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2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture celebrates 100th anniversary of PA County Fair Association and PA 4-H Oby Jon M. Casey While the unveiling of the Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture focused public attention to the 100th anniversaries of the PA County Fair Association and PA 4-H, the edible creation also served as one of the traditional show opening events of this year’s 96th annual PA Farm Show. The butter sculpture, now in its 22nd year as a farm show destination, features a young 4-H member showing his prized calf amid scenes from a county fair. These include a Ferris wheel with fairgoers enjoying a stop at one of the fair’s ice cream vending booths as well as another young person attempting to win a prize at a ball-toss sideshow booth. Hosted by PA Secretary of Agriculture George Greig, the event, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and the PA Dairy Promotion Program, welcomed PA Lt. Governor Jim Cawley who recognized PA farmers for their contribution to the state’s economy. “Pennsylvania has a rich agricultural tradition, and this sculpture pays tribute to the root of the industry-our young people and the educational programs and county fairs that give them the opportunities to grow and learn,” Cawley said. Recognizing Jim Victor and his wife Marie of Conshohocken, Montgomery County for their labor during the past 12 days as they created the 1000-pound marvel, Cawley said that the life-sized sculpture on display in the Main Hall is a healthy reminder to the people of Pennsylvania of how important the state’s farming community is to everyone. Tom Croner, Somerset County dairy producer and chairman of the PA Dairy Promotion Program agreed. “Dairy producers are proud of what we do and the butter sculpture is a Following the unveiling of the 2012 Butter Sculpture, dignitaries pose for a photograph with the 1000-pound creation. Shown left to right: PA Secretary of Agriculture, George Greig; Tom Croner, Board Chairman of the PA Dairy Promotion Program; Jim Victor, sculptor of the art piece, Sarah Bassett 4-H State President; Gabrielle Elizabeth Murphy, PA Dairy Princess; Claire Werkiser, PA Fair Queen; and PA Lt. Governor, Jim Cawley. Photos by Jon M. Casey

chance to showcase our efforts to provide a safe, healthy product for consumers. The butter, provided by the Land O’ Lakes plant located in Carlisle, PA is destined to be used as fuel to power an electric generator that is powered from gas produced by a digester located on a Juniata County dairy producer’s farm. Once the butter has gone through the digestion process, the energy from the sculpture will generate 65 KW of electrical power. While the sculpture was being unveiled, more than 850 members of the agricultural community made

their way to this year’s PA Preferred™ reception held in the PA Preferred™ Banquet Hall in the Farm Show and Exhibition Complex. There, visitors representing every facet of PA Agriculture enjoyed food and beverages produced by farmers from across the commonwealth. For many of the attendees, the event serves as an annual reunion of sorts that helps to kick-off what many describe as Pennsylvania’s “State Fair.” The PA Farm Show ran from Jan. 7-14, 2012 with tens of thousands of visitors attending the show over the 8-day period.

On left: Dr. Bruce McPheron, Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University, talks with friends of agriculture during the PA Preferred™ Reception.

The New York State Agricultural Society honors families dedicated to farming, stewardship, and community involvement in New York. Five Bicentennial Farm families were honored as part of the 180th Annual Agricultural Forum of the New York State Agricultural Society, held Jan. 5 in Syracuse, NY. Each family receives a proclamation signed by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo as well as an exterior farm sign; the award is sponsored by Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement. Balsam View Dairy Farm, Chenango County, Pharsalia, NY. Established by Daniel II and Lossa Newton in 1809 Balsam View Dairy Farm has been in the Newton Family since the purchase in 1809 as part of a military land tract shortly after the Revolutionary War. The farm has grown from 100 acres to today’s 450 acres and has always been a dairy farm and today houses about 200 milking head and 170 replacements, operating on a 3x milking schedule under the ownership of Harold & Donna, Brian & Heidi Newton. Balsam View Dairy Farm has been recognized as one of the highest producing farms in Chenango County for the past 40 years and is currently at its highest level with a rolling herd average of 27,500 pounds. The Newton family prides itself on producing high quality milk and has earned Super Quality Milk Awards for 19 of the past 21 years. They have implemented a variety of conservation practices, plus developed pastures, fencing, and laneways for intensive grazing as an optional low input method for forage. Harold and Brian have served on the Executive Boards of feed stores, breeding services, and milk cooperatives. In 2005, the farm hosted the Northeast Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge. Donna has been a strong organizer for the United Methodist Women’s group; her cooking skills have supplied chicken & biscuit dinners to many families over the past 30 years. Heidi has been the President of the Cincinnatus School PTSA, and is also a member of the United Methodist Women. Cornell Cooperative Extension and Farm Bureau have played important roles in their lives. All the children return often to help with the farm computer system upgrades, landscaping, seasonal chores, and crop harvesting. There are 15 grandchildren in the 7th generation that enjoy helping too. The farm’s mission is the relentless pursuit of quality milk production in a manner that promotes strong family values, friendly community relations, and sustainable New York agriculture. The Newton family plans on following this path for the next 100 years. Hahn Farm, Dutchess County, Pleasant Valley, NY. Established in 1774 by Isaac Lamoree Hahn Farm was established in April of 1774 by Isaac Lamoree, the great, great, great grandfather of today’s

owner, Thomas G. Hahn, Jr. who assumed ownership in 2007 from his parents, Edna Howell Hahn and Thomas G. Hahn, Sr. Hahn Farm is a year round working farm. Originally a dairy farm, 25 years ago Tom Hahn began diversifying in anticipation of the trends to come. Due to Tom’s foresight of agri-entertainment, the farm started a fall festival for families wanting to pick a pumpkin and visit for the day. The farm has grown steadily each year from producing hay for the numerous horse/sheep farms in Dutchess County, to outstanding beef, Poultry & Pork retail store, to the ever growing fall festival. They farm 400 acres: 200 hay, 25 fall crops, 50 field corn, and 25 oats. They are a charter member of Hudson Valley Fresh. The Hahn’s are actively engaged in agri-tourism starting with a pancake breakfast in the Spring and a Fall Festival with a corn maze, hay fort, pony rides, petting booths, and a food booth, culminating the year with our own Christmas tree Sales. The 7th generation that is now farming enjoys the challenges and opportunities of diversity. The success of the farm is credited to the extensive family involvement and dedicated employees and friends. The farm’s exhibitor championships span many areas, including field crops, vegetables, horticulture and livestock at the County and New York State Fair. Tom’s involvement includes roles as a former Director of DHIA; Lifetime membership in the Fire Department, Lifetime membership in Cornell Cooperative Extension; Director and founder of Hudson Valley Fresh; FSA County Committee. Karen is a Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County and Vice President of the Washington Hollow Cemetery Committee and former Secretary of the Elmendorf Spinning Guild. Hill Villa Farms, Onondaga County, Memphis, NY. Established by Deacon Isaac Hill in 1810 Deacon Isaac Hill purchased the land in 1810 which now constitutes the main part of Hill Villa Farms. The present owner, Robert K. Hill, Jr. had acquired a few registered Holsteins and took over the original farm in 1948 after attending Cornell. In 1949 Robert married Shirley Williams and they had four children. The herd was expanded, the farm modernized and land purchased. Robert had a retail milk route, pasteurizing and bottling his own milk from a herd of registered Holsteins. After graduation from college, Robert Hill III and David Hill joined their father on the farm and continued the expansion to 120 head of cows, 130 young stock utilizing 650 acres of owned land and 250 acres rented. In 2003 the cows were sold and Hill Villa Farm became a cash crop operation. David left the farm and is now Vice President of appraisal for Ag-Carolina Financial. Robert Hill, III is involved with the farming enterprise, working with his Dad, Robert Jr. who continues

Balsam View Dairy Seated: April Newton, Brian Newton, Heidi Newton, Cindy Harrington, Laura Newton. Standing: Gary Bradley- Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement (Award Sponsor), Chris Newton, Tim Newton, Darrel Aubertine - NYS Ag Commissioner, Donna Newton, Harold Newton, Kevin Newton, Dave Tetor - NYS Ag Society President. Photos courtesy of Penny Heritage

Hahn Farm. Dave Tetor — NYS Ag Society President, Gary Bradley — Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement (Award Sponsor), Darrel Aubertine — NYS Ag Commissioner, Karen Hahn, Thomas Hahn. to provide labor and expertise. The family is very involved in the community as well as agricultural organizations. Robert Jr. is past president and a member of the Onondaga County Holstein Club; 65 year member of the New York State Holstein Association; Vice President and Director for Eastern Milk Producers; Committee member of the FMHA County Committee, Eastern AI, and the New York City Council of Agricultural Organizations on Rural Education and the Onondaga County Farm Bureau. His wife, Shirley, retired after 17 years with the New York State Department of Labor. She served as a Sunday School Teacher, on the Christian Education Board and many of Church Offices as well as PTA and 4-H. Robert III was active in the New York Farm Bureau Young Farm & Rancher State Committee, Holstein Club, New York State Holstein Association,

Church, Town Planning Board and the New York State Products Task Force Committee among other roles outside the farm. The farm has received recognitions as Master Breeder, Premier Breeder, Premier Exhibitor, Silver Cow Award in Contribution to Agriculture, Outstanding Young Farmer by the Syracuse Jaycees, and the New York State Agricultural Society’s Century Farm designation in 1992. The farm has received a conservation easement so that it will continue in agriculture for the next 100 years. Mason Farms, Wayne County, Williamson, NY. Established by John Mason in 1810. Mason Farms takes great pride in being an original American farm family. The founder, Joseph Mason, who

Farms receive A4

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Farms receive New York State Agricultural Society’s Bicentennial Farm Award

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Farms receive from A3 fought in the Revolutionary War, moved his family to Williamson in approximately 1810. With a colorful history spanning all Mason generations, the 6th and 7th generations, Paul and his son Doug, are coowner/operators of the current farm. The farm is now 500 plus acres with 400 in vegetables and 80 plus of fruit (not including rented land). Masons still grow fruits and vegetables but have expanded greatly on the amounts and varieties grown. Doug married Lorraine Lewis in 1992. Lorraine runs a successful farm market enterprise based solely on offering produce and greenhouse plants raised on the Mason Farm or grown locally. Computerization of operations for managing and tracking data plus a print shop to label the numerous retail products has added much efficiency. The packing house, which is a field-tostore operation, is constantly upgrading the facilities to handle consumer packaging trends and food safety concerns. This year a grape tomato washing/sorting/packing line was added. The farmland is prime and unique having muck on the south side and rich, glacier plains on the north providing different growing conditions for the 60 plus seasonal crops (and many varieties). As an Integrated Pest Management grower, a small weather station monitored by the NE Weather Assoc. and Cornell Cooperative Extension offers insight into the technology available to help with growing

and spraying. They access the data on their website to help make spraying decisions. The Masons received the New York State Agricultural Society’s Century Farm recognition in 1989. Awards and honors include a New York State IPM Program Excellence in IPM award as part of the team associated with Wegman’s Food Markets; Business of the Month presented by Williamson Chamber of Commerce; New York State Vegetable Growers Grand Champion winner for potatoes, Consumer Package Contest, Western Division; New York Farms! “I Love My NY Farmer” award in horticulture; plus various ribbons throughout the years from the Empire State Potato Club and New York State Horticultural Society for “very good to excellent” in packaging and grade of our products. The Masons firmly believe in Agrieducation; giving the public a better understanding of agriculture. Shaul Farms, Inc., Schoharie County, Fultonham, NY. Established by Adam Vrooman in 1704 The roots of Shaul Farms are deep in the Schoharie Valley. Present day, Shaul Farms incorporates 1,250 acres of tillable land and 800 acres of non-tillable; the primary production focus is grain corn and fresh market vegetables. This family farm, operated by James & David Shaul and their families, grinds and sells corn meal, store and sell 250,000 bushels of grain corn, maintain a retail road stand and sells fresh vegetables directly to 19 grocery stores.

Hill Villa Farm Seated: Robert Hill, Jr., Shirley Hill. Standing: Robert Hill III, NYS Ag Commissioner Darrel Aubertine, David Hill, NYS Ag Society President Dave Tetor & Gary BradleyFarm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement (Award Sponsor).

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Mason Farm. Seated: Paul Mason, Ethel Mason, Lewis Mason Standing: Gary Bradley- Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement (Award Sponsor), Doug Mason, NYS Ag Commissioner Darrel Aubertine, Lorraine Mason, Tori Mason, NYS Ag Society President Dave Tetor.

David and James are Farm Bureau members, members of the Fultonham Union Church, supporters of Cooperative Extension, and local youth programs like the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H and FFA. David is a member of the New York State Vegetable Growers Association. The family works in many aspects of the daily operations as James’ wife, Pamela and children work on the road stand or get produce ready to be shipped to the grocery stores. David’s wife, Becky, works with farm finance. David is the driving force in the fresh market vegetables enter-

prise of the business. He oversees every aspect of the production and harvest of 200 acres of fresh market vegetables. The vegetables are sold through a family run retail road stand and 19 Price Chopper and Hannaford grocery stores. James and David work closely with industry representatives to stay up to date on current farming practices and techniques. They constantly work to produce the best and safest product possible at least cost. Shaul Farms has been a historical marker in Schoharie County, and a valued member of its agricultural community.

Cover photo by Jon M. Casey PA Secretary of Agriculture, George Greig; Butter sculptor Jim Victor and PA Lt. Governor, Jim Cawley take a closer look at Victor's remarkable work, inside the refrigerated display case in the PA Farm Show Complex.

by Pat Malin LIVERPOOL, NY — Many people might assume that Darrel Aubertine’s first year in office was a bit tumultuous. However, nothing was as bad as the afflictions suffered by his constituency in 2011. Upstate farmers first struggled with extreme temperatures and floods in spring. Then Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee slammed into the region, producing flooding rains back-to-back in August and September and causing extraordinary losses. Naturally, farmers turned to the state for financial assistance and farm repairs, if not also for reassuring consolation. Aubertine, who was appointed Commissioner of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January 2011, took those 12 months in stride with a quiet confidence. “If it’s possible to describe the year as successful, I would call it successful in a lot of ways,” said Aubertine in an interview following his first state of the state address at the 180th annual New York State Agricultural Society Forum at the Holiday Inn near Syracuse on Jan 5. “We were successful in dealing with the storm as much as could be and in meeting the emergency,” he continued.

NYS Commissioner of Agriculture Darrel Aubertine gave his first State of the State Address during the 180th annual meeting of the NYS Agricultural Society Forum in Liverpool on Jan. 5.

“We were successful in getting legislation passed, and successful in getting our budget passed, on time.” In September, Cuomo announced that $2.4 million from the state’s Agricultural and Community Recovery Fund would be distributed to 125 farms to help them recover from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Actually, the state doled out $4 million in four weeks, Aubertine reported to the audience, and “we’re still working to help the farms impacted by the storms.” The state allocated another $15 million to help farms stabilize soils and stream banks, restore water control structures, and improve and protect water quality following the devastating storms. On the other hand, Aubertine admitted he is looking forward to 2012. “I would hope we wouldn’t have to deal with more disasters,” he chuckled. This was Aubertine’s first address to the Forum. Pat Hooker, who served as commissioner under governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson from 20072010, gave the state of agriculture address in 2011. Aubertine (D-48) represented Oswego, Jefferson and parts of St. Lawrence counties for three years in the State Senate until he was defeated by a Republican in 2010. As the only farmer serving in the state legislature, he became chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. When asked to discuss the consequences of the storms which devastated towns in New York’s southern tier and neighboring Vermont in early fall, Aubertine said the emergency management plan that was in place did work as designed, but in retrospect, “it wasn’t sufficient.” The governor appointed Aubertine co-chair of the Upstate Storm Task Force. In fact, on the weekend of the storm, Cuomo assigned members of his cabinet and state senators to patrol their home districts and provide him with firsthand reports of storm damage. The commissioner, continuing his address, said an additional goal in 2012 is to reorganize the state Agriculture Department to become more efficient. He will recommend a merger between some divisions, such as Soil and Water with Conservation. He wants to streamline licensing procedures “under one umbrella” and in one office, rather than have several different offices provide licensing. He said a reorganization of the overall department would not necessarily lead to cutbacks among the agency’s 500 employees. During his address, Aubertine briefly discussed two new programs — Link Deposit and FreshConnect proposed by Governor Cuomo in his own State of the State Address on Jan. 4 in Albany. Under the link deposit program,

NYS Ag Commissioner Darrel Aubertine meets with members of the Vernon-VeronaSherrill FFA, which was named FFA Chapter of the Year for the second consecutive year and third time in the last four years. From left, Haley Surprenant, secretary; Kasey Demo, student advisor; Sarah Peavey, student representative and Darrel Aubertine. Photos by Pat Malin

local banks would issue low-interest loans (at three percent) to help farmers finance infrastructure improvements on their property. FreshConnect, which Aubertine said was initiated a few months ago, seeks to overcome what Governor Cuomo calls “food deserts.” It will expand the reach of farmer’s markets, to improve the distribution of fresh produce and milk especially in urban or rural neighborhoods which lack supermarkets. “The weak link now between the farmer and consumer is in distribution,” Aubertine explained. Cuomo proposes to set up large distribution hubs, for example the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which will update the existing market’s infrastructure. It will also create a major wholesale farmer’s market and link Upstate farmers with the

New York City metropolitan market. Cuomo said he would also expand “mobile markets” and set up a “Share NY Food” Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Aubertine also said he wants to help farmers, retailers and wholesalers strengthen food safety procedures, improve food inspection and reduce the spread of diseases like influenza. He also hopes to implement regulatory reform. Conference highlights included recognition of businesses of the year, bicentennial farm families, the Cap Creal agricultural journalism awards, the FFA Chapter of the Year, ag promotion awards, and the society’s Distinguished Service Citation. All meals and the 180th anniversary reception featured New York-produced food and beverages.

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NY Ag Commissioner’s first year: more rewarding than harrowing, Aubertine tells the 180th Annual NYS Agricultural Forum

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Crop Comments by Paris Reidhead Field Crops Consultant Wandering waste oil My son Peter lives and works in an New York City suburb in Connecticut, and he receives the New York Times, either hard copy, on-line, or both. He is very of aware of my involvement with alternative fuels, particularly biodiesel. So he forwarded to me an article titled: “Thieves Seek Restaurants’ Used Fryer Oil”, written by Steven Yaccino, and printed in the Jan. 7 edition of NYT. This is particularly timely, because just yesterday I was visiting a customer, with whom I was discussing alternative fuels. To be more specific, I was talking about modified fuel systems, ones which handle vegetable oil, without first making it into biodiesel. Normally how this works is that the vehicle in question has a separate fuel tank with heating elements. The raw vegetable oil, or filtered waste veg oil, goes into the extra tank. The diesel engine in the car, or truck, is started with regular petroleum diesel. After the diesel engine is running, the heating elements automatically turn on in the second tank. When the veg oil gets up to a certain temperature (I believe, 90 degrees Fahrenheit usually), the fuel

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intake is switched from the petroleum diesel tank to the now-heated veg oil tank. Just before the operator shuts the engine down, the fuel intake is switched back to petroleum diesel, so that the conventional fuel is what is used whenever the engine is started. Veg oils, and even biodiesel, tend to gel at higher temperatures than does petroleum diesel. I have worked with folks who are thinking outside the box with alternative fuel management. One fellow I have advised, who already was growing soybeans, began pressing them (some people use the term “crushing”), and feeds the meal to his milk cows; he then cuts the soybean oil with a little gasoline, then blends that mix with diesel for his tractors. Another man presses home-grown canola (which yields about twice as much oil per ton as soybeans), and blends fairly modest amounts of that veg oil with regular diesel for his tractors). He feeds the canola meal to his dairy cows. Still another man I’ve contacted blends highly filtered waste veg oil (WVO) one-to-one with petroleum diesel; that he does only in non-winter

conditions. But the vast amount of fuel is consumed during the cropping season anyway. And the customer I talked to yesterday said he has a neighbor who fuels his tractors, during warm weather, with filtered waste veg oil, using the existing fuel system, without the aid of heating elements. Probably the best arrangement… and I don’t personally know anyone doing this… is to install a second fuel tank on a tractor, one with heating elements. Also grow oilseed, if such is compatible with your crop program, so you end up with a protein supplement, plus your own home-grown oil; for this you need to own, or have access to, an oilseed press. Then supplement your own oil with what you can pick up at restaurants. But this last arrangement would maximize, year-round, the use of alternative fuel. Meanwhile, back to the article Peter sent me. I’ll try to hit the high points of what Mr. Yaccino wrote. He said that companies that collect used cooking oil from restaurants across the country have turned to all forms of sleuthing in recent years. They use private investigators, surveillance cameras, and rigged alarms. Nonetheless, containers full of WVO are vanishing. For years, restaurants had to pay companies to haul away the WVO and grease (which is an animal-based product, like lard), which was used mostly in animal feed. Some restaurants gave it away to local biodiesel buffs. But with a demand for biofuel rising,

along with conventional energy prices, WVO now trades on a commodities market, commanding around 40 cents per pound, about four-fold its value a decade ago, which makes it a tempting target for thieves, especially in a down economy. Some states, like California and Virginia have enacted special statutes to regulate grease collection from commercial kitchens. Few WVO theft cases go to trial, and when they do, the offenders often get off with no more than a small fine and hit the streets again to siphon off some more, according to Yaccino. For years, law enforcement authorities seemed unaware that fryer oil was being stolen by unlicensed haulers, causing millions of dollars worth of losses each year for the rendering industry that collects and processes the grease. One Houston, Texas, lawyer who represents people accused of stealing WVO and grease, said that in the early 1990s he had won more than a dozen cases by arguing that grease should be considered free to take as abandoned property. Thus, pickups usually take place in the middle of the night. But the rendering industry has been trying to lock down the growing market, driven by demand for biodiesel, from freeloaders. California has a taken a lead in the crackdown on WVO and grease theft. In October, the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) began a program with

