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Lee Mielke

Mielke Market Weekly

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Mary Foote wins national contest ~ Page 3

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Sullivan County’s Down on the Farm Day at Stonewall Farms

by Judy Van Put Saturday, Aug. 4 was the date for Sullivan County Cooperative Extension’s annual Down On The Farm Day, this year hosted by Barbara and Ed Moran, of Stonewall Farms, Jeffersonville, NY. Down on the Farm Day is a popular family event that is organized by CCE of Sullivan County, and held each year at a different farm — to give the public the opportunity to learn more about Sullivan County farms and farming.

Many volunteers, from Stonewall Farms, CCE, and local farmers, were on hand to welcome visitors, who numbered in the hundreds. In addition to horse show-related events, there were demonstrations of farm machinery given by the Geiger family, and about a dozen vendors and booths set up in the indoor arena manned by other area farmers and 4-Hers, BOCES students and Horse Council members.

The petting zoo was very popular with the children; who were delighted to be able to get ‘up close’ to the rabbits, ponies (including a tiny pony foal) calves and cows. There were vendors selling horse supplies, maple syrup, honey and other farm products, as well as booths with information on the Sullivan County Horse Council and various aspects of farming.

Ed and Barbara Moran were on hand to answer questions and spend a little time discussing the history of Stonewall Farms, which originated as a horse boarding and lesson facility (and also hosted horse shows) about 21 years ago. In addition to horses, Barbara and Ed have since branched out to become a 91-acre multi species livestock facility with beef, goats,

sheep, chickens and rabbits, all housed within a mile of the main farm.

Barbara grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Ed grew up in Jeffersonville, NY. They met at Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture in Pennsylvania, where both were animal science majors — she with an equine background, he in dairy. The couple married and came ‘home’ to Jeffersonville, Sullivan County where, in 1991, they opened Stonewall Farms. Approximately 10 years ago, Barbara went to the Sullivan County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, and inquired if they could use Stonewall Farms as a teaching facility for children and/or for therapeutic lessons. The Guidance Counselor at the time, Regina Wagner, knew that both Barbara and Ed had degrees in Animal Science and asked if they’d be interested in helping writing curriculum for an Animal Science program. BOCES had posted an ad for an Animal Science teacher; Ed was hired for the job and Barbara as the assistant teacher.

The initial class blossomed into a first and second (two-year) program; the students are taught both on campus and at the farm for their working hands-on experience. Lessons in the classroom on campus include classes on nutrition, anatomy and physiology, diseases, and handling horses, cows, chickens, sheep, goats and hogs. The students are 11th and 12 graders from the eight component school districts in Sullivan County. In order to participate, they need to contact their guidance counselor and fill out an application; typically there are 35-40 slots available for the program, about 20 per grade.

Meghan Diehl Blumenthal, of "Deal Me In Performance Horses" gave a demonstration on Hunter over Fences at Sullivan County CCE's Down on the Farm Day at Stonewall Farms. She is riding her 17-hand Quarterhorse that was bred on her farm.

Stefan Geiger, from a neighboring farm, talked about farm machinery at Stonewall Farms Down On The Farm Day. Photos by Judy Van Put After graduating from the program, their core courses. many students go on to study Animal A large group arrived which was Science in some capacity. Barbara headed into the rabbit and chicken remarked that there were probably ten barns; then it was time to move on to years’ worth of her graduates in atten- the horse barn and outdoor arena, dance to help out at Down on the where horse training specialist Adele Farm Day. Berger gave a Dressage demonstration But even for those who do not pur- titled “Back to Basics”, followed by sue a future in animal science or agri- Meghan Diehl Blumenthal who ended culture, “they learn a lot. By working the day with a demonstration of perwith the animals, the students are formance horses over fences. taught responsibility, a good work Stonewall Farms put forth a great ethic, and compassion.” Their school effort — as did all the many volunteers day consists of one half day at the — which was greatly appreciated by farm, five days a week, with the other the scores of people who came out to half day being taught back in their enjoy a very successful Down on the ‘home’ school district, where they learn Farm Day.

Children were delighted to get ‘up close’ to the animals, even learn how to brush a rabbit.

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Mary Foote is named National Prepared Public Speaking winner, twice.

Many teenagers spend their summer working and hanging out with friends, but Mary Foote of Welcome Stock Guernsey Farm, Hartford, NY, spent more than two weeks of her summer traveling across the country to Oregon then heading south to Missouri to compete in two national speaking contests and share the passion of the dairy industry with those from all across the country and Canada.

Foote, who is member of both the New York Guernsey Association in addition to the New York Holstein Association, traveled over 8,500 miles to attend both the National Guernsey Convention (Portland, OR) and National Holstein Convention (Springfield, MO) where she competed against youth from all over the nation in the Prepared Public Speaking Contest and claimed the title of the National Prepared Public Speaking Winner at both conventions!

In her speech titled, “Bring them back to Agriculture!” Mary spoke about how the population is continuing to expand yet the numbers of farms has continued to decline and as dairy farmers we need to showcase our industry and the potential profitability and opportunities within dairy farming. “It is time that we stop sitting back and start being proactive in advocating for ourselves but more importantly our future,” Foote stated in closing her speech.

Though she claimed 1st Place in the speaking contest at both conventions, Foote also received scholarships from both associations. At the National Guernsey Convention, Mary was awarded the Turley Scholarship that is awarded by the American Guernsey

Association. The scholarship honors the contributions of Ralph and Martha Turley to Guernsey youth and the Guernsey breed.

The following week, in Missouri, Foote was awarded the National Holstein Women’s Scholarship which is given to assist deserving men and women with college studies. In her application, Mary is quoted saying, “Passion is said to be what defines who we are, the choices that we make, and if we are lucky define the career path that we pursue. It is because of the passion that I have cultivated throughout my years of being active within the dairy industry and agriculture as well as the opportunities that have been presented to me that I have devoted my future to being an advocate for the American Dairy Industry and Agriculture.”

Mary, who is currently the New York Guernsey Princess and Youth President in addition to the New York Junior Holstein Recording Secretary, served as the 2010-2011 New York State FFA President and credits much of her success to her experience within the FFA and giving her the direction and confidence to follow her passion to advocate for agriculture with the dairy industry at the heart of it.

Currently, Mary is entering her sophomore year at SUNY Cobleskill where she studies Agricultural Business. From there she plans to transfer to obtain her Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science with a focus in Dairy Science and Agricultural Communications. She hopes that she can share her love of agriculture and the dairy industry and be the voice of dairy farmers.

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Anti-farm laws not the answer I received a request from an animal rights group seeking my farm’s support of a bill in the New Jersey State Senate. The authors of the bill claim that it will outlaw farmers’ abuse of animals by “using pens so small that nursing pigs cannot stand up or lie down.” It seems that they also feel that this law will “level” the playing field between those big greedy corporate conglomerates and us nice little friendly family farms (kind of a clever way to get our support, don’t you think?).

I know of not a single New Jersey farm where pigs are in pens so small that they cannot stand up or lie down.

Perhaps this group does. If so, I wish they would tell me the name and address of those farms.

Although I no longer raise livestock (I grow choose and cut Christmas trees), I have had many years of experience rais-

ing pigs in the past. It is important to provide appropriate pens for nursing sows so that baby piglets are not crushed by the mother. What may appear to the inexperienced observer as a “cruel” process of restricting a sow’s movement is actually a method of keeping the babies alive. When I raised pigs, the farrowing pens were about 10 feet by 10 feet and had, what we referred to as, baby bumpers on all sides. The mother would lean against a wall and basically “flop down” to a prone position. Without the bumpers, babies would get squished without the mother pig even realizing what she had done.

There may be a very small minority of farmers who actually abuse animals. That, I find despicable.

Nevertheless, there are already laws on the books and more than adequate agencies to enforce those laws.

I don’t buy into the concept that fam-

Mary Foote of Welcome Stock Guernsey Farm, in Hartford, NY, has competed in two national speaking contests this summer to share the passion of the dairy industry.

Photo courtesy of Mary Foote

ily farms (like mine) are in conflict with “industrial operations,” as this group implies. There is more than enough room for all of us in this country and I do not consider farms larger than my own to be the “enemy.”

I have always been very reluctant to support new restrictions on agricultural endeavors. It’s hard enough being a farmer these days without “Big Brother” placing restriction after restriction on our activities. I believe that farmers (both small and large operations) have the best interest of animals as a top priMore bad news for dairy farmers Recent figures released by the USDA clearly illustrate that the pay prices to dairy farmers for June’s produced milk could drop by nearly 40 cents per hundred weight (cwt). In Federal Order #1 this means the price could hover around $16.39 per cwt. (May was $16.79.)

This price decline will happen despite the soaring increase in grain price. Corn is heading towards $8 per

ority. I am sure that members of this group have only the best intentions in promoting new laws regarding farming.

However, I have found that so many of the animal “rights” organizations simply don’t understand (or don’t wish to understand) the nature of farming.

Farmers are good people. Left alone, we will do the right thing... for our farms and for our animals.

It is for those reasons that Shale Hills Farm cannot endorse this legislation.

Michael Garrett, Shale Hills Farm, Sussex, NJ bushel with soybeans over $14 per bushel. Even so, most people appear to look the other way.

Estimated Order I pay price for June $16.39 per cwt.? National Average Cost of Production: $21.54 per cwt. Do the math!

Pro-Ag can be reached at 570-8335776.

Arden Tewksbury, Manager, Progressive Agriculture Organization, Meshoppen, PA

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Is rye an alternative forage practice after year’s drought? planning to harvest rye as the forage crop rye crop silage, producers need to monitor the crop’s development with the goal of harvesting the crop at the boot stage. One concern is that the palatability of the crop decline significantly if the plant matures too far into the boot stage. But if the plan is to use the crop as alternative forage for dry cows or heifers, this is less of a concern. The forage at the boot stage is typically about 16 percent crude protein with an acid detergent value of 24.6 to 31.6 and a neutral detergent fiber value of 47.2 to 66 percent on a dry matter basis. While the crop is a satisfactory alternative due to its high fiber and limited energy contribution to these diets, the crop can be from 2.1 to 4.37 percent potassium requires dietary consideration in the dry cow programs.

After harvest Rye stubble is managed with conventional tillage or no-till practices to establish a corn crop. Rye forage production will shorten the corn crop. In order to follow rye with corn, producers use a shorter season corn. One consideration about the rye stubble is that it needs to be managed to prevent regrowth. While rye can be controlled with glyphosate application, skips in application will impact corn performance.

One should also consider rye’s impact on the sod.

While the crop is a great cover and soil tilth improver, the excessive root system left in rye stubble can impact the subsequent corn crop establish when moisture is limited in a dry June.

Other reasons to consider rye While many farmers in the region would not consider growing rye, this year’s drought has put farmers in a much tougher spot than other crop years.

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by Steven E. Smith The year 2012 will go in the history books as one of the most severe droughts effecting nearly 80 percent of the U.S. agriculture sector. While the effects of drought have already driven the commodity markets to new record prices, many dairy and other livestock producers are now facing a limited forage inventory dilemma. The lack of hay crop and pasture year to date has resulted in the increased feeding of forages for some. Many producers are reconciling their forage needs from now until the start of the next growing season.Here are some alternatives to consider.

Winter rye According to the University of Wisconsin extension service, planting rye grain in the fall can provide some advantages for next spring. Because the 2012 drought has resulted in reduced forage production, winter rye could provide a source of additional forage in 2013 if planted after corn harvest this fall. This forage alternative could be used in the milk cow, dry cow or heifer rations. By offset heifer needs, it could enable a dairy to retain the limited traditional forages for the milking groups. Additionally, winter rye could be a grazing alternative in the later fall and early spring if this concept agrees with the lay of the farm.

Rye is typically planted after Sept. 1 and can be planted late into the fall if weather permits. It is often planted by the broadcast method at a rate of 90 to 120 pounds per acre either before or after a light disc harrowing of the corn stubble. Rye will respond favorably to a light application of manure in the fall or early spring dependent upon the planned use for the crop.

Harvesting rye for silage Rye for forage can yield 1.33 to 3.88 tons per acre when harvested in late May or early June dependent on spring moisture and growing degree days. When

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This shorter season corn was planted after rye was harvested from this field in late May. While early season heat and limited moisture can impact the yield of the rye, the practice can serve as an emergency hedge of forage if planted this fall.

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attempting to double crop, Ganoe warned that there could be a sacrifice of total forage inventory by delaying the corn planting from May 1 to May 31 as in the scenario of harvesting fall planted rye as silage.

When reviewing crop production, Ganoe indicated that some producers are considering the 10 year window. A way to build more silage inventory can be to take advantage of corn on first year sod by shortening the interval of the rotation.

Ganoe noted that another key will be intensively managing the hay crop harvest of seeding year. Some farms have found success using a small grain and peas in the establishment year while others have committed to using a clear seeding of alfalfa that is intensively managed with herbicides to enhance yield in the seeding year. In addition to this change in practice, producers can intentionally plant some shorter season corn during the early planting window to provide some corn silage in advance of the main corn silage harvest. During this review of farm crop production enterprises, Ganoe explained that some producers make the commitment to keep some soils as continuous grass. If somewhat poorly drained soils should be put in something like Reeds canarygrass which will yield well especially supplemented with nitrogen.

U.S. farmers will adjust both cropping practices as well as livestock herd inventories as a result of the severity of the 2012 drought. In order to address limited hay crop inventories, many will harvest corn silage from fields that they had intended to harvest as grain corn. Some may plant rye following the corn harvest. With the increases in crop production cost and commodity prices, evaluating the crop enterprises can provide important insight prior to this decision. A complete listing of references is available upon request.

Cover photo courtesy of Mary Foote Mary Foote of Welcome Stock Guernsey Farm, Hartford, NY, spent more than two weeks of her summer traveling across the country to Oregon then heading south to Missouri to compete in two national speaking contests.

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Virtual Market helps small farms increase customer base, save time

by Ellen Wren Spending Saturdays at the farm market, loading and unloading products, manning the table and paying an increasingly steep fee for the chance to do so?

There may be a better way on the horizon. An online farm market is thriving in Albany and surrounding counties and it’s currently expanding.

Kira Kinney, of Evolutionary Organics, talking about cucumbers.

FarmieMarket was founded by 28 year old Sarah Avery Gordon in 2010. Gordon was raised on her family’s grass-fed beef farm in Knox, NY, learning the challenges of small farming first hand. After college, Gordon began selling her family’s products online and from there, the idea expanded. She did her research and discovered that despite a growing consumer demand for local goods, there was still a disconnect between the farmers and their potential customers. Gordon identified several barriers on both ends and set out to dismantle them.

For farmers, the expense of a market can be high and the events generally have a fairly short season.

They also require significant time and man power that could be put to better use. Additionally, many markets take place simultaneously, narrowing the number of venues in which a small farm can participate. Through interviews, Gordon also found that some farmers are not comfortable with marketing their product.

For patrons, lack of time for and knowledge of farm market schedules and locations create further obstacles. Gordon’s online farm market aims to dismantle these issues by making it easier for everyone involved to benefit. Gordon shares that her Capital Region market has increased direct sales and attracted new customers for nearly 30 area farms.

One of her ambitions is to extend the FarmieMarket network throughout the Northeast and eventually, nationwide. Gordon shares, “Ultimately, we hope to transform the way Americans buy food and contribute to the sustainable food revolution.”

How it works: “Farmies”, educated consumers who care about local farms and the quality of their food, can place an order through Farmiemarket.com and have fresh, local food from small family farms, delivered to their home or workplace each week. There is no obligation, only a minimum order of $30. There is a wide variety of products available, from produce to meat

to goat’s milk cheese, even fudge. For customers, this is an easy way to support local farms and enjoy farm fresh goods without the commitment of a CSA membership or trying to make it to the farm market on a regular basis. They are able to read detailed information on the website, explaining in clear terms why it’s important to buy local. They can gain insight into why the prices at FarmieMarket are higher than in the supermarket and are urged to accept a fair and real price for their food in order to sustain the local food economy. Another feature allows them to read a small bio about the farmer who is selling each product. This sort of marketing can develop customer loyalty and generate interest in farms.

For farmers, selling online though FarmieMarket is simple, cost efficient and increases their customer base with a minimal time commitment. All that’s required is an e-mail address, access to a computer and a $100 yearly participation fee. FarmieMarket takes care of the marketing, sales, distribution and social media presence without any additional cost to the grower. They also maintain a strong presence on popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

This lets customers know what they can look forward to in the coming week, shares recipes for things that are in season, and spreads news about participating farms. This promotional service is a nice benefit for farmers.

Innovations like Gordon’s may prove invaluable in a time when small farms are competing with industrial-scale operations. Now, along with Albany, Saratoga, Rensselaer and Schenectady counties, the famers and “farmies” of Ulster County, the Poughkeepsie area, and Philadelphia, are benefiting from Gordon’s ingenious initiative.

Megan Markham, the Ulster County FarmieMarket coordinator reports a lot of support and enthusiasm from the community. The Ulster site was just launched this past June and there are already seven farms aboard. Though each area is slightly different, in Ulster, orders must be in by Tuesday night.

Markham then communicates with each farm, letting them know what they’ve sold. On Thursday, she meets with the farmers to exchange goods for checks for 100 percent of their asking price. From there she sorts the orders, packs everything in custom coolers she made herself and delivers to the homes and workplaces of customers. She hopes to have 20-25

Magen Markham (L), Coordinator of Ulster FarmieMarket and Amoreen Armetta from Partners Trace Farm (R).

Photos by Ellen Wren orders each week by fall, once people become more aware of the service.

Sarah Avery Gordon’s family business, Gordon Farms, now sells all their products through a combination of a beef share CSA and FarmieMarket. The changes have made a significant difference for the business. Besides expanding, her father is now able to consider retiring in his 70s. Her grandfather, at 91, is still working his farm. “I feel like I’ve succeeded in my goal of doing something with my life that pays tribute to the hard work of my farming parents,” said Gordon.

Farms interested in selling their products this way can get in touch with their area coordinators via farmiemarket.com. All farms participating in FarmieMarket are required to be small farms (farms grossing less than $50,000 a year, as defined by the USDA) that grow or raise products free of antibiotics (for 90 days before processing), hormones, pesticides and GMOs.

Barn Dance

by Mark Munzert Hand painted signs broadcast the day.

Blaze cones in the road, cardboard arrows, directing the way.

Folding table, six bucks at the door.

I could hear ‘em stomping. Rockin’ the upper floor.

Courteous ‘Howdy, where ya from?’

‘How’d ya hear about us?’ ‘Glad you could come.’

‘This place? - my brother’s. Barn Dance, ain’t the first time.’

A muraled, circa ’30’s, barn — sans much grime.

Water and soda, just a buck.

Old country tune blarin’, I’m in luck.

Old farm implements decorate the wall.

Vibe from upstairs like a square dance call.

Musical geezers of ‘Route 66’.

This crowd’s obvious paramour fix.

Bales of hay around edges of the floor.

Two groups of squares and stragglers more.

Some declaring by vinyl jacket affiliation with the local Opry racket.

Guitar, drums, bass, slide, harmonica, fiddle.

Bill Monroe to Elvis and many in the middle.

Some sweet bambi teens sashay and swing.

A young buck, air microphone, channels The King.

Hats, bolos, buckles and boots display pride in country gentlemen’s roots.

White holiday lights strung rafter to rafter.

Between 66’s sets,...smiles, conversation, and laughter.

Your outgoing host makes the rounds welcoming folks of all backgrounds.

Strangers none, all get a nod and smile, happy to have you and be there all the while.

‘Older’ by societal description and younger caught in delightful musical affliction.

Country ladies and country girls, some in sneakers, one in pearls.

Couples graceful, others not some brand new, others a lot.

Older gent squares with pride. a little extra as he comes to his bride.

Movin’ hand in hand, and in full embrace, pairs shuffling in love borne grace.

They’d finish a song and the floor would clear.

Scooch to a bale and pull her near.

Vets in attendance. Takin’ the Missus for a twirl.

Men who love, and fought, like Merle.

Folks smilin’ and have fun long day behind already done.

Time to dance and time to move gettin’ it on with the Barn Dance groove.

Mark Munzert is a public speaker and writer from Tully, NY who works regularly with ‘problem horses’.

He can be contacted at munz@ nycap.rr.com

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Crop Comments

by Paris Reidhead Field Crops Consultant Ladybugs: Collateral Damage Appearing on the July 11, 2012 Website of the British-based Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) was an article titled “Bt Toxicity Confirmed: Flawed Studies Exposed”. Is was written by Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji; taking the easy way out I’ll call her Dr. Eva. I’ll hit the story’s high-spots (as usual), but the unedited text can be read on-line at: www.isis.org.uk/Bt_Toxicity_Confirmed_Flawed_ Study_Exposed.php According to Dr. Eva, researchers confirm Bt toxicity to non-target beneficial insects. They also show how experiments claiming to refute their results were designed not to find the effect. A new study confirms that the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin in genetically modified (GM) crops kills the larvae of the two-spotted ladybird (Adalia bipunctata). But GM supporters claim that the labybird is not affected by the toxin.

(What Americans call ladybugs, the Brits call ladybirds.) The study raises questions regarding the integrity of previous work published by GM proponents, whose experimental protocols were re-tested and shown to lack the scientific discipline required to pick up signs of toxicity, even in target insects that the pesticide is designed to kill.

Bt toxins are present in many GM crops including cotton and corn.

Variety # 810 of Bt corn is currently approved for cultivation in Europe, although it has been banned by individual nations such as Hungary, France, Austria, Ger-

many, Greece and Luxembourg due to health and environmental concerns... concerns based on earlier peer-reviewed studies. Previous Bt toxicity studies have been slandered by GM proponents, claiming that certain Bt toxins are effective against limited orders of insects, killing only butterflies and moths, such as the European cornborer.

However, a peer-reviewed study published

by Angela Hilbeck and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2009 showed increased mortality in ladybirds exposed to the ‘activated’ toxin that had been coated on their food — meal moth eggs; the team had found similar effects in green lacewings previously. In response to Hilbeck’s original publication, a coordinated effort aimed at discrediting her findings appeared in the journal Transgenic Research. Central to that effort were two highly charged critiques from the Agroscope Institute, which failed to detect any non-target toxicity.

They concluded that the results of Hilbeck’s team were ‘false-positives’ due to poor study design.

Agroscope, a Swiss federal governmental research organization, is linked to the agrotech giants (European) Syngenta… and its huge American counterpart, based in Missouri. These attacks were triggered by Germany banning #810 corn, a decision based on Hilbeck’s findings, as well as other scientific publications.

Dr. Eva wrote that new work from Hilbeck’s team addressed the discrepancies between their

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own findings and those of their critics. First they conducted a ‘proof-ofconcept’ experiment where they tested both their original protocol and Agroscope’s protocol on the target species, the European cornborer. In the Hilbeck team’s original study, the ladybird larvae were exposed continuously for 10 days to a microbially-produced purified version of Bt toxin, or a microbially produced ‘empty’ version

lacking the toxin. These larvae were exposed through coating their food — meal moth eggs — with the toxin. The Agroscope protocol on the other hand, exposed the larvae for only 24 hours at a time through a sugar/water droplet with or without the toxin. As the larvae are carnivorous and cannot survive on a sugar diet alone, they were transferred to petri dishes with untreated moth eggs, thus giving them a period to recover from the exposure.

Long story short (because this research is complicated), in Agroscope’s experiment, ladybird larvae were exposed only 24 hours to

Bt toxicity. So, the aim of the new study was to understand if the differences in these protocols may have accounted for the opposing results obtained by Hilbeck’s team and by Agroscope. By testing target species that the toxin is designed to kill, any weakness in a brief (24 hour) period to a sugar-based Bt-toxic diet (which they would not consume)... followed by switching the larvae over to a non-toxic diet (just before they starved)... would not assess the Bt-based mortality experienced by ladybirds in the field. As expected, Hilbeck’s team found high levels of mortality following continuous exposure as expect-

ed (just below 100 percent with both types of exposure). The mortality rates dropped by half when animals were exposed to Bt-sprayed plants for 24 hours only.

Exposure to Bt corn for only 24 hours did not even cause mortality rates to rise above unexposed control groups.

Let me express Agroscope’s experimental method in human terms: a person smokes cigarettes for one month, but does not develop cancer; that fact can then be crafted into proof that cigarettes do not cause cancer. When Hilbeck and her associates ran the second set of trials,

Crop A7

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compared to around 25 percent in unexposed larvae. The greatest difference in mortality between treated and un-

treated animals peaked at four days, where there was around a 20 percent increase in mortality over untreated animals, after which it began to level off. The new work not only corroborates the team’s previous findings, but also documents Agroscope’s failure to detect toxicity on non-target insects.

In reality, it is difficult for researchers to obtain the transgenes (like GM Bt) made by industry, as there are strict patent laws and resistance to giving permission to conduct independent research on their products. Previous studies have shown that the modified toxin is more toxic than their naturally produced counterparts, with green lacewings suffering from delayed development and reduced survival.

Currently, no regulatory body requires testing of modified transgenes, which means that their effects have not been properly assessed in any version. Attacks on scientists who publish data that refute the safety of biotech products are under immense pressure from GM proponents, industry and even regulatory bodies. According to Hilbeck, “deliberate counter-studies

Crop from A6 they subjected ladybird larvae to six days of exposure; they observed that mean mortality rate was 40 percent

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and confrontational attacks have also been witnessed with other commercial products such as bisphenol A, asbestos, and tobacco”. Her team was never given the opportunity to respond to their critiques. This is not the first time that the researchers have faced such scrutiny; the publications on lacewing lethality drew a similar response from some of the same authors that targeted the ladybird study.

Studies into the toxic effects of the GM Bt toxins now begin to shed light on the wider effects of these poisons against non-target insects. This knowledge is critical to agriculture, with insects like the ladybirds serving an important biological function due to their predation on crop pests, such as aphids and white flies. In a weird irony, while these synthetic Bt toxins are wreaking death on ladybirds, targeted pests, like armyworms, have successfully developed resistance to this man-made poison... a tidbit of information I gleaned from agronomy cooperative extension agents who, for some reason... unlike Dr. Eva…, wish to remain anonymous.

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Women often seen as faces of agriculture

by Cyndie Sirekis Many women who work in a wide range of careers — everything from law and communications to education and sports — find it beneficial to join organizations that focus on professional development and that can help them advance in their chosen field.

Women in agriculture are no different. Many are turning to Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Programs for professional development opportunities.

“A goal of the Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee is to empower women to use their enthusiasm, dedication and talent to

change perceptions about agriculture, family farms and ranches and the roles of women,” explained Terry Gilbert, chair of the committee and a farmer from Kentucky.

The WLC coordinates educational programs such as Food Check-Out Week in addition to offering leadership development programs open to all Farm Bureau women.

Women’s Communications Boot Camp, which has been held annually each summer since 2007, is one opportunity Farm Bureau provides for women in agriculture from across the country to improve their skills.

All of those selected to

participate share the same goal, to become better communicators.

Public speaking, media training, effective use of social media and tips for seeking elected office are among the topics covered. An enthusiastic group of 15 women of varied ages involved in all types of farming from around the nation recently participated in two and a half days of intensive training.

“Again this year, a group of strangers come together, bonded through sharing intense training exercises and left a few days later with new contacts — friends — that will last a lifetime,” Gilbert said. “It’s encour-

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Clearly, opportunities abound for women involved in agriculture today. Many of those opportunities center around helping people understand where food comes from and how it is grown or produced on family farms and ranches.

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Cyndie Sirekis is director of news services at the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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After our oldest son’s round trip out

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The hay is another whole story along with the drought and the leafhopper raising its ugly head on second cutting. Even though we sprayed it the yields were down considerably and the third cutting was crying for rain too.

I’m sure the milk prices will rebound... but will it be enough to offset the increased feed costs.

A professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences at a large East Coast agriculture university told us that on his trip up from North Carolina this week; he noticed many areas that had decent crops. As all this information is collect-

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to Western Colorado this summer to visit their grandson, we asked them what they thought of the crops in the 10 states they passed through. Their reply was, “Where they were irrigated they were awesome... but a majority of the rest showed the lack of adequate rains.”

For the last 50 years we’ve always been able to plant corn around the first week of May and chop it right after Labor Day. This year because of the cooler spring temperatures, we planted it week later. But... by the first week of August, the GGD (growing degreedays) had already reached 2,000, which is normally around Labor Day. After checking the corn’s maturity we decided we’d better chop it, even though it was three weeks early. When

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HORSE TALES

By Judy Van Put

Cowboy challenge

by Judy Van Put Not even the threat of predicted “severe thunderstorms” could daunt the spirits of the enthusiastic group that filled the arena and pavilion at the Grahamsville Fairgrounds on Sunday, Aug. 5, for the Sullivan County Horse Council’s second annual Cowboy Challenge.

For those who are unfamiliar with the term, “Extreme Cowboy Challenge” was coined and created by nationally known horse trainer and clinician Craig Cameron who started the “Extreme Cowboy Association.” The word “Extreme” is part of the original name used for the first televised event. The “Extreme” Cow-

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For the officially–sanctioned events, scores are tallied for each of three components for each ob-

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Western dress and tack are required (as this is a “Cowboy” challenge) and there is no age limit for horses to participate.

