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Most cows average five calves, and he said the dairy wants a “more mature animal to calve.” He said calf buyers are on the farms every day. They do not raise bulls and replacement heifers, are sent 400 miles away to a “heifer ranch” to be raised. Hay is now purchased in ton bales because it “prevents With a lot of road frontage. Virgin said they would find a lot of smaller bales being stolen. They also put in their own scales which resulted in a more accurate ac counting of loads of hay purchased. Hay for Alta Dena is imported from Utah, Idaho and Arizona, and Virgin said they never purchase local hay after May because of the widespread use of aerial spraying in the valley. Bach of the five dairies has its own woll for water supplv. and $724,185 insolvency charged WASHINGTON, D.C. Two Pennsylvania meat packers and a livestock dealer have been charged by the USDA under the Packers and Stockyards Act. Baum’s Bologna, Inc., of Elizabethtown, and its owner officers, Clair G. and Glenn S. Baum, have been charged with operating while insolvent, writing bad checks and failing to pay for $385,418 worth of livestock, ac cording to B.H. Jones, head of the USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Administration. Baum’s is currently operating under a Chapter II bankruptcy proceeding. Hillcrest Packing Co., of Philadelphia, and Sam Kohn, its owner, have been charged with being insolvent, writing bad checks for livestock and Tv ioat and PRECAST CONCRETE FEED BUNKS H BUNK ®\\& 28" 26". r I I I I t ♦ ♦ 1 A Complete Line of Sollenberger Precast Farm Products Available Here. Bn Sollenberger Silos Corp. A Nitterhouse Company "V I I Box N Chambortburg, PA 17201 [7l7] 264-9588 MBBaaaMH A Producer of Quality Concrete Products Since 1923 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 3,1983—A31 • : -"1 f We install Fence Posts (attachable) Quality Reinforced Design they can be cross tied if necessary. There is an water supply to fulfill the needs of those 8,000 cows. Local ordinances require that the farms retain all their rainwater, so the runoff is captured in ponds or sumps which are then used to irrigate. In addition to a delicious, quality Certified Raw milk, Alta Dena dairy also produces flavored cultured milk products and yogurt. On the tour of the Chino Valley dairy farms, the Alta Dena products were offered as refreshment, and were enjoyed by all who tried them. The Alta Dena spokesman said the products are available in ever state in the United States and in Puerto Rico, primarily through health food stores. The products had a very distinctive flavor, and was a refreshing way to serve dairy products in a new form. It would seem that this sort of non traditional approach to marketing dairy products could be influential in reducing the surplus problem. Alta Dena Dairy is unusual, even in the numbers of the Chino Valley. But it is producing a product to meet a need, and creating ad ditional sales through their unusual cultured products. still owing for 519#,767 worth of, meat as of Feb. 14. A complaint charging Jacob Dressier m, of Evans City, of operating as a livestock dealer and order buyer without a bond has been amended to include other violations including operating while insolvent and failing to pay for more than |160,000 worth of livestock. The packers and dealer have a right to a hearing on the charges filed by the USDA. If the charges are proven, they will be placed under a cease and desist order, similar to a per manent injunction, and order to pay cash for livestock until they prove their firms are no longer insolvent. They could also be order to pay civil penalities. zAvailable< £ Other J cHeights!\
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