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Designing your herd health program, stress, and the importance of biosecurity by Judy Van Put The third class of the CCE of Delaware County’s Meat Goat Farming for Beginners course included a presentation by Christine Camaan, DVM, Ruminant Health Services in Unadilla, NY, on Designing Your Herd Health Program. Dr. Camaan discussed ways to improve your herd’s health, and one of the topics she discussed was preventing stress. Stress is one of the factors that will have an effect on herd health; as stress causes animals to produce dexamethazone — a steroid that is immunosuppressive. There are ways you can prevent stress in your animals. Psychological stress factors are reduced by socialization and training, moving slow and easy, handling gently with a calm deep voice; moving without a lot of fan-

fare. The animals need to feel safe and secure. Animal grouping, or changes in groups all of a sudden can cause stress because some animals may have to deal with others they don’t like, which can cause them to worry. Their exposure to human handling should be consistent, calm and quiet, slow and easy. Any time you expose animals to upsetting experiences, it is upsetting to them and will be harder to get next time. Make sure you modify your facilities, such as using holding pens or keyhole feeders to cause less stress and make the job easier. Remember housing, handling and care facilities should provide comfort and cleanliness, with adequate ventilation and air exchange, access to feed and water, good lighting and footing. In addition, your methods of capture and restraint

should be as easy as possible for the animals. She also stated that maintaining health requires preventive medicine, forethought and planning. Two of the most important requisites of a good health plan are good record-keeping and protocols: Records should not too complicated, or chances are that they won’t get done. Good records will provide historical information, such as name, date of birth, sex, sire and dam, date Bo Se is given, disease testing, weight records, FAMACHA scores, fecals and vaccinations. These records may also provide reminders for future action. They enable you to look back and evaluate your programs. Records of growth

rates in kids help you decide which mothers are best, for example. Protocols are more like lists to make sure you don’t forget anything. These “checklists” are great for employees, farmsitters, helpers in training. They also maintain consistency in how you run your farm. Even having standard operating procedures for cleaning the barn makes it easier for untrained labor or when you change labor. In addition, it gives you something to use to evaluate labor salary increases. Examples of protocols include feeding schedules, breeding (when you put buck in, and how to determine which does have been serviced), kidding, newborn kid care such as allowing the

Meat Goat A12

Labor, feed costs and productivity for different kidding and lambing systems by Dr. tatiana Stanton, Cornell Small Ruminant Specialist The success of kidding or lambing season

of the year and to identify efficient birthing practices. Eighteen, 24, and 24 case study farms collected birthing data in

2009, 2010 and 2011. The study is ongoing and we have only examined the 2009 lambing and kidding records thus

far. However, we can make some generalizations based on the 2009 information. Chart 1 shows that not unexpectedly, labor demands per Dam during birthing time were higher in Winter 2009 (range = 1.2 to 10.8 h, mean 4.7 h), than in the spring (0.7 to 3.1 h, mean 1.2 h) or fall

(0.9 to 4.1 h, mean 1.8 h). This was primarily because of the large amount of extra time spent by some farmers to check for and assist winter births. However, there was not a clear relationship between herd size and increased daily labor during kidding or lambing

(Chart 3). Smaller herds varied widely in labor spent during winter birthing in particular with some farms spending 12 to 15 extra hours per day as compared to others spending only 2 to 3 extra hours per day despite similar mortality and growth rates.

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Meat Goat from A8 dam and kid to bond undisturbed for 60 minutes; weighing the kid and dipping the navel with iodine; if nursing not observed within four hours, feeding colostrums; if disease is present and how to eliminate the spread. Protocols are important to keep your farm operating more smoothly and in case of emergencies, such as if you were to leave or be in the hospital, you can hand the list to someone to take care of your farm. Biosecurity is the way to keep infectious agents out of your farm. This is not a new idea, but is the key to preventing diseases for which neither effective vaccines nor satisfactory treatment exists. When biosecurity measures are adopted they will protect your animals and the animals of others. Zoonotic diseases are communicable from animals to humans. The main ways that disease can enter your herd are via animals; food products; Organic debris on equipment and vehicles, such as 4-wheelers or any vehicles with tires with tread (manure gets in between the tread if you drive through a contaminated area and then onto a clean area, you bring in disease) and on people and their clothing. Humans carry diseases, often unwittingly on their clothes and boots, because they are closest to the animals. Dr. Camaan suggests wearing coveralls over your clothing and changing the coveralls before going to a new farm — turned inside out and placed on the floor until they are washed. Following are some Biosecurity basics all animal farmers should use on the farm: 1. The goal is to prevent the introduction of dis-

ease-causing agents by people, other animals, tools, vehicles. 2. Use scrubbable boots, or dedicated barn footwear. 3. Clean and disinfect barn clothing, equipment etc. after use. Wash with hot water and detergent. 4. The best advice — wash hands often. 5. Washing all washable surfaces. Just by washing with hot water and detergent actually removes 98% of germs. 6. Know where visitors to your farm have been; provide shoe covers or boot wash and disposable protective clothing if they have contact with other animals. Keep a list for visitors, and have people register their name, address and phone number. Include a column where they can list what animals they have. 7. Provide boot covers, keep a trash can handy to dispose. If people ask why, it’s to make sure nothing is coming in to your farm, and nothing is spread anywhere else. 8. Change clothes after visiting other farms or remove coveralls and launder. 9. Quarantine new or returning animals from fairs, breeding, and handle them last. Keep them a sufficient distance away from your animals, from 25 to 50 feet away. 10. Do barn chores with youngsters first, handle quarantined animals last.

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Labor from A8 There were noticeable differences in the time farmers spent on various management tasks such as birth checks, artificial rearing, and transitioning dams and offspring from pregnancy to lactating areas during Winter 2009 (Chart 2). Kid or lamb management tasks that seemed to take the most time were disbudding and tattooing with castration, docking, eartagging and weighing taking far less time particularly if done in the jug or shortly after birth. However, spending a lot of time per dam checking for birth and assisting births did not necessarily result in lower mortality rates in winter for either dams at birth (DamDeadB%), offspring at birth (%DeadB), or offspring at 1 to 7 days of age (%Dead1to7) and was accompanied by increases in the percentage of offspring that had to be artificially reared. However, keep in mind that we used very experienced farmers for the first year’s study. If anything, beginning farmers make the mistake of not understanding that extra time is needed during birthing season. However, the suitability of facilities for a particular season of birthing and unexpected catastrophic health problems such as floppy kid syndrome, Cache Valley Virus, iodine deficiencies had far more impact on newborn mortality rates for the farmers in our study. Observational skills were helpful at diagnosing common health problems, such as ketosis, early and helped reduce labor spent coping with these problems, emphasizing that time spent on prevention and early treatment is well justified. Good organizational skills helped shorten the time spent on management tasks. Spending a little time getting organized is time well spent. Several farms who spent less time checking for and assisting births indicated that they had previously culled dams based on dystocia and/or poor mothering. The percentage of young weaned per dam was lower for fall

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$16.59, down $1.11 from November, but $1.92 above December 2010. The 2011 4a average is $18.82, up from $14.81 in 2010. The Golden State’s February Class I price will be announced January 10, with the Federal order Class I base announced January 20. The California Department of Food and Agriculture also announced that no new quota will be allotted to the state’s dairy producers on January 1. Looking “back to the futures;” the Federal order Class III milk price average for the first six months of 2012 stood at $16.63 on November 4, $16.72 on November 11, $16.78 on November 18, $17.16 on December 2, $16.84 on December 9, $17.07 on December 16, $17.04 on December 23 and was around $17.53 on January 7. Checking the cash dairy markets; there were no New Year hangovers as 2012 started on an up note for cheese and butter. The 40pound blocks closed the first Friday of 2012 at $1.61 per pound, up 4 3/4-cents on the week and 24 1/2-cents above a year ago. The 500pound barrels finished at $1.59, up a penny on the week and 24 3/4cents above a year ago. 21 cars of block traded hands on the week, 14

on Friday, and only one of barrel. Demand appears to remain good as Super Bowl entertaining approaches. The lagging NASS-surveyed U.S. average block price slipped to $1.6380, down 6 cents, while the barrels averaged $1.6094, down 2 1/2-cents. Cash butter closed at $1.6050, also up a penny on the week, but a whopping 49 1/2-cents below a year ago when butter jumped 43 cents that week. Three cars were sold the first week of 2012. NASS butter averaged $1.5873, down 0.3 cent. NASS nonfat dry milk averaged $1.4006, up 2.4 cents, and dry whey continued to strengthen, averaging 67.1 cents, up 1.1 cent on the week. USDA’s weekly butter stocks data this week showed inventory levels rose 22.5 percent from the previous week but are still 55.5 percent below a year ago, according to FC Stone’s January 5 Insider Opening Bell. FC Stone dairy economist Bill Brooks said “The rise in stock levels was only about 300,000 pounds so while the percentage change looks big, it was not a lot of butter.” Meanwhile; feed costs were lower in December but so were milk prices, leaving farm profitability down slightly from November. The All-Milk price was estimated at $19.80 per cwt., down 60 cents from November, while feed costs decreased about 3.5 percent, according to USDA’s latest Ag Prices report. The corn price declined 40 cents, to $5.44 per bushel, and soybeans dropped 60 cents, to $11.10, while alfalfa hay increased $1 per ton, to $199.00. Feed costs compute out to $10.53 per cwt., leaving “Income over feed costs” of $9.27 per cwt., according to the DDR, down from $9.49 in November. This is slightly above the 10-year average IOFC of $9.09 per cwt, the DDR said. Checking supplies; milk continues to flow into butter and powder production as November butter and milk powder output moved higher but cheese production was fairly steady, according to USDA’s latest Dairy Products report. Butter

production totaled 153 million pounds, up 4.4 percent from October and14.2 percent above November 2010. Nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder was estimated at 159.7 million pounds, up 17.5 percent. Total cheese output slipped to 886.5 million pounds, down 1.2 percent from October but 0.3 percent more than November 2010. Italiantype cheese totaled 383 million pounds, up 0.1 percent from October but 0.6 percent less than a year ago. American-type cheese production totaled 348 million, down 1.3 percent from November but 0.7 percent more than a year ago. In regional news; Dairy Profit Weekly reports that a Northeast antitrust lawsuit cannot continue as a proposed class-action suit involving all dairy farmers in the region, based on a ruling, December 9, by U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss. The judge’s denial means the plaintiffs can pursue another course toward class certification, press individual claims, or drop the action. Last October, plaintiffs in the case formally filed a request that all dairy farmers producing and pooling raw Grade A milk in Federal Order Milk Marketing Order #1 be certified as a “class” in the lawsuit against Dairy Farmers of America, Incorporated. (DFA) and Dairy Marketing Services LLC (DMS). Federal milk market order number 1 covers Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. In her latest decision, Reiss denied class certification to all dairy farmers in the affected region, determining all would not be affected equally in any potential ruling. According to Reiss, current DFA and DMS members could suffer harm which would not be shared by other Northeast farmers who were not DFA/DMS members. Log on www. nedairysettlement.com/Courtdocuments.htm for details. Looking abroad; FC Stones January 3 eDairy’s Insider Opening

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2011 Looked Pretty Good Issued Jan. 6, 2012 With Auld Lang Sine playing in the background, the December 29 CME Daily Dairy Report (DDR) said 2011 saw record-high milk production, record high exports, and record prices. Milk production is expected to come in around 196.1 billion pounds, up 1.7 percent from 2010, with most of the growth in the West. Butter production was up 17 percent in the first 10 months of the year, while nonfat dry milk and skim milk powder was up 7 percent. Cheese production was up just 1.6 percent, a smaller increase than in recent years, according to the DDR, but still on pace for a new all-time high. In the first 10 months of 2011, U.S. dairy exports totaled $3.96 billion worth, up 29 percent from 2010. Overall export volumes were about 9 percent ahead of 2010, led by gains in shipments of NDM/SMP, up 15 percent; cheese, up 31 percent; and butterfat, up 17 percent

feed price ratio, which compares the milk price relative to average feed costs, showed that, with December’s preliminary report, last year’s index will average just 1.89 for all of 2011, the second lowest ratio in about 25 years and rivals the record low set in 2009. A second USDA report detailing average costs to produce milk indicates 2011 will surpass the previous annual high set in 2008. Costs to produce homegrown feed or purchase feed are the primary factors, with total feed and operating costs estimated to average about $1.50 per cwt. more than 2010, according to Natzke. “The bottom line,” he said, “Is that U.S. dairy farmers saw vastly improved milk prices in 2011, but higher feed prices ate into their profit potential,” and he warned that the trend “looks to continue in 2012.” Speaking of milk prices; California’s December 4b cheese milk price is $15.14 per cwt., down $2.05 from November 2011, $2.92 above December 2010, but $3.63 below the comparable Federal order Class III price; the largest gap in nine years. That put the 2011 4b average at $16.37, up from $13.17 in 2010. The December 4a butter powder price is

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between the District and the Tully Junior/Senior High School, and the efforts of the 8th and 9th grade Industrial Art students, we will have bluebird and bat houses, and woodduck boxes for sale. Remember — All trees are bare-root stock and sold for conservation purposes only. Orders must be received by Friday, March 16. Mark your calendar

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while increasing in Florida. Milk logistics over the past holiday were challenging but for the most part, no major problems developed outside of a minor powder plant breakdown in the Pacific Northwest. Milk in the affected area was shuffled to operating plants with minimal difficulties. The lack of major winter storms combined with the holiday falling on the weekend provided for a smooth holiday period for most manufacturing plants. The biggest concern for milk processors was to get through the yearend holidays in as orderly of a fashion as possible. Surplus milk offerings were heavy in most regions and manufactur-

ing facilities were located in close proximity of production without too many long hauls reported. Cream placement was probably the most challenging. Cream volumes moved from Eastern and Western regions of the country into the Midwest for processing. In most areas of the country, churns were running at capacity and generating bulk butter versus print. Surplus milk offerings were expected to ease during the New Year’s holiday weekend as bottlers enhanced their schedules as many primary and secondary school students return to the classroom on Tuesday, January 3.

Mielke from A15 Bell reports that dozens of dairy producers in New Zealand’s flood-ravaged Bay of Plenty were forced to dump thousands of liters of milk due to damaged roads that have prevented milk trucks from reaching farms. And; results from this week’s GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction were mixed, according to the DDR. The weighted averages for the various products were released as follows: anhydrous milk fat fell 5.1 percent to $1.8062 per pound or $1.4479 per pound when adjusted to 80 percent butterfat butter. Milk powder gained 9.3 percent, climbing to $1.6261 per pound; ched-

dar cheese increased 0.2 percent, to $1.6320. Milk protein concentrate 70 gained 2.3 cent, hitting $2.7152 per pound. Rennet casein fell 4 percent, to $3.5362 per pound. Skim milk powder dropped 0.6 percent, to $1.4828 per pound; and whole milk powder was off 0.8 percent, at $1.6121 per pound. The weighted average for all products fell 0.7 percent, according to the DDR. Back on the home front; the Agriculture Department reports that milk production trends across the country are basically unchanged from previous weeks. Output in most areas of the country is stable

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birthings (115 to 186%, mean 146%) as compared to winter (141 to 216%, mean 183%) or spring birthings (127 to 200%, mean 163%). This was a result of fewer newborns delivered per dam rather than increased mortality rates. This corresponds to pre-

vious studies indicating that the main disadvantages of out of season breeding include smaller litter sizes as well as reduced conception rates. In the spring, pasture birthing versus barn birthing did not result in decreased herd productivity as measured by

mortality rates, growth rates or weaning percentages but resulted in big savings in feed costs per dam. In fact, 3 of 4 barn birthing herds experienced some death of dams at birthing as compared to no pasture birthing farms experienced dam death at this

time despite the occurrence of several large herds in the pasture birthing group. Farmers cited the ability of the dams to give birth without disturbance and to have plenty of space to separate themselves for bonding with their offspring as an advantage

of pasture birthing. One herd that kidded in the barn did experience a sudden bout of Floppy Kid Syndrome with over 20 percent of the kids dying within one week of life. Mortality rates probably would have been even higher for this herd if the same disease had

occurred while pasture kidding instead. Feed costs for pasturebirthing goat herds averaged $6.80 per dam as compared to $21.74 for barn-kidding herds and $8.14 for pasturebirthing sheep flocks as compared to $42.86 for barn-lambing sheep flocks. We did not consider property taxes or fencing costs when calculating forage costs on pasture because all of the farms indicated that these expenses would have been incurred regardless of whether they had dams with offspring out on their pastures. Thus, pasture grazing was assigned a forage cost of $0. Data indicated that decisions about fencing choices, predator control, prenatal nutrition, and especially, parasite management greatly impacted the success of pasture birthing. Some farmers loved birthing on pasture while others felt they had too little control at a time when their labor and attention needed to be focused on field or hay crops. Expected market price needs to be considered when deciding what birthing seasons to use and what kid and lamb management practices to adopt. However, evaluating your labor demands, feed costs and herd productivity for different kidding and lambing systems is a valuable, and necessary, decision tool. Partial funding for this study came from the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NE SARE). Thank you to all the farmers who gave their valuable time to this study.

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FROM THE BERKSHIRES AND POINTS WEST Take the Massachusetts Turnpike East to Exit 4, to Rte. 5 South, to Rte. 147 West. Continue approximately 3/4 mi. to ESE's Gate 9 parking lot. FROM VERMONT AND POINTS NORTH Take I-91 South to Mass. Exit 13B, to Rte. 5 South, to Rte. 147 West. Continue approximately 3/4 mi. to ESE's Gate 9 public parking lot. FROM NEW YORK CITY From New York City, take I-95 North to New Haven, Conn., travel North on I-91 and follow above directions from Connecticut and Points South. Or, follow Merritt Parkway or I-84 to I-91 North. FROM LONG ISLAND Take the Orient Point Ferry to New London, Conn. or the Port Jefferson Ferry to Bridgeport. (See following)

FROM NEW LONDON Take I-91 North to Conn. Exit 42 to Rte. 159 North to Rte. 147 East. Continue approximately 1/2 mile to ESE's Gate 9 parking lot. Follow I-95 South and from Bridgeport, follow I-95 North to New Haven and follow above directions from Connecticut and Points South. Take I-91 North to Conn. Exit 47 West to Rte. 190 West to Rte. 159 North to Rte. 147 East. Continue approximately 1/2 mile to ESE's GPS INFO Gate 9 parking lot. If you are attending a show/event at Eastern States Exposition (The Big E or non-Fair), use 875 Memorial Avenue, West FROM BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Springfield, Mass., as your destination address (coordinates: 42 °05'38.88"N - 72 °36'42.36"W - Elev. 52') to enter Gate 9. Take Rte. 75 North to Rte. 147 East. Continue approximately 1/2 For Gate 1, use 1761 Memorial Avenue as your destination mile to ESE's Gate 9 parking lot. address (coordinates: 42 °05'29.21"N - 72°37'28.35"W - Elev. 53')

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Farmer-chef relationships highlight local foods on Hawaii by Mindy Reef What does a farmer do when he or she needs an idea for a rarely used cut of beef? They ask a creative local chef, of course. Relationships between chefs and farmers are increasingly becoming a way to bring attention to local food production, which can clearly be seen in Hawaii. With a growing concern among Hawaiians about locally-sourced food — it’s estimated that up to 90 percent of Hawaii’s food is imported, leaving the islands vulnerable in the event of any disruption in the food chain — putting the spotlight on local production is becoming more and more important. An example of a successful chef-farmer relationship can be seen with Chef Mark “Gooch” Noguchi of He’eia Kea Pier General Store and Deli on Oahu and two of his farmer-suppliers, Michelle Galimba of Kuahiwi Ranch on the Big Island and Shin Ho of Ho Farms on Oahu. Galimba and Ho are both second-generation farmers. Galimba’s family has 1,800 mother cows on 10,000 acres of pasture while Ho’s family farm has 50 acres of grape and cherry tomatoes, Japanese cucumbers, long beans, string beans, lima beans and eggplant. Noguchi’s featured product during a cooking demonstration at the American Farm Bureau’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Honolulu, was Kuahiwi beef belly with eggplant puree, tomato and long squash, incorporated foods from both farms. The beef belly portion of the recipe refers to a cut called short plate, which is found between the brisket and the short ribs on a beef cow. According to Galimba, the short plate normally gets ground into hamburger. But when she recently offered the cut to Noguchi, he took on the challenge of finding something else to do with it. “A friend of mine says, ‘Food is more natural when born out of necessity,’” Noguchi said at the cooking event. And transglutaminase, known as TG or meat glue, came to the rescue. Noguchi trimmed the fat from the short plate and created a cube with meat glue, then cooked it in olive oil to create the dish. According to Galimba, one of the biggest chal-

lenges for her farm is finishing and processing cattle for consumers on the mainland. The expense of feeding cattle grains that aren’t available locally wasn’t economically viable, so until recently, her family had always sent their

cattle to the mainland to be finished. “That’s the stark economics of it,” said Galimba. “It costs less to ship the cattle to the grain than the grain to the cattle. The consumers weren’t that interested in

the specifics of how cattle were raised.” However, with the rising interest in local foods, Galimba’s family decided to try to market their products in Hawaii. Since the Galimbas’ cattle are on pasture their entire

FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE American Farm Bureau Federation lives, but for the last month are fed a combination of wheat bran, barley, corn and molasses with supplements, local chefs are interested in the consistently-raised product, which offers some se-

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A Few Words by Phoebe Hall

Back before artificial breeding Back before artificial breeding (A.I.) came into its being, every dairy farmer had to have their own bull or at least access to one. In our county a group of farmers organized the Niagara County Holstein Bull Association, where as they would rotate the bulls between the member’s farms. We ran across an article from almost 70 years ago, explaining that this association had contracted with New York State Artificial Breeders Association (NYSABA), to sell them a proven bull. The primary owners of this bull were my fatherin-law (FIL) A.L.W., of Appleton, W.C.H., of Lockport, and A.D.M. of Gasport. The proven bull was Lieutenant King Bessie Carnation, which they purchased from the C.J. Knoll stock farm as a two year old. This was the first proven bull to come from our county, which was to be used by

NYSABA, for A.I. According to the county agent, the outstanding fat and milk production transmitted by this bull will make it possible for farmers throughout the state to use this superior breeding on their best cows. He transmitted genetics that could produce almost 13,000 pounds of milk and 3.9 percent butterfat, with a total year’s production of 500 pounds of fat. Also, it is estimated that A.I. has raised the average yearly fat production by 25 pounds. Records indicate that a bull may sire as many as 8,000 calves in a year’s time, as compared with the possibility of siring 30 or 40 if kept on individual farms. This county association was organized in July 1935, and now owns three other bulls which are kept on the farms of the members. This is the end of the article, but it isn’t the end of the story and this is where it gets very interesting.

