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Young farmers honored during historic state annual meeting BINGHAMTON, NY — New York Farm Bureau honored outstanding young farmers during the organization’s State Annual Meeting the week of Dec. 9 in Binghamton. The announcement was made amid celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Farm Bureau system.

All winners will receive a cash prize and an expense paid trip to Hawaii this January to attend the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention.

Delaware County residents Lonny and Lizz Schaefer received the 2011 Young Farmer Achievement Award.

This award recognizes young farmers for their agricultural pursuits and leadership within the community. Recently married, the couple plans to expand their beef herd and vegetable acreage on an old dairy farm they purchased in Lonny’s hometown of Deposit, NY. The Schaefers were also awarded use of a Kubota M Series utility tractor.

Heath Eisele of Genesee County was named winner of the discussion meet.

Heath is a graduate of Ohio State University and currently serves as a district conservationist for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. He resides in Alexander, NY, with his wife, Tracy, son Merrick and daughter, Adelynn. Heath currently serves as District 2 Representative to the NYFB State Young Farmer Committee.

The Discussion meet simulates a committee meeting with contestants working cooperatively as they discuss

issues important to agriculture. Participants are judged on their cooperative attitude, analysis of the topic, problem solving and implementation strategies and their delivery. The final topic for discussion this year was: How can we convince the public that the animal agriculture industry balances production efficiencies with the public’s expectations of animal care? Eisele will also receive a prize from Grainger Industrial Supply.

Oswego County resident Bethany Wallis is the 2011 recipient of the Excellence in Agriculture Award. This award is designed as an opportunity for young farmers and ranchers to earn recognition while actively contributing and growing through their involvement in Farm Bureau and agriculture. Participants are judged on their involvement with agriculture, leadership ability and involvement with community organizations.

Bethany is currently employed as the organic dairy education coordinator for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and has created many resources for farmers including the Organic Dairy Handbook.

She is a member of the Oswego County Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Committee and is a minority member for Farm Service Agency in addition to being active in her church. As the award recipient, Bethany will receive a Stihl MS 290 Farm Boss chainsaw from Stihl Power Equipment.

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NYFB President Norton (far right) with Lizz and Lonny Schaefer winners of the Young Farmer Achievement Award.

President Norton with Discussion Meet winner Heath Eisele.

NYFB President Dean Norton with Bethany Wallis winner of the Excellence in Agriculture Award.

Your stories: Growing up country The “Your Stories” series in Country Folks will highlight stories written by farmers across New York State.

by Catherine Hagerman There is quite a lot to say about spending your tumultuous teenage years on the farm. There’s nothing like hard work, long hours, and (often) uncomfortable weather conditions, to help work out some teenage angst. Being so close to the food source and watching life unfold and sometimes end in front of you really puts things in perspective, makes an impression on an impressionable mind.

I spent five years, from age 13 to 18, working on a few different neighborhood farms. There were many mornings of getting up before dawn, and during long New York winters, getting home long after the sun set. I’ve poured milk straight out of the bulk tank onto my cereal; I’ve chowed down while patrolling up and down the

barn, keeping an eye on the cows getting milked. I’ve eaten while my hands were still dirty, too hungry to care about cleaning first. I’ve peeled off gloves after a day of working out in sub-zero temperatures, convinced that all my fingers were doomed with frostbite; I’ve raced up the nearest tree to get away from an ornery bull who felt I didn’t have the right to take away the cows he was entertaining.

There’s a lot I miss about those years growing up. I miss having warm, nutritious and filling meal waiting for me when I got home from a long day. My mother was superb at feeding her daughter, even if her meals were a bit inventive at times.

Before I was old enough to drive, she would get up with me in the darkness, make me a hot breakfast, and with me swaddled in layers of long johns and Carhart, would drive me to the farm.

There would be mornings when I would

walk into the barn and was greeted by utter chaos: cows had gotten loose and were dissembling the neatly stacked hay, there were new babies wandering around who needed to be matched up with dams, the water lines had frozen and everyone was thirsty, the Skid steer wouldn’t start. I would sip my coffee and just shake my head. Then it was time to switch on some tunes and get to work putting things back to right.

The circle of life is always present on the farm. There was often a calf to pull out when the cow was either having physical difficulties or just didn’t feel like putting forth effort. It didn’t matter how many calves I helped out into the world; every new birth came with a feeling of triumph and happiness. It was something akin to pure joy watching a little bugger stumble to its feet and start bouncing around a pen, kicking up its heels with that aban-

donment that only the young possess.

Of course, with life often comes death.

There would be animals that you would feel sure weren’t going to make it through the night and they would make a miraculous recovery and be stronger for how weak they once were. Then there were others that seemed fine when you fed them at night, and would need to be buried the next morning. There were calves that were born not breathing and despite your best efforts to clear out the mucus and get the tiny lungs pumping, pretty soon the weak heartbeat would stop. And a cow mourning her calf is a heartbreaking thing to witness.

These days I’m back to living in the city, far removed from four o’clock mornings and fresh milk. The city life has its advantages, sure, but there are memories that will forever put a smile on my face.

New York Agri-Women sends pumpkin farmer to Tokyo New York Agri-Women member Erica Leubner inspired Japanese women involved in agriculture during her recent presentation to The Rural Women Empowerment and Life Improvement (“WELI”) Association in Tokyo, Japan.

Leubner, the co-owner of Tim’s Pumpkin Patch in Marietta, NY, was selected to represent New York Agri-Women because of her success as a female entrepreneur and experience with agri-tainment. The title of her presentation was: Developing a Successful Agri-Business Using Your Strengths and Simplicity. Leubner shared with the group her decisions and successes at achieving a higher education, marrying a dairy farmer, and raising three daughters all while growing Tim’s Pumpkins Patch, a full service agri-tourism operation attracting thousands of visitors annually. The heart of Leubner’s presentation focused on growing a business slowly, giving consumers what they ask for, keeping the farm authentic, and most importantly, how she created a niche for herself within the family business in which she married.

Leubner’s presenta-

Leuber speaking at the conference.

Leubner speaking with attendees about U.S. Agriculture after the conference.

tion took her beyond her own farm, as she found herself playing the role of an ambassador for U.S. agriculture. The inquisitive audience questioned the international focus of U.S. agricultural labor, farm subsidies, the U.S. debt, corporate agriculture, and President’s Obama’s plans for further expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) for agricultural products. Setting emotion aside, Leubner proudly defended the misconceptions of America. Leuber proud-

ly told the audience that she “like many other farm women around the world rise at 5 a.m. every morning to do my share to feed the world, and support the family unit.”

Leubner continued, “the conference attendees soon realized that although, we lived on different continents, our roles and responsibilities as farm women were similar.”

Leubner will be making a presentation about her trip to Tokyo at the second annual New York Agri-Women meeting to

be held in Riverhead, New York on March 3, 2012. New York AgriWomen will have two panelists next spring at the United Nations Commission on Women in New York, New York discussing food security.

New York Agri-Women is a state affiliate of American Agri-Women. It was organized in 2010 by Cari Rincker, a food and agriculture attorney in New York City. For more information about New York Agri-Women, please visit www.newyorkagriwomen.com.

Leubner with Hitomi Tomizawa from WELI. Photos courtesy of New York Agri-Women

Skaneateles Lake Watershed Ag Program meets on ‘Make Safety a Priority on Your Farm’ regular on-farm safety training. The meeting program was developed to stimulate local farm safety awareness and encourage farm preparedness in the watershed. The event drew representatives from local watershed farms interested in preserving water quality as well as enhancing and developing environmental stewardship on their own farming operations.

The Ag program’s mission is to carry out a cost-effective, innovative program for the farming community that upholds the high drinking water quality standards of Skaneateles Lake. The Skaneateles Lake Watershed Agricultural Program is a cooperative effort between the City of Syracuse, the Soil & Water Conservation Districts and Cornell Cooperative Extension associations of Onondaga, Cortland and Cayuga counties, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Skaneateles Lake watershed farmers. Principal funding is provided by the City of Syracuse.

For more information contact Ag Program Manager, Mark Burger at 315677-4630 or mburger@ocswcd.org.

Jim Carrabba at SLWAP annual meeting.

Photo courtesy of Skaneateles Lake Watershed Ag Program

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On Dec. 8, the Skaneateles Lake Watershed Ag Program (SLWAP) held its annual meeting at the Skaneateles Presbyterian Church; with about 50 people attending. The topics included: How Farms Adjust to BMP Management, Forestry Management, USDA Programs Update, and Make Safety a Priority on Your Farm. The event kicked off with a review of the SLWAP 2011 farm conservation projects and Dennis Birdsall’s experience how he changed his local beef farm’s management to adjust for significant Best Management Practices (BMPs) which helped reduce non-point source pollution in the watershed.

John Graham from NYS DEC spoke on Forestry Management which encourages responsible timber harvesting according to a site specific plan. Before the hot “local foods” buffet lunch, Dennis DeWeese updated the participants on the USDA NRCS program. The afternoon speaker was Jim Carrabba from New York Center for Agricultural Medicine & Health speaking on “Make Safety a Priority on Your Farm”. He encouraged farm emergency pre-planning, identifying possible safety hazards, and

Upcoming Farm Bill challenges — conservation title

by Sally Colby The 2012 Farm Bill, the legislation that sets government farm and food policy, is currently on the table.

Although there is already considerable controversy about proposed changes, farmers have an opportunity to express their views and make suggestions about how to best use funds.

“The Farm Bill has been very evolutionary,” said Jim Shortle, professor of ag and environmental economics at Penn State University. “We have taken the basic structure and changed it over time to serve a broader set of purposes. Environmental aspects have expanded, beginning in the 1980s.” Although most of the money allocated in the Farm Bill goes into nutrition and commodity programs, farmers are interested in other aspects of the legislation, including conservation programs.

During an open discussion focused on the conservation title portion of the Farm Bill, Shortle stated that farmers are most interested in programs related to soil quality, water quality and wildlife habitat. He pointed out that conservation programs fall under technical assistance programs, which help people figure out how to do things, and voluntary financial assistance programs, which help them pay for those things.

“Those programs are broadly categorized as land retirement programs,” he said, “with CRP being the number one. Those programs entail switching

Farm Bill conservation programs such as CRP provide landowners with funding to plant trees that help maintain waterway boundaries and control erosion. Wildlife habitat is enhanced, especially with the use of duck nesting boxes such as the one in this CRP area.

Photo by Sally Colby

land from crop production into other non-intensive uses that are viewed as being good for the environment.”

Land retirement programs tend to be used by smaller farms, while working lands programs are used by large farms.

Cover photo by Sally Colby

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The environmental quality incentives program, or EQIP, helps farmers with best management practices for soil erosion control, pollution control and other practices. EQIP is the number one working lands program and the second largest program for funding.

Shortle says that by the end of this decade, all tax money raised under the existing revenue structure will cover only the cost of entitlements and interest. “All of the things you might think of as really important functions of government — defense, conservation, environmental protection — there won’t be money to cover it,” he said. “It’s an unsustainable system. It’s not going to work, and we have to change it. There are a lot of people who are fighting to get money into the Farm Bill to do the things it has done in the past, and they may succeed, but we will be looking at a shrinking budget for conservation programs.”

In order to maintain programs, Shortle says that it’s time to start thinking about how to get the best use from our money. “The Farm Bill has a range of interest groups that have interest in specific program components, and they would all like to have those components stay and grow, but they’re not — they’re going to change. The changes will be designed to make better use of our money.”

Shortle explained that ‘targeting’ is directing money to address specific problems in specific places to get the most out of that money without spreading it too thin. “Targeting has been a bad word because everyone wants some of the money,” he said.

“Look at programs like CRP and EQIP — there are a lot of people who want that money and can’t get it.”

When if comes to funding, Shortle says that states in the Midwest tend to fare better than mid-Atlantic states because the senate ag committee, which is the determiner for farm policy in the U.S., is historically dominat-

ed by Midwest senators. “Those areas aren’t necessarily the best place to be spending that money for the public purposes they’re supposed to be addressing,” said Shortle. “We have significant issues in this part of the country — where should they rank compared to the Midwest?”

As far as implementation of programs, Shortle says that the targets should be naming priorities and goals, and how to reach those targets.

“What mix of education, technical assistance and financial assistance do we need?” he said. “Numerous studies show that education about conservation goals can be really helpful in helping people understand these issues and take them on.”

Farmers should also consider whether they want to work on those goals quickly (which means more money immediately), or over a given period of time. “We’ve been working on the Chesapeake Bay for over 30 years,” said Shortle. “Some people don’t think we’ve made nearly enough progress, and they want to speed up that progress quite a bit. If you’re going to speed it up, you’re going to spend more money. How much do you want to accomplish in any one conservation objective? In thinking about controlling nutrient pollution how deep do we need to cut?”

Shortle says that we need to think about other ways to create effective conservation programs. “The Farm Bill might not do the things it used to do — what other resources can we utilize?” he said. “As resources shrink, we have to be partners with people that we didn’t used to partner with — we have to begin to leverage resources.” One example of such cooperation is American Farmland Trust putting money into best management practices in Pennsylvania.

Should financial assistance programs be activity or performance based? “Performance programs ask what is the goal we want to achieve, then base payments on that goal,” said Shortle. “In general, performance-basing is viewed as good idea, but often, programs are based not on performance but on activities undertaken. For example, EQIP is a collection of formulas for adoption of specific practices, usually BMPs. If you’re going to reward performance, you have to be able to measure it. Some incentive programs are fixed-payment: the farmer knows how much he will receive for certain activities completed. A new approach, which is used in the CRP, is competitive bidding, which you don’t know what you’re going to get. You submit a bid, and if it’s accepted, you know what you’re going to get.” Competitive bidding requires more effort from the farmer — a fixed payment program is easier — but competitive bidding saves the government money.

Shortle urges farmers to consider the conservation accomplishments of various programs as well as benefits and costs to farmers, consumers and farm input suppliers. However, these programs also serve consumers, so it’s important to consider how these programs provide benefits beyond the agricultural community — making the case for public money ultimately helps demonstrate good stewardship.

by Jay Girvin, Esq., Girvin & Ferlazzo. P.C., Albany, NY Q. A neighboring residential property owner has recently complained that noise and odor coming from my farm operations are a “nuisance” and has threatened to take me to court. What can I do?

A. The manner in which a particular property is used can sometimes produce effects that travel beyond property lines. An owner who habitually plays loud music late at night, for example, may disturb the peace and enjoyment of close neighbors. While people living in an organized community are expected to tolerate some degree of annoyance and inconvenience from each other, New York common law has long recognized that no one may make an unreasonable use of their property to the material injury of a neighbor’s right to use and enjoy his

or her land. Where a landowner’s conduct is unreasonable and results in a substantial interference with a neighbor’s use and enjoyment of his or her land, the neighbor may file a “private nuisance” lawsuit to both stop the conduct and recover any damages resulting from the interference.

Over the years, residential development has encroached more and more into traditionally rural areas. The close proximity of residences and farms can lead to disputes regarding the offsite impacts of farming operations, including such conditions as noise and odors. For example, a farmer may decide to implement a manure management program through the U.S. Natural Resource Conservation Service in which animal manure stored in a concrete pit is emptied periodically and applied to the farmer’s crops. This

practice, agricultural however, may generate complaints from nearby neighbors that the concentrated odor associated with the storage of large volumes of manure is adversely affecting their air quality and substantially interfering with the use and enjoyment of their properties, both indoors and outdoors. One or more of the neighbors may file, or threaten to file, a civil lawsuit claiming that the farmer’s operations constitute a private nuisance and requesting an award of money damages.

Unless settled between the parties, most civil private nuisance suits are resolved at a trial, with a jury panel deciding whether the landowner’s conduct was an unreasonable use of his or her property that resulted in a substantial interference with his or her neighbor’s right to use and enjoy their property.

The litigation process can be very time consuming and very expensive. Section 308 of the Agriculture and Markets Law, however, affords certain farmers an alternative means of determining the reasonableness of their

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on what is dubiously referred to as cheese trading, as practiced on the cheese floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

This traded cheese comprises less than 1 percent of total U.S. milk production. It is offered in 50,000 pound “carload” lots; often at low-ball prices, seemingly against the offering trader’s immediate financial interest. This practice is termed: “trading against one’s interest.” In this instance, it represents collusion. Collusion amongst these cheese traders, who front for multinational dairy corporations, is done to deliberately down-skew the CME sale data which will be collected by USDA in the knowledge the data will become the formula basis for future U.S. farm price calculations. In this fashion these dairy corporations “game” the system; subverting this CME market mechanism to deliberately down-value the remaining 99+ percent of U.S. farm milk output.

Short-selling one or two carloads of cheese can lower the future USDA Farm Milk Price and re-

duce these conspiring corporations’ overall monthly milk assembly costs by tens of millions of dollars. This scam translates to a systematic, continual financial short-changing of the nation’s dairy farmers.

This CME system gaming has not gone unnoticed in the halls of Congress. Currently at point on the issue is New York’s junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. At an August agricultural listening session in Westfield, NY, the Senator stated: “There is no transparency or honesty in the pricing mechanism at all, I want to push the envelope that there is a disconnect between the (farm) price of milk and how we come up with it through the price of cheese in Chicago. I think there is a lot of corruption and anti-trust behavior that is there to keep the (farm) price down.”

Until the collapse of the Super Committee negotiations there was a very real danger that the best interests of the nation’s dairy farmers were going to be sacrificed to politi-

by-case basis, whether the particular agricultural practice at issue is sound. In conducting the investigation, the Commissioner may conduct an onsite review of the practice in operation, may interview neighbors, and may consult with appropriate state or federal agencies. Under the department’s current guidelines, a number of factors are to be considered in determining whether an agricultural practice is sound: Is the practice consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local laws that reasonably govern farm operations? Does the practice result in significantly adverse health consequences or property damage off the farm?

Does the practice achieve the results intended in a reasonable and supportable way? Are there alternative practices available that could produce equal

or superior results, without undue cost or disruption to farm operations, while reducing or avoiding off-farm impacts?

If, upon investigation, the Commissioner issues a written opinion finding that the agricultural practice at issue is sound, Section 308(3) provides that such practice “shall not constitute a private nuisance” for the purposes of any civil action filed against the owner of the land, provided that the land is either located in a agricultural district or subject to an agricultural assessment.

Section 308 therefore allows a farmer to obtain, in advance of any lawsuit or trial, a binding determination that a particular agricultural practice is not a private nuisance through an administrative process that is much less time consuming and much less expensive than litigation.

cal expediency. Post-collapse, the 2012 Farm Bill process now has an opportunity to revert to a slower, more thoughtful, deliberate and measured pace. U.S. dairy farmers must take advantage this precious opportunity and bend it to answer their purpose.

Senator Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security is urging Senate Ag. Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, (D-MI) to hold hearings to explore the limitations and shortcomings of the current USDA Milk Price Formula. Senator Gillibrand is on record as wanting to craft a fair, transparent price formula based on reliable price discovery factors to counter the chicanery routinely generated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange cheese floor. All parties interested in a bright future for the American dairy industry should close ranks behind the Senator and aid her in any way possible in this pursuit.

Reworking the USDA Milk Price Formula will not be an end-all solution for our nation’s dairy

farmers. However, without a remaking of the basic price formula all other proposed measures currently before Congress, either on their own, or in concert, are doomed to fail in curing the ongoing and seemingly unending crisis on the nation’s dairy farms.

Seldom in life are there second chances, yet this is exactly what has been bequeathed to U.S. dairymen. It would be the height of folly for dairymen and their allies to ignore the resulting opportunity to enlighten their Senators and House members of what is needed to correct the U.S. dairy industry in the upcoming drafting of the dairy portion of the 2012 Farm Bill. Regardless of what other solutions are adopted, for ultimate success, a total retooling of the USDA Milk Price Formula must be at the head of the 2012 Farm Bill dairy initiative “to do list.”

Failure to address the inadequacy of the current USDA Price Formula and the CME price discovery system that feeds it bogus price information portends the eventual decline of the U.S. dairy industry itself. This is an American industry truly too vital, too strategic and too big to be al-

lowed to fail.

U.S. dairymen must come to the realization that no one, regardless of their high flown rhetoric — not their milk cooperative management, the American Farm Bureau, the National Milk Producers Federation nor its Congressional waterboy, Rep. Collin Peterson, (D-MN) has the U.S. dairy farmer’s back or any right to speak for them in the 2012 Farm Bill dairy fight. If U.S. dairy farmers want an honest, successful conclusion for their ongoing milk price difficulties, they are going to have to make it happen themselves, on their own initiative.

Regardless of whatever pet Congressional dairy reform proposal each individual U.S. dairy farmer favors, dairymen need to unite and get behind Senator Gillibrand and her allies in Congress, now, in force and with a will. The USDA Farm Milk Price Formula must be reformed: the future of U.S. dairy farming depends on it, absolutely.

Nate Wilson, Sinclairville, NY Nate Wilson, 64, has retired from a 40-year career as a dairy farmer on a small grassland dairy farm in Chautauqua County, NY

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Super Committee In the Nov. 22nd failure of the Congressional “Super Committee” U.S. dairy farmers dodged a bullet. Had the Super Committee not broken up in the confusion of Babel, the nation’s dairy farmers might already be saddled with a 2012 Farm Bill dairy initiative that would have been largely against their interest. In the run-up to the Super Committee deadline powerful Washington lobbying forces in concert with a select member of Congress were confidently moving to impose a dairy proposal of greater utility and advantage to the management of the nation’s largest dairy cooperatives and dairy processors than to the nation’s dairy farmers.

None of the numerous 2012 Farm Bill dairy proposals currently before the House and Senate Ag. Committees take note of, or proposes a remedy for what should be seen as the obvious elephant in the room: the market failure that is the USDA Farm Milk Price Formula.

This formula is based

agricultural practices and avoiding protracted civil litigation.

Section 308 authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets to issue opinions, upon the request of any person, regarding whether particular agricultural practices are sound. To qualify as an agricultural practice, the practice must be necessary to the on-farm production, preparation and marketing of agricultural commodities. By way of example, Section 308 identifies agricultural practices as including the operation of farm equipment, the proper use of agricultural chemicals and other crop protection methods, the direct sale to consumers of agricultural commodities produced on the farm, and agricultural tourism.

The Commissioner will conduct an investigation to determine, on a case-

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Stability Amidst Volatility program planned

by Aaron Gabriel, Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program Are you getting “queezy” from the roller coaster ride of extreme weather and fluctuating markets? On Jan. 17, 2012, at The Century House in Latham, NY, the conference “Stability Amidst Volatility: Growing Crops and Feeding Livestock” will give you the tools and a new way of thinking to manage your business through a volatile business climate. There will also be a trade show of ag suppliers and professionals. On the program, Mike Bittel, senior vice-president of King Arthur Flour, will give his insights into grain markets for the coming years, and the management skills that it takes to participate in commodity markets.

Born and raised on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Mike is the grain buyer for King Arthur Flour and is always managing the grain roller coaster of commodity markets.

With the “game rules” of the farming and business changing so quickly, Jason Karzses, Cornell ProDairy Program, will discuss what new information and skills it will take to manage a business into the volatile future. Learn what you need to understand about volatility in the business environment.

Larry Chase, Cornell University, is our most experienced faculty on dairy nutrition. He has been closely analyzing dairy nutrition and farm profitability. How much forage can be used in a dairy ration and which supplements are required? Can corn be replaced entirely in a ration? What strategy should we take in a year with low forage inventories? Larry has the experience to answer these dairy nutrition questions and more.

There will also be a panel of farmers to discuss their feeding strategies including high forage diets, snaplage, and growing all your own grains. Another area of volatility is weather. How do we grow consistently good

crops when the 25-year rain comes every four years on top of other weather extremes?

What agronomic practices can be used to manage the soil, pests, fertility, and crop environment to ensure high yields?

Aaron Gabriel, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Crops and Soils Educator will discuss practices to grow crops in adverse conditions, and how local weather patterns affect what we do.

Charlie Koines, New York State Crop Insur-

ance Education Program, will discuss the future of crop and livestock insurance programs. Two farmers will explain how to make crop insurance and Livestock Gross Margin -Dairy insurance work for you.

So, mark your calendar for Jan. 17 and come to The Century House for a timely conference to help you chart the future of your business and trade show to talk with your ag professionals and suppliers. $45 pre-reg-

istration is due by Jan. 12, 2012. Call Gale Kohler, 518-765-3510 or gek4@cornell.edu for registration information and Aaron Gabriel, 518-380-1496 or adg12@cornell.edu for program information.

Final Rule a first step for family farmers and ranchers, but not the last WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published the Final Rule implementing protection provisions for farmers and ranchers under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA): “While the Final Rule is a good first step, it is certainly

not a last step. We are disappointed that Congress passed a Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations bill that prevents additional portions of the rule from advancing. In particular, it is critical that the competitive injury portion of the rule be implemented. Currently, a producer must prove that a packer’s anti-competitive practices damaged the entire marketplace. Clarification of competitive injury is needed so that the producer would only have to prove that his or her operation was hurt by

such actions, a much more reasonable standard.

In choosing to prevent the competitive injury portion of the rule from moving forward, Congress has clearly chosen to put the interests of large packers ahead of family farmers and ranchers.

“After more than one year of discussion and more than 60,000 comments received, USDA has issued a Final Rule that provides some protection to family farmers and ranchers across the country. This rule will make the livestock

market at least somewhat more transparent and fair.

The rule clarifies whether the requirement of additional capital investments for poultry growers and swine producers violates the Packers and Stockyards Act, and ensures poultry dealers have a reasonable period of time to remedy a breach of contract.

“We will continue working with this administration and Congress to ensure that family farmers and ranchers are able to compete in a fair and open marketplace.”

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

Ones that got away Earlier this month my son Peter, who works and lives in one of New York City’s Connecticut suburbs, forwarded me an Internet headline which read: “Town tries ‘bait cow’ to lure wayward heifer.” I will try to summarize the small Reuters News Service article which followed the headline: This past mid-September, a wayward

heifer, weighing about 1,500 pounds (presumably a beefer), fell off the back of a truck and had been wandering loose in Plattsmouth, NE, ever since (as of Dec. 1). Animal control officers in that city, on that date, corralled a “bait cow” in a community tennis court to help lure the elusive heifer in from the cold. “We know that she’s back in the area because we found

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where she beds down during the day,” said Sue Baker, the animal control officer for the city, located 20 miles south of Omaha. “We hope she sees the other cow and joins her in the tennis courts when she walks by next time.”

Plattsmouth’s loose woman (bovine, of course) fell onto a city street when the truck was detoured into the community. The driver was unaware that he had lost a passenger.

The Plattsmouth heifer had been hiding in woods on the north edge of town during the day and coming out at night to graze on grass lawns. The 1,500-pound heifer appeared healthy, Baker said. “Now that there’s nothing to graze in the countryside, she’s coming into town for food,” she said. On Nov. 30, Baker almost led the heifer into the tennis court to join the “bait cow”, but a small barking dog spooked the heifer away.

On the subject of escaping life forms, the one most commonly in the news these days is methicillin-resistant Staphyllococcus aureus (abbreviated MRSA). According to a British Web site (http://treatingstaphsuperbugmrsa.com/allicin), over one million metric tons of antibiotics have been dispersed into the biosphere in the past 50

years to cure countless bacterial infections, half for human use and half for animal use. The problem with this shotgun approach, as with any method which attacks a population of what we consider pests, is that the weaker individuals die, but the ones with natural immunity to the pesticide survive to fight … and reproduce prolifically… another day.

In this sense, antibiotics are pesticides just like herbicides and fungicides (-cide comes from a Latin word meaning “kill”). Cases of antibiotic-resistance have been documented since the 1950s, but science drowned the fear of unconquerable bacteria with a steady stream of new, more powerful antibiotics.

Monsters, called “Antibiotic-resistant Super Bugs” have destroyed any illusion that we have won the war against infectious diseases. Medical doctors, by their own admission, are frustrated and frightened.

Fortunately Mother Nature, in the face of this pharmaceutical stalemate, is making a countermove against MRSA and other virulent pathogens. Many hospitals in the UK, and to a lesser extent, the U.S., have accepted her weapon of choice, namely allicin, the bio-

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tive ingredient, allicin, may become a much bigger player on the health scene. Allicin contains the same reactive sulfur group that sulfa drugs, the very first antibiotics, contained back in the 1930s. In their more natural form these sulfur compounds appear more effective against MRSA than synthetic sulfur-based antibiotics.

A closing comment on the UK Web site ran: “Garlic’s health benefits are truly legendary, but only now, in the 21st century, has its potential to conquer modernday health challenges been revealed. At long last, after 80 years of trying to release the ‘mother substance’, the allicin molecule is now available to assist mankind, where modern medicine is failing us.”

Some time ago, in my involvement with organic agriculture, I learned that garlic has medicinal properties. Garlic fed to chicks substitutes for one on the -cycline drugs, I believe, Aureomycin.

Armed with that knowledge, I began feeding very young calves a garlic clove to supplement their new-born colostrum feeding. I would bite a clove to activate the allicin, stick it between my two longest fingers, and poke it down past the calf’s tongue. This practice apparently worked quite well. Within organic circles, garlic has been shown to counter round worms. In one situation where I recommended garlic as a dewormer in dry cows, the farmer observed that when the cows freshened, the calves had much fewer respiratory problems.

Garlic-eaters get bitten by mosquitoes less often than non-garlic eaters. Garlic eaters are less prone to blood clots than non-garlic-eaters, which means people on blood thinners should avoid garlic. Garlic appears to be telling MRSA. “you can run, but you cannot hide”. If the Plattsmouth heifer is still on the loose, Ms. Baker should not try to lure her with garlic. It takes a while for most animals to get used to it. Myself, I find that when I crack a garlic clove with my teeth, prior to feeding it to a calf, I get a serious hankering for Italian food.

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chemical produced by garlic.

Garlic, the prominent member of genus Allium (which also includes onion and leeks) produces a natural chemical called alliin in its cloves (and scapes, the vegetative portion)… no, I didn’t leave out a letter. When a garlic clove is cracked, oxygen hits the alliin, and chemically changes it to allicin, which now yields a lot more odor, as well as medicinal properties.

Currently, there are several National Health Service hospitals in the UK that use allicin to treat MRSA, because it kills this pathogen which has, to date, escaped human attempts to control, or kill it, with synthetic drugs. This contribution from garlic is proving to be a God-send to human (and animal) wellness.

According to the UK Web site mentioned earlier, today infectious disease is ranked, world-wide, as the #1 people killer.

Medical authorities are well aware that they are barely “one step ahead of catastrophe,” unable to defend patients against an onslaught of diseases for which there remains little, if any, effective medical treatment.

Physicians agree that they are losing the battle for our health. Infectious diseases have returned to their former pre-antibiotic prominence.

Many of these same scientists now admit they are looking at natural alternatives to help bail us out. Enter allicin. Great physicians, herbalists and healers have long suggested that garlic is good for human health. Garlic has been used around the world, dating back over 5,000 years. Egyptian slaves building the pyramids were provided rations of garlic, not only to improve the quality of their daily rations, but also to keep them free of disease.

More recently, longevity studies conducted by Dr. Narain at the Public Health Department in Delhi, India, revealed that 98 percent of all people over 100 years old consumed at least one clove of garlic every day. According to a recent U.S., study conducted by the National Cancer Institute, garlic and similar vegetables may be the reason why Chinese men have so little prostate cancer.

These and other recent developments indicate that garlic’s primary ac-

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The Keystone Farm Show Has More Commercial Exhibits Than Any Other Farm Show In PA! ABS Global, Inc • W-309 ACR Metal Roofing • 128 Adams Building Contractors of PA • W-320, W-321 Adams Supply • W-314 ADM - Crop Risk Management • 212 Advanced Biofuels USA • H-308 Advanced Biological Marketing • E-363 Advanced Solar Industries, LLC • 622, 623 Aerotech Ventilation Systems • 288, 289 AET Consulting • 260 Ag Com, Inc & Miller Chemical • E-359, E-360 Ag Essentials • 258, 259 AgChoice Farm Credit • 234 Aggrand Fertilizers • 707 Agpoint Construction Services • 129 Agri Analysis Inc • 621 Agri-Basics, Inc • 242, 243 Agri-King • 126 Agri-Nutrition Consulting, Inc • L-300 Agri-Plastics Mfg • 448 Agri-SC • 209 Agri-Service • O-104 Agri-Trac, Inc • W-330 Agromatic, Inc • 219, 220 AIC - Agricultural Instruments Corp • 532 Albers Dairy Equipment • W-300, W-301 American Farm Mortgage • 718 American Farm Products • 531 Amerseal Tire Sealant • 604 Anderson Group • W-348B Animal Medic / PortaCheck, Inc.• E-373 APC, Inc • 430 Appleby Systems, Inc • 437 Atlantic Tractor, Deer Country, Finch Services • W-353 Automatic Farm Systems • 121 AutoVent, LLC • 253, O-109 B&R Distributing • S Bag Man, LLC • 270, 271 Baker Lime • 208 Balsbaugh Insurance Agency, Inc • E-348 Bath Fitter • 703, 704 Beco Equipment • 215, 216 Beiler-Campbell Realtors & Auctioneers • L-306 Benco Poly Film • 211 Bergman Mfg., Inc • 274 Better Bilt Storage, Inc • 138 Binkley & Hurst LP • E-352, O-315 Bio-Vet, Inc • W-313 Bobcat of York • E-379 Boumatic • 120 Brecknock Builders LLC • 616 Brown Bear Corp • 537 Business Lease Consultants, Inc • W-325 CB Structures • 412 CBM Electronic Lighting • L-213, L-214 C.H. Evans • 709 C.K. Replacement Stalls • E-353A Canns-Bilco Distributors, Inc • W-328, W-329 Cargill, Inc • E-344 Cedar Crest Equipment • 130 Central Petroleum Company (Cen-Pe-Co) • W-351 Channel Bio, LLC • 232, 233 Chase’s Farm and Home (Conklin) • H Chemgro Seed Co • W-323, W-324 Chesapeake Bay Foundation • L-204 Claas of America • 102 Clean Cutter Flail & Tiller Blade Co • 419 Cobra Torches, Inc • 218 Conewango Products Corp. • 223, 234 Conklin Company • 715, 716 Country Folks • 720 CPS • 200, 201, 202, 203 Cramaro Tarp Systems, Inc • 413 Crop Care Equipment by Paul B, LLC • 113 CRV • 612 Cummings & Bricker, Inc • E-354 Dairy Marketing Services • E-341, E-342, E-343 Dairy One • E-345, E-346 Dairymaster USA, Inc • E-367 Deep Valley Farm • E-357 Dekalb / Asgrow • W-352 DeLaval, Inc • 227B, 228, 229, 229A, 230, 231 Dick Meyer Co., Inc • 284 Diesel Pro Inc • 606 Diller Equipment • L-212, O-108 Dixie Chopper Lawn Mowers • E-309, E-310 Doeblers • W-339, W-340 Donegal Insurance Group • 411 Dow Agriscience • 213, 214 Dr. Register & Assoc., Inc • W-305 Dryhill Mfg / Twin Valley Farms Service, LLC • 505, 515, 449A DTN - The Progessive Farmer • 220A Dyna-Tech Industries • 250, 250A E&F Ag Systems, LLC • E-311

Ed Hoover Construction, LLC • D Edward Jones • 719 Elanco Animal Health • E-334, E-335 Electrocell Technologies • 705, 722 Eli Fisher Construction • 441 EM Herr Equipment • 446 Emm Sales & Service, Inc • E-369, E-370 Energy Systems & Installations • 614, 615 Equipment Service • 442 Esch Mfg • E-375 Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Group • E-356 Evergreen Fence, Inc • W-311 Farm and Land Realty, Inc • L-301 Farm Works Software • 414, 415 Farmco Mfg • O-308 Farmer Boy Ag Supply • 125 Farmer’s Friend • 600 Farming, The Journal of Northeast Ag • 618 Fastline Publications • 610 Feedmobile, Inc - FMI • E-368 Fetterville Sales • H-304 Fisher & Thompson, Inc • 110 Five Star International • O-313 F.M. Brown’s Sons, Inc • 409, 410 Franklin Builders • 225, 226 Frontlink, Inc • 417, 418 Fulton Bank • 206 Garber Farms • 503, 451 GEA Farm Technologies, Inc • 104A Genex Cooperative • W-312 Glatfelter Pulp Wppd Co • 711 Goodville Mutual Casualty Co • E-316, E-317 Great Plains Mfg., Inc • W-348A Gro-Mor Plant Food Co Inc • 127 Ground Water Assesment • E-340 Growers Mineral Solutions • 246 Growmark FS, LLC • E-321, E-322 GVM, Inc • 114 H&S Manufacting Co. Inc • W-354, O-304 Hamilton Equipment, Inc • 445 Hardi North America, Inc • E-371 Harsco Minerals • 536 Hawaiian Moon • 607 Hershey Equipment Co., Inc • 444 Hillside Ag Construction, LLC • W-337, W-338 Hoard’s Dairyman • L-209 Homestead Nutrition, Inc • 285, 286, 287 Hoober Feeds • E-314 Hoober, Inc • E-377, O-314 Hoof Trimmers Association, Inc • 269 Horning Mfg., LLC • 501 Hubbard Feeds • L-201 Hubner Seed • H-302, H-303 Hud-Son Forest Equipment • 236, 237 IBA, Inc • E-327, E-328 Idiehl LLC • 700, 701 International Silo Association • L-208A Iva Manufacturing • E-318, E-319, E-320 J&B Contractors • E-305 J&D Manufacturing • 280, 281 J&J Silo Co., LLC • 291 J. L. Gossert & Co. Forestry • E-347 J.S. Woodhouse Co., Inc • 440 Jamesway Farm Equipment • 135 Jaylor Fabricating, Inc • W-349 Jefo USA, Inc • 207 Kamar Products, Inc • E-358 Kel-Krop Enterprises LLC • W-306, W-307 Kencove Farm Fence • W-318, W-319 Keystone Concrete Products • 272, 273 Keystone Group Ag Seeds • E-361, E-362 King Construction • 254, 255 King’s Agri-Seeds, Inc • 403,404 Kubota Tractor, Corp • 123 Kuhn North America, Inc • 100 Kuhns Mfg., LLC • B Kutz Farm Equipment, Inc • I, J, K, L M, N, O, P, Q Lancaster Ag Products • 427 Lancaster Dairy Farm Automation • 502 Lancaster DHIA • W-332, W-333 Lancaster Farming, Inc • H-305 Lancaster Silo Co., Inc • E-378 Lanco Manufacturing, Inc • W-347 Lanco-Pennland • 429 Land O’Lakes, Inc • H-306 Lapp’s Barn Equipment • A Lawn Care Distributors, Inc • 124 Lee Schuknecht & Sons, Inc • 906 Leiden Land & Cattle Co. Inc • O-309 Lely USA, Inc • 111 Lira / Kauffman’s Animal Health • E-331 LR Gehm, LLC / CoPulsation • 416 M. Meyers & Associates • 290 McFarlane Manufacturing Co., Inc • O-107 Mahindra USA • 540, 541

Mahoning Outdoor Furnaces, Inc • 222A, 222B Mark Hershey Farms, Inc • 431 Martin Water Conditioning • 710 Maryland Virginia Milk • E-323, E-324 Martin Limestone Inc • 257 MAX, Mutual Aid Exchange • H-300 McHenry Pressure Cleaning Systems • O-311 McLanahan Corporation • E-312 Mensch Manufacturing LLC • L-215, L-216 Messick Farm Equipment • 105, 106, O-101 Meyer Manufacturing Corporation • O-100 MH Eby, Inc • W-355 Mid-Atlantic Agri Systems • W-346 Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association & Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program • 235 Mid-Atlantic Seeds • E-364, E-365 Mid-Atlantic Seeds / Cumberland Valley Co-Operative • 251, 252 Mid-Atlantic Waterproofing • 602 Milk-Rite, Inc • E-301 Miller Diesel Inc • E-308 Miraco • E-336, E-337 MM Weaver • 103, O-106 Monty’s Plant Food Co., Inc • W309A Morrissey Insurance • 424 Morton Buildings, Inc • E-332, E-333 Mount Joy Farmers Co-op • 210 Mueller • 119 Multimin USA, Inc • E NASF • W-304 National Farmers Org - NFO • 534 Nachurs Alpine Solutions • 244, 245 New Holland Agriculture • 108, 109 Nextire, Inc • E-380, E-381 NIOSH / NPPTL • 241B North Brook Farms, Inc • W-335, W-336 Northeast Agri Systems, Inc • 122 Northeast Feed • 214A Northeast Stihl • 511, 512 Nutri Linx, LLC • 721 NYCAMH / NEC • 611 O.A. Newton • W-302, W-303 Organic Valley • 401 Outback Heating, Inc • 262, 263 Owens Corning Basement Finishing Systems • 603 Oxbo International • 104 PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) • L-203 PA Dairy Princess & Promotion Services • 624 PA Farm Bureau • 275, 276, 276A, 277 PA Soybean Board • E-306 PACMA Inc • L-304, L-305 Paradise Energy Solutions • 706 Patterson Farm Maple Products • 240 Patz Corporation • 131 PDM Insurance Agency, Inc • E-326 Pearson Livestock Equipment • O-310 Penn Diesel Serv. Co • E-329 Penn Jersey Products, Inc • E-374 Penn State Agricultural Safety & Health • 241E Penn State University LAL Lab • 241A Pennfield Corporation • 247, 248 Pennsylvania Certified Organic • W-341 Pennsylvania Service & Supply, Inc • 425 Pequea Planter • 432, 433 Perma-Column East, LLC • 438, 439 Petersheims Cow Mattresses, LLC • 137 Pioneer Hi-Bred International • E-349, E-350, E-351 P.L. Rohrer & Bros., Inc • E-300 Plastic Welding • 526 PNC Bank • 407 Poly Excel LLC • 601 Power Ag, LLC • 527, 528 Power Pro Equipment • 443 Power Systems Electric, Inc • E-382, E-383 Precise Concrete Walls, Inc • 256 Precision Planting Dealers • W-326, W-327 Priority One • 426 Progressive Pressure Systems • 239 Progressive Publishing • 241 Provita Eurotech Ltd • 205 Quality Craft Tools • H-301 Quality Milk Production Services • 261 Rain and Hail, LLC • E-315 RCM International LLC • L-202 Red Barn Consulting • R Red Dale Ag Service • 400 Redmond Minerals, Inc • 717 Reed Equipment Sales • W-356, W-357 Reinecker Ag Products • 506, 507 Renaissance Nutrition • 294 Risser Grain • H-307 Roto-Mix, LLC • W-358 RSI Calf Systems • 266, 267 Ruhl Insurance • 402 Ryder Supply Company • E-372 S & I Pump Crete • 278, 279

Salford Farm Machinery, Ltd • W-350, W-350A Sanimax • 436 Schaeffer’s Mfg Co • L-200 Schnupp’s Grain Roasting, Inc • 217 Schulte Industries • C Seedway, LLC • W-342, W-343 Select Sire Power • W-308 Show-Ease Stall Co • 116 Shur-Co • E-307 SI Distributing, Inc • 420, 421, 422 Silo Stop • 708 Silver Stream Shelters • 702 Slaymaker Electric Motor & Supply • E-366 Smucker’s Energy, LLC • 608, 609 Smuckers Meats, LLC • W-338A Sollenberger Silos, LLC • 292, 293 Snyder Equipment, Inc • 423 Stan’s Service Center • L-210, L-211 Steiner • 508, 509 Stein-Way Equipment • 500, 449 Stoltzfus Spreaders • 117 Stor-Loc • 529, 530 Straley Farm Supply • 221, 222 Stray Voltage Testing • E-325 Stull Equipment Company • 542 Sukup / LnR Feed & Grain Sys. • E-355 Summit Glove Inc / Milkers Helpers • 408 Sundace Vacations • 617 Sunlion Energy Systems • 619, 620 Superior Silo LLC • 118 Susquehanna Bank • 406 Susquehanna Dodge Chrysler Jeep / D.K. Hostetler • 525 Sweitzers Fencing Co • 518, 519, 450 Synagro • 238 Syngenta Seeds • W-344, W-345 SyrVet, Inc • G T.A. Seeds • W-315, W-316, W-317 Tam Systems • E-376 Taurus Service, Inc • W-310 TDL Agritech • F Team Ag Incorporated • E-313 Tech Mix, Inc • 428 The Center for Dairy Excellence • W-331 The Fertrell Co • 533 The Mill • 241C, 241D The Old Mill-Troy • 538, 539 The Pennsylvania State University • 713, 714 Tigerco Dist. Co • E-353 TM Refrigeration • 268, O-103 Tractor House • 605 Triple-M-Farms • 265 Troop Enterprises & N.T.H. • O-105 Trouble Free Lighting • 535 Udder Comfort • 204 Uncommon USA, Inc • W-322 Unique Building Systems, Inc • 126A U.S. Farmer • 613 USDA US Dept of Agriculture - APHIS-VS • L-205 USDA US Dept of Agriculture - FSA • L-206 USDA US Dept of Agriculture - NRCS • L-207 USDA US Dept of Agriculture - NASS • L-208 Valmetal, Inc • 136 Vi-Cor • 283 Vigortone Ag Products • 405 Vulcan Materials Company • 227 WA Johnson, Inc • L-302, L-303 Weaver Distributing • E-302, E-303, E-304 Weaver Insurance Group • 249 Weaver’s Toasted Grains LLC • E-330 Wenger Feeds • 227A Wengers of Myerstown • W-351A Westfield Group • W-334 White Horse Construction, Inc • E-338, E-339 White Oak Mills, Inc • 434, 435 Wood-Mizer Products • O-310A Yoderway Buildings, LLC • T Zartman Farms • 107 Zeiset Equipment • 447 Zimmerman Cattle Control by PBZ, LLC • 115 Zimmerman Farm Service, Inc • 504 Zimmerman’s Glasslined Storage • 516, 517, 449B SPONSORS Official Bag Sponsor Sukup / LnR Feed & Grain Sys. Cup Sponsor Five Star International

A View from Hickory Heights

by Ann Swanson Memories of visiting the store Santas In the day when I was a child no respectable department store was without a Santa. That said, I recall that several stores in town did not have Santas. I guess maybe they pooled their efforts and

decided where Santa would be stationed.

