AlB-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 30, 1991
Farmers Receive Drought Help
AKRON (Lancaster Co.) —
Farmers in drought-ravaged areas
of Pennsylvania are receiving help
from other farmers through the
Mennonite Disaster Service
(MDS) network, reports MDS
coordinator Lowell Detweiler.
MDS volunteers are providing
com silage to hard-hit farmers
PDA Boar Test Going Well
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Pennsylvania's official
boar testing program, sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture's Meat Animal Eva
luation Center (MAEC), is well
underway with an exceptionally
good set of boars far into the test
ing period.
These boars are consigned by
some of the most progressive
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from Chambersburg north as far
as Union and Perry Counties,
Detweiler said. Some com in these
areas is only two feet high and not
worth harvesting, he said.
Farmers will share shelled and
ear com and hay for their silos in
the next weeks.
To date, Amish and Mennonite
purebred breeders from through
out Pennsylvania and surrounding
states.
Small boars weighing between
40 and 65 pounds are delivered to
the MAEC and are placed on a
one- or two-week adjustment per
iod determined by weight.
They are then put on test in pens
of four boars each (by one sire)
until the entire pen reaches an
farmers in Virginia’s Shenandoah
Valley have sent 84 semitrailer
loads of silage to central Pennsyl
vania. Farmers in eastern Lancas
ter County have shared about 100
tractor trailer loads. Farmers
donate the com for silage
receiving the silage sometimes
help pay trucking costs.
average boar weight of 230 pound
s. During testing the boars are on
full feed and are weighed every 14
days.
After each 14-day test period,
each pen's average daily gain and
feed efficiency are calculated and
the boars are ultrasonically
scanned for back-fat thickness and
loin-eye area. After passing the
sale committee's screening for
soundness, the top one-half to two
thirds of the boars are catalogued
for sale.
Pennsylvania's first annual
winter performance-tested boar
sale is scheduled for Wednesday
evening, February 12,1992, begin
ning at 6 p.m. at Penn State Uni
versity's Ag Arena.
For more information on Pen
nsylvania's performance testing
programs or to request a boar sale
catalog, please contact; Glenn
Eberly, Director, Meat Animal
Evaluation Center, 651 Fox Hol
low Road, State College, PA
16803; phone (814) 238-2527 or
(814) 865-5857.
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Mike Martin of Martin’s Mulch, Ephrata, helps fill trucks
for transporting silage. The corn silage pictured came from
the farms of Levi R. and John and Daniel Stoltzfus near
Morgantown.
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