White Oak Holds Dairy Meeting
MT JOY (Lancaster Co.) —The
annual dairy seminar sponsored by
White Oak Mills drew a room full
of farmers to hear various topics
related to feeding and managing
the dairy herd.
“Getting a cow ready for lacta
tion is like running a marathon,”
said Dr. Ned Moser, DVM consul
tant for White Oak. “The marython
starts when she drops the calf, but
what about the training period. For
the cow, the training period is the
dry period. Unless you have a
good dry cow program she will not
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“If you ask someone who has
just been walking around to sud
denly race 26 miles, they will not
get far. And the cow must also be
properly prepared for lactation
with a good dry cow program,
Moser said. “Protein is offen defi
cient in the dry cow program.
Many people will balance and
rebalance their lactating rations
but don’t consider the dry cows."
Dr. Tom Sweeney, Church &
Dwight, Inc., said the only way
you can provide the energy that the
high producing cow needs is to
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feed fat “Cows in negative energy
ba lance at the begining of their lac
tation need a lot of energy to pro
duce milk, maintain body condi
tion and be reproductively active,
Sweeney said, ‘Traditionally you
did not feed fat because it impaired
the animals ability to be efficient
Bui the new product Megalac is
totally inert in the rumun and
thereby gives the dairymen the
opportunity to provide the energy
to his cows as needed.”
Other speakers included Dr.
James Aldrich. Carl S. Akey. Inc.
on the subject: WCarbohydrate
and Protein Nutrition of Dairy
Cattle” and Don Lloyd and Jorge
Estrada with the White Oak Mills
products -and services
departments.
Lunch was served and products
were exhibited here at the Country
Table Restaurant
10th CRP Results Released
WASHINGTON,
D.C. Deputy Secretary of'
Agriculture Ann Veneman recen
tly announced that producers
signed contracts to place an addi
tional 475,175 acres of land into
the Conservation Reserve Program
following the 10th CRP signup
March 4-15.
All told, CRP contracts have
now been entered for 34,397,740
acres.
The most recent addition of
475,175 acres were enrolled on
8,601 contracts which went into
effect during the 1991 crop year.
Data from the 11th CRP signup
July 8-19 are not yet available. It
has been reported that 1.12 million
acres were tentatively accepted as
a result of that signup.
Bids for the 12th CRP signup
will be accepted by county offices
of USDA'S Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation Service
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June 15-26, 1992,
Vcnfeman said enrollment trends
arc shifting away from the Moun
tain and Great Plains States toward
the Combelt and other states east
of the Great Plains.
“Many changes have been made
to the CRP since the 10th signup
including land eligibility criteria
and processes that affect payment
rates," Veneman said. -Because of
these changes I strongly encourage
those producers who earlier
decided not to participate in the
program to take another look at the
CRP now."
In Pennsylvania, there were 367
bids, 60 contracts made on 1,952
acres, for an average rental price of
$57.44 per acre. The annual rental
payment for the Keystone state is
$112,123. Nationally, for the 10th
signup, the federal program will
pay $25,499,546 a year to
landowners.