Planning ahead (Continued from Page A2O) helps to keep cash flow on hand, when needed. “I don’t want to play games,” he explained. “I want to manage the cash flow so I don’t have to sell 20 animals to get cash.” The cash flow from the Myer’s dairy farm provides a living for not ROSKAMP Total Processed R Dairy • Beef • Ho Portable Ear Corn Mill ■tdSp • Inventory Reduction Sale • 0.2% more butterfat • More profit • More feed per acre Feed Processing Center • Build your own ration • Control feed costs ■ Phone or Send for Free Literature: ■ | n Roskamp Mfg., Inc. * 2975 Airline Circle I Waterloo, lowa 50703 I Hi HA 319-232-8444 Cheek here Stationary Feed Processing Center Portable Gar Com Mill Portable Grain Roller Mill Silage Roller Mill Have representative call or stop in Zip Phone j For More Information Contact Your local Dealer PENNSYLVANIA Barrett Equipment Co. Smicksburg, Pa. 814-257-8881 Clapper Farm Equip., Inc. Alexandria, Pa. 814-669-4465 Fred Crivellaro Easton. Pa. 215-258-7584 Tom Dunlap Jersey Shore. Pa 717-398-1391 Erb & Henry New Berlinville, Pa. 215-367-2169 Fickes Silo Co. Box 7 Newville, Pa. 17241 717-776-3129 Harclerode’s Dairymen Specialty Co. New Paris, Pa 814-839-2790 Hines Equipment Cresson, Pa. 814-886-4183 I & M Machinery Co., Inc. Greensburg, Pa. 412-668-2276 S.G. Lewis & Son, Inc. West Grove, Pa 215-869-9440 Penn State's only the Myer family, but also for the families of seven hired hands. This number of “hands” manages the 1,000-acre, 370-head Holstein operation which Harold and Susan took over in 1978. The Myer couple bought the farm from Harold’s father, William, on an eight-year in- Sila 9«“ in • Convert your grinder mixer to a roller mixer • 0.2% more 6utterfat • Better gains Name R.R. or Box No. City R.T. Markle Farm Equip., Inc. State College. Pa. 814-237-3141 Marshall Machinery, Inc. Honesdale, Pa. 717-729-7117 MKS Enterprises, Inc. Hanover, Pa 717-637-2214 Northeast Equipment Co. Northeast, Pa. 814-725-1888 North Penn Sealstor Bloomsburg. Pa 717-387-1422 Atlee Robert Littlestown, Pa. 717-359-5863 Rovendale Supply Watsontown, Pa. 717-538-5521 Sollenberger Silos Corp. Chambersburg, Pa. 717-264-9588 Stouffer Bros., Inc. Chambersburg, Pa 717-263-8424 Swope & Bashore, Inc. Myerstown, Pa 717-933-4138 - Visit Our Display at AO PROGRESS DAYS - AUG. 21-23 Hoskamp stallment contract. It wgs a two part arrangement - purchasing the land while leasing the cattle and facilties. At the time of the purchase, Harold was looking forward to working and managing the farm with his father. That changed 10 months later, however, when the elder Myer died. It was then, Harold said, that he got a lesson in • Increased production • Cuts cobs into edible pieces • More feed per acre State Tam Agri Corp. Dillsburg, Pa. 717-432-9738 Terre Hill Silo Co., Inc. Terre Hill, Pa. 215-445-6736 Uniontown Farm Equipment Umontown, Pa 412-437-9851 MARYLAND Arnett’s Garage RR 9 Box 125 Hagerstown, Md. 301-733-0515 Tri-State Farm Automation Hagerstown, Md. 301-790-3698 NEW JERSEY Brookhill Equipment ft Supply Co. Pittstown, NJ 201-735-4142 NEW YORK Sharon Springs Garage, inc. Sharon Springs, NY SXB-284-2346 WEST VIRGINIA Ed Lipscomb’s Equip, Eglon, WV 304-735-5239 finances. “I got a terrific education in that one year that I could ever get,” he said. That education meant learning to deal with finances to keep the operation rolling. It also meant learning to deal with problems as well as triumphs. “You need to go through a struggle period to become suc cessful,” Harold said. “You also need to surround yourself with successful people.” With that, Harold added that any one' of his employees could be a fulltime farmer. He also mcluded in his list of successful people other farmers whom he sought out for advice and trained agriculture people with specialized interests. These people and Harold’s ingenuity have lead the Myer farm operation to where it is today. As a thinker and a planner, Harold looks to the future. No decision is made without consideration on its future impact. Harold Myer, Myerstown, checks out one of his DHlA approved milk testing meters. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28,1984—A25 This is seen in the new milking facility Harold built two years ago. Housing a double-eight milking parlor, the bam was designed for future expansion possibilities, such as a second double-eight parlor. Harold is also considering the expansion of his calf bam, the installation of an automatic cow identification program and a flushing system which uses recycled water for his milking parlor holding area. All of these ideas can be incorporated into the present facilities with little modification. To meet these future plans and goals is why Harold places a strong emphasis on money management, which is something farmers need to learn to stay in the business, he said. “The 1960’s and 1970’s were years of production management,” Harold said. “The 1980's are years of financial management.”
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