Country Folks New England 7.2.12

2 July 2012 Section One of One Volume 30 Number 15

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Postitively 4-H ~ Page 11

Vermont judging team selected at state 4-H dairy contest ~ Page 5

Featured Columnist: Lee Mielke

Mielke Market Weekly Crop Comments

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Auctions Classifieds Farmer to Farmer Trucks Alternative Fuels

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This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ~ Lamentations 3:21-23

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Teacher awarded Ag in the Classroom grant

by George Looby, DVM A delightful story unfolded at the Pomfret, CT, Community School on the evening of June 14, when first grade teacher Kate Bars was acknowledged as the recipient of a grant from the American Farm Bureau’s Foundation for Agriculture through the White-Reinhart Fund for Education.

This award is a competitive grant of $500 awarded annually to teachers throughout the nation at the K-12 level for classroom programs that increase agricultural literacy.

The White-Reinhart Award is so named to honor two former chairs of the committee. Kate’s first grade class focused on hydroponics and how it could be integrated into all things taught at the first grade level including science, math and language skills. Participating in the Ag in the Classroom program allowed Kate to present a strong case in her grant application. Awards are made on a one per county basis with programs in only 28 counties being recognized nationally.

The Pomfret School was the only one in the Northeast to be awarded a grant. The criteria for selecting winners included: the effectiveness of demonstrating a strong connection between agriculture and education, how effectively the programs encourage students to learn more about agriculture and the food and fiber industry and the procedures and timelines expected for accomplishing project goals.

Bars is not a passive agriculturalist. For many years she conducted a very active llama breeding program on her home farm in East

Killingly, CT. Over the years the llama program has been phased out to be replaced by a poultry and draft horse operation that now occupy her spare time.

Dan Durheim, executive director of the Foundation, has stated that, “building awareness, understanding and a positive public perception of agriculture through education remains the cornerstone of our efforts. Through the mini-grant program Farm Bureau members provide resources to educators in their local communities at no cost to help them teach students about the many facets of today’s agriculture.”

For those involved in agriculture on a daily basis improving the level of knowledge among the nation’s school children regarding things agricultural may seem at first a redundant issue. In truth the level of knowledge among children and young adults regarding the origins of the food they consume on a daily basis may at best be described as abysmal. Many, if not most, children have no idea as to how the food chain operates.

As the percentage of the population actively engaged in agricultural production continues to shrink the percentage that needs to be educated continues to grow.

Recognizing this fact over 30 years ago the USDA invited representatives of agricultural groups and educators to a meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss agricultural literacy. Out of this meeting came a task force made up of representatives drawn from the whole spectrum of agricultur-

Connecticut Cordinator for Ag in the Classroom Eleanore Provencal, at left, and first grade teacher Kate Bars pose with art work students created for the program.

Photos by George Looby ally related activities, which recommended that the Department act as the coordinator for national classroom agricultural literacy and that it sponsor a series of regional meetings to assist states in organizing their own programs. The task force further recommended that the Department enlist the support of other agricultural groups to support the program.

Each state is allowed the flexibility to address its needs in the manner best suited to achieving its own goals. In some states the programs are

The First Grade Ag in the Classroom Dinner was served family style in the school cafeteria.

administered and managed by all volunteer staffs including CT where the coordinator is Eleanore Provencal, a retired school teacher with unbounded enthusiasm for the program.

The diversity of approaches used to implement Ag in the Classroom in the several states has done much to enhance its success, that, together with the assistance of the professionals and volunteers each committed to its continued success.

Pomfret, CT, is a small rural town located in eastern Connecticut with a long standing agricultural roots.

But despite this background, many of the children enrolled in the elementary school have had little exposure to farming at any level. In her grant application, Bars outlined in great detail the many advantages her students would derive from participating in such a learning environment emerging with a greater appreciation of how food is grown and how it reaches the consumer’s table. With the aversion to certain foods that some first graders have it was hoped the experience of growing plants in the classroom might help them overcome some of these negative notions when served their school grown lettuce for lunch.

The highlight of the evening was the First Grade Ag in the Classroom Dinner served family style in the school cafeteria. Attending were students,

their families and faculty, including Principal Jane Dion.

Invited guests included Debbie Tanner of Brooklyn, CT, who serves as chairwoman of the Women’s Leadership Committee of the Connecticut Farm Bureau; Eleanore Provencal, Connecticut Coordinator for Ag in the Classroom; and Sandy Ahola, past principal of the Pomfret Community School.

Dinner was spaghetti served family style with the beef in the meat sauce from We-Lik-It Farm in Pomfret, lettuce in the salad grown hydroponically plus carrots and cucumbers from Lapsley Orchard in Pomfret, Shepards Bread made by the students (dipping oil containing basil and dill grown hydroponically). Desert was vanilla ice cream from We-Lik-It with strawberries from Lapsley Orchard.

The evening concluded with a slide show featuring the students engaged in the many phases of their very year’s activities. Programs such as this can only enhance the level of awareness among students as to how agriculture affects their daily lives as to how food arrives on their tables both at school and at home. It has been stated by those involved in the program that if one student out of many is directed towards a career in some area of agriculture, the program can be deemed a success.

Vermont farmers declare war on armyworms

Armyworms normally feed at night and can cause significant crop loss and damage.

Photo by Cornell Cooperative Extension, Allegany & Cattaraugus Counties “The caterpillars normally feed at night and much damage can occur before they mature,” Darby says. “The preferred foods are grasses including corn, small grains and forage species. They first strip the leaves and then consume midribs, seed heads and finally stems. Feeding will start on the lower leaves and move upwards.

“A large population can strip an entire field in just a few days. When the field is eaten they ‘march’ to adjacent fields. If grasses are unavailable, they will feed on

other plants.”

The most susceptible cornfields are either minimum or no-tilled into grass sod or fields infested with grass weeds. However, cornfields that have grassy weeds sprayed post-emergence with an herbicide should be closely scouted as the weeds begin to die. Armyworms, if present, will move immediately to the corn.

“In some fields in Vermont armyworms already have eaten the young corn nearly to the ground,” Darby notes.

“The question many farmers

are asking is if their corn plants can recover from the defoliation. A corn plant can recover from severe degrees of defoliation although the extent of recovery will depend both on the stage of plant growth at the time of damage and the extent of the damage.

Generally, crop loss is negligible when defoliation occurs very early in the growth of the plant.”

In hayfields armyworms generally feed first on the blades of the grass leaves ignoring the sheaths and stems until last.

In

legume/grass mixtures, the legume can remain standing with all the grass stripped out clean. However, under high larvae populations, even the legume can be consumed.

“Insecticide applications to control armyworm should be judiciously applied and a decision to control armyworm with an insecticide should be based on crop size or stage, armyworm size, crop damage and anticipated movement of larvae from one field to another,” the agronomist says. “Besides the expense of application, insecticides could also kill natural insect predators that normally control armyworm.”

Darby adds that if larvae are mostly 1.5 inches in length, then they are nearly done feeding and very little additional leaf injury will occur, so the field should not be sprayed. It is too late for insecticides to be of any economic benefit. A 20- to 40foot-wide border treated with insecticide will prevent armyworms from invading an adjacent field or non-infested area within a field.

For more information on armyworms and control measures, visit www.uvm.edu/extension/cro psoil. For recommendations on scouting and control options or to report an infestation, contact Darby at 800639-2130 (toll-free in Vermont) or 802-524-6501, ext.437, or UVM Extension agronomist Dr. Sid Bosworth at 802-656-0478.

Farm Bill passes Senate ~ What are the farm groups saying?

The U.S. Senate passed the 2012 Farm Bill on June 21, meaning the measure is a big step closer to enactment. The Farm Bill, renewed every five years, is the largest source of funding for conservation on America’s working farmland, ranchland and private forestland. The legislation was agreed to by a vote of 64-35. With Senate passage of a 2012 Farm Bill, the focus now shifts to the House of Representatives, where the House Agriculture Committee is expected to begin marking up its own version July 11.

National Farmers Union (NFU) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement: “We are pleased that the Senate was able to come together in a bipartisan manner to pass the 2012 Farm Bill, which is such a vital piece of legislation for family farmers and ranchers across the country. We appreciate the hard work of the leadership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, as well as the hard work of everyone in the full

Senate. We look forward to working with members of the U.S. House of Representatives to get a farm bill passed, and then working with both chambers of Congress through a conference committee to complete a bill by the time the current farm bill expires on Sept. 30.”

American Farm Bureau Federation Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, made the following statement: “The bipartisan farm bill approved today by the Senate (S.3240) provides farmers improved risk management tools consistent with Farm Bureau’s core principles. While no farm bill is perfect, this is a solid bill that was worthy of Senate approval. The bill includes important reforms and is fiscally responsible, while including important provisions to enhance crop insurance, maintain a viable marketing loan program and minimize the potential for farm program provisions to drive producer decisions.

National Milk Producers Federation The National Milk Producers

Federation hailed the bill’s passage as a “huge and historic step toward making a once-in-a-generation improvement in the safety net for America’s dairy farmers,” according to Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of NMPF. “Despite a variety of political, economic and institutional challenges, the leaders of the Senate, and in particular, the leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senators Stabenow and Roberts, have delivered on their promise to produce better farm and food policy. We appreciate their hard work in the past months, and will work in turn to ensure the House produces a similar bill in the coming months,” Kozak said.

National Corn Growers Association The National Corn Growers Association congratulates the Senate on passage of Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act (2012 farm bill).

NCGA also urges the House of Representatives to take action quickly.

“America’s farmers greatly appreciate the leadership and cooperative work by the Senate to pass the 2012

farm bill in a timely manner,” NCGA President Garry Niemeyer said. “We would also like to thank Senators Stabenow and Roberts for their bipartisan efforts throughout the process.

We have been calling on Congress to pass the new legislation before the current law expires on Sept. 30. NCGA is pleased to see this significant hurdle has been overcome.”

“Our focus now turns to the House Agriculture Committee with hopes that they will schedule a markup of their version of the farm bill for immediately following the July 4th recess,” Niemeyer said. “We look forward to continuing our work with agriculture advocates to pass a new common sense, reformed 2012 farm bill before Congress recesses in August.

Environmental Defense Fund “The Farm Bill is the United States’ primary means for engaging farmers, ranchers and foresters in stewardship of America’s natural resources,” said Sara Hopper, agricultural policy director of Environmental Defense Fund.

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BURLINGTON, VT — Farmers are advised to be on the lookout, starting immediately, for both true and fall armyworms in their corn and grass fields.

This crop-decimating pest, more commonly found in the South than the Northeast, recently has been discovered in several Vermont counties only a week after heavy populations were reported in western New York. The last major invasion of armyworms in Vermont was in 2001.

The pest, which despite its common name is actually a caterpillar, has been discovered in Addison, Franklin, Grand Isle and Lamoille Counties on second-cut grass hay, field corn and sweet corn crops. Left uncontrolled, it can cause significant crop loss and damage, according to University of Vermont (UVM) Extension agronomist Dr. Heather Darby, which is why it is critical that farmers are diligent about scouting their corn and grass fields for armyworms.

So what should farmers look for?

The first signs of damage are ragged holes and pelletlike droppings in the whorls and scattered on the ground.

Further investigation will reveal the nearly hairless caterpillars, which vary in color from green to brown and almost black. They have light-colored stripes running along the sides and back and can be almost 1.5 inches long when fully grown.

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Learn about value-added grain products at field day NEW HAVEN, NH — On July 12, north country farmers will have the opportunity to learn how a New Haven certified organic grain grower has created a sustainable business processing farm grown grains into valueadded products.

Francie Caccavo, owner of Olivia’s Croutons with husband David, will describe her operation, including how she taps into Vermont’s localvore movement with her products. She also will provide a tour of her commercial processing facilities, located in a renovated 1912 dairy barn, and the fields where she produces the wheat used to make her premium, all-natural croutons, stuffing and other products for wholesale and retail sale.

The field day, which runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is co-sponsored by the University of Vermont (UVM) Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program. Lunch from NOFA-VT’s mobile pizza oven is included in the $15 program fee.

To register for the Value-added Grains Field Day, go to www.uvm.edu/extension/cropsoil and scroll down to the registration section. Or call the UVM Extension office in St. Albans at 800-639-2130 (toll-free in Vermont) or 802-5246501, ext. 432, to speak with Susan Brouillette. The deadline for registration is July 9. Requests for a disability-related accommodation to participate must be made by July 3.

Olivia’s Croutons, named after Caccavo’s then 3-year-old daughter, Olivia, was established in April 1991 in Hinesburg. The operation has grown from a home kitchen-based business producing just one product, butter and garlic-flavored croutons, to a successful commercial enterprise featuring several products, all made from farm-grown wheat, garlic and other crops. The 50-acre homestead where the business is now based is listed on the National Historic Register.

Cover photo by Becky Colpitts Zack Moore, one of the presenters, is shown here with his sheep at the 4-H Animal Science Day held on May 19 at the Grafton County Farm in New Hampshire.

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Widespread and heavy damage from black cutworms has been found in cornfields in Franklin and Rutland counties.

Photo by University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cutworms invade cornfields in central Vermont counties BURLINGTON, VT — Farmers in sev- from the soil. Fields that are most suseral Vermont counties are waging bat- ceptible are no-till plantings, hightle against black cutworms, a destruc- residue or weedy fields, areas previtive early-season pest that quickly can ously in pasture or sod and low, wet reduce plant populations in a field. areas.”

Although not an uncommon occurScouting for this pest is essential, rence in the state, what is unusual is even if control measures such as seed the extent of the damage and large treatment and planting Bt corn have amount of acreage affected this year. been used. Look for cut, missing or Heavier than usual damage has wilted corn plants, all typical sympbeen reported by farmers in Franklin toms of larvae damage. and Rutland The larvae, counties thanks in which feed mainly part to the recent at night, will move hot temperatures up the row as they that have pushed feed. On average, the cutworms to one larva may cut the cutting stage. three or four The widespread plants in its lifeand heavy damage time. in cornfields also “To scout, check can be attributed 20 plants in five to a combination locations for cutof factors from a worm injury,” ~ Dr. Heather Darby Darby says. “Postmild winter, recent storm fronts, University of Vermont Extension emergence rescue actively growing treatment is sugweeds and crop residue. gested when 5 percent or more of the “Storm fronts carry adult black cut- plants are cut and larvae are 1 inch or worm moths from the Gulf states to less in size. If they are larger than an Vermont,” Dr. Heather Darby, inch, it is less likely that a control University of Vermont Extension treatment will help. agronomist, explains. “Moths ‘drop “Apply rescue treatments late in the out’ of these storm fronts and seek day since cutworms feed at night. Only attractive egg-laying sites, especially the infested area and a 20 to 40 foot on common chickweed and other win- surrounding buffer need to be treated. ter annuals.

The spray should be directed to the “As planting is delayed, the larvae base of the plant.” will hatch and begin feeding on the For information on approved treatweeds,” she continues. “As the weeds ments or other control strategies, are killed, the cutworms need addi- contact Darby at 800-639-2130 (tolltional food and will be large enough to free in Vermont) or 802-524-6501, cut corn plants as seedlings emerge ext. 437.

“Storms carry adult black cutworm moths from the Gulf states to Vermont. Moths ‘drop out’ of these storm fronts and seek attractive egg-laying sites.”

Vermont judging team selected at state 4-H dairy contest BURLINGTON, VT — When the results were announced at the culmination of the annual State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest on June 23, four Vermont 4-H dairy members were all smiles as they learned that their hard work had earned them a spot on the 2013 state 4-H dairy judging team.

Sara Ingwersen, Addison; Cassie Westcom, Enosburg; Britney Hill, Bristol; and Brooke Aicher, Shelburne, listed in order of placement, will represent Vermont in competition at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA, this fall and again in October 2013 and at the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest, which is

held in conjunction with the World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI. All contestants, age 14 and older, were eligible for selection for the state team.

Alternates are Sara Moye, Vernon, and Ben Maille, Shelburne.

A total of 40 4-H’ers, ages 8 to 18, entered the State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest, a University of Vermont (UVM) Extension-sanctioned event that took place at Men-Da Jerseys, Addison, and Blue Spruce Farm, Bridport. All competitors judged three classes of Jerseys, two classes of Holsteins and two classes of Ayrshires.

Others who excelled in cattle judging, by age group, in

Vermont 4-H dairy members Tiffany Tracey, Vergennes; Shelby Biasini, Morrisville; and Nathan FeFee, Bristol (L-R) take notes as they rank cows in a judging class as part of the annual State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest on June 23.

Photo by Susie Marchand

Farmland Finder website aims to provide Food safety course for small a place where buyers and sellers can meet processors offered July 11 AUGUSTA, MAINE — Farming is “in.” Many young and second career farmers have their hearts set on farming in New England. Armed with a passion for feeding people, working with animals, and getting their hands in the dirt, these new farmers are prepared for the hard work ahead. They just need a good piece of land to start or expand their farming dreams.

On the other hand, a growing appreciation of “local food” and valuable farm soils is leading New England landowners to connect with farmers and find creative ways to share their land. They see many advantages to renting or selling their farmland. They just need to find a farmer.

Enter the New England Farmland Finder website. This new online service helps farmers and landowners find each other. This farm property clearinghouse is free, simple, up-to-date and privacy protected. It contains information

and resource links to inform and support farm seekers and landowners.

The site was launched by a collaboration of New England organizations focusing on farmland access issues. The new service complements local and statewide efforts to match new farmers with available land. “In our experience, people come from all over the country to farm in our area.

Yet, finding land to purchase or rent can be their biggest challenge. This new service helps farmers explore the region and make good connections. It also makes it easy for individuals, towns and organizations to let farmers know about their available farms and farmland.”

The website is part of a region-wide, USDA-funded project on farmland access directed by Land For Good.

Kathy Ruhf, LFG co-director and project lead, observed, “This site complements farm link and land access programs

that educate, help and support seekers and landowners.

It provides a wide gateway to all these services, making them more accessible to a broader audience.”

Landowners, farm seekers and realtors are encouraged to visit newenglandfarmlandfinder.org to post or search for farm properties, and to check out the resources. The site will become increasingly useful as more properties are added.

For more information contact info@newenglandfarmlandfinder.org New England Farmland Finder is not involved in real estate transactions. It does not sell or rent properties or receive a commission for any transactions. Realtors are encouraged to post farm properties on our site. This site is supported in part with funding from the USDA/NIFA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program.

BURLINGTON, VT — As interest in producing valueadded or processed foods has grown in Vermont, so has the need to provide up-to-date information to small-scale food processors on food safety regulations and food safety best practices.

On July 11 University of Vermont (UVM) Extension and the Vermont Department of Health will offer a course at the latter’s offices at 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, to help these processors understand how to meet current federal and state food regulations. It will run from 9 a.m. to noon and costs $10, which includes all handouts and light refreshments.

The course will cover some of the key food safety-related steps to starting a food business in Vermont including implementation of Good Manufacturing Practices, which are the basic sanitary and processing requirements

necessary to ensure the production of safe and wholesome food. These are a key pre-requisite for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) programs and are essential to meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety requirements.

Course registration is requested by July 6. Visit http://gmpfoodsafety.eventbr ite.com to sign up.

The course will be taught by UVM Extension food safety specialist Dr. Londa Nwadike, who works with food processors throughout Vermont to help them improve the safety of their products, particularly value-added processed food products and meats.

Department of Health officials also will be on hand to answer questions.

For information on the course, contact Nwadike at londa.nwadike@uvm.edu or 802-223-2389, ext. 216.

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Vermont 4-H’ers judge Ayrshires at Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport during the annual State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest.

order of placement include: 8 to 9 years old — Riley Marchand, Charlotte; Caroline Kirby, East Montpelier; Brennan Vaughan, East Montpelier; and Karissa Livingston, New Haven.

10 to 11 years old — Seth Carson, Newbury; Callie Walker, Stowe; Adele Biasini, Morrisville; and Emily Carson, Newbury.

12 to 13 years old — Cole Goodhue, Fairfield; Therese Rainville, Fairfield; Tim Carson, Newbury; and Aaron Sweet, Richford.

Among the 4-H’ers participating at this event were members of the 2012 state 4H dairy judging team, selected at the 2011 State Dairy Judging Contest, who will compete at both Eastern States Exposition and the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest at the World Dairy Expo this fall. Team members are Kirsten Breau, Vernon; Brian McGarry, Enosburg; Tiffany Tracey, Vergennes; and Kathryn Wright, Enosburg.

Caitlyn Abbott of Fairfield, a former state 4-H judging team member, helped with the event, working with younger 4-H’ers to teach them what to look for when judging cattle.

To learn more about the 4-H dairy program, contact Wendy Sorrell, UVM Extension 4-H livestock educator, at 802656-5418 or 800-571-0668 (toll-free in Vermont).

Crop Comments

by Paris Reidhead Field Crops Consultant (Contact: renrock46@hotmail.com)

Tiny Orchids From June 10-18 my son Will and his wife and their toddler daughter visited us from Switzerland, and stayed with Sue and me. I didn’t get much work done during that time: made and received a bunch of phone calls, and, of course, did some writing, and that was about it. Will works for the World Wildlife Fund, which is headquartered near Geneva, Switzerland. He gets to travel literally around the world, to some countries I’d just as soon he

didn’t visit… countries where Americans aren’t welcomed by everybody.

Throughout his travels (the frequent flier miles of which help Sue and me go places), my son has acquired a love for, and understanding of, orchids. My knowledge of orchids was pretty much limited to what a young man buys for his junior prom date. That knowledge increased greatly when Will gave me a copy of Orchid Fever, a book which deals with the science, rabid passion, global

politics, and floriculture of these mostly beautiful plants. It’s a fabulous book which I lent to a science teacher and never got back. (She likely lent it to a student.)

Probably the most relevant fact regarding these flowers, that I learned from this book, is that vanilla beans are tropical orchids.

Vanilla beans are clearly tropical, but not all orchids are. And Will wanted to locate some orchids which he believed grew near his boyhood home outside Cooperstown, NY. On an earlier visit, he and I had hiked around the old Cooperstown airport, which has not seen a plane land in over a quarter century. The former airport property, runway and all, now be-

longs to a rod and gun club. Will felt that the abandoned airstrip, surrounded by swamps and marshes, might be a good habitat for a certain variety of orchid. So on the Saturday of their visit, he and I drove up to the abandoned runway, looking for orchids. In their day the runway was nothing more than packed shale, hauled from nearby quarries.

The runway was slightly raised, compared to adjacent terrain, meaning that the runway shoulders would tend to collect water.

During our visit to the abandoned runway, nobody was hunting anything, or shooting skeet any stationary targets.

The loudest noises came from turkeys gobbling at each other

(turkey season was over), and the explosive sound of a partridge taking flight… something I haven’t heard in decades. I’ve hunted partridge, also called ruffed grouse (and nicknamed thunderbirds).

I’ve eaten grouse, but only after they bounced off my windshield.

As we walked along the abandoned runway, some of it overgrown with poplar, aspen, and birch, Will studied the periphery of the packed shale. He concentrated on the gently sloping area between the runway and long puddles. From his loud YES, I’d thought he’d discovered gold.

What he did find was a colony of orchids, most of whose individuals were five or six inches tall. At first glance, these

plants resembled lilies of the valley, but the lilies have white blossoms connected by short stems to a raceme (basically a column to which flowers and grain kernels adhere). These particular orchids had their white flowers snugly attached to their raceme in spiral fashion, like the stripes on a barber pole.

That’s why their genus name is Spiranthes. Will was sure of the genus name, but he wasn’t sure of the species. My computer search pointed me to species alticola.

Will told me that this orchid was somewhat different from orchids which he pointed out to me a year ago in a nature preserve in Switzerland. Not to be outdone,

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Crop from 6 I showed him examples of smooth vetch, birdsfoot trefoil, and common white clover, which were exactly the same as specimens which I had shown him in that same

overseas preserve, 12 plus months earlier.

This past Sunday (yesterday as I write), Will called us, having pretty well recovered from 6hour jet lag. Sue said

that the pictures of S. alticola were beautiful, and that it would be nice to transplant some of these orchids into our yard.

Will said that perhaps the plants are protected

host plant. They increase the plant’s absorption of nutrients, many of which may be otherwise insoluble. They can produce hormones stimulating the growth of the host plant.

Mycorrhizae can increase water absorption of plants, as they tolerate lower moisture levels than what the plant alone can. Mycorrhizae protect roots from disease by forming protective barriers or producing antibiotics. In return, these fungi receive carbohydrates and other nutrients from the host plant. Oh, Willis also said that mycorrhizae benefit plants growing in poor, particularly phosphorusdeficient soils. Abandoned runway shoulders fit that category. Symbiosis is a pretty wonderful

two-way street. So we’ll probably leave the Spiranthes where they seem quite happy.

Part of the reason that the Cooperstown airport was retired happened in 1974. That year on Hallof-Fame Game day, some baseball nuts flew a light aircraft (it looked like a Cessna 172) and fell a couple hundred yards short of the runway. I don’t remember if the plane ran out of gas or stalled. Well, it landed in some tree-tops barely off New York State routes 80&28. I guess no one was hurt, so the passengers climbed out of the aircraft, shinnied down the tree, and hitch-hiked to Doubleday Field. An airplane crash was certainly no reason to miss Fame Game. Those tickets were hard to come by.

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by some environmental regulation, but he really didn’t know. He said a more valid concern was disrupting the orchids’ mycorrhizae. Now he was speaking my language. In the wonderful kingdom of soil microbiology, separating plant roots from their mycorrhizae has a success rate similar to the survival rate of turtles removed from their shells.

Dr. Harold Willis, in his book The Rest of the Story about Agriculture Today (1984, A-R Editions) addresses this term. I’ll hit the high spots of his discussion. He said that the word “mycorrhiza” literally means root fungus; in fact, they are special symbiotic fungi that live on or in the roots of most plants. Mycorrhizae perform services for their

Farmers try to ‘stop the flood of regulation’ Protection Agency’s effort to expand its regulatory reach under the Clean Water Act to nearly every drop of water, and some dry land, too.

Through what’s officially known as a “guidance document,” EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are seeking to remove the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act. That action would allow them to regulate even a roadside ditch that holds water

for only a few hours after a big rain. Both agencies have been upfront about their intent to use the guidance process to increase their regulation of water bodies and lands that have been under the states’ regulatory authority.

Another issue is the way the agencies are going about it. They’re using a guidance document, rather than going through a proper rulemaking. Formal rule-

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by Erin Anthony Growing up, we all needed guidance at times.

Don’t run with scissors.

Don’t forget your jacket.

Don’t eat yellow snow. If you make that face one more time, it might get stuck like that.

But, as adults, not all guidance is helpful or benevolent. That is particularly true if the guidance is coming from a government regulatory agency. Take, for example, the Environmental

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FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE American Farm Bureau Federation flooded with an expen-

Focus 9

NFU: Strategic petroleum reserve must be preserved WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter June 20 to leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives expressing concern regarding the Strategic Energy Production Act of 2012.

“NFU members are

concerned that the Strategic Energy Production Act of 2012 calls for a plan to increase domestic petroleum and natural gas upon drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SRP),” said Johnson. “We view this as a means to discourage use of the SPR for its in-

tended purposes. We instead support continued development of renewable energy as our main priority in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.

Domestically produced renewable fuels are good not only for farmers, but also for consumers. For example, ethanol pro-

duced by American farmers and ranchers already saves consumers nearly $1 per gallon.”

In the letter, Johnson also supported amendment #15 by Representative Ed Markey, D-MA, and amendment #26 by Representatives Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, Markey and

Barney Frank, D-MA. “Amendment #15 would prohibit oil and gas produced under new leases authorized by this legislation from being exported to foreign countries,” said Johnson.

“Amendment #26 would require certain funds received from the sale of new leases to be made available to fully fund the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

(CFTC) to limit speculation in energy markets.

As the agency that has been tasked with increased authority over agricultural, energy and financial markets as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the CFTC needs significantly greater resources in order to help guard against economic crisis.”

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Farm Bureau has launched the “Stop the Flood of Regulation” campaign. As part of the campaign, farmers and ranchers are asking their senators and representatives to support the Preserve the Waters of the U.S. Act (S. 2245 and H.R. 4965), which would prevent EPA from taking action through this guidance document.

They also will be sharing their stories of regulatory inundation through social media platforms. Look for the #stoptheflood hashtag on Twitter. And a Facebook page will give farm and ranch families a platform for sharing how this guidance effort might affect them.