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One cold winter day when the kids arrived home from school, they noticed a lot of people and activity around this farm. They were all told to go down into the furnace room in the cellar and see what all the commotion was about. There in a big box sleeping, was a beautiful red and white Holstein calf. When they asked where the calf came from, the reply was, out of the registered Holstein bull, ‘Lieutenant’. Some of the observers present were the three above farmers and the representatives of the A.I. coop that had bought the bull. If this sire were transmitting red genes, it would have to be removed from the stud service, even if the transmitted production was out of this world. Registered Holsteins were only allowed to be

black and white back then. Shortly after that, NYSABA, the A.I. co-op, disposed of this exceptional production bull, to protect its reputation. A few years later, my FIL sold his cows to pursue his dream of being a full time fruit farmer. But after a couple of years of low prices in the fruit, he reentered the dairy business. In 1956 my husband was offered the opportunity to purchase a beautiful, purebred Holstein heifer calf from the son of A.D.M., one of the former owners of the Lieutenant bull. The reason this beautiful purebred Holstein calf was not able to be registered and was for sale was because of a red spot on the calf’s side. But the red spot didn’t deter my husband because he knew the calf’s genetics were superior. The sad part of this

story was, one day when my husband was in school, a cattle hauler took his calf to market by mistake. Later when questioned about it, the cattle hauler replied, “I thought it look too nice to send to market.” That was the end of my husband’s dream herd. Another interesting point in this whole story is; one of the three above herds is still in existence today. A.D.M.’s grandson and family are still operating in the same location. Their herd has expanded to over 100 times its size of 70 years ago and the milk and fat production per cow has doubled during this time period. I wonder if the superior genetics of that Lieutenant bull that was used back then extensively in A.D.M’s herd, is some of the foundation DNA that has contributed to their success.

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1977 Ford 9700 2WD cab, air, 5417 hrs, new 460/85R/38 rears, dual power, dual remotes and pto, clean, original, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 2005 CIH JX95 MFWD, cab, air, 80 hp, 841 hrs, 18.4x30 and 12.4x24 Goodyear super traction radials, front fenders, dual remotes, like new . . . . . . . . . . .$27,500 1995 CIH 7220 Magnum MFWD, cab, air, 5657 hrs, ex 20.8x42 radials, rear ex 16.9x30 radials, front fenders and weights, dual pto, 3 remotes, very clean, original, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$46,500 1984 IH 684D only 2317 original hrs, ex 18.4x30 rears, roll bar and canopy with ex CIH 2250 quick tatch loader, joystick, very clean, original one owner hobby farmer, ex tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 1984 IH 3088 2WD, 4 post ROPS, ex 18.4x38s, 81 hp, dual pto and remotes, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 1983 Case 2290 cab, air, 129 hp, 20.8x38s, 540+1000 pto, 5400 hrs, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,000 1977 IH 986 factory cab, 5717 hrs, dual pto and remotes, like new 20.8x38 firestone 7000 radials, very clean, original, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,500 1977 IH 1086 cab, air, 6100 hrs, 18.4x38 radials, dual pto and remotes, clean original Illinios tractor .$12,500 1975 IH Hydro 100 cab, 18.4x38s, dual remotes and pto, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 1981 White 2-105 MFWD, cab, air, 4307 hrs, dual pto and remotes, 20.8x38 and 16.9x26 tires, real clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 Montana LG 2740 MFWD, ROPS only 79 hrs, R4 tires, LHR with loader, joystick control, just like new .$8,500 1976 Massey Ferguson 245 diesel 5114 hrs, 13.6x28 rears, 3ph, 1 set of remotes, very clean, original, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 2007 NH 1412 discbine, impeller conditioner, 540 pto, very low usage, real sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 2006 NH 1411 discbine, rubber rolls, 540 pto, very low usage, real sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,000 2005 JD 530 impeller discbine, hydra angle on head, real clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 Kuhn FC300G impelller discbine, 540 pto, off small farm, real clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 New Holland 310 baler with NH 75 hydraulic pan type kicker, real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 1994 New Holland 575 wire tie baler, hydraulic bale tension pickup head and hitch, NH model 77 pan type kicker, real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,000 1990 New Holland 575 baler, hydraulic drive bale thrower and tension, super nice, clean, original low use baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,500 2004 JD 467 4x6 silage special round baler, mega wide pickup, dual twine, 11000 bales, gauge wheels, push bar, ex cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500

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Speakers include industry consultants, farmers, Cornell Cooperative Extension and Pro-Dairy Staff. Please call 518-746-2560 or 518-380-1498 for more information and an application. Applications for the program are available at www.ansci.cornell.edu/prodairy/academy . The Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension provides direct and valuable programming to the ENY ag community. For more information on the many programs available, please visit www.tinyurl.com/3qqjgls .

SEEDWAY expands vegetable seed sales team HALL, NY — Jeff Eckert has joined SEEDWAY as sales representative for commercial vegetable seed. As part of the SEEDWAY sales team, Jeff will be responsible for vegetable seed sales and service to commercial growers in designated vegetable growing regions of New York. A graduate of SUNY Cobleskill with a degree in Agricultural Engineering, Jeff brings over 30 years of vegetable production experience to SEEDWAY, including; crop scouting, pest management, quality control, contracting, seed and plant selection and product evaluation. Most recently an Agriculture Supervisor for Seneca Foods, Jeff brings valuable in-field knowledge of vegetable crop planting, harvesting and processing. Utilizing a broad foundation of experience and knowledge in the industry, Eckert will work closely with growers

providing seed recommendations. Jeff and his family reside in Geneva, NY. SEEDWAY offers one of the most comprehensive vegetable seed product lines in the industry, serving growers from locations in Elizabethtown, PA and Lakeland, FL with product research trials in Hershey, PA and Plant City, FL. Headquartered in Hall, NY, SEEDWAY, LLC maintains locations in Trumansburg and Mecklenburg, NY, Shoreham, VT, Mifflinburg, Emmaus and Elizabethtown in PA and Lakeland, FL. A full-line seed company, marketing farm, turf and vegetable seed from the Rocky Mountains to the east coast and Ontario, Canada, Seedway, LLC is a subsidiary of GROWMARK, Inc., Bloomington, IL. For more information visit www.seedway.com.

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Look who’s talking now by Julie Murphree Someone has convinced farmers and ranchers to start talking. That’s kind of a crazy proposition, especially since sometimes they really don’t care to get into the communication thing too much. Warning: Once they do start talking, you really can’t get farmers and ranchers to shut up. They have lots to say. Maybe they’ve kept it bottled up for so long and now that they have popped the cork, they’re just bubbling over. The trouble is, new research shows “a different approach may be needed for farmers and ranchers to more effectively communicate with consumers.” Remember… most of them really don’t like to talk in the first place. They are good listeners, but they really just want to farm and ranch. Maslansky Luntz & Partners studied the messages we use in agriculture and concluded what we say and what consumers hear are often two different things. The study, which was funded by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, revealed that agriculture’s (farming and ranching’s) standard goto messages about sound science aren’t providing peace of mind for consumers. To put it another way, countering emotion with facts does not convey all that’s good about today’s farms and ranches. Today’s food producers have used science and research to improve the way they farm and ranch and they get excited about explaining that to others. But based on what Maslansky Luntz & Partners discovered, farmers and ranchers are using too many technical terms, too much science talk and too many big, sterile words. One good thing: research shows farmers and ranchers are trusted, although consumers still have lots of questions about farming and everyday practices. And words like mass production, pesticides, big business, subsidies, ag chemicals and “best management practices” just make non-farmers scratch their heads. So is the answer for

farmers and ranchers to adopt a “touchy, feely” style of communicating? Let’s hope not. That would be kind of tough for most of them. They’ve seen a lot, gone through a lot and their mammas raised them not to complain or cry, and certain-

ly not in public. But, farmers and ranchers get it. Many have committed to being more succinct and understandable in response to consumer questions. Further, farmers and ranchers across the nation share common in-

terests with consumers. Food, health and their futures — especially their families’ futures — are subjects farmers and consumers care about. Most farmers and ranchers hope to continually improve the way they grow food for Amer-

ica. But they’re already doing a lot right and they want consumers to know about it. So, if you’re not a farmer or rancher, keep asking questions. Keep talking to farmers and ranchers. They’re enjoying the conversation,

and have lots of good stuff to share in addition to the great food we all eat every day. Julie Murphree is the public relation director for the Arizona Farm Bureau, and previously farmed cotton, wheat and alfalfa with her parents.

by Sally Colby Parelaphostrongylus tenuis — a heavy-duty moniker for a tiny parasite that causes damage as big as its Latin name. Commonly known as deer worm, brain worm, or most often meningeal

worm, this internal parasite is potentially fatal to small livestock species including alpacas, llamas, goats and sheep. The meningeal worm is a common parasite of whitetail deer, and completes its life cycle within

the deer without causing significant harm to the host. The adult meningeal worm lives in the blood and tissue surrounding the deer’s brain, and lays eggs in that tissue. The eggs travel through the deer’s bloodstream and

enter the lungs where they hatch into larvae. The young larvae travel through the deer’s trachea, into its mouth, then are swallowed and pass through the GI system. The larvae exit the deer’s system in the mucous

that surrounds its feces. This is where the intermediate host enters the picture. Snails, slugs and other such creatures often live in the same areas where deer browse, and ingest the meningeal larvae (L1 stage) from infected deer feces. The larvae develop further in the slug or snail, and the cycle continues as deer ingest slugs or snails among decaying leaves and other similar habitat. Whitetail deer appear to suffer no harm from any stage of the meningeal worm. However, when meningeal worm larvae are ingested by camelids or small ruminants, the outcome is quite different. The larvae migrate through the nervous system and cause significant damage, including lesions along the spinal cord that result in paralysis. An animal with a relatively small number of larvae may show minor neurological signs such as limb weakness or limping, while a more serious infestation mimics neurological diseases such as rabies, listeriosis, polioencephalomalacia (thiamine deficiency) or selenium deficiency. In general, alpacas and llamas seem to be more susceptible to meningeal worm infection than goats and sheep. One of the problems in trying to control meningeal worms is that the parasite can’t be diagnosed in live animals. Alpacas, llamas, goats and sheep are dead-end

hosts for meningeal larvae, which means the parasite doesn’t reproduce in those species. The parasite is found only in tissue of the animal’s nervous system, not in blood or feces. Most meningeal worm infections are diagnosed through clinical signs and grazing history. Livestock that graze in areas where whitetail deer are common are more likely to have meningeal worm, and that likelihood increases if animals graze damp, swampy wooded areas where snails and slugs abound. Controlling meningeal worms in small livestock is difficult, and usually starts with limiting access of whitetail deer in areas where camelids or small ruminants graze. Livestock guardian dogs that are already in place for predator control often help to keep deer out of pastures. Keeping pastures ‘open’ with little or no wooded cover might help limit deer, and may also reduce the number of snails and slugs that inhabit the pasture. If you know that meningeal worm is a problem in your area, keep small livestock out of damp, wooded areas where snails and slugs are most likely to be found. Some producers, especially those who raise alpacas and llamas, are using anthelmintics as part of a meningeal worm prevention program. Although this

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Home,, Family,, Friendss & You Wake up to Eggs: the gold standard for a healthy breakfast What’s low in calories, easy to fix, very economical and satisfying enough to keep you full for hours? That’s a no brainer — it’s the incredible egg. At only 70 calories for one large egg (let’s not even begin the packed with top quality protein, loads of vitamins and minerals talk), it’s a super way to start your day. The easy to fix part (a lot of folks don’t believe that) haven’t realized that cooking eggs in a microwave is a total cinch and even children can spray a cup, crack in an egg, swoosh it around a bit, toss in a handful a cheese and nuke it for 60 seconds. It slides out onto whole wheat toast and the cup goes into the dishwasher — done! No time to eat? Just wrap it up in foil and head out the door. And cost wise, we’re talking about a dime an egg. What kind of breakfast cereal costs a dime a serving? None I want to eat. In fact, a simple omelet, taking little more than two minutes to fix will make a really cost effective breakfast, plus you get to recycle whatever leftovers you have in the fridge for the filling. When you think of satiety, that’s where eggs really shine. The combination of nutrients in that egg, combined with uber-protein is what you want when you can’t stop for a mid-morning snack. In fact, research shows that folks that enjoy eggs for breakfast, compared to a high carb entrée, end up consuming 300 to 500 fewer calories throughout the rest of the day since they just aren’t that hungry. These are all good reasons eggs have been crowned the gold standard for breakfast, but the nutrition itself (sorry, we just have to mention it) is reason

enough to get your day started with an egg. Eggs contain 14 percent less cholesterol than previously thought, Vitamin D, choline (for memory health), every vitamin in some amount except Vitamin C, lutein (for eye health), loads of minerals, and the list goes on — in fact, if you could eat the shell, you’d even have some calcium! And after a night’s fast, filling up with top quality protein gets everything moving and working the way it’s supposed to. So in this new year, when you Wake up to Eggs and send yourself and the kids off with the perfect breakfast food — one that’s low in calories, easy to fix, economical, satisfying and infinitely nutritious — you know you are starting the day off to a good beat.

Quick and easy breakfast ideas ~ for one or two Easy Egg Breakfast Quesadillas 1/2 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend (2 oz.) 2 whole wheat OR flour tortillas (7”) 4 slices Canadian-style bacon (2.5 oz.) 4 eggs, beaten Salsa Sprinkle 1/4 cup cheese on one side of each tortilla. Top each with 2 bacon slices. Coat large nonstick skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium heat until hot. Pour in eggs. As eggs begin to set, gently pull the eggs across the pan with an inverted turner, forming large soft curds. Continue cooking, moving eggs around until thickened and no visible liquid egg remains. Do not stir constantly. Spoon eggs on top of bacon, dividing evenly. Fold tortillas over filling to cover, pressing gently.

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Microwave 1-Minute Ham & Egg Breakfast Bowl 1 thin slice deli ham (1 oz.) 1 egg, beaten Shredded Cheddar cheese Line the bottom of 8-oz. ramekin or custard cup with ham slice. Fold ham in half, if necessary. Pour egg over ham. Microwave on HIGH 30 seconds; stir. Microwave until egg is almost set, 15 to 30 seconds longer. Top with cheese. Serve immediately. Makes 1 serving Per serving: 133 calories; 8g total fat; 204 mg cholesterol; 2g carbohydrate; 0g fiber; 12g protein Source: Virginia Egg Council

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The New York State Agricultural Society awarded the 2012 FFA Chapter of the Year Award to the VernonVerona-Sherrill FFA Chapter at its 180th Annual Agricultural Forum on Jan. 5 in Syracuse. The New York State Grange sponsors this award, inviting chapter officers to attend the Society’s Forum and presented the “golden tractor” rotating trophy. The Vernon Verona Sherrill FFA Chapter is no stranger to agricultural accomplishment. Whether it’s the fact that nearly a third of all agricultural experiences recognized in New York FFA come from the VVS program; the individual achievements of students like Neil Collins, Dan Hoffman and Kayla Dumas developing projects that contribute to

their learning as well as their community; or agriculture teacher Keith Schiebel being recognized for his contributions to the maple industry, it is clear that the VVS FFA Chapter is achieving big things through agriculture. Consistently a top ranking program in New York State, VVS FFA has earned the title of Ag Society’s Chapter of the Year for 2012. To earn this title, members excelled in the areas of student development, chapter development and community development. Projects like VVS’s partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension on their Willow BioMass experiment, their development of a community day and their wellknown Mobile Maple Museum establish opportunities for

students to learn responsibility and planning in addition to developing quality communication, critical thinking and career skills. In 2012, VVS FFA is working to maintain their existing programming and picking up a few significant new projects. They are currently undertaking a building project associated with their maple syrup operation. In May, VVS FFA members will host the New York State FFA Convention — no small task for a group of students and adult volunteers. In three days, VVS’ facility and network of partners will help 1,000 students experience success in nearly 30 competitions; showcase local agribusinesses and bring in a variety of experts to share agricultural messages with teens from throughout

Thundering Hooves 4-H Club raises $600 to buy toys for the needy Submitted by Jacob Fisher, News Reporter for The Thundering Hooves 4-H Club, East Meredith, NY On Saturday, Dec. 10, The Thundering Hooves 4-H Club held two bake sales at Tractor Supply Company in Oneonta and in Delhi. After the sale at each location, club members used the money made to purchase toys. The over $600 worth of toys was then donated to the area County Department of Social Services. All of the baked goods were prepared by club members on Dec. 8 under the guidance of Mrs. Terri Sherman. The Thundering Hooves 4H Club holds this bake sale annually. Photos courtesy of Thundering Hooves 4-H Club TOP: Bake sale items at the Oneonta sale location. BOTTOM: Toys were purchased from the monies made at the bake sales.

New York State. There is no question that the ambitious students of VVS deserve success within the FFA. Whether it’s by representing the state on a national level, bringing agriculture to the most disconnected audiences or guaranteeing strong opportunities exist for agriculturalists of all ages, FFA members at VVS are working hard year-round to make sure they are living the FFA motto: Learning to do. Doing to learn. Earning to live. Living to serve.

FFA Chapter of the Year — VVS FFA with Chapter Advisor, Keith Schiebel; High School Principal Mr. Perry, and Stephen Coye (from New York State Grange — Award Sponsor). Photo courtesy of Penny Heritage

NJ Junior Breeder’s Livestock Symposium planned for March 31 Event will educate adults and youth about animal agriculture TRENTON, NJ — An educational symposium for adults and children will be held on Saturday, March 31, at Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick. A wide variety of valuable and interesting agricultural topics will be discussed and there will be many opportunities for hands-on experience. Information sessions on small ruminants, cattle, horses and poultry will be held. Hands on sessions will include: building a foldable milking stand that doubles as a wheelbarrow for tack; dairy clip-off; processing and marketing poultry, turkeys and game birds; farm safety scavenger hunt; and small ruminant skills lab. The cost for the daylong event is $12 and includes lunch. A separate morning session on rabbits only will be held at a lower cost of $5. The deadline to register is March 15. The New Jersey Junior Breeders

Livestock Symposium is sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA), New Jersey Junior Breeder Program, Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the Department of 4-H Youth Development. It also is sponsored in part by Farm Credit / Northeast AgEnhancement and Hart Agency. The New Jersey Junior Breeders’ Fund, a low-interest loan program, offers agricultural education/FFA students and 4-H members the opportunity to advance the breeding of purebred livestock and the production quality of livestock. Loan applicants must be New Jersey residents, have adequate facilities for livestock and be either 4-H members or FFA/agricultural education students. The registration form can be accessed online at www.nj.gov/agriculture/news/events/2012jrbreederregform.doc. For more information, call 609-9844389 or e-mail lynn.mathews@ag. state.nj.us or debra.moscatiello@ag.s tate.nj.us.

