D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 19,1983
Farm Business
News
Farm toy auction
WILLOW STREET - Farm Toy
Supply, a new wholesale
distributor of farm toys
manufactured by The Toy Farmer
from Laumure, N.D. will sponsor a
toy show specializing in farm toys.
This show will be made up of two
types of activities. On April 8, at 7
p.m. there will be an auction in
which quite a few older farm toys
will put across public auction to
local collectors. On April 9, from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. there will be a show
and sale.
This auction and show will be
held at Willow Valley Farms Inn
which is located just south of
Lancaster on Route 222. The show
will consist of a number of local
Wolgemuth holds
poultry meeting
Honored for their layer operation by Wolgemuth Bros, were
Raymond and Peggy Frysinger,' 320 Blantz Rd., Lititz; shown
with Phil Muss, service manager at right.
The Frysingers have 40,135 hens with a feed conversion of
3.36 lbs. per dozen eggs and 21.61 lbs. per 100 dozen eggs.
Egg production per hen averaged 260 at an 86.3 percent
livability.
Speakers at the Wolgemuth Bros, poultry meeting include,
from the left, Mike Pretrosy, American Hoechst Corp., on the
use of Bambermycins in Broiler and Turkey Feeds; Henry
Correll, Ceva Laboratories, on the use of the Pesticide
Larvicide, True Blue Grit; Noah Gehman, Master of
Ceremonies, from Wolgemuth; Dr. Richard Boyd, Rocco
Poultry Farms on solving chick and turkey starveout
problems; and Bill Reed, sales manager for Wolgemuth. Dr.
Roy Breister, of Nutrius, Inc., absent from the photo, spoke
on the application of the cost of nutrition to egg production.
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collectors displaying their
specialized collections, which will
include John Deere, Farmall, Allis
Chalmers, Case, and others.
Wilbur and Todd McMichael,
who operate Farm Toy Supply,
have enjoyed farm toy collecting
for a number of years. Their
collections include John Deere,
Case and International. Special
models that they enjoy are John
Deere A, John Deere 430, many
John Deere pieces of equipment,
Case SD, Case-omatic, Black
Night, Farmall M, Farmall 450 and
International 1206. Toys in their
collection include in excess of 200
tractors.
Big PIK signup is seen
MILWAUKEE, Wi. - Farmers
were shifting toward even greater
(compliance with USDA’s
Payment-In-Kind (PIK) acreage
reduction plan as the final hours
before the March 11 sign-up
deadline approached, according to
the last of three electronic surveys
conducted March 4-7 by AgriStar,
an electronic business information
and communications service for
farmers, ranchers and
agribusiness.
The results show more than 85
percent of the sample of large
acreage farmers are signing up for
PIK acreage reductions in
dicating a surprisingly large
participation level.
Sixteen percent of the respon
dents to the final of three reports
from the AgriStar survey sample
said their participation level had
changed in the past week and all
of the change was toward greater
Turkey production winners were among those honored at the annual Wolgemuth
Bros., Inc. Florin Appreciation Poultry Meeting last week at the Harvest Drive
Restaurant, Gordonville.
Shown, from the left, are Dave Petrosky, turkey service manager; Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Stoltzfus, R 4 Honeybrook: Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Stoltzfus, R 2 Honeybrook; and Bill
Reed, sales manager for Wolgemuth.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stoltzfus’ operation showed the best feed conversion for turkeys
with 2.39 lbs. of feed per pound of weight gain; an average weight of 14.22 lbs. in 13
weeks and six days.
Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Stottzfus’ operation had the best rate of gain for turkeys with
14.83 lbs. of weight gained in 14.3 weeks at a conversion rate of 2.45 lbs. of feed per
pound of gain.
Pullet winners at Florin Feeds dinner/meeting include Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wanner, R 2
Narvon, at left; Mr. and Mrs. Vince Landis, R 1 East Greenville; with Phil Nuss, service
manager, in center.
The Guy and Irene Wanner operation recorded a 98.5 percent livability rate with
76,000 Hy-Line.
The best pullet feed conversion of Vince and Betty Landis showed 13.12 in 20 weeks
with 87,000 Shavers at 95.3 percent livability.
compliance. The changes included
some farmers who were previously
undecided, some who were in
creasing their level of par
ticipation and some who changed
their minds from non-participation
to compliance. Only 2 percent of
the sample remained undecided in
the final survey.
The USDA is scheduled to
release PIK figures on Tuesday.
A spokesman for AgriDate
Resources, Inc., the Milwaukee
based operator of AgriStar, said
the weekly PIK survey was con
ducted through AgriStar’s elec
tronic mail system, Star Gram, for
three consecutive weeks.
In the initial AgriStar survey, 85
percent of the corn farmers said
they would participate in acreage
reduction programs, 10 percent
said they would not, and 5 percent
were undecided. Seine 62 percent
said they would participate at the
full 50 percent level and 37 percent
planned on entering whole base
bids. Average com base acreage of
respondents was 551 compared to
average Class 1A com acreage of
372. Of the wheat fanners, 84
percent said they would par
ticipate in acreage reduction
programs, 9 percent said they
would not, and 4 percent were
undecided. Some 38 percent said
they would participate at the full 50
percent level and 38 percent
planned on entering whole base
bids. Average wheat base of
respondents was 1110 as compared
to average Class 1A wheat acreage
of 437.
AgriStar results also show that
nearly half of the farmers an
ticipate that PIK would reduce
their production costs by 21 per
cent or more. About 20 percent said
they would try to boost yields on
the acres of wheat and com they
will plant this year. Of the
respondents, 99 percent said PIK
tax uncertainly had had no effect ff
on their decisions. *
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