There is no doubt; without action, a flood of federal regulations appears imminent. Many of our nation’s farms and ranches could find themselves awash in new, expensive and unwarranted regulations — even if the cause of those regulations is an inch-deep puddle following a downpour. Long after the puddle dries, the effect of the regulations could linger.

Erin Anthony is assistant editor of FBNews, the official newspaper of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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sive slew of new regulations and permitting requirements should the guidance document be put in place.

Along with farmers, ranchers and other landowners, there are another 544 people EPA and the Corps are ignoring: 535 U.S. senators and representatives and nine Supreme Court justices. The lawmakers who wrote the Clean Water Act never intended for the federal government to have the kind of control it is seeking over local bodies of water. Similarly, in two rulings, the Supreme Court affirmed important limitations of the federal government’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Having to get another permit doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but at $30,000 to well over $100,000 for some permits, these requirements sometimes force growers to avoid farming otherwise productive acreage just so they don’t trigger federal permit and extremely costly mitigation requirements.

But in most parts of the country, it would be just about impossible to farm around every wet spot that EPA and the Corps want to regulate.

To dry up EPA’s effort,

Ready! Aim! Shoot!: Farm Credit East sponsors annual photo calendar contest

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Have you captured an interesting or unusual moment around the farm, greenhouse or dock that brings a smile

Credit East’s 2013 calendar and also on its website. From all entries, 14 photographs will be selected for a

communications. “We select two very different kinds of entries for the calendar. First, we look for photos that show off

Sarah Stokoe was right on time to catch the action on Roberts Farm in Medina, NY. Here she captured Zack Bayne planting corn.

Photo courtesy of Farm Credit East

to your face? Share it with Farm Credit East by uploading your best shots to FarmCreditEast.com by July 31.

Winning photos will be featured in Farm

$100 prize each.

“The judges look for lots of fresh imagery that illustrates life in the country today,” says Karen Murphy, vice president of marketing

ATA seeks nominations for America’s Road Team The American Trucking Associations is seeking nominations for professional truck drivers to serve on the 2013-2014 America’s Road Team.

Every two years ATA searches for professional truck drivers who are willing to take time away from the cab of the truck to serve as a Captain. As Road Team Captains, these professional drivers take a few days each month to meet with the motoring public, the news media, students, transportation officials and government leaders to demonstrate the trucking industry’s commitment to safety.

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the best of Northeast farming, horticulture, forestry and commercial fishing. And second, we select photos that celebrate country life in New England, New York or New Jersey.”

What makes a shot a winner? Technical quality, clarity and composition, of course, but the team also selects photos that capture each photographer’s unique view of life in the country. So take your camera to the county fair, the barn, the dock, the corn field or Fourth of July barbecue and send in the many ways that country living enriches our lives.

“Since we launched the photo calendar contest in 2006, the number of entries has grown

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“Last year, we received more than 600 shots of country life from dozens of talented photographers. We are off to a very good start this year, and we look forward to receiving many more entries by July 31.”

Only digital shots are accepted. Contest rules and an entry form, as well as photos from last year’s calendar can be found at www.farmcrediteast.com/en/Newsand-Events/Photo-Contest.aspx. The submission deadline is July 31.

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by Becky Colpitts, Volunteer Management Program Assistant, UNH Cooperative Extension On that afternoon of May 19, the sun shown down like a warm shawl on the shoulders, through bright blue skies on six groups of people.

In one group, two 4H’ers and their father were demonstrating calf care to the audience, which was busy falling in love with the endearing young animals from the Grafton County Farm.

The father, Greg Jellison, sat quietly back and allowed his daughters, Alyssa and Moriah, to share their knowledge.

Later, Greg shared what he knew; there was a strong sense of partnership in the presentation.

Each family member participated equally and with great respect for one another.

Other groups learned about horses, sheep, goats, chickens and rabbits. Each group was led by a 4-H member, and his or her parents or 4-H leader there for support. Earlier that day, these same 4-H’ers set up action exhibits that they had developed themselves. This gave participants hands on experience in testing eggs, felting soap, what

animals eat, what’s in a clipping box, and the parts of a horse.

Presenters in the morning were Zack Moore, Grace Moore, Erva Barnes, Tyler Anderson, Isabelle Kondi, Salome and Raeven Bill.

They were supported by 4-H leaders Katy Blaine, Elaine Morrison and Shirley Anderson, as well as the 4-H parents. This day was a glowing example of a positive youth development experience.

Here in Grafton County, there are 22 4-H clubs with 233 members and 101 4-H leaders partnering with 4-H youths. These clubs are

catalysts for positive change in our world.

Area 4-H’ers will showcase their accomplishments at the North Haverhill Fair, which runs from July 25-29.

Visit the Stoddard Building and see the many project areas these 4H’ers are delving into.

Yes, there are still animals, sewing, cooking and gardening. Add to that computer technology, robotics, woodworking and so much more.

You will be inspired and amazed by our youth!

Take a stroll through the animal barns and tents.

There you will see youths and adults partnering to

make the fair experience the best it can possibly be. “To make the best better” is what a 4-H’er does so well. So, whether participating in Animal Science Day or another 4-H event, showing their talent at the fair, involving themselves in community service or investigating a myriad of other projects, 4-H’ers are becoming creative, productive citizens, and that

makes a positive impact on our world.

You are invited to experience 4-H and the positive youth development model by exploring our website at http://extension.unh.edu/Counties/Grafton/Grafton.ht m, through Facebook at UNH Cooperative Extension – Grafton County, or by calling us at 603787-6944.

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National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement in response to a new series of reports, “Promoting International Energy Security,” released by the RAND Corporation: “The reports issued today by the RAND Corporation fail to consider all of the benefits offered by the utilization of biofuels. In 2011, the United States imported 1.85 million barrels of oil per day from the Middle East, costing approximately $70 billion. By increasing the military’s use of biofuels, our armed forces are not only increasing job opportunities and income opportunities in rural America, but also diversifying our fuel sources. By using only one source for fuels, the military is putting itself at risk, either by a sudden increase in oil prices or a steep drop in oil production. Biofuels will help to mitigate both of these risk factors and must continue to be utilized by U.S. Armed Forces.

“Many critical breakthroughs, such as Global Positioning Systems, come directly from our armed forces. The military can and should play a critical role in creating breakthroughs in renewable energy as well. It not only creates jobs but also improves our national security.”

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AFTER MARKET 3pt. hitch off John Deere 620, lower arms, link arms, lower arm brackets. Make offer, (A heavy one). 607532-8512.(NY)

20’x60’ SILO with UNLOADER, $2,500.

WANTED: Sicklebar mower to fit International tractor ~ 315-865-5657.(NY)

SPORTZ TRUCK tent fits 8 foot bed, like new with carry bag $75. 518-9470454.(NY)

590 ALLIED LOADER $2,500. NH Super 717 Chopper with pickup head $1,500. JD 494 Corn Planter $2,000. 716-5726217.(NY)

INTERNATIONAL 656 ROW crop Dsl. $3,500. JD A new tires $1,500. Ford 641 with loader $2,600. 315-427-2273.(NY)

#9 INSILAGE CUTTER, $1,600; Rebuilt #9 mower, $1,250; Super 77 baler ties, 100%, $1,250. Gingerich, 9036 Stryker Rd., Avoca, NY 14809

1,800 + 2,000 New Martin sprockets # 2580 A, B, B.S., BTB and others, make offer or by pound. 716-337-2975.(NY)

CIDER PRESSES, stainless steel presses, grinder, water pressure operated, 4-1/2bu. to 14bu. capacity available. Amon Zimmerman 1077 Hall Rd. Lydonville,NY 14098.

JD 520 NF new rear tires, runs great $5,800. JD 420W many new parts, runs good $2,900. obo 315-942-2951(NY)

DONKEY MINIATURE Gelded 8 years old, quiet, halter broke, others available $400 and up. 315-717-3426.(NY)

FULLBLOOD BOER BUCK 3 years old disbudded proven sire $350, available 8/1/12. Orange County 845-355-2718.(NY)

LITTLE GIANT grain and hay elevator, 36’ PTO or motor driven $1,400. 585-3431322.(NY)

BEAGLE PUPS: Ready to go, boys and girls, $200 each ~ 315-363-0262.(NY) WANTED: USED PRODUCE WASHER in working condition. Call at 8:00AM Mondays and Thursdays ~ 607-869-5321.(NY) POLLED HEREFORD Bull, registered, born 5-25-11, dark red $1,800. or trade for Hereford Heifers. 315-371-5757.(NY) OX YORKS, never used, like new $200. Or best offer, cash only. 716-652-6024.(NY)

DARK BAY ARABIAN FILLY, 1 year old, can be registered, $300 ~ 315-8655898.(NY) FREE!! Havanese Bichon Puppy, 3 months old. Call 585-694-4246.(NY)

WATER WHEEL planter, 3 wheels and plastic layer $1,200. 720 Corn Planter $400. Four Row cultivator S-tine $400.

585-733-8154.(NY) FOR SALE: New Holland 275 hay baler with kicker, good condition, one owner, always kept under cover $2,800. 315-8581566(NY)

HEREFORD HEIFERS bred to Hereford Bull, 18 months old, also Yearling Heifers $1,000. each. New Holland LX885 Skid steer $12,000. 315-926-3585.(NY) 1953 JOHN DEERE “60”, $2,900; 1949 Farmall “M”, nice, $3,600; 1940 John Deere “H”, not running, $1,500. Downsizing, need room 401-662-9131.(RI) NH 3102 SPREADER; NI 3626 spreader; 2 gravity wagons; NH 28 blower; NI 323 picker; Brillion 16’ drags; Running gears; 315219-9090.(NY)

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1997 MF 8140 MFWD, cab, air, 32 speed dyna shift, 20.8x38 radials, 16.9x28 radials front, 5300 hrs, 145hp, 3 remotes, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000 2009 JD 5085 M MFWD, 16x16 trans LHR only 92 hrs, EPTO 3 remotes 16.9x30 and 11.2x24 radials with JD 563 SL loader like brand new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$40,000 2009 JD 6430 premium IVT cab, air, 1725 hrs, 3 remotes Epto 18.4x38 and 16.9x24 radials front fenders warranty till 2014 like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$61,500 2008 JD 6430 MFWD, cab, air, 24 speed auto quad LHR, 2802 hrs, HMS 18.4x38s and 16.9x24s with JD 673 SL loader 92 inch bucket electronic joystick real sharp runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . .$60,000 2007 JD 6430 premium MFWD cab, air, IVT 2100 hrs, ex 18.4x38 and 16.9x24 radials 3 remotes very sharp runs ex . . . .$55,000 2007 JD 3420 telehandler cab, air, 5600 hrs, 6600lb lift bucket and forks real nice runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000 2005 JD 8220 MFWD, cab, air, 1809 hrs, 3 ptos 4 remotes ex 20.8x42 radial axle duals ex 480/70R/30 fronts 18 front weights quick hitch ex one owner tractor very very sharp . . . . .$125,000 2004 JD 6420 MFWD, cab, air, 24 speed PQ LHR, 5946 hrs, ex 18.4x38 radials on R+P axles very clean runs ex . . . . .$36,500 2004 JD 6420 2WD cab, air, power quad 1418 hrs, 18.4x38 radials on R+P axles just like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$40,000 2004 JD 6420 MFWD, cab, air, IVT trans ex 18.4x38 and 13.6x28 radial tires buddy seat 3824 hrs, with JD 640 SL loader electronic joystick real sharp clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$52,500 2004 JD 6320 2WD, cab, air, power quad, LHR, ex 16.9x38 radials, 540+1000 pto buddy seat 3079 hrs, very clean sharp original . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 2002 JD 6420 MFWD, cab, air, 24 speed power quad LHR, 2485 hrs, R+P axles ex 18.4x38 and 13.6x28 radials dual remotes and PTO with JD 640 SL loader real sharp ex cond . . . . . . .$55,000 1999 JD 6410 MFWD, cab, air, 24 speed PQ LHR, 3300 hrs, 18.4x38s 13.6x28s clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$31,500 1998 JD 6410 MFWD, cab, 16 speed PQ LHR 18.4x38s 13.6x28 clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,500 1998 JD 5410 MFWD, 12x12 trans left hand reverser 3391 hrs 16.9x30 rears 11.2x24 fronts 540 loader with joystick folding roll bar 73 inch bucket very clean sharp runs ex . . . . . . . . .$22,500 1994 JD 6300 2WD power quad 4983 hrs, 18.4x34s with JD 620 loader with joystick runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 1989 JD 2355 2WD add on cab left hand hydraulic reverser dual remotes 3748 hrs, 18.4x30s clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . .$8,000 1988 JD 2955 MFWD, cab, air, 4776 hrs, 18.4x38 13.6x28s front fenders very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$21,000 1980 JD 4240 cab, air, has turbo inline injector pump and after cooler 6020 hrs, quad range like new 20.8x38 radials dual pto and remotes very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$18,000 1980 JD 4240 cab, air, power shift 18.4x38 dual remotes and pto 7820 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 1964 JD 3020 diesel wide front 3ph syncro range ex 15.5x38s rear wheel weights real clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 2008 Challenger MT475B MFWD, cab, air, 120 hp, 16x16 trans LHR, 4 remotes 1980 hrs, 18.4x38 and 16.9x28 radials ML 97B SL loader very very sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$60,000

1982 JD 3140 MFWD, sound guard cab, recent new engine, dual remotes and pto, 18.4x38s, 13.6x38s, very clean, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,750

1998 New Holland 644 silage special crop slicer, netwrap, wide hydraulic lift pickup head, bale ramp, real clean, just finished baling hay in field, ex . . . . . . .$8,750

2006 NH TS100A deluxe cab, air, MFWD, 16x16 trans LHR, 2667 hrs, ex 18.4x38 radials 14.9x28 fronts buddy seat 4 remotes NH 56LB SL loader very clean sharp runs ex . . . . . . . . . . .$45,000 1998 New Holland TS100 cab, air MFWD, 80 hp, 4083 hrs, 16 speed power shift 540+1000 PTO 4 remotes 90% 18.4x34 and 14.9x24 Goodyear super traction radials very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,000 1998 New Holland TN90F MFWD, cab, air, 5947 hrs narrow orchard tractor 420/70R/28 rears 280/70R/20 fronts creeper super steer dual remotes runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 1997 New Holland 7635 MFWD, 2700 hrs cab, air, 86 hp, 540 + 1000 PTO 24 speed Quicke 310 loader clean runs ex . .$24,500 1995 New Holland 8970 MFWD, 210 hp, super steer 20.8x42 radial axle duals 18.4x30 radials front, 22 front weights 4 remotes 7597 hrs, clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$36,500 1993 Ford New Holland 7840 cab, air, SLE power shift 7487 hrs, like new 20.8x38 Goodyear super traction radials 800 hrs on new engine with turbo very very sharp and clean runs ex . .$16,000 1989 Ford TW 15 MFWD, cab, air, series 2 20.8x38s and 16.9x28s 10 front weights and rear weights, 6180 hrs 3 remotes very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,000 1987 Ford 7710 series 2 MFWD cab, air, ex 18.4x38 radials 16.9x24 fronts 3 remotes 4800 hrs, clean runs ex . . . . .$15,500 1987 Ford TW15 series 2 MFWD, cab, air, only 3821 hrs, like new 18.4x38 rears 3 remotes dual pto original runs ex . . . . .$24,500 1984 Ford TW15 MFWD cab, like new 20.8x38 and 16.9x28 radials 5100 hrs, dual power dual pto and remotes runs ex $16,000 1977 Ford 9700 2WD cab, air, 5417 hrs, new 460/85R/38 rears dual power dual remotes and pto clean original runs ex $12,500 1998 MF 6180 110 hp, MFWD, cab, air, 32 speed dynashift only 1225 hrs, 4 remotes 18.4x38 and 14.9x28 radials Quicke Alo 6755 SL loader one owner sharp ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$37,500 1980 MF 275D new style steering 8 speed ex 18.4x30s dual remotes laurin cab extra clean original . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,000 1967 MF 135 diesel 14.9x28 tires power steering multi power very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,500 2008 McCormick MTX120 MFWD, cab, air, 118 hp, 16 speed power quad LHR, 18.4x38 and 14.9x28 radials 2591 hrs with L165 SL loader very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$47,500 2007 CIH Maxxum 110 MFWD, cab, air, 16x16 power shift LHR, like new 18.4x38 and 14.9x28 Michelin radials 1160 hrs, front weights and fenders very very sharp like new . . . . . . . .$47,500 1981 Case 1490 2WD 75hp, cab, air, power shift ex 18.4x34s dual pto and remotes 5600 hrs, clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 1977 IH hydro 86 diesel new 18.4x34s dual remotes ex running good hydro clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 1981 White 4-175 4x4 5641 hrs. 2002 cat 3208 engine 210 HP, 3ph pto quick coupler ex 20.8x38s runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,500 White 2-105 MFWD, cab, new 20.8x38 and 16.9x26 radials with self leveling loader clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 1977 White 2-105 cab, 4985 hrs, 3 remotes ex 20.8x38 radials front weights original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500

2001 NH BB940 3x3 square baler last bale ejector, roller bale chute applicator knotter fans real clean . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 New Holland 570 baler with model 72 hydraulic drive bale thrower real nice has been through NH dealership field ready . . .$9,000 2 New Holland 575 wire tie balers hydraulic bale tension pickup heads and hitch with NH 77 pan type kicker real sharp ex cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,000 each 2003 New Holland BR750 4x6 round baler wide pickup head bale ramps net wrap endless belts very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,000 2003 CIH RBX 452 4x5 round baler same as NH BR740 wide pickup head bale ramps real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 2000 New Holland 648 silage special 4x5 round baler wide pickup head bale ramps ex belts very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,000 2009 JD 582 silage special 4x5 round baler crop cutter edge to edge mesh wrap or dual twine wide pickup 6700 bales very sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22,500 2004 JD 467 4x6 silage special round baler mega wide pickup dual twine 11000 bales gauge wheels push bar ex cond . . .$12,500 2001 JD 467 4x6 silage special round baler mega wide pickup dual twine gauge wheels and push bar ex cond . . . . . . . . . .$10,500 1999 JD 446 4x4 round baler ex belts bale age kit real nice $8,500 1996 JD 466 round baler 4x6 net wrap or twine wide pickup head bale ramps ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 2007 New Holland 1412 discbine impeller conditioner very clean ex low usage discbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,500 2006 JD 530 discbine impeller conditioner super sharp like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 2005 JD 530 impeller discbine hydra angle on head real clean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 Late model Kuhn KC 4000G center pivot discbine rubber rolls ex cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 NH 38 flail chopper real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,750 New Idea 325 2 row corn picker and super sheller with 12 roll husking bed on picker real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,500 each Fransguard SR4200p tandem axle hydraulic lift 13 ft 6 in width rotary hay rake very little use like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 New Holland 258 hay rake rubber mounted teeth in ex cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,000 Kverneland Taarup 17 ft hydraulic fold tedder ex cond 2 years old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Fella TH540T 17 ft hydraulic fold hydraulic tilt hay tedder just like new hardly used at all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,500 Kuhn GF5001 TH hydraulic fold 17 ft hay tedder ex cond low usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,500 Fanex 500 17 ft manual fold up hay tedder ex cond . . . . . .$2,000 NH 144 windrow inverter very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500 20.8x42 T-rail clamp on duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000 20.8x38, 18.4x38 and 18.4x34 clamp on duals JD 840 self leveling loader mounting brackets for JD 7000 series tractor high volume bucket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$,7,500 Brand new NH 62lb loader fits TM NHS's or MXM case IH never used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 JD 158 loader with bucket and joystick off JD 4430 . . . . . .$1,500

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California was up 1.9 percent from a year ago on 16,000 more cows and 15 pounds more per cow. Wisconsin was up 2.4 percent, thanks to a 35 pound gain per cow and 5,000 more cows.

Idaho was up 2.5 percent on a 50-pound gain per cow but cow numbers were unchanged. New York was also up 2.5 percent, on a 45 pound gain per cow. Cow numbers were also unchanged.

Pennsylvania was down 2.1 percent on a 15 pound per cow decline and 7,000 fewer cows.

Other states with large gains in cow numbers were Michigan, up 11,000 head; New Mexico and Texas, each up 10,000; Arizona, up 8,000; Colorado, up 6,000; and Indiana, Washington and Wisconsin up 5,000 each. Sates with fewer cows than a year included Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

Meanwhile; USDA estimated 251,300 culled dairy cows were slaughtered under federal inspection in May, up 11,500 from the 239,800 culled in April 2012, and 31,300 more than May 2011. Through the first five months of 2012, cull cow slaughter totaled 1.294 million, up 55,500 from the same period in 2011. Based on May’s Milk Production report indicating there were about 9.27 million cows in the U.S., the May culling rate represented about 2.7 percent of the nation’s herd.

The cash dairy markets apparently liked what it saw in the milk production data. Block cheese closed the week at $1.6250 per pound, up a penny on the week but 50 1/2-cents below a year ago. The barrels closed at $1.6350, up 6 1/4-cents on the week, 44 1/4cents below a year ago, and a penny above the blocks. Three carloads of block found new homes on the week and one of barrel. The AMS-surveyed U.S. average block price climbed to $1.5879, up 3.6 cents, while the bar-

rels averaged $1.5492, up 1.8 cents.

Production schedules at cheese plants are slowing as milk supplies appear to have passed the peak spring flush, according to USDA’s Dairy Market News.

Plant managers are keeping an eye on inventories and have reduced production in some cases. Mozzarella producers are especially conscious of reduced orders. Export demand has been helpful in moving cheese out of the country, according to USDA, but the strong U.S. dollar is hindering some sales.

The Foreign Agricultural Service reported April exports were up 31 percent from last year and up 12 percent for the year. However, exports of butter and milkfat for April totaled 13.2 million pounds, down 29 percent from April 2011.

Cumulative exports for the first four months of the year are running 32 percent behind last year.

Saudi Arabia, at 13.6 million pounds for the year, is the largest importer with a 15 percent increase from a year ago.

Butter and milkfat exports accounted for 5.9 percent of total butter production during January to April.

Speaking of exports; Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 11 requests for export assistance this week to sell a total of 1.7 million pounds of cheese to customers in Asia, South America, the Middle East, North Africa and South Pacific. The product will be delivered through November 2012 and raised CWT’s 2012 cheese exports to 61.7 million pounds plus 45.2 million pounds of butter and Anhydrous milkfat to 32 countries.

FC Stone’s June 19 eDairy Insider Closing Bell reported that the June 19 GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction showed a significant decline in the average prices of commodities traded following a sharp rise two

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and the National Cheese Institute, constituent organizations of the International Dairy Foods Association.

In the real world; U.S. milk production may be slowing. The Agriculture Department reported its May estimate for the top 23 producing states at 16.4 billion pounds, up just 2.1 percent from May 2011. The 50-state total, at 17.6 billion, was up 2 percent. Revisions added 38 million pounds to last month’s preliminary data, putting output at 16 billion pounds, up 3.5 percent from 2011.

The big story in the data is cow numbers.

The 23 state total, at 8.52 million head, while up 77,000 from a year ago, was down 3,000 from April, the first decline in 20 months. Output per cow averaged 1,924 pounds, up 22 from a year ago.

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A sweet, cool treat to try (NAPSA) — Americans, it seems, are really hot for ice cream. People in the United States indulge more than those in any other nation, averaging 48 pints of ice cream per person, per year. Ninety-eight percent of all U.S. households purchase ice cream, with more sold on Sunday than any other day of the week. Here are a few more Cool Facts: • The first ice cream parlor in America opened in New York City in 1776.

• George Washington loved ice cream and had two ice cream machines at his home.

• It takes 12 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.

• The most popular flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate, Butter Pecan, Strawberry and Neapolitan, followed closely by Chocolate Chip, French Vanilla and Cookies & Cream.

• Cherry is the No. 1 Popsicle flavor.

• Twin Popsicles were invented during the Depression so that two children could share one treat.

Now you can find special deals on ice cream and novelties at the grocery store as the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) celebrates this love for cool treats with an annual June/July Summer Favorites Ice Cream & Novelties promotion.

Those experts on cool foods remind you to make the ice cream aisle your last stop, keep frozen purchases together in a separate section of the cart, and pack ice cream in an additional brown paper bag for the ride home.

Once you get home, you may care to try this tasty, favorite ice cream dessert:

Ice Cream with Hot Fudge Sauce 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt 2 (1-ounce) squares semi-sweet chocolate 1 Tbsp. butter 2/3 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/4 tsp. salt 1 cup evaporated milk Maraschino cherries (for garnish) For sauce, heat, melt and stir chocolate, butter, sugar, vanilla and salt together. Gradually add the evaporated milk, continuously stirring. Bring to a light boil over medium heat and cook until sauce is smooth and thickened (about 10 minutes). To serve, place large scoops of ice cream in each dish and top with Hot Fudge Sauce and cherries. Serves 6.

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The most popular ice cream topping is chocolate syrup.

Good Housekeeping Picnic Chicken This walnut-crusted baked chicken is delicious hot or cold.

Olive oil nonstick cooking spray 1 3/4 cups (about 8 ounces) walnuts 1 cup plain dried bread crumbs 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/4 teaspoon up to 1/2 teaspoon of ground red pepper, also known as cayenne 2 large eggs 8 medium (4 pounds) bone-in chicken breast

halves, skin removed 8 medium (1 3/4 pounds) chicken drumsticks, skin removed 1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Grease two 15 1/2 by 10 1/2 inch jelly-roll pans with cooking spray.

2. In food processor with knife blade attached, process walnuts with 1/4 cup bread crumbs until walnuts are finely ground. In medium bowl, combine nut mixture, salt, ground red pepper and remaining 3/4 cup bread crumbs; stir until well-mixed. In pie plate, beat eggs.

3. Cut each chicken breast half crosswise into two pieces. One at a time, dip breast pieces and drumsticks in beaten egg, then into walnut mixture to coat evenly, pressing firmly so mixture adheres. Arrange chicken in jellyroll pans; lightly coat chicken with cooking spray.

4. Bake chicken until golden brown and juices run clear when thickest part of chicken is pierced with tip of knife, 30 to 35 minutes, rotating pans between upper and lower oven racks halfway through baking.

5. Serve chicken hot, or cool slightly, cover and refrigerate to serve cold later.

Makes 12 main-dish servings.

• Each serving: About 311 calories, 16g total fat (2g saturated), 113mg cholesterol, 468mg sodium, 10g total carbs, 32g protein. (c) 2012 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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With final okay, RFA offers tools to help retailers sell E15 After three years of unprecedented fuel testing and regulatory scrutiny, the Obama Administration has given its final approval for the sale of E15 ethanol blends under the waiver conditions set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

At an announcement on June 15 by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a strong advo-

that its E15 Retail Advisory addresses the agency’s concerns with residual fuel left in gas pumps with just a single hose. The advisory is now incorporated into the RFA’s E15 Retailer Handbook. The E15 Retailer Handbook is referenced

by RFA’s EPA-approved misfueling mitigation plan — a strategy required by EPA to ensure

approved misfueling mitigation plan. A copy of that plan and the E15 Retailer Handbook can be found at www.EthanolRFA.org.

In cooperation with Growth Energy, the RFA has also initiated a nationwide fuel survey program as required by EPA to ensure stations offering E15 are adhering to misfueling mitigation requirements, such as proper labeling, ethanol content, and vapor pressure.

“We are committed to ensuring a safe and smooth introduction of E15 for consumers and retailers alike,” said Dinneen. “Change often breeds confusion and as stations begin to offer E15, the RFA will proactively work with those retailers to educate con-

sumers on the appropriate use of E15 and the benefits of greater domestic ethanol use. We believe it is possible that gallons of E15 could be sold under the waiver conditions before the end of the summer.”

Hurdles to the widespread adoption of E15 remain, including pending litigation, threats of congressional intervention to prevent the sale of E15, and state regulatory issues. Also limiting the fast adoption of E15, particularly in summer months, is the requirement that E15 meet stricter federal evaporative emissions standards, known as Reid Vapor Pressure or RVP. Currently, most summer gasoline formulations would likely exceed federal limits when blended

with 15 percent ethanol.

An RVP waiver for 10 percent ethanol blends is in place allowing for year round sale. Such a waiver should be extended to E15 as well given that RVP differences are indistinguishable between and 10 percent and 15 percent ethanol blends.

“It is no secret that some in the petroleum industry and other antibiofuel voices will mount an all assault to prevent E15 from entering the market,” said Dinneen.

“But, America’s ethanol industry is fully committed to working with stakeholders across the supply chain, and with consumers directly to offer American drivers with the choices at the pump — lower cost choices at that — for which they overwhelmingly desire.”