There was a furniture store that had Santa.

You had to wander through Graf’s to find him, but he was there.

Then, there was a Santa in the toy department at J. C. Penney’s.

One Christmas I spot-

ted a big teddy bear in their display. He was brown with a white front that had the alphabet printed on it. I looked at that teddy bear until he finally disappeared. On Christmas morning I was surprised and pleased that teddy bear was underneath my tree.

My mother and I used to ride the train to Buffalo to Christmas shop.

Once we disembarked we took the trolley uptown. All of the big department stores had

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I was not content to just visit one Santa. We visited all of them. Oh the patience that my mother must have had!

She let me have my share of entertainment even though we had just a short time to shop. We mailed our purchases home thus avoiding the local sales tax. It also helped because then we did not have a lot of packages to carry.

While I was in college I had a part-time job in a store in the plaza.

That store had a Santa at Christmas. He was rotund and very jolly.

The children just loved him. Personally, I knew that he was really a young Jewish boy that went to the same college I did! Oh well, when you are in college you do whatever you can to supplement your income.

When I married and moved to the farm we began visiting the Santa Claus at Sears in Jamestown. I remember this particular Santa because he was very good with young children. My children were toddlers at the time.

One Christmas my mother -in-law and I took the children to see Santa. When Santa asked my son what he wanted for Christmas, he told him he wanted a book. Santa asked if there was any special book he wanted, but he said any book would do. That was all he asked for. Santa told him he thought that order could be filled. My daughter was young so she just smiled at Santa and clutched her candy cane. What a nice Santa he was! He reminded the children about the real meaning of Christmas, too. I do not remember any of the Santas in my day doing that. Maybe it was because this area is very country oriented and Jamestown was a small town.

When the mall opened there was just one Santa out in the middle. Everyone has figured out how to add value to events. That is when they began taking pictures of Santa and selling them. Up until that time we took our own pictures. Somehow for me that ruined the whole thing. Couldn’t the stores just give away something to the children? After all, the parents came shopping

to indulge the children.

In my mind they were not losing anything. It could not have cost each store much to pay the wages of the Santa during the Christmas season.

The grandchildren have different memories. They tried the mall Santa, but that was not satisfactory. When the little store on the corner in Akeley began having Santa that was the place of choice. One Saturday during December Santa was in residence there. That made it easy on the parents — they only had to go down to the corner. The owner took Polaroid pictures to give each child. That is one of the memories I treasure. That Santa was very good. He also stressed the real meaning of Christmas.

I do not remember seeing a Santa at the mall this year, but maybe that is because of the time that I shop.

If they do not have one, they are missing out because parents will go somewhere to let the children talk to Santa.

While we were in New York City we were up on the floor where Macy’s had Santa. They create a magical land for people to walk through.

One year when the ladies and I visited the city we all walked through to see Santa.

One grandma had told her grandchildren that she would see Santa. We took some pictures for her so she could prove that she saw Santa.

They were very nice to us. Although they took photos to sell they even helped us take our own.

Some things that we associate with Christmas have gone by the wayside. That is sad.

After all, Christmas is a season of giving. Even without a lot of money, there are things that can be given. Last night our church family went Christmas caroling. I especially like that it is cross generational. It is good for the children to see the adults having fun and giving of themselves. Every place we went we were welcomed. Some of the people even joined us in song.

It was a little thing, but it was a gift that will not soon be forgotten.

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

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Santa. I remember the department being very busy. You often had to stand in line a while before you got up to the joy old gentleman. The stores gave away games to the children who visited Santa. I thought that was wonderful. I remember getting a Chinese checker game one year. I could hardly wait to open it, but I waited until I got home since my mother informed me there were marbles inside which might get lost.

A Few Words

by Phoebe Hall

Christmas will be a little different This Christmas will be a little different for our family. Our oldest son, who became a Grandfather this year, will be missing as he is now starting his own traditions with his family and they will be flying out to Denver on

Christmas Eve. It will seem strange after all these years, but I know that their grandson needs them now.

My daughter -in-law will be flying for the first time and is a little apprehensive, but it is the only way they can get there and back in the time they’re al-

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2012 Winter Maple School The 2012 Winter Maple School will be held at the Lowville Central School in Lowville, NY, on Saturday, Jan. 21. A variety of sessions will be offered on Saturday covering topics such as the latest in research and grower experiences regarding maple production, tubing and vacuum, energy efficiency in maple production, invasive species, maximizing your profit, and marketing of maple value added products. Relative newcomers to the maple industry are encouraged to attend, as these workshops are geared towards beginners as well as workshops for the experienced maple sugar producers. In addition we will be offering a beginner maple school on Friday evening, Jan. 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., to be held at the Cornell Cooperative Extension conference room. This is a free program to discuss the basics for small and new maple producers.

Saturday’s conference is open to the general public, as well as maple

producers, and is geared toward all levels of sugar makers. Saturday’s program starts with registration at 9 a.m. Pre-registration is preferred and the workshop flyer is available on either the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County website under Agricultural calendar of events. Cost of the program is $15 per person and includes lunch and materials.

Sign ups and money is due to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County by Jan. 17, 2012. Registration at the door is $20 per person and available on a limited basis.

The Lowville Central School is located on State Street in Lowville and provides plenty of onsite parking. For more information on conference topics and presenters or to receive a brochure, contact Joe Alm or Michele Ledoux at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County at 315-3765270.

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lowed. I will see how it works out for her, since I’ve never flown either, maybe there is hope for me.

Another son who resides in eastern Pennsylvanian called the other day, to ask Santa if he could call and talk to their four -year -old daughter. When Santa asked her if she was naughty or nice, it took awhile for her to answer. Her father told Santa that she had been having a rough day. Santa decided she was good enough, so

she proceeded to tell Santa what she wanted.

Earlier, she was helping her mother clean up her room when she declared, “This is no way to treat a four year old.” Later that day, she watched as her mother carried in presents and exclaimed that she thought Santa brought all the presents. Quickly they retorted that Santa had too much to carry, so he sent some on ahead.

I’m penning this on ‘Pearl Harbor Day’ and it’s hard to believe that

it has been 70 years since that day. We asked four folks that were around back then what they remembered about when they heard the news. They all said, that they were in shock, but what we are facing today, is as bad or worse than back then.

In talking to an elderly farmer recently, he related an experience I want to share. A niece had asked him, what were the traits that attracted him to his spouse? His reply was,

“Isn’t Love enough? It was enough for our LORD to give up his comforts of Heaven and come down here to earth and to be born in a stable, with all its sounds and odors.

I’m thankful that He loved us so much! Our only hope is in the LORD! And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7) KJV

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‘Agritainment’ offers farm owners a chance to boost revenue UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — It’s getting tougher all the time to be a farmer, and managers of small agricultural operations have to be increasingly efficient, clever and resourceful just to stay profitable.

But the concept of “agritainment” — any form of farm-based tourism operation that provides economic benefit to the farm owner and offers entertainment, activities or product for the visitor — may help farmers improve their bottom lines, according to agricultural business experts in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

“Agritainment creates the opportunity for farm owners to entice visitors to their farm, provide education about agriculture and increase their overall profits,” said Lynn Kime, senior extension associate in agricultural economics. “The concept offers hope for small, struggling farms.”

In a country that once prided itself on the agricultural productivity of the family farm, increas-

ing taxes, high production costs and competition from large corporations has forced smaller farms to die off by the thousands each year, Kime pointed out. And some of these failing farms have been in families for generations.

“To offset the loss of traditional farm income, many farms are taking advantage of their unique nostalgic, rural, family and outdoor appeal by developing entertainment attractions as additional sources of income,” he said.

“These options range from such strategies as pick-your-own produce, petting zoos, hay rides, children’s play areas and children’s discovery farms to corn mazes, pumpkin patches, fall festivals, Halloween attractions, cut-your-own Christmas tree operations, dairy tours, school field trips, and farm markets and restaurants.”

Running a farm is a 365-days-a-year job of management, manual labor, hard work and sacrifice, Kime noted. While

it is extra work and start-up costs are involved, agritainment has grown widely popular over the years as a business venture.

When starting a new business — especially in the field of entertainment — there are many benefits and costs to consider, said Jayson Harper, professor of agricultural economics.

“First, some of the benefits of an agritainment business are increased income, the opportunity to show off other businesses on the same farm and, of course, the sheer joy of providing entertainment and an educational experience to the public.

“Some pitfalls, however, are regulations, liability risks, start-up costs and extra maintenance costs.”

For an agritainment business to do well, the service or activities a landowner chooses to provide to the public should be creative and different in one way or another, Harper cautioned.

“After all, the point of

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providing the service is to provide something the public cannot find somewhere else in that area,” he said. “Providing a fun and educational experience with good value for the money is essential for long-term success.”

Farmers generally choose to focus on education, vacation, direct sales or recreation when starting an agritainment business, Harper noted, adding that within each enterprise is a multitude of possible ideas.

“There are many different forms an agritainment business can take, depending on the type and the amount of land available, resources available and preferences of the landowner,” he said.

“Pick-your-own or cutyour-own operations are a great way to get a labor force that pays for working on the farm,” he explained. “While you have the public at your farm, offering other activities will keep them on the farm and expand the in-

come potential for the operation.”

A farmer can choose to incorporate more than one focus in his choice of service. Providing an area for an educational movie on the history of the farm, for example, while providing a directsales service, such as a pick-your-own activity, will expand the enterprise and income.

“Because the majority of the population is now one or more generations removed from the farm, some of the customers may never have visited a farm, and the agricultural experience will be very new to them,” Harper said. “Focus on an important crop on the farm, and highlight how the crop is produced, why it is produced by that particular method, and the steps involved in getting that crop to the grocery store.

“With the right business tools, creativity and drive, agritainment can be a very successful endeavor,” he said. “While

the economy still may be struggling, it is certainly an area of focus worth looking into.”

A six-page publication, Agritainment, coauthored by Kime and Harper, is available online at http://pubs.cas.psu.ed u/FreePubs/pdfs/ee000 8.pdf. Part of the popular Agricultural Alternatives series, it provides information about different forms of agricultural entertainment and advises on marketing, advertising and risk management.

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Farm Bureau hails triumph of common sense in new Code 590 Guidelines ALBANY NY — New York Farm Bureau on Dec. 13 expressed its support for new guidelines promulgated by the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in regards to nutrient management. NYFB had previously expressed concern with changes proposed in the initial

draft policy released by NRCS earlier this year.

(To read NYFB comments on Nutrient Management Practice Standard Code 590 visit www.nyfb.org/img/document_files/T estimony%20NRCS%20Nutrient%20Management%20Practice%20St andard%20Code%2059 0%20-%20022511.pdf)

Draft language considered by NRCS under the title of “Nutrient Application Timing and Placement” abandoned scientific justification for environmentally responsible manure spreading, in an attempt to impose a one size fits all system. The most alarming aspect of the draft guidelines was

a section that essentially banned manure spreading and proper nutrient management in the winter months.

During the comment period that commenced last February, members of New York Farm Bureau weighed in strongly in favor of maintaining effective and progressive nutrient management

guidelines specific to New York State. More than 50 percent of all comments submitted on Code 590 were submitted by the members of New York Farm Bureau.

Because of differences in soils, climate, cropping systems and natural resource concerns individual states are best suited to determine

which nutrient management options to utilize and to develop their own risk assessment standards. This philosophy has long been at the heart of NRCS policy on manure spreading and phosphorus management. The decision

by NRCS wisely preserves the spirit of this long standing policy.

“The strong grassroots activism of New York farmers clearly paid off in the revised Code 590 guidelines that were announced today,” said Dean Norton, President of New York Farm Bureau.

“NRCS heard the voices of our members and retreated from its position that the Federal Government should tell New York farmers how best to manage their land. New York already has the most progressive and rigorous standards for nutrient management in the country and I am very thankful that NRCS recognized this simple fact and came around to our way of thinking.”

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NCBA: Cattlemen score victory on dust vote House tells EPA’s overregulation to bite the dust WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a clear signal, Dec. 8, from the U.S. House of Representatives that placing burdensome and scientifically unfounded regulations on U.S. farmers and ranchers is unacceptable. In a bipartisan showing, the House voted 268-150 in favor of Congresswoman Kristi Noem’s (R-SD) Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011(H.R. 1633). National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President Bill Donald calls the vote a win for regulatory certainty for cattlemen and women.

“Unfortunately, taking EPA’s word that farm dust will not be further regulated provides absolutely no relief to those cattle producers already faced with dust regulations.

We saw legislation as the only option to give all ranchers across the country any sort of peace of mind,” said Donald, who is a

rancher from Melville, MT. “Cattlemen and women worried about being fined for moving cattle, tilling a field or even driving down a dirt road should rest assured knowing that will not be allowed to happen on our watch.

The bill provides much-needed certainty for cattlemen.”

Donald said the fact EPA was even considering regulating dust at levels that would push much of the country into non-compliance was reason enough to move forward with H.R. 1633. NCBA Deputy Environmental Counsel Ashley L yon said the legislation recognizes that dust from agricultural activities has never been shown to have an adverse health impact at ambient levels.

H.R. 1633 first gives states and localities the authority in regulating dust by preventing the federal standard from applying where states or localities already have dust measures in place. In places where

there is no state or local control, the bill also would exempt farm dust from the Clean Air Act unless the EPA administrator can prove it is a significant health problem and that applying the standard is worth the costs.

Donald said it is because of commonsense policymakers like Congresswoman Noem and the original cosponsors Leonard Boswell (D-

Iowa), Larry Kissell (DNC) and Robert Hurt (R-VA). He said agriculture rallied behind this bipartisan legislation.

Specifically, NCBA orchestrated a letter signed by 194 agricultural organizations that was sent to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Donald said NCBA wanted to be clear that this legislation was supported

across the board by all of agriculture.

“What we have found is when we need a solution to a problem; we simply find a bigger hammer. Rallying together and working directly with members of Congress allowed us to swing a bigger hammer and score a victory for the entire industry today but our efforts cannot stop now,” said Donald. “The Senate

will be a challenge.

However, we are confident if agriculture continues to work together, we can expect this legislation to end up on the president’s desk.”

The legislation now moves to the Senate, where it was introduced by Senators Mike Johanns (R-NE) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and has support from 26 bipartisan senators.

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World crop production records help ensure needs are met While U.S. corn production this past year was impacted by several major weather-related events that cut acres and yield, taking a broader look shows how grain demands can be met by taking into account overseas production. This year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting record global corn, wheat and rice production.

“We always hold that, no matter the challenge we face, the global marketplace will respond to make sure all needs are covered,” said National Corn Growers Association President Garry Niemeyer. “When our production is reduced, we appreciate that other options are available for some of our end users. We live in a diverse and global marketplace and it’s important to support and expand trade, whether

through pushing for beneficial trade agreements or improving outdated transportation infrastructure.”

In its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report, USDA notes that global corn production this year is projected at a new record high of 867.5 million tons. A 3.5-million-ton decline in the United States was more than offset by a 43.4million-ton increase in foreign corn production. Global wheat production this year is projected at a record 689 million tons, up more than 37 million from last year, and rice production worldwide is projected at a record 460.8 million tons, up 11 million tons from 2010.

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“DAIRY” CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Issued Dec. 9, 2011 The Agriculture Department’s latest milk production estimate for 2011 and 2012 was unchanged from last month’s World Agricultural Supply and De-

mand Estimates report.

Commercial exports were forecast higher for 2011.

Look for 2011 milk output to hit 195.9 billion pounds, up from 192.8 billion in 2010 and 189.3 billion in 2009. The 2012 projection is 198.4 billion pounds.

Cheese, butter, and whey prices were forecast higher for 2011 and 2012, but the nonfat dry milk (NDM) forecast was reduced for 2011 and unchanged for 2012.

Class III milk prices were raised for 2011 and 2012 on the increased price forecast for cheese and whey. The Class III is expected to average $18.30-$18.40 per hundredweight, up 15 cents from last month’s estimate, and compares to $14.41 in 2010 and $11.36 in 2009. The av-

erage takes a drop in 2012 however to $16.70$17.60, down 40 cents from last month’s projection.

The Class IV price was unchanged for 2011 as the higher butter price is mostly offset by a lower NDM price forecast. That range is $19.05-$19.25, up from $15.09 in 2010 and $10.89 in 2009.

However, for 2012 with an unchanged NDM price forecast, the Class IV price forecast was raised from last month due to higher butter

prices. The 2012 average is now projected at $16.40-$17.40, which is a dime higher than what bean counters projected last month.

Meanwhile; cash cheese prices fell for the fourth consecutive week at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The cash block price closed the second Friday of December at $1.6550 per pound, down 8 1/2cents on the week but still 26 1/2- cents above that week a year ago when they plunged 11

3/4-cents. The blocks have lost 29 1/2-cents in the last four weeks and you’ll recall that a penny movement on the cheese price approximates to a dime on the milk price.

The barrel price closed Friday at $1.5725, down 14 cents on the week, 22 1/2- cents above a year ago when the barrels rolled 11 1/4 cents lower, and is now 8 1/4 below the blocks so, either the barrels will have to move higher or the blocks head lower to reestablish the more typical 3 cent spread. There were only four cars of block that were sold this week but 39 of barrel.

The NASS-surveyed U.S. average block price slipped to $1.8807, down 0.8 cent, while the barrels averaged $1.9127, down 6.2 cents.

FC Stone dairy broker Boris Maslovsky warned in his December 5 eDairy Insider Opening Bell that “Cheese buyers are still out there but the holiday buying season is winding down.” eDairy economist Bill Brooks added that “dwindling margins for butter and powder plants have probably shifted some milk into cheese vats.” “Butter demand is likely filling pipelines following holiday buying,” he said.

“Butter has to be in distribution centers by now or on its way to stores.”

USDA’s Dairy Market News said that “Cheese interest is light though lower prices may stimulate extra late year promotions.” It reported that a number of packagers needed overtime, to make up for the Thanksgiving holiday reduced schedules.

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Cheese yields remain at solid seasonal levels, according to USDA. Butter ended the week at $1.64, up a penny and 2 cents above a year ago.

Volume was half that of the previous week with 25 cars trading hands.

NASS butter averaged $1.6284, down 1.8 cents. NASS nonfat dry milk averaged $1.4422, up 3.2 cents, and dry whey averaged 64.7 cents, up 0.4 cent.

Dairy analyst Jerry Dryer gave some insight into the butter situation in his December 2 Dairy and Food Market Analyst, stating; “Tis the season for the butter price to plunge; however, one or more manufacturers and/or marketers aren’t ready to let it plunge.

They want to protect inventory values, selling prices or both until all holiday orders are filled.”

Dryer added that “two manufacturers reportedly had a supply agreement or have a supply agreement that is about to expire, so the buyer or the seller or both needed to come to the market and thirdly cream supplies may be just tight enough to put the squeeze on the available butter supply and force some to scramble for enough last minute butter to fill holiday orders.”

He warned however, that “the butter price is about to correct lower.

Holiday orders will be shipped within the next week to 10 days,” but added a couple other thoughts. One, October butter production was at a record 146 million pounds or 20 percent more than any previous October in recent history.

He also points out that October 31 butter Inventories stood at 130 million pounds versus a five year average of 160 million and said international buyers are “kicking tires and will likely

place orders once the U.S butter price gets to $1.50 or less.” Commercial disappearance of butter has been very strong, he said.

USDA confirms that, reporting that dairy product commercial disappearance in the first nine months of 2011 totaled 147.4 billion pounds, up 1.1 percent from the same period in 2010. Butter was up an impressive 9.9 percent; American cheese, up 0.6 percent; other cheese was up 4 1/2 percent; nonfat dry milk, down 3.4 percent; and fluid milk products, were off 1 1/2 percent.

FC Stone dairy economist Bill Brooks said in Tuesday’s DairyLine that October butter output was the highest since records were kept and he’s a bit surprised that the price hasn’t fallen much considering the huge volume that was traded the week of November 28. He warned however that, if the price breaks below $1.60, “it could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

He sees cheese prices dipping to $1.60 or so as well and reminds us that we started 2011 in the $1.30s but saw the $2 level maintained for some time. He pointed to the growing milk supply across the Southern Hemisphere and said “That’s not real positive given our economic situation we have out there across the world that we’re going to be able to use up all that at these current price levels and it could very well be that we’ll have to push those prices down a little bit further to move the product.”

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auction. The weighted average price for skim milk powder was $1.55 per pound, up 2.6 percent; whole milk powder was $1.65 per pound, up 2 percent; anhydrous milkfat was $1.82 per pound, up 12 percent and the highest since early September. The Cheddar cheese price was up 2.1 percent, to $1.62 per pound.

“International prices are still much weaker than domestic prices,” according to FC Stone dairy broker Derek Nelson, and “World prices are still playing catchup with U.S. prices.”

Broker Boris Maslovsky adds that “International dairy markets appear to have stabilized but U.S. prices are still at a premium to world prices. Typically international prices are higher,” he said, and warned “We could see the traditional spread between world and U.S. dairy prices slowly reestablish itself.”

Bill Van Dam, of California’s Alliance of Western Milk Producers, says he has followed this auction since its inception, particularly skim milk powder, and for the past two months the sale of it

by DairyAmerica. He wrote in his weekly newsletter that “It is becoming clear that the whole range of products sold at those auctions have become a critical piece of information in establishing the value of the various products in the world market.”

He also reported that Murray Goulburn, a cooperative that handles about 32 percent of the Australian milk supply, will be the first to offer lactose products at the auction. Lactose has become a valuable product in which there is a great deal of interest, Van Dam said. “The U.S. exports over 50 percent of the lactose made in this country and interestingly New Zealand is our

most important customer.” Murray Goulburn will offer products for the first time in April 2012 and that is the only products they will offer, according to Van Dam. National Milk’s Third Quarter Import Watch shows dairy product imports continue a downward trend. NMPF’s Jim Tillison said in Thursday’s DairyLine that the imports they monitor have dropped 49 percent

since 2005 and he pointed out that it’s the high value products that are dropping off the most.

Cheese imports are down significantly, according to Tilison, but “reflects the strong demand for cheese outside the U.S.” “The world middle class is growing,” he said, “And as a result, there’s a growing demand for dairy products

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USDA to measure the economic well-being of American farms The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will spend the next several months contacting farmers and ranchers across the nation to conduct the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). The results of this survey will serve as a baseline for numerous federal policies and programs that affect U.S. farms and farm families.

“ARMS is our primary tool for gauging the financial condition and production prac-

tices on American farms and ranches,” said Kevin Pautler, director of the NASS Pennsylvania Field Office. “By participating in this survey, Pennsylvania farmers directly impact the decisions that affect them, their families and their operations.”

NASS conducts ARMS jointly with USDA’s Economic Research Service. In an effort to obtain the most accurate data, the federal agencies will reach out to nearly 35,000 producers nationwide, including 541 in Penn-

sylvania, between February and April. The survey asks the producers to provide data on their operating expenditures, production costs and household characteristics.

“Decision makers from all facets of U.S. agriculture will use the collective information from ARMS to answer questions and make important decisions concerning the economic viability of American agriculture, the rural economy and other emerging issues,” explained Pautler. “That’s why it is im-

perative for all farmers contacted by NASS to provide responses and help shape the future of U.S. agriculture.”

As with all NASS surveys, information provided by respondents is confidential by law. NASS safeguards the confidentiality of all responses, ensuring no individual respondent or operation can be identified.

The economic data gathered in ARMS will be published in the annual Farm Production Expenditures report on August 2, 2012. All

NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov.

NASS provides accurate, timely, useful and objective statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. The agency invites you to express your thoughts and provide occasional feedback on our products and services by joining a data user community. To join, sign in at http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/subscriptions and look for “NASS Data User Community.”

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Butter imports are mixed but Tillison said there was a big drop in butter substitutes, such as anhydrous milkfat, most of which was coming from Canada. Almost none was imported in the Third Quarter, he said.

“We’re seeing a contiuing shift away from imports toward products that are produced domestically and toward the world export market.”

On the other hand imports of casine are up from a year ago and appear to jump when the

milk price risies. When the nonfat dry milk price goes up imports of casine go up as well and Tillison believes that’s tied to the fact that casine can be a substitute in certain uses for nonfat dry milk powder.

Milk protein concentrate imports are down and isn’t the “bug-aboo” that some think it is, according to Tillison.

MPC imports are running about average to what they’ve been running, he concluded.

The farmer-funded CWT program accepted 13 requests for export assistance this week

from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 3.2 million pounds of Cheddar and Gouda cheese to customers in Asia, Central America, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The product will be delivered through May and raised CWT’s 2011 cheese exports to 91.5 million pounds.

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has issued its annual Dairy Facts book. Vivian Godfrey talked about it in Wednesday’s DairyLine and pointed out that the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) relies

a great deal on research about dairy trends and Americans eating and drinking habits.

She reported that U.S. milk production reached a record 192.8 billion pounds in 2010 but U.S. dairy exports increased 38.9 percent in volume with a 65 percent increase in value over 2009. She added that per person consumption of natural cheese achieved a record 33.29 pounds, surpassing t he previous 2007 record.

On a less positive note the long-term trend of declining sales of packaged fluid milk products

continued but MilkPEP still sees good opportunities ahead and is using research to fight aggressively to increase fluid milk consumption.

MilkPEP’s independent research shows that from breakfast to dinner, milk consumption at home represents close to 70 percent of all domestic milk consumption, with 2.7 billion gallons of milk being consumed at breakfast alone.

Our data also shows that milk added to foods and beverages makes up about 40 percent of total fluid milk volume.

Another revelation from the study is that many Americans stop drinking milk in their teenage years. “We have discovered through research a great opportunity to bring lapsed adults back to drinking milk by suggesting that they drink chocolate milk as a refuel beverage after exercise,” Godfrey concluded.

“There is strong scientific evidence from research with athletes that chocolate milk is the ideal recovery beverage if consumed within two hours of vigorous exercise.”

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Dr. David Kohl is back this year as the Expo’s keynote speaker. Dr. Kohl is a renowned motivational speaker and author in the agriculture community. Dr. Kohl will be speaking on “The Wild World of Global Economics” and “Positioning Your Business for Agriculture’s Next Decade”.

Amedore outlines new flood relief package On Dec. 8, Assemblyman George Amedore (R,C,I-Rotterdam) outlined the new flood relief measures passed Dec. 7 by the state Senate and Assembly in an Extraordinary Session.

The package included the Flood Assessment Relief Act, school district property tax installment payments, and a much-needed recovery grant program for small businesses.

“It would add insult to injury to force homeowners to pay thousands of dollars in taxes for a house that no longer exists or is inhabitable,” said Amedore. “This is common-sense legislation, and I am very thankful to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and the Governor, for working together to get this done in a timely manner.”

Amedore noted that the Flood Assessment Relief Act would allow all local governments and school districts, at local option, the ability to reassess properties in federally-declared disaster areas affected by flood damage and retroactively date it to Aug. 26, 2011.

A reassessment can only take place if the reduction in the assessed value is greater than 50 percent of the original property value. The difference in assessed values would either reduce the current property tax bills, or provide a refund for those who already paid their bill.

In addition, all school districts in federally-declared disaster areas, at local option, will be able to accept property tax installment payments from homeowners. The number of installments would be at the discretion of the school district. School districts that elect to adopt installment payments would be able to receive advanced school aid payments for the 2011-12 School Year. The amount in school aid that would be advanced to these school districts is at the discretion of the commissioner of education, the state comptroller and the director of the Division of the Budget.

“Some of the greatest frustrations from those affected by the floods was the inability for government to provide flexi-

bility and common-sense solutions,” said Amedore. “With this structure in place, it is my hope that it will be immediately implemented to help those who are still struggling to put their lives and homes back in order.”

Additionally, $21 million in grants will be provided, up to $20,000, to small businesses, farms, multiple dwellings and not-for-profit organizations directly affected by flood damage. These grants will be used for storm-related repairs and costs not covered by any other federal, state or local recovery program. Nine million dollars in grants, up to $500,000 but not less than $300,000, will help to assist counties with flood mitigation and flood control projects.

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In addition, the director of the budget, in consultation with the temporary president of the Senate and the speaker of the Assembly, will develop a plan to distribute $20 million in additional aid to municipalities in

federal disaster flood areas affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. “There was a sizeable gap in direct aid for small businesses, farmers and organizations that had opportunities for low-interest loans, but not grant assistance. This will help

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Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® Program reaches one millionth participant Milestone reached in farm safety and health education effort We all hear the horror stories of losing a loved one to a farm-related incident. The families left behind ponder what would have happened “if only.” If only he had been more careful, if only she wasn’t in such a hurry, if only we had known.

Moved by stories of farming-related tragedies, Jack Odle, editor of The Progressive Farmer, launched an effort in 1995 to help prevent unintentional death on the farm. This effort evolved to become the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® Program. Now in its 17th year, the effort has reached its one-millionth participant and is continuing the mission of eliminating farm injury and death by providing education and training to make farm, ranch and rural life safer and healthier for children and their communities through its Safety Day program.

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Today, Safety Days are made possible by the Progressive Agriculture Foundation® (PAF), an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit with a board of directors from within the agriculture industry and an operating budget of $2.6 million. The program’s curriculum has grown from basic farm safety to also include a focus on rural issues like hunting, ATV usage and even childhood obesity.

While the Foundation’s leadership is proud to hit the millionth participant mark, they stress there is still much to be done. PAF hopes to reach its second-millionth participant within the next 10 years.

“The number of children injured each year on farms has declined 59 percent since 1998, but there were still 15,012 farm injuries to children reported in 2009,” says Bob Marshall, of Bunge North America and PAF board president. “We view even one injury as one too many. The educational outreach of the Safety Day program is one of the efforts that has made this decline possible. We plan to work hard to do even more in

the coming 10 years with the generous support of our many new and long-term sponsors who donate both financially and with employee resources.”

In addition to loyal sponsors, the program is largely made possible by a volunteer base that contributes time and skills to help run individual Safety Day events. “We can’t thank our volunteers enough,” says Susan Reynolds, executive director — programs for PAF. “We would not be able to reach as many children as we do without their gifts of time and resources.” In 2011 alone, approximately 18,000 volunteers have helped with PAF efforts. As many as 230,000 volunteers have helped throughout the last 17 years.

The core mission of the Safety Day program is simple: to keep children safe and healthy. By focusing on topics that are relevant to children in rural areas, the Safety Day program has successfully reached over 1 million children and volunteers, and averages 400 Safety Day events a year, all over North America and the U.S. territories.

Davidson continued, “I can’t say enough good things about PAF. This is a program I truly believe in. Reaching 1 million participants is a milestone, and I look forward to helping PAF continue to reduce farm incidents and death among children and in our communities.”

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Hours’ obsession: a legacy of lost opportunities With the Obama administration currently weighing unnecessary changes to the current hours-of-service rules, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said the focus on this area by advocacy groups and the current leadership at the Department of Transportation has prevented progress on a number of other, more pressing safety concerns.

“Report after report, from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s own Large Truck Crash Causation Study to the most recent annual report on truck and bus safety facts shows that fatigue is not a leading cause

of crashes,” Graves said. “By putting an incredibly resource-intensive focus on this rule, FMCSA and these advocacy groups have foregone progress on areas ranging from speed to safety technologies to driver training that would have a much larger impact on highway safety.”

Drawing on the LTCCS and other federal data sources, threequarters of all fatal and serious truck crashes involve at least one other vehicle, typically a passenger car. In a majority of cases, accident investigations assign the critical reason for the crash to the passenger vehicle, but when it is assigned to

the truck, nine times out of 10, the issues lie with the actions of the driver.

“Put most simply, these crashes are caused by unsafe behaviors by drivers like speeding, driving too fast for conditions or distracted and inattentive driving, or unfortunate mistakes related to unfamiliarity with his or her surroundings or driving conditions,” Graves said. “We have long advocated that FMCSA do more to address aggressive and unsafe driving and for the increased use of advanced safety technologies, but to date those pleas have been largely overlooked.”

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Senators send letter requesting action on H.R. 872 After efforts to pass the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011, H.R. 872, failed in the Senate earlier this fall, a bipartisan group of Senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asking for full consideration on the Senate floor before the end of the year. The legislation previously passed the House of Representatives in March and passed the Senate Agriculture Committee in June.

“We are aware that efforts had been made to come into a bipartisan resolution before these new permitting requirements went into effect,” the letter stated. “However, we believe there is still an opportunity to resolve this matter in a

way that will protect the environment while avoiding undue costs on rural communities and municipalities nationwide. Thus, it is our sincere hope that you will allot floor time for the Senate to have a full, open debate on this matter.”

The legislation would clarify that National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permits are not required when applying pesticides according to their EPAapproved label. While the court ordered implementation deadline for the NPDES permitting program was Oct. 31, the EPA announced they will not begin enforcing the permits until January 2012.

Under a federal court ruling in 2009, certain pesticide applicators

would have to apply for an NPDES permit if the chemical reaches a body of water, which could include ditches and culverts. The new requirements will expose farmers to potential citizen action suits for routine pesticide applications that have already been deemed safe by the EPA. NCGA also signed onto a coalition letter with 38 other agriculture organizations urging the Senate for swift action.

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and sought support for return to a national maximum 65 mph speed limit for all vehicles, mandatory speed limiters on all large trucks, widespread implementation of proven enforcement and education programs like TACT (Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks), stronger, uniform CDL rules, incentives for vehicle collision warning systems and improved education for all drivers through the Share the Road and America’s Road Team programs.

DOT’s preoccupation with determining the size and stickiness of the hours-of-service band-aid to address complex fatigue issues

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“The 2009 Truck and Bus Safety Facts report from FMCSA showed that fatigue was the cause of just 1.4 percent of crashes and the Large Truck Crash Causation Study said fatigue was associated with, but not the cause of, 13 percent of crashes,” Graves said. “That means that between 87 percent and 98 percent of serious crashes will be unaffected by changing the hours rules.

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Becker Forum to provide fresh ideas to bridge the farmer-consumer gap in New York National speakers will share useful tips for farmers to engage consumers meaningfully Becker Forum 2012 Farming in a Non-Farmer World: Building Trust, Engaging Communities, and Finding Common Ground Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom 441 Electronics Parkway, Liverpool, NY 13088 Farmers and consumers in New York are more disconnected than ever. Many consumers have no direct relationship with farmers and do not understand what it takes to grow food. Mistrust about agriculture is increasing because of real-life situations like contaminated produce or concerns about intensivelyraised livestock that cause the public to question how food is grown. These issues are also dividing communities of farmers: large versus small and organic versus conventional. Fortunately, these challenges have good solutions.

Cornell University, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and the New York State Vegetable Growers Association have teamed together to present the 2012 Becker Forum, a special winter seminar that will provide a direction for New York farmers to restore public confidence and engage with consumers. The theme for the 2012 Becker Forum is “Farming in a Non-Farmer World: Building Trust, Engaging Communities, and Finding Common Ground.”

The Becker Forum will feature several of the nation’s most compelling speakers on consumer engagement: Neil Conklin of Farm Foundation, Sarah Brannen of the Center for an Urban Future, Jim Prevor — The Perishable Pundit, Larry Kaagan of Kaagan

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They will be sharing their insights about meaningful consumer communication. This will inspire a new exchange of ideas, and challenge New York farmers to face up to their duty to re-establish the public relationship.

Topics include: • Understanding the public’s expectations for sustainable agriculture; • Tapping the right social networks from the farm; • Connecting to consumers who know little about modern farming; • Seeing real life examples of how New York farmers have established trusting relationships; and • Learning how national efforts are influencing local conversations.

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U.S. Forest Service unveils integrated new approach to invasive species WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Forest Service announced the publication of its first-ever, national-level direction on the management of invasive species across aquatic and terrestrial areas of the National Forest System.

“Invasive species cost the American public an estimated $138 billion each year. They deplete water supplies, destroy recreation opportunities and damage landscapes across the country,” said U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell. “We are taking this bold approach to better protect our nation’s forest and water resources from the threat of invasive species.”

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York State Farm Service Agency. Borrower training credits may help farmers improve eligibility for a low-interest beginning farmer loan though the USDA Farm Service Agency. For more information, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area= home&subject=fmlp&topic=bfl Instructors Laura Biasillo is an Ag Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County. Rebecca Schuelke Staehr is an agricultural consultant and owner-operator of Cayuga Pumpkin Barn in Cayuga, NY. Course Outline • Week 1: Navigating the online classroom, introductions and welcome to course Topic(s) Covered: Introduction to Marketing; Mission Statement, Goals & Overview of Market Channels (retail, wholesale, etc...

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Burling and assembly minority members call for action Joint letter sent to Lt. Governor Duffy on Regional Economic Development Council Assemblyman Dan Burling (R,C-Warsaw), together with Western New York members of the Assembly Republican Conference, has sent a letter to Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy asking that he take the recommendations presented by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council and implement them. With millions of dollars available in competitive grants to help boost the stagnant economy of Western New York, Assemblyman Burling is pushing for immediate action from Duffy and other state officials to approve the recommendations.

“I applaud the Western New York Regional Economic Council for their considerable efforts in developing a strategic plan that works to level the playing field for Western New York,” said Burling. “Based on the current economic development recommendations presented by the Council, I strongly encourage Lieutenant Governor Duffy to provide the necessary funding for these programs to help jump-start the struggling economy in our region. I am further hopeful that in the next round of recommendations the Council works to boost and expand all of our diverse economic assets throughout the greater Western New York region.”

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As always, the assemblyman encourages constituents to continue the conversation. He can be reached via email at burling.district@frontiernet.net, by phone in his Warsaw office at 585786-0180, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/assemblymandanburling.

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Webinars The bulk of the course happens on students’ own time, with discussions, readings, and assignments in a virtual classroom. There will be weekly webinars to allow farmers to learn from outside presenters, ask questions, and collaborate with other participants and the instructors. Webinars will be from 7-8:30 p.m. EST on Wednesdays Jan. 4-Feb. 8. Webinars will be recorded.

