A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1, 2000
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Because of this summer’s
drought and declining milk prices,
Penn State-sponsored winter meet
ings will focus on managing
finances and the dairy business,
noted Glenn Shirk, Lancaster
County dairy agent
Following is a list of meeting
topics and schedules.
• Dairy Farm Management Bas
ics. This two-day session focuses
on reasons to begin a dairy, getting
started in dairying, spending
money where it counts, focusing
on priorities, feeding and nutrition,
cow comfort, reproduction, herd
health, herd replacements, moni
toring tools, farm safety, and
others. The meetings ate sche
duled Jan. 7 and 14 from 10 a jn.-3
p.m. in the basement of the Lan
caster Farm and Home Center.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
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Extension Sets Important Dairy Meetings
Lunch is on your own. See the
reservation form this issue.
• Risky Business? Solutions!
As Tim Fritz, Penn State farm
management agent explained,
agriculture has always been risky
business. Lately the risk has inten
sified. Simply making ends meet is
getting tougher and tougher. The
farm management extension
agents in southeast Pennsylvania
have put together some meetings
to help farmers deal with their
financial challenges. Contact your
extension office for details.
• Crop Insurance Making It
Work For You! Topics will be cov
ered Jan. 14 from 9 am.-3 p.m. at
the Cochranville Fite Hall and on
Jan. 27 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the
Lancaster Farm and Home Center.
Return the form included here.
Lunch is provided.
• Farm Financial Health Check-
Please send me information and registration forms for the events checked below.
Farm Financial Health Checkup
Northeast Dairy Housing Conference
Small Business Institute
Pcnna. Grazing and Forage Conference
Training Farm Workers
Beitzel Spraying is now distributing:
SAFECIDE BRAND IC
For the control of darkling beetles, hide beetles and
flies in poultry houses and for control of fire ants
Advantages: ■ Can be applied as a dust
■ Efficacious-boron- or spray. Flexible
based SafeCide® Brand application options let
IC kills larvae and SafeCide® Brand IC fit
adults. Breaks the beetle easily into your particular
life cycle and reduces management program,
diseases carried by ■ ERA approved,
beetles ecologically friendly
■ Contains an extremely non-carcinogenic, no toxic
safe and effective pest residues. Safe to be
control agent (99% applied by humans,
orthoboric acid)- larvae ■ls field proven. Field
and beetles die 3 to 5 studies* show heavily
days after contact and infested farms treated with
ingestion. SafeCide® Brand IC have
■ Provides long-lasting better feed conversion
residual results. Keeps rates, increased weight
on working up to 12 gains, greater livability,
months - longer than and fewer condemnations
most available products. than untreated farms.
■ Provides an effective ■ No insecticidal
barrier. Kills larvae and resistance reported,
adults as they emerge. ■ Retards the growth of
■ Cost effective - low cost Aspergillus in the litter,
based on per day of ■ Approved for use in the
activity. control of fire ants and
flies.
For More Information Call
BEITZEL S SPRAYING
Witmer, PA 17585 717-392-7227 or
Toll Free 1-800-727-7228 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM
CERTIFIED COMMERCIAL APPLICATORS
LICENSED Spraying Since 1961 INSURED
up. Learn how to build your
balance sheet and learn what the
numbers mean. Follow-up assis
tance will be available to those
who complete the training. Atten
dance is limited to 10 people per
session. Dates are Jan. 21, Lancas
ter Farm and Home Center; Feb. 4,
Ephrata Public Library; Feb. 16,
Honey Brook Township Building;
Feb. 18, Quartyville Library; Feb.
23, Cochranville Community Cen
ter and Feb. 25, Paradise Township
Community Center.
• Northeast Dairy Housing
Conference. Learn about cow
comfort, planning new facilities,
lighting and photoperiod manage
ment, stall design and manage
ment, impact of facilities on herd
health and profits, feed center
designs, caring for cows’ special
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Your Name
Mailing Address'
Mail to Glenn A Shirk, Cooperative Extension, 1383 Arcadia Rd , Room 1, Lancaster,
Pa 17601
Or I'hone (717) 394-6851, or email gslnrk@psu edo
Please make the following number of reservations for me for the events listed below
No of
People
-Dates— -Location
Jan 7, 14 Lancaster
Jan 14 Cochranville
Jan 27 Lancaster
Jan 21 Lancaster
Feb 4 Ephrata
Feb 16 Honey Brook
Feb 18 Quarry ville
Feb 23 Cochranville
Feb 25 Paradise
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• PHASE CONVERTORS - STATIC & ROTARY •
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Visit us at the
KEYSTONE FARM SHOW
Horticultural Hall - #521
and the
PA FARM SHOW
Main Floor #609
Enter to win the
1400# Bale of Idaho Hay
RFV 150 to 170 Protein 19 to 21
Take it home at the end of the Show
RAIL FACILITIES are Available in
Greencastle and Palmyra, PA
GRAIN ELEVATORS in
Lakeville, NY and Elizabethville, PA
FERTILIZER BLEND PLANT in
Elizabethville, PA 717-362-8440
Offices in
Palmyra, PA -1-800-722-6246
Greencastle, PA - 717-597-1602
Lakeville, NY - 888-702-4638
Williamsville, NY - 800-343-0714
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Dairy Farm Management Basics
Cost is $ 10.00 per farm Enclose check
Payable to Agricultural Extension Service
Crop Insurance, Make it Work for You!
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Farm Financial Health Checkup
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