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to join as well. However, whereas Mexico and the U.S. already have removed all dairy trade barriers between them, this is not the case with respect to trade between Canada and the U.S., a situation which TPP must remedy, say the two organizations.

NMPF and USDEC trust that the approval by the U.S. government of Canada’s participation in the TPP talks has been accompanied by a clear understanding of U.S. expectations that all Canadian trade barriers against U.S. dairy products must be eliminated.

Canadian officials said they would defend the country’s domestic dairy supply management program in TPP talks.

Cash butter started the week on a down note, rebounded and climbed to $1.5450, then revered gears Friday ending six weeks of gain, and closed at $1.52, down 2 cents on the week and 54 cents below a year ago. Twenty one cars were sold this week.

AMS butter averaged $1.3877, up 2 cents.

Churning schedules across the country are active, basically absorbing cream volumes from regular and ongoing suppliers, according to USDA. Surplus cream volumes of earlier this

spring are gone and churning activity is often keeping pace with demand, thus inventory clearances are lighter.

Class II cream demand is seasonally strong as ice cream and ice cream mix needs increase.

Overall butter demand is good as retail features continue to clear good volumes of print butter and restaurant and food service outlets, especially in resort and holiday areas of the country.

Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at $1.2275, up a half-cent on the week. Extra Grade closed at $1.19, up 2 1/2. AMS powder averaged $1.0997, down 0.2 cent, and dry whey averaged 50.75 cents per pound, up a half-cent.

USDA’s June 15 Dairy Market News stated ahead of Monday’s Milk Production report that farm milk production was slipping gradually in most areas and that bottled milk demand was heading toward “the summer doldrums.”

Crop progress is reported to be at or ahead of expected development to date. North Central region farmers’ activities center around second cuttings on alfalfa, while cool weather and intermittent rain had Utah and Idaho alfalfa harvesting temporarily on hold.

Corn in Texas improved with recent precipitation.

In milk pricing news; the July Federal order Class I base milk price was announced by USDA at $15.51 per hundredweight, up 27 cents from June but $5.52 below July 2011.

That equates to about $1.33 per gallon and pushed the 2012 Class I average to $16.34, down from $18.55 at this time a year ago, and compares to $14.60 in 2010 and $11.08 in 2009.

The University of Wisconsin’s Dr. Brian Gould predicts that the July Milk Income Loss Contract Payment will be about 86 cents per cwt.

The AMS-surveyed butter price averaged $1.3766 per pound, up 2.6 cents from June.

Nonfat dry milk averaged $1.1008, down 4 1/2-cents. Cheese averaged $1.5703, up 4.6 cents, and dry whey averaged 50.52 cents, down 3 cents.

Looking “back to the futures;” after factoring in the announced Federal order Class III prices and the remaining futures, the average Class III milk price for the first six months of 2012 stood at $15.70 on May 11 and $15.90 on June 15.

The last half was averaging $16.13 on May 25, $15.96 on June 1, $16.53 on June 8, $16.59 on June 15, and was trading around $17.02 late morning

June 22.

In politics; the Senate, Thursday, passed by a 64 to 35 vote its version of the 2012 Farm Bill, but the timetable for a House version became less clear, according to Dairy Profit Weekly’s Dave Natzke in Friday’s DairyLine broadcast.

Faced with more than 200 amendments to its Farm Bill proposal, the Senate agreed to cut that to 73, Natzke reported, spending much of the week voting on those amendments before tackling the entire bill.

Two dairy-related amendments affecting federal milk market orders, one from Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), calling for an increase in the frequency of dairy market reporting, and requiring a feasibility study of reducing the number of classes of milk from four to two; and a second amendment from Senator Olympia Snowe (RME), requiring federal milk marketing procedural reforms, as well as elimination of end-product pricing formulas, were approved.

A third amendment, from Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), which called for prohibiting mandatory producer-funded checkoff programs, including the national dairy checkoff, was rejected. An amendment by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE), which

called for a ban on EPA use of aerial surveillance of large livestock operations for compliance with Clean Water Act requirements, was also rejected.

Provisions having the biggest impact on dairy farmers will be the components of National Milk’s “Foundation for the Future” program and Rep. Collin Peterson’s (D-MN) “Dairy Security Act,” which of course brought praise from National Milk.

House Ag Committee chair Frank Lucas, who said he wanted to formalize a House version of the Farm Bill soon after the July 4 recess, apparently has had a change of plans, according to Natzke. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recommended a delay in the House Farm Bill, in part to review the Senate’s final proposal, he said. In addition, the House is scheduled to take up the fiscal year 2013 USDA appropriations bill next week, and Cantor wants House ag committee members on the floor for that debate, instead of working on a farm bill.

“We are committed to ensuring a safe and smooth introduction of E15 for consumers and retailers alike.” ~ Bob Dinneen cate for American biofuels, the administration stated that all regulatory hurdles to E15 had been addressed by the ethanol industry.

Specifically, EPA has notified the RFA

Mielke from 13 weeks ago. Anhydrous milkfat dropped 0.8 percent to $1.4025 per pound, or $1.1242 adjusted to 80 percent butterfat equivalent; cheddar cheese prices fell 3.7 percent to $1.4139 per pound; milk protein concentrate 70 dropped 2.7 percent to $1.9115 per pound; rennet casein declined 1.9 percent to $3.079 per pound; and skim milk powder fell 4.8 percent to $1.2855 per pound. Buttermilk powder prices rose 2.5 percent to $1.381 per pound, according to the Insider, and whole milk powder prices climbed 2.7 percent to $1.3091 per pound.

In other trade news; Dairy Profit Weekly reports that both U.S. neighbors are joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks. The U.S. and eight other countries, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei, accepted Canadian and Mexican applications to become part of the TPP negotiations this week. The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) strongly supported Canada’s participation in the TPP negotiations.

Both groups agree that since Mexico has been invited to join the talks, it only made sense for the third member of the

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E15 is being appropriately and legally offered to consumers. To help with compliance, the RFA is also offering the approved and required E15 pump labels free of

charge to retailers.

“In the eyes of the federal government, E15 is a legal fuel for sale to cars, pickups, and SUVs made since 2001,” said RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen. “E15 has undergone the most vigorous testing and regulatory process of any fuel approved by the federal government. With all i’s dotted and t’s crossed as far as EPA is concerned, our undivided focus will turn to addressing state regulatory issues, identifying retailers wishing to offer E15, and paving the way to greater use of domestically produced ethanol.”

Fuel providers and retailers wishing to offer E15 must first register with EPA. In so doing, these companies must state their plans to adhere to the RFA’s EPA-

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What to look for when buying a planter “The planter is the most important piece of equipment on your farm, hands down,” said Bill Hoeg, Case IH planter sales and marketing manager in North Ameri-

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formance,” Hoeg advises.

“Don’t get caught up in the hype.”

Planter agronomics “Agronomically, it’s not complicated. If you plant

mize moisture conductivity to the seed,” he adds.

When it comes to seed population and accurate seed spacing, Hoeg says every planter has operat-

largest diameter seed disk. A bigger disk doesn’t have to turn as fast, so we can remain its optimum operating range even in adverse condi-

The planter is the most important piece of equipment on your farm, hands down.

at the right depth, seed will emerge faster. Plant at a uniform depth, and it’ll all come up together. That gives you the best opportunity to maximize yields.

Good soil-to-seed contact provides the best environment for seed to germinate. Uniform seed pressure is the hardest to affect, but you want to influence soil pressure on all sides of the seed to maxi-

ing rules. “As long as you stay within those rules, you can get respectable results. I suggest the Early Riser® planter does a better job, because we have a wider working range within each of those rules. We have a pull-gauge wheel, which allows the row unit to operate much more smoothly in rough fields. We also have the

tions. Therefore, we can plant a wider range of populations and seed size more accurately at faster speeds.”

Maximum field time, minimum maintenance According to Hoeg, a planter should also be designed to maximize time spent in the field. “The more time you’re forced to

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consideration when purchasing a new planter.

No. 2 is planter reliability: You can’t afford to have your planter slow you down during your limited planting window.”

Hoeg cites six agronomic principles of optimized planting growers should consider when buying a new planter: proper seed depth; uniform seed depth across the planter and throughout the field; good soilto-seed contact; uniform soil pressure all around the seed; accurate seed population; and accurate in-row seed spacing.

He says a lot of planter manufacturers focus only on in-row seed spacing and accurate populations, “because quite honestly, accurate population and in-row seed spacing are the easiest to impact. But those are only two factors. A planter should be able to deliver on all six agronomic principles right out of the box. It shouldn’t require hundreds of dollars of additional equipment on each row to improve planter per-

FFA Agricultural Career Network connects students with employers Key partners will help build career pathways for FFA members and alumni The National FFA Organization has announced a first-of-its-kind formation of partnerships to assist its members’ efforts toward career success.

Through the Agricultural Career Network (AgCN), FFA will work in collaboration with Career Cruising, a provider of age-appropriate career planners, assessments and other resources; and AgCareers.com, a leading provider of Human Resources services to agricultural companies. These partnerships will provide valuable tools and assis-

tance for students in their pursuits of more than 300 careers in agriculture.

Launched last December, AgCN is a nationwide system designed to help FFA members document their educational achievements, create robust portfolios and pursue award, scholarship, internship and employment opportunities. The network will provide a database of students who are interested in particular career fields within the industry.

Through the National FFA Organization’s relationship with Career

Cruising, members will have easy access to career information within selected fields of interest. Career Cruising will provide online career exploration tools that lead to recommending classwork and hands-on learning opportunities while guiding members along a path tailored to their abilities.

With its ccInspire platform, Career Cruising connects individuals to career mentors and employers in their community.

The partnership with AgCareers.com will allow members to search for ca-

reer opportunities within their particular field of study or within a selected geographic area through a very robust job board. By including these tools on AgCN, FFA members will have a convenient home for career exploration. The partnership will continue to provide members with job placement access throughout their postsecondary educations as they pursue internship and career options.

“These partnerships will be wonderful tools for our membership, and they will continue to help

young people achieve career success even after they’ve taken off their blue jacket,” said Dwight Armstrong, CEO of the National FFA Organization. “With the help of these great companies, we will provide students with a clear pathway from talent to career.”

The partnerships will allow AgCN to intuitively identify career paths for our students based on their interests, accomplishments and achievements. These enhancements to the AgCN will be available to students be-

ginning in the fall of 2012.

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ing to slow you down,” he notes.

Operation, location and farming practices Hoeg says the size and type of operation are also key factors. “If you have livestock to care for in addition to cash crops, you may need to size the planter differently, because there are fewer hours in the day available for planting. A lot also depends on the type of crop being planted. With some crops, you can’t use a 90foot planter, like with cotton, so you’ll need to cov-

er more acres with a smaller planter. Transport width may also be a determining factor for growers who have multiple farms and different locations – or for those who simply have to deal with a narrow bridge nearby.”

Other considerations are based on individual farming practices. “What inputs do you want to use, how do you want to apply them and in what types of soil? How much time do you have to get it all done? What system do you want to use to fill

the planter so you can minimize non-planting time? Are there going to be multiple operators running the planter? If so, ease of use becomes even more important.

“Even if you have big square fields, and there aren’t any waterways or other obstructions that cause you to plant in irregular rows, you will want to take advantage of the advanced systems that bigger planters of-

fer,” Hoeg continues.

“You’ll likely want AFS (Case IH Advanced Farming Systems®), row shutoffs, driving guides and mapping capabilities to help you utilize every square inch of ground. Irregularly shaped fields with waterways and terraces only enhance the need for these advanced systems. There are all kinds of nuances that factor into which planter model and options you

need. That’s why Case IH offers different models, configurations, options and capabilities, from 15foot to 90-foot Early Riser planters,” he concludes.

For more information about Early Riser planters, including demonstrations on how to create an ideal seed trench, how to achieve early, even emergence, and the benefits of pull- vs. push-gauge wheels, call your local Case IH dealer or visit www.CaseIH.com.

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What from 17 spend handling daily maintenance and making adjustments, the less time you’ll have to plant.

“And once you’re in the field, how many adjustments will you have to make every day to keep your planter operating at its best? Are the seed meter and vacuum/air systems sensitive to humidity changes, adverse ground conditions or different seed sizes? If there are four different seed plates you have to change just to handle corn hybrids, that’s go-

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and an optional large square bale kit includes enhancements to effectively process a variety of bales. The BPX9000 is built to maximize bale

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The easy to operate machine is built tough with a unique, T-style frame, the bed design and offset rotor produce even and consistent feed with minimal maintenance,

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The all-new BPX9000 Bale Processor from Vermeer combines simplicity, durability and versatility to meet the needs of today's cattle producers.

operate, easy to maintain and built to last.”

The BPX9000’s slat and chain bed and positive bale feeding improve bale rotation, feeding bales more consistently into the rotor, while reducing the need for operators to reverse rotation of the bale when feeding.

The split shaft in the bed allows for easier maintenance without removing the entire bed, and longlasting bushings in the bed are resistant to net and twine wrapping.

In addition, the bale processor’s offset rotor feeds material with less slugging, for a consistent cut length and higher quality feed. With exclusive cut control bars in combination with the self-cleaning rotor, excessive build-up of net and twine on the drum is eliminated. The rotor can also be manually cleaned, with easy access through a side-access door.

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NFU supports investment in farm bill energy programs National Farmers Union (NFU) supports the Rural Energy Investment Act of 2012, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on June 18 by Representative Marcy Kaptur, DOhio. The bill would reauthorize the most critical farm bill energy programs that are currently set to expire Sept.

30. The bill’s original cosponsors include Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, Tim Walz, D-MN, Earl Blumenauer, D-OR, Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, Michael

Michaud, D-Maine, Laura Richardson, D-CA, Barbara Lee, D-CA, Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, Donna Christensen, D-VA, Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, G.K. Butterfield, D-NC, Ben Lujan, D-NM, Maurice Hinchey, D-NY, Ron Kind, D-WI, and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.

“Energy programs are a critical part of spurring rural economic development, creating many jobs in rural America and giving farmers and ranchers an additional income stream that helps them to stay on

their land,” said NFU President Roger Johnson. “These energy programs are also critical in helping the United States become more energy independent and utilize cellulosic and advanced biofuels grown right here at home.”

The bill would strengthen and simplify renewable energy programs, including the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP).

According to USDA, REAP created or saved

15,000 jobs over the past nine years.

“These forward-looking and unique programs are successfully leveraging private capital and paving the way for farm-

based renewable energy,” said Johnson. “Programs such as REAP, BCAP, the Biorefinery Assistance Program and the Biobased Markets Program are helping to

commercialize the next generation of biofuels as they provide critical investment in our rural economies. We urge Congress to pass this bill as quickly as possible.”

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Bipartisan majority of senators stand up for American agriculture and energy security WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 20, following the defeat of Senator Pat Toomey’s Amendment to repeal the Biorefinery Assistance Program in the Energy Title of the Farm Bill, Growth Energy CEO, Tom Buis issued the following statement: “Today’s bipartisan vote of 63-33 is to be commended. The failure of Senator Toomey’s amendment, Number 2226 to repeal the Biorefinery Assistance Program demonstrates that a strong, bipartisan majority of Senators recognize the important role renewable fuels play in America’s agricultural and energy industries.

“The Biorefinery Assistance Program is instrumental in the production of the next generation of ethanol. This program is in place to foster innovation and American excellence. By rejecting this amendment, the Senate has clearly shown they understand the importance of advanced biofuels and the benefits of cleaner air, job creation and energy security.

“American made ethanol is critical to reducing our addiction to foreign oil and vital, if we are serious about energy independence. Not only does ethanol contribute to our energy security, but its production spurs economic growth, creating jobs and revitalize areas that are lacking in economic opportunity.

“I commend the Senate for their action today and I urge their colleagues in the House of Representatives to follow suit. America’s farmers and energy producers need a Farm Bill in place that provides a level of certainty so they can move for-

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Cash or good check w/ID. *** Purchases will not be released until paid in full. For buyers unknown to management, they must provide letter of credit issued to Wright’s Auction Service. ***

Sale managed by Wright’s Auction Service, Newport, VT & CC Miller Jr., Morrisville, VT. Lunch catered by Wright’s Catering Service.

Email: info@wrightsauctions.com Website: www.wrightsauctions.com AUCTIONEER: Ron Wright TEL: (O) 802-334-6115 (C) 802-673-9840 CC Miller Jr. - TEL: (O) 802-888-3670 (C) 802-793-1583 Owner Bill Evans: 518-242-6619

will be offered on organic farming, gardening, land care, sustainability, and homesteading. “at the NOFA Summer Conference,” said Mindy Harris, NOFA/Mass Public Relations Coordinator. “We have organic farmers from across New England, we have young urban activists and foodies from cities like Boston or Brooklyn, we have serious backyard suburban gardeners who grow food for their families, and we have rural homesteaders from Vermont. There are so many different learning opportunities. It’s exciting to watch the energy around the campus.”

This year’s conference will also feature special tracks of workshops around particular themes, including: Nutrient Density, Permaculture, CSA management, Beginning Farmers, Organic Land Care, and Winter Growing. Teens and kids can take advantage of handson learning about growing plants, animal care, and natural crafts.

For more information on the Northeast Organic Farming Association Summer Conference visit www.nofasummerconference.org or contact NOFA/Mass Public Relations Coordinator, Mindy H a r r i s mindy@nofamass.org, or 310-663-0054.

Farm Equipment Auction Estate of Ed & MaryAnn Ahrens

Friday, July 6TH 2012 • 6pm Location: 134 Turn Hill Rd. Fort Plain, NY Directions: From Canajoharie take Rt10 North approx.

7 Miles to left on New Turnpike (just past blue water tower) 1/2 mile to right on Turn Hill Rd

A well kept line of farm equipment ready to go to work: Ford 9600, 4000, & 3400 tractors; JD 410 loader backhoe; Nice NH 310 baler w/ hyd drive thrower; Deutz-Fahr baler w/ thrower; NH 489 haybine; JD 640 & 660 rakes; NH 4 star tedder; (8) nice wooden kicker wagons; Oliver 4x plows; White 10ft disc; 6ft Bush Hog; 3pt snowblower; JD transport drags; NI manure spreader; 3pt blade; 10ft drags; 2x plow; nice '98 GMC pickup; '04 GMC Envoy; 800 bales 2nd cut hay; quantity of lumber; 2 wagon loads small tools & a few household items. See you there for a great evening auction!

Terms: Cash or good check. All items sold as is.

MACFADDEN N & SONS,, INC. 1457 Hwy Rt 20 Sharon Springs NY 13459 (518) 284-2090 or www.macfaddens.com

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DIRECTIONS: Take Rte 22S. Take left at Lake Shore Rd, take first right onto Station St. Drive approximately 5 miles and turn left onto Whallons Bay Rd. Turn right onto Angier Hill Rd. Turn left on to Valley Way Rd., auction on right. Watch for auction signs.

Due to Ralph & Cecile Evans and William & Sally Evans selling the farm, we have been commissioned to sell the equipment, cattle & barn equipment.

186 FREE STALL CATTLE This herd consists of: 120 milking cows, (3) Jerseys, (4) Jersey crosses, (3) Red & White, (2) Ayrshires and the balance Holsteins. (28) Fresh, (27) Springing & Dry, over 39 of these are 1st & 2nd calf heifers averaging 50+ lbs/cow and SCC 280,000. 66 heifers which consist of (19) bred heifers, (31) yearlings 6m - 1yr old and (16) started calves.

EQUIPMENT 7410 JD 4wd tractor w/loader & cab, 4240 JD 2wd tractor w/canopy, 8950 Case International 4wd tractor w/cab & dual wheels, TW 35 Ford 4wd tractor w/cab, 1365 Oliver 2wd tractor, 4490 Case Articulate tractor w/ cab & dual wheels, 317 JD Skid Steer w/2 buckets & rubber tire scraper, International truck w/dump body, HPX JD 4x4 gator, 660 4wd Yamaha Grizzly 4-wheeler, 7914 Miller Pro merger, 920 JD MoCo disc mower, 935 JD MoCo mower (needs work), 266 NH rake, 11’ Kuhn rake, NH rake, 1065 Gehl chopper w/grass head & metal alert, 3950 JD chopper w/grass head & 2 row corn head & metal alert (needs work), 311 NH square baler w/kicker, 3450 Reel Auggie Knight mixer wagon, 16’ feed wagon, 8335 Gehl feeder wagon, 16’ pin hitch forage dump wagon, McConnell wide wheel base Hi-dump wagon, 22’ GMC dump box, 12’ Pronovost pintle hook tandem axle dump trailer, 335 JD round baler, Patz round bale grinder, 508 White 5-bottom spring loaded plow, Kverneland 5 bottom plow, 3pth 100 JD 11-shank chisel plow, (2) sets chisel plows, Krauss harrows, Bush hog harrows, centerfold 235 JD harrows, 3pth 16’ drag harrows, 5100 White 6 row air corn planter, 8200 JD drill seeder, Brillion 14’ seeder, Ford 4-row cultivator, 311 Gehl Scavenger side slinger manure spreader, 780 JD hydro push manure spreader, JD corn sprayer, hay wagon w/wooden rack, NH bale picker wagon, (8) hay wagon running gears, 3pth double bale spear, 40’ hay elevator on wheels & more.

BARN EQUIPMENT & MISCELLANEOUS 2000 gal DeLaval round milk tank, double 10 Surge milking parlor, 10hp self contained vacuum pump, Mueller plate cooler, Argo parlor fans, 200+- free stalls to be sold in sections, large assortment of stainless steel pipe, 3pth cement mixer, nail bins w/nails & screws, nut & bolt bins w/nuts & bolts, (6) 10’ long sections of head lock gates, foot bath, watering tanks, cow foot trimming table, (5) calf hutches, 50’x100’ cement bunkers (to be sold in sections), (7) 8’ feeder bunks, assortment of gates, assortment of equipment tires & rims and more.

and make it easier for consumers to have access to healthy foods. Pingree is one of the strongest supporters of small, organic family farms in the U.S. Congress today. Pingree will also be presenting in a panel workshop, Friday, Aug. 10, at 4 p.m., entitled: Vision for Food Self-Reliance for New England.

Genetically modified foods continue to pose a serious threat to organic farmers and consumers alike. Jeffrey Smith, of the Institute for Responsible Technology, is one of the nation’s leading authors and activists, working to remove GMO foods from the food supply. Smith will be keynoting the conference on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 7 p.m., and will be leading a pre-conference seminar entitled: Fighting GMO’s: a Pre-Conference Training for Consumers, Community Leaders, Activists, and Organizers, starting on Aug. 9. The hands-on seminar will give participants the tools they need to become public speakers and advocates against GMOs. Over 1,400 participants will converge on UMass Amherst from Aug. 10-12 to share practical knowledge on making organic food part of their careers and family life. Over 200 workshops

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381

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Monday, July 2 • Hosking Sales . Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale. Special - ROB-MICH Farm Registered & Grade Holstein Herd Dispersal. 40 Head (20 Reg.) 36 cows, 4 Bred Hfrs. Watch for the two Maternal sisters by Talent & Sept.

Storm. Also a fancy VG 87 R&W due sale day to Sept. Storm. Cows are in all stages of lactation with a few exceptionally fancy young cows here! Other job interest prompts this short notice sale. Owners: Robert & Michele Franklin & Family. Dairy will start at 1 pm. Quality consignments welcome. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • Town of Berne, NY. Vehicles and equipment. Online auction closing at 6 pm. Auctions, International, 800-536-1401 x 115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • 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: 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 • 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 315-287-0220 • 4:00 PM: Chatham Market, 2249 Rte. 203, Chatham, NY. Regular Sale. Harold Renwick, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-392-3321.

Tuesday, July 3 • 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, July 4 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 1:00 PM: Regular livestock sale. Sale as usual, all buyers will be here. Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, Inc. 3 miles east of Canandaigua, NY on Rts 5 Y 20.

585-394-1515 • 1:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104

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 11167 Big Tree Rd.,East Aurora, NY 14052 800-536-1401 x 115 www.auctionsinternational.com BENUEL FISHER AUCTIONS Fort Plain, NY 518-568-2257 Licensed & Bonded in PA #AU005568

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BRZOSTEK’S AUCTION SERVICE INC. Household Auctions Every Wed. at 6:30 PM 2052 Lamson Rd., Phoenix, NY 13135 Brzostek.com 315-678-2542 or 800-562-0660 Fax 315-678-2579 THE CATTLE EXCHANGE 4236 Co. Hwy. 18, Delhi, NY 13753 607-746-2226 • Fax 607-746-2911 www.cattlexchange.com E-mail: daveramasr@cattlexchange.com A Top-Quality Auction Service David Rama - Licensed Real Estate Broker C.W. GRAY & SONS, INC. Complete Auction Services Rte. 5, East Thetford, VT 802-785-2161 DANN AUCTIONEERS DELOS DANN 3339 Spangle St., Canandaigua, NY 14424 585-396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com dannauctioneers.htm DELARM & TREADWAY Sale Managers & Auctioneers William Delarm & Son • Malone, NY 518-483-4106 E.J. Treadway • Antwerp, NY 13608 315-659-2407

• 1:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Calves followed by beef. Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-8293105 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Thursday, July 5 • Private Consignor/ St Lawrence Co. Vehicles/1975 Trojan loader Online auction closing at 6:45pm, Toll free 800-536-1401 x115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • Town of Masonville. Tools & Equip Online auction closing at 7:15pm. Auctions International, Toll free 800-536-1401 x115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • Westchester County. Vehicles. Online auction closing at 6 PM. Auctions International 800-536-1401 x 115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop off only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 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,

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315-322-3500, sale barn 315-287-0220 • 5:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Calves, followed by Beef. Tim Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800321-3211.

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, 607-3698231 (Date change due to July 4 holiday). www.drchambersauction.com

Friday, July 6 • 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 315-729-8030 • 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, July 7 • Garden Time LLC in Glens Falls, NY. 3rd Annual Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 • 9:30 AM: Bow, NH. Construction Equipment Liquidation for Farnese Construction .

Alex Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

Monday, July 9 • 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 1 PM heifer sale followed by sheep, lamb, goats, pigs & feeders. Calves & cull beef approx. 5-5:30 PM. Tom & Brenda Hoskings, 607-699-3637, 607-847-

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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 HARRIS WILCOX, INC. Bergen, NY 585-494-1880 www.harriswilcox.com

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com

Wednesday, July 11 • Barton, Vermont. 153rd Top-Of-Vermont Invitation Dairy Sale, at the Pines Farm.

Reg Lussier neks@together.net 802-525-4774 • 10:00 AM: Essex, NY. Complete dairy farm disperal of 186 head free stall cattle, farm and barn equip,ment for Windy Valley Farm.

Wrights Auction Service, 802-334-6115

Thursday, July 12

Friday, July 13 • 6:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Saturday, July 14 • Canastota, NY. Lyon’s Annual Summer Hay Camp & Friday Night Barbecue! Late Model Construction Equipment, Support, Aerial Lifts, Trucks & Trailers. WATCH FOR DETAILS! HILITES: 2010-2009 Cat D8T, (2) 2009 Cat D7R (ripper), 2012 Cat D6NXL (unused), (6) Cat D6T & D6N, 2010 Cat 320D, 2011 Cat 980H, (2) 2012 Cat CD54, 2007 Cat XQ600, (2) 2012 JCB 3CX-14 (4x4). A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

Saturday, July 14 • 9:00 AM: West Meetinghouse Rd., New Milford, CT. Estate of Chick Flynn. JD 4440D Powershift, 4000D, 5625D & 5525D 4x4 w/QT542 Loaders, 4400D 4x4 Compact w/430 Loader; JD 47 QT Backhoe; JD 950D 4x4, JD 440G Track Loader & Other Tractors, Hay & Tillage Equipment, Dairy Heifers, Bulls/Steers, Guns, Antiques & Furniture. Jacquier Auctions, 413-569-6421 www.jacquierauctions.com

Monday, July 16 • 1:00 PM: Monthly sheep lamb goat & pig sale. 1 PM dairy followed by sheep, lamb, goats, pigs & feeders. Calves & cull beef approx. 5-5:30 PM. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-9721770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com

Tuesday, July 17 • 10:00 AM: Lee, NH. Ath-Mor Registered Holsteins complete dispersal 350 head sale. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattleexchange.com www.cattleexchange.com

Wednesday, July 18 • 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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 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, 607-3698231 www.drchambersauction.com

• 1815 Hicks Field Rd. East FORT WORTH TX 76179. Rental Fleet Construction, Support Equipment & Attachments. A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

Thursday, July 19

Thursday, July 26

• 7:00 PM: Batavia, NY. Genesee County 4H Meat Animal Sale - Come support the local 4H youth by bidding on their 4H animals!