The Challenge courses will vary at each event, depending on terrain, facility, length of course and obstacles that are available.

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The Hula Hoop Toss involved picking up a hula hoop off a barrel, then tossing it over a pole nearby.

Photos by Judy Van Put

five separate classes for participants to choose from: Leadline (for children), the “Professional” class (for those who have competed before) the “Non- Professional” class (for first-timers) an “In-Hand” class, in which a ‘green’ horse or one which has not participated in the event before is led through all the obstacles rather than being ridden; and the “Ride Smart” class, for those riders who surpassed their 45th birthday. Ride Smart participants were not required to dismount at any of the Stations.

An array of 11 inventive and colorful obstacles greeted each horse and rider team. Horses and riders entered the ring and were expected to pass through a “Noodle Gate” made from large colorful pool noodles used as swimming floats; walk up to a pen holding Wilbur the pig (many horses had never seen/smelled a pig and it was amusing to see some of their reactions, especially when Wilbur responded to them) open a mailbox and retrieve a carrot; jump over two wooden jumps, walk across a ‘teeter bridge’ — a wooden platform with a board underneath that caused the bridge to teeter from one side of the board to the other as the horse passed across; ride through and then back the horse through L-shaped rails; a hula toss in which the rider had approach a barrel holding a hula hoop, pick it up and toss it over a pole several feet away; open and pass through a chain gate, then close the gate; a ground tie station, in which the horse was told to ground tie while the rider

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crawled under a limbo stick suspended over two bales of hay (several horses took a few bites of the hay, while others took off without their rider and raced back across the ring) and the two most challenging stations, one where a blue plastic shower curtain was sliced into strips and suspended overhead and horse and rider had to pass through; and the sprinkler station, in which horse and rider had to walk across a tarp holding water from a sprinkler operating on each side of the tarp. Only one horse actually walked across the tarp with the sprinklers going.

Two donkeys were entered in the “in hand” class, and delighted the audience when they blithely jumped over the wooden jumps.

Two judges, Eric Scherer of Walton, NY, and Connie Smith of Livingston Manor, NY, were in the ring to judge each participant, along with a number of helpers and volunteers who kept the event running smoothly. The large pavil-

ion located behind the arena provided plenty of space for observers, as well as a vendors who were on hand with horserelated items, hot food for lunch and a few raffles — with proceeds going to the Sullivan County Horse Council.

At the end of the day, the winners were announced: in the Leadline class, Courtney Fritz with Banner; in the Professional class, Diana Hartling and Banner again (Banner was the only horse that proceeded through the sprinkler station); in the Non-Professional class, Donna Putnam with her 26-year old Arabian mare FireLove; in the InHand class, Liz Stubits and Fox Valley Kincaid; and in the Ride Smart class, Donna Putnam and FireLove again.

Winners were awarded prizes, including beautiful haybags with the SCHC logo and Cowboy Challenge embroidered on them. Participants and onlookers thoroughly enjoyed the entertaining event, and look forward to more fun at next year’s Cowboy Challenge.

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Taurus Service Inc “Profitable Genetics”™ August 2012 ~ Sire Summary News Taurus Service Inc. was founded in 1971 and has entered its 41st year of business. Taurus has a great line-up of sires including the new highly proven, Holstein sire 76HO0581 EXPLODE and the new, hot, Red & White bull 76HO0582 ABSOLUTE-RED plus “Profitable Genetics” ™ in every other dairy breed. Taurus also is the U.S. distributor for Browndale Specialty Sires and Foundation Sires, plus we import semen from LIC for New Zealand Genetics, and Fleckvieh semen from Austria.

The Taurus Dairy Sire Line-Up features Traditional (T) daughter proven sires plus an outstanding group of Genomic (G) proven Holstein sires, plus Red & White, Jersey, and Brown Swiss “G” sires.

The Dairyman’s Choice Special has been popular in the U.S. and is now being offered in Canada. Wherever you are located be sure to visit with your Taurus distributor, dealer, technician, or representative for the best value and price on high quality, good conception semen from Taurus Service.

TAP (Taurus Affiliated Program) herds and PT (Progeny Test) continues at Taurus, in the U.S., for our Holstein sire program. Taurus values the information to continue the accuracy of “G” evaluations and wants to have early milking daughter information to move bulls from “G” to “T” in our line-up. Visit with your Taurus rep about TAP and

consider PT semen at one-half price along with proven sire semen purchases.

76HO0581 WABASH-WAY EXPLODE (VG-88) has graduated from a “G” sire to a “T” sire at Taurus with 95d/57h for production that average 28546 M, 3.6%, 1014 F, 3.0%, 851 P with PTA +1759 M, +50 F, +48 P @ 91% R. Also note that he is +3.0 PL and very low SCS (2.72). His new type proof is +3.32 T, +2.66 UDC, +2.29 FLC, +3.34 BD, +2.49 D for a TPI of 2184 ranking him in the Top 10 of the breed.

76HO0607 WABASH-WAY ELITE (EX92) is a full brother to EXPLODE’s dam “Emilyann”. This fancy “Shottle” son is siring young, milking heifers that dairymen really like. ELITE is a popular Taurus “G” sire that now has early milking daughters this proof with only 10d/4h that average 29122 M, 3.9%, 1122 F, and 855 P with a PTA of 771 M, +.05%, +40 F, +.02%, +31P. This indicates that he will be a sire for your future from the Taurus “Profitable Genetics” ™ “T” line-up.

76HO0567 PHOENIX (VG-87) a Gold Medal Sire is one of the greatest “true breeding” sires ever at Taurus. This “Goldwyn” son is one of the best sires any dairyman could choose to use.

PHOENIX is from “Outside Pledge” 2E-95 and hails from the great, transmitting, “Pala” family. Now with 498d/263h, PHOENIX is 97% R with +.08%, +16 F,

Taurus A15

Holsteins

ID

NAAB

Name

Sire Service Providers

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs

HOUSA000069981349

007HO11351

SEAGULL-BAY SUPERSIRE-ET

980

71

2524

112

78

HOITA017990915143

200HO07450

AMIGHETTI NUMERO UNO-ET

965

74

1196

96

53

HOUSA000070354884

534HO00010

FARNEAR-TBR-BH CASHCOIN-ET

935

71

1375

74

49

HOUSA000069398748

007HO11138

MOUNTFIELD MSY MAURICE-ET

915

73

1397

92

61

HO840003008328737

007HO11386

S-S-I TWIST MONARCH-ET

905

73

1188

82

54

HO840003008328673

007HO11383

S-S-I BOOKEM MORGAN-ET

904

71

1679

78

59

HOUSA000069990227

147HO02431

DE-SU RANSOM-ET

889

71

1142

76

54

HOUSA000069990187

007HO11478

DE-SU JEROD 1223-ET

888

71

1630

92

50

HOUSA000069990180

011HO11151

DE-SU ALTASTACKED-ET

884

70

1784

67

59

HOUSA000070528492

007HO11547

LADYS-MANOR MAN-O-SHAN-ET

883

74

2332

105

82

HOUSA000068656227

001HO10218

DE-SU FREDDIE DENIM 646-ET

878

75

1104

66

47

HO840003004672704

007HO11331

S-S-I DOMAIN LITHIUM-ET

876

73

1640

63

54

HOUSA000070354883

534HO00009

FARNEAR-TBR-BH CASHMONEY-ET

874

71

997

67

44

HOUSA000070476870

007HO11573

BUTZ-BUTLER SHOTGLASS-ET

872

73

2127

82

63

HOUSA000069128164

014HO06677

ROYLANE CHAMP VAL 4246-ET

871

73

1485

100

54

HOUSA000069207641

007HO11169

WELCOME SUPER PETRONE-ET

868

73

1204

57

31

HOUSA000069990052

001HO10490

DE-SU FREDDIE GALAXY-ET

866

73

2225

89

70

HOUSA000069092964

011HO11232

ROSYLANE-LLC ALTAANTRIM

862

70

819

68

40

HOFRA005640184055

001HO03093

ELVYS ISY

860

73

1625

76

55

HOCAN000011230482

200HO06406

STANTONS EVEREST

859

72

1414

76

48

HOCAN000011161769

250HO01024

GENERVATIONS LATIMER

856

73

1556

65

64

HOFRA002941261203

200HO07449

CABON FERNAND

853

74

1425

99

65

HO840003006972816

007HO11314

MOUNTFIELD SSI DCY MOGUL-ET

849

74

1354

76

48

HOCAN000011203372

250HO01026

OCONNORS BAROMETER

847

74

776

92

38

HOUSA000068988032

007HO10848

LADYS-MANOR RD GRAFEETI-ET

845

74

937

86

43

HOFRA005610081711

200HO07461

DKR JAKARTA

844

74

1318

66

47

HOUSA000070344827

011HO11233

SYNERGY ALTAPILSNER-ET

844

70

1379

88

70

HOUSA000069981350

007HO11419

SEAGULL-BAY HEADLINER-ET

843

70

1885

96

67

HOUSA000069990271

029HO16494

DE-SU 1307 SALVADOR-ET

842

71

762

75

39

HOUSA000069092963

011HO11231

ROSYLANE-LLC ALTABARNEY

836

72

1344

67

57

Jersey ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs

JEUSA000117542312

029JE03791

CAL-MART RENEGADE HILARIO-ET

770

59

1039

82

52

JEUSA000115883929

200JE00060

BW RENEGADE-ET

712

79

914

86

47

JEUSA000117222740

029JE03761

ALL LYNNS LEGAL VISIONARY-ET

708

61

1752

70

65

JEUSA000066857901

011JE01114

WAUNAKEE LEGAL PERFORM

698

62

1463

54

49

JEUSA000117324107

001JE00792

SUNSET CANYON MACHETE-ET

687

56

1527

73

56

JEUSA000117422971

011JE01118

ALL LYNNS VALENTINO MARVEL

681

54

1809

66

61

JEUSA000117168941

007JE01150

SUNSET CANYON DIGNITARY-ET

673

60

1083

76

54

JEUSA000117763696

147JE06209

SUNSET CANYON MEGATRON-ET

673

58

1011

102

49

JEUSA000067104390

007JE01170

PEARLMONT RENEGADE DENZEL-ET

661

59

1178

56

46

JEUSA000117467479

001JE00803

HIGH LAWN VIBRANT SCORE-ET

657

59

1704

45

55

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 001 Genex Cooperative 100 MBC Drive P.O. box 469 Shawano, WI 54166 Ph: 715-526-2141 Fx: 715-526-3219 ~~~~~~

007 Select Sires, Inc. 11740 U.S. 42 North Plain City, OH 43064 Ph: 614-873-4683 Fx: 614-873-6073 ~~~~~~

011 Alta Genetics USA, Inc. P.O. Box 437 N8350 High Road Watertown, WI 53094 Ph: 920-261-5065 Fx: 920-262-8025 ~~~~~~

014 Accelerated Genetics E10890 Penny Lane Baraboo, WI 53913-9408 Ph: 608-356-8357 Fx: 608-356-4387 ~~~~~~

029 ABS Global 1525 River Road P.O. Box 459 Deforest, WI 53532 Ph: 608-846-3721 Fx: 608-846-6444 ~~~~~~

031 Golden State Breeders 18907 E. Lone Tree Road Escalon, CA 95320 Ph: 209-838-2342 Fx: 209-886-5030 ~~~~~~

054 Hawkeye Breeders Service 32642 Old Portland Road Adel, IA 50003 Ph: 515-993-4711 Fx: 515-993-4176 ~~~~~~

076 Taurus Service, Inc. 125 Taurus Lane P.O. Box 164 Mehoopany, PA 18629 Ph: 570-833-5513 Fx: 570-833-2690 ~~~~~~

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USDA USDA Sire Sire Summaries Summaries Ayrshir e

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097 CRV Holding B.V. P.O. Box 454 Arnhem 6800 AL The Netherlands Ph: 31-26-3898522 Fx: 31-26-3898591 ~~~~~~

ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk Fat Protein NM$ NM$ lbs lbs lbs

REDNK000000036412

236RD00061

R Fastrup

922

59

2063

89

80

SRSWE000000091804

249SR01804

O BROLIN ET

834

84

1466

86

70

147 Androgenics

AYFIN000000043642

263SR03642

Asmo Tosikko Et

791

61

2381

110

84

SRSWE000000092303

249SR02303

TOMTEBY

775

64

2016

78

66

P.O. box 183 Oakdale, CA 95361-0183 Ph: 209-847-1101 Fx: 209-847-1101 ~~~~~~

REDNK000000035965

236RD00033

R Bangkok

773

72

2089

90

71

200 Semex Alliance 130 Stone Road, West Guelph, ONT N1G 3Z2 Canada Ph: 518-821-5060 Fx: 519-821-9606 ~~~~~~ 236

Viking Genetics Ebeltoftvej 16 Assentoft Randers - DK8960 Denmark Ph: 45-8795-9435 Fx: 45-8795-9401 ~~~~~~

249 Viking Genetics Ornsro Box 64 Skara - 53221 Sweden Ph: 46-511-26700 Fx: 46-511-26707 ~~~~~~

250 Sire Lodge, Inc. Highway 501 South Cardston, AB T0K 0K0 Canada Ph: 403-653-4438 Fx: 403-653-3700 ~~~~~~

B r own Swiss ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs

BSUSA000000196826

014BS00314

HILLTOP ACRES H DRIVER ET *TM

619

84

1020

58

48

BSUSA000068129315

007BS00854

JOBO VIGOR BUSH ET *TM

537

61

748

22

27

BSUSA000068119645

054BS00482

VOELKERS TD CARTER *TM

523

62

1304

56

35

BSUSA000000198772

054BS00438

R N R PAYOFF BROOKINGS ET *TM

509

80

395

34

27

BSUSA000000198625

054BS00437

COZY NOOK BEAMER TORCH *TM

503

79

514

50

37

Guer nsey ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs

GUUSA000000604761

007GU00398

SNIDERS RONALDS ALSTAR

530

78

1126

49

25

GUUSA000000604588

200GU00111

MYOWN POKER BINGO-ET

522

71

715

47

29

GUUSA000000604960

007GU00405

GOLDEN J RONALD GRUMPY

478

74

618

41

23

GUGBR000020055012

031GU00629

LES JAONNETS CARA CONQUEROR

411

51

1651

70

24

GUUSA000068017224

007GU00434

SPRING WALK SHERBERTS MINT

388

56

43

22

19

Milking Shor thor n ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs

MSUSA000360012428

014MS00112

GE PANORAMA ROYAL TREBLE

658

62

1782

101

70

MSUSA000370012479

007MS00346

KULP-GEN JURIST ACE-ET

486

68

517

80

33

263 FABA Service Cooperative

MSUSA000000466355

014MS00113

BLISSFUL TED'S SPURGEON-ET

292

52

982

35

23

MSUSA000370010986

076MS00500

VINRA ACADEMY FIDO

261

59

1065

37

28

P.O. Box 95 Hollola 15871 Finland Ph: 358-40-311-5000 Fx: 358-40-381-2284 ~~~~~~

MSUSA000000451544

076MS00049

VINRA BAR-D FAMOUS-TWIN

256

80

723

22

24

534 Jetstream Genetics P.O. box 437 N8350 High Road Watertown, WI 53094 Ph: 920-621-5065 Fx: 920-262-8025 ~~~~~~

R e d & White ID

NAAB

Name

PTA PTA PTA REL Milk NM$ NM$ Fat Protein lbs lbs lbs 539

73

296

47

37

097WW06014 HEIHOEVE ARNOLD-RED

417

75

-763

25

8

WWNLD000396647605

097WW06923 DELTA FIDELITY

352

73

-13

59

42

WWNLD000363738611

097HO05935

WELBERGER SONLIGHT

309

79

-686

7

-2

WWNLD000341882275

097HO05372

HEIHOEVE DELTA SPENCER-RED

287

86

-957

8

20

WWNLD000530106845

097HO09995

WWNLD000345645432

FASNA ASTERIX

and +.06%, +11 P. Check out his ideal type profile and see he is +2.59 PTAT with +2.35 UDC, +2.11 F&L for a TPI of 1917, one of the highest for a bull over 95% reliability. Also consider his “G” brothers 76HO0632 PLEY & 76HO0634 PLED, plus his *RC brothers 76HO0580 PARK*RC by “Talent” and 76HO0577 PLATNUM*RC by “Advent”.

The Taurus “T” Sire line-up continually gets better and offers “Profitable Genetics” ™ for the

world. Be sure to see the line-up ranked in TTV (Taurus Total Value) order on our proof/price list. Some older Taurus sires like, 76HO0279 MR LEVEL +.32%, +90 F, and 76HO0446 ALLEGIANCE +2.63 T, and newer high reliability bulls like 76HO0551 SOLOMON; a Shottle x Mandel son, is positive on all of his production traits.

SOLOMON, aAa 453, provides top production from snug, well attached udders.

76HO0569

HITECH: (Goldwyn x Mtoto), is the choice for lowering SCS (2.61), higher Productive Life (4.2) and a higher DPR (2.0). With a calving ease of 6% and 264 aAa, he is a popular choice for any breeding philosophy. 76HO0500 REFRESH*RC A red factor “September Storm” son from the world famous “Roxy” family, REFRESH*RC on over +2 for type and both UDC and F&L composites. With an EFI of 4.3, high TTV, and generations of excellent

“Roxy” dams, REFRESH*RC is a wise choice for “Profitable Genetics” ™.

NEWLY “T” PROVEN R&W BULL 76HO0582 ABSOLUTE-RED (EX-92) has milking daughters winning major shows and fancy calves and heifers that are creating excitement. The son of “Apple EX-95”, ABSOLUTE-RED is the bull both B&W and R&W breeders are talking about.

His 60d/48h daughter proof is higher than his “G” evaluation by 11lbs Fat for +.25%, +39 F, and +.14%P. ABSOLUTE-RED’s first type proof shows a daughter average of 84.3 AASC and is +3.14 T(probably #1 in the breed) (+4.49 FS),

+2.96 UDC and +2.48 FL. 76HO0545 MAZDA-RED (EX-92) is now adding second crop daughters and has 159d/85h. He is 94% R and a good all around proof from the “Miss Special” family.

MAZDA-RED is at +1696 TPI is the R&W bull to continue using.

76HO0541 FUSION-RED (VG-88) is a “September Storm” son from the high test “Flossy” family that is 96% R, +.23%, +29 F, bull that sires exceptional Red & White’s.

76HO0550 TUNDEL-RED (EX-92) is the “Advent” son from the “Toby” family that ranks as one of the high type Red Sires at +2.82 and a great F&L improver at +3.14. His

TPI is 1659 and +2600TTV. Check out the new group of young Red Sires available from Taurus, including several polled bulls.

Browndale Specialty sires and Foundation sires are distributed exclusively by Taurus in the U.S. Newly proven from these affiliated companies are 80HO0323 Smithden AARON, the popular, newer Canadian sire with +591M and +1.70T, from Browndale

by Goldwyn from a great transmitting “Allen” daughter. Be sure to study both his U.S. and Canadian proof. From Foundation 80HO1084 Bosdale PIRATE by “Roy” aAa 156 and his 1st U.S. proof. 80HO1086 LUXOR +3.51T and 80HO1087 SHOWTIME +3.29T. Other Browndale & Foundation popular bulls are PURE GOLD aAa 426, GOLDEN BOY aAa 264, PARAMOUNT +1632 TPI +4.56T, MARINO aAa 612, DERINGER aAa 261, and of course two of the best red sires in the breed 80HO0317 REDLINER from Browndale and 80HO1068 REDLOU from Foundation.

Taurus Polled sires are offered in Holstein,

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Ag Progress Luncheon celebrates anniversary of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862

by Jon M. Casey The Government and Industry Day Luncheon at the 44th Annual Ag Progress Days, celebrated the sesquicentennial of The Morrill LandGrant Act of 1862 and the 100th Anniversary of the founding of 4-H. With more than 300 agricultural and government leaders on hand for the event, attendees heard how the LandGrant college system has worked through the years to maintain the highest standards of excellence for students and agriculture alike.

Penn State President Rodney Erickson said he believed that the passing of The Morrill LandGrant Act of 1862 was the most significant piece of legislation that Congress ever passed on behalf of colleges and universities in the history of this nation. “It is ar-

guably the single best investment that the federal government has ever made,” he said. “We have Justin Morrill, Congress and President Lincoln to thank for this.”

Acknowledging the more than 500 exhibitors from 31 states, including 50 from four Canadian provinces, on hand for this year’s Ag Progress Days, Erickson recognized the founding of 4-H in 1912. He also noted it was 150 years ago that Penn State University granted the first advanced degrees in Agricultural Science in the nation. “I’m happy to report that the College of Agricultural Sciences continues to be a traditional agricultural powerhouse with a 40-percent increase in student enrollment since 2004,” he said.

Erickson thanked everyone for their continued support during the recent difficult times

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surrounding Penn State, saying support within the agricultural community has been very much appreciated.

PA Secretary of Agriculture George Greig recalled that since the state’s founding, including his current service in the role, there have been 25 secretaries of agricul-

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At a cake-cutting commemorating the 150th anniversary of The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, several dignitaries do the honors. Shown L-R: Elliot Killian, County Commissioner for Ferguson Twp. in Centre County and distant relative of Justin Morrill; US Rep. Glenn Thompson (PA-5); PA State Senator, Elder Vogel, Jr.; PA Rep. John Mahr; Dennis Stuckey, Chair of the County Commissioner's Assn. of PA; and Bruce McPheron, Dean, PSU College of Agricultural Sciences.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012 • Wristband Day for Unlimited Rides • $13.00 Unlimited Ride Wristband sold 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Good until 5:00 PM • $15.00 Wristband sold 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Good until closing

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• Wrist-band Day for Unlimited Rides - Midway Opens at 11:00 AM • $12.00 Wristband sold 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM -Good until 5:00 PM • $14.00 Wristband sold 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Good until closing Judging Begins 8:00 AM Fruits, Vegetables 10:00 AM Resident Horses - Kick Off Fun Day (32) 10:00 AM Flowers, Creative Arts, Grange, Antiques 10:00 AM 4-H & Open Rabbit Judging (25) 11:00 AM NYS Horse Harness Racing 1:00 PM NYS High School Rodeo (20) 5:30 PM Bicycle Give-Away (19) 7:00 PM PROFESSIONAL RODEO (20) 7:00 PM 4-H & Open Pack Driving, Goat Competition & Livestock Obstacle Course

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8:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM

4-H Horse Show (20) 4-H Beef Showmanship & Breed Classes (28) Open Poultry Show (25) Open Class Beef Show - Breed Classes Baby Contest: Birth - Up to 1 year olds (14) -Sponsored by Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.

(Open to Montgomery & Fulton County Residents Only) 4-H Poultry Show (25) 4-H & Open Class Swine Show (28) Cichy’s Bike Night (14) Bicycle Give-Away (19) 4 Wheel Drive Outlaw Diesel Truck Pull (27) NBHA BARREL MEET (20) (Warm ups 5:00 PM) Dairy Goat Milking Contest

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Friday, August 31, 2012 - Leader Herald Day • Reduced Admission for Sr. Citizen’s until 5:00 PM • Free Admission for Children under age 14 until 5:00 PM • Children’s Day Bicycle Drawing Tickets will be available at all gates • $13.00 Unlimited Ride Wristband sold 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Good until 7:00 PM • $16.00 Wristband sold 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM - For Midway Magic Closing @ 1:00 AM 10:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:00 AM 11:00 AM

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(Open to Montgomery & Fulton County Residents Only) Hunt Seat Horse Show (20) 4-Wheel Drive Outlaw Gas Truck Pull (27) Kiddie Pedal Tractor Pull (26) Livestock Costume Class (28) Cow Chip Bingo - All Proceeds to CASA Montgomery & Fulton County (CASA = Court Appointed Special Advocates) Children from Fulton & Montgomery County Bicycle Give-Away (19) 4 Wheel Drive Outlaw Gas Truck Pull (27)

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Open Gymkhana NYSSHA Pointed (20) 4-H Pet, Pygmy and Dairy Goat Show (28) 4-H Dairy Judging Contest (28) Baby Contest: 3 & 4 year olds (14) -Sponsored by Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.

(Open to Montgomery & Fulton County Residents Only) Demolition Derby - (27) Big Car Giant Ice Cream Sundae (3) Bicycle Give-Away (19) Demolition Derby - Figure 8 Demo (27)

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Monday, September 3, 2012 - FREE GATE UNTIL NOON • $15.00 Unlimited Ride Wristband sold 11:00 AM to closing 9:00 AM Open Draft Animal Show (20) 12:00 Noon PARADE - Theme - Good Ol’ Days (27) 2:30 PM Demolition Derby - 1st Timers Male/Female Small Car Demo/Truck/Suburban/Mini- Van (27) 1:30 PM 4-H Livestock & Dairy Awards Ceremony (28) 6:00 PM Demolition Derby - Small Car (27)

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ture for Pennsylvania.

Recognizing the importance that this governmental office holds within the state, Greig announced he had invited the seven men who had held the office in the past. Since they were all able to attend the event this day, all seven would

be available for a meet and greet later in the day. “I know that these seven men are still advocating for agriculture, and I truly appreciate it,” he said.

Acknowledging the notable efforts of Pennsylvania state legislators for their work in passing

legislation to eliminate Pennsylvania’s “Death Taxes” for farm families, Grieg said he was pleased how state government has been working with agriculture to improve the relationship. Grieg said despite the current budget reductions at the state lev-

el, he is please with the funding still available for key programs like the PA Preferred Program and other important industry initiatives.

Bruce McPheron, Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences, focused his attention on the Morrill Land-Grant Act of

1862. He recalled how Penn State was already actively working in agricultural education when the act was signed into law. He said in April of 1863, the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania became the sole landgrant college in the state.

He said the state legisla-

George Greig, PA Secretary of Agriculture, recognizes Penn State's Cooperative Extension Service and the role it has played over the decades.

Bruce McPheron, Dean, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, welcomes alumni and special guests to the 2012 Ag Progress Days luncheon.

Photos by Jon M. Casey

ture pledged at that time, to support this endeavor to its fullest, which it has done to this day. “That partnership a century and one half later remains at the heart of our service…,” he said.

McPheron, who has since announced his resignation as College Dean, having accepted a new position at Ohio State University, said he is pleased with all of the activities that the School of Agricultural Sciences is doing both locally and internationally. He said the school’s faculty has been busy helping farmers around the world improve their farming efforts in many ways.

Some of these efforts include land nutrient studies, genetic improvements in plants and animals, and work with water quality to help environmental practices in the process.

He added that Penn State Extension is the “front door” to Penn State University for many students. “We want to have as many educators in the field as we possibly can,” he said. Despite recent budget cuts, there are

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Scenes from 2012 Empire Farm Days

Paul White, of PDW Farms in Fulton, NY, answered questions as he trimmed his goat at the Empire State Meat Goat Producers exhibit.

Members of the Steuben County Dairy Princess court were on hand to give out information on the importance of getting your 3-a-day of dairy. Left to right are Samantha Sullivan, Dairy Princess; Haley Grace, Ambassador; Alyssa Ross, Ambassador; Megan Ross, Ambassador and Sara Stierly, ambassador.

Mike Bednarek, of Jamesville, NY, shows off the moves of Royally Dun It as Harry Hurd, of Cuba, NY, on Barbie, narrates during the Intro to Working Cow Horses demonstration held Tuesday at the Equine Center round pens.

Leanne Fuller talks with a potential customer at MidYork Distributors.

A new addition to EFD this year was the Wind Energy Center where a variety of presentation were held to give farmers an idea of what is available for different sized farms.

Justin Schantal was ready to help with your dairy construction needs at ASAP Interiors.

The Dig Safely New York working model demonstrated

by Ken Klump and Sharon Kerxhalli is always a big draw. Don’t forget to call 811 before you dig.

Have rotting posts? Allen Homan was the man to see at the Perma Column booth.

Nate Leonard, RAPP Senior Field Coordinator, places folded plastic in the baler for Cornell’s agricultural plastics recycling demonstration as helper Gene Aarnio looks on.

In the Grange tent, with the help of a volunteer, Shirley and Peter At the Jamesway display, Northeast Territory Rep Lawatsch discussed search and rescue operations and how giving Mark Spoor, Brad Saunders and Jess Arnott were Kurtis LeMaire pointed out the special features of a child a simple garbage bag can protect him or her from the on hand at the Cargill booth to answer any their impressive line of equipment. elements until help arrives in the event of being lost in the woods. questions about their fine products.

Red Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey, Milking Shorthorn, and Lineback. The Taurus “T” proven polled, Holstein bulls 76HO0530 DUCKY-P-RED, 76HO0586 ICICLE-P*RC, 76HO0587 SNOWBALLP, and 76HO36673 TIMELESS-P-RED and “G” bulls 76HO0642 FRANK-P, 76HO0636 SYLVESTER-P *RC, 76HO0601 RASPBERRY-P-RED should be considered in addition to the other breeds.

Jersey sires — Taurus offers a very diversified line-up of sires that meet every breeder’s desire. The top type & JUI bulls are at Taurus along with outcross pedigrees and sons of the greatest show cows in the breed. Be sure to study the Jersey proof/price list and

don’t pass up 76JE0156 TEQUILA at +2.2T and +6.58JUI his milk proof went up +300 lbs. Several new polled bulls, and sexed semen may be available.

