A29-Laneatter Farming, Saturday, February 10, 1996 Staff Sets Agenda For Spring Meetings DAVID BIGELOW Training Coordinator STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.)—Recently the Pa. DHIA Held staff met to set the agenda for the upcoming spring technician conferences. It was decided that the agenda would consist of learn ing and discussing the records or finished product that goes back to the dairymen. The conferences will all begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Starting with introductions of technicians, guests and staff, the program will immediately go into the interpretation of the reports. Herd Summary I and 11. along with the reproductive repot, will be interpreted by David Bigelow, training coordinator. The milk urea nitrogen and somatic cell reports will be interpreted by the region manager. Dean Amick, director of field 22, Friday At Millerstown Fire Hall, located of off Rt.22/322 at Millerstown Exit For Cumberland, Juniata, Peny, Dauphin, and Snyder counties. 25, Monday At Hoss’s Steak and Sea House in Exton, located a half mile south of the Pa. Turnpike along Rt.loo. For Bucks, Chester, Lancaster and Montgomery counties. 26, Tuesday At Blue Mountain Family Restaurant, located off of 178 at Exit 8. For Lebanon, Beiks and Schuylkill counties, m rj ZETOH MORE TRACTOR . . . Quiet, Smooth zbtor Engines. • Air Conditioning & Heating • Driver Comfort for the Long Days • Controls Conveniently Located • Heavy Duty Cast Iron Chassis •25 HP to 103 HP The list goes 0n... BEST OF ALL htoh TRACTORS SAVE YOU MONEY WHEN YOU BUY AND OPERATE JD 670 Tractor 4WD, 20 HP, Hyd. Ford 3 **»• Hitch 7-Tooth HD Jog Stick, Turf Tires, 3 pt. Hitch Chisel Plow w/Depth Gauge w/375 HD Power Angle Dozer wheels Blade 1990-very low hrs. John Deere Side Mount Sickle Bar John Deere 6600 diesel combine, Mower good condition, field ready (3) 7 ft. Mounted Sickle bar w/straw spreader, gram tank mowers extension, cab, 13’ grain head JD 3-Bottom Trip Plow w/Wheel w/Hume Reel Only 2,004 hrs. Ford 9 Tooth Transport Chisel Plow JD 5-Br- Pa.DHIA Spring Conference MARCH Polaris ATV’s & Snowmobiles ' IPM operations, will be responsible for the round table discussion. The round table discussion allows the technicians to ask questions and receive information from the field staff. Pa. DHIA holds 14 conferences in diffemt parts of the state in the spring and fall. The summer con ference will be held at Grantville on June 14-15,1996. This confer ence is a two-day event These educational events, along with the region manager holding a mini-meeting bi-monthly, gives the field staff the opportunity to continually update the technicians on any new changes. Feel free to contact PA DHIA at 1-800-344-8378, if we can assist with your dairy operation. r* ZBTOH NT //Wh( 27, Wednesday At General Lee’s Family Restaurant located along Rt3o West before Gettysburg Battlefield. For Adams, Franklin and York counties. 28, Thursday At Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, along Rt. 22, in Huntingdon. For Huntingdon, Fulton and Mifflin counties. 29, Friday At The Ranch House, along Old Rt 220, south of Claysburg. For Blair, Bedford and Cambria counties. 1, Monday At Candlelight Restaurant in Donegal, located at Exit 9 off of the Pa. Turnpike. For Washington, Fayette, Westmoreland, Somerset and Indiana counties. 2, Tuesday At the All American Truckstop in Milton, located off of 180 at Exit 32. For Union, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Columbia, and Luzerne counties. 3, Wednesday At Sinbad’s, located along Rt. 6 in Wysox. For Bradford and Sullivan counties. 4, Thursday At Mbuntainview Restaurant, along Rtlo6 in Clifford. For Lackawanna, Susquehanna. Wayne, and Wyoming counties and New Jersey. 5, Friday At the Bonanza in Mansfield, located off of Rt. 15 at the Mansfield Exit For Potter and Tioga counties. 10, Wednesday At the Dutch Treat in Spartansburg, along Rt, 77. For Crawford, Erie, and Warren counties and New York. 11, Thursday At Howard Johnson’s in Mercer, located off of 180 at Exit 2. For Mercer, Butler, Venango, Lawrence, Beaver and Arms trong counties. 12, Friday At Days Inn in Gearfield, located off of 180 at Exit 19. For Clearfield, Elk, Centre, Clinton, Jefferson, and McKean counties. PARADISE, PA *£ > MARKET REPORT 7 4, CLEAN-UP 1/31/96 4 V Ideal Leaf 24% % j TOBACCO Lane. Leaf 42% • J & cat it. Winstead 3% V SALE: Warehouse 9% 7 L i i iL South Boat Leaf 22% a & Feb. 14th 179,000Lb5. Sold % / $1.38/Lb. to $1.42/Lb. I % Outgrade $1.25 - $1.30 <5 I > RECEIVING J L [DATES 2/13-7 to 4 » 2/14 -7 to Sale \ I LIFE OF A TOBACCO WAREHOUSEMAN \ y ‘ln LANCASTER ONLY’ J Q? We like to see farmers bring their tobacco to warehouse to be sold. We *5 y don’t mind, but it is tough when farmers put minimums on their J / tobacco. 300 over market sometimes mistakes are made - minimums are A & not recorded. Paradise has given out over $10,000.00 in mistakes where $ y the farmer says he gave minimum to somebody but we can’t find that 7 / ‘somebody’. A % We try to make rules to limit sale to three (3) sales before skid charge y but we never obey it. Some farmers had tobacco at Paradise from 3to 7 J IQ sales before ever making a decision. We’ve put great expense in 4k, % selling your tobacco more than one (1) time this year. The first two % y weeks were full of expense. Currently, a lot of farmers accuse us for not 7 J sticking together for higher prices. It is not really the warehouse A % responsibility - but the farmer and the buyers’ tobacco companies to % y decide what the market is! Since only 50% tobacco is through auction 7 j market, not every buyer is going to be happy. If more tobacco went A & through auction market, more buyers are forced to auction and there % y would be an open market. Right now, auction market must act like a 7 j receiving station at night to get our farmers what other farmers get. A a. When tobacco sold private, you do not force buyers to expose their true % y market price to the public. Everything is under the table. 7 J We are only a place to market your tobacco. We try our very best to A A, work in the best interest of the farmer. Out of 1200 customers, we get a <5 y thank you from a handful ONLY! 7 j Should Paradise Tobacco stay in business? In a year when farmers a 4. should be happy, when taking home bigger checks than ever, it seemed y impossible to please anybody. When tobacco prices are going up, 7 j farmers do not sell, when tobacco prices come down, everybody brings A 4