A3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1981 HARRISBURG - Scattered showers and thunderstorms during the week ending June 1 held farm fieldwork to four days across the state, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. Field activities included plowing and discing, making hay, green chop and silage, planting corn, potatoes and soybeans, and spraying fruits and vegetables. Sugar peas are reported as being ready for harvest, while green peas are flowering. Apples are now all in or past full bloom, a few days behind last year. The rainfall last week, which ranged from less than .1 inch at Lancaster to over 1.5 inches through the southcentral moun tains, helped statewide surface sod moisture improve. Statewide, soil moisture was Walebe Farms (Continued from Page A2B) converted greenhouses. He ex plains he’s been using the greenhouses for the past four years, noting they are cheap to build, provide a pleasant working area, give the calves lots of sun shine, and makes feeding them easy. Because the houses are kept at 55 degrees Farenheit, even in the winter time, Waltemyer chuckles and says, “The only disadvantage is you’ve got to put up with flies all yearlong.” As the tour comes to an end, Waltemyer gives a short run down of the farm’s history. He says Walebe Farms was incorporated in 1962 and went into operation in 1963, He explains the corporation involved four owners at its in ception, with himself acting as president. Over the course of time, the other owners sold out their shares, and Waltemyer became the sole owner of the 2000-acre corporation in 1978. “I always wanted to market milk,” says Waltemyer, ‘‘but the complexity of this operation is greater than anybody thought it would be ” Waltemyer confesses he never dreamed he would be the owner of such an outstanding operation, and credits much of his success to the former York County Assistant Extension Agent Harry Roth and his father-in-law, J Edgar Trumbauer, Waltemyer credits Roth with helping him get into Penn State to study dairy science and setting him up with a job at the Univer sity’s dairy bams. While at Penn State, Waltemyer met his future wife, Phoebe Trumbauer, a bac teriology major After completing three years of college, he recalls, he dropped out in 1957 to work on Phoebe’s father’s Jersey farm in Lansdale. Waltemyer smiles as he con fesses his experience on his father in-law’s farm is what got him started in the Jersey business even though he always worked with Holstems as a child After a year, Waltemyer’s relationship with Edgar Trum bauer went from employer to father-in-law, but he continued to work at the Lansdale farm until 1960. That year, Waltemyer and family moved to a farm next door to the present Walebe Farms and milked 50 cows until the cor poration went into operation m 1963. Today, after almost two decades, Walebe Farms is a symbol of Waltemyer’s success where the highest-selling Jersey bull, Valentino, was raised and where other top names in both the Jersey and Holstein breeds con tinue to uphold the farm's Fieldwork progresses rated as 71 percent adequate, 18 percent short and 11 percent surplus. Soil moisture was rated at 67 percent adequate, 22 percent short and 11 percent surplus in the north, while central counties were rated as 68 percent adequate in sod moisture, 21 percent short and 11 percent surplus. Southern counties rated 80 percent adequate, ten percent short and ten percent surplus. Statewide spring plowing is virtually complete, on a par with last year and the five-year average. Potato planting, is now 93 per cent complete, compared to the 88 percent planted last year. Planting is virtually complete in southern and central counties, and stands at 80 percent m the north. Com planting made excellent The Waltemyer family, Earl, Phoebe, and children Cindy, Karen and Richard, together strive to uphold the Walebe Farm motto “where excellence is measured performance.” Increase Production and Profits with Farmer Automatic’s Fully Automatic Quad Deck Cage System for Layers and Pullets... without increasing your building size! 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Soybean planting is at 25 percent complete in the north, 45 percent in central counties and 30 percent in the south. Barley is now 15 percent booted and 75 percent headed statewide, conlpared to 18 percent booted and 78 percent headed last year. In the north, 20 percent is booted and 50. percent is headed, while in central areas, 22 percent is booted and 67 percent is headed. Southern barley is six percent booted and 94 per centheaded. Wheat is now 34 percent booted and 45 percent headed across the state. This compares to the 42 percent booted and 46 percent headed last year at this tune. NAME yZIP PHONE Axiomatic into June Northern wheat plantings are 24 percent booted and 20 percent headed, while central areas report 40 percent booted and 43 percent headed. In the south, 30 percent is booted and 59 percent is headed. Overall, small grains are reported as looking very good. Both alfalfa and clover-timothy stands are good to fair. Alfalfa is rated as 74 percent good and 26 NORRISTOWN Dairy farms Nationally, Way says that account for over half of all farm consumers spend about 18 cents of receipts in Pennsylvania and every dollar of their personal dairymg is the healthiest sector of consumption for food and over 2 I ?n US | r L.S cents 0,1 dairy products. That ccorduig to Joseph H. Way, translates to over $29 billion retail ri °ii!i f ent ‘ with the farm value at around $l3 “Besides being large, the in- billi on dustry is very stable,” adds Way. Pennsylvania dairy farmers’ share $l3 bE amounts to 20 percent more (virtually all around m naaim or over Perce o * of farm sales. Dairy tarm records show that another 10 an important supplier of nulk to - percent of total cash flow is tI H f nor^l^ st ’ generated by the sale of cull cows, particularly the markets of New dairy calves, surplus grams and Jersey and metropolitan New * B York,” STATE OF AMERICA, INC Agent reports on Pa.’s dairy production William K. Moeller P.O. Box 39, Register, GA 30452 (912)681-2763 percent fair while clover-timothy is 78 percent good and 22 percent fair. First cutting of alfalfa is reported as 22 percent complete, compared to 16 percent cut last year. Alfalfa is being used for both silage and hay, with 73 percent in silage and 27 percent in hay. Some spittle bug infestations have been reported in alfalfa, but not enough to warrant spraying.
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