76JE0158 IMPACT is now +1335M, 76JE0145 LEGIONAIRE is +1.9T, and 76JE0157 BIG BOY increases to +439M. Also be sure to check out the Taurus Jersey Specialty Sires.

Taurus Ayrshire sires are world leaders. Taurus has the Ayrshire bulls for your pure-breeding program and crossbreeding. 76AY0748 DIEGO newly proven is +475 M, +.04%, +27 F, +.02%, +18 P, +1.0 Type. 76AY0732 GARTH is now +346 NM$, 76AY0735 SAVIOR is +536M, +.06%, +32F, +.03%, +22P, +315 NM$, and 76AY0741 PRUDENCE

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is +.8T, +250NM$. 76AY0739 MASTERPIECE is +613M and +.8T. Be sure to check out our young sire line-up.

Brown Swiss sires: 76BS0900 EVEN after a couple of base changes leads the world with the highest proof with numerous daughters. 76BS0914 ADAPTIC is “G” proven and +802M, +51 F, +34 P +220NM$ with +.8T. 76BS0915 NIAGRA is +319NM$ and +.4T. 76BS9016 EMORY semen is still available.

76BS0912 KOORS +.6T and 76BS0913 TEDDY +330M now have “T” proofs.

Taurus Guernsey sires: 76GU0804 ARCHIE is the sire for balance and has a good proof from a great cow family (EX-93 Aliyah then EX-95 Altann), with limited semen availability. 76GU0803 MASTERPIECE is +768M. 76GU0807 ACHIEVE (Golddust x Enhancer) is out of Altann herself.

Milking Shorthorn sires: The Taurus

program has a group of 19 bulls with 13 proven sires including the best, so consider 76MS0049 FAMOUS +256NM$, 76MS0432 LOGIC +.6 T, siring show winners. 76MS0438 LYMAN is also available, plus the All American, 76MS0500 FIDO is +1065M, and 76MS0441 PRINCE (sexed semen available), and 76MS0440 SNOOPY, 76MS0442 ROYALTY. American Lineback and Belted bulls including Red Sires are also available from Taurus. Note that we have new White Belted and Lineback “Shottle” sons. Check out these and the good selection plus CROSSBREED, FLECKVIEH, and KIWI sires available.

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Fish available for pond stocking The Rensselaer County Soil & Water Conservation District’s Annual Fish Stocking Program is currently taking orders for Rainbow and Brook Trout, as well as Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Fathead Minnows and Crayfish.

Call the Conservation District at 518-271-1740 for an order form with more information on stocking.

Act now. Orders will be taken up to

Oct. 5, with the distribution to be held on Friday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m.

The fish will be distributed in the parking lot of our Agriculture & Life Sciences Building in Troy, NY. A fishstocking permit is required through New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This permit is available free of charge and will last for five years. Fall is a great time to stock your pond.

Luncheon from A17 nine new departments within the college, with this new alignment helping to make their efforts more productive.

McPheron said food safety is one of the foremost efforts within the extension service, noting that a program called Good Agricultural Practices, or “GAPS” helps the food chain establish sound protocols for food safety. He said this fall, Penn State Extension and PDA would work together at the farm level to deliver these protocols and to help them adapt these new practices in their operations. He said the work will begin with the smaller farms and the efforts are intended to grow over time.

Others who offered comments during the luncheon included U.S. Senator Robert Casey;

U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson, (PA-5); PA State Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.; PA Rep. John

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restaurants throughout the year, but they are never as good as when there are tomatoes fresh from the garden.

My daughter brought cherry tomatoes from her garden to the fair. They tasted so good. My neighbor has had garden tomatoes at the stand in front of her home. I stop on my way past and pick up a tomato or two for lunch or supper. Elsie has had yellow tomatoes as well as red ones. She has had the plum tomatoes and the cherry tomatoes too. I usually take a yellow one and a red one. The yellow ones do not have as much acid so eating one of those in between helps my system stay in balance.

As school starts, it, too, reminds me of tomatoes.

Most of the time while I was teaching I carried my lunch. Recently I had my little red Tupperware lunch set with me and a lady commented on my container. She noted that

it had been around a long time. I remember purchasing my set of containers at a home party. I especially liked it because there were so many sizes of containers. I could put my beverage in one, my sandwich in another, and dessert in another. Since I brought them home each day I was not polluting the planet. I just washed up my set of containers and used them again the next day. Of course, I carried my silverware from home, too.

During harvest season I filled my containers with fresh vegetables from the garden. Lunch often consisted of cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, and cottage cheese. Usually I had an apple as my sweet treat or for my morning snack. Incidentally, teachers do not get coffee breaks as other employees are so used to. I ate my snack in my classroom when the children ate theirs.

When I instituted healthy snacks for my kindergarten class I taught by example. I ate what they ate, but I did have a cup of coffee with it. If I was fortunate enough to have a special class scheduled that day I enjoyed my snack in the lunch room provided for us. Often I took my planning material along because the special teacher was in my classroom with the children.

Once again the gar-

dens around here are iffy. If you got yours in at the right time things are fine. If you were too early you probably lost some of your plants to frost. If you got them in late, the drought most likely affected your harvest.

When I lived at home we depended on the farmers around us for fresh produce. Often right after supper we would take a ride out in the country to find fresh things for our table the next day. Homegrown cantaloupes cannot be beat. They taste nothing like the ones you buy from the store. The homegrown melons have soft flesh that is very sweet. My grandfather always used salt on his to enhance the flavor. I have gotten pretty good at picking melons that are just right. You can usually smell the melons as soon as you approach the counter. We also bought corn on the cob. I can still see Grandpa chomping into his ear of corn — even with his dentures — and relishing every bite. If grandma ate any, she cut it off the cob.

Summer squash was not as popular when I was a kid as it is today.

My family ate more winter squash than summer squash.

I recently bought a small zucchini and used it to make a sort of ratatouille. I cooked the squash in diced tomato along with pieces of celery and onion. I added some salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic and it was very tasty.

People say they do not like summer squash, but I think maybe they have not had it cooked properly. It takes the taste of whatever it is cooked with. If you are a meat lover cook the summer squash along with your meat. It will taste very much like those sweet caramelized onions that make those sausage sandwiches so good. The version I did resembled a wonderful vegetable soup base.

Just putting this column together is making me hungry. I will be enjoying another BLT sandwich for lunch. I just cannot seem to get enough of them.

Ann Swanson writes from her home in Russell, PA. Contact at hickoryheights1@verizon.net

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garden. Grandpa did not plant many things, but one of his favorite things to watch grow was tomatoes. He was not interested in the very large variety. He just wanted tomatoes that he could cut up to eat.

I am not a fan of the very large tomatoes either. I enjoy a tomato that I can eat in one setting. I like slices that are small enough to fit into a sandwich without hanging over the edge. One of my favorite sandwiches is the BLT, bacon, lettuce and tomato. When it was tomato season we enjoyed these tasty treats often. They made for a simple supper that could be whipped together when the harvesters appeared. Sometimes I put the fixings on a big platter and allowed my guests to fix their own sandwiches.

The BLT is a sandwich that is best with the homegrown tomatoes.

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Home,, Family,, Friendss & You Make now, bake later: meals in a pinch

(Family Features) — The refrigerator and freezer are wonderful kitchen tools if you use them to your advantage. Go-to dishes have never been easier, thanks to the classic preservation methods of refrigeration and freezing. With one stop at the grocery store you can have all the ingredients you need to create a variety of wholesome meals in a snap.

Know the storage basics. Heavy-duty freezer bags are perfect for keeping sauces, marinades and soups for up to one month, whereas glass containers can provide simple portion control for already assembled dishes. Well-wrapped, double-sealed meals will be less likely to get freezer burn and can be stored for up to two to three months. Make sure to clearly label and date your freezer meals for easy reference.

Thaw with care. There are several ways to thaw out your freezer meals, but only a couple of safe ones. You can place smaller containers in the refrigerator in the morning, and then pop them in the oven in the evening. If you are in a hurry, do a quick thaw by immersing the container in cold water or defrosting it on a low setting in the microwave.

Go Fifty-Fifty. Serve half to your family now, half later. This Fiesta Chicken, Rice and Bean Casserole made with the classic Mexican flavors of jalapeño, cumin, corn and black beans can be enjoyed more than once. The addition of instant chicken bouillon granules and evaporated milk give it an especially savory and creamy flavor.

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Fiesta Chicken, Rice and Bean Casserole (Makes 6 to 8 servings) 2 cups water

2 teaspoons Maggi Instant Chicken Flavor Bouillon 3/4 cup long-grain white rice 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup finely chopped onion 1 bell pepper, any color, chopped 1 jalapeño, seeded and chopped 1 to 2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 large cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 can (12 fluid ounces) Nestlé Carnation Evaporated Milk 2 large eggs, lightly beaten 3 cups cooked, chopped or shredded chicken breast meat (about 3 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves) 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeños 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed well and drained 1 1/2 cups frozen, thawed corn, drained 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro (optional) Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 13 x 9-inch or 3-quart casserole dish.

Bring water and bouillon to a boil in medium saucepan. Add rice; cover. Reduce heat to low; cook for 15 to 18 minutes or until rice is almost tender and most of liquid is absorbed (the rice will continue to cook in the casserole).

Melt butter in large saucepan over medium heat.

Add onion, bell pepper, jalapeño and cumin. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 minutes or until tender.

Stir in garlic; cook for 30 seconds or until fragrant.

Whisk together evaporated milk and eggs; stir into saucepan along with prepared rice, chicken, cheese, beans and corn. Spoon into prepared dish.

Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until bubbly and edges are golden. Sprinkle with cilantro before serving.

For freeze ahead: Prepare as above using two 2-quart casserole dishes; do not bake or sprinkle with cilantro. Allow casserole to cool to room temperature. Cover tightly with

plastic wrap, then with aluminum foil; freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw overnight in refrigerator. Uncover.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Sprinkle with cilantro before serving.

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“The entire transportation network has been vital to the U.S. soy industry, not only in moving our product to domestic processors but also in delivering U.S. soy to our international customers as well,” says Dale Profit, soybean farmer from Van Wert, Ohio, and USB director. “We need to protect this advantage if the United States is going to remain the preferred source for soy throughout the world.”

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soybean farmers as far as transportation costs, and we would lose that advantage.”

Improvements to the transportation infrastructure would make the movement of U.S. soy and other agricultural products more efficient, totaling expected cost savings to U.S. soybean and grain industries of $145.9 million annually, according to the study.

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Record 4-H and FFA Livestock Sale in Bradford County

by Thomas Maloney, Penn State Extension At the Bradford County 4-H/FFA Livestock Sale, held on Wednesday, July 25, 120 buyers spent almost $149,000 on market animals. Fifty-six pigs, 12 lambs, 23 steers, two pens of meat rabbits and 12 goats crossed the auction block. The livestock buyers supported 4-H members by buying their animals and by also donating animals for resale to support the 4-H scholarship fund, 4H building fund, 4-H exchange program, buying of awnings and fans for use at the Troy Fairgrounds, and to support the Troy Fair agricultural projects fund.

The first animal offered for sale was the 1,220 pound grand champion market steer raised by Tyson Harnish of the North Towanda 4H Club which received a price of $3.50 per pound from Talisman USA. The reserve grand champion 4-H market steer was raised by Javon Stringham of the Navigators 4-H Club.

The top bid for the 1,385 pound champion was made by Flynn Energy.

Twenty-one other market steers were sold for an average of $2.06 per pound. They ranged in price from $1.35 to $4.24 per pound.

Jenna Harnish of the North Towanda 4-H Club exhibited the grand champion swine. Tipping the scales at 264pounds, the hog was sold for $11.00 per pound to Chesapeake Energy.

Jessica Nolt of Leona 4H Club raised the reserve champion market swine weighing 244 pounds.

Bishop’s Construction purchased the animal for $5.75 per pound.

In addition to the champions, 54 market swine were sold at the auction bringing an average price of $4.19 per pound. The price per pound range was from $2 to $11 per pound.

Two pens of market rabbits were sold at the auction.

The grand champion rabbit pen exhibited by Haley Hemmerly of Northeast Ag and Home Ec 4-H Club and was purchased

by Chesapeake Energy for $925. The reserve grand champion pen shown by Ryan Smith also of Northeast Ag and

Morgen Davis with his reserve champion market goat.

Home Ec 4-H Club was purchased by Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority for $200.

The grand champion market goat, exhibited

by Montana Hildebrandt of Country Caregivers 4H Club and weighing 91 pounds was purchased

by Talisman USA for $7 per pound.

The reserve champion market goat belonging to Morgen Davis of the Leona Dairy 4-H Club weighed 64 pounds and was purchased by the First Citizen’s Community Bank for $6.50 per pound.

In addition to the champions 10 goats were sold for an average of 4.13 per pound. They ranged in price from $2 per pound to $13.50 per pound.

Jacob Hottle of the Udder Bunch 4-H Club exhibited the grand champion market lamb.

His lamb, weighing 111 pounds was purchased by the Dewart Livestock Market for $31 per pound.

The reserve champion lamb, exhibited by Richard Powell of the Udder Bunch 4-H Club was purchased by Longenecker Storage for $11.50 per pound.

The lambs brought an average price of $4.87 per pound. The prices ranged from $2 per pound to $31 per pound.

In addition to the champions, the youth of Bradford County raised a hog named “Tommy Bologna” to raise funds for the 4-H program endowment fund. That hog was sold for $956.25 to Lopatofsky Auctions.

Tyson Harnish donated his pig to North Towanda 4-H Club which then donated the pig for fans for the pig barn — the pig was purchased for $704 by Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority.

The top buyers included, Chesapeake Energy, Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority, Bryan’s Meat Cutting, Cargill Meat Solutions, Talisman USA, Columbia Cross Roads Equipment, Dandy Mini Marts, Judson’s Inc., Flynn Propane, Jennings

Javon Stringham at the 4-H/FFA Youth Livestock Sale 2012 with his reserve grand champion 4-H market steer.

Photos courtesy of Bradford County Extension Livestock buybacks Coal Sales, River Stone Dewart Livestock close to Inn, CDK Perforating, Market, B.C. Morrissey generated Bristol $16,000 total for and Williams Oil and Insurance, Propane, Wyalusing Excavating, Rockwell Bradford County 4-H Livestock, Bradford Feeds and Jennings and Troy Fair agricultural projects.

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TIRES 17.5R25 RADIAL steel cord tubeless 12ply. no cuts 4 also 18.4-38 on IH rim 1 used ask Jim. 518-686-5418.(NY)

PLOTT HOUND pups UKC registered, shots, wormed, 8 weeks, excellent pets and hunters, black brindle $250. Burlington Flats, NY. 607-965-8094

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Exceptional Agricultural 300+ Acres Dairy Farm

AUCTION

THURS.,, SEPT T 20TH @ 10 0 A.M. PRE E 9 A.M.. OR R CALLL FOR R APPOINTMENT

HELD @ 7145 ST. HWY 5S, FORT PLAIN, N.Y. MONTGOMERY COUNTY 500 COW FREE STALL BARN, 16 UNIT MILKING PARLOR, (EXPANDABLE TO 24), 4,000 GAL. BULK TANK, LG. BUNK SILO, 2 STORY OLDER 100 COW DAIRY PLUS POLE BARN. STATELY 1885+/- THERE IS A ROADWAY CONSTRUCTED THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE FARM & IS DIVIDED INTO 40 PADDOCKS W/ WATER SUPPLIED TO EACH PADDOCK. THIS IS EXCELLENT AGRICULTURAL LAND, LEVEL TO GENTLE ROLLING MEADOWS. LONG ROAD FRONTAGE AMPLE WATER. FARM IS VERY SUITABLE FOR BEEF, SHEEP, HORSES, DAIRY OR CROPLAND AND EXCELLENT PARCEL OF LAND ALL IN ONE BLOCK. REAL ESTATE BROKER JOHN L. SUBIK AUCTIONEER: JACK BELKNAP

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LLAND SALES STABLES, IN W HO E N Located 12 Miles East of Lancaster, PA Just Off Rt. 23, New Holland C. FREE Ice Cream

Complete 45 Cow Herd Dispersal

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for Abner Esh, Strasburg Rd., Paradise, PA

Wed., Aug. 29TH • 10:30 AM RHA over 19,500 Lbs. 3.7% BF Tie Stall Herd, AI Sired & Bred using Select Sires Low SCC, 5 Dry due in Sept.

Good Uddered Herd of Cows with Good Feet & Legs.

ALL CONSIGNMENTS WELCOME Cows - Heifers - Bulls Thank You

SALE MANAGED BY: New Holland Sales Stables, Inc. David Kolb 61-L

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

SPECIAL HEIFER SALE Wednesday, September 12TH SPECIAL FEEDER CATTLE SALE Fri. Eve., September 28TH

California Dairy Producers Fighting Their State For Their Livelihoods Issued Aug. 17, 2012 Hot weather remains in the spotlight as Class III futures entered the $20 zone this week for the first time in a long time. The cash dairy markets awaited Friday afternoon’s July Milk Production report, which I will detail next week.

Block cheese hit $1.90 per pound but gave some back Friday to close at $1.87, up a penny and a half on the week but still 3 cents below a year ago.

Barrel closed at $1.8350, also up 1 1/2-cents on the week and 2 3/4cents below a year ago when they rolled almost

22 cents lower. Only two cars of block traded hands this week and 13 of barrel. The AMS-surveyed U.S. average block price inched 0.6 cent higher, to $1.7170. Barrel averaged $1.7132, down 0.6 cent.

Cheese inventories are “in a normal range which manufacturers are comfortable with,” according to USDA’s Dairy Market News. Milk supplies are tightening seasonally in much of the country, USDA says, but there is uncertainty over what impact the prolonged drought will have on feed and hay supplies and hence, milk production available for making cheese.

Butter was bid 4 1/4-

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Cattle & Machinery Mose & Leah Yoder

Fri., August 31 @ 10 am

cents higher, to $1.7925, 29 1/2-cents below a year ago. Nothing sold in the cash market. AMS butter averaged $1.6601, up 2.9 cents.

Churning across the country is challenged by tightening cream supplies. Many butter producers believe cream supplies will remain snug for the next few weeks as school bottling standardizing resumes but as Class II demand eases further, cream supplies should become more available. USDA says overall volumes of standardized cream may be lighter this year as butterfat levels in milk have been lower for much of the summer.

Limited supplies are often causing butter producers to reach into inventories to fulfill butter demand which is steady, according to USDA. Some producers are concerned about upcoming tight milk supplies due to drought, heat, and feed costs and supplies that will probably short milk for butter production before the impact is felt by cheese plants.

Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed the week

17 cents higher, at $1.65, and Extra Grade closed at $1.6250, up 18 1/2-cents. AMS powder averaged $1.2467, up 3.2 cents, and dry whey averaged 52.91 cents, up 0.9 cent.

The August 10 Daily Dairy Report (DDR) said that “Despite record-large acreage, this year’s corn crop is 13 percent smaller than last year’s, according to USDA’s monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.

USDA projects farmers will abandon 9 million corn acres and harvest 10.8 billion bushels of corn, the smallest crop in six years as pointed out last week.

The drought-reduced crop leaves ending stocks at 650 million bushels, only 5.8 percent of annual demand, the smallest stocks-to-use ratio since 1995-96, according to the DDR, which warned: “End users will have to ration demand.”

The DDR’s Sarina Sharp points out in the DDR’s Daily Dairy Discussion on its website that end users will be vying for the available corn

Mielke B17

1400 Stone Arabia Road, Fort Plain NY 13339, Exit 29 (Canajoharie) off Route 90, take Route 10 North 5 miles to Stone Arabia Road then 2 1/2 miles East to the farm.

Livestock 31 head of mature dairy cows certified organic 4 just fresh, 9 dry, 5 bagging heifers, Rest due in the fall & early winter, Half herd is Holstein / half Holstein cross, Team of Belgians 12 & 16 years old mare & gelding, Grey Percheron cross mare 8 years old, Belgian standard cross bred 9 years old good road horse, Belgian gelding 3 years old, Belgian gelding 18 years old, Black Percheron gelding 12 years old, All horses well broke to all farm work, 2 butcher hogs & rabbits.

Farm Machinery IH 13 hole grain drill, IH #9 hay mower, IH #6 hay mower, Woodhull manure spreader, JD side delivery rake, IH corn binder, JD cultivator, Large windrower, Hostetler 14" plow, 10' double cultipacker, Spring tooth drag, E-Z trail wagon w/hay rack, Running gear, 24' corn elevator, Potato digger, Open buggy, Snow scoop, Dirt scoop, Bob sled, Walking plow, 4 cylinder Continental gas engine on trailer, Buzz saw, 3 ton wood feed bin, 8 x 12 chicken coop.

D.R. CHAMBERS & SONS, INC. 76 Maple Ave. - Unadilla, NY 13849

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CAMP HORSE SALE FRIDAY AUGUST 31, 2012 TACK AT 1PM -- HORSES AT 6PM We have 4 loads of camp horses coming.

Plus a load out of the West.

Barn Equipment & Household 500 gallon stainless steel bulk tank flat bottom, 2 - 8 can coolers, Rabbit hutches, Chicken feeders, Chicken nests, Shoeing stocks, Fanning mill, Silo ladder and cage, Stainless steel pails, Eveners, 2 sets leather draft horse harness, 1 set leather draft horse harness with stainless steel hardware, 3 wagons of farm smalls, 14" table saw flat belt drive, 8" Craftsman table saw, Belt powered hack saw, Heavy duty sewing machine, New lumber includes: ash, hard maple, & cherry, Used oak flooring, Cast iron kettle w/handle, Maytag ringer washer, Chairs, Glider, Teacher desk, Crib, Other furniture, Love ring quilt 90 x 106, Currier & Ives "Early Winter", by Royal china set.

Consignments Pioneer riding plow, Steel wheel wagon w/flat rack, Rubber tire wagon w/box, 3 pt bale spear, 10 plastic 55gln barrels.

Lunch - Provided by the Amish ladies, Baked Goods Sale Terms - Cash, Check / No Buyer's Premium

Mike Peterson Auctions Jamestown, NY 14701 Office: 716-484-3387 • Cell: 716-665-0668

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Draft Horse and Fall Round Up Sale October 12, 2012 at 10am Special Feeder Sale Every Wednesday following the dairy @ 3pm.

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AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 Monday, August 27 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752.

• 12:00 Noon: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585-584-3033, Sue Rudgers, Manager, 518-584-3033 • 12:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Calves. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin) . Misc. & Small Animals. 12:30 Produce, 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy.

Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. Misc. & Small Animals. 12:30 Produce, 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. . Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Horses & Hay. 1:30 pm Calves & Beef. Regular Monday schedule. Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Special - Emergency Health Issues Complete Dairy Dispersal. Reg. Grade Hols. & 1 Jersey. 59 head - 47 milking age, 10 open & yearlings & 2 hfr. calves. Misc. & Small Animals.

12:30 Produce, 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. Tom

& Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-322-3500, sale barn 315287-0220 • 4:00 PM: Chatham Market, 2249 Rte. 203, Chatham, NY. Regular Sale. Harold Renwick, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-392-3321.

Tuesday, August 28 • 1:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Consigned from Washing Co. Farmer. Overstocked sends 10 fresh hfrs., Hols.

X. All have had 9 way & have been wormed.

Real nice group of hfrs. Dairy, sheep, goats, pigs and horses; 3:30 PM feeders followed by beef and calves. Tim Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800-3213211.

Wednesday, August 29 • Atkins, VI. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • The Pines Farm, Barton, VT. 153rd Top of Vermont Invitation Dairy Sale. 150 head expected.

Sale Managers, Northeast Kingdom Sales, 802525-4774, neks@together.net, Auctioneer Reg Lussier 802-626-8892 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 1:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Calves followed by beef. Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105

B RO U G HT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES Rte. 125, E. Middlebury, VT 05740 Sale every Monday & Thursday Specializing in Complete Farm Dispersals “A Leading Auction Service” In Vt. 800-339-2697 or 800-339-COWS 802-388-2661 • 802-388-2639 ALEX LYON & SON Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc. Jack Lyon Bridgeport, NY 315-633-2944 • 315-633-9544 315-633-2872 • Evenings 315-637-8912 AUCTIONEER PHIL JACQUIER INC. 18 Klaus Anderson Rd., Southwick, MA 01077 413-569-6421 • Fax 413-569-6599 www.jacquierauctions.com Auctions of Any Type, A Complete, Efficient Service philcorn@jacquierauctions.com AUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL 808 Borden Rd., Buffalo, NY 14227 800-536-1401 www.auctionsinternational.com BENUEL FISHER AUCTIONS Fort Plain, NY 518-568-2257 Licensed & Bonded in PA #AU005568

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• 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Thursday, August 30 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop off only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 9:30 AM: Newark Valley, NY. Large Public Auction. Farm Tractors, Combines, Grain & Gravity Wagons, Farm Machinery, Skid Steers & more.

Cosignments welcome. Goodrich Auction Service, Inc., 607-642-3293 www.goodrichauctionservice.com or auctionzip.com • 12:30 PM: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585-584-3033, Sue Rudgers, Manager, 518-584-3033 • 1:15 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Our usual run of dairy cows, heifers & service bulls.

Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-322-3500, sale barn 315287-0220 • 5:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Calves, followed by Beef. Tim

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Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800-321-3211.

Friday, August 31 • 6:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Horse Sales every other Friday. Tack at 1 pm, horses at 6 pm. D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-369-8231 www.drchambersauction.com Saturday, September 1 • 9:00 AM: Glimmerglass Pools, 55 Willett St., Fort Plain, NY. Public Auction. Shrubs, nursery stock, guns, antiques, tools, fruit. Consignments wanted. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 Monday, September 3 • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Labor Day will be open as normal. Monthly Feeder & Fat Cow sale. Tom & Brenda Hoskings 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-9721770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY. Labor Day will be open as normal, monthly feeder and fat cow sale. Misc. & small animals.

12:30 produce, 1 PM dairy. We now sell lambs, goats, pigs & feeders immediately following dairy. Calves & cull beef app. 5-5:30 PM. Tom & Brenda Hosking, 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, September 5 • 10:00 AM: New Haven, VT. Selling 181 head Holsteins, Farm & Barn equip and feed for Paul and Suzanne Andy. Wrights Auction Service, 802-334-6115 • 10:00 AM: New Haven, VT. Selling 181 head holsteins, farm & barn equipment and feed for Paul and Suzann Audy. Wrights Auction Service, 802-334-6115 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515

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D.R. CHAMBERS & SONS 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY 13849 607-369-8231 • Fax 607-369-2190 www.drchambersauction.com EMPIRE LIVESTOCK MARKETING LLC 5001 Brittonfield Parkway P.O. Box 4844, East Syracuse, NY 315-433-9129 • 800-462-8802 Bath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607-776-2000 Burton Livestock . . . . . . . . . . .315-829-3105 Central Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . .518-868-2006 Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .518-392-3321 Cherry Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . .716-296-5041 Dryden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607-844-9104 Farm Sale Division . . . . . . . . . .315-436-2215 Gouverneur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315-287-0220 Half Acre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315-258-9752 Pavilion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .585-584-3033 FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK 3 miles east of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20.

Livestock Sale every Wednesday at 1 PM Feeder Cattle Sales monthly Horse Sales as scheduled 585-394-1515 • Fax 585-394-9151 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

FRANKLIN USED EQUIPMENT SALES, INC. AUCTION SERVICE Franklin, NY 607-829-5172 Over 30 Years Experience in Farm Equipment Auctions Frank Walker, Auctioneer P.O. Box 25, Franklin, NY 13775 fwalker2@stny.rr.com FRALEY AUCTION CO. Auctioneers & Sales Managers, Licensed & Bonded 1515 Kepner Hill Rd., Muncy, PA 570-546-6907 Fax 570-546-9344 www.fraleyauction.com GENE WOODS AUCTION SERVICE 5608 Short St., Cincinnatus, NY 13040 607-863-3821 www.genewoodsauctionserviceinc.com GOODRICH AUCTION SERVICE INC. 7166 St. Rt. 38, Newark Valley, NY 13811 607-642-3293 www.goodrichauctionservice.com H&L AUCTIONS Malone, NY Scott Hamilton 518-483-8787 or 483-8576 Ed Legacy 518-483-7386 or 483-0800 518-832-0616 cell Auctioneer: Willis Shattuck • 315-347-3003

To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Thursday, September 6 • 1:00 PM: 10400 Gillette Rd., Alexander, NY. WNY Gas & Steam Engine Assoc. 2nd. Annual Consignment. 1st day of show Sept. 6-9. Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585-396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm Friday, September 7 • 10:30 AM: 163 Strumlock Rd, Poland, NY. Cattle, machinery, milking and barn equip. and more.

David Unger & Gene Woods Auction Service www.genewoodsauctionservice.com • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-7298030 Saturday, September 8 • Jacksonville, NC. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • North Country Storage Barns. 2nd Annual Shed and Shrubbery Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 • 9:00 AM: Town of Lansing Highway Dept., Rts. 34 & 34B, Lansing, NY. Municipal Surplus & Contractor Equipment Auction. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 10:00 AM: North Rd., (Wyben Section) Westfield, MA. Tractors & Cattle Trailer; Horse related items & Antiques Furniture Toy Trucks, Tonkas, early games & comics.