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Silver Lake Rod & Gun Club donate to 4-H

by LouAnn Kiefer Members of the Silver Lake Rod & Gun Club recently made a generous donation to the Susquehanna County 4-H Shooting Sports Program. In 2002, Roger Everitt, a longtime member of the club passed away. In 2003 in honor of Roger’s memory several club members decided to host an annual two day trap shoot called the “Roger Everitt Memorial Shoot.”

Memorial Shoot Committee members, Robert Kuhn, Fred Guyette, Norm MacPherson and Jack Legg have been instrumental throughout the years organizing the “Roger Everitt Memorial Shoot,” which is held the first weekend in June.

The first day features an open trap shoot for anyone who would like to

participate. The second day consists of an ATA Registered trap shoot where shooters must be a member of the ATA to compete. Throughout the weekend raffles are held featuring unique items from local businesses and supporters. A highlight is a delicious chicken barbecue.

Since the inception of the “Roger Everitt Memorial Shoot” the club has donated a portion of the proceeds from this two day event to the 4-H Shooting Sports program. Over the years the 4-H program has used these funds to purchase shooting equipment such as air rifles, air pistols and archery equipment.

They have also used part of these funds to sponsor a fun day event and have even purchased a gun safe to store shooting

equipment in, which the Rod & Gun Club house at their facility for 4-H. Some of the funds have also been used directly by the members of 4-H as

they have traveled to State and National competitions through the 4-H shooting sports program.

The Silver Lake Rod & Gun club has been a huge supporter of the 4-H program not only through their generous donation but also personally as they open their

club to members of the Arrows & Clays 4-H club who practice shooting both trap and skeet at the club. They have also hosted the State Shotgun Team practices at their facility as the team prepares for competition at State Achievement Days every summer.

Susquehanna County 4-H would like to thank the Silver Lake Rod & Gun Club for their generous support over the years as it is through their generosity that the shooting sports program here in our county continues to be such a viable program.

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4-H educator receives state and national achievement in service awards Livingston County 4-H Educator Mary Ann Scharmberg recently received both the NYSACCE4-H and NAE4-HA Achievement in Service Awards.

These awards recognize 4-H educators for creative and innovative programming efforts with demonstrated results at both the state and national levels.

Both awards are peer nominated and peer chosen. CCE Livingston County Executive Director Louie Freeman said, “Mary Ann has been an important part of the CCE team.

We are proud of her!”

Mary Ann was presented with the

NYSACCE4-H Achievement in Service Award (state level) at the NYSACCE4-H annual professional development conference and awards banquet on Oct. 12 in Syracuse.

Mary Ann then attended the NAE4HA annual professional development conference and awards banquet on Oct. 24-28 in Omaha, NE, where she was presented with the NAE4-HA Achievement in Service Award (national level).

Mary Ann has been a 4-H Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Livingston County since January 2005.

Congratulations!

Ontario County 4-H Harvest Food Fest The annual 4-H Harvest Food Fest sponsored by Ontario County Cornell Cooperative Extension was recently held in Canandaigua.

35 4-H members spent the morning preparing food featuring commodities raised in the Finger Lakes Region and New York State.

Some of the recipes featured apples, cheese, blueberries, corn, pears and milk products. The members showed proper food preparation skills to an evaluator while making their selected recipe for the many people in attendance. In

addition to the demonstration, these 4H members also learned information about their particular food item that they were highlighting.

The following 4-H members participated: Amanda Sanders of the 4-H Fun Club and Cassandra Preston from the Geoseekers 4-H Club in the Victor area, Katie and Kyle VanDuyne of the Clifton Clovers 4-H Club in Clifton Springs as well as Kara Jones from the Mighty Midlakes 4-H Club. From the Honeoye area members of the Eagles 4-H Club: Erin and Jamey Mull, Kylie

4-H Tractor and Machinery Operation Certification Program Monday, Jan. 9, which is found on the above website and pay the $5 4-H enrollment fee.

The schedule for the course is as follows: There will also be three Sunday Sessions from 1-4 p.m. with the locations to be announced.

Two of the sessions will be for more hands on learning and the last session will be for the driving test.

• Mondays, Jan. 16, 23, 30, 7:30–9:30 p.m., Steuben County Office Building, South Conference room • Mondays, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 7:309:30 p.m., Steuben County Office Building, South Conference • Monday, March 5 (written test) or March 14 (written test date if one of the above sessions end up being cancelled due to weather) • Tentative Sunday, March 4 or March 11 TBA (driving test) location to be announced, 1-4 p.m.

Livingston County 4-H member wins national competition Livingston County was well represented at the National 4-H Poultry & Egg Conference (held in November) in Louisville, KY. 4-H member Adrielle Watkins placed first in the National Turkey BBQ Contest and received a $500 award.

Since 1979, Watkins is the only the second New Yorker to place in the top three of the competition — and the first to win.

Participants in the Turkey BBQ Contest are required to demonstrate their skills in barbecuing; preparation of a product; and a presentation that

demonstrates knowledge of the subject industry, food safety, and product attributes.

Each state is limited to entering one 4-H member.

Contestants are scored for barbecue skills, sensory evaluation, and presentation by three sets of judges.

This year, over 55 New York teens and adult representatives were selected to participate in national competitive 4-H events.

Adrielle Watkins has been a member of Livingston County 4-H for eight years.

Congratulations on a job well done!

Osborne and April and Jenifer Washburn participated.

From the Canandaigua area members included Madeline Kinnear from the Cool Clovers 4-H Club, Kahia Cullen from Cullen Creations 4-H Club and Brittany Bartell, Megan Cook, Marissa Demkowicz, Rachel Demkowicz, Molly Dutcher, Grace Florian, Jenna Koelling, Alexandra Teerlinck and Sarah Woerner from the Lucky Crafty Kids 4-H Club.

4-H members from the Gorham area who made foods at Harvest Food Fest included Danielle Anderson and Gretchen Miiller from the Kaleidoscope Paws 4-H Club and Kendall and Sydney Davis from the Cool H’ers 4-H Club

and Emily King and Isaiah Murphy from the Rushville area 4-H Clubs; Rosie’s Ranchers and Bagley’s Bunch also were there.

Also from the Canandaigua area were from the Sonshine Kids 4-H Club, Aubrey Bagley and from the Rising Stars 4-H Club were Claire Keck, Mara Jankowski, James and Jeffery Martino, Ryan Pare’, Riley and Rose Winum.

Others that volunteered to assist at the event were: Sande Shoemaker, Marsha Mason, Scarlet Lamphier, Lynda Iler, Kay Aman, Ellen Martin, Jen Iler, Katie Mason, James Kramer, Rachel Jones, Melissa Mason and Darryl Kramer.

National Ag Day Essay Contest announces Feb. 1 deadline The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) calls on ninth- to 12th-grade students to submit an original, 450-word essay or a two-minute video essay about the importance of agriculture.

This year’s theme is “American Agriculture: Feeding the Future, Filling the Gaps.” The deadline is Feb. 1, 2012. The ACA asks teachers and parents to encourage student participation.

The theme “American Agriculture: Feeding the Future, Filling the Gaps” presents an opportunity for students to address how the agriculture industry continues to feed a growing population.

Entrants may choose to either write an essay and/or create a video focusing on how today’s growers are overcoming challenges to provide a safe, stable food supply and sustain the significant role agriculture plays in everyday life.

“CHS is proud to help support students through this year’s Ag Day essay and video contest,” said Annette Degnan, marketing communications director, CHS Inc. “We want to recognize today’s youth and their ability to help communicate the importance of agriculture’s role in our society. We look forward to seeing the entries that students develop around the theme, “American Agriculture: Feeding the Future, Filling the Gaps.”

The national written essay winner receives a $1,000 prize and round-trip ticket to Washington, D.C. for recognition during the Celebration of Ag Dinner held March 8 at Whitten Patio at the USDA. During dinner, the winner will have the opportunity to read the win-

ning essay as well as join with industry representatives, members of Congress, federal agency representatives, media and other friends in a festive ag celebration. The video essay winner wins a $1,000 prize, and the winning video will play during the Celebration of Ag Dinner.

This is the 39th anniversary of National Ag Day. The goal of the ACA is to provide a spotlight on agriculture and the food and fiber industry. The ACA not only helps consumers understand how food and fiber products are produced, but also brings people together to celebrate accomplishments in providing safe, abundant and affordable products.

The Ag Day Essay Contest is sponsored by CHS Inc., The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal, National Association of Farm Broadcasting, National Agri-Marketing Association, Country Living Association and McCormick Co. All written entries should be sent to: 2012 Ag Day Essay Contest, Agriculture Council of America, 11020 King Street, Suite 205, Overland Park, KS 66210, or submitted by e-mail to essay@agday.org. Students may upload video essays at http://agday. leapfile.net and follow the directions on the page, or students may choose to mail video entries to the address above on a compact disc. Visit www.agday.org or www.hpj.com/agdayessay to read official contest rules and for more details regarding entry applications.

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A 4-H Tractor and Machinery Operation Certification Program will be offered Jan. 16 – March 11, 2012, in western New York State.

Youth who will be 14 and older as of March 1, 2012, can take the course for certification.

Participants who want to earn their certification must pass both the written exam and the driving test. The cost for this course is $15 for 4-H members to cover the cost of materials and is payable to CCE by Monday, Jan. 9, with the registration form that can be found on the website at www.putknowledgetowork.com and click on 4-H Youth Development and then click on other programs or by contacting Kim at Cornell Cooperative Extension at 607664-2306.

Non 4-H members are eligible to take this course but in addition they will need to complete a 4-H enrollment form as an independent member by

CCE Livingston County Executive Director Louie (Bo) Freeman (L) and 4-H Animal Science Educator Mark Wittmeyer (R) pose with Livingston County 4-H Educator Mary Ann Scharmberg after she recently received both the NYSACCE4-H and NAE4-HA Achievement in Service Awards.

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Home,, Family,, Friendss & You Mysterious mistletoe • Scandanavians associated Mistletoe with Frigga, their goddess of love, and it may be from this that we derive the custom of kissing under the mistletoe.

Those who kissed under the mistletoe had the promise of happiness and good luck in the following year.

• The practice of kissing under the mistletoe was described in 1820 by American author Washington Irving in his “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”: “The mistletoe is still hung up in farm-houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush. When the berries are all plucked the privilege ceases.

• Mistletoe was used by Druid priests 200 years before the birth of Christ in their winter celebrations. They revered the plant since it had no roots yet remained green during the cold months of winter.

• Mistletoe is intriguing botanically because it is a partial parasite (a “hemiparasite”). As a parasitic plant, it grows on the branches or trunk of a tree and sends out roots that penetrate into the tree and take up nutrients. But it also

can grow on its own and produce food by photosynthesis.

• The mistletoe that is commonly used as a Christmas decoration (Phoradendron flavescens) is native to North America and grows as a parasite on trees in the West and also along a line down the East Coast from New Jersey to Florida.

• European mistletoe (Viscum album) figured prominently in Greek mythology, and is believed to be The Golden Bough of Aeneas, ancestor of the Romans.

• It is said that among Romans, enemies who met under mistletoe would lay down their weapons and embrace.

• Mistletoe is rarely found growing on oak trees, and as such was especially sacred to the ancient Celtic Druids. On the sixth night of the moon, whiterobed Druid priests would cut the oak mistletoe with a golden sickle. Two white bulls would be sacrificed amid prayers that the recipients of the mistletoe would prosper.

• The sticky juice of mistletoe berries was used as adhesive to trap small animals or birds. In South Africa, it is called “Bird lime” in English.

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You can never get too much of a good thing. Take a taste of this luscious rum raisin rice pudding made with sour cream, and see if you don’t agree.

1 (4-serving) package sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix 2/3 cup nonfat dry milk powder 1 1/2 cups water 1/3 cup fat-free sour cream 1 teaspoon rum extract 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3/4 cup raisins

2 cups cold cooked rice 6 tablespoons reduced-calorie whipped topping 1. In large bowl, combine dry pudding mix, dry milk powder and water.

Mix well using a wire whisk. Blend in sour cream, rum extract and nutmeg.

Add raisins and rice. Mix well to combine.

2. Evenly spoon rice mixture into 6 dessert dishes. Top each with 1 tablespoon whipped topping. Lightly sprinkle additional nutmeg over the top of each, if desired. Refrigerate at least 15 minutes. Makes 6 servings.

• Each serving equals: 168 calories, 0g fat, 5g protein, 37g carb., 282mg sodium, 1g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 1/2 Starch, 1 Fruit. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

• According to custom in the Englishspeaking world, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it was replaced the following Christmas Eve. • In the Middle Ages and later, branches of mistletoe were hung from ceilings to ward off evil spirits. In Europe they were placed over house and stable doors to prevent the entrance of witches.

• In some parts of England, the Christmas mistletoe is burned on the 12th night lest all the boys and girls who have kissed under it never marry. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

Ham and Chutney Mini Biscuits Paula Deen created this perfect holiday party food by sandwiching ham and chutney in homemade mini biscuits.

2 cups self-rising cake flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 6 tablespoons cold butter, cut up 1/3 cup whole milk, plus additional if necessary 3 tablespoons mango chutney 16 slices (about 8 ounces) deli ham 1. Preheat oven to 400 F. 2. In large bowl, whisk flour and baking powder. With pastry blender or two knives used scissors-fashion, cut in 3 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside remaining butter to soften at room temperature.

3. Into flour mixture, stir milk and buttermilk, just until mixture forms dough that leaves side of bowl. Add additional milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, if needed to help form dough.

4. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead 2 or 3 times to smooth dough. Pat into 12 by 5-inch rectangle.

With long side facing you, cut rectangle in half to form 2 rectangles, each 12 by 2-1/2 inches. Cut each rectangle at

3/4-inch intervals to form 2-1/2 by 3/4-inch pieces. (You should end up with 32 biscuits.)

5. On large ungreased cookie sheet, place biscuits 1/2 inch apart. Bake biscuits 20 minutes or until tops are golden brown. Transfer biscuits to wire rack to cool completely.

6. In small bowl, mix reserved softened butter and chutney until wellcombined. On cutting board, cut ham slices crosswise in half to form 32 pieces.

7. With serrated knife, split each biscuit. Spread chutney butter on both cut sides of each biscuit. Fold one ham slice to fit onto each biscuit bottom; replace biscuit top to make sandwich.

Makes 32 sandwiches.

• Each serving: About 70 calories, 3g total fat (2g saturated), 10mg cholesterol, 250mg sodium, 8g carbohydrate, 0g dietary fiber, 3g protein.

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Hot spiced cider 6 cups apple cider 1/2 teaspoon whole cloves 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3 sticks cinnamon 1. Heat all ingredients to boiling in 3-quart saucepan over mediumhigh heat; reduce heat to low. Simmer uncovered 10 minutes.

2. Strain cider mixture to remove cloves and cinnamon if desired.

Serve hot.

Serves six. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Section B

DHIA & Dairy Section Registration open for the NMC 51st Annual Meeting Join us in St. Pete Beach, FL for the NMC 51st Annual Meeting, scheduled for Jan. 2224, 2012 at the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort.

Please note that the meeting will follow a

slightly revised format compared to previous years. Be sure to note the changes, particularly the time for the committee meetings, short courses, and featured symposium: • Committee meet-

ings will be held on all three days (Sunday afternoon, Monday & Tuesday mornings) rather than all day on Monday, as has been the tradition in the past.

• The featured sympo-

sium has been moved from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon.

• The general sessions and poster session will be held Monday and Tuesday.

• Short courses will be held on Sunday af-

ternoon/evening and Tuesday evening.

Please note that online registration for the meeting is preferred.

You may pay by check or credit card if you register online. Register by Jan. 2 and re-

ceive the early-bird discount.

It is also advisable to make your hotel reservations early.

The deadline is Dec. 27, but the room block could fill up before that date.

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Improve gain potential for suckling calves

by Gary Sides, Ph.D., Cattle Nutritionist, Technical Services, Pfizer Animal Health Before calving season starts, you should have a plan ready to maximize weight gains for suckling calves and increase dollars on sale day.

For calves at just 45 days old, multiple technologies are available to help increase the productivity of your calf crop.

Along with early vaccinations, you can help increase pounds of gain by collaborating with your veterinarian to select a lowdose implant best suited for your herd.

For cow/calf producers in particular, the extra pounds at weaning that can be achieved by implanting sucking calves far outweighs the actual cost of the implant.

When properly used, implants can help to wean an extra 19 pounds, giving you at least $25 more per implanted calf when sold.

The long-standing philosophy behind using implants is to match the dose to the cattle based on their nutritional status.

For instance, suckling calves on the cow are going to have a lower rate of gain po-

tential and reduced feed intake compared with a heavier animal. In any case, this is an excellent time to utilize a low-dose implant. As the calves grow larger and feed continues to get more expensive, looking to a higher -dose implant will be the most practical option.

Proper nutritional programs, parasite control (both internal and external) and implant strategies are all additive and continue to improve health and weaning weights of suckling calves. Best of all, gains during the suckling phase will not adversely af fect future performance in the feedlot.

The benefits of implanting suckling calves improve rate of gain, help produce more beef with fewer cattle and rarely affect the price paid per pound at the sale barn. Based on 2009 data, very few producers received a pre-

mium when they did not implant their calves. In fact, on average, there was no dif ference in prices paid per pound for nonimplanted vs. im-

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planted calves.

When looking at weight gains of implanted vs. nonimplanted cattle — implants produce a heavier animal. Cattle

grow bigger and more ef ficiently, leaving less of a carbon footprint and making them able to use nutrients more economically. Combining im-

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The Cornell Soil Health Test Report: A new way to identify unhealthy soil

by Janet Fallon, CCA - Dairy One Forage & Soils Lab

When we aren't feeling well we might go to the doctor to have our blood pressure checked, our cholesterol tested or a throat culture taken to see if we have strep throat. The doctor might suggest weight loss, exercise, an anti-acid for a sour stomach or an anti-biotic for strep throat to bring us back to good health. Now we can do the same thing for our soil when it isn't performing quite as expected.

A group of Cornell scientists, growers, extension educators and crop consultants evaluated 39 potential physical, biological and chemical indicators for their use in rapidly assessing soil health. They were able to boil these down into 9 grower friendly measurements or "indicators. Farmers can now send soil samples to the Cornell Soil Health Lab to get the health of their soils “diagnosed”...much like a person going to the doctor to find out how healthy they are. These 9” indicators are shown below.

Four soil physical health indicators including aggregate stability, available water capacity, surface and subsurface hardness are evaluated. Aggregate stability uses a rain simulation sprinkler to determine the fraction of a soil sample that remains on a sieve after a specific amount of time and rainfall. Soils with low aggregate stability tend to form surface crusts which can reduce water infiltration and air exchange and can even make it tough for germinating seeds to emerge from the soil. Available water capacity measures the amount of water in a disturbed sample that is actually available for plant use. Surface and subsurface hardness is a measure of penetration resistance at 0 to 6 inches and 6 to 18 inches respectively, using a field penetrometer, an instrument that measures the extent and depth of compaction that may restrict the growth of roots or movement of air and water through the soil. This measurement needs to be taken in the field. All other indicators are measured in the laboratory using a sample submitted by the customer.

The Dairy One Improver water infiltration and poor rooting depth in the affected soil. This may explain why a soil with an excellent soil test (pH, P, K, etc) is failing to meet expectations.

These ratings are averaged to provide an overall quality score (out of 100) as shown in Figure 1.

Soils play a key role on every farm. Dairy farmers and cash crop producers are familiar with standard soil testing to identify nutrient deficiencies or imbalances in their soils. But many farmers have learned, some the hard way, that the chemical "health" of a soil is just one part of the puzzle. This may explain why certain fields perform poorly despite having an adequate and well balanced soil fertility profile. Something else, like soil compaction, poor drainage or root pathogens may limit crop performance and profitability unless corrective measures are taken to address the problem(s). So, send your soil samples to the Cornell Soil Health lab for a full work up if you think your soils are “sick” or you just want to know what is needed to help your soil meet it's full potential.

You can go to http://soilhealth.cals.cornell.edu/extension/test.htm for complete information on services, pricing, sample sheets, guidelines needed to collect a representative sample, shipping samples and interpreting results including the physical and biological evaluations done by Cornell and the chemical evaluation done by Agro-One.

Figure 1 - Sample of a Cornell Soil Health Test Report

The four biological soil health indicators tested include organic matter, active carbon, potentially mineralizable nitrogen and a root health rating as determined in the soil health lab. Organic matter contributes to overall soil tilth, soil water holding capacity, and nitrogen availability, among other things. Active carbon is a leading indicator of soil health by telling us how fast soil organic matter will become available for use by important soil microbes. Likewise, potentially mineralizable nitrogen tells us how much plant available N will be released by organic matter. The Root Health Rating is based on a soil bio-assay with bean plants to determine the incidence of root pathogens like Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia and Thielaviopsis - and no, I don't know how to pronounce that last disease.

A standard soil test, conducted by Agro-One, is used to determine the chemical health of a soil. This includes pH, extractable phosphorus, extractable potassium and several other secondary and minor elements.

The Cornell Soil Health Website provides additional information and suggested management practices to correct these soil health constraints including: • Reducing or modifying tillage.

• Changes in the crop rotation to add organic matter and/or break up pest life cycles.

• Growing cover crops to build organic matter.

• Adding organic amendments (manure or compost).

• Adding chemical amendments (limestone, gypsum, fertilizer, etc).

The Cornell Soil Health Report (Figure 1) shows the actual measured value, i.e. % aggregate stability, hardness (psi), % organic matter, pH, ppm P, ppm K, and so on. Each indicator is then scored on a scale of 1 to 100. Scores less than 30 are considered low and receive a red color code on the report. A score of 30 - 70 is medium and earns a yellow color code. A score above 70 is considered to be high or good and earns a green. The report also identifies possible constraints or problems associated with a particular indicator if it receives a low (red) rating.

For example, a poor aggregate stability rating may indicate poor aeration, poor

For further questions about Agro-One you can contact Janet Fallon at 315-696-0167 or by email: janet.fallon@dairyone.com You can also call 1-800-344-2697 ext. 2172 for the Forage Customer Service or the Soils Lab ext. 2179.

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Results are summarized in a “report card” of sorts (Figure 1) that identifies potential problem areas based on the evaluation of physical, biological and chemical characteristics as measured by Cornell and Agro-One. It also identifies limitations or constraints that may be seen in the test soils.

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Managing for Success: transition cows

by Jackson Wright & Jerry Bertoldo The transition period is critical to a successful lactation. It is defined as the three weeks prior to calving through day 21 of lactation.

During this period the cow undergoes multiple physiological and metabolic changes as she transitions into lactation. Stress is the catch-all phrase used to categorize the effect of these challenges. In addition to these biological changes, a natural lag exists between her ability to generate milk and her ability to consume enough feed to meet these new energy requirements. As a result, every cow experi-

ences some form of negative energy balance during early lactation.

Stresses associated with diet, pen/stall changes and the calving process add to the transition challenge. However, proper management can reduce the length and severity of this negative energy balance providing benefits on both milk production and reproduction.

The severity of this negative energy balance is also dictated by the biology of the cow, a key component of which is how well the cow is able to coordinate the metabolic changes required to produce large quantities of milk. The currency for these metabolic

changes is glucose (energy). The rumen consumes feed source glucose in the fermentation process. This is not a loss to the cow since unlike monogastrics, cows cannot readily absorb glucose from the gut.

Instead the cow produces large amounts of volatile fatty acids (acetic, propionic) through ruminal fermentation and converts these precursors into glucose in the liver. This process is known as gluconeogenesis.

The liver is the center of energy conversion, protein manufacturing, blood detoxification, mineral complexing and many other metabolic functions. It requires a

wide variety of enzymes, energy and a good deal of time for the liver to convert fat to useful energy sources. Depending on the demand and amount of fat pulled from around the body, the liver may have to store fat. The ability of the liver to carry on its normal duties decreases as the amount of fat stored within the liver increases.

As fat accumulates in the liver, the liver is less capable of generating glucose which can lead to multiple metabolic disorders including ketosis, metritis, displaced abomasum and mastitis.

Some older estimates put the cost of clinical

Consider some of these recommendations for transition cow success: • reducing stocking density during the transition period — 80 percent is ideal, less than 100 percent critical, less competition at the feed bunk, water trough and for resting places • maintain a fresh cow group — fine tuning the ration, return to positive energy balance sooner and tracking intakes better • improve cow comfort — flooring, stall design, water access, ventilation, cooling, lighting • use a rumen protected choline both pre and postcalving — helps transport fat out of the liver enhancing overall liver function Focusing on better cow management during the transition period can improve liver function and can increase peak milk yield and profitability. The events surrounding calving have no equal in determining a cow’s potential for health and productivity.

ketosis around $145 per case and subclinical ketosis at $78. Uncomplicated ketosis may reduce lactation output by up to 775 pounds.

Weight loss is a prominent feature. One pound of body weight conservatively converts to 6 pounds of milk. In addition, reproductive efficiency and disease resistance declines as a result of ketosis.

If metabolic problems are common on your operation a good starting point is to quantify the extent of the problem.

Often pre-calving nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA’s) or post calving beta-hydroxy butyric acids (BHBA’s) serum levels are good indicators of energy status. If your cows are suffering from severe or prolonged negative energy balance, you should consult with your herd veterinarian or subsequent advisor regarding your herd management practices, especially surrounding the transition period. Newer cowside tests have significantly helped in assessing ketosis risks.

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Newsletter of Penn Dutch Cow Care

by Hubert J. Karreman Hi Folks, I sometimes take heat in the organic world due to really enjoying treating animals rather than focusing on prevention and nutrition. Yet let’s be real — even with excellent prevention and nutrition, the fact is there’ll still be illness at times — that’s part of life. Truth is that by the time I’m called to see a case, the situation is already beyond simple prevention and/or nutrition. Interestingly, some people seem to dislike that I use therapy via needles and injection to help animals regain health, instead of relying on orally administered remedies. Why is that? All I can say is that while I might use fairly intensive natural methods, I’ll also use all routes of administration to help get the best outcome for the patient. Interestingly, it seems that more and more dairy farmers considering organic certification want solutions with near equal “punch” that they have come to expect with conventional medicine.

Thus it seems logical to know which quick acting, effective natural treatments to use when orally administered remedies have not succeeded. Truth be told, when giving talks to groups, I usually spend nearly half the time talking about prevention and foundational health strategies, with the rest of the time talking about various modes of alternative treatments and then actual case studies.

There are many types of alternative treatments that can be used as stand alone treatments or in combination with each other. As a group, the AVMA calls them Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (CAVM). My opinion is that we should use whichever mode of treatment that we feel intuitively drawn to. Or if there are certain CAVM therapies that make no sense to you whatsoever, don’t seem “real enough”, or make you uncomfortable, simply don’t use them.

A short listing of CAVM groupings with specific examples follow: food therapy - preventive nutrition, therapeutic nutrition, glandular therapy and orthomolecular medicine; manual therapy - massage, acupres-

sure, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, and physical therapy; biological therapy - hyperimmune plasma, hyperimmune eggs, serum therapy, bee sting therapy, and pharmaceutically reared leeches and maggots; botanical therapy - western herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, essential oils and aromatherapy; energy medicine - Christian layingon of hands, classical homeopathy, homotoxicology, Bach flower remedies and non-traditional homeopathy. This is not a complete list of course and there are combinations of treatment, like injecting homeopathic remedies at acupuncture points.

If you are drawn to a particular CAVM, consider learning more about it to use it well. Or, if a CAVM therapy makes no sense whatsoever, doesn’t seem “real” enough, or makes you uncomfortable, simply don’t use it. Just please don’t blindly “grasp at straws” in attempts to avoid standard, conventional therapy. Knowing a little about each may help you understand their potential role.

Acupuncture is a form of treatment which utilizes energy routes (meridians) that naturally course throughout the body, with certain points (acupuncture points) of the channel on the skin surface connecting nerves to organs in the body interior. By stimulating these points with dry needles, injectible solutions, electricity or heat, we can influence the functioning of circulation and internal organs to help return a patient to health.

Homeopathy is a form of treatment that uses very highly diluted substances of plant, mineral or animal origin to gently stimulate the body to return to normal equilibrium. The materials that are used would, if given in their raw form, create the illness condition that the dilute remedy is being used to treat. Indepth knowledge of the remedies’ properties and specific symptoms are needed to use homeopathy effectively. Homeopathic remedies higher than 12C (such as a 30C or 200C) actually have no original material, only the essence or energy of the original material re-

mains.

Botanical therapy is a form of treatment which has been used by humans and animals forever. The Bible mentions many plants that were used as medicine. Plants are food, herbs, nutraceuticals and medicine. Real medicine is tucked away within plant cells and all the big drug companies got their start with plant medicines and with good reason — because they contain active compounds.

Like homeopathy, there are energetics associated with botanicals (bitter, cooling, sweet, pungent,

sweet, and salty), but moreover, there are a multitude of real medicinal compounds in plants.

Biological therapy is a form of treatment that uses natural substances derived from living organisms to stimulate, augment, or modify the immune system. Prior to the antibiotic era, serum therapy was used to deliver antibodies from donors to recipients. Hyper-immune plasma, much purer than serum therapy, is the modern equivalent. For example, rabies anti-toxin, snake venom anti-toxin and

botulism anti-toxin and gram-negative coliform and salmonella anti-toxins are derived from horses and cows. Using bees to sting certain points can reduce arthritic pains, using leeches to draw off excess blood accumulation, and carefully placing maggots to temporarily eat away gangrenous, dead tissue is known and practiced by some regular medical doctors.

In approaching cases and coming up with possible solutions, I like to use hands-on touch to sense where problems may be, careful observa-

tion, heightened sense of smell, listen for subtle sounds (with a stethoscope) and intuition to pin point problems.

Then I choose from whichever CAVM treatment seems best for each case. Anyone can do this. And while it’s satisfying to be part of a successful outcome, I don’t feel it’s actually me that gets the patient better — that is up to Holy Spirit. I am just a channel for healing to hopefully occur. You can be, too. Using natural therapies honors God’s creation. But if there isn’t

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More than 200 farms currently participate in the program, which is coordinated by the Center for Dairy Excellence with support from the Penn State Extension

Dairy Team. It offers funding and other support to establish a Dairy Profit Team, Target Profit Team or Succession Planning Team.

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An on-farm dairy resource team operates much like a board of directors for the farm, with trusted advisors meeting regularly to discuss the farm operation and bottlenecks that impede profitability. A facilitator designated by the farm, with assistance from the center, coordinates the meetings and focuses the team.

The center offers funding to support the cost of paid team members and other discovery-related costs. Funding levels for 2012 are the same as for previous years: • Dairy Profit Team:

Up to $1,500 for new teams or $1,000 for existing teams; • Target Profit Team: Up to $1,000 for new teams or $750 for existing teams for specific operational performance review; and • Dairy Succession Planning Team: Up to $2,000 for new teams and up to $1,000 for existing teams.

Farms new to the program and those currently participating must complete a 2012 application to receive funding. New guidelines require teams to identify three annual goals and submit them to the center, complete the

Monthly Monitor Tool provided by the Penn State Extension Dairy Team and determine the farm’s gross margin (Income Over Feed Cost) on an ongoing basis.

“The current marketplace, with higher input costs, price volatility and outside pressures, requires producers not only to be good dairy managers, but also good business managers,” said Frey. “Good business managers know the key to their success is surrounding themselves with experts to help take their business to the next level.

Having a profit team in place who knows the

farm’s numbers is an important step in surrounding yourself with that expertise.”

Producers currently enrolled should complete the 2012 applications mailed to them.

Dairy farms not enrolled but interested in establishing a profit, target or succession planning team can contact the center to receive an application by calling 717-346-0849 or e-mailing info@centerfordairyexcellence.or g. More details can be found at www.centerfordairyexcellence.org.

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tions as a herdsman and still do as a veterinarian.

One last thing, and it’s mighty important, the intention with which we

approach our animals is critical. I love what biodynamic herb grower Andrea Reisen said, “As soon as you put your in-

tention upon anything, it changes everything.”

This is so very true. Animals can sense with an uncanny ability whether we as individuals truly want to help them or if we are just going through mechanical motions. Yes, animals can resist your attempts to treat them. But if we come to them from a calm heart rather than a busy head, we may better understand what ails them — and then we’ll choose better therapies from the natural kingdom which God allows us all to partake in.

Please realize that antibiotics do have a place in therapy. For example, if pneumonia hasn’t responded quickly to natural treatments, switch to antibiotics. You’re going to cull a few animals a year, so using antibiotics shouldn’t be automatically be viewed as an impossibility. Most people agree it’s better to have a live cow than a dead organic one.

There’s a reason God placed the animals you have in your life — do what’s right and take good care of them. Rewards abound.

Hey, I plan to start up again in part-time practice in the new year — to treat medical and repro problems with natural therapy (but not for emergencies or scheduled monthly reproduction).

Hopefully I’ll get to see you sometime! Until then, count your blessings and the biggest blessing of all, the meaning of Lord Jesus born among the farm animals. Merry Christmas!

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Record number of dairy and beef producers attend Alltech’s Global 500

Alltech’s biggest ever Global 500 conference concluded, after welcoming nearly 700 dairy and beef producers from 32 countries to Alltech’s home in Lexington, KY. President and founder of Alltech, Dr. Pearse L yons opened the conference with his “Eight Big Ideas” for the dairy and beef industries: 1. Efficiency: the cow is a fermentor, it is designed for fiber, we can increase efficiency and feed fiber.

2. Green house gases: We cannot stick our head in the sand. Green house gases are a real problem and sooner or later we will be taxed.

3. Mineral wastage and pollution: .75 kilo of mineral waste per cow means that a ton of mineral waste per day on a 1,000 cow farm.

4. Creating more nutritious milk and beef.

5. Branding: Brand-

ing is essential. Why is soda $5 per gallon when milk is so much better for you?

6. Fiber: Grain is expensive or unavailable.

Fiber is not only a cheaper alternative but the rumen is designed to use it.

7.

Nutrigenomics: This is a nutrition revolution. Nutrigenomics allow us to study how nutrients switch genes on and off. We can then develop programmed nutrition plans for young animals to increase efficiency and performance for life.

8. Social Media: We have to tell our story.

This was followed by two days of seminars, covering everything from nutrition, to branding and social media. Experts from all areas of the industry were on hand to give dairy and beef producers all the information they need to take on the challenges of a chang-

ing industry.

Paul Gardner, responsible for all milk and dairy ingredient purchasing at Groupe Danone, a company that purchases 3 billion dollars of milk each year, spoke about dairy demand and one of the biggest challenges for the dairy industry, price volatility.

“Volatility in the market is huge when you buy that much milk but volatility is a much bigger issue for farmers.

One year you can think about investing and the next year you cannot buy Christmas presents for your kids. When farmers can invest they make short term investments because volatility prevents them from making long term investments,” said Gardner.

During the beef discussion panel, John Butler of the Irish food board, Bord Bia, talked about the importance of

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educating consumers.

“It is critical to understand your market and know what they want, but it is important to educate those consumers in a way that they will understand why they should want this product,” said Butler. “If nutrition is their concern we explain the nutritional value of the

product, if it is safety then we explain the practices we use to make sure the meat through every phase is the best quality.”

In addition to seminars on the future of the industry, the conference attendees had the chance to network with other producers and farmers, and par-

ticipate in discussion dinners that focused on hotly debated topics.

To watch footage of the conference, visit the Alltech Ag Network at www.ihigh.com/alltech.

You can also view pictures, interviews and recaps of the Alltech Global 500 conference, on Alltech’s blog at www.alltech.com/blog.

Get the most out of your calf blankets Calf blankets play an important role in calf comfort and warmth on any calf-raising operation, especially as the colder temperatures set in. But you can’t just put the blanket on the calf and forget about it.

A little time spent checking could make a huge difference in the comfort of the calf.

Land O’Lakes Purina Feed calf and heifer specialists offer the following tips to ensure producers are getting the most out of their calf blankets.

• Calves under three

weeks of age are the primary target for calf blankets.

• Make sure calf blankets are put on correctly. If not put on correctly they can come off and could end up dangling around the calf’s neck. Common mistakes include putting the blanket on inside out, putting the front leg through the neck hole, or two rear legs in the same leg strap.

• The most important concern to be watching for is the tightness of the jacket. Keep an eye

out if the straps need to be adjusted or the blanket taken off because the calf outgrew the jacket.

• Calf blankets should be washed between each use and only put on a new calf when they are completely dry.

• When choosing a calf blanket, make sure to pick one with the correct thickness for adequate insulation, as well as one that will be easy to put on and take off.

Source: Land O’Lakes Purina Feed

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HERD OWNER

ALBANY

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

NEW YORK

STANTON FARMS LEWISDALE FARM NO B.S.T.

