount of time
you’re connected to the
computer largely deter
mines the cost. The
telephone bill is the biggest
expense, says Tilmon.
Each month each par
ticipant will get a readout
that provides an update on
all information stored to
date for that particular
account. At the end of the
year there will be a fmal
printout. This becomes your
formal record of financial
transactions for the year.
Basically, the service
provides the means for
keeping your farm records
much mere efficiently and
thoroughly, and much
faster.
Information from the
program can be used as an
aid in developing a budget
In time, you’ll also be able to
take the information from an
individual field or farm and
analyze it for trends that
may help improve your
management there
Interested farmers are
encouraged to attend these
meetings.
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