CF East 12.19.11

19 DECEMBER 2011 Section e off Three One Volume e 40 r1 Number

$1.99

Your Weekly Connection to Agriculture

Farm News • Equipment for Sale • Auctions • Classifieds

Merry Christmas from all of us at Country Folks Achievement night and leaders recognition FFA Page B11

Columnists Paris Reidhead

Crop Comments

A6

Lee Mielke

Mielke Market Weekly A18 Auctions Classifieds Dairy & DHIA Farmer to Farmer

C1 B21 A5 B8

INSERTS: (in some areas) • Case IH

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. ~ Luke 1:38

Section A - Page 2 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

New award announced at Montgomery County Farm Bureau meeting

by Elizabeth A. Tomlin Montgomery County Farm Bureau met in November, under the new leadership of President Martin Kelly.

NYFB Dist. 6 Field Advisor John Wagner, who attended the meeting, announced that a New York Farm Bureau has issued a new award, the ‘James Quinn Award’, which is available this year.

“This award focuses on recognizing a volunteer’s efforts for a one-year cycle as opposed to the long term, distinguished award we give at the State annual meeting,” Wagner said.

Nominations were taken from within the county, and nominees must be regular Farm Bureau members of the county. Vice-President John Fidler advised that nominees for the James Quinn Award had already been

Montgomery County's newly appointed Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee Chair, Owen Potter, was greeted with appreciation at the meeting.

submitted from some of the other counties in the State.

According to Director of Public Policy Julie Suarez, “While a Quinn award will be presented each year at our state annual meeting, the number of awards will fluctuate from year to year. Nominated by their peers in the farm bureau system, three individuals received the inaugural outstanding recognition for their leadership at the county and state level in membership, education, and policy issues.”

Awarded at this year’s Centennial meeting in Binghamton, were Jenny Lundberg from Monroe County Farm Bureau for promoting and educating the non-farming public; Oscar Vizacar, a fruit grower and winery owner in Niagara County, who was nominated for his service to agriculture; and dairy farmer Judi Whittaker, a long time leader within the Broome County Farm Bureau.

Fidler also reported that 11 new members had been added to Montgomery County’s membership roster.

With 297 renewals activated, the current number of members is 308. “That currently gives us a renewal rate of 71.13 percent,” Fidler said. “We’re 6 percentage points ahead of the State average right now, so, in that regards we’re doing pretty good.” Fidler pointed out that the County’s goal for membership is 433.

Montgomery County’s newly appointed Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee Chair, Owen Potter, was greeted with appreciation, and Jaclyn Sears, the new Field Advisor for Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Otsego, Schenectady, and Schoharie counties was introduced and recognized by the 15 attendees.

Monthly reports were submitted at the meeting and the board made a motion to retreat into executive session to discuss ongoing issues concerning the local extension agency.

(From left) Secretary Jennifer Jennings, President Martin Kelly, NYFB Dist. 6 Field Advisor John Wagner, and Vice-President John Fidler reviewed new memberships at the November meeting.

Photos by Elizabeth Tomlin

(Clockwise from left) Tom Nelson, Gerald Douglas, Mike Jennings, Gordon Schaufelberg, and Russ Kelly convened at the Montgomery County Farm Bureau meeting to discuss the upcoming annual meeting in Binghamton.

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

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

safety hazards, and regular on-farm safety training. The meeting program was developed to stimulate local farm safety awareness and encourage farm preparedness in the watershed. The event drew representatives from local watershed farms interested in preserving water quality as well as enhancing and developing environmental stewardship on their own farming operations.

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

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

Jim Carrabba at SLWAP annual meeting.

Photo courtesy of Skaneateles Lake Watershed Ag Program

by Sally Colby Carol Clement grew up in the rural Catskills, participating in 4-H and spending as much time as she could around animals. “I wanted to farm parttime and live in an agricultural community,” she said. “It was a farming community when I moved here, and now we’re one of the only farms left.”

But Carol and her husband John Harrison are keeping agriculture alive in Preston Hollow, NY, where they’re working together on Heather Ridge Farm, their 160-acre diversified farm where they enjoy dealing directly with customers. Although Carol first started by keeping honeybees and raising a few animals for herself and others, the farm has become home to beef cattle, sheep, chickens, turkeys, pigs, goats and llamas.

The first food-processing venture at Heather Ridge was honey. Once they realized that customers enjoyed coming to the farm to purchase farm-processed meats, they became licensed with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. “My experience with New York Ag and Markets has been good,” said Carol. “They have been very helpful — they make recommendations and help people get to the next stage.”

Carol says that diversity has been good for the farm in terms of not just how they farm, but also for attracting customers. Their main customer base is within an hour of the farm, which is one

of the reasons they added the Bees Knees Cafe. “When people come here, they can relax, have something to eat, meet other people,” said Carol. “It’s been a positive addition.” The other reason for the café is that Carol really likes to cook. “On Saturdays, I’d put out dishes for people to sample,” she said. “I found that people not only tasted the food, but they’d stand around and talk with each other. It became a very social thing — people were looking for an excuse to stay longer.” The café also allows Carol to work closely with local orchards, produce growers and cheese makers to offer a larger variety of farmfresh products. “This time of year, there’s less traffic, but we have a good following,” said Carol. “There’s something comforting about bowls of soup and stew.”

Carol and John purchase young beef and pigs locally and finish them at Heather Ridge. “We deal with several breeders who work specifically to get the highest quality animals,” she said.

“We’re very fussy about where they come from.” Pig breeds include Gloucester Old Spot, Tamworth and rare Ossabaw Island pigs that originate from Ossabaw Island in Georgia. The 20 to 40 pigs raised on the farm each year have a large, natural outdoor environment with access to orchards and wooded areas with springs and ponds. Beef cattle are purchased as yearlings and finished on pasture. A

John Harrison, Heather Ridge Farm, walks 'Rua', one of the farm's guardian llamas.

The staff of Heather Ridge Farm at the farm's annual turkey pick-up day in November.

Photos courtesy of Heather Ridge Farm number of pastured chickens are socks. Laying hens produce eggs, and processed every week so that fresh, vac- Guinea fowl keep bugs in check.

The farm is set up for rotational grazuum-packed chicken is available from the end of May through October. Heather ing, and the couple is working on silRidge also sells chicken to several local vopasturing — the practice of planned grazing of wooded areas to increase grazrestaurants and to a local supermarket.

Large animals are processed at sever- ing capacity. Carol explains that the goal al facilities. “We’re lucky enough to be of silvopasturing is to allow landowners 45 minutes from Cobleskill College to use the ‘whole’ farm rather than viewwhere they have a meat science pro- ing it as simply pasture and woods. gram,” said Carol. “They give priority to “We’ve improved our pastures,” she said, farms in the county. It’s small, they take “but for our farm to expand, we need to very good care of the animals, and the think of other ways to use the land. We’re animals are training new butchers.” converting old fields that have grown up Carol and her crew make sausage in the into woods to habitats for animals. This inspected kitchen using farm-raised is a whole new challenge‚ how to make chicken, beef and lamb. “We can make that resource productive. It’s an interestsmall batches, and experiment with va- ing concept that’s appropriate for many riety of flavors,” she said, adding that farms.” Mixed groups of sheep, goats and one favorite pork sausage is Asiago llamas graze the silvopastures; removing cheese, garlic and parsley. “Sausages vegetation and allowing light that helps are great sellers — they’re so easy to grass to grow. cook.” Right now, the farm store feaCarol says that people are definitely intures fresh lamb and beef for upcoming terested in knowing how the animals are holiday entertaining, as well as gift bas- raised, and that total transparency is imkets that feature Heather Ridge and portant. “I think the reason we’ve been products from other local farms. able to get customer loyalty is not just The sheep flock at Heather Ridge in- the high quality of our product, but cuscludes 40 breeding ewes that produce tomers can come right to the farm and about 60 to 70 lambs each spring. Sever- see the animals,” she said. “We do farm al Boer goats on the farm are used most- tours and let people walk around so they ly to help clear land for expansion, but a can see our production methods. When limited amount of goat meat is available they come to the store, it’s the farmer at the farm store. Llamas guard the who’s waiting on them.” small ruminants and also provide fleece Visit Heather Ridge Farm online at that’s combined with Icelandic fleece for www.heather-ridge-farm.com/

A guardian llama watches over young lambs at Heather Ridge Farm.