ALLEGANY

DHI-AP H 646.7 DHI H 48.4

23010 19773

851 3.7 713 3.1 3X 689 3.5 589 3.0

27997 1118 4.0 883 3.2 25538 965 3.8 761 3.0 24760 879 3.6 742 3.0 23857 893 3.7 737 3.1 23170 876 3.8 719 3.1 24077 865 3.6 713 3.0 22392 804 3.6 704 3.1 23035 861 3.7 674 2.9 22145 831 3.8 672 3.0 22486 829 3.7 671 3.0 20406 784 3.8 634 3.1 20583 764 3.7 613 3.0 19812 759 3.8 595 3.0 17776 746 4.2 592 3.3 17954 645 3.6 549 3.1 17371 685 3.9 546 3.1 17826 681 3.8 537 3.0

WHITTACRE FARM LLC DHI-AP H 449.9 WHITTACRE FARM LLC DHI-AP X 31.0 MRAS, CHARLES DHIR-AP H 79.4 DIEKOW, ARTHUR & PEGGY DHI-AP H 77.9 TILLOTSON, DOUG AND STEVE DHI-AP H 121.9 COLEMAN, WALTER DHI-AP H 57.3 AUKEMA DOUG. DHIR-AP H 62.2 FAIGLE, PAUL DHIR H 58.0 JOHN AND CHARLES HAYES DHI-AP H 85.0 PRICE, LESTER AND DAVID DHI-AP H 56.0 WOODFORD,DANIEL J. DHI-AP H 44.3 LEETOPS FARM DHI-AP H 104.2 ROSELAND HOLSTEINS DHI-AP H 24.8

26463 24381 25733 22659 22283 21284 20571 20813 20625 20316 19943 19160 17471

CARBU FARMS, LLC DHIRAPCS HILL'S VALLEY FARM, LLC DHIR-AP WHITEHEAD, NATE DHI-AP WILEAN FARMS DHI-AP JONES DAIRY, INC. DHI-AP KARON FARMS, INC. DHI-AP DUROW,MICHAEL AND DAWN DHI-AP CHARLES BARE DHI-AP PIMM ADELIA DHI-AP BOBERG,DANIEL F. DHI-AP MARK HANSEN DHIR-AP ANDERA, CHRIS DHI-AP BOBERG ALAN F. DHI-AP POWELL FARMS DHI-AP KRATTS RONALD L. DHI-AP HORTON, DAIRY DHI-AP PHILIP CLARK DHI-AP BRUCE & LUCILLE KONINGISOR DHI-AP ANDERA, CHRIS DHI-AP BROWN BROOK FARM DHI-AP

H 516.9 B 151.6 H 60.5 H 160.2 H 78.6 H 81.3 H 176.2 H 2019.9 H 290.8 H 69.1 J 72.0 H 61.6 H 64.1 X 103.2 H 54.9 H 64.1 H 46.8 X 78.5 H 18.9 A 40.5

29274 1034 3.5 889 3.0 3X 23702 1011 4.3 792 3.3 24378 931 3.8 786 3.2 25068 946 3.8 767 3.1 25095 939 3.7 759 3.0 23473 919 3.9 728 3.1 23268 784 3.4 724 3.1 23205 872 3.8 698 3.0 3X 21346 783 3.7 680 3.2 3X 22322 765 3.4 677 3.0 17951 819 4.6 628 3.5 18464 701 3.8 598 3.2 19511 721 3.7 597 3.1 17714 765 4.3 589 3.3 19448 723 3.7 582 3.0 19213 743 3.9 570 3.0 18765 666 3.5 559 3.0 16555 653 3.9 544 3.3 16240 658 4.1 531 3.3 16547 623 3.8 511 3.1

SCIPIO SPRINGS DAIRY FESSENDEN DAIRY,L.L.C. OAKWOOD DAIRY, INC. AURORA RIDGE DAIRY PINE HOLLOW DAIRY ALLEN FARMS PATCHEN, KENTON GREEN HILL DAIRY KEVIN & BARB ZIEMBA BLUMER,DAVID RIPLEY FARMS MILLS, GEORGE BACONDALE FARMS RIPLEY FARMS NOLT, RAYMOND JR LITTLEJOHN FARMS REDMOND BROS. WHITE CLOVER FARMS VITALE, PAUL DONLIN FARMS ROMANO FARM LLC BRUTUS HILL FARM DONLIN FARMS HALF ACRE DAIRY RIPLEY FARMS TWIN HILLS FARM 1 ROMANO FARM LLC

H 799.0 H 684.2 H 1870.9 H 1902.5 H 695.6 H 1268.4 H 491.7 H 826.4 H 36.6 H 354.9 H 189.3 H 62.0 H 133.7 X 52.3 H 87.1 H 272.1 H 48.3 H 72.8 H 98.1 H 105.3 H 11.5 H 158.0 X 114.2 H 205.2 G 129.8 H 108.4 X 32.4

31390 1112 3.5 972 3.1 3X 30864 1077 3.5 951 3.1 3X 28444 995 3.5 871 3.1 3X 27814 1027 3.7 855 3.1 3X 27286 988 3.6 853 3.1 3X 26836 968 3.6 835 3.1 3X 26747 949 3.5 827 3.1 3X 25082 885 3.5 780 3.1 24352 940 3.9 760 3.1 25442 855 3.4 747 2.9 3X 24631 897 3.6 733 3.0 3X 24018 883 3.7 720 3.0 23616 891 3.8 703 3.0 22178 904 4.1 696 3.1 3X 23356 844 3.6 688 2.9 24056 901 3.7 684 2.8 3X 22731 846 3.7 682 3.0 20891 771 3.7 664 3.2 21266 796 3.7 654 3.1 21478 765 3.6 635 3.0 19562 707 3.6 634 3.2 19813 730 3.7 625 3.2 20402 746 3.7 613 3.0 19753 753 3.8 608 3.1 18236 826 4.5 594 3.3 3X 19474 693 3.6 564 2.9 15431 737 4.8 555 3.6

H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H X H

28265 979 3.5 882 3.1 3X 27490 1051 3.8 855 3.1 3X 25059 879 3.5 804 3.2 3X 26635 1019 3.8 802 3.0 3X 26277 924 3.5 788 3.0 3X 25904 976 3.8 768 3.0 25367 988 3.9 760 3.0 25972 927 3.6 757 2.9 3X 24001 937 3.9 742 3.1 24457 867 3.5 737 3.0 3X 23489 883 3.8 734 3.1 24550 905 3.7 734 3.0 3X 24264 910 3.8 721 3.0 3X 22448 798 3.6 699 3.1 21850 814 3.7 690 3.2 21946 795 3.6 686 3.1 22145 808 3.6 684 3.1

BROOME

CATTARAUGUS

CAYUGA

CHAUTAUQUA

KNIGHT, JOHN & LAURA IVETT, HOWARD&LUCY TENPAS, ROGER CABHI FARM JHIGH ACRES MCCRAY FARM DENISE SAXTON GRAPE VIEW DAIRY LLC. TRIVAL FARM, INC. CARL AND KRIS NECKERS ORMOND,FARM OAK VIEW DAIRY CROWELL,ROBERT MOSS, GLEN & S. DIANE CARLBERG FARM STARCESKI, PAUL AND ROBIN RHINEHART, TIM & MARY

DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

74.3 46.4 468.0 188.4 222.5 128.2 24.5 254.8 138.8 390.1 212.1 337.7 532.3 172.2 110.8 49.1 99.5

988 956 958 839 791 849 776 771 769 785 768 713 668

3.7 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.5 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.7 3.8

801 739 715 684 667 660 646 642 636 626 604 573 510

3.0 3X 3.0 3X 2.8 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9

TYPE TEST

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS CRUMP FARMS CHENEY, STEVEN & MORRIS CLINECREST FARM ANDERSON, ALLEN LUNDMARK, NORMAN E. CRAIG HARVEY BECKERINK, ROBERT NICKERSON FARMS DAN & AL MINOR CARL AND KRIS NECKERS WALL STREET DAIRY 1 BRAD & KIM WILTSIE BEIGHTOL, JAMES, BRETT DWAYNE & CATHY EMKE BOOZEL, MARK JAQUITH DOUGLAS RAYMOND TROYER KELLEY FAMILY FARM SPINLER FARMS TODD AND TERRI BAYLE JONATHAN WARD

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H H H H H H H H H H J H H H X H H H H H H H

168.7 130.7 59.9 79.4 67.0 112.1 79.5 72.2 902.1 91.6 166.0 42.9 109.8 123.8 96.6 83.0 108.0 38.7 48.0 138.2 44.0 44.6

22091 22214 21268 20428 20729 20623 20961 20240 20846 21237 16333 19735 18710 18609 18449 18544 18257 18112 17272 17777 17325 16520

832 784 827 726 769 764 748 746 747 760 798 719 732 716 700 654 676 634 673 701 650 590

3.8 3.5 3.9 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.6 3.6 4.9 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.6

680 677 650 641 636 632 631 628 618 609 592 590 585 576 570 559 550 545 540 535 513 502

3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.6 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0

LANTLAND FARMS LTD. BLAKEMORE,LANCE & GINA BOOR,DAVID TANNER FARMS LLC TURNER, DAVID

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H

212.5 93.0 105.9 90.3 83.4

24134 24072 22717 21672 19113

906 866 895 785 699

3.8 3.6 3.9 3.6 3.7

747 730 716 633 595

3.1 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.1

NEWTON, HAROLD & BRIAN INDIAN CAMP FARM HOWARDS HANEHAN FAMILY FARM ANGELROSE DAIRY MARSHMAN FARMS LATHROP, BARRY & PAULA DAVIS, ALAN & DEBRA HOFMANN, ROBERT & JOHN LINCKVIEW FARMS INGERTO, JAY & VIRGINIA HOWARDS MIKALUNAS FARM DAN FRIEDEL GORRELL FAMILY SYLSTRA,J.C. ANGELROSE DAIRY MCKENNEY, DAVID MATTYDALE FARM COOK, MARTIN TOM MEADE JR. GREENVIEW FARMS WHITE, MASON & ALLEN MAPLE SHADOW FARM MAPLEDREAM FARM BLANCHARD FARMS OLIN, WILLIAM & LINDA ROBINSON, OSCAR EIHOLZER FARM LATHROP, PETER & BRENDA FRANK, ROBERT CROTHERS,ANTHONY SCHWARTZ, CARL HAPPY VALLEY FARM TYNERDALE MUDGE, STEVEN MIRY RUN FARM ROWE CHARLE DAVIS FARM DENZ, ALBERT

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI DHIR DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H J H H H H J H H H H H H H H H H X H H H X H H H H H H H H

198.8 405.7 20.7 695.6 60.2 393.8 81.3 53.6 64.0 153.9 105.8 59.1 106.5 73.5 99.9 67.5 15.9 83.4 58.5 102.5 91.3 83.9 62.2 112.6 122.1 168.8 128.7 84.6 63.0 93.9 193.1 86.0 89.9 241.7 33.7 60.2 97.5 105.6 75.1 80.1

27709 1058 3.8 862 3.1 3X 26741 1144 4.3 834 3.1 3X 26892 986 3.7 819 3.0 26459 960 3.6 798 3.0 26067 928 3.6 784 3.0 25182 950 3.8 768 3.0 3X 25395 958 3.8 750 3.0 24463 943 3.9 723 3.0 24084 856 3.6 720 3.0 23284 804 3.5 716 3.1 23458 874 3.7 711 3.0 20500 917 4.5 705 3.4 22418 857 3.8 701 3.1 23001 847 3.7 692 3.0 22873 814 3.6 688 3.0 22663 870 3.8 685 3.0 19566 855 4.4 682 3.5 22430 854 3.8 664 3.0 20702 806 3.9 660 3.2 21504 835 3.9 655 3.0 22093 788 3.6 650 2.9 21126 798 3.8 647 3.1 21241 735 3.5 645 3.0 21521 743 3.5 642 3.0 20131 739 3.7 640 3.2 20388 742 3.6 630 3.1 21003 792 3.8 630 3.0 19745 691 3.5 628 3.2 20649 786 3.8 616 3.0 20846 751 3.6 610 2.9 19895 743 3.7 609 3.1 18095 741 4.1 606 3.3 19980 727 3.6 599 3.0 18730 683 3.6 595 3.2 18882 715 3.8 592 3.1 19093 778 4.1 582 3.0 19441 762 3.9 579 3.0 18007 689 3.8 568 3.2 17829 737 4.1 553 3.1 18380 710 3.9 552 3.0

DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H X H H

350.2 546.8 997.5 267.7 594.5 95.5 149.7 50.9 61.6 51.8

29953 1125 3.8 938 3.1 3X 30144 1129 3.7 910 3.0 27843 942 3.4 835 3.0 3X 24244 989 4.1 762 3.1 24356 921 3.8 734 3.0 22308 891 4.0 687 3.1 22310 827 3.7 673 3.0 21180 720 3.4 642 3.0 19052 689 3.6 568 3.0 18046 705 3.9 537 3.0

CHEMUNG

CHENANGO

CLINTON

MINER INSTITUTE REMILLARD FARMS CHALIZ FARM LLC. DIMOCK FARMS, LLC. HIDDEN VIEW FARM G & M FARM ALLEN,JAMES W. MCNEIL, DON & SHERRY DAMOUR, DICK SMITH, HAROLD

COLUMBIA

LONAN FARM DHI-AP LYN F. MAIN,JR DHI-APCS KELLER R & SONS HD1 DHIR ELITE DAIRY DHI-AP OOMS ADRIAN & SONS DHI-AP DAVENPORT, JIM HERD 3 DHI KIERNAN, WILLIAM DHI-AP THE DAVENPORT FAMILY HD 2 DHIR DUTCH HOLLOW FARM DHIRAPCS OOMS,ANTONIE&MICHAEL HD 1 DHI-AP MILLERHURST FARM DHI-AP RONNYBROOK FARMS DHI-AP TRIPPLE CREEK FARM DHI-AP BARRINGER, FRED DHIR-AP G+H DAIRY DHI-AP B.B.T.T.FARM DHI-AP BURCH & SONS DAIRY DHI-AP BURLINGAME, DOUG DHI-AP OOMS, ANTONIE & MICHAEL HD 2 DHIR-AP

CORTLAND

H 538.9 H 1099.2 H 250.2 B 51.8 H 464.7 H 18.8 H 156.0 H 51.3 J 543.3 X 106.7 H 130.1 H 73.8 H 168.5 H 84.8 H 167.5 H 170.4 H 28.2 H 27.4 J 65.5

TURNER, BENJAMIN &CAROLYN DHIR H 113.1 BECK FARMS DHI-APCS H 1169.0 SPRUCE EDEN DAIRY LLC DHIR-AP H 423.5

29185 26407 26371 21211 25039 25491 24090 22876 19526 20665 22099 20715 21240 21060 18708 17401 17898 18040 14565

990 914 957 978 910 927 908 858 961 817 833 762 805 743 701 648 691 694 673

3.4 3.5 3.6 4.6 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.8 4.9 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.8 4.6

892 822 800 788 779 776 712 696 672 663 659 655 653 652 599 584 553 552 518

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.7 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.4 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.6

3X

3X 3X

3X

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

DRAKE, RICHARD D. DHI-AP H 188.7 CURRIE VALLEY DAIRY LLC DHI-AP H 51.9 HALL, BRYAN DHI-AP H 69.3 RIVERSIDE DAIRY LLC DHI-AP H 613.0 CURRIE VALLEY DAIRY LLC DHI-AP H 790.1 DOVETALES FARM DHI-AP H 175.5 SPRUCE EDEN DAIRY LLC DHIR-AP J 19.6 BROOKS, CLINTON S DHI H 74.8 AUGUR, DAVID DHI H 80.0 ROBINSON, ROLAND DHI-AP H 73.7 FORBES FARM DHI-AP X 581.3 A & J GRINNELL DHI-AP H 97.1 SCHONCREST FARMS DHI-AP H 83.5 WESTAN FARMS DHI H 156.8 SUNSETYOUNG FARM DHI H 144.0 MCEVOY,CHARLES & KENNETH DHIR H 33.1 MATT & KEVIN SHARPE DHI-AP H 103.6 KNAPP, PETER DHI-AP H 58.9 TWIN OAKS DAIRY LLC DHI-AP H 134.5 ROCKY BOTTOM FARM DHI-AP H 61.5 CLOSSON, RANDY DHI-AP H 83.3 MUGGLIN JEAN L HD I DHIR-AP J 39.6 BLAINE & CHRIS KELLER DHI-AP X 70.0 GLADTIME TOO DHIR-AP X 67.5

25985 24868 25799 25551 24584 23063 19740 22910 22610 22572 21392 19597 19208 20318 19650 18695 18341 18148 18891 18194 17217 14609 15762 15395

962 963 913 962 912 821 901 841 806 832 831 790 721 829 743 760 700 720 747 659 733 726 666 654

3.7 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.7 3.6 4.6 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.9 4.0 3.8 4.1 3.8 4.1 3.8 4.0 4.0 3.6 4.3 5.0 4.2 4.2

JOLEANNA HOLSTEINS PALMER,RONALD & JORDAN HUMDINGER HOLSTEINS HAGER FARMS ALBANO FARM INC. MATTSON, H.L. & SONS SCHAEFER, ADOLF & LARRY ACKLAND DAIRY FARM LAMPORT, FRANK JR TAGGART,JEFF&LORI&BRAD DELROSE FARM HOLLEY, DAVE & ELAINE DEYSENROTH, PAUL & GWEN MARTIN, EDWIN & DUANE BEEBE HILL FARM CHAR MARIE FARM LLC MARICK FARM,LLC SCOTT' HILLSIDE FARM JASON, SANTOBUONO ETERNAL FLAME HOLSTEINS BEDFORD FARMS TERRY, MATTHEW DAIRY SMITH HOLSTEINS MAXWELL, RUSSELL SKYMAC FARM BRUCE&SUE GREGORY DAVID GOULD RITZ FARMS MUSHKODAY FARM PINEYVALE FARM SHAW,JAMES HOSKING FARM TERRY, MATTHEW MOUNTAIN CREST FARM 2 MUDDY RIVER FARM RICHNAN FARM GRANT, DAVID JOHNSON,CHRISTL & TIM ANDY & BETTYANN POST SKOVSENDE, NEILS

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H H H H H H H H J H H H H H H H

140.8 46.7 47.7 472.5 153.5 189.2 66.9 31.4 118.5 82.0 71.8 74.5 45.1 51.5 72.6 114.5 304.2 125.4 38.6 108.4 98.8 28.7 123.6 46.2 51.0 37.8 61.2 69.4 137.2 63.7 57.6 61.8 45.8 90.6 90.4 45.4 101.1 39.3 82.4 84.3

27401 970 3.5 863 3.1 3X 25748 928 3.6 805 3.1 26019 986 3.8 802 3.1 25976 1023 3.9 799 3.1 26054 1179 4.5 793 3.0 25457 912 3.6 786 3.1 25025 893 3.6 763 3.0 25083 957 3.8 762 3.0 23989 902 3.8 743 3.1 23751 917 3.9 736 3.1 3X 23667 912 3.9 733 3.1 23372 904 3.9 730 3.1 22703 860 3.8 721 3.2 22824 872 3.8 718 3.1 23992 906 3.8 715 3.0 23374 880 3.8 712 3.0 22820 906 4.0 701 3.1 3X 22812 850 3.7 692 3.0 22153 847 3.8 679 3.1 22152 755 3.4 677 3.1 22007 841 3.8 675 3.1 19805 862 4.4 671 3.4 20717 822 4.0 670 3.2 22863 844 3.7 670 2.9 22369 835 3.7 670 3.0 22434 806 3.6 667 3.0 22228 823 3.7 663 3.0 20581 824 4.0 659 3.2 21274 843 4.0 657 3.1 21958 840 3.8 653 3.0 21607 706 3.3 649 3.0 21465 780 3.6 648 3.0 17008 862 5.1 641 3.8 21002 781 3.7 629 3.0 19699 770 3.9 627 3.2 20506 707 3.4 626 3.1 20149 806 4.0 614 3.0 20091 763 3.8 610 3.0 20723 795 3.8 608 2.9 19546 760 3.9 607 3.1

COON BROTHERS HD 2 UPLANDS FARM HENRY BENEKE JACKSON BROS. BROOKCREST STORM FIELD SWISS PULVER,JOHN & JEFFREY BRIAN DONOVAN REBECCA OSBORNE COON BROTHERS HD 1 PEROTTI, FRANK FM 1

DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR

H H H H H X H H X G H

232.6 91.4 142.8 45.0 64.8 42.9 170.9 149.6 77.6 113.6 86.9

24225 22145 20139 20227 19298 18258 18163 17873 17022 16221 16237

915 927 797 734 734 700 667 675 689 748 624

3.8 4.2 4.0 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.8 4.0 4.6 3.8

732 704 652 624 587 581 579 576 538 518 515

3.0 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2

AMBERWOOD FARM DHI-AP H 55.6 RICHMOND, CHARLES & JOHN DHIR-AP H 221.8 ROLLING MEADOWS FARM LLC DHI-AP H 581.5 EARLY VIEW FARM DHI-AP H 115.2 WIDEMAN FARMS DHI-AP H 130.6 PHILLIPS FAMILY FARM INC. DHI-AP H 860.6 HAIER, GEORGE DHI-AP H 58.3 R&D JANIGA ENTERPRISES DHI-AP H 298.2 MUNN, RICHARD DHI-AP H 78.2 WITTMEYER, CLAYTON JR. DHI-AP H 187.1 NORBEL DAIRY DHI-AP H 114.4 SCHMITZ, KEITH & ANN DHI-AP H 82.8 TRIPLE OAK FARMS DHI-AP H 153.1 JEFFERY SIMONS DHI-AP H 63.5 HAIER FREDRICK DHI H 54.4

25511 27281 25760 24581 24965 24894 23983 23147 23864 22847 22126 21966 21249 21382 19820

997 966 979 950 905 966 886 851 879 857 855 817 821 786 812

3.9 3.5 3.8 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.9 3.7 4.1

828 825 785 774 769 762 728 723 723 703 667 662 651 638 626

3.2 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2

OOMSVIEW HOLSTEINS STARGO DAIRY FARM,LLC METCALF FARMS DANIEL & HELENE MEIER BEAVER FLATS HOLSTEINS POIRIER, EUGENE VINCENT FARM LLC. ARMSTRONG,THOMAS FRIEND,ALLAN AND MARY OTIS, RALPH & CINDY

34087 1068 3.1 994 2.9 3X 27563 976 3.5 855 3.1 3X 25597 968 3.8 807 3.2 3X 24558 897 3.7 779 3.2 25404 795 3.1 772 3.0 24524 965 3.9 757 3.1 24551 868 3.5 743 3.0 23150 876 3.8 733 3.2 22575 856 3.8 701 3.1 21326 790 3.7 662 3.1

DELAWARE

3X 3X

3X 3X

DUTCHESS

ERIE

FRANKLIN

3X

30116 1184 3.9 992 3.3 28448 941 3.3 888 3.1 3X 26555 977 3.7 825 3.1 3X

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H

91.6 174.6 510.7 351.6 55.1 67.8 140.3 71.1 78.8 57.4

804 766 763 760 729 707 701 694 684 675 671 608 608 594 587 569 567 566 566 545 537 533 510 507

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.6 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.6 3.2 3.3

3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X

3X 3X

3X

3X

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ALFRED STATE COLLEGE DHIRAPCS H 67.7 POTTER, JACK & CAROL DHI-AP H 48.5 NICKDALE FARMS DHI-AP H 141.7 FALLBROOK FARMS DHI-AP H 145.3 GROSS, KRIS & RHONDA DHI-AP H 155.7 THOMAS & NASON LONG DHI-AP H 24.8 KELLEY, RICHARD DHI-AP H 77.3 BAKER, RICHARD & JEFFREY DHI-AP H 418.1 BENNETT BROTHERS DHI-AP H 211.3 GEORGE, CHRIS & STEPH DHIR-AP H 38.9 PLOETZ, GARY & PATTIE DHI-AP H 52.0 RAMSEY, ERNIE DHI-AP H 62.4 SPEICHER, ROBERT & JIM DHI-AP H 96.3 MORNING VIEW DAIRY FARM DHI-AP J 31.8 LARRY & DAVE SKROBACK DHI-AP X 18.8 SMITH, JERRY DHIR-AP H 35.8 BILL WAHL DHI-AP H 49.1

HERD OWNER

Top 40 Herds For November

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com HERD OWNER WOOD, WILLIAM K. VINCENT FARM LLC. HAMILTON, SCOTT & JUDY ARTIC ROSE ARTIC ROSE GEORGE MILLER THANKFUL HEARTS JERSEY'S ALAMANA FARM'S CRAIGMOOR FARM CRAIGMOOR FARM TUTTLE FARM WILLIAM JONES & SONS LABARE, ROBERT

GENESEE

BLUMER DAIRY MOWACRES FARM KINGSLEY,HOWARD & SONS ZUBER FARMS 2 ROBERT WOOD BERKEMEIER, H. C. & SONS JOHN KUSZLYK WELKER HOLSTEINS

GREENE

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

B R COW E E YEARS D

H J H H H J J H G J X H H

69.2 32.3 84.7 31.0 11.4 103.9 60.7 44.5 45.0 48.8 79.4 101.2 66.4

H 407.0 H1535.3 H 103.8 H 1968.0 H 83.7 H 75.4 X 69.2 H 66.8

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

19516 17800 20310 20624 19799 17108 17060 20092 17260 15578 16849 17661 17500

722 822 717 708 700 748 747 704 797 741 689 653 659

3.7 4.6 3.5 3.4 3.5 4.4 4.4 3.5 4.6 4.8 4.1 3.7 3.8

624 623 615 610 607 604 600 581 571 566 540 536 527

3.2 3.5 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.5 3.5 2.9 3.3 3.6 3.2 3.0 3.0

26024 976 3.8 817 3.1 3X 26530 1019 3.8 797 3.0 3X 23708 859 3.6 728 3.1 21280 857 4.0 644 3.0 3X 20911 661 3.2 636 3.0 19460 788 4.0 630 3.2 18220 654 3.6 555 3.0 16557 618 3.7 503 3.0

VALLEY VIEW FARM STORY, MATTHEW C. JR.

DHIR-AP J 58.8 DHI-AP H 44.2

18446 19093

CASLER, JIM & PHIL MAYPAR FARM TIMMERMAN FARMS FOSTER'S ACRES HOLSTEINS VALLEY HIGH FARM WOLFE, HOWARD KELVISTA HOLSTEINS WINDEX FARMS BOEPPLE, RAYMOND & LISA SCHWASNICK FARMS DONALD & ERIN SHUTTS JR FREDERICK P HERRINGSHAW ATRASS FARM SPRING LAWN FARM MEADOW BROOK FARM BLACK IRON DAIRY LLC HAUGHTON FARM BRUCE TREADWELL WINTERGREEN FARM MARSHY ACRES FARM COLLINS PRIDE HOLSTEINS LYON, JOSEPH & ANGELA DITHMARSIA HOLSTEINS DALE COVERT FOSTER'S ACRES JERSEYS SALMSTEAD FARMS ELM TREE FARM DONEINFARM HACKLEY, BRIAN DALE COVERT JORDAN VALLEY

DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H X H H H X H H H H X H H H H J H H H H X H

280.5 136.9 206.5 135.7 75.4 91.8 89.6 101.2 63.6 113.3 63.6 205.2 74.9 80.4 70.3 177.1 95.5 77.1 65.4 59.6 112.9 72.0 108.4 46.9 15.8 98.7 73.5 29.6 52.1 17.0 54.1

26995 1158 4.3 831 3.1 25079 979 3.9 786 3.1 25689 841 3.3 774 3.0 3X 24214 792 3.3 755 3.1 24257 946 3.9 743 3.1 23376 898 3.8 739 3.2 23715 887 3.7 728 3.1 22356 849 3.8 700 3.1 22449 850 3.8 685 3.1 21060 822 3.9 648 3.1 20420 753 3.7 648 3.2 3X 20103 793 3.9 647 3.2 20819 795 3.8 639 3.1 20091 740 3.7 627 3.1 19625 737 3.8 619 3.2 19943 782 3.9 615 3.1 19102 760 4.0 613 3.2 20593 769 3.7 605 2.9 19859 736 3.7 596 3.0 19571 697 3.6 590 3.0 19483 695 3.6 586 3.0 18852 696 3.7 582 3.1 19280 715 3.7 581 3.0 19382 692 3.6 580 3.0 15321 721 4.7 578 3.8 19837 671 3.4 569 2.9 17988 661 3.7 526 2.9 18182 676 3.7 525 2.9 16922 649 3.8 519 3.1 15209 669 4.4 513 3.4 16497 610 3.7 505 3.1

NORTH HARBOR FARM HYLIGHT FARMS,LLC HYLIGHT FARMS,LLC MURCREST FARM SHELAND FARMS NORTHROP,MICHAEL&SONS BIG DOG DAIRY EISEL, STEVE BROWN,DOUGLAS E. HORNING, STANLEY & SHARON SOUTH SANDY DAIRY WOOD FARMS, LLC. MASON'S DAIRY FARM LYNDALE FARM HYLIGHT FARMS,LLC PARISH, LOUANN LILAC LAWNS FARM INC. ZEHR, JASON REFF FAMILY FARM BOULTON BEACH FARMS,LLC PEACH SPRING FARM REED HAVEN FARMS PEACHEY WILMER & VERA LEE,STEPHEN & SALLY EASTMAN DAIRY FARM LLC. KURTZ, JOSEPH E. JR. FORRESTER, DENNIS & CAROL TMT FARMS ZUMBACH, BRIAN & AMY MURROCK FARM WATSON, STEPHEN BONNYLAND FARM YODER, TIM & ARLENE MOSER, BRAD HALDEMAN DAVID JEFF ZIMMER TOAD HOLLOW DAIRY JOSH+LISA MOSER

DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H X H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

774.8 243.4 90.7 693.6 722.8 85.6 113.8 133.8 295.4 56.1 87.5 564.3 112.9 73.1 29.5 47.1 145.8 60.5 92.8 135.3 59.0 167.9 76.0 62.0 408.2 57.4 124.1 50.4 90.1 234.1 87.4 65.8 76.1 50.3 55.2 81.9 65.8 52.5

29180 29271 28044 28297 27057 27560 26867 24022 25115 24021 24639 24503 23920 24043 20840 24446 23141 22296 21842 22629 23410 22804 23173 22079 23581 21016 22520 20716 20508 20997 19019 18067 17397 17417 17429 17454 17712 16879

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H

49.2 109.1 145.8 72.6 62.2 164.4 56.7

28146 1000 3.6 840 3.0 26663 985 3.7 810 3.0 3X 23157 931 4.0 718 3.1 23182 792 3.4 714 3.1 22515 841 3.7 712 3.2 23369 847 3.6 712 3.0 23405 861 3.7 703 3.0

HERKIMER

JEFFERSON

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TYPE TEST

LEWIS

L&M FARMS WALNUTHOF FARM WILLIAMS FARM ANDY SCHANTZ RIVEREDGE DAIRY RIDLESIDE HERD #1 YORK, SCOTT E

917 5.0 647 3.5 720 3.8 586 3.1

1027 1173 1137 1046 942 949 958 736 981 955 925 977 975 894 1042 875 782 780 917 801 856 801 851 806 848 810 827 821 679 766 683 668 695 632 622 635 640 633

3.5 4.0 4.1 3.7 3.5 3.4 3.6 3.1 3.9 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.1 3.7 5.0 3.6 3.4 3.5 4.2 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.7 4.0 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.8

885 883 865 862 823 821 802 784 761 759 750 743 742 739 729 717 710 703 701 700 693 687 683 679 675 654 652 642 628 626 583 540 535 526 523 521 521 510

3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.5 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0

3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X

3X

3X 3X 3X

3X

HERD OWNER SCHRAG,WILFRED & LOIS ROGGIE,KEITH HOUSER, DWIGHT SOUTH KEENER DAIRY JASDALE FARM LIMESTONE RIDGE FARM JEFF SIMPSON HANCOCK,JIM & DARCIE SULLIVAN,MIKE C. SHERMAN ERIC & LORELLE RODNEY CLINTSMAN LEYDEN VIEW FARM ZEHR GLENN PURPLE FEVER HOLSTEINS ERNEST & AMY BEYER TARA LYNDAKER YORK, MICHEAL & DYNALL HEBERT, RONALD GUS TABOLT THUNDER LANE DAIRY MAST, TITUS MISTYKNOLL FARM WIDRICK, KYLE VALMONT DAIRY FARM BAUER, JAMES NORTZ, CHRISTINA YANCEY, HASKELL A., JR PALUCK, WILLAIM GINGERICH, LOWELL & JOYCE ROES,LOREN J. ZEHR, MYRON D. KENT, LARRY HOPPEL, CARL & DORIS

LIVINGSTON

R. SCHRAMM ENT. MULLIGAN FARM, INC MULLIGAN FARM, INC DAIRYKNOLL FARMS KEVETTA FARMS MROCZEK, JOSEPH & ANDY COYNE FARMS, INC. KEVETTA FARMS MAXWELL FARMS CADYVILLE FARM DONNAN FARMS, INC.

TYPE TEST

DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

B R COW E E YEARS D

H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

82.6 83.5 79.4 112.1 133.7 200.0 64.2 100.6 125.4 70.9 80.3 87.5 89.3 33.6 122.7 48.5 63.1 99.2 127.9 81.3 77.1 128.9 77.1 114.2 25.2 37.2 59.3 90.9 127.4 48.3 74.3 91.3 102.1

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

22460 23476 22053 22258 22260 22100 22125 22080 20159 21289 21027 21002 20724 19419 20708 19971 20592 20949 19990 20806 19877 19626 20048 19146 18776 18984 18114 18135 16964 17585 18399 17498 18152

914 859 851 808 917 838 852 721 759 897 777 847 758 754 825 713 786 774 803 851 736 758 739 717 663 748 646 728 684 650 691 694 697

4.1 3.7 3.9 3.6 4.1 3.8 3.9 3.3 3.8 4.2 3.7 4.0 3.7 3.9 4.0 3.6 3.8 3.7 4.0 4.1 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.6 4.0 4.0 3.7 3.8 4.0 3.8

691 690 690 690 672 670 670 658 646 646 644 639 639 635 626 624 623 622 621 619 619 605 585 572 557 555 547 546 543 541 540 536 531

3.1 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3X 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9

H 194.2 H1104.5 H 127.5 H 888.5 H 23.6 H 90.3 H 929.1 J 15.2 H 91.0 H 153.0 H 3525.8

28934 1153 4.0 899 3.1 3X 28527 1075 3.8 875 3.1 3X 26256 1003 3.8 808 3.1 3X 26287 934 3.6 801 3.0 3X 25302 856 3.4 771 3.0 24012 884 3.7 754 3.1 25593 977 3.8 753 2.9 3X 20509 904 4.4 741 3.6 24919 902 3.6 736 3.0 21334 862 4.0 664 3.1 21112 725 3.4 630 3.0 3X

CHRIS AND STEPH ANDERSON DHIR-AP H 52.8 MORRISVILLE COLLEGE FOUND DHI-APCS H 259.3 CEDARKNOB FARMS, LLC DHI-AP H 323.7 DURFEE, STEVEN DHI-AP H 484.8 DURFEE, STEVEN DHI-AP H 488.7 HOLMES ACRE DHI-AP H 424.2 WHITE EAGLE FARMS DHI-AP H 935.5 SPRINGWATER FARMS LLC DHI-AP H 355.6 FERN HILL FARM, LLC DHIR H 259.9 SWAMP BOTTOM FARM DHI-AP H 41.7 ROBERTS, CHARLES & SONS DHI-AP H 125.9 EVANS, DOUG DHIR A 38.4 BIKOWSKY ,PATTY & JOHN JR. DHI-AP H 76.6 MONANFRAN FARMS, INC. DHIR-AP H 185.3 GATEHOUSE FARM DHI-AP H 251.7 TFARM DHIR H 88.6 GRANNY ANNE DHIR-AP H 81.7 MANLEY, GWEN & JEFF DHI-AP H 42.6 WINTERCREST FARMS DHI-AP H 119.5 RENDCACH FARMS DHI-AP H 158.3 WRATTEN FARM DHI-AP H 36.3 WOOD, CALVIN & MATT DHI-AP H 238.1 PUSHLAR, PAUL & FAMILY DHI-AP H 83.1 FANNING, TERRY DHI-AP H 68.8 JONES,DAVID & SCOTT DHI-AP H 78.0 WESTFALL, FRED & STEVE DHI-AP H 93.0 HENRY, JOSEPH O. & PETE DHI-AP H 71.8 PARSONS, DOUGLAS DHI-AP H 116.2 BARNES, BRUCE DHI-AP H 73.5 MORGAN, FRED & JUDY DHI-AP H 150.3 WEDGE FARM DHI-AP H 71.8 BRIDGEDALE FARM DHI-AP H 114.2 LYREKCREST HOLSTEINS DHIR-AP H 82.6 SCHELL, JOHN E. DHI-AP H 62.2 PERRY, DONALD L. & DONALD H DHI-AP H 81.1 WRATTEN FARM DHI-AP X 31.5 WOODCOCK, LOUIS L. DHI H 95.5 WESTFALL, FRED & STEVE DHI-AP A 25.7

30119 845 2.8 922 3.1 3X 29510 1082 3.7 922 3.1 3X 27140 929 3.4 827 3.0 3X 26186 908 3.5 815 3.1 3X 26105 914 3.5 814 3.1 3X 26815 933 3.5 807 3.0 3X 26266 947 3.6 780 3.0 3X 25890 922 3.6 768 3.0 3X 23360 921 3.9 755 3.2 23514 828 3.5 753 3.2 23859 923 3.9 741 3.1 23026 908 3.9 738 3.2 23800 849 3.6 708 3.0 23660 874 3.7 704 3.0 23638 871 3.7 701 3.0 3X 21895 849 3.9 679 3.1 22059 811 3.7 677 3.1 22049 838 3.8 676 3.1 22446 807 3.6 666 3.0 21061 789 3.7 655 3.1 20768 790 3.8 650 3.1 20535 812 4.0 648 3.2 20665 737 3.6 644 3.1 20905 706 3.4 642 3.1 20767 805 3.9 640 3.1 20918 760 3.6 637 3.0 20509 712 3.5 625 3.0 19453 726 3.7 613 3.2 20014 708 3.5 608 3.0 18442 784 4.3 596 3.2 19470 769 3.9 594 3.1 19485 733 3.8 590 3.0 18963 700 3.7 588 3.1 18950 690 3.6 561 3.0 18566 730 3.9 545 2.9 17499 648 3.7 545 3.1 17575 670 3.8 544 3.1 16346 604 3.7 515 3.2

COLBY HOMESTEAD FARMS ELLSWORTH, ROCKY & PAT

DHI-APCS H 211.2 DHIR-AP X 60.1

21213 16286

KORONA, JEREMY KORONA, JEREMY CANARY, JAMES DEVENDORF FARM NARE FARMS STANLEY WICHOWSKY BRUMAR FARM KORONA, JEREMY SHUSTER, PAUL & MAXINE HAYES THOMAS HEISER, JASON MEAD, GARY KORONA, STANLEY ROBBIE DYGERT MAC VEAN, ROBERT JAMES HUDSON

DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

25853 1227 4.7 848 3.3 24710 1169 4.7 812 3.3 24991 989 4.0 810 3.2 24803 973 3.9 779 3.1 24173 984 4.1 763 3.2 24724 952 3.9 754 3.0 24021 997 4.2 749 3.1 19413 1162 6.0 747 3.8 24583 903 3.7 740 3.0 24569 952 3.9 737 3.0 24221 921 3.8 729 3.0 23204 905 3.9 725 3.1 23413 839 3.6 723 3.1 23955 954 4.0 718 3.0 22719 900 4.0 713 3.1 23221 968 4.2 693 3.0

MADISON

MONROE

MONTGOMERY

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIRAPCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS

Top 40 Herds For November

H H H H H H H J H H H H H H H H

36.6 61.1 57.3 43.6 199.7 66.8 220.4 12.1 55.1 64.8 88.9 201.0 41.6 57.7 113.7 38.9

834 3.9 650 3.1 656 4.0 549 3.4

HERD OWNER CLAY HILL FARM FREDERICKS VELVET ACRES HANDY HILLS FARM INGHAMS HILL FARM WILA HALA FARM FEAGLES FARM MCCLUMPHA FARM HILL, RONALD KORONA, STANLEY RANDY & DEBBIE FRASIER RACANIELLO, WAYNE TRAHAVEN KORONA, STANLEY ADAM HAYES DAMIN FARM COLE, MIKE SNYDER, CLYDE CHAPMAN, RICHARD & FAMILY FRASIER, LYN AND WILLIAM DAMIN, GLEN

NIAGARA

LAKESHORE DAIRY LLC MCCOLLUM FARMS J J FARMS 1 GASPORT VIEW DAIRY,INC. WILLS DAIRY FARM RED CREEK FARM RANNEY FARMS J J FARMS 1 MILLEVILLE FARMS, INC.

ONEIDA

COLLINS,EDWARD & SONS TAYLWIND FARM CHAMPION FARMS LLC WILLSON, RODNEY ANGELL, KEVIN C. BIELBY, JAMES GAFNER, GEORGE GALLAGHER,CINDY & PAUL PRITCHARD, HUBERT AND JIM WILLIAMS, JAMES SMITH, WILLIAM & JOAN GREEN, PETER M. MELODYWOOD FARM SMITH, RONALD & HOWARD GYPSY DELL FARM LLC WORMONT DAIRY STOLARCZYK, BRIAN HAROLD GLOUSE VAN HATTEN, B & C ROBERTS, JOHN & LISA SHERWOOD FARM FITZGERALD, JASON HD2 JONES TERRANCE R. RED LINE FARMS LLC GROESLON FARM INC. NOBIS, TONY & PETE LWG DUTCH HAVEN FARM LARRY,DOUGLAS BALDWIN, RICHARD & SHARON SPRING GROVE FARM LLC SCHNEIBLE,BOB POOLE,BRIAN&TRACEY GAR LINN FARM TOLBERT FRANK ROCKYLEE FARM POOLE, BRIAN & TRACEY LEE DAIRY FARM VALEHIGH FARM

ONONDAGA

TYPE TEST

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

144.6 139.0 114.6 81.0 81.4 71.7 30.2 79.3 31.1 47.5 30.7 50.8 36.0 57.1 73.5 72.5 73.7 80.6 61.1 61.1

22530 22118 21078 23439 22188 22311 21213 21618 17336 20185 19696 20673 18627 19918 20049 16946 19355 17599 19072 17858

837 768 825 846 865 841 750 955 825 820 781 837 762 758 839 862 760 720 709 669

3.7 3.5 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.5 4.4 4.8 4.1 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.8 4.2 5.1 3.9 4.1 3.7 3.7

692 687 685 676 672 668 649 644 626 624 611 605 604 602 601 586 573 566 561 520

3.1 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.6 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.5 3.0 3.2 2.9 2.9

H 1766.0 H 2252.1 H 327.9 H 693.5 H 311.4 H 143.0 H 118.4 H 133.4 H 77.3

25020 24378 24393 22784 21180 20363 20029 18472 17370

978 915 878 824 684 792 860 672 686

3.9 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.2 3.9 4.3 3.6 3.9

755 735 730 698 637 629 625 584 559

3.0 3X 3.0 3.0 3X 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3X 3.2

H H H H H H H X H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H H H X H H H H J H H H A H H

648.2 199.3 669.5 99.6 50.9 85.8 57.1 73.4 116.5 55.4 58.3 132.2 55.5 59.3 156.5 234.3 83.0 87.7 38.8 33.8 66.3 63.8 99.6 59.0 71.9 44.5 69.2 47.7 62.1 56.8 48.0 41.8 56.0 65.9 52.4 14.0 76.4 67.6

28115 27646 26420 25224 23738 24014 22656 21348 22097 22675 21494 21732 21323 21498 20873 19581 19315 19159 19550 19559 18176 18700 18299 17953 17726 18133 17234 18980 17536 18530 17911 15214 16794 16611 16311 17188 17005 16074

995 978 884 907 932 866 894 864 830 823 833 801 762 834 778 730 712 723 776 694 744 696 609 730 654 713 639 659 661 691 600 723 684 613 593 656 593 613

3.5 3.5 3.3 3.6 3.9 3.6 3.9 4.0 3.8 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8 4.0 3.5 4.1 3.7 3.3 4.1 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.7 3.3 4.8 4.1 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.8

863 814 778 776 759 758 737 693 690 687 665 638 638 637 634 609 604 598 596 591 589 587 570 565 556 552 549 546 544 543 538 533 525 514 510 506 505 501

3.1 2.9 3X 2.9 3X 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.5 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.1

1045 1060 1075 975 957 885 863 915 941 1004 891 823 879 821 869 820 812 774 818 831 758 673 744 729 611 681 633 712

3.7 3.7 3.8 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.9 4.0 4.1 3.8 3.6 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.6 4.8 4.1 3.6 3.7 4.7 4.0 3.5 4.1 3.9 5.0

885 871 856 848 844 778 761 758 734 733 702 698 697 693 691 675 674 661 643 640 628 565 556 539 536 524 519 507

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.8 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.5 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.5

H H H H H H H H J H H H A H H J H H H H

COVALE HOLSTEINS SNAVLIN FARMS VENTURE FARMS LLC ANDREW STACK TWIN BIRCH DAIRY, LLC FABIUS GREENWOOD FARM AIRY RIDGE FARM MOUNTFIELD FARM COWLES, THURLOW, Y. MAPLEHURST FARMS LLC OLIVER,FARM AMESLEA FARM 1 LOOMIS, JAMES W. DOODY, LARRY& SONS MARKHAM HOLLOW FARM TREGFARMS LLC RICHARDS, ELMER & SONS DALE VANERDEN CARLSON, CHERYL BURGETT FARMS DENNIS, CARL & CRAIG HAYNES SCOTT TUCKER JOHN COOK, PAUL KARASEK,RUDY & SON WILDB DAIRY TWIN FARMS SILVER SPRINGS FARM

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR

H 456.2 H 144.4 H 828.0 H 97.3 H 1155.0 H 858.3 H 388.1 H 162.3 H 265.9 H 411.3 H 78.9 H 122.1 H 193.7 H 362.5 H 298.2 H 178.6 H 1391.3 H 648.4 J 58.5 H 111.4 H 46.4 A 46.7 J 119.4 H 49.9 H 119.8 X 48.6 B 32.3 J 131.7

28238 28447 28243 27529 27401 25690 25545 23490 23333 24712 23682 22863 22193 22767 22157 22057 21813 21423 16902 20113 21090 18191 15796 18439 17363 16427 16346 14381

RAES,RONALD MINNS JAMES BLACK BROOK FARM LIGHTLAND FARMS HEMDALE FARMS, INC.

