A36-Lanc«st*r Farming, Saturday, November 29,1986 1 [lv \ Darn? I Business Newton Bair 4. --p - * Com Fodder And Cow Feed Time was, when the leaves from the old maple tree drifted against the garden fence, and the cows licked the ice at the edge of the water trough, that we woke up to the fact of winter. We simply ignored the other signs, like wild geese headed south, and rough hands from the damp com husk they were normal and necessary events in the seasonal cycle. We worried about whether there would be enough hay and com fodder for the winter though, so the cold weather was really somewhere in our thoughts, waiting for reality to wake it up. The last load of com was usually shoveled off the two-horse wagon during World Series week, if we were lucky. If help was scarce or too expensive, com harvest might go into hunting season, making it necessary to wear a red bandanna on the hat, while husking com. The old shotgun stayed handy in case we surprised a bunny or a pheasant hidden under a shock. That took some of the sting out of the tyranny of late harvest while our city friends were enjoying the hunt. Mechanical corn pickers existed, but were not yet considered cost effective on our farm. Besides, they made it impossible to harvest the corn fodder, which we con sidered necessary for winter feed. Yes, I said feed, meaning cow feed. Two haymows were filled with hay. The west bay held the timothy and clover mix and was ex clusively for the six mules. The limited alfalfa hay went into the East bay over the cow stable. Never enough to last the winter, it had to be stretched out with corn fodder. While the silage from the old Unadilla silo lasted, tiie cows filled their rumen with corn silage, corn fodder, and com chop, sup plemented with a taste of alfalfa and a little brewers grain on the com chop. 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Especially if the manure had to be handled three times by hand, once out of the pen or stable, twice off the manure pile, and a third time when spread by hand off the dung board wagon. To say nothing of trying to plow the stuff under next spring. One earned his virtue, if virtue can be measured by muscle power and abstinence from audible profanity. So much time and energy was spent on com fodder. First, cut each and every single stalk by hand with a sharp com hook, tie it into shocks, throw it down and husk the ears, stand it up again, and finally haul the sheaves somewhere near the ham and build a neat stack. There was an art in building a neat fodder stack, topped off like a steep roof. Every sheaf must slope outward from the center of the stack. The final thatch must stand upright and be tight enough to turn water,' even though it might be tom asunder next week and hauled into the barnfloor to be shredded for feed and bedding. The idea of shredding com fodder came later, with the advent of the Hercules gas engine and an old Dellinger shredder. The cows ate a little more of it after shredding, and the manure was infinitely easier to fork. It was true progress in our time. Today, chopping the stalks and baling them for bedding is a far cry from all that hand work. Even leaving the fodder on the field has greater merit than all that in timacy with every blessed corn stalk. Nature has a grand scheme for recycling the nutrients while binding the soil for another go round next year. And Bless the day that someone thought of ensiling the whole corn stalk! For that is the most efficient way of all to get our money’s worth from corn. AD ADC Board Approves 1 WILLIAMSPORT - The board of directors of the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council has approved a 1987 budget of $11.4 million to be used for generic dairy advertising and promotion programs. The board met in Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 18 to 19 in order to review programs and finalize budgets. The funds have been allocated to promote dairy products through a variety of outlets. Highlights of 1987 programs are as follows; MEDIA ADVERTISING - The majority of ADADC’s budget will be used to advertise dairy products through television, radio and outdoor billboards. The primary product to be advertised is milk. Ads for milk will continue to use the successful theme, “Milk, America’s Health Kick.” This theme positions milk as a healthy beverage, fitting consumers’ active lifestyles. Additional advertising will also be conducted for cheese, butter and ice cream. ADADC will cooperate with the National Dairy Board and regional promotion units around the country for the development costs of all media ads. ADADC will continue using its two newest media outlets in supermarkets and ski resorts. For the past year, they have been purchasing in-store broadcasting ads in supermarkets throughout the area. These ads are played over the sound systems of supermarkets, advertising products and promoting special offers. ADADC also purchases space through Ski- View USA. This is a network of billboards which are placed on ski lift towers throughout the Nor theast NUTRITION EDUCATION - Physicians will be a major target for Dairy Council programming in 1987. ' Consumers recognize physicians as sources of information about health and disease, and are in fluenced by their advice. During SELL IT WITH A LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED & the coming year, Dairy Council will increase their efforts to provide physicians with nutrition information. The end result should be that physicians will counsel patients to incorporate dairy foods into their diets. Another focus of Dairy Council programming in 1987 will be to introduce the redeveloped Food . . . Your Choice program into area schools. Food . .. Your Choice is a nutrition curriculum designed to educate students on proper eating habits. It was first introduced in 1977, and has been redeveloped to meet changing educational needs. PROMOTION - During 1987, ADADC will continue its successful Milk Set At $13.05 For October NEW YORK - Dairy farmers who supplied milk plants regulated under the New York-New Jersey marketing orders during October 1986 will be paid on the basis of a uniform price of $13.05 per hun dredweight, 28.1 cents per quart. Market Administrator Thomas A. Wilson also stated that the price was $12.79 in September 1986 and $12.40 in October 1986. The uniform price is a marketwide weighted average of the value of farm milk used for fluid and manufactured dairy products. The seasonal incentive fund returned a total of $4,173,880.98, or $.464 per hundredweight, to the dairy farmers’ uniform price for October. This fund was generated by reducing the uniform price paid to producers during the high production spring months. A total of 15,281 dairy farmers supplied the New York-New Jersey Milk Marketing Area with 899,335,456 pounds of milk during October 1986. This was a decrease of 6.5 percent, about 62 million pounds, from last year. The gross value to dairy farmers for milk deliveries was $120,890,277.60. 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The promotion’s theme is .“Turn It Up,” and it will provide school cafeteria managers with milk display material for use in the cafeteria. Also included will be milk storage tips and nutrition information. ADADC promotions will con tinue to place dairy display materials in supermarket dairy aisles, and promotions will be developed with major restaurant chains. A dairy product public relations campaign will also be continued. In addition, the board approved continued funding for local dairy princess programs. included differentials required to be paid to dairy farmers but not voluntary premiums or deductions authorized by the farmer. Regulated milk dealers (han dlers) used 416,296,100 pounds of milk for Class 1,46.3 percent of the total. This milk is used for fluid milk products such as homogenized, flavored, low test, and skim milks. For October 1986, handlers paid $13.88 per hun dredweight, 29.8 cents per quart, for Class I milk compared with $13.33 a year ago. The balance, 483,039,356 pounds or 53.7 percent, was used to manufacture Class II products including butter, cheese, ice cream, and yogurt. Handlers paid $11.75 per hundredweight for this milk. The uniform price is based on milk containing 3.5 percent but terfat. For October 1986, there was a price differential of 17.7 cents for each one-tenth of one percent that the milk tested above or below the 3.5 percent standard. ' All prices quoted are for bulk tank milk received from farms in the 201-210 mile zone from New York City. UEBUSR Mg’ RD 2 Box 271 East Earl, PA 17519 (717) 354-0584
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