Page 3 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Diversified farm employs silviculture to expand grazing

Section A - Page 4 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

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

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

Over the years, residential development has encroached more and more into traditionally rural areas. The close proximity of residences and farms can lead to disputes regarding the offsite impacts of farming operations, including such conditions as noise and odors. For example, a farmer may decide to implement a manure management program through the U.S. Natural Resource Conservation Service in which animal manure stored in a concrete pit is emptied periodically and applied to the farmer’s crops. This agricultural practice, however, may generate complaints from nearby neighbors that the concentrated odor associated with the storage of large volumes of manure is adversely affecting

their air quality and substantially interfering with the use and enjoyment of their properties, both indoors and outdoors. One or more of the neighbors may file, or threaten to file, a civil lawsuit claiming that the farmer’s operations constitute a private nuisance and requesting an award of money damages.

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

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

Section 308 authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets to issue opinions, upon the request of any person, regarding whether particular agricultural practices are sound. To qualify as an agricultural practice,

Country Folks Eastern Edition U.S.P.S. 482-190

Country Folks (ISSN0191-8907) is published every week on Monday by Lee Publications, PO Box 121, 6113 St. Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428.

Periodical postage paid at Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 and additional entry offices.

Subscription Price: $45 per year, $75 for 2 years.

POSTMASTER: Send address change to Country Folks, P.O. Box 121, 6113 St. Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428. 518-673-2448.

Country Folks is the official publication of the Northeast DHIA, N.Y. State FFA, N.Y. Corn Growers Association and the N.Y. Beef Producers.

Publisher, President .....................Frederick W. Lee, 518-673-0134 V.P., General Manager......................Bruce Button, 518-673-0104...................... bbutton@leepub.com V.P., Production.................................Mark W. Lee, 518-673-0132........................... mlee@leepub.com Managing Editor.............................Joan Kark-Wren, 518-673-0141................. jkarkwren@leepub.com Assistant Editor..................................Gary Elliott, 518-673-0143......................... cfeditor@leepub.com Page Composition.........................Michelle Gressler, 518-673-0138 ...................mmykel@leepub.com Comptroller.......................................Robert Moyer, 518-673-0148...................... bmoyer@leepub.com Production Coordinator..................Jessica Mackay, 518-673-0137.................... jmackay@leepub.com Classified Ad Manager.....................Peggy Patrei, 518-673-0111..................... classified@leepub.com Shop Foreman ..................................................................................................................Harry Delong Palatine Bridge, Front desk ....................518-673-0160 .......................Web site: www.leepub.com Accounting/Billing Office .......................518-673-0149 ..................................amoyer@leepub.com Subscriptions ..........................................888-596-5329 .......................subscriptions@leepub.com Send all correspondence to: PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 • Fax (518) 673-2699 Editorial email: jkarkwren@leepub.com Advertising email: jmackay@leepub.com Ad Sales Bruce Button, Corporate Sales Mgr .......Palatine Bridge, NY..........................................518-673-0104 Territory Managers Patrick Burk ...................................................Batavia, NY ................................................585-343-9721 Tim Cushen ...............................................Schenectady, NY ...........................................518-346-3028 Ian Hitchener ...............................................Bradford, VT ...............................................518-210-2066 Rick Salmon ..................................................Cicero, NY .................315-452-9722 • Fax 315-452-9723 Ad Sales Representatives Jan Andrews .........................................Palatine Bridge, NY .........................................518-673-0110 Laura Clary ............................................Palatine Bridge, NY ..........................................518-673-0118 Dave Dornburgh ....................................Palatine Bridge, NY ..........................................518-673-0109 Steve Heiser ..........................................Palatine Bridge, NY ..........................................518-673-0107 Tina Krieger ...........................................Palatine Bridge, NY ..........................................518-673-0108 Sue Thomas ..........................................suethomas@cox.net ..........................................949-305-7447 We cannot GUARANTEE the return of photographs. Publisher not responsible for typographical errors. Size, style of type and locations of advertisements are left to the discretion of the publisher. The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the publisher. We will not knowingly accept or publish advertising which is fraudulent or misleading in nature. The publisher reserves the sole right to edit, revise or reject any and all advertising with or without cause being assigned which in his judgement is unwholesome or contrary to the interest of this publication. We assume no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisement, but if at fault, will reprint that portion of the ad in which the error appears.

the practice must be necessary to the on-farm production, preparation and marketing of agricultural commodities. By way of example, Section 308 identifies agricultural practices as including the operation of farm equipment, the proper use of agricultural chemicals and other crop protection methods, the direct sale to consumers of agricultural commodities produced on the farm, and agricultural tourism.

The Commissioner will conduct an investigation to determine, on a caseby-case basis, whether the particular agricultural practice at issue is sound. In conducting the investigation, the Commissioner may conduct an onsite review of the practice in operation, may interview neighbors, and may consult with appropriate state or federal agencies. Under the department’s current guidelines, a number of

factors are to be considered in determining whether an agricultural practice is sound: Is the practice consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local laws that reasonably govern farm operations? Does the practice result in significantly adverse health consequences or property damage off the farm?

Does the practice achieve the results intended in a reasonable and supportable way? Are there alternative practices available that could produce equal or superior results, without undue cost or disruption to farm operations, while reducing or avoiding off-farm impacts?

If, upon investigation, the Commissioner issues

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

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

Letter to the Editor Opinions of the letters printed are not necessarily those of the staff or management at Country Folks. Submit letters of opinion to Editor, Country Folks, PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428. Fax 518-673-2699; E-mail cfeditor@leepub.com.

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

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

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

This traded cheese comprises less than 1 percent of total U.S. milk production.

It is offered in 50,000 pound “carload” lots; often at low-ball prices, seemingly against the offering trader’s immediate financial interest. This practice is termed: “trading against one’s interest.”

In this instance, it represents collusion.

Collusion amongst these cheese traders, who front for multinational dairy corporations, is done to deliberately down-skew the CME sale data which will be collected by USDA in the knowledge the data will become the formula basis for future U.S. farm price calculations. In this fashion these dairy corporations “game” the system; subverting this CME market mechanism to

deliberately down-value the remaining 99+ percent of U.S. farm milk output.

Short-selling one or two carloads of cheese can lower the future USDA Farm Milk Price and reduce these conspiring corporations’ overall monthly milk assembly costs by tens of millions of dollars. This scam translates to a systematic, continual financial short-changing of the nation’s dairy farmers.

This CME system gaming has not gone unnoticed in the halls of Congress.

Currently at point on the issue is New York’s junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. At an August agricultural listening session in Westfield, NY, the Senator stated: “There is no transparency or honesty in the pricing mechanism at all, I want to push the envelope that there is a disconnect between the (farm) price of milk and how we come up with it through the price of cheese in Chicago. I think there is a lot of corruption and anti-trust behavior that is there to keep the (farm) price down.”

Until the collapse of the Super Committee negotiations there was a very real danger that the best interests of the nation’s dairy farmers were going to be sacrificed to political expediency. Post-collapse, the 2012 Farm Bill process now has an opportunity to revert to a slower, more thoughtful, deliberate and measured pace. U.S. dairy farmers must take advantage this precious opportunity and bend it to answer their purpose.

Senator Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security is urging Senate Ag. Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, (D-MI) to hold hearings to explore the limitations and short-comings of the current USDA Milk Price

Cover photo by Sally Colby

Letter A5

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

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

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

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

of a Kubota M Series utility tractor.

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

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

The Discussion meet simulates a committee meeting with contestants working cooperatively as they discuss issues important to agriculture. Participants are judged on their cooperative attitude, analysis of the topic, problem solving and implementation strategies and their delivery. The final topic for discussion this year was: How can we convince the public that the animal agriculture industry balances

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

production efficiencies with the public’s expectations of animal care? Eisele will also receive a prize from Grainger Industrial Supply.

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

Bethany is currently employed as the organic dairy education coordinator for

the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and has created many resources for farmers including the Organic Dairy Handbook.

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

New York Farm Bureau’s State Annual Meeting brings together members of the largest agricultural advocacy group in the state to determine the policies that will guide the organization for the coming year.

Letter from A4

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

President Norton with Discussion Meet winner Heath Eisele.

Formula. Senator Gillibrand is on record as wanting to craft a fair, transparent price formula based on reliable price discovery factors to counter the chicanery routinely generated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange cheese floor. All parties interested in a bright future for the American dairy industry should close ranks behind the Senator and aid her in any way possible in this pursuit.

Reworking the USDA Milk Price Formula will not be an end-all solution for our nation’s dairy farmers. However, without a remaking of the basic price formula all other proposed measures currently before Congress, either on their own, or in concert, are doomed to fail in curing the ongoing and seemingly unending crisis on the nation’s dairy farms.