Jacquier Auctioneers, 413-569-6421 www.jacquierauctions.com

• 11:00 AM: Morrisville, NY. 30th Annual Morrisville Autumn Review Sale. 90 head. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Monday, September 10 • 1:00 PM: Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Monthly Heifer Sale. 10 Registered Brown Swiss all milking age - show quality. Group of open heifers from one farm. Followed by sheep, lamb, goats, pigs & feeders. Calves & cull beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. . Tom & Brenda Hoskings 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-9721770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, September 12 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Friday, September 14 • Albany, NY. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 11:00 AM: Smyrna, NY. Frog Rock Farm Complete Milking herd & Bred Heifer Dispersal. 55 head All AI sired Holsteins. 35 milking age with 10 fresh in the last 60 days ave. 56# day - year around herd. Per request of the farmer inspection of cattle from 2:30-5 pm Monday - Thurs. prior to sale. Owner Pete Maynard. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Saturday, September 15 • Boston, MA. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944

www.lyonauction.com • 8:00 AM: Teitsworth Auction Yard, 6502 Barber Hill Rd., Geneseo, NY. Special Fall Consignment Auction. Farm & Construction Equipment. Heavy & Light Trucks. Consignments welcome. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Saturday Horse Sales. Tack at 9 am, sale at 10 am. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 11:00 AM: Malone, NY. 2nd Annual Franklin Co. Auction. Seized vehicles, cars, trucks, 4 wheelers, snowmobiles, heavy equipment. H&L Auctions, Scott Hamilton 518-483-8787, cell 518-569-0460. Edeard Legacy 518-483-7386, cell 518-832-0616.

Monday, September 17 • 11:00 AM: Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Monthly sheep, lamb, goat & pig sale. Special for this week. Montgomery Co. Herd - 35 Head Dairy 30 cows & 5 close bred heifers. Year around herd ave. 50# AI sired, AI bred. Mostly Holsteins, few crosses with 4-5 R&W Holsteins. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY. Monthly sheep, lamb, goat & pig sale. Misc & small animals. 12:30 produce, 1 PM dairy. We now sell lambs, goats, pigs & feeders immediately following dairy. Calves & cull beef app 55:30 PM. Tom & Brenda Hosking, 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, September 19 • Atlanta, GA. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 3:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Dairy Day Special Feeder Sale. Every Wednesday following Dairy. D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-369-8231 www.drchambersauction.com Friday, September 21 • Parkersburg, WV. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com Saturday, September 22 • Scranton, PA. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • Scranton, PA. Complete Liquidation: Aggregate, Construction, Support Equipment, Truck Tractors, Dump Trucks & Trailers. A. Lyon & Son 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 9:00 AM: Routes 39 & 219, Springville, NY. Lamb & Webster Used Equipment Auction. Farm Tractors & Machinery. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. .

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 10:00 AM: Fuller St, Ludlow, MA. JD Skidsteer; Tractors; Tools; Horse Drawn Mowers & Equip-

PA RT I C I PAT I N G A U C T I O N E E R S HARRIS WILCOX, INC. Bergen, NY 585-494-1880 www.harriswilcox.com Sales Managers, Auctioneers, & Real Estate Brokers HILLTOP AUCTION CO. 3856 Reed Rd., Savannah, NY 13146 Jay Martin 315-521-3123 Elmer Zieset 315-729-8030 HOSKING SALES Sales Managers & Auctioneer 6810 W. River Rd., Nichols, NY 13812 Tom & Brenda Hosking • AU 005392 Looking to have a farm sale or just sell a few?

Give us a call. Trucking Assistance. Call the Sale Barn or check out our trucker list on the Web site.

607-699-3637 • Fax 607-699-3661 www.hoskingsales.com hoskingsales@stny.rr.com HOSKING SALES-FORMER WELCH LIVESTOCK MARKET Tom & Brenda Hosking • AU 008392 P.O. Box 311, New Berlin, NY 13411 607-847-8800 • 607-699-3637 cell: 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com hoskingsales@stny,rr.com

KELLEHER’S AUCTION SERVICE 817 State Rt. 170 Little Falls, NY 13365 315-823-0089 • 315-868-6561 cell We buy or sell your cattle or equipment on commission or outright! In business since 1948 LEAMAN AUCTIONS LTD 329 Brenneman Rd., Willow St., PA 17584 717-464-1128 • cell 610-662-8149 auctionzip.com 3721 leamanauctions.com MEL MANASSE & SON, AUCTIONEERS Sales Managers, Auctioneers & Real Estate Brokers Whitney Point, NY Toll free 800-MANASSE or 607-692-4540 Fax 607-692-4327 www.manasseauctions.com MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION 488 Cherry Hill Rd., Middlefield, CT 06455 Sale Every Monday Lisa Scirpo 860-883-5828 Sales Barn 860-349-3204 Res. 860-346-8550

NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLE Norman Kolb & David Kolb, Sales Mgrs.

Auctions Every Mon., Wed., & Thurs.

717-354-4341 Sales Mon., Wed. • Thurs. Special Sales

R.G. MASON AUCTIONS Richard G. Mason We do all types of auctions Complete auction service & equipment Phone/Fax 585-567-8844

NORTHEAST KINGDOM SALES INC. Jim Young & Ray LeBlanc Sales Mgrs. • Barton, VT Jim - 802-525-4774 • Ray - 802-525-6913 neks@together.net

ROY TEITSWORTH, INC. AUCTIONEERS Specialist in large auctions for farmers, dealers, contractors and municipalities.

Groveland, Geneseo, NY 14454 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com

NORTHAMPTON COOP. AUCTION Whately, MA • Farmer Owned Since 1949 Livestock Commission Auction Sales at noon every Tues.

Consignments at 9 AM 413-665-8774 NORTHERN NEW YORK DAIRY SALES North Bangor, NY 518-481-6666 Sales Mgrs.: Joey St. Mary 518-569-0503 Harry Neverett 518-651-1818 Auctioneer John (Barney) McCracken 802-524-2991 www.nnyds.com PIRRUNG AUCTIONEERS, INC. P.O. Box 607, Wayland, NY 14572 585-728-2520 • Fax 585-728-3378 www.pirrunginc.com James P. Pirrung

TOWN & COUNTRY AUCTION SERVICE Rt. 32 N., Schuylerville, NY 518-695-6663 Owner: Henry J. Moak WILLIAM KENT, INC. Sales Managers & Auctioneers Farm Real Estate Brokers • Stafford, NY 585-343-5449 www.williamkentinc.com WRIGHT’S AUCTION SERVICE 48 Community Dr., Derby, VT 14541 802-334-6115 www.wrightsauctions.com

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Auction Calendar, Continued (cont. from prev. page) ment, Bumper Livestock Trailer. Jacquier Auctioneers, 413-569-6421 www.jacquierauctions.com Monday, September 24 • Dallas, TX. A.Lyon & Son www.lyonauction.com Wednesday, September 26 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Thursday, September 27 • Charleston, SC. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 10:00 AM: Bath, NY. Steuben Co Surplus Equipment, Vehicles, & Buses Auction. Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc. www.pirrunginc.com Friday, September 28 • Chicago, Il. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com Saturday, September 29 • Atlantic City, NJ. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • Twister Valley, Fort Plain, NY. Power Sports Consignment Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 • 10:00 AM: 43 Meadowbrook Rd, Granby, CT. Complete Commercial Woodworking Shop & Antiques. Jacquier Auctioneers, 413-569-6421 www.jacquierauctions.com Sunday, September 30 • Atlantic City, NJ. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com Wednesday, October 3 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Friday, October 5 • Lapeer, MI. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-7298030 Saturday, October 6 • 9:00 AM: 145 Paul Rd., Exit 17, Rt. 390, Rochester, NY. Monroe County Municipal Equipment Auction. Heavy Construction Equipment, Cars & Trucks. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. .

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, October 10 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Saturday, October 13 • Odessa, TX. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of Utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. OHM Holstein Club Sale. Sale hosted by Roedale Farms in Richfield

Springs. Brad Ainslie sale chairman 315-8226087. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 9:00 AM: Hamburg Fairgrounds, Hamburg, NY . Municipal & Contractor Equipment Auction. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 11:00 AM: Ben K. Stoltzfus Farm, Intercourse, PA. Vison-Gen & Friends Sale. Co-managed with Stonehurst Farm. 100 outstanding Holsteins, many with contract Genomic pedigrees. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Sunday, October 14 • 1:00 PM: Cohocton, NY. Komma Land Auction.

321 acres in two parcels of outstanding private hunting and recreational lands plus agricultural lands with rental income. Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc. www.pirrunginc.com Wednesday, October 17 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Saturday, October 20 • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Eastern Breeders Brown Swiss Sale. Sale managed by Modern Associates, Hosking Sales assisting. Call with your consignments. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. .

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 11:00 AM: Hobart, NY. Hosking Farm Complete Dispersal. 120 Holsteins. Don & Joanne Hosking.

Tremendous cow families, quality, low SCC & lots of type & production. The Cattle Exchange, 607746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Wednesday, October 24 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Thursday, October 25 • Pigeon Acres Farm, Manheim PA. Selling complete dairy of 175 mature cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 Saturday, October 27 • 9:00 AM: Syracuse, NY (NYS Fairgrounds).

Onondaga Co. area Municipal Equipment Auction. Municipal & Contractor Equipment. . Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 • 11:00 AM: Cornell Livestock Pavilion, Ithaca, NY. The NY Holstein Harvest Sale. 100 of the finest Holsteins to sell all year!. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Wednesday, October 31 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

• 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Thursday, November 1 • 11:00 AM: Reserved for major Holstein Herd Dispersal in NY. The Cattle Exchange, 607-7462226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Friday, November 2 • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-7298030 Saturday, November 3 • Canastota, NY. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin) . Fall Premier All Breed Sale. Call early to consign to make catalog & advertising deadlines. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, November 7 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Friday, November 9 • Pleasant Lane Beef Farm, Hannibal, NY. Selling complete line of late model equipment. (Save the date, late model equip. you don’t find at absolute public auction.) Ray was very successful and equip. is in great shape with most only few years old. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 Saturday, November 10 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. .

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, November 14 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Wednesday, November 21 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, November 28 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Thursday, November 29 • 11:00 AM: Lampeter, PA. Destiny Road Holstein Dispersal. Jay Stolzfus, owner. The Cattle Ex-

change, 607-746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, December 1 • 9:00 AM: Teitsworth Auction Yard, 6502 Barber Hill Rd., Geneseo, NY. Special Winter Consignment Auction. Farm & Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks, Liquidations & Consignments. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, December 5 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Saturday, December 8 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Saturday Horse Sales. Tack at 9 am, sale at 10 am. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, December 12 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, December 19 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale.

Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-2965041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Wednesday, December 26 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Regular Livestock Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-3941515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716450-0558 Friday, April 5 • Intercourse, PA. Past Present Future Sale hosted by C.K. Kerrick & Matt Kimball. Held at te Ben K. Stolzfus sale barn. Co-Managed by The Cattle Exchange & Stonehurst Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226 daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middlefield, CT August 20 2012 Calves: 45-60# 22-28; 6175# 35-40; 76-90# 42.50-45; 91-105# 47.50-50; 106# & up 52.50-55.

Farm Calves: 60-1.10 Started Calves: 32-35 Veal Calves: 85-1.37 Open Heifers: 83-1.10 Beef Heifers: 83-85 Feeder Steers: 85-1.25 Beef Steers: 85-1.09 Stock Bull: 97-1.25 Beef Bull: 75-96 Sows: No Report.

Feeder Pigs (ea): 55-75 Sheep (ea): 60-110 Lambs (ea): 45-150 Goats (ea): 35-125 Kids Goats (ea): 35-55 Canners: up to 74.50 Cutters: 75-80 Utility: 81-85 Rabbits: 3-41 Chickens: 3-13 Ducks: 8-21 ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES East Middlebury, VT August 20, 2012 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 89.50; Breakers 75-80% lean 76.5082; Boners 80-85% 72.5083; Lean 85-90% lean 1000# & up 61.50-78.50; Lean 8590% lean under 1000# 4066.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls 92-125# 70-122.50; 80-90# 70-80.

Vealers: 100-120# 55-65; 90-100# 52-75; 80-90# 4570; 70-80# 30-55; 60-70# 2030.

COSTA & SONS LIVESTOCK & SALES Fairhaven, MA August 15, 2012 Cows: Canners 20-73; Cutters 73.50-80; Util 81.5088.50.

Bulls: 98-99.50 Steers: Hols. 81-85 Heifers: Sel 91 Calves: 20-175 ea.

Feeders: 71-108 Lambs: 150-190 Goats: 51-219 ea.

Kids: 33-148 ea.

Feeder Pigs: 36-71 ea.

Chickens: 2-10.50 Rabbits: 2-14 Ducks: 3-19 *Sale every Wed. at 7 pm.

FLAME LIVESTOCK Littleton, MA August 21, 2012 Beef Cattle: Canners 40-68; Bulls 90-105; Cutters 55-74; Steers Hols. 80-100; Util 7585; Hfrs 75-85.

Calves: Growers 75-102; Veal 80-110; Hfrs 60-90.

Hogs (ea): Market 45-50; Sows 30-35; Boars 10.

Sheep: 50-80 Lambs: 1.10-1.70

Goats (ea): 50-140; Billies 120-175.

NORTHAMPTON COOPERATIVE AUCTION, INC Whately, MA August 21, 2012 Calves (/cwt): 0-60# 5-20; 61-75# 20-66; 76-95# 40-76; 96-105# 64-70; 106# & up 50-75.

Farm Calves: 80-115/cwt Start Calves: 81/cwt Feeders: 127/cwt Heifers: 71-87/cwt Bulls: 74/cwt Rep. Heifers: 680-929 ea.

Rep. Cows: 1165 ea.

Canners: 25-55/cwt Cutters: 57-68.50/cwt Utility: 69-80.50/cwt Sows: 35.50/cwt Feeder Pigs: 30-36 ea.

Lambs: 105-190/cwt Sheep: 47.50-130/cwt Goats: 11-225 ea.

Rabbits: .50-12.50 ea.

Poultry: .50-15 ea.

Hay: 5 lots, 2.70-3.90/bale.

HACKETTSTOWN AUCTION Hackettstown, NJ No Report CAMBRIDGE VALLEY LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Cambridge, NY No report EMPIRE LIVESTOCK MARKET Chatham, NY Calves: Grower over 92# 85-105; Grower 80#-92# 6585; Bob Veal Calves 63-70.

Cull Cows: Good Cows 7985.5; Lean Cows 68-7.95; Heavy Beef Bulls 84-92.

Beef: Veal 114-120; beefheifers 90-92.50.

Lamb & Sheep: Feeder 180-200; Market 135-160; Slaughter Sheep 63-70.

Goats: ($/#) 135-180; Nannies 110-130; Kid Goats 5070.

Swine: Boar .11 BURTON LIVESTOCK Vernon, NY August 13, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. .50-1.20; Grower Bull over 92# .80-1.50; 8092# .50-1; Bob Veal .10-.60.

Cull Cows: Gd .64-.88; Lean .45-.74; Hvy Beef Bulls .72.99.

Dairy Replacements: Fresh Cows 900-1350; Handling Hfrs. 800-1250; Springing Hfrs 850-1400; Bred Hfrs 700-1200; Fresh Hfrs 7501450; Open Hfrs 450-1000; Started Hfrs 150-500; Service Bulls 500-1000.

Beef: Feeders .60-1.25 Lamb & Sheep: Market 11.80; Slaughter Sheep .20.65.

Goats: Billies .75-1.65; Nannies .65-1.25; Kids .10-.65.

Swine: Sow .30-.50

CENTRAL BRIDGE LIVESTOCK Central Bridge, NY No Report

Gouverneur

CHATHAM MARKET Chatham, NY No Report CHERRY CREEK Cherry Creek, NY August 15, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. 1-1.70; Grower Bulls over 92# .75-1.15; 8092# .70-1.05; Bob Veal .10.65.

Cull Cows: Gd .75-.87; Lean .46-.75; Hvy. Beef Bulls .90-1.

Dairy Replacements: Springing Hfrs 800-1260; Bred Hfrs 675-1150; Fresh Hfrs 685-1100; Open Hfrs 400-800; Started Hfrs 185300; Service Bulls 425-750.

Beef: Veal 1.01-1.20; Hols.

Ch .97-1; Hols. Sel .85-.92.

Lambs: Market 1.20-1.525; Slaughter Sheep .38-.55.

Goats: Nannies .70-.85 Swine: Hog .40-.78; Sow .27-.32.

DRYDEN MARKET Dryden, NY August 13, 2012 Calves: Grower Bulls over 92# .90-1.40; 80-92# .70-1; Bob Veal .10-.50.

Cull Cows: Gd .76-.84; Lean .67-.75; Hvy. Beef Bulls .78.83.

Goats: Nannies 70-125 Swine: Hog .54-.55 GOUVERNEUR LIVESTOCK Governeur, NY August 16, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. .60-1.35; Grower Bulls over 92# .701.40; 80-92# .68-1.15; Bob Veal .30-.60.

Cull Cows: Gd .785-.865; Lean .70-.78; Hvy. Beef Bulls .77-.975.

PAVILION MARKET Pavilion, NY August 13, 2012 Calves: Hfr. Calves 1-1.45; Grower Bulls over 92# .851.075; 80-92# .65; Bob Veal .30-.50.

Cull Cows: Gd .73-.80; Lean .64-.74; Hvy Beef Bulls .845.86.

Lamb/Sheep: Market 1.20 Goats: Billies 1.075 Swine: Hog .565-.60.

BATH MARKET Bath, NY August 9, 2012 No Report FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK AUCTION Canandaigua, NY No report FINGER LAKES PRODUCE AUCTION Penn Yan, NY August 13, 2012

Canandaigua Pavilion Penn Yan Dryden Cherry Creek

Vernon New Berlin

Cambridge

Central Bridge

Bath

Chatham

Apples (1/2 bu): 9-11.50 Beans (1/2 bu): 5-23 Blackberries (pt): 2.20-2.70 Blueberries (pt): 1.80-2 Cantaloupes: .05-1.40 Cucumbers (1/2 bu): .50-10 Eggplants (1/2 bu): 1.50-6 Eggs (dz): .95-1.50 Grapes (1/2 bu): 20-23 Hot Peppers (1/2 bu): 3.5010.50.

Nectarines (1/2 bu): 13-19 Onions: .20-.70 Peaches (1/2 bu): 13-21 Peppers (1/2 bu): 1-11 Pickles (1/2 bu): 2.50-10 Potatoes (1/2 bu): 4-7 Pumpkins: 2-3 Salad Tomatoes (pt): .201.15 Salt Potatoes (1/2 bu): 6-16 Sweet Corn (dz): .35-2.40 Summer Squash (1/2 bu): 5.50-9 Tomatoes (25#): 5-31 Watermelons: .50-3.50 Zucchini (1/2 bu): 4-12 FINGER LAKES FEEDER SALE Penn Yan, NY No report FINGER LAKES HAY AUCTION Penn Yan, NY No Report HOSKING SALES New Berlin, NY August 20, 2012 Dairy Cows for Slaughter: Bone Util .70-.80; Canners/Cutters .60-.70; Easy Cows .50 & dn.

Bulls/Steers: .78-.97 Feeders: Dairy .42-.80.

Calves: Bull calves 96-120# .90-1.55; up to 95# .10-.95; Hfrs. Hols. under 100# 1.40.

BELKNAP LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belknap, PA No report BELLEVILLE LIVESTOCK

AUCTION Belleville, PA No report CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA August 21, 2012 Slaughter Cattle: Steers Ch 1125-1515# 114.50-120.25; Sel & Low Ch 1205-1465# 110.50-114; One head 1100# 107.50; Hol. H Ch. & Prime 1570-1645# 110.50113; Ch 1350-1710# 100104.75; Sel. 1255-1810# 9295; Thin 85-88.50.

Cows: Breakers/Boners 76.50-83; Lean 73-78; Big Middle/Lo Dress/Lights 6875.75; Shelly 64 & dn.

Bulls: Hols. 1330-1345# 8790.50.

Feeder Cattle: Steers 150205# 142-160; Hols. 325# 86.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA August 21, 2012 Rabbits: 3-18 Bunnies: .50-3.25 Roosters: 1-7 Hens: .50-7 Pullets: 1-2.50 Banties: .50-4.25 Ducks: 3-11 Ducklings: 1.50-2 Turkey: 9 Turkey Peeps: 5-6.50 Geese: 12.50 Pigeons: 1 Peacock peep: 11 Eggs (/dz): Jum Brown 1.55; X-L Brown 1.35-1.55; L Brown 1.25-1.35; L White 1.15-1.25; Med Brown 1; Sm Brown .50 White/Brown Mixed sizes: 1 Fertile Guinea 1.50; Fertile Blue/Green 1.20.

Sale starts at 5 pm.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC

State Graded Feeder Pig Sale Carlisle, PA No report DEWART LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET, INC August 20, 2012 Cattle: Steers Ch 2-3 1400# 115; Sel 1-3 1252-1376# 110-112.50; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1570# 101; Ch 2-3 1248# 97.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 84.50; Breakers 78-82; Boners 76-77.50; Lean 6878.

Bulls: Grade 1 1418-1744# 87-91 Feeder Steers: L 3 600700# 76-83.

Calves: 167. Bulls No. 1 94114# 120-132; 88-92# 102122; No. 2 94-114# 110-125; 82-92# 85-105; No. 3 80112# 65-110; Util 70-110# 30-52; 60-68# 15-32; Hfrs.

No. 1 84-96# 132-157; No. 2 86# 102-107; non-tubing 7280# 35-60.

Hogs: Boars 190# 34; 526# 10.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 10-20# 28-42/hd.

Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 6080# 127-135; 80-90# 125127; 90-110# 117-120; Gd Ch 1-2 80-90# 105-112; Ewes Util 1-2 176# 50.

Goats (/hd): Kids Sel 1 60# 85-90; 70# 105; Sel 3 20-30# 22.50-35; Nannies Sel 3 100# 75.

Hay (/ton): Grass 80-170; Mixed 95-185; Timothy Grass 60-160.

Straw (/ton): Oat 120; Wheat 155.

EIGHTY FOUR LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Holland, PA No report GREENCASTLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Greencastle, PA

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WEEKLY MARKET REPORT August 16, 2012 Slaughter Cows: Prem.White 65-75% lean 8082; Breakers 75-80% lean 75.50-78.75, hi dress 79-80; Boners 80-85% lean 72.5076.75, hi dress 78.50-80; Lean 85-90% lean 69-74, hi dress 75-77, lo dress 57.5062.50.

Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 96-126# 117-135; 80-94# 80107.50; No. 2 80-128# 95122.50; No. 3 80-118# 42.50100; Util 60-124# 20-65.

Heifer Calves: No. 1 108# 115.

hi dress 73-75.50; Boners 80-85% lean 63-64; Lean 85-90% lean 55-60, lo dress 45-59.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 13551395# 82-87.

Return to Farm Calves: Hols. Bulls No. 1 95-120# 115-130; No. 2 95-120# 90110; No. 3 70-120# 60-80; Util 65-115# 30-60..

INDIANA FARMERS LIVESTOCK AUCTION Homer City, PA June 21, 2012 No report

MIDDLEBURG LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middleburg, PA August 21, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1360-1500# 119.50121.50; Ch. 2-3 1165-1490# 111-118; Sel. 2-3 10801520# 104-110; Hols. Hi. Ch. & Pr. 2-3 1270-1635# 101105.50; Ch. 2-3 1235-1630# 94-100; Sel. 1-3 1155-1510# 86-90; Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1185-1470# 114119.50; Ch. 2-3 1020-1360# 111-116.50; Sel. 2-3 10051145# 104-110.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.White 65-75% lean 8183.50; Breakers 75-80% lean 73.50-79, hi dress 79-81, Lo dress 71-73; Boners 80-85% lean 68-73, hi dress 74-75; Lean 85-90% lean 64-69, hi dress 70-71, lo dress 53.5058.50; Light Lean 85-92% lean 43-46.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 10151900# 96-105, lo dress 9652005# 82-87; Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L 1 500-700# 130-165; M&L 2 500-700# 105-130; Hols.

Steers L 3 300-500# 75-87; 500-700# 73-97; Hfrs. M&L 1 200-300# 175; 300-500# 130-157; M&L 2 300-400# 100-118; Bulls M&L 1 300500# 145-185; 500-700# 115-135; M&L 2 300-500# 110-132; 500-700# 90-112; Hols. Bulls L 3 300-500# 8392; 500-700# 78-82.

Ret. to Farm Calves: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 95-120# 110-122; 80-90# 70-90; No. 2 95-120# 92-112; No. 3 75-115# 50-70; Util. 65-95# 10-67.50; Hols.

Hfr. Calves No. 1 75-95# 100112; No. 2 80-100# 60-92; Hols./BeefX calves 65-85# 65-120.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 49-54% lean 220-265# 69-70; 45-50% lean 230280# 65-69.

Sows: US 1-3 300-500# 3438; 500-700# 42-42.50.

Boars: 420-430# 11.50-12.

Feeder Pigs: No Market.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 40-60# 100-105; 6080# 100-122; 90-100# 97110; Ewes Gd. 1-3 145-190# 30-50; Rams 175# 72.

KUTZTOWN HAY & GRAIN AUCTION Kutztown, PA August 18, 2012 Alfalfa: 1 ld, 140 Mixed Hay: 10 lds, 95-270 Timothy: 1 ld, 135 Grass: 5 lds, 110-220 Straw: 2 lds, 105-120 Rye Seed: 1 ld, 12 LANCASTER WEEKLY CATTLE SUMMARY New Holland, PA August 17, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1140-1580# 116.50121.75; Ch 2-3 1105-1550# 112-116.50; Sel 2-3 10001470# 108-113; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1360-1650# 105110; Ch 2-3 1235-1690# 99.50-105; Sel 2-3 11101595# 94-99.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1065-1310# 113.50115; Ch 2-3 1105-1315# 108-115; Sel 2-3 990-1430# 98-102.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.White 65-75% lean 8289, hi dress 90-94; Breakers 75-80% lean 77-83.50, hi dress 84-87, lo dress 74-76; Boners 80-85% lean 73.5079.50, hi dress 80-84, lo dress 67-73.50; Lean 8590% lean 66-75, hi dress 7581.50, lo dress 60-65.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 10601895# 95-104, hi dress 107113, lo dress 83-86.

Graded Bull Calves: No. 1 110-120# 120-127; 94-108# 132-140; 86-92# 97-113; No. 2 94-118# 122-135; pkg 107; 80-86# 82-85; No. 3 80-130# 70-90; 72-78# 25; Util 90110# 30-47; 60-88# 19-25; Hols. Hfr. Calves No. 1 90105# 130-150; No. 2 75115# 50-80.

LEBANON VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Fredericksburg, PA July 24, 2012 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 80; Breakers 75-80% lean 68-72,

Pennsylvania Markets Mercer

Jersey Shore

New Wilmington

Dewart Leesport

LEESPORT LIVESTOCK AUCTION Leesport, PA June 27, 2012 No report

Belleville Homer City

New Holland Carlisle Lancaster Paradise

Eighty-Four Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 20-40# 55-67; 40-60# 85105; 60-80# 107-120; Sel. 2 10-20# 15-35; 20-40# 60-77; 60-80# 80-95; Sel. 3 20-40# 20-50; Nannies Sel. 1 80130# 132-142; Sel 2 80-130# 75-77; Billies Sel. 1 100-150# 152-175.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Martinsburg, PA August 20, 2012 Steers: Gd 95-100.

Heifers: Ch 100-107; Gd 90100.

Cows: Util & Comm. 75-90; Canner/lo Cutter 75 & dn.

Bullocks: Gd & Ch 95-99.

Bulls: YG 1 85-100.

Cattle: Steers 60-120; Bulls 75-110; Hfrs. 75-95.

Calves: Ch 125-145; Gd 85100; Std 15-70; Hols. Bulls 90-130# 70-125; Hols. Hfrs.

90-130# 100-125.

Hogs: US 1-2 63-66; US 1-3 55-60; Sows US 1-3 28-40; Boars 8-30; Feeder Pigs U.S. No. 1-3 20-50# 50-60.

Sheep: Lambs Ch 120-130; Gd 110-120; SI Ewes 45-55 Goats: 15-100.

MORRISON’S COVE HAY REPORT Martinsburg, PA August 20, 2012 Alfalfa: 160-250 Alfalfa/Grass: 200-240 Grass: 195-255 Timothy: No Report Mixed Hay: No Report Rd. Bales: 160 Lg. Sq. Bales: 50-195 Straw: 125-145 Hay Auction held every Monday at 12:30 pm.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK, POULTRY & RABBIT REPORT Martinsburg, PA August 20, 2012 Roosters: 2.50-6 Banty Roosters: .25-1.75 Heavy Hens: .25-2 Banty Hens: .10-1.25 Pigeons: 1.50-3 Ducks: 6

Bunnies: .50-3 Rabbits: 4.50-12 Auction held every Monday at 7 pm.

