El2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 9,1982 B Brocket's Ag Advice By John E. Brockett Farm Management Agent Lewistown Extension Office Farmers and Withheld Taxes Farmers are often envious of their friends and relatives who have taxes withheld from their paycheck. They especially become upset when they have to scrounge around for a large sum of money sometime in February while the other guy smiles over a 1000 dollar refund. Farmers should not be envious of those poor souls who have taxes withheld. That refund check is that persons own money without in terest. Actually a farm family can MARS* PLUS 1716 MILK 87% PLUS 1.79 PDT 29H2786 Lime-Hollow Elevation USDA 7-81 RPTB7% 150 D. 116 H. 18.483 M PD+SI74 + 1.716 M HFA 7-81 69% RPT +1.79 PDT +493 TPI Elevation Round Oak Ri USDA PD +1516M +SOF 99% Rep 7/79 +2 38 PDT 99% R 7/79 HFA Merehcot Centurion Julie VG-I Cow Index + 592 M +4F 5- 2X 3050 21340 M 32% 67SF ’ 6- 2X 365 D 22400 M 35% 795 F MARS daughters are freshening all across the country, and they are doing extremely well too. mars daughters are doing so well that his POM went from +1653 to +1716 when 114 daughters were added to his USDA Summary, mars daughers look very nice too. His PDT went from +1.63 to +1.79! Call your ABS Representative and ask for MARS! fIBS ' practice its own withholding program. What is more that family can actually earn interest on thdir withholdings. This is more than the poor wage earner can do. Withholding Plans There are several withholding plans a farm family could follow. Lump Sum Plan - Put a lump sum in an “All Savers Certificate” anytime between now and January first. Not only will you have the money available for 1983 tax payments for the 1982 year, but it will earn tax free interest up to 1000 dollars per taxpayer (2000 Burke Elevation GM Round Oek ivanhoe Eve EX-94-4E Forest Lee Centurion Rocket EX-91 GM 4-05 2X 305 D 15460 M .3 8% 586 F Sire Wis Captain EX-91 GM Bangor, PA Eric Heinsolm Baptistown, NJ Cindy Gordsuk Columbia, PA James Charles Ephrata, PA Darvm Yoder Holtwood, PA Paul Herr Lebanon, PA Paul Martin Leola, PA Lynn Gardner Port Murray, NJ Robert Kayhart Prospectville, PA William Tyner Reading, PA Robert Greider Stewartstown, PA Tom Engle Thomasville, PA Ira Boyer West Grove, PA Dan Rush Kirkwood, PA Dan Rush Elmer, NJ Cyndy HeUell Mt. Airy, MD Allan Pickett Allenwood, PA George Showers Carlisle, PA Wayne Piper Coburn, PA Wendel Musser Linden, PA Larry Bower Mansfield, PA Harold Robson, Jr. McClure, PA Michael C. Ewing Millville, PA Wilmer Hendricks Mifflinburg, PA John M. Beachy Miff lintown, PA Mervm Zendt Reedsville, PA Glenn Barr Ulysses, PA Bonnie Barker RPT MARS EX-95 636 F + 36F 3.4% -.17% 215-588-4704 201-996-2088 717-898-8694 717-733-0966 717-284-4592 717-949-2381 717-656-6700 201-689-2605 215-542-8479 215-378-1212 717-993-6836 717-225-3758 215-869-9187 717-529-6548 609-455-8187 301-663-4191 717-538-1812 717-249-8882 814-349-5310 717-323-9710 717-662-7731 717-658-7316 717-458-5949 717-966-1344 717-436-6386 717-667-2775 814-848-7674 dollars tor a joint return). Monday Market Fund - start a money market fund with 1000 dollars then pi** in whatever you need each month. You can actually pay your taxes out of this fund. Benefits are that you earn a high rate of mterest with minimal in vestment and your money is ony tied up for IS banking days after your deposit. The mterest is taxable. Regular savings account - you can deposit any amount into a passbook savings account then withdraw the necessary amount to pay taxes- This was the best method in the past but because of the relative low interest (6 percent or less) it has become much less lucrative. It does have the ad vantages of no minimum start up amount and usually instant withdrawal (warning this could change). Why Withhold? If a farm family would withhold their own tax payments, it may save money in the end. Supposing I'M NOT L10N... The Classified Livestock Section Has Beastly Selections! PREMIUM ICE CREAM you were short of cash and could not file by the due date? A systematic savings plan has been a strong point for families in the past. If a family plans on taking a definite amount each month, that money does not become lost in the business or family expenses. Consider it as a required payment in the same manner as a light bill or a mor tgage payment. ' Tax Estimates And Withholding Withholding plans will work as well with a family paying quar terly estimates or a January 15 final estimate as with one filing (Continued from Page £10) mixed with natural gas, is in troduced into another power burner for additional steam. This burning produces an ash product which is very high in potassium, and spread on gardens and fields. Does all this steaming, squeezing, and drying really save Knouse Foods money? Well the company has installed a" new monitoring computer that will tell the tale. Ken Eshelman, super visor of the project at the Ontana plant, states that the computer will be able to monitor the entire operation and will give monetary checks on its efficiency. At current prices, it would require $5 worth of natural gas to create enough steam to process a thousand pounds of apples. With the use of the pomace and the recovered cost of elec tricity, that cost has been reduced to |1.50 for the same quantity of fruit. There is one final stage in the process that is still in the developmental stages. And that is the capturing of “essence flavoring". When the appiepomace is dried, a distinct apple aroma is given off. PENNSYUMNIA AOMCUUUftE WE’RE (MOWING UITCR Private Label Quality, Price & Service ELIZABETHTOWN CREAMERY CO., INC. Rr. 519 S. Market Street Elizabethtown, Pa. 17022 717-367-1389 Apples i W^j£' ■ v > - <• -and paying a final return by March first. The lump sum plan however will not work with quarterly estimates since the money has to be left in an All Savers Certificate for one year 4 There is no reason why the other' two plans will not work. Caution: Most money market funds do not automatically send checks to you. You must apply for them. All checks drawn on a money market fund must be a minimum of 500 dollars in most cases, (most funds do not have a required minimal balance). Oyler says he hopes to recapture this aroma and to fortify the flavor of Knouse’s apple products with it. What potential does this process have? Oyler reports the potential is great both in the fruit and vegetable processing industries. “There are unlimited op portunities in the fruit and othertfc bio-mass processing industries make the crop more valuable and eliminate the wastes of the past. Just this one example can be modified to fit any industries”, he said. Oyler gives most of the credit for the success of this project and the new water conservation project that -Knouse will complete sometime in the next two years to the foresight of the members of the cooperative and its board of directors. “It is important to recognize what the co-op can accomplish in the area of energy conservation. We are working to provide a better return for our member growers. It just goes to prove that you don’Wh have to be one of the big-50(rr companies (economic rating by Fortune Magazine), to get into." something like this. ”