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

Failure to address the inadequacy of

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

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

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

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

Page 5 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Young farmers honored during historic state annual meeting

December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Section A - Page 6

Crop Comments

by Paris Reidhead Field Crops Consultant Ones that got away Earlier this month my son Peter, who works and lives in one of New York City’s Connecticut suburbs, forwarded me an Internet headline which read: “Town tries ‘bait cow’ to lure wayward heifer.” I will try to summarize the small Reuters News Service article which followed the headline: This past mid-September, a wayward heifer, weighing about 1,500 pounds (presumably a beefer), fell off the back of a truck and had been wandering loose in Plattsmouth, NE, ever since (as of Dec. 1). Animal control officers in that city, on that date, corralled a “bait cow” in a community tennis court to help lure the elusive heifer in from the cold. “We know that she’s back in the area because we found where she beds down during the day,” said Sue Baker, the animal control officer for the city, located 20 miles south of Omaha.

“We hope she sees the other cow and joins her in the tennis courts when she walks by next time.”

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

(Contact: renrock46@hotmail.com)

The Plattsmouth heifer had been hiding in woods on the north edge of town during the day and coming out at night to graze on grass lawns.

The 1,500-pound heifer appeared healthy, Baker said. “Now that there’s nothing to graze in the countryside, she’s coming into town for food,” she said. On Nov. 30, Baker almost led the heifer into the tennis court to join the “bait cow”, but a small barking dog spooked the heifer away.

On the subject of escaping life forms, the one most commonly in the news these days is methicillin-resistant Staphyllococcus aureus (abbreviated MRSA). According to a British Web site (http://treatingstaphsuperbugmrsa.c om/allicin), over one million metric tons of antibiotics have been dispersed into the biosphere in the past 50 years to cure countless bacterial infections, half for human use and half for animal use. The problem with this shotgun approach, as with any method which attacks a population of what we consider pests, is that the weaker individuals die, but the ones with natural immunity to the pesticide survive to fight … and reproduce prolifically… another day.

In this sense, antibiotics are pesticides just like herbicides and

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

Monsters, called “Antibiotic-resist-

Top 40 Herds For November

ant Super Bugs” have destroyed any illusion that we have won the war against infectious diseases. Medical doctors, by their own admission, are frustrated and frightened.

Fortunately Mother

NAME

CORTLAND

941 3.5 808

DHI-AP H1106.6 DHI-AP H1643.7 DHI-AP H 537.1

27420 24305 17886

980 3.5 831 3 3X 876 3.6 727 2.9 3X 663 3.7 511 2.8 3X

H 332.3 H 941.9 H1002.7 H1714.4

27070 26640 25758 23878

960 988 931 941

DHI-AP H 672.6

24753

889 3.5 732 2.9 3X

DHI-AP H2489.4 DHI-AP H 96.3

26833 26545

943 3.5 802 2.9 3X 941 3.5 787 2.9 3X

DHI-AP H

548

23976

878 3.6 731

DHI-APCS H1862.9

26199

955 3.6 780 2.9 3X

DHI-APCS H1096.2

24208

965 3.9 758 3.1 3X

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

LIVINGSTON TODD GALTON

WILLOW BEND FARM WILLOW BEND FARMS NEDROW

PERRY

PLEASANT VIEW FARM

ST LAWRENCE MAPLE VIEW FARMS

WASHINGTON WOODY HILL FARM

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

26609

MAMMOSER FARMS EDEN MAMMOSER GERALD MAMMOSER FARMS ORGANIC

ONTARIO

FAT

DHI-AP H 506.1

ERIE

GILLIGAN JAMES &DEANNE HILL MICHAEL EASTMAN FARMS PORTERDALE FARMS INC

RHA MILK

NEW YORK

WHEY STREET DAIRY

JEFFERSON

B R COW E YEARS E D

3.5 3.7 3.6 3.9

3 3X

825 3 806 3 788 3 712 2.9

3X 3X 3X 3X

3 3X

Brd Cows

Milk

NEW YORK

800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com TYPE TEST

Crop A9 TOP HERDS FOR NOVEMBER

For Records Processed through AgSource, Verona, WI HERD OWNER

Nature, in the face of this pharmaceutical stalemate, is making a countermove against MRSA and other virulent pathogens. Many hospitals in the UK, and to a

FAT %

PRO %

771 731 665 632 566

* Denotes Herds Milked 3X

MONTGOMERY

SKIFF-S DAIRY FARM LLC HOBART & CYNTHIA PICKARD HOBART & CYNTHIA PICKARD JOHN & CHRIS NELLIS PHILLIPS & SUSAN FERRY

H H J H J

81 35 15 98 64

24209 22350 16893 20781 15469

944 862 917 806 750

3.9 3.9 5.4 3.9 4.8

58

24345

911 3.7

742 3

H 116 H 137 H 69 J 104 X 22 X 47 G 32

20091 21107 19753 14610 15615 14032 13687

796 817 737 678 605 586 589

4 3.9 3.7 4.6 3.9 4.2 4.3

673 658 599 537 495 456 440

3.3 3.1 3 3.7 3.2 3.2 3.2

H H H H H H B H

29175 1117 3.8 23796 938 3.9 23478 873 3.7 23103 934 4 19345 784 4.1 17642 663 3.8 14513 606 4.2 14346 292 2

898 732 724 703 627 533 495 239

3.1 * 3.1 3.1 3 3.2 3 3.4 1.7

OTSEGO M. CHARLES EVANS SEVEN VIEW FARM SLATEHILL FARM MIKE SWART GEORGE B. WILSON GEORGE & KATHY CRAFT DEB-RAY DAIRY GEORGE & KATHY CRAFT IDEAL DAIRY FARMS TAYLOR & ALAN HENDERSON WILLIAM LUNDY HOLLISTER BROTHERS CRYSTAL DEW FARM SKIFF FARMS INC. SKIFF FARMS INC. MICHAEL & LOUISE WOODDELL

H

SCHOHARIE

WASHINGTON 942 138 152 104 139 73 15 107

Agricultural • Residential • Commercial • Industrial

LIGHTNING PROTECTION S Y S T E M S I N S TA L L E D A N D R E PA I R E D Serving Central NY 30 Years • Service Provided Year Round Call or write:

WEBB PROFESSIONALS

P.O. Box 553 • Oneida, NY 13421 • 315/363-8660

CUSTOMIZED MANUFACTURING AND BUILDINGS • Free stalls • Tie stalls • Feed rails • Cow beds • Curtain • Barn fans

• Bale spears (of all kinds) • Round bale feeders • Large square bale feeders • Custom built calf pens • Custom built gates • Waterers & troughs

• Rubber matting • Feeder wagons • Head locks • Running gears • Snow pushers • Sheep feeders

NOW FEATURING • Custom Built Structures • Custom Steel Fabrication • Local Distributor for many other Agricultural Products

WE ALSO ARE THE DEALERS FOR: Show us your design and we can give you a quote, or we can help you with your design. Installation available.

BUILDINGS

Cummings and Bricker, Inc., Farmer Boy Ag Supply and Agri-Plastics

MUD LAKE STALLS, LLC

3517 Co. Rt. 10, Depeyster, New York 13633 Phone & Fax 315-344-2251

COCHECTON MILLS, INC. Cochecton, NY 12726 914-932-8282

MUD LAKES STALLS LLC 3517 County Route 10 Depeyster, NY 13633 315-344-2251

SKYVIEW FENCING & POLE BUILDINGS Chatham, NY 12037 518-392-7364

EAGLE DAIRY DIRECT Syracuse, NY 13221 866-591-2925

P&D EQUIPMENT SALES Alexander, NY 585-343-2394

FARMER BOY AG SUPPLY, INC. 1133 Rt. 318 Waterloo, NY 13165 866-453-4001

SENECA IRON WORKS Seneca Falls, NY 13148 315-712-0118

DAIRYLAND SALES & SERVICE Troy, PA 16947 570-297-4128

LAYDEN FENCING & LIVESTOCK Lockwood, NY 14859 607-589-7033

3.2 3.3 3.9 3 3.7

SHARON SPRINGS GARAGE INC. Sharon Springs, NY 13459 518-284-2811

WILLIAMS FENCE OF CNY 2033 Brothertown Rd. Deansboro, NY 13328 315-841-4910

Share the country farm newspaper you love with friends and family members who share your appreciation for farm living.

Buy them a gift subscription to Country Folks.

If you purchase a one-year gift subscription for a new subscriber, we’ll extend your subscription three additional months at no extra charge.

To subscribe, remove this 4 page insert from your paper.

Fill out and follow the instructions on the form on page 4 of this pullout.