GOATS AUCTION New Holland, PA August 13, 2012 No Report.

NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES New Holland, PA August 16, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1140-1559# 116.50121.75; 1678-1690# 113.50117; Ch 2-3 1105-1550# 112-116.50; Sel 1-3 10001470# 108-111.50.

Slaughter Holsteins: Hi Ch & Pr 2-4 1360-1650# 105108.50; Ch 2-3 1238-1690# 100-105; Sel 2-3 110-1595# 94-99; Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1065-1310# 113.50115; Ch 2-3 1020-1215# 108-111.50; Sel 2-3 9901430# 98-102.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-70% lean 84-89, hi dress 90-93.50; Breakers 7580% lean 77-83.50, hi dress 84-87, lo dress 74-76; Boners 80-85% lean 73.5079.50, hi dress 80-83.50, lo dress 67-70; Lean 88-90% lean 66-72, hi dress 72-75, lo dress 60-65.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 10601895# 95-104, hi dress 107113, lo dress 83-86.

Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 110-120# 120-127; 94-108# 132-140; 86-92# 97-113; No. 2 94-118# 122-135, pkg 107; 80-86# 82-85; No. 3 80-130# 70-90; 72-78# 25; Util 90110# 30-47; 60-88# 19-25.

Holstein Heifers: No. 1 90105# 130-150; No. 2 75-115# 50-80.

NEW WILMINGTON LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Wilmington, PA No report

NEW HOLLAND PIG AUCTION New Holland, PA August 15, 2012 US 1-2: 20-30# 105-135; 3035# 80-105; 35-40# 70; 4050# 80-85; 50-60# 60.

US 2: 15-25# 150-160; 2530# 100; 30-40# 60-95; 4045# 60-85; 50-55# 70.

NEW HOLLAND SHEEP &

NEW WILMINGTON PRODUCE AUCTION, INC. New Wilmington, PA No report PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Grain Report Compared to last week corn sold steady to .05 lower, wheat sold .05-.10 lower, Barley sold .20-.25 higher, Oats sold steady to .05 lower & Soybeans sold .05-.10 lower. EarCorn sold steady.

All prices per bushel except EarCorn is per ton.

Southeastern PA: Corn No. 2 8.54-9.01, Avg 8.77, Contracts 8.15-8.21; Wheat No. 2 8.74-8.95, Avg 8.84, Contracts 8-8.01; Barley No. 3 4.30-5.30, Avg 5.20, Contracts 4.50; Oats No. 2 44.70, Avg 4.35; Soybeans No. 2 15.85-16.81, Avg 16.52, Contracts 16-16.17; EarCorn 240.

SouthCentral PA: Corn No. 2 7.75-9, Avg 8.53; Wheat No. 2 7.04-8.50, Avg 7.95; Barley No. 3 4-5.90, Avg 4.72; Oats No. 2 3.25-5, Avg 4.03; Soybeans No. 2 1516.40, Avg 12.89; EarCorn 210.

Eastern & Central PA: Corn No. 2 7.75-9.31, Avg 8.76, Month Ago 8.86, Year Ago 8.21; Wheat No. 2 7.04-9, Avg 8.45, Month Ago 8.69, Year Ago 8.51; Barley No. 3 4-6, Avg 5.08, Month Ago 4.85, Year Ago 4.93; Oats No. 2 3.25-5, Avg 4.12, Month Ago 4.10, Year Ago 4.09; Soybeans No. 2 1516.81, Avg 16.15, Month Ago 16.07, Year Ago 12.97; EarCorn 195-240, Avg 215, Month Ago 209.50 Year Ago

204.

Western PA: Corn No. 2 88.75, Avg 8.35; Wheat No. 2 7-8.47, Avg 7.82; Oats No. 2 3.40-4.50, Avg 4.03; Soybeans No. 2 16.20.

Central PA: Corn No. 2 8.40-9.10, Avg 8.83; Barley No. 3 5.30; Oats No. 2 44.50, Avg 4.16; Soybeans No. 2 15.50-16.50, Avg 16.01; EarCorn 195.

Lehigh Valley: Corn No. 2 8.65-9.31, Avg 8.92; Wheat No. 2 9; Barley No. 3 5.75;Oats No. 2 3.85-4.50, Avg 4.06; Soybeans No. 2 15.96-16.20, Avg 16.10.

PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Weekly Livestock Summary August 17, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 117-121.75; Ch 1-3 111-116.50; Sel 1-2 108-113; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 102110; Ch 2-3 95-101.50; Sel 1-2 88-94.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 111.50-118.50; Ch 1-3 108-111.50; Sel 1-2 102-108.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 75.50-81; Boners 80-85% lean 72-77.50; Lean 85-90% lean 66-73.

Slaughter Bulls: hi dress 106-117.50, Avg. dress 95104.50; lo dress 80.50-88.

Feeder Catle: Steers M&L 1 300-500# 125-145; 500-700# 137-145; M&L 2 300-500# 110-120; 500-700# 97-134; Hfrs. M&L 1 300-500# 120132; 500-700# 113-122; M&L 2 300-500# 105-110; 500700# 90-116; Bulls M&L 1 300-500# 130-157; 500-700# 125-130; M&L 2 300-500# 100-105; 500-700# 100-117.

Vealers: Util 60-120# 10-70.

Farm Calves: No. 1 Hols.

Bulls 95-120# 117-135; 8090# 67-113; No. 2 95-120# 95-125; 80-90# 60-90; No. 3 80-120# 50-100; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 84-105# 120-155; No. 2 80-105# 80-120.

Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 4954% lean 220-270# 68-71; 45-49% lean 250-300# 6466; Sows US 1-3 300-500# 28.50-31; 500-700# 38-42.

Graded Feeder Pigs: US 12 20-30# 105-135; 30-35# 80-105; 35-40# 70; 40-50# 80-85; US 2 15-25# 150-160; 25-30# 100; 30-40# 60-95; 40-45# 60-85.

Slaughter Sheep: Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 200-247; 60-80# 160-195; 80-110# 125-160; Ch 1-3 40-60# 130-175; 6080# 126-172; 80-110# 108146; Ewes Gd 2-3 120-160# 54-80; 160-200# 68-80; Util 1-2 120-160# 50-80.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Ssel 1 40-60# 97-120; 60-80# 110-138; 80-100# 126-148; Sel 2 40-60# 90-106; 60-80# 104-126; 80-100# 120-126; Sel 3 40-60# 52-92; 60-80#

86-110; Nannies Sel 1 80130# 137-157; 130-10# 148166; Sel 2 80-130# 115-130; 130-180# 135-150; Sel 3 5080# 64-73; 80-130# 70-80; Billies Sel 1 100-150# 162174; 150-250# 198-237; Sel 2 100-150# 136-146; 150250# 160-190; Sel 3 100150# 90-135; Wethers Sel 1 50-100# 190-260.

PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Hay Market Summary Hay & Straw Market For Eastern PA: All hay prices paid by dealers at the farm and/ton. Compared to last week hay sold steady to 10 lower & straw sold steady. All hay and straw reported sold /ton. Alfalfa 140-325; Mixed Hay 110-325; Timothy 100250; Straw 100-180; Mulch 50-75.

Summary of Lancaster Co. Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 160 lds of hay, 29 of Straw; Alfalfa 165-400; Mixed Hay 80-400; Timothy 85-305; Grass 115-335; Straw 100240.

Diffenbach Auction, August 13, 61 lds Hay, 11 lds Straw.

Alfalfa 165-400; Mixed Hay 100-400; Timothy 85-300; Grass 115-335; Straw 100160.

Green Dragon Auction, August 17, 37 lds Hay, 10 lds Straw. Alfalfa 142-275; Mixed Hay 100-340; Timothy 167235; Grass 117-320; Straw 145-205.

Weaverland Auct, New Holland: August 16, 28 lds hay, 2 lds Straw. Alfalfa 200-225; Mixed Hay 110-345; Timothy 305; Grass 115-250; Straw 240.

Wolgemuth Auction, August 15, 34 lds Hay, 6 lds Straw. Alfalfa 280; Mixed hay 80-360; Timothy 125-305; Grass 90-300; Straw 155220.

Summary of Central PA Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 77 Loads Hay, 15 Straw.

Alfalfa 80-140; Mixed Hay 50-300; Timothy 80-200; Grass 110-220; Straw 70120.

Dewart Auction, Dewart: August 13, 10 lds Hay, 0 Straw. Mixed Hay 110-210; Grass 110.

Greencastle Livestock: August 9 & 13, 4 lds Hay, 0

Straw. Mixed Hay 50-95; VINTAGE SALES STABLES August 14, 2012 Slaughter Holsteins: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1385-1550# 109110; Ch 2-3 1470-1685# 99.50-105; Sel 2-3 12501305# 96.50-97.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1105-1260# 113.50-115.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% lean 8387.50; Breakers 75-80% lean 76-81.50, hi dress 83-84.50, lo dress 72-75.50; Boners 80-85% lean 72-77.50, hi dress 78-81.50, lo dress 65.50-71; Lean 85-90% lean 66-72.50, hi dress 73-74.50, lo dress 60-65.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 1470-1983# 92.50-96.

Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 pkg122# 107; 90-113# 105122, pkg 85# 65; No. 2 95111# 107-115; 84-90# 6097;pkg 74# 40; No. 3 83-109# 30-50; pkg 73# 12; Util 73109# 12-50.

Graded Holstein Heifers: No. 1 92-101# 150-175; pkg 84# 120; No. 2 82-90# 82117; pkg 73# 50; non-tubing

70-80# 20-55; pkg 63# 12. *Next Feeder Cattle Sale Sept. 14.

WEAVERLAND AUCTION New Holland, PA No Report

WOLGEMUTH AUCTION August 15, 2012 No Report

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Real Estate, Tractors, Farm Machinery, Tools, Glassware, Antiques, Furniture!!

Barn is full of Tools & Antiques & will be sold over the Auction Block!!

1-International Farmall 340 Diesel, 1-International Farmall 300 Gas, John Deere 6 Row Corn Planter needs work, John Deere 4 Row Corn Planter, needs work, Manure Spreader, Corn Chopper Blower, 3 Point Hook Up Bale Spear, Spring Harrow, 3 Point Hook Up Backhoe, Tractor Loader, Water Tank, 2 Portable Generators, Torch Set w/cart nice condition, 2 Welders, Portable Air Compressor w/electric motor, 1981 Honda Passport 70 Deluxe Bike, Sand Blaster, Rototiller, Snow Blower Yard Machine 26” 8hp, Stihl Chain Saw, Weed Eaters, Lawn Mowers, Lawn Tractors, Table Saw, Milk Cans, Milk Stools, Old Windows & Doors, Hinges, Early Chairs, Canning Jars, Crock Pots, Forks, Shovels, Tool Boxes, Axes, Hatchets, Open End Wrenchs, World War II Army Gas Stove, Seasoned 2”x8” Hickory Lumber, Piles of Lumber, Scrap Metal, 100’s of shop tools and miscellaneous items!!!

House Contents, Antiques, Oak Dining Room Table w/9 leaves, Mission Oak Side Board, Square Oak China Cabinet, 3 Drawer Marble Top Dresser, 5 Drawer Chest, 1930’s Dresser & Mirror, Sofa, Tea Cart, Early Mantle Clocks, Fenton Glass, Cut Crystal, Westmoreland Milk Glass, Westmoreland Crystal, Cut Crystal Spooner, and much more will be turning up that will surprise us as we continue to unpack the corners that have not been touched for over 50 years!!!

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Northeast Ag & Feed Alliance testifies against raising tolls on New York State Thruway Proposed 45 percent toll hike could mean price increase for farmers on essential livestock feeds Several members of the Northeast Ag & Feed Alliance will testied in midAugust against the New York State Thruway’s proposed commercial toll increase. If approved, the proposed 45 percent increase in tolls could have a significant negative financial impact on New York’s agriculture industry, in particular the feed industry that utilizes the Thruway extensively to receive and deliver product.

“The feed industry is highly competitive, operates on very thin profit margins, and simply cannot afford to absorb a 45 percent toll increase on the New York State Thruway, which I estimate will be $56,000 for my business annually,”

said Rob Sheffer, Vice President of the Northeast Ag and Feed Alliance and Managing Director for Cargill Animal Nutrition in the Northeast Region. “Rather than driving up the cost of doing business in New York, the Thruway Authority should work hard to reduce their business costs and reflect the belt tightening attitude that the private sector consistently operates under.”

Under the proposed plan, tolls for passenger vehicles will remain unchanged, however the cash toll for a tractor trailer (class 5H), the most common commercial vehicle, will increase by 10.76 cents per mile and the E-ZPass rate will increase by 10.22 cents per mile. Tolls are calculated by multiplying the distance traveled by the per-mile cost and round-

4 th Annual Labor Day Special

PUBLIC AUCTION

Sat., Sept. 1st at 9:00 AM Location: Glimmerglass Pools, 55 Willett Street, Fort Plain, NY 13339 Guns, Quilts, Antiques, Sheds Sold at 12:00 QUILTS: Lone Star 103x115; Star Log Cabin 100x115.

GUNS: Stevens double barrel; Mossberg 20 gauge bolt; BB guns; Tradition muzzle loader and more, hunting vest, scopes, binoculars, misc.

RUSTIC C FURNITURE: Coming from Amish builder in New Berlin.

Largee loadd off Shrubs,, Trees,, Perennialss from m Sauderss Nursery.

Elam Sauder will be present to explain proper planting methods.

Falll Mumss from local greenhouses.

ANTIQUES: Hench and Dromgold York, PA corn sheller, platform scales, Ohio bedding chopper, old modified corn sheller, Medal Dazey butter churn made in St. Louis MO patented 1917 #830B, old table, crocks, old water pumps, hand plow, 2 large vintage doors out of Schoharie area pharmacy.

Largee Collection n off Antiquee Cream m Separators: DeLaval #2, DeLaval #4, DeLaval #8, DeLaval #10, DeLaval #12, Bradley Economy size 500, 2-Simplex C.H. Burrell & Co., King's #16, 2 McCormick Deering, Empire #2, Simplex #7, Royal Blue, Montgomery Ward 04HM 4/36A. Lots of parts and more separators that are not listed, some separators are complete.

TOOLS: Chainsaws, woodworking tools.

SHED: 8x12 w/board and batten siding.

FRUITS: Bulk apples, cheese and misc. groceries.

Taking g Consignments.. Calll 518-568-2257 Looking g forr Quality y Sporting g Goods, Hunting g Items,, Antiques, Tools,, Quilts Chicken n BBQ Q h forr Photoss Auction n Zip p ID D #18971 Watch

ed to the nearest nickel for cash tolls.

For example: A commercial vehicle (class 5H tractor trailer) traveling between Exit 24 (Albany) and Exit 50 (Williamsville) and paying with cash,

currently pays $65.15 and will pay $94.45 upon adoption of the proposed toll adjustment. With EZPass, that same commercial vehicle would currently pay $61.89 and will pay $89.73 upon

adoption of the proposed toll adjustment.

The impact of the toll increase on a single trip across New York may not be significant, but when multiplied by the number of trucks that deliver

goods to business and farms served over the course of a year, the additive effect will have a profound impact on small businesses, as well as farm profitability.

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1st Annual RFS Amish School BENEFIT AUCTION

Saturday, October 27th CONSIGNMENTS WANTED

Quilts, Crafts, Farm Machinery, Furniture - Indoor & Outdoor, Box Lots Welcome

CONTACT Wilmer J King 607-264-3784 Paul Byler 607-264-8167 Willis Stutzman 315-858-0705

FARM M AND D CONSTRUCTION N EQUIPMENT T AUCTION

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST @ 9:30 AM At Visscher Farm, 1400 So. Main St. (Rte. 282 south) Nichols, NY 13812 - 1 1/2 miles south of Exit 62 Southern Tier Expressway I-86 via Rte. 282 South or 20 miles north of Towanda-Wysox, PA via Rte. 187 FARM & COMPACT TRACTORS: John Deere 4230 w/cab; JD 4010, gas; JD 3010; Case/IH JX95 4x4 w/cab & 600 hrs.; NH TD 80C 4x4; TC 30-4x4 ldr backhoe; Kubota L4150 2WD; Kubota 29L w/ldr.; Kubota model B20 4x4 w/ldr; Kubota model B7200 w/mower; Massey Ferg 1085; MF GC 2300 4x4 w/ldr & 170 hrs; Farmall "SH" w/WFE; Farmall "H"; Farmall "C"; Farmall Cub; Case "V"; LiPetsk 44x4 w/ldr.

SKID STEERS: JD 240; Bobcat 773; Skid steer attachments: sweeper, trencher, tracks, pallet forks, bale spear; Bobcat 6B Landscape rake; grapple forks; plates CONSTRUCTION: Dozer: DAEWoo DD 80L w/cab & 6 way; Cat D5H w/6 way blade; Case RT loader w/GP bucket; Vermeer SC 252 stump grinder Excavators: JD 490D w/thumb; Hitachi EX 100; Yanmar B50-2B mini; Roller: Tampo RS 28; Case Davis Trencher; Articulated Snowblower w/gas engine; TRUCKS: 1992 Ford N8000 diesel 25' stake bed; 2000 Ford F250 diesel pick-up; 1998 Ford F250 gas pick up; 1987 Ford 9000 Dump Truck; 1992 Ford E350 Ambulance FARM EQUIPMENT: Gehl 1275 For. Harv. w/2 heads; N.H. 782 w/pick up head & JD hay head; NI 5212 discbine; Gehl 2412 hydro swing discbine; NI 5209 discbine; Roto Mix TMR VXT 425 mixer; Pequea double rake hydraulic hitch; Forage Wagons: Dion w/3 btr/roof/tandem, H&S 501 w/3btr/roof/tandem; H&S XL 85 w/3 btr./roof/tandem; H&S XL 88 w/3 btr/roof/tandem; Balers round & square: NH 276 w/thrower; NH 847; Gehl 1460 TDC; MF 146 round; NH 316 "sharp"; IH 435 M&W 4590 round; Claas 66 net; (2) Vermeer 504 "I" round; Challenger RB 34; JD 820 disc Grain Drill; JD 7000 corn pltr.; Sprayers: JD 3pth; Miller Pro 750 tandem; TopAir 500 gallon Grinder Mixers: JD 700; Gehl 95; Case/IH planter boxes; loaders; dueal; Kubota Tedders: 6S520 4 Star; NH 4 Star; Fanex 523T; H&S hay merger; Plows: 2 btm.; 3 btm.; 3 btm. Flopover; Disc.: IH offset; new disc blades; Manure Spreaders: IH 530; NI tandem box; MISC.: "new" corn stove; WiFo 3 pt Forklift; hay wagons; bale shredders Kverneland KD 825; Kidd 6-10; Preifert headlock; like new Titan pair 18.4x38 tires; fuel tanks; roto mix TMR wagon; Kubota backhoe att.; Steiner snowblower; 3 pt 2 shank sub soiler chisel; JD HPX 4x4 gator; 3 pt plastic layer; 4 pallets tumbled stone; Trailers: water reels - hose; homemade farm trailer 14 ft. 2/dual axle; (2) Portable Band Sawmills "self contained" (1) Oscar 30 w/20ft bed; 32" planer; flail mowers; row boats and canoe; (2) 8x8 Sheds; chicken coop; bridge outhouse Lawn & Garden: JD 657A (2 turn) stand on mower 54" cutter; Frontier GM 2084 R Grooming mower; MF 6' rotary mower; Valby CH 150 3 pt. chipper WILL SELL IN THE MORNING: small items in the barn - tools, assorted guns; carpentry tools; some new power tools NOTE: a large gathering of merchandise, we will have two auctions simultaneously throughout the day.

CONSIGNMENTS TAKEN: from 9:00AM till 5:00 PM daily TERMS: CASH OR GOOD CHECK NO BUYERS PREMIUM LUNCH AVAILABLE Watch auctionzip & our web site for updates www.visscherauction.com

HOWARD W. VISSCHER & SON SALES MANAGERS AND AUCTIONEER NICHOLS, NY • 607-699-7250

In addition to Cargill, two other member companies of the Northeast Ag & Feed Alliance testified against the Thruway’s proposed commercial toll hike at public hearings held on Aug. 16 in Buffalo; Aug. 17 in Syracuse; and Aug. 18 in Newburgh.

William Colten, Northeast Ag & Feed Alliance Board Member and President of Mercer Milling Company in Liverpool testified, saying, “Our company travels 125,000 miles per year on the Thruway, and we also receive significant volumes of product into

our mill via commercial trucks that travel the Thruway. This proposed change will cost us more than $11,000 per year, which at least a portion of will unfortunately have to be passed on to the end users of our products — New York farmers and other small

businesses. Increased tolls are a business cost that cannot be taken lightly and this decision will demonstrate whether New York truly is ‘Open for Business.’”

Barry Baetz, General Manager of Shur-Gain in Strykersville, also testified on behalf of the Al-

liance, saying, “Our 17 bulk delivery trucks log nearly a half a million miles per year on the Thruway, delivering grain to farms across the State.

The proposed change will increase transportation costs for Shur-Gain by more than $27,000 per year, and this amount

does not account for the increased cost of goods delivered to our plants as a result of the proposed toll increase.”

On average, a New York dairy farm receives five commercial truck stops per week to either transport goods away from the farm or deliver inputs to the farm, many of which use the New York State Thruway system. Making the situation worse, the price farmers receive for their milk has dropped by nearly 25 percent this year and grain prices have nearly doubled in response to extreme heat and drought in the Midwest. Unlike other small businesses, farmers have no one to pass the cost on to. They must find a way to save in other areas of their operation, or, more likely, decrease the amount of income they can use for family living and investment in business improvements.

In addition to the financial implications, the proposed toll increase could force trucks off of the safe and efficient Thruway system as a cost-saving response.

Most New York secondary roads lack the safety features and infrastructure to accommodate increased use by commercial trucking, which could cause additional safety concerns.

The New York State Thruway Authority’s proposed rule would allow for commercial toll increases, up to 45 percent, to help finance the Authority’s multi-year capital plan and to perform necessary maintenance and operations. The Thruway Authority last adjusted tolls in January 2010. If approved, the proposed toll increase will be implemented in October 2012.

A full copy of the proposed rule can be found at www.thruway.ny.gov/new s/adjustment/rule-making.pdf.

The Northeast Ag and Feed Alliance is a membership organization representing nearly 300 animal feed manufactures and distributors with over half of its membership based in New York. The Ag and Feed Alliance is strongly opposed to the Thruway’s proposed toll increases.

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Small Fruit Open House Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Small Fruit Open House will be held on Friday, Aug. 31, 12:45 to 4:15 p.m., at Cornell University’s Department of Horticulture is hosting a small fruit open house at Cornell Orchards on Route 366 in Ithaca across from the Vet School parking lot and then proceed to the East Ithaca Farm located just around the corner on Maple Ave. Your host for this event will be Dr. Marvin Pritts, who will introduce a new low tunnel strawberry production system and discuss ongoing research in high tunnel black raspberries and blackberries.

Additionally, Dr. Courtney Weber, Small fruits breeder, Extension spe-

cialist Cathy Heidenreich and Extension educator Jim Ochterski will be on hand to present information and answer questions on new small fruit crops and production practices.

The program is free and open to the public but pre-registration is strongly encouraged to ensure adequate handouts and refreshments. Signs will be posted on the day of the event.

Please register by phone or e-mail by contacting Cathy Heidenreich, mcm4@cornell.edu, 315-787-2367.

Double K Livestock Sales Inc. Sennett, NY

••• Upcoming Auction ••• FALL MACHINERY SALE Saturday September 22 @ 10:00 AM Auction to be held at Sennett Livestock Barn Located on Rt. 5, 4 miles East of Auburn, NY 20 miles West of Syracuse, NY and 4 miles South of exit 40 off the NYS Thruway

** Advertising deadline is September 10th ** Taking consignments for all types of farm machinery, vehicles, lawn mowers, Tools and much more.

For more information or trucking Sale Barn 315-253-3579 Kalan 315-374-3428/Mark 315-730-0823

Morrisville Autumn Review Sale Saturday,, Septemberr 8th,, * 11:00AM Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, Morrisville, NY 80 Holsteins will be offered! Outstanding young fresh cows! Springing bred heifers! Cows milking over 100lbs! Fancy yearlings & calves from generations of EX & VG dams!

Always one of the great buying opportunities of the year for Holstein Breeders!

Cattle are inoculated against shipping fever, tested negative for BVD-PI & tested for immediate interstate shipment!

Directions: From Stoplight in Morrisville, turn south on Sale Managed By/Catalogs Eaton Street & follow for 1/2 mile past school to Cooperative Extension building on right.

Sale Chairperson: Katy Kemmeren 607-316-7223

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Sale Hosted By: Morrisville College Dairy Club C. Steven Mooney, Advisor 315-684-6301

4236 Co. Hwy. 18, Delhi, NY 13753 Phone: 607-746-2226 • Fax: 607-746-2911 E-mail: daveramasr@cattlexchange.com Website: www.cattlexchange.com

COMPLETE FARM DISPERSAL

CATTLE, MACHINERY, MILKING EQUIP. & PRODUCE GENEVIEVE, MIKE & JACKIE STEVENER 163 STRUMLOCK ROAD, POLAND, NY 13431

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 10:30 A.M.

Terms: Cash or good check day of sale, nothing removed until paid in full. All items sell as-is, where is. Items subject to change due to daily business, call for particular item. Online bidding provided by: www.GoodrichAuctionOnline.com.

There is a 3% Buyers premium for online purchases only! Many Un-Reserved Items!

Directions:: From Utica, take NYS Route 12 north to Route 8. From Route 8, turn right on to Stueben Road E. Go 1.8 mi. and turn left on to Strumlock Road. 1/3 mile to farm.

Stevenerr Farms, Est. 1942, over 70 years of farming & 60 years of AI breeding. Mike & Jackie have decided to discontinue farming in order to pursue other interests.

Cattle: (57) Mature cows, averaging 60 lbs. All cattle are in good condition, great udders, show dairy with years of AI breeding. TOP 1st & 2nds. (12) Recently fresh, & (15) Cows due for this fall.

Year round herd, with cattle in all lactations. SCC-250,000, 3.5 F 2.9 P. Cows milked in tie stall.

Go outside daily. Reg. herd health program. Sires used: Integrity, Toystory, Lynch, Millenium, Trent, Durham, and more. Service Sires used: Buckeye, Sailor, Cole, Seaver, Premier, & Cole.

(6) Heifers due for fall. (6) Short bred heifers. (8) Heifers ready to breed. (19) Heifers from NB to yearlings. (Nice).

Machinery: Ford 7710, 4WD, Full Cab. Ford 7710, Full Cab, 2WD. JD 3020 w/ JD 48 loader. JD 2020, gas. All tractors have good rubber. Double ring chains for each tractor. NH LS 125 Skidsteer.

(Like New). NH 570 Baler. (Ex. condition!). NI 5209 Discbine, 9 ft. (2) Kuhn GA 3200 GT Rotary rakes. Kuhn GF 5001 TH Tedder. (4) Pequea 818 steel Hay wagons. (1) Steel Hay wagon, 9x18.

Elevator. NH 718 Chopper w/ hay head. 2-Gehl 970 Forage Wagons, 18 ft., tandem running gears.

NH 28 Blower. Badger blower. AC blower w/9 ft. pipe. White 508 4 btm. Plows/offset. 12 ft. heavy duty Disc. 12 ft. roller. Demco Sprayer, 300 gal. Fertilizer Spreader, 3pt. Hitch. 2T 15-15-15 Fertilizer. Kuhn/Knight 8114 Manure Spreader. (2) Patz conveyers-8 ft. Hayrite hay elevator, 44 ft.

Hayrite mow elevator, 100 ft. JRW Snow Blower, 3 pt. Brush Mower. Back Blade. (2) Feeder Wagons-20 ft. & 10 ft. Round Bale feeder. (2) Feed Bunks-10 ft. & 4 ft. (2) 300 gal. water vats. (3) 150 gal. water vat. Bale spears. (2) 300 gal. fuel tanks. Water pump.

Milkingg & Barnn Equipment: Patz barn cleaner chain, 250 ft. 12 in. paddles, clockwise.

Patz unit. 20 ft. chute. Surge 800 gal. bulk tank. 250 ft. 1 1/2 in. pipeline, w/2 in. air line, and 5 milking units. 5 1/2 hp. Vacuum pump. 180 gal. hot water tank. MVE 2000 Millenium XC20 Semen Tank & breeding kit. 9T Schuld grain bin. 8T Imperial grain bin. Windpower generator. Weaverline 424 Elec. feed cart w/charger. Agri-Metal bedding chopper. (2) Poly carts. Barn fans. Neck chains.

Gates. Gutter grates. Calf straps, and many other items found around the farm.

Produce: 3400 sq. bales, this year, never been wet. 3000 sq. bales left from last year.

Haylage: 16x40 silo-full. 16x40 silo 1/2 full. Also selling (2) Jamesway Valvematic II silo unloaders.

Recreational: 2011 Polaris 850 4X4 4 wheeler. (177 hrs.) Land Pride Treker 4X4. Fencing cart for 4 wheeler.

