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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1964
Page
14
USDA tests show lambs fed soilage gained about the same daily as those on clean pasture and more than those on contaminated pasture. Results suggest soilage could cut feed costs for dairy-lamb farms in areas where pasture rotation is impractical.
Ewes and lambs in groups III and IV grazed pastures with free choice. Group III fed NF phenothiazine and group IV purified phenothiazine. Lambs fed soilage yielded 0.51 to 0.53 pounds daily, higher than parasite contaminated pasture at 0.42. Average soilage intake rose from 3 to 8 pounds per lamb daily, with weaning near late June. Farmer price index 216 percent of 1910-14. June prices 282 percent, 1% down from May and 4% below June 1963.
Prices for pork at 425 dollars per hundredweight hold steady from the prior month and are 13 cents higher than a year ago. The index of prices received tracks trend and changes in farmer receipts.
Fred A. Hughes outlines farm cost strategies in a talk titled Farm Adjustments for Profit. He argues using a custom operator on small farms is cheaper than buying own machinery and notes Mr and Mrs Geoff progressed from tenants in 1942 to owners in 1963 on a 100 acre property with a dairy herd as main income.
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