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[ BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
t EAST EARL'—“Depopulation.”
It’s a word that may come up a
time or two at next week’s public
meetings of the Pseudorabies Task
Force.
The sessions, which .Lancaster
County pork producers are en
couraged to attend, include:
Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Bergstrasse School, east of
Ephrata.
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
basement meeting room of the
Lancaster Farm and Home
Center.
And when you talk about
“depopulation,” it's best to talk to
someone who has personally ex
perienced it
One such person is Bill Fisher,
president of the Lancaster County
Pork Producers and manager of a
large breeding operation. He’s also
a member of the Task Force.
“We were one of the first
operations affected by the out
break,” Fisher explained.
“We decided to depopulate last
year and did it between about April
and July.”
Fisher further explained that the
decision whether to depopulate is
largely a matter of weighing one
set of facts against another.
“We have a Charolais beef
herd,” be said.
“There was no trace of it in the
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cattle, but we just didn’t want to
take the chance of it getting into
the cattle.
“If it gets into beef or dairy
cattle, it gets so much more
serious.”
The operation marketed about
ISO head of breeding stock in the
depopulation process.
“We were out of the fender pig
business for about three months,”
Fisher explained.
“But we were lucky since we had
gilts and boars at another location
and this cut about three months or
so off the time we would have had
to be out of business. ”
(It takes about six or seven
months to completely depopulate
and resume feeder pig operations
for a breeding operation, if a bead
start can’t be gained by having
gilts at another location.)
“Anyone considering
depopulation can also gain this
head start by setting up a PRV
free operation possibly with a
neighbor or even on the same
farm, if it’s at least a half-mile
away,” Fisher said.
“But you must be very careful
not to carry the disease from one to
the other, either on your own
clothing, by a'dog or whatever.”
Fisher bad the hog buildings
completely cleaned and disin
fected. They then stood idle for a
month. Work started in the
farrowing house and then through
the nurseries.
Fisher went on to explain that
another problem be encountered
since the operation was an early
victim of the disease was
marketing the feeder pigs already
in the pipeline.
“We worked real hard until a
quarantined feedlot system was
established so that we could sell off
the feeders.'’
But not all of the offspring were
losses
Soybean farmers urge Soviets
ST. LOUIS, Mo. U.S. soybean
producers have told Soviet leaders
they look forward to resumption of
Soviet purchase of U.S. soybeans
and soybean products.
“The U.S. currently has plentiful
supplies of soybeans andproducts
on hand and U.S. farmers are
expected to harvest a near record
crop this fall,” said American
Soybean' Association President,
Charles Hamon, in a Tetter to
Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign
Trade, Boris Gordee.
“Favorable weather in the
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that this year's crop will be
reasonably priced and of the
highest quality,” said Hamon.
“The American Soybean
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“From the last batch of “The PRV was bad then, but
iarrowings, we got negative-tested seemed to go dormant when it
offsprings,” he said. cooled off.
“While the sows tested positive “When it (pseudorabies) hits, it
and were eventually marketed, we
did get some negative offspring.” " came Bft®r two years of
The weather also cooperated market prices,
with the depopulation. know, you can only absorb
“It was only, hot for a couple of 80 m this business,
weeks during the depopulation” ‘lt s a toughdedsior to make.
Fishersaid. “But you gotta make it”
to purchase beans
during 1979 was nearly $512
million,” said Hamon.
In his letter Hamon also ex
pressed interest in renewing
working relations between ASA
and Soviet feed manfacuturing and
animal nutrition specialists.
“We are prepared to resume
export servicing activities such as
technical assistance programs to
increase efficiency of using
soybean products at the earliest
possible date after resumption of
“The total value of Soviet pur- purchases of U.S. soybeans and
chases of soybeans and products, soybean products,” saidHamon.
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eager to provide soybeans and
soybean products to meet your
country’s needs.”
Citing the economic importance
of renewed trade relations with the
USSR, Hamon noted that in 1979
the Soviet Union purchased 66
million bushels of U.S. soybeans,
27,213 metric tons of soybean meal
and 24,692 metric tons of U.S.
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