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Deere unveils 315 U tractor 550, the facility is 20 miles
southwest of State College.
John Deere Co. has introduced a new 95 PTO Horsepower
tractor, the model 3150. The new tractor has many deluxe
standard features such as, 359-cubic inch wet-sleeve diesel
engine, 16-speed TSS Transmission with a high-low feature,
differential lock, caster-action MFWD, dual hydraulic outlets
with ISO couplers, and four-post Roll-Gard. Sound-Gard Body
will be optional. See this new tractor along with several more
new machines at the Ag Progress Days.
Get a head
NEW HOLLAND Dairymen
can’t top the combination of a
spring harvested cereal crop with
full season crop for silage, says Joe
Weicksel of Sperry New Holland.
Seeding wheat, rye or barley this
fall will provide a head start for
1986.
The cereral-com combination
gives you more feed per acre than
any other, he adds. Where winter
wheat, barley or rye can be sown in
the fall after com silage harvest, it
will usually be ready to harvest as
silage by corn planting tune the
next spring. It’s a nine-ton head
start on the year’s feed supply
that’s easy to take.
Experience shows any of these
cereal crops offer high feed value
if taken off early, according to
Weicksel who is product manager
for Haybine - mower-conditioners
at New Holland. The critical point
is to harvest just as the heads are
emerging from the “boot”. If you
wait for a later stage to get more
tons per acre, the quality will fall
away rapidly.
Later harvest results in feed of
lower protein and digestibility. It
slows down in the cow’s digestion
system. I .ess is consumed and milk
production will suffer. What we
usually think of as palatabihty
from the cow’s viewpoint is really
just a measure of digestibility,
notes Weicksel. If the crop goes
through the cow’s system faster,
she will eat more because she’s
empty. Flavor probably isn’t the
mam point as much as the
digestibility of the forage.
Rye, for example, has a poor
reputation as a forage because it is
often harvested too late for best
quality. But University of
Delaware dairy experience shows
wheat, rye and barley are about
equal in feed value if they’re
harvested early. The stage where
the heads are just emerging is “the
last call for quality” for all of these
crops. Harvesting earlier frees the
land earlier for com planting. With
reduced tillage or no-till com
planting, little growing season
start with fall-seed cereals
time is wasted and cover crop
removal helps reduce planting
problems.
Spring-harvested wheat, barley
or rye is handy to have for summer
feed when pastures slow down.
Very digestible, lower fiber forage
is especially desirable then
because it’s easier on the cow’s
digestion during the time of peak
heat stress.
Wilting is advised before
chopping because the moisture
content is too high for best fer
mentation. The amount of wilting
may depend on how you plan to
store the feed, says Weicksel.
University of Delaware experience
seems to show 60% to 70%
moisture is satisfactory for
‘Little Scratch 9 scraper
The Soilmover "Little Scratch” carry-all scraper performs
small land-tailoring jobs easier, better and more efficiently
than rear blades or front-end loaders, the manufacturer said.
Available in 1 or IV2 cubic yard models, it can be operated
with as little as 20 horsepower and requires no expensive
hydraulics. "Little Scratch” requires 3-point lift or similar
control for the drawbar to lower scraper into loading position
and raise it for carry position. Pull trip lever and it rolls over
to unload...spreading action is controlled by drawbar lift.
Simple roll-over design makes “Little Scratch" the ideal tool
for simple landscaping, small excavation and maintenance
work.
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WARRIORS MARK - Brian
Parsons, a 10-year veteran of the
feed business in central Penn
sylvania, is opening a full-line
Purina feed dealership in this
Huntingdon County community.
Located at the center of town at
The facility features a 1,500-
square-foot showroom and a 22,000-
square-foot warehouse.
In addition to the Purina
products, Parsons will offer his
own line of dairy feeds, and
provide bag and bulk delivery and
forage testing.
He promises a four-day tur
naround in wet chemistry forage
testing and computer analysis of
dairy, beef, hog and poultry
feeding programs.
Emphasizing a strong orien
tation to customer service, Par
sons noted that the store will be
open Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays until 8 p.m., to better
serve customers who have more
time to shop during evening hours.
“Service will be the key to in
creasing our business,” Parsons
added.
A grand opening celebration will
be held Friday, Aug. 2.
storage in Ag Bag plastic tubes. A
lower moisture content is probably
advisable for tower silos because
juice run off problems could result
from the higher pressures in a
tower silo if the forage is too wet.
Two-stage harvest with win
drowing ahead of the forage
harvester actually speeds up the
harvest, says Weicksel. In addition
to wilting the crop for better fer
mentation, the windrowed crop
feeds into a forage harvester with
a-windrow pickup faster and easier
than with a direct cut attachment.
Depending on the yield, a wider cut
can be funneled into a single
windrow to increase the acres
handled per hour.
New feed store opens
in Warriors Mark
Brian Parsons, left, and his two employees, Sandy and
Brad Smith, in front of the new Warriors Mark Feed Center in
Warriors Mark, 20 miles southwest of State College.
Computer analysis of feeding programs will be just one of
the many services offered by the new Warriors Mark Feed
Center in Warriors Mark. Brian Parsons, owner of the store,
is shown above at the keyboard, while Brad Smith looks on.
EASTON, Md. - The
Chesapeake Bay cleanup was the
focal point of discussion at the
Maryland Association of Soil
Conservation Districts’ summer
meeting July 17 to 19 in Easton,
Md.
Association members departed
from a nearly 50-year tradition and
voted to ask the state legislature to
add the word “water” to the name
of the state’s 24 local soil con
servation districts.
District supervisors felt the
name soil and water conservation
district would better reflect their
organizations’ role in conserving
and protecting the state’s water
supplies, especially because of
their expanded role in the Bay
cleanup.
They also went on record calling
for full funding under the state’s
agricultural cost-share program
Fertilizer expert Penn Ag speaker
EHRATA R. Gordon Wells,
Director of Environmental
Programs for The Fertilizer In
stitute in Washington, will be a
guest speaker at the PennAg In
dusties 107th annual convention,
Philadelphia Adam’s Mark Hotel,
October 6-8,1985.
At The Fertilizer Institute,
Wells’ responsibilities are in
providing liaison with the En-
Maryland SCS calls
for name change
for farmers who install poultry
waste storage structures. The
large concentration of poultry
wastes, and their improper storage
and application, poses a threat to
both ground and surface waters,
they sa'id. The Maryland Dept, of
Agriculture, which administers the
cost-share program, makes the
final determination of the type and
number of best management
practices that receive funds.
Sharon Fenton, cost-share
program administrator, an
nounced that the initial $5 million
appropriated for the program has
been committed. An additional $2
million approved by the legislature
may not become available until
next February, after the state’s
next bond issue. The new money
will be targeted to priority areas
where the potential for pollution is
greatest, she added.
vironmental Protection Agency
and industry task groups dealing
especially in the toxic substances
arena.
Before joining TFI in 1979,
Gordon worked for Versar, Inc., of
Springfield, VA, where he was
involved in the analysis and
assessment of toxic pollutant
discharges from industrial point
sources.