D36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4,1983
City family makes it
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extension’s “Nutritional School’’.
“It’s very worthwhile”, Dave
states, adding that they remain in
close touch with the extension
personnel for daily advice.
When viewing this well-kept and
neatly painted dairy operation, it
would be hard to believe that they
were refused a small expansion
loan from majonng ag lenders
because of their inexperience,
abundant assets and un
conventional beginnings. But with
a calving interval under 12 months,
milking animals averaging 43
pounds on their last test and the
family devotion to their new
lifestyle, the Reusing are quieting
the skeptical neighbors. “We
figured that not knowing about
crops and not knowing about cows,
that we would devote our time to
what gives us the income - the
cows.”
New Hope Farm is completely a
family operation Reusing and his
daughter, Lisa, handle the milking
chores, although Lisa and her
mother give “Dad” Sunday
morning to “sleep in”. Feeding is
handled by Donna and youngest,
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Until the middle 1800's, hay was moved by pitchfork. The first stationary
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era Fordson tractor. Today, with an automated baler, one man
can produce 150 tons of baled & hay per day, more than
produced by 3 men in 3 weeks prior to the turn of the century.
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Amy, has charge of the chickens.
Since the installation of the new
pipeline, a Westfaha-Visotron with
sensors to indicate the decrease in
milk flow. Reusing states that
milking is much more uniform
between family members.
‘ ‘After working with the pipeline,
you wonder how you did without
it”. Reusing adds.
Records and bookkeeping is
taken care of by Donna, but the
whole family participates in the
daily observations and marking
down of heats, calvings, breedings,
etc. “The best thing we ever did
was to hang a calendar on the wall
to write down heats”, Reusing
states.
Away from the urban sprawl, the
Reusings appreciate the way farm
life becomes so family oriented.
They also have come to value the
fact that people on farms help each
other when they need it. Although
Lisa states that dairying has
become “more of a challenge
because everybody told us that we
wouldn’t make it with Jerseys”,
she does not mind that regular
schedule that a dairy farm makes
mandatory, even to young people.
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