Page 7 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

GIVE COUNTRY FOLKS FOR CHRISTMAS!

Section A - Page 8 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

WOULD YOU PREFER TO READ YOUR WEEKLY COPY OF COUNTRY FOLKS AT YOUR COMPUTER? We would be happy to send a digital copy of Country Folks every week to your email address.

Call, fax, or email us to receive a sample issue.

Digital editions cost $25 per year or $45 for 2 years.

Give us your zip code and we’ll email you a link to the edition appropriate for your area.

Call 888/596-5329 Fax 518/673-2381 Email: subscriptions@leepub.com

Deluxe EXL Calf Hutch

Small Animal Housing for Calves, Goats, Sheep, etc Indoor Calf Raising Pens Group Hutch with

E-MAIL: agriplastics@aol.com WEBSITE: www.agri-plastics.net 607-591-0103

Eagle Dairy Direct: 866-591-2925 Don’s Dairy Service: 607-538-9464 Mud Lake Stalls: 315-344-2251 C&K Supply: 888-394-8889 Country Power Products: 518-692-1015

lesser extent, the U.S., have accepted her weapon of choice, namely allicin, the biochemical produced by garlic.

Garlic, the prominent member of genus Allium (which also includes onion and leeks) produces a natural chemical called alliin in its cloves (and scapes, the vegetative portion)… no, I didn’t leave out a letter.

When a garlic clove is cracked, oxygen hits the alliin, and chemically changes it to allicin, which now yields a lot more odor, as well as medicinal properties.

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

(and animal) wellness.

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

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

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

Many of these same scientists now admit they are looking at natural alternatives to help bail us out. Enter allicin. Great physicians, herbalists and healers have long suggested that garlic is good for human health.

Garlic has been used around the world, dating back over 5,000 years.

Egyptian slaves building the pyramids were provided rations of garlic, not only to improve the quality of their daily rations, but also to keep them free of disease.

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

These and other recent developments indicate that garlic’s primary active ingredient, allicin, may become a much bigger player on the health scene. Allicin contains the same reactive sulfur group that sulfa drugs, the very first antibiotics, contained back in the 1930s. In their more natural form these sulfur compounds appear more effective against MRSA than synthetic sulfurbased antibiotics.

A closing comment on the UK Web site ran: “Garlic’s health benefits are truly legendary, but only now, in the 21st century, has its potential to conquer modern-day health challenges been revealed.

At long last, after 80 years of trying to release the ‘mother substance’, the allicin molecule is now available to assist mankind, where modern medicine is failing us.”

Crop A11

Page 9 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Strong, Durable and #1 Choice Among Farmers Worldwide

Crop from A6

Section A - Page 10 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Farm Chronicle/Country Folks Championship

SKID STEER RODEO FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

Sponsored by the Virginia Farm Bureau

Sign Up in the Virginia Farm Bureau Booth 211 from 9 - 1 Event Time is from 1pm - 3pm Awards Ceremony at 3:30 pm • VA Farm Bureau Booth Booth 211

DIAMOND LEVEL SPONSOR

TROPHY SPONSOR

VA FARM BUREAU

VA FARM BUREAU

See them in Booth 211

AGAIN THIS YEAR!!

MINI EXCAVATORS IN THE RODEO!!!

Bring your New Membership cards to the Virginia Farm Bureau Booth 211 at the Virginia Farm Show & receive a free sorting stick*. Sticks will be available for purchase for non-members or you can become a member on the spot and receive all of the benefits that Virginia Farm Bureau has to offer. *While supplies last.

COMPETE FOR CASH PRIZES AND TROPHIES!

Must be 18 years of age to participate. And be able to prove it!

Join us in St. Pete Beach, FL for the NMC 51st Annual Meeting, scheduled for Jan. 22-24, 2012 at the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort.

Please note that the meeting will fol-

low a slightly revised format compared to previous years. Be sure to note the changes, particularly the time for the committee meetings, short courses, and featured symposium: • Committee meetings will be held on all three days (Sunday afternoon, Monday & Tuesday mornings) rather than all day on Monday, as has been the

Wishing all a Merry Christmas and happy New Year! Thank you for all of your support and look forward to working with you in 2012.

Standard F eatures

Winco Generator

• 100% Copper Windings • Full Power Receptacle • Large 3” Voltage Meter • Full Power Plug Included

Order your Winco today!

Don’t let an outage Put you in the dark You already own the tractor, why not save the aggravation a power outage brings. A Winco PTO generator can save you money over its useful life while preventing losses due to electrical power outages.

349 Roses Brook Road, South Kortright, NY 13842 P. 607-538-9464 F. 607-538-1514

tradition in the past.

• The featured symposium has been moved from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon.

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

• Short courses will be held on Sunday afternoon/evening and Tuesday evening.

Please note that online registration for the meeting is preferred. You may pay by check or credit card if you register online. Register by Jan. 2 and receive the early-bird discount.

It is also advisable to make your hotel reservations early. The deadline is Dec. 27, but the room block could fill up before that date.

Crop from A9 Some time ago, in my involvement with organic agriculture, I learned that garlic has medicinal properties. Garlic fed to chicks substitutes for one on the -cycline drugs, I believe, Aureomycin. Armed with that knowledge, I began feeding very young calves a garlic clove to supplement their new-born colostrum feeding. I would bite a clove to activate the allicin, stick it

www.donsdairysupply.com

between my two longest fingers, and poke it down past the calf’s tongue.

This practice apparently worked quite well. Within organic circles, garlic has been shown to counter round worms. In one situation where I recommended garlic as a dewormer in dry cows, the farmer observed that when the cows freshened, the calves had much fewer respiratory problems.

Garlic-eaters get bitten by mosquitoes less often than non-garlic eaters.

Garlic eaters are less

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

Bottom Unloader Replacement Parts & Service Chains.. Chains.. Chains • Regular • Heavy Duty Stainless Steel

G & J SERVICE Herkimer, NY WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF REPLACEMENT PARTS For Prices or Information Call Anytime (315) 866-4219 or (315) 866-0277

*Offer available October 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Cannot be combined wih any other offer. Rebates and/or financing based on the purchase of eligible equipment defined in promotional program. Pricing and rebates in US dollars. Customers must take delivery prior to the end of the program period.

Some customers will not qualify. Some restrictions apply. Offers available on new equipment only. Prior purchases are not eligible. Offer valid only at participating Dealers. See your dealer for details.

NEW YORK JIM’S EQUIPMENT REPAIR, INC. 4072 Lewis Rd. Campbell, NY 14821 607-527-8872 • 800-450-8872 www.jimsequipment.com TRI-COUNTY SUPPLY, INC. 12069 Ocean Rd. (Rt. 16) Chaffee, NY 14039 716-496-8859

TEAM DIXIE CHOPPER 1182 State Route 7 Richmondville, NY 518-294-2081 • fax 518-294-2083 per.com team.dixiechopper@dixiechopp NEW ENGLAND NORTHEAST FARM SERVICE, INC. 4497 Route 5 Irasburg, VT 05845 802-754-8863

Page 11 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Registration open for the NMC 51st Annual Meeting

Section A - Page 12 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

The Moo News Newsletter of Penn Dutch Cow Care

by Hubert J. Karreman Hi Folks, I sometimes take heat in the organic world due to really enjoying treating animals rather than focusing on prevention and nutrition. Yet let’s be real — even with excellent prevention and nutrition, the fact is there’ll still be illness at times — that’s part of life.

Truth is that by the time I’m called to see a case, the situation is already beyond simple prevention and/or nutrition. Interestingly, some people seem to dislike that I use therapy via needles and injection to help animals regain health, instead of relying on orally administered remedies. Why is that? All I can say is that while I might use fairly intensive natural methods, I’ll also use all routes of administration to help get the best outcome for the patient. Interestingly, it seems that more and more dairy farmers considering organic certification want solutions with near equal “punch” that they have come to expect with conventional medicine.

Thus it seems logical to know which

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

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

A short listing of CAVM groupings with specific examples follow: food therapy - preventive nutrition, therapeutic nutrition, glandular therapy

and orthomolecular medicine; manual therapy - massage, acupressure, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, and physical therapy; biological therapy - hyper-immune plasma, hyper-immune eggs, serum therapy, bee sting therapy, and pharmaceutically reared leeches and maggots; botanical therapy - western herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, essential oils and aromatherapy; energy medicine Christian laying-on of hands, classical homeopathy, homotoxicology, Bach flower remedies and non-traditional

homeopathy. This is not a complete list of course and there are combinations of treatment, like injecting homeopathic remedies at acupuncture points.

