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Staying in Business
Looking at the future of their
dairy operation, Don said the
biggest hurdle to get over is the
debt load.
“Our debt load is very high and
is our major problem,” he said.
To compensate for this, Don and
Angie have consolidated a few
loans to “stretch them out as much
as we can.” Another decision is
“absolutely, positively borrowing
no more.”
The next couple of years will be
so tight, Angie explained, that they
will need to get rid of as much debt
load as they can. It is a problem
COMPLETE DISPERSAL SALE
SHEEP: 19-BREEDING EWES 2-YEARLING RAMS
9-YEARLING EWES 10-RAM LAMBS
7-EWE LAMBS STUD RAMS
This Sale represents the leading show flock on the East Coast. Many of
these sheep nave been local and National Champions. A great op
portunity for the Junior Breeder or Established Breeder.
Whatever
it’s
she associates with the fact that
they are just starting out.
“We could never survive on $9 or
$lO per hundred weight milk,” she
said. “We’d go under, and it
doesn’t have anything to do with
the quality of the milk and it
doesn’t have anything to do with
our management practices. It has
something to do with because
we’fe starting out.”
Agreeing with Angie, Don added
that farmers in general need to
improve milk quality for all to
have a positive position in the
industry.
“There are people selling milk,"
Don said, “and some will clean up
their act and some never will and
SATURDAY - JULY 14th
CARLISLE, FAIRGROUNDS
CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA
• IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING •
KEYSTONE STUD RAM SALE
EQUIPMENT:* 1979 DODGE CREW CAB
• 16’ STOCK TRAILER
• 44’ TRUCK CAP
• HYDRAULIC BLOCKING STAND
• SHOW BOXES: TROUGHS
• CIRCUTEER BLOWER
• SUNBEAM SHEAR MASTERS
• PORTA-SCALE
• HAY/GRAIN FEEDERS
• OTHER MISC. SHEEP SHOWING
AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT
KEN BRUBAKER
Box 149
Westtown, PA 19395
215/696-5483
IFIWBI
it holds,
in your hands
don’t deserve to be selling milk.”
Upping the quality of milk and,
at the same time, increasing milk
promotion are partial answers to
the dairy situation, Don and Angie
agree. But it is also going to take
some attitude changes.
“I think the attitude of farmers
is changing,” Angie said. “I think
the industry almost has to change
to get new people.”
Keeping the established farmers
in business and allowing new
dairymen to enter the industry is
important. And as the Koontz
family sees it, it depends on at
titudes, management and a
willingness to produce and market
a quality dairy product.
GERALD & BARBARA ROHRER
R.D. 1, BOX 445
QUARRYVILLE, PA 17566
717/548-2559
Brian pose with one of the family's favorite Jerseys.
SUPER SHOW AND
AUCTION
Saturday, July 7,1984
9:30 A.M.
Location: Young's Auction Center on
Rt. 14, 5 miles north of Canton, PA in
Bradford Co., 40 miles north of
Williamsport, PA.
Annual Special Auction, Flea Market,
Chicken Barbecue, etc.
Early consignments to the auction include:
Oak furniture, other old furniture, complete
household of modem furniture, nice collection
of old guns. Also modem shotguns and rifles,
gun cabinets, farm machinery, automobiles.
Also refinished old farm equipment. Coins,
table saw, other tools, saws, etc. Plus large
variety of items not listed.
Auctioneer: Tom Young
Troy, PA
717-673-8659
GAUSS
FARM DISPERSAL
MONDAY, JULY 9,1984
7:15 P.M.
Thurston, (Steuben Co.) New York
Sale to be held at the farm on Straight
Road, 1 mile north of Rte. 333 app. 5
miles west of Campbell, or app. 3 miles
east of Risingsville, N.Y.
Discontinuing farming selling:
46 Head Interstate Tested Dairy Cattle: 27
mature holstein cows (4 colored cows); 6 are
strickly fresh, 5 close balance year around; 4
breeding age heifers; 7 yearlings; balance
calves, Vet. examined!
Machinery Including: Ford County 4WD
tractor with cab; A.C. 170 diesel tractor; A.C.
500 loader; Farmall “H”; A.C. 2000 5 bottom
hyd. reset plow; sharp N.H. 38 flail chopper;
sharp N.H. 310 ejector baler; N.H. 479 haybine;
N.H. 256 rake; 4 kicker wagons; feeder wagon;
Cross 40 ft. elevator; N.H. Super 717 chopper
with pick-up head; new N.H. 722 1-row com
head; Grove and A.C. forage wagons; Fox
blower with pipe; N.H. 513 spreader with Gratz
chain; 10 ft. drag; A.C. 8 ft. 3 pt. blade; 300 gal.
Sunset and 400 gal. Mueller bulk tanks; App. 20
ft. haylage in 14 ft. silo; App. 10 ton ear com.
A good little sale! Cattle under tent! Lunch
available!
TERMS: Cash or good check night of auction.
Owned by
MR. & MRS. CALVIN (JIM) GAUSS
MM
LANCASTER
FARMING
FOR COMPLETE
AND
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