A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 5, 1997
COLUMBUS, Ohio When
Lee Hatfield and his brother Gail
decided to return to their father’s
northwest Licking County farm in
1994, the small Ohio dairy opera
tion was in for some major
changes.
Since 1995, they’ve built a new
64-foot by 264-foot bam, installed
a state-of-the-art milking system,
hired two full-time and nine part
time workers, and expanded the
dairy herd from around SO cows to
more than 250.
The Hatfield 7 Dairy Inc., is the
last of four stops on Ohio State
University Extension’s “Meeting
the Challenged for Tomorrow’s
Agriculture Farm Management
Tour,” Aug. 19 in east-central
Ohio.
“It was time to really get bigger
or get out of farming, because the
operation was not big enough to
support all of us,” Lee Hatfield
said
The Hatfields examined their
farm and decided that of dairy,
beef and crops, the dairy was the
best option for expansion. Grain
farming was not possible because
most of the land around the
160-acre farm was either getting
developed or rented to other far
mers, Hatfield said.
“In our situation, if we were
going to continue to farm in our
area, expanding the dairy was the
only way that was feasible,” he
said
The Hatfields will share the
decision-making process they
went through to expand their oper
ation during the Farm Manage
ment Tour. Employment prac
tices, personnel performance
review procedures, development
of a mission statement and strateg
ic plan, division of managerial
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3 Miles East of Myerstown on Route 422
• Hi Tensile Fencing Demonstration
• Embryo Sexing
• Hoof Trimming
* Certified Hereford Beef Programs
Junior Activities:
• Showmanship Clinic • Blocking & Fitting Clinic
»Livestock Judging
Fun Auction - 1 ;00 P.M.
Auctioneer Colonel Harry Bachman
Proceeds to Benefit the Junior Polled Hereford Association.
Tour Shows Farms Changing
responsibilities, and estate plan
ning issues will all be discussed on
this stop. A bed and breakfast on
the Hatfield farm also will be open
for tours.
The other tour stops are Lynd’s
Fruit Farm at 10 a.m., The Links
at Echo Springs at II a.m„ and
SBC Recycling and Shredded
Bedding Corporation at 2 p.m.
The Hatfield dairy tour will begin
at 3:30 p.m.
“This farm management tour
features four progressive farm
businesses that have undergone
major changes in business opera
tions in the past few year,” said
Howard Siegrist, agriculture,
natural resources and community
development agent at the Licking
County office of Ohio State Uni
versity Extension.
“They are adapting or diversify
ing their operations with the
changing community to increase
profits, allowing other partners or
family members to be brought into
the business.”
Lynd’s Fruit Farm is Ohio’s
largest fruit farm with more than
350 acres of fruit. The farm corpo
ration includes non-family mem
bers as business owners and must
respond to a changing market
through planning and business
decisions, Siegrist said.
The SBC Recycling and Shred
ded Bedding Corporation started
shredding old newspapers for live
stock bedding in 1993 and has
expanded into brokerage and re
cycling of many materials. Grants
from the local solid and waste dis
trict allowed the business to get on
its feet, and it now has five full
time employees.
The owner, Lynn Hatfield, is
Lee Hatfield’s uncle and had been
part of the family dairy farm and
grain operation for 30 years.
The Links at Echo Springs is
rolling farmland north of Gran
ville that has been turned into an
18-hole golf course. Brothers Lar
ry and Tom Bruce had a dairy and
grain operation on the land for 30
years before selling the dairy. Lar
ry acquired business investors and
began planning the course, while
Tom continued to farm and estab
lished a beef feeding operation.
Larry Bruce will share the joys
and frustrations of shifting roles
from a farmer who relies on little
outside labor to his new role as an
owner who works with business
Making Milk With Less Saturated Fat
WOOSTER, Ohio Dairy
products are important sources of
nutrients in the human diet, but
consumers sometimes perceive
them to be unhealthy sources of
fat and cholesterol, said Don
Palmquist, an Ohio State Univer
sity animal nutritionist.
To encourage consumption of
dairy products, Palmquist and his
colleagues at Ohio State’s animal
sciences department are working
to modify the saturated fat in milk,
while maintaining protein content
and taste.
Palmquist, who works at the
Ohio Agricultural Research and
Development Center in Wooster,
said that when fed certain diets,
cattle will produce milk that is
lower in fat and higher in protein.
“The issue here,” Palmquist
said, “is that because of concerns
for saturated fat and cholesterol
content of milk, persons avoiding
dairy products miss an important
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partners. Siegrist said.
“This tour will talk about the
side of agriculture that most peo
ple don’t often think about —how
to get along with people, motivate
people and bring out the best in
people,” Siegrist said. “Corporate
America spends gobs of time on
how to manage people, but small
businesses haven’t put much
thought into it. It’s important”
The Farm Management Tour
will begin with a continental
breakfast at 9 a.m. at Lynd’s Fruit
Farm. The farm is located north of
Pataskala, just east off of state
Route 310 on Morse Road. Lunch
source of calcium and high quality
protein. Because of this, we’re
working to modify the saturated
fat of milk, while maintaining the
protein content to encourage con
sumption of dairy products.”
According to the United States
Department of Agriculture, dairy
products, excluding butter, con
tribute about 12 percent of the toal
fat in the food supply. Milk and
milk products provide SO percent
of the calcium consumed each
day.
“People shouldn’t stop drinking
milk,” Palmquist said, “or their
nutrition may be compromised.”
Dairy cattle are fed diets
containing whole cottonseed,
whole soybeans or tallow. These
additives contribute to the cow’s
energy, increasing milk produc
tion.
"There is a limit to the quantity
of vegetabe fats which may be fed
to dairy cattle because the unsatur-
Information Meetings
Thursday, July 17 - 7:30 p.m.
Home of Elam Esh
246 Telegraph Road
Airville, PA
Friday, July 18 - 9:00 a.m.
Home of Jacob Fisher
4358 Centerville Road
GordoflyiUe,FA ”,
will be served at Echo Springs.
The program is free to particip
ants, with costs covered by spon
sors Ohio State University Ex
tension, Ohio's Country Journal,
the Licking Soil and Water Con
servation District, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Natur
al Resources Conservation Ser
vice.
People interested in participat
ing should register with the Lick
ing County office of Ohio State
University Extension by Aug. 1.
For more information, call the
Licking County office at (614)
349-6900.
ated fat may decrease dige&on of
forage. Specially manufactured fat
products like Megalac have made
their way into the marketplace,”
he said.
Megalac is a special form of fat
marketed by Arm and Hammer
and created by Ohio State
researchers. It’s a high-energy
nutritional supplement which can
improve milk production while
maintaining a cow’s body weight.
Many cows can’t reach maximum
milk production because they lack
enough energy in their diets.
Megalac increases the energy den
sity of the ration without decreas
ing fiber digestion. It causes more
consistent milk production and
less weight loss in cattle.
“If the normal saturated fat con
tent in milk is 45 percent,” Palm
quist said, “we can alter the
rations to lower that to 30 per
cent”
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