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

Moo A13

Call today for your installation: Winter time may be a good time to turn your cows out for a day of renovating.

Call today to pick your installation date 717-442-8850

E. Rissler Hydro Cart • GX200 Honda powered • Hydrostatic drive with individual wheel motors • Stainless steel feed box • 12” discharge auger • #55 main apron chain • Spiral beater, to break up feed clumps • Spring cushioned seat • Sizes are 30 bu., 43 bu., and 60 bu.

Wood Puppy Bedding Spreader Attachment • Seconds to attach/detach • Spread shavings at rate of 50 stalls/min.

Contact Your Nearest Dealer MID-STATE TECH 6024 Greene Road Munnsville, NY 13409 315-495-6506 BILLHARDTS JAMESWAY SALES & SERVICE 5807 State Route 12 Glenfield, NY 13343 315-376-2054

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC. 6195 Route 20A Warsaw, NY 14569 585-786-0177

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC. 9618 Route 26 Lowville, NY 315-376-2991

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC. 175 Ovid Street Seneca Falls, NY 13148 315-568-0955

Charvin Farms ag plastics • Bags • Twine • Bale Wrap • Net Wrap • Bunk Covers • End Caps • Bale Bags • Bale Sleeves • Lastic Tube • Poly Fasteners 800-352-3785 • Inoculant www.c har vinfarm.com • Propionic Acid sales@c har vinfarm.com

each may help you understand their potential role.

Acupuncture is a form of treatment which utilizes energy routes (meridians) that naturally course throughout

the body, with certain points (acupuncture points) of the channel on the skin surface connecting nerves to organs in the body interior. By stimulating these points with dry needles,

CIDEC LLC 1466 Clark St. Rd. Auburn, NY 13021 315-252-9270

DELAVAL DIRECT 1048 St. Rte. 197 Argyle, NY 12809 518-638-8382

CORTLAND VALLEY DAIRY SERVICE, INC 1791 E. Homer Rd. Rte. 13 Cortland, NY 607-753-6744

SMITH BROTHERS ELECTRIC Rte. 2 Box 290 Lisbon, NY 13658 315-393-2988

DELAVAL DIRECT 5249 Rt. 39 Castile, NY 14427 585-493-2235

WORMUTH DAIRY & REFRIGERATION LLC Box 332 Morrisville, NY 13408 315-684-9152

DELAVAL DIRECT 8631 East Main St. Clymer, NY 14724 716-355-4326 DELAVAL DIRECT 850 Main Rd. Corfu, NY 14036 585-599-4696 DELAVAL DIRECT 1486 US Hwy. 11 Gouverneur, NY 13642 315-287-2581 FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICES, INC. 175 Ovid St. Seneca Falls, NY 13148 315-568-0955 GARDINIER DAIRY SUPPLY 6111 St. Rte. 5 Little Falls, NY 13365 315-823-0150 LAISDELL DAIRY SYSTEMS 11 North Main St. Adams, NY 13605 315-232-2217

injectible solutions, electricity or heat, we can influence the functioning of circulation and internal organs to help return a patient to health.

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

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

thy, there are energetics associated with botanicals (bitter, cooling, sweet, pungent, sweet, and salty), but moreover, there are a multitude of real medicinal compounds in plants.

Biological therapy is a form of treatment that uses natural substances derived from living organisms to stimulate, augment, or modify the immune system. Prior to the antibiotic era, serum therapy was used to deliver antibodies from donors to recipients. Hyper-immune plasma, much purer than serum therapy, is the modern equivalent. For example, rabies anti-toxin, snake venom anti-toxin and botulism anti-toxin and gram-negative coliform and salmonella anti-toxins are derived from horses and cows. Using bees to sting certain points can reduce arthritic pains, using leeches to draw off excess blood accumulation, and carefully placing maggots to temporarily eat away gangrenous, dead tissue is known and practiced by some regular medical doctors.

In approaching cases and coming up with possible solutions, I like to use hands-on touch to sense where prob-

Moo A14

DECHANTS REFRIGERATION SERVICE 20453 Rte. 322 Corsica, PA 15829 814-764-5283 ENDLESS MOUNTAIN DAIRY SERVICE INC RR 1, Box 81E Leraysville, PA 18829 570-744-2167 DELAVAL DIRECT 112 Creek Rd. Middlebury, VT 802-388-0043 TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVES ROBIN SHIRLEY New York & New England 417-872-7094 VIC LEININGER New York & Pennsylvania 417-872-5715

CATSKILL TRACTOR, INC. 384 Center St. Franklin, NY 607-829-2600

CORYN FARM SUPPLIES, INC. Freshour Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 585-394-4691

SHARON SPRINGS GARAGE, INC. Rt. 20, Sharon Springs, NY 13459 518-284-2346

COLUMBIA TRACTOR, INC. Box 660 Claverack, NY 12513 518-828-1781

SALEM FARM SUPPLY, INC. Rt. 22 Salem, NY 12865 518-854-7424

COLUMBIA CROSS ROADS RR 2 Box 62, Rt. 14 Columbia Cross Roads, PA 16914 570-297-2991

Page 13 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Moo from A12

Section A - Page 14 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

CWT export assistance program extended Dairy cooperatives and individual farmers representing 70.1 percent of the nation’s milk have committed 2 cents per hundred pounds of milk to Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) for 2012 and 2013. As a result of

reaching the minimum participation level that the CWT Committee established, the Export Assistance program will carry on with assisting member cooperatives in selling U.S. cheese to key markets around the

world. The 2-cent investment will begin with milk marketed in January 2012, and continue on member milk marketings through December 2013.

Meanwhile, CWT members continued to aggressively sell American

cheeses to key markets in November. A total of 9.5 million pounds of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, scheduled for shipment through April 2012, will receive assistance from CWT. This brings the total ex-

approach our animals is critical. I love what biodynamic herb grower Andrea Reisen said, “As soon as you put your intention upon anything, it changes everything.”

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

Please realize that antibiotics do have a place in therapy. For example, if pneumonia hasn’t responded quickly to natural treatments, switch to

antibiotics. You’re going to cull a few animals a year, so using antibiotics shouldn’t be automatically be viewed as an impossibility. Most people agree it’s better to have a live cow than a dead organic one. There’s a reason God placed the animals you have in your life — do what’s right and take good care of them. Rewards abound.

Hey, I plan to start up

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

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

Merry Christmas!

Moo from A13 lems may be, careful observation, heightened sense of smell, listen for subtle sounds (with a stethoscope) and intuition to pin point problems. Then I choose from whichever CAVM treatment seems best for each case. Anyone can do this. And while it’s satisfying to be part of a successful outcome, I don’t feel it’s actually me that gets the patient better — that is up to Holy Spirit. I am just a channel for healing to hopefully occur. You can be, too. Using natural therapies honors God’s creation. But if there isn’t success, then hopefully we learn from the situation to prevent it from happening again. That’s the way I handled situations as a herdsman and still do as a veterinarian.

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

port sales assisted so far in 2011 to 88.3 million pounds going to 25 countries on four continents.

CWT requires extensive documentation from cooperative members

showing that the product was delivered in order for assistance payments to be made.

Source: News for Dairy Coops, Dec. 2, 2011

Call Me for Your Lease and Finance Needs!

Act now to take advantage of 2011 100% bonus depreciation Financing for new and used equipment.

Jean H. Hilts - 315-750-8746 email: jean.hilts@businessleaseconsultants.com

Website: businessleaseconsultants.com

NO BULL TOO BIG OR NASTY Semen Freezing Since 1983 Semen Fertility Evaluations A Value Adding Company

ZIMMERMAN’S CUSTOM FREEZING www.semenfreezing.com

131 Red Well Road New Holland PA

Cell 717-940-1430 717-355-2048

Visit These New York-New England Dealers KRAMER'S INC. RFD #3 Box 245, Augusta, ME 04330 207-547-3345

CLINTON TRACTOR & IMPLEMENT CO. Meadow Street, PO Box 262 Clinton, NY 13323-0262 315-853-6151

FOSTERDALE EQUIPMENT CORP. 3137 Route 17B Cochecton, NY 12726 845-932-8611

WHITE'S FARM SUPPLY, INC. RD 4, Box 11 Jct. Rtes. 31 & 316 Canastota, NY 13032 315-697-2214

LAMB & WEBSTER INC. 601 West Main Springville, NY 14141 716-592-4924

ENFIELD, CT — Farm Credit East has donated $37,150 to local charities throughout the Northeast as part of the Farm Credit East Cares initiative.

The donations were raised as part of 19 customer appreciation meetings held in October and November. The funds raised went toward a local charity selected by the branch office.