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS

H H H H H

32608 1132 3.5 974 3.0 3X 28711 1000 3.5 873 3.0 3X 27719 1045 3.8 847 3.1 27014 967 3.6 813 3.0 3X 26682 890 3.3 812 3.0 3X

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151.6 657.9 170.2 397.9 724.0

3X 3X 3X 3X 3X 3X

3X

3X

3X

3X

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HILTON RICHARD N DHI-AP ELVI FARMS, INC. DHI-APCS FABA FARM DHI-AP REEDLAND FARMS DHI-AP J.DEBOOVER FARMS INC. DHI-AP LINHOLM DAIRY LLC DHI-AP GREEN VIEW FARMS DHI-AP ROGERS DAIRY FARM DHI-AP WILLOCREST DHI-APCS HAYTON FAMILY FARM DHI-AP BENNETT FARMS DHIR-AP PHALEN, KEVIN & ROBERT DHI-AP DAY BROTHERS DHI-AP LAMELLA FARMS DHI-AP COSH, ANDREW S. DHI-AP WALKER, CHARLES & SHELLEY DHI-AP CROUCH, GLENN AND JOHN DHI-AP

H 388.7 H 1020.8 H 491.6 H 350.9 H 1000.5 H 175.0 H 119.3 H 157.8 H 1010.3 H 64.5 H 79.5 H 452.5 H 155.4 H 126.6 H 73.3 H 40.4 H 69.9

26374 1008 3.8 806 3.1 3X 26112 922 3.5 796 3.0 3X 25538 948 3.7 794 3.1 25825 938 3.6 781 3.0 3X 24180 923 3.8 734 3.0 22653 898 4.0 727 3.2 3X 23318 878 3.8 714 3.1 22720 875 3.9 713 3.1 23635 818 3.5 706 3.0 22333 863 3.9 692 3.1 22413 834 3.7 688 3.1 22130 851 3.8 681 3.1 20774 796 3.8 657 3.2 20870 775 3.7 645 3.1 19962 752 3.8 616 3.1 16782 725 4.3 515 3.1 16669 666 4.0 510 3.1

SMILEY, RUSSELL W. BELLVALE FARMS ECHO FARM STAP ROBERT & STACEY GIBBS, GARY & SARA THORNDALE FARM SPRUCEGATE HOLSTEINS HOYT, MARK & KATIE JOHNSON, C. F. & SON EWANCIW, ED WISNER FARMS, INC. JOHSON, PHILIP BALBACH,C.H. FREEDOM HILL FARM

H H H H H H H H H H H H H J

27294 1081 4.0 846 3.1 22250 873 3.9 695 3.1 22760 791 3.5 686 3.0 21945 763 3.5 683 3.1 21065 820 3.9 652 3.1 20956 832 4.0 649 3.1 19902 733 3.7 639 3.2 21161 742 3.5 631 3.0 18320 778 4.2 571 3.1 19853 745 3.8 558 2.8 17983 665 3.7 550 3.1 17920 772 4.3 550 3.1 17989 668 3.7 540 3.0 15753 737 4.7 531 3.4

ORANGE

ORLEANS

DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHIR-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP

39.3 54.7 113.9 106.6 66.3 107.9 53.5 70.3 247.0 27.9 92.8 250.9 50.7 28.4

NEAL, EDWARD & JAMES AND JODY DHI-AP H 558.7 ZIMMERMAN CHRIS DHIR-AP H 39.2 SMITH,EDWIN & RICHARD DHIR-AP H 58.1

26226 22301 19591

CORJESS HOLSTEINS WILKINSON, LARRY MAPLE HELP STOCK FARMS NICHOLSON,DEAN WIMLER FARM NY SUMMER VILLA HOLSTEINS

OSWEGO

H H H H H H

83.1 76.4 53.3 95.6 159.8 59.4

26726 1006 3.8 837 3.1 23663 808 3.4 697 2.9 21511 796 3.7 685 3.2 20057 768 3.8 628 3.1 17799 692 3.9 519 2.9 16904 624 3.7 501 3.0

TRIPLE J DAIRY DHI-AP TRIPLE J DAIRY DHI-AP WEBSTER, TERRY & COREY DHI-AP WOODLAWN DAIRY FARM LLC DHI-AP VAN ALSTINE, TOM & SANDY DHIR-AP ALDRICH KEITH DHI-AP GALLEY, DAVID DHI WATERPOINT FARMS DHIR ROHRING FALLS FARM DHI-AP BANTA BROTHERS DHI-AP TRACY,ROBERT DHI-AP COOPERSTOWN HOLSTEIN CORP DHI-AP JORDAN BROTHERS DHI-AP POWERS, JAMES & PAMELA DHI-AP OSBORNE,CLAYTON,JOHN,BRUC DHIR WESTBROOK, WILLIAM & WENDY DHI-AP GANTNER, RICH DHI-AP ROCKSPRING FARM DHI-AP DAYDREAM FARMS DHI-AP LICATA DAIRY DHI-AP BOB & KAREN MELLOTT DHI-AP BOUCHARD, RICKY DHI-AP JAMES FERGUSON DHI-AP DAN & MAE'S DAIRY DHI-AP TYLER, LESTER DHIR MATT AND DEAN UTTER DHI-AP GOD'S GRACE FARM DHI-AP TAUZEL, J & J DHI-AP DULKIS, MARK DHI-AP BUTTS,DAN & JOHN DHI-AP JAKE REED DHI-AP ADAM & ANDREA ROBERTSON DHI-AP WEINERT,WILLY & BECKY DHI-AP MUMFORD, JAMES & MARCIA DHI-AP FLY CREEK VALLEY FARMS DHI-AP BUTTS,DAN & JOHN DHI-AP RIDGEVIEW FARM DHI-AP

X X H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H X H H B H H H H H H H H H H X H

12.3 12.3 147.5 165.8 74.6 34.2 76.5 372.4 77.1 75.3 81.0 282.7 94.1 51.4 53.1 82.1 38.0 91.0 47.8 33.0 60.7 32.7 81.8 77.9 138.1 123.6 49.7 61.6 66.8 36.1 58.8 118.3 41.3 109.9 24.0 49.2 66.6

31601 1137 3.61002 3.2 3X 28837 1089 3.8 904 3.1 3X 27112 1042 3.8 816 3.0 25695 946 3.7 788 3.1 24738 909 3.7 755 3.1 3X 23744 890 3.7 717 3.0 23210 878 3.8 711 3.1 23766 942 4.0 709 3.0 3X 23429 861 3.7 708 3.0 23069 941 4.1 692 3.0 21847 784 3.6 686 3.1 22777 843 3.7 684 3.0 3X 22157 832 3.8 674 3.0 20740 797 3.8 638 3.1 21620 802 3.7 638 3.0 20794 770 3.7 634 3.0 20867 764 3.7 626 3.0 20094 794 4.0 617 3.1 19451 757 3.9 615 3.2 21547 788 3.7 614 2.8 20052 745 3.7 614 3.1 18871 762 4.0 608 3.2 19894 823 4.1 604 3.0 19741 720 3.6 600 3.0 18260 730 4.0 593 3.2 18168 688 3.8 581 3.2 18824 733 3.9 574 3.0 18578 726 3.9 563 3.0 18965 687 3.6 559 2.9 18747 701 3.7 558 3.0 17968 703 3.9 557 3.1 17172 671 3.9 555 3.2 18759 707 3.8 551 2.9 18124 691 3.8 550 3.0 17840 686 3.8 550 3.1 15660 704 4.5 523 3.3 16780 646 3.8 503 3.0

GREEN, DAVID CANNON MATT & PEGGY DAN REQUATE MCMAHON, JOHN & DAN MOODY, MARK & ALICE TARBOX FARMS 1 LEWCLIF FARMS LUKELAND FARMS

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H

340.5 109.1 184.6 128.5 33.5 93.7 122.7 103.2

28289 1154 4.1 877 3.1 3X 22738 916 4.0 774 3.4 22463 874 3.9 691 3.1 3X 22650 841 3.7 689 3.0 21326 814 3.8 637 3.0 20310 745 3.7 621 3.1 19152 757 4.0 605 3.2 19063 735 3.9 588 3.1

GILBERT,ANDY&TONY STAUFFER,FARMS RIVERBREEZE FARMS WOODCREST DAIRY ,LLC C&M DAIRY LLC. TWIN MILL FARMS, LLC CROSBY, FRANK, J. REED, MARION & FRED JR. FAUCHER, MICHAEL

DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H 1175.1 H 1363.3 H 1075.2 H 2729.0 H 557.9 H 151.5 H 32.5 H 65.5 H 103.6

RENSSELAER

ST. LAWRENCE

26779 26424 26151 25467 23804 22054 22326 21012 21975

847 848 864 878 902 851 811 818 756

3.2 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.8 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.4

819 797 789 761 725 682 678 666 656

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0

SARATOGA

WOOD, DAVID R. PECK, WILLIAM FLYHIGHER HOLSTEINS LLC KINGSRANSOM FARM PECK, JOSEPH HANEHAN FAMILY DAIRY KEVIN PECK SMITH BROS. SPEIDEL, RICHARD CURTISS, C.E. & SON

3X 3X 3X 3X 3X

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

806 718 768 760 694 743 742 644 663 748 672 632 639 586 611 691

4.3 3.4 3.9 4.0 3.5 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.5 5.0 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.7 4.0

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

B H H H H H H H H J H H H H H H

23.6 190.0 56.4 124.1 119.5 60.5 77.1 126.9 136.9 33.4 165.0 159.1 83.3 31.4 71.6 45.7

18728 21069 19916 19010 19868 19593 19628 19036 18705 14993 17711 18010 17790 17054 16482 17240

DHIRAPCS DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI DHIR-AP

H H H H H H H H H H

928.4 597.6 148.6 801.8 101.0 672.2 564.4 170.0 83.1 22.2

28298 1148 4.1 897 3.2 3X 27988 1051 3.8 869 3.1 3X 24873 914 3.7 753 3.0 3X 24396 894 3.7 744 3.0 3X 24474 911 3.7 741 3.0 24044 922 3.8 740 3.1 24683 900 3.6 733 3.0 3X 22884 881 3.8 712 3.1 22310 927 4.2 680 3.0 17448 723 4.1 552 3.2 29047 28195 25593 26260 21142 24477 22853 23165 23287 22360 22475 22199 18487 20392 19905 18313 18696 18029

SENECA VALLEY FARM GAIGE FARMS BURR, CHARLES AND KEN BERGEN FARMS GLENVIEW DAIRY LLC HOSTETLER, MARK & MARYELE BURR, CHARLES AND KEN ALLEN, THOMAS R. LONE OAK FARM

H 768.9 H 396.6 H 122.0 H 2318.7 H 711.0 H 76.8 A 29.8 H 51.9 X 67.0

28341 1092 3.9 854 3.0 3X 25984 990 3.8 829 3.2 3X 25076 984 3.9 793 3.2 25855 993 3.8 779 3.0 3X 25647 1006 3.9 776 3.0 3X 23940 877 3.7 728 3.0 21198 891 4.2 698 3.3 18378 702 3.8 560 3.0 17619 623 3.5 540 3.1 26927 24914 24707 25103 24217 23663 24107 23157 21154 19211

SENECA

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

3X 3X

3X

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H 553.1 H 107.3 H 1143.8 H 583.2 H 57.7 H 166.5 H 402.5 H 1085.5 H 85.2 H 338.2 H 55.3 H 533.4 X 57.6 H 71.3 H 64.1 H 149.6 H 56.3 A 84.3 H 40.2 H 177.1 H 85.7 H 118.4 X 103.7 H 38.1

28751 1060 3.7 867 3.0 3X 26021 1045 4.0 850 3.3 27831 931 3.3 799 2.9 3X 26508 992 3.7 785 3.0 3X 24064 936 3.9 775 3.2 24264 956 3.9 756 3.1 25294 891 3.5 747 3.0 3X 24663 885 3.6 737 3.0 3X 22468 870 3.9 710 3.2 23866 843 3.5 702 2.9 3X 21744 813 3.7 689 3.2 22420 834 3.7 685 3.1 3X 20754 859 4.1 678 3.3 3X 21762 776 3.6 670 3.1 20920 817 3.9 668 3.2 21941 784 3.6 657 3.0 20425 753 3.7 653 3.2 20622 752 3.6 646 3.1 21127 719 3.4 636 3.0 19630 709 3.6 592 3.0 18703 696 3.7 584 3.1 18878 658 3.5 573 3.0 17433 667 3.8 532 3.1 17644 685 3.9 528 3.0

BRANDON PETERS DAIRY J&E WEISSMANN FARMS HUGHSON, WILFRED THONY'S DAIRY WEISSMANN MSHORTHORNS

DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H H H H M

20905 20531 18055 16928 16499

TIOGA

LYON, FRANK

DHI-AP H 88.3

3.3 3.7 3.9 4.0 3.9

639 611 551 535 516

3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.9

3X 3X

SMITH STOCK FARM SMITH, GERARD M. DAMIN FARMS, LLC ROGER DUNN BEACH, THOMAS JR. JA WA FARMS BURNS FAMILY FARM LLC SCHUMACRES & ASSOCIATES CLARK, EDWARD JR. DWI BET FARMS ARCHER, BRUCE KARR DAIRY FARMS,LLC DAMIN FARMS, LLC KIMBLEDALE NICHOLS DAIRY BARBR FARMS WADE, LYLE & JEAN ATHERTON FAMILY PRICE, TOM ELLISON FARMS FIDE FARMS CHARLES P. WATERS STEWART, DAVID & KATHY KRAMER, DAVID & KIMBERLY

692 756 699 681 650

806 760 755 752 733 728 696 693 652 558

3X 3X

H H H H H H H H H H

85.9 29.9 140.6 49.2 20.5

3.6 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.8 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.6

3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.5 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1

DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

SULLIVAN

975 937 931 851 852 907 824 828 747 691

873 851 825 786 754 722 717 716 703 698 679 654 651 625 602 572 556 552

KYLE FURGUSON JOHN MEHLING GEORGE FARMS DARYL G. MARTIN MURANDA HOLSTEINS CANOGASPRING FARMS HORNING, CURTIS ROY MARTIN ZIMMERMAN, GLENN EAGLETON FARM

STEUBEN

219.1 90.9 370.8 68.2 81.5 350.2 71.1 215.2 209.5 50.2

4.1 4.1 3.9 3.4 5.4 3.6 4.1 4.0 3.7 3.4 3.7 3.6 4.5 3.5 3.8 4.0 3.7 4.3

3.5 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.7 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.0

PROKOP, RICHARD, SANDY & JON DHI-AP H 336.7 SUNY AG &TECH COLLEGE DHIR H 169.4 ARGUS ACRES, LLC DHI-AP H 384.1 HIGH HILL FARM LLC DHI-AP H 121.7 PROKOP, RICHARD,SANDY&JON DHI-AP J 21.7 RUTHER, STEVEN & MARION DHI-AP H 77.4 SCHULTZ BROS. FARM INC. DHI-AP H 142.6 LLOYD,DAVID,DENISE,JASON DHIR-AP H 149.3 CACCIOLA GERRY & SHARON DHI-AP H 323.6 RKEYVALE DHI-AP H 72.6 STANTON, JOHNDEBERIC DHI-AP H 141.3 LVA FARMS NO B.S.T. DHI-AP H 106.5 EVERETT, TIM & PATTI DHI J 34.1 CHARLIE & WILLA REED DHI-AP H 51.3 STANTON,JOHNDEBERIC DHI-AP A 40.4 BUCK, DANIEL & TAMMY DHI-AP H 67.9 GAIGE, DAVID & DONNA DHIR-AP H 53.2 C.D.S. TILLAPAUGH DHI H 304.5

SCHUYLER

1201 1156 1000 897 1132 885 944 930 871 762 842 800 834 716 747 732 690 767

655 635 613 607 602 601 599 559 555 553 545 544 541 523 521 521

3.1 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1

27563 1044 3.8 841 3.1

3X 3X 3X

3X

HERD OWNER CAMPBELL, CHARLES B. KING, DAVE ZORN, TOM & JANET R. HIDDEN VALLEY FARM HOWLAND, ROBERT C. STRONGHAVEN FARM LAWTON, MERLE FRISBIE BROTHERS HUIZINGA, HENRY & LOIS MCNEIL,MARK KWIATKOWSKI BROTHERS HUIZINGA DAIRY FRANCISCO, YVETTE RAUTINE, ARVO DEMING, CODY TODD AND JOSIE SPENCER WALKER, DOUGLAS JR. ROBINSON FARM

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DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

B R COW E E YEARS D

H H H H H H J H H H H H H H H H H H

59.6 70.9 40.7 238.4 91.6 259.2 77.9 123.2 156.2 57.7 200.4 148.2 37.7 75.8 58.7 87.3 47.0 256.1

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

26613 969 3.6 816 3.1 27210 986 3.6 805 3.0 26789 1026 3.8 789 2.9 25171 986 3.9 777 3.1 25056 907 3.6 751 3.0 24873 941 3.8 743 3.0 3X 20983 988 4.7 735 3.5 24081 873 3.6 715 3.0 22719 891 3.9 696 3.1 22152 855 3.9 689 3.1 22844 871 3.8 689 3.0 22218 811 3.7 675 3.0 22218 834 3.8 670 3.0 22484 803 3.6 666 3.0 20127 754 3.7 646 3.2 20999 800 3.8 639 3.0 18318 696 3.8 581 3.2 18057 638 3.5 543 3.0

HARDIE FARMS INC. DHI-AP H 1081.3 COOK FARMS DHIR-AP H 268.0 MILLBROOK FARM DHIR-AP H 688.8 TEACHING & REASEARCH CTR DHI-APCS H 548.1 CARPENTER, EVAN & BREN DHI-AP H 73.3 MILLBROOK FARM DHIR-AP H 14.9 VISION QUEST DAIRY DHI-AP H 393.6 STUTTLE, LEWIS DHIR-AP H 277.1 SWEYOLAKAN FARMS DHI-AP H 200.2 VANDEBOGART, ALAN & RAY DHIR-AP H 85.4 MILLBROOK FARM DHIR-AP H 10.3 MILLBROOK FARM DHIR-AP X 73.3 FOUTS FARM DHI-AP H 319.6 SMITH, NIAL S. & SONS DHI-AP X 152.5 CUMMINGS, WILLIAM DHI-AP H 46.1 RANKIN FARM DHIR-AP H 56.7 PINE RIDGE FARM INC. DHI-AP H 331.8 HOUSTON, MARLIN J. DHI-AP H 125.6 KANE, DONALD DHI-AP H 156.8

29522 27859 27119 26768 25852 26556 25937 25031 25013 25299 25375 22956 22383 21155 20557 19126 19465 18748 16786

DOMINO FARM F&C BROOKS AND SONS

21224 1005 4.7 784 3.7 17326 647 3.7 518 3.0

ULSTER

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DHIRAPCS J 158.8 DHI-AP H 57.2

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PRO-DAIRY’s Group Housed Dairy Calf Systems symposium sold out A sold-out crowd of dairy farmers and their advisors gathered in East Syracuse in early December to learn why some farmers are enthusiastic about grouphousing and feeding systems.

Over 275 people attended the “GroupHoused Dairy Calf Systems” symposium and others joined online for a webinar. They heard late-breaking research and learned about auto-feeders, acidified self- feeders and positive pressure direct ventilation.

“I love calves but this system put the joy back into raising calves,” said Mary Kelly, Kelly Farms, who participated on a producer/veterinarian panel.

Other speakers included experts from Cornell, Dr. Neil Anderson, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, and Dr. Ken Nordland, University of Wisconsin.

Not only are farm owners and calf managers more excited about raising calves this way because of the labor savings, but the early life nutrition and management decisions they’re making affects lifetime productivity. Increases in nutrition can lead to growth and to production increases equivalent to rbST, said Dr. Mike Van Amburgh, Cornell University.

We have an ancient contract to give calves what they need for life, growth, health and comfort. Group feeding

and housing move closer to nature’s way, said Dr. Anderson.

Regional on-farm tours continued Wednesday through Friday following the symposium.

Grouphousing dairy calves will also be featured topics at PRO-DAIRY’s Winter Dairy Management series in February and the Northeast Dairy Producers Conference in March.

“We know of over 45 producers in New York and Vermont who are implementing group housing and feeding.

Within that group of producers and advisors is a significant body of knowledge. The sympo-

sium was a first attempt to bring this emerging knowledge base together with those we consider experts in this field, and to identify the key questions that remain about how to fully capitalize on this approach to raising dairy calves,” said symposium planning committee member Frans Vokey, dairy extension educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County, NY. Symposium planning members included John Conway and Heather Darrow of PRO-DAIRY, Countryside veterinarian Dr. Mark Thomas, Dr. Bob. Ceglowski, Ru-

pert Veterinary Clinic and Dr. Jerry Bertoldo, NWNY Dairy and Field Crops Team.

“There has been a steady increase in interest since we started planning in April,” Vokey said. “Word has spread in this region that group-housed calf systems may afford dairy producers the opportunity to make calf rearing more enjoyable and rewarding and at the same time better for the business. Research is making it very clear that giving the young dairy calf a high plane of nutrition has major implications for lifetime milk production; group housing and free-choice

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CWT export assistance program extended Dairy cooperatives and individual farmers representing 70.1 percent of the nation’s milk have committed 2 cents per hundred pounds of milk to Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) for 2012 and 2013. As a result of reaching the minimum participation level that the CWT Committee established, the Export Assistance program will carry on with assisting member cooperatives in selling U.S. cheese to key markets around the world. The 2-cent investment will begin with milk marketed in January 2012, and continue on member milk marketings through December 2013.

Meanwhile, CWT

members continued to aggressively sell American cheeses to key markets in November. A total of 9.5 million pounds of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, scheduled for shipment through April 2012, will receive assistance from CWT. This brings the total export sales assisted so far in 2011 to 88.3 million pounds going to 25 countries on four continents.

CWT requires extensive documentation from cooperative members showing that the product was delivered in order for assistance payments to be made.

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feeding systems are a nice fit as a way to make that happen.”

Symposium proceedings are online at: www.ansci.cornell.edu/ dm/CalfSymposium_Or derForm.pdf.

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Ten Jersey junior breeders recognized for achievement by National Jersey Association Ten young people were honored Nov. 5 for their accomplishments in the National Jersey Youth Achievement Contest.

The contest recognizes outstanding achievement by junior Jersey breeders in four areas: work with Registered Jerseys™, related dairy activities, relative progress, and future goals. They were selected from 17 outstanding youth nominated by state Jersey associations, based on their cumulative record through Dec. 31, 2010.

The American Jersey Cattle Association presented cash awards totaling $3,000, includ-

ing $600 to the contest winner, at the Junior Banquet held in conjunction with The All American Junior Jersey Show in Louisville, KY. The top three honorees Amber Ettinger, daughter of Ed and Cheryl Ettinger of Kinards, SC, is the winner of the National Jersey Youth Achievement Contest. A junior majoring in dairy science at Virginia Tech, she has completed 14 years with Jersey youth projects. Over that time, she has developed a herd of 28 cows and 25 heifers with the cows averaging 19,265 pounds milk, 892

pounds fat and 663 pounds protein, mature equivalent, in 2010.

For the past three years, Amber has placed first in the South Carolina Jersey Production Contest. In 2010, she was second alternate in the National Jersey Queen Contest.

Amber is active in a number of community service projects, such as Micah’s Backpack, a program that supplies underprivileged children with book bags containing enough food to last the weekend.

Her efforts have earned recognition from South Carolina State 4-H, numerous scholarships,

and selection to the inaugural class of Jersey Youth Academy. Amber was voted the Outstanding Freshman of the Year Award for her involvement with Virginia Tech Dairy Club.

She was also South Carolina honoree for the President’s Volunteer Service Award and Outstanding Junior Civitan of the Year. Amber hopes to pursue a career in the dairy industry, perhaps marketing and selling milk from her family’s Jersey herd.

Ranking second was Kyle Schirm, the son of Paul and Dawn Schirm, West Salem, Ohio. By making key purchases

at the Pot O’Gold Sale and more recently utilizing sexed semen, he now owns 19 cows and 11 heifers. The average of 11 lactation records completed in 2010 was 17,589 pounds milk, 818 pounds fat and 648 pounds protein, with four of his cows scored Excellent. Selected for the first Jersey Youth Academy, Kyle is majoring in finance at Ashland University.

In 2010, Kyle received the Peter Jackson Scholarship and earned his American FFA Degree. He recently completed an internship with Weaver Leather’s Livestock Sales Division. Kyle plans to remain in the financial field, working both on and off the farm. He would eventually like to market allnatural cheese and yogurt, taking advantage of the increasing demand for local products in his community.

Third place went to Cassandra Chittenden, a fourth-generation Jersey breeder from Schodack Landing, NY, and daughter of Brian and Beth Chittenden.

She now owns a herd of 28 cows, averaging 20,381 pounds milk, 1,003 pounds fat and 709 pounds protein in 2010. She is a sophomore at Cornell University, majoring in animal sciences with plans to minor in agribusiness.

As a student at Cornell, she is a member of the Red Carpet Society, an organization that hosts prospective students and provides guests with college experiences. She hopes to participate in a study abroad trip to New Zealand in the coming years to gain an understanding of the dairy industry in different parts of the world. Cassandra was a member of the first class of Jersey Youth Academy classes and received numerous state and national scholarships last year.

Rounding out the top 10 Ranking fourth through tenth in the contest were: • Kelli Ann Carstensen, a junior at California Polytechnic State University majoring in dairy science with an agribusiness minor with plans to attend law school. She is the daughter of Neal and Sally Carstensen, Petaluma, CA. In her 12 years of Jersey youth work, Kelli has developed a herd of 19 cows and 12 heifers, with the cows averaging 16, 366 pounds milk, 639 pounds fat and 567 pounds protein in 2010. She also has a keen eye as a judge, placing as third high individual and being a member of the Petaluma FFA team that won its division at

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the International Dairy Judging Contest held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2010.

• Stacey A. Theobald, the daughter of Charles and Amy Theobald, Creamton, PA. Stacey is a student at Penn State University majoring in animal science.

She owns 18 Jersey cows, four scored Excellent and 13 Very Good, producing an average of 16,214 pounds milk, 851 pounds fat and 625 pounds protein in 2010. She is a member of numerous student groups at Penn State including the Dairy Science Club and Collegiate FFA, for which she is the community service chairperson. Stacey has plans to return to the family farm and help promote the new creamery her parents opened and also help support local 4-H efforts.

• Cassandra Krull, the daughter of Cindy Krull and the late Brian Krull of Lake Mills, WI. She is a freshman at Allen County Community College in Kansas, majoring in agribusiness. Her herd consists of seven cows, two scored Excellent, and four heifers, with the cows averaging 16,352 pounds milk, 876 pounds fat and 592 pounds protein m.e. in 2010. Cassandra is no stranger to the tanbark trail, earning Grand Champion at the Wisconsin State Fair and Reserve Intermediate Champion at the

Kansas State Fair in 2010.

• Kara Maxwell, daughter of John Maxwell, Donahue, Iowa. During her 13 years of participation in Jersey youth activities, she has developed a herd of 22 cows and 24 heifers with the cows averaging 20,065 pounds milk, 1,021 pounds fat and 760 pounds protein. Over the past five years, Kara has purchased heifers in the Pot O’Gold Sale, with the most recent purchase placing eleventhth in the 2010 Pot O’Gold Contest. Kara is also well accomplished in academics, being selected to attend the World Leadership Congress and becoming National Honor Society member in 2010.

• Tera Koebel, daughter of Terry and Jennie Koebel, of Three Oaks, MI. She is a senior at Michigan State University majoring in agribusiness management. The recipient of an American FFA Degree, Tera owned the Premier Performance Cow of both The All American Jersey Show and All American Junior Jersey Show in 2010. She was also selected first alternate in the National Jersey Queen Contest last year. Tera has taken her passion for the dairy industry global, traveling to the United Kingdom as the Great Lakes Dairy Ambassador and organizing a trip to attend the Royal

Agricultural Winter Fair in Canada.

• Avery Lutz, daughter of Wayne and Karen Lutz, Mocksville, NC. A student at New River Community College Avery has achieved considerable success with her Jerseys. She owns seven cows scored Excellent and achieved a 2010 production average over 21,000 pounds milk. In 2010, Avery was awarded the Reuben R. Cowles Youth Award and served on the Junior Activities committee for The All American Jersey Shows & Sales. She was also a member of the inaugural class of Jersey Youth Academy.

• Corbin Wood, son of Steve and Christine Wood, Littlestown, PA. He is a sophomore at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, associated with Penn State University, majoring in building construction technology.

Ten years ago, Corbin started his own herd of Jersey with a single purchase. Today, his herd includes six cows and six heifers with the cows averaging 14,232 pounds milk, 803 pounds fat, and 534 pounds protein, mature equivalent. Corbin is active with 4-H and FFA, receiving numerous local scholarships.

Using his building construction technology education, Corbin hopes to one day own his own construction business that would specialize in dairy facilities.

The National Jersey

Youth Achievement Contest has been sponsored annually since 1957 by the American

Jersey Cattle Association. The list of previous winners is published in the USJersey

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Put the pieces in place for pneumonia management

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Set up your youngstock for a lifetime of success Replacement heifers are the future of every dairy operation. Your calf and heifer management program needs the right pieces to ensure the future wellness of your herd and your business. A key piece of that puzzle is pneumonia management.

Pneumonia causes the second highest number of cases of illness and death in young dairy calves, behind only scours.

Calves that do survive pneumonia are likely to face a lifetime of diminished performance.

According to Lance Fox, DVM, Cattle Technical Services with Pfizer Animal Health, research shows that replacement heifers experiencing bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in the first three months of life are more likely to experience significantly increased mortality, have reduced average daily gain, calve later than healthy herdmates and produce less milk in at least their first lactation.

“It is important that producers work with their veterinarians to look at their calf and heifer management program and make sure they are properly managing BRD,” says Dr. Fox. “There are several steps for pneumonia management and all are interconnected — having one without the other can cause health issues.”

• Set the stage with proper nutrition. Bolstering a calf’s immune system is important for pneumonia resistance and starts with feeding at least 4 quarts of high-quality colostrum within 2 hours of birth.

An excellent colostrum feeding program is the cornerstone of healthy

calf rearing and helps jump-start the immune system, better preparing it for vaccination.

• Vaccinate to help prevent BRD. Work with your veterinarian to set up a vaccination program for your young calves. Ask him or her about introducing an intranasal vaccine that helps protect

against the three major viral pathogens that cause pneumonia in dairy calves — bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV), infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus and parainfluenza 3 (PI3) virus. Vaccines are an important part of helping the immune system fight off BRD.

• Use strategic antibiotic control. Implementing a calf respiratory identification protocol can help you initiate treatment earlier in disease progression.

Your veterinarian can help set up an antibiotic control protocol to minimize the effects of pneumonia during high risk situations,

such as seasonal weather changes, overcrowding or moving to group housing.

• Manage the environment. Utilize an allin and all-out approach and sanitize hutches and pens between calves to limit pathogen exposure to incoming animals.

Also, be sure to provide

enough clean, dry bedding, especially as the weather gets colder.

Work with your herd veterinarian and nutritionist to evaluate your calf and heifer management program to ensure you are doing everything to improve the health and future productivity of your youngstock.

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by Greg Coffta If you visit one of New York’s mid- to large-size dairy herds, you would see many employees in the milking parlor who are immigrants of Hispanic descent.

This isn’t a news flash — these employees have been working on some dairies for more than 10 years now. In recent years, the increase in immigrant labor from Mexico and Central

America has become a hotbutton political issue achieving national attention.

People make many assumptions about this workforce: It’s uneducated, unskilled and suitable for only the most routine, tedious tasks such as milking.

A closer look at our dairy farms proves those beliefs to be misconceptions. The Hispanic workforce on New

York dairy farms is being promoted to higher positions and given more responsibilities.

New tasks and responsibilities Responsibilities vary from dairy to dairy, but in general Hispanic employees complete some of a herd manager’s responsibilities. Dairies’ reproduction programs have benefited greatly from Hispanic employees’ taking on additional responsibilities.

Heat detection and the delivery of ovulation

synchronization injections are now popular jobs for Hispanic employees.

On some dairies, Hispanic employees are also performing A.I. And they’ve been trained to identify lameness and often trim hooves.

The calf barn has probably benefited the most from Hispanic employees being trained to work outside the milking parlor. Caring for heifers from their first day to their first service is an important job that

many Hispanic employees now perform.

There are many reasons why Hispanic employees are diversifying in their job duties, but two of the biggest reasons for this change are: A. The quality of the Hispanic workforce.

That is to say; the dedication, responsibility and effort that most exhibit.

B. The decline in the number of trained herd managers. Dairy managers and owners are having more difficulty in

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finding trained herd managers, and vacancies can be empty for months. A dairy can’t stop operating, so many managers have decided to fill the gaps with current Hispanic employees who have a record of competence and high performance. Dedicated, skilled employees are valuable not just in the milking parlor but everywhere on a dairy.

Many dairy managers have learned that Hispanic employees aren’t an unskilled workforce but simply an untrained workforce. They have discovered that these employees are a valuable resource beyond their traditional role as milkers.

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Increases in milk protein, only the beginning of benefits from amino acid balancing For many dairy nutritionists and producers, the next step to higher milk protein content is balancing amino acid levels in the herd’s rations. Among dairy nutritionists, this has become a best practice, especially when using updated ration formulation software which simplifies the process.

When the ration’s amino acid levels are matched to the cow’s biological needs, the cow’s nutritional status improves. To achieve this goal, the ration fed typically includes a rumen-protected, metabolizable methionine. The most common result is an increase in milk protein, the best known benefit of amino acid balancing, according to Dan Luchini, Ph.D., Manager – Ruminant Products Technical Ser-

vices at Adisseo.

Other benefits exist, though, he notes, such as increases in both milk volume and milk fat and a decrease in nitrogen excretion. To quantify the response to amino acid balancing in a single number, the figure for energy corrected milk (ECM) is often used.

Balancing amino acids supports more efficient nitrogen so less crude protein (CP) can be fed. Reducing crude protein helps reduce feed costs and makes room for more highquality forage while decreasing nitrogen excretion.

In recent research, one group of cows was fed a 16.8 percent crude protein diet that provided an estimated 2,590 grams of metabolizable protein with a

lysine to methionine ratio (L ys: Met) of 3.33.

Another group of cows was fed a 15.7 percent crude protein diet that delivered 2,450 grams of metabolizable protein for a L ys: Met ratio of 2.98. The ration with higher crude protein

contained 140 more grams of metabolizable protein, yet its amino acid levels were out of balance.

Both rations delivered similar grams of metabolizable lysine. The ration with lower crude protein, however, provided six ex-

tra grams of metabolizable methionine from its 40 grams of dry MetaSmart, a rumen-protected methionine.

The cows fed the diet with the lower nitrogen load (15.7 percent CP) produced two extra pounds of milk with

better fat and protein percent. They had a significant 3.5 pounds of extra ECM. They also had lower plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) and milk urea nitrogen (MUN) which confirm better efficiency of nitrogen utilization.

Jersey leaders honored with memorial gifts to Jersey Youth Academy Memorial gifts were received from 11 different donors through Dec. 10, for Jersey Youth Academy.

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every two years, with all program costs paid by the Academy fund.

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USDA certification program requires a 400,000 SCC limit The United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (USDAAMS) finalized its “European Health Certification Program” requiring a somatic cell count (SCC) limit of 400,000 cells/ml based on a rolling three-month average (calculated using a

geometric mean) for individual farms.

The USDA European Health Certification Program outlines the requirements that U.S. dairy producers and processors must meet to demonstrate compliance with EU regulations when exporting dairy products to the 27 member countries.

The major difference between the U.S. and EU milk quality requirements is the maximum allowable SCC limit — the federal regulatory SCC limit in the U.S. is 750,000 whereas the limit in the EU is 400,000. Testing of the farm-level milk supply in the U.S. will be necessary to document

compliance with the stricter EU standard for exported products.

The effective date for beginning the transition to the new USDA certification program is Jan. 1, 2012. All farms will be given three months to establish an initial rolling three-month mean. After March 1, 2012, all shipments of

dairy products requiring an EU health certificate must comply with the updated certification program.

Earlier this year, proposals by the both the National Mastitis Council and the National Milk Producers Federation were submitted to the National Conference on Inter-

state Milk Shipments recommending a reduction in the U.S. SCC regulatory limit from 750,000 to 400,000 cells/ml. Voting delegates did not approve a change in the SCC standard however, and therefore the federal limit remains at 750,000.

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Aim for pain-free and stress-free procedures DCHA’s Gold Standards III, animal welfare standards for rearing dairy calves and heifers, devotes a large section to elective medical procedures and supportive care.

It is important to perform procedures like dehorning, tattooing and castrating humanely. These procedures are necessary components of dairy calf and heifer rearing, but there are methods that can be employed to make these tasks as pain-free and stress-free as possible for the animals.

The Gold Standards III covers employee training, animal restraint, minimizing stress, pain management and care and housing for convalescing animals in the section. Also included are age recommendations for various procedures.

The American Veterinary Medical Association

(AVMA) also has specific suggestions for humanely managing dehorning/disbudding of calves. In “Welfare Implications of the Dehorning and Disbudding of Cattle,” the AVMA covers a broad range of considerations when performing the procedures, including: 1. Physiological indicators of pain; 2. Behavioral indicators of pain; 3. Prevention of secondary diseases; and 4. Production considerations.

The AVMA document addresses methods of controlling pain, including: • Sedation; • General anesthesia; • Local anesthesia; and • Pre- and post-operative administration of

non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

Another suggestion offered by the AVMA is to genetically select for polledness to reduce and eventually eliminate the need to dehorn.

For more information on the Gold Standards, visit the DCHA website.

Dairy Cattle Antibiotic Residue Prevention Manual updated National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has released an updated Milk and Dairy Beef Drug Residue Prevention Manual. The manual is a concise review of ap-

propriate antibiotic use in dairy animals. Additions to the 2012 version include a section on meat drug residue testing, an expanded list of products and risk factors

for residues, as well as an updated drug and test kit list. For more information, visit www.nationaldairyfarm.com.

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5. The opportunities provided by a small business may not fit the strengths of family members. The strengths of younger siblings in the management of crops, machinery, or sales often duplicate the strengths already in the business.

An answer to the desperate need for strengths in financial management, marketing, or labor management may be nowhere to be found among family members in the business.

6. The family business often limits the opportunities for career growth.

A capable young family member often joins a

attachment to the business and each other as long as possible. Children grow up wanting to raise their children the way their parents raised them.

3. Family pride, values, history, and willingness to sacrifice drive the business to success.

The family business is much more than a business. It is often a family’s identity in the community. Family members are willing to sacrifice much for the success of the business.

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family business while his or her parents are in the middle of their careers.

Grandparents may still play a dominant role. In this situation, reality is waiting 30 years for one’s first significant taste of top management decision making.

7.

Chronic health problems, weather, marital problems, economic difficulties, and calamities impede progress of the business. Factors over which the family has little control continuously affect the outcomes of plans and expectations.

8. Family members of-

ten come into the business with vague job descriptions, compensation packages, and placement in the business hierarchy. Confidence that everything will work out substitutes for careful discussion of the pros and cons for joining the business.

Growing up in the business or marrying into it leads to the conclusion that not much can or will change.

Several of these family characteristics appear negative. In fact, many family businesses are unsuccessful in bringing in succeeding genera-

tions. The challenge is to take advantage of the significant strengths of family businesses while dealing with their inherent weaknesses. Many family businesses succeed and thrive generation after generation.

Top managers and the rest of the family working hard at family relations explain the success. The following three sections suggest guidelines that can help bring about the success.

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Economic development funding awarded to 147th district Statement from Assemblyman Dan Burling (R,C-Warsaw) Early on Dec. 8, the formal presentations of awards were made to the Regional Economic Development Councils all across New York State. The Western New York Council’s strategic plan was honored with a “best-plan award” and was granted $100.3 million for a variety of economic development and job growth projects. The Finger Lakes region was also granted $68.8 million for the strategic plan presented by its Regional Economic

Development Council. I am very pleased that the hard-work of the Councils and the project applicants paid off. This funding is targeted to bring long-term, public/private-sector investment and job growth to our area.

This is an important first step in boosting the economy in our region. I congratulate the recipients and look forward to the positive benefits these projects will yield in the long-term for communities across the state.

Source: Erin M. Callanan, Press Coordinator, New York State Assembly

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Understanding the family business environment starts the process of success with family labor. The family business environment typically has the following key characteristics: 1. The family and the business overlap. Family considerations affect many business decisions; for example, business expansion is justified by a son’s interest in the business. On the other hand, business considerations affect many family decisions; for example, bathroom and kitchen remodeling must wait until an additional truck is paid for.

