D26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4,1981 Getting started in farming isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible at least not yet. I read about enough young farmers throughout the country who are managing ways to grab the first rung of the ladder to farming success Granted, most of them are gettmg started by working into the family business But there are some others with no relatives and no prospects for an agricultural inheritance who want to farm What should they be told 9 First of all, they should know it’s not easy, but it can be done Farming is rot a closed business not this year anyway and it may not be for several years to come It takes some finances, some knowhow, a lot of desire and an inordinate amount of faith and courage A young person with those things going, plus a little patience, can probably get started in farming A start in farming doesn’t necessarily mean a 500-acre spread, the latest equipment for growing corn and soybeans, and a brand new pickup truck It’s more apt to be a rundown 50 CONSIGNMENT AUCTION & OPEN HOUSE IH 806 D wide front 2pt - 460 Farmall gas IH 606 D wide front, 3 pt. 2 Farmall H’s, 1 with loader JD B late model Cockshutt 30 with Chrysler engine IH T 5 bulldozer AC-c (cracked block) 5000 Ford diesel MFI6S diesel, 7’ mounted mower, Farmall M More by sale time TRUCKS IHI7OO CO 345 engine. 4& 2 need motor job Diamond Reo dump truck. 1973 CJ Jeep, 1941 Chevy pickup. Inventory may change due to daily business. AUCTIONEER WARREN FIESTER Farm Talk Jerry Webb acres that can be developed into a high risk, high income vegetable business Or the first step into a swine operation, or maybe if will be home base to an -expanding operation that relies on rented land There are farmers around who want to bring someone into* the business Farmers who have no offspring interested in farming who have established a good operation and want to see it con tinued. And it’s just human nature to want to help somebody who’s trying to get started So combine those two factors the desire to keep a thriving farm business functioning and the desire to help somebody and you have the elements needed It’s just a matter of getting the right people together. In that kind of situation a young person might have to start out as hired labor, doing whatever the farmer wanted done for a year or two until the owner was convinced that this was the right person Then some sort of deal might develop that would involve shares, buying in, and bonuses for out- Come to our 4th Annual Consignment Auction and Open House at Chase’s Farm Service 7 miles west of New Albany, 12 miles South of Dushore and 2 miles north of Forksville, PA TRACTORS standing efforts Things like that would allow the young person to use his or her energies to the fullest Meantime, the farmer-owner could start to hand over certam responsibilities and take life a little easier, that was gi adually working into a retiiemuii pustuie with a young lannei buying in and providing retirement income The owner would still be there to give management suggestions, extra labor when needed, and maybe even operating capital It’s a typical parent-child arrangement without the hin drance of being related It gives the farmer a chance to ‘recruit” a successor, something that a lot of farmers don’t get a chance to do because they have heirs Another way for an enterprising young farmer to get started is through a rental arrangement A long-term deal is best and preferably one based on shares It may be possible to rent a whole farm, equipped and all Or, if equipment’s the problem, don’t let the $200,000 price tag quoted so frequently be the stop per Go for good used equipment Successful Farming magazine quotes a midwestern auctioneer who says a young farmer can get started with adequate row crop equipment for $35,000 It won’t be the newest or the biggest, but it will be serviceable and with a little winter maintenance can do quite well Here s his list A John Deere 4320 tractor $11,500, a five-bottom plow, $lOOO, an 18-foot disk, $3OOO, four-row planter, $2250, a John Deere 95 combine, $12,000, miscellaneous tillage and wagons, $5OOO That’s a total of $34,750 not something you could save out of a year's earnings from an off farm job, but again not impossible for someone planning ahead Beyond land and equipment 4th Annual SATURDAY, APRIL 11 TRACTORS - FARM MACHINERY - TOOLS - PARTS - ETC. DOOR PRIZES, ETC. No Purchase Necessary Refreshments by Estella Methodist Church FOR INFORMATION OR TO CONSIGN CALL 717-924-3757 Starting 10:30 A.M. Owatonna 229 haybine Hesston PT 10 haybme AC 720 c chopper with 2 row head Ontario 11 hole gram drill New Idea stalk chopper Oliver 4 row com planter 3 bottom Oliver 16” trailer plows 3pt. scrapper blade old bolster wagon 5-bottom John Deere plows; Brillion 11 foot pulva mulcher; Fox hopper blower; Dion hopper blower and pipe; flat bed wagon. IH hopper blower, 4 bottom, MF 3 pt. plow, Int. 130 bu. manure spreader, JD 9’ haybine, IH V 816 haybme, IH 16 chopper with pickup head, JD 2 row complanter, JD 3 bottom 55 trailer plow, barrell type manure spreader, IH 12’ model 370 disc harrow. 3 hp vacuum pump many used milkers 6 stall Universal opening milking parlor, new in 1976 18.4x38 tires 16.9x28 and more Fisher Grandpa stove lots of used pipe and fittings chicken feeder and waterers much more there is the tremendous challenge of operating capital. It takes a lot of money to run a farm and in a bad year, it may take more money than expected just to get started again the following season Here’s where a serious young farmer needs to have a good rapport with a lending institution that understands agriculture and has faith m that person’s future Want something else to think about 9 All of the economic indicators are pointing to some boom years ahead for agriculture Economists have been talking boom years a long time and there have been a few But the world food situation is reaching the point where good years in agriculture should out weigh! the bad ones bv a con- Travis joins ag staff UNIVERSITY PARK - James W Travis has been appointed to Penn State’s College of Agriculture faculty as assistant professor of plant pathology extension, ef fective February 1 Thomas B King, Penn State associate dean for extension, points out Travis is assitmg county Extension agents on the management of fruit diseases throughout the state He also is working on the development of new disease management strategies A native of Adams county, he Del. extension (Continued from Page D 24) example, assume that the sup plement tag says the bag contains 1,000,000 IU of vitamin A per pound of premix Assume also that the tag instructs you to add 10 pounds of supplement to 1 ton of feed This means there will be 10,000,000 units of vitamin A per ton of feed, or MACHINERY MISCELLANEOUS CHASE'S FARM SERVICE siderable margin The young farmers who went into business in the early seventies thinking it was going to be prosperity from then on got disappointed And young farmers _now who start thinking it’s all Sunshine and roses will probably be disappointed also' There are bound to be some ups and downs, but the ups are going to be higher and the downs shouldn’t be quite so low. Given decent weather conditions, a young person could start on a shoestring and have a chance. It won’t be easy, but then it never has been Young farmers of 50 years ago who started as a sharecropper with a team of mules and $lOO thought they had problems too received a bachelor of arts degree in from Get tysburg College in 1975, master of science degree in entomology from Penn State in 1977, and doctor of philosophy degree m plant pathology and horticultural science from North Carolina State University in 1981 Travis is a member of the American Phytopathological Society, Entomology Society of America, American Horticultural Society, and Phi Kappa Phi honor society 5,000 IU (10,000,000 divided by 2,000) of A per pound of mixed feed. The gestating sow needs 2,000 IU per pound of ration, so this premix would provide her with more than an adequate amounts of this nutrient Make sure your hogs get adequate amounts of the other vitamins, too
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