4-H Veterinary Science Program scheduled to launch on Jan. 26 Teens with an interest in animals and veterinary science can now sign up for the 4-H Veterinary Science Series, which will be held at SUNY Ulster. There are two units in the series with each being a five-week commitment. The program is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County 4-H Youth Development and the SUNY Ulster Vet Tech Program. Unit 1 runs every Thursday from Jan. 26 to Feb. 23 while Unit 2 is Thursdays from March 1 to March 29. The class is from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Area veterinarians and other speakers will provide hands-on teaching in a clinical setting. In the first unit, youth will explore the “Normal Animal” to

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(2) USED SILO unloaders, $1,200 for both or will separate. Jonas Hershberger, 2845 Co. Rt. 2, Pulaski, NY 13142 FOR SALE: John Deere 450 Hydro push spreader, $3,500. 716-337-2543.(NY) FOR SALE: John Deere skid steer model 170 asking $3,000; Leave message. 607264-9056.(NY) 782 NEW HOLLAND forage harvester with hay head, $2,200. 9 lightly used cow mats, $40. 585-554-6292.(NY) LHASA APSO/BEAGLE pups, very small, adorable, colorful, vet checked, shots, crate trained, 11/25/11, pictures available, senior discount, $200. Mary. 315-8230512.(NY)

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2008 NH tl90A, 2wd tractor w/ quick attach 52LA forks & bucket, dual remotes, 280 hours, canopy top, LBN $32,500 BO. 315247-5616.(NY)

MORTY GOOSE NECK trailer, 24’ 6” long, JOHN DEERE petal tractor model, 7600, hand turned corn chopper, 30 Farmall & IH 716-912-6109.(NY)

WANTED: Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, bulls, steers, veal, sheep, and goats, strong market, leave message. 413-441-3085.(MA)

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TWO 235 70R16 trail mark tires, tread wall 500, traction A, $100 or BO. 315-4838137.(NY)

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BLUE MINI REX doe with five bunnies. Red Golden Pheasants, Yellow Golden Pheasants, Miniature Horse, red and white philly. 585-509-0471.(NY)

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5 HP single phase cap enclose 220V motor, asking $250 OBO. 315-9424169l.(NY)

SPRINGING Holstein heifer, out of BlitzJintz, due Jan. 19th to Zoro, $1,400. 315497-2292.(NY)

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1963 FORD 2000 runs but needs attention, power steering, wheel weights, chains, $2,800 OBO. 518-332-4171.(NY)

2240 IH 2WD 3100 original hours, new injection pump, new paint, new tires, good 55 hp tractor for sale, $10,500. 413-2385380.(MA)

NH 326 baler, low wear, MF 560 round baler, NH 492 haybine, new rolls, NH 56 rake, Kuhn GA300 rake. 315-5368183.(NY)

WANTED: Looking to buy used cattle chute or head gate Meadow Brook Farm. 518-943-2046.(NY)

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245 JOHN DEERE self leveling loader, $3,750. OBO; 1923 Fordson model F cosmetic restoration, new paint, $2,850. OBO. 607-243-5810.(NY)

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A View from Hickory Heights by Ann Swanson I can almost taste it! One of the things that I like about January is the arrival of the catalogs from the nurseries. My husband was an avid gardener. I am still on the mailing list for numerous catalogs. Whoever takes the pictures of the produce does a magnificent job. The food always looks good enough to eat and the plants look very healthy. I no longer plant a garden, but I do purchase some things to plant. My gardening consists mainly of herbs but I do like tomatoes as well. I used some of my own parsley just before Christmas. I love fruit but the clay soil here is not conducive for growing fruit trees. My husband tried his hand with those with little success. I did manage to grow some plum trees once. I started the trees from seed. There was a whole grove of plum trees down at the farm. I am not sure of the botanical name, but they were the prune type of plums. They were so small and sweet. Every other year the trees were loaded. On the year that we had a lot of them I canned some

and froze some. That process made it seem like I had two different fruits. The canned plums tasted like plums. The ones that I froze tasted like cooked prunes. The year that I grew some trees was the one when canning lids were at a premium. They were really hard to find. I decided that if I pitted the plums I could fit more fruit in each jar. I threw the pits into the flower bed. By the next spring I had a crop of fruit trees. I took some of them to school for my students to plant to give to their fathers for Father’s Day. Some I replanted for us. All went well until they got a horrible black fungus. I lost all of the trees that I started. I wonder if any of my former students still have one of those trees growing. Whenever I think about the growing process I am led to Ecclesiastes. I love the section that starts the book off about there being a time for everything. We do not know the time, but God does. In case you are not familiar with it I will include it here for your reading pleasure. The

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version I include is from the New International Version of the Bible. This book of the Bible teaches that a “life not centered on God is purposeless and meaningless. There are honest confessions of doubt and struggle”. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down

and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a

time for peace. This passage covers most of what you will encounter in life including the planting of gardens. Even though you cannot see the whole picture, you must trust that what happens is the way the Lord designed it. This year my son and daughter-in-law will start their plants in a new green house. It was erected just before Christmas. My son made planting benches and places to put the containers. They are the farmers. My son is always trying something

new. His wife has wanted a greenhouse for years and this was the year. They also plan to use it to extend the season for some of the vegetables. I know he is pouring over the seed catalogs as I write. He reads about the seeds, then orders what he thinks will do the best around here. Being a forward thinker is not bad! It gives one something to look forward to. Ann Swanson writes from her home in Russell, PA. Contact at hickoryheights1@verizon.net

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Fultonville Miller 1416 merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke CIH 8880 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 385 RB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 446 w/mega wide . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 714 Forage Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 4890 w/890 14’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3960 forage harv., base unit . . . . . . . . $3,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 735 Moco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 860 w/2R 6’ po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 1470 RB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham NH 166 inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,850 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Pequea Fluffer 81⁄2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Fahr KH500 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,200 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Vicon 4 Star Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Kuhn 500 Disc Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham Krone 550 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,650 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 552 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville PLANTING / TILLAGE JD 220 disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Taylorway 16’ disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 7000 Grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 12’ BWA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Brillion Seeder 10’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,600 . . . . . Schaghticoke IH 710 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200 . . . . . Schaghticoke IH II Shank Chisel 5700. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,600 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 1450 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2000 6 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville BALERS NH 326 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke NH 316 baler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Hesston 560. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham Hesston Rounder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 1500 Rd baler, Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fultonville MISCELLANEOUS HARDI 210 3pt Sprayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 . . . . . . . . Fultonville POLARIS RAZOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 357 Grinder Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 245 loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 666R corn HD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 6600 combine w/215 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 7000 Series 3 pt./PTO, front hitch . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Kubota KX900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,950 . . . . . . . . Fultonville H&S 125 spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Great Bend loader for JD 7000’s . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Bush Hog 4 ft. mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $850. . . . . . . . . Chatham 7’Loader blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $875 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Landpride 7’ HD Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke Woods 1035 backhoe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,650. . . . . . . . . Chatham Woods RB72 rear blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425. . . . . . . . . Chatham

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LOWVILLE, NY — Maple production is both science and artistry. Four of New York’s most knowledgeable maple researchers and educators will share the latest production and marketing techniques at two maple schools in Lewis County. The 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday evening Beginning Maple School on Jan. 20, at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County for new producers and those thinking about getting started in maple is free. The program is sponsored in part by the New York Farm Viability Institute. CCE Lewis County Executive Director Michele Ledoux says, “We offer the Friday program without any charge to encourage more people to

turn their interest in maple into a full-fledged maple business. The Northern New York region has yet-untapped potential for growing our maple industry.” Lewis County Maple Producers Association President Nadeen Lyndaker attends the Friday evening Beginning Maple School to help mentor the budding producers. “Those just getting started in maple have a lot of questions — about the best time to tap, how to handle a warm spell, about filtering, bottling, adding value, selling, everything about maple,” Lyndaker says. She offers tips on basic production and on aspects such as working with neighbors to tap their trees. The 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Winter Maple School on Saturday, Jan. 21, at Lowville Central School offers a choice of four workshops and lunch for $15 per person due to CCE Lewis County by Jan. 18. Converting maple syrup into sugarcakes and other treats can increase maple business income by as much as four-fold. On Saturday, Cornell University Maple Program Director and New York State Maple Extension Specialist Stephen Childs will teach a value-added opportunities and difficulties workshop plus one on maple grading; one on using purchased and farm-built reverse osmosis systems for producers of all sizes, even backyard hobbyists; and one on production gains

"All New" Building & Remodeling Materials HUGE 1-Day Auction OUR SUPPLIER IS SENDING US EXTRA INVENTORY FOR THIS AUCTION

FOR LOCAL FLOOD VICTIM DEMAND! 14 Terrace Drive, Conklin, NY 13748

Saturday

January 21, 2012

10:00AM

A SUPER AUCTION OF ALL TYPES OF NEW HOME IMPROVEMENT ITEMS & LOTS OF NEW ITEMS Including: (35) Complete New Kitchen Sets; Granite Countertops; HUGE Qty. Hardwood (Finished & Unfinished), Lots of Laminate Flooring; Porcelain & Ceramic Tile; Fancy Center Ent. Doors; Int. & Ext. Doors; Vanities; Plywood & Sheet Material; Dimensional Lumber; Stone Veneer; PVC Decking; Paneling; Railroad Ties; Vinyl Siding; Arch. Asphalt Roofing Shingles; Moulding; Cross Country Trailer; Qty. Name Brand Tools; Etc.; Removal Within 2 Hrs. Of End Of Auction. Terms: 13% Buyers Premium, 3% Waived For Payment In Cash Or Good Check. Payment In Full Day Of Auction. Sales Managers & Auctioneers Licensed Real Estate Brokers In NY, NJ & PA Whitney Point, N.Y. 13862 607-692-4540 / 1-800-MANASSE www.manasseauctions.com

# ADVANCE NOTICE # DAIRY CATTLE, HEIFERS & MILKING EQUIPMENT

FRIDAY

JANUARY 27, 2012

11:00 A.M.

Directions: Sale to be held at Jack Wood's Sale Barn, located on Taylor Valley Rd. Cincinnatus, Just off of NYS Rte. 26. (27) Head from one consignor. (12) Springing or strictly fresh. (15) Nice open heifers. Over (20) Head consigned from heifer raiser’s, from short bred to springing. Good 1st calf heifers in this group. (5) Milk cows from one place. Cows show milk. (14) Open heifers from 200-500 lbs. More cattle being consigned daily. Milkingg & Barnn Equipment: Gerton 1240 bulk tank w/temp. cooling chart. (3) Boumatic milking units, (1) w/meter. (3) Auto take offs. Pneumiontic milk pale w/meter for fresh cows. Milk pump w/oil reclaimer & 7 1/2 hp motor. SS 2” Pipeline, approx. 180 ft. Badger barn cleaner chain, approx. 200ft. (Only 2 yrs. old). Badger Barn cleaner unit. Val-Metal 550 Feed cart w/Honda motor. ValMetal Bedding chopper, only 2 yrs. old. (23) Water buckets. Cow Trainers w/good fencer. Eazy-Chute Hoof trimmer. (NEW) Portable air compressor. Other misc. items. Some items can be seen by appointment only. Sale Managed By:

Gene Wood’s Auction Service, Inc. Cincinnatus, NY 13040

Tel: (607) 863-3821

Visit us on the Web @ genewoodsauctionserviceinc.com

seen with maple tap hole sanitation practices. “Research conducted at our research forest site and in producers’ sugarbushes has shown the power of tap hole sanitation to increase sap yield,” Childs says. Cornell University’s Northern New York Maple Specialist and Uihlein Maple Forest Director Michael Farrell of Lake Placid, NY, will teach a workshop on the economics of buying sap for processing. Farrell says, “Producers can use spreadsheets to determine if purchasing raw sap for processing at their sugarhouse makes economic sense.” Farrell will also offer a workshop about nontimber products that can be harvested by a sugarbush business. He says, “Besides maple sap, a maple forest can yield other edible, medicinal, floral and specialty wood products.” Internet marketing and turning a maple

hobby into a profitable business are the topics for workshops by Cornell Cooperative Extension Oswego County Agriculture Program Leader J.J. Schell. Schell says, “The Internet, social media and blogs join business planning, financing options, labor, insurance, and recordkeeping among the important considerations for those interested in turning an interest in maple into a paying business.” Cornell University’s New York State Extension Forester and Arnot Teaching and Research Forest Director Peter Smallidge will teach the basics of good sugarbush management, and how sugarbush thinning improves maple tree growth and sap quality. Smallidge will also present information on organic and herbicide techniques for controlling invasive plants in the sugarbush and the latest and best forest management practices

for timber production. “Most maple producers do not emphasize timber production, but with 10 core ideas could improve the volume and value of their forest resource,” Smallidge says. Request a Lewis County Maple Schools registration brochure from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County at 315-376-5270. Walkins will be accepted only on a limited basis for $20 per person. “Both of the Lewis County schools and the Cornell University educators are great for getting a lot of information that will make you a better maple producer,” Lyndaker says. The Lewis County Maple Producers Association represents producers in Lewis, Jefferson, Oswego and Oneida counties.

D SALES STABLES , IN HOLLAN W NE Located 12 Miles East of Lancaster, PA Just Off Rt. 23, New Holland C.

Dairy Cow & Heifer Sale

Wed., Jan 18TH • 10:30 AM Cows - Heifers - Bulls

Consignors: Please provide all info w/truckers - milk wts., fresh dates, dam’s records, breeding info, etc.

Thank You

SALE MANAGED BY:

New Holland Sales Stables, Inc. David Kolb 61-L

717-354-4341 (Barn) 717-355-0706 (FAX)

HILLTOP DAIRY AUCTION FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH 2012 @ 11:00 AM At the auction facilities 3856 Reed Road, Savannah, NY 13146 just off Rte. 89, 6 miles north of Savannah or 6 miles south of Wolcott, NY

FOR OUR JANUARY SALE: - a group of 8 head fresh 1st and 2nd calf heifers ready to milk, some may have heifer calves by their sides - a group of 6 or 8 head from an overstocked dairy man with RHA over 24000M fresh or springing - a group of 4-5 fresh 1st calf heifers from an RHA 24000M head - A.I. sired - a group of fresh heifers from a heifer raiser - 2 Holstein service bulls from a top dairy A.I. Sired - 16-18 months of age - a group of 5 crossbred and Jersey heifers, bred & open - a group of 8-10 Holstein open heifers Plus our usual consignments of fresh cows, 1st calf heifers, bred heifers, open heifers and service bulls. We marketed over 140 head with a good demand for milking and close springers. Please vaccinate your cattle prior to auction. We'll Vet check and give them Nasalgen

TERMS: CASH OR GOOD CHECK

LUNCH AVAILABLE

To Consign or arrange trucking contact: ELMER ZEISET 315-729-8030 or 315-594-8260 or HOWARD W. VISSCHER: Auctioneer, Nichols, NY 607-699-7250

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Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces blueprint for stronger service to increase efficiency in USDA operations Streamlined, modernized department central to 21st Century USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must be built to meet the evolving needs of a 21st century agricultural economy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Jan. 9 in presenting USDA’s Blueprint for Stronger Service, a plan that helps producers continue to drive America’s economy by streamlining operations and cutting costs. “The USDA, like families and businesses across the country, cannot continue to operate like we did 50 years ago,” said Vilsack. “We must innovate, modernize, and be better stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars. We must build on the record accomplishments of farm communities in 2011 with a stronger, more effective USDA in 2012 and beyond.” The Blueprint for Stronger Service is based on a Department-wide review of operations conducted as part of the Administration’s Campaign to Cut Waste, launched by President Obama and Vice President Biden to make government work better and more efficiently for the American people. The agency took a hard look at all USDA operations, from headquarters to field offices. The end result is a plan that will create optimal use of USDA’s employees, better results for USDA customers, and greater efficiencies for American taxpayers. “As part of the Campaign to Cut Waste, the President and I asked all Cabinet Secretaries to make tough choices within their departments to save taxpayer money, eliminate government waste, and allow us to invest in the programs and services the American people need. This announcement by Secretary Vilsack is another example of how this can be done,” said Vice President Biden. “By undertaking a thorough and thoughtful review of his Department, Secretary Vilsack has

saved taxpayers millions in travel and printing costs and is consolidating more than 700 different cell phone contracts into about 10. What’s more, the Department is finding significant savings by consolidating more than 200 offices across the country while ensuring that the vital services they provide are not cut.” “In the past few decades, U.S. agriculture has become the second most productive sector of the American economy, thanks to farmers adopting technology, reducing debt, and effectively managing risk,” said Vilsack. “These are lessons from which we can all learn. As we continue to invest in rural communities across the country, USDA has heard from producers about reducing red tape and the need to modernize its services. Today, we are answering the challenge by announcing a series of efforts to help us continue to streamline operations, make the best use of taxpayer resources, and provide the best possible service to the American people.” The USDA will close 259 domestic offices, facilities and labs across the country, as well as seven foreign offices. In some cases, offices are no longer staffed or have a very small staff of one or two people; many are within 20 miles of other USDA offices. In other cases, technology improvements, advanced service centers, and broadband service have reduced some need for brick and mortar facilities. When fully implemented, these actions along with other recommended changes will provide efficiencies valued at about $150 million annually — and eventually more based on future realignment of the workforce — and will ensure that USDA continues to provide optimal service to the American people within available funding levels. These actions and plans to close or consolidate facility, office and lab operations

Feedlot and cow/calf topics to be presented at January conference Farmers interested in learning how to increase their competitiveness and profitability in the current beef cycle should attend the New York Cattle Feeder’s Conference and Winter Beef Management meeting, on Jan. 20-21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Syracuse, NY. At the New York Feeder’s Conference on Jan. 20, speakers from Iowa State University, Cornell Veterinary College, Land O’Lakes Purina and Penn State University will discuss the economic outlook for cattle and grain prices, cattle health, performance, and carcass quality. Each of these speakers has been tasked with providing benchmarks that commercial cattle feeders can use to assess productivity, efficiency and profitability of their feedyards. Concluding the day will be a panel of local cattle feeders that will kick off a discussion of the specifications of cattle required to be profitable in an environment of high input prices. Highlighting the second day of the

conference (Jan. 21), Darren Williams of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association will speak about the Master’s of Beef Advocacy, www.beef.org/mastersofbeefadvocacy.aspx program. This six session on-line course gives producers training on “telling your beef story” when speaking to a non-beef audience. Other topics include carcass ultrasound, designing an effective vaccination program, DOT regulations, factors that undermine your profitability, maximizing your breeding program and a history of the Beef Check-off. Speakers will include national and local beef experts. For meeting information, contact Brenda Bippert, New York Beef Producer’s Association, at 716-902-4305, nybeefproducers@aol.com, www.nybpa.org/. For information on the education program contact Mike Baker, Cornell Beef Extension Specialist, 607-255-5923, mjb28@cornell.edu, www.ansci.cornell.edu/beef/index.ht ml.

will impact USDA headquarters in Washington and in 46 states and 1 U.S. territory. • Farm Service Agency (FSA): Consolidate 131 county offices in 32 states; more than 2,100 FSA offices remain throughout the United States • Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS): Close 2 country offices; more than 95 FAS offices remain throughout the world • Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Close 15 APHIS offices in 11 states and 5 APHIS offices in 5 foreign countries; more than 560 APHIS offices remain throughout the United States and 55 remain throughout the world • Rural Development (RD): Close 43 area and sub offices in 17 states and U.S. territories; approximately 450 RD offices remain throughout the United States. • Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS): Close 24 soil survey offices in 21 states; more than 2,800 NRCS offices remain throughout the United States • Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS): Close 5 district offices in 5 states; 10 district offices remain throughout the United States • Agricultural Research Service (ARS): Close 12 programs at 10 locations; more than 240 programs remain throughout the United States • Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services (FNCS): Close 31 field offices in 28 states; 32 FNCS offices will remain throughout the United States

In addition, USDA is implementing a series of other changes that will save taxpayers’ money while eliminating redundancies and inefficiencies. The Blueprint for Stronger Service details 133 recommendations that affirm processes already in place, as well as 27 initial improvements, and other, longer-term improvements. The initial improvements include the following: • Consolidate more than 700 cell phone plans into about 10; • Standardize civil rights training and purchases of cyber security products; and • Ensure more efficient and effective service to our employees by moving toward more centralized civil rights, human resource, procurement, and property management functions, creating millions of dollars in efficiencies without sacrificing the quality of our work. The Secretary detailed the changes in a speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 93rd Annual Meeting, where he also highlighted the impressive achievements of American agriculture over the past three years. Currently, U.S. agriculture is experiencing its most productive period in history thanks to the resiliency, resourcefulness, and efficiency of American producers. The Blueprint for Stronger Service will allow USDA to continue the investments that help to make this possible. For more, please visit www.usda.gov/strongerservice.

