*9% Hay & Forage Equipment NEW HOLLAND % & Skid Loaders (A] compact Simplicity! agco Tractors Lawn & Garden Equipment DUTCH BROS —.—— PKBUUBAV BA L £ WAGON S HAY RAKES & GEARS Doby Commercial Mowers & Used Equipment Bam farm a lawn equip. We Ship SAX.ES • PARTS ♦ SERVICE Parts Route 934 - 3 Mtl<W Nortll i- -i of Anntiile, PA ■ Homo: Mon.-Fri. 7:30 » 3 Ups Saturday 7:30 to Noon Telephone 717-867-2211 Keystone CONCRETE! PRODUCTS Agricultural Pre-cast Products Available: T-wall Bunker Silo slant-back J-style | ~ I Feed Bunker lij. High Capacity Cattle “Waffle Slat" H-style Feed Bunker eooo psi Kiystom Knucklt Siam System helps support pti wall (NCRS approved) All East Farmersville Rd, New Holland, PA 17557 (717) 355-2361 *ff nmypn 1 tired 0f... jiger snipped I thought I maid not be able to justify the additional cost unlit my builder suggested a design change which brought the cost down relatively close to the original design The biggest benefit to me is the labor savings Two people can handle all the | chores tor our herd. I save money not only on ' labor but also on repairs The cows' hooves are healthier, and they show heat better because they are not afraid of slipping During the live years with slats, I have not lost a single heifer from slipping The cows stay much cleaner, even with my misting system tor cooling them The water has a place to escape." Fluid Milk Identity Standards Study On Website Dairy farmers are becoming increasingly con cerned that technological advances in the fractiona tion of milk could result in a reduction in the volume of nonfat milk solids sold in fluid milk prod ucts. Current FDA standards for nonfat solids in fluid milk products are set at a minimum of 8.25 percent, well below the average content in farm milk. Fluid milk products are Class I products under the Federal Milk Marketing Order system and as such return a higher price to dairy farmers. In response to dairy farmers’ concerns, Congress in cluded a provision in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 directing the Secretary of Agriculture to study the potential impacts of raising the nonfat solids standards to the national average level as it occurs in farm milk and adopting the av erage true protein level as an additional standard for fluid milk products. The study is available at: www.ams.usda.gov/ dairy/index.htm. It is located under the heading of “Studies Required by the 2002 Farm Bill.” From Mideast Market Administrator’s Bulletin "We would use slats ajjaiu if tloin<; it all oxer!" ■ Raymond Good Good's Dairy Farm f "WAFFLE SLAtA V^jjjJCojjcorjg^r .. minute. in a - > tied barn in Somerset County, we changed our minds. Some people slay - away from slats because of the initial cost, but that extra cost is made up for in the first couple years The one thing I like the most about slats i$ that there is no expense. I don't have any scrapers or drive units to maintain I don’t have to run scrapers every day or haul manure like we did in our previous lie stall barn The cows' foot health has been a tot better, and the cows stay much cleaner. Our milk production is up and the somatic cell count has gone down I give at least some of the credit to the slats because with less mois ture on the floor, there is less bacteria ’ :mpers. But alter David Wolfskin
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