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EDWARD THIELE MIKE&ANETTE SCHIEVER RICK + LINDA STUCHAL UNDER GRACE DAIRY HARTZELL FARM MARBURGER FARM DAIRY NORMAN H GRAHAM RITA KENNEDY PAUL CRITCHLOW JR. ALBERT HOGG & SONS DROVERS INN JOHN H RENO WAYNE E HIXON CHESTNUT RUN FARM J L & H F KENNEDY BRADLEY & CALEB COOPER CROFT BROS

CENTRE

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B R COW E E YEARS D

VALLEYSEND FARM PENNDELL FARMS PINE HOLLOW FARM STRINGERS SAND RIDGE BROOK WAY HOLSTEINS PENN STATE UNIVERSITY MURMAC FARMS TODD AND LISA WOOMER GLEN AND LOIS MILLER VALLEY WIDE FARM DAVID HOUSER RAS HOLSTEINS KENNETH C GEPHART CARL& DIANE HOMAN PAUL HARTLE TI GLO FARM JONATHAN GLICK HAAGEN FARM REESES DAIRYHILL STEPHEN L MUNDRICK CLAUDE HOMAN BARBARA ROSSMAN TOM AND LORI HARTLE DOUGLAS P VONADA SCOTT E SWARTZ ROD AND TIM BRUSS BREEZY FARMS BREEZY FARMS FISHER FARMS ORE BANK ACRES MELLOTTS FARM ORE BANK ACRES FETTEROLF FARM MELLOTTS FARM CHARLES LINER LORI D. BROWN HAROLD. E. HARPSTER CLAUDE NYMAN CHARLES VONADA TONY & SAPRINA HARTER

CLARION

JOHN HENRY # FROSTBURG FARMS NEXGEN DAIRY INC JOHN HENRY # MABE HOLSTEINS KEB DAIRY

CLEARFIELD

HICKS DAIRY FARM ORNER FARMS INC CARL G BRINK + SONS HAAG'S GREEN VALLEY SANKEYCREST FARMS

CLINTON

DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H J H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H

55.2 492.6 76.8 59.6 74.2 189.8 11.7 80.2 127.3 25.2 76.7 38.6 74.7 103.7 88.6 42.8 76.8 67.6 204.8 60.0 50.7 35.9 34.8 36.2

27187 26417 27517 24308 22975 23693 19414 21837 21716 21669 21584 21654 21352 20470 21903 20634 19436 18703 19634 17667 17298 17283 16662 16168

970 984 919 899 797 908 932 796 844 829 829 874 815 799 806 744 765 720 692 683 686 659 628 635

3.6 3.7 3.3 3.7 3.5 3.8 4.8 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.8 4.0 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.5 3.9 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.9

831 819 818 759 728 723 699 677 669 666 661 658 653 642 642 635 620 610 606 567 556 530 522 506

3.1 3.1 3X 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1 3X 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H X X H H H H H B H H

41.7 117.1 71.2 52.2 179.8 130.9 38.0 29.9 38.1 53.4 81.9 34.0 58.6 38.8 32.5 50.6 40.6

25230 24445 23503 23703 23412 21416 22426 19047 18305 20734 19909 18915 18683 18745 16132 17839 17798

924 940 801 951 819 817 797 726 845 809 736 755 686 735 625 683 695

3.7 3.8 3.4 4.0 3.5 3.8 3.6 3.8 4.6 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.9

777 761 711 703 690 668 661 655 650 636 616 599 582 581 570 569 568

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.4 3.6 3X 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.2

DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H 66.5 H 80.4 H 67.0 H 92.2 H 171.4 H 236.6 H 1176.4 H 47.1 H 77.3 H 50.0 H 51.4 H 56.0 H 66.2 H 73.3 H 60.7 H 155.4 H 68.0 H 41.8 H 86.0 H 47.5 H 40.9 H 77.9 H 174.4 H 75.6 H 48.0 H 48.1 H 142.3 H 56.8 H 105.5 H 76.0 H 32.1 X 33.9 H 76.8 H 26.8 X 45.1 H 20.0 J 65.2 H 22.4 H 33.8 X 50.7

26935 1257 4.7 880 3.3 28491 1181 4.1 864 3.0 26541 909 3.4 815 3.1 25500 1039 4.1 786 3.1 26200 946 3.6 776 3.0 25235 911 3.6 773 3.1 25763 891 3.5 758 2.9 3X 25016 987 3.9 757 3.0 24646 872 3.5 750 3.0 24686 967 3.9 746 3.0 24361 890 3.7 740 3.0 23885 850 3.6 733 3.1 25105 898 3.6 731 2.9 23616 838 3.5 723 3.1 23389 861 3.7 699 3.0 22842 859 3.8 691 3.0 23698 834 3.5 688 2.9 22020 907 4.1 675 3.1 21851 862 3.9 672 3.1 20802 846 4.1 670 3.2 21774 820 3.8 668 3.1 21753 758 3.5 665 3.1 22402 947 4.2 664 3.0 20771 806 3.9 663 3.2 21659 836 3.9 662 3.1 20598 787 3.8 655 3.2 21051 756 3.6 633 3.0 20910 766 3.7 633 3.0 19762 767 3.9 623 3.2 19667 685 3.5 617 3.1 19113 733 3.8 607 3.2 18748 652 3.5 605 3.2 19273 776 4.0 602 3.1 19051 691 3.6 602 3.2 18962 743 3.9 577 3.0 18439 702 3.8 570 3.1 15072 758 5.0 557 3.7 17432 681 3.9 533 3.1 17536 648 3.7 531 3.0 16263 665 4.1 523 3.2

DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H

56.4 130.8 105.2 67.1 87.8 63.9

32338 1191 3.7 962 3.0 24775 891 3.6 763 3.1 23893 873 3.7 732 3.1 22266 842 3.8 697 3.1 21517 765 3.6 667 3.1 20378 794 3.9 647 3.2

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H

89.5 79.1 91.8 77.8 42.7

26325 25339 25084 24782 23094

941 943 913 911 861

HERD OWNER

3.6 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.7

825 788 774 757 718

3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1

SCHRACK FARMS SHAWN & WANDA MOORE

COLUMBIA

JAN JURBALA HEMSARTH BRUCE & BRENDA LYONS DEN DAIRY

CRAWFORD

TRCP FARM LLC. FOSTERS FAMILY FARM LOST ACRES FARM TRCP FARM LLC. DOLLYRUN FARM

TYPE TEST

Top 40 Herds For November B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

DHI-APCS H 881.6 DHI-AP H 88.4

24223 22469

DHIR-AP H 58.4 DHI-APCS H 210.5 DHI-AP H 83.2

29237 1209 4.1 931 3.2 26654 1021 3.8 808 3.0 3X 25572 929 3.6 795 3.1

37.9 116.2 99.5 54.7 54.2

23649 24919 23726 24927 18801

941 910 884 889 644

DHI-AP H 75.4 DHI-AP H 55.7 DHI-AP H 69.8

25249 24243 19151

980 3.9 780 3.1 932 3.8 755 3.1 724 3.8 602 3.1

MARK VOGEL DHI-AP H 47.3 LIND FARM DHI-AP H 67.0 KIDSTREAT DHI-AP H 84.1 CURTIS HAVEN FARMS DHI-AP H 70.8 WILLIAM+ BRYAN LOPER DHI-AP H 61.4 WOODS DAIRY DHI-AP H 115.5 TELVIEW FARMS DHI-AP H 76.0 CRAIG SHINKO DHI-AP H 78.3 DEAN +SUZANNE CURTIS DHI-AP H 149.7 HIGH POINT FARM DHI-AP H 105.2 RAUSCH FARMS DHI-AP H 57.9 BRAD ROBINSON DHI-AP H 243.6 PALNEL FARM DHI-AP H 120.2 KRUSE FARM DHI-AP H 87.8 MARSHY MEADOW FARM DHIR-AP H 59.2 CONCORD VALLEY FARMS INC DHI-APCS H 156.4 MARSHY MEADOW FARM DHIR-AP B 16.3 WALTER + LISA ROYEK DHI-AP H 58.0 GEORGE C HEINTZ DHI-AP H 16.9 MIDNIGHT FIRE DAIRY DHI-AP X 37.7

24369 23818 22942 22982 23586 23096 21082 21433 19533 20672 20170 19741 20177 18035 18845 19479 16138 17369 17639 15708

818 902 832 873 817 780 873 828 783 807 780 792 746 686 718 747 667 625 663 642

ELK

PAUL SWANSON V BELL FARMS PIERRE PONTZER

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

B H H H X

859 3.5 737 3.0 3X 882 3.9 698 3.1

ERIE

FRANKLIN

ROCK GAP DAIRY DHI-APCS LOCUST HILL FARM DHI-AP JEMI CATTLE COMPANY DHIR-AP PAUL H. ZIMMERMAN JR. DHI-AP JAMES&NINA BURDETTE DHIR-AP DENNIS W BRICKER DHI-AP EVAN J BURKHOLDER DHI-AP STEVEN E RUBY DHIR-AP DALE E NISWANDER DHI-APCS ROMARCOHOLSTEINS DHI-AP JIM KAHLER DHIR-AP ANTHONY R LEHMAN DHI-AP OAKLEIGH FARM DHIR-AP GLEN WINGERT DHI-AP CURTIS KNEPPER DHI-AP DUFFIELD DAIRY DHI-AP MEYERS BROS DAIRY DHIR-AP HONEYSUCKLE ACRES DHIR-AP MIDDOUR FARMS LLC DHI-AP DENNIS & JOEL SOLLENBERGER DHI-AP MILTON ROTZ DHI-AP ANTRIM WAY FARM DHI-AP LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP PECKMAN HOMESTEAD DHIR-AP GUILSIDE FARM DHI-AP EDGAR S REICHARD DHIR-AP JEREMY D. MARTIN DHI-AP PAUL H.ZIMMERMAN JR. DHI-AP WITTERDALE FARM DHI-AP BEIDEL BROTHERS DHI-APCS LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP JEMI JERSEYS DHIR-AP LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP JIM KAHLER DHIR-AP NELSON R MEYERS DHI-AP POVERTY LANE FARMS LP DHI-AP RYAN D MEYERS DHI-AP DONALD PIPER # DHI-AP THOMAS E SHATZER DHI-AP VERNON W. ZIMMERMAN DHI-AP

JEFFERSON

HIGHLAND H FARMS MOWREYS SPRUCELAWN LONDONDALE FARM MITCHELLS DAIRY FARM DAN KELLER HIGHLAND H FARMS DAN RAYBUCK SMITH OAK FARM WINGARD DAIRY FARM D & L FARM PINE VALLEY FARM KNAPP BROTHERS FARM HARVESTORE HILL FARM WINDFALL RUN FARM LAUREL VALLEY DAIRY PARADISE ACRES

LACKAWANNA GEORGE YEDINAK PAUL MANNING

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

4.0 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.4

3.4 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.4 4.1 3.9 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 4.1 3.6 3.8 4.1

804 770 767 763 634

743 737 731 729 707 691 685 672 662 638 625 621 620 595 591 575 557 547 522 503

3.4 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.4

3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.5 3.1 3.0 3.2

H H H H H H H H H X H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H J H H B J X J H H H H H H

156.4 114.6 18.3 44.9 116.7 65.1 183.7 199.2 44.4 39.7 92.2 103.6 124.8 89.1 67.6 248.1 192.7 116.3 157.3 96.8 349.6 107.0 67.3 125.0 193.6 55.2 92.6 20.8 195.1 178.1 126.6 31.7 18.6 24.3 58.6 147.1 35.5 133.1 67.7 69.1

27137 1042 3.8 833 3.1 26282 981 3.7 789 3.0 25477 1100 4.3 787 3.1 24850 924 3.7 774 3.1 24630 940 3.8 766 3.1 25018 892 3.6 754 3.0 24333 966 4.0 749 3.1 23986 892 3.7 728 3.0 23236 848 3.6 720 3.1 22273 938 4.2 719 3.2 22287 909 4.1 719 3.2 23512 848 3.6 711 3.0 22723 858 3.8 708 3.1 22246 828 3.7 708 3.2 22408 864 3.9 704 3.1 22781 854 3.7 699 3.1 3X 21228 817 3.8 686 3.2 22364 781 3.5 686 3.1 21319 856 4.0 682 3.2 23342 835 3.6 673 2.9 21031 798 3.8 671 3.2 21206 864 4.1 665 3.1 21528 758 3.5 661 3.1 20794 868 4.2 660 3.2 22123 800 3.6 656 3.0 20421 819 4.0 648 3.2 20642 776 3.8 648 3.1 17496 826 4.7 643 3.7 19345 734 3.8 620 3.2 19535 795 4.1 615 3.1 17917 715 4.0 603 3.4 15830 889 5.6 592 3.7 17982 751 4.2 591 3.3 16801 810 4.8 589 3.5 19631 746 3.8 586 3.0 17661 691 3.9 561 3.2 17112 696 4.1 561 3.3 18664 667 3.6 561 3.0 17967 698 3.9 552 3.1 17333 687 4.0 529 3.1

H H H H H J H H H H H H J H H G

49.8 120.1 63.0 85.8 20.2 15.6 13.4 131.2 37.9 44.7 44.7 121.6 68.6 44.4 27.6 45.3

30020 1050 3.5 930 3.1 26180 943 3.6 823 3.1 25536 965 3.8 786 3.1 24764 910 3.7 776 3.1 25188 970 3.9 760 3.0 20060 961 4.8 731 3.6 22154 837 3.8 713 3.2 21617 778 3.6 684 3.2 21042 726 3.5 684 3.3 21464 781 3.6 677 3.2 20879 768 3.7 662 3.2 20277 804 4.0 637 3.1 16208 779 4.8 581 3.6 17660 721 4.1 572 3.2 18429 702 3.8 571 3.1 17041 730 4.3 546 3.2

DHIR H 56.1 DHI-AP H 79.5

22251 17450

934 4.2 671 3.0 662 3.8 514 2.9

HERD OWNER

LAWRENCE

ROBIN & JOHN THOMPSON CAMPRUN HOLSTEIN HILLMAR FARM TROTACRE FARM HENRY FARMS MARTINHOLM FARMS TROTACRE FARM

LUZERNE

SCOTT RINEHIMER C K TROXELL FARMS

LYCOMING

BENJAMIN MCCARTY BOSCH FARMS SHANE KITZMILLER ED+CHRISKITZMILLER MICHAEL & LARRY FRY BRYNN BOWER FANTASYFOUND HOLSTEINS

MCKEAN

DETRICKS FARM SYN TANN JAMES&JUDITH LARSON THREE MILES DAIRY NEAL D GORDON JAMES&JUDITH LARSON

MERCER

CANON DAIRY CINDA L GANDER PAUL J CRITCHLOW DALE L KEPNER CLAN CAMPBELL J. D. PHILSON HILLVIEW ACRES DEWAYNE & BILL COULTER IRISHTOWN ACRES J. D. PHILSON DANE YEAGER WILLOW BROOK FARM LENGEL BROTHERS

MONTOUR

SAMUEL + ADA BYLER MELVIN & LOVINA HOSTETLER

NORTHAMPTON KLEIN FARMS EXCELSIOR FARMFLECK BREWER FARMS JUNIPERDALE FARM RALPH HAHN REDMAPL SPRING FARM BREWERS JERSEYS JOHN BOCKO MACK FARMS JOAN A WILLIAMS KLEINTOP FARMS

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

50.2 123.6 65.2 114.2 42.6 228.6 51.8

23451 22890 22302 21187 19494 19522 15870

897 800 805 725 739 709 690

3.8 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.6 4.3

DHI-AP H 76.1 DHI-AP H 187.4

23067 22798

872 3.8 722 3.1 815 3.6 684 3.0

TYPE TEST

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H H H H X H G

H H H H H H H

42.4 105.8 21.8 67.7 78.4 42.1 129.1

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H W H H H X

46.8 55.2 85.3 54.1 39.8 46.2

23133 22775 21699 20191 19888 16325

886 807 776 769 745 701

3.8 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.7 4.3

725 700 658 649 624 569

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.5

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI

H H H H H H H H J J X X H

122.7 51.2 124.4 121.0 66.1 35.5 102.3 146.0 492.7 27.3 20.6 68.2 93.4

26232 25975 24538 24332 22625 20649 20458 19406 15626 16759 16780 16372 15662

989 860 867 921 888 754 721 769 792 761 686 632 606

3.8 3.3 3.5 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.5 4.0 5.1 4.5 4.1 3.9 3.9

792 785 731 727 720 641 637 624 597 589 533 520 518

3.0 3X 3.0 3.0 3X 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3X 3.2 3.8 3.5 3.2 3.2 3.3

DHI-AP H 53.4 DHI-AP H 61.1

22652 16638

842 3.7 688 3.0 650 3.9 507 3.0

DHIR DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H J H H H H

59.4 94.6 99.6 61.7 82.3 101.0 17.9 53.6 25.1 115.6 120.3

BRUBAKERS DAIRY FARM DHI-AP H 118.4 ROGER+RHODA LENT DHI-APCS H 59.5 JOHNCAROL FOWLER # DHI-AP H 62.4 RON+CANDY COONEY DHIRAPCS H 54.1 CADY FARMS DHI-AP H 89.2 RISSER, DAVID & NELSA DHI-AP H 109.3 J J FARMS # DHI-APCS H 59.7 THOMPSON, DONALD & CATHY DHIR-AP H 61.0 GARY & TINA HAMILTON DHI-AP H 85.5 ROWN FARMS DHI-AP H 68.2 KURT KOSA DHIR-AP J 82.8 LEON AND CATHY TICE DHI-AP H 61.6 LLOYD & DENISE PEASE WALKER FARMS KEITH BRANT RANSOMED RANSOMDAIRY HARVATINE FARMS COTTRELL BROTHERS EMPET FARMS JOHN CASTROGIOVANNI KENNETH S. GESFORD R M SHIPSKY & SONS REUBEN EVERITT JOE VALENTINE EMPET FARMS DONALD POTTER JO AM SAN DAIRY ROBERT JOHNSON DONALD C ROBBINS HAROLD & NANCY SHAY JON ANN FARMS CRAIG ROBERTSON

TIOGA

BISHCROFT FARM MARK HALTEMAN KEN MARTIN SHERMAN HENRY&KELLY CARL K ZIMMERMAN

UNION

FLOYD MARTIN

3.2 3.1 3.0 3.1 3X 3.0 2.9 3.3 3X

DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

POTTER

SUSQUEHANNA

746 712 674 656 593 573 523

24129 863 3.6 725 3.0 22241 1044 4.7 714 3.2 19669 743 3.8 609 3.1 19433 763 3.9 607 3.1 18944 832 4.4 590 3.1 18823 797 4.2 590 3.1 18893 721 3.8 588 3.1

25638 976 3.8 800 3.1 23439 842 3.6 715 3.1 23991 899 3.7 713 3.0 22861 1211 5.3 707 3.1 22022 847 3.8 692 3.1 21860 870 4.0 683 3.1 18406 905 4.9 672 3.7 19234 755 3.9 579 3.0 18723 638 3.4 570 3.0 18323 723 3.9 560 3.1 17003 668 3.9 523 3.1 23973 23657 22767 21648 21895 21072 21188 20381 17793 17422 15471 17408

820 852 803 789 823 819 787 812 685 706 708 659

3.4 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.8 4.1 4.6 3.8

719 714 706 669 664 655 646 635 560 553 538 531

3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.1

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H J H H H H H H H

63.0 67.8 87.5 102.7 105.6 63.4 90.0 121.0 49.2 57.4 33.8 33.8 14.8 55.8 54.7 61.1 48.1 63.4 38.1 47.0

27422 1058 3.9 892 3.3 26388 980 3.7 786 3.0 24778 969 3.9 781 3.2 23979 918 3.8 767 3.2 24713 791 3.2 763 3.1 24794 947 3.8 758 3.1 24028 891 3.7 748 3.1 24373 817 3.4 742 3.0 22990 884 3.8 718 3.1 22464 808 3.6 698 3.1 21736 822 3.8 690 3.2 23586 840 3.6 684 2.9 18419 877 4.8 648 3.5 21049 811 3.9 648 3.1 20777 741 3.6 611 2.9 19373 758 3.9 595 3.1 17785 666 3.7 561 3.2 16638 696 4.2 544 3.3 17081 643 3.8 536 3.1 16560 653 3.9 530 3.2

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H

851.8 53.7 69.7 117.4 48.9

25570 24050 23071 22126 18918

DHI-AP H 62.3

883 824 840 802 693

3.5 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7

760 700 677 670 584

3.0 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.1

31031 1186 3.8 947 3.1 3X

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TYPE TEST

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

B R COW E E YEARS D

H H H H H H H H H H H J H X H

53.5 71.1 67.8 97.7 33.4 70.7 52.6 64.5 97.8 122.5 52.9 65.1 37.4 189.9 60.6

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

28077 1090 3.9 875 3.1 26955 1021 3.8 824 3.1 3X 26391 932 3.5 788 3.0 24477 919 3.8 774 3.2 23107 893 3.9 718 3.1 23759 853 3.6 700 2.9 22519 813 3.6 695 3.1 22567 893 4.0 693 3.1 21118 806 3.8 676 3.2 22104 800 3.6 672 3.0 21940 872 4.0 666 3.0 19583 873 4.5 662 3.4 3X 21184 777 3.7 660 3.1 18502 871 4.7 637 3.4 3X 20772 819 3.9 634 3.1

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

VENANGO

DICKMAR FARMS MITCHHILL DAIRYFARM

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Building family business relations Part 2: The three roles in family businesses Each family member has multiple roles within the business and family. Each is a member of the family — the family role. Each has a role in the business— the business role. In addition, each has a personal role — certain personal interests, hobbies, need for time alone, activities outside the family and business, and perhaps a social life unrelated to anyone within the family. These family, business, and personal

roles compete for time and cause confusion.

Some families mostly separate the three roles. Other families merge the roles to the point they are hardly distinguishable one from another. Failure to distinguish among the roles causes confusion and faulty explanations of family members’ actions.

To illustrate the importance of roles, Tom is a perennial grower whose three roles cause confusion and frustra-

tion. His mother thinks that Tom, as her son, should pay her a generous rent for her trucks each year so she has more money to travel.

Tom thinks that he should negotiate a fair and economically justifiable rent with his mother although he is thankful that she has been such a good mother. Tom loves collecting antique toy tractors and attending toy shows with a neighbor who is even more avid about the hobby than

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and the person who goes to toy shows with the neighbor instead of inviting them to go along (a personal role).

Source: www.extension.org/pages/15587 /building-family-business-relations

Building family business relations Part 3: Guidelines for the top manager The top manager(s) in a family business has quite different responsibilities than other family members who are in the business.

Success or failure in integrating family members into the business rests firmly with the top manager. The top manager may not be the head of the family. For example, the extended family can have a strong matriarchal head who masterminds parenting, the household, family gatherings, and day-to-day family nurturing. The matriarch can greatly influence the integration of some family members into the family business although she has only a minor role in business management.

The following guidelines, written to top managers, provide, tips, ideas, and strategies for successfully handling family business responsibilities.

The top manager or managers are the ones with the ultimate responsibility and authority for the business to accomplish its goals.

Successful top managers have successful businesses. Failing top managers have failing

businesses.

Develop a mission statement and goals for the business. The informal nature of most family businesses requires that the planning combine formal and informal discussion. The process of planning helps more than the resulting plan.

Engaging all the family members in the process assures that they know and understand the goals and why they are important to the business’ future. Broad input into planning rests on the maxim, “All of us together are smarter than any one of us.”

Provide a testing period for family members coming into the business. The testing period provides a safety valve in cases where the new person doesn’t work out. The parties to a relationship that is not working can break off an employer/employee relationship much easier than a partnership or co-investor relationship.

Starting as an employee provides the family member time to determine whether the family business and working for another family member meet his or her

expectations. A two- or three-year starting period as an employee can lead to opportunity to start buying into the business or to be given long-term responsibilities. Starting a new person as a partner or coinvestor with long-term promises is like marriage without courtship. Knowing a person well as a son or daughter can be quite different from knowing the person as an adult in a business relationship. Commitments to new in-laws without a testing period are even more problematic.

Provide written job descriptions for each member of the family.

Start by making sure that everyone understands your own job description. Job descriptions serve as a valuable communication aid. Too often, family members join the business with only a vague understanding of what their responsibilities will be. Compensation promises may be even more vague than job responsibilities. Job descriptions pave the way for fair compensation.

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Part 3 from B 23 and opportunities for input into management benefit everyone. Imagine a situation in which Mom and Dad believe their daughter joining the business will solve their labor problems.

The daughter thinks joining the business will provide an opportunity to apply all she has learned at college about agriculture. She looks forward to correcting several other mistakes her parents have been making for years. Laborer or manager? A job description can help answer the question.

Train people to do their jobs. Employees succeed only if they know how to do what they are hired to do.

The same goes for family members. New people in the business usually need some training.

Even a family member who was “in and around” the business for years during childhood is likely to need some training. You are likely to ask, “Should I ask my brother or new son-in-law to accept some training?” Answering “no” to this important question is set-

ting the new person up for frustration and perhaps failure.

Delegate responsibility and authority. This guideline combines job descriptions and training. Make responsibility part of the job description, provide the necessary training, and then delegate. Responsibility builds commitment and enthusiasm. Delegation involves pushing responsibility as far down in the organization as practical. Delegation of responsibility frees you from attention to dayto-day problems so that you can work on new problems. Certain tasks must remain your responsibility, e.g., whether to expand the business. Other responsibilities — for example, when to change the oil in a truck—unnecessarily bog you down.

Operate a profitable business. An unprofitable business must be turned around if you are to avoid longer-run disaster. Of course, profit does not guarantee family business continuity. It does, however, make it possible to concentrate at-

tention on the family and people issues that can destroy a business just as surely as lack of profit destroys it.

Develop harmony between the business and family. Family businesses bring stress to everyone involved.

The work is never-ending. Family members carry the stress home to their families. On the other hand, stress from home is carried to the business. Marital problems, personal financial problems, and illness, for example, easily affect on-the-job performance. No top manager can control the events causing stress. However, you can be sensitive to the status of family/business interaction. Keep family commitments in mind when scheduling workdays.

Be mindful of who worked the last holiday.

Provide leadership and coaching to the business. Every organization needs leadership to thrive. Family members want you to lead.

Family members also want to be coached by a caring person sincerely interested in being

helpful. Your failure to lead leaves them waiting for someone to step forward.

Sometimes, leadership depends primarily on your delegating specific responsibilities to each member of your family management team. In some cases, the events call for you to be decisive and firm.

Communicate clearly and often. Few family members complain about understanding the business too well.

Even fewer complain about a manager who encourages them to ask questions as they occur.

Open and clear communication creates an environment in which people can disagree with each other without being disagreeable. The top manager can select from a host of communication aids: staff meetings, weekly management meetings, daily “catch up” conversations, annual family business meetings, quarterly written reports to all personnel, suggestion boxes, managing by “walking about,” performance evaluations, speaking to each key person at least once each day, two-way radios, message boards, or a weekly meal out with family staff. The list suggests that no one way is best for all. Each top manager needs to commit to clear and open communication and then set about finding ways to do it.

Develop pride throughout the family in your business. Being part of a winning team helps build selfconfidence, team spirit, and the conviction that

“I am at the right place.” Success builds pride. Progressive, recognized, adapting, and modern farms build pride. Attractive buildings, hats and shirts with the business name and employees’ names, and a steady flow of visitors also build pride.

Pride comes from years of attention to important details.

Nurture each family member in the business. Nurturing is a combination of parenting, caring for, listening to, being concerned about, and being interested in every member of the family. The emotions and feelings that come with nurturing matter most. No one will hand you a recipe for their nurturing.

How to do it varies person by person. Hearing “she/he really cares about me!” signals your success in nurturing.

Celebrate the business’ successes. Celebrations show that you notice and appreciate the efforts people are making for the good of the business. Reaching a production goal, making it through a rough winter, finishing a harvest season, or completing a move into new facilities deserve to be celebrated. Each family can discover how it prefers to celebrate.

The following can work: picnics, pizza for everyone, a staff day at an amusement park, homemade ice cream, renting the local swimming pool after hours, and one day hiring a limousine to bring people to work.

Catch people doing things right and say

thank you. Discipline usually focuses on people’s mistakes. No one is perfect. Discipline comes with supervising people. Making most feedback positive paves the way for discipline having the desired positive results. Knowing that one is appreciated for the good done helps accept the consequences of mistakes.

Prepare people for their future responsibilities. To some extent, each of the previous guidelines contributes to this preparation. The future generation of top managers can learn much from observing this generation’s managers. Simply observing is not enough. People need to be given the opportunity to make decisions and then accept responsibility. Getting to know successful managers of other family businesses is helpful.

Attending regional and national meetings also helps. A plan works best when it provides for a wide range of experiences, responsibilities, and training.

Have fun. The wisest people in a business emphasize the importance of liking the industry, the place, the people, and the day-today life in the business.

You face a serious challenge when people in your business stop looking forward to going to work the next day. An anonymous source said it well, “When people stop having fun, none of the rest matters.”

Source: www.extension.org/pages/15587 /building-family-business-relations

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Part 4: Guidelines for family members Guidelines can also help the rest of the family. Success in family businesses is a two-way street — top managers creating an environment in which people can succeed and people taking advantage of the opportunities given them. The guidelines for being known as an outstanding family member in the business are strikingly similar to the guidelines for building a reputation as an outstanding non-family employee. The following guidelines are written to family members who must work with the top manager, with each other, and with nonfamily employees.

Seek responsibility.

Pay special attention to what responsibilities others in the family avoid. Their avoidance provides you opportunity. Regularly taking an extra turn at the “dirty” jobs builds goodwill.

Fairness or equality matters much less than the reputation within the family that you are building. Assisting with what the business needs most, for example, better records, helps more than insisting on one’s favorite tasks already being done adequately by someone else.

Become competent in handling your responsibilities. Be willing to learn. Admit to what you don’t know or don’t know how to do.

Asking many questions of knowledgeable people, training, practice, reading, watching videos, and hard work are just some ways to build up your competencies.

“Read” the signals sent to you. Family members are more likely to hint at what they want you to know than to assert it clearly.

Everyone paying attention to nonverbal communication avoids the buildup of emotions and anger. “Readers” of others can become the askers, the promoters of improved communication, and the mediators. Those sensitive to the feelings of others are likely to be widely

appreciated within the family. People with ears and eyes of stone are about as helpful to communication as walls of stone.

Be consistent in your mood, humor, temperament, and cheerfulness. Moodiness isn’t an asset; evenness and consistency are. Practice selfcontrol. Such guidelines suggest to some people that they need to change to be successful in their family’s business. The precise point of this guideline is to call attention to the simple fact that some people have personal characteristics that, if unchanged, will guarantee failure in the business.

Choosing each day to be happy is an excellent first step.

Admit your mistakes. Save everyone else the need to figure out what went wrong if you already know what happened. Making excuses doesn’t help. It does cause others to be

suspicious of you when similar things next go wrong.

Establish a home independent of your parents. If Mom still washes your underwear, you are not ready to form a business relationship with Dad. Family business relationships should be adult-like. People living with their parents often retain a parent-child relationship rather than work toward an adult-adult relationship. Worship, social, and recreational lives independent of parents and other family members often contribute to success in family business relations.

Build good relations with non-family employees. They watch your family. They wonder about family relations and their future.

Experienced employees worry about young family members taking their jobs. Young family members can learn a great deal from employ-

ees who have been through years of ups and downs with the farm. The older employees often know the senior family members better than they know young family members.

Take advantage of their wisdom.

Prepare for your next position in the business.

Observe carefully what the top managers are doing.

Learn from their mistakes. Ask them questions. Seek opportunity to gain experience in making decisions, putting into practice what you have decided, and then living with the consequences. Get well acquainted with successful top managers throughout the country. Know where the industry is going, who are its leaders, and what

the most importance challenges are that lie ahead. Keep your personal mission statement updated. Have a career plan, but accept that it cannot be a road map to get you to a specific career point by a certain date. A career is a journey, not a target.

Source: www.extension.org/pages/15587 /building-family-business-relations

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“We are happy to have Dr. Kohl back this year as the expo’s keynote speaker. Not only is he a native New Yorker, but his talks, which are often infused with his trademark humor, are very informative and relevant for the modern crop grower, especially in this time of international economic uncer-

tainty,” Steve Van Voorhis, President of the New York Corn & Soybean Association Board of Directors said. “Dr. Danny Klinefelter is an excellent addition to this year’s lineup. His comments will be a perfect compliment to Dr. Kohl’s.”

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The expo will also feature exhibits by over two dozen sponsors from the agricultural industry, ranging from seed companies to lending institutions, and crop insurance to farm machinery.

Pre-registration fees are $50 before Jan. 15, and $60 on site for NYCSGA members. Non-member registration is $75 for pre-registrants and $85 on site. The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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Extension Home Study Courses Are you looking for more information to help make your livestock enterprise more profitable? Penn State Extension will be offering three Extension Home Study Courses this winter, beginning Feb. 1, 2012. The purpose of the courses is to teach producers about production principles for beef, sheep or meat goats that will help their operations become more profitable.

All three courses are available through the postal service and the sheep and meat goat courses are available through e-mail/internet. Each course has six lessons that are to be

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Melanie Barkley, Bedford County Extension Agent, said “Each course is a great way for producers to learn new information without having to rearrange their schedule to accom-

modate a meeting. Producers can study the lessons at their leisure in their own home.” The worksheet questions are designed to ask producers about their current operation so that comments from the instructor are tailored to participants’ individual situations to help them improve their management skills.

According to Barkley, over 1,400 producers from across the country have taken one or more of the three courses.

Comments following the courses show that information contained in the courses is very beneficial and that pro-

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Cost for the course is $45 if taking over e-mail/internet (sheep and meat goat courses only) and $80 if taking through the postal service. Deadline for registration is Jan. 23.

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ferences across breeds have been well established, and utilization of different breeds in a complimentary fashion through structured crossbreeding plans provides the opportunity for improvement in multiple traits. Most importantly, heterosis attained through crossbreeding has been shown to have significant favorable impacts on traits such as reproductive efficiency and cow longevity which are critical for herd profitability. The limited ability to select for reproductive traits in the form of EPDs further emphasizes the importance of capturing the value of heterosis.

EPDs are available for many traits of economic importance. The introduction of economic indexes which combine several related traits and their economic values into one EPD are available to assist with simultaneous improvement in multiple traits which impact areas such as carcass merit and postweaning profit. Again, with the large number of EPD tools available, the critical step is to determine the EPDs which are most important and establish benchmarks relative to each.

5. Establish Benchmarks — Several tools can be utilized to assist in the determination of EPD specifications. EPD values for current and past sires can be used as benchmarks. With these benchmarks, EPD specifications can be set to reflect the desired increase or moderation in performance for a particular trait. As an example, establishing a benchmark for milk EPD can be determined through the relationship between previous sires’ genetics for milk and the performance of his daughters in the herd.

6. Find Source — With the above defined, we can now begin to look at individual bulls. There are many sources of bulls that warrant consideration - production sales, test stations, and private treaty sales. Of critical importance is that the bull be from a reputable source which will stand behind their product.

It may be necessary to look at several sources in order to find the correct bull.

7. Do Your Homework — The first step to doing so is to evaluate the sale catalog, performance pedigree, and data. By examination of the bull’s performance record, determine which bulls meet the EPD and other specifications that have been established (and likewise eliminate those that do not meet the specifications). Be prepared to make trade-offs, as the perfect record may not be attainable. Do not be surprised or alarmed when the bulls you have highlighted appear scattered throughout the sale order. Remember to stick to the selection criteria and qualifications/specifications that have been established.

All this can and should be accomplished prior to departing for any sale.

8. Take a Look — Once the list has been narrowed to only bulls which meet the criteria, these bulls can be further evaluated and selection refined. Having a list of suitable bulls prior to arrival at the auction or farm will not only save time, but also assist in making sure the right bull for the situation is purchased.

Upon narrowing the potential candidates on paper, the bulls can be evaluated for suitability of phenotypic traits and the potential candidate list shortened even further. Not all relevant traits have EPDs (examples include disposition, foot soundness, fleshing ability, etc.), and therefore must be evaluated visually.

9. Make a Sound Investment — For many cow-calf producers, purchasing a new bull is a relatively infrequent occurrence. This emphasizes the importance of selecting the right bull, particularly in single sire herds. The value of the right bull cannot be underestimated. Investments in good genetics will pay dividends both short and long-term through the influence the bull has on each calf crop as well as his daughters that are retained in the herd.

10. Manage the New Bull Properly — Of equal importance is the care and management of the newly acquired bull. Proper management and nutrition are essential for the bull to perform satisfactorily during the breeding season. With most new herd sires purchased as yearling bulls — management prior to, during and after the first breeding season is particularly important. Plan ahead by acquiring a new yearling bull at least 60 to 90 days prior to the breeding season so that ample time is available to allow for adjustment to a new environment, commingling with other bulls and getting the bull in proper breeding body condition.

Source: Livestock Update - November 2011

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USDA revises national nutrient management standard to achieve maximum agricultural, environmental benefits Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised its national conservation practice standard on nutrient management to help producers better manage the application of nutrients on agricultural land. Proper application of nitrogen and phosphorus offers tremendous benefits to producers and the public, including

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“Protecting America’s supply of clean and abundant water is an important objective for USDA,” Vilsack said.

“This precious resource is the foundation for healthy ecosystems and sustainable agricultural production.

USDA provides voluntary technical and financial assistance to help producers manage their nutrients to ensure a clean and abundant water supply while maintaining viable farm and ranch operations.”

The nutrient management conservation practice is an important tool in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation

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NRCS’s nutrient management experts worked with universities, nongovernment organizations, industry and others to revise the standard to ensure it is scientifically sound. Key changes in the standard include expanding the use of technology to streamline the nutrient management process and allowing states more flexibility in providing site-specific nutrient management planning using local information when working with producers.

NRCS staff offices will have until Jan. 1, 2013 to comply with erosion, nitrogen and phosphorus criteria for their state nutrient management standard.

The revised national standard is being released at a time when the agency is working with various partners to address nutrient management concerns identified in three recently released Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) cropland studies. These CEAP studies assessed the effectiveness of conservation practices in the Upper Mississippi Basin, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the

Great Lakes Basin. One significant resource concern identified in all three studies is the loss of nitrogen and phosphorus from cropland.

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Demand for locally produced products proved to be strong at the newly formed Corning Winter Farmers’ Market during November and December.

The Winter Farmers’ Market was so well received that the farmers have agreed to continue with the market in 2012. The market will be open the second Saturday in January, February, and March from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will continue to be located inside the Information Center of Corning.

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The Corning Winter Farmers’ Market will be open the second Saturday in January, February, and March 2012. The Market is located at 1 West Market Street, inside the Information Center of Corning. For more information contact the market manager at 607-759-7665. For more information visit the Corning Winter Market on Facebook!

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AUCTION SECTION and MARKET REPORTS U.S. farming practices must be implemented globally to meet growing demand responsibly High-yield technologies like those used in the United States will have to be effectively adapted for use world-

wide in order to meet growing global food demand, according to the findings of a study released by University of

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

Monday, 12th sale - Cull cows ave. .62 top cow .73, Bulls up to .82, bull calves top $1.15. Top Dairy Milking age $2750, bred heifers top $2300, open heifers top $1000.

Monday, Dec. 19th - Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. Holiday Sale groups of lambs coming from 3 different flocks.

Monday, Dec. 26th - We will be open the day after Christmas - Business as usual!!

Monday, Jan. 2nd - Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from The Hosking Family, the Sale barn crew & Café Girls - We appreciate all the business & friends we have made along the way.

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

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

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Minnesota Professor David Tilman and colleagues in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Estimating that global food demand will double by the year 2050, the scientists project that, in order to meet that demand without causing serious environmental damage, less developed nations must significantly improve yields by the adoption of nitrogen-efficient “intensive” farming practices that allow

farmers to grow more crop on less land using fewer inputs more strategically.

Reporting on the findings, Science Daily noted Tilman stressed the importance of modern U.S. agricultural practices in preserving the environment while feeding a growing population.

“Agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions could double by 2050 if current trends in global food production continue,” he said, noting that

much of the increase would come from land clearing activities that would threaten many species with extinction.

The report surmises that strategically implementing these “intensive” farming practices in poorer nations would significantly decrease the environmental impact of producing the necessary food.

“This report highlights the environmental soundness and incredible productivity of U.S. farmers and the practices they use,” said National Corn Growers As-

sociation President Garry Niemeyer. “There are many groups who advocate a return to the farming practices of our forefathers, but conclusive data shows that this would be to the detriment of our planet while failing to provide for its inhabitants.

Today’s farmer acts as a good steward of the land, both socially and environmentally. It is imperative that we continue to innovate in order to meet this ever-growing need.”

Source: NCGA News of the Day: Monday, Dec. 5

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Holidays a good time to ponder future of your forestland UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — When families gather over the holidays, there are lots of conversations, but one subject they seldom talk about if the clan owns woodlands is the future of those treecovered tracts, according to a forest stewardship expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

The holidays are a perfect time to take a walk in the woods with your heirs and talk about your land and

what’s important to you, suggests Allyson Muth, program associate for the Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship Program, which is based in the college’s School of Forest Resources.

“Seventy percent of Pennsylvania’s forestland is held by individuals, families, hunting clubs and other private groups,” she said.

“Many of the trees we see around us and enjoy are there because someone has a personal affinity for the land and

its trees and a commitment to caring for them.

“Heirs usually want to maintain the legacy of previous generations, but often they don’t feel included in decisionmaking and lack preparation for becoming the next forestland owner.”

A recent study conducted by the School of Forest Resources showed that many of the state’s private landowners are thinking about the future of their forestland, Muth pointed out.

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“Our state’s forest owners are quick to express concern over what will happen to their land when they pass it forward to the next generation,” she said. “However, we see few taking meaningful actions to plan accordingly.”

In the 2010 “Exploring the Private Forestlands of Pennsylvania” study, 53 percent of current forestland owners surveyed told Penn State researchers they intend to leave their land to more than one heir. Under this scenario, Muth noted, land that long was cared for to meet one or two persons’ values is suddenly viewed differently.

“The disposition of the land can cause controversy and strife in a family, because often heirs have different plans and agendas,” she explained.

“As a current forest landowner, talking with your heirs about what’s

important to you can head off trouble.

Muth urges woodland owners to start the discussion by revealing what they love about their forest. “Tell your family why your land is important to you and maybe relate a funny or moving story,” she said.

“Ask them to do the same. You may find in your conversation that your land is just as important to your heirs as it is to you.

“You may discover that planning for the future of your land becomes a shared endeavor that your family gladly embraces. Hopefully your heirs realize this process is better than just wishing them luck when your will is read.”

There are many resources available when one is ready to engage in the estate or succession planning process. “Forest Stewardship Bulletin No. 13: Estate Planning” is

one offered by the Penn State Extension Renewable Natural Resources Team. Visit the Web at http://pubs.cas.psu.edu /FreePubs/pdfs/uh105. pdf to download a copy.

Free copies also are available from the Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship Program.

Send an e-mail to RNRext@psu.edu, or write to Forest Stewardship Program, Forest Resources Extension, The Pennsylvania State University, 416 Forest Resources Building, University Park, PA 16802.

