D24-Lancaster Farming Saturday, November 15,1986
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A special
farm finance survey conducted for
the Maryland Department of
Agriculture shows that Maryland
farmers were on a relatively solid
financial footmg when they were
hit by this year’s drought
UNIVERSITY PARK - John H.
Holbert, county extension director
and senior agent in Bedford
County, recently retired from the
Cooperative Extension Service
after 39 years of service.
Holbert has been responsible for
planning and carrying out
educational programs in
agriculture, 4-H, family living and
community development. He was
the first extension representative
in Pennsylvania to conduct ex
tensive farm business planning
programs covering all aspects of
farm and home.
USDA To Conduct Bovine
Growth Hormone Study
WASHINGTON - The U.S.
Department of Agriculture will
conduct a study to analyze the
potential economic effects of the
use of the bovine growth hormone
in dairy cattle, a USDA official
announced today.
The study will aim to quantify
the potential impact of bGH on the
federal milk price support
program and on the structure of
the U.S. milk production industry,
according to Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Economics Robert
L. Thompson. USDA’s Economic
Research Service will conduct the
study.
BGH is a naturally occuring
protein, produced by the pituitary
glands of cattle, which regulates
bovine body metabolism and milk
production. Genetic transfer
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Survey Profiles Maryland Fanners
However, 10 percent of those
responding indicated they may
have to exit farming within the
next two years These figures,
according to Maryland Secretary
of Agriculture Wayne A Cawley,
Jr . "were pretty much what we
expected ”
Bedford Extension Director Retires
He has conducted educational
programs in all phases of dairying,
including county promotion and
commodity contests, projects to
better farm-city relations, home
grounds and gardening and
community and county com
prehensive planning. Under his
leadership, 4-H enrollment in
Bedford County was nearly tripled.
Before being named Bedford
County agent in 1953, Holbert
served as assistant agent in
Lawrence, Warren and Erie
counties.
techniques recently have made it
possible to reproduce bGH on a
large scale at relatively low cost,
making the purified product
available for research and com
mercial use. Studies show that
bGH, when administered to dairy
cattle, significantly increases milk
yields.
Thompson said that while the
Food and Drug Administration has
not yet approved the hormone for
commercial use, USDA is con
ducting the study because of the
potential impact of bGH on milk
production costs and returns, and
on the size, structure and
geographical aspects of dairy
enterprises. Thompson said the
study will be completed by mid to
late 1987.
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According to the secretary,
"Maryland farmers, coming into
1986, were in far better shape than
their counterparts in a number of
other states We suspected that but
didn’t realize just how true it was,’’
Cawley said "The survey shows
that the majority of farmers in
John H. Holbert
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Maryland today are depending on
off-farm sources for an increasing
portion of their net income The
off-farm jobs are paying the heat,
light, clothing and food bills for
farm families in Maryland and
are, in effect, helping keep the
He received his bachelor’s
degree in agricultural economics
in 1947 and his master of
agriculture degree in 1963, both
from Penn State.
Holbert is vice president of the
Bedford County Fair and a
member of the State Association of
County Fairs executive board,
advisory committee to the State
Secretary of Agriculture for the
State Fair Fund and the Bedford
County Memorial Hospital board
of directors. He is also a member
of the Bedford Rotary Club,
Bedford Grange, Bedford County
Farmers Association, Penn
sylvania and National Associations
of County Agricultural Agents and
Epsilon Sigma Phi fraternity.
He and his wife, Jean, life in
Bedford. Their son, John E., also
lives in Bedford, where he operates
a home grounds and care business.
Raising registered Suffolk sheep is
a hobby of both father and son.
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family farm going.”
• Overall, 10 percent of those
responding to the survey say they
are behind on payments.
• Of those with debt on farmland
and improvements (such as
buildings), seven percent in
dicated they were behind on in
terest land principal payments
• Of those carrying debt on farm
machinery and equipment, six
percent are behind on interest and
principal payments with an ad
ditional five percent saying they
are behind on principal payments
only.
“The survey doesn’t open any
new doors of wisdom for us, but it
does give us current benchmark
information,” said Cawley. “I
hope the state’s agricultural
lenders will take a good look at it
when making decisions regarding
restructuring of farm debt and
extension of additional credit
needed by farmers over the winter
and to plant crops in 1987.”
Copies of the survey will be
ready for distribution by about
Dec. 1, and will be supplied to
anyone requesting one. To receive
a copy write: Farm Finance
Survey, c/o Maryland Department
of Agriculture, 50 Harry S. Truman
Parkway, Annapolis, Maryland
21401.
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