See our website for more information.

William Kent, Inc., 585-343-5449 www.williamkentinc.com

• Midland, Texas. Complete Liquidation Late Model Cat Construction Equipment, (20) Mack Truck Tractors and Dump Trucks, Large Quantity of Pickups, Support Equipment. HILITES: (6) Cat 140H, Cat 324DL, (8) Cat D6T, (2) Cat D6R, Cat 966H, (40) Pickups, (20) Belly Dumps & Equipment Trailers, Plus Much, Much More! A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 6:00 PM: County Highway Maintenance Facility, Geneseo, NY. Livingston County Tax Title Auction. Thomas P. Wamp/Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc., 585-728-2520 www.pirrunginc.com

Saturday, July 21 • Middleburgh, NY. Reflections of Maple Downs Sale. Hosted by Maple Downs Farm II. Held in conjunction with the NY Holstein Summer Picnic. The Cattle Exchange, 607746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com • Leyden, MA. Selling trucks, trailers, shop tools & farm equip. including pay loader and farm tractor for Zimmerman Livestock Trucking. Sale Managers, Northeast Kingdom Sales, 802-525-4774, neks@together.net, Auctioneer Reg Lussier 802-626-8892

Tuesday, July 24 • Syracuse, NY. Complete Liquidation: Asphalt Paver, Late Model Vibratory Rollers, Rough Terrain Crane, Skid Steers, Mini Excavators, Very Large Amount of Shop Equipment, Tooling & Accessories. VERY NICE!. A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

Wednesday, July 25 • West Addison, VT. Bodette Farm Complete Equipment Dispersal. Sale Managers, Northeast Kingdom Sales, 802-525-4774, neks@together.net, Auctioneer Reg Lussier 802-626-8892

Friday, July 27 • 10:00 AM: Haverling Central High School, Bath, NY. Steuben County Tax Title Auction.

Thomas P. Wamp/Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc., 585-728-2520 www.pirrunginc.com

Saturday, July 28 • 9:30 AM: Martins Country Market. 3rd Annual Large Summer Equipment Auction.

Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 • 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

Sunday, July 29 • 10:00 AM: Washington Co. Fairgrounds,

PA RT I C I PAT I N G A U C T I O N E E R S

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

NORTHEAST KINGDOM SALES INC. Jim Young & Ray LeBlanc Sales Mgrs. • Barton, VT Jim - 802-525-4774 • Ray - 802-525-6913 neks@together.net 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 R.G. MASON AUCTIONS Richard G. Mason We do all types of auctions Complete auction service & equipment Phone/Fax 585-567-8844

ROBERTS AUCTION SERVICE MARCEL J. ROBERTS Specializing in farm liquidations.

802-334-2638 • 802-777-1065 cell robertsauction@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 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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• Phoenix, AZ. Complete Liquidation of Late Model Construction Equipment: (75) Forklifts, (80) Pickups, (25) Delivery Trucks (mostly with cranes), (30) Trailers (mostly with cranes). PLUS: Complete Wood Truss Manufacturing Plant including all types of machinery and enormous amount of tooling. In Conjunction with Bar None Auction.

A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

• 9:00 AM: Canastota, NY. Annual Summer Auction. Late Model Construction Equipment. Alex Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com

Auction Calendar, Continued (cont. from prev. page) Rt. 29 & 392 Old Schuylerville Rd., Greenwich, NY. Tri-State Antique Tractor Club Inc. antique Wheels and Iron Showw. 1st time consignment auction. Selling antique & modern farm, construction, gas engine, signs, toys, literature and related items.

Show: Sat-Sun July 28-29. Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585-396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm

Friday, August 3 • 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 315-729-8030 • 6:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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Saturday, August 4 • 10:00 AM: 1507 Pre-Emption Rd., Penn Yan, NY (Yates Co.). Real Estate Absolute Auction. 103 acre DeWick farm w/100 acres tillable, farmhouse, shop 2 machine sheds.

Thomas P. Wamp/Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc., 585-728-2520 www.pirrunginc.com

Wednesday, August 8 • 2:00 PM: Gehan Rd., off Rts. 5-20, 5 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. NY Steam Engine Assoc. 4th Annual Consignment Auction. 1st day of pageant of Steam Show Aug. 8-11.

Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585-3961676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm

Thursday, August 9 • 1:00 PM: Route 414, Seneca Falls, NY. Farm & Equipment Auction. Next to Empire Farm Days Show. Farm Equipment, Tractors, Antique Equipment, Construction Equipment. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com

Friday, August 10 • 10:00 AM: North Java, NY. Dairy Farm Machinery Auction - Selling a full line of farm machinery including Case IH 7140, IH 1566, IH 886, NH 1900 forage harvester, Kenworth W900B 10 wheeler, Claas 180 RotoCut baler, plus truck parts, tillage, planting, harvesting and more! See our website for more information. William Kent, Inc., 585343-5449 www.williamkentinc.com

Wednesday, August 15 • 12601 State Rd. 545 North WINTER GARDEN FL 34787. Late Model Rrental Fleet Construction Equipment, Aerials, Trucks & Trailers. A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • Pike, NY. Wyoming County 4H Meat Animal Sale - Come support the local 4H youth by bidding on their animals! See our website for more information. Jacquier Auctions, 413-569-6421 www.jacquierauctions.com

Wednesday, August 15 • 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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, August 18 • 1755 S. E. Frontage Road STURTEVANT WI 53177. Complete Liquidation of Late Model Earthmoving Equipment, Truck Tractors, Equipment Trailers & Support. A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944

www.lyonauction.com

Wednesday, August 22 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, September 29 • Twister Valley, Fort Plain, NY. Power Sports Consignment Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257

Friday, August 24

Saturday, October 6

• Barton, VT. Important Holstein Dispersal.

More info soon. Sale Managers, Northeast Kingdom Sales, 802-525-4774, neks@together.net, Auctioneer Reg Lussier 802626-8892

• 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, 585-2431563 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

Saturday, August 25 • 9:00 AM: Penn Yan, NY. Finger Lakes Produce Auction Farm Machinery Consignment Auction. Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc., 585-7282520 www.pirrunginc.com

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, 585396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm

Saturday, September 8 • North Country Storage Barns. 2nd Annual Shed and Shrubbery Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 • Morrisville, NY. 30th Annual Morrisville Autumn Review Sale. Hosted by Morrisville State College Dairy Club. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com • 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

Saturday, September 15 • 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, 585-243-1563 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

Wednesday, September 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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, September 22 • 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, 585-2431563 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, September 26 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder

Saturday, October 13 • Hosking Sales . OHM Holstein Club Sale.

Brad Ainslie sale chairman 315-822-6087.

Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607847-8800, 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, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, October 20 • 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

Saturday, October 27 • Ithaca, NY. NY Fall Harvest Sale. Hosted

by Cornell University Dairy Science Club.

The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

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, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, November 3 • 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, 607847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com

Saturday, November 3 • 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

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 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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Thursday, November 29 • Lampeter, PA. Destiny Road Holstein Dispersal. Jay Stolzfus, owner. The Cattle Exchange, 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

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, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

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 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

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

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

*ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES East Middlebury, VT June 25, 2012 Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 86-95.50; Boners 80-85% lean 79-88; Lean 85-90% lean 60-91.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls 92-125# 85-200; 80-92# 90165; Vealers 100-120# 8090; 90-100# 70-90; 80-90# 60-90; 70-80# 55-80; 60-70# 42.50-50; Hols. Heifers 69108# 100-150.

COSTA & SONS LIVESTOCK & SALES Fairhaven, MA June 20, 2012 Cows: Canners 55-72; Cutters 73.50-78; Util 78.5085.50.

Bulls: 78.50-109 Steers: Ch. 118; Sel 74-115; Hols. 72-88; Heifers: Ch 115-116; Sel 84-111; Hols. 72-95.50.

Calves: 5-100ea.

Feeders: 64-150 Sheep:64 Lambs: 160 Goats:100-224 ea.; Kids 48118 ea.

Sows: 38-44 Chickens: 1.50-8.50 Rabbits: 2-16.50 Ducks: 1.50-18.50 Sale every Wed. @ 7 pm. No sale July 4. Sale will be July1 @ 4 pm. *FLAME LIVESTOCK Littleton, MA June 26, 2012 Beef Cattle: Canners 50-72, bulls 90-108; Cutters 65-77; steers 100-115; Util 75-84; heifers 75-90.

Calves: Growers 125-150; Veal 75-130; Heifers 150200; Other 75; Hogs: Sows 35-45; Feeders 40-75; Roasters 75-150; Boars 10-15; Market 55-60.

Sheep: 55-70; Lambs 100-

150; Goats: 75-125 ea; Billies 110-190ea; Kids 35-105 ea. *NORTHAMPTON COOPERATIVE AUCTION, INC Whately, MA June 26, 2012 Calves (/cwt): 0-60# 70; 6175# 43-78; 76-95# 70-90; 96105# 20-80; 106# & up 7986.

Farm Calves:100-160/cwt Start Calves: 71-130/cwt Feeders: 68-147.50/cwt Heifers: 116/cwt Canners:40-73/cwt Cutters: 74-87/cwt Utility: 95.50-111/cwt Sows: 48/cwt.

Shoats: 126-131 Feeder Pigs: 34-77ea.

Lambs: 80-135/cwt Sheep:40-125/cwt Goats: 36-210 ea.

Rabbits: 2-29ea.

Poultry: 1-16 ea.

Hay: 10 lots.35-2.70/bale northamptonlivestockauction.homestead.com HACKETTSTOWN AUCTION Hackettstown, NJ No report CAMBRIDGE VALLEY LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Cambridge, NY No report *EMPIRE LIVESTOCK MARKET June 25, 2012 Calves: Hfr. Calves Grower over 92# 175-210; 80-92# 140-185; Bob Veal 75; Cull Cows: Gd. 81-87; Lean 73-85.50; Beef: Veal 85-110; Beef Hfrs. 88-92; Beef Steers 109-113; Lamb & Sheep: Feeder 190-220; Goats: Billies 240-270; Nannies 110-130; Kids 40-65; *BURTON LIVESTOCK Vernon, NY June 21, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. .70-1.80; Grower bull over 92# .802.35; 80-92# .65-2.25; Bob Veal .10-.70.

Cull Cows: Gd 68-88; Lean .45-.76; Hvy. Beef 70-1.04.

Dairy Replacements: Fresh Cows 900-1500; Springing cows 1000-1300; Springing Hfrs. 850-1200; Bred Hfrs.

850-1200; Fresh Hfrs. 9001450; Open Hfrs. 500-900; Started Hfrs. 150-400; Service Bulls 700-1000.

Beef: Feeders 60-120.

Lamb/Sheep: Market .80-2; Slaughter Sheep .20-.60.

Goats: Billies .75-1.75; Nannies .65-1.25; Kids 10-.50.

CENTRAL BRIDGE LIVESTOCK Central Bridge, NY June 7, 2012 Calves: Heifer 70-180; Grower bulls over 92#100-

230;80-92# 80-220; bob veal calves 10-75 Cull cows: Gd. 68-89; Lean 45-75; Heavy beef bulls 73102 Dairy Replacements: Fresh 900-1500; springing cows 1000-1300; springing heifers 1000-1450; bred heifers 8501200; fresh heifers 900-1450; open heifers 500-900; started heifers 150-400; service bulls 700-1000 Beef: feeders 60-120 Lamb & Sheep: market 100200; slaughter sheep 25-65 Goats: billies 80-180; Nannies 75-130; Kid 10-70 CHATHAM MARKET Chatham, NY June 18, 2012 Calves: Hef. 1.20; Grower over 92# 185-210; 80-92# 100-235; Bob Veal 77-82.

Cull Cows: Gd 84-87.50; Lean 75-81.50; Hvy. Beef Bulls 95-.9650.

Beef: Feeders 96-1.44; Veal 100-120; beef/hfrs. 93-100; Hols. steers 98-1.04.

Lamb/Sheep: feeder 160185; Market 145-160; Slaughter Sheep 70-76.

Goats: Billies small 110-110; Swine: feeder pig 75 *CHERRY CREEK Cherry Creek, NY June 20, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. 125-220; Grower Bulls over 92# 1202025; 80-92# 100-210; Bob Veal .10-80 Cull Cows: Gd 77-89; Lean 66-82; Hvy. Beef 90-97.

Dairy Replacements: Fresh 650-1350; handling Hfrs.

950-1400; Springing Hfrs 750-1425; Bred 600-1250; Fresh 525-1350; open 400950; Started 250-550; Service Bulls 650-1000; Beef: Ch 107-118; sel 98101; hol. ch.98-104.; Hols.

Sel. 90-93; Lambs: Sheep 40-80; Goats: Nannies .75-1.30; Kids 1-1.25; Swine: No Report *DRYDEN MARKET Dryden, NY June 20, 2012 Calves Grower Bull over 92# 1.40-2.00; 80-92# 1-1.70; Bob Veal .10-.70.

Cull Cows: Gd 78-87; Lean 65-77. Heavy Beef Bulls 8698.

Goats: No Report Swine: No Report *GOUVERNEUR LIVESTOCK Governeur, NY June 21, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. 70-1.90; Grower Bulls over 92# 1.25-2.775; 80-92# 90-2.075; Bob Veal 25-80.

Cull Cows: Gd 84-965; Lean 70-87; Hvy. Beef Bulls 881.04. *PAVILION MARKET Pavilion, NY

Gouverneur

Canandaigua Pavilion Penn Yan Dryden Cherry Creek

Vernon New Berlin

Cambridge

Central Bridge

Bath

Chatham

June 18, 2012 Calves Grower Bulls over 92# 1.65-2.10; 80-92# 1.552.10; Bob Veal 30-85.

Cull Cows: Gd 80-87; Lean 65-82; Hvy. Beef Bulls .91596.

Beef: Ch 95-1.13; Hols. Ch 87-1.005.

Lamb/Sheep:No Report Goats: No Report Swine:Hog 48-50. *BATH MARKET Bath, NY June 21, 2012 Calves: Hfrs. 170-230; Grower Bulls over 92# 190240; 80-92# 160-220; Bob Veal 10-60 Cull Cows: Gd 80-87; Lean 70-79 heavy beef bulls 90103 Dairy Replacements: 9001150 Beef: Ch 113-115; Sel 110113; Hol. Sel 95-106 Lamb & Sheep: market 140150; Slaughter Sheep 35-47 Goats: Billies 85-100; Nannies 90-110; kids 25-35.

Swine: Hog .65-.71; sow 4048.

FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK AUCTION Penn Yan, NY June 20, 2012 Dairy Cows for Slaughter: Bone Util 68-87.50; Canners/Cutters 42-76.

Dairy Bulls for Slaughter: HY Util 84-102.

Slaughter Calves: Bobs 95110# 60-70; 80-95# 5067.50; 60-80# 40-65; Vealers (grassers) 250# & up 78-104.

Dairy Calves Ret. to Feed: bull over 95# 125-210; 8095# 100-212.50; 70-80# 75170; Hfr. Calves 140-180.

Beef Calves Ret. to Feed: bull over 95# 125-175.

Beef Steers: Ch grain fed 115-175; Sel 100-111; Hols.

Ch grain fed 90-108.

Hogs: Slgh. Hogs US 1-3 73; Sows US 1-3 35; Feeders US 1-3 5-55;

Slaughter Sheep: M 38; Goats: Nannies M 56-68.

FINGER LAKES PRODUCE AUCTION Penn Yan, NY June 27, 2012 Produce:Beans(1/2 bu) 626; Beets (Bunch) .50-1.20; Blueberries(pt) 2.85-3.50; Broccoli (hd) .55-.85; Cabbage (hd) .65-.70; Cucumbers (1/2bu) 5.50-20; Eggs (dz) 1.45-1.85; Lettuce (hd) .05-.60; Peas ( 1/2 bu) 10-20; Raspberries (pt) 2.40-4.60; Rhubarb 1.45-2; Salt Potatos (1/2 bu) 10-15.50; Sweet Corn (dozen) 3-4.25; Strawberries (qt) 3.80-4.65; Summer Squash (1/2bu) 4.50-13; Tomatoes (25#)12-38; Zucchini (1/2 bu) 2-12.50.

Produce Mon. @ 10 am Wed. & Fri. at 9 am sharp, Hay Auctions Fridays@ 11:15.

FINGER LAKES FEEDER SALE Penn Yan, NY June 1, 2012 Beef Steers: 301-500# 117166; 501-700# 98-159; 701# & up 88-148.

Beef Heifers: 301-500# 118161; 501-700# 96-157; 701# & up 89-158.

Beef Bulls: 301-500# 102.50-159; 501-700# 86129; 701# & up 90-126.

Hols: 301-500# 88-105; 501700# 84-96; 701# & up 8286.

Bred Replacements: 8101460.

Families: 1270-1280.

FINGER LAKES HAY AUCTION Penn Yan, NY No report Hay Tuesdays & Fridays @ 11:15 am. Produce Friday @ 9 am sharp! *HOSKING SALES New Berlin, NY June 25, 2012

Cattle: Dairy Cows for Slaughter Bone Util .70-.84; Canners/Cutters .58-.70; Easy Cows .60 & dn.

Bulls: Bulls & Steers ..62-.97 Calves: Bull Calves 96-120# 1.50-2.15; up to 95# .10-2; Hols. under 100# 1.80.

BELKNAP LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belknap, PA Slaughter Steers: Sel 1-2 1170-1502# 113.50-117.50 Slaughter Cows: Prem whites lean 65-75, hi dress 97.50; breakers lean 75-80, avg dress 86-89, lo dress 85; Boners lean 80-85% lean 81.50-85; lean lean 85-90, 75-79, lo dress 71-72.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 2100# 96; YG 2 908-996# 83-92.

Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L 1 500-600# 143; M&L 3 400500# 139; M&L 3 300-500# 80-90; 500-700# 83.

Heifers: M&L 1 400-500# 140.

Bulls: M&L 1 300-500# 138151; 500-600# 138-150; M&L 2 300-500# 129-134.

Return to Farm Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 85-120# 162.50-182.50; No. 2 80120# 122.50-150; No. 3 80120# 77.50-118 Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 45-50% lean 247-274# 68.50-71; 40-45 per lean 207-268# 62-65; Sows US 13 400-600# 53.50-56.50; Feeder Pigs US 1-3 40-60# 75-87.50/hd Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch. 2-3 40# 297.50-305; 75# 300. Ewes Util 1-2 158-206# 54-57.

Slaughter Goats: Sel 1 6070# 132.50-152.50; Sel 3 1020# 35-45; Nannies Sel 100110# 115-140; Billies Sel 2 100# 130.

BELLEVILLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belleville, PA June 6, 2012

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*MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middlefield, CT June 25, 2012 Calves: 45-60# 55-65; 6175# 85-1.15; 76-90# 1.251.30; 91-105# 1.45-1.50; 106# & up 1.55-1.60 Farm Calves: 165-170 Started Calves: 48-56 Veal Calves: 70-125 Open Heifers: 85-10750 Beef Heifers: 98-10350 Feeder Steers: 88-10750 Beef Steers: 90-111 Stock Bull: 90-102 Beef Bull: 92-104 Butcher Hogs: 1@ 50 Feeder Pigs (ea): 70-80 Sheep (ea): 85-125 Lambs (ea): 75-190 Goats (ea): 65-320; kids 45125.

Canners: up to 79.50 Cutters: 80-83 Utility: 8450-86 Rabbits: 4-22 Chickens: 4-27 Ducks: 5-13 On the Hoof, Dollars/Cwt

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Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75%; Breakers 75-80% lean, hi dress 88.50 lo dress 75-80; Boners 8085% lean 80-84, hi dress 87.50-88, lo dress 72-79; Lean 85-90% lean 73.5081.50, hi dress 81.50-86, lo dress 66-72.50;, very lo dress 50-64; Light Lean 8592% lean 62-67, lo dress 53.50, very lo dress 45-50.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 8501862# 96-104; YG 2 11981234# 89.50-91.50 Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L 1 374# 128; 672# 118; Hols. L 3 758# 85; Hfrs L 3 530# 70; Holstsein Bull Calves: No. 1 94-114# 175-202; 82-92# 182-205; No. 2 94-118# 157180; 86-92# 157-182; No. 3 82-104# 100-150; Util 66104# 50.

Holstein Heifer Calves: No. 2 75-100# 115-185per/hd.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 30-60# 55-67.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 32-66# 135-165; 72104# 152.50-167.50; 110154# 155-172.50. Ewes Gd 2-3 134-166# 65-85; 212224# 50-70; Rams 224# 95.

Slaughter Goats (/hd): Kids Sel 1 60# 120; Sel 2 under 20# 32.50; 20-40# 27.50-35; 45-60# 67.50-85; 70# 85; Nannies Sel 1 120-130# 122.50-125; Sel 3 90# 67.

Fresh Cows: Supreme 1750-1825; App 1425-1750; Xbred 1525-1625; Jersey 1000; M 1125-1250; Jersey 875; Common 685; Short Bred Cows: 1-3 months, M 925.

Springing Cows: 7-9 Months M 1025; Common 950.

Short Bred Heifers: 1-3 months app 1010-1175; reg 1000-1210; Xbred 925; M 710-910; Common 600.

Bred Heifers: 4-6 months app 1100-1310; Xbred 8851000; Jerseys 1110-1225; M 825-1085.

Springing Heifers: 7-9 mos 1275-1475; Jersey 975; M 900-985 Open Heifers: 300-600# 635-660; Jersey 435-600; 600-900# 810-985; 9001200# 810-1050; Reg. 1085; Xbred 775; M 300-600# 485575; Xbred 485; jersey 310375; 600-900# 660-785; Xbred 450-485; Jersey 425; 900-1200# 685-735; Common 300-600# 235-500; 600900# 385-610; 900-1200# 600.

Dairy Bulls: 300-600# 335; Jersey 310; 600-900# 550600; Jersey 600; 900-1200# 735-775; 1200-1500# 875985. *CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA June 26, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Cows: Beef type 92-98; Breakers 86.50-89; Lean 8490; Big Middle/lo dress/light 70-93.50; Shelly 69 & down Bulls: 1145-1880# 97.50115; Feeder Cattle: Bulls Hols.

820-860# 92-94 Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 85-130# 140-170; No 2 60-130# 130-145; No 3 55-100# 90-128; Util. 87 & down Swine: Hogs 210# 74; Gilts 410-480# 46.50-50.50; 485570# 50-52.50; Barrows 360490# 45.540-52; 500-590# 44.50-47.25; Sows 300-360# 53-66; 435-480# 44-50; 485570# 45-52; Boars 740# 24; Goats (/hd): Nannies & Wethers 120-135; Fancy Kids 135-180; Fleshy Kids 97-125; Small thin bottle 2782; Lambs: Gd & Ch 60-80# 134-145; 80-100# 130-145; 110-130# 100-147; Sheep (all wts): No Report Sale every Tuesday 5 pm for Rabbits, Poultry & Eggs 6 pm for Livestock starting with calves.

No Sale Tues., July 3.

Receiving 7:30 until 10 am.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA June 19, 2012 Rabbits: 3-13.50 Bunnies: .50-6 Hens: 1.50-4.50 Roosters: 2-7 Pullets: .50-3 Peeps: .50-1.50 Ducks: 4.50-8 Ducklings: 1 Chickens: 2-3.50 Chicken Family: 11 Turkey: 24 Pheasant Peeps: .75 Guinea Family: 20 Guinea Pigs:1-4 Quail Peeps: 1 Eggs (/dz): Jumbo Brown 1.65; XL Brown 1.55; L Brown 1.55; M Brown 1.201.30; M White 1.05; Fertile Leghorn .95; Fertile Green 2.25.

All animals sold by the piece.

Sale starts at 5 pm. *CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC State Graded Feeder Pig Sale Carlisle, PA US 1-2: 31# 141; 40-48# 135-136; 56-59# 118-131; 60-69# 114-124; 68# with tails 108; 71-79# 107-111; 74# 85; 81-88# 87-90; 103109# 97; 130-149# 70-91; US 2: 38# 178; 43-49# 114125; 54-59# 115-122; 65-69# 106-113; 80# 97; As Is 1520# 90-100; 35-68# 80-100; 72-97# 66-87; *DEWART LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET, INC June 25, 2012 Steers: Ch 2-3 1448# 114; Hfrs. Hi CH & Pr 3-4 12161250# 115.50-117.50; CH 23 1230-1298# 108-112; Sel 1-3 1176-1268# 100-102; Bulls G 1 1334-1892# 92-94; hi dress 1000-1282# 102103.50; Bullock 1384# 116.50; Holstein Steers: 750-850# 76-91; Bulls 500-650# 111121; Cows: prem white 85-87.50; Breakers 80-83; Boners 7582; Lean 67-79.50; Holstein Bull Calves: No 1 80-118# 172-192; No 2 80-

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Pennsylvania Markets Mercer

Jersey Shore

New Wilmington

Dewart Leesport Belleville Homer City

New Holland Carlisle Lancaster Paradise

Eighty-Four 128# 160-182; No 3 78-116# 110-155; Util. 70-108# 35-90; Util. 52-68# 10-25;Hfr. Calves No 1 90-96# 182-200; No 2 82-118# 145-177; Non tubing 58-64# 22-27; Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 270282# 71-73; Sows 300-500# 36-44; Boars 204# 44; 410# 17; Feeder Pigs 15-25# 5275/head, by weight 120-130# 75-84; Lambs: 30-40# 120-142; 4060# 127-145; 60-70# 130145; 70-90# 142-150; Ewes G 1-2 138-144# 47-50; Goats (/hd): Kids Sel 1 under 20# 35-42/head; 5060# 110-120/head; Sel 2 under 20# 30-37/head; 60# 100/head; Sel 3 40# 45/head; 50# 80/head; Nannied sel2 100-120# 105115/head; Sel 3 90-100# 5575/head. *EIGHTY FOUR LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Holland, PA June 25, 2012 Slaughter Cows: prem whites 65-75% lean; Breakers 75-80% lean, 90-94, 96 hi dress, 88 lo dress; Boners 80-85% lean, 83-88, 89.50 hi dress, lo dress 81.50-82.50; lean 85-90% lean, 77-81, 7476 lo dress.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 13142175# 99-113; YG 2 10001645# 83-96; Steers: M&L 1 300400#167.50-175; 600-700# 139; 800-900# 125; Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300500# 132.50-142.50; 500700# 133-140; 700-800# 120-130; M&L 2 300-500# 118-120; 500-700# 110-116; Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300500# 145-157.50; 500-700# 130-145; 700-800# 128-133; M&L 2 300-500# 120-130; 600-700# 90-96 Ret. to Farm Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 85-120# 160185; No 2 80-120# 130-160; No 3 80-120# 95-120; Utility 70-120# 30-75;Beef Type 110-250# 110+167.50; Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 45-50% lean 240-305# 60-64; Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 60-80# 134-147.50, few 164.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 50# 100; sel 2 35-45# 41-50; 65-68# 89-120; Nannies sel 2 105# 108/cwt.; Billies Sel 1 135# 130/cwt. *GREENCASTLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Greencastle, PA June 25, 2012 Slaughter Steers: hi ch & pr 2-3 1360-1458# 118122.50; Ch 2-3 1234-1508# 114-118, full/YG 4-5 111114.50; Sel 1-3 1276-1460# 110-114; Slaughter Holstein Steers: Hi Ch & Pr. 2-3 1524-1560# 103.50-104.50; Ch 2-3 12081648# 99-103.50 Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1116-1296# 109-114.50 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75%, 90.50-95; Breakers 75-80% lean 8487.50, hi dress 87.50-89.75, lo dress 79-80; boners 8085% 76-81.50, hi dress 8285, lo dress 72-76; lean 8590% lean, very lo dress 5358; Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 11442090# 98-105, hi dress 111.50-114, lo dress 10241634# 92-95.50; Steers: M&L 1 500-700# 145; M&L 2 500-700# 107.50; Hfrs. M&L 1 300500# 145; 500-700# 129147.50; L Hols. 300-500# 7094; 500-700# 76-95; 700900# 85-95; Bulls: M&L 1 300-500# 137.50-150; 500-700# 135145; Ret. to Farm Calves: Hols. Bull No. 1 80-120# 175195; No 2 80-120# 155185.50; No 3 74-108# 90145; Utility 56-122# 20-90; Hfrs. No 1 92-94# 155-180; No 2 80-92# 95-145; Slaughter Hogs: Feeder Pigs US 1-3 pkg. 39# 80; 70130# 97.50-110; Slaughter Sheep: Lambs, Ch 2-3 40-60# 160-170; 6080# 140-160; 80-100# 140170; 100-120# 172.50-180; Slaughter Goats: kids Sel 1 10-20# 35-55; 40-60# 80-95; 60-80# 102.50-112.50; sel 2 10-20# 29-44; 20-40# 33-50; 40-60# 49-65; 80-100# 95100; Nannies Sel 1 80-130# 95-122.50; Sel 2 80-130# 71-

85; Sel 3 80-130# 67.5072.50; *INDIANA FARMERS LIVESTOCK AUCTION Homer City, PA June 21, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 1246-1498# 118.50-119.25; Sel 1-2 1336# 111.50.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1226-1403# 115.50-119.25; Sel. 1-2 1056-1334# 106.50114.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem whites 65-75% lean; Breakers 75-80% lean 88.50-93; Boners 80-85% lean 82.5087.50, hi dress 90; lean 8590% lean 75.50-78.50, lo dress 73.50-74.50 Slaughter Bulls: YG 2 10661340# 89-96.25.

Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L 2 700-800# 125; Hfrs. M&L 1 700-800# 102.50; Bulls M&L 1 300-400# 170; 500-700# 120-127.50; 700-900# 105122.50; M&L 2 400-500# 120.

Ret. to Farm Calves: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 85-120# 180-200; No. 2 80-120# 150-175; No. 3 80-120# 90-140; Utility 70120# 30-55; Beef Type 96296# 120-170; Hols. Hfrs. No. 1 84-108# 150-190; Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 45-50% lean 214-298# 6950-74; 40-45% lean 255310# 66-70; Sows US 1-3 300-500# 57.50-58.50; Lambs: No Report.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 3 20# 15-20; Nannies Sel 2 8090# 72.50-87.50; Whethers Sel 1 120# 137.50.

KUTZTOWN HAY & GRAIN AUCTION Kutztown, PA June 23, 2012 Alfalfa: 1ld 2200# 285; 2lds 2380# 210.

Mixed Hay: 1 ld, 120# 120; 3 lds 3900# 115; 4 lds 2620# 280; 5 lds 4680# 80; 6 lds 4660# 200; 7 lds 4220# 115; 8 lds 2500# 175; 8 lds 2800# 100; Timothy: 1 ld, 2720# 215 Grass: 1 ld 2900# 245; 2 lds 4260# 85; 3 lds 5360# 110; 4 lds 9210# 90; 5 lds 1480# 155; 6 lds 6080# 85; 7 lds 2600# 190; 8 lds 5400# 215; 8 lds 5800# 95; 9 lds 2310#

85; 10lds 8220# 80 Straw: 1ld 2220# 190; 2lds 2200# 160; 3lds 1980# 150; 4lds 4640# 120; * LANCASTER WEEKLY CATTLE SUMMARY New Holland, PA June 22, 2011 Slaughter Cattle: Steers High Ch & Pr 3-4, 12251640# 117-122; Ch 2-3 1125-1620# 113-119; Sel 2-3 1145-1405# 107-114; Hols.

Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1335-1650# 106-110; Ch 2-3 1280-1650# 100-106; sel 2-3 1255-1530# 94-99.50; Hfrs. Hi Ch & Pr 23 11230-1305# 114-117; Ch. 2-3 1150-1500# 109-112; Slaughter Cows: Prem Whites 65-75% lean 8485.50, lo dress 78-82; Breakers 75-80% lean 82-87.50, hi dress 89-94, lo dress 77-82; Boners 80-85% lean 79.5086.50, hi dress 86.50-88.50, lo dress 71-78.50; Lean 8590% lean 74-79, hi dress 7984.50 lo dress 65-74 Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 8101935# 103-109, hi dress 109.50-112, very hi dress 122-125, lo dress 90-100; Holstein Bull Calves: No Report Graded Holstein Heifers: No Report Graded Bull Calves: Thurs.

No 1 114-128# 192-203; 94112# 212-223; 86-92# 175195; No 2 106-128# 190-200; 94-104# 211-220; 80-92# 175-187; No 3 80-130# 125150; 72-78# 80; utility 60110# 20-40; Holstein Heifer Calves:No 1 85-110# 190-220; No 2 70105# 80-120; JerseyX 85105# 80-130; *LEBANON VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Fredericksburg, PA Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White Lean 65-75%; Breakers lean 75-80#; 77-82; boners lean 80-85#, 73-78.50; lean lean 88-90# 67-72; low dress 54-60 Holstein Bull Calves: No 1 85-120# 185-210; No 2 80120# 140-175; No 3 80-120# 100-140; utility 65-130# 2080; *LEESPORT LIVESTOCK AUCTION Leesport, PA June 20, 2012 Slaughter Cattle: Steers Ch 2-4/Full 1175-1280# 116; Sel 1-3 1035-1565# 111-114.50 Slaughter Cows: Prem Whites 65-75% lean 8587.50, hi dress 89.50; Breakers 75-80% lean 82-85; Boners 80-85% lean 80-83, hi dress 84-87 low dress 73-76; Lean 85-90% lean 77.50-82, hi dress 82-85.50, lo dress 72-76.

Bulls: YG 1 1170-1185# 99102 Ret. to Farm Calves: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 80-115# 195-215; No 2 80-120# 175-195; No 3 70-110# 90-160; Utility 70-

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT 110# 30-50; 60-65# 1532.50; Hfrs. No 1 100# 247.50; 85# 185; No 2 80120# 145-175; Barrows/Gilts: No Report Sows: No Report Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 30-45# 170-175; 5055# 167.50-185; 60-70# 162.50-190; Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-60# 91117.50; sel 2 40# 75; Nannies Sel 3 80-120# 52.50-80.

*MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Martinsburg, PA June 25, 2012 Steers: Gd 103-108.

Heifers: Gd 102-108.

Cows: Util & Comm. 78-89; Canner/lo Cutter 75 & dn.

Bullocks: Gd & Ch 92-98 Bulls: YG 1 82-90 Cattle: Steers 90-140; Bulls 90-125; Hfrs. 80-130.

Calves: Ch 120-140; Gd 100-115; Std 15-90; Hols.

Bulls 90-130# 125-200. Hols, Heifers 90-130# 100-200.

Hogs: US 1-2 72-76; US 1-3 68-70; Sows US 1-3 42-50; Boars 20-40.

Sheep: Lambs Ch 140-160; Gd 125-135; Goats: 25-155. *MORRISON’S COVE HAY REPORT Martinsburg, PA June 25, 2012 Alfalfa: 200-305 Mixed Hay: 120-135 Round Bales: 35-135; Lg. Bales 125 Straw:120-135 Hay Auction held every Monday at 12:30 pm. *MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK, POULTRY & RABBIT REPORT Martinsburg, PA June 25, 2012 Roosters: 3.50-6.50 Hens: 1.75-5.25 Bantys: 50-3.25 Pigeons: 2.25-3 Ducks: 1.25-4 Geese: 8.50 Guineas: 7.50 Bunnies: 1.25-4.50 Rabbits: No Report Auction held every Monday at 7 pm. *NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES New Holland, PA June 18, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1335-1540# 117-122; 1585-1760# 109-114; Ch 2-3 1125-1520# 114.50-119; Sel 2-3 1145-1395# 110-114; Hols. Hi Ch &Pr 2-3 13351540# 117-122; 1585-1760# 109-114; Ch 2-3 1325-1605# 100-104.50; sel 2-3 12901488# 94-98; Hfrs. Hi Ch &Pr 2-3 1230-1305# 114-117; Ch 2-3 1150-1500# 109-112; Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean; Breakers 75-80% lean, 84-87, hi dress 89-92, lo dress 79-82; Boners 80-85% lean, 82-86, hi dress 87-88, lo dress 71-79; Lean 88-90% Lean, 74-79, hi

dress 80-84.50, lo dress 6573; Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 13151935# 103-109, lo dress 94100; Holstein Bull Calves: No 1 114-128# 192-203; 94-112# 212-223; 86-92# 175-195; No 2 106-128# 190-200; 94104# 211-220; 80-92# 175187; No 3 80-130# 125-150; 72-78# 80; utiliy 60-110# 2040; Holstein Heifer: No 1 85110# 190-220; No 2 70-105# 80-120; JerseyX 85-105# 80130; NEW HOLLAND PIG AUCTION New Holland, PA Feeder Pigs: US 1-2 75 head, 30-40# 140-16; 24 head 40-50# 90-110; 21 head 50-60# 95-105; 19 head 60-100# 70-90; US 2 198 head 15-30# 155-200; 71 head 30-40# 120-140; 29 head 40-60# 100-105; *NEW HOLLAND SHEEP & GOATS AUCTION New Holland, PA June 18, 2012 Slaughter Lambs: Non-Traditional, Wooled, Shorn Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 148-162; 6080# 134-156; 80-90# 120142; 90-110# 128-150; 110130# 130-154; Hair Sheep 60-80# 134-148; 90-110# 120-138; 110-130# 118-126; Fancy 40-60# 120-142; 90110# 120-129; 150-200# 132; Hair Sheep 60-80# 124142; 80-90# 120-128; 90110# 120-132; 130-150# 104; Slaughter Ewes: Gd 2-3 M flesh 120-160# 74-95; 150200# 56-78; 200-300# 58; Utility 1-2; Thin Flesh 90110# 56-70; 120-160# 50-72; Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 30-40# 92-102; 40-60# 112131; 60-80# 134-163; 80100# 152-172; sel 2 20-40# 68-88; 40-60# 76-112; 6080# 110-136; sel 3 20-40# 30-57; 40-60# 58-81; 60-80# 79-107; Nannies/Does sel 1 80-130# 120-135; 130-180# 136-149; sel 2 80-130# 102121; sel 3 50-80# 61-81; 80130# 74-93; Bucks/Billies sel 1 100-150# 168-180; 150250# 192-210; Sel 2 100150# 205-215; 150-200# 227-252; NEW WILMINGTON LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Wilmington, PA No report NEW WILMINGTON PRODUCE AUCTION, INC. New Wilmington, PA No report PA DEPT OF* AGRICULTURE Grain Market Summary Compared to last week corn sold .05-.10 lower, wheat sold mostly steady, barley sold steady to .05 lhigher, Oats sold .05 to .10 lhigher & Soybeans sold .30-.35 lower. EarCorn sold steady

to 3 lower. All prices /bu. except ear corn is /ton.

Southeastern PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.36-7.12, Avg 6.63, Contracts 6-6.03; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.727.00, Avg 6.85, Contracts ; Barley No. 3 Range 3.703.90, Avg 3.80, Contracts; Oats No. 2 Range 3.80-4.50, Avg 4.15; Soybeans No 2 Range 13.68-14.53, Avg 14.06, Contracts 13.6013.90; EarCorn 180, Contracts 180.

Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.25-6.80, Avg 6.49; Wheat No. 2 6.72, Avg. 6.72; Barley No. 3 Range 3.704.75, Avg. 4.23; Oats No. 2 5, Avg 5; Soybeans No. 2 Range 13-13.85, Avg 13.61; EarCorn Range 195, Avg 195.

South Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.40-6.61, Avg 6.52; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.30-7.27, Avg 6.64; Barley No. 3 Range 3.80-4.20, Avg 3.98; Oats No. 2 Range 3.25-4.80, Avg 4.01; Soybeans No. 2 Range 13.2014.02, Avg 13.65; EarCorn 180-190, Avg 185.

Lehigh Valley Area: Corn No. 2 Range 6.65-6.80, Avg 6.72; Wheat No. 2 Range 7.10, Avg 7.10; Barley No. 3 3.70, Avg. 3.70; Oats No. 2 Range 4.50; Soybeans No. 2 Range 13.55-14.25 Eastern & Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.25-7.12, Avg 6.57, Month Ago 6.80, Year Ago 7.67; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.30-7.27, Avg 6.79, Month Ago 6.54, Year Ago 5.86; Barley No. 3 Range 3.70-4.75, Avg 3.96, Month Ago 5.03, Year Ago 4.84; Oats No. 2 Range 3.25, Avg 4.22, Month Ago 4.31, Year Ago 4.31; Soybeans No. 2 Range 13-14.53, Avg 13.78, Month Ago 13.34, Year Ago 13.33; EarCorn Range 180220; Avg 193, Month Ago 194, Year Ago 207.60.

Western PA: Corn No. 2 Range 5.80-6.85, Avg 6.14; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.58, Avg. 6.58; Oats No. 2 3.005.35, Avg 4.15; Soybeans No. 2 13.81, Avg. 13.81. *PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Weekly Livestock Summary June 22, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 118-123.50; Ch 1-3 113-118; Sel 1-2 111-114; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 103.50108; Ch 2-3 100-105.50; Sel 1-2 89-100.

Slaughter Hols. Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 104-110.50; Ch 2-3 96-104; Sel 1-2 93-98.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 117-121; Ch 1-3 114.50-119; Sel 1-2 107-114.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 79.75-86; Boners 80-85% lean 75-83; Lean 85-90% lean 68-78.50.

Slaughter Bulls: hi dress 109.50-112.50; Avg dress

PA DEPT OF* AGRICULTURE Hay Market Summary Hay & Straw Market For Eastern PA: All hay prices paid by dealers at the farm and/ton. All hay and straw reported sold/ton. Compared to last week hay sold steady to weak & straw sold mostly 20 lower. Alfalfa 140-165; Mixed Hay 125-160; Timothy 125-140; Straw 70-130; Mulch 65-70.

Summary of Lancaster Co. Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 52 lds, 10 Straw; Alfalfa 210215; Mixed Hay 295-400; Timothy 290; Grass 280-290; Straw 130-250.

Diffenbach Auct, June 18, 41 lds Hay, 4 lds Straw. Alfalfa 210-215; Mixed Hay 295400; Timothy 290; Grass 280-290; Straw 130-250.

Green Dragon, Ephrata: June 15, 15 lds Hay, 4 Straw.

Alfalfa 200-225; Mixed Hay 150-197; Timothy 215-232; Grass Hay 155-215; Straw 132-210.

Weaverland Auct, New Holland: June 21, 11 lds Hay, 1 Straw. Alfalfa 195; Mixed Hay

300; Timothy 150; Straw 195.

Wolgemuth Auction: Leola, PA: June 13, 29 lds Hay, 4 Straw. Alfalfa 200-255; Mixed Hay 120-265; Timothy 100-280; Grass 165-210; Straw 115-200.

Summary of Central PA Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 45 Loads Hay, 8 Straw. Alfalfa 285; Mixed Hay 210; Timothy 125-215; Grass 120-240; Straw 120-190.

Belleville Auct, Belleville: June 20, 11 lds Hay, 0 lds Straw. Alfalfa 150; Mixed 295; Grass 75.

Dewart Auction, Dewart: June 11, 10 lds Hay, 3 Straw.

Mixed Hay 110-255; Grass 115; Straw 100-195.

Greencastle Livestock: May 28 & 31, 4 lds Hay, 0 Straw. Mixed Hay 50-87.50; Timothy 135.

Kutztown Auction, Kutztown: June 23, 24 lds Hay, 4 Straw. Alfalfa 285; Mixed Hay 280; Timothy 215; Grass Hay 155-240; Straw 120-190.

Middleburg Auct, Middleburg: June 19, 21 lds Hay, 4 Straw. Timothy 125-135.

Mixed Hay 125-165; Grass 120. Straw 125-150.

Leinbach’s Mkt, Shippensburg: June 9 & 12, 11 lds Hay, 1 Straw. Mixed Hay 70205; Straw 130.

New Wilmington Livestock, New Wilmington: June 22, 19 lds Hay, 2 Straw. Alfalfa 150; Timothy 170; Grass 160.

Straw 200. *VINTAGE SALES STABLES June 25, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1280-1590# YG 5 111-114.50; 1600-1710# 108.50-113; Ch. 2-3 12501570# 113-117; YG 4-5 107.50-111; sel 2-3 12501460# 108.50-112; Slaughter Holsteins: Ch 23 1210-1640# 101.50-106; Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1125-1425# 111-114; YG 4-5 107.50-110; Slaughter Cows: Prem white 75-80% lean; Breakers 75-80% lean, 79-83; Boners 80-85% lean 79-81.50, hi dress 84.50-85; Lean 8590% Lean, 73.50-78.50, hi dress 79-79.50, 70.50-73; Slaughter Bulls: Calves No 1 85-120# 160-190; No 2 80125# 120-150; No 3 100115# 100-120; 80-95# 70100; Utility 80-125# 50-80; *WEAVERLAND AUCTION New Holland, PA June 21, 2012 Alfalfa: 1 ld, 195 Mixed Hay: 8 lds, 150-300 Straw: 1 ld., 195.

Timothy Hay: 1 ld., 150 Grass: 2 lds., 170-290 Ear Corn: 1 ld., 200 New Grass: 4 lds., 160 *WOLGEMUTH AUCTION Alfalfa: 3lds 205 high, 185 Avg. Mixed: 10 Lds. 275 High, 169 Avg. Timothy: 1ld 180 high, 180 Avg. Grass:12 Lds. 290 High, 163 Avg. Straw: 2 Lds. 215 High, 200 Avg.

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*MIDDLEBURG LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middleburg, PA June 19, 2012 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1245# 121.50; Ch 2-3 1140-1530# 114.50-119.50, Full YG 4-5 111.50-114.50; 1600-1625# 115.50-116; Sel 1-3 1255-1435# 112-114.

Slaughter Holstein Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1390-1530# 104-106; Ch 2-3 1310-1590# 97-102.50; 1640-1645# 99100.50; Sel 1-3 1310-1555# 94-97.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1120# 118.50; Hols.

Hfrs. 1330# 100; Ch 2-3 1010-1360# 113.50-115.50, full/YG 4-5 108-112; Sel 1-3 1050-1340# 109-110 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% Breakers 7580% lean 82-85, hi dress 8789, lo dress 75-80; Boners 80-85 lean, 75-80, 72-75.50 lo dress very lo dress 71.50; Lean 85-90% lean70-75 hi dress 76-78, lo dress 6571.50, very lo dress 60.5066.50; light lean 85-92% lean, 65-69.50, lo dress 6066.50, very lo dress 50-60; Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12051895# 99-110, hi dress 114; YG 2 1270-1640# 87-91; Steers: M&L 2 Herefords 335# 130; 540-755# 102122.

Holstein Steers: L 3 470# 115; 545# 100; Heifers: M 1 417# 160; Herefords 655# 99; M&L 2 440# 137; 550# 110; 790# 107; S 1 692# 109; M 1 Herefords 736# 106; 840# 110; M&L 2 490# 107; 630-655# 110119; Holstein Bulls: L 3 305360# 97-102; 880# 92; Holstein Bulls Calves: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 95-115# 150-162; 80-90# 150-170; No 2 95125# 120-147; 75-90# 120150; No 3 70-115# 87-120; Utility 55-110# 10-92; Holstein Heifer Calves: No. 1 95-110# 160-170; Barrows & Gilts: 49-54% lean 235-276# 75-76; 280310# 75-75.75; 343# 69; 4550% lean 320-355# 7074.75; Sows: US.1-3 415-470# 4350; 5400-725# 50.75-53.50; Boars: 425-740# 20-25.50; Jr. Boars 382# 47; Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 10-50# 42-70; 60-70; 57-75; Lambs: Ch 2-3 32-67# 125160; 75-105# 120-145; 125# 100; Yearlings: No Report

Ewes: Gd 2-3 100-195# 4760 Kids: Sel 1 50# 110; 90# 135; Sel 2 under 20# 10-30; 20-40# 25-65; 45-60# 65-92; 70# 132; Nannies: Sel 1 130-160# 110; Sel 2 100-130# 80-105; Billies: Sel 2 130# 140 Slaughter Wethers: Sel 2 100-110# 155-160; Sel 3 110# 107;

95-109; lo dress 85-97.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300500# 171-194; 500-700# 155-167; M&L 2 300-500# 140-167; 500-700# 117-133.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300500# 151-175; 500-700# 137-159; M&L 2 300-500# 137-143; 500-700# 120-143.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300500# 155-196; 500-700# 150-162; M&L 2 300-500# 127-140; 500-700# 130-135.

Vealers: Util 60-120# 20-80.

Farm Calves: No. 1 Hols. bulls 80-120# 180-225; No. 2 80-120# 170-205; No. 3 80120# 80-150; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 84-105# 190-275; No. 2 80-105# 80-175.

Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 4954% lean 220-270# 74.5077; Sows: US 1-3 300-500# 4850; 500-700# 51-53.50.

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Land manure application equipment Developing an environmentally friendly land application system for manure requires proper management and careful review of application equipment. The producer’s willingness to consider manure and other livestock byproducts as a nutrient resource rather than as waste is critical. Manure application equipment must be selected and managed as fertilizer -spreading equipment rather than waste disposal equipment. A producer’s primary objective needs to be efficient use of manure nutrients.

The appropriate management of a manure application system determines if that type of application equipment will continue to be used after it has been purchased.

The proper location and selection of application sites and of equipment is no assurance that problems will be eliminated.

Manure spreading or spraying activities must be planned and managed to prevent nuisances and an adverse impact on groundwater, surface water, public health, and plants. The prevention of adverse impacts is accomplished by managing • Application rates.

• Timing setbacks/isolation.

• Manure/effluent nutrients and other constituents.

• System performance.

Degradation of any aspect of the environment warrants re-evaluation of the use of a selected manure application system.

Equipment calibration You can avoid the potentially adverse effects of overfertilization on ground and surface water by applying only the amount of manure, effluent, or wastewater necessary to maintain soil fertility for crop production.

The calibration, or combination of settings and travel speed needed to uniformly apply manure, bedding, or wastewater at a desired rate, of manurespreading equipment is important because it tells you the amount of manure and wastewater that you are applying to an area. Knowledge of the application rate and nutrient concentration of manure nutrients lets

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• Verify actual application rates • Troubleshoot equipment operation • Determine appropriate overlaps • Evaluate application uniformity • Identify “hot spots” or areas of deficient application • Monitor changes in equipment operations, such as usage and “wear and tear” • Determine changes in manure consistency or “thickness” Simply put, calibration enables producers to know how much manure they are applying. Knowing the actual application rate allows them to apply manure and nutrients at specific rates that meet the needs of growing crops. Calibration also ensures that rates do not exceed state or local regulatory limits or the conditions expressed in a livestock facility’s operating permit.

Regular calibration can be used to troubleshoot problems that may be occurring in an application system. Application rates, uniformity coefficients, spread widths, and application patterns can be compared to previous calibration results, highlighting specific operational conditions that may require maintenance, repair, or replacement. At a minimum, equipment that applies manure, litter, or lagoon effluent should be cali-

brated annually. For larger operations, producers should consider a more frequent schedule.

During calibration, the required or appropriate overlap can be determined. Overlap distances and travel lane widths are best determined by measuring the distribution of applied material across the spread pattern. Rain gauges, tarps, or disposable baking pans can be used to collect the applied manure before it is weighed or measured.

Many times, visual estimates of desired overlap can be misleading. Due to variations in spreader volume and changes in manure moisture content and density, this is especially true when calibrating litter or solid manure spreaders.

Sprinkler overlaps, typically calculated to be the points where an area is receiving less than half of the average catch across the spread width, generally vary between 50 to 80, depending on sprinkler type and wind conditions.

Ensuring application uniformity is extremely important to meeting a crop’s nutrient requirements while protecting the environment. Application equipment should be maintained and operated so it applies a given application rate as evenly as possible across a field.

“Hot spots” or areas of overapplication due to operator error and noncalibrated or worn equipment may increase the occurrence of runoff or

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ponding, an accumulation of nutrients or metals, crop lodging, or excessive nutrients moving into shallow groundwater. Areas of low application will not produce the realistic yield that could be achieved on the site, leaving unused nutrients that accumulate or are lost to the environment.

As equipment is used and gets older, it loses efficiency, increasing the need for calibration. The loss of efficiency or performance may result in poorer application uniformity or changes in application rate. These factors are compounded due to the solids, acidity, and salts found in manure, litter, and wastewater. To monitor system performance, irrigation systems that pump liquids with high solids or with significant crystal buildup should be calibrated on a regular basis.

Lastly, equipment should be calibrated in response to changes in manure “thickness.”

When a manure storage is emptied, a higher amount of solids will be removed and applied to fields. As the manure density increases, re-calibrate the equipment to

ensure that the application rate is within acceptable limits.

Spreaders should also be re-calibrated when a material is applied that

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0 - Chenango o Countyy Hobbyy Farm.. 45 acres located on 2330 a quiet road. 15 tillable acres all in hay, 10 in pasture, balance woods. Some timber, lots of firewood. Good 2 story 34x80 barn with drive in mow, lean to on the back for a run in shed. Lots of room for hay storage and box stalls. Good solid barn. New 30x40 pole barn for equipment. Partially remodeled 2 story 5 bdrm home. New windows and vinyl siding. Oil hot water baseboard heat. This would make a nice little farm to raise beef or horses.

Pasture for grazing and hay fields for making hay. Woods offer plenty of firewood and some timber. Excellent hunting. Barn has plenty of room for young stock and hay storage. Nice location close to shopping, hospitals, schools. Owners are retiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Askingg $189,000 2323 3 - Chenango o Countyy Gentleman'ss Farm.. A neat and clean little farm of 8 acres of land consisting of 6 acres in fields.

Balance woods. 2 story barn with a drive in mow. Stalls for 15 head of cattle and two box stalls for horses and chickens. 2 stall shop and garage building with power; side addition for additional storage. Good 3 bdrm farm house in great shape with decent sized rooms with hardwood flooring throughout. Wood and oil combination furnace. Spring dug well, excellent water and lots of it. Taxes $2,700 total per year. This farm would make a great little farm to have a large garden, raise a couple beef cows or a horse or two, have your own chickens. Farm Fresh food. Be selfsufficient, live off the land. Schools, shopping and hospitals all within minutes. Very nice area of Central NY. Owners are retiring.

Farm reasonably priced to sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$89,000 2337 7 - 137 7 acree parcell off baree land.. Located mins south of Utica, NY. 30 acres in fields rented to local farmer. 20 acres of pasture balance woods. 2 man-made stocked fish ponds. Lots of deer and turkey. Property would make an excellent place to build or have for the weekend. Property is mins from the Brookfield Equine Trail System. Priced right . . . . . . . .Askingg $195,000.

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Cornell Small Farms Program Update Announcing the 2012 Summit Report The Cornell Small Farms Program is pleased to announce that the Report on the 2012 Small Farms Summit has arrived! The report includes the top ranked recommendations for investment in New York's small farm sector as reported to us by 572 survey respondents and 150 Summit meeting participants. The top ranked priorities include: Develop FOOD DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES (e.g. collaborative marketing, product pooling and trucking, food hubs) to expand small farm access to local and regional markets; DOCUMENT ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SMALL FARMS on their communities to increase investment in and support of small farms; and Develop new and/or expand existing LIVESTOCK PROCESSING FACILITIES. It is our hope that the report will inform educators, researchers, policy makers and community organizations the major areas in which to invest support for small

farms over the next 5 years. To read the full report or to learn more about the statewide Summit meeting, visit www.smallfarms.cornell.edu New Resources for Small Dairy Farms!

With funding from the Small Farms Program, the Cornell Small Dairy Team, a group of Cooperative Extension Educators and farmers, has released six new resources for small dairy farmers. The project aims to provide resources to dairy farmers in the constantly adapting market. The new tools and resources include: • Financial Bench Marks for Small Dairies: Helps dairies identify the strengths and weaknesses of their farms compared to other farms of similar size in New York State • Off-Farm Processing Start-Up Fact Sheet: Suggests first steps for dairy farmers considering adding direct sales of value-added dairy products to their business mix

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• Web based Geo-Map: Shows all the small dairy processing plants in New York state • Small Dairy Case Studies: Highlights unique solutions of how four small dairy operators made decisions to keep their farms profitable • Production Record-Keeping Book for Grazing Dairies: Formatted and distributed to Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) offices statewide by Cornell Small Farms Program Small Dairy Team; printing funded

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Small Dairy Field Day Series This summer, the Cornell Small Farms Program teamed up with educators around NY to host a series of small dairy field days.

The field days highlighted creative strategies to improve profitability, sustainability, and quality of life on farms milking 35 to 75 head. If you are in the Groton, NY area on July 11, the final field day of the season showcases “On Farm Energy Production” (Oilseed Press/ Grass Pellet Demonstration). Ed & Eileen Scheffler will be demonstrating the oilseed press they purchased through Organic Valley. Also, John Stoker, an organic dairy farmer from Cazenovia NY, will talk about his business pressing oilseeds for human consumption.