“The most important step for the future of your woods is to have the gumption to start the conversation,” Muth said. “Land is a finite and valuable resource. Its future depends upon the actions and aspirations of the current holders. Tell that story to those who you hope will care for it after you.”

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Farm is sold, will sell: Truck: ‘99 IH 4700 T444E, 6+1, 4 yr. old 22’ steel flat bed body, Edbro hoist, lift axle, 82,234 mi, 2,557 hrs; Tractor, Vineyard and Hay Equipment: JD830 (3 cyl.) tractor, 1,988 hrs, 1 owner; Shaver 4 way post pounder; Bob Equipment grape trimmer; 10 grape totes; 600 plastic grape picking boxes; NH 1035 sp bale wagon w/Wisc VG4D, 70 bale capacity, 1 owner; Fahr KH-40 4 star tedder; Ford 3pt. 5’ rotary mower; 3pt. 6’ rotary mower; Ford 3pt. 4-16 plow; 18.4x38 bolt on duals; JD Quick Couplers; 2 poly 1,100 gal tanks; Homelite portable pumps; 30 gal trailer mounted sprayer w/boom; stone boat, 5”x10’ grain auger; Wisc VE4 engine; Herd and Gerber seeders; hydraulic cylinders; 50-8’ cedar sharpened vineyard posts; quantity used vineyard posts suitable for shorter posts or firewood.

D ANN A UCTIONEERS , D ELOS D ANN , 3339 Spangle St., Canandaigua, NY 14424, 585-396-1676. www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm UPCOMING AUCTIONS Sat., Mar. 10, 3:30pm: - Seneca Farm Toy Auction, Show 8:30-2pm. Benton Fire Dept., 932 Rt. 14A, Benton Center, 3 mi. N of Penn Yan, NY. Show info hosts David and Debra Dean 585-797-4211, 585-747-5025.

Sat., Mar. 31, 9am: - Equipment Consignment Auction, Windmill Farm Market, 3900 Rt. 14A, 5 mi. S. of Penn Yan, NY. Thurs., Apr. 5, 11am: - Marvin and Mildred Koek Excellent Farm Equipment Retirement Auction, 2324 Ridge Rd., Penn Yan, NY. IH 986, IH 1420 4wd combine, ‘95 Ford 16’ grain truck; tillage, planning, harvest equip.

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Shop Tools: Lincoln welder; Lincoln portable welder; torch set; welding table; Sears 5hp 120 gal air compressor; Craftsman tool chests; 3/4” drive socket sets; wrenches; quantity hand, electric and air power tools; 4T porta power; floor and hyd. jacks; tap and die set; new and used parts washers; bench grinder; metal band saw; portable air compressor; shop press; engine lift; transmission jack; wheel jack; bench drill press; chain falls; JD and Sears portable generators; Honda XR 2600 5hp pressure washer; Craftsman 12” table saw; bolts bins; lubricants; new JD AC165 portable heater; shop portable stairs; log chains; quantity misc. tools.

Misc equipment: Quantity new and used parts used in farming and trucking businesses; 2 sleeper cab fairings off IH and Peterbilt; aluminum diamond plate truck fenders; 9.00x20-11R 24.5 tires; cherry lumber; 120 chicken waterers; Wells Ulkut K-2467 meat saw; wood block meat table; meat hooks; 14 livestock gates 8-20’.

Antiques and Household: Regulation size slate top pod table; wainscot cupboard; Widmer grape picking box, milk cans; potty chair; picnic table; lawn set.

Info: Mel Bodine 585-554-6629 Preview: Starts Tues., Dec. 27, 9-5pm Terms: ID for bidder number, cash, check auction day. Payment w/Visa, MC, Disc. 3% fee.

Sale Order: 9am antiques, household, 9:15am shop tools, 11am truck, tractor farm equip. remaining small tools; most of Auction sells indoors.

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 Monday, December 19 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 55:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.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, 585584-3033 • 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. 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. We will be open the day after Christmas - Business as usual. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771

www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Horses & Hay. 1:30 pm Calves & Beef. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315322-3500, 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, December 20 • 1:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. 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, 800-321-3211.

Wednesday, December 21 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only.

John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 9:30 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-

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

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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

ing, 716-296-5041 • 10:00 AM: 3277 Lexington Road Richmond, KY. Secured Creditors Auction: Construction Equipment, Drilling Equipment, Support, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available.

Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday.

Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 1:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Calves followed by beef.

Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 Thursday, December 22 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop off only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 11:00 AM: 38 Lake St., Chateaugay, NY. Short Notice Dispersal for Gary Matthews. 50 head quality dairy cattle sell, machinery, fee,

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barn & farm equip. Sale Manager, Delarm & Treadway, 315-659-2407, 518-483-4106 www.delarm-treadway.com • 12:30 PM: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale.

Empire Livestock Marketing, 585584-3033 • 1:15 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Dairy Cattle followed by Beef & Calves. Dale Chambers, 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, 315322-3500, 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, 800-3213211.

Monday, December 26 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). We will be open the day after Christmas Business as usual.

Happy Holiday wishes from The Hosking Family, the Sale Barn crew & Cafe Girls. We appreciate all the business & friends we have made along the way! Tom & Brenda Hosk-

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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 Sales Managers, Auctioneers, & Real Estate Brokers

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 ing 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, December 28 • 9:30 AM: Tuscaloosa, AL. Large Logging, Construction, Truck Tractors, Dump & Utility Trucks, Support Equipment Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday.

Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Friday, December 30 • 10:00 AM: 398 Old Schuylerville Rd., Greenwich, NY (Washington Co. Fairgrounds). Rental Returns of New Holland, Kobelco, Cat Construction Equipment, Support, Attachments, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 Saturday, December 31 • 8:30 AM: Hoover Tractor, Mifflinburg, PA. 5th Annual New Years Sale. Accepting consignments. Fraley Auction Co., 570-546-6907 www.fraleyauction.com • 9:00 AM: 5253 Rt. 364, corner of Upper Hill Rd., 1 mi. E of Middlesex, NY. Melvin & Joan Bodine Retire-

ment Auction. Farm is sold, selling farm equipment and shop tools.

Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585-396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm Monday, January 2 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale. A group of Jersey & Jersey X steers.Misc. & Small Animals. 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, 607-8478800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Saturday, January 7 • 9:30 AM: Pittsburgh, PA. Very Large Job Completion Auction for Fleischner Excavation. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 10:00 AM: 3517 Railroad Ave., Alexander, NY. Z&M Ag & Turf Auction. Public Auction Sale of Farm Tractors, Machinery, Landscape, Tools, Lawn Tractor & Mowers. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Auctioneers, 585243-1563. www.teitsworth.com Thursday, January 12

• Portland, OR. Major Job Completion Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315633-2944, 315-633-9544 Friday, January 20 • 12:00 Noon: 73 West First Ave., Windsor, PA. Public Auction of Windsor Meat Market. Operating business wit retail meat sales & custom slaughtering. Leaman Auctions, 717-464-1128 or 610-6628149 www.leamanauctions.com Saturday, January 21 • 10:00 AM: Gray’s Connecticut Valley Indoor Auction, White River Junction, VT. Townline Equipment Sales Used Equipment Auction.

C.W. Gray & Sons, Inc., 8027852161 Monday, February 6 • Kissimmee, FL. Yoder & Frey Auctioneers, Inc., 419-865-3990 info@yoderandfrey.com www.yoderandfrey.com Saturday, February 11 • 9:30 AM: Penn Yan, NY. Farm Machinery & farm smalls plus a few household goods for Ivan & Verna Zimmerman. L.W. Horst Auctioneer, 315-536-0954 Saturday, March 24 • Atglen, PA. The Gala at Glen Valley II. Hosted by Glen Valley Farm.

The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-

2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, March 31 • Cobleskill, NY. 31st Annual Cobleskill Dairy Fashion Sale.

Hosted by SUNY Cobleskill Dairy Cattle Club. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 14 • Syracuse, NY. New York Spring Holstein Sale. Held in conjunction with the New York Spring Dairy Carousel. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 21 • Quarryville, PA. Wea-Land Holsteins Complete Dispersal. Landis Weaver & Family, Owners. Co-managed by The Cattle Exchange & Stonehurst Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, July 21 • Middleburgh, NY. Reflections of Maple Downs Sale. Hosted by Maple Downs Farm II. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

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

KELLEHER’S AUCTION SERVICE R.D. 1, Little Falls, NY 315-823-0089 We Buy or Sell Your Cattle or Equipment on Commission or Outright In Business Since 1948!

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

Consignments at 9 AM 413-665-8774

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

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

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

TOWN & COUNTRY AUCTION SERVICE Rt. 32 N., Schuylerville, NY 518-695-6663 Owner: Henry J. Moak

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

PIRRUNG AUCTIONEERS, INC. P.O. Box 607, Wayland, NY 14572 585-728-2520 • Fax 585-728-3378 www.pirrunginc.com James P. Pirrung

LEAMAN AUCTIONS LTD 329 Brenneman Rd., Willow St., PA 17584 717-464-1128 cell 610-662-8149 auctionzip.com 3721 leamanauctions.com

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

Auctions Every Mon., Wed., & Thurs.

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

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

L. W. HORST AUCTIONEER 1445 Voak Rd., Penn Yan, NY 14527 315-536-0954 • Fax: 315-536-6189

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

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

802-334-2638 • 802-777-1065 cell robertsauction@together.net

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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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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

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middlefield, CT December 12, 2011 Calves: 45-60# .22-.28; 6175# .47.5-.50; 76-90# .55.57.5; 91-105# .60-.65; 106# & up .67.5-.70.

Farm Calves: .75-.80 Started Calves: .25-.32 Veal Calves: .00-1.47.5 Open Heifers: .60-1 Beef Heifers: .67-.70 Feeder Steers: .65-.85 Beef Steers: .85-1.04 Stock Bull: 7.2.5-.95 Beef Bull: .67-.75 Boars: 1 at .09 Sows: 1 at 34 Butcher Hogs: .70-.80 Feeder Pigs (ea): .30-.90 Sheep (ea): 110-115 Lambs (ea): 140-150 Goats (ea): 100-235 Kid Goats (ea): 70-105 Canners: up to 64.50 Cutters: 65-68.50 Utility: 69.50-73 Rabbits: 5-19 Chickens: 4-13 Ducks: 4-14 On the Hoof, Dollars/Cwt ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES East Middlebury, VT December 12, 2011 Cattle: 131 Calves: 178 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whits 65-75% lean 85.50-88; Breakers 75-80% lean 73.5081.50; Boners 80-85% lean 69-80; Lean 85-90% lean 4571.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bul.s 92-125# 70-135; 80-92# 7092.50; Vealers 100-120# 6075; 90-100# 60-76; 80-90# 50-75; 70-80# 45-73; 60-70# not well tested.

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COSTA & SONS LIVESTOCK & SALES Fairhaven, MA No report * Sale every Wed. @ 7 pm.

FLAME LIVESTOCK Littleton, MA December 13, 2011 Beef Cattle: Canners .45.60; Cutters .55-.70; Util .68.78; Bulls .65-.85; Steers 11.15; Hfrs. .70-.85.

Calves: Growers .70-1.50; Hfrs. .70-1; Veal .60-.75.

Hogs: Sows 35-42; Roasters 50-110; Boars 20; Market 5570.

Sheep: 76-100 Goats (ea): 90-130; Billies 175-200; Kids 50-120.

Lambs: 1.50-2.30 NORTHAMPTON COOPERATIVE AUCTION, INC Whately, MA December 13, 2011 Calves (/cwt): 0-60# 5-2; 61-75# 10-56; 76-95# 5-75; 96-105# 50-64; 106# & up 35-66.

Farm Calves: 70-125/cwt Feeders: 59-75/cwt Heifers: 51.50-72.50/cwt Steers: 53-80/cwt Canners: 20-57/cwt Cutters: 57.50-67.50/cwt Utility: 70-81.50/cwt

Sows: 26-52/cwt Hogs: 57-62/cwt Boars: 3-16/cwt Shoats: 90-126 ea.

Pigs: 21-56 ea.

Lambs: 80-285/cwt Sheep: 30-125/cwt Goats: 24-177.50 ea.

Rabbits: 1-7.50 ea.

Poultry: 2.50-22.50 ea.

Hay: 14 lots, 3-4.90/bale northamptonlivestockauction.homestead.com HACKETTSTOWN AUCTION Hackettstown, NJ December 13, 2011 Livestock Report: 47 Calves .12-1.36, Avg .86; 76 Cows .40-.80, Avg .62; 6 Easy Cows .14.5-.52.5, Avg .31; 13 Feeders 300-500# .58-1.16, Avg .96; 9 Heifers .57-.97, Avg .70; 10 Bulls .481.02, Avg .71; 14 Steers .371.12, Avg .80; 6 Hogs .48.5.62, Avg .53; 8 Roasting Pigs (ea) 2-30, Avg 25.25; 1 Boar 26; 3 Sows .02-.53, Avg .41; 55 Sheep .03-1.65, Avg .89; 2 Lambs (ea) 64-72, Avg 68, 94 (/#) 1.14-2.46, Avg 1.74; 8 Goats (ea) 32-88, Avg 63; 9 Kids (ea) 40-66, Avg 52.67; 40 Hides (ea) 1-20, Avg 3.86.

Total 401.

Poultry & Egg Report: Heavy Fowl (/#) .40-.75; Leghorn Fowl (ea) 5.50-5.75; Mixed Fowl (ea) 1.50-6; Pullets (ea) 3-6.50; Geese (ea) 24-36; Ducks (/#) 1.05-1.05; Rabbits (/#) 2-2.80; Pigeons (ea) 3-5.50; Guineas (ea) 8.50-9.

Grade A Eggs: White Jum XL 1.45-1.65; L 1.40; Brown Jum XL 1.90-1.95; L 1.89; M 1.15.

Hay, Straw & Grain Report: 2 Alfalfa 3.90-4.40; 23 Mixed 3.10-7.50; 6 Timothy 3.704.30; 10 Grass 2.20-4; 2 Mulch 1.60-2.60; 1 Rye Straw 5; 3 Oats 6.50; 1 Firewood 32. Total 48.

CAMBRIDGE VALLEY LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Cambridge, NY No report EMPIRE LIVESTOCK MARKET BURTON LIVESTOCK Vernon, NY No report CENTRAL BRIDGE LIVESTOCK Central Bridge, NY No report CHATHAM MARKET Chatham, NY December 12, 2011 Calves (/#): Grower over 92# .90-1.20; 80-92# .65-.80; Bob Veal .47-.62.

Cull Cows (/#): Gd .69-.75; Lean .63-.67; Hvy. Beef Bulls .73-.80.

Beef (/price): Feeders 400750# 53-86; Hfr. 65-109; Steer 57-76; Oxen 35-45; Veal 75-87.

Lamb/Sheep (/#): Feeder 1.90-2.60; Market 1.30-1.70; Slaughter Sheep .81.

Goats (/hd): Billies 135-180;

Nannies 71-92.50; Kids 4090.

Swine (/#): Sow .40; Boar.12; Feeder Pig (ea) 40. *Buyers always looking for pigs.

Gouverneur

CHERRY CREEK Cherry Creek, NY No report DRYDEN MARKET Dryden, NY No report GOUVERNEUR LIVESTOCK Governeur, NY No report

Canandaigua Pavilion Penn Yan Dryden Cherry Creek

Bath

Vernon New Berlin

Cambridge

Central Bridge Chatham

PAVILION MARKET Pavilion, NY No report BATH MARKET Bath, NY December 6, 2011 Calves (/#): Grower Bulls over 92# 1.05-1.35; 80-92# .70-.95; Bob Veal .20-.40.

Cull Cows (/#): Gd .66-.74; Lean .58-.64 FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK AUCTION Canandaigua, NY December 13, 2011 Dairy Cows for Slaughter: Bone Util 58-75; Canners/Cutters 40-68; HY Util 65-78.

Slaughter Calves: Bobs 95110# 50-67.50; 80-95# 4065; 60-80# 30-62.50.

Dairy Calves Ret. to Feed: Bull over 95# 70-132.50; 8095# 65-125; 70-80# 60-85; Hfr calves 100-160.

Beef Steers: Ch grain fed 112-124.50; Sel 97-110; Hols. Ch grain fed 89-104.50; Sel 75-85.

Hogs: Slgh. US 1-3 50-70; Sows US 1-3 31-50; Feeders US 1-3 34-50.

Lambs: Hot house Ch 4050# 180-225; Feeder Ch 5080# 120-160; Market Ch 80100# 80-150.

Slaughter Sheep: M 5567.50; Rams Ch over 130# 105.

Goats (/hd): L Billies 110# & up 80-170; L Nannies 70140.

FINGER LAKES PRODUCE AUCTION Penn Yan, NY No report Produce Mon. @ 10 am, Wed-Fri. @ 9 am sharp!

FINGER LAKES HAY AUCTION Penn Yan, NY December 9, 2011 Hay: 1st cut 110-210; 2nd cut 150-230; 3rd cut 145257.50.

Straw: 220-260 Firewood: 50 Oats: 10.50 HOSKING SALES New Berlin, NY December 12, 2011 Cattle: Dairy Cows for Slaughter Bone Util .64-.74; Canners/Cutters .58-.65; Easy Cows .60 & dn.

Bulls: Bulls/Steers .68-.82.

Calves: Bull Calves 96-120# .80-1.15; up to 95# .10-.95; Hols. under 100# 1.

Dairy Milking age top 2750; bred hfrs. top 2300; open hfrs. top 1000.

BELKNAP LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belknap, PA No report BELLEVILLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belleville, PA December 7, 2011 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75# lean 73.5074; Breakers 75-80% lean 66.75-71.75, lo dress 60.7563; Boners 80-85% lean 62.50-67, hi dress 67-70; Lean 85-90% lean 57-62, lo dress 54-57.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12562028# 60-69.50.

Feeder Cattle: Steers L 3 Hols. 380# 95; 646-658# 67.50-72.

Feeder Calves: No. 1 Hols.

Bulls 94-110# 120-140; No. 2 94-116# 90-115; 84-90# 80102; No. 3 96-102# 70-80; 78-92# 70-76; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 95-105# 175-180/hd; No. 2 80-90# 85-100/hd; Beef X 104# 90;Vealers Util 58112# 11-69.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 45-50% lean 200-220# 85-90/hd; 230-270# 135142/hd; Sows US 1-3 700# 285/hd; Boars 350-500# 90100/hd.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 10-55# 8-28; 60-90# 28-48.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 24-38# 145-170; 4060# 170-205; 74-92# 130185; 114# 135.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 65-90# 110-162.50; Sel 2 2040# 42.50-82.50; 45-65# 57.50-90; Nannies Sel 1 100130# 95-115; Sel 2 90# 95.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA December 13, 2011 Slaughter Cattle: Steers Sel & Ch full 1330-1470# 114-121.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White & Hols. Hfrs. 74.50-86; Breakers 70-74; Boners 6671; Lean 65-70; Big Middle/lo dress/lights 57.50-64.75; Shelly 55 & dn.

Bulls: 1210-1640# 65-79.50.

Feeder Cattle: Hfrs. one Black X 390# 98; Bulls Dairy types 530-700# 70-76.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 95-120# 140-147; No. 2 90-130# 105-140; No. 3 75-135# 75-105; Hols. Hfrs.

No. 2 80-90# 70-150.

Swine: Hogs 245-310# 5961; 325-350# 55-66; Sows 505# 53.50; Boars 455-690# 27.50-29.50.

Goats (/hd): L Nannies 100132; Billies to 220; Fancy Kids 130-149; Fleshy Kids 87-125; Small/thin/bottle 1180.

Lambs: Ch & Pr 55-80# 260300; Gd & Ch 50-75# 202236; 65-85# 185-210; Gd 75110# 170-172.

Sheep: (all wts.) 55-135 Sale every Tuesday * 5 pm for Rabbits, Poultry & Eggs * 6 pm for Livestock starting with calves. * Special Fed Cattle Sales Dec. 20 & 27. * Breeding School - Buying Open Cows Tues., Dec. 20.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA Small Animal Sale December 13, 2011 Rabbits/Bunnies: 1.50-17 Chickens/Chicks: .50-7.50 Quail: 2.50-4 Guinea Pigs: .50 Turkey: 25 Ducks: 3-8 Pigeons: 3-3.50 Ferrets: 22 All animals sold by the piece.

Sale starts at 5 pm.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC State Graded Feeder Pig Sale Carlisle, PA No report DEWART LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET, INC Dewart, PA

December 12, 2011 Cattle: 131. Steers 12441364# 114-116; Hols. Steers Ch 1380-1524# 106.75107.25; Hfrs. 1124-1244# 115-117.

Cows: Prem. White 69.5073.50; Breakers 65.50-68.50; Boners 58-65; Lean 50-60.

Bulls: 1540-1858# 71.5078.50; Feeder 360-452# 97.50-120.

Calves: 219. Bull Calves No. 1 94-120# 142-165; 90-92# 117-137; 82-88# 95-170; No. 2 94-130# 120-147; 90-92# 100-117; 80-88# 80-92; No. 3 94-124# 75-115; 80-92# 6087; Hfr. Calves No. 1 94-98# 180-197; No. 2 76-88# 125165; Util 10-67.

Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 4270# 190-215; 74-96# 155182; Ewes 104-162# 57-75; Gd & Ch 1-3 80-100# 130145.

Kid Goats (/hd): Sel 1 3040# 70-90; 60-70# 90-120; Sel 2 30-40# 50-70; 50-70# 80-95; Sel 3 20-30# 1627.50.

Hogs: 278-308# up to 70; 105-150# 77.50-85.

Sows: up to 62 Boars: up to 29 Hay: 25 lds, 110-400/ton.

Straw: 9 lds, 100-270/ton.

Earcorn: 3 lds, 200-210/ton.

Firewood: 7 lds, 50-92/ld.

EIGHTY FOUR LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Holland, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% lean 77.5079, hi dress 89; Breakers 7580% lean 73-76.50, hi dress 77.50, lo dress 69-72; Boners 80-85% lean 69-72.50, lo dress 66; Lean 85-90% lean 64-68.50, hi dress 69-71.50, lo dress 60.50-63.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 11201635# 78-81.50; YG 2 10701400# 67-72.

Steers: M&L 1 600-700# 122.50; 700-800# 102-118.

Heifers: M&L 1 300-500# 117.50-127.50, few fancy 132.50-134; 500-700# 116124, few fancy 127.50; 800900# 94-100; M&L 2 300500# 101-116.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Bulls: M&L 1 300-500# 128146; 500-600# 127.50-140; 600-700# 117-120; M&L 2 300-400# 98; 700-900# 8186.

Feeder Calves: No. 1 Hols.

Bulls 90-120# 130-150; No. 2 90-130# 102.50-125; No. 3 85-120# 60-95; Beef 155250# 107.50-112.50; Vealers Util 65-120# 20-40.

Slaughter Hogs: Sows US 1-3 300-400# 54-62; Boars 300-500# 24-40.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 30# 32.5/hd.

Slaughter Lambs: Ch 1-3 60-80# 170-185; Gd & Ch 12 40-60# 140-152.50; Yearlings 95-140# 125-160; Ewes Util 1-2 105-205# 71-90.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 37-40# 72.50-77.50; 5155# 85-105; 75-95# 125-130; 112# 130/cwt; Sel 2 40-65# 52.50-67.50; Sel 3 35# 4042.50; Nannies Sel 1 105# 87.50/cwt; Sel 2 105-110# 62.50-65; Billies Sel 1 100# 135; Sel 2 145# 85/cwt; Wethers Sel 2 115# 131/cwt.

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Dewart Leesport Belleville Homer City

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Eighty-Four 59.

Boars: 552# 27.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 47-70# 167.50-245; 70-108# 145-210; 114-142# 172.50-187.50; Ewes Gd 2-3 172-216# 67.50-75; Rams 178-254# 60-85.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-65# 72.50-120; 70-90# 120-160; Sel 2 under 20# 1929; 20-40# 35-72.50; 45-65# 50-100; 70-80# 90-145;Nannies Sel 1 95-160# 90-120; Sel 2 80-100# 59-82.50; Billies Sel 1 130-185# 155-215.

INDIANA FARMERS LIVESTOCK AUCTION Homer City, PA No report KUTZTOWN HAY & GRAIN AUCTION Kutztown, PA December 3, 2011 Alfalfa: 3 lds, 220-400 Mixed Hay: 12 lds, 205-360 Grass: 7 lds, 230-310 Straw: 8 lds, 165-210 Firewood: 7 lds, 35-65 Oats: 2 lds, 5.75-6 LANCASTER WEEKLY CATTLE SUMMARY New Holland, PA December 9, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1230-1595# 127-131; Ch 2-3 1220-1575# 125.50127; Sel 2-3 1120-1260# 110-114; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 23 1385-1615# 110-114; Ch 2-3 1355-1615# 98.50-104; Sel 2-3 1138-1455# 88-93.

Slaughter Cows: Prem Whites 65-75% lean 7073.50, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 68-70.50; Breakers 7580% lean 66-69, lo dress 6365; Boners 80-85% lean 6265, hi dress 66.50-67, lo dress 58-60; Lean 85-90% lean 56-60, hi dress 62.5063.50, lo dress 52-55.

Slaughter Bulls: Thurs. YG 1 920-1625# 73-76.50, lo dress 1250-1950# 67-70.50; Bullocks 915-1320# 73-77; hi dress 900-1440# 83-85.50, lo dress 885-1350# 65702090-2155# 69-69.50.

Graded Bull Calves: Thurs.

No. 1 114-128# 142-150; 94112# 155-159; 90-92# 105; No. 2 94-118# 144-156; 8892# 119; 80-86# 70; No. 3 100-130# 105-118; 80-98# 67-70; 72-78# 90; Util 60-

110# 20-35; Hols. Hfrs. No. 1 90-95# 185-210; No. 2 pkg 85-120# 50-100.

LEBANON VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Fredericksburg, PA December 10, 2011 Alfalfa: 270-340 Mixed Hay: 190-350 Timothy: 210-310 Grass: 190-295 Straw: 165-230 Corn: 70-120 Oats: 7 LEESPORT LIVESTOCK AUCTION Leesport, PA December 7, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1240-1600# 128-132, few fancy 133-134.50; Ch 2-3 1135-1600# 124-128; 16101700# 1200-126.50; Sel 2-3 1040-1345# 118-122; Hols.

Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1365-1645# 108-122, few 113-115; Ch 23 1270-1720# 101-107.50; Sel 2-3 1305-1615# 97-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1500# 127129.50; Ch 2-3 990-1315# 123-125.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 74-76; Breakers 75-80% lean 72-74, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 6569; Boners 80-85% lean 6871, hi dress 71-74, lo dress 62-67; Lean 85-90% lean 61.50-65, hi dress 66.5068.50, lo dress 55-60.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12751760# 75-78, lo dress 68.5073.50; Bullocks 970-1500# 73.50-78, hi dress 92-103.

Feeder Cattle: Steers L 3 Hols. 510-700# 55-65.

Vealers: 70-100# 30-67.50; 55-65# 17.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls No. 1 95-120# 130-145; 8590# 95-105; No. 2 95-130# 120-140; 80-90# 75-85; No. 3 95-120# 70-115; 80-90# 47.50-65.

Lambs: Ch 2-3 75-90# 172.50-180.

Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-50# 8590; Sel 2 20-30# 45-50;Nannies Sel 3 70-100# 52.5072.50.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 50-54% lean 225-230# 60-63.

MIDDLEBURG LIVESTOCK AUCTION

Middleburg, PA December 6, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1270-1565# 128-133; Ch 2-3 1320-1570# 123-128; 1605-1660# 116-122; full YG 4-5 1235-1555# 116-120; Sel 1-3 1110-1560# 115-122; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 13651515# 108.50-115; Ch 2-3 1295-1520# 105-109; Sel 1-3 1420-1550# 95-102.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1295-1490# 127-131; Ch 2-3 1130-1460# 119-125; full YG 4-5 1055-1270# 114118; Sel 1-3 990-1210# 113118.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% lean 74; Breakers 75-80% lean 67-70, hi dress 72.50, lo dress 6367; Boners 80-85% lean 6266, hi dress 68-68.50, lo dress 58-61; Lean 85-90% lean 58-61, hi dress 60-63, lo dress 52-55.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 9651835# 73-83.50, hi dress 1385# 90, lo dress 8702325# 60-69; Bullocks 11201225# 83-88.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 340405# 127-140; 575-700# 103-122; M&L 2 290-435# 112-132; L 3 Hols. 230-282# 70-75; 415# 80; 535-775# 77-85.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 247265# 102-132; 370-495# 105-125; 530-640# 105-115; Herefords 415# 97; M&L 2 247-290# 100-112; 315-495# 87-109; 515-630# 80-105; Herefords 390-470# 70-85.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 295485# 118-140; 555-830# 92121; M&L 2 275# 90; 485# 97; 775# 85; Herefords 340# 65; L 3 Hols. 245-295# 7582; 522# 76.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls No. 1 95-120# 135-172; 90# 110-120; No. 2 95-120# 100137; 80-90# 85-107; No. 3 95-110# 70-95; 80-90# 6580; Hols. Hfrs. No. 2 85# 85145; Beef X 95# 117; Vealers Util 65-125# 30-70.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 49-54% lean 245-277# 68-73.50; 282-322# 68-72; 45-50% lean 245-270# 6669.50; 282-295# 68-69.50.

Sows: US 1-3 420-485# 4757.50; 515-745# 52-59.

Boars: 465-745# 28-30.50; Jr. Boars 270-365# 43-51.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 60-

105# 23-57.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 40-67# 187-265; 7095# 157-182; 117-162# 130145; Ewes Gd 2-3 140-195# 75-85; 248# 67; Rams 190215# 60-77.

Slaughter Kids: Sel 1 4550# 125-135; 60-80# 127.50165; Sel 2 25-40# 35-75; 4555# 75-120; 60-70# 95-115.

Slaughter Nannies: Sel 1 110-160# 102-135; Sel 2 90130# 70-105; Sel 3 70-100# 60-75.

Wethers: Sel 1 120-160# 145-170.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Cattle: 120 Cows: Steers Ch 110-118; Gd 100-110; Hfrs. Ch 110115; Gd 95-105; Util & Comm. 60-70; Canner/lo Cutter 60 & dn.

Bullocks: Gd & Ch 70-78 Bulls: YG 1 65-70 Feeder Cattle: Steers 110118; Bulls 90-105; Hfrs. 80110.

Calves: 102. Ch 90-110; Gd 75-90; Std 15-70; Hols. Bulls 90-130# 70-150.

Hogs: 38. US 1-2 75-78; US 1-3 70-75; Sows US 1-3 3560; Boars 24-42.

Feeder Pigs: 30. US 1-3 2050# 5-30.

Sheep: 36. Ch Lambs 160180; Gd 140-150; SI Ewes 50-70.

Goats: 15-195 MORRISON’S COVE HAY REPORT Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Alfalfa: 285-305 Alfalfa/Grass: 250-330 Grass: 190-245 Timothy: 185-215 Mixed Hay: 150-190 Round Bales: 100-195 Lg. Sq. Bales: 215-260 Straw: 190-205 Wood: 50-70 Fodder: 85 Hay Auction held every Monday at 12:30 pm.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK, POULTRY & RABBIT REPORT Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Roosters: 3-5 Hens: 1.25-3.40 Pigeons: 2 Guineas: 5 Bunnies: 1.25-4 Rabbits: 5-10 Auction held every Monday at 7 pm.

NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES New Holland, PA December 8, 2011 Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 12401600# 128-132, few fancy 133-134.50; Ch 2-3 11351600# 124-128; 1610-1700# 120-126.50; Sel 2-3 10401345# 118-122; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1365-1645# 108112, few 113-115; Ch 2-3 1270-1720# 101-107.50; Sel 2-3 1305-1615# 97-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1500# 127129.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 74-76; Breakers 75-80% lean 72-74, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 6569; Boners 80-85% lean 6871, hi dress 71-74, lo dress 62-67; Lean 88-90% lean 61.50-65, hi dress 66.5068.50, lo dress 55-60.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12751760# 75-78, lo dress 68.5073.50; 970-1500# 73.50-78, hi dress 92-103.

Graded Bull Calves: No. 1 114-128# 142-150; 94-112# 155-159; 90-92# 105; No. 2 94-118# 144-156; 88-92# 119; 80-86# 70; No. 3 100130# 105-118; 80-88# 67-70; 72-78# 90; Util 60-110# 2035.

Holstein Heifer Calves: No. 1 90-95# 185-210; No. 2 85120# 50-100.

NEW HOLLAND PIG AUCTION New Holland, PA December 7, 2011 US 1-2: 4, 13# 170; 48, 2025# 170-190; 16, 25-30# 140-150; 77, 30-40# 120145; 67, 40-60# 110-120; 12, 80-90# 75-90.

US 2: 11, 15-20# 180-210; 107, 20-30# 100-140; 31, 2030# 175-180, 45 30-40# 100150, mostly 100-130; 20, 5055# 105-115; 33, 60-90# 7585.

NEW HOLLAND SHEEP & GOATS AUCTION New Holland, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Lambs: Non-traditional markets: Wooled & Shorn Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 245-305, new crop 40-50# 358-390; 60-80# 180-250, new crop 60-70# 298-312; 80-90# 180-195; 90-110# 180-192, new crop 90-110# 212-134; 110-130# 179-194; 130-150# 170-185; 150-200# 155-170; Wooled & Shorn Ch 2-3 40-60# 203-224; 60-80# 175-203; 90-110# 161-176; 110-130# 160-174; 130-150# 135-150; 150-200# 108-123.

Slaughter Ewes: Gd 2-3 M flesh 120-160# 91-104; 160200# 87-103; 200-300# 7590; Util 1-2 thin flesh 120160# 78-84; 160-200# 72-84.

Slaughter Kids: Sel 1 3040# 92-100; 40-60# 90-119; 60-80# 116-134; 80-90# 131146; 90-100# 141-156; Sel 2 30-40# 69-84; 40-60# 73104; 60-80# 105-122; 80-90# 117-132; 100-110# 130-139; Sel 3 30-40# 64-80; 40-60# 62-83; 60-80# 83-94; 80-90# 94-103.

Slaughter Nannies/Does: Sel 1 80-130# 121-136; 130180# 124-140; Sel 2 80-130# 108-124; 130-180# 116-131; Sel 3 50-80# 76-91; 80-130# 90-105.

Slaughter Bucks/Billies: Sel 1 100-150# 196-211; 150-200# 253-266; Sel 2 100-150# 160-175; 150-250# 190-205.

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GREENCASTLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Greencastle, PA December 12, 2001 Slaughter Cattle: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1386-1540# 128-131.50; Ch 2-3 1328-1582# 123128.50; 1606-1674# 118120; full YG 4-5 1404-1570# 118.50-121.50; Sel 1-3 12621488# 115.50-120; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1380-1510# 109-115; Ch 2-3 1334-1536# 103-109; 1640-1714# 109.50; Sel 1-3 1244-1390# 95-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & pr 2-3 1392-1412# 125.50127.50; Ch 2-3 1174-1436# 119-123; full YG 4-5 12041304# 112.50-114.50; Sel 13 1160-1340# 112-116.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 67.50-73, lo dress 62.50-67.50; Boners 80-85% lean 62-67, hi dress 67-70, lo dress 57-62.50; Lean 85-90% lean 57-62, hi dress 63-66.50, lo dress 5057.50.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 10241862# 77.50-84.50, hi dress 1322# 88; lo dress 10301738# 63.50-78.

Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L No. 1 352-434# 127.50-154; 514-558# 133-134; M&L 2 290# 145; Herefords 406# 77.50; L 3 Hols. 406# 83; 562-1156# 70-86; Hfrs. M&L 1 300-405# 120-138.50; 520604# 107.50-130.50; 8371166# 98-106; M&L 2 306469# 100-122.50; 512-726# 85-115; Herefords 452-618# 77-89; Bulls M&L 1 305-440# 127.50-154; 575-776# 97125; 811-1020# 93-102; M&L 2 268-412# 120-125; 736# 93; L 3 Hols. 292-324# 62.50-70.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bull Calves No. 1 94-120# 135162.50; No. 2 94-120# 95135; 84-92# 70-95; No. 3 94116# 67.50-95; 78-92# 6575.

Utility: 70-110# 25-70.

Sows: US 1-3 506-582# 52-

Pennsylvania Markets

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT 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 steady to .05 lower, wheat sold .05-.10 lower, barley sold steady to .05 lower, Oats sold steady to .05 lower & Soybeans sold .15-.20 lower. EarCorn sold steady. All prices /bu. except ear corn is /ton.

Southeastern PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.65-7.05, Avg 6.79, Contracts 5.45-5.46; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.537.06, Avg 6.27, Contracts 5.28-5.83; Barley No. 3 Range 4.70-6, Avg 5.40, Contracts 4.50; Oats No. 2 Range 4.50-5, Avg 4.66; Soybeans No 2 Range 10.32-10.57, Avg 10.46, Contracts 10.75; EarCorn Range 195-198, Avg 196.50.

Central PA: Corn No. 2

Range 6.40-6.70, Avg 6.56; Wheat 5.73; Barley No. 3 Range 4.75-5.25, Avg 5; Oats No. 2 Range 3.60-4.30, Avg 3.95; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.30-11.50, Avg 10.66; EarCorn Range 195220, Avg 207.50.

South Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.35-6.85, Avg 6.60; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.60-6.73, Avg 6.09; Barley No. 3 Range 4.25-5.30, Avg 4.80; Oats No. 2 Range 3-4, Avg 3.55; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.16-10.57, Avg 10.50; EarCorn Range 190.

Lehigh Valley Area: Corn No. 2 Range 6.50-6.92, Avg 6.69; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.85; Barley No. 3 Range 4.95; Oats No. 2 Range 4.75; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.40-10.80, Avg 10.53; Gr. Sorghum Range 5.96.

Eastern & Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.35-7.05, Avg 6.67, Month Ago 6.85, Year Ago 5.71; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.53-7.06, Avg 6.25, Month Ago 6.16, Year Ago 7.13; Barley No. 3 Range 4.25-6, Avg 5.01, Month Ago 4.96 Year Ago 3.63; Oats No. 2 Range 3-5, Avg 4.08,

Month Ago 4.13, Year Ago 2.70; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.16-11.50, Avg 10.54, Month Ago 10.95, Year Ago 12.05; EarCorn Range 195220; Avg 199.60, Month Ago 196.66, Year Ago 144.83.

Western PA: Corn No. 2 Range 5.64-6.50, Avg 6.10; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.36; Oats No. 2 3.75-4.90, Avg 4.38; Soybeans No. 2 10.42.

PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Weekly Livestock Summary December 9, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 128-134; Ch 1-3 123128; Sel 1-2 117-122; Hols.

Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 110-116; Ch 2-3 101-107.50; Sel 1-2 95.50-99.50.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 125-131; Ch 1-3 119125.50; Sel 1-2 113-118.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 67-71.50; Boners 80-85% lean 63-68; Lean 85-90% lean 58-62.

Slaughter Bulls: hi dress 83-90; Avg dress 74-79; lo dress 68.50-73.50.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300500# 145-162; 500-700# 120-152; M&L 2 300-500# 125-140; 500-700# 110-126.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300500# 120-146; 500-700# 120-137; M&L 2 300-500# 100-125; 500-700# 100-120.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300500# 130-165; 500-700# 118-134; M&L 2 300-500# 107-129; 500-700# 87-114.

Vealers: Util 60-120# 10-65.

Farm Calves: No. 1 Hols.

bulls 95-125# 130-170; No. 2 95-125# 100-145; No. 3 80120# 60-110; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 84-105# 185-250; No. 2 80-105# 85-185.

Hogs: Barrows & Glts 4954% lean 220-270# 66-72; 45-50% lean 220-270# 6465.

Sows: US 1-3 300-500# 5863; 500-700# 58.50-62.50.

Graded Feeder Pigs: US 12 20-25# 170-190; 25-30# 140-150; 30-40# 120-145; 40-60# 110-120; 80-90# 7590; US 2 15-20# 180-210; 20-30# 100-140; 20-30# 175180; 30-40# 100-150.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 250-275, new crop to 310; 60-80# 208235, new crop to 270; 80110# 168-203; 110-150# 162-178; Ch 1-3 40-60# 215255; 60-80# 180-200; 80110# 160-183; 110-150# 151-164; Ewes Gd 2-3 120160# 80-95; 160-200# 74-89; Util 1-2 120-160# 60-75; 160200# 58-73.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-60# 84-110; 60-80# 120153; 80-100# 141-170; Sel 2 40-60# 75-92; 60-80# 81106; 80-100# 105-140; Sel 3 40-60# 61-79; 60-80# 79-95; Nannies Sel 1 80-130# 112122; 130-180# 120-134; Sel 2 80-130# 94-108; 130-180# 107-115; Sel 3 80-130# 8398; Billies Sel 1 100-150# 171-186; 150-250# 209-224; Sel 2 100-150# 146-161; 150-250# 168-180.

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. Alfalfa 175-250; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 160-300; Timothy 150-200; Straw 100-160 clean; Mulch 60-80.

Summary of Lancaster Co. Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 192 lds Hay, 40 Straw. Alfalfa 155-510; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 155-500; Timothy 215-340; Grass Hay 135-400; Straw 165-260.

Diffenbach Auct, December 5, 85 lds Hay, 11 lds Straw.

Alfalfa 255-510; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 140-500; Timothy 200335; Grass 185-400; Straw 185-240.

Green Dragon, Ephrata: December 9, 57 lds Hay, 16 Straw. Alfalfa 155-385; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 155-370; Timothy 220-340; Grass Hay 135-240; Straw 165-210.

Weaverland Auct, New Holland: December 8, 35 lds Hay, 9 Straw. Alfalfa 350-390; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 190-275; Timothy 320-330; Grass 150350; Straw 170-235.

Wolgemuth Auction: Leola, PA: December 7, 15 lds Hay, 4 Straw. Alfalfa 240; Alfalfa/Grass Mix 205-350; Timothy 215-285; Grass 120-245; Straw 177-260.

