*24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 14,1984
Green Valley Farm
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and Dale is glad that his father is
on hand to manage the steer
operation. During evenings and
weekends, Dale’s nephews, Ken
and Dave Nolt lend a hand with a
variety of chores such as loading
market hogs, processing the small
pigs, and helping in the
chickenhouse.
In light of the current problems
with pseudorabies, an important
part of hog management is
safeguarding the herd against
disease, and Dale reports that
common sense has been his best
guide in protecting his operation.
Nolt tries to keep stray animals
away from his barns, and
minimizes human traffic in and
around his facilities. One way the
celebrated hog farmer ac
complishes this is to have all inside
photography-including the in
terior shots pictured here-done by
his nephew, Ken.
Hogs bound for market are taken
Sorghum data
NEWARK, Del. - Need for a
cash crop which can be rotated
with soybeans on the drought
prone soils of lower Delaware has
stimulated grower interest in grain
sorghum.
“Delaware seems particularly
adapted to this crop,” says
University of Delaware extension
agronomist Frank Webb.
“Sorghum can be used for hog
feed, cattle feed and bird seed. And
it has special appeal to Sussex
County farmers, who would like to
use it as a rotational crop to break
the continuous soybean cycle on
sandy soils.”
Webb has prepared a fact sheet,
“Grain Sorghum Production
Recommendations for Delaware,”
which offers guidelines for far
mers who would like to try growing
this crop. The fact sheet discusses
variety selection, crop fertility
needs, planting methods, weed
control and harvesting. Copes of
the publication are available from
county extension offices in Newark
(451-2506), Dover (736-1448) and
Georgetown (856-5250).
from the finishing building to a
separate load-out area in an effort
to keep livestock trucks away from
his other animals. Entering the
farrowing unit is strictly a shower
in proposition, and all tools and
equipment are disinfected before
being taken inside buildings.
Once active in a number of
agricultural organizations, such as
the Lancaster County Swine
Producers Association, Dale has
cut back on his outside activities in
an effort to spend more time with
his wife, Sandy, and children
Michelle, Sharon and Jeffrey.
Nevertheless, Dale still finds
time to teach Sunday school and
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play an occasional softball game
with the church league.
An outdoorsman at heart. Da'e
enjoys skiing, hunting, and
manages to schedule half-a-dozen
pig roasts each summer, to the
delight of family and friends.
But with all he has achieved,
Nolt feels there is still plenty of
room for improvement within his
own operation, as well as on an
industry-wide basis. And it’s the
challenge to increase production
and efficiency that makes him
eager to face each new day.
“This was always what I wanted
to do,” Dale smiles. “There was
just never any question,”
And a visit to Green Valley
Farms provides proof that this
Pork All-American is doing it very
well, indeed.
"I'd Quit Farming Before
I'd Give Up My Steiger"
Bob Miller, Lebanon, PA, Farms 400 Acres
With The ST-251 Cougar 111 He Purchased
From C.B. Hoober In 1979.
BECAUSE STEIGER INCREASES PRODUCTION
“Hitching an anhydrous tank
to my 15-tooth chisel, I can chisel
and apply nitrogen in one step at
a rate of 10 acres per hour. Quite
a time and labor saver, this
tractor.”
CUT COSTS..
1 2
Per Acre
AND DECREASES REPAIRS...
‘Tve had no repair expense whatsoever, except routine maintenance.”
AND MANEUVERS LIKE A 2WD TRACTOR...
“Size is not a problem. No problem getting in and out of small fields
with the larger 4WD tractor.”
Jf STEIGER CAN ANSWER YOUR TRACTOR
PROBLEMS EVEN IF YOU DON'T FARM 1,000 ACRES
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Production
Costs
STEIGER
Replacement gilts are fed automatically three times a day.
The liquid system pictured, (upper left) was one of the first of
its kind to be used in the East.
Says Bob Miller, Lebanon, PA
“A lot of people think you need 1,000
to 1,500 acres to justify owning a
STEIGER, but that’s just not the case.
I’ve been farming 400 acres with my
Cougar since 1979, and with all the
money I have invested in this tractor,
I’ve never regretted the purchase for
a minute.”
Acres
Tilled
“As a comparison with my 2WD
tractor pulling a 9-tooth chisel
and no anhydrous tank, I found I
was using 2 gallons of fuel per
acre. With my current Steiger
set up, I am actually using only
1.25 gallons per acre.”
STEIGER
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