Farm Bureau Disappointed With PMMB Decision
CAMP HILL (Cumberland with the Pennsylvania Milk Mar- dcr price for Pennsylvania daity
-3.) Pennsylvania Farm Bur- keting Board’s (PMMB) decision men focing higher feed costs be
iu is extremely disappointed not to increase the Class I over-or- cause of this year’s drought
The PMMB voted 2-1 against
arm And Agribusiness weight over-order* price increase
(ConttniMd from Pag* A3O) £^s^
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oyataw. rather then )ual independent eemponoma, and ba mutuaky aupporthra.
• Mamwmng rational Mdarahip ki Panncylvanla In muahroom production and
adanoa dopando on a atrong partnanNp between Pam Stela and tha muahroom
Indudry, an that tha lay laauaa dial thraamn tha InduaOy ki tha Mura can ba
addraaaad ttaouph toaoarch and education.
• Tha notaary and landaoapa Induatry auppoft a condnuad raMonaNp with tha
CoeparadYa Extanaton and would ika a alrangthanod adueadonal program.
• Tha loraat Induatriaa »aa a naad lor mora ptoloadonad In m» wood producta araa,
aa aaoondary manufacturing axpanda to add value to tha primary Umber product
• Racegnlalng dial landgrant unkrataWaa can no longer afford to odor alala-oMha-att
leaching, roaatach, and oalanaian progmma In aaory area ol agrioukuro. aa may
have bean dona In tha pool. than ahould ba ooordkwHon with ortwr naarby land
grant unhraiaMaa ao that no area o» agdoutura la wkhcM taacMng, loaaarch and
axtanalon aupport ki tha Northaaat
• Tha nrgantzadon and obfaekvat of the faculty kt tha Cokagamual change
dramaMaly to ramakt vlabla and move Into Bin Slat century.
• Bacauaa o(ka domlnanca ki tha national marital, Panrayhanli'a muahroom
btduairy aheuld ba a priority ki upgradng raaaarch tackMaa and roeruking raaaarch
taouky to aupport a atrong raaaarch program in muahroom production and
proooaalng.
* While maintaining ■ batons In basic and sppSsd research, as wsl as tsaohlng
and extension nsponslblStis*, than Is a need to adequately hind various
dspoitmanls whose programs an such that higher operating costs an taquirsd.
• Biotechnology nsaatch programs should ba balanced wHh programs that respond
to both present and fatun needs at sgricuSun.
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“We prewnted a pretty sound
case at that hearing to show that
Pennsylvania dairy firemen are in
a bad economic condition,’’ said
John Bell. Farm Bureau’s govern*
mental affairs counsel. “The
drought will impose substantial
additional costs on dairy firemen
in die coming months.”
At the November hearing. Farm
Bureau testified that dairy firemen
will need at least an additional 37
cents per hundredweight for fluid
milk to offset increased costs for
purchased feed during the winter
months. Farm Bureau had limited
its request to a 25 cents price hike
for the time period from January
through May 1996 in deference to
concerns by milk dealen and
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dairy cooperates ovwmarkct in- 0 f the stale by the PMMB.
roads by out-of-state milk dealera. pmmb-, decision means
Farm Bureauj rcqucst was based a* over-order price, which had
on a survey of dany farmers con- been at 80 cento per hundred
ducted by its Farm Management wdght up ulUil A^t
S *^ ces# . . year, will decrease from 60 cents
per hundredweight to 50 cents on
wide addition to the fluid milk , 10Q< - T .
price established fix praArcm in 6 of mifc.
the six regional milk marketing B
MUN Test Provides
(CondniMd from Pago A 1)
"The traffic doesn’t like us out
there, and we don’t like to be on the
road with farm equipment either,”
Doug said.
Since 1988 they have farmed
very little grain, using the land to
produce forage and pasture for the
cows. Both tie stall and a free stall
bams are used to house the cows. A
TMR mix is used. The ration
includes com silage, oat silage, dry
shelled com, soybean meal, and
high moisture com. Additional
feed is top dressed for cows milk
ing over 60 pounds.
Milk production herd averages
have been over2o,ooopounds for a
number of years, but production
seemed to have reached the top
level
“When the first MUN testresults
came back, I knew very little about
the numbers,” Doug said. Butlsaw
we were in the recommended
range. So, I thought, “Oh. good! At
least we know where we stand."
But their feed consultant, Jeff
Bogus from the Center Hall Farm
Store, had other ideas. The initial
MUN test showed the herd was not
wasting feed. But at 12.1 points
they were at die low end, and
Bogus suggested an increase in
protein to see if it made a differ
ence in the tank. It did.
Within two weeks, production increased by
three pounds per cow per day. And while the
next MUN test came in at 16 points, they were
still within the safe range, andtheßimmeys had
a nice return on their investment in both the
MUN test and the extra pound per cow per day
of protein they fed the cows. Adjustments are
still being made to see if they can fine tune the
feeding program even more.
“Hopefully, I will know mote in a few
months or a year," Doug said. “But what we see
is very interesting. We were forage testing and
feeding in line with the results of these tests.
But with MUN testing you can zero in closer to
see where you are overfeeding or
underfeeding.”
As Doug and his wife Belinda, and their
children, Nathan, 17, and Brandi 13, become
the succeeding generations on the Tussey
Ridge farm, technology and new ways of doing
things make a business of farming unheard SO
years ago. But it’s farming as a business that
allows the Rinuney family’s love of the land
and the farmers’ way of life to be realized into
the futute. Put the old loves and the new ways
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