Managerss Note: Mike has done a beautiful job. Cattle are very nice, and show milk. Machinery is some of the cleanest, and well maintained you'll find. Always pressure washed and kept under cover. Every piece of machinery on this farm works, and is ready to work for you!

Salee Order:: Misc. items, machinery, produce, barn equipment, cattle.

No Onsite Buyer's Premium - Loading available - Lunch onsite Something for everyone!

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LARGE PUBLIC AUCTION THURS., AUGUST 30 @ 9:30 AM To be held in our yard at the corner of RT 38 & 38B in Newark Valley, NY. (19 miles west of Binghamton, 8 miles north of Owego off I-86) This is a very early listing, the yard will be full of quality equipment!

TRACTORS: '72 JD 4320 cab, super sharp!, JD 4430 p/s, 4230 Quad, 3140 cab & ldr, 3020 D p/s, 3010 D, 4100 Compact ldr/backhoe 670 hrs; IHC 886, 856, 674, 656; Case 2470 w/ 12' blade & 3pt, 1370 nice!, (2) 1175, 970, 770, 930, 730, 311B; White 2-180 MFWD; Long 1100; Deutz D6006 4wd w/ldr; NH TC30 w/ ldr; Ford 1720 w/ldr; Kubota L3430 cab w/ldr 950 hrs; JD 3320 cab w/ mwr & snowblower 450 hrs nice! MF 2805 w/duals; As-Is Tractors: Ford 8600 bad trans, 8000 bad motor; JD 4630 bad trans; IH 544D; Farmall H; (2) Ford 8n; Case 1270; JD 4240 Cab fire MACHINERY: IHC 1440 Combine, Cold AC, 3300 hrs, Very nice! JD 6600 Combine w/ corn & grain heads; (2) Hinson 812 Grain carts; (20) good gravity wagons; NH 195 Spreader; JD 336, NH 570, 315 Balers; JD 510 RD baler; NH 1465, 492, 489 haybines; JD 935 Discbine; NH 354 grinder mixer; NH 451 sicklebar mwr; JD 25A sprayer; Howard 6' tiller; JRW 6' snowblower like new!; Douglas 90" finish mower; Skinner elevator; New JD 1x plow; New 4', 5', 7' Box blades; (2) 6' Blades; (2) 18/38 dual w/ IH hubs; New Farm gates, corral systems, bunk & round bale feeders; Large selection of 3pt plows, blades, mowers, post hole diggers & much more INDUSTRIAL: Case 621 Loader all new tires; Bobcat B250B 4x4 780 hrs nice!, JD 410E 2wd, Case 580C & 580B Backhoes; JD CT322 track SSL; Case 1838 SSL; Case 1838 & Bobcat 843 SSL (AS-IS) Cat D3B Dozer; DR towable gas powered backhoe like new; New SSL forks, GP & grapple buckets, bale spears, plates; Case SSL backhoe nice!; Kubota RTV900 250 hrs, hyd dump as new!; Bobcat B250 TLB; Polaris Ranger 500EFI w/ 67hrs; Polaris Ranger 4x4 1100 hrs; Club Car elec. golf cart; Ransomes AR250 rotary mower 4wd; Clark LP forklift, Pallet racking; Miller 180SD Welder New!; Porter Cable 135 AC

Note: Very brief listing, there will be much more than listed.

Website updated daily.

Goodrich Auction Service, Inc. Corner of RT 38 & 38B - Newark Valley, NY (607)642-3293- www.Goodrichauctionservice.com

David Unger &

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

Tel: (607) 863-3821

Visit us on the Web @ genewoodsauctionserviceinc.com

Upcoming workshop to educate forest land owners on wildlife and bird conservation opportunities ALBANY, NY — A workshop for forest landowners in the Catskill region will be held on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 9-11:30 a.m. at the Margaretville Fire Department, 77 Church Street, Margaretville, NY. Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m.

This is one of a series of workshops organized

by Audubon New York in the largely forested regions of the state; similar workshops have been held in the Adirondack and Tug Hill regions.

The Catskill workshop will provide information for landowners on the wildlife commonly found in forests of the Catskill region, how to encourage wildlife to use their property, birdfriendly forest management practices, and the resources, tools and po-

tential partners available to help families plan for the future of their woodlands. The workshop will be followed by an afternoon woods walk from 1-3 p.m. to tour properties where different kinds of forest management have resulted in different types of wildlife habitat. Interested individuals can attend one or both, but pre-registration by Sept. 12 is required for both. Partici-

pants attending the woods walk will meet at the Margaretville fire house at 1 p.m. to carpool to the sites.

“The Catskill region is one of the largest tracts of forest in New York State and provides critical habitat for a great diversity of bird species, including Canada Warbler, American Woodcock and Ruffed Grouse,” said Jillian Liner, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon New York.

“Forest landowners in the region can play an important role in providing habitat for these species. This workshop will give participants the skills and contacts to make a big difference for birds and other wildlife in their woods.”

This workshop is free, but registration is required by contacting Graham Cox at glcox@audubon.org or 518-869-9731, or contact the Catskill Forest Association at email cfa@catskill.net or call

845-586-3054. Registration deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 12.

This workshop is sponsored by Audubon New York and Catskill Forest Association with support from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Empire State Forest Products Association, SFI-SIC Committee, Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYS DEC, Ruffed Grouse Society, Catskill Center for Conservation and Development and Ruffed Grouse Society.

FEEDER CATTLE SALE Sat., Sept. 8, 2012 • 10 AM TRACTORS Case IH 9110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 350 Dozer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 450H Dozer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $38,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 750 B Crawler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 2555 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 3150 w/740 loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 4430 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 4555 Cab/2WD/Duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $42,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5225 Cab/MFWD/ Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,900 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 5325 2WD/cab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5525 Cab/MFWD / Loader. . . . . . . . . . . . $42,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 6420 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $42,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 6430 Rental Return 2.5% Financing . . . . $65,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 7130 Rental Return 2.5% Financing . . . . $71,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 7400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville (2) JD 7930 IVT . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starting at $123,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 4630 cab, 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville COMPACT TRACTORS JD 850 w/cab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Clifton Park JD 855 w/Loader, Mower Deck & Blower . . . $10,900. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 950 w/Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,350 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 1600 wam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 2210 w/Loader/Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2520 w/Loader & Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3720 w/blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,900 . . . . . . . . Clifton Park JD 3720 TLB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 4320 cab/loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $31,800. . . . . . . Schaghticoke Kubota L39 TLB, canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH TC45D cab/loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen NH TZ25DA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen MF 205 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 728 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham SKID STEER / CONSTRUCTION 78” skid steer blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 96’ pwr rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,800 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 317 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 318 Cab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH LS 180. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Cat 236 cab, heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH L175 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,900. . . . . . . Schaghticoke NH LS180 cab/heat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen MOWERS CONDITIONERS JD 925 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,550 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 1217 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 1219 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH 1411 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . Chatham HAY AND FORAGE Claas 860 w/Heads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $159,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 74 rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 552 Tedder 3PT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller Pro rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller 1416 merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke (2) JD 2 Row Corn HD. . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 / $3,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3rn corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 327 Baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 676 corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $48,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke

JD 751 tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3960 forage harv., base unit . . . . . . . . . . . $3,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 7300 SP w/686 & 640B . . . . . . . . . . . . . $135,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 2 row corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $650 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 860 w/2R 6’ po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville HS HSM9 hydra-swing merger . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,950. . . . . . . Schaghticoke NH 166 inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,450 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 256 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Pequea fluffer 8 1/2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 550 tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,650 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville PLANTING / TILLAGE Amco 27’ disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 750 15’ No-till drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville IH 710 4 bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 1450 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2000 6 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2500 5 bottom (nice) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2800 6 btm trip plow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 8300 23 x7 drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 8300 23 x7 drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville BALERS Krone 1500 w/knives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 335 RB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 328 w/chute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 328 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 338 w/out chute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 348 w/ 1/4 Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 348 w/40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 446 round baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 446 w/mega tooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 458 silage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 567 RB w/Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 740 round baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Chathm Hesston rounder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville MISCELLANEOUS New 10 bolt duals 480/80R 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville 18.4 - 34 Duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,000 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen Pronovost Bale Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Dynaweld trailer w/hyd tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville 300 HUSKER w/243 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville HS 175 Spreader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD HPX Diesel Gator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 6600 combine w/215 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 8500 Gator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville (3) JD 7000 Series 3 pt./PTO, front hitch . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 40 Loader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,700 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 655 Tiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,100 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham Hardi Ranger 2200 (NEW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville HS 125 spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000. . . . . . . Schaghticoke Vermeer TS30 Tree Spade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham 7’ loader blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $875 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville 8N/9N loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Sweepster 6’ 3pt broom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Sweepster S32C 6’ front broom . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Used 20.8-38 snap on duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Woods 3100 loader (fits IH 66/86 series) . . . . . $4,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Woods RB72 rear blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham

HUDSON RIVER TRACTOR COMPANY LLC FULTONVILLE 518-853-3405

GOSHEN 845-294-2500

CHATHAM 518-392-2505

SCHAGHTICOKE 518-692-2676

CLIFTON PARK 518-877-5059

Also Selling 30 Head of Holstein Dairy Heifers. 15 weigh 300-400 lbs. 15 Yearling to Breeding Age will be sold at Noon.

PLEASE BRING CATTLE IN ON FRIDAY SEPT. 7th

For info call: 585-394-1515

FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK EX. 3 Miles East Of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20 Visit Our Web Site www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Next Feeder Cattle Sale Sat., Sept. 22, 2012 @ 10 AM

WEEKLY SALES EVERY MONDAY HOSKING SALES - FORMER WELCH LIVESTOCK Weekly Sales Every Monday 12:30 Produce, Misc. & small animals; 1:00 Dairy; ** We will now sell lambs, goats, pigs, feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves and cull beef approx. 5:00-5:30PM. Help us increase our volume - thus making a better market for everyone. ** We are Independent Marketers - working 24/7 to increase your bottom line. Take advantage of our low commission rates. Competitive marketing is the way to go.

Monday, Aug. 20th sale - cull ave. .62, Top cow .80 wt. 1647 $1317.60, Bulls/Steers top $.97 wt. 1346 $1305.62, bull calves top $1.55, heifer calves top $1.40.

Monday, Sept. 3 - Labor Day, will be open as normal. Monthly Feeder & Fat Cow sale.

Monday, Sept. 10th - Monthly Heifer Sale. Special - 10 Registered Brown Swiss all milking age - show quality. Group of open heifers from one farm.

Friday, Sept. 14th - sale held on farm - Smyrna, NY 11:00 AM. Frog Rock Farm Complete Milking Herd & Bred Heifer Dispersal. 55 Head of AI sired Holsteins. 35 milking age with 10 fresh in the last 60 days ave. 56# day - year around herd. Per request of the farmer inspection of cattle from 2:30 - 5:00PM Monday - Thurs. prior to sale. Owner Pete Maynard.

Monday, Sept. 17th - Monthly sheep, lamb, goat & pig sale. Special for this week - Montgomery County Herd - 35 Head Dairy - 30 cows and 5 close bred heifers. Year around herd ave. 50# AI sired, AI bred.

Mostly Holsteins, few crosses with 4-5 R&W Holsteins.

Saturday, Oct. 13th - OHM Holstein Club Sale. Sale hosted by Roedale Farms in Richfield Springs. Brad Ainslie Sale Chairman 315-822-6087.

Saturday, Oct. 20th - Eastern Breeders Brown Swiss Sale held at Hosking Sales, New Berlin, NY. Sale managed by Modern Associates, Hosking Sales assisting. Call with your consignments.

Saturday, Nov. 3rd - Fall Premier All Breed Sale - Call early to consign to make catalog and advertising deadlines.

Café is now open for breakfast and lunch - great food!

LOOKING TO HAVE A FARM SALE OR JUST SELL A FEW GIVE US A CALL. ** Trucking Assistance - Call the Sale Barn or check out our trucker list on our Web-Site. Call to advertise in any of these sales it makes a difference.

Directions: Former Welch Livestock 6096 NYS Rt. 8, 30 miles South of Utica & 6 miles North of New Berlin, NY. www.hoskingsales.com Call today with your consignments.

Tom & Brenda Hosking 6096 NYS Rt. 8 New Berlin, NY 13411

607-699-3637 or 607-847-8800 cell: 607-972-1770 or 1771

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New opportunities available for Catskill Landowners

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Celebrate National Goat Cheese Month with local favorites What’s that? You say you didn’t know that August was National Goat Cheese Month?

August is goat cheese month for a couple of reasons.

Most goat cheeses are at their peaks when they are on the young side. If it is a relatively aged goat cheese (say around four months of age) the milk would have been drawn when the animals had some of the fresh vegetation that April brings, or if it is a younger cheese there should be a good diversity of plants available in July or August. Many dairy goats have wild berries and fresh herbs in their summer diets. The more food choices the animals have, the more flavorful the milk can be; which translates to a better cheese.

The history of the production of goat cheese goes back beyond the time of the ancient

Greeks to when the goat was first domesticated about 5,000 BC. The cheese has always enjoyed a strong popularity and spread from the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe, Africa, South West Asia and India. The first settlers in America included goats in their inventory of dairy animals and the dairy goat has always been a presence on the typical American farm.

During the last decade there has been an enormous increase in consumer interest for domestic goat cheeses. A cheese tray from the

Hudson Valley cannot be complete without goat cheese resting next to its peers made from cow’s milk. The volume of goat milk processed in the Hudson Valley, as well as the creation of microcreameries, has increased in order to meet the consumer demand.

Where can you purchase local goat cheeses? The answer is simple. Take time to contact these fine farms online and at several farm markets throughout the Lower Hudson Valley: • Acorn Hill Farm; www.acornhillfarmsteadcheeses.com —

Walker Valley, NY • Coach Farms, www.coachfarm.com — Pine Plains, NY • Edgwick Farm; edgwickfarm.wordpress.co m — Cornwall, NY • Lynnhaven Farm; www.lynnhavennubians.c om — Pine Bush, NY • Sprout Creek Farm; www.sproutcreekfarm.or g — Poughkeepsie, NY

WNY GAS & STEAM ENGINE ASSOC. INC. 2ND ANNUAL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION

THURS., SEPT. 6, 2012 • 1:00 PM 1ST DAY OF SHOW SEPT 6-9 10400 GILLATE RD, ALEXANDER, NY

Trucks For Sale - ‘06 IH 8600 T/A Daycab Truck Tractor, ISM Cummins Eng., 10 Spd., 540k. .$20,900.

- ‘07 IH 8600 T/A Daycab Truck Tractor, ISM Cummins Eng., 10 Spd., 770k. .$19,500.

- ‘06 IH 8600 T/A Daycab Truck Tractor, ISM Cummins Eng., 10 Spd., 770k. .$18,500.

- ‘96 Autocar T/A Lugger Truck, 44k Rears, L10 Cummins, Low Miles, Wetline, Double Frame, Would Make Great Dump Truck!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500.

- ‘91 Autocar T/A Lugger Truck, 44k Rears, L10 Cummins, Low Miles, Wetline, Double Frame, Rusty Cab, Make A Great Dump Truck!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,000.

- ‘05 GMC 5500 Rollback Truck, 21’ Jerr Dan Alum. Rollback, Wood Floor, Dock Leveler Duramax Diesel, Auto Trans., 132k, Good Tires, Nice Truck. . . . . .$20,000.

- ‘01 IH 4700 Rollback, 21’ Century Body w/ Wheelift, DT466 - Recently Rebuilt, 7 Spd. Trans., 25k GVW, Runs Great. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,900.

- ‘99 IH 4700 Rollback, 21’ Century Rollback w/ Wheelift, Bad Engine. . . . . .$7,500.

- ‘05 IH 4300 Cab & Chassis, DT466, Auto, 25k GVW, Will Take 18’ Body, 275k. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,900.

- ‘03 Ford F350 12’ Box truck, ALL BLACK, V10 Eng., Auto, A/C, 80k Orig. Miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,300.

- ‘07 Cadillac Escalade ESV, Maroon, Tan Leather, 22’s, DVD, Sunroof, 92k. .$27,500.

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Scenes from Ag Progress Days Aug. 14-16 ~ Rock Springs, PA

An interested shopper takes this KRONE rotary tedder rake for a test drive.

These young men take a look at the Cummings and Despite the hot dry weather in many parts of the U.S., this test plot in Happy Valley has done an excellent A log splitter from Hud-Son might be just the tool these woodcutters Bricker, Inc. exhibit at the end of West 6th Street. job of maturing during the summer months. need.

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ValMetal's V-Mix 700 is a TMR mixer that can handle large round and square bales with ease.

The CLAAS lineup of equipment was impressive, as always!

This Massey Ferguson 8660 had farmers talking.

At an afternoon bale-wrapping field demonstration, the Anderson NWX-660 is put through its paces. The self-propelled bale wrapper is able to wrap bales of different sizes and keep on going.

supply and “while many are calling for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive the ethanol mandate, this would have little or no ef-

fect on ethanol demand.

Gasoline futures are just shy of $3 per gallon, and ethanol is trading around $2.60. Unless that relationship changes, refiners

will continue to blend ethanol.”

Sharp said ethanol producers are in a better financial position to buy the high priced corn than

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are livestock producers who have been suffering years of difficult finances, pointing to the large loss of equity among dairy farmers in 2009.

“They can’t borrow their way through poor margins,” Sharp said, and beef producers are in a similar situation so she expects large culling ahead and “continued contraction.”

Reporting on this week’s Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, the DDR said “Poor margins have encouraged strong culling and declining production per cow.

USDA lowered its milk yield per cow to 21,830 pounds in 2013, down from its 22,060 pound forecast in July. USDA also expects the dairy herd to average 9.11 million head in 2013, 35,000 cows lower than its July forecast, down 115,000 head versus 2012, and the smallest herd since 2005.”

2013 milk production is expected to be 198.9 billion pounds, down 1.4 percent from the July forecast and the DDR reported that, if realized, this would be the first year-over-year decline in milk production since 2009 and the largest annual decline in milk production since 2001.

Meanwhile; June fluid milk sales amounted to

4.1 billion pounds according to USDA estimates, down 0.3 percent from June 2011 and 0.8 percent lower after adjusting for calendar composition. Estimated sales of total conventional fluid milk products decreased 0.5 percent from June 2011 and estimated sales of total organic fluid milk products fell 3.9 percent from a year earlier.

California’s September Class I milk price is $19.34 per hundredweight (cwt.) for the north and $19.61 for the south. Both are up $1.33 from August but $4.23 below September 2011.

The 2012 Class I average now stands at $17.99, down from $20.64 at this time a year ago, and compares to $16.46 in 2010. The southern average is $18.26, down from $20.91 a year ago and compares to $16.74 in 2010. USDA announces the Federal order Class I base August 22.

Speaking of California, the Western United Dairymen’s (WUD) recent petition for an emergency hearing on California’s Class 4b milk pricing formula and a six-month, 50 cent per cwt. increase in the minimum price for all classes of milk has drawn responses from dairy producers and processors.

Dairy Profit Weekly reports that on August 6, WUD petitioned the Cali-

fornia Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), asking for an emergency hearing on two proposals.

First is emergency price relief due to the current financial pressures on dairy producers, notably due to extremely high feed costs. WUD is requesting a six-month (October 2012 through March 2013) increase of 50 cents per cwt. on the minimum milk prices for all classes of milk.

Second they seek changes to the whey value of the 4b pricing formula. WUD is requesting the cap of 75 cents per cwt. to be removed, proposing a scale that mirrors more closely the whey value under the Federal milk marketing order Class III milk pricing formula. Both the Class 4b and Class III milk pricing formulas are used for milk processed into cheese.

In a move to address concerns of small cheese makers, WUD proposed a dry whey exemption on the first 100,000 pounds of milk processed daily and would be only on the whey portion of the Class 4b formula.

You’ll recall that, following a May 31-June 1 hearing, a CDFA panel recommended no change in the state’s 4b pricing formula whey factor.

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Mielke from B17 However, CDFA secretary Karen Ross gave dairy producers a small concession, increasing the whey factor cap by 10 cents per cwt., effective August 1.

She also announced creation of a California Dairy Future Task Force, charged with developing recommendations for structural changes to California’s dairy pricing formulas and other milk marketing regulations.

In a letter to Ross, Joe Augusto, president of the California Dairy Campaign (CDC), urged CDFA to schedule the emergency hearing, saying the previous decision failed to address the immediate needs of dairy producers.

“The decision that resulted from the 4b hearing this spring failed to restore equity to our dairy pricing system,” Augusto wrote. “California dairy producers continue to be paid significantly less than dairy producers in surrounding states. The fact that the 4b formula undervalues milk has led to a loss in revenue of more than $200,000 for the average 1,000-head dairy in our state over the last 12 months.”

“To restore equity to our dairy pricing system, our dairy producer members believe California should join the Federal milk marketing order. To address the inequity in our state dairy pricing system, we believe it is imperative that CDFA remove the cap on the whey value in the 4b formula as called for in the petition.”

“Already this year, more than 65 dairies have closed their doors due to the fact that dairy producer prices do not cover historically high production

costs,” he continued. “In 2009, the worst year many can recall, 100 dairies closed their doors. If closures continue at this rapid pace, 2012 will take an even greater toll on dairy producers if action is not taken by CDFA to restore fairness and equity to our dairy pricing system.”

“Dairy producers are unable to pass on record high feed costs that have resulted from the nationwide drought so it is critical that CDFA take emergency action to raise the price of all classes of milk to prevent more dairies from closing.”

Reis Soares, Soares Dairy, Chowchilla, Calif. also wrote in support of the petition, pleading for CDFA to consider WUD’s petition for an emergency hearing stating; “I am a first-generation dairy producer and have been dairying for 28 years. Dairying in 2009 was about as devastating as I could have ever imagined until 2012. I don’t have to tell you what has happened to our grain/feed costs, as you are fully aware of the nation’s worst drought in decades. In 2009 I borrowed on our farm in order to be able to feed our cattle. I refinanced our farm for more than what I originally paid for it just to stay in business. I guess you can say I bought our farm twice now. The equity of our farm is gone; the equity in our cattle is gone; so we have nothing left to borrow on.”

“I don’t understand how CDFA can allow this much injustice to continue,” Soares added. “The dairy producer pays for the processors’ cost of operating. The dairy producer pays the full cost of producing and hauling the milk

to the processor. The processor is able to sell the finished product at a profit, yet they don’t have to share with the dairy producer.”

“I believe your conclusion in the most recent hearing decision that the industry should seek structural changes in dairy pricing to establish a more stable foundation for the future was judicious and should be followed through,” he said. “However, in the meantime, how many more dairies will be lost in California and how many more years will dairy producers have to endure instability before CDFA takes responsibility.”

To no surprise, processors disagree.

David Ahlem, Vice President, Dairy Procurement and Policy, Hilmar Cheese Company, asked CDFA to deny the petition.

“Considering another change to the 4b minimum price only weeks after the announcement of the May 31/June 1,

2012 hearing outcome will further perpetuate regulatory uncertainty in the state,” he wrote. “This constantly changing business climate will do little to encourage investment in this state at a time when capacity is exiting California and growing in other regions.

“In recent days, market prices appear to be rebounding in response to supply concerns,” Ahlem continued.

“We should let markets work. Increasing the minimum price will not increase the real value of milk. These intrusive regulatory adjustments insulate our industry from true market signals and do not create sustainable value. If we are really going to grow the value of milk over time, processors and producers must learn to respond to market signals and develop the skill set necessary to compete in the global marketplace.” Complete details are posted at www.dairyline.com.

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FOR SALE: Small Holstein Dairy Herd. Several super milk awards. Some sires include LC -Alexander -Bond -Murphy -Hero. Located in Montgomery County, NY. Call 518772-8856

Dairy Cattle

WANTED

Down, Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows for Rendering Free Pickup!

PINE TREE RENDERING Route 37, Brier Hill, NY

315-375-8459

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1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Dairy Cattle

Dairy Equipment

USED COWS WANTED

DEAD - DOWN - DISABLED CATTLE Call 607-722-5728 Anytime

1-800-777-2088 AMERICAN RENDERING CO. BINGHAMTON, NY

WANTED

HEIFERS

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

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

- WANTED -

Heifers & Herds Jack Gordon (518) 279-3101

WANTED: FRESH COWS

41 HEIFER Freestall Loops 60”, $20.00/each OBO; 10 calf hutches, $175 each. 607-2635774

DAIRY BARN EQUIPMENT FOR SALE 50 Cow Pipeline, 5 HP Vacuum pump, 650 gal. Dairy Cool Tank, 50 Stanchions & Bowls, 200’ Hay Elevator, Gutter Chain, Houle Magnum Pump

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.

CJM Farm Equipment 802-895-4159

CALL 802-782-9058 Dairy Equipment

Dairy Equipment

ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS

We Need Good Used Tanks • 100-8,000 ga. - Call Us • 1000 Gal. Mueller OH • 500 Gal. Mueller MW • 6000 Gal. Storage • 500 Gal. Mueller M • 1000 Gal. DeLaval • 3000 Gal. Storage PA • 415 Gal. Sunset • 2000 SOLD Gal. Mueller OH • 1000 Gal. Mueller M • 400 Gal. Jamesway • 2000 Gal. Mueller OH • 900 Gal. Mueller OH • 400 Gal. Majonnier SOLD PA • 800 Gal. • 2000 Gal. Mueller OE Majonnier • 300 Gal. DeLaval • 2000 Gal. Surge • 800 Gal. Majonnier • 300 Gal. Majonnier • 1600 Gal. Surge • 800 Gal. Mueller OH • 300 Gal Mueller M • 1500 Gal. Mueller OHF • 735 Gal. Sunset • 300 Gal. Sunset SOLD NY OH • 1500 Gal. • 700 Gal. Mueller OH Mueller PA • 200SOLD Gal. DeLaval • 1500 Gal. Mueller OH • 700 Gal. Mueller V • 200 Gal. Mueller RS • 700 Gal. Mueller M • 1250 Gal. Surge • 200 Gal. Sunset • 1250 Gal. Mueller OH • 600 Gal. Mueller OH • 150 Gal. Mueller RH PA • 600 Gal. Mueller M • 1250SOLD Gal. Majonnier • 600 Gal. DeLaval Rnd • 100, 180, 250 Gal. • 1250 Gal. DeLaval Milkeeper Self-Cont.

• 545 Gal. Sunset • 1000 Gal. Sunset F.T.

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

We e Do o Tank k Repair

Contact Us With Your Information

SHENK’S

jeffking@kingsransomfarm.com

www.cattlesourcellc.com

USED DAIRY EQUIPMENT

SEVERAL USED Double 6 and 8 parlors w/ATO’s and 3” low lines complete. Several 2”: pipelines, used vacuum pumps, receiver groups, claws, ATO’s, washer boxes, etc. 585-732-1953

Groups of 1st & 2nd Lactation

518-791-2876

Dairy Equipment

505 E. Woods Drive,

Sales 717-626-1151

Dairy Cattle

Dairy Cattle CLIP & SAVE

FREE REMOVAL

Down - Disabled - Dead Cattle

Lititz, PA 17543

Dogs FOR SALE: AKC Black Lab, 1 left, had shots and wormed, 4 months old, $200. 518-9935190, 518-774-6300

Servicing: Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Chenango and Montgomery CALL ANYTIME Call by 8am for Guaranteed Same Day Removal

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Farm Equipment

Farm Equipment

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IH & WHITE PLOWS & PARTS

JD 4050 MFD PS, NEW TIRES $26,900 CIH 5140 MFD NICE . . . . . . .$26,500 CIH 5130 LDR, HI HRS . . . . .$13,500 IH 1486 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 IH 1086 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,250 IH 1066 CAB . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,750 IH 1066 MFD . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 IH 1066 FENDER & NEW TA .$10,900 IH 966 FENDER . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 856 FENDER . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 IH 856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,900 IH 656 WEAK HYDRO . . . . . .$3,500 FD 4100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500 PTO UNIT FOR JD 9000 SERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 JD 9510 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . .$65,900

JD 9500 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL JD 9500 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . .$33,000 JD FLEX HEADS . . . . . . . . . . .CALL JD CORN HEADS . . . . . . . . . .CALL KILLBROS 350 GRAVITY BOX NICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 ELWOOD 4WD UNIT . . . . . . . .$5,500 IH & WHITE PLOWS 4X-10X . .CALL FRONT END LOADERS NEW & USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL CASE 8430 ROUND BALER . .$5,000 1ST CHOICE GS520-4 TEDDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,250 ROCK PICKER . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL CHISEL PLOWS 9-17 SHANK .CALL 33FT AL DUMP TRAILER . . . .CALL LOTS OF DUALS . . . . . . . . . . .CALL IH, JD, FD TRACTOR WEIGHTS .CALL

Alternative Parts Source Inc. Chittenango, NY •

315-687-0074

SUMMER

B A R GA I N S !!