“We are pleased to support the local communities that Farm Credit East serves by providing donations to organizations that serve local communities” said Bill Lipinski, CEO of Farm Credit East.

Farm Credit East’s 19 branch offices

donated a total of $37,150 to 20 organizations throughout the Northeast, including Connecticut Food Share, Amish Relief Fund, Daily Bread Food Pantry, Friends of Assisi Food Pantry, Massachusetts Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, Southern Regional Food Distribution Center and Schoharie Recovery Fund. In addition, several branches donated to their state, regional or local food bank; our Riverhead office helped a local family whose child is battling cancer.

Farm Credit East is a farmer-owned cooperative lender which extends more than $4.3 billion in loans in its six-

state service area. In addition to loans and leases, the organization also offers a full range of agriculturally specific financial services for businesses related to farming, horticulture, forestry and

commercial fishing. Farm Credit East is governed by a 17-person board of directors from across the Northeast. For more information, go to FarmCreditEast.com.

USDA certification program requires a 400,000 SCC limit The United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA-AMS) finalized its “European Health Certification Pro-

gram” requiring a somatic cell count (SCC) limit of 400,000 cells/ml based on a rolling three-month average (calculated using

a geometric mean) for individual farms.

The USDA European Health Certification Program outlines the requirements that U.S. dairy producers and processors must meet to demonstrate compliance with EU regulations when exporting dairy products to the 27 member countries. The major difference between the U.S. and EU milk quality requirements is the maximum allowable SCC limit — the federal regulatory SCC limit in the U.S. is 750,000 whereas the limit in the EU is 400,000. Testing of the farm-level milk supply in the U.S. will be necessary to document compliance with the stricter EU standard for exported products.

The effective date for beginning the transition to the new USDA certification program is Jan. 1, 2012. All farms will be given three months to establish an initial rolling three-month mean. After March 1, 2012, all shipments of dairy products requiring an EU health certificate must comply with the updated certification program.

Earlier this year, proposals by the both the National Mastitis Council and the National Milk Producers Federation were submitted to the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments recommending a reduction in the U.S. SCC regulatory limit from 750,000 to 400,000 cells/ml. Voting delegates did not approve a change in the SCC standard however, and therefore the federal limit remains at 750,000.

Source: NMC Update

Page 15 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Farm Credit East donates $37,150 to Northeast Charities

Section A - Page 16 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Essentials of feed program management

by Bob James, Extension Dairy Scientist, Dairy Nutrition The coming year promises to be exciting!

Milk prices are near record highs, but unfortunately so are feed prices. With corn prices nearly $8/bushel, the successful dairy manager must squeeze every bit of energy, protein and carbohydrates from the forages on the farm to maintain margins on income over feed costs.

Your feed management plan should focus on knowledge of inventories, feed nutrient content and controlling shrink.

Successful feed program management demands knowledge of inventories of forages and feed grains as well as their quality. Determine as closely as possible the amount of all silages and hay crops on hand and project utilization through the next harvest period. The silocap program, an Excel spreadsheet developed by VT

faculty and available at www.vtdairy.dasc.vt.edu, can help estimate forage inventories in various silos. The program also has the ability to consider storage losses in determining how much is available to feed. Project utilization of each forage by considering how much is fed daily and project needs until the next harvest. Remember to consider the following in projections: • Herd expansion. What about those extra heifers freshening over the next year? Twenty-five extra heifers consuming 60 pounds of silage per day will mean an extra 1,500 pounds of silage daily and 275 tons more silage required annually.

• Forage quality. Some producers have planted acreage to BMR varieties of corn silage. Rations with BMR varieties will contain more silage due to its higher digestibility.

This means less corn to purchase, but it increases silage consumption by

TIME TO LIME!

Your FIRST fertilizer dollar should always be spent on LIME!

Free Potash Fertilizer With Each Load

Applied by Flotation Units

Call For Analysis of ENV & Potash Content

Call For Spreading

Roy’s Spreading Service

607-432-7476 Cell # 607-434-1024 Licensed with New York State Agriculture & Markets Come to the Country Folks Booth #720 at the

KEYSTONE FARM SHOW

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 and Receive a FREE Mug!!

EXCLUSIVE SHOW BAG SPONSOR Sukup / LnR Feed & Grain Systems 10258 Grindstone Hill Rd Greencastle, PA 17225

717-597-7563

as much as 10 percent.

• Higher production.

As cow’s milk more they eat more. If herd average has increased this past year, expect greater demand for forages.

Recognize deficiencies in forage supply early and purchase feed before it becomes more expensive in the spring. Don’t totally rely on what was needed in the previous year.

Determine forage and feed nutrient content routinely. Ohio State studies suggest corn silage should be tested

at least monthly. Routine testing of commodity feeds during our five year phosphorus field study demonstrated that every load of commodity feeds arriving on the farm should be tested.

This enables timely adjustment of rations and in some cases, deficiency payments can be expected from suppliers if feeds don’t meet guaranteed nutrient specifications for DM percent, CP percent or other nutrients.

What’s your shrink?

How much harvested for-

age or purchased grains and commodities are wasted? A trailer load of corn grain costs in excess of $8,000. Reducing shrink from 10 to 5 percent is worth over $400.

Focus on the following in reducing shrink: • Dry storage; • Insect and animal damage; • Spillage during loading of mixer wagons; and • Overloading mixer wagon.

Average daily feed cost for a cow producing 70 pounds of milk is close

to $8 which represents a daily cost approaching $1,500 for the typical lactating herd in Virginia. Incentives are especially attractive for managers to optimize nutrient balance through timely ration formulation and knowledge of nutrient content and quality of all feeds.

Further improvements can be expected through reductions in losses during storage and feeding.

Source: Dairy Pipeline, November-December 2011

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

For calves at just 45 days old, multiple technologies are available to help increase the productivity of your calf crop. Along with early vaccinations, you can help increase pounds of gain by collaborating with your veterinarian to select a low-dose implant best suited for your herd.

For cow/calf producers in particular, the extra pounds at weaning that can

be achieved by implanting sucking calves far outweighs the actual cost of the implant. When properly used, implants can help to wean an extra 19 pounds, giving you at least $25 more per implanted calf when sold.

The long-standing philosophy behind using implants is to match the dose to the cattle based on their nutritional status. For instance, suckling calves on the cow are going to have a lower rate of gain potential and reduced feed intake compared with a heavier animal. In any case, this is an excellent time to utilize a low-dose implant. As the calves grow larger and

feed continues to get more expensive, looking to a higher-dose implant will be the most practical option.

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

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

very few producers received a premium when they did not implant their calves.

In fact, on average, there was no difference in prices paid per pound for nonimplanted vs. implanted calves.

When looking at weight gains of implanted vs. nonimplanted cattle — implants produce a heavier animal. Cattle grow bigger and more efficiently, leaving less of a carbon footprint and making them able to use nutrients more economically. Combining implants with other technologies helps us to maintain beef supply with a lower number of cattle due to drought and other factors.

MAINE KRAMER’S INC. 2400 West River Road Rte. 104 Sidney, ME 04330 207-547-3345 www.kramersinc.com

NEW YORK BILLHARDTS JAMESWAY SALES & SERVICE 5807 State Route 12 • Glenfield, NY 13343 315-376-2054

CENTER STATE AG SERVICE Morrisville, NY 315-684-7807

DON’S DAIRY SUPPLY, INC. 349 Roses Brook • South Kortright, NY 13842 607-538-9464

DUPREYS FEED & SUPPLIES 9748 Rt. 9 P.O. Box 535 • Chazy, NY 12921 518-846-7338

JOCK’S FARM EQ. & REPAIR 727 Co. Rte. 7 • Brushton, NY 12916 518-529-0113

LOGAN’S SILO 9111 State Route 12 • Copenhagen, NY 13626 315-688-4414 • Fax: 315-688-2203

P&D EQUIPMENT SALES 10171 Brookville Rd. • Alexander, NY 14005 585-343-2394

SPRINGER’S INC. 55 Main St. • Richfield Springs, NY 13439 315-858-0720 www.springersinc.com

PENNSYLVANIA FALLBROOK FABRICATION RD#2, Box 33 • Troy, PA 16947 570-297-3802

ROVENDALE AG & BARN INC. 1300 Susquehanna Trail • Watsontown, PA 17777 570-538-9564

VERMONT REAL DESROCHER FARM SUPPLIES & EQUIP., INC. Located on the Derby Rd. Derby, VT 05829 802-766-4732

BAILEY EQUIPMENT 181 Collinsville Rd. Craftsbury, VT 05826 802-586-9675

VERMONT & NEW HAMPSHIRE HICKS SALES, LLC 1400 Bowen Rd. East Corinth, VT 05040 877-585-5167 www.hicksales.com

Page 17 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Improve gain potential for suckling calves

Section A - Page 18 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

“DAIRY” CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Issued Dec. 9, 2011 The Agriculture Department’s latest milk production estimate for 2011 and 2012 was unchanged from last month’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. Commercial exports were forecast higher for 2011. Look for 2011 milk output to hit 195.9 billion pounds, up from 192.8 billion in 2010 and 189.3 billion in 2009.

