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some optimism about exporting
Pennsylvania’s processed fruit
juices and other dairy products in
the future. However, he noted
Taiwan is not an easy customer for
processed foods and poultry which
Pennsylvania has in surplus
supply.
The cost of processing and
transportation of these products
from Pennsylvania to the R.O.C.
and Japan prices the goods right
out of the market, he explained.
These same trade items can be
purchased from nearby nations
like New Zealand and Australia.
The' Japanese protect their
farmers with a 50 percent duty on
ag imports to their nation. This
limits the agricultural imports
from the U.S. tremendously, said.
Hallowell. The main trade between'
Japan and the U.S. is in grains and
cotton.
“This is where 1 must support
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture John
Block’s stand for-trading harder
for American agriculture,”
Hallowell stated.
He noted both nations were in*
terested in importing hard wood
from the U.S. for their building
industries. Hallowell said he’s
already contacted some lumber
companies in the state to let them
know about this export possibility.
And with more women in the
labor force in both Taiwan and
Japan, there is an increased
demand for baby food. This is
another item Hallowell said
Pennsylvanians may be interested
in exporting.
Fresh vegetables and fruits,
aren’t on the possibility list since
the climate in Taiwan and Japan
allows most people to have small
gardens. Poultry, pork and eggs
also are not promising export
items since Japan is already self-
Open House at New Swine Facility
Middle Creek Swine is a totally confined and
environmentally controlled complex and will be
a future Source of DEKALB hybrid gilts for
commercial hog producers in Pennsylvania and
other Northeastern states. This unit is designed
tojarrow 20 sows per week on a four week
weaning schedule with individual rooms for each
weekly farrowing group. Also, installed in the
unit is a new and unique system for animal
waste removal. The farm is scheduled to be
populated in July 1981.
In addition to touring the swine unit, you can
see a display of DEKALB'S complete line of
hybrid boars and hybrid gilts.
in Taiwan
sufficient m producing these
commodities even exporting
some, noted Hallowell.
\ “We need to find ways to export
our dairy, poultry, and processed
food products,’’ reiterated
Hallowell, “but presently there is
not one person who is specializing
in exports within the ag depart
ment whose sole responsibility
is exports. Perhaps our budget will
allow someone to specialize.”
Hallowell reported Pennsylvania
1a a member of the Eastern U.S.
Food and Agricultural Export
Council and will have Penn
sylvania ag products on display at
the first World Food Show ever to
be held in the U.S. It’s scheduled to
be held next April in New York
City.
He also reported the Thornburgh
administration has taken the
initiative to expand the state’s
foreign markets by opening trade
offices- in Tokyo, London, and
Rome.
Over the past two years, Penn
sylvania’s ag exports have in
creased from $l5O million to $226
million, Hallowell noted.
Some of, the obstacles facing
Pennsylvania traders when
dealing with Taiwan and Japan
besides transportation costs are
the differences in labor costs,
observed Hallowell.
“There’s only a 1% percent
unemployment rate in Taiwan
labor is relatively inexpensive
over there. In the R.0.C., a laborer
can expect to earn about $2OOO a
year,” he revealed.
“Time will tell how much ex
porting will be developed between
these countries and Pennsylvania.
What is needed is a sales force,” he
added.
In summing up his trip,
Hallowell smiled and said, “1
suppose the farther one goes, the
DEKALB Swine Breeders, Inc. and Middle Creek Swine
Breeders, Bnc. invite you to attend an Open House of a new
500 sow farrow-to-finish swine production unit. This unit is the
newest production farm in DEKALB Swine Breeders' system for
production of DEKALB hybrid gilts.
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Leon Riegel
DR. Reigel comments:
We frequently get Inquiries as to
the worth of worming dairy cattle.
Much has been written recently
about worming mature cattle and
the beneficial results this will have
as far as increased milk produc
tion. Many tests have been done to
substantiate this fact. I would like
to discuss a different phase of
dairy production but one as equally
important, that of worming young
- replacement heifers.
Traditionally these animats,
were wormed in the spring before
being put on pasture and again in
fall when they were taken off
pasture. This schedule was used
primarily because that was when
the animals could be handled the
easiest and once they were put on
psture one tends to forget the
animals needs beyond feed and
water until they were brought in
again in the fall.
Unfortunately the life cycle of
most intestinal parasites (worms)
doesn’t pay attention to the
schedules which may be most
convenient to farmers. For this
reason I operate a different
schedule which may be more ef
ficient in removing worms from
dairy heifers when they are
more one appreciates Penn
sylvania I was ready to come
home although I would have
liked to visit some of the dairy
farms in Japan where some of our
state’s Holsteins are living now. ’ ’
DEKALB Swine Breeders, Inc.
Ask the
VMD Jh
probably doing the most harm, greatly then I prefer boluses, in-
Instead of worming cattle before jectables or paste wormers. If it
they are put on pasture, worm takes nothing short of a rodeo to
them three weeks after they first accomplish this then worming
enter pasture and again when they crumbles which can be added to
are taken off pasture in fall. In the feed can be used. 1 would
years which have very wet periods suggest alternating the products
during the pasture season, wor- being used to prevent the chance of
ming cattle a second time while parasites becoming resistant to
they are on pasture, about two certain wormers.
months, after the first worming. In any event, I would recom
wouldbeinorder. mend boluses, paste or Injectable
As far as the type of wormer to wormer be used at least (Mice
be used, if the cattle can be han- during the season, probably when
died without stressing them too coming off pasture in the fall.
Hunterdon County
FLEMINGTON, N.J. Hun
terdon County will honor June
Dairy Month this week with a
Dairy Farm Open House and the
annual Hunterdon County Dairy
Princess Contest.
Over 1500 people are expected to
attend the Open House between
1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. at the
Ernest Kuster Farm, two miles
south of Flemington on routes 202
and 31 on Sunday, June 21.
The Dairy Princess Contest, als
open to the public, will begin with a
baked ham dinner at 7:00 p.m. in
the Amwell Valley Firehouse in
Rmgoes on Tuesday, June 23.
Tickets for the dinner cost $7.50 per
Middle Creek Swine farm is located on
897 between Highway 272 and
Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, and ap
proximately 3 miles west of Reinholds, Penn
sylvania; look for the Open House signs.
Don't miss this opportunity to
tour Middle Creek Swine Breeders on
Friday, June 26
from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Looking Forward To Seeing You There!
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20,1081—A37
SyntheaMaas TimTrayer Edgar Sheaffer
Dairy Month
person and are available at the
Hunterdon Extension Center on
Route 31 in Flemmgton.
In a recent meeting of the
Hunterdon Freeholders, George
Mehck proclaimed “June Dairy
Month” and praised the efforts of
the county’s 120 dairy farms,
supporting businesses and the 6,500
dairy cows that produce about $8.4
million worth of mile each year.
Mehck stressed “the health and
life-sustaining values of fresh milk
and dairy foods” and noted the
important place production,
processing and distribution of milk
and dairy products have in the
economy.