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At breeding age the heifers go to
a free stall bam where they are
bred with a well picked bull. They
use the bull to save time, Ron says.
The Woods have learned to work
with their clay, thin soil on the
home farm. “We rely on grass an
awful lot,” Ron says.
They plant alfalfa and grasses,
and in particular canary grass,
according to Ron. “We don’t plow
up as much as other people would.
We have had stands up to 10 year,”
he adds.
Ron is quite enthusiastic about
the Acorn Ram manure system
they put in a few years ago and
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Gor-Wood-D Acres
notes some changes it has made in
their farming practices. He says
he can’t believe the difference in
their stands when they draw off the
effluent and spread it around. Then
the manure is put on their alfalfa
until it covers the crowns of the
alfalfa. It not only fertilizes the
alfalfa, he says, but protects it on
the windy hilltop from soil erosion.
They put up a lot of haylage and a
little corn silage, he adds.
Looking to the future of the milk
industry, Gordon predicts the
United States will go to a quota
system similar to Canada’s. He
specifies that it will have to be
administered regionally and bv
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farmers and imports will have to
be controlled, but he believes it is
in the future.
As an alternative to the buyout
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like to suggest a program ad-
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over the selling price for each one
sold. That way, he explained, the
poorer stock would be “taken off
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To Vote On Assessment
HARRISBURG - State
Agriculture Secretary Richard E.
Grubb yesterday submitted a
proposed marketing program for
Pennsylvania Christmas trees to a
vote by tree growers.
Up to 1,600 affected growers will
vote on whether to pay
assessments that would raise an
estimated $150,000 for marketing,
promotion and research activities.
The proposed fee is 10 cents per
tree harvested and sold.
The Department of Agriculture
mailed ballots to growers on Oct.
10. Voting will be by mail, and
ballots must be returned to the
Department by 4 p.m., Oct. 24.
Growers with three or more acres
of trees for sale are eligible to vote.
The Secretary decided to hold a
referendum after reviewing the
testimony of growers at a public
hearing held in July in response to
a request for such a program from
the 585-member Pennsylvania
Christmas Tree Growers
Association.
“There’s no question that
providing additional funding for
RCMA Coordinator Named
BY MARTHA SHELDON
SYRACUSE N.Y. - Harold Ely
of Susquehanna Township has been
named Regional Cooperative
Marketing Agency representative
in Pennsylvania.
Ely was appointed by the RCMA
steering committee and has been
charged with completing the
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producers in Federal Marketing
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state’s unregulated area in the
northeast. RCMA director Arthur
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If the program wins approval, a
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Little said his agency hopes to
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Nov. 1.
Ely is a dairy farmer who has
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Little says 85 percent of the
Northeast is now signed up with
RCMA and the goal is 10 percent
more, to enable the organization to
institute over-order pricing.
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