The 2012 projection is 198.4 billion pounds.

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

unchanged for 2012.

Class III milk prices were raised for 2011 and 2012 on the increased price forecast for cheese and whey.

The Class III is expected to average $18.30$18.40 per hundredweight, up 15 cents from last month’s estimate, and compares to $14.41 in 2010 and $11.36 in 2009. The average takes a drop in 2012 however to $16.70-$17.60, down 40 cents from last month’s projection.

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

Worcester Creameries

• Do you know there is still one milk market that is family owned and would like to buy your milk?

• The following are benefits that could be yours.

Competitive Market Quality Field Service Premiums Caring Service Quality Premiums

Volume Premiums

Health Insurance

For more information please call.

607-397-8791 Toll Free...

800-705-6455

However, for 2012 with an unchanged NDM price forecast, the Class IV price forecast was raised from last month due to higher butter prices. The 2012 average is now projected at $16.40-$17.40, which is a dime higher than what bean counters projected last month.

Meanwhile; cash cheese prices fell for the fourth consecutive week at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The cash block price closed the second Friday of December at $1.6550 per pound, down 8 1/2cents on the week but

still 26 1/2- cents above that week a year ago when they plunged 11 3/4-cents. The blocks have lost 29 1/2-cents in the last four weeks and you’ll recall that a penny movement on the cheese price approximates to a dime on the milk price.

The barrel price closed Friday at $1.5725, down 14 cents on the week, 22 1/2- cents above a year ago when the barrels rolled 11 1/4 cents lower, and is now 8 1/4 below the blocks so, either the barrels will have to move higher or the blocks head lower to reestablish the more typ-

ical 3 cent spread. There were only four cars of block that were sold this week but 39 of barrel.

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

FC Stone dairy broker Boris Maslovsky warned in his December 5 eDairy Insider Opening Bell that “Cheese buyers are still out there but the holiday buying season is winding down.” eDairy economist Bill Brooks added that “dwindling margins for butter and powder plants have probably

shifted some milk into cheese vats.” “Butter demand is likely filling pipelines following holiday buying,” he said.

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

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

Process interest is about steady at lighter season-

Mielke A21

Page 19 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

NEW YORK ALEXANDER EQUIPMENT 3662 Buffalo St., Box 215 • Alexander, NY 585-591-2955 CATSKILL TRACTOR INC. 384 Center St. • Franklin, NY 607-829-2600

NEW YORK

NEW YORK MABIE BROTHERS, INC. 8571 Kinderhook Rd. • Kirkville, NY 315-687-7891

CORYN FARM SUPPLIES INC. 3186 Freshour Rd. • Canandaigua, NY 585-394-4691

SHARON SPRINGS GARAGE, INC. Rt. 20 • Sharon Springs, NY 518-284-2346

CNY FARM SUPPLY 3865 US Route 11 • Cortland, NY 13045 607-218-0200 www.cnyfarmsupply.com

PENNSYLVANIA ALLEN HOOVER REPAIR RR 1, Box 227 • Mifflinburg, PA 570-966-3821 ELDER SALES & SERVICE INC. 4488 Greenville-Sandy Lake Rd. • Stoneboro, PA 724-376-3740 SANDY LAKE IMPLEMENT INC. 3675 Sandy Lake Rd. • Sandy Lake, PA 724-376-2489

Section A - Page 20 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

BRADFORD

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

PENNSYLVANIA

ALLFORD, JOHN & HOLLY KLINE RON,GLENN & GARY SCOTT AND KAREN NOLT D&L HESS FARMS WM CAR WMS FARMS ROGER + CATHY BROWN SCOTT AND KAREN NOLT MERLE & LESLIE WANCK SNOWCREST FARMS DOUG STEWART PETER SOLOWIEJ SHUMHURST FARM DAVI LERAY DAIRY JEFFERY AMMERMAN KEVIN VANDERPOEL RUSSELL MAPLE FARMS WILLIAM & GRETCHEN STEELE FEUSNER, JOHN & DENISE PECK HILL FARMS YOUNG, BENNETT ROBBIN & RYAN KINGSLEY PISGAHVIEW FARM HOCRAWF DAIRY KEENEY FARM

BUTLER

EDWARD THIELE MIKE&ANETTE SCHIEVER RICK + LINDA STUCHAL UNDER GRACE DAIRY HARTZELL FARM MARBURGER FARM DAIRY NORMAN H GRAHAM RITA KENNEDY PAUL CRITCHLOW JR. ALBERT HOGG & SONS DROVERS INN JOHN H RENO WAYNE E HIXON CHESTNUT RUN FARM J L & H F KENNEDY BRADLEY & CALEB COOPER CROFT BROS

CENTRE

VALLEYSEND FARM PENNDELL FARMS PINE HOLLOW FARM STRINGERS SAND RIDGE BROOK WAY HOLSTEINS PENN STATE UNIVERSITY MURMAC FARMS TODD AND LISA WOOMER GLEN AND LOIS MILLER VALLEY WIDE FARM DAVID HOUSER RAS HOLSTEINS KENNETH C GEPHART CARL& DIANE HOMAN PAUL HARTLE TI GLO FARM JONATHAN GLICK HAAGEN FARM REESES DAIRYHILL STEPHEN L MUNDRICK CLAUDE HOMAN BARBARA ROSSMAN TOM AND LORI HARTLE DOUGLAS P VONADA SCOTT E SWARTZ ROD AND TIM BRUSS BREEZY FARMS BREEZY FARMS FISHER FARMS ORE BANK ACRES MELLOTTS FARM ORE BANK ACRES FETTEROLF FARM MELLOTTS FARM CHARLES LINER LORI D. BROWN HAROLD. E. HARPSTER CLAUDE NYMAN CHARLES VONADA TONY & SAPRINA HARTER

CLARION

JOHN HENRY # FROSTBURG FARMS NEXGEN DAIRY INC JOHN HENRY # MABE HOLSTEINS KEB DAIRY

CLEARFIELD

HICKS DAIRY FARM ORNER FARMS INC CARL G BRINK + SONS HAAG'S GREEN VALLEY SANKEYCREST FARMS

CLINTON

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

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

55.2 492.6 76.8 59.6 74.2 189.8 11.7 80.2 127.3 25.2 76.7 38.6 74.7 103.7 88.6 42.8 76.8 67.6 204.8 60.0 50.7 35.9 34.8 36.2

27187 26417 27517 24308 22975 23693 19414 21837 21716 21669 21584 21654 21352 20470 21903 20634 19436 18703 19634 17667 17298 17283 16662 16168

970 984 919 899 797 908 932 796 844 829 829 874 815 799 806 744 765 720 692 683 686 659 628 635

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

831 819 818 759 728 723 699 677 669 666 661 658 653 642 642 635 620 610 606 567 556 530 522 506

3.1 3.1 3X 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1 3X 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1

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

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

41.7 117.1 71.2 52.2 179.8 130.9 38.0 29.9 38.1 53.4 81.9 34.0 58.6 38.8 32.5 50.6 40.6

25230 24445 23503 23703 23412 21416 22426 19047 18305 20734 19909 18915 18683 18745 16132 17839 17798

924 940 801 951 819 817 797 726 845 809 736 755 686 735 625 683 695

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

777 761 711 703 690 668 661 655 650 636 616 599 582 581 570 569 568

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.4 3.6 3X 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.2

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

H 66.5 H 80.4 H 67.0 H 92.2 H 171.4 H 236.6 H 1176.4 H 47.1 H 77.3 H 50.0 H 51.4 H 56.0 H 66.2 H 73.3 H 60.7 H 155.4 H 68.0 H 41.8 H 86.0 H 47.5 H 40.9 H 77.9 H 174.4 H 75.6 H 48.0 H 48.1 H 142.3 H 56.8 H 105.5 H 76.0 H 32.1 X 33.9 H 76.8 H 26.8 X 45.1 H 20.0 J 65.2 H 22.4 H 33.8 X 50.7

