D2-Unewter Farming, Saturday, Novambar 2S, 1953
Livestock association
offers new code
of marketing standards
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Livestock
Marketing Association (LMA) is
offering the industry a new Code of
Marketing Standards and Prin
ciples as a tool to measure the
quality of marketing services it
now receives.
The 10 points in the Code are
guidelines adopted by LMA’s
Board of Directors at their August
meeting in Missouri. They address
the key points of marketing
business operation and are being
sent, in poster form, to LMA’s
more than 1,200 subscribing
businesses across the U.S. and in
Canada.
“These are the standards we
have set for our own industry,”
LMA President John E. Hawkins
said. “They were developed by a
panel of our subscribers,-who have
years of experience in all types of
marketing and serving their
producer customers.
“Producers should use the new
Code to evaluate the quality of the
marketing services they’re now
receiving. Do those services in
clude this comprehensive com
mitment to customer satisfaction
and integrity in all transactions?”
One of the “great strengths of
the North American livestock
industry is that a producer can
choose from a wide variety of
marketing methods,” Hawkins
added. “We feel our Code will be a
benchmark against which to
evaluate these methods.”
The ten points in the Code pledge
the business to:
Maintain the highest stan
dards of honesty and integrity in
all transactions.
Strive for the complete
satisfaction of our customers.
Provide true and accurate
weights.
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LIVESTOCK
LATEST
NEWARK, Del. - It looks a little
bit like salt, a worthless, flaky salt.
But without it, a pig can’t live—let
alone grow. It is called lysine, an
amino add that must be included
in a pig’s diet.
Of the 20 amino adds, a pig can
synthesize only 10 in sufficient
quantities to sustain n-mrlmnm
performance, says University of
Delaware extension livestock
specialist Dr. Ken Kephart. Swine
lack the biochemical machinery to
make significant amounts of the
other 10, which are called the
essential amino adds. Lysine is in
this second category.
An amino add is a small, in
significant looking molecule
containing an “amine” group
(amino) and a “carboxyl” group
(add). Hook a few thousand amino
adds together in the right order
and you’ve got a protein. Some of
these proteins float around in the
blood, some are part of muscle,
and some go into milk.
Knowing this, it’s easy to see
why amino adds are so important.
If even one is in short supply,
protein synthesis (growth rate,
milk production) will be cut short,
too.
This if where lysine fits in. “H
you look at file amounts of amino
adds in a typical bog diet and
compare them to the amounts
needed ,by file pig, lysine always
will be in shortest supiily,"
Accurately describe and
represent all animals.
Maintain a sound financial
basis by assuring that full payment
is made to sellers and received
from buyers, in accordance with
the terms of the transaction.
Provide adequate, humane
and serviceable facilities.
Maintain the highest stan
dards of livestock health and
disease prevention.
Comply with federal and state
livestock marketing laws.
Uphold the principle of
complete freedom of choice for
buyers and sellers in selecting the
manner, method and means of
buying and selling livestock.
Promote the principle of free
and open competition throughout
the livestock marketing industry.
The Code was developed by
LMA’s Transactions Risk Board,
which studies effective marketing
risk management procedures and
works for their implementation
throughout the industry.
Risk Board Chairman is W.F.
‘Wes’ Munsell, a livestock dealer
from Miles City, Mont. Members
are Norbert E. Brandt, manager of
a marketing cooperative in
Francis Creek, Wis.; Harlan Coit,
president of a stockyards ex
change in Oklahoma City; Clayton
Lambeth, a feedlot manager in Hot
Springs, S.D.; James D. Bryan, a
livestock dealer in West Point,
Miss,; John T. Resico, a market
owner in Rocky Mount, N.C., and
James Strasma, comptroller of a
marketing cooperative in Peoria,
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Two other market owners also
worked on developing the Code.
They were Raymond D. Hen
derson, Mitchell, S.D., and Harry
Eiler, McCook, Neb.
Lysine essential in swine feeding rations
Kephart says. “That’s why we
refer to lysine as the ‘first-limiting’
amino add. Formulate the diet to
contain enough of it, and levels of
the others will be OK.”
Soybean meal, fish meal and
dried skim milk are three of the
best natural souces of lysine, he
says. But for normal swine rations,
soybean meal is generally the only
one that’s economical. Meat and
bone meal is another source which
is frequently used, but its lysine is
less readily available to the pig.
Dried whey has available lysine,
but contains only about a third as
much as soybean meal. Its use is
generally limited to starter
rations.
How about the feed value of high
lysine' corn? This contains about
.35 percent lysine compared to only
.24 percent for normal com. When
formulating a one-ton ration with
high lysine com, about 100 pounds
of 44 percent soybean meal can be
saved, Kephart says. You can
reduce the protein content in a
high-lysine com ration by 2 per
cent and still have the same total
amount of lysine as a normal com
ration.
At today’s market prices of $362
a ton for 44 percent soybean meal
and |3.M a bushel for normal com,
high lysine corn is worth roughly
s4.o# a bushel. The major disad
vantage to growing high lysine
com is its lower yield. High lysine
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Soaking up what may be the last of warm weather sunshine is this herd of Hereford
cattle at the Fox Chase Farm, owned by the Walter Biddle Saul High School of
Agricultural Sciences in Philadelphia. (Photo by Laura England).
Potomac Fever research aided
by AAorr
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Efforts to
discover the cause of Potomac
Fever, otherwise called Acute
Equine Diarrhea Syndrome
(AEDS), are being helped along by
a research grant from the Morris
Animal Foundation of Englewood,
Colo., says Dr. Ralph C. Knowles
of the Maryland Department of
Agriculture.
