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Top 10 strategies to improve early lactation performance for higher peak milk yield ~ Page 5A This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ~ Lamentations 3:21-23

True armyworms and their hoodlum friends

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by Stephen Wagner Penn State Extension Entomologist Dr. John Tooker, youthful, agile and funny, greeted a wagon load of people seated in pew-style benches who were interested in picking up new lore about Farming for Success, 2012. His associate, an equally humorous Dr. Katie Ellis, helped move their display table to the now stopped wagon so that passengers wouldn’t have to climb down to them. This event was held at the Penn State Research Station in Landisville, Lancaster County, PA. After Ellis briefly discussed pollinators, Tooker launched into an Insect Update.

“The same treatments are all over your corn and soybeans that are under attack these days,” he said, “and the USDA is going to have to make a decision soon on whether they are siding with farmers or beekeepers.

Beekeepers want neonicotinoid treatments banned in the United States.”

This is a relevant issue for growers and there are people on both sides of the fence who feel quite strongly about it.

Moving on to some pests of relevance, Tooker asked “Has anyone seen any armyworms this spring? They have been out of control. If you haven’t heard, I can share videos with you of roads just crawling with armyworms that are living up to their name.

Essentially, they are defoliating corn or hayfields, then moving into whatever is nearby.” Thousands of acres have been decimated by what Tooker calls true armyworms. True armyworms act like black cutworms, and are sometimes confused with gypsy moths. They do not over-winter in Pennyslvania. They are blown up from storm fronts in southern states, where they do overwinter. Typically, in most years, the true armyworm is a mere curiosity with a couple plants chewed up here and there, but not a lot of damage is rendered. As to the extent of this year’s

Dr. Katie Ellis talks about pollinators.

widespread damage, some people are chalking it up to an odd spring, but Tooker says “we have had armyworm outbreaks like this in the past 30 years where we haven’t had odd springs.”

In Tooker’s mind, it is “an alignment of variables.” A true armyworm has three generations per year. The simple rule of thumb is that the first generation is the only economically important one. “The other rule of thumb,” he says is that “we don’t ever see populations like this. I would say that the second population bears watching. You can put pheromone traps out and trap their numbers. However, if you get 22 armyworms in your trap, and you want to know what to do with that number, good luck.” Hardly anyone has experience with trapping the second generation and making inferences from those catches to know what should be done. One way people are alerted to armyworms is that blackbirds flock to the swarms, or armies.

Slugs “This has been the perfect slug spring,” Tooker says. “It was so warm in March, most of the slugs hatched awfully early. One of the tactics you can use to avoid slugs is to plant early and try to outrun them.” But not everybody planted during that warm March, and by the time they did plant, the slugs were already active and feeding.

“Most of the fields I’ve seen,” Tooker recounted, “are armyworm and slug damaged and it’s hard to discern the two at times. The best way to tackle slugs is not with a single management tactic; it is with a number of things,” mechanical, biological, cultural, and chemical. With an associate, Sjoerd Duiker, Tooker “did some light disking in the spring. This is no-till ground. We did a very non-aggressive three-inch disking (straight vertical) meant to approximate a vertical tillage event.”

By so doing that, they were able to

Penn State Extension Entomologist Dr. John Tooker gives an Insect Update to attendees at Farming for Success 2012.

Photos by Stephen Wagner knock back the slug population by about 80 percent. Metaldehyde baits like Deadline are best for small portions of fields that are infested but you need to get good coverage. Such as four to six pieces of bait per square foot. The downside is that the product is expensive, which translates into $22 to $25 per acre. And even after adopting that course of action, people have to replant occasionally. Nitrogen solutions are also an option. Lannate is available but with the caveat that efficiency data is questionable. “We are researching the way that cover crops can control slugs and the way that natural enemies can help control slugs, but we’re not to the point where we can recommend a whole lot. The one thing I will say is crimson clover seems awfully promising. In my mind, it’s a preliminary thing but if you can put crimson clover in the ground before your corn, you’re going to have less slug trouble than if you don’t.”

Stink Bugs “You probably remember 2010 when stink bugs were everywhere,” Tooker said, easing into the last step of his update. The situation, however, did not worsen in 2011.

“If you are in the orchard business, brown marmorated stink bugs are already beginning to show up. They don’t typically show in field crops until corn ears are there, and once those ears harden up, they move into soybeans.” Right now overwintered adults are dying; nymphs are feeding where

eggs were laid.

Caveats about stinkbugs include: • Watch the edge of your cornfields in July, particularly next to woods; • Expect stinkbugs to move into soybeans when pods form; • Preventative sprays will not be effective due to poor residual activity; • Start scouting soybeans when pods appear; watch corn when kernels form; and • Focus scouting on edge of fields first.

Mid-Atlantic Brown Marmorated Stinkbug Scouting Protocol in Soybeans: • Begin scouting fields by mid-July to catch first occurrence; • Use a 15-inch sweep net; • 180 degree sweeps — dipping in the canopy; • Begin sampling on field edges especially near woodlots and overwintering areas; • Take 15 sweeps in 10 locations, concentrating on the field edge first and then moving toward inner portions of the field. Keep good records to track population changes over time; record numbers of bugs and life stage (adults or nymphs) captured for each bout of 15 sweeps. Adults have fully formed wings, nymphs do not; and • Be sure to count all species — green, brown and BMSB — adults and nymphs.

More information can be found at http://ento.psu.edu/extension/fieldcrops-new

Clarkson, NY continues its rodeo tradition

by Jennifer Wagester In 1994, residents of Clarkson, NY, and surrounding areas formed the Clarkson Horseman Association to educate the community about horses. The association started with hosting open horse shows at the Clarkson Horse Arena at Hafner Park and participating in a variety of local parades and events.

They also provided rides to the handicapped community at Camp Abilities held on the SUNY Brockport campus.

A decade or so later, member Bob DeMitry approached Pat Tooley, the Clarkson Horseman President, about hosting a rodeo. Pat Tooley, a rodeo enthusiast and fan of Brahma bull riding, was excited about the idea. The

association then talked with the Town of Clarkson Supervisor, Paul Kimball, and, with his support, they founded the Clarkson Rodeo Days. The Rawhide Rodeo Company of Leicester, NY, was selected as the stock contractor, and the rodeo was sanctioned by the American Professional Rodeo Association (APRA).

After six years of successful rodeos, the rodeo “hat” has been passed from the Clarkson Horseman Association to Cross Over the Line Rodeo Company of Warsaw, NY. Fred and Michelle Backlas, along with their son Louis, own and operate Cross Over the Line Rodeo Company. Fred has been involved in rodeo all his life. From 1984 to 1998,

Rusty McCrae combined comedy with rodeo talent for his performances.

Fred was named the top APRA Bareback Rider 13 out of 15 years, and APRA selected him as the top All Around Cowboy in 1988.

Fred’s love for horses is paired with his son’s love for bulls. The two of them have worked to select and maintain a herd of “athletes” from Texas and Oklahoma, along with fine stock that have been born and raised in western New York. The herd is cared for at the Backlas family’s ranch located in the rolling hills of Wyoming County.

The 2012 Clarkson Rodeo attracted talented cowboys and cowgirls from the local area as well as from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Wyoming, and Canada. The rodeo opened Thursday, June 7, with a charity event for special needs children and adults, and continued through the weekend.

Each performance started with a display of equestrian skill as the Cross Over the Line Rodeo Company Victory Riders took to the arena. Michelle Backlas then presented the American flag, which was honored with the national anthem. Afterwards, attendees watched contestants vie for top honors in bareback bronco riding, bull riding, break away calf roping, and cowgirl barrel racing.

Rodeo clowns and live entertainment also were part of the show. During Friday’s event, Mercury Morgan set a world record by successfully jumping his bicycle over the backs of 10 bucking bulls and crashing through a wall of fire. Professional rodeo clown, Rusty McCrae, also garnered cheers and applause for his “acts” that combined comedy with rodeo talent.

Future rodeo stars were given a chance to show their talent as well. The mutton (sheep) and calf scrambles, along with a PeeWee Bull Twister event (youngsters on stick bulls), drew young rodeo fans from the stands. For many, this was their first time in a rodeo ring.

Over 40 bull riders were entered to compete and the competition was tough. Hometown favorite, Josh Schmieder,of Wayland, NY, was among the bull-riding contestants. Josh was the 2011 PCRA (Professing Christ Rodeo Association) Bull Riding Champion.

Some of the bulls weighed over 2,000 pounds. One called Kubota White Wolf had everyone’s attention on Saturday night. He was the “bounty bull”, a large guy that had bucked off every cowboy in the past three years. Kubota Tractor in Brockport, NY, issued a $1,000 “bounty” that could be claimed by the bull rider who made a successful eight second ride. That night, White Wolf prevailed and maintained his “undefeated” title.

After Sunday’s performance, overall winners in each event were determined.

Top honors in the bareback bronco riding went to Darren Woollett (70 points), Josh Schmieder (69 points), and Randy Capwell (66 points). Laura Schmieder won the break-away calf roping event.

Amy Seely took home first in barrel racing with a time of 15.905 seconds.

Bobette Raves placed second with a time of 16.488 seconds, and Michelle Conrow earned a close third at 16.5 seconds. Bull riders in the top spots were Darren Woollett (82 points), Jake Carr (79 points), and Josh Schmieder (73 points). Overall, $10,000 in buckles, cash, and prizes were awarded to the winners.

Josh Schmieder, Randy Capwell, and Darren Woollett are currently the top three contenders in the race for PCRA 2012 champion honors. The 2012 PCRA All Around Champion Cowboy will be awarded a beautiful Rossi 44 lever action rifle, provided by K & K Guns of Varysburg, NY.

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The bull, Mellow Yellow, kept Colten Carrol of Ohio from reaching his 8 second goal.

Cross Over the Line Rodeo Company Victory Riders opened the Clarkson Rodeo.

Photos by Jennifer Wagester

Livestock farm gets a shade greener

by Ellen Wren Doing things outside the norm is nothing new for Richard Biezynski, a livestock farmer in Tivoli, NY. A nature lover from an early age, he always knew he wanted to be a farmer. In 1981 he got his wish when he bought Northwind Farms and began raising poultry. Inspired by reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a young man, Biezynski has always wanted to be in harmony with nature. He set out to raise free range meat without antibiotics, just for his family. Since additive-free feed wasn’t commercially available at that time, he prepared his own. His logic is simple common sense. He explains, “I want antibiotics when I need them, but I don’t want them in my food.”

In short order his meat became popular in the local community and he earned loyal customers. Now, he’s a well-respected livestock farmer with a thriving CSA program and several active farm market booths. After a time he expanded beyond poultry. When his (then) young son pleaded for a McDonald’s hamburger, he decided to do a little better. He began raising cattle so his boy could have a healthier burger.

Foresight is something that Richard Biezynski has in abundance. He was far head of his time with his additivefree meat, and is thinking about the future again, this time with a two-fold plan. He recently agreed to a conservation easement for 84 of his 197 acres of land, working with Scenic Hudson Land Trust, a land conservation organization to protect the land forever.

There are many limitations on the land now, such as only about 3 percent of the land can be covered by any building structures, including even his concrete well cover. In some ways, the value of his land has decreased but he’s willing to accept this. Why? “I think that long after we’re all gone, generations from now, they’ll appreciate it, when they ride on this road and they see it like it was back in 2012,” he said. On West Kerley Corners Road, in the village of Tivoli, where the farm is located, many other land owners have worked with Scenic Hudson to preserve their land for future generations as well. Because of the foresight and generosity of Biezynski and these other land owners, this area of the Town of Red Hook will be rural forever.

Proceeds from the agreement helped to fund his latest project, also done

Cover photo by Elizabeth Tomlin Diligence promps a herd manager at to administer fluids to a depressed postpartum cow.

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with future generations in mind.

Biezynski had photovoltaic array consisting of 150 solar panels installed on about one acre of his land. The entire project cost about $182,000, $133,000 of which came out of his own pocket, with some federal and state grant money pending as well. The panels turn his roughly $15,000 yearly electric bill into a tiny bill — just $25 for the first month, for line use fees. At this rate, the project will be paid off in 10 years or less by way of substantial electric bill saving. Electricity prices are about 12-13 cents a kilowatt right now and are projected to rise. With the solar panels, Northwind Farms now pays about 1 cent per kilowatt, and will do so for a long time to come. The panels are guaranteed for 25 years.

Maintenance is minimal. Adjustments to the angle of the panels must be done four times a year and can be done by Biezynski himself.

The solar array will generate 20 percent more power than he uses.

Inverters installed on a wall show the electric meter rolling back. Biezynski will be credited for the excess power.

They also show how much carbon dioxide is not being emitted into the atmosphere because of the solar power. In 20 years, Northwind Farms with have avoided producing more than 800 tons of CO2. Solar power is helping to make the farm more sustainable over the long term while contributing to a cleaner planet. “I think it’s the way of the future. It would make more sense to pay the farmer the

20 percent and we’re not causing any pollution with this source of electric.

Imagine if every farm just took an acre out and was able to just send back 20 percent how that would reduce our oil dependency.” advises Biezynski.

The solar panels are not Biezynski’s first experience with solar power.

Northwind Farms has been using portable solar fencing units for at least 15 years and finds it to be effective and sufficiently powerful. Being able to set up a pasture without running a line is also very convenient.

The feedback from customers and the community has been, as predicted, very positive. Biezynski is approached at markets with questions and interest in his farm. A press conference was held at the farm with local politicians and State Senator Steve Saland in attendance, resulting in some great publicity for Northwind Farm. But Biezynski sees the move as common sense with an eye towards future generations and a leg up for his son, Russell, who plans to eventually take over the farm. “It’s all part of what I’ve thought about all my life. It’s an extension of what I do anyway,” explains Biezynski.

What’s next for Northwind Farms?

Biezynski muses about how he’d love to figure out how to have a solar irrigation system. But jokes, “The only way I can get any greener is if I change my name to O’Reilly!”

An inspiring slide show made by Jane Biezynski, Richard’s wife, displaying photographs of the solar project can be seen on the Northwind Farms website: northwindfarmsallnatural.com

Farm Hand

by Mark Munzert Driving on the interstate I’d stopped and finished off a plate.

Bathroom break. To convenience store, pack of Rolaids and towards the door.

Struck, not literally, by his hand.

Clearly a man that had worked the land.

It held open the wind pushed glass.

A gnarled, mangled, calloused mass.

Didn’t need to see his bib overall to know his laden earthen call.

Brushed right past his blue only baseball brim.

Pretended not to notice his lower, somewhat dragging limb.

Vice grip exit arrested with courteous aplomb, blue eared Star Buck-er frowned as if he’s dumb.

Maintained his smile. I’d have rolled my eyes.

He’d seen more…no reaction, no surprise.

Composure and closure simultaneously achieved.

Strength from the farm I believed.

Bloated digits of flattened rock.

Slammed in a gate movin’ stock?

Grease and dirt beneath the nails.

From fixin’ tractors and tossin’ bales?

Cuts and bruises are part of the deal.

Not jus’ words. Blood, sweat ‘n tears are real.

Broke the knuckle torquing a tire, got quite a jolt fixin’ a hot wire.

These hands seen more than most folks eyes.

Hardship and toil makes character and wise.

In a matter of seconds his hand had flashed Making pictures of granite farm hands past.

Strapping back the door or Working our earth’s floor.

His hand said much of the grind.

The good, on the farm, kind.

Mark Munzert is a public speaker and writer from Tully, NY who works regularly with ‘problem horses’. He can be contacted at munz@nycap.rr.com

Top 10 strategies to improve early lactation performance for higher peak milk yield

by Dr. Noah Litherland, Assistant Professor, Dairy Cattle Nutrition, Research and Extension Getting cows off to a good start and successful navigation through early lactation is critical to the health and performance of the cow and has significant impact on reproductive performance and cow profitability. Peak milk is defined as the highest recorded test day milk production in a cow's first 150 days in milk (DIM) and has historically been used as a benchmark to determine the success of dry period and early lactation nutrition and management. Peak milk production is an indication of how well the cow responded to feeding management during the dry period, calving, and early lactation periods.

Most cows achieve peak milk by 45 to 90 DIM and then slowly lose production over time. It is commonly cited that each pound of additional peak milk forecasts 200 to 250 pounds more milk for the entire lactation.

Understanding how nutrition and management during the transition period impacts cow performance does not have to be complicated.

Here are my "top 10" strategies for improved early lactation performance and higher peak milk yield:

1. Get cows off to a good start with a successful dry period. Research over the past 10 years has clearly demonstrated the impact of dry period nutrition and management on postpartum health and performance. If you are dissatisfied with milk cow performance, then evaluate the dry cow program.

Key goals for dry cows include: maintain dry matter intake (DMI) (28 to 32 lb per day), avoid overfeeding energy, prevent BCS gain, optimize comfort, and address hoof health.

2. Reduce the risk of subclinical milk fever (low blood calcium or hypocalcemia) during the first week of lactation. Low blood calcium (< 8.0 mg/dL) is correlated with ketosis, elevated somatic cell count, delayed uterine involution, metritis, depressed feed intake, and reduced milk yield.

3. Optimize feed intake immediately after calving. Provide: 10 to 15 gallons of warm water with drinkable drench, access to fresh TMR, 5 to 10 lb of alfalfa/grass hay, and maintain cleanliness and freshness at the feed bunk.

4. Optimize cow comfort. In the fresh cow group: stocking density at 80 to 85% of capacity, 14 to 21 days in fresh cow group, bunk space 30 to 36 inches per cow, minimize social stress (especially for 1st calf heifers), prevent

isolation situations where cows are separated from normal herd mates.

Invest in cow cooling for dry and lactating cows.

5. Maintain rumen health/prevent ruminal acidosis. Provide a flake of alfalfa/grass hay for the first 5 days after calving, early lactation diet should contain plenty of good quality digestible fiber (31 to 35% NDF), maintain fiber mat with consistent feed intake and avoid empty bunks, provide free choice buffer, and monitor buffer intake. Minimize the risk of slug feeding or diet sorting that may result in rumen acidosis (low rumen pH; sour stomach).

6. Identify cows with a history of metabolic or health problems. Cows that have a history of milk fever, ketosis or mastitis are likely to be repeat offenders. Added attention to cows with a predisposition towards health problems will allow you to do some preventative maintenance. An example would be moving cows carrying twins or first calf heifers into the dry group early as data indicates a correlation with a 7 to 10 day earlier calving date.

7. Evaluate body condition score (BCS). New industry recommendations suggest a target BCS of 3.0 at calving vs. the previous recommendation of

3.5. The concept behind this recommendation is to avoid cows that are in the "4+" category. A lower BCS at calving allows for 0.5 to 1.0 units of BCS within herd variation as a safety margin to avoid overweight cows that have a higher risk for ketosis, fatty liver, and are often more difficult to breed back.

8. Position feed additives. The fresh cow group has the most potential to offer a return on investment for feed additives. Independent research supports the following additives: ionophores (increased glucose availability), choline (improves liver health and function), protected amino acids (meet amino acid requirements without over-feeding protein), supplemental protected fat (increases energy intake), and yeast culture (stabilizes rumen fermentation).

9. Avoid anti-nutritional factors such as feeds containing mold, wild yeast, and poorly fermented feeds. Mold counts > 100,000 colonies per gram likely decrease feed intake and diet digestibility.

10. Feed correct amounts of antioxidants. Antioxidants (vitamin E and selenium) help reduce the impact of oxidative stress (examples include: excessive fat mobilization, poor air quality, disease and injury/lameness), which decreases the efficiency of immune system function.

For more information visit www.extension.umn.edu Source: Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota

NYS summer 2012 Christmas tree farm tour WATKINS GLEN, NY — The 2012 summer tree farm tour of the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York (CTFANY) will be held on Friday, July 20, and Saturday, July 21, at Empire Evergreens, 766 Addison Road, Painted Post, NY. Registration begins at 8 a.m. each day. A major sponsor of the Tour is the Farm Family Insurance Company.

The two day program offers valuable information for experienced grow-

ers as well as those just starting out with Christmas trees. Sessions for beginners include Planning Before You Plant — with classroom and field demonstrations of site evaluation and soil testing, tree selection, and planting methods; and Care and Nurture of Your Trees which will include weed and pest control, equipment recommendations, shearing methods, and more.

Empire Evergreens owner and tour host Dave Weil will show some of the

Frank Hildebrand lives on a farm in Chesapeake, VA, and had this nice cow named Nellie. If you look closely you can see the heart on her side.

Picture of Frank and Nellie.

From left, 2012 CTFANY Summer Tree Farm Tour Co-Chair Richard Moore discussing logistics at Empire Evergreens with host/owner Dave Weil and Co-Chair Kay Moore during a recent planning meeting. The Tour will be July 20-21.

Photo courtesy of Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York, Inc. and Tabletop Trees for BBQ. Attendees can save Empire Evergreens was the 2012 New York State money by registering by founded in 2002 by owner Fair competition that July 10. Registration Dave Weil. The farm now returns to the Fair by includes admission to all has over 100 acres in popular demand this year sessions and the trade trees. The farm produces cut trees, after not being held for show area, workshop wholesale several years. Among materials, and morning balled and burlap trees, other presenters, Cathy refreshments. Lunch is choose and cut trees, Jo Brown, Gary available both days with wreaths, and greens.

The purpose of Henderberg, and Denise advance ticket purchase, which was Alexander will share their or bring your own. A reg- CTFANY, talents. istration form can be begun in 1953, is to proPresentations from the downloaded from the vide information and for New York State State Association website opportunities Police and the New York www.christmastreesny.or Association members and State Department of g or call the CTFANY education to the public about the real tree indusTransportation (DOT) office 607-535-9790. round out the program.

Both days of the Tour try and the benefits of The purpose of these CTFANY will be hosting a farm fresh and fragrant talks is to make growers used equipment sale. Christmas trees and everproducts. aware of their responsi- Growers with good-condi- green bilities when using pubic tion equipment that they According to the National highways with their are no longer using will Ag Statistics Service, New equipment and inviting bring their items and set York State is the seventh the public onto their their own price. Buyers largest producer of real farms. will deal directly with the Christmas trees in the On Friday night, there sellers; and 10 percent of nation. In 2007, the estiwill be a cash bar with 20 each sale will go to bene- mated value of New York plus vendors in the trade fit the CTFANY State’s cut-tree crop was over $8.8 million. show area; and a chicken Scholarship Fund.

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Nellie the big hearted cow

unique equipment that makes his three-person operation highly efficient.

Much of the equipment was developed or modified for the farm, including a one-of-a-kind, track-mounted sprayer not readily found on the east coast.

Experts from Cornell plan to integrate Empire Evergreens’ fields into their presentations.

Sessions in the plantation will allow attendees to see some “challenge areas” where trees are not developing to their full potential or aren’t growing at all. Experts will discuss some of the possible causes and potential remedies. There will be three one-credit Pesticide Application presentations on the program — one is scheduled for Friday and two on Saturday.

There is a robust Wreath, Greens & Marketing track running both days of the program.

Experts in the field will cover both beginning and more advanced wreathmaking techniques and trends including a session on Planning for Your Victorian-Themed Wreath

Crop Comments

by Paris Reidhead Field Crops Consultant

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

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

It’s a fabulous book which I lent to a science teacher and never got back. (She likely lent it to a student.) Probably the most relevant fact regarding these flowers, that I learned from this book, is that vanilla beans are tropical orchids.

Vanilla beans are clearly tropical, but not all orchids are. And Will wanted to locate some orchids which he believed grew near his boyhood home outside Cooperstown, NY. On an earlier visit, he and I had hiked around the old Cooperstown airport, which has not seen a plane land in over a quarter century. The former airport property, runway and all, now belongs to a rod and gun club. Will felt that the abandoned airstrip, surrounded by swamps and marshes, might be a good habitat for a certain

variety of orchid. So on the Saturday of their visit, he and I drove up to the abandoned runway, looking for orchids. In their day the runway was nothing more than packed shale, hauled from nearby quarries.

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

During our visit to the abandoned runway, nobody was hunting anything, or shooting skeet any stationary targets. The loudest noises came from turkeys gobbling at each other (turkey season was over), and the explosive sound of a partridge taking flight… something I haven’t heard in decades. I’ve hunted partridge, also called ruffed grouse (and nicknamed thunderbirds). I’ve eaten grouse, but only after they bounced off my windshield.

As we walked along the abandoned runway, some of it overgrown with poplar, aspen, and birch, Will studied the periphery of the packed shale. He concentrated

on the gently sloping area between the runway and long puddles. From his loud YES, I’d thought he’d discovered gold.

What he did find was a colony of orchids, most of whose individuals were five or six inches tall. At first glance, these plants resembled lilies of the valley, but the lilies have white blossoms connected by short stems to a raceme (basically a column to which flowers and grain kernels adhere). These particular orchids had their white flowers snugly attached to their raceme in spiral fashion, like the stripes on a barber pole.

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

Will told me that this orchid was somewhat different from orchids which he pointed out to me a year ago in a nature preserve in Switzerland. Not to be outdone, I showed him examples of smooth vetch, birdsfoot trefoil, and common white clover, which were exactly the same as specimens which I had shown him in that same overseas preserve, 12 plus months earlier.

This past Sunday (yesterday as I write), Will called us, having pretty well recovered from 6hour jet lag. Sue said that the pictures of S. al-

ticola were beautiful, and that it would be nice to transplant some of these orchids into our yard.

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

Dr. Harold Willis, in his book The Rest of the Story about Agriculture Today (1984, A-R Editions) addresses this term. I’ll hit the high spots of his discussion.

He said that the word “mycorrhiza” literally means root fungus; in fact, they are special symbiotic fungi that live on or in the roots of most plants. Mycorrhizae perform services for their host plant. They increase the plant’s absorption of nutrients, many of which may be otherwise insoluble.

They can produce hormones stimulating the growth of the host plant.

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Abandoned runway shoulders fit that category. Symbiosis is a pretty wonderful twoway street. So we’ll probably leave the Spiranthes where they seem quite happy.

Part of the reason that the Cooperstown airport was retired happened in 1974. That year on Hall-

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A View from Hickory Heights

by Ann Swanson Independence Day Today, Independence Day, or July 4, is simply a picnic or a celebration with fireworks, but I am sure the colonists had a much different view.

They were fresh from a fight against fellow countrymen. Perhaps they met friends or relatives on the battle field.

It was a bitter struggle.

The colonists were the underdogs yet they persevered and won their independence.

Picture the ill clad troops up against the well-healed British Red

Coats. It certainly was a battle filled with emotion. I remember that the study of the American Revolution was in my day part of seventh grade social studies. I was really interested in what we learned. Since I lived in New York we focused on the role of the New York battles and generals.

Mrs. Rotunda had taken time to write a story about the war with a generous number of blank spaces. After she lectured us about the information for the day we had time to look in

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our books for the information that was missing. This may be an old technique, but it proved to be one that allowed those facts to remain in my mind.

When the family plays Trivia or other information rich games I find that I have an enormous amount of extraneous information in this head of mine. I have no idea why I remember some of these things, but I do.

I was in a third grade classroom as the country celebrated the bicentennial. History is fun if it is approached in the right manner. We looked at how the colonists lived at the time trying some of the early crafts and activities. All of my lessons worked together so the children would have a better understanding of what Independence Day really was. We made samplers.

