Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 May 1974 — Page 9
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Friday, May 24,1974
Bannar-Graphic, Gr*«ncattl«, Indiana
Pag« 9
Farm Has Polled Hereford Day
One pass through the field is all that is necessary to plant this crop of soybeans with a NO-TIL™ planter from the Allis-Chalmers Corp. The practice shown, called double cropping, allows the farmer to harvest wheat with the GLEANER combine, and immediately plant another crop. Plowing the field is not necessary before planting. Allis-Chalmers spokesmen say that minimum tillage planting and double cropping saves up to 50 per cent in fuel costs, conserves soil, saves horsepower hours per acre and saves time. The company helped pioneer the minimum tillage planting practice with the introduction of its NO-TIL™ planter in 1968.
Twin Maples harm, Corydon, Ind., will host cattlemen from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and surrounding states at a “Polled Hereford Day-U.S.A.” Sunday, June 16, with registration beginning at 8 a.m. This will be one of a series of unique, regional summer activities across the U.S. that are designed to keep cattlemen informed about the latest developments in the beef cattle industry. “Polled Hereford Days—U.S.A.” are the culmination of 10 years of American Polled Hereford Association (APHA)sponsored National Clinics and Cattlemen’s Conferences. According to E.T. Board and Tom Redden, owners of Twin Maples, registration will be followed by a session
on estimated breeding value of beef cattle, a concept emphasized at the 1973 American Cattlemen’s Conference. Persons attending the event will be involved in demonstrations and contests using a combination of all they see and all they know from performance and progeny records on cattle to select animals that excel in economi-cally-important traits. Nationally prominent program participants will include R.B. Carothers, Jr., Regional Vice President, American National Cattlemen’s Association, Paris, Tenn. and George C. Palmer II, APHA board chairman, Charlottesville, Va. Another feature of the daylong activity will be an open forum titled,” “The Breeder
sident. “This theme was selected because now is the best time for cattlemen to make plans to gear up for the future in the been industry.”
Overfinishing
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Hoosier cattle feeders who overfinish their animals are losing money, points out Purdue University extension animal scientist Kenneth G. MacDonald.
Land Use And Management Most Promising Ecological Alternatives, ERA Official Says
Speaks.” Moderated by Dr. C.K. Allen, APHA vice president for education and research, Kansas City, Mo., the panel will consist of Cletus Davis, Thorntown, Ind.; Charles Boyd. Mays Lick, Ky.; Harold Schroeder,
“If you are holding them you are only fooling yourself,” he says. “Your cost of gain will continue to rise along with your other costs and will take a big jump in the market price to enable you to break even."
Land use...or land management...is one of the most promising alternative methods to technological solution of our health, welfare and environ-
mental problems, an Environmental Protection Agency official told conferees recently at Purdue University. Speaking at the Land Use
and Water Resources in In- come more precise.
diana workshop, Mark Pisano, chief of EPA's Water Planning Division, Washington, D.C.said:
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“Most importantly,” he continued, ‘the environmental programs at all levels of government offer communities the opportunity to incorporate environmental goals and objectives in their land use plans and decisions. “As a result, these communities will have the opportunity to guide their growth, based, in part, on environmental considerations.”
Grass Lake, Mich.; George Lowery, Pierpont, Ohio; George Tjardes. Gibson City, 111.; Tom Redden. Corydon, Ind. and Art Timberlake, APHA district director, Mauckport, Ind. Other activities include a farm tour, lunch and awards presentations. All area cattlemen are invited to attend. “Each of the 12 regional events will carry the theme, ‘Now is the best time,”’ said Orville K. Sweet, APHA pre-
Farm Machinery
Harms Hearing?
Tests indicate even young people operating farm machinery over a period of time suffer hearing loss, says F.R. Willsey, Purdue University extension safety specialist. With planting season well under way and busy days ahead for farm youth, Willsey urges that these young people be encouraged by their elders to take precautions against machinery noise“Pa rents and employers, as well as the youths themselves, should realize that prolonged exposure to farm machinery noise, without proper protection, is a potential hazard to the hearing,” he says. Willsey points to annual screening tests conducted by the Tippecanoe School Cor-
oration every fall. Audiometer tests (which measure the hearing in each ear) made of 10th and 12th graders indicate a slight, permanent hearing loss among those who have operated farm machinery extensively during the summer. Evidence also has been compiled over the years which shows many adult farmers suffer a serious loss of hearing as a result of machinery noise, the safety specialist notes.
Record
Wheat Crop
Expected
Indiana farmers expect to harvest this summer a record wheat crop of 63 million bushels, the largest since records began in 1866. State-federal agricultrual statisticians at Purdue University, reporting on the Hoosier crop prospect high of 57.4 million bushels, established in 1906. This year’s crop would exceed 1973 production by more than two and one-halftimes.
The expected acreage for harvest-1.4 million acres-is double the 1973 acreage and the largest since Korean War days. Forecast yield is 45 bushels an acre, three short of the 1972 previous high, but 10 bushels more than last year’s average.
“Initial high frequency loss associated with noise damage does not decrease a person’s ability to hear normal conversation,” he adds, “but continued loss will bring a decline in his ability to hear conversational tones.” What can be done to maintain good hearing or prevent further damage? Willsey says some protection can be gained by wearing especially designed muffs or plugs. Muffs have several advantages. Most county Extension offices or vocational agricultural instructors have information about these muffs. Plugs provide a degree of protection but not as much as the muffs. Another safeguard is to use a tractor with a low r noise level—one with less than 90 decibels at the operator’s position. Noise is now measured on all makes of tractors at the official tractor testing station, Lincoln, Nebr. Many new f models now conform to this level. While a noise reducing cabtype tractor may be the answer, just any cab won’t do, explains Willsey, for some only increase the noise levels. By being aware of the potential hazard and taking proper precautions, much can be done to keep hearing sound.
MacDonald believes that fed cattle will have to be sold when they reach the grade for which they are suited if the market price of live cattle is to improve. “We will have too many overweight and overfinished cattle in the feedlots,” he adds.“These cattle don’t provide feeders with much bargaining power since packers will not pay top money for overdone cattle." In a typical feed lot situation, it requires 23 corn bushels equivalent to bring a feeder calffrom 1,050 to 1.150 pounds. With corn at $2.50 a bushel the cost of gain is about 57 cents a pound for the additional 100 pounds, MacDonald figures. If a feeder takes the animal to 1,250 pounds about 28 com bushels equivalent will be required to add the extra 100 pounds at an approximate feed cost of 70 cents a pound. Obviously, the animal scientist adds, cattle feeders can not make money by overfinishing their animals, cannot Time will be required, says MacDonald, to work out of the price-cost situation. There is no way the industry can dump large numbers of heavy cattle on the market within a short period and have the market absorb them, he adds. “We must move cattle from the feedlots when they are ready to go,” he counsels.
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