M-Uncaster Farming. Saturday. May 22,1993
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Consumers probably will
pay less for some meats this year,
but low prices caused by booming
production could make 1993 a
lean year for some livestock pro
ducers, said a market expert in
Penn State’s College of Agricul
tural Sciences.
‘This may not be a banner year
for the livestock industry,” said H.
Louis Moore, professor of agricul
tural economics. “Total red meat
Farmers Launch Weed Air
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hard-to-reach areas in pastures
and rangeland.
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has approved the
aerial application of Ally herbi
cide, giving farmers more flexi
bility in keeping weeds such as
musk thistle, a noxious weed,
from spreading in fields and re
ducing beef production. Register
ed for use on pasture and range
land for the past three years, the
herbicide had been labeled for
ground application only.
Being able to control weeds by
air is an important option to beef
producers, explained Reginald
Young, DuPont product manager.
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Too Much Meat Could Mean Lean Year
and poultry production will be
about 60 billion pounds, up two
billion from last year’s record and
about 10 percent more than 1990.
This level of production will keep
prices for meat animals low.
There’s just too much meat for
any segment of the livestock
industry to be very profitable
throughout 1993.”
The recovering economy
should boost consumer demand
for meat, however. “Per capita
“Ally offers improved safety
and weed control, but the past re
striction requiring application by
ground rigs only was a limitation
to producers,” Young said.
“Aerial application gives pro
ducers more flexibility in their
weed control programs to maxi
mize production. For example,
they can now cover rugged terrain
to keep weeds from getting estab
lished and becoming a source of
later problems. It also helps them
with large acreages where spray
ing is impractical with ground
equipment. And it gives them
greater flexibility to work around
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consumption of all meats will be
about 212 pounds this year, up
three pounds from last year’s
record,” Moore said. “But real dis
posable income probably will
increase only 1 to 2 percent. This
rather sluggish consumer income
growth will put more downward
pressure on livestock and poultry
prices.”
Moore expects most of the pro
duction increase to come from
poultry and pork. “Based on the
unfavorable weather and wet field
conditions.”
A broad-spectrum broadleaf
herbicide, Ally is used by produc
ers in the spring to control prob
lem weeds including musk thistle,
bolting musk thistle, common
broomweed, marestail, pigweed,
kochia, cocklebur, wild carrot,
and buckbrush. Other advantages
include crop safety, low use rates,
reduced pesticide load to the en
vironment, a wide application
window, and residual activity.
Specialists note that weed con
trol is an important part of an
overall pasture management pro-
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output should increase about 4
percent, broilers about 4 percent
and turkey about 3 percent,” he
said.
Beef production should rise
about 2 percent in 1993. “Beef
prices are currently high because
of bad wetaher and slow gains of
cattle in feedlots, but prices are
likely to fall by several dollars
when the weather market is over,”
Moore said.
Attack
gram to maximize forage and beef
production.
“By eliminating broadleaf
weeds using herbicides like Ally,
the yield and quality of the avail
able forage increases. Producers
can run more head per acre and re
alize an increased daily gain,”
Young said. “ And, since there is
no grazing restriction even for
lactating dairy animals produc
ers don’t have to worry about the
problems of moving stock. The
bottom line is that producers can
improve the efficiency of their
beef production two ways; overall
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Veal output for the year probab
ly will drop about 1 percent, while
lamb will rise 3 percent. “Their
production levels make lamb and
veal minor production items,”
Moore said. “Lamb and veal com
bined now account for only 1 per
cent of red meat and poultry
production.
“Hog prices at Pennsylvania
markets should range in die mid
s4o’s most of the year,” he said.
“This is despite last year’s 8 per
cent production increase and an
expected 4 percent increase in
1993. The hog industry has
become more competitive with
poultry and has developed a favor
able image with consumers.”
Livestock producers should
more than break even thanks to
inexpensive feed. “The record
9.48 billion bushel com crop from
1992 is cheap and of fairly poor
quality, and eventually will be fed
to livestock,” Moore said. “Cheap
feed will help producers keep
costs down, and most beef, pork,
and poultry producers will cover
all of their cash costs in 1993. This
may encourage more production
in 1994, especially if the economy
continues to improve.”
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