We cooked a traditional dinner of stew with vegetables grown in the early gardens. The parents were wonderful.

They contributed food and materials. On the final day of study we dressed in colonial garb and enjoyed a feast as we reveled in the joy of earning independence

from England.

I look back on that unit fondly. I enjoyed teaching it and the students enjoyed learning about it. It was not in the third grade textbook, but I managed to fit it in because it was a current event. I am so glad that all of the planning and hard work paid off. When I meet former students they remind me of some of the units that we did. They always remember what I like to call the active way of studying. Once you do something you remember. It was a lot of work to do these active units, but they were well worth the effort. It was what made learning fun.

The community that I grew up in did not have a 4th of July parade, but they did have a band concert and fireworks. We usually had a family picnic at my aunt and uncle’s cottage, then, loaded up the car to go to the band concert. The band played familiar tunes that we could all sing to. Marches were also big. They played all of the John Phillip Sousa marches.

We took lawn chairs and blankets and made ourselves at home. The concert lasted about an hour then it was time for the fireworks. The fireworks were set off from the dock so we

could all see them.

Even though we had just eaten we were always hungry. My neighbor’s family ran a hot dog stand just across from the park where the band concert was held.

They also sold pop in glass bottles.

They charged a deposit on the bottles but many people were just too lazy to return them. My cousins and I collected the bottles that were tossed away and returned them for the deposit. Often we earned enough to buy some chips or even enough for a hot dog.

Now, they charge deposit on aluminum cans, but people do no return those either. We find all kinds of trash along the side of the road.

As I became a farmer’s wife I realized that farm work did not stop for the 4th of July. Sometimes we had a picnic and sometimes we didn’t. It depended on how the haying was going. If there was hay to haul the best we could hope for was a picnic supper after the work was done.

Grandma’s birthday was two days later so often we had birthday cake for dessert. Usually grandma’s birthday celebration stretched over several days.

One 4th of July we had a family reunion.

Since the haying was finished we got to attend. It was a great way to celebrate our country’s independence. We saw relatives that we seldom saw. We played volley ball and ate a delicious meal that we all contributed to.

When we first attended fireworks around here they were done in the school athletic field.

Sometimes we parked at the high school and looked down from there.

Gradually the celebration expanded to include a carnival. The fireworks moved. Now we take our lawn chairs and sit in one of the grassy areas to enjoy the fireworks display.

The big thing was sparklers. We always had our own sparklers.

The adults lit them and the children went around the yard with them. We always made them bring the wire holders to the porch so that we did not have to worry about running over them with the lawn mower.

With the 4th being in the middle of the week I am not sure what the family is doing. The parents will all have to go to work the next day so it is really just a day off.

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

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peaches, pears and tart cherries.

We ask growers because they are the best source of information about the crops they grow. They see the crop develop daily and

by Kevin Pautler, Director NAASS-PA they have the best idea of how recent weather has afby Kevin Pautler, Director NASS-PA fected their crop. Using their years of Editor’s Note: This is a monthly colexperience, they can make the best esumn from the Pennsylvania Field Office timate of their expected yields based of USDA’s National Agricultural Statison current crop conditions. tics Service (NASS-PA) operated in coopIt is too risky to use weather prediceration with the Pennsylvania Departtions when setting yield forecasts. ment of Agriculture. The website is Forecasts are based on information www.nass.usda.gov; for the reports from farmers who must assume that mentioned below, click on the “Publicaaverage conditions will prevail through tions” tab. the end of the season. Potential lower Crop and fruit yields: From May to yields from drought, flood or other November, NASS publishes monthly poor growing conditions are reflected official USDA yield and production in the following months’ yield surveys. forecasts for the major field crops and These production forecasts give an tree fruits in Pennsylvania and around important advance warning of the size the country. Forecasts are based on reof each crop in Pennsylvania and sponses to periodic fruit surveys and across the nation. For example, if a monthly Ag Yield Surveys when farmlarge crop is expected, contract harers estimate expected yields from their vesters, packers, transportation comown fields. panies and storage facilities must be Forecasted crops include: winter ready to handle the extra volume. A wheat, barley, oats, corn for grain, small crop warns about the possible soybeans, hay, hay stocks, apples,

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Farm production costs reach record levels in 2012 Farm Credit East releases 2012 Mid-year Credit Outlook ENFIELD, CT — Farm Credit East, the largest lender to Northeast agriculture, reports that overall Northeast agriculture is in a good financial position, but 2011 was a year in which some producers did very well while others were hurt badly by weather or their inability to adjust to increasing input costs.

At the midway point in 2012, financially sound farm businesses will have no problem with credit availability at historically low rates. While greenhouse growers and some nurseries had a long-overdue “good spring” thanks to good retail weather and a slightly more upbeat consumer, tree fruit and grape growers were not as fortunate. Freezing conditions in April damaged many fruit crops and early indications are that losses will be significant.

The study also reports that production costs for many animal-based farm products are at record levels. In this environment it is essential for producers to watch margins closely and make adjustments necessary to maintain

profitability.

Milk prices have declined significantly, making for a very challenging year for dairy farmers. Commodities like corn and soybeans are coming off of a couple of very strong years with many farmers earning record profits, but corn prices have dropped from last year, which, while good news for livestock farmers, may hurt corn growers.

“The last 18 months have shown, perhaps more than ever, that the economic condition of Northeast agriculture is a very individual story” noted Bill Lipinski, Farm Credit East CEO. “The big variables have been local weather conditions, the type of crop or livestock produced, and marketing techniques.”

Lipinski continued, “Overall, Northeast agriculture is dynamic and resilient, and has always adapted to both hardship and opportunity. We have strong farmers in our region that create great optimism for the outlook of Northeast agriculture.”

To view the full report, 2012 MidYear Credit Situation and Outlook Report, please visit FarmCreditEast.com

need to plan for alternate livestock feed sources or drought assistance.

The results of field crop and fruit yield surveys can be found at www.nass.usda.gov. Around the 10th of each month, click on “Crops and Plants” in the gray column on the left.

The next crop report is released at 8:30 a.m. on July 11 and the Cherry Production report is set for June 28.

Maple syrup: Pennsylvania’s 2012 maple syrup production came in at 96,000 gallons, down 25 percent from last year’s record high production of 128,000 gallons. Most growers in all States reported that temperatures were too warm for optimal sap flow. All States, with the exception on Maine, showed a decrease in production from the previous year. On average, the season lasted 24 days compared with 32 days last year.

Sugarmakers set less taps this year.

There were 501,000 taps set during 2012, compared to 503,000 taps set last year. Each tap averaged 0.192 gallons of syrup per tap, down from the 0.254 gallons last year but up from the 0.116 gallons in 2010.

Nationally, maple syrup production in 2012 totaled 1.91 million gallons, down 32 percent from 2011. There were 9.77 million taps set this year compared to 9.58 million taps last year, up 2 percent. Each tap averaged 0.195 gallons of syrup, down 33 percent from last year.

In Pennsylvania, the value of the 2011 crop was $5.12 million, up from the $2.27 million in 2010. Nationally, the crop was valued at $106 million for 2011, up 44 percent from the previous

year. The value of production was up in all States.

Complete statistics for major mapleproducing states are found on pages 12 and 13 in the June issue of the “Crop Production” report released June 12, 2012. It can be found at www.nass.usda.gov.

U.S. cattle counted: Cattle inventories are measured twice a year along with births and deaths in January and July. On Jan. 1, 2012, Pennsylvania farms had 1.61 million bovine on hand, unchanged from previous year.

Decreases were seen in milk cows and calves. Increases were seen in beef cows, milk cow replacement heifers, and beef cow replacement heifers.

In July, about 10,000 of the largest cattle and dairy operations are contacted nationwide to help establish official statistics at the national level.

In Pennsylvania, only 170 of the largest cattle and dairy operators are asked for their help with this national study. However, the Cattle Survey in January includes many more farms from Pennsylvania and across the nation which allows us to publish state level statistics for Pennsylvania and other states.

The Cattle report is published on July 20. The Cattle statistics program also includes reports detailing cattle on feed, average prices received by growers, production, disposition & income, slaughter statistics and beef products in cold storage.

The results of cattle surveys can be found at www.nass.usda.gov. Click on “Livestock and Animals” in the gray column on the left.

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

“If planting isn’t optimized — if the seed isn’t

planted in a way that maximizes yield potential — that immediately impacts your profitability and should be the No. 1 consideration when purchasing a new planter. No. 2 is planter reliability: You can’t afford to have your

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the planter and throughout the field; good soil-to-seed contact; uniform soil pressure all around the seed; accurate seed population; and accurate in-row seed spacing.

He says a lot of planter manufacturers

focus only on in-row seed spacing and accurate populations, “because quite honestly, accurate population and in-row seed spacing are the easiest to impact. But those are only two factors. A planter should be able to deliver on all six agronomic principles right out of the box. It shouldn’t require hundreds of dollars of additional equipment on each row to improve planter performance,” Hoeg advises. “Don’t get caught up in the hype.”

Planter agronomics “Agronomically, it’s not complicated. If you plant at the right depth, seed will emerge faster.

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

Good soil-to-seed contact provides the best environment for seed to germinate.

Uniform seed pressure is the hardest to affect, but you want to influence soil pressure on all sides of the seed to maximize moisture conductivity to the seed,” he adds.

When it comes to seed population and accurate seed spacing, Hoeg says every planter has operating rules. “As long as you stay within those rules, you can get respectable results. I suggest the Early Riser® planter does a better job, because we have a wider working range within each of those rules. We have a pull-gauge wheel, which allows the row unit to operate much more smoothly in rough

fields. We also have the largest diameter seed disk. A bigger disk doesn’t have to turn as fast, so we can remain its optimum operating range even in adverse conditions. Therefore, we can plant a wider range of populations and seed size more accurately at faster speeds.”

Maximum field time, minimum maintenance According to Hoeg, a planter should also be designed to maximize time spent in the field.

“The more time you’re forced to spend handling daily maintenance and making adjustments, the less time you’ll have to plant.

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

Operation, location and farming practices Hoeg says the size and type of operation are also key factors. “If you have livestock to care for in addition to cash crops, you may need to size the planter differently, because there are fewer hours in the day available for planting. A lot also depends on the type of crop being planted.

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Hoeg cites six agronomic principles of optimized planting growers should consider when buying a new planter: proper seed depth; uniform seed depth across

Farmers try to ‘stop the flood of regulation’

by Erin Anthony Growing up, we all needed guidance at times. Don’t run with scissors. Don’t forget your jacket. Don’t eat yellow snow. If you make that face one more time, it might get stuck like that.

But, as adults, not all guidance is helpful or benevolent. That is particularly true if the guidance is coming from a government regulatory agency. Take, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to expand its regulatory reach under the Clean Water Act to nearly every drop of water, and some dry land, too.

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

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

Another issue is the way the agencies are going about it. They’re using a guidance document, rather than going through a proper rulemaking. Formal rulemaking allows input from farmers, ranchers and other landowners — the people who would be flooded with an expensive slew of new regulations and permitting requirements should the guidance document be put in place.

Along with farmers, ranchers and other landowners, there are another 544 people EPA and the Corps are ignoring: 535 U.S. senators and representatives and nine Supreme Court justices. The lawmakers who wrote the

Clean Water Act never intended for the federal government to have the kind of control it is seeking over local bodies of water. Similarly, in two rulings, the Supreme Court affirmed important limitations of the federal government’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Having to get another permit doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but at $30,000 to well over $100,000 for some permits, these requirements sometimes force growers to avoid farming otherwise productive acreage just so they don’t trigger federal permit and extremely costly mitigation requirements. But in most parts of the country, it would be just about impossible to farm around every wet spot that EPA and the Corps want to regulate.

To dry up EPA’s effort, Farm Bureau has launched the “Stop the Flood of Regulation” campaign. As part of

the campaign, farmers and ranchers are asking their senators and representatives to support the Preserve the Waters of the U.S. Act (S. 2245 and H.R. 4965), which would prevent EPA from taking action through this guidance document.

They also will be sharing their stories of regulatory inundation through social media

aren’t any waterways or other obstructions that cause you to plant in irregular rows, you will want to take advantage of the advanced systems that bigger planters offer,” Hoeg continues. “You’ll likely want AFS (Case IH Advanced Farming Systems®), row shut-offs, driving guides and mapping capabilities to help you utilize every square inch of ground. Irregularly shaped fields with waterways and terraces only enhance the need for these advanced systems. There are all kinds of nuances that factor into which planter model and options you need. That’s why Case IH offers different models, configurations, options and capabilities, from 15-foot to 90-foot Early Riser planters,” he concludes.

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FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE American Farm Bureau Federation platforms. Look for the #stoptheflood hashtag on Twitter. And a Facebook page will give farm and ranch families a platform for sharing how this guidance effort might affect them.

There is no doubt; without action, a flood of federal regulations appears imminent.

Many of our nation’s farms and ranches could find themselves

awash in new, expensive and unwarranted regulations — even if the cause of those regulations is an inch-deep a puddle following downpour. Long after the puddle dries, the effect of the regulations could linger.

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

NYFB President Dean Norton’s statement on the passage of the Senate Farm Bill “New York Farm Bureau is pleased the U.S. Senate passed the comprehensive Farm Bill in a timely manner in order to give our members some reassurance that important reforms will happen before the current Farm Bill expires.

We have lobbied hard for the inclusion of some key initiatives that will help our members in many ways including when they suffer from losses and natural disasters. Most importantly, this will reform the safety net for New York’s dairy farmers who are currently at the mercy of a volatile pricing system. And it provides more research dollars for important New York specialty crops such as apples,

grapes, maple, and a number of locally grown vegetables. It also would provide better crop insurance options including for diversified vegetable farms, many of which suffered big losses in last year’s flooding.

We appreciate the support of Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on a number of issues that our members deeply care about in the Farm Bill. This also opens the door for our Representatives to continue their important work on the legislation in the House, and secure its passage by the Sept. 30 expiration date of the existing Farm Bill which passed in 2008.”

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Case IH from A9 can’t use a 90-foot planter, like with cotton, so you’ll need to cover more acres with a smaller planter. Transport width may also be a determining factor for growers who have multiple farms and different locations – or for those who simply have to deal with a narrow bridge nearby.”

Other considerations are based on individual farming practices.

“What inputs do you want to use, how do you want to apply them and in what types of soil? How much time do you have to get it all done? What system do you want to use to fill the planter so you can minimize non-planting time? Are there going to be multiple operators running the planter? If so, ease of use becomes even more important.

“Even if you have big square fields, and there

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2012 Farm Bill passes U.S. Senate — What are the farm organizations saying?

The U.S. Senate passed the 2012 Farm Bill on June 21, meaning the measure is a big step closer to enactment. The Farm Bill, renewed every five years, is the largest source of funding for conservation on America’s working farmland, ranchland and private forestland. The legislation was agreed to by a vote of 64-35.

With Senate passage of a 2012 Farm Bill, the focus now shifts to the House of Representatives, where the House Agriculture Committee is expected to begin marking up its own version July 11.

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

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

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

National Milk Producers Federation The National Milk Producers Federation hailed the bill’s passage as a “huge and historic step toward making a once-in-a-generation improvement in the safety net for America’s dairy farmers,” according to Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of NMPF. “Despite a variety of political, economic and institutional challenges, the leaders of the Senate, and in particular, the leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senators Stabenow and Roberts, have delivered on their promise to produce better

farm and food policy. We appreciate their hard work in the past months, and will work in turn to ensure the House produces a similar bill in the coming months,” Kozak said.

National Corn Growers Association The National Corn Growers Association congratulates the Senate on passage of Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act (2012 farm bill). NCGA also urges the House of Representatives to take action quickly.

“America’s farmers greatly appreciate the leadership and cooperative work by the Senate to pass the 2012 farm bill in a timely manner,” NCGA President Garry Niemeyer said. “We would also like to thank Senators Stabenow and Roberts for their bipartisan efforts throughout the process.

We have been calling on Congress to pass the new legislation before the current law expires on Sept. 30.

NCGA is pleased to see this significant hurdle has been overcome.”

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

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

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only continue to climb as a provision in the legislation calls for 90 percent of the hops and 90 percent of the ingredients in the local beer to be New York grown by the year 2024. Farmers can also have on-site beer tastings and sell their products at offsite retail outlets allowing them to reach new customers. The flourishing agri-tourism that follows will have a positive spill-over effect on surrounding communities as farm breweries join regional trails.

“This piece of legislation was a priority for our members because it makes pure economic sense,” said Dean Norton, President of New York Farm Bureau. “New York farmers are always looking for new markets to sell their quality products. New York Farm Bureau is excited to see the growth in farm brewing continue to increase.”

“This is a good day for agriculture in the state, and we thank Senators Patty Ritchie and Dave Valesky and Assemblymen Bill Magee and Robin Schimminger along with Governor Andrew Cuomo for their leadership and vision for our family farms,” Norton added.

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Beer mugs are clinking across New York State as New York Farm Bureau raises a glass to the Senate and Assembly for passing legislation creating a “Farm Brewery” license. This will provide opportunities for local breweries to prosper, and it will expand markets for New York farmers and their crops much like what happened in the New York wine industry when similar legislation passed in the 1970s.

The agriculture and beer industries in New York State are already major job creating engines, pumping more than $4.7 and $1.2 billion into our economy each year respectively.

The Farm Brewery license legislation will allow for better synergy between these two important industries by allowing farmers to operate on and off premise accounts and supply hops and barley to other farm breweries.

In the 1800s, New York was the national leader in growing hops. Now, it can regain that title through diversifying to fill a growing need. Already, hop production has risen 400 percent in the past two years to about 60 acres statewide. That trend will

View From the Field The true armyworm is center stage again for the fourth week. They are being found throughout New York State and mostly in grasses and mixed stands. There have been reports of armyworm over threshold in oats and corn. The majority of the damage is still occurring in Western New York, but also as far as St. Lawrence County. There are reports of some fields over threshold in Eastern New York from Clinton County to Dutchess County and out to Oneida County. A light of hope is that in Eastern New York extension educators are reporting that some of the populations are showing signs of biological control.

Both parasitoids and pathogens have been found in populations of armyworms. The pathogen can wipe out a population armyworms in a field. Parasitoids can hold a population in check so it does not build. Again as we have said you never know where and when this will happen. It might come to a field near you!

A question was raised recently on whether the second generation of true armyworms would cause more damage to crops. Elson Shields (Cornell Field Crops Extension Entomologist) responded that there is no useful reason to monitor or worry about the second generation of armyworm! The same behavior which makes this insect a longdistance migrant (the need to fly long distance before settling down to lay eggs) is in force in all generations. In addition, the dilution in the vast habitat in New York reduces any potential to a non problem. The reason we had a spring problem was that millions of

moths were concentrated into a small zone due to weather issues and dumped on us in a wide swath from Michigan across Ontario to New York.

Paul Cerosaletti and Dale Dewing are reporting black cutworm damage in corn. Paul stated that they have found damage in very clean fields (weed free) of corn. They also found a loose smut on the heads of barley. I also found a lot of loose smut in organic wheat in Essex County last week.

Gary Bergstrom reports finding several wheat diseases near Aurora.

These include brown leaf rust, striped leaf rust, eye spot foot rot, and Fusarium foot rot. Rusts can dramatically reduce yields on wheat. Eye spot root rot and fusarium root rot can also affect yield.

Potato leafhoppers (PLH) can be found readily on alfalfa throughout the state. In western New York, Mike Stanyard is reporting very high levels of PLH on alfalfa. He stated that they are even over threshold on PLH resistant alfalfa. The rest of the state is reporting finding PLH but not at threshold levels.

An interesting thing is that Mike Stanyard reports that PLH are at high levels in soybeans. Elson Shields (Cornell Field Crops Extension Entomologist) responds that pubescent soybeans are not generally damaged by PLH. The plant hairs interfere with the adult’s egg laying ability. Eggs are inserted in the leaf and stem tissue and the plant hairs interfere with those activities. It is a mechanical resistance.

Remove the plant hairs (glabrous) and soybeans are very susceptible to PLH.

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Ready! Aim! Shoot!: Farm Credit East sponsors annual photo calendar contest Have you captured an interesting or unusual moment around the farm, greenhouse or dock that brings a smile to your face? Share it with Farm Credit East by uploading your best shots to FarmCreditEast.com by July 31.

Winning photos will be featured in Farm Credit East’s 2013 calendar and also on its website. From all entries, 14 photographs will be selected for a $100 prize each.

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

“We select two very different kinds of entries for the calendar. First, we look for photos that show off the best of Northeast farming, horticulture, forestry and commercial fishing. And second, we select photos that celebrate country life in New England, New York or New Jersey.”

What makes a shot a winner? Technical quality, clarity and composition, of course, but the team also selects photos that capture each photographer’s unique view of life in the country.

So take your camera to the county fair, the barn, the dock, the corn field or Fourth of July barbecue and send in the many ways that country living enriches our lives.

“Since we launched the photo calendar contest in 2006, the number of entries has grown steadily,” says Murphy. “Last year, we received more than 600 shots of country life from dozens of talented photographers. We are off to a very good start this year, and we look forward to receiving many more entries by July 31.”

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

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

Photo courtesy of Farm Credit East

In pubescent soybeans, you will find adults but rarely nymphs. It is the nymphs which cause the majority of the economic damage.

Keith Severson reports an issue we should all be aware of “BEES”! This time of year with fields being sprayed with insecticides it is important to consider protection of bees. Always follow insecticide label instructions. If there are flowering plants in the fields you are spraying you have the potential to kill bees. Many times the bees will carry an insecticide back to the hive and kill many more. If you observe bees in a field you are going to spray you could consider a better time of the day to

spray. Spraying in the evening after bees have returned to their hives is one option. Notify the bee keeper of your intentions to treat a field.

Western Bean Cutworm (WBCW) trapping began statewide the week of June 10. Twenty-eight locations are now reporting WBC collection data.

The first WBC moths were collected in Eden (Erie County) in a sweet corn field. The next week WBC moths (one each) were collected in Eden and Lockport (Niagara County). Both traps were adjacent to sweet corn fields.

Source: NYS IPM Weekly Field Crops Pest Report - June 21

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WSSA says biofuel best practices are imperative to protect against plant invaders The biofuels industry is hitting its stride, with both small farms and largescale plantations producing renewable crops that can be converted to energy.

But scientists with the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) caution that many of these crops also are known as invasive weeds in some of the regions where they are planted. That means growers must exercise caution in order to protect our natural ecosystems.

“We don’t yet have sufficient research and risk models to predict the environmental impact of these new crops in the field,” said Jacob Barney, Ph.D., assistant professor of Invasive Plant Ecology at Virginia Tech. “In many ways it’s a large-scale experiment, with few regulations or policy guidelines. Voluntary precautions taken by stakeholders are virtually our only line of defense.”

A recent report from the National Wildlife Federation cites several examples of species cultivated for biofuels that have the potential to become harmful invaders. Among them are: • Giant reed (Arundo donax) an invasive weed known for crowding out native plants in fragile riparian areas.

• Reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea), a great threat to America’s wetlands, rivers and lakes.

• Cylindro (Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii), an algae associated with toxic blooms in the Great Lakes region.

• Napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum), an invasive plant known as one of the most problematic weeds in the world.

One of the most popular biofuels crops is giant miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus). This fast-growing hybrid is unable to produce seed, making it less likely to spread unintentionally than other miscanthus species. But it too can represent a threat if planted in the wrong location.

One example: Weed scientists are concerned about a now abandoned miscanthus farm located in Kentucky, on the flood plain of the Ohio River.

Any plant fragments washed into the river could travel hundreds of miles — spreading miscanthus well beyond the planted fields.

Barney says it is imperative that the biofuels industry adopt best management practices to minimize the risk of weed-like crops spreading beyond the growing field. He recently collaborated with the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, as well as N.C. growers, state officials, extension specialists and environmentalists, to develop a series of best practices that serve as a commonsense example (see excerpts below): Before planting • Determine whether the species you intend to plant is on a federal or state noxious weed list and subject to regulation.

• If the species is not regulated and you intend to use it as a crop, establish a plan in advance for how you will eradicate any plants that escape the field.

After planting • Don’t grow potential invaders adjacent to streams, irrigation channels, major roads or utility rights of way that can serve as a “transportation corridor” for seeds and plant parts.

• Harvest crops before any viable seeds mature.

• Establish a buffer zone around growing fields and plant a perennial cover crop to keep potential invaders corralled.

• Inspect field boundaries regularly for escaped seedlings.

• Install silt fences, berms or other barriers on sloping fields to intercept seeds and crop fragments on the downward side.

During harvesting • Clean all planting and harvesting equipment and transport vehicles before moving them offsite.

• Wrap harvested bales to contain any loose seeds.

• If you are growing a plant that spreads via stem fragments, shred above-ground material to kill stem buds, or use other appropriate harvest practices.

During transport • Cover trucks and trailers.

• Avoid routes that cross riparian zones and other highly sensitive habitats.

• Inspect rights-of-way along transport routes to ensure no plants have escaped.

Steve Wall, director of policy and environmental issues at the state-funded Biofuels Center of North Carolina, says a nursery raising biofuel grasses in Duplin County, NC, has become the first to implement the new BMPs, and it is hoped others in the industry will do the same.

“These are simple, voluntary measures that can make a big impact,” Wall said. “They help us reduce concerns about the potential impact of biofuel crops on native species as we get a new industry on its feet.”

Lee Van Wychen, Ph.D., science policy director of the Weed Science Society of America, agrees. “Biofuel crops are an important, renewable energy source critical to the security of our nation,” Van Wychen said. “Until researchers and policy makers have the data they need to establish science-based guidelines, we hope growers will proceed with care. We encourage them to select crops that are unlikely to threaten natural habitats and to take prudent steps to ensure plants remain only in the growing field.”

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Owens votes to support increased domestic energy production, disappointed Keystone Pipeline not included Energy legislation opens new lands for domestic oil production, creates potential for new jobs WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Bill Owens voted on June 21 in favor of legislation that would reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by opening up new lands for domestic drilling. H.R. 4480, the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives that day by a vote of 248-163.

“I am pleased that the House was able to come together and approve legislation to promote home-grown energy,” said Owens.

“Domestic oil production is cur-

rently at an eight-year high, and we must continue that momentum. This legislation will provide new opportunities for responsible domestic drilling that will help us to reduce America’s reliance on foreign oil and create jobs.”

Specifically, the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act requires the Interior Department to ensure that at least 25 percent of eligible federal land is available for leasing each year, while streamlining the process to approve both the leasing of lands for energy exploration as well as the permits necessary for safe drilling. In addition, an amendment was offered to HR 4480 to

expedite approval of the Keystone Pipeline, but later withdrawn. Congressman Owens expressed his disappointment that the amendment was not included and reiterated his support for the Keystone Pipeline.

“I have consistently supported the Keystone project because it has the potential to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, increase trade with Canada and create jobs here at home. I would have liked to see action towards a positive outcome for the Keystone project, and once again urge Democrats and Republicans to work together and move forward with this important project,” he said.

