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Storage Building
• Optional 8 ft
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THE PENDLETON
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• 12' tidowall
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• Optional 8 ft
additions
THE LINCOLNSHIRE
48'x 48'
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• 14' sidewall • Optional 8 ft
• 24' end door additions
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22’
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 7,1984
Computers on
• dairy farms
UNIVERSITY PARK - Com
puters will save Pennsylvania
dairy farmers significant amounts
of money and time and will im
prove management decisions, and
the day when each farm has its
own computer is near in Penn
sylvania, according to speakers in
the Penn State Dairy Computer
Conference, held Dec. 14-15.
Using a computer for analysis of
his options in the PIK program,
one farmer was able to save $20,000
by deciding not to plant com, said
Art Hussey Director of the newly
formed Northeast Computer In
stitute.
By using computers, other
farmers claim to spend only 30
percent of the time it normally
takeks to keep accurate records,
he said.
Computers are easier than ever
to use, Hussey said, and are much
more powerful. They are used for
cash flow analysis, income and
expense, accounting, and herd
inventory programs and many
other purposes.
They also will be more prevalent
in the future, but will not com
municate with DHIA computers
for some time, says Dr. C. William
Heald, Penn State Extension dairy
specialist.
According to Heald, computers
have been used for about 30 years
in DHI, but will be used more
extensively in the near future.
Currently, a supervisor goes to
each DHI farm, gathers in
formation on each cow, and takes
milk samples. The samples and
the data are then processed by the
computer and results sent to the
farmer and to USDA’s Animal
Improvement Programs
Laboratory where information is
stored on all cows and bulls in the
country. This program identifies
the best bulls and cows in the
country as the parents of our next
generation of cattle.
Heald said that soon supervisors
will carry micro-computers to
each farm and a summary of the
information will be given to the
farmer on test day. Then later,
after the samples are analyzed,
more complete report will be sent.
Another use for computers in the
near future may be by Penn State
Cooperative Extension, Hussey
said.
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The University has asked the
state legislature for just under $2
million to buy a microcomputer for
each Extension office. This will
allow farmers to have access to
information such as weather
reports, marketing information,
frost warnings and programs to
aid in management decisions.
All of these things will help
farmers make better marketing
decisions.
The money asked for breaks
down to $33 per Pennsylvania farm
family, Hussey said, so if each
farmer saved $33 the program will
pay for itself.
But even with these ad
vancements, Pennsylvania far
mers will probably not be willing to
buy a computer for each farm in
the near future, says Heald. The
cost and complications are beyond
the means of many small farms.
A computer on the farm will
allow the farmer to have easy
access to an inventory of cattle, a
feeding and health record for each
cow and a means to make quicker
management decisions. Com
puters could lead to learger, more
efficiednt farms, he said With
more efficient management far
mers may be able to milk fewer
cows and have the same income.
Pennsylvania may be slow to
join other states that have a large
number of farms with computers
because the topography and
climate of the state has limited the
average herd size to about 59 cows,