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Feeding Time Bermudagrass Showing Good Results (Continued from Page E 4) cows, ewes, goats, and horses. Horses especially love ber mudagrass. Horseowners who purchase Phillips’s bales declare the animals will consistently choose ber mudagrass over alfalfa. “A hundred percent of my hay is spoken for,” Phillips said. “Be prepared” is his motto. He has learned wis dom from the biblical ac count of Joseph in Egypt, stockpiling grain during the fat years so that, when the lean ones came, enough was stored to carry the ancient country through them. Knowing there will be years of low production, Phillips maintains a quantity of hay for his own livestock in reserve, so when the inevi table lean times come he’s ready for them. ' Numbers, Quality Low At PFGC Hay Show ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.) This year’s PFGC Hay Show at Ag Progress Days had the fewest number of entries in more than 15 years. The total number of entries (69) was almost 100 fewer than entered the show last year. “I believe that this is a di rect reflection of the poor haymaking weather that we have had this year,” said Dr. Marvin Hall, forage exten sion specialist at Penn State. Hall coordinates the Hay Show and expected the num ber of samples to be lower then last year, but not as low as they were. “I was hoping that good hay had been made in spite of the poor haymaking weather, but I had no idea we would get this few en tries,” Hall said. affordable equipment that keeps woi id Bi Call Your Local Dealer About Our Compi ■ Delaware B & W Ag Enterprises Greenwood, DE • 302/242-1495 Hoober Equipment Middletown, OE • 800/341-4028 Maryland George Hines Equipment Union Bridge, MD • 410/775-2629 Lynn Atkins Biddmger, MD • 301/245-4617 Potomac Valley Supply Hagerstown MD • 301/223-6877 Walter G Coale, Inc Churchville, MD • 410/838-6470 New Jersey Brodhecker Farm Newton, NJ • 973/383-3592 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13, 200.3, Foraging Around-E5 According to Phillips, the cows and sheep complement each other in the pasture be cause what one species likes the other dislikes. Next spring, after appropriate fencing is installed for them, the Phillips plan to run the ewes with the cows. The attention the Phillipses pay to caring for the land and environment is known and respected. Among the awards they’ve received are the 2002 Shen andoah Valley Complex En vironmental Stewardship Award, the 2001 Bay Friend Clean Water Farm Award, and the Outstanding Forage Producer award. Their diverse operation on Valley View Farm includes the annual production of 252,000 broilers. The farm is composed of some 210 owned acres and an equal number that are rented. The Phillipses depend on The visual appearance of the samples that were en tered in the Hay Show look ed poor and this was re flected in the chemical analysis for quality. Aver aged across all samples, crude protein was 15.4, acid detergent fiber (ADF) was 38, neutral detergent fiber (NDF) was 53, and relative feed value (calculated from ADF and NDF) was 110. The relative feed value was 28 points lower this year than last. Numerous exhibi tors and visitors at the Hay Show echoed Hall’s feelings that the rainy weather made haymaking nearly impossi ble this year. Champion in the field cured division was Marcus Zook, Mifflin, Juniata Coun ty, with an entry of later-cut alfalfa hay. v Ate > . A x Dee Edwards Far Hills NJ • 903/234-2043 Quality Structures Remington, NJ • 908/782-7408 Pennsylvania Blue Mt Diesel New Tripoli PA • 610/298-3483 Erb & Henry Equipment New Berlmville D A* 215/367-2169 Farmers Supply & Equipment Airville, PA • 800/419-5456 Fields Implement Eighty Four PA • 412/222-1154 r-ARMCO MFG. 2937 Irishtown Road • Ronks, PA 17572 • 717/768-7769 a few trustworthy seasonal helpers. Daryl Lohr holds a public job, but is also indispensable as Valley View Farm’s re pairman, Phillips said. And his father, Johnnie Phillips, “is my main hayraker at least 90-percent of time.” Roy Billhimer, Susan’s fa ther, occasionally looks after the chickens for them. Phillips said he is “cau tiously optimistic” about bermudagrass. “Susan and I are not afraid of failure,” he said. “Failure is not trying.” “I call bermudagrass a ‘risk management tool,”’ he said. “Now you have a for age that is taking up phos phorus, plus it regenerates, plus it has a high percent protein, plus you don’t dis turb the ground. It’s envi ronmentally sound.” R.M. Klein Hay Farm, Northampton, was champi on in the heat-dried division with an entry of first-cut al falfa. Champion in the preser vative division was Wilmer Kuhns from Chambersburg, Franklin County, with a first cutting alfalfa sample. This is the second year in a row that no champion win ners were repeats from the previous year. “I think people are com ing to the hay show, seeing what it takes to make cham pion quality hay and going home and applying what they have learned. This cer tainly makes the PFGC Hay Show exciting,” Hall said. Next year’s show will run from August 17-19. 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