Biofuels are a critical part of U.S. Energy Security National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement in response to a new series of reports, “Promoting International Energy Security,” released by the RAND Corporation: “The reports issued today by the RAND Corporation fail to consider all of the benefits offered by the utilization of biofuels. In 2011, the United States imported 1.85 million barrels of

oil per day from the Middle East, costing approximately $70 billion. By increasing the military’s use of biofuels, our armed forces are not only increasing job opportunities and income opportunities in rural America, but also diversifying our fuel sources. By using only one source for fuels, the military is putting itself at risk, either by a sudden increase in oil prices or a steep drop in oil production. Biofuels will help to

mitigate both of these risk factors and must continue to be utilized by U.S. Armed Forces.

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

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that are currently set to expire Sept. 30. The bill’s original co-sponsors include Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, Tim Walz, D-MN, Earl Blumenauer, D-OR, Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, Michael Michaud, DMaine, Laura Richardson, D-CA, Barbara

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

“Energy programs are a critical part of spurring rural econom-

NFU supports investment in farm bill energy programs ic development, creating many jobs in rural America and giving farmers and ranchers an additional income stream that helps them to stay on their land,” said NFU President Roger Johnson. “These energy programs are also critical in helping the United States be-

come more energy independent and utilize cellulosic and advanced biofuels grown right here at home.”

The bill would strengthen and simplify renewable energy programs, including the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). According to USDA, REAP created or saved 15,000 jobs over the past nine years.

“These forward-looking and unique pro-

grams are successfully leveraging private capital and paving the way for farm-based renewable energy,” said Johnson.

“Programs such as REAP, BCAP, the Biorefinery Assistance Program and the Biobased Markets Program are helping to commercialize the next generation of biofuels as they provide critical investment in our rural economies.

We urge Congress to pass this bill as quickly as possible.”

Growth energy commends Senate’s action to protect biofuels Bipartisan majority of senators stand up for American agriculture and energy security

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

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

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

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

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U.S. Lawmakers Got a “Dairy Good” Treat Issued Jun 22, 2012 The 30th Annual Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party was held June 21for members of Congress, families and staffs. A press release stated that about 2,000 gallons of ice cream and frozen yogurt, 6,000 root beer floats and 44 cases of sundae toppings were expected to be served. The party is sponsored by the International Ice Cream Association, Milk Industry Foundation and the National Cheese Institute, constituent organizations of the International Dairy Foods Association.

In the real world; U.S. milk production may be slowing. The Agriculture Department reported its May estimate for the top 23 producing states at 16.4 billion pounds, up just 2.1 percent from May 2011.

The 50-state total, at 17.6 billion, was up 2 percent.

Revisions added 38 million pounds to last month’s preliminary data, putting output at 16 billion pounds, up 3.5 percent from 2011.

The big story in the data is cow numbers.

The 23 state total, at 8.52 million head, while up 77,000 from a year ago, was down 3,000 from April, the first decline in 20 months.

Output per cow averaged 1,924 pounds, up 22 from a year ago.

California was up 1.9 percent from a year ago on 16,000 more cows and 15 pounds more per cow. Wisconsin was up 2.4 percent, thanks to a 35 pound gain per cow and 5,000 more cows. Idaho was up 2.5 percent on a 50-pound gain per cow but cow numbers were unchanged. New York was also up 2.5 percent, on a 45 pound gain per cow. Cow numbers were also unchanged. Pennsylvania was down 2.1

percent on a 15 pound per cow decline and 7,000 fewer cows.

Other states with large gains in cow numbers were Michigan, up 11,000 head; New Mexico and Texas, each up 10,000; Arizona, up 8,000; Colorado, up 6,000; and Indiana, Washington and Wisconsin up 5,000 each.

Sates with fewer cows than a year included Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

Meanwhile; USDA estimated 251,300 culled dairy cows were slaughtered under federal inspection in May, up 11,500 from the 239,800 culled in April 2012, and 31,300 more than May 2011.

Through the first five months of 2012, cull cow slaughter totaled 1.294 million, up 55,500 from the same period in 2011. Based on May’s Milk Production report indicating there were about 9.27 million cows in the U.S., the May culling rate represented about 2.7 percent of the nation’s herd.

The cash dairy markets apparently liked what it saw in the milk production data. Block cheese closed the week at $1.6250 per pound, up a penny on the week but 50 1/2-cents below a year ago. The barrels closed at $1.6350, up 6 1/4-cents on the week, 44 1/4-cents below a year ago, and a penny above the blocks. Three carloads of block found new homes on the week and one of barrel. The AMS-surveyed U.S. average block price climbed to $1.5879, up 3.6 cents, while the barrels averaged $1.5492, up 1.8 cents.

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

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

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

Cumulative exports for the first four months of the year are running 32 percent behind last year. Saudi Arabia, at 13.6 million pounds for the year, is the largest importer with a 15 percent increase from a year ago.

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

Speaking of exports; Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 11 requests for export assistance this week to sell a total of 1.7 million pounds of cheese to customers in Asia, South America,

the Middle East, North Africa and South Pacific. The product will be delivered through November 2012 and raised CWT’s 2012 cheese exports to 61.7 million pounds plus 45.2 million pounds of butter and Anhydrous milkfat to 32 countries.

FC Stone’s June 19 eDairy Insider Closing Bell reported that the June 19 GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction showed a significant decline in the average prices of commodities traded following a sharp rise two weeks ago. Anhydrous milkfat dropped 0.8 percent to $1.4025 per pound, or $1.1242 adjusted to 80 percent butterfat equivalent; cheddar cheese prices fell 3.7 percent to $1.4139 per pound;

milk protein concentrate 70 dropped 2.7 percent to $1.9115 per pound; rennet casein declined 1.9 percent to $3.079 per pound; and skim milk powder fell 4.8 percent to $1.2855 per pound. Buttermilk powder prices rose 2.5 percent to $1.381 per pound, according to the Insider, and whole milk powder prices climbed 2.7 percent to $1.3091 per pound.

In other trade news; Dairy Profit Weekly reports that both U.S. neighbors are joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks. The U.S. and eight other countries, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei, accepted Canadian and Mexican ap-

plications to become part of the TPP negotiations this week. The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) strongly supported Canada’s participation in the TPP negotiations.

Both groups agree that since Mexico has been invited to join the talks, it only made sense for the third member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to join as well. However, whereas Mexico and the U.S. already have removed all dairy trade barriers between them, this is not the case with respect to trade between Canada and the U.S., a situation which

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NMPF and USDEC trust that the approval by the U.S. government of Canada’s participation in the TPP talks has been accompanied by a clear understanding of U.S. expectations that all Canadian trade barriers against U.S. dairy products must be eliminated. Canadian officials said they would defend the country’s domestic dairy supply management program in TPP talks.

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

Twenty one cars were sold this week.

AMS butter averaged $1.3877, up 2 cents.

Churning schedules across the country are active, basically absorbing cream volumes from regular and ongoing suppliers, according to USDA. Surplus cream volumes of earlier this spring are gone and churning activity is often keeping pace with demand, thus inventory clearances are lighter.

Class II cream demand is seasonally strong as ice cream and ice cream mix needs increase. Overall butter demand is good as retail features continue to clear good volumes of print butter and restaurant and food service outlets, especially in resort and holiday areas of the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The AMS-surveyed butter price av-

eraged $1.3766 per pound, up 2.6 cents from June. Nonfat dry milk averaged $1.1008, down 4 1/2-cents.

Cheese averaged $1.5703, up 4.6 cents, and dry whey averaged 50.52 cents, down 3 cents.

Looking “back to the futures;” after factoring in the announced Federal order Class III prices and the remaining futures, the average Class III milk price for the first six months of 2012 stood at $15.70 on May 11 and $15.90 on June 15. The last half was averaging $16.13 on May 25, $15.96 on June 1, $16.53 on June 8, $16.59 on June 15, and was trading around $17.02 late morning June 22.

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

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

Two dairy-related amendments affecting federal milk market orders, one from Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), calling for an increase in the frequency of dairy market reporting, and requiring a feasibility study of reducing the number of classes of milk from four to two; and a second

amendment from Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), requiring federal milk marketing procedural reforms, as well as elimination of end-product pricing formulas, were approved.

A third amendment, from Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), which called for prohibiting mandatory producer funded checkoff programs, including the national dairy checkoff, was rejected. An amendment by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE), which called for a ban on EPA use of aerial surveillance of large livestock operations for compliance with Clean Water Act requirements, was also rejected.

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

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

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by Phoebe Hall

Trip to PA For the first time in two years we were able to make a trip down to see our grandchildren in Lancaster and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania.

Being diehard farmers, we’re always observing the crops as we make this 900-mile round-trip venture.

Everywhere we looked there were variations, from shoulder high to just planted, from poor germination to flooded out spots.

We did come to the conclusion on this trip… farmers work very hard for their living. I hope that someday those who produce our food, will be appreciated.

Down in Lancaster County we visited a 60,000 hen laying operation that had solar panels mounted on the roof of the 500-foot laying house. They told us that their electric bill went from $3,000 per month down to $200 per month. But… it cost $700,000 to install the solar panels, minus the 30 percent government credits. They also told us that when the government programs expired the company lowered the price 30 percent. He also mentioned that a 50-acre track of farmland sells for around one million dollars.

Getting back to our main reason for this trip; our grandkids are getting taller and stronger every time we visit them, just the way we like them. The littlest one at almost three years old didn’t know my husband and gave him the shy look and wiggled and squirmed when he held her. We’ll just have to visit them more!

In talking to a local

corn grower, he stated that he’s wondering if we’ll see the huge production that the USDA is predicting. He said that it would take near perfect weather all over the country to attain it.

We asked him what the break-even point is, He replied, “90-bushel corn at $5 per bushel, not including labor.”

You can do the math.

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Composting & Manure Handling What to do with a dead deer: Compost it ITHACA, NY — Composting isn’t just for veggie scraps. It’s often the best way to deal with roadkill, livestock mortality and even largescale animal deaths due to floods, fires or other catastrophes.

Many people, including some farmers, assume it’s best to bury animals underground.

In fact, it’s safer and kills pathogens more effectively when carcasses are composted in un-

turned piles, according to Jean Bonhotal, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute.

“Most of the time they get buried, but that brings them six feet closer to the water table,” Bonhotal said.

Carcass fluids from improperly disposed animals can leach into wells, creeks or drain pipes, spreading bacteria and viruses.

“Composting is a fairly forgiving process. If

we do it well, we can make a 1,200-pound animal disappear in three months.

The bones will still be there, but the carcass will be gone,” Bonhotal said.

But there are instances when composting is not appropriate.

For example, animals with a prion disease, such as mad cow or chronic wasting disease, need to be incinerated or chemically treated. Cornell’s alka-

line hydrolysis digester, which uses high heat, high pressure and a chemical bath to quickly digest animal carcasses, is the state-designated facility to dispose of animals with prion diseases.

Most of the time, however, composting is the best way to go. It’s faster, easier, more effective and, unlike burial, can be done yearround, Bonhotal said.

Rendering, a process

that converts animal tissue into value-added materials such as tallow, is another option, but the industry can’t manage as much of the dead stock as they have in the past, she said.

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She also helped organize the fourth International Animal Byproducts Symposium held in May in Dearborn, MI, and funded by the Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense and Michigan State University. Other topics discussed at the event included safely dealing with euthanized animals; containing animal-originated food disease outbreaks; and state, federal and international agency disaster response planning and policy.

There’s still progress to be made in achieving best practices for animal carcass disposal, Bonhotal said.

Earlier this year, for example, 300 pigs were killed in a fire on an upstate farm and buried.

“The day after a disaster, the farmers just want to have the animals gone. And they may not have the confidence that composting will work,” Bonhotal said. “But they may pay for it later with environmental damage.”

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by Jon M. Casey For brothers Keith and Kent Spicher, hospitality was the order of the day on June 7, when Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania (PDMP) members concluded the association’s daylong Dairy Issues Forum with a tour of Kish View Farms, near Belleview, PA. With approximately 50 visitors and guests touring the facility, the Spichers recounted the evolution of the family farming operation over the past 50-plus years. A highlight of the afternoon was a first-hand look at their new environmentally friendly methane digester and electrical power unit.

“We just brought the generator online about a year ago,” said Keith Spicher, as half the visitors toured the digester and gen-set while the other half went off to observe the livestock side of the operation. “It took us about two years to get everything built and operational. Last year, we were able to bring the system on line.”

Spicher explained that the system is large enough to provide electricity sufficient for five locations associated with the farm. He said that the oversight of the digester and the cows is his (Keith’s) responsibility, while Kent takes care of the crops and does the books. All totaled, they farm about 600 acres and milk close to 400 cows.

Keith and Kent, along with their father Dave, Keith’s father-in-law Irvin Hartzler, Keith’s son Aaron, Mark Donahey their herdsman and four workers on the milking crew, all work together to create a successful operation. Aaron helps wherever there is a need. Irvin Hartzler drives the farm’s milk tanker truck, taking milk to the LandO’-Lakes plant near Carlisle, PA, four days per week.

Keith said that as their operation grew, they did a cost assessment of their milk hauling expenses.

At that time, they were paying the going rate to ship their milk a very short distance to a local processing plant. That amounted to an extraordinary expense for each haul. They decided that they could “pay themselves” to haul the milk, especially since Keith’s father-in-law had a CDL license and was interested in doing the driving, part-time.

Spicher said that it proved to be a good decision because approximately one year after they had made that decision, the local milk plant, their former destination, closed permanently. The need for

a new outlet for their milk was not a problem for them like it was other producers, because they had already begun taking their milk to Land-O’Lakes in Carlisle, PA. History of Kish View Farms “I started farming this land with my father Jonas in 1959,” said Dave Spicher, as visitors began arriving at the farm. “We milked 40 cows. Today, I am semi-retired.”

“Keith, Kent and I formed a partnership in 1992.

I sold my share to them in 1998,” he added. “I still stay busy feeding the calves and doing some fieldwork.”

Since that time, the cow numbers have grown from 100 milking, to approximately 380 head.

Once the calves have been started on feed at the main farm, the heifers are raised at four separate locations. The dry cows are housed at yet another farm, which Keith agrees is not ideal in the overall scheme of cow management. They are hopeful that the day will come when they can have all of the cattle housed at the same location to make herd management more efficient and easier on the

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Keith explained that when they bought out their father, they installed a double-5 walk-through parlor in their old bank barn, and in 1999, they built their first new, three-row, free-stall barn. It accommodated approximately 180 head.

In 2001, they suffered a parlor fire that destroyed the barn. Within a few months, the new parlor came on line. It has served them since.

Over time, they added two additional freestall barns and most recently, the manure digester.

Benefits of the digester Keith said their decision to install the RCM digester and gen-set from Martin Machinery was based primarily upon the incentives that were available at the time. These were in the form of grants that funded the project. The project began in 2009, and in early 2011, they began electrical power production. In addition to the ability to send electrical power to the grid, they are also producing hot water and heat for the parlor and one or two nearby homes. He said their layout current-

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“We do have a surplus of heat that we could use more effectively,” he said. “We are looking for ways to use the additional heat that the power generation supplies. Today, we are

burning excess gas, something that we routinely do not have to do.

We took in some outside food waste in the past few days, which has added digestible material to the digester’s output.”

Keith recalled that they previously bedded the dairy cattle with sand, but when the digester made manure solids more available, they began composting

the dewatered solids and using the compost for freestall bedding.

“We have not noticed a difference in the somatic cell count by switching from sand to compost,” he said. “We did find that we needed to grove the concrete because the switch made the floors slicker and the cows were having trouble with solid footing. So, we went ahead and grooved all the

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floors.”

He said the manure is scraped from each barn twice per week. Wash water from the milking parlor dumps into the sump system that gravity feeds from one barn to the next. From there, the manure waste goes to a collection pit where it is pumped to the anaerobic digester.

Thus far, the system has worked exactly as designed. They also bed

the stalls twice per week with freshly composted manure as is needed for cow comfort.

One of the foremost benefits of the digester appears to be the virtual elimination of the familiar odors that go along with dairy farming. Since this farm is directly across the highway from the Valley View Retirement Community, a 31-acre campus with 118 resi-

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by Jim Clark, Extension Educator Proper Manure Management is a good idea for several reasons. Proper manure applications save you money by reducing fertilizer costs. Proper manure management protects water resources. Finally, proper manure management in Pennsylvania is now the law.

In the past, regulatory bodies have focused on large animal units such as concentrated animal feeding operations. However, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has recently trained Extension Educators and Conservation District employees on the use of a revised Manure Management Manual that is targeted at smaller animal operations.

If you own a horse or a few sheep or a few beef cows, etc. and you mechanically apply the manure to your property (you load a manure spreader and spread it) or you own property that has manure applied to it, these rules apply to you. “All” farms generating or using manure must have a manure management plan. This manure management plan must be a written plan including a farm map and it must be kept on the farm or the property where the manure is applied.

A simple eight page worksheet has been developed to make the development of these plans easier. In addition, you can look for local trainings that will be offered by Penn State Extension and local conservation districts. These plans do not need to be approved or even submitted, but they will need to be shown if a pollution incident occurs. The goal is to keep the manure, or more importantly the nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous in the manure, out of our water resources. These plans can be written by the farmer or a non-certified individual, but they

must be written.

The agricultural industry is the leading source of nitrogen and phosphorous in our water resources. We need to think about all the aspects of how manure is generated and used on our properties, including in the barn, barnyard, crops and pastures. We also need to think about all the aspects of how water flows through our property, including groundwater, streams, rivers, ponds, and surface runoff. For example, in the case of snowfall, manure applications to ground covered with

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Land manure application equipment

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

The appropriate management of a manure application system determines if that type of application equipment will continue to be used after it has been purchased. The proper location and selection of application sites and of equipment is no assurance that problems will be eliminated. Manure spreading or spraying activities must be planned and managed to prevent nuisances and an adverse impact on groundwater, surface water, public health, and plants. The prevention of adverse impacts is accomplished by managing • Application rates.

• Timing setbacks/isolation.

• Manure/effluent nutrients and other constituents.

• System performance.

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

Equipment calibration You can avoid the potentially adverse effects of overfertilization on ground and surface water by applying only the amount of manure, effluent, or wastewater necessary to maintain soil fertility for crop production. The calibration, or combination of settings and travel speed needed to uniformly apply manure, bedding, or wastewater at a desired rate, of manure-spreading equipment is important because it tells you the amount of manure and wastewater that you are applying to an area. Knowledge of the application rate and nutrient concentration of manure nutrients lets you apply manure at agronomic rates.

Why calibrate?

• Verify actual application rates • Troubleshoot equipment operation • Determine appropriate overlaps • Evaluate application uniformity • Identify “hot spots” or areas of deficient application • Monitor changes in equipment operations, such as usage and “wear and tear” • Determine changes in manure consistency or “thickness” Simply put, calibration enables producers to know how much manure they are applying. Knowing the actual application rate allows them to apply manure and nutrients at specific rates that meet the needs of growing crops.

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Calibration also ensures that rates do not exceed state or local regulatory limits or the conditions expressed in a livestock facility’s operating permit.

Regular calibration can be used to troubleshoot problems that may be occurring in an application system. Application rates, uniformity coefficients, spread widths, and application patterns can be compared to previous calibration results, highlighting specific operational conditions that may require maintenance, repair, or replacement. At a minimum, equipment that applies manure, litter, or lagoon effluent should be calibrated annually. For larger operations, producers should consider a more frequent schedule.

During calibration, the required or appropriate overlap can be determined. Overlap distances and travel lane widths are best determined by measuring the distribution of applied material across the spread pattern.

Rain gauges, tarps, or disposable baking pans can be used to collect the applied manure before it is weighed or measured. Many times, visual estimates of desired overlap can be misleading. Due to variations in spreader volume and changes in manure moisture content and density, this is especially true when calibrating litter or solid manure spreaders. Sprinkler overlaps, typically calculated to be the points where an area is receiving less than half of the average catch across the spread width, generally vary between 50 to 80, depending on sprinkler type and wind conditions.

Ensuring application uniformity is extremely important to meeting a crop’s nutrient requirements while protecting the environment. Applica-

tion equipment should be maintained and operated so it applies a given application rate as evenly as possible across a field. “Hot spots” or areas of overapplication due to operator error and noncalibrated or worn equipment may increase the occurrence of runoff or ponding, an accumulation of nutrients or metals, crop lodging, or excessive nutrients moving into shallow groundwater. Areas of low application will not produce the realistic yield that could be achieved on the site, leaving unused nutrients that accumulate or are lost to the environment.

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

Lastly, equipment should be calibrated in response to changes in manure “thickness.” When a manure storage is emptied, a higher amount of solids will be removed and applied to fields. As the manure density increases, re-calibrate the equipment to ensure that the application rate is within acceptable limits.

Spreaders should also be re-calibrated when a material is applied that is wetter or drier than the litter or manure spread during the previous calibration.

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New York Farm Bureau strongly opposes the Thruway Authority’s plan to spike tolls for larger commercial trucks by nearly 50 percent. At a time when New York farmers are struggling to contain rising costs in an already “high cost” state, an added “tax” on their daily routine of getting nutritious food to market will only add another heavy burden on to the price of doing business.

“In many cases, farmers will be paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars more per year just to conduct normal business.” said Dean Norton, New York Farm Bureau President. “New York needs to keep making it easier to do business in the state, and not throw the recent momentum into reverse.”

Initially, all farmers will be forced to absorb the large jump in transportation costs. For a dairy farmer who has no control over the volatile prices set by the government, this will be an especially big blow. And the costs are dramatic.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative which hauls milk throughout the state says its largest operation out of Cortland County would spend $16,000 more per month to send its 75 trucks down the Thruway.

Another in Genesee County which operates 35

trucks could pay close to $7,000 more a month bringing fresh dairy to Albany and New York City.

Upstate Niagara’s Mike Davis said, “The consensus is that this increase will be harmful to agribusiness in general, not just limited to milk haulers. Some of these operations also operate dump trucks and other vehicles to haul grains, commodities, and manure. All of these haulers will be forced to collect this increase somewhere.”

That’s how consumers will feel the bite at the dinner table. The USDA has proven that eventually any rise in transportation costs ultimately gets passed on to the people who buy the food. So, New Yorkers can expect to pay more to feed their families a New York grown healthy, nutritious meal.

Raising the cost of food prices is never acceptable when the current economy is struggling to regain balance.

One other impact… NYFB members depend on the Thruway for safe, convenient access to large markets. But if rural roads will make the trip cheaper, some farmers will have no choice but to send large, commercial vehicles through small communities and neighborhoods.

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On the road again with the FFA!

by Marcie Hauri As the summer of 2012 starts up most people are looking forward to going to the beach, sleeping in, and not being in school. That is not the case with these young adults.

The newly installed New York State FFA Officers are looking forward to spending their time at Camp Oswegatchie teaching leadership classes, running the FFA building at state fair, and so much more!

The new State FFA officers are as follows: State President: Amanda Rhodes (Belleville-Henderson), Vice President: Paige Levandowski (Albion), Secretary: Leann Green (Jasper-Troupsburg), Treasurer: Ryan Willits (Lowville), Reporter: Marcie Hauri (CattaraugusLittle Valley), Sentinel: Kaylin Broadwell (Hamilton), District 2: Brady Rogers (Tri-Valley), District 3: Dan Truso (Granville), District 5: Heather Staelens (Madison), District 6: Ashley Willits (Lowville), District 8: Thomas Drake (Jasper-Troupsburg), District 9: Adam Eick (Medina), and District 10: Ivy Reynolds (Cuba-Rushford).

Even though their year of service has just begun they have already completed a weeks’ worth of leadership training (Blast

2012-2013 New York State FFA Officers at their first leadership training- Blast Off. (Left to right) Top Row: Brady Rogers, Ryan Willits, Adam Eick, Dan Truso, Thomas Drake. Middle Row: Heather Staelens, Amanda Rhodes, Paige Levandowski, Ivy Reynolds, Leann Green. Bottom row: Kaylin Broadwell, Marcie Hauri, and Ashley Willits.

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Off) and plus attended NLCSO (National Leadership Conference for State Officers) at Camp Oswegatchie, New York, on

June 27, along with several other eastern states. There they learned more efficient ways to work together as a team to better

serve the FFA and New York State. Stay tuned for more updates from the New York State FFA Association.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Broome County leads the state in Eat4-Health project

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Cornell Cooperative Extension Broome County (CCE-BC) was selected as the New York State lead for a new nutrition education program, Eat4Health, sponsored by a collaboration between National 4-H Council and UnitedHealthcare.

The Eat4-Health team, headed by Vicki Giarratano, CCE-BC Assistant Director and Nutrition Education

Program Leader, recently joined faculty from Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) at Cornell University and partners from Extension offices in Madison, Oswego and Jefferson counties and ten funded states for three days of intensive training at the National 4-H Center in Chevy Chase, MD. Cornell is not only a grant recipient of this national project, but Wendy Wolfe, Ph.D., (DNS) authored Cornell’s Choose Health Action Teens (CHAT) and Choose Health: Food, Fun, and Fitness (CHFFF) programs that will be used nationally for the Eat4-Health project.

Dr. Wolfe has conducted research in the areas of childhood obesity, child nutrition and the elementary school environment, food insecurity, community-based nutrition monitoring, postpartum weight retention, and dietary methodology. Since 2003, she has focused on youth nutrition and childhood obesity prevention within Cornell

Cooperative Extension, providing research-based technical assistance and training to local educators and others throughout the state, and participating in related program evaluation research.

CHAT is a program in which teens are trained to co-teach the CHFFF curriculum to younger youth.

CHFFF is a 6-lesson, interactive curriculum focused on healthy eating and physical activities. “What is exciting about this program,” says Wolfe, “is that the teens themselves learn about healthy eating and active living by teaching younger youth, and often change their own behaviors as a result.

Plus they learn leadership and presentation skills.”

Using CHAT and CHFFF curricula, Teen Leaders from Broome County 4H’s CITIZEN U, a five-year project funded by Children, Youth and Families At Risk (CYFAR), National

Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), USDA and CCE-BC nutrition educators will conduct programming in Binghamton and lead the Eat4Health team statewide.

The CITIZEN U Eat4-Health team will train teen ambassadors, called “CHATs” to conduct the 6-lesson CHFFF program with elementary and middle school-age children during the school year and conduct summer camps at two public housing complexes in partnership with Binghamton Housing Authority and the City of Binghamton.

Statewide, the team will work closely with UnitedHealthcare and the other CCE partners to carry out statewide trainings focused on childhood obesity prevention.

For more information about Eat4Health, please contact Vicki Giarratano, CCE-BC, at 607-5845022.

Student welders: pre-register by Aug. 1 to compete at Empire Farm Days

CITIZEN U Teen Leader, Mia Bruner presents CHFFF nutrition lesson during training at the National 4-H Conference Center, Chevy Chase, MD.

SENECA FALLS, NY — Students interested in competing in the New York State FFA Welding Contest at Empire Farm Days are encouraged to pre-register by Aug. 1, by contacting contest coordinators Jim Taylor, taylorjd@morrisville.edu, 315-527-8262, and Johanna Fox-Bossard, jbossard@hamiltoncentral.org, 315440-1044. A list of equipment to bring to the contest will be provided.

Students may also register on-site at 9 a.m. on contest day Thursday, Aug. 9; the competition begins at 10 a.m. at the contest area next to the Field Demonstrations.

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as teams of two or individually for certificates, however, only active FFA students will be scored and compete for $2,250 in scholarship funds ($1,000 for 1st Place, $750 for 2nd Place, $500 for 3rd Place) from Morrisville State College. Awards are also presented for High Team performance.