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Message from the Managing Editor Happy Summer!

I'm always surprised by the speed of lush growth this time of year, especially with the rain and bouts of early warm weather we had in the Northeast. Before I know it, I'll be humming the lyrics to my favorite song from the musical, Oklahoma: “The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, an' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky.”

As I think back on the articles featured this summer, the theme of 'invention' stands out. As we are well aware, Violet Stone farmers are a resourceful bunch, and it is part of the job description to think creatively when it comes to craftsmanship. In the article “The Right Tool for the Job”, apprentice Brad Helm describes the quirky materials his farmer mentor sourced to make new tools: “My favorite chore is digging burdock roots using the ‘Kentifer’ weeding tool that Roy made for me in his shop from a piece of old truck spring steel.” In “New Uses for Old Barns”, Martha Herbert Izzi takes us on a tour of farmers that are reinventing the traditional dairy barn into spaces for nursery production, mushrooms, and even a hardware store! And finally, in “Working Oxen on the Farm Today”, Jake Czaja describes a modern vegetable farm re-using a traditional practice: Oxen. He writes “The truth is that oxen are an amazing asset to a farm and are as useful today as they were yesterday.”

Each issue, I'm filled with gratitude for the farmers and educators that take time to share their stories and advice with our reading audience. Thank you to our contributors and thank you to our readers! By the time this issue arrives in your mailbox, I hope your corn, or whatever else is growing in your garden or field, is climbing clear up to the sky!

Best wishes, Violet Stone

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BOOK NOOK

Meat

by Jill Swenson

Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pellegrini (December 2011, Da Capo) is another memoir from a chef, but one who acquired the passion for good food along a creek bed fishing for breakfast trout.

Pellegrini describes the task of catching and killing her first turkeys and how she plucked, prepared, and served them. Her attempt to hunt venison is a near lethal disaster. She writes with self-deprecating humor about the old guys who take her out duck hunting and righteously make a fool of her. She gains respect for hunters who eat what they kill, respect the land, and preserve the wilderness. Tracking her career from underaged waitress and bar maid to the Catskills campground where the mess hall became her refuge from the city scene of catering life provides an entertaining read.

Sheepfolds, pigpens, chicken coops, and smoke houses: on a farm with animals, these places have meaning. Cynthia G. Falk writes about the agricultural and architectural diversity of historic farm buildings in her new book: Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State (Cornell University Press, 2012). This is a beautiful book about the rich diversity of livestock practices with more than 200 photographs and line drawings. I haven’t seen anything quite like it since Eric Sloan’s An Age of Barns, now a collector’s item.

Sustainable practices of small scale farming and hunting include a place for meat at the table and there are some wonderful new books about this subject. Passion for good, simple, healthy food is something farmers and hunters share with chefs, urban homesteaders and metropolitan diners in these new books about meat and so much more.

Farmer and evangelist for the grass-fed movement, Joel Salatin’s new book, Folks This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World (Hatchette 2011) points out how alienated most people are from the meat they eat. If you’ve never read one of Salatin’s books, you’re missing a distinctive voice with a provocative point of view. He’s got a wicked sense of humor and a storyteller’s knack. This is his first title with a big commercial publisher and it quickly became a best seller.

Tamar Adler, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace (Scribner, 2011), writes essays for the home cook. Inspired by the spirit of M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf - written in 1942 during wartime shortages - this is a young woman’s account of how to make the most of everything you

In Girl Hunter, Pellegrini gains respect for hunters who eat what they kill, respect the land, and preserve the wilderness. have including the bones and peels and ends, demonstrating what great chefs don’t want you to know. Part philosophy, part cooking lessons, Tamar Adler writes about boiling water, cooking eggs, using meat and fish resourcefully, and pulling together full meals from empty cupboards.

Roasts for every day of the week is the subject of the new book by the authority on soulful French cooking and author of the popular, Pork and Sons. Stephane Reynaud has a guide to roasting fish and meat titled, Rotis (Melville House, 2011). Reynaud grew up the grandson of a rural village butcher and today owns one of the best restaurants in Paris. Reynaud has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and NPR’s The Splendid Table.

Booksellers from Brooklyn to Maine tell me this is the one cookbook about meat people buy once they see it.

Tamar Adler's new book, An Everlasting Meal, is inspired by the spirit of this much older book, written in 1942 during wartime shortages.

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House, 2011) is a bestselling memoir subtitled, “The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.” An engaging account of her father’s spring lamb roast appeared as an excerpt in The New Yorker. The problem with this kind of memoir is that it’s more about her dysfunctional relationship with her family than it is about discovering down-to-earth food and how she puts meat on the plate at her much acclaimed restaurant, Prune, in New York City.

Hamilton follows the foodie memoir formula: share a few recipes, intersperse with personal reflection, and structure around tight family narrative. It follows in the style of Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Random House, 1998), who served as Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine for 10 years until it closed in 2009. Reichl set the bar for food memoir and Gabrielle Hamilton raised it.

with our own humanity. Thrilling stories woven together with expository information about the natural world and the history of hunting, this memoir offers a fresh examination of our relationship with nature and food.

Each chapter concludes with “tasting notes,” for home cooks and those around a campfire.

No matter what your preference - pork, beef, chicken, lamb, goat, turkey, rabbit, venison, fish - there’s a new book here on this list of recent releases to enhance your appreciation of meat and how it gets to our plates.

Jill Swenson is a former farmer and the president of Swenson Book Development, LLC, based in Brooktondale, NY. She may be reached at jill@swenbooks.com or 607539-3278.

Hank Shaw’s Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast (Rodale, 2011) is another new book of interest filled with personal stories and recipes.

With this contemporary eat wild narrative, Hank Shaw offers a beginner’s guide to fishing, hunting, foraging, outdoors, and cooking wild meat. This is not, however, a book for hunters, but a book about eating wild.

Meat Eater: A Natural History of an American Hunter, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel &Grau, 2012) explores the disappearance of the hunter and the loss of Americans’ connection with the way their food finds its way to the table. Hunting, Rinella writes, is connected intimately

If you’ve never read one of Salatin’s books, you’re missing a distinctive voice with a provocative point of view.

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WORLD

Growing Communities

by Mason Donovan In the beginning of our humble American nation, we had strong communities tied around local family farms. As we grew in population, the farms decreased along with the community connection. There is a resurgence lately to not only source locally, but to once again re-establish our communal connections to farms and each other.

A little over a hundred years ago, agriculture was the center of community, serving up sustenance and conversation at the dinner table as well as social interaction at the market and farm stand. It was also the major source of income. In the late 1800’s over 70% of the U.S. population was employed in agriculture. Today, it is less than 3%. The loss of local small farms has had a dramatic impact on the quality

of diets and society. One movement to reverse this trend is the Locavore movement. It has gained momentum in the last few years helping us understand the importance of locally sourced food. What has been over looked in this movement, is the correlation of the loss of local farms to the decline of a closely woven community.

As social media connects us to our primary school classmates, old flings and even our next door neighbors, many are waking up to the fact that there is something really missing in our lives that cannot be fulfilled by status updates and virtually posting our realty. How do small farms fulfill this void? I brought this question to a couple of enterprising farmers, Ryan Ferdinand and Mike Hvizda. Ryan and Mike began the creation of Phoenix Hill Farm in Boscawen, NH in 2010. At the time of their purchase it was a 5 acre parcel on a wooded hillside with a house which showed its over two centuries of use.

Phoenix Hill Farm was destined to become more than a farm. They wanted it to reach back in history to a time when social interaction between farmers and residents translated beyond a commercial transaction. It was a long and deliberate path to this goal. Ryan’s desire to connect with others and the earth led her through living on an organic farm in England to a potential chef career and a brief period as a founding art teacher at a charter school. Mike’s interest in agriculture was inspired by his tri-athlete father who was very conscious of his food intake. It was further cemented living in mid-west towns where healthy living, from food to exercise, was an encouraged way of life. Both Mike and Ryan eventually found themselves living on a permaculture farm in Tyngsboro, MA. It was on this property where they started to formulate the idea of Phoenix Hill Farm.

Like a well seeded row, ideas grew quickly and started to bear fruit. Agricultural challenges such as clearing land led to even better solutions; free range pigs. Mike and Ryan led countless educational walks for visitors around the grounds to explain the benefits of sustainable permaculture. Each visitor helped to not only formulate the realization of the farm, but started to create a community of friends, customers and farm participants. It was this later fringe benefit, they both found to be the most fulfilling.

A quick look at their Facebook page may have you think they already had a community before the farm. Although they were very active in social media with hundreds of likes and friends, Ryan said it can “give you an illusion of being connected because of the hyper-communication.” Mike saw the online connections as a valuable resource, but he believed “community was made in person.” What better way to start making the community, than to start from the ground up?

The days of farmers networking to support each other is not gone, but can sometimes feel like a bygone era. Mike and Ryan started a network of like farmers to help each other.

The work share and suppers became aptly named the “Wuppers Club.”

There are those who believe Robert Putnam’s book, “Bowling Alone”, about the collapse of the American community has to be outdated because of our virtual connections. He details organization after organization whose membership has been on a rapid steady decline (Elks, BoyScouts, churches of every kind, PTA, Odd Fellow, etc. etc.). But our virtual communities are expanding exponentially for every generation. Over 80 million people have signed up to play the virtual farming game, Farmville. Think about that. The amount of people interested in spending their free time virtually farming is approximately equal to the same amount in the late 1800s who were actively involved in American agriculture. Although less than 1 million people in the US claim farming as an occupation today, the need to connect to agriculture has not diminished. In NH alone, winter farmers markets doubled from 2011 to 2012. New markets such as the Tilton farmers market are attracting over 1,000 visitors every Saturday.

Like the fringe community benefit of Phoenix Hill Farm, these farmers markets are reconnecting us to our food source and our neighbors. It is a place to commune, be educated and share a connection. Unique community building ideas are exploding. As of the writing of this article, 7 local

A day of farm work ends with a homemade pizza party.

Photo by Ryan Ferdinand artists in the NH lakes region have teamed up with 16 farms to create original works of art to support local agriculture.

As Ryan and Mike look towards the future, they envision a pick-your-own CSA where the consumer can be part of the process. They also are working on plans to build an institute which provides apprenticeships and community rooted in agriculture and art. Mike adamantly believes, “one has to consciously make their community,” and not wait for the community to form around them.

Studies have shown millions of Americans are becoming addicted to their texting and online posting communication.

Their brain waves illustrate a starvation for interaction. Look around at the next farmers market and see how many people are not texting or deeply absorbed in their mobile devices. You may be pleasantly surprised to find what we are really starving for is good food and good company provided to us by our small farms.

Mason Donovan owns a hay farm in Boscawen, NH and founded The Yard Project. The Yard Project is an agriculturally based organization to promote healthy connected agrarian communities. Visit www.TheYardProject.com for more info.

He can be reached by email at Mason@TheYardProject.com.

Growing your own agricultural based community may seem as overwhelming as starting a farm. It is all about seeding, growing and harvesting.

Seeding: Intended crops must be sown thoughtfully and with a plan.

• Gather some like-minded friends over local food and discuss what you would like out of a community.

• Write down the key points of this conversation and send it out to the group within the next few days. Ask them to share with their friends.

• Search for existing organizations which may already be providing this service. Start first with your local Ag Extension: www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension Growing: Be your own farmer of community and support the growth.

• If your community does not have small farms, seek out ways to create them. Beginning with community gardens is a great start. Petition your town to provide an acre of town land for a garden.

• Create an online membership to aid in cross communication. Facebook is a great place to start for free.

• Actively seek out small farmer opportunities by reaching out to your local small farm educators such as the Cornell Small Farm program: smallfarms.cornell.edu Harvesting: Reap the benefits of community by getting involved.

• Community is all about being involved. Attend local Ag education workshops. Join your town or county Ag board.

• Support your local farmers by shopping locally and helping out on the farm.

Like a pumpkin patch, involved active agricultural based communities do not sprout up out of nowhere. If not seeded and cared for, all you will get is a field of weeds.

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Farm Tech

CoolBot Enables Small Farmers to Build Do-it-Yourself Coolers

by Aaron Munzer Like many small-scale vegetable growers, Anton Burkett couldn’t afford a large, expensive walk-in cooler compressor to cool his produce before market.

Then he found the CoolBot. When he started Early Morning Farm near Ithaca, NY. in 1999, he built a small, eight foot by ten foot walk-in cooler powered by a small refrigerator compressor.

With the continued success of his vegetable CSA, two years ago he found it necessary to build a bigger cooler, but couldn’t afford the thousands of dollars it would have cost for a larger compressor. He had a dilemma - without the cooler he couldn’t grow and harvest more vegetables, but without larger harvests he couldn’t afford a bigger cooler.

After doing some research, he decided to try the CoolBot, a thermostatic controller that turns an off-the-shelf air conditioner into a compressor for a homemade walk-in cooler, which would save him thousands of dollars and still keep his produce fresh and cool.

Weeks later, Burkett built a larger eighteen by nineteen foot cooler around his original cooler, powered by the CoolBot, and started hauling in vegetables within hours.

“Not only did it work, it worked great!” he said. “We now cool the big cooler with less electricity than we used to use on just the small cooler, plus it seems to get the veggies down to temp faster.”

Since the device went on sale in 2006, thousands of small farmers - and florists, hunters, brewers and anyone else needing a walk-in cooler - have started using the CoolBot to keep their product fresh for a fraction of the installation and construction costs of the more traditional options.

The CoolBot uses patent pending technology that allows a home window air conditioner to keep a well-insulated room as cold as 35 degrees consistently, while at the same time using about half the electricity of a comparably sized standard compressor. The setup is simple: aluminum foil attaches a heating element to the air conditioner’s temperature sensor to trick the compressor into running longer. The CoolBot has a second sensor that idles the air conditioner when its fins are about to freeze, and restarts it when they have thawed sufficiently.

Inventor and small-scale vegetable farmer Ron Khosla created the CoolBot simply because he and his wife Kate couldn’t afford an expensive walk-in cooler compressor for the CSA they operated, Huguenot Street Farm. After lots of research and talking with friends, he thought that he might be able to use an air conditioner to accomplish much the same cooling effect with only an AC unit. Although he had to destroy more than a few air conditioners while trying to cre-

ate the controller, he was able to keep his vegetables cold, using a simple device made from a light bulb and a thermometer, but had to monitor the unit to keep it from freezing up. The final product doesn’t overwork the window air conditioners. Because of the small room, tight nature of walkin coolers, the compressors run less hard than when they are installed in someone’s living room.

“We made it out of a desperate need for our small farm, but I never thought it would get this popular,” he said.

Once he had figured out how to keep his produce consistently cold by manually cycling the compressor, he enlisted the help of an engineering friend from his college days at Cornell University, Timothy Weber, to build a micro controller “brain” for the CoolBot that would cool an insulated room down to well below its normal range automatically. Khosla said he’s been astonished by how successful the device has been.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also provided technical assistance in the design of the frost sensor through their Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program.

“This was one thing a small farmer couldn’t do well on his/her own, you were stuck paying thousands of dollars for a normal compressor, and now we’ve provided do-it-yourself folks a way to build their own coolers,” Khosla said.

CoolBot inventor and organic farmer Ron Khosla with his partner Kate in front of their CoolBot regulated cooler.

What Khosla said he’s been most excited by is the CoolBot’s popularity in the developing world, where farmers from Uzbekistan to India have been building small coolers to keep their produce fresh. It’s helping to solve one of the largest agricultural problems in those places, where up to 40 percent of fresh produce spoils before it gets to market.

“Small, poor farmers across the world are so happy to find something they can afford, that uses so much less electricity. That part has been much more fun than the thousands we’ve sold in the U.S,” he said.

we were really lucky to find an air conditioner still in stock.”

For more information on the CoolBot, visit storeitcold.com.

Aaron Munzer is a freelance writer and farmer at Plowbreak Farm in Hector, NY. He may be reached at aaronmunzer@gmail.com.

Khosla said that in places where there’s no nearby Home Depot, coolers have been made from papyrus, brick, and even straw bales.

“A lot of our customers hack together stuff and it usually works,” he said, laughing.

After building his own cooler and installing a CoolBot, Burkett has some advice for those thinking about their own do-it-yourself cooler.

The CoolBot is a thermostatic controller that turns an off-the-shelf air conditioner into a compressor.

“Buy your air conditioner early - we found out that there is an air conditioner season at the retailers,” he said. “You would think that the season would be at its peak in say August, but that’s actually when the retailers are boxing air conditioners up and sending them back to the warehouses. We put the finishing touches on our cooler just about at that time and

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FARM TECH

The Right Tool for the Job

by Brad Halm Tools are now and have always been vital to farming: They’re how we interact with the land to get things done. Whether it’s a stirrup hoe or a cultivating tractor, our favorite tools become extensions of our bodies, as we use them again and again.

We farmers have a very interesting relationship with our tools.

Nowhere have I seen more random and unlikely materials become useful tools than on a farm. As a group, farmers seem to be driven by the ethics of rugged individualism, frugality, and independence, and there’s no way we’re going to pay $59.99 for something we can make for free from scavenged materials around the farm (even if it takes us two weeks).

We farmers have a very interesting relationship with our tools.

Small farmers are also caught in a void.

“Gardening” tools sold at nurseries are largely overpriced, poorly designed, and way too dainty to get anything done on a farm. Conversely, most farm equipment is sized for huge producers with thousands of acres of commodity crops and is obviously unsuited for us smaller-scale folks. Thus, we’re forced to repurpose odd items found hidden in the recesses in the back of the barn, to buy antiquated equipment at auction, and to improvise our own tools.

For me, there was no better introduction to this phenomenon than apprenticing for a few seasons with Roy Brubaker on his organic vegetable farm in central Pennsylvania. Roy had a fierce imagination and a steady hand with an arc welder, and he hated to buy anything. This combination led to a steady stream of inventions pouring from his shop, some absurd and some amazing. I remember harvesting greens with a tool made from a food-processor blade and an electric drill, “harvesting” pesky sparrows and invasive starlings in a human-size trap, and watering transplants using harvested rainwater from a reclaimed milk tank on a semi. We even had an old Dodge Colt that was converted for use as sort of a field-delivery wagon. We’d drive it down the farm lane, filled with sacks of fertilizer for the transplanting crew, and return to the packing shed overloaded with boxes of melons or bunches of beets from the harvest crew. Once, in a pinch, I picked up my mother from the hospital after a serious bacterial infection in our “Crop Car.” It was actually a pleasant ride. Mom napped in the front while a fresh breeze whipped through the missing window seals and wafted the scent of organic fertilizer through the car.

Roy loved working in his shop and would do so as often as the constraints of farming would allow him. I remember him struggling through a chilly spring day of harvest with a serious cold, hacking and coughing all the while. Later that night, I found him in the shop, the temperature even colder, welding away. “I’m starving my cold,” he said. I think he figured if the conditions were tough on him, they had to be even worse for whatever virus had infected his lungs. Sure enough, the following day yielded a chipper

and smiling Roy, complete with a new creation from his shop in hand.

He never passed up the chance to create his own solution for whatever problem arose on the farm, even if he could buy one relatively inexpensively. We had homemade opening devices for our greenhouse ventilation windows, a homemade spool to distribute our plastic packing bags, and a homemade barrel washer to clean our root crops.

Were all these homemade tools worth the effort it took to make them? Did they really improve our efficiency? Did Roy get a proper return on all the time he spent in the shop? The answers are immaterial. I learned a lot from working with someone who was unafraid to exercise creativity to solve a problem rather than reach for an offthe-shelf solution.

During my second winter in Pennsylvania, I was midway through building a set of harvest crates from a poplar harvested from the farm when I realized that, for me, the most valuable part of farming lies in the process, not in the number of pounds of produce harvested at the end of the season.

That said, tools for small farmers are starting to become more available. New companies are springing up and old ones are expanding their product lines to supply high-quality equipment to farmers of all scales. It’s a welcome change, as there’s nothing more frustrating than struggling through a task with a poorly designed tool.

Ultimately, I think tools are at their best when they’re well planned, properly made, and efficient to use but still carry some of our collective farmers’ soul. My favorite chore is digging burdock roots using the “Kentifer” weeding tool that Roy made for me in his shop from a piece of old truck spring steel (the original model was built as a wedding gift for two of his earliest apprentices, Kent and Jennifer). It’s a joy to use, and brings back a lot of good memories every time I pull it out of the tool shed.

Excerpted from Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement (c) Zoe Ida Bradbury, Paula Manalo, and Severine von Tscharner Fleming. Used with permission of Storey Publishing.

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New Uses for Old Barns: Reframing the Venerable Red Vermont Landmark

by Martha Herbert Izzi

before and Mrs. Lehouillier is still behind the cash register."

George describes an old barn put to use as a seeding area for a nursery, and a couple others turned into apartment buildings. Others are being upgraded by the younger generation for a future in dairy farming. He describes the [name] family farm in [location]: "They have modern milking facilities, a totally new milking parlor and up to 200 cows".

Vermont's red barn, once the hallmark of the small family dairy farm, is now the centerpiece of a changing agricultural landscape. It is being reframed and reformed for new, often unusual enterprises. While dairy production still tops the agricultural economic scale in Vermont, the actual number of dairy farms is declining due to new technologies, improved genetics and larger dairies. But as new, young and older farmers move in or veteran dairy producers retool for new endeavors, the barn is taking on new life.

Tweed Valley Farm - Pittsfield, Vermont Tweed Valley Farm began its latest incarnation in 2002 when a newly married couple named Nancy Cooper Wisner and Fred Simon fled from their New Jersey home. They could "see the smoke from the fall of the Twin Towers" on that fateful day.

Not long after, Nancy and Fred found themselves signing a contract for a far-from-perfect property. The "big pink barn" had been the unlikely home of a successful furniture store.

The house was “a nightmare”. But, Nancy says, “the farm had neighbors, a town, wood, and a river across the street for water” and they were motivated to become more self-reliant.

Prior to moving to Vermont Nancy had spent years in sales and marketing in the garden industry and she clearly has an entrepreneurial spirit. With time and research she began to get an image of what they would produce. She wanted to do something that was different and that could provide a consistent income. "Everyone was doing eggs, beef, milk and veggies." She settled on mushrooms.

Today, 120 shitake mushroom logs are thriving along with oyster bags in the 8x8 hoop-style greenhouses in the middle section of the 8,000 square foot barn that began life in the 1850s as a dairy farm on the Tweed River. Another section houses the quail hatching incubator, five brooder pens and 5 grow out pens for the hundreds of quail that are sold for meat and eggs. Still another section is the goat shelter for the Nigerian dwarfs that are raised for milk and breeding stock.

After several years of selling Vermont Specialty Mushrooms, and quail year-round at the Farmer's Market in Rutland, Nancy has embarked on a new venture; marinated shitake mushrooms. She has test-marketed them at the Farmer's Market and other venues to great reviews.

Nancy has vivid, often humorous memories of their early years recalling two seniors renovating the barn, lowering the floor to pasture level, lugging an old chicken barn in pieces up the street and attaching it to the barn. She speaks of the barn that became the setting for a life where they "have learned so much" and it has erased Nancy's fear of having

Shitake mushrooms growing inside a greenhouse, which are set up inside Tweed Valley’s barn.

Photo by Fred Simon some beef, chicken, or eggs were important values.

The Clarks had two sons who were invested in the farm but had their own ideas and interests. Oldest son, John converted the conventional stanchion barn to a streamlined parlor with a store so that visitors could see the entire milking, calving and processing operation and hopefully buy some of the end products.

Son Jason is a chef and his vision was to open a catering business on the farm. The Clarks had already built a bunker silo which had evolved over time into a 'community hall' for various meetings and local gatherings. As Jason's reputation spread as a chef providing delicious local farm food (when it didn't have the cache it does today) the Clarks added a kitchen with freezers downstairs from the main hall so that Jason could sell frozen meals to the growing number of visitors.

Jason now offers a monthly localvore dinner which has become very popular. Judy says, “We also rent the hall for retreats, workshops, family reunions and weddings”. But their interest in the educational aspect of the farm operation continues to grow and they are exploring a number of possibilities with other organizations as a means of sustaining the farm. "We want to renovate the bottom of the barn to include classrooms and rooms for overnight stays.

Despite the many times that we have heard over the years to expect an agricultural doomsday, the future looks reasonably healthy for Vermont farms, especially in light of the localvore movement, concerns over food security, food safety and most importantly the need to change our food habits for better health.

To learn more about Tweed Valley Farm, visit www.tweedvalleyfarm.biz. To learn more about Applecheek Farm, visit www.applecheekfarm.com. To learn more about historic preservation in Vermont, visit accd.vermont.gov/ strong_communities/preservation

Martha Herbert Izzi is a writer and farmer at Bel Lana Farm in Shrewsbury, Vermont. She may be reached at mhizzi@yahoo.com.

Judy says, "We have converted the end of the dairy barn, now called Applecheek Localvore Farm Market." It is now the outlet for their extensive farm products from pork, poultry, beef and veal to vegetables, raw milk and products from other local farms.

The Clarks are currently milking about 40 cows as the industry continues to constrict and prices fluctuate radically.

It is likely that the barns will be reinvented yet again as they grow the meat business, expand their CSA and continue to frame the educational programs. They are moving with the times, retrofitting the barns and looking to the future.

New Lives for Old Barns in the Morrisville region George Cook, a veteran UVM Extension Farm Safety Specialist, has seen many old dairy barns morph into unimagined uses lately. "The [Lehouillier] family dairy barn became a farm stand with fruits and veggies when the father died. Later, the family changed it again and it's now Johnson Hardware. That facility is making way more money than

Marinated mushrooms are Tweed Valley’s newest product.

Photo by Fred Simon nothing to do.

Applecheek Farm - Hyde Park Vermont John and Judy Clark started their farm in 1965 with ten cows. Over the years, they grew the dairy herd to a peak of 120 holsteins, added pigs, emus, beef, poultry, geese and incorporated agritourism events. Education was a big part of their philosophy. Bringing families and school children to the farm, letting them see the operation and perhaps buy

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation After twenty years of providing grants to repair and retain historic barns, the Vermont Division awarded "nearly a quarter million dollars" to sixteen recipients this year according to its administrator, Judith Ehrlich. These grants must be matched and the barns must be at least 50 years old to qualify. The top dollar award is $15,000. The awards are not necessarily contingent on a continued agricultural use, "but most are" according to Ehrlich. The categories of requests usually fall into three areas: young couples coming to Vermont to farm, families inheriting the farm, and new buyers who are resurrecting abandoned barns. In one case, the new buyer bought a farm that was out of use for twenty years. It had belonged to one family for over a century. The new buyer wanted to restore the farm to its agricultural 'roots.'

A portion of the dairy barn is now used for the ApplecheekFarm Store.

Photo by Applecheek Farm

Once a bunker silo, this space now hosts a monthly localvore dinner.

Photo by Applecheek Farm

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NEW FARMERS

Working Oxen on the Farm Today

by Jake Czaja I never thought I would be learning to farm with oxen. I grew up in Chicago and I did not get to see the country all that often. The only “Bulls” I knew of were a professional basketball team. After high school, I chose to go to college out in Iowa. It is interesting how a new place can influence your ideas. Well that summer, I decided to work on a farm. I was curious, excited, and I felt free to explore my interests. But I had not gone so far as to think that I would want to become a farmer. That only came after I had worked on a few more farms. I make these statements today. But not too long ago, most people lived in the country, farmed the land, and had draft animals. If they heard me say this, they would probably look at me funny.

Today, using oxen primarily for farming is uncommon in the United States. The only other oxen I have encountered reside on historical interpretation farms like the Howell Living History Farm or Sturbridge Village. The truth is that oxen are an amazing asset to a farm and are as useful today as they were yesterday. Historians of early America say that if it were not for the cow and the ox, then none of us would be here today.

There is a farmer in Northern Pennsylvania, Millerton to be exact, who trains and utilizes oxen to make a living farming.

He grows over 30 types of vegetables on about 1 acre, about another acre of various grains, and raises pastured chickens, pigs, and grass-fed cattle. He does not have a tractor to work the land. Instead, he has a Holstein team of oxen to plow, spread manure, haul stones, cart, cultivate, harrow, disc, skid logs, and pull you-name-it. He also has me. I am farmer Andy’s apprentice for this year.

In order to be of any help to Andy, I have to learn to teach or “train” the oxen. According to Andy, oxen are never finished with their schooling. They respond to voice commands and negative reinforcements of the whip that are both built on their prey animal instincts. So if we give the oxen a command, such as, “Come here!” the oxen move forward, because they associate the sound and a crack of the whip on their rumps if they do not move fast enough. For all we know, oxen are not rational thinking animals like us. We have to be always thinking about where we want to pull the stoneboat, giving the oxen the right commands, making

sure the oxen respond with the right movements, and see if we have navigated the corner without any rocks falling off. Driving oxen is quite a skill!