‘81 IH 1086 w/ Cab, 4,000 Hrs., Local Trade . . . . . .$12,750 Nice JD 325 55 Ldr., 3,900 Hrs., Wgts . . . . . . . . . . .$13,900 Claas 180 Round Baler w/ Netwrap, Very Good Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,000 Claas 66 4x5 Round Baler, Very Good Condition. . . . .$8,750 JD 458 Standard Round Baler, LIKE NEW. . . . . . . . .$13,750 NH TB120 4WD Tractor, 115hp, Open Station, 2000 Hrs., Like New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$31,500 New Galfre 17 ft. Hyd Fold Hay Tedders, Only 4 Left!. . .$5,750 NH 1033 Baler Wagon, 105 Bale, Good Condition. . . .$4,500 Agco Massey Ferguson 3435GE 4WD Orchard Tractor w/Cab & Alo 710 Loader, 1600 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000 NH 269 Baler w/Thrower, Used Last Week, Very Good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 Ingersoll Rand VR530 Telehandler w/Cab, Bucket Forks, 1500 Hrs., Like New Condition! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000 Bobcat 743 SS Ldr, 3000 Hrs., Very Good . . . . . . . . . $6,500 Bobcat 440B SS Ldr, Very Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500 IH 686 w/ROPS & Canopy, Fresh OH . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 IH Hydro 70 Gas, 3500 Hrs, One Owner, Nice! . . . . .$6,900 Oliver 1655 Gas, Recent $5,300 Overhaul . . . . . . . . . .$5,000

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

518-284-2090 • email: info@macfaddens.com

www.macfaddens.com Lots More On Our Website!

ATTENTION FARMERS

WA N T E D Down - Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows

For Rendering - Courteous Service Free Pickup!

315-793-0043

Farm Machinery For Sale Employment Wanted RETIRED DAIRY FARMER 31+ years, w/clean class A CDL, interested in full or parttime work. 315-346-1482

$1,000 OFF MOST all combine heads. Buy now, price is going up. Quality. Largest selection of heads on East Coast. 3.7% Fin. Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

Farm Machinery For Sale 1985 JD 4650 4WD, 20.8x38 rears, 16.9x26 fronts, duals, clean, good condition, $35,500. 315-335-2210

Farm Machinery For Sale 1990 JD 4755 MFWD, duals, power shift $54,500. JD 4455 2WD, $35,900. JD 4255 MFWD, $33,500. 4850, 4440, 4450 & more. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322 1992 CASE IH 1680, 4WD combine, 3,500 engine hours, $49,500/OBO; 1998 12 row 1770 John Deere planter, dry fertilizer, many new precision planting parts, $33,500/OBO. Both Excellent Condition and Field Ready. 315-420-8328, 315-382-6334 2006 Case 621D Wheel Loader; 5100 hrs; 2.5 yard bucket; quick coupler; heated cab. Located in Ithaca,NY area. Call 607-319-9875.

2007 AERWAY 15’ w/tongue & wheel kit, new tines, $10,500 or make offer. 315651-0514 2008 AG BAG G-6060 bagger 8 and 9 foot tunnel, self-contained hydraulics, excellent condition $26,500. Balzer silage table, excellent condition $8,500. 315-209-7183 24’ HAY ELEVATOR w/motor, good shape, $900; 3pt. hitch 60 gallon sprayer w/hand wand, roller pump, $500. Call 7am- 7pm 518-284-2374, 518-231-1313 2x4 JD 5520 (2004) 75-80hp dsl. w/JD loader & factory deluxe cab w/AC/heat/stereo, 12 spd., power reverser, dual outlets, super clean inside & out, w/2500 hrs., $23,500.

315-245-4361 (3) JD 9550 COMBINES 2 are sidehill all very, very nice.

3.7% Fin. 1 Year warranty. zeisloftequip.com 800-9193322 (3) JD NO TILL 15’ grain drills 750, 1560, 1590 no problem.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 316 FLEX HEAD for L or M gleaner combine, $1,500 & 316 rigid head, $1,000. Both heads in good condition. 585638-6512 (4) JD 9510 Sidehill Combines. 2 are RWA. All very high quality. 3.7% fin. Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 (5) CASE IH 2366 combines.

2 are Hillco (sidehill). All are great condition. Zeisloft Eq. Bloomburg, PA. 800-919-3322 (6) GRAIN CARTS in stock, later model Brent, Kilbros, J&M & Parker. More arriving soon. Zeisloft Eq. 800-9193322 (6) GRAIN CARTS, all center and corner auger, late models. Brent, Parker, J&M. Nice ones. zeisloftequip.com 800919-3322 642B SKID STEER, excellent condition, high hours but very well maintained $5,500 OBO. 607-264-3090

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

FOR SALE: 200 Massey Ferguson industrial bucket loader. Call 518-332-6827

BOB’S Bean Combine Model 56, oversized tires, Sun pickup, $12,000; Picket 6 row w/8 bar pickup, $12,000; United 6 row w/new blades, $500; 77 International LoadStar 16’ drag hoist, $1,000. 585-7386890 CASE IH 1660 4x4, 4009 hrs., specialty rotor, new rubber, 1063 corn head, field ready, $38,500. 315-569-8267

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

FORD 8N, 9N, Ferguson, TO-20, miscellaneous parts, tires, tubes, rims, etc. Call 315-439-2685 East Syracuse,NY

GRAIN DRYER: M.C.675, continuous flow, natural gas, heat recovery w/transport wheel kit, $3,000/OBO. 716213-7843

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.

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

IH 3588 2+2, runs and drives good, cab rough, must sell to catch up on bills, $5,500/best offer. 607-776-4714

Farm Machinery For Sale

BEST BUYS IN USED SKID STEERS

CASE/AMCO 24’ disc, cushion hangers, field ready, $5,000 OBO. 716-213-7843 CASE/IH 7130 Magnum 4x4, 18spd. power shift, 4revs, 42” rubber, $29,500; Case/IH 3394 4x4, 6spd., power shift, 20.8-38 duals, $18,500; 6500 gal. Semi-Tanker for manure, field spread or transfer w/boom, good working condition, $12,500. Must sell. 607382-7722 CAT 236 skid loader, 3,700 hours, $8,500; BobCat 530 skid loader, gas, 20hp, $3,400; Jacobson T422D, front cut mower, diesel, $1,800; New grapple bucket, 72”, $1,750; Rock bucket, 72”, $650; Material bucket, 72”, $540. Hydro rebuilding farm skid loaders, harvesters and combines. Finger Lakes Skid Loader Repair 315-536-0268 COMBINE STEEL TRACKS, D4 Cat chain w/30” grouser pads, frame mounted, $5,000 OBO. 716-213-7843 DAHLMAN PH 2020 potato harvester, M table, V.G. $12,000. Airflow onion harvester, good condition $7,000.

585-733-7481 FARMALL 340 pulling tractor, new tires, weight brackets, $5,800/OBO; Farmall 560 pulling tractor, $6,400/OBO. 518-945-1715, 518-567-1532 FIVE CASE IH Tractors: CX100, 4wd, cab, air, 540 & 1,000PTO, $17,500; MX-220 coming in; Maxxum 5220 loader; MX-110, 2 and 4wd.; Case 2670, 200hp, duals, 12’ silage blades, runs nice. Case 1450 dozer, excellent undercarriage, $14,800. Whites: 2110, 2-105, 4wd and parts tractor. Same 45 vineyard, cab, air, 4wd, loader, 675 hours. MF 1529, 4wd, loader, 25Hrs. 9’ AgBagger w/Ford power unit, $8,500. Krone Big M 30’ disk mower, low hours, field ready. Kuhn GA 6002 double spinner rake. MillerPro 1150. JD 347 Baler thrower, low wear, one owner, $4,800.

Knight Reel auger mixer wagon. Bush Hog 18’ hydraulic fold disk, $2,400. IH 1020 Grain head. Bob’s 30’ smooth roller. Aarons Equipment 315-536-8718

• IHC 1066 tractor • IHC 656 diesel • Girton 3000 gallon bulk tank • Surge Double 8 parlor • Fruehauf 48’ drop deck trailer

315-521-2552

CASE 1840

GEHL SL6635

(C) CASE 40XT. . . . .$12,500 (C) CASE 70XT CAB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . $25,500 (C) CASE 85XT CAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 (C) CASE 420-2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .$10,500 (C) CASE 420-2008 WARRANTY. . . . . . . . $27,000 (C) CASE 420-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,900 (C) CASE 1840. . . . $15,900 (C) CASE 1840. . . . $11,250 (W) CASE 1840 . . . . $7,000 (C) GEHL CTL60 CAB/ HEAT, NEW TRACKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22,500 (C) GEHL SL3825. . . $12,500 (L) GEHL SL3935. . . . $13,500 (W) GEHL SL4640. . . . .$12,500 (W) GEHL SL4640E-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,900

(W) GEHL SL4840E-2007 CAB. . . . . . . .$14,900 (C) GEHL SL4840-2004.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18,900 (C) GEHL SL4840-2004.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,500 (W) GEHL SL4840E-2006 CAB. . . . . . . .$24,000 (W) GEHL SL5240E-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,500 (C) GEHL SL5240E-2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,800 (W) GEHL SL5625DX-HIGH FLOW . . . . . . . . . .$13,900 (W) GEHL SL5635 CAB/ HEAT. . . . . . . . . ..$23,500 (W) GEHL SL5635SXT 2000 CAB . . . . . . . . . . $15,900 (C) GEHL SL5640 JOY STICK. . . . . . . .COMING (W) GEHL SL6635DX-2 SP CAB, EXC . . . . .$25,900

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

©2007 CNH America LLC. All rights reserved. Case IH is a registered trademark of CNH America LLC. CNH Capital is a trademark of CNH America LLC. www.caseih.com

INTERNATIONAL 574 diesel tractor. Gehl 2360 discbine.

30” Cut riding mower. 315397-2593 INTERNATIONAL 966, 2 remotes, 2 speed PTO, 20.838 rubber, good condition, $7,000. 315-408-3405 JD 213 flex head, very good, $3,300; Paul livestock scale, $650; square bale grabber, $650. 802-644-5974 JD 9500 Combine, 2800 separator hours, exc. rubber, very nice, $39,500; Killbros 800 grain cart, good, $5,950; JD 7700 combine, hydro, 4200 hrs., $6,800; JD 220 flex head, pipe reel, $2,800. Mike Franklin 607-749-3424 JD 9650 STS very, very sharp. Good rubber. None nicer. 3.7% Fin. Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 JOHN DEERE 100 large square baler, $9,500; Case 1840 skid loader, $5,800; digital platform scales, 8’x22’, $3,200; New Idea manure spreader, $850. 518-5297470 JOHN DEERE 5820 Chopper w/666 corn head, 9’ Maize hay head, very good condition, many extras, $32,000 w/kernal processor. 607-363-2308, 607-363-7480 JOHN head, dealer ready, 7843

DEERE 653A S.B. 6row, auto-header, serviced yearly, field $6,000/OBO. 716-213-

JOHN DEERE 900 Series Grain heads 15’, 20’, 22’, 25’ & 30’. In stock today. $1,000.

Off. Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 JOHN DEERE Kernel processor, fully reconditioned, new rollers and bearings, fits all 6000 series John Deere silage chopper $5,000. or best offer. 802-758-2138

Farm Machinery For Sale Kennedy Tractor of Williamstown, NY (315) 964-1161 Bush Hog 2610 Legend 10’ Batwing Mower, 540 PTO, Exc. Shape $6,450; 3Pt Snowblowers: 4 1/2’ thru 8’; 3Pt Sicklebar Mowers; Landpride 10’ Mower (3) Heavy Duty Gearboxes, 540 PTO, Demo $5,500; 3Pt Log Winches; ‘99 NH 4835, 60-65HP Dsl Canopy w/Sd. Mt Sicklebar Mower, 2000 Hrs, Dual Outlets, Clean! $9,750; Ford 540 Canopy, 50HP Dsl, 2000 Hrs, w/Sd. Mt Sicklebar Mower $8,450; 4x4 MF 1040 w/MF Ldr Low Hrs, 35-40HP Dsl, Just In; Kuhn Knight 8110 Slinger Spreader 540 PTO, Single Axle, (1) Yr Old $10,500; PTO Generators; 25 Bu. Spreader (New) All Galvanized Ground Driven $1,875; 4x4 Kubota 8590HP Dsl, Heated Cab w/AC All New Tires, Dual Outlets, Well Maintained $11,900; 4x4 Landini Globus 7580HP Dsl, Full Glass Cab w/Heat & AC Dual Outlets, Field Ready! $15,900; 300 Gal. Water Totes; 4x4 Long 50HP Dsl, Canopy 3000 Hrs w/Hydr. Outlets $6,950; Vermeer Trencher Low Hrs, Dsl w/Front Blade $3,950; 18’ Steel Rack Kicker Wagon $2,275; Gehl 970 SU Wagon; 3Pt Chipper New; Lots More Tractors & Machinery In Stock

KINZE 4 row corn planter, double frame, no till, excellent condition . . . . . . . . .$5,000 JD 3970 2 row corn chopper, new knives, shear bar, bearings, field ready . . . .$6,500 JD Loader model 146, quick hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000 CAT 922 wheel loader, diesel, new paint & glass, good tires, runs good . . . . . . . . .$8,000

860-537-1974 KUBOTA BX 2660, 60 inch mid mower, 48 inch front end loader, meteor 51 inch rear snowblower less than 14 hours, asking $17,600. Reach me at 315-342-6905 KUHN 4000 disc mower with finger conditioning, $7,500 OBO; 800 8 row IH International corn planter, $2,000 OBO. 315-894-0447

LARGE SELECTION OF FARM TRACTORS available.

Call for great pricing. BUYING good tractors too! Located just below LJ HANDS Farm Center, 518-922-6301 LARGEST SELECTION of quality combines on East Coast. Most with 1 year parts warranty on motor and transmission. Low 3.7% Fin. We deliver anywhere. Zeisloft Eq. Bloomburg, PA. 800-919-3322 LATER MODEL JD combines.

We got ‘em. 9660, 9560, (2) 9560 SH, 9550’s, 9650, 9510 & more. 1 Year motor and tran. warranty. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322

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Lower your feed cost!

Save an average of 3 to 4 lbs of grain per cow per day Going from non processing to a processor. $6.00 corn. . . .

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Maine to North Carolina Forage short? Shred your corn silage with a

PleasantCreekHay.Com Partnership!

Welsarth@Msn.com MARTIN’S WELDING: New Skid Loader Attachments, Buckets starting $650, Manure Forks starting $600, Pallet Forks starting $575, Bale Spears starting $450, Round Bale Grabbers starting $1,500, Adapter Plates starting $85. Shipping available. 315-531-8672

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MASSEY FERGUSON 135 diesel, very good condition, $3,000. 315-865-8474

Gifford’s TEMCO Replacement Parts & Supplies For Agricultural Equipment All Types of Repairs and Welding 136 Kardas Road • Valley Falls, NY 12185

(518) 753-6207

Hours: M-F 8-5, Sat: 8-3

MABIE BROS., INC.

MILLER PRO Model 2200 double hay rake, good working condition, $3,900. 607363-2308, 607-363-7480 NEW HOLLAND 1037 automatic bale wagon/stacker. Call for details 518-284-2180 NEW HOLLAND 27 Whirl feed blower, $1,000. Ford 7700 w/cab, 2400 hrs., $15,000.

607-965-8151 NH 1033 BALE WAGON, 105 capacity, field ready condition w/manuals, $4,500. NH 282 wire baler with 1/4 turn chute w/manuals, $1,400. 315-4973740

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale RETIRED- SELLING: 16’ Balzar silage table, $6,500; 2003 Claas 3000 quad rake, $22,500; 20’ Harvestore Alliance unloader, $10,000; 1500 gal. Girton milk tank w/2 3hp compressors, $5,000.

315-408-2764 RISSLER round bale feeder, TMR feed carts, used 605 Vermeer baler. 413-357-6453, 413-207-2335

SMILEY’S FARM EQUIPMENT

HARVESTING’S HERE

Corn Choppers, $850 Up; Corn Pickers, $1,200 Up; Flail Choppers $1,250 Up; Haybines, $1,200 Up; Discbines, $3,500 Up; Round Balers, $1,800 Up; Square Balers, $800 Up; Hay Rakes, $450 Up; Hay Wagons; Plows, Disks; Harrows; Cultivators; Cultipackers; Seeders; Fertilizer Spreaders; Scraper Blades; York Rakes; Post Pounders; Brush Hogs; Finish Mowers, Rollers; Pavers; Seal Outfits; Corn Binders; Silage Blowers; Ag Baggers; Running Gears; Manure Spreaders; Grinder Mixers; Hay Elevators.

Compact Tractors; 4x4, 20hp to 155hp Tractors; 2 & 4 Wheel Drive with & without Cabs & Loaders; Bulldozers; Backhoes, Dump Trucks; Trailers; Cars & Pickups; 3pt.

Snowblower - all 4-Sale.

Much More. 30 ACRES

Buying Equipment Dead Or Alive

518-634-2310 Farm Machinery For Sale

Charles McCarthy Farm Machinery TRACTORS • FARM MACHINERY • UTILITY TRAILERS

BUY ~ SELL ~ TRADE 570-833-5214

Price Reduced!

New MF/Hesston 1734

39"x 52 inch round baler with electric threader, bale ramp and gathering wheels 10% down, 0% For 60 Mo. • was $249/mo NOW

$236/mo

New MF 1510 finger wheel rake New MF 1610 2 star tedder Used Class Liner 350 rake Excellent $5,500 Used Miller Pro 1100 rake . . . . . . .$4,400 8571 1 Kinderhook k Rd.. Kirkville,, NY Y 13082

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MESHOPPEN, PA 18630

END OF SUMMER FEEDER SALE! Headlock, Haysaver, and Slantbar feeders all available in sizes 8'-32' on skids or 4 wheels Custom made headlock panels @ $75/lock - includes all mountings.

Slantbar panels @ $25/foot including mountings

Customizing work readily available at very reasonable rates!

Call now for price quote on your needs!

Bliss Farm Enterprises (802) 875-2031 Also available: Hay wagons, bale carriers, round bale grabbers & wrappers, running gears, chain drag harrows, Sitrex Hay equip. and much, much more!

Farm Machinery For Sale

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

STEEL HAY RACK 9x18, little use, $2,300; NH hay rake 256, reconditioned, new paint & tires, $1,950; Katolight generator 6040, on trailer, like new, $3,000; Pincor generator, 40kw, $2,100. Port Byron,NY 315-374-2788

120 ACRES OF CORN for silage/grain. Combine available. $1,150/acre. Located near Homer,NY. 315-4962356

Tandem 24ft Flatbed, 2000 FL-80 SUPER! $24,500; BOBCAT M970 skid steer, HUGE, $7,000; IH 4186 4x4 3k hrs., $10,500; CASE wheel excavator 1085C, NICE, $16,500. 585-230-3038 or dvburly@aol.com USED 15’ BATWING mowers.

Bush Hog, Woods, Rhino, JD. Also 20% off all new Rhino mowers. zeisloftequip.com 800-919-3322

USED COMBINE PA R T S K & J SURPLUS LANSING, NY 607-279-6232 Days 607-533-4850 Nights WOW: Fancy 1996 JD 9400 Combine, as nice as we’ve had. Fresh from our wheat field. 2,600 Hours. Also 9400 with 4x4, only $43,900.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

Farm Machinery Wanted STEEL CORN CRIB WANTED. 607-647-9849 WANTED TO BUY: Used farm & construction equipment, all makes and models, running or not, 1980’s & newer. Will 315777-2357 WANTED: 2 Rollers for New Holland 467 haybine; Also Front fenders for JD 6x4 Gator. Call 607-829-6817

35½ ACRES of standing corn, excellent for picking or silage, in Bainbridge/ Masonville area. Taking offers on 607343-0183 50 ACRES of excellent standing corn, on River Flat.

Chenango County, NY. $900. per acre or best offer. 607206-4365

Custom Roasting and Cooling Your Soybeans,Corn, etc.

At Your Farm or Mill Serving All of NY State

WEILER’S GRAIN ROASTING

(315) 549-7081 FOR SALE: 30 acres of nice corn standing in field for silage or high moisture. Canajoharie (Montgomery County,NY).

610-593-6118 FOR SALE: Up to 250 acres of standing corn. Madison, NY. 315-893-7277 or 315-8937551

YOUR SOURCE FOR:

• Livestock Feeds • Ration Balancing • SeedWay Seeds • Crystalyx Products Buying Corn, Feed Wheat & Oats

WANTED: Front suitcase weights for John Deere 2840 tractor. 315-529-0922

(315)) 549-82266

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Romulus, NY 14541

Prices well below any dealer!

"Farmer to Farmer" unbeatable deals!

CIH H 7220 0 Magnum m 4x4, 18 Speed Powershift, 3 Remotes, 4 Speed Reverse, 18.4x42 Rear Tires and Duals, 5411 Engine Hours, 160HP, 540-1000 PTO Shafts, Front Weight Bracket, Super Nice, Price Very Reasonable.

585-393-1485

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

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn STANDING CORN FOR SALE. Pattersonville Area. 62 acres, $1,000/acre. 518-3767130 WANTED: Damaged dry or high moisture corn, mycotoxin, slight mold or flooded corn, all accepted. Call 518-5730137

Fencing

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

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

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

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Grain Roasting On Your Far m

Fencing

Country Folks Grower T M T P F C H HE

ONTHLY RADE APER OR OMMERCIAL ORTICULTURE

CALL

888-596-5329 For a Free Sample

Delivery Available

888-339-2900 ext. 10 Financial Services

Financial Services

Fish

Generators

Fencing

4097 Rt. 34B, Union Springs, NY 13160 RUSTIN WILSON (315) 364-5240 2033 Brothertown Road Deansboro, NY 13328 Phone: (315) 841-4910 Fax: (315) 841-4649 Hrs: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm; Sat. 8am-Noon

Waterr Tubs & Valves

www.williamsfarmfence.com

williamsfence@gmail.com

P&K Shuster Farms, LLC

If You Answered Yes You May be Interested in Our

SAND

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

WHEAT (Soft Red)

Do You Grow or Sell Fruits, Vegetables, Greenhouse or Nursery Crops?

Also BEDDING

for Horse Arenas or Cattle FOB McConnellsville, NY

“Miles of Quality Start Here”

315-534-8948

1883 Rt. 89, Seneca Falls, NY Cell 315-521-7321 Home 315-568-9337

HI-MAG LIME

Delivered by the Truckload

Empire Farm Fence & Supply

Waterville Grain Roasting

CERT. OTSEGO & FREEDOM 60 lb./Bag or Bulk BEST PRICE Cash, Vol. Bulk Disc

Fertilizer & Fertilizer Spreading

Call 888-596-5329 for Your Subscription

Soybeans • Corn Barley • Wheat

Oneida Co., NY

Fertilizer & Fertilizer Spreading

Now carrying Agri-Dymanics Products

FISH HATCHERY Falconwood Farms

Live Fish for Ponds & Restaurants

845-832-6086 For Rent or Lease

POSTT POUNDER R FOR R RENT Priefert Dog Kennels In Stock

Improve Your Farm Efficiency

ALL TYPES OF FENCES Quali Guara ty nteed

LOOKING TO rent or lease 100 acre farm to raise beef cattle, with housing, in Greene, Madison, or Chenango County. 845-877-1101

Fresh Produce, Nursery

Pumpkins, Gourds, Winter Squash, etc.

Pie, Jack-O-Lantern, White & Munchkin Pumpkins Acorn, Butternut, Spaghetti, Buttercup, Ambercup, Sweet Potato, Sweet Dumpling Squash

ANY SIZE LOTS AVAILABLE

Heavy Duty Galvanized Gates

Cyclops Energizers Made in USA

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

E&A Fence LLC 518-993-5177

771 St. Hwy 163, Fort Plain, NY

From Bushels to Tractor Trailer Loads

Hoeffner Farms Hornell,NY

607-769-3404 607-324-0749 eves Fruit Processing Equipment FOR SALE: Heavy Duty Apple Hand Parer/Slicer Combination. 15 to 20 apples per minute with 2 operators. $995.

518-284-2256

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

MOELLER SALES 1-800-346-2348 Goats KIKO Buck for sale.Purebred.

Registered. Excellent parasite resistance. Throws lots of color. $650. Athens NY. 518945-2745.

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers FARMER BOY 4.5 ton cone bottom feed bin w/26’ 4” auger, both like new, $2,400.

716-998-4972 NEW AND USED Grain Dryers: GT, MC, GSI. Call anytime toll free 1-877-422-0927 SUKUP 24” burner, draws propane, used very little; Sukup 3 auger stirator for 24’x7 ring high bin. 607-2635211

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1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

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

Dryer Bin - Brock 30x7 ring 10,000BU with floor and stirator and (2) 13 HP farm fans single phase.

$7,500 In Mt. Morris, NY

Call Chuck at 585-734-3264

Hay - Straw For Sale

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

WILL DELIVER

ROBERT ROLLE (518) 234-4052

GOOD QUALITY HAY & STRAW. Large Square Bales.

Will load or ship direct. 802849-6266 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

H AY Farmer to Farmer Wet and Dry Round & Square Bales

Hay - Straw For Sale

Heating

Help Wanted

TOO MUCH HAY?

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

WANTED:

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

HAY & STRAW

For Sale All Types Delivered

Also Square Bales of

Cell 717-222-2304 Growers, Buyers & Sellers

CALL STEVE

Giorgi Mushroom Company, located in Berks County now buying the following materials:

1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut Hay

STRAW 519-482-5365

HAY CORN STOVER STRAW All bale sizes and types, including ROUND BALES, accepted.

Spot Buys or Long Term Contracts Small or Large Quantities Quick Payment

Hay - Straw For Sale

STANTON BROTHERS 10 Ton Minimum Limited Availability

518-768-2344 1st CUTTING GRASS HAY, 2nd cutting grass hay; also mulch hay. 845-255-0223 200 4x4 ROUND BALES, Broome & Timothy, no rain, baled before 7/5/2012. 315778-1828 2011 BALEAGE CHEAP 250 Bales; Dry Hay, 50 round bales. Also 400 bales 2012 baleage. Albany,NY area.

James Frueh, 518-436-1050 53 ACRES standing first cutting hay for dry cows, bedding or beefers. Will cut & bale or you cut & bale. Groton,NY 315-283-4572 800 EXCELLENT quality large tight 4x5 round bales, cut before June 16th, some undercover; Also, 60 round bales cut after June 16th. 518966-4754

2012 Contracts Now Available

Hay - Straw For Sale APPROX. 120 Round Bales, Never Rained On, $75.00 per bale. Quality First Cutting Horse Hay, Timothy & Grass, dry, stored in barn, Pick Up Price $5.75 per bale, Millbrook,NY. Call 845-373-9569 leave message and call will be promptly returned.

BIG SQUARE BALES, 1st cut, nice hay. 51” round bales net wrapped, baled tight, later cut, cheap feed. 51” round bales, made right, June hay, nice.

2nd cut round bales grass hay. Call for delivered price.

315-737-0820

LARGE SQUARE BALES, processed first & second cut.

Call 802-864-5382 or 802578-7352

Contacts: Allen Hollenbach 610-929-5753 ahollenbach@giorgimush.com Kevin Eickhoff 610-926-8811 ext. 5216 keickhoff@giorgimush.com

ONTARIO DAIRY HAY & STRAW

Michele Fisher 610-926-8811 ext. 5189 mfisher@giorgimush.com

Lg. Sq. - 1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut

WANTED

Quality Alfalfa Grass Mix ALSO CERTIFIED ORGANIC Low Potassium for Dry Cows

Call for Competitive Prices NEEB AGRI-PRODUCTS

519-529-1141

FOR SALE: Horse quality first & second cut grassy hay, big & small square bales. Delivered.-315-264-3900

ROUND BALES of grass hay $150 a ton. 2nd cutting mostly alfalfa $240 a ton. Call 607336-5151

Hay - Straw For Sale

Hay - Straw For Sale

HAY*HAY*HAY

100% Alfalfa or Grass Mix 100-240RFV Western • Organic • Conventional • Haylage Wraps BEST QUALITY / PRICES / SERVICE

We’re #1 - Financing Available WE DELIVER! Certified Organic Growers Association $50 CASH for REFERRALS

CALL RICK (815) 979-7070

HAY & STRAW

Trailer Load Lots Janowski Bros.

315-829-3794 315-829-3771

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

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

SAVE UP TO $1500 when you trade out your old outdoor furnace for a Central Boiler EClassic. Limited time offer.

Call today! Border Drive Heating 570-537-2447

Help Wanted Herdsman Wanted for 80 cow tie stall family owned dairy. Must be experienced milker and knowledgeable in calf care.

References required. Salary negotiable.

Call 518-398-7640 leave name and number.

HIGH PROFILE NE DAIRY FARM seeks self-motivated individual to work with award-winning cows and heifers. Experience in milking, feeding, treating and record-keeping required. AI training and/or CDL would be a plus. Must understand cleanliness, organization, communication and team work. Housing & benefits provided. Salary based on experience. Email resume with references to terri@arethusafarm.com or fax 860-567-2426.

OLSENWIK HOOF TRIMMING Is Looking for an Apprentice Must be motivated with good cow handling skills.

Covering Cortland, Cayuga, Broome & Onondaga Counties. Please call

Ag Service Tech

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.

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

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

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

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

Apply now...

