Alft-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dacambar 21,1985
Tobacco
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But even though on-farm and
auction prices were similar in the
higher grades, the price difference
was apparent in the lower grades,
many sellers noted. “Where I
gained,’’ said Lititz grower Carl
Schnupp, “ is that my bottoms
brought the same as everything
else.”
Schnupp, who sold 12,000 pounds
on Monday, noted that, although
offers that he had received for his
better tobacco on the farm had
been as high as the auction prices,
buyers were only willing to pay
him 60 cents for his bottoms
through private-treaty sale. “I
gained on my out-grade, too,” he
said, pointing out that the lowest
price he received for his out-grade
at the auction was 45 cents,
compared to a 25-cent offer on the
farm.
Schnupp does feel that the
auction should be more centrally
located in the county, an attitude
also expressed by Donald
SheUenberger, a Washington Boro
grower.
“It’s too far to go for the same
price I was offered on the farm,”
said Shellenberger, at the same
time conceding that the presence
of the auction may have influenced
at least one buyer to offer him one
price for both his higher and lower
North Carolina tobacco auctioneer Mitch Ashby will be
selling tobacco at the auction throughout the season.
Advice on
farm
management
UNIVERSITY PARK
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written by a Penn-
sylvania farm
management specialist
for the nonfarmer, the
novice, or as a review
for the established
farmer is available now
from Penn State.
This eight-lesson
course gives options for
the use of farm
resources- land, labor,
capital, and
management. It
discusses the bases for
choosing enterprises for
a particular farm,
explains enterprise
budgets and marginal
analyses, and details
farm recordkeeping. A
valuable lesson for the
prospective farmer
concerning the type of
financial arrangements
grades through private sale. “I
think the auction helped to raise
the price, 10 cents, at least,” said
SheUenberger.
Though the auction may have
driven prices for lower grade
tobacco higher than the normal
levels, most buyers remained
enthusiastic. We’d like to see the
auction work,” said Bobby
Oldham, a buyer for Parker
Tobacco Co., of Hartsville, Term.,
one of the larger companies
represented at the sale. “I think
it’s a good sale,” Oldham con
tinued. “We’re satisfied with what
we’re finding, but we’d like to have
more of it (Type 609) grown here.”
Oldham, who stated that he also
buys “in the country,” said that he
would rather buy his tobacco
through the auction. “I’ll buy
200,000 pounds a day, if it comes,”
he said.
Prices took an upturn in Wed
nesday’s sale, with 303,000 pounds
averaging $1.16 for all grades.
Probst speculated that the
stronger prices were the result of
farmers “holding together” and
consigning their tobacco to the
auction, rather than succumbing to
private-treaty offers. “The far
mers are really happy with this
thing,” concluded Probst. “I’m
really pleased.”
The auction manager notes that
no sales will be held this coming
week. Sales the following week will
be held on Dec. 30, and Jan. 3.
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It was standing-room-only at the state's first tobacco auction on Monday. Sales are
scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Martin Auctioneers, Inc., until this
year's crop is sold.
Cornell winter dairy schools
ITHACA, NY - Dairy fanners
across New York are invited to a
series of four regional meetings
designed to keep farmers up to
date on state-of-the-art dairy
production and management
techniques.
Scheduled during January 1986,
the “Winter Dairy Management
Schools” will be held in Painted
Post, Kingston, Watertown, and
Batavia. A team of animal
scientists from the New York State
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences will conduct a two-day
meeting in each location.
Focusing on the latest Cornell
recommendations on dairy
operations, the meetings will
feature lectures on feeding, dairy
herd profile, farm management,
milk management, reproduction,
and breeding and genetics.
A highlight will be a presentation
on the use of biosynthetic bovine
growth hormone that dramatically
boosts cows’ milk yields and its
effect on feeding, reproduction,
and genetics. The growth hormone
is expected to become available
commercially in the near future
Speakers at these meetings will
be Charles J. Sniffen, Larry E.
Chase, Terry R. Smith, J. Murray
Elliot, R. David Smith, E. John
Poliak, William G. Merrill, David
M. Gallon, and Robert W. Everett,
all in Cornell’s Department of
Animal Science-the sponsor of the
regional meetings
Open to all dairy farmers in the
state, the 1986 winter dairy
management schools will be held
at the following dates and
locations: January 7-*- Painted
Post (Holiday Inn, U.S. 15 South,
Gang Mills exit); January 9-10-
Kingston (Holiday Inn, Thruway
Exit 19); January 21-22- Water
town (Holiday Inn, Route 11);
January 23-24- Batavia (Holiday
Inn, Thruway Exit 48).
For more information about
registration and the program for
the January meetings, contact
Robert Everett, 822 Morrison
Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY 14853-4801, or call (607 ) 256-
4416.
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