Bank Ag Seminar Held
BLUE BALL (Lancaster
Co.) The Blue Ball National
Bank ag seminar featured a num
ber of speakers with good ideas
about farming. These speakers
included Timothy Clemens, Hat
field consumer relations officer;
James Myer, Lititz beef farmer;
Dr. Darcie Stolz, Strasburg veter
narian; Don Robinson, Lancaster
Soil Conservation District mana
ger, and Louis Moore, Penn State
ag economics professor.
Stolz gave the definition of
health and bio security as the man
agement practices that protect the
herd from entry of new disease and
minimize the adverse effects of
disease in the herd. She said you
need to control the new arrivals on
the farm and curb farm traffic, wild
birds, the movement of animals,
rodents, pets, people, and equip
ment on the farm.
In addition, you need preventa
tive medicine, and you need to
maintain high disease resistance
and good meat and milk quality.
“You want to focus on control,”
Slolz said. “You want your herd to
“PURR”; that is, you want to pay
attention to production, udder
health, reproduction, and
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“For every pound increase in the
peak production of a dairy cow,
you increase her total production
by 2SO pounds for the lactation. On
a 40 cow herd that translates into
10,000 pounds of increased pro
duction over those lactations. At
$12.50 milk, that is and increase of
profits of $1,250.”
Conversely. Stolz said an
increase of only two SCC points
will decrease production by three
pounds per cow per day and that
translates into $5,400 lost in the 40
cow herd. She said the most impor
tant information you obtain from
DHIA records is the SCC count
Robinson gave an inspirational
talk on how to pass on a farm herit
age. He said that the caption under
the now famous poster of two little
boys dressed as fanners which
says, “You been farmin’ long?”
might well read, “Are you going to
be farming long?”
“Are our farm children a gene
sis?” Robinson asked. “As your
children go. so goes your farm. As
the nation’s farm children go, so
goes agriclture.” He said that pride'
with a small “p” was the satisfac
tion of a job well done as was part
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At the Blue Ball National Bank ag seminar are, from left, Melvin Pankuch, president/
CEO; Don Robinson, manager, Lancaster Conservation District; Dr. Darcle Stolz,
VMD, Strasburg; Louis Moore, Penn State ag economics professor, and Kenneth
Overly, vice president.
of the fanning heritage of “proud
to be a fanner.”
“History is something that is
past,” Robinson said. “A heritage
is alive, something passed on. Her
" itage with no future is history.”
Robinson said the future of agri
culture is threatened most by farms
gra-Bngrßrßrßra
with no one to take over or by situ
ations where there is no heritage to
pass on. “How many farms are
sold when a child is eager and
ready to take over?” Robinson
asked rhetorically. “Not many. I
know we can’t force children to
stay. But when children are
involved in decision-making, they
are more likely to want to stay.
“Don’t wait to give respect,
responsibility and resources to
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your children. Start small, plan to
increase involvement as the child
matures. Teach the child well and
then let the child try.
Robinson said children should
get involved in record keeping. He
said you can’t pass on a way of life
unless you also pass on a business.
“You send a message to your
children with deed restrictions and
implementation of conservation
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financial stability. ADC is a
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—-John Mayer
Taneytown, MD