Farmers need to commit their time, energy, money and best thinking if they want to stop the proliferation of federal regulations that threaten their businesses, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said at the American Farm Bureau Federation 93rd Annual Meeting. “This isn’t academic folks,” said Reed Rubinstein, senior counsel for the Chamber of Commerce. “When the federal government exercises its authority, it can send you to jail. We are all one regulation away from being out of business.” Most of the “hyper regulation” currently affecting farmers stems from expansion of environmental law, he said, but new health care regulations and financial reform will add to their regulatory burden in the next five to 10 years. Increasingly, the Environmental Protection Agency is emphasizing ecological sustainability of agriculture in its regu-

latory programs, based on what it says are public concerns, Rubinstein said. “Translation: ‘You need somebody to tell you how to run your business because you’re not doing it in the right way,” he said. “But who’s going to decide what ‘sustainable’ means?” EPA also is having internal discussions about moving away from placebased regulations supported by science to a holistic approach, which includes concern for social issues in writing regulations, he said. Farmers need to get engaged in these issues, Rubinstein said, and comment on proposed regulations at every level of government. Hyper regulation is also a state and local issue, he emphasized. Farmers need to be willing to serve on federal and local advisory panels that draft and review regulations, and file lawsuits if necessary. “If you’re not in there punching, you don’t

have a chance,” he said. In addition to responding, farmers and ranchers need to be proactive in addressing issues, he said. “We all want clean water, clean air,” he said. “We need to ask, ‘how do we work together to achieve it’” in a way that doesn’t handicap farmers’ ability to grow food.

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Rubinstein also encouraged farmers and ranchers to support legislation that would regulate how EPA settles lawsuits filed against it. Often environmental groups sue the agency to advance their agenda and EPA settles the lawsuits in a manner that establishes the regulato-

ry control the groups wanted. Farmers can find coalition partners in other groups that feel as strongly as they do about private property rights, he suggested. There also is value in publicizing excessive regulations, Rubinstein said, such as EPA’s plan to regulate spilled milk

under the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures program. The agency backed off when the plan was brought to the attention of the general public. “Sunshine is a great disinfectant when it comes to government actions,” he said.

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FEEDCARTS UEBLER 810 - 30 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,875 UEBLER 810 - 30 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,975 UEBLER 810 - 30 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,995 UEBLER 810 - 30 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,275 WEAVERLINE 430 - NO CHARGER, 30 BU., . . . . . . . $2,650 VALMETAL 530 - 32 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,775 AGRIMETAL 525 - 25 BU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,875 SQUARE BALERS HOELSCHER 1000 10 BALE ACCUMULATOR . . . . . . . $6,975 NH 271 - 50 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,875 NH 276 - 58 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,575 NH 310 - 70 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,875 NH 315 - 70 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,875 NH 316 - 70 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,875 CASEIH SBX540 - CHUTE ONLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,500 JD 336 - HYD TONGUE, W/ EJECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,775 NH 326 - 70 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,875 NH 326 - 70 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,275 NH 575 - 72 THROWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,975 NH 575 - 72 THROWER, HYD TONG., HYDROFROMATIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,575 ROUND BALERS NH 638 - 4X4, TWINE ONLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,575 NH BR7050 - 4X4, TWINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,775 NH BR7060 - 4X4, TWINE & NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,775 SNOWBLOWERS FARM KING 600 - 60" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT . . . . . . . . $1,675 HANSON SS621 - 60" WIDTH, SSL, HYD. SPOUT . . . $3,575 JOHN DEERE 59 - 60" WIDTH, FITS JD 3720 . . . . . . . $4,275 LOFTNESS 661S - 66" WIDTH, 3PT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,395 LOFTNESS 721ES - 72" WIDTH, SSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,275 MCKEE 520 - 72" WIDTH, 3PT HITCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,375 KUBOTA L2674 - 74" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT, 3PT . . . . . $2,875 ALLIED - 74" WIDTH, 3PT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,975 SNOW MACHINE 78 - 78" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT. . . . . $1,975 SMYTH 84 - 84" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,275 VAN EYL 84 - 84" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT . . . . . . . . . . . $1,975 LOFTNESS 84 - 84" WIDTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,275 NORTH AMERICAN 286 - 86" WIDTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,375 FARM KING 960 - 96" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT . . . . . . . . $3,575 LOFTNESS 962BTS - 96" WIDTH, HYD SPOUT . . . . . $4,875 MISC KUHN 3-AUGER DISCHARGE CHUTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,875 BRIM ARM MOWER - 10' ARM, 39" FLAIL HEAD . . . . $6,975 ARPS BACKHOE - 11' DIG, PTO PUMP . . . . . . . . . . . $5,975 BUSH HOG BACKHOE - 862-H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,275 CAT SSL MOUNTED BACKHOE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,250 NEW HOLLAND 930GBH BACKHOE - FITS BOOMER . .$8,975 WOODS 7500 BACKHOE - 7.5 DIG, SUBFRAME . . . . . $4,875 WOODS 7500 BACKHOE - 7.5 DIG, SSL MOUNT . . . . $5,975 KVERNELAND KD-824 - BALE PROCESSOR . . . . . . . . $6,275 KVERNELAND KD814 - BALE PROCESSOR . . . . . . . . $8,975 SWEEPSTER BROOM - 84", 3PT HITCH . . . . . . . . . . . $1,995 SWEEPSTER BROOM - 72" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,999 SWEEPSTER BROOM - 72", SSL, HYDRAULIC ANGLE $3,975 BRUSH MOWER BB60 - 60" WIDTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,595 SIDE DUMP BUCKET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,575 AC COMBINE - 60 SERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,975 NEW IDEA 177 ELEVATOR - 50', PTO DRIVE . . . . . . . $3,975 BUSH HOG FINISH MOWERS 60" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,595 BUSH HOG FINISH MOWERS 84" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,375 NEW HOLLAND 930B FINISH MOWER 72" . . . . . . . . . $1,975 MY D HANDY GRAIN AUGER - 41' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,475 HYDRAULIC BREAKER - SSL MOUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,275 HYDRAULIC BREAKER - FITS 8000# EXCAVATOR . . . $4,675 DEBRIS BLOWER AGRIMETAL BW300 . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,575 DEBRIS BLOWER GOOSEN 3600DB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,499 YORK POWER RAKE - 72" WIDTH, SSL . . . . . . . . . . . $4,499 FAST CAST SANDER SPREADER 550 - FOR PICKUP . $2,100 AG-BAG G6060 - RENTAL UNIT, 9' TUNNEL . . . . . . . $31,870 AG-BAG G6060 - RENTAL UNIT, 9' TUNNEL . . . . . . . $34,510 BRADCO TRENCHER - RENTAL UNIT, 6" X 48" . . . . . . $5,175 MC 180 MOWER - 15' WIDTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,775

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COMPACT TRACTORS FORD 1210 - 2WD, 13HP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,875 FORD 1320 - 17HP, 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,995 NH TC26DA - 21HP, 4WD, LOADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,975 FORD 1710 - 26HP, 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,995 HUD-SON 204LE - 4WD, LOADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,575 NH TC33 - 4WD, LOADER, CAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,975 NH TC34DA - 28HP, 4WD, LOADER, CAB . . . . . . . . $25,975 NH TC34DA - 28HP, 4WD, LOADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,975 NH T1520 - 28HP, 4WD, LOADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,975

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Keystone Farm Show Jan. 3-5, 2012 York Fairgrounds York, PA

Video presentations of equipment in action continuously drew the attention of passersby. With the featured equipment on display behind the monitors, customers could see demonstrations of the products in the field.

David Beachel (left) and his grandson Denver, 10 of Danville, PA, take a break with a family friend, Richard Biddinger of Watsontown, PA (right). While this is Richard's first time at the Keystone Farm Show, Richard said he has attended every one since they began.

It's never too early to consider the seeds that will be planted in the coming year. At the T.A. Seeds exhibit, farmers stop in to find out the latest in seed varieties from T.A. Seeds experts.

Steve Watrin, Manager of Risk Management for Land O’ Lakes, Inc., offered marketing strategies to dairy producers during two presentations given Jan. 4 at the Keystone Farm Show in York, PA. Photos by Jon M. Casey

Throughout the duration of the Keystone Farm Show, free informational seminars were available for those who wished to attend. In this session, “Pesticide Spill Management” was the topic under consideration. In many cases, certification credits were given for session attendance.

Livestock equipment is a specialty for Zimmerman and Zimmerman Farm Equipment.

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A silo unloader at the Penn Jersey Products exhibit sparked the interest of this couple.

Looking for ways to improve livestock nutrition programs, producers stopped at the Agri-King exhibit in Building 1 for helpful information.

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Deadline for USDA Conservation Innovation Grant pre-proposals Jan. 31 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reminded applicants that Jan. 31 is the last day to submit project pre-proposals for fiscal year 2012 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Pre-proposals support large-scale demonstration projects that test and prove original approaches to conserving America’s private lands. “These conservation grants continue to generate exciting new ideas that help farmers and ranchers run sustainable and profitable operations and address highpriority natural resource concerns,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “We are proud to encourage the advancement of innovative conservation methods that will benefit producers, the public and the economy for years to come.” This year’s CIG projects focus on nutrient management, energy conservation, soil health, wildlife and CIG projects assessment. NRCS is especially interested in projects that demonstrate: • Combinations of nutrient source, application rate, placement and timing that improve nutrient recovery by crops. • Procedures for refining the usefulness of the phosphorous index in reducing phosphorous losses. • Suites of conservation practices that protect water quality. • Renewable energy systems that reduce the use of fossil fuels and increase energy efficiency on farms. • The impacts of cover crops, crop rotations, tillage and other conservation practices on soil health. • Conservation practices that increase the water-holding capacity of soils. • Decision tools that help producers assess their operations and conservation needs in order to improve wildlife habitat. • Assess the technology transfer potential of completed CIG projects. Results of successful projects will be included

in NRCS policy, technical manuals, guides and references. There are two types of eligibility for CIG — applicant eligibility and project eligibility. For applicant eligibility, an applicant must be located in one of the following areas: the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Also, an applicant must be one of the following: a federally recognized Indian Tribe; a State or local government; a non-governmental organization;

or a private individual. For project eligibility, the proposed project or activity must encompass the development and assessment, evaluation and implementation of either of the following: conservation adoption approaches or incentive systems, including market-based systems; or promising conservation technologies, practices, systems, procedures or activities. Landowners must meet Environmental Quality Incentives Program (www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/ portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/financial/eqi p) eligibility requirements

defined in 16 U.S.C. Section 3839aa-1 (http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/16C58.txt) . CIG funds will be awarded through a competitive grants process. At least 50 percent of the total cost of CIG projects must come from non-Federal matching funds, including cash and in-kind contributions provided by the grant recipient. To apply electronically, visit www.grants.gov/ or contact a local NRCS office. To view the complete Announcement of Program Funding, visit www.nrcs.usda.gov/tech nical/cig/.

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Bedding

Beef Cattle

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WOOD SHAVINGS: Compressed bags, kiln dried, sold by tractor trailer loads. Call SAVE! 1-800-688-1187

3 READY TO BUTCHER Naturally Fed Beef Steers, 1,1001,200Lbs.; 6 American British Whitepark 2011 spring bulls. 570-729-7670

LOWLINE ANGUS CALVES for sale. purebred bulls, percentage heifers, steers. Call 315-497-0095

DEXTER CATTLE: Cows, heifers, calves. 518-339-6030

Bedding

Barn Repair BARN REPAIR SPECIALISTS: Straightening, leveling, beam replacements. From foundation and sills to steel roofs. HERITAGE STRUCTURAL RENOVATION INC., 1-800-735-2580.

Bedding

KILN DRIED BULK BEDDING Delivered all of NY & New England or you pick up at mill.

YARD SIGNS: 16x24 full color with stakes, double sided. Stakes included. Only $15.00 each. Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101. Please allow 7 to 10 business days when ordering.

Seward Valley 518-234-4052

Bedding

BEDDING SAND

REG. ANGUS BULLS Embryo Yearlings out of Final Answer, $2,000; show heifer and market steer prospects. 802-3766729, 518-436-1050

• Stones • Gravel • AgLime

WANTED: Quality grain finished beef cattle. Now booking for February. 518-2310239

for COW STALLS

GOT GAS: 315-729-3710 35¢ above spot. No contracts, membership or tank fees. www.propane4farms.com

Mark J. DuPont, Owner Cell 315-796-5084 Home 315-845-8471

PEANUT HULL BEDDING New York Prices Quoted • Call for Prices Elsewhere

Load Size

110 Cu. Yd. Trailer Loads

Ground Unground

$125.00 $115.00/Ton

WHITE PARK Cattle Bred Cows and 3 Bull Calves. Call 607-865-4323 for more info.

#1-40YR painted steel, galvanized & galvalume, also #2 available w/all trim & accessories. Complete Building Packages. Before you buy call Mohawk Metal Sales, 315-853-ROOF(7663) INSULATION 1/2” to 4” - 4x8 sheets foam insulation. 1x6, 2x6 tongue & groove, white pine siding. Large quantities available!! Beachy’s Lumber & Insulation. 585-765-2215

$165.00/Ton

Works Great in Both Freestall & Tiestall Barns

Reduce your bedding costs!

“Specializing in Dairy Bedding”

And Improve Soil - Naturally!

e Oak Farm Bedding, LLC W h it

• Cheaper than sawdust shavings or straw. • Reduce mastitis & cell counts. • Use in place of Hydrated Lime. • Improves your soil • Available in bulk.

WANTED: Steers 200# & up. 570-561-8488

Building Materials/Supplies

USA Gypsum Bedding

Gypsum Bedding

NEW ENGLAND ANGUS Annual and Educational Meeting 1/28/12, held at Salem Cross Inn, W. Brookfield, MA, RSVP contact JohnIovieno@gmail.com

508 White Oak Rd. New Holland, PA 17557 Wendell • (717) 989-4153 Wesley • (717) 587-7192

GRIP X 1 Barn Dry • Barn dry filling your gutters & tanks? Gypsum dissolves. • Use less! More absorbent than lime products.

Try Grip X1 Today! www.usagypsum.com • Phone 717-335-0379 Dealers wanted in select areas Also Available at: Central Dairy & Mech. Delmarva Farm Service Elam Miller Himrod Farm Supply Homestead Nutrition Genesee Valley Nutrition Levi Fisher Martin’s Ag New Bedford Elevator Norm’s Farm Store Robert Rohrer Steve B. Stoltzfus Walnut Hill Feeds

Martinsburg, PA Kennedyville, MD Fort Plain, NY Penn Yan, NY New Holland, PA Piffard, NY Honey Grove, PA Shippensburg, PA Baltic, OH Watsontown, PA Millmont, PA Lykens, PA Shelby, OH

ph 814-793-3721 ph 888-348-1747 ph 518-993-3892 ph 315-531-9497 ph 888-336-7878 ph 585-243-9597 ph 717-734-3145 ph 717-532-7845 ph 330-897-6492 ph 570-649-6765 ph 570-898-1967 ph 717-365-3804 ph 419-342-2942

Beef Cattle

TROWBRIDGE Bulls

VISIT OUR BOOTH at the NY BEEF PRODUCERS CONFERENCE Jan. 20-21, 2012 Syracuse, NY *keep the date for our bull sale on 5/5/12 phil@trowbridgefarms.com 518-369-6584

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Building Materials/Supplies

Buildings For Sale FABRIC STRUCTURES: 30’65’W, any length. Compare our prices $4.00Sq.Ft. Free Delivery on 5,000Sq.Ft. or larger. Zimmerman Sales, 1077 Hall Rd.,Lyndonville,NY 14098

Custom Services

Construction Equipment For Rent HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOR RENT. 315-497-0095

Cow Mats

FA R M R A I S E D H O M E BUILDER, featuring Bill Lake Homes. Your plans or ours. www.kdhomesny.com Call Dave KD HOMES 315-841-8700 kdhomes@frontiernet.net

Midlakes Metal Sales • Metal Roofing and Siding in Many Colors 24 ga, 26 ga, 28 ga, 29 ga, Plus Aluminum

• Gluelam Poles, Lumber, Trusses (Direct Shipments - Wholesale, Retail)

• Polebarn Packages - Any Size up to 80x600

Cars, Trucks, Trailers

R A R E & FA S T ‘06 Caddy CTS-V

~ Quick Turn-Around, We Ship Anywhere ~ Located in the Heart of the Fingerlakes

Custom Butchering GOT MEAT? WILL TRAVEL. Brandt Mobile Slaughtering offers custom processing of beef, pork, sheep, poultry & venison. Call Jordan at 315493-9120

607-869-9483 Buildings For Sale

Custom Butchering

Rt. 8, Bridgewater, NY

Double O Builders LLC

Call today and join our family of satisfied customers!!

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New York Custom Processing, LLC

Buildings For Sale

518-673-1073 or 518-774-7288 • Dairy Facilities • Machinery Sheds • Pole Barns • Free Stall Barns • Tie Stall Barns • Garages • Gravity Flow Manure Systems • Horse Barns • Riding Arenas

HAULING of Heavy Equipment and farm equipment. OVERSIZE OK. 315-4970095

Now Open & Booking Animals

No Lines ~ No Waiting All Cuts Vacuum Packed and Bar-Coded for Tracking and a Complete Printed Inventory of Your Product

6.0 liter V-8, 6spd std, all options, black w/tan leather interior, 46,000 miles.

Call For Appointment

Reduced to $22,500

315-204-4089 or 315-204-4084

518-221-4103 3 orr 518-673-0104

www.JOESFARMERSPLACE.com

Professional Pole Barns by S&L Builders 35 years of experience Lifetime Warranty We build what we sell No Sub Crews Any Size Or Description of Building Most Structures Erected Within 30 Days Beat Our Price? I Don’t Think So!

570-398-5948 (o) 570-772-2352 (c)

Collectibles

Concrete Products

WANTED TO BUY: Old Grit newspapers (not the Grit magazine). 518-568-5115

BARN FLOOR GROOVERS®

Time to Start Thinking of

“THE DEER MAN” Winner of State & National Awards for His Products

Joe “The Deer Man” Will Process Your “BONELESS” Deer Meat Into Any of His Famous “Award Winning” Products...

CONCRETE SAFETY GROOVING IN

1/2”, 3/4” or 1 1/2” Wide Grooves Protect Your Cows From Injuries and Slippery Concrete • Free Stalls • Holding Areas SAFE A T LA ST • Feed Lots • Pens • Stalls • Walkways

Dick Meyer Co. Inc. CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-228-5471

www.barnfloorgroovers.com

Jerky* Polish Kielbasa Polish Kielbasa w/Cheese Ring Bologna* Ring Bologna w/Cheese* Summer Sausage* Hot Sticks* Hot Sticks w/Cheese* Pepperoni*

Pepperoni Sticks* Pepperoni w/Cheese* Boneless Smoked Legs Hot Sausage* Sweet Italian* * 2004 Breakfast* International Ground Gold Medal Hot Dogs*

Winners

Our own custom blended spices used in all of our own award-winning products.

Always Booking Hogs & Beef WE BUY DEER HIDES 607-847-8234 - Somewhere Downtown South Edmeston

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Custom Services

Dairy Cattle

Dogs

Electrical

BOSS LIVESTOCK: WANTED Holstein Jersey or Mixed Dairy Herds, immediate payment and removal. Also Dairy Cows For Sale: One or 100your choice, quality replacements. Call Chris Boss 315219-0590(cell), 315-8581651(home).

WANTED

BORDER COLLIE PUPS. Red, Black, Blue & Merle, working lines, ABCA Reg. Shots.Dep. 518-673-5456

Let our 35 years of electrical experience go to work for you.

Herd Expansions

WANTED

HEIFERS

300 Lbs. to Springing Free Stall Herds & Tie Stall Herds (ALL SIZES)

BASKIN LIVESTOCK 585-344-4452 508-965-3370

All Size Heifers

Also Complete Herds Prompt Pay & Removal

Jack Gordon (518) 279-3101

315-269-6600

Dairy Cattle

110 WELL-GROWN freestall trained Holstein heifers due February & March. Had all shots. 315-269-6600

50 WELL GROWN Freestall Heifers due within 60 days. Joe Distelburger 845-3447170.

4 BREEDING AGE BULLS out of an 89.2 year old. Call for details 315-247-8983

Dairy Cattle

REG. HOLSTEIN COWS High Type - High Production Fresh Cows Milking 80-100 lbs.

Show Calves - Breeding Bulls

Call Greg 518-284-2991

USED COWS WANTED

WA N T E D

Down - Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows For Rendering - Courteous Service

315-793-0043 Dairy Cattle Dairy Cattle

ALWAYSS AVAILABLE: Whether you’re looking for a few heifers or a large herd, we have a quality selection of healthy, freestall trained cattle. Herds ranging in size from 30-200+ tie or freestall.

Strong demand for youngstock, heifers and herds.

Visit Our New Troy, NY Location! DISTELBURGER R LIVESTOCK K SALES,, INC. Middletown, NY (845)) 344-71700 buycows@warwick.net

ATTENTION FARMERS Operating 6 Days~Monday thru Saturday

WANTED

Down, Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows for Rendering

PINE TREE RENDERING Route 37, Brier Hill, NY

315-375-8459

DEAD - DOWN - DISABLED CATTLE

jeffking@kingsransomfarm.com

518-791-2876

www.cattlesourcellc.com

Dairy Equipment USED DAIRY EQUIPMENT Bulk Milk Coolers, Stainless Steel Storage Tanks, Pipeline Milkers, Milking Parlors, Vacuum Pumps, Used Milking Machine Plus Agitator Motors, Stainless Steel Shells, Weigh Jars, Etc.