Each student must perform three welds with two different types of tools provided by Haun Welding.

Contestants also complete a metal identification quiz and a multiple choice quiz. The students are also judged on professional appearance, attitude, preparedness and safety.

Contest sponsors include Clinton

Tractor & Implement, the Calidonna Family, Haun Welding, and Briggs and Stratton outdoor products manufacturer of Munnsville, NY. Empire Farm Days’ events for youth also include the FFA/4-H Tractor Safety Contest on Thursday, Aug. 9.

The 300-acre Empire Farm Days includes DairyProfit and Equine Centers seminars, live animals, farm safety and family life displays and activities, 600-plus representatives of agricultural institutions and organizations, and test drives. For details, contact Empire Farm Days Manager Melanie Wickham: 877-697-7837, mwickham@empirefarmdays.com.

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

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

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

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

• Cherry is the No. 1 Popsicle flavor.

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

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

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

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

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

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The most popular ice cream topping is chocolate syrup.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Home,, Family,, Friendss & You Ontario County Dairy Princess Court Coronation

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2012-2013 Ontario County Dairy Princess Court. Left to right-Sam Wheeler, Anna DeBoover, Rachel Rouland, Emma Andrew (NY State Dairy Princess), Claire DeBoover, Hope Mueller, Taylor Strub, and Grace Mueller.

CLIFTON SPRINGS, NY — The 41st Ontario County Dairy Princess Court Coronation was on Wednesday, June 13, at the Phelps-Clifton Springs Elementary School, Clifton Springs, NY. Nancy Anderson, the Ontario County Dairy Promotion Chairperson introduced the 2011-2012 Ontario County Dairy Princess Court: Princess - Emily Strub; Alternate Princesses Jessica Brown, Allison Strub, Ashley Strub, and Jennifer Strub; Dairy Ambassadors - Anna DeBoover, Claire DeBoover, Rachel Rouland, Caroline Strub and Taylor Strub. They received a round of applause for a great job of promoting dairy and dairy products in Ontario County for the past year. The events included Fun on the Farm, the Ontario County Fair and many school programs.

We were honored to have the New York State Dairy Princess, Emma Andrew from Newark, NY present at our coronation. She gave a message from the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council.

The Alternate Dairy Princess gave a speech titled “Nutrition and Dairy” and the Ambassadors speech was titled “Why I Want To Be A Dairy Ambassador”. The 2012-2013 Court is Alternate Dairy Princesses: Jessica Brown of Clifton Springs and Taylor Strub of Palmyra (Ontario County).

The Dairy Ambassadors: Rachel Rouland of Clifton Springs; Anna and Claire DeBoover of Phelps; Grace and Hope Mueller of Clifton Springs and Sam Wheeler of Clifton Springs.

Taylor Strub is the daughter of Andrew and Debra Strub and she attends Red Jacket High School and she plays basketball, softball and is a member of 4-H and the Junior National Honor Society. She wants to be an Alternate Princess as it is a great opportunity to help educate people on the importance of dairy! Jessica Brown, daughter of Rodney and Deb Brown is a 2012 graduate of Marist College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English/Adolescence Education.

She states that dairy farmers and other members of the dairy community play an important role and she wants to bring that awareness to the general public.

Dairy Ambassadors Rachel Rouland, daughter of Tim and Kim Rouland attends Midlakes School and is active in the Giddy Up Gang 4-H Club, Junior Holstein Association, National Elementary Honor Society, Ontario County Dairy Club and American Legion Junior Auxiliary.

She states that she has an interest in dairy cows and loves to promote dairy products.

Anna DeBoover, daughter of Brenda and Joe DeBoover attends Midlakes School and is a member of 4-H, Girl Scouts, student council, band and plays softball, soccer and basketball.

She states that it is a fun and enjoyable experience when she gets to learn new things about dairy products.

Claire DeBoover, daughter of Brenda and Joe DeBoover also attend Midlakes School and is a member of 4H, Girl Scouts, band and National Elementary Honor Society and church. She states that she wants people to know the benefits of dairy products and wants to convince people that don’t drink milk and eat dairy products to enjoy dairy products.

Grace Mueller is the daughter of John and Sally Mueller, Clifton Springs. She is a member of the Cool H’ers 4-H Club and attends the Clifton Springs Church and is homeschooled.

Grace would like to promote dairy more.

Hope Mueller is the daughter of John and Sally Mueller. She is a member of the Cool H’ers 4-H Club and attends the Clifton Springs Church. She is homeschooled. Hope would like to learn more about the dairy industry.

Samantha Wheeler is the daughter of Mark and Janet Wheeler, Clifton Springs. She is a member of the Clifton Clovers 4-H Club and attends Midlakes High School. Sam has always had an interest in the dairy industry, especially animal science.

She enjoys learning new things about farming and the dairy industry.

The court was crowned by the New York State Dairy Princess, Emma Andrew. The court is looking forward to an interesting and rewarding year promoting dairy farming and dairy products in Ontario County. If you would like a member of the court to attend one of your functions, please contact Deb Strub, 585-289-4012 or Nancy Anderson, 315-597-2269.

The Ontario County Dairy Princess program is made possible through the support of the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council — the local planning and management organization funded by dairy farmer check off dollars.

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Manure-pond deaths reinforce need for safety awareness UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — The recent deaths of three Pennsylvania farm-family members in a manure-storage pond in Maryland is a stark reminder of the need for safety precautions when working around such facilities, according to a farm-safety specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

Although circumstances surrounding the recent fatal incident are still under investigation, there are several common hazards associated with open-air manure pits and ponds, such as the one in which a Lancaster County man and his two teenage sons died, said Dennis Murphy, distinguished professor of agricultural safety and health.

"These ponds typically contain a thick liquid and floating crust in which movement is very difficult," said Murphy.

"They also often have steep and slippery slopes that make getting out difficult or impossible."

He explained that localized layers of hazardous gases may exist above manure surfaces, especially on hot, humid days with little breeze.

Release of these gases may be accelerated by movement, agitation, removal or addition of manure to the storage pond.

Someone unable to get out and trying to tread in manure may not have enough oxygen to breathe, and emergency response might be slow to arrive because of remote or isolated farm locations, Murphy noted.

Tragically, incidents related to manure storages often involve multiple fatalities. "When someone falls into a manure-storage facility or is overcome by gases, the first reaction of nearby family members or farm employees often is to go in and help, and the would-be rescuers quickly can become victims as well," Murphy said.

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air manure-storage facility: • Make sure everyone who needs to be near manure-storage structures understand the hazards, including how the various gases can affect them.

• Make sure the openair manure storage is surrounded by a fence and that access gates are locked to keep unauthorized personnel from entering the area.

• The facility should have manure drowning hazard signs and no trespassing signs on all sides of the storage.

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• Never work alone.

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• There should be no horseplay near the open manure pit or pumping equipment.

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Vermeer introduces BPX9000 Bale Processor The all-new BPX9000 Bale Processor from Vermeer combines simplicity, durability and versatility to meet the needs of today’s cattle producers. The easy to operate machine is built tough with a unique, T-style frame, the bed design and offset rotor produce even and consistent feed with minimal maintenance, and an optional large square bale kit includes enhancements to effectively process a variety of bales. The BPX9000 is built to maximize bale processing and minimize operator stress.

“When developing the BPX9000, we started by listening to producers and then designing the machine to fit their

needs. They told us they wanted a simple, durable and versatile machine, and that is what Vermeer built,” says Phil Egging, Vermeer Product Manager.

“From the T-style frame to the slat and chain bale rotation system and offset rotor, the components of this machine provide producers a machine that’s easy to operate, easy to maintain and built to last.”

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

tenance without removing the entire bed, and long-lasting bushings in the bed are resistant to net and twine wrapping.

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

The BPX9000 has no welds or gus-

sets at high stress points for enhanced durability. The optional large square bale kit gives producers the flexibility to process both round and square bales, with offset loader forks to position square bales to the right side of the processor and a sidewall that lowers to effectively process square bales.

“Every component of the BPX9000 Bale Processor was designed with the producer in mind, and it’s built with the Vermeer quality and durability that they expect,” said Egging. For more information about the BPX9000 Bale Processor, visit www.vermeer.com.

Increased trade with Russia will benefit U.S. farmers WASHINGTON, D.C. — Timely congressional approval of permanent normal trade relations status for Russia will benefit U.S. farmers and ranchers, the American Farm Bureau Federation told a House Committee on June 20.

Wayne Wood, president of Michigan Farm Bureau, testified on behalf of AFBF before the House Committee on Ways and Means.

“PNTR makes permanent the trade status the U.S. has extended to Russia on an annual basis since 1992,” Wood said. “It recognizes Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization, which will provide our farmers and ranchers with more certain and predictable market

access.”

Russia’s commitment to adhering to WTO provisions on sanitary and phytosanitary measures in particular will benefit U.S. farmers and ranchers because this will limit the country’s ability to impose arbitrary measures that have impeded trade in the past.

In his testimony, Wood explained that exports of U.S. farm goods to Russia are likely to increase substantially follow ing congressional approval of PNTR and the country’s accession to the WTO. U.S. sales of beef, poultry, pork, apples, cheeses, soybeans and soybean products are all expected to grow due to improved market access.

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

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AUCTION SECTION and MARKET REPORTS

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Ath-Mor Registered Holsteins Complete Dispersal Tuesday,, July y 17,, 2012 2 • 10:00 0 AM M • Lee,, NH GPS address: 280 Lee Hook Rd, Lee, New Hampshire

350 head sell including 175 milk cows and 175 heifers and calves!

June, 2012 RHA: 176 cow 29,757M 3.6% 1086F 3.0% 899P • 126,000SCC (no rBST) *Herd is certified & tested Johnes free! • Bulk tank sample negative for Mycoplasma

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FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2012 @ 10 AM

A few hot ones that sell: -Buckeye that is the #5 milk cow of breed w/ daus. • -GP-84 Planet +2128GTPI w/ daus. • -VG Jammer w/ multiple AI sons. Sells w/ daus.

• +2298GTPI Observer X GP-83 Jeeves • +2290GTPI Digger X VG- Marsh • +2266GTPI 3%CE Bookem X GP-83 Mac • +2209 Paul X VG-88 Alton • +2197 Bookem X VG Jet Stream • *30 head sell with AI contracts • *40+ embryos sell sired by Numero Uno, Supersire, Epic, CM etc.

Sale Manager's Note: Size, substance, great udders & excellent feet & legs! The heifers are strong and deep! One of the finest herds we have sold in Sale Manager/Catalogs years! Virtually no dairies in the area & we expect buyers will be rewarded for being at the sale!

View catalog online at www.cattlexchange.com Sale Owners: Ath-Mor Holsteins 280 Lee Hook Rd., Lee, NH 03861 Tom Morrell 603-659-3836 and Russ Atherton 603-659-6128

Dave & Merry Rama

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

LUCE RD CASSADAGA, NY 14718, CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AUCTION FOR ROBERT L. AND ANN BECKMAN

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: This is a nice morning sale. The Beckman's are selling due to the sale of their family farm. TERMS: Cash or NY check with proper ID. Out of state buyers must have a bank letter of credit dated July 13, 2012 addressed to Sherman Livestock and proper ID. Items are to be paid for in full and removed sale day. No exceptions!! Lunch, RR, Auctioneers announcements take precedence over all printed material.

VISIT US AT AUCTIONZIP.COM AUCTIONEER NUMBER 31246 FOR FULL PICS

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LISTING: TRACTORS: JD 7610 (cab/heat), 15,000 hrs on machine, 7000 hrs on engine, 4x4, 2 remotes, power quad transmission, SN: RW7610H002100; JD 6605 (cab/heat) 20,000 hrs, fair shape, 4x4, reverser transmission, loader & bucket SN: I06605Y302381; JD 4010 (new 34" tires); JD 4040 (2500 hrs on rebuilt engine), 6000 hrs on machine, quad range transmission, new differentials; 2011 cab/heat) JD 4755 (220 hp, cab, heat, 4x4, dual wheels, 3 remotes, 9 JD weights, SN: RG6076A122146. SKID STEERS: JD 240, 16712 hrs on machine, 20 hrs on rebuilt engine, needs injector pump, SN: T00240A914816; JD 250, 4890 hrs on machine, 1000 hrs on new JD engine, SN: KV0250A3502. FIELD EQUIP: JD MX10 Brush Hog, good shape, new knives, SN: W0MX10H002166; NH 1441 2SWT Discbine, used 1 season, like new, SN: Y7B670029; JD 512 Disc Ripper 5 shank, 12'6", new condition, SN: N00512X002388; JD 1750 Max Emerge Plus 6 row corn planter, (good shape); NH 900 Chopper grass head, fair shape; NH FP240 3 row chopper, corn head, excellent shape, SN: 74022; JD 637 Rock Disc, like new, 20'9", SN: N00637X010265; JD 637 Rock Disc, OK condition, 20'9", SN: N00637X001859; Farm Hand Cultimulcher, (good shape); Killbros. Fert Wagon (good shape); Oliver Grain Drill (good shape). HAY EQUIP : JD 457 Round Baler, good shape, SN: XE00457X152475X; H&S 44' Skeleton Elevator, ele motor, good shape; H&S BiFold Hay Rake (good shape). MANURE MANAGEMENT: Bodco pit pump, good shape; 70' of 8" plastic tube, 20' section alum. loading pipe, good shape; H&S 310 Manure Spreader, good shape, used daily.

COMBINE: JD 9410 Maximizer, AC, heat, good shape, SN: H09410X675735; 6 row corn head, like new, used on JD 9410 combine, SN: H00693X676482. MISC. EQUIP: JD 740 front-end loader good condition, SN: W00740C016878; International Dump Truck, 1979 F-2574, 228"WB, runs good/, arm truck; Knight 3142 Reel Auggie feed mixer wagon, excellent shape, used daily; Skid Steer Bucket; United Farm Tools dump wagon, good shape; Power Unit; KFM KD80 Round Bale Chopper (3 pt hitch, good knives; 16' steel flat trailer (no title); also small amount of tools and such.

Wind Energy Center and presentations: new at Empire Farm Days

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SENECA FALLS, NY – A new wind energy exhibit and daily presentations about how to make wind work on your house, farm, business or in your local community are coming to the Aug. 79, 2012 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls, NY. The Distributed Wind Energy Association is bringing a group of manufacturers of wind turbines suitable for farm, residential and community use to the Northeast’s largest outdoor agricultural trade show.

Representatives will be present from various wind turbine manufacturers, such as Bergey Wind Power, Endurance Wind Power, Gaia Wind, and Gamesa, and will showcase their technology from small-scale residential wind turbines to large community-sized wind turbines.

Presentations will be made at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. daily.

“Distributed wind is often referred to as small or community wind, and represents the use of smaller wind turbines for farm, home, business and public facility energy production,” says DWEA Executive Director Jennifer Jenkins. “America pioneered the use of dis-

tributed wind energy in the 1920s and it is gaining new popularity in today’s economy.”

“Small-scale wind turbines generally produce electricity at lower wind speeds, greatly expanding the land base that is suitable for harvesting the wind. Farmers can take advantage of the new Wind Energy Center presentations at Empire Farm Days to learn more about how and why more people are choosing to implement wind as a power source for their home, farm and community,” Jenkins adds.

“Empire Farm Days is known for bringing the latest and most innovative information and equipment to New York for the Northeast’s largest outdoor agricultural trade show. The new Wind Energy Center will be of interest to farmers, homeowners and small business operators,” says Empire Farm Days Manager Melanie Wickham.

Jenkins says individuals and community leaders are using wind power to sustainably offset and reduce carbon emissions.

“As the cost of oil and energy continues to rise, people are looking to wind to help stabilize or lower their energy costs,”

Jenkins adds.

The 2012 Empire Farms Days includes 300 acres of exhibits, 600-plus representatives of agricultural institutions and organizations, DairyProfit and Equine Center Seminars, farm family life displays and activities, tractor and ATV test drives, and more.

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FINGER LAKES PRODUCE AUCTION FACILITY 3691 STATE ROUTE 14A (Dundee-Penn Yan Road) PENN YAN, NY 14527 Craftsmanship mostly from the Mennonite/Amish Community consisting of about 250 beautiful quilts of various sizes, colors, and patterns plus hand built furniture such as picnic tables, swings, chairs, tables and unique pieces! A great place to bring your weekend company for the whole day or just stop in on your way to or from the Windmill Market. All undercover, plenty of seating, food and restrooms plus plenty of off road parking! See you on the 7th of July!

To Consign Items Contact: Dolly Kauffman Mon.-Wed.-Fri. 9AM to 2:30pm @FLPA Office 315-531-8446 OR “Special Ed” Zimmerman 315-536-6252

TRACTORS Case IH 9110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Cat 416 TLB, nice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 750 B Crawler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 2950 cab/MFWD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 3150 w/740 loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 4310 w/430 loader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 4430 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5325 2WD/cab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5520 cab, 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,000 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 5525 cab, loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $42,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 6430 Rental Return 2.5% Financing . . . . $65,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

JD 7130 Rental Return 2.5% Financing . . . . $71,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 7400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville (3) JD 7930 IVT . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starting at $123,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville AC CA 2btm/cult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 4630 cab, 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville COMPACT TRACTORS JD 850 w/cab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Clifton Park JD 1600 wam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 2210 w/Loader/Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2520 Loader/Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 3320 w/300/448 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3720 w/blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,900 . . . . . . . . Clifton Park JD 3720 TLB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham Kioti DK455 TLB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen Kubota L39 TLB, canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,900 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH TC45D cab/loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen NH TZ25DA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen SKID STEER / CONSTRUCTION 78” skid steer blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 96’ pwr rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,800 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH LS 180. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Cat 236 cab, heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH L175 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke NH LS180 cab/heat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen MOWERS CONDITIONERS JD 530 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 1217 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl DC 2412 MoCo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham NH 1411 MoCo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . Chatham HAY AND FORAGE Claas 870 SPF H w/heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . $169,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 74 rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 552 3pt tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller Pro rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller 1416 merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke (2) JD 2 Row Corn HD. . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 / $3,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3rn corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 676 corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $48,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 751 tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3960 forage harv., base unit . . . . . . . . . . . $3,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 2 row corn head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $650 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville

Gehl 860 w/2R 6’ po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville HS HSM9 hydra-swing merger . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,950. . . . . . . Schaghticoke NH 166 inverter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,450 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 256 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,850 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Pequea fluffer 8 1/2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 550 tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,650 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville PLANTING / TILLAGE Amco 27’ disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Frontier RT 1280 Roto Tiller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 750 15’ No-till drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville IH 710 4 bottom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 1450 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2000 6 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2500 5 bottom (nice) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2800 6 btm trip plow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 8300 23 x7 drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 8300 23 x7 drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville BALERS Claas 46 RB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 1500 w/knives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 335 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,000 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 335 RB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 328 w/1/4 turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 328 w/chute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 328 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500. . . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 338 w/out chute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 348 w/ 1/4 Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 348 w/40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 446 round baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 446 w/mega tooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 458 silage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 567 RB w/Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 316 baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Goshen NH 740 round baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500 . . . . . . . . . . . Chathm Hesston rounder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,250 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Tubeline Wrapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville MISCELLANEOUS New 10 bolt duals 480/80R 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Dynaweld trailer w/hyd tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville 300 HUSKER w/243 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 390 flail mower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 920 Flex HD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 6600 combine w/215 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville (3) JD 7000 Series 3 pt./PTO, front hitch . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Kelly Ryan Blower Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Hardi Ranger 2200 (NEW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville HS 125 spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000. . . . . . . Schaghticoke 7’ loader blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $875 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville 8N/9N loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Sweepster 6’ 3pt broom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Sweepster S32C 6’ front broom . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Used 20.8-38 snap on duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Woods 3100 loader (fits IH 66/86 series) . . . . . $4,900 . . . . . . . . . Fultonville Woods RB72 rear blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425 . . . . . . . . . . Chatham

HUDSON RIVER TRACTOR COMPANY LLC Empire Farm Days has added a new Wind Energy Center to its 2012 lineup for the Northeast’s largest agricultural trade show.

Photo courtesy of Gaia Wind

FULTONVILLE 518-853-3405

GOSHEN 845-294-2500

CHATHAM 518-392-2505

SCHAGHTICOKE 518-692-2676

CLIFTON PARK 518-877-5059

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AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 Monday, July 2 • Hosking Sales . Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale. Special - ROB-MICH Farm Registered & Grade Holstein Herd Dispersal. 40 Head (20 Reg.) 36 cows, 4 Bred Hfrs. Watch for the two Maternal sisters by Talent & Sept.

Storm. Also a fancy VG 87 R&W due sale day to Sept. Storm. Cows are in all stages of lactation with a few exceptionally fancy young cows here! Other job interest prompts this short notice sale. Owners: Robert & Michele Franklin & Family. Dairy will start at 1 pm. Quality consignments welcome. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • Town of Berne, NY. Vehicles and equipment. Online auction closing at 6 pm. Auctions, International, 800-536-1401 x 115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752.

• 12:00 Noon: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585-584-3033, Sue Rudgers, Manager, 518-584-3033 • 12:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Calves. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin) . Misc. & Small Animals. 12:30 Produce, 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-

1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Horses & Hay. 1:30 pm Calves & Beef. Regular Monday schedule. .

Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-322-3500, sale barn 315-287-0220 • 4:00 PM: Chatham Market, 2249 Rte. 203, Chatham, NY. Regular Sale. Harold Renwick, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-392-3321.

Tuesday, July 3 • 1:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Consigned from Washing Co. Farmer. Overstocked sends 10 fresh hfrs., Hols. X. All have had 9 way & have been wormed. Real nice group of hfrs.

Dairy, sheep, goats, pigs and horses; 3:30 PM feeders followed by beef and calves.

Tim Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800-3213211.

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, July 5 • Private Consignor/ St Lawrence Co. Vehicles/1975 Trojan loader Online auction closing at 6:45pm, Toll free 800-536-1401 x115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • Town of Masonville. Tools & Equip Online auction closing at 7:15pm. Auctions International, Toll free 800-536-1401 x115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • Westchester County. Vehicles. Online auction closing at 6 PM. Auctions International 800-536-1401 x 115 www.AUCTIONSINTERNATIONAL.com • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop off only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 12:30 PM: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585-584-3033, Sue Rudgers, Manager, 518-584-3033 • 1:15 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Our usual run of dairy cows, heifers & service bulls. Tim Miller, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing,

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

3:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Dairy Day Special Feeder Sale. Every Wednesday following Dairy. D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-3698231 (Date change due to July 4 holiday). www.drchambersauction.com

Friday, July 6 • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 • 6:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Horse Sales every other Friday. Tack at 1 pm, horses at 6 pm. .

D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-369-8231 www.drchambersauction.com

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

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

Monday, July 9 • 1:00 PM: Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of Utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Monthly 1 PM heifer sale followed by sheep, lamb, goats, pigs & feeders. Calves & cull beef approx. 5-5:30 PM. Tom & Brenda Hoskings, 607-699-3637, 607-847-

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

Livestock Sale every Wednesday at 1 PM Feeder Cattle Sales monthly Horse Sales as scheduled 585-394-1515 • Fax 585-394-9151 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com FRANKLIN USED EQUIPMENT SALES, INC. AUCTION SERVICE Franklin, NY 607-829-5172 Over 30 Years Experience in Farm

Equipment Auctions Frank Walker, Auctioneer P.O. Box 25, Franklin, NY 13775 fwalker2@stny.rr.com FRALEY AUCTION CO. Auctioneers & Sales Managers, Licensed & Bonded 1515 Kepner Hill Rd., Muncy, PA 570-546-6907 Fax 570-546-9344 www.fraleyauction.com GENE WOODS AUCTION SERVICE 5608 Short St., Cincinnatus, NY 13040 607-863-3821 www.genewoodsauctionserviceinc.com GOODRICH AUCTION SERVICE INC. 7166 St. Rt. 38, Newark Valley, NY 13811 607-642-3293 www.goodrichauctionservice.com H&L AUCTIONS Malone, NY Scott Hamilton 518-483-8787 or 483-8576 Ed Legacy 518-483-7386 or 483-0800 518-832-0616 cell Auctioneer: Willis Shattuck • 315-347-3003 HARRIS WILCOX, INC. Bergen, NY 585-494-1880 www.harriswilcox.com

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

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

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

Wrights Auction Service, 802-334-6115

Thursday, July 12 • Phoenix, AZ. Complete Liquidation of Late Model Construction Equipment: (75) Forklifts, (80) Pickups, (25) Delivery Trucks (mostly with cranes), (30) Trailers (mostly with cranes). PLUS: Complete Wood Truss Manufacturing Plant including all types of machinery and enormous amount of tooling. In Conjunction with Bar None Auction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, July 18 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558 • 3:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76

Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Dairy Day Special Feeder Sale. Every Wednesday following Dairy. D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-3698231 www.drchambersauction.com

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

Thursday, July 19

Thursday, July 26

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

See our website for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Saturday Horse Sales. Tack at 9 am, sale at 10 am.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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

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

Sales Managers, Auctioneers, & Real Estate Brokers

HOSKING SALES Sales Managers & Auctioneer 6810 W. River Rd., Nichols, NY 13812 Tom & Brenda Hosking • AU 005392 Looking to have a farm sale or just sell a few?

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

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

MEL MANASSE & SON, AUCTIONEERS Sales Managers, Auctioneers & Real Estate Brokers Whitney Point, NY Toll free 800-MANASSE or 607-692-4540 Fax 607-692-4327 www.manasseauctions.com MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION 488 Cherry Hill Rd., Middlefield, CT 06455 Sale Every Monday Lisa Scirpo 860-883-5828 Sales Barn 860-349-3204 Res. 860-346-8550 NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLE Norman Kolb & David Kolb, Sales Mgrs.

Auctions Every Mon., Wed., & Thurs.

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

NORTHEAST KINGDOM SALES INC. Jim Young & Ray LeBlanc Sales Mgrs. • Barton, VT Jim - 802-525-4774 • Ray - 802-525-6913 neks@together.net NORTHAMPTON COOP. AUCTION Whately, MA • Farmer Owned Since 1949 Livestock Commission Auction Sales at noon every Tues.

Consignments at 9 AM 413-665-8774 NORTHERN NEW YORK DAIRY SALES North Bangor, NY 518-481-6666 Sales Mgrs.: Joey St. Mary 518-569-0503 Harry Neverett 518-651-1818 Auctioneer John (Barney) McCracken 802-524-2991 www.nnyds.com PIRRUNG AUCTIONEERS, INC. P.O. Box 607, Wayland, NY 14572 585-728-2520 • Fax 585-728-3378 www.pirrunginc.com James P. Pirrung R.G. MASON AUCTIONS Richard G. Mason We do all types of auctions Complete auction service & equipment Phone/Fax 585-567-8844

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

802-334-2638 • 802-777-1065 cell robertsauction@together.net ROY TEITSWORTH, INC. AUCTIONEERS Specialist in large auctions for farmers, dealers, contractors and municipalities.

