WE NOW HAVE SMALL BALES! AMERICAN PAPER BEDDING IS NOW PRODUCING CONVENTIONAL FARM SIZE BALES. (APPROX. 70 LBS.) SO NOW, MORE THAN EVER WHY BUY STRAW WHEN YOU CAN BUY NE WSPAPER BEDDING A T HALF THE PRICE? WE NOW HA VE BALED INVENTORY READY TO BE DELIVERED TO YOUR FARM OR PICKED UP F. 0.8. OUR FACILITY. We Are The Major Philadelphia Distributor Of Baled, Shredded Newspaper For Use As Animal Bedding Newspaper it a completely natural product of wood fiber and hydrocarbon and vegetable oils. NEWSPAPER HAS MANY ADVANTAGES OVER STRAW AND NO DISADVANTAGES. It is priced aignificantly lower than straw. It is twice as absorbant, provides better fly control, reduces ammonia odor, and carries neither dust nor fungus, mold or other diseases. It spreads better, decomposes faster in soil and slurry systems and is weed free. Moreover, it should equal or surpass sawdust, shavings, straw and corn stover in providing necessary organic matter in the soil when manures containing it are spread. Call Andrew Kronfeld for further information. Toll Froo: 1-800-347-3005 paper If BEDDING, INC I I Lancaster, and Dan Martin, Man heim, for their help to establish this program.” The arrangement is similar to one that has been in place in Kan sas for decades. In that program, farmers regularly designate a por tion of their wheat crop to MCC. In the past, as much as 20,000 bushels of wheat were donated annually to world hunger needs. Groff said the program will allow dairy farmers to make small automatic monthly pounds-of milk contributions to the fund that OUR TRUCKS DELIVER TO YOUR FARM BALED INVENTOBY One Independence Place Suite 2310 Sixth Street A Locuat Walk Philadelphia, PA 19106 Local: (215) 664-8403 Yes, I want to contribute. lbs. per week/month (circle one). Nairn Address: Producer m Signature: Mail to: Mennonite Central Committee Material Resources Box 500 Akron, PA 17501 Gift Of Milk In New Atlantic Program (Continued from Pago At) ~L«riCMt»f F.^nfl, Atlantic Dairy Cooperative 1225 Industrial Highway Southampton, PA 18966 will not really be missed in the milk check at the end of the month. But even 100 lbs. of milk per month will give more than $lOO of food relief by the end of the year. Actually, a number of sizable con tributions have already been received into the fund. The need for donated milk is great. Throughout the 1980’s MCC received milk powder, as much as 500 metric tons a year, for shipment over-seas from the Cana- dian Dairy Commission. Money for the transfer was provided by the Canadian International Deve lopment Agency. In 1989, howev er, with less milk available on the world market, MCC was able to get only 200 metric tons of milk Dairy Management George F.W. Haenlein Extension Dairy Specialist University of Delaware Pricing Roughages It’s the time of year again when silos are reaching the end and hay storages are getting empty. Some of you have small grains coming up as a bridge or reserve, but the cold spring weather was holding rye, oats, barley, wheat, vetch and rape back. The wet weather was keeping the cows out from pasturing much, and the lack of sunshine raised the threat of nitrate levels in rye and other small grain. So where can you turn for eco nomically acceptable alternatives? You can either buy roughages or go to feeds and rations which have BiR (built-in roughage con tents). Whole cottonseed, cot tonseed hulls, soybean hulls, cit rus pulp, beet pulp, barley hulls, oat hulls, and other less available or more costly by-products are principal BiR providers. A commercially available dairy ration with a high BiR content is a good alternative to buying rough ages if the price is right, because energy, protein, minerals and vita mins are also provided, while pur chased roughages would require supplementation. What is the right price? Least cost computer programs, now widely available to the practicing dairyperson or through Coopera tive Extension or a consultant’s help, usually give a precise, fast answer. In general, this answer lies in an equal “opportunity cost” for alfal fa hay vs. a commercial BiR ration. Com silage would be about 1/3, ryelage 1/4 and grass hay about 3/4, which meatis, in mak ing a buying decision between a * *• f powder from Canada. Now, with contributions given through the Atlantic Dairy Cooperative, MCC will be able to fill requests for milk powder from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Sudan, India, Egypt, Haiti and Honduras. “We hope this project is the beginning of a nationwide effort among dairy cooperatives,” Hos tetler said. “We look forward to a good response from dairy farmers in the East, and believe others will be able to arrange similar prog rams elsewhere.” Dairy farmers who want to make contributions of milk to the program may complete the form below and send it to Atlantic or MCC. Column BiR ration that costs less per ton than good alfalfa hay, it would be more economical to buy the com mercial BiR ration. For com silage, the right price to buy it instead should be no more than 1/3 the price of a com mercial BiR ration. Granted, haul ing and handling are extra. If, on the other hand, you have excess roughages and want to sell some to suffering neighbors, what is the right price? The so-called break-even price is often used. This means the cost of planting, fertilizer, harvesting and storing. For typical com silage, this is around $lB/ton plus $2/ton for extra hauling. In addition, there would be fermentation losses in the silo of about $3/ton for a total cost of at least $23/ton average com silage. Hay cost figures could be derived in the same way. Another method of pricing roughage is by figuring content values, such as com kernel yield in com silage. By estimating the bushel yield of com (e.g., 170 bushel) times the current bushel price of com (e.g., $2.50) divided by the estimated silage tonnage yield per acre (e.g., 18 tons), you arrive at an esti mated corn silage price of $23.61/ton F. 0.8. farm, which would be fair to both seller and buyer. This kind of calculation can also be used to help in deciding whether to make silage or to com bine and sell the com kernels. If, for example, the assumed bushel price of com rises above $2.50, the farmer would make more money combining and sell ing the kernels than in making sil age and trying to sell it. (Turn to Pago ASS) mm 1
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