Funds totaling $27,000 have been
allocated by the Foundation to the
Pennsylvania School of Veterinary
Medicine and the Virginia-
Maryland Regional College of
Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg,
Virginia, according to this MDA
Veterinarian.
The disease first appeared in
Maryland in 1979 but has since
spread to neighboring areas of
Pennsylvania and Virginia. This
past summer 116 cases of AEDS
were reported in the state. All but
three were in Montgomery County.
Carroll, Frederick and Howard
Counties reported one case each.
hybrids produce only about 90
percent as much corn as standard
hybrids.
Is it ever profitable to use syn
thetic lysine? Feed grade lysine is
usually sold as lysine
hydrochloride, which contains 78.5
percent lysine. “Under certain
conditions it pays to add this to
swine rations,” Kephart says. “As
a rule of thumb, 3 pounds of lysine-
HCL plus 97 pounds of corn can
replace 100 pounds of 44 percent
soybean meal in a one-ton ration. If
you’re using 48 percent soybean
meal, only 90 pounds can be
replaced. Use 87 pounds of com
and 3 pounds of lysine-HCL.”
For example, 48 percent soybean
meal currently is selling for about
$276 a ton. So 90 pounds cost $12.42.
With com at $3.89 a bushel and
lysine-HCL at $2.28 a pound, 87
pounds of com and 3 pounds of
lysine-HCL will cost $12.88. So even
with the current high price of
soybean meal, it’s still not
profitable to use synthetic lysine.
But suppose 48 percent soybean
meal jumps to $325 a ton and com
to $4.25 a bushel. Then 90 pounds of
soybean meal would cost $14.83, as
compared to $13.44 for the com and
lysine. Under these conditions, it
would be economical to make the
substitution—provided large
volumes of feed are needed.
One note of caution. Only 90
pounds of 48 percent soybean meal
In Philadelphia County...
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s Foundation grant
The mortality rate for the disease
normally runs in the range of 25-35
percent or higher. The 1983
summer outbreak in Maryland
resulted in 42 deaths.
“Pioneering efforts to find
causes and cures for new diseases
are always difficult and this one is
proving to be particularly so”
Kowles says.
While little progress has been
made in determining the cause of
AEDS, a number of factors and
agents have been eliminated. For
example, poisonous plants, while
present in fields this summer were
not being eaten by affected
animals. Research has also shown
that the disease is not being
transmitted by blood sucking in
sects such as ticks and mosquitoes.
In addition, certain viruses have
been isolated from diseased horses
but no proof has been established
to link them with infection. And,
although certain types of
Clostridium bacteria are known to
or 100 pounds of 44 percent soybean
meal can be substituted with com
and lysine in a one-ton ration. If too
much is deleted, other amino acid
deficiencies result, even when the
com/lysine substitution is made.
To summarize, lysine is the most
important amino acid in swine
nutrition. Since it’s first-limiting in
normal diets, formulation for
Pa. fami
Champion Appaloosa
HARRISBURG - Peggy, Bill &
J. Jocher of Harrisburg exhibited
the grand champion gelding,
“Dials Easy Money,” during the
27th Keystone International
livestock Exposition’s Appaloosa
Horse Show.
The reserve champion gelding
was exhibited by Jeannette Smith,
Newton, N.J., while the reserve
champion mare was shown by
James & S. L. Hewitt, Hampstead,
Md.
Hie grand champion mare,
“Dutchess Go Lucky,” and the
grand champion stallion,
“Questionnaire n,” were both
exhibited by Robert Clarke,
Monsey, N.Y. The reserve
champion stallion was shown by
Martins Appaloosas, Elm.
Other Pennsylvanians placing
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cause acute death in horses, in
vestigations at the Virginia-
Maryland Regional College of
Veterinary Medicine show that
they do not prevail in AEDS cases.
Disease symptoms include lack
of appetite, high fever and acute
diarrhea. In several cases the
animal goes into shock and dies.
The grant monies allocated by
the Morris Animal Foundation
were obtained through private
fund raising efforts such as horse
fairs, rides for research and
benefit dances.
Scientists at cooperating
colleges will focus their attention
on available case histories and the
farms where horses have been
affected. They will evaluate data
on diseased horses, study
nutritional and managemental
aspects, consider animal
movement and examine
laboratory data from each location
as well as studying blood and stool
samples from the affected horses.
lysine will provide sufficient
amounts of the other essential
amino acids. “If you’re trying to
save soybean meal,” Kephart
concludes, “synthetic lysine or
high lysine corn will work and
performance will be the same. But
push a pencil before you make the
switch. These ingredients often
boost the cost of the ration.”
y shows
first in halter classes during the
Appaloosa Show included Lori
Baubeitz, Spring Grove; Warren
Hollinger, Kempton; Ted Shotz
berger, Elm; D. Swarts & W.E.
Spillers, Hummelstown; Ronald &
Rita Cluck, Richfield; and Jane
Dougherty, Collegeville.
Pennsylvanians placing first in
the performance division were
Douglas Deibler, Lititz; Sue Porr,
Harrisburg; Peggy, Bill & J.
Jocber, Harrisburg; Thomas &
A.L. Zambarano, Mechanicsburg;
Kern Stables, Scotia; Susan
Sparks, Mechanicsburg; Susan
Quandel, Pottsville; Amy Rausch,
Carlisle: Jim & Liz White, fat
tening; Debra West, Mon
toursville; Bruce Schadel,
Sacremento; and Leslie
Dimenichi, Bethlehem.
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