Groveland, Geneseo, NY 14454 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com TOWN & COUNTRY AUCTION SERVICE Rt. 32 N., Schuylerville, NY 518-695-6663 Owner: Henry J. Moak WILLIAM KENT, INC. Sales Managers & Auctioneers Farm Real Estate Brokers • Stafford, NY 585-343-5449 www.williamkentinc.com WRIGHT’S AUCTION SERVICE 48 Community Dr., Derby, VT 14541 802-334-6115 www.wrightsauctions.com

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HILLTOP AUCTION CO. 3856 Reed Rd., Savannah, NY 13146 Jay Martin 315-521-3123 Elmer Zieset 315-729-8030

KELLEHER’S AUCTION SERVICE 817 State Rt. 170 Little Falls, NY 13365 315-823-0089 • 315-868-6561 cell We buy or sell your cattle or equipment on commission or outright! In business since 1948 LEAMAN AUCTIONS LTD 329 Brenneman Rd., Willow St., PA 17584 717-464-1128 • cell 610-662-8149 auctionzip.com 3721 leamanauctions.com

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

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

Friday, August 3 • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 • 6:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, August 15 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

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

www.lyonauction.com

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

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

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

Friday, August 24

Saturday, October 6

• Barton, VT. Important Holstein Dispersal.

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

• 9:00 AM: 145 Paul Rd., Exit 17, Rt. 390, Rochester, NY. Monroe County Municipal Equipment Auction. Heavy Construction Equipment, Cars & Trucks. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-2431563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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

Thursday, September 6 • 1:00 PM: 10400 Gillette Rd., Alexander, NY. WNY Gas & Steam Engine Assoc. 2nd.

Annual Consignment. 1st day of show Sept.

6-9. Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm

Saturday, September 8 • North Country Storage Barns. 2nd Annual Shed and Shrubbery Auction. Benuel Fisher Auctions, 518-568-2257 • Morrisville, NY. 30th Annual Morrisville Autumn Review Sale. Hosted by Morrisville State College Dairy Club. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com • 9:00 AM: Town of Lansing Highway Dept., Rts. 34 & 34B, Lansing, NY. Municipal Surplus & Contractor Equipment Auction. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Saturday, September 15 • 8:00 AM: Teitsworth Auction Yard, 6502 Barber Hill Rd., Geneseo, NY. Special Fall Consignment Auction. Farm & Construction Equipment. Heavy & Light Trucks. Consignments welcome. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Saturday Horse Sales. Tack at 9 am, sale at 10 am.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Wednesday, September 19 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, September 22 • Scranton, PA. Complete Liquidation: Aggregate, Construction, Support Equipment, Truck Tractors, Dump Trucks & Trailers. A. Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944 www.lyonauction.com • 9:00 AM: Routes 39 & 219, Springville, NY. Lamb & Webster Used Equipment Auction.

Farm Tractors & Machinery. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-2431563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Wednesday, September 26 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder

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

Brad Ainslie sale chairman 315-822-6087.

Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 9:00 AM: Hamburg Fairgrounds, Hamburg, NY, Municipal & Contractor Equipment Auction. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com

Wednesday, October 17 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, October 20 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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

by Cornell University Dairy Science Club.

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

Saturday, October 27 • 9:00 AM: Syracuse, NY (NYS Fairgrounds). Onondaga Co. area Municipal Equipment Auction. Municipal & Contractor Equipment. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Saturday, November 3 • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin) . Fall Premier All Breed Sale. Call early to consign to make catalog & advertising deadlines.

Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com

Saturday, November 3 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Saturday, November 10 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Wednesday, November 21 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular

Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Thursday, November 29 • Lampeter, PA. Destiny Road Holstein Dispersal. Jay Stolzfus, owner. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

Saturday, December 1 • 9:00 AM: Teitsworth Auction Yard, 6502 Barber Hill Rd., Geneseo, NY. Special Winter Consignment Auction. Farm & Construction Equipment, Heavy & Light Trucks, Liquidations & Consignments. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Saturday, December 8 • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Saturday Horse Sales. Tack at 9 am, sale at 10 am.

Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Wednesday, December 12 • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Wednesday, December 19 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 or 585-4473842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558

Friday, April 5 • Intercourse, PA. Past Present Future Sale hosted by C.K. Kerrick & Matt Kimball. Held at te Ben K. Stolzfus sale barn. Co-Managed by The Cattle Exchange & Stonehurst Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

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

Canners: up to 79.50 Cutters: 80-83 Utility: 8450-86 Rabbits: 4-22 Chickens: 4-27 Ducks: 5-13 On the Hoof, Dollars/Cwt *ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES East Middlebury, VT June 25, 2012 Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 86-95.50; Boners 80-85% lean 79-88; Lean 85-90% lean 60-91.50.

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

*FLAME LIVESTOCK Littleton, MA June 26, 2012 Beef Cattle: Canners 50-72, bulls 90-108; Cutters 65-77; steers 100-115; Util 75-84; heifers 75-90.

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

Sheep: 55-70; Lambs 100-

*NORTHAMPTON COOPERATIVE AUCTION, INC Whately, MA June 26, 2012 Calves (/cwt): 0-60# 70; 6175# 43-78; 76-95# 70-90; 96105# 20-80; 106# & up 7986.

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

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

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

Rabbits: 2-29ea.

Poultry: 1-16 ea.

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

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

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

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

Beef: Feeders 60-120.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dairy Replacements: Fresh 650-1350; handling Hfrs.

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

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

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

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

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

Gouverneur

Canandaigua Pavilion Penn Yan Dryden Cherry Creek

Vernon New Berlin

Cambridge

Central Bridge

Bath

Chatham

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dairy Bulls for Slaughter: HY Util 84-102.

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

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

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

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

Ch grain fed 90-108.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bred Replacements: 8101460.

Families: 1270-1280.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BELLEVILLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belleville, PA June 6, 2012

July 2, 2012 • COUNTRY FOLKS West • Section B - Page 7

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

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

Calves: 5-100ea.

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

Sows: 38-44 Chickens: 1.50-8.50 Rabbits: 2-16.50 Ducks: 1.50-18.50 Sale every Wed. @ 7 pm. No sale July 4. Sale will be July1 @ 4 pm.

150; Goats: 75-125 ea; Billies 110-190ea; Kids 35-105 ea.

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Slaughter Cows: Prem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Sale Tues., July 3.

Receiving 7:30 until 10 am.

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

All animals sold by the piece.

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

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Pennsylvania Markets Mercer

Jersey Shore

New Wilmington

Dewart Leesport Belleville Homer City

New Holland Carlisle Lancaster Paradise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ret. to Farm Calves: Hols.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heifers: Gd 102-108.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slaughter Bulls: hi dress 109.50-112.50; Avg dress

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

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

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

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

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

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

300; Timothy 150; Straw 195.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95-109; lo dress 85-97.

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

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

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

Vealers: Util 60-120# 20-80.

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

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

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

Graded Feeder Pigs: US 12 20-30# 180-180; 30-40# 110-110; 40-50# 130-140; 50-60# 130-140; 60-70# 100130; US 2 20-25# 220-230; 25-35# 160-180; 35-50# 140160; Slaughter Sheep Lambs Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 186-200; 6080# 180-200; 80-110# 172202; Ch 1-3 60-80# 163-172; 80-110# 152-172; Ewes Gd 2-3 120-160# 66-86; 160200# 68-86; Util 1-2 120160# 54-72.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-60# 110-152; 60-80# 145175; 80-100# 160-177; Sel 2 20-40# 64-70; 40-60# 84112; 60-80# 120-144; Sel 3 20-40# 35-56; 40-60# 55-85; 60-80# 72-110; Nannies Sel 1 80-130# 125-144; 130180# 141-160; Sel 2 80-130# 108-127; 130-180# 126-132; Sel 3 50-80# 56-72; 80-130# 85-103; Billies Sel 1 100150# 177-194; 150-250# 192-210; Sel 2 100-150# 158-172; 150-250# 171-190; Wethers Sel 1 100-150# 225240; 150-250# 245-266; Sel 2 100-150# 165-181;

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

At an announcement on June 15 by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a strong advocate for American biofuels, the administration stated that all regulatory hurdles to E15 had been addressed by the ethanol industry. Specifically, EPA has notified the RFA that its E15 Retail Advisory addresses the agency’s concerns with residual fuel left in gas pumps with just a single hose. The advisory is now incorporated into the RFA’s E15 Retailer Handbook. The E15 Retailer Handbook is referenced by RFA’s EPA-approved misfueling mitigation plan — a

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

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

Fuel providers and

retailers wishing to offer E15 must first register with EPA. In so doing, these companies must state their plans to adhere to the RFA’s EPA-approved misfueling mitigation plan. A copy of that plan and the E15 Retailer Handbook can be found at www.EthanolRFA.org.

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

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

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At Visscher Farm Rte. 282 (1400 S. Main St.) Nichols, NY 13812 use Exit 62 off Southern Tier Expressway (Rte. 17/I-86) 1 1/2 mile south on Rte. 282 to site. Or 20 miles north of Towanda/Wysox, Pa area via Pa Rte. 187 north (bridges are now open) TRACTORS: John Deere 6320 4x4 w/640 ldr. 2170 hrs. 38" rubber; Allis Chalmers 8010 4x4 w/cab; White 2-85 4x4 w/cab; Kubota M4700 4x4 w/LA 1001 ldr.; Mahindra 1815 4x4 w/ldr.; Lipetsk 4x4 diesel w/ldr.; Agco ST35X 4x4 w/SC46 loader & 3 pt bush hog 765H backhoe; Massey Ferg. GC 2300 4x4 w/ldr.; (2) Farmall Cubs w/attachments; Fordson Major diesel; MF 1085; Same Mini Taurus 4x4; Farmall 100; Ford 2000 "clean" Combine: J.D. 3300 self propelled w/12 1/2 ft. grain head CONSTRUCTION: John Deere 490D Excavator; Kanamoto AX30 mini excavator; CAT 931 Crawler/loader; Case 850 Dozer; Kubota HJ4540 Backhoe; Vermeer mdl. 935 chipper; service truck boom SKID STEERS: Bobcat 553; JD 240; Case 1845L & 1830; J.D. 250; plus many new attachments: forks, buckets, broom, grapple; Lowe post auger EQUIPMENT: Kverneland 7517 Wrapper; New Holland 648 round baler; Challenger RB 24 round baler; Gehl 1460 round baler; Case IH 8345; Case IH 8430 round baler; MF 146; Vermeer 504I silage; Claas 46 Net; NH 316 w/thrower (sharp); Oliver 585 4 btm spring reset semi mtd plow; 2 & 3 btm 3pt. plow plus other tillage tools; 3 point hitch Nugent engineering bale slicer; NH 315 & 276 balers; 4& 6 row cultivators; NH 451 sickle bar mower; finish mowers; rotary mowers: pull type & 3 pt.; Kverneland KD 825 & KD 806 and Patz bale shredders; Tedders & Rakes: SSI hydraulic fold 4 star tedder; Kuhn GA 6000 rake & CR320; Miller Pro 1150; NH 256 rolabar rake; Miller Pro 110 rotary rake; new Rossi rotary rake; Claas 309 rotary rake; Vicon Fanex 523T 4 star hydra fold tedder; Grimm, D & Pequea 4 star; fold up 4 star tedder; NH 144 hay inverter w/extension; NH 166 inverter; FS 500 fert. spreader; Vicon pull type fert sprd.; 10 ft lime sprd.; JD 1240 4 row corn planters; Roto Mix TMR; Gehl 125 grinder mixer & Gehl 95 (nice); Brady Hydro Mill feed grinder; NH 1033 bale wagon; Hay feeder; feeder wagon; N.I. 3626 box spreader w/hydraulic tail gate; Haybines & Discbines: JD 936, NI 5212 red; JD 1470 w/flails; Gehl 2350; JD 1470; NI 5209; NH 488; JD 34 manure sprd.; NH 306 scavenger sprd.; Danhauser F8 post hole digger; Pequea 8x16 metal hay wagon w/dump; Flex-bale self unld. round bale wagon; Cobey flat hay wagon 9'x14'; Vermeer V1150 ditch witch; 4 barn fans; NH 28 blower; Farmgo 24 ft feeder wagon; Peque double rake hitch; Manco 265cc power kart "like new"; toys; 3 pt finish mowers; lawn roller; lawn vacuum w/Honda motor TRUCKS: 1998 GMC diesel w/20' Morgan enclosed box; 1992 Ford diesel w/25 ft flat bed; 1987 Ford F350 ambulance; machinery trailers FROM AN ESTATE: Ford 2000 tractor; NH 488 haybine; skeleton elevator; 1975 VW Beetle; Cub Cadet 2146 Lawn Mower; Cub Cadet 826 snow blower; 2 yard carts; Lawn sweeper; Power Washer; Power Chipper; 2 Craftsman tool boxes; Precision tools; Mic's caliper, etc.; hand tools, etc.

Some small items in AM in the building - construction items left from 5/25 sale - We'll be out in the field with machinery by afternoon TERMS: CASH OR GOOD CHECK - NO BUYER'S PREMIUM - LUNCH

HOWARD W. VISSCHER AND SON SALES MANAGER AND AUCTIONEER NICHOLS, NY 607-699-7250

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

Hurdles to the widespread adoption of E15 remain, including pending litigation, threats of congressional intervention to prevent the sale of E15, and state regulatory issues.

Also limiting the fast adoption of E15, particularly in summer months, is the require-

ment that E15 meet stricter federal evaporative emissions standards, known as Reid Vapor Pressure or RVP. Currently, most summer gasoline formulations would likely exceed federal limits when blended with 15 percent ethanol. An RVP waiver for 10 percent ethanol blends is in place allowing for year round sale. Such a waiver should be extended to E15 as well given that RVP differences are indistinguishable between and 10 percent and 15 per-

cent ethanol blends.

“It is no secret that some in the petroleum industry and other anti-biofuel voices will mount an all assault to prevent E15 from entering the market,” said Dinneen. “But, America’s ethanol industry is fully committed to working with stakeholders across the supply chain, and with consumers directly to offer American drivers with the choices at the pump — lower cost choices at that — for which they overwhelmingly desire.”

LAKEVIEW HOLSTEINS Friday, July 6th, 2012 at 11:00 AM 2456 Route 14 Penn Yan, NY 14527 18 mi. south of Geneva, 18 mi. north of Watkins Glen right along Route 14

Great Market for High Quality Cattle at this Auction Specializing in registered and grade dairy cattle, Jerseys, complete dairy herds, heifers, and service bulls. Set up for interstate transportation. Reasonable commission rates. Great dairy location. Licensed and bonded.

Auction held every first Friday of the month. Excellent ventilation, all cattle vaccinated upon arrival and vet checked by Keseca Vet. 1. 14 top notch open Holstein heifers from PINE HOLLOW DAIRY, all A.I sired and herd has a 27,000 lb. herd av. heifers are around 13 months old, pedigrees at ring side. (You will like them) 2. 2 purebred heifers from Bill Brown, one fresh one week, one fresh two weeks, starting out strong, one sired by Loren, pedigrees at ringside.

3. 8 A.I sired heifers from one farm bred from 3 months to 9 months 4. 8. Cross bred heifers from Harold Shirk, 3 springing, and 5 yearlings. Heifers are mixed with Montbeliarde or Swedish Red cross 5. 2 springing heifers from Bob Nipper 6. 5 Reg. fresh 1-2 calf heifers from Jason Glick (nice) 7. 5 5-month old heifers from northern dairy 8. 12 heifers bred average 6 months from one farm 9. Few fresh heifers from local farm that sells as they freshen 10. 12 nice 7 month old heifers from eastern dairy 11. One Reg. Ayrshire that is due 7-14-12 12. Group of open and springing heifers from one farm.

13. Purebred red and white service bull from George Farms, sire is Debonair-Red-ET 14. Plus lots more cows and heifers to the auction date 15. If you are thinking of selling one or a whole herd we would like to talk to you. (Specializing in agriculture is what we do.)

AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: Last month we sold 175 head with the top coming to $2,100. Lots of demand for top quality animals.

Terms: Cash or honorable check. Nothing to be removed until settled for.

FOR TRUCKING AND CONSIGNMENT CALL: Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 Jay Martin 315-521-3123 Raymond Zimmerman 315-531-8521

Large Annual Summer Equipment Auction Saturday, July 28 at 9:30 AM At Martin’s Country Market, Waterloo, NY 13165 We will be selling Complete Farm Lines, Estates, Repo Eq., Light and Heavy Trucks, Excavating Eq., Dealer Eq., & Lawn and Garden.

We will be offering great opportunity to buy and sell here. Reasonable commission rates, great location. Call Jay Martin 315-521-3123 or Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030 to get in early advertising.

FEW FARMS LINES AND LOTS OF CONSIGNMENTS ALREADY CONSIGNED

Specializing in Agriculture & Construction Public Auctions Jay Martin Clyde, NY 14433 315-521-3123

Elmer Zeiset Savannah, NY 13146 315-729-8030

Safety professionals urge workers to take precautions during hot weather As temperatures rise, so does the chance of those working in areas susceptible to high heat

conditions of becoming ill. To prevent heat-related work injuries and illnesses, the American

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

Dairy Cow & Heifer Sale Wed., July 4TH • 10:30 AM

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Complete Dispersal of 80 Cow Upstate Herd AI Sired & AI Bred for Years Big, Strong Cows Milked in Tie Stalls All Consignments Welcome

Cows - Heifers - Bulls Thank You

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

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

Special Heifer Sale Next Wed. July 11th

Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) suggests employers and employees take safety precautions now and be aware of factors that can lead to heat stress; the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke; ways to prevent heat stress; and, what can be done for heat-related illnesses.

Each year, thousands of outdoor workers experience heat illness, which often manifests as heat exhaustion. If not quickly addressed, heat exhaustion can become heat stroke, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which can be deadly.

“Heat and humidity are a serious safety threat to workers during the summer — from utility workers, to agriculture, construction, firefighters, roadway workers and more,” said ASSE President Terrie S. Norris, CSP, ARM, of

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OAKHILL FARM & RANCH, 8983 OAKLAND RD, NUNDA, NY John and Mary are moving out of state and will place their beautiful farm and contents up for public auction. Location - turn off Rt. 436, onto Oakland Rd. Watch for R. G. MASON AUCTIONS arrows.

Rich & James Mason - RG Mason Auctions, FILLMORE, NY (585) 721-8844 or (585) 567-8844 www.rgmasonauctions.com rgmasonauctions@aol.com

ing consciousness; and, seizures or convulsions.

To prevent heat stress, officials suggest you monitor your co-workers and yourself. Prevention efforts include blocking out direct sun or other heat sources; using cooling fans or air conditioning; resting regularly; and, wearing lightweight, light colored, loose-fitting clothes. Drinking lots of water, about one cup every 15 minutes, is very important.

Although there is no one-size-fits-all solution, some suggested tips for employees and employers to use in order to prevent heat-related illnesses and injuries include: • Use cooling pads that can be inserted into hardhats or around the neck to keep the head and neck cool.

Vented hardhats or neckbands soaked in cold water can also be used to minimize prolonged heat exposure and prevent the body from overheating.

• Wear protective eye-

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

Take advantage of our low commission rates. Competitive marketing is the way to go.

Monday, June 25th sale - cull ave. .67, Top cow .84 wt. 1603 $1346.52 cows up to $1526.25 Bulls/Steers top $.97 wt. 1375 $1333.75, bull calves top $2.15, heifer calves top $1.30.

Monday, July 2nd - Special: ROB-MICH Farm Registered & Grade Holstein Herd Dispersal. 40 Head (20 Registered) 36 cows, 4 Bred Heifers. Watch for the two Maternal sisters by Talent & Sept. Storm. Also a fancy VG 87 R&W due sale day to Sept. Storm. Cows are in all stages of lactation with a few exceptionally fancy young cows here!! Other job interest prompts this short notice sale. Owners: Robert & Michele Franklin & Family. Dairy will start at 1PM, quality consignments welcome. Monthly Fat Cow and Feeder Sale.

Monday, July 9th - Monthly Heifer Sale. Special: 10 Head of Organic Cows - all stages of lactation.

Monday, July 16th - Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. 20 Lambs, Ewes and 1 Ram from one flock.

Monday, July 23rd - Normal Monday Sale.

Monday, July 30th - Normal Monday Sale.

Saturday, Oct. 13th - OHM Holstein Club Sale. Brad Ainslie Sale Chairmen 315-822-6087.

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

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

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

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

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

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

wear that features sufficient ventilation or antifog lens coating to reduce lens fogging from the heat. Sweatbands can also be used to prevent perspiration from dripping into the eyes.

• Use gloves with leather palms and cotton or denim backs, which allow for an increased airflow and still protect hands. Also, choose gloves with a liner to absorb sweat preventing perspiration buildup. Some gloves also feature strips of nylon mesh or are perforated at the back of the hand for more airflow.

• Wear light-colored, loose-fitting, breathable clothing such as cotton, recommends OSHA. • Take breaks in cooler, shaded areas.

• To prevent dehydration, another hazard associated with exposure to heat, drink cool water and avoid diuretics such as coffee, tea, alcohol or soda, as these can deplete body fluid.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) notes heat is the number one weather related killer in the U.S., noting excessive heat claims more lives each year than floods, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes combined. NOAA provides additional detail on how heat impacts the human body at “The Hazards of Excessive Heat“.

To assist workers and employers, NOAA will be issuing heat alerts across the U.S. this summer. Each National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office will send, as needed, warnings for 1) excessive heat outlooks to be issued when the potential exists for an excessive heat event within 3-7 days; 2) excessive heat watches will be issued when conditions are favorable for an excessive heat event within 12 to 48 hours; and, 3) excessive heat warnings/advisories will be issued when an excessive heat event is expected within 36 hours.

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TRACTOR Kubota L3430 w/loader 1688 hrs.; Kubota L3400 808 hrs.

DOZER Komatsu bull dozer D20A-6 Nice FARM EQUIP. NH 565 Sq. baler; NH 472 Haybine; NH 72 Hay thrower; 8x10 U-dump trailer; DHE hay rake; EN-Rossi tedder; Ferguson yard maker Dethatch & seeder 3pt; Gen Power PTO generator 20/50kw; Glenmac Harley rake; Kubota 3 pt. back hoe; Hay wagons; Woods finishing mower; Wright fence line mower; Hay right bale elevator on wheels; Rock shaker; Rotary 7' PTO 3 pt. broom; Custom built 5x8 utility trailer; Rambler road packer; Brush Brute tree & brush puller w/claw; ATV Kubota M RTV900 Utility 4x4 vehicle; Suzuki Ozark 4 wheeler GOLF CART Club Car Prestige elec., 4 seats TOOLS & EQUIP. Poulan & Sears chainsaws; Vector power inverter; Air compressor; Nut & bolt bins; Angle iron; Berger Surveyor level; Elec hoists; Power tools; Mechanic tools; Thickness planer; Angle drill; Snow blower; Troy built tiller edger; Fencing materials & tools; Ready heaters; Stick welder; CARRIAGE CARTS Roberts carriage Wagonette 4 wheel; American Standhope carriage (Summit View); Amish buggy HORSE ITEMS Western Saddles; Harness; Antique sleigh w/bobs; 4 wheel work wagon; Bender UP horse trailer (Baron 1); 5hp Bully goat vacuum; Stall sifter; English saddles; Pop up tent; Water reel; 8 Jump package w/ 12' rails; Pyramid Sun dance Drainage arena; Tower letters; 3 pt. 8' Arena conditioner; Horse trailer camera; Digital scale; Driving cones; Lamps; Shock collar; Bits & bridles; Cross country jumps; Farrier supplies; Helmets; Horse overhead car wash; Horse see saw 14'; Judges stand hay wagon; 3pt port a poppy; Saddle bags & pads; Two wheel training cart; 325 gal water tank; Whips; Tack rolling rack; SPECIAL INTEREST Mega Voice Pro PA system w/remote like new.

HOUSEHOLD Comm. Freezer; Refrigerators; Gas dryer; Microwaves; Washing machine; Gas grill; Computers; Printers; TV's; Bernina sewing machine; Queen bed; Shelving; Club chair w/ottoman; End stands; Easy chairs; Outdoor furniture; Dinning rm table w/10 chairs; Walnut side board; Brown suede section couch w/4 reclining seat; Kimball piano; Walnut settee; File cabinet; Wing back chairs; Adirondack chairs; Patio furniture; and more.

ANTIQUES German cuckoo clock; Dolls; Treadle sewing machine; Oak dresser; Cain bottom chairs; Bookcase; Rocking chairs; Wooden horse items; Folk Art; Chinese Bamboo water color; Old Books; and more.

Fantastic quality auction, everything is top notch and well cared for. A must attend auction. DO NOT MISS THIS AUCTION. TERMS CASH OR GOOD CHECK W/PROPER ID (BANK LETTER FOR OUT OF STATE BUYERS) 13% BUYER PREMIUM

Long Beach, CA. “People should heed the heat warnings and act quickly when they begin to feel any heat-related symptoms.”

ASSE warns one should be cautious when one’s body is unable to cool itself by sweating. According to OSHA, several heat-induced illnesses such as heat stress or exhaustion and the more severe heat stroke can occur, and can result in death. Body temperatures can rise to dangerous levels if precautions are not taken.

Factors leading to these conditions include high temperatures; being in direct sun or heat; limited air movement; physical exertion; poor physical condition; some medicines; using bulky protective clothing and equipment; and, inadequate tolerance for hot workplaces.

OSHA officials note that symptoms of heat stroke include dry, hot skin with no sweating; mental confusion or los-

Perceptions, science and business

by Steve Suther The ancient Greeks used to debate what people know and HOW they know it. Deeply held convictions have wrestled with science-based knowledge ever since. And eventually, economics entered in, usually linked to science, if only the qualitative data on what people do with their perceptions.

You may know something because it is stated by a source you consider reliable, even infallible. You could know it because you’re confident of your interpretation of the data about it. Or you might feel the truth of something “in your soul,” as if your own perceptions are infallible; then you look for bits of science to support your beliefs.

That range is found everywhere from the ranch to the food consumer. Fans of certain “food philosophy” writers elevate authors to authorities because persuasive prose rings true for them. With enough disposable income, they may even pay more for food that fits their gastronomical belief system.

Consumers write the checks that pay our way in the beef industry, but you have to wonder how they know how beef cattle should be raised.

Perceptions can be spot-on, but they can also be

arbitrary and out of touch. Consumers several generations removed from the farm may think the scale required to make a living in agriculture is just wrong.

Hundreds of cattle in a herd rather than six or eight?

Trying to make a profit? That can’t be good.

Some beef producers choose to cater to the various niche markets these ideas spawn, as an example of business meeting perception-based opportunity.

There’s often less risk in catering to science-based opportunities. Stories about the beef and producers are increasingly important in marketing. But just telling banquet guests a story about the beef won’t improve its flavor unless that beef was selected based on meat science to please consumers.

Many consumers “know” all fat is bad, even though science has discovered there is good fat (beef marbling) and bad fat (generally external and trimmed off the beef). On the producer side, some focus on genetics that deliver the good fat, but others see it as a fad or the cattle feeder’s concern.

Because of one brand’s success, some consumers form a positive impression of all beef linked to a breed. Yet science says that ability to please consumers has more to do with the specifications than

the breed, or rather that breed can provide all the attributes and tools required to hit those specs.

Science may trump perception, but business must consider both, along with practicality in labor costs.

Investing too much in a fad can be a mistake if perceptions shift, but always going with science can take you down a different road to ruin.