My first few practices driving Burt and Marvin were not what I had expected. I thought, “Ok, ok, I just tell them ‘Come here!’ then I tell them ‘Whoa!’ and we stop right where Andy wants the stoneboat. How hard can that be?” Well anybody who has played a game of golf can probably sympathize that trying to put an object in a certain spot while using another tool can be challenging. In the case of the oxen, I am developing a “sixth sense” of where exactly that hitched stoneboat is in relation to where the oxen are.

A discussion of oxen would From Left to Right: Burt, Marvin, (the oxen) Andy, and Jake. not be complete without mentioning the benefits. Why would anybody want to use oxen over a tractor or horses for 4, Andy’s father was making his own yoke for his team of that matter? I am attracted to oxen because they are eco- oxen. By age 6, Andy’s father skidded all the firewood for the nomical when compared to tractors or horses. You can pick winter with his two year old team of oxen. At age 7, he was up a pair of calves from the local dairy for $20 a piece (that plowing up the wheat fields with the horses all by himself. is honestly what one farmer was going to sell his calves to The only thing that would slow this kid down was a lack of a me for), train them individually in your spare time, cut out a safety feature on the hay tedder. One day, the kid’s foot yoke and bows out of a log, chain your team to a wagon, slipped off the pedal that operated the hay tedder and went and are good to go! Maybe I left out a few details about how right into a gear. He left the horses hitched to the tedder and much time is involved in training a mature team or how feed- ran home crying with a cut foot. ing milk to your calves at an early age can make all the difference later on. The knowledge and skill required to use oxen will make you become a better farmer.

Andy tells me stories from time to time about his father. His father grew up around oxen and horses on the farm. At age

I find that Andy’s stories tell a lot about farming and youth.

Traditionally, the kids did a lot of the farm work. Sometimes they did all the farm work, especially when the father was drafted for the military or was working another job. I also think about Andy’s father and how young he was working with these animals that weighed 30 times his body weight. I tell Andy that his father was exceptional, some kind of prodigy farmer. Andy replies, “No, my dad always said with regret that he could not plow by himself till he was 7.” Apparently, there were some kids in the neighborhood that could plow by themselves when they were 6!

Now, I will be turning 23 this year and I am looking at making my first yoke. I may be several years behind Andy’s father, but I plan to keep up the tradition of working animals.

Who knows, I might even get to a point when I can plow all by myself.

Jake is an apprentice at Spring Meadows Farm in Millerton, PA. He may be reached at Springmeadowsfarm@gmail.com.

2012 Field Days at Spring Meadows Farm

Spreading compost on the garden where the roots - beets carrots, parsnips - will be planted.

Photo by Jake Czaja

Spring Meadows Farm holds monthly Field Days on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Field Days end with a pot luck and are open to the public. A PASA special event: “Happy Animals Work For a Living” will take place on Oct. 11 at Spring Meadows Farm.

• Fermenting Zucchini and Other Vegetables, July 21 • Potato Harvesting with Oxen, Aug. 11 • From Wheat to Breadmaking, Sept. 8 • Garlic Planting, October 6th • Happy Animals Work for a Living, Oct. 11 (10-4) • Fall Plowing with Oxen, Nov. 3.

• Season Recap, Nov. 17 For more info, visit http://springmeadowsfarm.wordpress.com or call 570-537-2128.

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I Love New York Agriculture Art & Writing Contest Each year, NYAITC and New York Farm Bureau sponsor an opportunity for Pre-K through middle school students across the state to discover more about where food comes from and why agriculture is important. The contest is divided by grade level,

and each level has a specific topic to create a piece of art, poem, or narrative related to an aspect of agriculture. There were over 1,000 entries in the 2012 contest. All awardees receive a Certificate of Recognition, and the first place winners are awarded $25 to invest in their education or an agricultural product or experience.

Congratulations to the all the award winners! We wish we could feature all of them!

Left - Maisyn Stanton, a Pre-K student at Downsville Central School painted a picture of her favorite New York farm animal - a pig in front of a red barn! Maisyn was the 1st place winner in her age division.

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Youth Page New York Agriculture Poem Students in 4th grade are asked to compose a poem. The poem can be general or specific, and it can focus on one of the over 200 agricultural commodities produced in New York, a specific farm or farmer, or an aspect of the food system. Jesse Fisher of Cattaraugus-Little Valley Intermediate won the division with her poem entitled “Farmers”. A section of her poem reads:

“Farmers collect sap, Out of a maple tap.

A farmer ends their day By giving thanks to pray.”

Leah Pasqualetti of South Davis Elementary wrote the second place poem entitled “Three Cheers for Agriculture”. A section of her poem reads:

“We’re thankful for farmers who plant fruits and vegetables to eat, And others who raise livestock for poultry, pork, and beef meat.

Agriculture is much more than just food, It’s also about fibers for clothing to fit every mood.

In the Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring, Three cheers for the farmers who do their thing!”

New York Agriculture in the Classroom's (NYAITC) mission is to foster an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of how New York State and the United States produce food and fiber. NYAITC assists educators in teaching about our agricultural food systems, what we eat, and how we live by offering opportunities for students and communities to engage with agriculture.

If you are interested in learning more about NYAITC, or volunteering for a variety of events, please visit www.nyaged.org/aitc.

Sara Burrowes of Tioga Central was the 1st place winner in the Kindergarten category, where the students were asked to color a drawing of themselves with their favorite food. As you can see in Sara's drawing, she pictured herself enjoying carrots with corn growing in the background.

The category for the 1st grade contestants celebrates New York’s dairy industry. The students were asked to paint or color a drawing showing where milk comes from and products made from milk. Tony Recio of Holy Name created this winning piece of art.

Right - In 2012 the 2nd grade competition proved to be the most competitive as it had the most entries of any other age group. Joshua Miller of Fonda-Fultonville came out in 1st place with his creative picture of an apple tree and pig. Along with the picture, Joshua was asked to write four sentences about his favorite New York food and where it comes from. He said, “My favorite New York food that is good for me is the apple. But I also love bacon which comes from a pig. Bacon is delicious with eggs! I love New York food!”

Left - Third grade students are asked to paint or color a drawing with a one sentence slogan about New York agriculture. The slogan can be general or specific to a particular agricultural process of commodity.

Strawberries were the product of choice for Teara Tattro, a 3rd grader at Deleaven Elementary School. Her slogan states, “New York Strawberries are Berry Good”

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New York Agriculture Essay Liam Sayward, a homeschooled 5th grade student received 1st place in his category for his original narrative he wrote. The students were asked to write an informative narrative, real or imagined, that utilized research and information from a variety of sources to develop their topic or stories.

Liam’s winning story is entitled, “The Lamb’s Amazing Recovery”, and a section of his story reads:

“I noticed the first lamb had droopy ear.

Her mouth was cold. This meant she probably was suffering from hypothermia. Her

body temperature was lower than it was supposed to be. The book says 102-103 degrees F. I gave her an enema, very warm soapy water injected into her anus, to clear the meconium out of her body to warm her up. Then my mom helped me tube feed the little ewe lamb colostrum.

But it did not warm her up. The lamb stayed cold and she started to go downhill.

I gave her two more enemas. The second one failed, but the third one worked. Lots of black gooey meconium squirted out. I brought her inside the house and turned the oven on to 150 degrees F.”

People of New York Agriculture — Students in 6th grade were asked to create a poster that celebrates New York farms or farmers, using a media of their choice.

Hunter Newland of Pioneer Middle School created the 1st place poster.

Photo Essay

Marvin Looking Fine Our summer photo features comes to us from “The Farmer's Husband”, a diversified farm in Schoharie County, NY, owned by Thomas McCurdy and Bailey Hale. The farm is currently raising chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, goats, sheep and pigs. Thomas says, “We don't want to be big, just big enough to be self-sustaining, producing as much of our own food as possible while generating an income from the land, likely from a combination of meat, eggs, cheese, bread, fiber, produce, and whatever else we can sell or barter. We want to nourish ourselves and our loved ones while treating the land and the animals with respect, living honestly, simply, and sustainably.”

To read more about the farm's adventures in raising livestock, visit www.thefarmershusband.com

Marvin, an East Friesian Ram

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GRAZING

I Love My Pasture!

by Denise Timms

This article was one of four winning entries in a writing contest sponsored by the New York State Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI). GLCI is led by a Steering Committee of farmers and agricultural professionals to promote the wise use of private grazing lands, and is funded by the USDANatural Resources Conservation Service.

James and I moved our family to Madison County from Long Island in September of 2006, after leaving jobs that we had been at for over twenty years each. We were finally going to live our dream on 36 acres of pasture and woodland in a house we built a few years before. We were lucky enough to find jobs, but what were we to do with thirty-plus acres of pasture? In the past, we had some local folks that cut and took the hay as we had no use for it on Long Island. But, what to do now?

I have always loved them, and the thought of raising our own beef appealed to us. We got a bred cow and her seven month old heifer calf. It was a little rough going at first but that's another story! However, because of the “mishaps” with our first cow experience we met people that would introduce us to something we had never really heard of “grass-fed beef”! We no longer had to worry about what to do with thirty-plus acres of pasture.

Soon after I was able to attend “Grasstravaganza” in Binghamton, NY and I was hooked! It was there that I met Madison County's own “Grass Whisperer”, Troy Bishopp. We've learned so much from him, from rotational grazing to installing a high tensile fence for our permanent/winter pasture. At this point we rotationally graze using temporary fencing, in the open pasture, usually attached to the permanent fence. We also section off the high tensile pasture so we can rotate them in there too.

The pasture walks we have attended, organized by Troy Bishopp, have been invaluable.

All of the plant species that we did not appreciate in our athletic fields (we did make sure we had some clover as we returned our clippings) have true nutritional value to the animals that we graze. Weeds in our pasture? Absolutely! Lots and lots of clover in our pasture? You bet! We wouldn't have it any other way.

I love my pasture!

Photos by Denise Timms I had a bit of an agricultural background mostly with small livestock, a semester and a half of night time ag classes at SUNY Farmingdale and fourteen years of handson experience at two public education farms, both on Long Island. James had been on the grounds crew at the Shoreham Wading River School District for 18 years, 12 of which we worked together. One of the farms I had worked at was located at the Shoreham Wading River Middle School. I was there for 11 years. Unfortunately due to the loss of some of the district's tax revenue, the farm at the Middle School had to be closed. The district was kind enough to move me to the grounds department, and although I was grateful to still have a job, I wasn't quite sure that maintaining athletic fields was going to be my cup of tea. I gave myself six months. Twelve years passed.

Being the people we are we weren't happy just cutting the grass - we had to do it all! We learned a lot about grass: growing, maintaining optimum cut height for healthy turf, etc.

We went to seminars, got our Pesticide Tech certification (which we rarely had to use due to our management practices), and talked our supervisor into letting us do all the fertilization, over-seeding, etc. We already had all the equipment to do it, and we could save the district some money by not having to contract out those jobs. We found out that we could grow some pretty good grass!

What we hadn't realized was how well the jobs we had on Long Island were preparing us for life in central New York State!

So, we decided to get a couple of Herefords.

After we got settled with the cows, we decided to add some turkeys that we would raise as gifts for family. They were quite happy eating not only their grain, but the pasture's offerings. Due to the ingenious invention of electric net, we raised our first small flock of turkeys on pasture with great success. We now raise about seventy-five turkeys and around one hundred Cornish Rock crosses on pasture that we rotate as well. Yes, they do need to get grain, but about thirty percent of their consumption is pasture. They are happy and healthy and grow extremely well, and you should see the grass they can grow!

I'm not through just yet! What started out as a 4-H project has turned three sheep into a pastured flock of 13 sheep that we raise primarily for fiber. They are also the lucky recipients of new pasture every few days. Their fleece is so much cleaner than it would be if we fed them hay all year.

The sheep as well as the cows give birth and raise very healthy, happy lambs and calves being fed our grass, our own hay and of course minerals. We love watching the “families” interact. It is really some of our best entertainment and my personal stressrelieving activity. We were told that turkeys (the commercial type that we raise) don't

Turkey poults enjoying the grass!

Multi-species interaction - I love that electric net! preen or take dust baths. We have found that out in the pasture they are given the opportunity to engage in natural behaviors and they do!

We found out about the CREP (Conservation Reserve Enhancement) program through a Cooperative Extension seminar. We are now in our second year of a ten year contract through Madison County, now installing our riparian buffer. CREP is allowing us to improve our own program by installing practices that we probably wouldn't have known to do, and helping to attract and protect wildlife, the environment, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Well, I think that I have answered “But, what to do now” with thirty acres of pasture. Raise happy, healthy animals of several species while having them fertilize the fields, provide food for the family while providing us with a great way to meet new people. And, let's not forget all the entertainment! Life is good!

Denise Timms grazes beef, sheep, and turkeys in West Edmeston, NY. For more information on the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative please contact Karen Hoffman at 607-334-4632 x116 or karen. hoffman2@ny.nrcs.gov. For assistance with planning or starting up a grazing system contact your local USDA-NRCS or county Soil and Water Conservation District.

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GRAZING

Grazing Management in the New Normal

by Troy Bishopp As a veteran grazier, I’m concerned about the phrases, “The 300 year flood, Peak Soil, Peal Oil, Climate Change and The New Normal” frequently heard in the news.

Should I discount them as just an anomaly or should I be planning on how this will affect my grazing operation?

For me, it boils down to a simple concept; keep the soil covered with perennial, highly diverse, biologically active pastures.

However it has taken me 48 years of farming to become a true believer and holistic planner in this. It’s rather embarrassing to admit I missed this mark as a “yute” while continually being stumped by a grazing system always headed in the path of what Andre Voisin termed; untoward acceleration, where each successive grazing period provides less forage and the rest period is shortened until the rotation collapses. Grazing Consultant, Jim Gerrish, says grazing too short is the biggest problem in production.

With hairline receding and the prospect of a sixth generation farming here, I found the “ah ha” moment I needed 12 years ago in a hurricane and in the mirror. The forces came together after a long dry spell followed in

earnest by a 5 inch rain. As I flashed a picture of my swollen, muddy stream, I turned the lens to wipe off the rain and I caught my reflection, this was my fault.

This single event of losing topsoil put me on the path to become a better grazier and in turn a better land manager. But I needed a better plan, more measuring and monitoring and long term goals. I am lucky to live in an era with access to knowledge from influential grazing notables; Andre Voisin to Newman Turner, Darrell Emmick to Jim Gerrish and Allan Savory to Greg Judy to name a few. This has led me to think about grazing in a more holistic, managementdriven style predicated on a triple bottom line mentality and stop blaming the animals for over-grazing.

“Create the farm you want” is a quote I like in approaching the upcoming grazing season. Like any good game of chess, it starts with a tactical plan. I start by planning (hypothetically) on my 12 month grazing chart (in pencil) before I go into Mother Nature’s domain, around specific financial, production, environmental and family goals. I plan in recovery periods, certain grazing strategies for each field, expected dry matter intakes and plan back from major events such as my daughter’s wedding, droughty times, breeding, bluebird fledging, frost and stockpiling dates. This futuristic decisionmaking and constant monitoring allows me to think deeply about what’s ahead and works nicely with my experience and gut feelings to make management changes sooner and level out the new normals of weather.

You’re probably thinking, easier to plan than to implement. But the impetus for the organic farmer is if you run out of grass you’re out of options. We’ve got to get in the mindset that it takes grass to grow grass and stop being scared of wasting a little grass if you want top performance for your animals and soil. I do agree that the forage should be trampled, harvested or clipped sixty days before the first frost to enable possible extended grazing of rested plants.

I’m wearing blinders to stay focused on grazing management.

My observations over 26 years of grazing on our farm are this; rain now comes down in buckets and we need to catch it all for the uncharacteristic dry periods that are happening. On our farm, the shorter always vegetative sward of plant species of yesteryear

has given way to a taller, more mature grazing style with a higher grazing residual (4”) and in turn longer rest periods, averaging 45 days for last season. This has changed my naturalized sward into having a more prairielike composition which have deeper, stronger roots and puts more litter on the ground to feed the soil microbes.

Having stronger, more vibrant plants has also increased our grazeable days by two weeks in the spring and two months in the fall. This strategy in conjunction with stockpiling has raised our farm’s organic matter from 3.4% to 4.6% over the last three years which has essentially drought-proofed the farm while sequestering the big rain and adding resiliency to the whole farm system without buying expensive inputs.

Change in levels of organic matter on our farm map.

Photos by Troy Bishopp

I’ve been monitoring Brix levels of plants and the cows that eat them and continue to see higher energy levels in more mature swards later in the day especially in young blossoms and leaf tips. To garner more of this production, I move animals 1/3 of an acre in the morning and 2/3 in the afternoon.

The difference can be 7 brix in the early morning and double that by 3pm. Capturing this free energy just takes moving a fence.

I’m also hearing many farmers having good success spraying raw milk on pastures to raise the energy.

Grazing for energy and not towards Jerry Brunetti’s “funny proteins” has been a learning curve, but also good for the wallet as it takes less expensive grain and baleage to even out the animal’s diet and production. At the same time it allows the plant roots to rest and add mass in the soil which stimulates soil life and increases water holding capacity.

Probably the most often overlooked questions of grazing management in the new normal are: What are you managing towards and why? Without tangible sustainable goals, you may fall prey to buying prescriptions that fix problems not address root causes.

In my humble opinion, making money from grazing is absolutely about keeping the soil surface covered with diverse swards and soil life collecting solar energy while sequestering moisture and carbon. One only has to remember 2011 to see this is a great strategy for the future.

How do you get it done? Create farm family

My grazing chart from 2011.

Five inches of rain seems to be the ‘new normal’. goals that incorporate the triple bottom line, plan out in detail how to make these goals happen, question everything, measure and monitor progress often, join a mentoring team, record your results and most of all have fun honing your grazier’s eye because the world needs more pasture-based systems.

Troy Bishopp aka “The Grass Whisperer” is an everyday practical steward, observer, teacher and 25 year veteran farmer and grazing professional in working with biologically active, financially viable and sensory pleasing, diverse, perennial pasture systems. Learn more at www.thegrasswhisperer.com/.

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Faces of our Food System: Garden Gate Delivery Get to know a local food distributor in our 2012 feature series

by Becca Jablonski

CSA farms. Plus, it makes them look good, since they can expand offerings to their CSA members through increasing access to the other CSA share options.

This article is the third in a series highlighting distributors of New York State farm-grown products. For our third spotlight, I spoke to Marlo Capoccia, the Owner of Garden Gate Delivery, located in Ithaca, New York. I wanted to feature Garden Gate as they recently made the decision to shift their business model to focus on providing freight services for the growing Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms throughout the Tompkins County region. Whereas many CSAs purchase their own vehicles, out sourcing this delivery function can be more cost effective and enable farmers to focus their attention on farming. Thus the service that Marlo and Garden Gate provide farms can be an important part of improved farm profitability.

Q: Is there demand from other CSAs to increase the availability of distribution services?

A: Yes! We are trying to figure out how to grow our business to meet the demand.

Q: What are the challenges you face working with the CSAs? A: Working with multiple CSAs is difficult in terms of timing - certain product has to get to businesses or specific places at certain times. For example, the bakery doesn't finish baking until 10:30am, but I want to start deliveries at 8:30am. So managing the timing issues is tough. Also, sometimes the CSAs have made commitments to deliver to certain businesses at certain times and managing those scheduling issues is a challenge. I also need to make sure that the delivery routes make sense for my business.

Q: When you started Garden Gate Delivery in 2008, what was your initial vision and model for the company?

A: I wanted to bring as many local products to families as possible. It was a 'milkman model' that I had in mind.

I thought that if I went out to various farms to get yogurt and meat for my own family, that I could also do it for Ryan Barrows, a driver for Garden Gate Delivery, arrives with a home delivery. other families too. So I bought a truck and got in touch with 10-15 local suppliers. I did my best to get an assortment of meat, bread, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. Next, I set deliveries. When we handled everything in-house there was up a website to ensure that everything was as convenient for more room for error and mistakes - packing, repacking, sort- Q: Are you looking for additional CSAs to work with? the would-be customers as possible. I was trying to reach ing, labeling, etc. Doing just the CSA deliveries cut down on A: Yes, but not immediately. We are still tweaking the model, people who were interested in local foods, but my real goal our costs, and particularly the need for labor, which meant and once we have it right we will certainly start looking for was to try to convert people who were buying at the grocery we could reduce our delivery fee. It has been really appeal- more CSAs. store to buying local. I knew that the key would be conven- ing to work with The Full Plate Farm Collective (see: ience. The website enabled customers to pay online (90% of http://fullplatefarms.webs.com for more information). The Q: If farmers are interested in working with Garden Gate our sales are credit card based), and thus not worry about Full Plate Farm Collective CSA started with some fruit and Delivery who should they contact? writing checks or leaving cash. The home delivery portion of vegetable CSAs working together to increase the diversity of A: I am happy to be a resource for anybody looking for ideas their offerings. But then they added 'spoke' farms so that about how to start a distribution company, but I am not capathe business was also really just to make it simple.

As we went along, much of the function of the business they could offer expanded shares of other types of products ble of delivering outside of Tompkins County at this point. If became more about education. People do not just want to - meat, dairy, baked goods, etc. This kind of model works farms are looking for delivery within Tompkins County, they buy stuff. For example, as we started offering CSA shares, great with Garden Gate's new business strategy as we can should email me at: marlo@gardengatedelivery.com. Also, I we saw that people might drop off in the second season. help coordinate pick-ups and deliveries from the various encourage everyone to check out our website: www.gardenPeople would get broccoli rabe or kohlrabies as part of their farms and customers are happy because they have expand- gatedelivery.com share and not know what to do with it. So we implemented ed options.

Becca Jablonski is a PhD student at Cornell University conan educational piece through the website and started writing ducting food systems research. She may be contacted at a weekly newsletter. We also did a series of cooking class- Q: How many growers or CSAs do you work with? es one summer a few years ago, and they were very well A: We have 10 CSAs we work with, and that includes two rb223@cornell.edu Thanks to the following funders for their attended, but it is a lot of work with just me running the busi- Community Supported Kitchens (for more information, see: support of local food distribution research: the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, NESARE, and the Cornell ness. I have received many requests to start the cooking http://crookedcarrotcsk.com.

Small Farms Program. classes again. And, as much as I love the education piece, it isn't really what makes Garden Gate money. So I need to Q: What type of response do you get from the CSAs for figure out how to make the business successful so that I can whom you do deliveries? do the educational piece, which I love, or find a way for the A: Mostly they are relieved not to do the delivery themselves. It is my goal to take as much of the work off their educational piece to financially support itself. plate as possible. So at some point we may offer to take all Q: How has that vision and model changed over the of the CSA orders through our website and just give farms the total number of orders. Right now we do routing, and are years?

A: Last year when I sat back to really look at the finances of starting to do some marketing - and of course the delivery. the business, I realized that we were much more efficient This takes about 10+ hours of work per week away from the when we were doing the CSA deliveries rather than our own

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Wanted: Infrastructure Real and Virtual

by Beth McKellips When I first moved to Madison County in central NY, I was surprised to learn that very few farmers were selling products in the NYC market. In my fresh perspective, connecting upstate farmers to NYC seemed like a fairy tale waiting to happen. Madison County had rolling hills that were not being plowed under to create quarter acre lots, farmers who genuinely wanted to farm these hills as well as the lowlands in between, and plenty of businesses that sold things the farmers actually use. On the other end of a relatively short 4 and a half-hour trip was one of the most dynamic and demanding consumer markets for food. So, in my first few months of running a Cornell Cooperative Extension program aimed at expanding marketing channels for farmers, I focused on learning how to connect farmers to the NYC market, calling on Baldor, Red Jacket Orchards, GrowNYC/Greenmarket, the Park Slope Coop, Pampered Cow, and…..in fact, I called pretty much every person I knew that bought or sold local food in NYC. More than once, I filled my Subaru with Madison County-made Kriemhild Meadow Butter and headed to the city to disperse rack cards touting all kinds of Madison County products everywhere I could. In a matter of months, I had made a rather complete circuit of the local food scene in NYC. I told everyone I met that it just has to be easier to help upstate farmers sell food downstate. I naively assumed that if I built it, they would come.

My whirlwind tour of the NYC local food market recently culminated with organizing a panel of wholesale buyers and distributors who have stated interest in purchasing food grown in New York State. Upon reflection of the dialogue that unfolded at this panel and my self-guided tour of the NYC local food sector, I was, in a word, wrong. There are significant structural changes needed that are much deeper and complex than creating marketing campaigns to connect the dots of upstate production to the downstate market. It is not impossible for farmers outside of the Catskills and Hudson Valley to burst the NYC bubble, but it is not easy. There are very real and tangible reasons why almost all the farmers I meet in Madison County and central NY ask for help with marketing and talk about how they need to sell more product, and on the flip side, there are concrete reasons that more stores, restaurants and institutions in NYC don't buy more food grown in New York State. Overcoming these obstacles is not going to happen quickly or without considerable effort and most likely will require some government intervention. The following is a brief description of where to start.

Step One: Physical Infrastructure The need for physical infrastructure in the form of a distribution hub where products could be aggregated, packed into marketable packages and stored to preserve freshness before making their journey to market in a re-fridgerated truck, quickly emerges as one significant missing link. Farmers are typically financially leveraged to their full capacity and tend to be asset rich but cash poor.

Consequently, most farmers lack the ability to borrow capital to purchase these extremely expensive storage and transportation systems without taking a serious financial risk and going into deeper debt. A publicly funded distribution hub (or a public-private partnership) would open the door to markets of magnitude to upstate growers with one fell swoop.

The buyers at the local food buyers panel mentioned purchase volumes along the lines of a quarter million dollars worth of produce. Each buyer at the table indicated a desire to purchase more product grown in New York. However, these food outlets need a consistent supply for logistical reasons and to meet consumer demand. Also, even though at first blush it might seem easy to assume that most A food distribution hub could allow farmers like Terry Mosher, stores in NYC want to buy pallet upon pallet of seen here talking to Greenmarket/GrowNYC Wholesale Market products, many specialty stores in NYC and Coordinator, Nathan Forster, to aggregate produce to meet the Brooklyn have limited storage and refrigeration volume demands of the NYC wholesale market. capacity due to small scale of the NYC urban fabric. Consequently, they need to order often and have products be delivered in small batches. The combina- robust databases that allow customers to purchase local tion of the need for consistency and to receive products in food. The lack of development of online technology is due to small doses compounds the need for physical infrastructure several complex factors beyond the scope of this discussion, upstate, where product can be consolidated from multiple but include the scarcity of capital not tied up in production, lack of technical knowledge, and the labor and time sources, stored and repacked without losing quality. demands of farming that don't allow for a plenitude of screen Lastly, while there are some shining examples of food dis- time. Farm websites in rural areas tend to be behind the tributors who work with food produced outside of the New times in both design and functionality. On the flipside, local York City market, such as Regional Access and FingerLakes food buyers in the city don't know where exactly to turn Farms, as the price of energy grows, their ability to pick up when they want to find a product produced in New York and products from multiple farmers, especially low-volume pro- usually depend on what their distributors can bring them. ducers, is going to be an uphill battle and they might Store and market managers, institutional buyers and local food distributors need to have viable options for finding local increasingly need product aggregation. products at their fingertips (literally) and this database needs a robust backend that can support real time inventoThe Other Step One: Technological Infrastructure One of my favorite moments from the recent local food panel ry changes. We need a business-to-business “facebook” for was when a Cornell Cooperative Extension colleague asked food. There have been several inroads in this realm, and the buyers, “I assume you all have farmers calling you all the many more are in development, but for now the non-comtime, right?” and the entire panel shook their head no. While modity farming industry remains a bit in the technological this baffled the agricultural professionals in the room who dark ages. tend to receive these calls daily, this exchange highlights another significant need in building a vital regional food sys- To Be Continued…. tem, technological infrastructure. While some farms have The story of upstate growers beyond the Hudson Valley and grabbed the internet and social networking bull by the horns the Catskills region providing products to the demanding and have done quite well, traditionally, the non-commodity downstate market does not appear to have a fairy tale endagricultural sector has come relatively late to the technology ing at the moment. While NYC is far from the only viable party, especially in terms of consumer-friendly websites with market for central NY farmers, the sheer volume of NYC demand highlights how a happier ending is within reach if policy makers, developers and/or the private sector could work together to create the physical and virtual infrastructure needed to connect upstate growers with the NYC market. Fulfilling these needs would allow farmers to focus on farming and producing the best food they can. At the local food buyers panel, the agricultural professionals in the room had potential to connecting over 1000 farmers with the local food buyers who spend over $150,000 annually on produce on the low end. Frankly, I would be surprised to learn if even one sale was initiated at this panel. It's time to quit putting out the fire one bucket at a time and bring on the hose, in the form of publicly-funded infrastructure that will bridge the gap for the farmers to the large, practically insatiable NYC market.

