Two regional marketing meetings set for early March
SELINSGROVE A regional
meeting for direct marketers will
be held Monday, March 9, 1981 m
the Community Room at Boscov’s
Shopping Mall, Selmsgrove.
If you are a direct marketer
interested in programs related to
advertising, promotion and
pricing, then you may want to
attend this meeting.
Ransom Blakeley, extension
marketing specialist from Cornell
University, will be the mam
speaker. Blakeley has worked as
an educator and consultant to
direct marketers for many years
and has participated in con
ferences in several states
throughout the country He is
recognized as a leader in his
profession.
At the Selmsgrove meeting
Blakeley wiU speak on techniques
for pricing farm products and
developing effective advertising
and promotion programs
Several experienced farm
marketers also will share their
experiences with advertising and
promotion They are Mrs. Tom
Styer, Lycoming County; Kathy
Whitenight, Montour County;
Jeanne Sierer,, Snyder County;
and Ronald Rohrbach, Columbia
County
Representatives from radio
stations and newspaper publishers
have been asked to tell how they
can help direct marketers develop
timely and effective advertising
programs
Direct marketers will have the
opportunity to hear Blakeley speak
the following day, Tuesday, March
10, in Lackawanna County The
meeting will be held in the
Ramada Inn, Chinchilla.
Blakeley’s discussions at that
meeting will be concerned with
farmer’s markets and how they
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Other speakers on the program retail marketing programs. For the Chinchilla meetmg,
are Carol and Robert Daniels, Plan to make your reservations contact Tom Jurchak, County
Carbon County, and Paul Commercial exhibitors with early. More details concemmg the Agent, 200 Adams Avenue,
Shoemaker, Northampton County, products of interest to direct Selmsgrove meetmg are available Scranton, PA 18503.
Bargain bulls could be white elephants
STATE COLLEGE - Can you
imagine paying hard earned cash
for the opportunity to lose money 9
That is what most cow/calf
producers are domg when they buy
a “Bargain Bull,” according to
State Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallowed
“One of the largest expenses at
any one time is the purchase price
of a bull,” the Bucks County dairy
farmer said “The buyer of an
untested, low-price bull may get a
false sense of security in lowermg
the cost of beef production In most
instances, the kmd of bull pur
chased has a far greater influence
on the cost of production than just
the purchase price ”
Approximately 87 percent of the
genetic make-up of a calf is
determined by the last three
generations of bulls used This
factor can make a bull selection a
make-or-break decision for the
cow/calf producer
A total of 86 bulls from 63 dif
ferent producers, representing
six different breeds, began a
performance testing program at
the Department’s Meat Animal
Evaluation Center in October
” The primary purpose of the test
is to identify those bulls that are
genetically superior in the more
efficient production of red meat.
At the end of the 84 days on tests,
the Average Daily Grain for all the
bulls at the center is an impressive
3.45 pounds per day. The Polled
Herefords is 3 18 pounds per day
Twenty-seven Angus bulls have
an average daily gam of 342
pounds per day The average daily
gain for the 17 Simmentals is 3 71
pounds per day And the five
Charolais bulls have an average
daily gain of 3 88 pounds ppp
MDMU threatens Pa. sweet corn
HERSHEY - Maize dwarf
mosaic virus has been recognized
as a pathogen of corn in Penn
sylvania since the early 1960’5,
reports John E Ayers, Depart
ment of Plant Pathology, at Penn
State
At that tune two strains were
recognized, namely MDMV-A and
MDMV-B MDMV-A was known as
the Johnsongrass strain because of
its ability to survive in this weed.
MDMV-B > became known as the
non-Johnsongrass strain because it
could not be reproduced in
Johnsongrass.
When MDMV was first found m
Pennsylvania, strain B was the
most prevalent To date, no one
has conclusively demonstrated
how MDMV-B survives in the
absence of corn, Ayers said
Reported damage attributed to
MDMV seemed to decrease in the
late 1960’s and early 1970’s m dent
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The four Chianma bulls on test
have an average daily gam of 3.79
pounds per day. The only purebred
Limousin bull on test has a 3,11
pounds per day average daily gam.
“The test officially ends March
4 All bulls will be mdexed and the
top 75 percent will sell m Penn-
and sweet corn In recent years,
MDMV has caused more concern,
particularly among sweet corn
growers
There are many examples of late
planted, MDMV susceptible
varieties that were severely
damaged by the disease MDMV-B
is no longer the major strain of the
virus in the state. MDMV-A is now
identified about as frequently as
MDMV-B. This is assumed to be
related to the spread of John
songrass.
Recent research has shown the
growth stage of the plant at the
time of infection is critical to the
amount of yield loss realized.
Experiments with Bonanza and
Stylepak indicate that infections
occurring near the time of
pollination result in larger losses
than infections occurring at earlier
growth stages.
Other research suggests that
sylvama’s Bth Performance Tested
Bull Sale which will be held on
Friday, March 27, 1981, starting at
12 noon,” Hallowell said
March 13 from the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, Meat
Animal Evaluation Center, 651 Fox
Hollow Road, State College, PA
16801
disease incidence may not be a
good indicator of the loss attained.
Some varieties exhibit a low in
cidence of disease bat snow a
greater reduction in yield when
infected than do other varieties
which exhibit high levels of
disease.