COMPLETE BOUMATIC ID system w/240 activity tags. 315-247-8983

Call 607-722-5728 Anytime

Dogs

AMERICAN RENDERING CO. BINGHAMTON, NY

BORDER COLLIE PUPS. Red, Black, Blue & Merle, working lines, ABCA Reg. Shots.Dep. 518-673-5456

1-800-777-2088

Dairy Equipment

ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS We Need Good Used Tanks • 100-8,000 ga. - Call Us

• 4000 Gal. Surge (99) • 3000 Gal. Surge (95) • 3000 Gal. Storage • 2700 Gal. Mueller OH NY • 2000SOLD Gal. DeLaval • 2000 Gal. Mueller OE • 1600 Gal. Surge • 1500 Gal. Mueller OHF • 1500 Gal. Mueller OH • 1250 Gal. Mueller OH • 1250 Gal. Majonnier • 1250 Gal. DeLaval • 1000 Gal. Sunset F.T. • 1000 Gal. Mueller OH • 1000 Gal. DeLaval

SOLDMueller PA M • 1000 Gal. • 1000 Gal. Mueller H • 900 Gal. Mueller OH • 800 Gal. Majonnier • 800 Gal. Mueller OH • 735 Gal. Sunset • 700 Gal. Mueller OH • 700 Gal. Mueller V • 700 Gal. Mueller M • 600 Gal. Mueller OH • 600 Gal. Mueller M • 600 Gal. DeLaval Rnd • 545 Gal. Sunset • 500 Gal. Mueller M • 500 Gal. Mueller MW

• 500 Gal. Majonnier • 415 Gal. Sunset • 400 Gal. Jamesway • 400 Gal. Majonnier SOLDMilkeeper WV • 375 Gal. • 300 Gal. Majonnier • 300 Gal Mueller M • 300 Gal. Sunset • 200 Gal. Mueller RS • 200 Gal. Sunset SC • 180 Gal. Milkeeper • 150 Gal. Majonnier • 150 Gal. Mueller RH • 100 Gal. Majonnier

HEAT EXCHANGERS S • TUBE E COOLER 300-6000 0 Gall Storage e Tanks

SHENK’S

Sales 717-626-1151

@ 585-584-9210 WORKING PEDIGREE female Border Collie puppy. Farm home preferred. Goulds, 413-625-2638

Farm Equipment

THINK SPRING! IH & WHITE PLOWS & PARTS

JD 4650 MFD, new PS . . . . . . . . . . .$28,500 Case IH 9170 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,500 CIH 4366 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,900 IH 3588 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,250 IH 1086 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,250 IH 966 Fender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 1066 Black Stripe, new engine, exc. cond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,500 IH 856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,950 IH 1066 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 IH 1066 w/LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500 IH 1066 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,900 IH 806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,900 IH 656 weak hydro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 IH 424 w/LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 IH 656 diesel, RBT eng . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500

FD 4100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500 Kilbros 350 gravity wagon . . . . . . . . .$2,200 JD 9500 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 JD 9510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900 JD 915 flex heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call JD 643, 693 & 843 corn heads . . . . .$7,900 JD 8300 drill w/seeder . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,750 Case 8430 Round baler . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Elwood 4WD unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 New Holland Loaders New . . . . . . . . . . . .Call IH & White plows 3x-10x . . . . . . . . . . . .Call IH 100# Front End wgts.. . . . . . . . . . . .$105 1st Choice GS520-4 tedder . . . . . . . .$4,500 Chisel Plows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call Planters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call 33’ Aluminum Dump Trailer . . . . . . . . .Call

Alternative Parts Source Inc. Chittenango, NY •

315-687-0074

H O L I DAY

B A R GA I N S 1992 Like New Belarus 572 4WD w/Kelley loader, 400 eng. Hours, Last 572 Sold New by Us, Hobby Farm Tractor, Always Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 2011 McCormick X-10 40 4WD w/Loader, Nearly New! Only 15 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,500 JD 5440 4WD Forage Harvester w/P.U. Head, 4500 Hrs., New Dura Drum Cutterhead rebuilt in 2011, Priced Right!. .$12,500 NH 8560 4WD, Cab, 3500 Hrs, Powershift, 4 New Tires, Very Nice!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$37,500 JD 325 Skid Steer w/Cab & AC, Hi flow, 68 Hrs!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,900 Claas 46 Round Baler w/Netwrap, Very Nice . . . . . . . . . .$8,750 Krone RR280 5x6 Round Baler, Very Good . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,750 Case IH C80 2WD, 3500 Hrs, Bargain!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500 ‘07 Krone KW1102 36 Ft. Tedder, Like New!! . . . . . . . . .$12,500 JD 4050 4 Post, Quad, 4500 Hrs, 3Pt, 2 Hyd, Future Collector Tractor, Factory Yellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,500 15 Ft. Brillion Land Commander Very Good . . . . . . . . .$15,000 NH 2120 4WD Tractor w/Loader, 1500 Hrs . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 Case IH 9X, 800 Spring Reset Plows, Very Good!! . . . . . . .$9,500 2009 JD 582 Round Baler, Roto Cut, Cover Edge, Like New!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,750 2005 JD 5325N 2WD Open Orchard Tractor, 1170 Hrs, Like New & Priced Right! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,750

MACFADDEN & SONS INC. 1457 Hwy. Rt. 20 • Sharon Springs, NY 13459

We e Do o Tank k Repair 505 E. Woods Drive,

dba AFR Electrical Service

Farm Equipment We have clients in need of herds, fresh cows, bred, and open heifers. Call Us with your information or email

CJM Farm Equipment 802-895-4159

ATTENTION FARMERS

Call Jeffrey at Agri-Fab & Repair, Inc.

- WANTED -

Heifers & Herds

HOLSTEINS: 10 at different stages. Call for info: 518-6363194

Providing Complete Grain/Dairy Facility Installations, Facility Power Distribution & Lighting, Motor Control Centers, Automation & Troubleshooting, and New Services & Upgrades.

518-284-2090 • email: info@macfaddens.com Lititz, PA 17543

www.macfaddens.com Lots More Equipment & Parts In Stock - Stop In

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1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Farm Equipment CATTLE HEAVY DUTY MANUAL HEADGATE, never used. Hay trailer, good running gear w/seasoned oak beams, ideal for large round or square bales. 4 utility bunk feeders. Richie double sided stainless steel drinker w/float discs & new heaters. 917-887-5007

Farm Machinery For Sale

1460 INT. combine, 30.5-32, 4,200 hours, electric controls, exc. cond., from Michigan, always housed, asking $11,500. 228-239-7248

2010 EDGE high-flow snowblower, used one season, 36”H 86”W, chute hydraulically controlled, $8,900. 518872-1386

Farm Machinery For Sale

22’ H&S truck body, wide body style, fair shape. Call 518-8484669

CASE IH 7140 MFWD, local trade, new interior, $42,900. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-9193322

HIGHLINE 6800 bale processor, good condition, $7,000 OBO. Call 607-336-3221 between 5-9:00pm

8’ BADGER snowblower, excellent; 6-1/2’ International snowblower. New & used tires & rims of all sizes. 585-7321953

SEMEN TANK MVE 20/20, always kept cold, $300; Breeding box, complete, $50. 518-248-4100

8’ SNOW PUSHER, standard quick tach, others available. Pine Ridge Welding and Machine, Penn Yan, NY. 315536-2102

Farm Machinery For Sale

9’ ROTO-PRESS BAGGER Bag Lift, Nice Shape

12,500 OBO

FOR SALE: (1) 48’ hay elevator on wheels, workable condition. 315-684-9112

B&E MANUFACTURING: Kicker racks, slant bar feeders, headlock feeders, round bale carriers, low profile bale carriers. 315-536-9513

FOR SALE: (2) slant bar feeder wagons. (1) 430 Weaverline feed cart. 315-843-5182, 315527-5602

$1000 OFF any grain carts in stock. 3 later models available. Zeisloft Eq. 800-9193322

518-829-7790

$1000 OFF Most all cornheads & grain-heads. Huge selection! Zeisloft Farm Eq., Bloomsburg,PA 800-919-3322

Farm Machinery For Sale

BEST BUYS IN USED EQUIPMENT TILLAGE BRILLION 10' SEEDER BRILLION 5 SHANK CHISEL DISC BRILLION 13' CULTIPACKER BRILLION 16' CULTIPACKER BRILLION 20' CART HARROW BRILLION 38' X-FOLD BRILLION 28' X-FOLD CASE-IH 3850 19' CUSHION DISC-EX COND CASE-IH 475 12' CUSHION-LIKE NEW CASE-IH 496 30' DISC CASE-IH 496 21' CUSHION DISC CASE-IH 530B 5 SHANK RIPPER CASE-IH 720 5-18" AUTO-EX

E-Z ON 5200 24' FIELD CULTIVATOR FORD 2 BOTTOM PLOW JD 980 30' FIELD CULTIVATOR KNOWLES 25' CART HARROW KRAUSE 4945 25' CUSHION GANG DISC KRAUSE 7300 21' CUSHION GANG DISC KRAUSE 7300 18' CUSHION GANG DISC KVERNELAND AUTO 8 BOTTOM PLOW ON LAND SCHULTE RSH4H ROCKPICKER SUNFLOWER 13' CUSHION DISC UNVERFERTH 22' X-FOLD WIL-RICH 39' FIELD CULTIVATOR WIL-RICH 27' FIELD CULTIVATOR

CASE-IH MAX140 MFD TRACTOR 2000 HRS CASE-IH MXM130 MFD TRACTOR 2000 HRS CASE-IH MXM140 MFD TRACTOR 2000 HRS

DEGELMAN 1446/57 14' 4 WAY BLADE W/EXT HOULE 7300 GAL TANKER SPREADER LANDOLL 6230 26 DISC

COMING/RECENT TRADES

LOOK UP AND ORDER YOUR PARTS ONLINE THRU OUR WEB SITE: www.whitesfarmsupply.com 4154 State Rt. 31, Canastota (315) 697-2214 (800) 633-4443 962 State Rt. 12, Waterville (315) 841-4181 (800) 859-4483 8207 State Rt. 26, Lowville (315) 376-0300 www.whitesfarmsupply.com

FOR SALE OR TRADE: John Deere 2640, w/loader & rollbar, 3pt. hitch, clean; John Deere 2640, 3pt. hitch; Allis Chalmers D14; Farmall 460 diesel, WF, doesn’t run; Farmall M, completely rebuilt, WF; Int. 1066 hydro, needs paint; 856 tractor w/cab, 3pt. hitch.; Int. 1206, needs paint. For more information & pricing 802-758-2396 or email lawtonfamily@gmavt.net

IH DISGUSTED??? With your shifting? Now is the time to fix. Put a good tractor back to work. 800-808-7885, 402-374-2202 JD 444 loader w/clam bucket, good rubber, runs good, has hydraulic leak, reason for selling bigger loader needed. 802-758-2138 JD 8420, 8200, 7920, 7700, 7405, 7210, 5500, 4955, 4560; NH 8560; Ford 8830, TW15. 585-732-1953 JD MoCo 936 discbine, excellent condition $11,900. 518527-2701. JOHN DEERE 420 Tricycle, very good condition, with belt pulley. 315-896-6144

CASE IH 375, 9370, 9330, 8930, 7140, MX135, MX120, JX95, C80. JD & Bush Hog 15’ rotary mowers, excellent. 585-732-1953

HERCULES, CONTINENTAL WAUKESHA: Farm and Industrial Engine Parts, M&M Surplus Sales, P.O. Box 381, Chester, NY 10918. 845-4693597, Fax 845-469-0990.

JOHN DEERE 5720, 4WD, 3 row corn head, kernal processor, $22,500. TC33D New Holland tractor w/loader, 4WD, hydrostatic, 1300 hours, $11,500. 570-966-9893

Farm Machinery For Sale

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Farm Machinery For Sale

MAINE TO NORTH CAROLINA Franchises? Not exactly! Through our partnerships we want to be the largest importer of used FAST front PTO tractors Kverneland Plows & Claas balers in the US! Roll On, Roll Off-Cheaper than you think!

PleasantCreekHay.com Welsarth@Msn.com

FOR SALE

Farm Machinery For Sale

John Deere 71 3pt 2 row planter fertilizer and insecticide box, great shape, numerous seed plates, $1,600; Cole/Tew vegetable seed planter, fertilizer box, great shape, $375; Gravely Walker Rotary plow/brush hog, runs great, $475. North Jersey 609-462-6075

PEOPLE WILL PAY TO HUNT on your land. Earn top $$$ for hunting rights. Call for a FREE quote and info packet toll free 1-866-309-1507 or request at www.BaseCampLeasing.com

TUBELINE automatic inline wrapper, model TL-5500, stored inside, asking $13,500. 228-239-7248

JOHN DEERE 915 flex head, $3,800; Clark DPR30 all terrain 6000# forklift, $4,300. 607-423-6144 JUST PURCHASED: 2001 JD 9550 sidehill, as nice as they get! 3.7% fin. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322

Kennedy Tractor (315) 964-1161 Williamstown, NY “We Deliver”

JD 6220 w/Loader, JD 6400 w/640 Loader, LH Reverse, Very Nice! LH Reverse, Very, Very Nice! $47,500 $32,500

YOU

CAN DRIVE

MILES OR

500

AND YOU WILL

NOT BE DISAPPOINTED IN THESE TRACTORS!

Goodrich Auction Service, Inc.

607-642-3293

2010 JD 8295 R C/A, MFD, 50” rear duals, 38” ft duals, ILS, active seat, leather, only 420 hrs, same as new! Compare at. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $206,000 JD 8410 C/A MFD, 46” duals, 4 remotes, wts frt. & rear, Q-hitch, G. Star ready, 4800 hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $105,000 JD 8130 C/A, MFD, 46” duals, active seat, very fancy tr., looks new! . . . . . $131,000 JD 4020 w/148 ldr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,500 JD 2550 & JD 2555 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! Available Jan. 20th: JD 8320 R C/A MFD, same as new! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! JD 7810 C/A MFD, 3200 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! 2010 Case 275 Mag. C/A MFD, loaded, 145 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $159,500 Case IH MX220 C/A MFD, 46” duals, 3 PTOs, 1870 hrs, sold new in Ohio. . $84,500 (2) Case IH 7140’s C/A MFD, 20x42 duals, 3 remotes, “1 has 2 PTOs”, choice at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $52,500 Available Jan 20th: Case IH 335 & 305, very low hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! New Holland 8360 C/A MFD, 42” rears, 3950 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,500 New Holland TS115A C/A MFD w/loader, 3200 hrs, very nice outfit . . . . . $43,900 New Holland 4630 4x4 w/loader, left hand reverser, 2 remotes . . . . . . . . . $16,900 Ford 4610 w/loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 Ford 7740 canopy, 2 remotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,900 Ford 3000 remotes, nice little tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,900 New Holland DC85 dozer, 6 way, full hydro, wide track, only 2450 orig. hrs, exc. cond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call for details! NH 1411 & 1432 discbines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! NH BR740 silage special w/net wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,500 Good selection of White auto set plows, disc chisel plows, cultimulchers, disk, etc. Call! Buhler Farm King (Allied) Snowblowers 60” $1,979 • 74” $2,754 • 96” $3,564 Skid Steers: JD 313 w/145 hrs., NH LX885 w/1700 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call! Buhler Farm King 72” Q-tach snow blade for skid steer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,875

See us at www.andrewsfarm.com Financing Available, Also Buying Late Model Tractors & Equipment Call Us for Your Spring Equipment Needs Now!

ANDREWS FARM EQ. INC. Conneautville, PA 814-587-2450 or 814-573-3344

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4x4 Kubota L3410 Heated Cab 34HP Dsl, hydro w/new 5’ 3pt snowblower $9,950 package; 4x4 JD 4200 20HP Dsl Hydro w/Heated Cab & JD 72” Belly Mower excellent for mowing & snowblowing $8,950; PTO Generators; 3Pt Snowblowers & front mt. snowpushers; Ford NH 4630 Full Factory Heated Cab 800 hrs, dual outlets, super clean inside & out! $11,500; John Deere 335 Round Baler; MF 85 w/new tires; Pequea 50 Bu (New) Spreader (new list over $3,500) our price $2,950; Quicke 980 Ldr & 7’ Bkt (New) w/mounts to fit MF, Agco & Challenger $4,150; Lots more Tractors & Machinery In Stock

KICKER BALE WAGONS $2,350; 8 & 10 Ton Running Gears, $1,325-$1,500; 20’ Bale Carriers, $2,750. Horst’s Welding, 585-526-5954 NEW HOLLAND 357 grinder mixer, 5 screens, long unloading auger, very nice shape, $6,500 OBO. 518-848-4669

New Skid Loader Attachments, Buckets, Pallet Forks, Manure Forks, Round Bale Grabbers, Bale Spears, Feed Pushers, Adapter Plates, Skid Steer Hitch

MARTIN’S WELDING

315-531-8672

NEW!! TARTER Cattle master heavy duty squeeze chute, $2,200. 845-932-8282 Ask For Todd or Dennis

Farm Machinery For Sale

PULL TYPE 11-shank chisel plow, $1,500; WHITE 252 disc, 14’, nice, $2,850; Yatter 6x30 cultivator, hardly used, $950. Mike Franklin, 607-7493424 SAVE 40-60% on new aftermarket combine & tractor parts. Buy from my store or website: www.zeisloftequip.com 800919-3322 SKID LOADER BUCKETS Universal, snow & litter, 66” $485; 72” $540; 78” $595; 84” $650. New & used parts for skid loaders. Fingerlakes Skid Loader Repair, 315-536-0268

Smiley’s Farm & Ind Equipment Excavator, $12,500; Case 450 Dozer, $8,500; JD 350C Dozer, $11,500; White 4x4 ldrhoe, $9,500; Case ldrhoe, $6,000. JD 4630, nice, $12,500; JD tractor & ldr, compact, $10,500; Hesston 4x4 & cab, $7,500; White 4x4 w/cab, 135hp, nice, $12,500; Int. 4x4, $10,500; David Brown, $3,500; new dump trailer, $5,000; 9 ton trailer, $1,500; Baler, $2,000; Round Baler $1,500; Corn Picker, $1,500; Corn & Flail Choppers, $1,200 up; ‘08 Dodge 4x4 pickup, $16,500; ‘99 Ford pickup, $2,000; IH dsl dump truck, $2,500; Brush Hogs, Discs, Harrows, Plows & more. Buying Machines Dead or Alive

518-634-2310 Steiger PT310 IHC 1066 IHC 656 Diesel IHC 2350 Loader Double 8 Surge Parlor, Complete • Girton 3000 Gallon Bulk Tank

USED Cardinal 86’ grain elevator, $2,500; Also, M.C. 675 grain dryer, $2,500; 716-2137843

USED COMBINE PA R T S K & J SURPLUS LANSING, NY 607-279-6232 Days 607-533-4850 Nights

WANTED

Massey Ferguson 165, 175, 265, 275, 285 Any Condition

814-793-4293 WANTED: Same Tractor, 130hp and above, 1968 Saab, 2 door, working condition. Call 518-673-5894

Farm Machinery Wanted

WANTED

John Deere 5460, 5820, or 5830 Choppers

814-793-4293

Looking for a 2 row or 4 row no-till corn planter to rent for a few acres in the area of Houghton New York. 717442-9451 WANTED TO BUY: Used farm & construction equipment, running or not. Early or late models. Will 315-777-2357 WANTED: 2 row potato planter; also Allis Chalmers farm implements. 315-6779511 WANTED: Corn stalk shredder & Kinze corn planter, 8x30”, dry fertilizer. 315-7947316

WANT TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD? CALL: 1-800836-2888

GLENCO 17-shank chisel plow, MF 4880; Also, pair of 30.5x32 RNC tires. 716-2137843

WANTED: Goat driving harness in good condition. 315730-6539

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

• • • • •

315-521-2552 Farm Machinery For Sale

Charles McCarthy Farm Machinery TRACTORS • FARM MACHINERY • UTILITY TRAILERS

BUY ~ SELL ~ TRADE PH: 570-869-1551 Cell: 607-759-4646 4698 ST. RT. 3004

TUBELINE bale wrapper, 2008, model # TL5500, automatic, round or square bales, remote control, twin wrap, $18,000. 315-856-0032

Farm Machinery Wanted

570-833-5214 MESHOPPEN, PA 18630

Pat O’Brien & Sons For all your feed needs! • Steam Flaked Corn • Protein Mixes

• Corn Meal • Minerals

• Energy Mixes • Nutritional Services

Pick-up or Delivery from our Geneva Feed Mill

We Buy All Grains! Call Pat @ 716-992-1111

Grain Roasting On Your Far m

Soybeans • Corn Barley • Wheat

Waterville Grain Roasting Oneida Co., NY

315-534-8948

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1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Custom Roasting and Cooling Your Soybeans,Corn, etc. At Your Farm or Mill Serving All of NY State

WEILER’S GRAIN ROASTING

Fencing LOCUST POSTS, POLES, Split Rails, 6x6’s, 4x4’s. Other hardwood & softwood boards and planks, custom cut. Also lots, land cleared, woodlots wanted. 518-883-8284

Fertilizer & Fertilizer Spreading

AG LIME HI-MAG

3 0 To n M i n i mu m Spreader & Spreading Available Large Quantity Discount ALSO BEDDING SAND & CHICKEN MANURE

Call 800-836-2888 to place your classified ad.

www.NaplesDistributors.com

Fencing

Generators

“Miles of Quality Start Here”

• High Tensile • Split Rail • Misc. Types of Fence • Energizers • Fencing Supplies

• Livestock Feeds • Ration Balancing • SeedWay Seeds • Crystalyx Products

4097 Rt. 34B, Union Springs, NY 13160 RUSTIN WILSON (315) 364-5240

Buying Corn, Feed Wheat & Oats Romulus, NY 14541

MIRACO HEATED WATERERS

ALL L SIZES S AND D STYLES

Fencing ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLLER REPAIRS. Factory authorized warranty center for Zereba, ParMak, many others. No charge for estimates. Quick turn-around time. Send or bring to our shop, any make, any model. 518-284-2180

Fencing

IN N STOCK!