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Beth McKellips is an Agricultural Economic Development Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension in Madison County, where she creates programs to connect farmers with marketing opportunities, diversify through value-added products and provides business and technical support. She can be reached at 315.684.3001 x 126 or at bam233@cornell.edu.

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Home Grown Cow: An Easy Way to Get Into Online Sales for Meat, Poultry, and Cheese Producers

by John Aikman

poultry and cheese to consumers all over the country at prices that are generally less expensive than more traditional sales channels even with the 15% service fee that is included in the retail prices. The fee covers transaction costs, marketing costs and operational costs associated with running the site.

Of course the best part about Home Grown Cow is that it's free for farmers to use - so there's no risk involved in giving it try. Even farms that already have an online store can reach customers with Home Grown Cow that they wouldn't otherwise reach on their own, and farms with a web-site with no store can use Home Grown Cow as their store simply by linking to their farm profile at www.homegrowncow.com

“Where did you get these steaks? They're fantastic!” is the usual reaction from friends from out-of-town to eating beef at my dinner table in South Central Wisconsin. Some of these dinner guests have even asked me to mail meat to their homes in places as far away as Miami and Atlanta because they loved it so much.

My family enjoys beef from local farms in South Central Wisconsin. It varies in type, but whether Angus, Scottish Highland, or Holstein, it is always tender, tasty and of course, most importantly, I know where it comes from and how it was raised.

Though not a farmer myself, I grew up in a small market town in the UK where the sights and sounds of the livestock yard on market day were something that every kid was familiar with. I spent most summers in my mother's native Italy where grandparents raised cattle, pigs and rabbits for dairy and meat for family consumption. As a result I have a great understanding and love of farming culture and traditions.

Sometime in 2010 I took a call from a friend asking if I wanted to buy a quarter beef from a farmer friend of hers. The person who had agreed to buy it had bailed on her and she needed to find a new buyer fast. That was the beginning of Home Grown Cow. Solving the Equation I suddenly realized that I was looking at two sides of an equation that was missing an “equals” sign. Friends with their craving for delicious, farm-direct meat; and busy farmers without an easy or lucrative way to reach a growing market of hungry online shoppers.

My wife, Karen and I, met with farmers, and heard about the challenges of local bulk beef sales, people backing out, customers not paying, the importance of timing, processing, the dangers of listing your farm with unverified classified ad sites, and so on. It became clear that many farmers are being left behind by a digital world of online sales marching on into the future without them. Further research also taught us that smaller, more traditional farms are having an increasingly tough time due to the continuing vertical integration of the industry, which has forced most of them to become price-takers rather than price-makers, and that a small number of very big companies control more than 80% of the meat supply in the United States.

It was time to act; I called my old high school friend Dom Lindars on the west coast, entrepreneur, programming wiz-

John Aikman, Home Grown Cow Co-Founder and an associate.

Photo by James Blakeslee, Madison, WI

Hermione Grace Cow, Home Grown Cow’s logo drawn by John’s children. ard and rocket scientist among many other things. He was looking for advice on whom to hire to build the site and what sort of components it would need. By the end of the phone call, Dom, now my business partner, had agreed to create the site from the concept I had dreamed up which now serves farms and customers nationwide, and www.homegrowncow.com was born.

Home Grown Cow serves two groups of people. First and foremost it serves farmers who, they have learned, can be held back from engaging in e-commerce because they lack time, money or the necessary skills to do so. Home Grown Cow ensures that they have an easy way of listing their farm and selling their products online at absolutely no cost to them. The second group of people of course is the customers - affectionately known as “Eaters”, and the goal for them is to offer choice and transparency in the meat, poultry and cheese that they put on their table.

How it All Works From the farmers' perspective Home Grown Cow helps eliminate a number of headaches common to online sales. First, the farm profile is easy to set up and use and costs nothing, so no web designer or hosting fees are needed. It's as easy as setting up a Facebook or E-Bay account. No Internet access? No problem - you can fax the information and the team will set it up for you. Secondly, Home Grown Cow accepts credit card payments up-front, so farmers never have to worry that the customer will back out of the deal, or that they won't get paid. Thirdly, for farms that want to ship, we help with that too - calculating and collecting shipping fees from customers and producing packing slips and airbills that are e-mailed to the farmer after the sale is accepted. All the farmer has to do is package up the goods, stick on the label and get the package to the carrier's nearest location.

We also provide guidance on how to do that, and shipping rates are 62% of the standard shipping rates advertised by the carrier which is welcomed by far-flung Eaters. Finally, Home Grown Cow accommodates all kinds of meat, poultry and cheese producers; farms can list everything from a whole beef to an emu fan steak. Products can be USDAinspected, state-inspected or custom-exempt inspected, and this is clearly communicated to the customer at the time of purchase along with what each of them means.

Other advantages include the ability to list products well in advance of their availability dates and pre-sell them, a huge help with inventory and cost management, and the Home Grown Cow “Safety Net” which protects Farmers by collecting funds up front and Eaters by holding payment to farms until after the goods are satisfactorily received.

Something for Everyone The variety of people shopping online for meat is enormous.

There are people shopping for value - bulk “freezer meat”; those who want to know that their meat contains no added hormones or antibiotics; there are fancy folk who might want to serve “American Kobe Beef” at a special dinner; and gentle souls who take solace in knowing that their meat was raised especially humanely, to name just a few. Home Grown Cow, with its growing group of participating farms uses simple check boxes to identify customer preferences, and farm practices so they can be matched up.

Home Grown Cow offers an ever-increasing variety of meat,

John Aikman is Co-Founder of Home Grown Cow, LLC, a national company based in South Central Wisconsin. He may be reached at john@homegrowncow.com.

Zorro the bull, from Thistle Hill Plantation in Eolia, MO. Photo by Bruce Denslow Home Grown Cow removes the constraints of time, skills and money that keep small farms from engaging in ecommerce.

Home Grown Cow is a free, instant, easy-to-use online sales presence that: • Provides an online farm store • Takes credit card payments • Does your Internet marketing • Handles nationwide shipping And… • Customers pay up-front • Participation is free • Farms are paid quickly How does it work?

Farms set up a Farm Profile and list their available products. Home Grown Cow markets and sells them to local and national markets.

Farms identify themselves according their meat, poultry or cheese, and farm practices. Customers search based on these choices and find exactly what they're looking for. The goal for farmers is a no-cost entry into e-commerce, and for consumers it's choice and transparency of the meat, poultry and cheese that ends up on their table.

Any meat, poultry or cheese producer can use Home Grown Cow; it's as simple as Facebook or E-bay to set up. Farms can ship, deliver or permit pick-up of their orders. For shipping, Home Grown Cow has deeply discounted rates that are calculated and charged to the customer up-front along with their order. Farms receive an airbill by e-mail or fax and products can be picked up or dropped off by the carrier.

Consumers pay for the service in the form of a service fee that Home Grown Cow adds to each sale.

Home Grown Cow is completely free for farms to use.

Producers can learn more and sign up by visiting www.homegrowncow.com/farmers, calling 608-5155335 or writing to info@homegrowncow.com.

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Considerations for Pasture Lambing and Kidding by tatiana Stanton We associate spring time with newborn lambs and kids frolicking on green pastures. However, Northeast sheep and goats often give birth indoors in winter. This makes sense for farms targeting the Easter market for suckling lambs and kids or providing show prospects for the summer show circuit. If you do not sell to these early markets, then delaying and birthing outside in the spring when the grass is up may be perfect for you.

Approximately 30 Northeast sheep and goat farmers are participating in a Cornell project reviewing labor and feed costs for different birthing systems. To date, the project has uncovered some interesting results. Labor demands were substantially more for farms giving birth in Winter ’09 as compared to Spring or Fall (Figure 1). Furthermore, when comparing barn and pasture birthing in Spring ’09 (Figure 2), no pasture birthing farms lost dams at birth, although 3 of 4 barn birthing flocks had dams die. A huge benefit of pasture birthing is that dams can separate themselves and birth undisturbed leading to fewer dystocia or mothering issues. However, Goat Farm #3 experienced Floppy Kid Syndrome during birthing. If the same disease had occurred on pasture, kid losses might have increased because of difficulty treating collapsed kids.

Article Definitions Creep feeding — establishing a pen that offspring can get into but dams cannot so offspring can get extra feed to supplement dams' milk, useful for triplets or offspring from low milk producing dams.

Dystocia — Labor difficulty due to malpresentation of the lambs/kids or large size in relationship to pelvic cage or dilation.

Grannying — the hormone-driven stealing of newborns by another dam as she goes into labor.

Jugs — small portable pens to temporarily put a dam and her litter in after birthing to facilitate bonding.

Additionally, for Spring ’09 birthing farms, feed costs for pasture-birthing goat herds averaged $6.80 per dam as compared to $21.74 for barn-kidding herds (most on pasture after 1 month) and $8.14 for pasture-birthing sheep flocks as compared to $42.86 for barn-lambing sheep flocks (most in barn through weaning). Dams that are limited to the barn for birthing consume harvested forage that could be reserved for winter feeding.

The success of pasture birthing is dependent on planning ahead for several factors.

Choosing a Birthing Pasture Birthing checks can be done quickly (even with binoculars) if birthing pastures are close to the farm and dams are clearly marked ahead of time with spray paint. Thus, pastures bordering your barn or house are most convenient, especially if you anticipate returning triplet litters or “orphans” to the barn for more intensive rearing. Unfortunately these nearby pastures are often your winter loafing areas and by spring are heavily contaminated with manure and internal parasites. Many worms successfully overwinter outside (brown stomach worm, nemotodirus).

Barber pole worm, our deadliest worm, does not survive outside in winter. It “hibernates” as immature larvae inside your sheep or goats. However, its dormancy breaks by early March and livestock then shed barber pole eggs in their feces. Therefore, you must plan ahead to insure that your livestock don’t access the proposed birthing paddocks over the winter.

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In contrast, some study participants move their animals with temporary fencing every 1 to 5 days and must disrupt dams shortly after/during birth when it’s time to shift to the next grazing paddock. This can result in poor bonding between dams and offspring - leading to rejected offspring. Some farms have adopted drift lambing procedures where ewes that lamb during the 1 to 5 day period are left behind to form their own grazing unit to eventually combine with other “left behind” units. However, many farmers only have a few dams giving birth during a paddock move. These dams may panic if left behind. One option for smaller flocks is to move the temporary fence forward but let the “back” fence remain in place for at least one extra shift. Thus, dams that have recently given birth can stay in the previous grazing strip without being separated from the flock. You need good grazing in the previous strip so that hunger does not cause dams

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A second decision you need to make is whether to “set stock” or “drift lamb” during your birthing season. Most farmers in our study practice set stocking. Two weeks prior to lambing, one very experienced study farmer runs his flock through a working chute and spray paints them starting with the number 1.The first 40 ewes go in his first 5 acre birthing paddock, the next 40 in the next 5 acres, until all 300 ewes have been assigned a paddock. When lambs are born they receive the same spray paint number as their dam. Thus, for every lamb he can identify its paddock and dam. His system

Figure 2

hinges on having plentiful grazing in each paddock to last the 6 week long birthing season. After lambing the flock is combined and rotationally grazed. Water should be centrally located in birthing pastures to discourage dams from having to travel far from their young to drink. Advantages of set stocking are that ewes pick out a nesting area and are undisturbed until they and their lambs decide to rejoin the flock.

to move forward prematurely from their nesting site.

However, letting grass get excessively tall can cause problems especially for breeds that hide their young, because dams may lose track of where they have stowed their offspring.

Planning for Inclement Weather, Mothering Issues and Predation Weather patterns can change radically in spring time. Have a contingency plan to get animals to shelter in case of sudden snow storms or freezing rains. Many farms utilize hedgerows, woodlots, or dead drops during the birthing season. However, keep in mind that dams may mob shelters during bad weather. Any artificial shelters should be very open with wide entrances to try to avoid trampling of newborns.

Grannying (stealing of newborn by another dam near parturition) may also occur when animals crowd together in bad weather. Plastic rain covers for lambs are not readily available in the US but can be handmade using plastic bread bags.

If your fence line is electrified, the metal corkscrew tie-out stakes for dogs are helpful to restrain dams with dystocia or hesitant to nurse young. Avoid setting up jugs in birthing pastures if possible because the whole flock may try to get to the feed in them and collapse the jugs onto newborns.

Birthing checks can be done quickly (even with binoculars) if birthing pastures are close to the farm and dams are clearly marked ahead of time with spray paint.

Several farms on our study experience no predation problems while others with similar fencing have problems with coyotes, foxes, or great

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Backyard Poultry 101

by Nancy Glazier Chickens are an easy way to raise your own meat and eggs.

They don't require a lot of work or time and flocks are great for kids to care for, from collecting eggs to feeding and watering. Birds need to get off to a good start; healthy chicks, proper nutrition, water and shelter equates to the beginning of a healthy productive flock!

The first thing is to find a reputable source for chicks. Buy from one hatchery to reduce the risk of bringing disease onto the farm. Most hatcheries will ship chicks within one day of hatching. Some will vaccinate if you request them.

Many of the old-time diseases are making a comeback since chicks may not be vaccinated. Vaccines to consider include Marek's disease, Newcastle, and Infectious Bronchitis. It may not be necessary for broilers, but laying hens hang around for several years which increases their health risks.

Have housing ready for chicks; they will need a heated brooder for a few weeks before they venture out. If you had a previous flock, the pens or house should be thoroughly cleaned and allowed to dry to reduce the risk of infecting the young birds with diseases. Disinfectants containing quaternary ammonium are good choices.

Upon arrival, give each chick a drink of water; they have been without food and water since they left the hatchery, so they will be thirsty. Feed and water should always be avail-

able. Feed can be commercially purchased or mixed at home. If farm-mixed, make sure all essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids are provided or deficiencies will develop. Your local feed mill can mix a ration for you if you purchase a quantity.

A dry and ventilated living area is important to keep the flock healthy. Bedding should be dry with shavings or straw added when needed. A closed-up coop can lead to respiratory diseases and build-up of ammonia from manure. Visitors to the farm that have their own flocks should wear clean shoes to prevent spreading diseases.

Limiting exposure to wild birds can also reduce the risk of diseases. Rodents can be disease carriers, so keep them out of housing and feed.

Parasites - both internal and external - can reduce pro- Some happy backyard chickens. ductivity. Chickens can become infested with mites and lice. Foxes, raccoons, weasels, hawks, owls and even the neighSigns are feather loss and reduced egg production; severe bor's dog can prey on the flock. Guard animals, like dogs infestations can cause death. Spraying or dusting with car- and geese may help protect them. Free-ranging flocks baryl will control the pests, and providing an area for dust should have a safe place to roost for the night. baths will help. Most common internal parasites are roundFor more information on poultry health, visit the National worms and tapeworms.

Poultry Improvement Program at www.aphis.usda.gov/aniAnother parasite, cocci (protozoa) causes coccidiosis that mal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/ can cause high mortality in young birds. It can be more common in wet and humid conditions, and can be controlled with Nancy Glazier is Small Farms Support Specialist for the Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team medicated feeds containing coccidiostats. of Cornell Cooperative Extension/PRO-DAIRY, and has a Predators can be real problems in rural or suburban areas. small flock of egg layers.You can reach her at 585-315-7746 or nig3@cornell.edu.

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dams toward this equipment prior to birthing.

horned owls. Dispose of stillbirths and uneaten afterbirths quickly so that local predators do not cultivate a taste for them. Some farmers prefer not to band tails for fear that discarded tails encourage predation. Most study farms with a history of predation successfully combat it with guardian dogs, llamas or donkeys and improved electric fencing. They still run into problems if dams are birthing in too large an area (i.e. 120 ewes on 25 acres) because one or two dogs are insufficient, especially if the terrain is hilly or forested. If predation challenges continue both night and day, some farms combine guardian species so that dogs patrol at night and llamas/donkeys take over during the day.

You’ll need a good tote to carry your equipment cross country. Favorites include 5-gallon pails (good to sit on), carpenter belts, small coolers, and carpet bags (good for stowing an extra lamb). Wooden crooks help to traverse electrified fences. Banding is the most commonly used method for tail docking and castration as farmers have no access to electricity and want to avoid open wounds. However, some farmers delay docking until birthing is done and animals can be brought to an electrified barn. If you have a good quiet herding dog or are working with goats, newborns can be processed as 2 day olds when hardier.

Handling Birthing Checks and Management Tasks How often a farmer checks a birthing pasture depends on how difficult it is to catch newborns. Most kids are awkward on their feet for a couple of days after birth. This is not true for many breeds of sheep. Most sheep farmers doing pasture lambing try to conduct all their birthing tasks (spray painting, ear-tagging, tail docking, etc.) when they first spot a new litter. Be sure to catch the entire litter to avoid the dam taking off with some of her offspring. You’ll get good at holding several newborns between your knees. Catching can be done using a leg crook or fish net. You must desensitize

Creep feeding to supplement dams’ milk is challenging on pastures because offspring want to follow their dams instead of congregating at a creep. Locate the creep near places where dams tend to lie down to chew their cud (near water, gates, or shade) to encourage offspring to explore it. Make sure the creep is well built so that the flock cannot collapse it.

Internal Parasites Nursing dams and their suckling offspring are vulnerable to internal parasites especially when pasture

On left: Some farmers prefer not to band tails for fear that discarded tails encourage predation.

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conditions are warm and damp as in late spring and summer. Animals should be monitored frequently for anemia (FAMACHA scores and lethargy), diarrhea and poor body condition, and selectively dewormed as necessary. In temperate climates barber pole populations peak about 35 days after the egg laden manure is deposited on a pasture but drop substantially by 60 days. Highly susceptible animals should be moved out of a paddock within 5 days and not returned for greater than 60 days. The pasture may need to be brush hogged or grazed by a different species during the extended rest period to keep from getting too mature.

Pasture birthing is not for farmers who feel they’ll have too little control of birthing at a time when their labor and attention needs to be focused instead on hay or field crops.

However, with wise advance planning, pasture birthing is a successful alternative for many farms to explore.

Tatiana Stanton is a Small Ruminant Extension Specialist in the Dept. of Animal Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She may be reached at 607-254-6024 or tls7@cornell.edu

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SMALL FARM QUARTERLY

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Is a Farm Loan Right for You?

by Noreen Atkins & John Flocke Nathaniel Thompson approached the Cortland NY FSA Credit Team in 2006 for loans to purchase a 5 acre parcel of land and build a barn in an attempt to expand his business.

Nathaniel is an organic vegetable farmer, specializing in salad greens and root crops. He markets his produce as Remembrance Farm, to local restaurants, grocery stores, and through the Full Plate Collective CSA in the Ithaca NY area, and always is attempting to expand his customer base.

At the time of his initial FSA loan application Nathaniel had been in business for 3 years and had recently moved his operation from the Hudson Valley to Tompkins County. At that point he was renting 10 acres of land South of Ithaca, NY. He had already established a solid customer base in the Ithaca, NY area and the business had a history of increasing sales. He planned to rent 15 acres of cropland and incorporate a sustainable cropping system to be the centerpiece

of a biodynamic organic farm. To ensure such a project worked Nathaniel decided to purchase land adjacent to the rented tract.

Nathaniel soon realized he would have little equity to purchase the real estate after closing costs and sought financial help to boost his business. After he was unable to obtain commercial credit for the land purchase and to construct the barn, he turned his attention to the NY Farm Service Agency Farm Loan Programs available to him. FSA was able to approve his request to purchase the 5 acres of land and build the cleaning/processing barn along with loans to refinance his equipment debt, purchase additional equipment and provide annual operating expenses.

Nathaniel's vision of a truly biodynamic farm was first initiated by adding a powerful ally, chickens. These birds play a crucial role on the farm by transforming the grain and pasture into fertilizer for the crops grown. The chickens are set out to pasture and rotate around the farm to consume the grasses, cover crops, bugs, and organic grains while leaving their special brand of organic fertilizer. The eggs are then sold locally and distributed through the farms CSA. The addition of chickens has allowed the farm to become not only a certified biodynamic farm but a model of sustainability.

Chickens are a very important aspect to the biodynamic nature of Remembrance Farm.

Since the first FSA loans were closed, Nathaniel's business has continued to grow, with gross income tripling since 2006. This boom has been assisted by additional FSA operating loans and a farm ownership loan. These loans and the overall success of the farm has allowed him to purchase an additional 35 adjacent acres, add high tunnels to his operation, expand his barn and build a machine shed. All of this expansion became a reality with the help of FSA and the dedication of a great New York State farmer.

The rows of greens are growing for Remembrance Farm’s CSA customers.

Photos by Emily Thompson

For information on Remembrance Farm, visit remembrancefarm.org/. For more information on Farm Service Agency programs, visit your local (county) office. You can find their locations by visiting: www.fsa.usda.gov/ and search by state and then county.

Nathaniel & Emily Thompson of Remembrance Farm.

RESOURCE SPOTLIGHTS

Report Rare Nuts, Please!

NY Nut Growers Association Seeks to Preserve Heirloom Nut Trees

by John Wertis In the 1930’s, a lot of interest developed in growing English (Persian) Walnuts in New York State. The Canadian Minister, the Rev. Paul Crath, had collected seed nuts and seedling trees from his native Poland and was growing them successfully in Southern Ontario. He formed a partnership with S.H. Graham, a nurseryman in Ithaca, NY, and many Crath Carpathian strain trees were marketed and planted throughout NYS and in other parts of the country through the 1950’s. Many of these trees have survived freeze, drought, and the Walnut Blight and continue as producers of large, crackable, tasty nuts today.

wood”, and carrying out the grafting and callusing processes employed in asexually reproducing valuable nut trees of several species.

For more information on the internship, or to report a rare tree, visit www.NYNGA.org, or contact John Wertis, president, at 607-387-4331, or bwwfarmtoday@aol.com.

The NY Nut Growers Association is seeking out Crath Carpathian and perpetuating their germ plasm by grafting and growing them on member’s farms and at the John Gordon Demonstration Nut Grove in Trumansburg, NY. Readers are encouraged to report the location of such trees to the Nut Growers Association for our expanding data base and for possible use in the “Heirloom Program”. If you have a large “English” walnut tree growing on your property that is producing a crop of edible nuts with some regularity, chances are good that it is of the Crath Carpathian strain and the Nut Growers Association would like to hear from you about it.

The NY Nut Growers Association also sponsors an annual internship in which individuals spend three full days gaining practical, hands-on experience in growing nut tree seedlings for “stock”, collecting and processing “scion

The “Stanley Carpathian” strain on the farm of the Roggan Family near Stanley, NY. NYNGA has made successful grafts from this tree.

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SMALL FARM QUARTERLY

HORTICULTURE

Grow Berries for All Seasons

by Cathy Heidenreich and Laura McDermott There are many reasons that growers would choose to extend the cropping season for berries. The earliest berries notably capture the best market prices - which is what growers strive for. On the latter end of the season, there may be late season marketing opportunities, and certainly creating as long a time as possible for berry sales is a good thing.

Season extension techniques may improve yield, fruit quality and shelf life, and possibly allow us to grow a wider variety of berries, all attributes that growers and consumers can be happy about.

When season extension is discussed lately, it often includes plant manipulation techniques, like tipping raspberries or removing blossoms of strawberries, or it might refer to environmental manipulation like using row covers or high tunnels to temporarily provide protection from an unsuitable environment. The easiest thing a grower can do to extend the berry season is to choose to grow berry crops that compliment each other seasonally, and then choose varieties that provide plentiful, high quality berries throughout the harvest season.

The following summaries are meant to be examples of the way a grower could choose overlapping varieties that would keep fresh, nutritious berries in front of his/ customers for the longest possible time - without doing any crop or environmental manipulation. As customers come to rely on local farms for their fruit needs, that will provide the incentive for more elaborate season extension efforts.

These summaries are not inclusive. There are dozens of varieties that could be substituted for the ones mentioned below. Growers should always try different varieties as fruit characteristics may differ between locations. Additional information about these and other varieties as well as the nurseries where you can order them is located at www.fruit.cornell.edu/berry/index.htm The earliest berries in New York State are strawberries.

Traditional June bearers and Day Neutral strawberries begin producing in May or June, depending on the microclimate. In cooler regions and with good variety selection, June bearers will continue into July, but day-neutrals will provide customers with fresh strawberries into October throughout most of New York - with just a bit of attention to frost protection.

Additionally, many other berry crops will start production in July including blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries and raspberries. Many of these can continue into September and possibly longer if the correct varieties are chosen and with slight modifications to environment.

Elderberries ripen in August and hardy Kiwifruit, soon to be very popular with consumers, is a great addition to the September market table.

Choosing the best berry varieties is not an easy task. There are hundreds of options, all touted to be the most delicious and productive. Growers need to consider local customer preferences in addition to pest resistance, vigor and timing.

The lists in Figure 1 may provide you with ideas for new varieties to try next season.

Figure 1: Blueberry, raspberry and strawberry varieties for an extended season.

Many of the berries in Figure 1 are familiar to growers, but the key is to have some of all varieties so that you can prolong the optimum harvest window. The area where many growers may be surprised at the varieties listed is in the fall raspberries. Most folks are still relying on Heritage to pull them through the autumn, but this is a mistake as the new varieties offer significant advances in earliness and fruit quality. The overall yield of these newer varieties will not approach Heritage, but having some nice looking early fall raspberries may encourage late summer pickers to return.

The chart also does not mention Day-Neutral strawberries. In New York, day neutral production relies largely on 4 varieties: Albion, Evie 2, Seascape and Tribute. Using these varieties in a number of different field or high tunnel production systems will add a great deal to berry season extension.

The blueberry variety plan is the most reliable in season stretching mainly because blueberries last so well on the plant. Still, in a year like summer 2010, the sustained heat really shortened the season, so most growers did not harvest much of anything past the 2nd week of August.

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Double Gold produces a deeply blushed, golden champagne-colored fruit with a distinctive conical shape, earning the "double" in its name for its two harvests per season. The first year of planting, the initial crop is produced in the fall on the tips of that year's canes, and a second crop is produced farther down the same canes the following summer.

Blueberries ready to pick Farmers in cold areas may get excited when they see the primocane blackberry varieties listed. Prime-Jim and PrimeJan have been around for several years and offer the cold climate berry grower the possibility of getting blackberries in normally un-hospitable zones. The problem is that these varieties still need a VERY long growing season before they can be harvested. In a 2008 Massachusetts study, both of these varieties started bearing by Sept. 15 and were finished by early October in the field. Compared to the same planting design under a high tunnel, which yielded 2.5 times more fruit that same season, it still suggest that some type of protection would really help fall bearing blackberries.

Summer blackberries likewise may need some environmental or plant manipulation in many NY regions, but for growers in Zones 5 and warmer, these plants offer a product highly desired by health conscious consumers.

Ribes, currants and gooseberries, are very popular with certain ethnic markets, but growers would profit by putting a bit of extra effort into marketing these fruit. Currants and gooseberries are featured in many cooking magazines and make great preserves. Black currants specifically have very high anti-oxidant levels and could be marketed to those folks that have home juicers.

Blackberry and ribes varieties for an extended season. *Susceptible to currant cane blight The possibility for making the most of your berry season begins with your winter order. Take plenty of time to look at the fruit you offer over the entire season and try hard to avoid dead zones when no fruit is available. Northeast growers will have to work hard to meet the local demand, but the end result will be worth it.

Cathy Heidenreich is a Berry Extension Support Specialist with Cornell University and she can be reached at mcm4@cornell.edu.

Laura McDermott is a Capital District Vegetable and Small Fruit Regional Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Washington County. She can be reached at lgm4@cornell.edu.

Crimson Night is more compact, making the dark purple canes a particularly attractive ornamental for container gardening or a backyard raspberry plot.

Small quantities will be available late this summer, and North American Plants expects to have enough plants to meet the anticipated demand of each variety by the spring of 2013. Plant patents will be filed later this year.

Interested growers can learn more about new Cornell berry varieties at open house events in July and September.

A mixed berry planting