Summary of Central PA Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 135 Loads Hay, 22 Straw.

Alfalfa 250-400; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-400; Timothy 170325; Grass 140-410; Straw 165-220.

Belleville Auct, Belleville:

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December 7, 22 lds Hay, 0 lds Straw. Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 125-320.

Dewart Auction, Dewart: December 5, 19 lds Hay, 3 Straw. Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-400; Straw 170-200.

Greencastle Livestock: December 5 & 8, 14 lds Hay, 0 Straw.

Alfalfa/Grass 102.50-212.50.

Kutztown Auction, Kutztown: December 3, 22 lds Hay, 8 Straw. Alfalfa 310-400; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 205-360; Grass Hay 230-310; Straw 165-210 clean.

Middleburg Auct, Middleburg: December 7, 23 lds Hay, 3 Straw. Alfalfa 300; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 140-290; Grass 100-195; Straw 120245.

Leinbach’s Mkt, Shippensburg: December 3 & 6, 35 lds Hay, 8 Straw. Alfalfa 220275; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-335; Timothy 170-325; Grass 140-410; Straw 132.50-235 clean.

New Wilmington Livestock, New Wilmington: December 2, 18 lds Hay, 0 Straw.

Alfalfa/Grass 215-257.50.

VINTAGE SALES STABLES Paradise, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1560# 127-130; Ch 2-3 1050-1535# 124.50127.50; Sel 2-3 1155-1425# 115-118; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 23 few 1385-1505# 114-116; Ch 2-3 few 1290-1520# 109.50-112.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1150-1345# 121-122.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 73.25-75.75; Breakers 75-80% lean 65.50-69, hi dress70.50-73.50; Boners 80-85% lean 63-66; Lean 8590% lean 58-62.50, lo dress 52-56.50.

Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 95-125# 135-150; No. 2 95115# 115-130; 85-90# 75-85; No. 3 95-130# 100-110; 7595# 60-70; Util 70-115# 4565.

Holstein Heifers: No. 2 80115# 70-100.

WEAVERLAND AUCTION New Holland, PA December 8, 2011 Alfalfa: 2 lds, 350-390 Timothy Hay: 3 lds, 320330 Orchard Grass: 5 lds, 225300.

Mixed Hay: 15 lds, 190-275 Grass: 10 lds, 150-350 Straw: 9 lds, 170-235 Firewood: 5 lds, 45-125 Corn Fodder: 4 lds, 90-145 Soybean Stalks: 1 ld, 110 WOLGEMUTH AUCTION Leola, PA December 14, 2011 Alfalfa: 4 lds, 170-250 Mixed: 25 lds, 150-390 Timothy: 6 lds, 130-325 Grass: 20 lds, 170-290 Clover: 1 ld, 135 Straw: 12 lds, 145-225 Bean Stubble: 1 ld, 72 Fodder: 2 lds, 60-100 Firewood: 55/ld

U.S. FDA approves new BRD therapy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pulmotil, an innovative Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) treatment for groups of cattle in the early stages of a BRD outbreak that provides 14 days of sustained infeed therapy, a practice that reduces stress associated with cattle handling.

Pulmotil is approved for the control of BRD associated with M a n n h e i m i a haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida and Histophilus somni in

groups of beef and nonlactating dairy cattle, where active BRD has been diagnosed in at least 10 percent of the animals in the group.

“This approval brings cattle veterinarians and producers a truly new management tool for controlling BRD,” said Jeff Simmons, president, Elanco. “With the introduction of Pulmotil, Elanco continues to bring the beef and dairy industries highly effective treatment solutions that provide more BRD management flexibility.”

BRD is the most com-

mon disease among feedlot cattle, accounting for approximately 75 percent of feedlot morbidity and 50 percent to 70 percent of feedlot deaths, costing the industry an estimated $800 million to $900 million annually in economic losses due to reduced feed efficiency, treatment costs and deaths.

“As cattle are assessed for BRD, Pulmotil can be fed within the first 45 days after arrival when cattle typically are most susceptible to the disease,” said Jared Gould, DVM, MS, technical con-

sultant for Elanco. “By treating with Pulmotil, producers can reduce the number of cattle pulled for individual treatment.”

Gould explains that the practice of feeding Pulmotil provides additional value-enhancing benefits. “It’s a good fit for producers who have limited labor resources or where equipment for processing cattle is not easily accessible,” said Gould. “And with an infeed therapy, less cattle handling is required, which can reduce stress compared to other treat-

ment options that require more individual animal management.”

Similar to the prescription requirement for injectable products, the FDA requires a veterinarian to issue a Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) for the use of Pulmotil. The VFD helps ensure veterinarian oversight and judicious use of Pulmotil according to the label use and feeding directions. The VFD process requires a coordinated effort by the producer, feed-ingredient supplier, veterinarian and nutritionist. Elanco will help facilitate this

Young leaders complete Phase I of leadership development training The 2012 class of American Soybean Association (ASA)/DuPont Young Leaders met at Pioneer headquarters in Johnston, Iowa, to participate in Phase I of leadership development training. The producers and their spouses participated in media training, advocacy and social media training, communication style analysis, tours of Pioneer research facilities, soybean trait and product development, and networked with the other participants representing 20 states and Canada. Young

Leaders will go to Phase II of training Feb. 28-March 3 in Nashville, TN. The 2012 Young Leaders are Rusty & Merry Gaines (AL);Reid & Jamie Hornbeck (AR); Ben Moye (IL); Neal & L ydia Wolheter (IN); Ian & Val Plagge (Iowa); Brice & Allison Bunck (KS); Caleb & Leanne Ragland (KY); Chris & Tonya Ziehm (MI); Dana & Katy Blume (MN); JamesRobertson (MS); John & Hilary Ortiz (MO); Nathan & Stacy Dorn (NE); Seth Pritchard (NY); David Heath (NC); Eric & Alicia

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For more information on the ASA/DuPont Young Leader program go to www.soygrowers.com/dyl or contact ASA Corporate Development Manager Michelle Siegel at 314754-1328 ormsiegel@soy.org.

Source: ASA Weekly Leader Letter for Thursday, Dec. 8

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Before making the product widely available, Elanco will conduct additional commercial trials, and work closely with veterinarians and their clients to develop protocols that support the VFD process and maximize Pulmotil’s value in a variety of commercial settings.

“As we work through this initial period, we’ll communicate best practices and benefits associated with this new BRD in-feed treatment protocol with beef and dairy producers,” said Gould.

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Boyce Thompson joins forces with other plant nonprofits to benefit humanity The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) at Cornell has joined forces with three other U.S. nonprofit plant science research institutions to form the Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes (AIPI) in an effort to target research to meet the profound challenges facing society in a more coordinated and rapid fashion.

Scientific leaders from BTI, the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, OK, have formed the AIPI to facilitate scientific discovery through intellectual and technical collaborations. The group also will disseminate research outcomes and provide a forum for discussion of approaches to the challenges facing agriculture.

Collectively, AIPI member institutions operate nearly 60 laboratories with more than 400 personnel. Each organization offers different but

complementary technical expertise that ranges from measuring individual chemicals and proteins within plants to the ability to obtain 3-D images of plant structures and proteins in living tissue. In addition, stateof-the-art greenhouse and field resources allow science to mature beyond the laboratory and into tangible outcomes to benefit consumers and provide for tomorrow.

“Each of these institutions possesses skilled and dedicated researchers,” said David Stern, president of BTI. “Researchers at each institution have had tremendous success. Together, we will be even better. AIPI is a tool to allow our collective resources to respond faster to opportunities in an organized and collaborative manner. We will achieve more. And humanity will be the beneficiary.”

In a recent meeting, AIPI affirmed its initial research objectives: • design and deploy plants to contribute to

energy needs without depleting soil and water resources, and without competing with food production; • improve the ability of plants to filter groundwater, reduce erosion, absorb carbon dioxide and generate oxygen; and • continue to develop

sustainable agriculture practices to decrease costs to farmers and provide environmental and consumer benefits.

To accomplish these objectives, AIPI scientists will coordinate projects that study plant growth, development and chemistry; plant interactions with insects,

fungi and bacteria; and metabolic processes, such as oil production and photosynthesis.

Coordinated deployment of the member institutions’ expertise will lead to a deeper understanding of how plants react to the environment and other organisms, and how they acquire

and use nutrients, as well as revealing the genetic potential within plants, the researchers noted.

BTI is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy and Agriculture.

Vermeer Corporation and Kubota Canada Ltd. announce retail financing agreement Vermeer Corporation has unveiled an agreement with Kubota Canada Ltd. that offers Vermeer Forage Solutions Dealers in Canada the opportunity to sell forage equipment with retail financing provided by Kubota Canada Ltd. “Customers in Canada now have the opportunity to purchase Vermeer forage equipment with a financing option. This opportunity will further accessibility to both companies’ product offerings in the Canadian agriculture industry,” explains Joe Michaels, Vermeer Director of Forage Solutions. “We believe the combination of our high quality forage equipment along with Kubota’s well respected tractor line offers producers an excellent choice for purchasing

high performance, long-lasting, productive ag equipment.”

“This agreement between Vermeer and Kubota offers an easy way to purchase a tractor and baler, rake or other related forage equipment and have both the service and financing ends of ownership at one convenient dealership location,” echoes Ross Wallace, President of Kubota Canada.

“Our team is pleased to have the opportunity to provide financing options to Vermeer customers. It is another way we are proud to serve our customers through supporting the sale of performancematched tractors and forage equipment.”

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COMBINES & HEADS

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

LOWS

& PARTS

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

Alternative Parts Source Inc. Chittenango, NY •

Farm Equipment FOR SALE: 2 row narrow green head, fits John Deere 3960 and others, $1,800. 716257-5129

315-687-0074

Farm Machinery For Sale $1000 OFF Most All cornheads & grainheads in stock.

Huge Selection. Zeisloft Farm Eq., Bloomsburg,PA 800-9193322

Farm Machinery For Sale

15’ Woods Batwing Bush Hog Excellent Shape $ 6,500 OBO

518-829-7790 1991 LOR-AL EZ Rider F350 Spray Truck, 60’ booms, 500Gal. tank, light-bar, chemical injection, Mattracks available. Jantzi Crop & Turf Spray.

315-523-2249 2-Gehl 970 forage wagons; Valmetel 5600 round bale chopper. 315-532-5581 2001 JD 7710 MFWD, 4718hrs., power quad, fresh from farm, $62,500. 3.7%Fin. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-9193322

2880 Krause 9 Shank Chisel Plow Hyd., Front Coulters w/Leveler, Great Shape In Field Now

10,500 518-829-7790 $

4 USED GRAIN CARTS, Brent, Parker. Starting at $7,900. Zeisloft Eq. 800-9193322

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

8’ SNOW PUSHER, standard quick tach, others available, 10% off thru Dec. 31st, 2011.

Pine Ridge Welding and Machine, Penn Yan, NY. 315536-2102

JOHN DEERE BALER PARTS. Winter discounts for baler repairs. New & Used hay equipment. Nelson Horning 585-526-6705

BIG AUGGIE 216 w/auger chute, exc. shape, $4,500.

607-279-6232 days, 607-5334850 nights

Big Tractor Parts Steiger Tractor Specialist 1. 10-25% savings on new drive train parts 2. 50% savings on used parts 3. We buy used or damaged Steigers 4. We rebuild axles, drop boxes, transmissions with one year warranty.

1-800-982-1769

US or Canada American made quality parts at big savings

CASE 85XT skid steer, reduced to $13,500; NH LX865, 60hp, $13,500.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 CASE IH MAXXUM 5220, cab, 4WD, 960 Quicke Loader, new tires, $23,500; Barber Green diesel Track Tile machine; NH L885 skid loader, 2 speed, 55hp; Ag Chem Gator sprayer, 500 gallon, 80’ booms, cummins engine. 315-536-8718

JUST TRADED: Gleaner R62 4x4 combine w/15’ grainhead.

Priced for quick sale, $29,900.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

Kennedy Tractor (315) 964-1161 Williamstown, NY “We Deliver” 3Pt 5’ Snowblowers complete/fully assembled $1,890; 3Pt 7’ & 7 1/2’ Snowblowers (several); PTO Generators; JD Hard Cab for Compact w/heater, lites, wiper $1,650; New Quicke 980 Ldr & 7’ Bkt w/mounts to fit Agco, MF & Challenger $4,150; 4x4 Ford 2120 w/Ford 7109 Ldr 40HP Dsl, 1100 hrs $8,950; 4x4 Kubota L3410 Heated Cab 30HP Dsl, “Ag” tires $7,950; Lots More Tractors & Machinery In Stock

Farm Machinery For Sale KICKER BALE WAGONS $2,350; 8 & 10 Ton Running Gears, $1,325-$1,500; 20’ Bale Carriers, $2,750. Horst’s Welding, 585-526-5954 KUBOTA mini x-cavator 7000#, blade, rbr tracks, NICE, $12,500. dvburly@aol.com 585-230-3038

Maine To North Carolina

Merry Christmas

KINZE 6 row planter, dry fertilizer & Rawson Zone Till, $10,000. 716-474-0221

From All Of Us At PleasantCreekHay.com

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Lower your feed cost!

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

CASE-IH 8930 MFWD, 3hyd., both PTO, real nice one! $62,500. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322 FANCY! 2006 J.D.7720 MFWD w/746 loader, only 1200hrs., local PA farm tractor, one owner. Both like new.

24spd., 3hyd. Both PTO. Nicest one you’ll find. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322

GET A

Glencoe F511A 9-shank chisel plow, with coulters & 4 wheels. $9,000. 585-948-5843

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IH 361D ENGINE in-frame overhaul w/rebuilt injectors & pump, can hear run, $4,750.

315-536-7653 IH-TRACTOR PARTS: Newused-reman. 06-86 Series.

We stock A&I and Ag Parts.

Jim’s Fix-It. 315-536-7653 J.D.4450, 2WD, quad, just arrived. Also J.D.4650 power shift & duals. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322 JD 2350 2WD diesel, 0% rears, 2hyd. valves, runs GREAT, looks not so good, $6,250 dvburly@aol.com 585230-3038 JD 336 wire baler w/kicker good cond $2500; Wooden kicker wagons good gears, wagons 2 and 3 years old $1600 choice. 315-224-1667 315-730-3271 JD 7720 COMBINE, 4X4, vg!, just finished our corn and beans, $16,500. Mike Franklin 607-749-3424 JD 8420, 8200, 7700, 7405, 7210; NH 8560; Ford 8830, TW15; Case IH MX135, MX120, JX95 C80. 585-7321953

Canandaigua, NY Oliver 1955 cab tractor great Cummins project. . . . $3,500 White 100 4x4 cab with Westerndorf loader . . . . . $26,500 White 140 4x4 cab, tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,000 Pair of 2-105 White cab tractors . . . . . . . . . . Choice 7,500 IH 1460 combine very sharp machine . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 Gleaner F2 diesel combine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 Parker header cart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 John Deere 1210A grain cart with tarp, nice. . . . . . $5,750 J&M 12 ton running gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,200 New Holland 514 spreader top beater . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 Woods 121 10’ rotary cutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900 IH 1020 25’ flex head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,200 Bush Hog 9 shank disc chisel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,750 White 588 5x18 reset plow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,250 Gehl 970 14’ 3 beater box with roof & gear . . . . . . . $4,000 (3) Case IH 183 12 row flat fold cultivators. . . . . . . . . . Call 16-9-38 9 bolt duals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $800 IH 100 lbs. front weights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at $85 each Pair 18-4-38 trail duals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $950 Pair of 15-5-38 tires on double bevel rims. . . . . . . . . . $600 4 small gravity boxes some on gears Parts tractors Oliver 1755, White 2-85, White 2-105 Nice pair of White rear fenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $600 3 1 8 6 Fr e s h o u r R d . , C a n a n d a i g u a , N Y 1 4 4 2 4

(585) 394-4691 or (585) 394-4057 Serving the American Farmer Since 1937

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

MANY IH 1066’s, 1466’s fender & cab tractors, $6,500$12,000; Du-al loader, $1,500.

518-677-2854

Smiley’s Equipment

Martin’s Welding

Wishes a

Merry Christmas

to Current & Future Customers

MUST SELL! 20’ Featherlite trailer, exc. condition, $9,000; NH 170 skid steer, 1300 hrs., $21,000; MF 1105, 7000 hrs., $7,000; Keenan 115FP, 400CF, new floor, $9,000; side shooter, $500.00; tire scraper, $300.00; 6 calf hutches, $150.00 each. Contact Andy at 860-534-0556 or jersey_cow_guy@yahoo.com pictures available NEW AND USED PARTS for New Holland 770, 782, 790, 890, 892, 900, FP230, FP240.

John Deere 3940, 3950, 3955, 3960, 3970, 3975. NEW Horning crop processors.

NEW & USED New Holland baler parts & service. Closed Sundays. 607-243-8151

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

MARTIN’S WELDING

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

BUYING MACHINES DEAD OR ALIVE

518-634-2310 USED BATWING mowers, 15’ & 20’, Woods, Bushog, JD. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-9193322

USED COMBINE PA R T S K & J SURPLUS

IH 234 diesel, hydro, 2WD compact, $2,000 OBO; Gehl 3725 skid steer, gas, no attachments, $4,000 OBO. 315-536-4834 1990 CASE IH 1660 COMBINE, 4WD, cummins engine, many updates, nice condition, $25,000. 585-591-1234

VERY NICE J.D.6400, cab, low hours, local farm, only raked hay. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322

STOLTZFUS HEADLOCK Feeder Wagon with 28 headlocks, brand new condition.

845-294-5797 SUPER SHARP JD 6420 IVT, cab, MFWD, like new, 1500hrs., one of a kind, one owner, retired, $59,500.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

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

SHAMROCK FARMS (585) FENCING DAN FITZPATRICK

Farm Machinery Wanted

WANTED

John Deere 5460, 5820, or 5830 Choppers

8408 CARNEY HOLLOW RD., WAYLAND, NY 14572 Sales & Installations Building Since 1981

ALL TYPES OF FENCES YOUR SOURCE FOR:

Buying Corn, Feed Wheat & Oats

WANTED: Small diesel power unit with or without hand clutch. 716-474-3973

(315)) 549-82266

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Heavy Duty Galvanized Gates

Romulus, NY 14541

LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS

• Corn Meal • Minerals

• Energy Mixes • Nutritional Services

Pick-up or Delivery from our Geneva Feed Mill

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

188 Genesee St. - Suite 209 Auburn, NY 13021

1-800-599-7150 315-258-4394 Grieg Dougherty • Richard Damaske Carter Riley • Greg Creeden Jeff Kuney • Dan Campbell (Distiller Sales)

8545 MAIN ST. P.O. BOX 660 CLARENCE, NY 14031 PHONE# (716) 633-1940 FAX# (716) 633-1490

“NOW SELLING” CORN, RYE, OATS, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, CORN MEAL, DDGS HOMINY, BEDDING, SOYBEAN MEAL, WHOLE COTTONSEED, BEET & CITRUS PULP PELLETS, CORN GLUTEN FEED & MEAL, HOMINY, BAKERY MEAL AND CANOLA MEAL

“NOW BUYING” CORN, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, RYE, OATS & MANY OTHER MISC. PRODUCTS.

GRAIN AND INGREDIENT MERCHANDISERS

CALL (716) 633-1940 FOR PRICES & ASK FOR: DON POWELL BILL SCHMAHL SCOTT SCHULTZ

ORIGINATING CORN & MARKETING DISTILLERS FOR SUNOCO ETHANOL PLANT , F ULTON , NY

WANTED: Moldy or dusty corn for corn furnace. Can haul. Ontario County,NY. 585704-0687

Cyclops Energizers Made in USA

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

E&A Fence LLC

CORP.

• Steam Flaked Corn • Protein Mixes

Quali Guara ty nteed

FALL DISCOUNTS NOW

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

814-793-4293

Pat O’Brien & Sons For all your feed needs!

669-2179

• Posts • Board • Split Rail • HT Wire • Vinyl • Energizers

518-993-5177

771 St. Hwy 163, Fort Plain, NY Fencing FOR SALE: Locust Posts, cut to order. For more details, please call 315-398-8002.

Also, tree removal available.

R & R FENCING LLC • • • •

Equine Livestock Post Driving Pasture & Paddock Design

A is a Thousand

BRIAN ROSS

585-599-3489

9479 Alleghany Rd Corfu NY 14036 15 Years of Professional Fencing Installations “Quality You Can Trust”

STABLE FENCES & VINEYARDS LLC

POST POUNDING

3 Board • Split Rail HT Wire • Ag Fence Chain Link • Vinyl Residential • Commercial www.stablefences.com

585-349-4119

It’s easy & economical to add a picture to your ad!

For Information Call

800-836-2888

December 19, 2011 • COUNTRY FOLKS West • Section C - Page

315-536-8446

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

Improve Your Farm Efficiency

814-793-4293

RECONDITIONED 4-6-8R 7000 and 7200 planters. Also, one and two row sweetcorn, vegetable, pumpkin planters w/JD Max-Emerge. FrameMount no-till coulters. Custom b u i l d p l a n t e r s . Pe q u e a Planter, 717-442-4406

•Buckets •Pallet Forks •Bale Spears •Rock Forks •Grapples ~ Call for Price Burkholder Repair LLC

“Miles of Quality Start Here”

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

PRICES REDUCED on all combines in stock! Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322

Skid Steer Attachments

(315) 549-7081

Fencing

Empire Farm Fence & Supply

Custom Roasting and Cooling Your Soybeans,Corn, etc.

At Your Farm or Mill Serving All of NY State

WEILER’S GRAIN ROASTING

WANTED

Fencing

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

LANSING, NY 607-279-6232 Days 607-533-4850 Nights

315-531-8672

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

Farm Machinery For Sale

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

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

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS It’s easy and economical to add a picture to your ad!

For Information Call

1-800-836-2888 For Sale FOR SALE: John Deere 2940 4x4 with loader, 150 hours on new engine. John Deere 4040 cab, 1650 hours on rebuilt.

585-567-2306 PUREBRED Light Gray Flemish giant rabbits, (2) lt. gray giant doe chinchillas. 585567-2306

Generators

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

MOELLER SALES 1-800-346-2348

Hay - Straw For Sale

Hay For Sale First Cut, Second Cut, Timothy and Alfalfa WE DELIVER

519-604-8683 HAY SAVER Plus Hay Preservative, 68% Propionic Acid.

87¢ per pound. Product available in Waterloo, NY. Delivery Available. Conoy Ag, Elizabethtown, PA 717-367-5078

Hay - Straw For Sale

ONTARIO DAIRY HAY & STRAW

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

ALSO CERTIFIED ORGANIC Low Potassium for Dry Cows

Call for Competitive Prices NEEB AGRI-PRODUCTS

519-529-1141

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Alltech is currently looking for a Territory Sales Representative with a strong dairy background for Pennsylvania. Alltech sales people are highly motivated professionals who provide a natural link between marketing, research and the customer. Alltech ranks among the top 10 animal health companies in the world. The company has experienced consistent growth since it was founded in 1980. Headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, Alltech has a presence in over 110 countries with distributors around the world.

Today it employs 2,600 people and growth continues at a rate of 20 percent.

Key responsibilities include: Regularly visit our industry partners (feed companies, consulting nutritionists, veterinarians, producers, government agencies, etc) across the territory to manage existing relationships while cultivating new relationships Drive sales by identifying customer needs and finding solutions Attend industry events and tradeshows to showcase Alltech in a positive, professional manner

The ideal candidate should have:

TOO MUCH HAY? Try Selling It In The

A strong technical background: BSc, MSc or higher Strong verbal and written communication skills Interest and experience in the animal health or nutrition industries Self-motivated and proactive A valid driver’s license E-mail resumé and cover letter to: mgast@alltech.com

CLOSING DATE: JAN. 1, 2012

CLASSIFIEDS Call Peg At

800-836-2888 or email

classified@leepub.com Hay - Straw Wanted

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

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

Hay - Straw Wanted

WANTED

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

WANTED

Pre Cut Rye Straw 50 to 75 Lb. Bales

302-737-5117 302-545-1000

H AY Farmer to Farmer

Heating

Wet and Dry Round & Square Bales

Alltech | Pennsylvania 1860 Charter Lane, Suite 203 Lancaster, PA 17601 Fax: 717-393-9774 • mgast@allltech.com

WRITERS WANTED Country Folks is looking for self-motivated free-lance writers to contribute to their weekly agricultural paper.

Knowledge of the industry a must.

Articles could include educational topics as well as feature articles.

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

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

STRAW

FOR SALE: 2009 GT RB800 grain dryer, ready now, delivery anywhere. 877-422-0927

519-482-5365

Please send resume to Joan Kark-Wren jkarkwren@leepub.com or call 518-673-0141

CALL STEVE

NEW AND USED Grain Dryers: GT, MC, GSI. Call anytime toll free 1-877-422-0927

HEIFER BEEF COW HAY, first cutting, late cut, lots of green color, $100/ton. Mixed first cutting hay, nice, $150/ton Mike Franklin 607-749-3424

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

Help Wanted

WANTED: 1st & 2nd cut big & small squares. 315-363-9105

Employment OpportunityAgricultural business in Wayne County, NY seeking a conscientious individual to do application of fertilizer and pesticides to farm fields as well as other duties. CDL license, some mechanical ability, and pesticide applicators license a plus. Full time position with benefits. Call 315-374-5847

Hay - Straw Wanted

Hay - Straw Wanted

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A N MARTIN GRAIN SYSTEMS 315-923-9118

Clyde, NY

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

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

TOP MARKET PRICES PAID For Quality Hay in 2 String Bales Looking for Long Term Supply Paid for On Scale

Also Buying All Grades of Hay and Straw in 2 String or Large Square Bales

Nick Fitzpatrick 845-901-1892 or 845-609-7315

adenbrook.com

Help Wanted

PATTERSON FARMS Is Looking for a Self Motivated Team Player to Join Our Team If you are a Jack or Jill of all things, we are looking for you. Repairs, crop, dairy animals and manure.

Possitive attitude a must and Class A license helpful.

Please Call Jon at

315-729-0438 Table Rock Farm, Inc. De Golyer Holsteins: Talented individual wanted who enjoys growing crops, solving problems, working with equipment and making a large farm run successfully. Must possess strong organizational skills, positive attitude towards agriculture, Class B license.

First-class co-workers, 401K, health insurance, education funds, other benefits. Apply at: 5428 Upper Reservation Rd, Castile, NY.

Horse Equipment THREE-SEATER Bob Sleigh, medium size, rebuilt runners, new bed. Can be used by single draft or pole for team. Erin C. Lundy 315-493-1051

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Hoof Trimming

Hoof Trimming

Affordable Hydraulic Hoof Trimming Tables • Heavy Duty Professional Quality • Increased Production With Less Effort • Models Available In Stationary & Portable • Limited Warranty

The Ultimate in Tilt Tables SHEP’S WELDING, INC. PO Box 296, Chiefland, FL 32644 • www.shepswelding.net

1-800-370-8454 Maintenance & Repair

Maintenance & Repair

Attention Building Owners Don’t tear down Your failing structures.

We can repair them.

Before

After

Performing structural renovations and general construction since 1965. With having been involved in over 30,000 projects we feel confident we can solve your problems

Real Estate For Sale

POSSON REALTY LLC 787 Bates-Wilson Road Norwich, NY 13851

(607) 334-9727 Cell 607-316-3758 www.possonrealty.net possonrealty@frontiernet.net David C. Posson, Broker

5 - Madison County Gentleman's Farm. 190+/- acres. 60 2275 well drained high lime tillable acres. Balance woods and pasture. 2 large machinery buildings. 50x70 loose housing livestock barn. Also an older 72x175 Free stall barn. Good completely remodeled 2 story Victorian home. House is ready to go for two families but could easily be changed to one 5 bedroom home. Farm has a great location, 25 mins to Syracuse. Beef, horses, or gentleman farming. Farm has been reasonably priced to sell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Price Reduced from $300,000 to $280,000

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate Wanted

FARM SALE IN WALWORTH, NY: 88 acres, 60 tillable, 43 cow newly renovated dairy barn, 2 heifer facilities w/full concrete, machine shed in garage, w/beautiful 1800 4 bedroom 2 bath house. 315730-3312

NEEDED FOR THE SPRING of 2012: Dairy Farm to Rent or Lease for 60+cows with pasture. Current farm becoming too small. 518-321-0889. Best time to call 7-9pm

Seeds YES WE HAVE SEED CORN Conventional, GT, 3000GT, CB/LL, GT/CB/LL, Viptera, Waxy 866-471-9465 request@gristmillinc.com

Box 108, Apulia Station, NY 13020 1-800-OLD-BARN WWW.1-800-OLD-BARN.COM

Services Offered

Professional Services

NEW, USED & RECONDITIONED PARTS FOR CONSTRUCTION & AGRICULTURE

Custom Heifer Raising 150 Head capacity; complete service for quality raised heifers in Northern Tioga County Pa. 5 miles south of the New York border. Brubaker Dairy Farm 814-367-5062

WE HAVE OVER 20 FARMS FOR SALE THROUGHOUT PA. JOHN MATTILIO, BROKER

GOODRICH TRACTOR PARTS

FARM AND LAND REALTY, INC.

Rt. 38 & 38B, Newark Valley, NY

607-642-3293 Parts & Repair

Parts & Repair

Dave Gabel Agricultural Belt Services

“BELT BUSTERS”

• Sales & Installation • On The Farm Service • A Large Parts Inventory • Willing to Travel for Service Work • 7 Days a Week, Parts & Service • Financing Available

ART TIMMEL

www.farmandlandrealtyinc.com

717-464-8930

3626 Brown St., Collins, NY 14034 Shop - (716) 532-2040 Eves & Weekends (716) 532-2919

Roofing

Roofing

ROOFING & SIDING

$ave on Flat Belts for Your Farm Machinery

21 Years of Customer Satisfaction

BUY DIRECT – We manufacture Metal Roofing & Siding.

QUALITY BELTS AT FARMER PRICES

ABM & ABX Panel - Standing Seam - PBR Panel

Now Available: Extensive Line of Trailers & Trailer Parts ~ Call for Information & Prices

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Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

nty Free stall Operation. 210 acres 160 2256 - Madison Coun acres of very productive tillable land. 2 barns with 280 free stalls.

Double 10 rapid exit parlor. Large concrete pad for feed storage.

Good 2 story 5 bedroom home with 2 baths. Several custom operators in the area for harvesting and planting feed. This farm is turnkey, ready to milk. Good farming area, agricultural and machinery businesses all close by. . . . . . . . . Asking $550,000. Make an offer.

2304 - Oneida County Dairy Farm 140 acres, 80+ acres tillable well drained very productive soils right behind the barn, flat to gently rolling fields. An additional 86 acres tillable close by available to rent.

Nice remodeled 2 story dairy barn with 86 stalls. Tunnel ventilation.

Nice barn to work in. Attached 74 stall free stall barn w/large bedding pack and pens for calves. Barn has a manure pit for 3 month storage.

2 large machinery buildings. Good 2 story 5 bdrm home and 2 bdrm mobile home for hired help. This is a good turn-key operation.

Owners are retiring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Askinng $450,000 2307- Herkimer County - 100+/- acres all wooded, good amount of road frontage. Power and telephone. Year round stream. Awesome deer & turkey hunting. Mins from the Adirondack Park. Mins from I90, hour to Albany. This is a very nice area of the Mohawk Valley region. Seller is a retiring dairy farmer from the area. Looking to downsize his land base. Would like to sell before spring. Reduced o $90,000 for this good property. Which is an from $110,000 to AWESOME buy anywhere! Make an appointment to see this property soon.

Near Cortland, NY. 26 acres of land with road frontage on two roads.

Power and telephone. Mineral rights intact. . . . . .Askinng $55,000 Owner would consider financing for qualified buyer.

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

MARTIN’S SILO REPAIR Specializing in Teardown & Rebuilding New & Used Staves Silos • Shotcrete Relining • Distributors • Fill Pipe • Replacement Doors • Roofs • Chutes • General Repair

Will Buy Good Used Concrete Stave Silos SHOTCRETE SERVICE Repair Retaining Walls Strength Existing Masonry Walls Stanley, NY

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Tractor Parts NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS: John Deere 10,20,30,40 series tractors.

Allis Chalmers, all models.

Large inventory! We ship.

Mark Heitman Tractor Salvage, 715-673-4829

Tractors, Parts & Repair FOR SALE: Farm machinery parts and older tractor parts.

DON’s PLACE, formerly Knapp’s. 585-346-5777

Trailers TEITSWORTH TRAILERS: Over 400 in stock now! PJ Goosenecks, Dumps, Tilt Tops, Landscape, Car Haulers, Skid Steer & more.

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Case-JD-IHC Crawlers Case-JD-Ford-IHC TLB’s Case-JD-Wheel Loaders Skid Loader Parts SPECIAL: MultiKey Construction Sets $45

Richard E. Posson, Associate Broker

New - 2311 - Bordering large State Land and Brookfield Equine Trail System. Madison County Farm - 240 acre 60+ acre tillable mostly hay 70 acres in pasture, balance woods. Old 2 story barn for 70 head of cattle. 2 outbuildings for machinery storage.

Older 2 story 5 bedroom home in fair condition. Excellent hunting.

Sits on a very quiet road with lots of possibilities. Raise a nice beef or horse farm. Priced to sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asking $310,000

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CALEDONIA DIESEL, LLC TRUCK & EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICE

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2905 Simpson Rd., Caledonia, NY

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1997 F/L FLD112 Day Cab, C10 Cat 370, Jake, 10 Spd, (Trans rebuilt 11/11), 12/40 Axles, AC Alum Wheels, Good Rubber, Product Blower $9,900

2000 KW T300 24’ Alum. Dry Box, 3126 Cat 215hp, 6spd, 136” CT, 211” CEF, Air Brakes, 33,000 GVW, 214K $13,450

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1988 Kenworth T-600 Series 60 430 HP with Jake, 15 Speed Trans., Wet Line, Cheap!

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1995 Steco Walking Floor Trailer, Roll-Over Tarp, Cheap!

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2006 J&J 36’x102” Aluminum Dump Trailer, 2 Way Gate, Liner, Aluminum Wheels, Tarp, Work Ready Priced To Sell Or Trade

1987 Western Star Southern Truck, No Rust, 300 Cummins, 8LL Transmission, 18,000 Front, 46,000 Rears, Hendrickson Walking Beam Suspension, Double Frame, Cheap! Price To Sell Or Trade

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2003 Kawasaki 60Z V Wheel Loader, 4532 Hrs, cab with heat & A/C, JRB quick coupler, 2 1/4 CY Bucket, Forks Available. $48,500

2001 Freightliner FL80 Cab & Chassis 310hp Cat, Allison Automatic, 18k front axle, 46k rears, 16’ of double frame behind cab, 60,000 miles, auto-lube system $34,000

2003 Peterbilt 357 Cab & Chassis Cummins 305hp, Allison Automatic, 20k front axle, 46k full locking rears, 16’ 8” of frame behind the cab, 189k miles. $55,000

(Qty 2) 2006 Mack CH613 Daycabs 427hp, 10 speed, 44k rears, wetlines, Rubber 90%, aluminum wheels, 177” wheelbase, very clean trucks. $34,500 each

2008 Mack Pinnacle CXU613 Daycab 445hp, 18 speed, 364k miles, 14,600# front axle, 46k full locking rears, 222” wheelbase, wetline, polished aluminum wheels. $58,950

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2006 Deere 310G 4x4 Backhoe, EROPS, Extenda-hoe, 2050 Hrs. Excellent Condition $46,950

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John Deere 9500 4WD, 30.5x32’s at 90%, Straw Spreader, 3794 Sep. Hours. $25,500

2006 Deere 450J LT Dozer 1267 hours, OROPS, good U/C, 6 way blade, very clean machine $39,950

2007 Case 621D Wheel Loader, 3045 hrs, GP bucket, JRB coupler, good rubber, cab with heat. $73,950

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Business Liquidation Auction Sicilia Construction Inc.

Thursday, January 5th • 10AM

3104 Zoeller Road, Alden, NY • Off Walden Ave. www.teitsworth.com Selling Equipment: Case 580 L, 4WD Backhoe w/ cab, Extendahoe NH 865 Skid Steer loader NH 185.B track Skid Steer w/bucket, forks JD 450G 6 way Dozer Komatsu P.C. 40MR Excavator w/rubber tracks JD 5105 Tractor w/front loader Ditch Witch walk behind trencher Multiquip Diesel Air Compressor Diesel 6500 Gen Set Gas 8000 Gen Set Power Georgia buggy Plate Tamper

Road saw Steel sidewalk and curb forms Black top tools Safety fence and cones Equipment trailers Shop Tools: Welders, Torches, Air compressor, Hand tools and more.

Selling Trucks: 1982 Mack R688 Tandem Dump, extra clean 1987 Freightliner Tandem Dump 1984 IH 1600 Crew Cab Dump 1992 Isuzu one ton service truck 2007 F350 Diesel stake body

Terms: Full payment on all items auction day by Good Check, Visa, or M.C. 12% Buyers Fee on items under $1,000., 4% on items over $1,000.

2% discount for Cash or Check Removal: Small Items removed the day of the auction, Large Items by January 11th Inspection: January 4th 10AM - 4PM

Roy Teitsworth Inc. Auctioneers Geneseo, NY Check our website www.teistworth.com for more information and photos or call our office at 585-243-1563.

Z&M Ag and Turf John Deere Dealer PUBLIC AUCTION of Farm Tractors, Machinery, Landscape Tools and Lawn Tractor-Mowers • Financee Termss Available

Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.

Railroad Avenue, Alexander (Batavia), NY • Complimentary Breakfast 8-9 A.M LOCATION - 10 miles south of the NYS Thruway at Batavia, just off Rt. 98 and Rt. 20 on Railroad Avenue

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NOTICE - Z&M’s 7 locations will all send equipment to 1 large public auction. This is a great chance for farmers and homeowners to purchase quality equipment the auction way. If you want great finance terms, see the sales team at Z & M early or call (585) 591-1670.

SELLING TRACTORS JD 7520 MFWD cab JD 8760 JD 8430, 3pt hitch and PTO JD 7410 MFWD w/cab JD 7410 N MFWD w/cab JD 5525 JD 5325 N JD 5525 w/cab JD 6300 MFWD w/cab JD 5510 MFWD w/cab JD 6420 N MFWD w/cab JD 6200 JD 4520 JD 2440 JD 5310 MFWD w/cab JD 3020 JD 1010 w/cult JD A JD 1020 N JD 301 Backhoe-Loader Case MX270 MFWD w/cab Case MX210 MFWD W/cab Case 5140 MFWD w/cab Case 574 Case 1086

Case 1486 Case 485 Case 826 Farmall C w/Loader Case 886 NH TV 140 w/loader Ford 8830 w/cab MF 275 NH 4630 White 2135 Kabota M9000 MFWD w/cab and loader Kabota M8200 MFWD w/cab Kabota M8950 MFWD w/cab MF 2705 MFWD w/cab MF150 MF 65 w/loader SKID STEER LOADERS & EXCAVATOR JD 301.5 JD 317 JD 250 (2) JD 260 JD 240 NH LS170 Bobcat 553 Bobcat 301-5 Bobcat T190 Bobcat 632 COMPACT TRACTORS Cub Cadet 7265 4WD w/mower IH Cub JD 4120 4WD w/loader Cub Cadet 7264 4WD w/loader Case MX31 4WD JD 655 4WD w/ mower JD 4400 MF 135 JD 650 w/belly mower COMBINES, CHOPPERS, AND HEADS 2008 Claas 870 Forage Harvester w/

R4600 8R Rotary Corn head and PU380 Hay head, 2050 Head Hrs. Claas RU450 Rotary Corn head JD 9500 4WD Combine JD 7700 4WD Combine (2) JD 643 Corn head JD 630F Flex head JD 893 Corn head JD 920 Rigid head JD 222 Flex head JD 922 Flex head JD 7' hay head JD 30' Crary cws NI Uni System PLANTERS & DRILLS Kinze 2000 6R Narrow Liquid Planter Kinze 12 R Liquid Planter w/Rawson zone till JD 1760 12R Liquid Planter Great Plains 30' Foldup Soybean Special 2sht Semi no till MISC Knight 3030 Mixer wagon Haybuster Bale shreader Knight 5042 Mixer wagon HAY AND FORAGE TOOLS JD 3430 12' Windrower JD 1360 Mower conditioner JD 945 Mower conditioner NH 1432 Mower conditioner Case DCX 131 Mower conditioner Case 8430 Mower conditioner Vicon DMP 3001 Triple mower JD 582 Round baler JD 346 Baler (wire) NH 315 Baler Vicon 833T Rake NI 279 cut/ditioner

Bush Hog 287 Mower Bush Hog 307 Mower Pequea 710 Tedder TILLAGE TOOLS IH 5 Shank Ripper AMCO F15 Disc Brillion XL 144 32' Fold Packer JD 970 Roller Harrow Dunham 21' Disc Unverferth 22.0 30 double rolling baskets Brillion 5 shank land commander Brillion 14' cultipacker Case 700 7B Trailer plow 20-LAWN TRACTORS AND GATORS JD 6x4 Gator Toro 520 JD LX280

Keep checking our website at www.teitsworth.com for Catalog and pictures. You can also visit www.zahmandmatson.com

INSPECTION - Friday, January 6, 2011 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

TERMS - Full payment auction day, cash, check, MC/Visa. 2% buyer's fee waived for payment with cash or check.

NO BUYER’S FEE John Deere credit has very attractive terms, Call Z & M Ag and Turf for details. 585-591-1670 by Jan 5, 2012 for pre approval QUESTIONS - Z & M Ag and Turf, owners: (585) 591-1670 Some items may be added or deleted due to daily business. There will be no pre Auction sales after Jan 3, 2012

“WE SPECIALIZE IN LARGE AUCTIONS FOR DEALERS, FARMERS, MUNICIPALITIES AND CONTRACTORS”