We Also Carry Posts, Gates & More

2033 Brothertown Rd., Deansboro, NY 13328

315-841-4910

Hrs.: Mon.-Fri. 8am-4pm; Saturday By Appointment

www.williamsfarmfence.com m • williamsfence@gmail.com

Improve Your Farm Efficiency

Financial Services

WINPOWER heavy duty generator w/trailer, surge 18,000, used 4 times, excellent condition. 607-397-9223

15’ grain bin w/drying floor, $2,500; 18’ grain bin w/drying floor, $3,500. Both torn down. 570-966-9893 NEW AND USED Grain Dryers: GT, MC, GSI. Call anytime toll free 1-877-422-0927

Hay - Straw For Sale

STANTON BROTHERS 10 Ton Minimum Limited Availability

518-768-2344 Financial Services

Cyclops Energizers

BOARD • VINYL • WOVEN WIRE • HI TENSILE Serving The Northeast

E&A Fence LLC 518-993-5177

771 St. Hwy 163, Fort Plain, NY

A N MARTIN GRAIN SYSTEMS 315-923-9118

Clyde, NY

WE SPECIALIZE IN • Sukup Grain Bins • Dryers • Grain Legs • Custom Mill Righting

• Hopper Feed Bins • Transport Augers • Crane Service • Dryer Service

MOELLER SALES 1-800-346-2348

Quali Guara ty nteed

Made in USA

Grain Handling Equip. Bins & Dryers

NOBODY beats our prices on Voltmaster PTO Alternators, Sizes 12kw-75kw. Engines Sets and Portables Available.

ALL TYPES OF FENCES

Heavy Duty Galvanized Gates

Grain Handling Equip. Bins & Dryers

(888) 223-8608

Grain Handling Equip. Bins & Dryers

(315)) 549-82266 RED CLOVER SEED for sale, $70.00 per bushel or $1.20 per pound. 315-536-8675

Sizes S, M, L, XL, 2X, & 3X

Naples Distributors

Empire Farm Fence & Supply

YOUR SOURCE FOR:

TINGLEY

• Hi-Top Work Rubbers* #1300 - $17.00/pr • 10” Closure Boots* #1400 - $22.00/pr • 17” Knee Boots #1500 - $26.00/pr

Call T J Allen 315-845-6777 315-868-2438

Fencing

(315) 549-7081

For Sale

For Rent or Lease

Hay - Straw For Sale

FOR LEASE: Organic dairy farm in Central NY, 3 bedroom house with 40 stall barn with pens for calves, 32 acres of pasture. Please call for details. 315-893-7616

1st & 2nd cut baleage. 1st cut dry. 4’x4’6” round bales. Mixed grass hay. Walton,NY 607865-6888 leave message. 1st & 2nd cutting alfalfa timothy & grass, small squares & large square bales, also round bales. Stored inside. 518-9293480, 518-329-1321

Hay - Straw For Sale

1st CUT Wrapped Round bales, $35.00/bale; 1st cut square bales, $3.75 each. Manchester,VT 802-362-3454

DRY HAY: Several grades & quality levels available for horse, cow, sheep & goat. Large square, barn stored, no rained-on hay. Also, straw available. Pick up or deliver. Free loading. Fox Valley Vail Farms 518-872-1811

1st CUTTING square bales; 4x5 wrapped 1st cutting silage bales. All good quality. Roscoe,NY 607-498-5812 284 HEAVY Inside barn round bales, 4x5, $35.00 each. 80 bales outside hay, 4x5, covered w/plastic, asking $30.00 each. 518-966-4192 3x3x8 SECOND CUTTING grass hay, reed canary timothy mix, $225/ton. Pulaski,NY 315-651-2265 4x4 BALEAGE, $35.00/bale. 607-965-8184

Call 888-596-5329 for Your Subscription

FOR SALE All Grades Hay & Straw Horse & Dairy Quality Bagged Shavings & Sawdust

WILL DELIVER

BALEAGE 1600 lbs. plus alfalfa grass: 6 bales 2nd cutting, $50.00/bale; 9 bales 3rd cutting, $55.00/bale. 315-6779391

ROBERT ROLLE

Hay - Straw For Sale

(518) 234-4052

Looking for Long Term Customers Wheat Straw, Grass Hay, Mixes and Alfalfa available in large square bales. FULL TRAILER LOADS ONLY

Call Nick 845-901-1892 Miriam 800-747-3811 or visit adenbrook.com

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Hay - Straw For Sale

Hay - Straw Wanted

GOOD QUALITY hay & straw. Large Square Bales. Will load or ship direct. 802-849-6266, HAY SAVER Plus Hay Preservative, 68% Propionic Acid. 87¢ per pound. Product available in Waterloo, NY. Delivery Available. Conoy Ag, Elizabethtown, PA 717-367-5078

Heating

Help Wanted

Hoof Trimming

Parts

CENTRAL BOILER EClassic OUTDOOR FURNACES. Cleaner and Greener. 97% Efficient. EPA Qualified. Call North Creek Heat 315-8663698

WANTED: Ag Service Tech

DAN & JEN WILLIAMS HOOF TRIMMING • 28 Years Experience • VET RECOMMENDED • 607-591-0885

Badger Farm Parts, Wic, Miller, Miraco, Ideal & Honda Parts.

Cazenovia Equipment Company, a premier John Deere Dealer is looking for experienced service technicians to join our team in any of our eleven locations in New York.

DON’S HOOF TRIMMING: Maintain herd health. Sore feet a specialty. Vet recommended. Quality, experience, will travel. 518-6732577 leave message.

The right candidate has strong mechanical skills, understands the performance of farm equipment and implements applications.

J&S LEONARD HOOF TRIMMING. 20 Years of Experience. Sore Feet - My Specialty. 607-264-8004

BRAND NEW Outside Central Boiler wood stove CL-5036, burns green or dry wood, $6,800/Firm. 607-498-6093

H AY

Central Boiler E-Classic OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE. Buy NOW and save up to $1500! The next generation of cleaner wood furnaces has arrived. 97% Efficient. Call Today Border Drive Heating/Royal Stoves 570537-2447

Farmer to Farmer Wet and Dry

Round & Square Bales

1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut Hay Also Square Bales of

STRAW CALL STEVE

519-482-5365 HAYLAGE BALES & dry round bales. 700 bales baleage, 400 bales dry hay. Mulch/bedding round bales available. Albany,NY area. James Frueh, 518-436-1050

Technicians have access to state-of-the-art computer diagnostic information, John Deere education programs, as well as performance incentive programs.

WANTED

Hay & Straw - All Types We Pick Up & Pay Cell 717-222-2304 Buyers & Sellers

Cazenovia Equipment offers competitive compensation package, 401K retirement program, employee discount, personal leave days many group employee benefits.

WANTED

Pre Cut Rye Straw 50 to 75 Lb. Bales

302-737-5117 302-545-1000 WANTED: 1st & 2nd cut big & small squares. 315-363-9105

Help Wanted

ONTARIO DAIRY HAY & STRAW

Quality Alfalfa Grass Mix Lg. Sq. - 1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut

ALSO CERTIFIED ORGANIC Low Potassium for Dry Cows

Call for Competitive Prices NEEB AGRI-PRODUCTS

519-529-1141

TOO MUCH HAY? Try Selling It In The

CLASSIFIEDS Call Peg At

800-836-2888 or email

classified@leepub.com Hay - Straw Wanted

ALWAYS WANTED TIMOTHY MIXED HAY ALFALFA MIXED HAY 1st, 2nd & 3rd Cuttings Also Small Square Mulch

Call 4M FARMS 315-684-7570 • 315-559-3378

The job requires computer knowledge and good communication skills. John Deere equipment repair knowledge and experience is a plus.

CENTRAL BOILER E-Classic OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACES. Cleaner and Greener. 97% Efficient. EPA Qualified. Call today Halloran Farm 845-482-5208.

Help Wanted

Organic Valley is looking for an East Region Pool Coordinator Recruitment & producer support of dairy producers/members in PA and MD.Work with other regional support & procurement team members in the region. Dairy/livestock experience required. Knowledge of Organic standards preferred. Visit www.organicvalley.coop or call 608-625-3314 for more info and how to apply.

We are offering an excellent opportunity to join the service team of the most progressive milking equipment dealership in the East and an exciting career in the #1 industry in PA. Become a part of our professional, innovative milking equipment service team. We are looking for an individual who is self motivated, and technically skilled in milking equipment repair. Must have electrical and refrigeration experience. Excellent salary, company vehicle, paid vacations, holidays, and retirement plan. Please email resumes to fondar@lancasterdairy.com

DAIR Y BARN SUPPORT ASSISTANT Full time state job with full benefits: Student instruction, milking, cleaning and bedding, feeding and care of calves and dairy herd. For full details and application, please go to: http://www.cobleskill.edu/about/ administrative-offices/human-resources/ current-openings.asp

SUNY Cobleskill is an AA/EEO employer.

Horse Equipment FOR SALE: Antique Doctor’s buggy, made in Mifflinburg, PA, good condition. Accepting bids. 315-730-6539 PIONEER FORE CART with shafts, heavy sleigh - runners only. 315-778-7141

Lowville Sport & Farm Equipment

Call 315-376-3329

NEW, USED & RECONDITIONED PARTS FOR CONSTRUCTION & AGRICULTURE Case-JD-IHC Crawlers Case-JD-Ford-IHC TLB’s Case-JD-Wheel Loaders Skid Loader Parts SPECIAL: MultiKey Construction Sets $45

GOODRICH TRACTOR PARTS

Rt. 38 & 38B, Newark Valley, NY

607-642-3293

Poultry & Rabbits

Horses TEAM OF REGISTERED Haflingers, gelding 14.3H 2/27/06, mare 14.1H 4/9/07. Drives, traffic don’t bother, easy to handle. 607-745-9992

Cornish Cross Broilers & Colored Broilers (7 Meat Varieties)

WANTED: Horses for farm use, not pony sized; Also 410 Shotgun. 518-993-2388 Leave Message.

Extremely hearty & perfect for free range Layer Chicks, Turkeys Ducklings, Guineas, Much More

Fax Resume to (315) 655-8433 Email Resume: jobs@cazequip.com

Lumber & Wood Products

www.myerspoultry.com

www.cazenoviaequipment.com

BAILLIE LUMBER CO. buys all species of hardwood veneer logs, sawlogs and standing timber year round. IMMEDIATE LOCAL PAYMENT AND TRUCKING AVAILABLE. Please call for an updated price and spec sheet today! Smyrna Sawmill 607-627-6547. Mark Mowrey 315-796-6644; Phil Day 315436-2766; Jonathan DeSantis 315-882-8174; Sean Karn 315-436-3588. Boonville Sawmill 315-942-5284. Dave Prezyna 315-436-5329; Paul Snider 315-827-4062 (home) or 315-436-0949 (cell); Tom King 315-436-0936; Lukas Myers 315-263-6909.

Apply now...

Experienced Cheese Maker

Established, well equipped grass-based sheep dairy in Cazenovia, NY producing on-farm artisanal yogurts and award winning cheeses seeks experienced head cheese maker starting April 2012. Commercial acumen and marketing experience a plus. Send resume to resumes@meadowoodfarms.com

(814) 539-7026

Poultry Goslings, ducklings, chicks, turkeys, guineas, bantams, pheasants, chukars, books, medications.

Clearview Hatchery PO Box 399 Gratz, PA 17030

(717) 365-3234

Maple Syrup Supplies

HERDSMAN WANTED For modern 350 cow dairy in northern Vermont. Slatted floors, double 10 parlor, sort gate, auto ID, computer. We’ve got it all except the right person. Minimum of 2 years recent experience on large dairy farm required as well as skills in hoof trimming, AI, Spanish and computer literacy; advanced education such as college is a plus. Competitive salary and housing. Livestock equity is a possibility. References required. Are you the person who can make things happen? Send resume and references to

farm1850s@yahoo.com

2000 TAP SUGARBUSH line wants to sell raw sap. Andes,NY 845-676-4501

Maple Syrup Supplies

SHAW’S MAPLE PRODUCTS 7945 Maxwell Rd. • Clinton, NY 13323

Home/Fax: 315-835-7798 Email: info@shawsmapleproducts.com www.shawsmapleproducts.com

Curt Shaw Cell: 315-725-6512

Carol Shaw Cell: 315-725-0547

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Real Estate For Sale

CHRISTMAS TREE FARM and split level house. Unique entrepreneurial opportunity, earn a second income, fourth bedroom off family room and office, large closets and pristine floors, open kitchen atmosphere, 2½ baths. Bloomfield,CT 860-989-2783

SUMMIT, NY: Lakefront 5 acre farmette. Newly renovated home. Large garage and storage barn. Meadows and woods. Picturesque country setting. $149,000. Call BrokerAlton Makely, (518)-231-0304

Real Estate For Sale

Northern New York 310 Ac., 150 tillable, balance pasture & woods, 114 tie stall loose housing heifer barn & calf facilities, 3 upright silos, 4 bedroom farmhouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $295,000 101 Ac., 80 tillable, 64 cow barn w/ heifer barn, 3 silos, machine shed, 100% remodeled house w/ 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, new interior & exterior, in "like new" condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250,000 Purchase feed or horse farm, 28 ac., 40 stalls, pipeline, etc. heifer facilities, machine shed, storage barn, 3 bedroom remodeled home . . . . . $115,000 We have others! Also, looking for listings.

North h Countryy Realtyy

Malone,, NY Y • 518-483-0800 Real Estatewww.northcountryrealty.com For Sale Real Estate For Sale

Van Billings Real Estate, LLC Van Billings, Broker/Owner 14 S. Main St., Dolgeville, NY 13329

315-429-0300

www.vanbillingsrealestate.com

Want To Sell Your Farm or Land? Call Van!

HELP WANTED

Active farm real estate broker seeks person with extensive farming experience to handle farm sales in Madison County and nearby areas. Must have real estate license or be willing to get one. Phone Van Billings @ 315-429-0300

FARMS

NEEDED: 100-300 Acres Tillable

MADISON COUNTY - LEBANON - EATON - EARLVILLE

QUALITY BUYER WILL PAY MY COMMISSION

Manheim - 42 Acres - $135,000 Barn on about 42 acres with apartment built into barn. Includes the business of Zook’s storage shed, lawn furniture and food goods, but does not include the inventory. Excellent main roadbusiness site.

Manheim - 83 Acres - $440,000 Vintage brick farmhouse fully restored with beautiful floors and trim, keeping the original look, yet with a modern kitchen and baths.The main house has 3200 sq ft including 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. There is a 1 bedroom, 1800 sq ft apartment with a huge great room, amazing fireplace and wonderful views. Could be used as a 2 family or in law apartment. Set on 83 magnificent acres of useable farmland this property is ideal for horses or a small sustainable farming operation. There is an old barn and two modern steel barns. The Morton pole barn, 40X80 has water and electricity. Part of a larger parcel, taxes to be determined.

Oppenheim - 37.1 Acres - $110,000 Beautiful old multi-level barn would make an excellent home. A drilled well, 2 septics and electricity already on the property. 37.1 acres of nice farmland, great hayfields, beautiful and magnificent distant views all makes a perfect spot for a retreat.

Minden - 81.6 Acres - $299,900 Superb Horse Farm - 36x96 Morton Building with 8 gorgeous stalls. Plus old dairy barn, turn out sheds, equipment shed, pond, all fenced. Remarkable post and beam passive solar design on home with very open floor plan. Spectacular private setting at end of road. Any offer is subject to court and bank approval.

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www.demereerealty.com • demeree@ntcnet.com #501 Outstanding “dairy of distinction” farm w/500 acres, COULD BE A GREAT GRAIN, 360 tillable, 70 pasture & 68 woods - like-new 2 story barn w/130 tie stalls & gravity flow to manure pit - 3 yr. old free stall heifer barn w/113 stalls - also 14 stall dry cow barn - 2000 gal. B.T. & 2” pipeline - new 30x40 ft. heated workshop - 22x20 ft. grain dryer - 2 26x20 ft. metal grain bins - 2 25x70 & 2 12x90 ft. bunk silos, 20x70 & 20x60 ft. Harvestore silos - extra nice 2 story home with 9 rms. - also 2nd home w/6 six rms. & a small tenant house - 2 wells & 6 ponds - farm borders Rte. I-88 South of Albany priced to sell @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,100,000. COWS & MACHINERY AVAIL. #72 - 241 ACRES on PARKHURST RD. Near MIDDLEVILLE, HERKIMER COUNTY, NY - 120 acres tillable - 30 acres of woods and 90 acres pasture - great views in all directions - not far from the WEST CANADA CREEK - A GREAT BUY FOR .$350,000 #16 - CERTIFIED ORGANIC - 175 ACRES NEAR LITTLE FALLS WITH ACREAGE ON BOTH SIDES OF ROUTE 5S - 90 acres tillable the rest woods and a pond - has great views of the MOHAWK VALLEY. It is located one mile from the AMISH SALE BARN THAT HAS AN AUCTION AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. . . . . . Asking $350,000 #67 - Very quiet, private location 3 miles from Little Falls, NY with 46 A., 14 tillable, 30 pasture - great hobby farm - 9 room farmhouse in good condition has combination oil/wood hot water heat, a clean & comfortable home - also like-new double-wide with 6 rooms, 2 decks, 1 porch, above ground pool, work shop with electric, dependable year-round creek, drilled well & 2 springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .all for $198,000 C-74 - Dairy farm with 320 A. - 500 Jersey size free stalls; set up for a grazing operation, 40 paddocks including laneways and water system; 16 unit Swing Parlor w/4000 gal. tank; additional 2 story 100 tie-stall barn, lg. Morton bldg. w/lg. doors and shop area; 100+ yr. old 2 story farmhouse w/6 BR, 2 full baths. Ideal heifer raising operation w/main road access - stream runs through property, one pond . . . .Asking $975,000 C-71 - Well-kept 50A. Hobby Farm, recently surveyed; 5A. woods, remainder tillable; 25x56 modular home on slab, 3BR, 2 full baths, central air, new steel roof; drilled well. 28x52 ban used for hay storage; 40x60 heated shop w/two 12’ overhead doors w/openers; 14x32 pole bldg. addition w/overhead doors; 28x38 open pole shed; 14x28 shed w/overhead door; 22x26 storage bldg. This property has A SPECIAL USE VARIANCE PERMIT (Agricultural or Commercial) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Asking $299,000

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22566 - Madisonn Countyy Freee stalll Operation. 210 acres 160 acres of very productive tillable land. With additional land to rent. 2 barns with 280 free stalls. Double 10 rapid exit parlor. Large concrete pad for feed storage. Good 2 story 5 bedroom home with 2 baths. Several custom operators in the area for harvesting and planting feed. This farm is turnkey, ready to milk. Good farming area, agricultural and machinery businesses all close by . . . . . . . 50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Askingg $55 Makee ann offer.

22799 - Madisonn County, Near Brookfield State Lands. Good little buy on a good little farm. 18 surveyed acres mostly tillable. Beautiful year round trout stream. 2 story barn with 50 stalls. Milking equipment still intact. Patz barn cleaner. Good 40x80 machinery building. Additional older 2 story barn with side addition for storage. Remodeled 2 story home. Good 2 car garage. Farm is close to the beautiful Brookfield State Forest and the Equine trail system with over 300 miles of trails for riding horses. Close to snow mobile and ATV trails, great hunting and fishing. Nice little farm to raise a few horses or beef. Farm is reasonably priced to sell . . . . .Askingg $140,000 Ownerr wouldd considerr fairr offer.

23022 - Otsegoo Countyy Freee stalll Operation. Buildings for 300 head. Double 8 milking parlor, 3,000 gallon bulk tank, large concrete pad for feed storage. Good 2 story 4 bdrm home. All situated on 70 acres of land w/40+/- acres tillable, gravel loem soils w/lots of additional land to rent reasonable. Great location. Mins from Cooperstown or Oneonta. Farm would work well for dairy although buildings are conducive for horses and beef. Farm has 2 trout streams. Excellent deer and turkey hunting. Nice area to live and farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pricedd too selll Askingg $245,000

22755 - Makee uss ann offer! Madison County Gentleman's Farm. 190+/- acres. 60 well drained high lime tillable acres. Balance woods and pasture. 2 large machinery buildings. 50x70 loose housing livestock barn. Also an older 72x175 Free stall barn. Good completely remodeled 2 story Victorian home. House is ready to go for two families but could easily be changed to one 5 bedroom home. Farm has a great location, 25 mins to Syracuse. Beef, horses, or gentleman farming. Farm has been reasonably priced to sell m $300,0000 too $275,000. . . . . . . . . . . . .Pricee Reducedd from

22911 - Drasticallyy Reducedd - Otsego County Gentleman's Farm New Home and Buildings. Spectacular views. Mins to Cooperstown, NY. 93 acres located on a quiet road w/30 tillable acres all in hay. 15 acres of pasture, balance woods. Lots of deer & turkey. Nice modern 2 story 4 bdrm home. 52x60 pole barn w/partial concrete floor would work well for horses, livestock, machinery storage. 20x40 horse barn. Home & buildings sit well off of quiet road . . . m $440,0000 too $395,0000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reducedd from Ownerss aree lookingg forr a fairr offeer.