Your well-informed perceptions must guide your decisions. If science can add 30 pounds of beef at the expense of consumer satisfaction, it is worth it? The industry may never know what it lost.

Is it worth it to follow the recipe for crossbreeding to capture the scientifically proven (infallible?)

4 percent advantage in commodity beef production? Or can you make up for it with the simplicity, greater predictability and genetic focus found in one breed?

Ultimately, in the long run, the consumer will decide.

Stallman makes the statement regarding Canada joining the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement On June 21, Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, made the following statement: “The American Farm Bureau Federation supports the addition of Canada as a negotiating partner in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. As a major U.S. trading partner, Canada will bolster the reach of the TPP negotiations for

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“As the second-largest U.S. agricultural export market, with more than $18 billion in sales in 2011, Canada is crucial to U.S. agriculture. Both our nations will benefit from Canada being a TPP partner, and through sharing in improved sanitary and phytosanitary standards for agricultural trade and expanded market access with TPP nations.

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The best deals at the fair now in a “Pocket Book” Want to get your fried dough and save a dollar or two? How about saving a little from some of your favorite State Fair vendors?

New this year, the Fair is making an effort to make your favorite end of the summer tradition more affordable by offering the Best Bets Bargain Book Sponsored by Tully’s Good Times.

“In continuing the Fair’s

tradition of being family friendly and affordable, we feel that the Best Bets Bargain Book is a great savings option for families who attend the Fair often,” said Dan O’Hara, State Fair director.

The 100 coupons featured include not only the best deals at the Fair, but anywhere. With a possible savings of over $3,000, this pocket sized book will help

you enjoy this year’s Fair all the more.

The Best Bets Bargain Book is great for families with multiple mouths to feed; a special section entitled “Things to Eat and Drink,” this little book will add organization to your day at the Fair and will act as a personal G.P.S with convenient directions to the designated stand located on the back of each coupon.

Other sections include “Things to Do,” and because it’s never too early to begin Christmas shopping, “Things to Buy.” The books will be sold in advance for $4 at advance sale outlets and the State Fair Box Office. Be sure to get yours in advance because beginning when gates open on Aug. 23 the price will increase to $5.

For a complete listing of

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New York Farm Bureau wins many legislative victories for its members New York Farm Bureau is coming off of a successful legislative session for its members having more than a dozen key bills pass both the Senate and the Assembly. Many were high profile pieces of legislation including efforts to expand farm breweries and use New York grown products in the budding craft beer industry.

A number of other important pieces of legislation were also overwhelmingly endorsed that benefit our farmers and strengthen New York agriculture. They include securing an agriculture representative on the state’s procurement council. This will ensure New York farmers will get their collective foot in the door when it

comes to providing quality food and products to the public sector.

NYFB also scored a legislative victory by working with lawmakers to pass a bill that streamlines the process for renewing agriculture assessments, provided there are no changes in farmland eligibility or acreage. This would reduce the burden on many New York farm families who have to complete lengthy application forms on an annual basis.

“Our members have many critical needs, and NYFB is making sure those needs are met in the halls of the Capitol,” said Dean Norton, NYFB President. “The successes we secured in this productive legislative session

are a testament to our commitment to make laws in New York businessfriendly for hard-working farmers. We also appreciate the hard work of the Senate and Assembly Agriculture

Committees and their chairs, Senator Patty Ritchie and Assemblyman Bill Magee.”

The bills have not yet been sent to the Governor for his consideration.

Pennsylvania farmers urged to report crop damage promptly HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania farmers are reminded to report crop damage to their crop insurance agent and local Farm Service Agency office within 72 hours of discovery.

“Farmers are already seeing widespread crop damage from armyworms and late blight,” said Agriculture Secretary George Greig. “Help ensure you get the most out of your crop insur-

ance policy by reporting damage to your crop insurance agent immediately.”

To file a claim: • Contact your crop insurance agent within 72 hours of discovery of damage. Follow up in writing.

• Do not destroy evidence that is needed to support your claim without clear direction, in writing, from the insurance adjuster.

Whenever there is damage due to insects and/or disease it is critical to show: • That it was uncontrollable; • That preventative measures were taken; and • The measures and timing of the action taken since crop damage was found.

Last year insured Pennsylvania producers recovered $62.6 million from losses.

Greig reminded farmers to follow good farming practices to help support crop insurance claims filed due to insect and disease damage. For information, contact your local cooperative extension office at http://extension.psu.ed u/counties.

For more information or to learn if your operation is eligible for crop insurance policies, call 717-705-9511 or visit www.agriculture.state.p a.us and search “crop insurance.”

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

“NFU members are concerned that the Strategic Energy Production Act of 2012 calls for a plan to increase domestic petroleum and natural gas upon drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SRP),” said Johnson. “We view this as a means to discourage use of the SPR for its intended purposes. We instead support continued development of renewable energy as our main priority in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Domestically produced renewable fuels are good not only for farmers, but also for consumers. For example, ethanol produced by American farmers and ranchers already saves

consumers nearly $1 per gallon.”

In the letter, Johnson also supported amendment #15 by Representative Ed Markey, D-MA, and amendment #26 by Representatives Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, Markey and Barney Frank, DMA. “Amendment #15 would prohibit oil and gas produced under new leases authorized by this legislation from being exported to foreign countries,” said Johnson. “Amendment #26 would require certain funds received from the sale of new leases to be made available to fully fund the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to limit speculation in energy markets.

As the agency that has been tasked with increased authority over agricultural, energy and financial markets as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection

Armyworm resources The Northern New York Cornell Cooperative Extension educators group has put together many resources on armyworms that you can find at the link below. As calls continue to come in to CCE offices, we have extended the resources available in the NNY CCE website at www.ccenny.com. Find the following information there: • Scouting, Control Factsheet • Armyworm Identification • True Armyworm in Vegetable Crops • Insecticides registered in New York for True Armyworm – June 6, 2012 • Intrepid 2F Insecticide Special Label

REGULAR LIVESTOCK SALE Wednesday July 4th • 1 PM Sale as usual. All buyers will be here.

For info call: 585-394-1515

FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK EX. 3 Miles East Of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20

Visit Our Web Site www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

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AT HOSKING SALES - NEW BERLIN, NY ROB-MICH HOLSTEINS REGISTERED & GRADE HERD DISPERSAL.

40 Head (20 Registered) 36 cows, 4 bred heifers. Cows are in all stages of lactation with a few exceptionally fancy young cows here!!

Watch for these two maternal sisters: Toyful is a Super uddered Talent already scored VG she sells fresh in April. JJ is her 2yr. old Sept. Storm sister every bit as fancy & sells due in Sept. to Seeker-Red. Super is another Talent that is a sure bet to score VG she sells with her just fresh Mac 2yr. Dtr. Special VG 87 R&W due sale day to Sept. Storm.

Other job interests prompts this extremely short notice sale, seize the opportunity to buy outstanding cows while your neighbors are making hay!!

SALE WILL BE HELD AT OUR FACILITY DURING OUR REGULAR MONDAY SALE - HOSKING SALES 6096 STATE HIGHWAY 8, NEW BERLIN, NY. 30 miles south of Utica, 6 miles north of New Berlin, NY. Dairy will start at 1:00PM, quality consignments welcomed.

Owners: ROB-MICH HOLSTEINS Bob & Michele Franklin & Family Newport, NY 13416 315-845-8009

Hosking Sales Tom & Brenda Hosking 6096 State Highway 8 New Berlin, NY 13411 607-699-3637 or 607-972-1770 or 1771

• Also find Armyworm Resources from NYS IPM at www.nysipm.cornell.edu Source: Joe Lawrence, Lewis County CCE

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Act, the CFTC needs significantly greater resources in order to help guard against economic crisis.”

DON N YAHN

6711 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY ANNOUNCING: A NEW MARKETING ALTERNATIVE FOR NEW YORK AGRICULTURE • Monthly Dairy Heifer & Feeder Calf Sales the 3rd Saturday of Every Month.

• Farm Dispersals Upon Request. Your Location or Mine.

• Direct Marketing of Cull Cows.

• Buying Cull Cows by the Pound (Scales on Site, Prompt Payment, No Commission).

• Always in need of Dairy & Beef Cattle.

• Thinking Of Having A Dispersal? Have Extra Cattle To Sell?

• Give Me A Call.

• July 7, 10:30AM Joas D. & Lovina Miller, Conewango Valley, NY. Amish Farm Auction.

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500 ml. • $15.00 12 Jars = Free Shipment

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SYNERGY ANIMAL PRODUCTS 1681 Schubert Rd. • Bethel, PA 19507

1-800-507-9361 Farm Equipment Auction

A BSOLUTE E E AUCTION REALL ESTATE OAKLAND D FARM M & RANCH

SAT.,, JULY Y 7TH H 10:00 0 AM JOHN N & MARY Y MAHLENDORF 8983 3 OAKLAND D ROAD NUNDA,, NY PROPERTY Y MAY Y BE E VIEW W BY Y APPOINTMENTT ONLY CALLL 585-507-5405,, 585-507-5407 7 orr 585-468-5441

MACFADDEN N & SONS,, INC.

HOUSE E 3663 3 sq.. ft.. builtt in n 1900;; completelyy renovated 2004,, 4 BR; 4 1/2 bath; In law apt w/private kitchen, bath, deck & separate entrance. Finished basement; Lg. eat in kitchen w/gas fireplace; two car attached garage. BARN 28X100 barn w/full basement; built in 2003. (7) 12x12 stalls w/rubber mats, Nelson waters & feeders. 12x22 heated tack room, full heated bathroom. In floor horse scale. Mud free padlocks w/run in shed; automatic hay feeders & fly fans; Nelson waterer; ceiling fans & stall fans; Auto hay drop system; Elec. Overhead door; In line hot water heater.

BUILDINGS 20x30 insulated heated workshop w/attached garage; 24x30 Trailer barn w/two public restrooms.; 72x170 Coverall indoor arena finished 20x40 meters; 27x90 Horse barn w/20stalls w/electric; 23x80 Equip. building; 12x16 Run in shed. LAND 86.10 acres half wooded, half rolling pastures.

Spectacular views. 30 acres (+/-) in organic horse hay. 2 Large fenced pastures; 3 Smaller, Fenced pastures; 4 paddocks. 3 Rail black vinyl fence throughout. 1 1/3 acre stocked pond w/picnic pavilion w/electric; dock w/diving board; swimming beach; storage shed w/electric. 6 miles of wooded and open trails, most groomed for carriages. 40x100 meter outdoor arena w/electric. Obstacle course w/ water hazards; landscaped garden w/water feature. Young apple orchard.

A most see beautiful property. A once in a lifetime investment. Keshequa school district.

TERMS 15% DEPOSIT DAY OF AUCTION, 30 DAY CLOSING; BALANCE DUE AT CLOSING 10% BUYER PREMIUM

(518) 284-2090 or www.macfaddens.com

SALEMAN/AUCTIONEER Richard G. Mason 585-721-8844 BROKER Pepper & Crandall Reality Olean, NY 716-372-7200

Estate of Ed & MaryAnn Ahrens

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

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

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

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

1457 Hwy Rt 20 Sharon Springs NY 13459

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

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Early Advertising Deadline Tuesday, July 3rd

Announcements

Bedding

NEED BUSINESS CARDS? Full color glossy, heavy stock.

250 ($45.00); 500 ($60.00); 1,000 ($75.00). Call your sales representative or Beth at Lee Publications 518-6730101 or bsnyder@leepub.com

WOOD SHAVINGS: Compressed bags, kiln dried, sold by tractor trailer loads. SAVE! www.pinebec.ca 1-800-6881187

Beef Cattle

Call Peg at 1-800-836-2888

YARD SIGNS: 16x24 full color with stakes, double sided.

Stakes included. Only $15.00 each. Call your sales representative or Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101 or bsnyder@leepub.com. Please allow 7 to 10 business days when ordering.

or 518-673-0111

Barn Equipment

For as little as $8.25 place a classified ad in

Country Folks

REGISTERED ANGUS BULLS TOP BLOODLINE

Several To Choose From

MOORE FARM

607-478-5043

Beef Cattle SERVICE BULLS: Angus, Hereford & Santa Gertrudis.

Delivery available. Will lease bulls. 315-521-2552

Building Materials/Supplies INDUSTRIAL INSULATION. New, 6 inches thick, 6 feet wide and various linked rolls.

Best offer. 315-651-0248 INSULATION 1/2” to 4” - 4x8 sheets foam insulation. 1x6, 2x6 tongue & groove, white pine siding. Large quantities available!! Beachy’s Lumber & Insulation. 585-765-2215

Barn Equipment

or email classified@leepub.com Ag Bags

Ag Bags

Leray Sealed Storage 315-783-1856 ~ Serving Agriculture Since 1985 ~

• Up North Silage Bags • Bunker Covers • Silo Shield • Net Wrap • Special Order Bunker Covers • Sunfilm Bale Wrap • Poly Twine • Bale Tubes, Elastic Tubes • Kelly Ryan Baggers

CUSTOM FORAGE BAGGING Serving Western NY & Surrounding Areas 9’ & 10’ Ag Bag Machines w/Truck Table Reasonable Rates ~ Responsible Service Brett (cell) 585-689-1857 William (cell) 585-689-1816 (Home) 585-495-6571 Announcements

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ADVERTISERS Get the best response from your advertisements by including the condition, age, price and best calling hours.

Also we always recommend insertion for at least 2 times for maximum benefits. Call Peg at 1-800-836-2888 or 518-673-0111

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

Announcements

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Florida Osceola Turkey • Alligator • Hog Hunts

Lorne Twist

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1-800-836-2888 To place a Classified Ad Barn Repair BARN REPAIR SPECIALISTS: Straightening, leveling, beam replacements. From foundation and sills to steel roofs. HERITAGE STRUCTURAL RENOVATION INC., 1-800-735-2580.

BARNS, STEEL BUILDINGS, GARAGES. We repair them!

From extensive renovations to minor repairs. 585-739-0263

Building Materials/Supplies

Building Materials/Supplies

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

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

• Polebarn Packages - Any Size up to 80x600

Bedding

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

ANIMAL BEDDING: Kiln dried sawdust/woodchips. Bulk, up to 120yd. loads. Willow Creek Farms, 716-741-2599

J U LY S T E E L $ A L E

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

Seward Valley 518-234-4052

607-869-9483

EEZY HI L L R Neil Mohler B WOODWORKS & METAL ROOFING 1084 Kingsley Road Wyoming, NY 14591 585-495-9916

• 50 yr. 28ga $2.28 • 40 yr. 29ga $2.100 • #2 Painted $1.55 • Standing Seam $1.900 LF • Liner Panel

5% % Discountt on n Everlastt Products Trusses & 2x4’s • 4x8’ Insulation Stainless Steel Sno-Guards

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Building Materials/Supplies

Building Materials/Supplies

Business Opportunities

Custom Services

Business Opportunities

B.K. Transfer

Do You Grow Grapes?

Do You Make Wine?

CHECK OUT

5324 County Rd 14 Odessa, NY 14869

“A Farmer Friendly Direct Marketing Service” Barb Kelley Owner/Operator Licensed & Bonded

Or Call For a Sample Copy Designed, Constructed and Warranted by Morton Buildings, Inc.

Buildings For Sale

ROCK CONSTRUCTION CUSTOM BUILT

Freestall Heifer Commodity Machinery Storage Bldgs

Complete Renovations Call for the Sales Office Nearest You:

Warsaw, NY (585) 786-8191

ALL TYPES OF CONCRETE WORK

REG. TEXAS LONGHORNS: Cow/calf pairs, heifers, bulls, exhibition steers. See www.triplemlonghorns.com Tom/Julie (w)607-363-7814, 607-287-2430

585-599-3640 716-474-3348

BARN FLOOR GROOVERS®

Corfu, NY

Business Opportunities

CONCRETE SAFETY GROOVING IN

Can Erect & Finish

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

Weitz Construction

Dick Meyer Co. Inc.

FASTRACK® DISTRIBUTOR’S WANTED for the #1 Dairy Probiotic. Call 585-773-0101

ENGINEERED STEEL BUILDINGS 585-739-0263

Buildings For Sale

Buildings For Sale

CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-228-5471

Local 607.703.0052

• Competitive Pricing

Custom Butchering

New York Custom Processing, LLC

Cattle

Concrete Products

• Accepting All Types of Livestock

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

800-218-5586

R.. & C.. Konfederath

Toll Free 1.877.208.0123

Cell 607.227.5282 Working With You, The Farmer

www.wineandgrapegrower.com Buildings For Sale

Rt. 8, Bridgewater, NY

Now Open & Booking Animals

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

315-204-4089 or 315-204-4084 Custom Services

Dairy Cattle

SANDBLASTING PAINTING Trucks, Tractors, Restorations, Farm Equipment. Mobile, can come to you. Free estimates.

Many references. Over 20yrs. experience. Reasonable rates.

315-702-3050

HOLSTEIN COWS: 28,000RHA, milked 2 times/ day, 3.5Fat 3.0Protein, excellent feet & legs, young herd, $1,800/each OBO. Pick 40 out of 45. L&M Farm, 315-3766884

www.barnfloorgroovers.com

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Professional Pole Barns

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

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

Cow Mats

• Trucking Available

Monday 9am - 4pm Thursday 9am - 3pm

Custom Services

Spr ing Lak e Far ms Quality Services You Can Count On Custom Farming “Since 1995” 50 Mile Radius

BIG SQUARE BALING w/3 Bale Accumulator

Clinton Zimmerman Savannah, NY

315-729-1066 Dairy Cattle 110 WELL-GROWN freestall trained Holstein heifers due August & September. Had all shots. 315-269-6600 50 WELL GROWN Freestall Heifers due within 60 days.

Joe Distelburger 845-3447170.

FOR SALE - 2 registered cows with great pedigrees both milking now. Need to sell.

518-598-4237

Custom Services

Lifetime Warranty

Custom Services

Cow Mats

Custom Services

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

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

Dairy Cattle

Herd Expansions

WANTED

WANTED

HEIFERS

All Size Heifers

Also Complete Herds Prompt Pay & Removal

315-269-6600

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

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

Call Us with your information or email

Dairy Equipment/Farm & Refrigeration Services Where We Install the Best and Service the Rest!

www.dairymaster.com

We Offer Full Line of Equipment & Stainless Steel Welding Servicing All Brands of Equipment 24 Hr Service - Serving all of WNY & More

TRAPPER CREEK ENTERPRISES LLC Attica, NY 14011 Office 585-591-4620 Brent Snyder 585-944-5826 Brian Beitz 716-239-1540 trappercreekllc@gmail.com

Dairy Equipment

jeffking@kingsransomfarm.com

518-791-2876

www.cattlesourcellc.com

ORGANIC CATTLE: 25 Fresh & Springing Holsteins & crosses. Take one or all. 610273-2285

QUALITY FRESH & SPRINGING HEIFERS APPROX. 120 HEAD TO PICK FROM

REGISTERED & GRADES We Currently Have a Very Good Selection Reasonably Priced

Daniel Z. Stoltzfus

610-273-2285

SCC Over 100,000? Call Us. Only 13 cents/cow. 39 years easy use. Effective, no withholding, results. PH: 800-876-2500, 920-650-1631 www.alphageneticsinc.com

FOR SALE: 60 cow waterbeds, $100.00 each. With brisket boards. Will sell one or all. 585-749-6557 Brian, 585749-6559 Bradley

Dairy Equipment

SURGE-WESTFALIA variable speed 10hp vacuum pump; 2 20 ton hopper bins; Universal Coldmine plate cooler. 585732-1953

Dairy Equipment

ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS

We Need Good Used Tanks • 100-8,000 ga. - Call Us SOLD NJ • 500 Gal. • 1000 Gal. DeLaval • 6000 Gal. Storage Majonnier • 1000 Gal. Mueller M • 415 Gal. Sunset • 3000 Gal. Storage • 400 Gal. Jamesway • 2000 Gal. Mueller OH • 900 Gal. Mueller OH • 800 Gal. Majonnier SOLD NH OE Mueller • 400 Gal. Majonnier • 2000 Gal. • 2000 Gal. Mueller OE • 800 Gal. Mueller OH • 300 Gal. DeLaval SOLD NY • 735 Gal. Sunset • 2000 Gal. Surge • 300 Gal. Majonnier • 735 Gal. Sunset • 1600 Gal. Surge • 300 Gal Mueller M • 700 Gal. Mueller OH • 1500 Gal. Mueller OHF • 300 Gal. Sunset • 700 Gal. Mueller V • 1500 Gal. Mueller OH • 700 Gal. Mueller M SOLD PA • 200 Gal. DeLaval • 1250 Gal. Surge • 200 Gal. Mueller RS • 600 Gal. Mueller OH • 1250 Gal. Mueller OH • 600 Gal. Mueller M • 200 Gal. Sunset SOLD PA • 1250 Gal. Majonnier Majonnier • 600 Gal. DeLaval Rnd • 150 Gal. • 1250 Gal. DeLaval • 150 Gal. Mueller RH • 545 Gal. Sunset • 1000 Gal. Sunset F.T. • 500 Gal. Mueller MW • 100, 180, 250 Gal. Milkeeper Self-Cont.

• 1000 Gal. Mueller OH • 500 Gal. Mueller M

Heifers & Herds

HEAT EXCHANGERS S • TUBE E COOLER

Jack Gordon (518) 279-3101

We e Do o Tank k Repair

Dairy Cattle

Dairy Equipment

Authorized Dealers for: Dairymaster - Urban - Heritage & Sturdy Built

Dairy Equipment

OPEN HEIFERS NEEDED

- WANTED -

Dairy Equipment

300-6000 0 Gall Storage e Tanks

SHENK’S

505 E. Woods Drive,

Sales 717-626-1151

Lititz, PA 17543

ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS Call before you dump high bacteria or antibiotic bulk tanks!

Buying all hot loads of milk, minimum of 9000 pounds. Price is $2/hundred.

Prompt and timely pickup at the farm or Grade A tanker wash facility on premises for loads being delivered.

Before you pull the plug... call day or night.

(585) 734-3264 • (585) 734-3265

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THES SAVE ERS FOR B NUM PARLOR THE

ALWAYSS AVAILABLE: Whether you’re looking for a few heifers or a large herd, we have a quality selection of healthy, freestall trained cattle.

Herds ranging in size from 30-200+ tie or freestall.

Strong demand for youngstock, heifers and herds.

Visit Our New Troy, NY Location!

DISTELBURGER R LIVESTOCK K SALES,, INC. Middletown, NY (845)) 344-71700 buycows@warwick.net

Search All of our Auction and Used Equipment Ads at One Time!

Auction & Used Equipment Ads From:

• Country Folks • Country Folks Grower • Hard Hat News • North American Quarry News • Waste Handling Equipment News are combined into our searchable database

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Dogs

Farm Machinery For Sale

$1,000 OFF corn heads & grain heads. Huge selection 15’-30’, 4,6,8 row corn heads.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

Best Price! Buy Now!

1978 FORD 8000 w/18ft Dump Box. Good for Farm silage or grain truck. Asking $3,500 Call 607-336-5151

Burkholder Repair LLC 315-536-8446

1992 CASE IH 1680, 4WD combine, 3,500 engine hours, $49,500/obo; 1020 20’ flex head, always housed, $13,000/obo. Both Excellent Condition and Field Ready.

315-420-8328, 315-382-6334 2 JD 220 flex heads, poly skids, stainless bottoms, $2,500 & $3,200; JD 44 combine, very good rubber, $5,200; Killbros 375 gravity box, wrap-around on top on JD 12 ton gear, $3,250. Mike Franklin 607-749-3424 2006 JOHN DEERE 5425, 4WD, w/loader, power reverser transmission, excellent condition, $32,000. 585-3300014

REGISTERED ENGLISH SHEPHERD PUPS. e-mail TandD_Kaschak@msn.com www.kaschak-kennels.tripod.com 814-796-4070

(25) 36” DIRECT DRIVE Schaeffer fans, excellent condition, $200.00 each. Sell together or separate. 585749-6557 or 585-749-6559

Farm Equipment

3PT. HITCH Corn sheller, good condition, $500.00. 315331-5942

JD 5730 CHOPPER, 4WD processor hay & 4 row chain heads, $25,000. 585-7465050

AUTO BALE WAGON, New Holland 1034, 105 bale capacity, very good condition, $6,000. 315-783-0595

Farm Equipment

Farm Equipment

SUMMERS COMING! IH & WHITE PLOWS & PARTS

JD 4050 MFD PS, NEW TIRES $26,900 CIH 9170 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 CIH 5140 MFD NICE . . . . . . .$26,500 IH 1486 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL IH 1086 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,250 IH 1066 CAB . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,750 IH 1066 MFD . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 IH 1066 FENDER & NEW TA .$10,900 IH 966 FENDER . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL IH 856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,900 IH 656 WEAK HYDRO . . . . . .$3,500 IH 424 W/LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 FD 4100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500 BOBCAT CT225 W/LDR NEW $14,900 JD 9510 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900 JD 9510 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . .$53,000

JD FLEX HEADS . . . . . . . . . . .CALL JD CORN HEADS . . . . . . . . . .CALL KILLBROS 350 GRAVITY BOX NICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,750 CORN PLANTERS . . . . . . . . . .CALL ELWOOD 4WD UNIT . . . . . . . .$5,500 IH & WHITE PLOWS 4X-10X . .CALL FRONT END LOADERS NEW & USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL CASE 8430 ROUND BALER . .$5,000 1ST CHOICE GS520-4 TEDDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,250 ROCK PICKER . . . . . . . . . . . . .CALL CHISEL PLOWS 9-17 SHANK .CALL 33FT AL DUMP TRAILER . . . .CALL LOTS OF DUALS . . . . . . . . . . .CALL IH, JD, FD TRACTOR WEIGHTS .CALL

Alternative Parts Source Inc. Chittenango, NY •

315-687-0074

• Pallet Forks - $595.00 Universal Attach Also Buckets for Skid Steers Price Subject to Change

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 IH 7130 Magnum 4x4, cab, 20.8-42 rubber, 3 rems, power shift, 4 revs, engine & trans 100%, just needs a little TLC, $29,500. 607-776-4714 FARMALL 340 pulling tractor, new tires, weight brackets, $5,800/obo; Farmall 560 pulling tractor, $6,400/obo; 1966 Mac R-600 single axle truck. 518-945-1715, 518567-1532 FOUR CASE IH Tractors, MX 220 coming in. Maxxum 5220 loader; MX 110, 2 and 4wd.; JD 3010 6 row cultivator; Case 2670 duals, 12 foot silage blades, runs nice; 3 Whites, 2-110, 2-105, 4 wheel drive and parts tractor; Same 45 vineyard cab air 4wd loader 675 hours; MF 1529 4wd loader 25 hours; AgChem road gator, 80 foot sprayer, nice and field ready; Krone Big M 30 foot disk mower, low hours, field ready; Kuhn GA 6002 double spinner rake; NH 900 Harvester, grass and 824 corn; JD 347 Baler thrower, low wear, one owner $5,800; Knight Reel auger mixer wagon; Bush Hog 18 foot hydraulic fold disk $2,400; 4 and 6 row cultivator Danish Rolling and Will-rich; IH 1020 Grain head. Aarons Equipment 315-536-8718

Getting Out Of Farming CASE IH DCX 101 discbine, like new cond., around 600 acres through machine. . . . . $14,500 JOHN DEERE 960 field cultivator, 24’ wide w/7” JD perma lock sweep . . . Reduced $8,200 20’ Round Bale Wagon w/IH running gear . . . . . . . . . $3,500

585-356-2634 HUSKY 4000 gallon tank spreader mounted on 1986 GMC General, 400 cummins, 13 speed air ride. 585-3562705 JD 224 wire baler $1,200; JD 920 flex head, $5,500. 607279-6232, 607-533-4850 JD 4400 COMBINES, one gas, one diesel, 13’ flex head, pickup head. 607-592-1878

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Variable Speed Pump Controller. No stray voltage, stable vacuum 607-849-3880 www.CoPulsation.com

Farm Machinery For Sale

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

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Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale JD 4755 MFWD; JD 4255 MFWD; JD 4450 MFWD & 2WD; JD 4850, 4650. Used most of ‘em on our farms.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 JD 8420, 4560, 4650, 7700, 7405, 7210, 2555. CIH 8920, 7140; Ford 5000, 6610 4WD. 585-732-1953

Zeisloft’s want to be your Combine Man

1 Year Motor & Trans. Warranty on Combines In Stock/Ready to Go 2005 JD 9560 Sidehill, 2000 Eng,1370 Sep hrs, New Rubber, Greenstar . $169,000 2000 9650 STS 1300 Eng, 1700 Sep hrs, Like New Rubber, 30.5, Greenstar, Sharp! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $97,500 2002 JD 9550 LL only 1,840 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $89,500 2000 JD 9550 Sidehill, only 2,092 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $105,500 2001 JD 9550 Sidehill, only 1.900 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call 1999 JD 9510 Super Sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call 1998 JD 9510 4x4, New Rubber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call 1995 JD 9500 Sidehill, 4x4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $64,000 1996 JD 9500 Sidehill, 2WD, Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $57,500 1997 JD 9500 LL, only 2,700 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $58,000 1995 JD 9500 LL, only 2,200 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53,500 1993 JD 9500 LL, very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $49,500 (12) JD 6620 Mostly Sidehills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Varies (2) JD 7720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheap!

