Bl4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5,1983
Tillage conference to feature
LANCASTER On Tuesday,
March 15, the Lancaster Co.
Conservation District and the
Lancaster Co. Extension Service
will co-sponsor the second annual
Conservation Tillage Conference
at the Farm and Home Center.
To begin at 9 a.m., the program
will feature a full schedule of
speakers and topics, including:
erosion control, fertilizing and
liming practices on no-till com,
conservation tillage, insect
problems and their control,
sprayer calibration and nozzle
selection, and the conservation
com planter loan program.
It is this latter program which
Tom Johnston, administrator of
the County Conservation District,
will address.
According to Johnston, the
planter is a John Deere, 4-row
planter and was used by 35 far
mers in 1982, planting 430 acres of
corn, and 9 acres of soybeans.
This year, the conservation
district will continue the loan
program with 2 planters. Johnston
reports that a specialist will be
hired to transport and assist the
farmers with use of the planter,
and to advise them on weed and
insect control and fertilization.
In 1981, the Lancaster County 5-
acre com contest winner, Ed
Hamish, used the planter to double
crop com after his first cutting of
hay. He yielded 190 bushels per
acre, according to Johnston.
More information on the planter
loan program will be given by
Johnston at the tillage conference.
For more information, on the
conference, contact the Con
servation District office at 299-
1563.
Farmers say ‘good income’ ranks
LANCASTER Ask farmers to
rank the benefits of farming, and
anything to do with income may be
pretty far down the list.
“The first reason they usually
give is that it ‘provides a sense, of
accomplishment and a feeling of
doing something worthwhile,’ ”
said Bill Heffeman, University of
Missouri-Columbia rural
sociologist.
“Next will come something that
has to do with ‘being your own
boss.’
“In fact, in a survey we com
pleted last summer, the statement
‘provides an opportunity to make a
good income’ ranked seventh out of
the eight benefits of farming listed
by farm men and women."
But, Heffeman said, the survey
results could be a little misleading.
“You’ve got to have your head
above water financially before you
get the other benefits of farming,”
he said.
“In other words, receiving of
these benefits depends on the
economic survival of the farm. So
some financial success has to be
important to farmers.”
Even so, the rural sociologist
figures those who provide
educational programs for farmers
or otherwise try to influence them
have something to leam from this
attitude study.
“Many people approach farmers
all wrong; they emphasize the
economics of why something is
planter loan program
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Here, Tom Johnston, administrator of the Lancaster
County Conservation District, discusses the planter loan
program and contract with Everett Kreider of Quarryville, a
conservation district director.
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Of the 35 farmers who used the John Deere, 4-row planter
in 1982 through the County Conservation District’s loan
program, eight were Amish. All together, these 35 farmers
planted 430 acres of corn and 9 acres of soybeans.
low among benefits
important when they should be
emphasizing some of those other
values farmers hold dear,” Hef
femansaid.
Those other values or benefits
listed by farmers were: “provides
a good environment in which to
raise children” “provides a sense
of accomplishment and a feeling of
doing something worthwhile;”
“provides a sense of security
knowing you always have food and
a piace to live;" “the work is in
teresting, stimulating, and
provides many opportunities to
make decisions;” “provides op
portunity to work outdoors and
close to nature.”
Heffeman said all of these
ranked above the benefit farmers
have of being their own boss.
“Opportunity to make a good in
Schuylkill estate planning
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN - An
Estate Planning Clinic for farm
families will be conducted by the
Schuylkill County Extension
Service on Wednesday, March 9,
9:30 a.m. -3p.m., in the conference
center of the Penn State Schuylkill
Campus. This session will feature
a team of local estate planning
professionals and a University
specialist.
Topics to be discussed include
wills. Pa. intestate law, estate
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come” was below that.
“We had expected to find some
difference among different types
of farmers,” Heffeman said, “but
it didn’t turn out that way.
“For example, we would have
expected cash grain farmers to
have a higher profit motive than
beef producers who tend to stay in
that business even during tough
economic times. But separate
surveys have both showed each
group ranked economics relatively
low.”
By the way, Heffeman said the
tendency for farmers to rank
economics down the list “is not
exclusive to farming.”
“We see the same thing in other
occupations teachers, nurses,
and college professors to name a
few.”
taxes, property ownership and
transfer, and the use of trusts and
insurance in estate planning. The
meeting is open to everyone, but
the major emphasis will be on
handling the.largest investments
in real estate, equipment and
livestock which are part of today’s
modern farming operations.
Advance registration can be
made by contacting J. Allan
Shoener at the Extension Service
office, 385-3431 by March 7.
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