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

www.cazenoviaequipment.com Hogs Berkshire feeder pigs, breeding stock, and butcher pigs available on a regular basis. www.Teaselmeadowfarms.com 315-383-0432 QUALITY FEEDER PIGS, $60.00. Stoltzfus Family Farm, 707 Thompson Rd., Little Falls, NY 13365

Hoof Trimming

315-396-7255

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

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

EXPERIENCEDD REPAIRR TECHNICIANN wanted to fill immediate opening at our St. Johnsville or Richfield Springs locations.

Full time position with excellent pay and benefits.

Please send resume to: sspringersinc@roadrunner.com Or apply within at either: Springer’s Inc, 55 West Main St. Richfield Springs or 7403 State Hwy 5, St. Johnsville

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Hoof Trimming J&S LEONARD HOOF TRIMMING. 20 Years of Experience. Sore Feet - My Specialty. 607-264-8004

Miscellaneous

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

YARD SIGNS: 16x24 full color with stakes, double sided.

Stakes included. Only $15.00 each. Call your sales representative or Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101 or bsnyder@leepub.com. Please allow 7 to 10 business days when ordering.

HOOSICK FALLS,NY: 253 acre farm, currently horse/ beef farm. Has farmhouse, hay barn, sheds, pastures, hay fields, mobile home rental, organic potential, just outside village. 603-847-9026

JEFFERSON NY: 107 Acres, half wooded. Excellent 5 bedroom, 2½ bath farmhouse. 2 Car garage. Large barn with apt. and storage area. White and stone wall fences. 2 Ponds. Picturesque and private country setting. $450,000. Call Broker Alton Makely 518-231-0304

UPSTATE NY DAIRY FARM FOR SALE. 170 acres, 2 houses, 3 silos, multiple garages/storage buildings, 50 cow barn. In-ground swimming pool, 1,000 ft grass runway w/ hangar. Meticulously maintained. 315-837-4458. http://parkhurstfarmandfly.tum blr.com/

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

DEMEREE REALTY Little Falls, NY 13365 Phone (315) 823-0288

Parts 1685 Cty Hwy 35 Milford, NY

Bill Konchar Cell: (618) 975-5741 Office: (607) 286-3353

Horses 2 BELGIAN GELDINGS ages 10 and 11 years old used for farming, logging, sleigh rides, hay rides, parades, very good in traffic. 413-834-2526 HORSE BOARDING: Herd turn out. $150/mo. includes hay, grain and large pasture.

Call for more details. 518-6732805 or 518-857-1561.

TEAM OF HEAVY BLACK Percheron 7 & 8 year old geldings, 17-2 hands, farm broke, traffic safe. Also, 11 year old chestnut Belgian gelding, anyone can drive. Erin C. Lundy 315-493-1051

Livestock For Sale FOR SALE: 2 Year old Jersey Bull for service $975. 3 Haflingers, two 4 year old’s, need work, and one 10 year old. 518-673-3611

JOHN DEERE Model 40 kicker valve assembly, $400 OBO, $1,100 new. 518-587-0248

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 17 WEEK OLD BROWN EGG LAYERS COMING OCT. 2ND Up to 50 Birds $8.00 each Order More - Pay Less Pigs & Piglets Also Call 518-295-7662 From 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM Pick Up Schoharie

Real Estate For Sale Lumber & Wood Products LOCUST 4x4’s, fence posts, split rails, lumber. Natural, chemical free non poisonous alternative to pressure treated that has strength and lasts a lifetime. 518-883-8284

DELANSON NY: 258 Surveyed acres, half wooded, balance pasture & meadows.

Long road frontage. Year round stream. Picturesque and private country setting.

Super buy at $275,000. Call Broker - Alton Makely 518231-0304.

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

www.demereerealty.com • demeree@ntcnet.com #718 - Nice 210 A. free stall dairy farm w/170 tillable flat to rolling acres w/Sandy/Loam soil - 120 cow free stall barn w/double 10 Beco Parlor w/ATO’s, 3,000 gal bulk tank - also 160 ft. free stall heifer/dry cow barn. 20x41 ft. SealStore grain silo & 170x100 ft. bunk silo w/concrete floor - Good 9 rm. home w/5 bdrms. & 2 baths - corn & wood stoves nice fire place, also village water & Artisian Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$550,000 #70 - 178 ACRES IN STARK, HERKIMER COUNTY, NY - 60 acres tillable - 30 pasture - 80 nice woods, 2 story barn w/72 ties - 26x40 ft. heifer or horse section off main barn V.G. 8 rm. home with H-W-HEAT - 3 car garage with nice work shop. Across rd. from #69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ex. Buy at $289,000 REDUCED TO $275,000 #69 - Farm w/150 A. - 130 tillable, 20 woods, nice apple orchard, outstanding looking property w/very good 2 story home w/beautiful lawns and nice in-ground swimming pool - also outside wood furnace, 2 story barn with lg. heated shop at one end - nice creek borders property - located across the road from #70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Priced @ $435,000 REDUCED TO $400,000 C-82 - Newly Constructed in 2006, Ranch Home Located On 10 A Level Land in Western Montgomery County; 3BR, 1 1⁄2 Baths, Full Basement With 8’ Ceiling; Rear Deck; 24x30 TwoStall Detached Garage with Automatic Door Openers and Concrete Floor; Nice Home on Open Lot in Country Location, Price under Assessed Value . . . . . . . . . .Asking $149,000 C-83 - Cape Cod Style Home Situated on 4.4 Acres Along East Canada Creek. This Country Nestled Property Consists of 8 Rm., 3 BR, 1 1⁄2 Bath, First Floor Laundry Room; Lg. Sunroom; Forced Air Furnace, Generous Windows That Provide Natural Lighting, and Hardwood Floors. 30x44 Steel Barn in Pasture Area Ideal for Storage or Small Livestock Housing. This Home Has Not Been Updated. Basement Has Petitioned-Off Rooms and Walk-Out Outside Entrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Asking $88,500 B-101 - This is a small 70 acre farm with a rental apartment as income located on a quiet road. There are 35 tillable acres, 10 acres of pasture, and 10 acres of woods. The main residence on the first floor of the house has 5 bedrooms, two full baths and a modern kitchen. The second story apartment has 3 bedrooms and a full bath. There is a small barn (55’ x 30’) with a large hay loft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Asking $199,000

POSSON REALTY LLC 787 Bates-Wilson Road Norwich, NY 13851

(607)) 334-97277 Celll 607-316-3758 www.possonrealtyfarmsandland.com possonrealty@frontiernet.net David C. Posson, Broker

Richard E. Posson, Associate Broker

Speciall Thankss to o Paull and d Howard d Waitee for o selll theirr Jefferson n Countyy Farm.. We allowingg uss to welccomee Anthonyy and d Lynettee Burkholderr to o thee area.

FARMSS WANTED Wee need d listingss on n alll sizee farms.. Freee Stall,, Tie Stall,, and d tractss off land.. Wee aree currentlyy workiing with h severall qualified d buyerss lookingg to o farm m here ourr farm in n NY Y State.. Iff you u aree thinkingg off sellingg yo pleasee givee uss a calll wee would d likee to o speak k with you.. Posson n Realtyy LLC C farmerr owned d and d op perated exclusivelyy sellingg farmss throughoutt NY Y Statee for overr 40 0 yearss acquiringg ourr clientss top p dolllarr for theirr life'ss work!!

2256 6 - Madison n Countyy Freee stalll Operation. 210 acres 150 acres of very productive tillable land. 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

Van Billings Real Estate, LLC Van Billings, Broker/Owner

14 S. Main St., Dolgeville, NY 13329

315-429-0300

www.vanbillingsrealestate.com Exeter - 153 Acres - $299,900 Dairy Farm in need of New Owner. 153+ acres of tillable and pasture with small trout stream. 130 stanchion barn, with most milking equipment. 36x72 Machine pole barn.

Older home needs additional work. Fences good. Barn holds 20,000 bales. Additional acres available.

Adjacent acreage: 114 Ac, $228,000 & 184 Ac, $368,000

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.

Fairfield - 200+ Acres - $589,000 Amazing Victorian Farm - Restored 3000 sq. ft., 4 BR, 3.5 bath home on 200 mostly tillable acres.

Huge Barn, Large Equipment Building. Home features oak & pine floors, high ceilings, large gracious rooms, impeccably maintained. Fields are worked by local farmers, views are wonderful. Additional 478 Acres available.

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

planting feed. This farm is turnkey, ready to milk. Good farming area, agricultural and machinery businesses all close by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Askingg $550,000 Owners are entertaining all reasonable offers.

2319 9 - 135 5 m/ll acres. 20 acres open balance woods. Over half a mile of road frontage on a quiet road with beautiful views overlooking a gorgeous valley. Would make a nice piece of land to build a home or cabin on for year round or weekend living. Some timber, awesome deer and turkey hunting. Trails to ride 4-wheelers and snowmobiles. Nice location. Just west of Cooperstown, NY. Close to the City of Utica. Shopping, hospitals within minutes. If you are looking for a piece of property for investment, recreation, or a nice place to build this has a great location and setting. Priced to sell . . . . . . . .

195,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Askingg $1 1 - Beautifull setting.. Madison n Countyy Gentleman's 2331 Farm. 100 acres. 65 tillable all in hay, excellent well drained soils. Balance pasture and woods. 2 story barn 30x80 with drive in mow. Box stalls for livestock. Hay storage for 4000 bales. Older 2 story 4 bedroom home partially remodeled.

Farm has a very nice location 1/2 hour to Syracuse, 15 mins to Oneida. 25 mins to Oneida Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Askingg $189,000, make an offer.

2340 0 - Oneidaa Countyy Hobbyy Farm - 62+/- acres - Quiet Road. 28 acres in hay, balance is woods and pasture. Older 2 story 32x60 barn, good for storing hay and equipment. Would work for a few beef or horses. 3 bay garage, other small out building for chickens and pigs. Good 2 story 3 bdrm farm house. Year round stream. Farm would make a nice place to build or make some hay. Taxes $3100+/- Close to shopping, d to o selll $169,900 hospitals and lots of things to do .Priced

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For All Your Automation and Filling Needs Call:

Center State Ag. Service Morrisville, New York

315-684-7807

JAMESWAY & VAN DALE

Equipment, Parts & Service Authorized Harvestore & Laidig Dealer Sales, Service-Repair

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ABM M & ABX X Panell - Standingg Seam m - PBR R Panel LOW PRICES - FAST DELIVERY – FREE LITERATURE

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Full line Pole Building material. ~ Lumber - Trusses - Plywood.

www.abmartin.net • Email: sales@abmartin.net

Services Offered CANVAS PRINTS: All sizes.

Mounted or Unmounted. Just bring in or send us your photo at Lee Publications. Call 518673-0101 bsnyder@leepub.com

HAIR SHEEP Katahdin Dorper cross, 5 non tag Ram Lambs, 5 Ewe Lambs born February and March. 6 Ewes 18 months to 36 months, good top lines, good mothers. 845855-9186

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1999 Kenworth W900 Daycab, Cummins 525hp, 18 speed, 414k miles, double frame, wetline, 14k front axle, 46k full locking rears, Hendrickson suspension, rubber 75% $29,000

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Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate Program Now Accepting Applications For aspiring and beginning farmers and market gardeners, providing 124 hours of classroom training, hands on workshops, farm visits and supervised work experience on sustainable farms.

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AUG 31 Cornell Small Fruits Open House Ithaca, NY. Free and open to the public. Please register by phone or e-mail by contacting Cathy Heidenreich, mcm4@cornell.edu, 315787-2367.

Forestry Workshop 4-H Camp Shankitunk, 2420 Arbor Hill Rd., Delhi, NY. 9:30 am - 3:30 pm. The afternoon portion of this workshop will be a woods walk through parts of the Lennox Memorial Forest just above the camp, so dress for the weather. This will be held rain or shine. The fee for this program is $15. Preregistration is required by Aug. 24. Please make your check payable to “Cornell Cooperative Extension.” Note “forest health” on it and mail to Cornell Cooperative Extension, P.O. Box 184, Hamden, NY 13782. Bring a bag lunch - coffee, tea, juices and snacks will be provided.

Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by calling Janet Aldrich at 607-865-6531 by Aug. 24.

(Qty. 3) Osh Kosh 6x6 Cab and Chassis, Average 65K Miles, Cummins ISM 330HP, 10 Spd, 18’ 8” of Frame, 132” C-T, 20K Front Axle, 46K Full Locking Rears $39,000 Each

SEP 2 New York State Fair Open Meat Goat Show NYS fairgrounds, Syracuse, NY. Contact Kay Kotwica, 315-889-5333 or e-mail kotland@dreamscape.com.

On Internet at www. nysfair.org/competitions SEPT 6, OCT 4, NOV 1 & DEC 6 Maple Training Webinars 7-8 pm. Webinar connection details are available at http://maple.dnr.cornell.ed u/webinar.html. A high speed internet connection is necessary to participate.

Access is free of charge. No preregistration is required.

Contact Stephen Childs, email slc18@cornell.edu.

SEP 7 Hudson Mohawk Resource Conservation & Development Council Grazing Seminars Ovinshire Farm, 511 Frog City Rd., Fort Plain, NY. 10 am - 3 pm. Contact Susan Lewis, 518-765-7923 or susan.lewis@ny.nacdnet.net Produce Farm and Greenhouse Tour Barber’s Farm, 3621 St. Rt. 30, Middleburgh, NY. 10 am - 2 pm. The public is invited at a cost of $10/person. Pre-

registration is required by Wed., Sept. 5, 2012. Participants are asked to bring a bagged lunch. Contact CCE, 607-547-2536 or e-mail Otsego@cornell.edu.

SEP 8 Eat, Stink & Be Merry!

Canal Place, along the Erie Canal, Little Falls, NY. Join us for a day of stinkin’ good fun! Enjoy the best of the best local garlic & herb growers, fine artisans and a marvelous selection of garlic cuisine. Experience the Garlic Queen pageant and a guided tour of Moss Island. Live music all day! Plenty of free parking w/shuttles, $3 suggested donation, family groups $10, children under 12 free. On Internet at www.mvghf.com SEP 8-9 Southern Tier Sheep & Wool Growers Otsego County Fair Grounds, Morris, NY. 8:30 am to 4 pm. Sept. 8 and 9:30 am to 4 pm. Sept. 9. Contact Sue Smith, 607-293-8810.

SEP 13 2012 New York Pollinator Short Course USDA NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, 3266 State Rt 352, Corning, NY. Register at website below; $12 lunch/refreshments fee. 4.0 CCA credits pending approval.

• Sign in 9:30-9:40 AM • Speakers 9:45 AM - noon • Lunch noon - 12:45 PM • Tour 12:45 - 2:45 PM • Speakers 2:45-3:30 PM . Contact Paul Salon, 607 562 8404 or e-mail paul.salon@ny.usda.gov. On Internet at www. xerces.org/events SEP 14-30 The Big E West Springfield, MA. Call 800-745-3000. On Internet at TheBigE.com SEP 15 Wildlife & Bird Conservation Workshop Margaretville Fire Department, 77 Church St., Margaretville, NY. Sign-in begins at 8:30 am. This workshop is free, but registration is required Registration deadline is Tues., Sept. 12. Contact Graham Cox at glcox@audubon.org or 518869-9731, or the Catskill Forest Association at e-mail cfa@catskill.net or call 845586-3054.

SEP 15-16 Fiber Arts in New York’s Finger Lakes Region Hemlock Fairgrounds, 25 miles south of Rochester, Route 15A, Livingston County. 10 am - 5 pm on Sept. 16 & 10 am - 4 pm on Sept. 16. $5 per day, children 12 & under are admitted free.

Parking is also free, however, NO PETS are permitted anywhere on the fairgrounds, including the parking lot.

Call 607-522-4374 or 585721-1292. On Internet at www.GVHG.org/fest.html

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Calendar of Events SEP 15-20 The 49th All American Dairy Show Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, Harrisburg, PA. Featuring 23 shows in six days, including four full days dedicated to youth shows and more than 2,400 animals shown by nearly 1,000 exhibitors from across the nation. Call 717787-2905. On Internet at www.allamerican.state.pa.us SEP 17 & 19 Defensive Driving Courses Arkell Center, Canajoharie, NY. 5:30-8:30 pm. $20/person. All classes will be held in the Community Room of Arkell Center. Upon completion, individuals qualify for a NY ate point & insurance reduction certificate which will be mailed to them. Payment required in the form of a check or money order made payable to The Shults Agency or cash - paid on the day of the first class. Bring your drivers license. Contact Joam Cimino, 518-6734408, leave your name and phone number.

SEP 18 NYS Dry Bean Field Meeting Bob and Dan Duyssen’s Farm, 6620 Westacott Rd, Stafford, NY. DEC and CCA credits will be available. Supper will follow for those who pre-register by calling Carol MacNeil at 585-313-8796.

Please pre-register for supper

by Sept. 12. The meeting cost is $5 for those currently enrolled in the Cornell Vegetable Program and $10 for all others. On Internet at cvp.cce.cornell.edu/event.ph p?id=38 SEP 19 & 21 Pesticide Applicator Training • Sep 19 - CaroVail Facility, Salem. NY • Sep 21 - Peacock Hill Farm, farmington, NY. Classes can hold up to 30 people. $220/person with lunch provided on location. To register visit asmark.org/TrainingCourses. Once directed to the website page, click on Professional Applicator Training (1 day) then simply click on the date and location you wish to attend.

SEP 20 Oswego County Conservation Field Day Selkirk Shores State Park, Richland, NY. CFD is a highly acclaimed outdoor environmental education program for Oswego County’s fifth grade students. Contact Oswego County Soil & Water Conservation District, 315592-9663.

SEP 22 Landowner Workshop & Woods Walk NYSDEC Lowville Office, 7327 Rt 812, Lowville, NY. Contact Graham Cox, 518-729-6869 glcox@audubon.org.

Tour De Farms Critz Farms in Cazenovia, NY. The bike tour will include three loops, approximately 10, 20, 40 miles, all starting and ending at Critz Farms. Riders will be invited to visit a few farms along the

way, followed by a Tour De Fork lunch back at Critz Farms, featuring Empire Buffalo and other Madison County products and farmer’s market. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door on Sept. 22. There is an early registration discount available through Sept. 14 and different ticket prices for kids and adults.

Contact Beth McKellips, 315-684-3001 ext. 126 or email bam233@cornell.edu.

SEP 29 & 30 National Farmedic Training Program This course is for all called to a Farm Emergency. EMT’s, Firefighters, Law Enforcement. Cost is $90/person.

Max of 4 people per organization. Pre-Paid Registration is required by Sept 25. Call 315-736-3394 ext 104.

SEP 29-30 NYS Jack Frost Classic Boer NYS fairgrounds, Syracuse, NY. Contact Kay Kotwica, 315-889-5333 or e-mail kotland@dreamscape.com.

On Internet at www. esmgpa.org SEP 30 Bowhunter Education Course Bailey Mt. Fish & Game Club, Inc., 531 Synders Lake Rd., Wynantskill, NY. 7:30 am - 4:30 pm. Pre-registrtion is required. Every Wed. from 7-8:30 pm starting on Sept.

4 until class is full. Class size is limited and based on first come first serve. Call 518-286-9620.

OCT 2 Building a Strong Management Team Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 1 pm. Dr. Bernard Erven will outline the three critical steps in forming an effective management team. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1). On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com OCT 2-3 “Come Home to Kansas” 2012 National Angus Conference and Tour Doubletree Hotel-Airport, Wichita, KS. Call 816-383-5100 or sstannard@angus.org.

OCT 3 Avoiding Drug Residues in the Dairy Industry Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 11 am. Dr. Geof Smith will discuss these critical points and give an overview of how drug residue testing in milk and meat is implemented in the US. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1).

On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com Building US Agricultural Exports: One BRIC at a Time Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 1 pm. Brazil, Russia, India and China, also known as BRIC, have huge buying power, Jason Henderson will discuss this growing market and how it will affect agricultural exports and global food production. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1). On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com

OCT 3-7 10th Semi-Annual Beef Tour Traveling by bus to Ohio.

Stops will include commercial and registered cow/calf operations, farmer feeders, and backgrounding operations. Tentative plans also include The Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. On Internet at www.ansci.cornell.edu/beef OCT 4 How Many Replacement Heifers Does Your Dairy Need Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 1 pm. Dr. John Currin will discuss how to manage your replacement herd in terms of size and quality. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1). On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com Planning for Change: Transitioning the Family Farm Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 11 am. Elizabeth Rumley will discuss how to make the transition while keeping the farm financially viable for all parties involved. She will also outline ideas on creating a structured plan for making a smoother transition to the next generation. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1). On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com OCT 5 “Making Sense of the Global Dairy Markets” Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 11 am. Alan Levitt will be discussing just how large the global marketplace is and where the market is headed. He will outline the current US export situation, key markets and what factors are driving the global price. Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1).

On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com The Effect of Risk on Dairy Farm Management Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 1 pm. Dr. Christopher Wolf will examine the risk that different sized dairies face, how risk has changed over time and what the management implications are for dairy farmers.Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1).

On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com OCT 5 & 7 Hunter Education Training Bailey Mt. Fish & Game Club, Inc., 531 Synders Lake Rd., Wynantskill, NY. • Oct. 5 - 7-11 am • Oct. 7 - 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Pre-registration will be held at the fish and game club every Wed. from 7-8:30 pm starting Sept. 5 unil class is full. Class size is limited and based on first come first serve. Call 518-286-9620.

OCT 6 All Breeds Fall Consignment Horse & Tack Auction Waddington, NY. Tack Sale at 9 am. Horses at 1 pm sharp. Catalog deadline is

Sept. 22. All horses must have a negative Coggins within one year of sale. Entry Fee $40 for all Horses. Commission 10 percent. No sale is $25. Contact Loomis Quarter Horses, 315-3887736. On Internet at www. loomisquarterhorses.com Lasagna Dinner to Support 4-H Exchange 4-H Building. Tickets for the dinner are $5/person and $25/family. After dinner there will be a chance to buy your dessert with a pie auction. Call 570-265-2896 or e-mail ayp10@psu.edu.

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How to Improve Your Mastitis Treatments and Maintain Healthy Cows Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI (Mendota 2 meeting room). 11 am. Dr. Pamela Ruegg will discuss the changing presence of mastitis pathogens on modern dairy farms and will demonstrate how and when antibiotic treatments should be used.Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1). On Internet at www.worlddairyexpo.com OCT 14 Rensselaer County Draft Animal Association Wagon Ride Schaghticoke, NY. 11 am.

Contact Diane Crandall, 518-686-4815 or newsletter@rcdaa.com.

OCT 24-27 National FFA Convention & Expo Indianapolis, IN. On Internet at www.ffa.org NOV 3 Rensselaer County Draft Animal Association Plow Day Halfmoon, NY. 11 am.

Contact Diane Crandall, 518-686-4815 or newsletter@rcdaa.com.

NOV 14-16 The 23rd Annual Recycling Conference and Trade Show Cooperstown, NY. On Internet at www.nysar3.org NOV 15 Harvesting Opportunities Conference Hotel Albany, corner of Lodge & State Streets, Albany, NY. A conference to inspire and educate New Yorkers to support agriculture, strengthen local farm and food economies and get involved in protecting farmland.

On Internet at www.farmland.org/newyork DEC 18 Cornell Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference Statler Hotel Ballroom on the Cornell campus. Annual event that examines trends and presents forecasts for agriculture in New York. Registration & program info available online. Contact Carol Thomson, 607-255-5464 or email cmt8@cornell.edu. On Internet at http:// aem.cornell.edu/outreach/ ag_outlook_conference.php JAN 13-16 American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2013 Annual Meeting Nashville, Tenn..

Farm Bureau members register for the 94th AFBF annual meeting through state Farm Bureaus.

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1 Week $11.95 per zone / 2+ Weeks $10.95 per zone per week 1 Week $12.25 per zone / 2+ Weeks $11.25 per zone per week

2002 New Holland FP240 - Metal Alert, Processor, Electric Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,975

Buffalo 745 Roller Mill w/Blower Unit . . . . . . .$14,500

Kverneland 7517 Individual Bale Wrapper - w/Bale On End Tip Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18,975

2003 John Deere 3975 - Metal Alert, Processor, Single Axle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$21,750 2004 New Holland FP240 - Metal Alert, Processor, 2010 John Deere 3RRC - 3 Row Corn Head . . .$11,875 Electric Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$39,900 2004 John Deere 7CD Pickup Head . . . . . . . . . . .$5,375

Automatic 1200 - 4 Roller Mill w/Blower and Cob Crusher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,250

(2) Rental Ag-Bag G6060 - 9’ Tunnel, 200’ Cable Recently Adjusted Pricing Rented One Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$31,875 $30,875 Rented One Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$34,510 $32,575

Lancaster 40 Roller Mill w/Blower, Like New . . . . .$29,775

Ford 555C Loader Backhoe, 2WD, Cab . . . . . . . . .$18,975

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2007 New Holland TD95D - 80 PTO HP, 4WD, Cab, 2006 New Holland TC55 - 47 PTO HP, 4WD, Soft Sided 2007 John Deere 3720 - 35 PTO HP, 4WD, Hydrostatic Loader, 3900 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,975 Cab, Loader, Gear Shift Transmission . . . . . . . . .$25,800 Transmission, Cab, Loader, Low Hours . . . . . . . . .$28,975

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PH (585) 243-1563 FAX (585) 243-3311 6502 Barber Hill Road, Geneseo, New York 14454 WWW.TEITSWORTH.COM

ROY TEITSWORTH INC. SUCCESSFUL AUCTIONS FOR 42 YEARS

Lansing Municipal/Contractor Equipment Auction September 8th, 2012 @ 9:00 Town of Lansing Highway Department Rts. 34 & 34B, Lansing, NY (Ithaca, NY) Notice: Selling for local municipalities and contractors a variety of equipment. This is a partial listing, equipment is being added daily so check our website for updates at www.teitsworth.com.

Single and Tandem Axle Trucks: 2001 Volvo T/A dump, Cummins, 18 spd., dump not operational 1999 Volvo T/A dump, Cummins, Fuller 8LL, 116K 1998 Volvo T/A dump, Cummins, Fuller 18 spd., sells with plow & wing 1998 Mack RD688 T/A dump, Mack E7 Equipment: 1997 Badger 460 excavator, diesel up/diesel down, ditching & excavating buckets 1965 Cat 922B wheel loader, runs and operates Bobcat T300 track skid steer w/enclosed cab Bobcat 7753 skid steer loader w/enclosed cab 2007 Bobcat Tool Cat, bucket, snow blower & spreader 1997 King forklift, gas engine, 1100 hours Onan diesel generator, 135 hrs.

One Tons, Pickups, Cars & Vans: 2001 Dodge 3500 flatbed, Cummins, equipped with tool boxes 2008 Ford F250 Super Duty 4WD pickup w/plow, AC, PL, PW, 45K 2005 Chev. 2500HD LS 4WD pickup, AC, PL, PW, CD, cruise, bed liner, tow package, Western plow, 63K 2004 Ford F250 4WD pickup w/plow, Cummins diesel

2004 Ford F250SD XLT 4WD ext. cab pickup, Fisher plow, gas 2007 Ford Crown Vic 2005 Ford Crown Vic 2001 Ford Crown Vic 2005 Chev. Astro van (2) 2000 Ford Taurus Wagons 1999 Chev. Cavalier Tractors, Landscape & Trailers: JD 4120 4WD compact tractor w/loader, 580 hrs.

Challenger MT295 4WD compact tractor w/loader, 85 hrs.

Artic Cat Prowler XT600 UTV John Deere 955 tractor w/72"deck, 654 hrs.

Royer topsoil shredder, PTO driven 2012 PJ 20' tilt top trailer 2012 PJ 12' aluminum landscape trailer 2012 PJ 12' landscape trailer 2011 PJ 8 1/2x24' deck over equipment trailer, 21,000 GVW 2011 PJ 8'x18' flatbed trailer 2011 tow dolly Misc.: 10' Meyers plow, Ferguson sickle bar mower, "V" plow for tractor, (3) Volvo truck doors, aluminum road signs, chain falls, light fixtures, 8'Airflow SS sander TERMS - Full payment auction day, cash, check or MC/Visa, 2% buyer's premium waived with payments made by cash or check.

Inspection: Friday, September 7th 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Equipment Removal - No later than September 13 @ 3:00 P.M. Sales Manager: Cindy Wolcott, 585-738-3759

Fall Equipment Auction Teitsworth Auction Yard Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks, Landscape Machinery, Nursery Stock

Sat.,, Septemberr 15,, 2012

@ 8:00 A.M. Groveland, NY (Geneseo Area) SELLING: Heavy construction equipment; trucks, cars & trailers; farm tractors & implements; lawn tractors, mowers; trees, shrubs & much more!

Terms, pictures and updates available at www.teitsworth.com Consignments welcome.

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 Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:00 A.M. Municipal Surplus & Contractor Equipment Auction Town of Lansing Highway Dept.

Rts. 34 & 34B, Lansing, 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 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) Saturday, December 1, 2012 9:00 A.M. Special Winter Consignment Auction Teitsworth Auction Yard, Farm & Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks Liquidations & Consignments Geneseo, NY

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. Please contact Milo @ 585-739-6435, Richard @ 585-721-9554 or Cindy @ 585-738-3759 to consign to any of these auctions

Check it out at www.teitsworth.com

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