AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12,1981
Wanted: farmer/advisors to help beginners 4
LANCASTER —Wanted: retired
farmers and other members of the
agricultural and agribusiness
community to help beginning and
part-time fanners.
This could be a want ad run by
the Lancaster County Office of the
Farmers Home Administration
Berks Field Day
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parasites are quite common,
Hoshall said examination of any
beef cow, regardless ot sex, age,
breed or management will usually
detect the presence of at least a
tew worms. Noting that severe
parasitism can result in great
economic loss, Hoshall said,
subchmcai parasitism may not
economically justify dewormmg.
Hoshall explained the im
portance of preconditioning feeder
calves on the farm ot origin so they
can better cope with the stress of
teedlot adaptation. Explaining the
program, the veterinarian recom
mended weaning a month before
sale, castrating, vaccinating,
dehorning, dewormmg, iden
tifying, nd acclimating calves to
eating gram from a bunk and
drinking from a tank.
Craig Hill, an animal scientist
from Delaware Valley College dis
cussed feeding the steer for the
correct market. Noting the ex
tremes in cattle type, Hill said that
most cattle can tit in the market
place somewhere but no type is
right tor every situation.
With the ever increasing con
sumer awareness and develop
ment ot fast food and ground beef
markets, stronger demand has
been shown on leaner quality
grades, with greater emphasis on
yield and cutabUity. This, ex
plained Hill, means attention must
be given to the decision of when to
sell cattle.
Not only must feeders follow the
market, but they must follow the
ammal and be able to recognize
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who is now in the process of trying
to find representatives from the
overall ag community to serve in
its “New Full-Time Family
Farmer Development Project."
Lancaster is one of the counties
selected throughout the nation to
conduct a pilot project during the
when the majority ot the anunals
will grade Choice 2 and 3.
I'he annual scientist reviewed
the teeder cattle grades, ex
plaining frame scores and the
markets they would probably hit
once ted.
Mike Fournier, Bucks County
agent, discussed A.l. and estrous
synchronization with the use ot
prostaglandin. Fournier em
phasized that estrus syn
chronization is only as good as the
A.l. technician, explaimng that a
technician that can only get bO
percent ot the cattle bred the first
tune, will only have a bO percent
success in breeding the syn
chronized cattle. He also cautioned
that it’s use is only tor good
managers with good cattle han
dling tacihties. it should nut be
handled around any pregnant
women since the substance can
cause abortion - in bred cattle as
well.
Alsu, Fournier noted that estruus
synchronization dues nut increase
fertility, it only allows cows to
show heat at the same tune.
Performance testing was
discussed by Cheryl Moran,
Chester County agent. Moran
explained the importance of
performance testing when
choosuig herd replacements and
herd su~es. She stressed that
performance testuig is a com
parison ut anunals within a herd,
not between herds.
Moran explained hew per
tonnanee testing works, the
sunple practices needed to supply
the necessary mtormation and the
low cost ot enrolling a herd.
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coming year in the program with a
goal to help insure a continuing
supply of full-time farmers.
An initial meeting of USDA
agency members of the Lancaster
County coordinating committee
has already been held to get the
program moving. Attending the
session were representatives of
ASCS, Federal Crop Insurance,
Forestry Service, Soil Con
servation Service, Farm Credit,
Extension Service and the Far
mers Home Administration, which
is acting as the central agency.
“We will be holding a second
meeting during the coming week to
explain how the program will work
and what is involved,” according
to Patrick K. Freeman, county
The new regulations include
changes in methods of testing
agricultural and vegetable seed,
standards for certified seed and
botanical names for certain seed,
said Thomas H. Porter of USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing Service.
Porter said changes in the
regulations were proposed last
June and hearings were held in
Denver and Washington in July.
“The regulations being issued
tihs week are slightly different
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30, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture made changes in
regulations ot the Federal Seed
Act.
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• Choice of one or two types
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• CODATRON feed program • Connections for up to 26 auto
with 24-hour cycle (24 inter- matic feeders
vats) • Printer connection
• Input and readout of feed • Choice of one or two types of
amounts in kg feed
• Maximum amount limit in each • Additional reading of
interval - contents of silo tank
• Simple checking of problem - daily consumption
cows (more than 9% residual -daily consumption per feeding
feed) box
• Stored data preserved in the (for all types of feed)
event of power failure • A percental increase or re
• Optional automatic or manual duction of the daily feed ration
start of the feeding program can be implemented for the
• Feeding program extensible whole herd (changes in the
to max. 999 cows quality of the feed)
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FmHA supervisor.
“We want to enroll people in the
private sector to get involved in the
program”
The coordinating committee
hopes to get “some new blood”
from the fanning and agribusiness
community to serve in the
program and not rely on the same
farm people who traditionally
serve on various committees.
Persons from the fanning and
agribusiness community can serve
in several different capacities in
the program:
-They could serve directly on
the coordinating committee and
help plan and oversee the
program.
-They could serve as advisors in
Seed Act sees
from the original proposal,”
Porter said, “because public
comments resulted 'in USDA
removing the definition of back-
cross and the procedure
detecting Rhizobium.
“We also deleted prohibiting the
particular class of certified seed
when the minimum standards
aren’t established for that class
»nH thp proposed limitation of 3
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a one-on-one basis with a beginning
or part-time farmer to help with
day-to-day management.
-They could serve as a contact
person to assist in the marketing of
a particular agricultural product.
The central core of the program
is the attempt to establish a group
of retired farmers or other
members of the ag community who
would serve as advisors with a
particular beginning or part-time
farmer to get the operation on a
sound footing and work toward a
full-time business.
Persons interested in becoming
involved in the pilot project should
contact the Lancaster County
Farmers Home Administration
Office in the Farm and Home
Center, telephone: 393-4760.— DA
changes
percent offtypes to only non
fluorescent varieties of perennial,
ryegrass,” Porter said. VJ
The new regulations were
published in the Oct. 29 Federal
Register. Copies are available
from the Livestock, Meat, Grain
and Seed Division, Km. 26U3-S,
Washington, D.C., 20250. Phone;
202/447-9340.
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