1998 Case/IH 2366 Hillco 4x4 only 1620 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $109,000 1998 Case/IH 2366 Hillco 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $99,000 1998 Case/IH 2366 2WD, Sharp, 2,300 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $74,000 1998 Case/IH 2366 2WD, 2,510 hrs, Exc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $75,900 1998 Case/IH 2366 4x4 1,966 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $84,900 1996 Case/IH 2166 2WD, AFS, 2,966 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,900 1995 Case/IH 2166 2WD, 3,357 hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $49,900 1995 Case/IH 2144 2WD, nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $41,700 1994 Case/IH 1666 2WD, Very Nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $38,500 14 1660-1640-1620 combines

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JD B; 30’ hay & grain elevator w/motor; 110 gallon tank w/front brackets for IH 706; 1977 Ford F700 dump truck.

315-719-2149

KICKER BALE WAGONS $2,400; 8 & 10 Ton Running Gears, $1,450-$1,550; 20’ Bale Carriers, $2,850. Horst’s Welding, 585-526-5954

NEW STEEL BALE WAGONS, all steel, 2”pressure treated floor, 9x8x18 w/wide track 8T gear, $3,950. 10 bale round bale carrier, 6x12”box beam, $3,299. Feeder wagons all sizes. 570-446-3170

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JD 9600 COMBINE, 2900 separator hours, w/18’ grain head, $28,000. 607-731-6284

JOHN DEERE 7720 COMBINE, 4 Wheel Drive, $12,000. Call 585-733-2603

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‘11 JD 9870 #740656, 486/316HR, 20.8-42 Duals 28L26, 4WD, Chop, 24’ Unload, Contour Delcab Mauer Bin ext, “very Nice” 30.5 Avail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$299,000 ‘08 JD 9770 #727600, STS, 1480/983, 20.8-42 Duals, CM, Chop Bin ext, Custom Cutter Package, “Very Nice” . . . . . . . . .$189,000 ‘04 JD 9660 #707325, STS, 2WD, 30.5, Sharp . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$119,000 ‘07 JD 9660 #721103, STS, 2WD, 30.5, Fancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$145,000 ‘05 JD 9560 #710704, STS, CM, 30.5L-32 2WD, 14.9-24 Chopper Mauer Bin ext, GS, Y&M, JD Universal Steering Kit, Auto Steer, 2038/1391, “Very Nice” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$139,000 ‘00 JD 9650W #685321, 3690/2601HR, 30.5-32F 18.4-30R, 4WD, Chaff Chopper Bin ext, GS ,w/Display CM w/Single Point Conversion Delcab w/Airseat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$98,000 ‘00 JD 9650W #686932, STS, CM, 3875/2642, AHC DAS, FA, GS . .$75,000 CIH 7088 #Y8G000272, 1469/1030, Tracker RT Chop 2spd Feeder House 4WD, Pro 600 Monitor, 900-32 Drive Tires, 540/30 Rear Elec Bin ext, Leather Seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call ‘09 CIH 2366 #184744, Hillco Bin ext, RT 800/65R32 14.9-24R, Big Top Leveling System, CIH, AFS System w/Display 2WD, Spec Rotor, 3735/2733, 2SP, Hydro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$99,000 ‘01 CIH 2388 #269238, 18.4-42 Duals, 2WD, FT RT, Spec Rotor Chop Mauer Bin ext, AFS, Y&M, Monitor w/Display, 2700/2020 . .$94,500 ‘99 CIH 2388 #266467, 18.4-38 Duals, 2WD Mauer ext, FT, Spec, Rotor Chopper, 3574/4507, AG Leader 2000, Y&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$74,500 ‘98 CIH 2388 #198537, FT RT, 30.5-32 2WD, Spec Rotor Chopper, Rear Weights, Mauer Bin ext, 20’ Unload, AG leader, PF, Y&M, Monitor, 3640/2795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$76,000 Delivered Prices

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TECHNO BALE 960 Round Bale Mover Like New!

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$15,500 OBO

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New Krone SW42T Hay Rake New Krone 552T 4 star tedder New Krone KWT782 6 star tedder Used Class Liner 350 rake Excellent . . . . . .$5,500 Used Miller Pro 1100 rake . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,400

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845-866-9322 JD 7410 cab, heat, air, 4WD, PQ trans. . . . . . . . . . . .$25,500 JD 7210 cab, heat, air, 4WD, PQ trans. . . . . . . . . . . .$24,500 JD 5510 ROPS 4WD, pwr reverser w/541 ldr. . . . . . .$17,500 JD 5420 ROPS 4WD, creeper gear, dual hyd., 7455 hrs. $15,500 JD 2855N 4WD, hi-lo, 540/1000, dual hyd. . . . . . . . . .$9,800 JD 5210 ROPS, 2WD, 4300 hrs, dual hyd. . . . . . . . . .$9,200 Snap-on Duals 18.4x38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,000 Penn Yan, NY

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HAYING EQUIPMENT NH hay rake, $1,500; tedder, $850; NH tedder, $1,250; JD hay rake, $1,200; like new JD round baler, all the bells & whistles, $17,500; Hesston round baler, $2,500; NH round baler, $2,000; JD square baler, $1,500; NH square baler, $1,250; York rake, $400; hay wagons, $850 up; JD discbine, $7,000; Kuhn discbine, $3,500. Post diggers & pounders, $350 up; 2-3-4 bottom land plows, $200 up; harrows, $150 up; 3pt. and tow behind disc’s, $450 up; brush hogs, $300 up; finishing mowers, 3pt., $350 up.

JD dozer, 6 way blade, $9,000; 4x4 tractor with cab, $9,000; JD 4x4 ldr., $7,500; Ford 4x4 compact, $4,500; Hitachi excavator, $10,500; MM excavator, $12,500; Case backhoe, $5,000; MF backhoe, $3,000; Case 1150C dozer, 6-way, $18,500; scraper blades, $200 up; Int. dump, $5,500; skid steer, $7,000; landscape trailers, $850; new 5 ton trailer, $5,000.

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Century 500 Gallon Sprayer 40’ booms, manual fold, nice shape $

2,500 OBO

250 Demco Sprayer 3pt. hitch, fair shape $

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Wood kicker wagon, 22’ on JD 1275 tandem gear, like new $2,650; Ficklin 185 gravity wagon, $2,750; 18’ steel side kicker wagon, $2,550. 607533-4850, 607-279-6232

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USED BATWING MOWERS. Woods, Bushog, JD. Also 20% Discount on new Rhino mowers. Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

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

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TWO JOHN DEERE 348 wire balers with acid, $10,000. and $12,000. Always housed. 315246-1648

John Deere 5460, 5820, or 5830 Choppers

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1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Hay - Straw For Sale GRASS HAY FOR SALE $150-$170 per ton. Clyde, NY area. Call 585-314-7500 HAY SAVER Plus Hay Preservative, 68% Propionic Acid.

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2012 Contracts Now Available Contacts: Allen Hollenbach 610-929-5753 ahollenbach@giorgimush.com Kevin Eickhoff 610-926-8811 ext. 5216 keickhoff@giorgimush.com Michele Fisher 610-926-8811 ext. 5189 mfisher@giorgimush.com

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315-364-8452

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(607)) 334-97277 Celll 607-316-3758 www.possonrealty.net possonrealty@frontiernet.net David C. Posson, Broker

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8 - Oneidaa Countyy - 258 8 acree dairyy farm,, 80 ac tillable, 2308 good well drained flat ground all in hay. Balance woods and pasture. Nice 56 stall 2 story dairy barn, enclosed manure room, 2" pipeline milking system. Big mangers, high ceilings, nice barn to work in. Good 2 story remodeled 6 bdrm, 3 bath, new kitchen and baths; a very well maintained home. 3 out buildings for machinery storage and young stock. Year round trout stream. Excellent deer and turkey hunting. Would make a nice farm to milk a small dairy or would be excellent for beef or horses. Lots of additional land to rent for little or nothing. Nice area to live, hiking, skiing, and snowmobile trails close by. Farm is priced to sell . . . . . . .

Askingg $429,000.. That's $1,662 per acre with good buildings.

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

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

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

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

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2321 1 - Oneidaa Countyy farm m with Partially New home. Situated on a quiet road. 70 acres of land 35 tillable good well drained soils, 20 acres in fence, balance woods some timber lots of fire wood. Good 2 story 50 stall dairy barn. 30x100 machinery shed, 24x40 calf and heifer barn, 24x36 machinery shop building. New 2 story home with 5 bdrms just built needs some finishing touch.

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FEB 7 - SEP 17 Raising Livestock in Tioga County 56 Main St., Owego, NY. 6-8 pm. You will learn how to assess your land and choose livestock, review infrastructure requirements and get tips on pasture/hay management. Tioga County livestock farmers will host the second part of the series.

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JUL 12-13 Forest Pest Survey Project Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County. The Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) and Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) are non-native invasive insects that were accidentally introduced and have subsequently killed millions of trees in the United States. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County in partnership with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is conducting a volunteer training and survey project to help determine if these insects are in the greater Binghamton area. A volunteer training will be held at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County on Thursday, July 12, from 1-4 p.m. The following day, Friday, July 13, the trained volunteers will conduct ALB/EAB surveys in the Binghamton area. Call 607584-9966. On Internet at mailto: clf62@cornell.edu

JUL 12 The Great Debate: Wills versus Trusts Fred & Harriet Taylor Memorial Library, 21 William St., Hammondsport, NY. 2-4 pm.

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JUL 17 New York Weed Science Field Day • 8 am - 5 pm - H.C. Thompson Research Farm, Freeville, NY • 12-5 pm - Musgrave Research Farm, Aurora, NY. Contact Maxine Welcome at 607-255-5439, mw45@ cornell.edu (Vegetables) or Mary McKellar at 607-2552177, mem40 @cornell.edu.

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JUL 20-21 2012 Summer Tree Farm Tour Empire Evergreens, 766 Addison Rd., Painted Post, NY. Registration begins at 8 am each day. On Friday night, there will be a cash bar with 20 plus vendors in the trade show area, and a chicken BBQ. Attendees can save money by registering by June 11.

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JUL 21 Tree Farm Field Day Eagleville Gap, Blanchard, PA. 10 am - 3 pm. Questions? Program Details Contact: John Hoover, Tree Farmer 203-736-4385 or johnwhoover@msn.com.

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JUL 21 Summer Hopyard Tour & Picnic 4808 Davis Rd, Union Springs, NY. We’ll have virus indexed stock plants on site for sale! Cascade, Newport, Williamette, Perle, Fuggle & Liberty varieties at $5 per plant( trays of 12) $25 for NeHA members, $35 for non NeHA members. Register online at: http:// hopmeadowfarmes2.eventbrite. com/ On Internet at http:// hopmeadowfarmes2.eventbri te.com/ JUL 22-24 The 2012 New York State Maple Tour Holiday Inn in Auburn NY. Cost is set a $170/person to

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JUL 25-31 Managing the Biology of a Grazing System Marvin Moyer’s Farm, Lainhart Rd., Owego NY. 10 am 3 pm. A view of what is going on beneath the sod of a grazing farm and how to maximize the biology potential for cycling nutrients which feed the plants. RSVP requested to help plan lunch. Contact Sharon VanDeuson, 607-753-5078 or shv7@cornell.edu.

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SMALL FARM QUARTERLY - SUMMER 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS SMALL FARM PROGRAM UPDATE Cornell Small Farms Program Update........................................................Page 3

BOOK NOOK Meat, by Jill Swenson.....................................................................................Page 4

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Is a Farm Loan Right for You?, by Noreen Atkins & John Flocke.............. Page 19

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Growing Communities, by Mason Donovan ...................................................Page 5

FARM TECH

The Right Tool for the Job, by Brad Halm.....................................................Page 7 Coolbot Enables Small Farmers to Build Do-it-yourself Coolers,

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GRAZING I Love My Pasture, by Denise Timms..........................................................Page 12 Grazing Management in the New Normal, by Troy Bishopp .....................Page 13

HORTICULTURE Grow Berries for All Seasons,

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LIVESTOCK & POULTRY Backyard Poultry, by Nancy Glazier.............................................................Page 18 Considerations for Pasture Lambing & Kidding, by tatiana Stanton........Page 17

LOCAL FOODS & MARKETING Faces of our Food System: Garden Gate Delivery,

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

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

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

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

by New York Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative; books are available to grazing dairies at no cost through local CCE office.

• Organic Dairy Forage and Grain Survey: Due to fluctuating precipitation in 2011, many farms were short of forage and grain.

This is particularly stressful to organic dairies since they have limited options for buying replacement feed.

To access these new resources visit the Small Farms Program site: http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/resources/small-dairy.

Small Farms Program Website Restored!

Many of you noticed that we were experiencing serious website problems earlier this Spring. We are happy to report that both our major websites, www.smallfarms.cornell.edu and www.nebeginningfarmers.org have

been restored. Did you know that the Small Farm Quarterly magazine is also available online? Search for your favorite articles in our “Search by Column” feature or by clicking through past issues! If you'd like to remark on anything in the magazine, feel welcome to leave a comment online!

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

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

For more information about the previous field days, or to learn more about the July 11 field day, visit http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/ 2012/04/24/announcing-2012-small-dairyfield-days/

Message from the Managing Editor Happy Summer!

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

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

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

Best wishes, Violet Stone

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BOOK NOOK

Meat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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COMMUNITY

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WORLD

Growing Communities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Farm Tech

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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FARM TECH

The Right Tool for the Job

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

We farmers have a very interesting relationship with our tools.

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

We farmers have a very interesting relationship with our tools.

Small farmers are also caught in a void.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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SMALL FARM SPOTLIGHT

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

by Martha Herbert Izzi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marinated mushrooms are Tweed Valley’s newest product.

Photo by Fred Simon nothing to do.

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

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

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

Photo by Applecheek Farm

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

Photo by Applecheek Farm

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NEW FARMERS

Working Oxen on the Farm Today

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012 Field Days at Spring Meadows Farm

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

Photo by Jake Czaja

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Farmers collect sap, Out of a maple tap.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I noticed the first lamb had droopy ear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo Essay

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

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

Marvin, an East Friesian Ram

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GRAZING

I Love My Pasture!

by Denise Timms

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love my pasture!

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

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

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

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

So, we decided to get a couple of Herefords.

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

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

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

Turkey poults enjoying the grass!

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

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

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

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

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GRAZING

Grazing Management in the New Normal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Change in levels of organic matter on our farm map.

Photos by Troy Bishopp

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do you get it done? Create farm family

My grazing chart from 2011.

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

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

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LOCAL FOODS & MARKETING

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

by Becca Jablonski

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

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

Q: Is there demand from other CSAs to increase the availability of distribution services?

A: Yes! We are trying to figure out how to grow our business to meet the demand.

Q: What are the challenges you face working with the CSAs? A: Working with multiple CSAs is difficult in terms of timing - certain product has to get to businesses or specific places at certain times. For example, the bakery doesn't finish baking until 10:30am, but I want to start deliveries at 8:30am. So managing the timing issues is tough. Also, sometimes the CSAs have made commitments to deliver to certain businesses at certain times and managing those scheduling issues is a challenge. I also need to make sure that the delivery routes make sense for my business.

Q: When you started Garden Gate Delivery in 2008, what was your initial vision and model for the company?

A: I wanted to bring as many local products to families as possible. It was a 'milkman model' that I had in mind.

I thought that if I went out to various farms to get yogurt and meat for my own family, that I could also do it for Ryan Barrows, a driver for Garden Gate Delivery, arrives with a home delivery. other families too. So I bought a truck and got in touch with 10-15 local suppliers. I did my best to get an assortment of meat, bread, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. Next, I set deliveries. When we handled everything in-house there was up a website to ensure that everything was as convenient for more room for error and mistakes - packing, repacking, sort- Q: Are you looking for additional CSAs to work with? the would-be customers as possible. I was trying to reach ing, labeling, etc. Doing just the CSA deliveries cut down on A: Yes, but not immediately. We are still tweaking the model, people who were interested in local foods, but my real goal our costs, and particularly the need for labor, which meant and once we have it right we will certainly start looking for was to try to convert people who were buying at the grocery we could reduce our delivery fee. It has been really appeal- more CSAs. store to buying local. I knew that the key would be conven- ing to work with The Full Plate Farm Collective (see: ience. The website enabled customers to pay online (90% of http://fullplatefarms.webs.com for more information). The Q: If farmers are interested in working with Garden Gate our sales are credit card based), and thus not worry about Full Plate Farm Collective CSA started with some fruit and Delivery who should they contact? writing checks or leaving cash. The home delivery portion of vegetable CSAs working together to increase the diversity of A: I am happy to be a resource for anybody looking for ideas their offerings. But then they added 'spoke' farms so that about how to start a distribution company, but I am not capathe business was also really just to make it simple.

As we went along, much of the function of the business they could offer expanded shares of other types of products ble of delivering outside of Tompkins County at this point. If became more about education. People do not just want to - meat, dairy, baked goods, etc. This kind of model works farms are looking for delivery within Tompkins County, they buy stuff. For example, as we started offering CSA shares, great with Garden Gate's new business strategy as we can should email me at: marlo@gardengatedelivery.com. Also, I we saw that people might drop off in the second season. help coordinate pick-ups and deliveries from the various encourage everyone to check out our website: www.gardenPeople would get broccoli rabe or kohlrabies as part of their farms and customers are happy because they have expand- gatedelivery.com share and not know what to do with it. So we implemented ed options.

Becca Jablonski is a PhD student at Cornell University conan educational piece through the website and started writing ducting food systems research. She may be contacted at a weekly newsletter. We also did a series of cooking class- Q: How many growers or CSAs do you work with? es one summer a few years ago, and they were very well A: We have 10 CSAs we work with, and that includes two rb223@cornell.edu Thanks to the following funders for their attended, but it is a lot of work with just me running the busi- Community Supported Kitchens (for more information, see: support of local food distribution research: the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, NESARE, and the Cornell ness. I have received many requests to start the cooking http://crookedcarrotcsk.com.

Small Farms Program. classes again. And, as much as I love the education piece, it isn't really what makes Garden Gate money. So I need to Q: What type of response do you get from the CSAs for figure out how to make the business successful so that I can whom you do deliveries? do the educational piece, which I love, or find a way for the A: Mostly they are relieved not to do the delivery themselves. It is my goal to take as much of the work off their educational piece to financially support itself. plate as possible. So at some point we may offer to take all Q: How has that vision and model changed over the of the CSA orders through our website and just give farms the total number of orders. Right now we do routing, and are years?

A: Last year when I sat back to really look at the finances of starting to do some marketing - and of course the delivery. the business, I realized that we were much more efficient This takes about 10+ hours of work per week away from the when we were doing the CSA deliveries rather than our own

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Wanted: Infrastructure Real and Virtual

by Beth McKellips When I first moved to Madison County in central NY, I was surprised to learn that very few farmers were selling products in the NYC market. In my fresh perspective, connecting upstate farmers to NYC seemed like a fairy tale waiting to happen. Madison County had rolling hills that were not being plowed under to create quarter acre lots, farmers who genuinely wanted to farm these hills as well as the lowlands in between, and plenty of businesses that sold things the farmers actually use. On the other end of a relatively short 4 and a half-hour trip was one of the most dynamic and demanding consumer markets for food. So, in my first few months of running a Cornell Cooperative Extension program aimed at expanding marketing channels for farmers, I focused on learning how to connect farmers to the NYC market, calling on Baldor, Red Jacket Orchards, GrowNYC/Greenmarket, the Park Slope Coop, Pampered Cow, and…..in fact, I called pretty much every person I knew that bought or sold local food in NYC. More than once, I filled my Subaru with Madison County-made Kriemhild Meadow Butter and headed to the city to disperse rack cards touting all kinds of Madison County products everywhere I could. In a matter of months, I had made a rather complete circuit of the local food scene in NYC. I told everyone I met that it just has to be easier to help upstate farmers sell food downstate. I naively assumed that if I built it, they would come.

My whirlwind tour of the NYC local food market recently culminated with organizing a panel of wholesale buyers and distributors who have stated interest in purchasing food grown in New York State. Upon reflection of the dialogue that unfolded at this panel and my self-guided tour of the NYC local food sector, I was, in a word, wrong. There are significant structural changes needed that are much deeper and complex than creating marketing campaigns to connect the dots of upstate production to the downstate market. It is not impossible for farmers outside of the Catskills and Hudson Valley to burst the NYC bubble, but it is not easy. There are very real and tangible reasons why almost all the farmers I meet in Madison County and central NY ask for help with marketing and talk about how they need to sell more product, and on the flip side, there are concrete reasons that more stores, restaurants and institutions in NYC don't buy more food grown in New York State. Overcoming these obstacles is not going to happen quickly or without considerable effort and most likely will require some government intervention. The following is a brief description of where to start.

Step One: Physical Infrastructure The need for physical infrastructure in the form of a distribution hub where products could be aggregated, packed into marketable packages and stored to preserve freshness before making their journey to market in a re-fridgerated truck, quickly emerges as one significant missing link. Farmers are typically financially leveraged to their full capacity and tend to be asset rich but cash poor.

Consequently, most farmers lack the ability to borrow capital to purchase these extremely expensive storage and transportation systems without taking a serious financial risk and going into deeper debt. A publicly funded distribution hub (or a public-private partnership) would open the door to markets of magnitude to upstate growers with one fell swoop.

The buyers at the local food buyers panel mentioned purchase volumes along the lines of a quarter million dollars worth of produce. Each buyer at the table indicated a desire to purchase more product grown in New York. However, these food outlets need a consistent supply for logistical reasons and to meet consumer demand. Also, even though at first blush it might seem easy to assume that most A food distribution hub could allow farmers like Terry Mosher, stores in NYC want to buy pallet upon pallet of seen here talking to Greenmarket/GrowNYC Wholesale Market products, many specialty stores in NYC and Coordinator, Nathan Forster, to aggregate produce to meet the Brooklyn have limited storage and refrigeration volume demands of the NYC wholesale market. capacity due to small scale of the NYC urban fabric. Consequently, they need to order often and have products be delivered in small batches. The combina- robust databases that allow customers to purchase local tion of the need for consistency and to receive products in food. The lack of development of online technology is due to small doses compounds the need for physical infrastructure several complex factors beyond the scope of this discussion, upstate, where product can be consolidated from multiple but include the scarcity of capital not tied up in production, lack of technical knowledge, and the labor and time sources, stored and repacked without losing quality. demands of farming that don't allow for a plenitude of screen Lastly, while there are some shining examples of food dis- time. Farm websites in rural areas tend to be behind the tributors who work with food produced outside of the New times in both design and functionality. On the flipside, local York City market, such as Regional Access and FingerLakes food buyers in the city don't know where exactly to turn Farms, as the price of energy grows, their ability to pick up when they want to find a product produced in New York and products from multiple farmers, especially low-volume pro- usually depend on what their distributors can bring them. ducers, is going to be an uphill battle and they might Store and market managers, institutional buyers and local food distributors need to have viable options for finding local increasingly need product aggregation. products at their fingertips (literally) and this database needs a robust backend that can support real time inventoThe Other Step One: Technological Infrastructure One of my favorite moments from the recent local food panel ry changes. We need a business-to-business “facebook” for was when a Cornell Cooperative Extension colleague asked food. There have been several inroads in this realm, and the buyers, “I assume you all have farmers calling you all the many more are in development, but for now the non-comtime, right?” and the entire panel shook their head no. While modity farming industry remains a bit in the technological this baffled the agricultural professionals in the room who dark ages. tend to receive these calls daily, this exchange highlights another significant need in building a vital regional food sys- To Be Continued…. tem, technological infrastructure. While some farms have The story of upstate growers beyond the Hudson Valley and grabbed the internet and social networking bull by the horns the Catskills region providing products to the demanding and have done quite well, traditionally, the non-commodity downstate market does not appear to have a fairy tale endagricultural sector has come relatively late to the technology ing at the moment. While NYC is far from the only viable party, especially in terms of consumer-friendly websites with market for central NY farmers, the sheer volume of NYC demand highlights how a happier ending is within reach if policy makers, developers and/or the private sector could work together to create the physical and virtual infrastructure needed to connect upstate growers with the NYC market. Fulfilling these needs would allow farmers to focus on farming and producing the best food they can. At the local food buyers panel, the agricultural professionals in the room had potential to connecting over 1000 farmers with the local food buyers who spend over $150,000 annually on produce on the low end. Frankly, I would be surprised to learn if even one sale was initiated at this panel. It's time to quit putting out the fire one bucket at a time and bring on the hose, in the form of publicly-funded infrastructure that will bridge the gap for the farmers to the large, practically insatiable NYC market.

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Home Grown Cow: An Easy Way to Get Into Online Sales for Meat, Poultry, and Cheese Producers

by John Aikman

poultry and cheese to consumers all over the country at prices that are generally less expensive than more traditional sales channels even with the 15% service fee that is included in the retail prices. The fee covers transaction costs, marketing costs and operational costs associated with running the site.