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JAN 20-22 NOFA-NY Annual Conference: The Cooperative Economy Saratoga Hilton & City Center, Saratoga Springs, NY. Contact Katie Nagle-Caraluzzo, 585-271-1979 ext. 512 or e-mail register@ nofany.org. JAN 21 Lewis County Maple School CCE Lewis County, 5274 Outer Stowe St., Lowville, NY. Call 315-376-5270 or email mel14@cornell.edu. NY Jr Beef Producers Semen Auction NY Beef Producer’s Conference, Syracuse, NY. Contact James Held, 716-983-6184 or jheld213@aol.com, or Mike Shanahan 518-5988869 or mike@cattlepromo tions.com. JAN 22 12th Annual Eastern Regional Draft Horse Association Sleigh Rally Classic Carriage Service, 225 County Highway 131A, Johnstown, NY. The event will begin at 10:30 am with horse show classes. (Currier & Ives, Sleigh Dog, Reinsmanship, Obstacle). Free sleigh rides will be offered to the public from 12 noon until 3 pm. A concession stand will be provided by the Rusty Bits 4-H club. Mother Nature has yet to provide us with snow. If snow is lacking on the 22nd, then it will be a “Wagon Rally,” wagons will be used instead of sleighs. The alternate date in case of bad weather or extreme cold is Sun., Jan. 29. Call 518762-6749. JAN 22-24 The National Mastitis Council (NMC) 51st Annual Meeting TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, 5500 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete Beach, FL. For dairy professionals from around the world to exchange current information on udder health, mastitis control, milking management and milk quality. Call 727-3676461. On Internet at www.nmconline.org JAN 23-25 Organic Farming • Jan.23 - Freds Inne, 5149 State Hwy 12, Norwich, NY • Jan. 24 - Millys Pantry, 19 Main St., Penn Yan, NY • Jan. 25 - Maggies on the River, 500 Newell St., Watertown, NY 10 am to 3 pm. Lunch and refreshments provided. Contact Hardy, 608-479-1200 (cell) or 315-823-1305 (home office). JAN 23-26 2012 Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo Oncenter Convention Center & Holiday Inn Syracuse, NY Liverpool Exit 37. Program includes sessions on business labor and management, boosting workforce productivity, direct marketing, potatoes, onions, processing vegetables, sweet corn, vine crops, specialty vegetable

crops, tree and small fruits, cover crops and soil health, trickle irrigation, greenhouse/tunnel vegetables and more. On Internet at www.nysvga.org JAN 25-26 Northeast Pasture Consortium Annual Meeting Century House Hotel & Conference Center, Route 9, Latham, NY (Albany County). This year’s sessions will cover nutrient management on pastures, conservation benefits of pasture, grass species and varieties grazing trials, organic methods for seeding and managing pastures, silvopasture techniques and more. Contact Jim Cropper, e-mail jbcropper@yahoo.com. On Internet at www.grazing guide.net JAN 24 Beginning Maple Progduction Workshop Sherburne Fire Hall, 15 West State St., Sherburne, NY. The meal starts at 5:30 pm and the program is 6-8:30 pm. The cost for the program and the pancake dinner is $15 for the first person and $7 for each additional family member. Please pre-register and pre-pay by Jan. 20. Call for more information or send your payment to CCE Chenango, 99 N Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815. Contact CCE, 607-334-5841. Manure Management Workshops Canton High School Room 122/123, Bradford Co., PA. 6:30 pm all sessions. Contact Bradford County Conservation District, 570-2655539 ext. 6. JAN 25 Workshop for Rural Landowners Farm Credit East, Route 29 west of the village of Greenwich, NY. 6:30-8:30 pm. This program is free. Please register by visiting ASA’s website at www.agstewardship.org or call the ASA office at 518692-7285. JAN 25-26 Northeast Pasture Consortium (NEPC) Annual Meeting Century House Hotel & Conference Center, Latham, NY. Topics are nutrient management, silvopasture, results from grazing trials and more.. Contact Becky Casteel, 304-293-2565 or e-mail becky.casteel@mail.wvu.edu JAN 26 - FEB 23 4-H Veterinary Science Program SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY. 6:30-8 pm. Participation is limited to 24 youth aged 14 to 19. The registration fee is $20 for enrolled 4-H members or $30 for non-4-H members, which is due with program registration. Registrations will be received on a paid, first come first served basis. Contact Jenny Lang, 845-340-3990 ext. 313. JAN 26, FEB 23 & MAR 29 Sustainable Cortland’s Soup and Sustenance Winter Reading Series The Beard Building, 9 Main St., Cortland, NY. 6-8 pm. Soup and bread provided. Contact Sara Watrous, sus tainablecortland@gmail.com JAN 27 Clinton County Maple School 157 Bear Cub Lane, Lake

Placid, NY. Contact Mike Farrell, 518-523-9337 or email mlf36@cornell.edu. JAN 27 & 28 4th Annual Winter Greenup Grazing Conference Century House Hotel & Conference Center, Route 9, Latham, NY. This year’s conference will feature speakers on Wye Angus genetics, grazing behavior, branding your farm’s products, leasing land to graze, extending the grazing season and more. Contact Lisa Cox, 518-765-3512.

JAN 28 4-H On Target Day Cornell Cooperative Extension - Albany Co., 24 Martin Rd., Voorheesville, NY. 10 am - 1 pm. Youth 10 years and older are invited to participate. There is a participation fee of $5 for 4-H members and $10 for non-members. Pre-registration is required no later than Fri., Jan. 20. Contact Eileen DePaula, 518-765-3500 or e-mail emd32@cornell.edu. Maple Expo St. Lawrence County. Call 315-379-9192.

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Compimentary Breakfast from 8-9 A.M. This is an early list, more being added Every day!

LOCATION - From Rt. 81, 35 miles south of Syracuse; take Exit 10 to Rt. 11, then 1 mile north to the sale site (27+) Excavators 2009 Komatsu PC300 LCS, 1900 Hrs, Coupler; 2009 Komatsu PC 220 1700 Hrs, Coupler; Cat 312 w/thumb, plumbed; Komatsu PC 150 w/Thumb; Link Belt 2700, Clean; Yanmar Vi035 Mini Excavator; 2007 NH E275R Mini Excavator; NH EC45 w/cab, 600hrs; NH EH30B, 2060 hrs; 2007 JCB 8035 ZTS, 621 hrs; Airmann AX500; Case Cruz-air 1050B, 5' ditching bucket, boom extensions; Andy Partis Estate: Very clean equipment 287 Cat track Skid Steer; Cat D5G XL 6 way dozer; Cat CS433 vibratory roller; 2000 Sterling tri axle aluminum dump truck; Walk behind concrete saw; Several tampers; Skid Steer loader post hole digger; Power trowels; Jack hammers; Concrete blankets;

Portable welder; Large quantity Simons concrete forms; 20 ton airbrake tag trailer; Skid steer loader trailer; (2) Cargo enclosed trailers; Hot water power washer; Large supply of trade tools (22+) Dozers Cat D6H; Cat D5C; Cat D6C; JD 650G LT; JD 550 H LT; Case 550 G, 6way w/ root rake (23+) Loaders/Telehandlers/backhoes JD 510 tractor/backhoe; Ford 455C backhoe, 14' boom, 18" bucket; Case 686G XR telehandler 6000lbs; Skytrack 804Z telehandler 8000lb; Cat 924G High reach loader w/BKT & forks; Clark 75B loader; Case W20B loader w/ GP Bucket; Balderson side dump bucket, 2 yd (43+) Skid Steer Loaders and attachments Bobcat T300 Track; Bobcat 852 LT; Bobcat 853, 4000 hrs; NH LS 180; NH LS 170; NH LS170; (2) LOWE skid steer loader auger; JD 24A; Case 420; GEHL 3625; Bobcat 773; Gehl 4635; NH 60B Rockhound, 60"; Skid steer loader grabble bucket; (2) 48" skid steer pallet forks; 66" brush grapple bucket with hoses; 66" grapple bucket with hoses; Fabtech skid steer backhoe attachment (34+) Construction Equipment JD 648D Grapple log skidder; 2002 Hypac 830, 66" vibratory roller; Bomag 56" vibratory pad foot roller; IR SD70 66" Drum drive vibratory roller; Stone 54" dirt vibratory roller, diesel; Ingersoll Rand walk behind 24" roller; Stone 36" blacktop roller, Honda engine; Stone 4000 blacktop vibratory roller, no engine; Case Trencher, 5' boom, 8" rock and dirt chain; 2007 Vermeer RT200 self propelled walk behind trencher; Ditch witch 1420 walk behind trencher, 4' boom, rock and dirt chain; 2001 Skyjack, 4WD, 52' boom lift, 5' basket; 2005 Haulotte 2747E scissor lift, 33' work height; (56+) Farm tractors JD 8650 w/pto and 3pt hitch, new tires, new motor; JD 7820 4WD w/cab and 746 loader; JD 5203 4WD, w/JD 522 LDR; JD 2955, 2x4, w/cab, 6414 hrs; JD 2950, 2x4, 8686 hrs; JD 2030 2X4; JD 830 2x4, 4892 hrs; JD 301; Kubota L4310HST 4WD w/loader; Kubota M105 4WD w/cab and loader; Kubota L4630

1st Annual WNY Farm Show *Virtual Auction Tractors, ATV’s, Farm tools, Trailers and more! 3:30 pm, February 3, 2012 Hamburg Fairgrounds, NY Notice: We are pleased to announce the first annual virtual auction held in conjunction with the WNY Farm Show. We will have many pieces onsite as well as several offsite, to be sold by pictures. Selling: Tractors, farm equipment, vehicles, trailers, ATV’s and much more. As the auction gets closer check the website for full listing and pictures. Online bidding will be available for all items through our website. *Virtual auctions are the same as live auctions, except that many items up for auction will be sold via pictures.

4WD w/loader; Kubota M4700SD 4WD w/loader; Case IH 5140 4wd w/cab/air/heat; Case 1594 4WD; Case 5120 2x4, 5200 hrs; NH 8160 4WD w/cab; NH 3930 w/blade, 642 hrs; White 2-70, 2x4, 4895 hrs; Allis Chalmers 7000, 2x4, 5992 hrs; MF 4824 4WD w/ cab/AC- New; MF 135 w/loader; MF 135 w/loader, 3150 hrs; MF 50L w/loader; Ford 3600; Ford 8N 2x4; AGCO 5660 4x4 w/loader, 286 hrs; Farmall 200; MF loader attachment; Buhler 696 loader attachment; (36+) Compact Tractors JD 4520 4x4 w/ldr 400 hrs; JD 4310 w/ldr 900 hrs; JD 4100 diesel, hydro, 4x4, 60" deck, snowblower; JD 855 diesel, hydro, 4x4, tractor, loader, backhoe; JD 3032E 4x4 w/loader, 84hrs; 2003 JD 4210 Tractor/Loader/backhoe w/belly mower, 1704 hrs; Earth Force EF4 4x4x4 ldr-backhoe 1200 hrs; Kubota 7300 4x4 w/belly mower; Kubota BX2200 4x4 w/loader; Kubota B7100 w/blade, 1373 hrs; 2007 Kubota L48 tractor/loader/backhoe; 1996 Kubota L300DT 4WD w/loader; Kubota BX23 Tractor/loader/backhoe; Kubota B7400 w/LA272 loader; Ford 1910; NH TZ25 tractor w/loader; Yanmar 4x4 w/loader, backhoe; 2009 Challenger MT275, 285 hrs; Ringo 3000 4WD; Kioti LB1914 4WD; (200+) Farm machinery JD 7720 2WD combine, 2500 hrs; JD 5730 harvester w/ 664 corn head & 630 hay head; NH 790 chopper w/corn head; NH forage box; TMR mixer wagon w/scale; Knight mixer wagon; Knight 3042 Reel Auggie Mixer; Oswalt D500 mixer wagon; NH grinder/mixer; NH 305 manure spreader; NH 135 manure spreader w/new sides; Gehl scavenger 1329 manure spreader; 275 Hydra spread manure spreader; 2007 Claas Quadrant 2100 big square baler, new; 2003 Claas Quadrant 1150RC big square baler; Case IH 5420 square baler; NH 273 square baler; Claas 46 round baler; (2) Hesston 530 round baler; JD 457 round baler; NH round baler; NH 648 round baler; Krone 130 round baler; JD Kicker; Case IH 8650 bale processor; (5) hay wagons; Kidd round bale chopper; 2010 NH 1411 discbine; Kuhn FC300 discbine; 2009 AGCO rake, new; NH 256 rake; IH

6200 Grain Drill; Niemeyer rotary rake; (2) set of 258 rake w/double hitch; 2 star tedder; White 508 6 bottom plow; Oliver 7 bottom plow; IH 710 5 bottom 20" plow; IH 710 4 bottom plow; Ford 20' flip-up disk; 29' Sunflower 4 section disc w/new blades; Brillion 15' packer-roller; Bodco 33 feed cart; Valmetal Bedding Chopper; New Holland double rake hitch; (2) 500 gallon crop sprayer w/foam markers; 4000 Bushel grain bin w/dryer and stirring system-disassembled; (19+) Big Trucks 2003 Chevy 5500 Duramax, stake; 2003 Ford F650 crew cab, 3126 Cat w/12' chipper dump; 2003 International 9400i day cab tractor; 2002 International 4400 DT466; 2002 International 4700SA; 2001 Chevy 3500 1ton Bucket Truck, Duramax Diesel; 1997 Ford Flatbed Superduty w/dump box; 1988 GMC 7000 Diesel dump truck; 1986 Nissan dump truck; (12+) Utility Company Vehicles Pickup, Vans, and SUV from utility Company (32+) Vehicles 2003 Chevy 2500 HD Pickup; 2003 Chevy 2500 HD Pickup; 2003 Chevy 1500 Pickup; 2003 Subaru outback, loaded; 2006 Ford F250 Ext cab, Diesel, 4X4, loaded; 2002 Ford 4dr crew cab, 4X4, loaded; 2001 Chevy Blazer 4X4; 2004 Ford Explorer 4X4; 2000 Chevy 2500 4X4, w/plow, 4X4, low miles (20+) Trailers 48' aluminum flatbed semi trailer; (2) 16' recycling dump trailers; 1964 Heil 8000 gal aluminum tanker trailer; 2012 16' enclosed trailer; 2012 12' enclosed trailer; 1994 Polar 7000 gal insulated asphalt trailer; 2005 PJ 20' deck over trailer, 14000 lb GVW; 2004 34' gooseneck, 24000 lb; 2009 16' dump; 2012 20' tilt Top; 2011 skid Steer Trailer; 2006 Hudson 10 Ton (35+) Big Toys & Lawn Equipment Kubota RTV900; Kubota RTV900; JD Gator, 6X4, Gas; Kymeo 55cc Scooter; Bush Hog 4400 UTV 140hrs, winch, dump; Woods 72" 3pt finish mower, new; Polaris 4X4 Ranger; 2009 Cub Cadet volunteer utility vehicle 4x4 w/ plow package & dump box; (30+) Misc. 6' Lucknow 3pt snow blower; Woods 72' rear blade,

new; 6 Drum lube system; Chains fit fork lift (1300x24 tire size); Windpower 20KW generator on wheels (250 outlet); Diadem 290 3pt hitch spinner/spreader; Chipper w/Deutz diesel; Hale pump; Generator 25KW Diesel; 500 Gal hydro seeder; Heavy front end blade; Diamond 18" walk behind concrete saw; 3 point hitch Harley Rake, 5', angle; 3 pt hitch broom, 6', angle; McLaughlin Location system for directional drills; (175) Rubber mats for cow beds; Set of snap on tractor duals; Barrier clamp INSPECTION: Tuesday, January 24, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Financing available through CNY Farm Supply call 607-756-6578 QUESTIONS: CNY Power Sports 607-756-6578 or Roy Teitsworth, Inc. (585) 243-1563 Keep checking our website at www.teitsworth.com for terms, updates & pictures.

Roy Teitsworth, Inc. ~ Successful Auctions for 42 Years Plain old-fashioned hard work, experience and market knowledge make this the team to choose for successful auctions. Now is the time to call for a no obligation consultation or appraisal. There are many options available to market your business assets. We would be pleased to discuss the auction methods with you. Give us a call today. If you are looking for clean, well-maintained municipal equipment and trucks, at absolute public auction, here are some tentative dates to keep in mind. Please also visit www.teitsworth.com

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:00 A.M. CNY Farm Supply Of Recreational Equipment, Farm Machinery, Heavy Equipment, Cars & Trucks Rt. 11 Cortland, NY (off exit 10)

Saturday, April 21, 2012 9:00 A.M. Chautauqua County Area Municipal & Contractor Equipment Auction Gerry Rodeo Grounds RT. 60 Gerry, NY

Friday, February 3, 2012 3:30 P.M. WNY Farm Show Virtual Auction! Farm machinery, tractors, atv's Erie County Fairgounds, Hamburg, NY

Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:00 A.M. 42nd Annual New York's Favorite Consignment Auction Teitsworth auction yard Barber Hill Rd. Geneseo, NY

Saturday, March 3, 2012 9:00 A.M. CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Teitsworth Auction Yard Farm & Construction Equipment Heavy & Light Trucks Geneseo, NY

Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:00 A.M. 27th Annual Palmyra Municipal Equipment Auction Town of Palmyra Highway Department Palmyra, NY (Rochester area)

Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:00 A.M. Saxby Implement Corp. Public Auction 200 Lawn Mowers, Vehicles, New Trailers & Much More Mendon, NY

Saturday, May 19, 2012 9:00 A.M. Important Public Auction Recreational Equipment, Farm Machinery, Heavy Construction Equipment C.N.Y. Power Sports Rt. 11 Cortland, NY

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:00 A.M. CORYN FARM SUPPLIES, INC. Public Auction of Farm Equipment & Tools 3186 Freshour Rd. Canandaigua, NY

Saturday, June 2, 2012 8:00 A.M. Special June Auction Teitsworth Auction Yard Farm & Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks Geneseo, NY

Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:00 A.M. Z&M Ag and Turf Farm Equipment Auction Clymer, NY

Otsego County Area Municipal Equipment Auction Date to be determined

Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:00 A.M Lamb & Webster Used Equipment Auction Farm Tractors & Machinery, Lawn & Garden Equipment Routes 39 & 219, Springville, NY

Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:00 A.M. Jefferson County Area Municipal & Contractor Equipment Auction Selling Heavy Equipment, Trucks & Trailers Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Watertown, NY

Friday, August 10, 2012 9:00 A.M. Farm & Equipment Auction Next to Empire Farm Days Show Farm Equipment, Tractors, Antique Equipment, Construction equipment Route 414, Seneca Falls, NY Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:00 A.M. Municipal Surplus & Contractor Equipment Auction Town of Lansing Highway Dept. Rts. 34 & 34B, Lansing, NY

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Ending November 13, 6pm Monthly Online Auction Check it out at www.teitsworth.com December 1, 2012 9:00 A.M. Special Winter Consignment Auction Teitsworth Auction Yard Farm & Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks Liquidations & Consignments Geneseo, NY

Saturday, September 15, 2012 8:00 A.M. SPECIAL FALL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Teitsworth Auction Yard, Groveland Farm & Construction Equipment Heavy & Light Trucks Consignments Welcome Geneseo, N.Y. Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:00 A.M. LAMB & WEBSTER USED EQUIPMENT AUCTION FARM TRACTORS & MACHINERY Routes 39 & 219, Springville, NY Saturday, October 6, 2012 9:00 A.M. Monroe County Municipal Equipment Auction Heavy Construction Equipment, Cars & Trucks 145 Paul Rd., Exit 17, Rt. 390, Rochester, NY Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:00 A.M. Municipal & Contractor Equipment Auction Hamburg Fairgrounds, Hamburg, NY Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:00 A.M. Onondaga County Area Municipal Equipment Auction Municipal & Contractor Equipment Syracuse, NY (NYS Fairgrounds)

January 10-17, 2012 February 7-14, 2012 March 6-13, 2012 April 3-10, 2012 May 1-8, 2012 June 5-12, 2012 July 10-17, 2012 August 14-21, 2012 September 11-18, 2012 October 9-16, 2012 November 6-13, 2012 December 4-11, 2012 RTI Online Auctions Keep in mind we also have a web based auction monthly! This is an efficient and convenient way to sell equipment of all kinds. It runs from the first to the second Wednesday of every month. Please contact Milo @ 585-739-6435, Richard @ 585-721-9554 or Cindy @ 585-738-3759 to consign to any of these auctions.

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