Of course the best part about Home Grown Cow is that it's free for farmers to use - so there's no risk involved in giving it try. Even farms that already have an online store can reach customers with Home Grown Cow that they wouldn't otherwise reach on their own, and farms with a web-site with no store can use Home Grown Cow as their store simply by linking to their farm profile at www.homegrowncow.com

“Where did you get these steaks? They're fantastic!” is the usual reaction from friends from out-of-town to eating beef at my dinner table in South Central Wisconsin. Some of these dinner guests have even asked me to mail meat to their homes in places as far away as Miami and Atlanta because they loved it so much.

My family enjoys beef from local farms in South Central Wisconsin. It varies in type, but whether Angus, Scottish Highland, or Holstein, it is always tender, tasty and of course, most importantly, I know where it comes from and how it was raised.

Though not a farmer myself, I grew up in a small market town in the UK where the sights and sounds of the livestock yard on market day were something that every kid was familiar with. I spent most summers in my mother's native Italy where grandparents raised cattle, pigs and rabbits for dairy and meat for family consumption. As a result I have a great understanding and love of farming culture and traditions.

Sometime in 2010 I took a call from a friend asking if I wanted to buy a quarter beef from a farmer friend of hers. The person who had agreed to buy it had bailed on her and she needed to find a new buyer fast. That was the beginning of Home Grown Cow. Solving the Equation I suddenly realized that I was looking at two sides of an equation that was missing an “equals” sign. Friends with their craving for delicious, farm-direct meat; and busy farmers without an easy or lucrative way to reach a growing market of hungry online shoppers.

My wife, Karen and I, met with farmers, and heard about the challenges of local bulk beef sales, people backing out, customers not paying, the importance of timing, processing, the dangers of listing your farm with unverified classified ad sites, and so on. It became clear that many farmers are being left behind by a digital world of online sales marching on into the future without them. Further research also taught us that smaller, more traditional farms are having an increasingly tough time due to the continuing vertical integration of the industry, which has forced most of them to become price-takers rather than price-makers, and that a small number of very big companies control more than 80% of the meat supply in the United States.

It was time to act; I called my old high school friend Dom Lindars on the west coast, entrepreneur, programming wiz-

John Aikman, Home Grown Cow Co-Founder and an associate.

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Hermione Grace Cow, Home Grown Cow’s logo drawn by John’s children. ard and rocket scientist among many other things. He was looking for advice on whom to hire to build the site and what sort of components it would need. By the end of the phone call, Dom, now my business partner, had agreed to create the site from the concept I had dreamed up which now serves farms and customers nationwide, and www.homegrowncow.com was born.

Home Grown Cow serves two groups of people. First and foremost it serves farmers who, they have learned, can be held back from engaging in e-commerce because they lack time, money or the necessary skills to do so. Home Grown Cow ensures that they have an easy way of listing their farm and selling their products online at absolutely no cost to them. The second group of people of course is the customers - affectionately known as “Eaters”, and the goal for them is to offer choice and transparency in the meat, poultry and cheese that they put on their table.

How it All Works From the farmers' perspective Home Grown Cow helps eliminate a number of headaches common to online sales. First, the farm profile is easy to set up and use and costs nothing, so no web designer or hosting fees are needed. It's as easy as setting up a Facebook or E-Bay account. No Internet access? No problem - you can fax the information and the team will set it up for you. Secondly, Home Grown Cow accepts credit card payments up-front, so farmers never have to worry that the customer will back out of the deal, or that they won't get paid. Thirdly, for farms that want to ship, we help with that too - calculating and collecting shipping fees from customers and producing packing slips and airbills that are e-mailed to the farmer after the sale is accepted. All the farmer has to do is package up the goods, stick on the label and get the package to the carrier's nearest location.

We also provide guidance on how to do that, and shipping rates are 62% of the standard shipping rates advertised by the carrier which is welcomed by far-flung Eaters. Finally, Home Grown Cow accommodates all kinds of meat, poultry and cheese producers; farms can list everything from a whole beef to an emu fan steak. Products can be USDAinspected, state-inspected or custom-exempt inspected, and this is clearly communicated to the customer at the time of purchase along with what each of them means.

Other advantages include the ability to list products well in advance of their availability dates and pre-sell them, a huge help with inventory and cost management, and the Home Grown Cow “Safety Net” which protects Farmers by collecting funds up front and Eaters by holding payment to farms until after the goods are satisfactorily received.

Something for Everyone The variety of people shopping online for meat is enormous.

There are people shopping for value - bulk “freezer meat”; those who want to know that their meat contains no added hormones or antibiotics; there are fancy folk who might want to serve “American Kobe Beef” at a special dinner; and gentle souls who take solace in knowing that their meat was raised especially humanely, to name just a few. Home Grown Cow, with its growing group of participating farms uses simple check boxes to identify customer preferences, and farm practices so they can be matched up.

Home Grown Cow offers an ever-increasing variety of meat,

John Aikman is Co-Founder of Home Grown Cow, LLC, a national company based in South Central Wisconsin. He may be reached at john@homegrowncow.com.

Zorro the bull, from Thistle Hill Plantation in Eolia, MO. Photo by Bruce Denslow Home Grown Cow removes the constraints of time, skills and money that keep small farms from engaging in ecommerce.

Home Grown Cow is a free, instant, easy-to-use online sales presence that: • Provides an online farm store • Takes credit card payments • Does your Internet marketing • Handles nationwide shipping And… • Customers pay up-front • Participation is free • Farms are paid quickly How does it work?

Farms set up a Farm Profile and list their available products. Home Grown Cow markets and sells them to local and national markets.

Farms identify themselves according their meat, poultry or cheese, and farm practices. Customers search based on these choices and find exactly what they're looking for. The goal for farmers is a no-cost entry into e-commerce, and for consumers it's choice and transparency of the meat, poultry and cheese that ends up on their table.

Any meat, poultry or cheese producer can use Home Grown Cow; it's as simple as Facebook or E-bay to set up. Farms can ship, deliver or permit pick-up of their orders. For shipping, Home Grown Cow has deeply discounted rates that are calculated and charged to the customer up-front along with their order. Farms receive an airbill by e-mail or fax and products can be picked up or dropped off by the carrier.

Consumers pay for the service in the form of a service fee that Home Grown Cow adds to each sale.

Home Grown Cow is completely free for farms to use.

Producers can learn more and sign up by visiting www.homegrowncow.com/farmers, calling 608-5155335 or writing to info@homegrowncow.com.

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Considerations for Pasture Lambing and Kidding by tatiana Stanton We associate spring time with newborn lambs and kids frolicking on green pastures. However, Northeast sheep and goats often give birth indoors in winter. This makes sense for farms targeting the Easter market for suckling lambs and kids or providing show prospects for the summer show circuit. If you do not sell to these early markets, then delaying and birthing outside in the spring when the grass is up may be perfect for you.

Approximately 30 Northeast sheep and goat farmers are participating in a Cornell project reviewing labor and feed costs for different birthing systems. To date, the project has uncovered some interesting results. Labor demands were substantially more for farms giving birth in Winter ’09 as compared to Spring or Fall (Figure 1). Furthermore, when comparing barn and pasture birthing in Spring ’09 (Figure 2), no pasture birthing farms lost dams at birth, although 3 of 4 barn birthing flocks had dams die. A huge benefit of pasture birthing is that dams can separate themselves and birth undisturbed leading to fewer dystocia or mothering issues. However, Goat Farm #3 experienced Floppy Kid Syndrome during birthing. If the same disease had occurred on pasture, kid losses might have increased because of difficulty treating collapsed kids.

Article Definitions Creep feeding — establishing a pen that offspring can get into but dams cannot so offspring can get extra feed to supplement dams' milk, useful for triplets or offspring from low milk producing dams.

Dystocia — Labor difficulty due to malpresentation of the lambs/kids or large size in relationship to pelvic cage or dilation.

Grannying — the hormone-driven stealing of newborns by another dam as she goes into labor.

Jugs — small portable pens to temporarily put a dam and her litter in after birthing to facilitate bonding.

Additionally, for Spring ’09 birthing farms, feed costs for pasture-birthing goat herds averaged $6.80 per dam as compared to $21.74 for barn-kidding herds (most on pasture after 1 month) and $8.14 for pasture-birthing sheep flocks as compared to $42.86 for barn-lambing sheep flocks (most in barn through weaning). Dams that are limited to the barn for birthing consume harvested forage that could be reserved for winter feeding.

The success of pasture birthing is dependent on planning ahead for several factors.

Choosing a Birthing Pasture Birthing checks can be done quickly (even with binoculars) if birthing pastures are close to the farm and dams are clearly marked ahead of time with spray paint. Thus, pastures bordering your barn or house are most convenient, especially if you anticipate returning triplet litters or “orphans” to the barn for more intensive rearing. Unfortunately these nearby pastures are often your winter loafing areas and by spring are heavily contaminated with manure and internal parasites. Many worms successfully overwinter outside (brown stomach worm, nemotodirus).

Barber pole worm, our deadliest worm, does not survive outside in winter. It “hibernates” as immature larvae inside your sheep or goats. However, its dormancy breaks by early March and livestock then shed barber pole eggs in their feces. Therefore, you must plan ahead to insure that your livestock don’t access the proposed birthing paddocks over the winter.

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In contrast, some study participants move their animals with temporary fencing every 1 to 5 days and must disrupt dams shortly after/during birth when it’s time to shift to the next grazing paddock. This can result in poor bonding between dams and offspring - leading to rejected offspring. Some farms have adopted drift lambing procedures where ewes that lamb during the 1 to 5 day period are left behind to form their own grazing unit to eventually combine with other “left behind” units. However, many farmers only have a few dams giving birth during a paddock move. These dams may panic if left behind. One option for smaller flocks is to move the temporary fence forward but let the “back” fence remain in place for at least one extra shift. Thus, dams that have recently given birth can stay in the previous grazing strip without being separated from the flock. You need good grazing in the previous strip so that hunger does not cause dams

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A second decision you need to make is whether to “set stock” or “drift lamb” during your birthing season. Most farmers in our study practice set stocking. Two weeks prior to lambing, one very experienced study farmer runs his flock through a working chute and spray paints them starting with the number 1.The first 40 ewes go in his first 5 acre birthing paddock, the next 40 in the next 5 acres, until all 300 ewes have been assigned a paddock. When lambs are born they receive the same spray paint number as their dam. Thus, for every lamb he can identify its paddock and dam. His system

Figure 2

hinges on having plentiful grazing in each paddock to last the 6 week long birthing season. After lambing the flock is combined and rotationally grazed. Water should be centrally located in birthing pastures to discourage dams from having to travel far from their young to drink. Advantages of set stocking are that ewes pick out a nesting area and are undisturbed until they and their lambs decide to rejoin the flock.

to move forward prematurely from their nesting site.

However, letting grass get excessively tall can cause problems especially for breeds that hide their young, because dams may lose track of where they have stowed their offspring.

Planning for Inclement Weather, Mothering Issues and Predation Weather patterns can change radically in spring time. Have a contingency plan to get animals to shelter in case of sudden snow storms or freezing rains. Many farms utilize hedgerows, woodlots, or dead drops during the birthing season. However, keep in mind that dams may mob shelters during bad weather. Any artificial shelters should be very open with wide entrances to try to avoid trampling of newborns.

Grannying (stealing of newborn by another dam near parturition) may also occur when animals crowd together in bad weather. Plastic rain covers for lambs are not readily available in the US but can be handmade using plastic bread bags.

If your fence line is electrified, the metal corkscrew tie-out stakes for dogs are helpful to restrain dams with dystocia or hesitant to nurse young. Avoid setting up jugs in birthing pastures if possible because the whole flock may try to get to the feed in them and collapse the jugs onto newborns.

Birthing checks can be done quickly (even with binoculars) if birthing pastures are close to the farm and dams are clearly marked ahead of time with spray paint.

Several farms on our study experience no predation problems while others with similar fencing have problems with coyotes, foxes, or great

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Backyard Poultry 101

by Nancy Glazier

Chickens are an easy way to raise your own meat and eggs.

They don't require a lot of work or time and flocks are great for kids to care for, from collecting eggs to feeding and watering. Birds need to get off to a good start; healthy chicks, proper nutrition, water and shelter equates to the beginning of a healthy productive flock!

The first thing is to find a reputable source for chicks. Buy from one hatchery to reduce the risk of bringing disease onto the farm. Most hatcheries will ship chicks within one day of hatching. Some will vaccinate if you request them.

Many of the old-time diseases are making a comeback since chicks may not be vaccinated. Vaccines to consider include Marek's disease, Newcastle, and Infectious Bronchitis. It may not be necessary for broilers, but laying hens hang around for several years which increases their health risks.

Have housing ready for chicks; they will need a heated brooder for a few weeks before they venture out. If you had a previous flock, the pens or house should be thoroughly cleaned and allowed to dry to reduce the risk of infecting the young birds with diseases. Disinfectants containing quaternary ammonium are good choices.

Upon arrival, give each chick a drink of water; they have been without food and water since they left the hatchery, so they will be thirsty. Feed and water should always be avail-

able. Feed can be commercially purchased or mixed at home. If farm-mixed, make sure all essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids are provided or deficiencies will develop. Your local feed mill can mix a ration for you if you purchase a quantity.

A dry and ventilated living area is important to keep the flock healthy. Bedding should be dry with shavings or straw added when needed. A closed-up coop can lead to respiratory diseases and build-up of ammonia from manure. Visitors to the farm that have their own flocks should wear clean shoes to prevent spreading diseases.

Limiting exposure to wild birds can also reduce the risk of diseases. Rodents can be disease carriers, so keep them out of housing and feed.

Parasites - both internal and external - can reduce pro- Some happy backyard chickens. ductivity. Chickens can become infested with mites and lice. Foxes, raccoons, weasels, hawks, owls and even the neighSigns are feather loss and reduced egg production; severe bor's dog can prey on the flock. Guard animals, like dogs infestations can cause death. Spraying or dusting with car- and geese may help protect them. Free-ranging flocks baryl will control the pests, and providing an area for dust should have a safe place to roost for the night. baths will help. Most common internal parasites are roundFor more information on poultry health, visit the National worms and tapeworms.

Poultry Improvement Program at www.aphis.usda.gov/aniAnother parasite, cocci (protozoa) causes coccidiosis that mal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/ can cause high mortality in young birds. It can be more common in wet and humid conditions, and can be controlled with Nancy Glazier is Small Farms Support Specialist for the Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team medicated feeds containing coccidiostats. of Cornell Cooperative Extension/PRO-DAIRY, and has a Predators can be real problems in rural or suburban areas. small flock of egg layers.You can reach her at 585-315-7746 or nig3@cornell.edu.

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dams toward this equipment prior to birthing.

horned owls. Dispose of stillbirths and uneaten afterbirths quickly so that local predators do not cultivate a taste for them. Some farmers prefer not to band tails for fear that discarded tails encourage predation. Most study farms with a history of predation successfully combat it with guardian dogs, llamas or donkeys and improved electric fencing. They still run into problems if dams are birthing in too large an area (i.e. 120 ewes on 25 acres) because one or two dogs are insufficient, especially if the terrain is hilly or forested. If predation challenges continue both night and day, some farms combine guardian species so that dogs patrol at night and llamas/donkeys take over during the day.

You’ll need a good tote to carry your equipment cross country. Favorites include 5-gallon pails (good to sit on), carpenter belts, small coolers, and carpet bags (good for stowing an extra lamb). Wooden crooks help to traverse electrified fences. Banding is the most commonly used method for tail docking and castration as farmers have no access to electricity and want to avoid open wounds. However, some farmers delay docking until birthing is done and animals can be brought to an electrified barn. If you have a good quiet herding dog or are working with goats, newborns can be processed as 2 day olds when hardier.

Handling Birthing Checks and Management Tasks How often a farmer checks a birthing pasture depends on how difficult it is to catch newborns. Most kids are awkward on their feet for a couple of days after birth. This is not true for many breeds of sheep. Most sheep farmers doing pasture lambing try to conduct all their birthing tasks (spray painting, ear-tagging, tail docking, etc.) when they first spot a new litter. Be sure to catch the entire litter to avoid the dam taking off with some of her offspring. You’ll get good at holding several newborns between your knees. Catching can be done using a leg crook or fish net. You must desensitize

Creep feeding to supplement dams’ milk is challenging on pastures because offspring want to follow their dams instead of congregating at a creep. Locate the creep near places where dams tend to lie down to chew their cud (near water, gates, or shade) to encourage offspring to explore it. Make sure the creep is well built so that the flock cannot collapse it.

Internal Parasites Nursing dams and their suckling offspring are vulnerable to internal parasites especially when pasture

On left: Some farmers prefer not to band tails for fear that discarded tails encourage predation.

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conditions are warm and damp as in late spring and summer. Animals should be monitored frequently for anemia (FAMACHA scores and lethargy), diarrhea and poor body condition, and selectively dewormed as necessary. In temperate climates barber pole populations peak about 35 days after the egg laden manure is deposited on a pasture but drop substantially by 60 days. Highly susceptible animals should be moved out of a paddock within 5 days and not returned for greater than 60 days. The pasture may need to be brush hogged or grazed by a different species during the extended rest period to keep from getting too mature.

Pasture birthing is not for farmers who feel they’ll have too little control of birthing at a time when their labor and attention needs to be focused instead on hay or field crops.

However, with wise advance planning, pasture birthing is a successful alternative for many farms to explore.

Tatiana Stanton is a Small Ruminant Extension Specialist in the Dept. of Animal Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She may be reached at 607-254-6024 or tls7@cornell.edu

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July 2, 2012

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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Is a Farm Loan Right for You?

by Noreen Atkins & John Flocke Nathaniel Thompson approached the Cortland NY FSA Credit Team in 2006 for loans to purchase a 5 acre parcel of land and build a barn in an attempt to expand his business.

Nathaniel is an organic vegetable farmer, specializing in salad greens and root crops. He markets his produce as Remembrance Farm, to local restaurants, grocery stores, and through the Full Plate Collective CSA in the Ithaca NY area, and always is attempting to expand his customer base.

At the time of his initial FSA loan application Nathaniel had been in business for 3 years and had recently moved his operation from the Hudson Valley to Tompkins County. At that point he was renting 10 acres of land South of Ithaca, NY. He had already established a solid customer base in the Ithaca, NY area and the business had a history of increasing sales. He planned to rent 15 acres of cropland and incorporate a sustainable cropping system to be the centerpiece

of a biodynamic organic farm. To ensure such a project worked Nathaniel decided to purchase land adjacent to the rented tract.

Nathaniel soon realized he would have little equity to purchase the real estate after closing costs and sought financial help to boost his business. After he was unable to obtain commercial credit for the land purchase and to construct the barn, he turned his attention to the NY Farm Service Agency Farm Loan Programs available to him. FSA was able to approve his request to purchase the 5 acres of land and build the cleaning/processing barn along with loans to refinance his equipment debt, purchase additional equipment and provide annual operating expenses.

Nathaniel's vision of a truly biodynamic farm was first initiated by adding a powerful ally, chickens. These birds play a crucial role on the farm by transforming the grain and pasture into fertilizer for the crops grown. The chickens are set out to pasture and rotate around the farm to consume the grasses, cover crops, bugs, and organic grains while leaving their special brand of organic fertilizer. The eggs are then sold locally and distributed through the farms CSA. The addition of chickens has allowed the farm to become not only a certified biodynamic farm but a model of sustainability.

Chickens are a very important aspect to the biodynamic nature of Remembrance Farm.

Since the first FSA loans were closed, Nathaniel's business has continued to grow, with gross income tripling since 2006. This boom has been assisted by additional FSA operating loans and a farm ownership loan. These loans and the overall success of the farm has allowed him to purchase an additional 35 adjacent acres, add high tunnels to his operation, expand his barn and build a machine shed. All of this expansion became a reality with the help of FSA and the dedication of a great New York State farmer.

The rows of greens are growing for Remembrance Farm’s CSA customers.

Photos by Emily Thompson

For information on Remembrance Farm, visit remembrancefarm.org/. For more information on Farm Service Agency programs, visit your local (county) office. You can find their locations by visiting: www.fsa.usda.gov/ and search by state and then county.

Nathaniel & Emily Thompson of Remembrance Farm.

RESOURCE SPOTLIGHTS

Report Rare Nuts, Please!

NY Nut Growers Association Seeks to Preserve Heirloom Nut Trees

by John Wertis In the 1930’s, a lot of interest developed in growing English (Persian) Walnuts in New York State. The Canadian Minister, the Rev. Paul Crath, had collected seed nuts and seedling trees from his native Poland and was growing them successfully in Southern Ontario. He formed a partnership with S.H. Graham, a nurseryman in Ithaca, NY, and many Crath Carpathian strain trees were marketed and planted throughout NYS and in other parts of the country through the 1950’s. Many of these trees have survived freeze, drought, and the Walnut Blight and continue as producers of large, crackable, tasty nuts today.

wood”, and carrying out the grafting and callusing processes employed in asexually reproducing valuable nut trees of several species.

For more information on the internship, or to report a rare tree, visit www.NYNGA.org, or contact John Wertis, president, at 607-387-4331, or bwwfarmtoday@aol.com.

The NY Nut Growers Association is seeking out Crath Carpathian and perpetuating their germ plasm by grafting and growing them on member’s farms and at the John Gordon Demonstration Nut Grove in Trumansburg, NY. Readers are encouraged to report the location of such trees to the Nut Growers Association for our expanding data base and for possible use in the “Heirloom Program”. If you have a large “English” walnut tree growing on your property that is producing a crop of edible nuts with some regularity, chances are good that it is of the Crath Carpathian strain and the Nut Growers Association would like to hear from you about it.

The NY Nut Growers Association also sponsors an annual internship in which individuals spend three full days gaining practical, hands-on experience in growing nut tree seedlings for “stock”, collecting and processing “scion

The “Stanley Carpathian” strain on the farm of the Roggan Family near Stanley, NY. NYNGA has made successful grafts from this tree.

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July 2, 2012

HORTICULTURE

Grow Berries for All Seasons

by Cathy Heidenreich and Laura McDermott There are many reasons that growers would choose to extend the cropping season for berries. The earliest berries notably capture the best market prices - which is what growers strive for. On the latter end of the season, there may be late season marketing opportunities, and certainly creating as long a time as possible for berry sales is a good thing.

Season extension techniques may improve yield, fruit quality and shelf life, and possibly allow us to grow a wider variety of berries, all attributes that growers and consumers can be happy about.

When season extension is discussed lately, it often includes plant manipulation techniques, like tipping raspberries or removing blossoms of strawberries, or it might refer to environmental manipulation like using row covers or high tunnels to temporarily provide protection from an unsuitable environment. The easiest thing a grower can do to extend the berry season is to choose to grow berry crops that compliment each other seasonally, and then choose varieties that provide plentiful, high quality berries throughout the harvest season.

The following summaries are meant to be examples of the way a grower could choose overlapping varieties that would keep fresh, nutritious berries in front of his/ customers for the longest possible time - without doing any crop or environmental manipulation. As customers come to rely on local farms for their fruit needs, that will provide the incentive for more elaborate season extension efforts.

These summaries are not inclusive. There are dozens of varieties that could be substituted for the ones mentioned below. Growers should always try different varieties as fruit characteristics may differ between locations. Additional information about these and other varieties as well as the nurseries where you can order them is located at www.fruit.cornell.edu/berry/index.htm The earliest berries in New York State are strawberries.

Traditional June bearers and Day Neutral strawberries begin producing in May or June, depending on the microclimate. In cooler regions and with good variety selection, June bearers will continue into July, but day-neutrals will provide customers with fresh strawberries into October throughout most of New York - with just a bit of attention to frost protection.

Additionally, many other berry crops will start production in July including blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries and raspberries. Many of these can continue into September and possibly longer if the correct varieties are chosen and with slight modifications to environment.

Elderberries ripen in August and hardy Kiwifruit, soon to be very popular with consumers, is a great addition to the September market table.

Choosing the best berry varieties is not an easy task. There are hundreds of options, all touted to be the most delicious and productive. Growers need to consider local customer preferences in addition to pest resistance, vigor and timing.

The lists in Figure 1 may provide you with ideas for new varieties to try next season.

Figure 1: Blueberry, raspberry and strawberry varieties for an extended season.

Many of the berries in Figure 1 are familiar to growers, but the key is to have some of all varieties so that you can prolong the optimum harvest window. The area where many growers may be surprised at the varieties listed is in the fall raspberries. Most folks are still relying on Heritage to pull them through the autumn, but this is a mistake as the new varieties offer significant advances in earliness and fruit quality. The overall yield of these newer varieties will not approach Heritage, but having some nice looking early fall raspberries may encourage late summer pickers to return.

The chart also does not mention Day-Neutral strawberries. In New York, day neutral production relies largely on 4 varieties: Albion, Evie 2, Seascape and Tribute. Using these varieties in a number of different field or high tunnel production systems will add a great deal to berry season extension.

The blueberry variety plan is the most reliable in season stretching mainly because blueberries last so well on the plant. Still, in a year like summer 2010, the sustained heat really shortened the season, so most growers did not harvest much of anything past the 2nd week of August.

Strawberries taste like spring!

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Cornell Releases Two New Raspberry Varieties Two new raspberry varieties produced by Cornell researchers, Double Gold and Crimson Night, offer smallscale growers and home gardeners showy, flavorful raspberries on vigorous, disease-resistant plants.

Double Gold produces a deeply blushed, golden champagne-colored fruit with a distinctive conical shape, earning the "double" in its name for its two harvests per season. The first year of planting, the initial crop is produced in the fall on the tips of that year's canes, and a second crop is produced farther down the same canes the following summer.

Blueberries ready to pick Farmers in cold areas may get excited when they see the primocane blackberry varieties listed. Prime-Jim and PrimeJan have been around for several years and offer the cold climate berry grower the possibility of getting blackberries in normally un-hospitable zones. The problem is that these varieties still need a VERY long growing season before they can be harvested. In a 2008 Massachusetts study, both of these varieties started bearing by Sept. 15 and were finished by early October in the field. Compared to the same planting design under a high tunnel, which yielded 2.5 times more fruit that same season, it still suggest that some type of protection would really help fall bearing blackberries.

Summer blackberries likewise may need some environmental or plant manipulation in many NY regions, but for growers in Zones 5 and warmer, these plants offer a product highly desired by health conscious consumers.

Ribes, currants and gooseberries, are very popular with certain ethnic markets, but growers would profit by putting a bit of extra effort into marketing these fruit. Currants and gooseberries are featured in many cooking magazines and make great preserves. Black currants specifically have very high anti-oxidant levels and could be marketed to those folks that have home juicers.

Blackberry and ribes varieties for an extended season. *Susceptible to currant cane blight

The possibility for making the most of your berry season begins with your winter order. Take plenty of time to look at the fruit you offer over the entire season and try hard to avoid dead zones when no fruit is available. Northeast growers will have to work hard to meet the local demand, but the end result will be worth it.

Cathy Heidenreich is a Berry Extension Support Specialist with Cornell University and she can be reached at mcm4@cornell.edu.

Laura McDermott is a Capital District Vegetable and Small Fruit Regional Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Washington County. She can be reached at lgm4@cornell.edu.

Crimson Night is more compact, making the dark purple canes a particularly attractive ornamental for container gardening or a backyard raspberry plot.

Small quantities will be available late this summer, and North American Plants expects to have enough plants to meet the anticipated demand of each variety by the spring of 2013. Plant patents will be filed later this year.

Interested growers can learn more about new Cornell berry varieties at open house events in July and September.

A mixed berry planting