26935 1257 4.7 880 3.3 28491 1181 4.1 864 3.0 26541 909 3.4 815 3.1 25500 1039 4.1 786 3.1 26200 946 3.6 776 3.0 25235 911 3.6 773 3.1 25763 891 3.5 758 2.9 3X 25016 987 3.9 757 3.0 24646 872 3.5 750 3.0 24686 967 3.9 746 3.0 24361 890 3.7 740 3.0 23885 850 3.6 733 3.1 25105 898 3.6 731 2.9 23616 838 3.5 723 3.1 23389 861 3.7 699 3.0 22842 859 3.8 691 3.0 23698 834 3.5 688 2.9 22020 907 4.1 675 3.1 21851 862 3.9 672 3.1 20802 846 4.1 670 3.2 21774 820 3.8 668 3.1 21753 758 3.5 665 3.1 22402 947 4.2 664 3.0 20771 806 3.9 663 3.2 21659 836 3.9 662 3.1 20598 787 3.8 655 3.2 21051 756 3.6 633 3.0 20910 766 3.7 633 3.0 19762 767 3.9 623 3.2 19667 685 3.5 617 3.1 19113 733 3.8 607 3.2 18748 652 3.5 605 3.2 19273 776 4.0 602 3.1 19051 691 3.6 602 3.2 18962 743 3.9 577 3.0 18439 702 3.8 570 3.1 15072 758 5.0 557 3.7 17432 681 3.9 533 3.1 17536 648 3.7 531 3.0 16263 665 4.1 523 3.2

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

H H H H H H

56.4 130.8 105.2 67.1 87.8 63.9

32338 1191 3.7 962 3.0 24775 891 3.6 763 3.1 23893 873 3.7 732 3.1 22266 842 3.8 697 3.1 21517 765 3.6 667 3.1 20378 794 3.9 647 3.2

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

H H H H H

89.5 79.1 91.8 77.8 42.7

26325 25339 25084 24782 23094

941 943 913 911 861

HERD OWNER

3.6 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.7

825 788 774 757 718

3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1

SCHRACK FARMS SHAWN & WANDA MOORE

COLUMBIA

JAN JURBALA HEMSARTH BRUCE & BRENDA LYONS DEN DAIRY

CRAWFORD

TRCP FARM LLC. FOSTERS FAMILY FARM LOST ACRES FARM TRCP FARM LLC. DOLLYRUN FARM

TYPE TEST

Top 40 Herds For November B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

DHI-APCS H 881.6 DHI-AP H 88.4

24223 22469

DHIR-AP H 58.4 DHI-APCS H 210.5 DHI-AP H 83.2

29237 1209 4.1 931 3.2 26654 1021 3.8 808 3.0 3X 25572 929 3.6 795 3.1

37.9 116.2 99.5 54.7 54.2

23649 24919 23726 24927 18801

941 910 884 889 644

DHI-AP H 75.4 DHI-AP H 55.7 DHI-AP H 69.8

25249 24243 19151

980 3.9 780 3.1 932 3.8 755 3.1 724 3.8 602 3.1

MARK VOGEL DHI-AP H 47.3 LIND FARM DHI-AP H 67.0 KIDSTREAT DHI-AP H 84.1 CURTIS HAVEN FARMS DHI-AP H 70.8 WILLIAM+ BRYAN LOPER DHI-AP H 61.4 WOODS DAIRY DHI-AP H 115.5 TELVIEW FARMS DHI-AP H 76.0 CRAIG SHINKO DHI-AP H 78.3 DEAN +SUZANNE CURTIS DHI-AP H 149.7 HIGH POINT FARM DHI-AP H 105.2 RAUSCH FARMS DHI-AP H 57.9 BRAD ROBINSON DHI-AP H 243.6 PALNEL FARM DHI-AP H 120.2 KRUSE FARM DHI-AP H 87.8 MARSHY MEADOW FARM DHIR-AP H 59.2 CONCORD VALLEY FARMS INC DHI-APCS H 156.4 MARSHY MEADOW FARM DHIR-AP B 16.3 WALTER + LISA ROYEK DHI-AP H 58.0 GEORGE C HEINTZ DHI-AP H 16.9 MIDNIGHT FIRE DAIRY DHI-AP X 37.7

24369 23818 22942 22982 23586 23096 21082 21433 19533 20672 20170 19741 20177 18035 18845 19479 16138 17369 17639 15708

818 902 832 873 817 780 873 828 783 807 780 792 746 686 718 747 667 625 663 642

ELK

PAUL SWANSON V BELL FARMS PIERRE PONTZER

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

B H H H X

859 3.5 737 3.0 3X 882 3.9 698 3.1

ERIE

FRANKLIN

ROCK GAP DAIRY DHI-APCS LOCUST HILL FARM DHI-AP JEMI CATTLE COMPANY DHIR-AP PAUL H. ZIMMERMAN JR. DHI-AP JAMES&NINA BURDETTE DHIR-AP DENNIS W BRICKER DHI-AP EVAN J BURKHOLDER DHI-AP STEVEN E RUBY DHIR-AP DALE E NISWANDER DHI-APCS ROMARCOHOLSTEINS DHI-AP JIM KAHLER DHIR-AP ANTHONY R LEHMAN DHI-AP OAKLEIGH FARM DHIR-AP GLEN WINGERT DHI-AP CURTIS KNEPPER DHI-AP DUFFIELD DAIRY DHI-AP MEYERS BROS DAIRY DHIR-AP HONEYSUCKLE ACRES DHIR-AP MIDDOUR FARMS LLC DHI-AP DENNIS & JOEL SOLLENBERGER DHI-AP MILTON ROTZ DHI-AP ANTRIM WAY FARM DHI-AP LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP PECKMAN HOMESTEAD DHIR-AP GUILSIDE FARM DHI-AP EDGAR S REICHARD DHIR-AP JEREMY D. MARTIN DHI-AP PAUL H.ZIMMERMAN JR. DHI-AP WITTERDALE FARM DHI-AP BEIDEL BROTHERS DHI-APCS LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP JEMI JERSEYS DHIR-AP LAMELLO FARM DHIR-AP JIM KAHLER DHIR-AP NELSON R MEYERS DHI-AP POVERTY LANE FARMS LP DHI-AP RYAN D MEYERS DHI-AP DONALD PIPER # DHI-AP THOMAS E SHATZER DHI-AP VERNON W. ZIMMERMAN DHI-AP

JEFFERSON

HIGHLAND H FARMS MOWREYS SPRUCELAWN LONDONDALE FARM MITCHELLS DAIRY FARM DAN KELLER HIGHLAND H FARMS DAN RAYBUCK SMITH OAK FARM WINGARD DAIRY FARM D & L FARM PINE VALLEY FARM KNAPP BROTHERS FARM HARVESTORE HILL FARM WINDFALL RUN FARM LAUREL VALLEY DAIRY PARADISE ACRES

LACKAWANNA GEORGE YEDINAK PAUL MANNING

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

4.0 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.4

3.4 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.4 4.1 3.9 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 4.1 3.6 3.8 4.1

804 770 767 763 634

743 737 731 729 707 691 685 672 662 638 625 621 620 595 591 575 557 547 522 503

3.4 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.4

3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.5 3.1 3.0 3.2

H H H H H H H H H X H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H J H H B J X J H H H H H H

156.4 114.6 18.3 44.9 116.7 65.1 183.7 199.2 44.4 39.7 92.2 103.6 124.8 89.1 67.6 248.1 192.7 116.3 157.3 96.8 349.6 107.0 67.3 125.0 193.6 55.2 92.6 20.8 195.1 178.1 126.6 31.7 18.6 24.3 58.6 147.1 35.5 133.1 67.7 69.1

27137 1042 3.8 833 3.1 26282 981 3.7 789 3.0 25477 1100 4.3 787 3.1 24850 924 3.7 774 3.1 24630 940 3.8 766 3.1 25018 892 3.6 754 3.0 24333 966 4.0 749 3.1 23986 892 3.7 728 3.0 23236 848 3.6 720 3.1 22273 938 4.2 719 3.2 22287 909 4.1 719 3.2 23512 848 3.6 711 3.0 22723 858 3.8 708 3.1 22246 828 3.7 708 3.2 22408 864 3.9 704 3.1 22781 854 3.7 699 3.1 3X 21228 817 3.8 686 3.2 22364 781 3.5 686 3.1 21319 856 4.0 682 3.2 23342 835 3.6 673 2.9 21031 798 3.8 671 3.2 21206 864 4.1 665 3.1 21528 758 3.5 661 3.1 20794 868 4.2 660 3.2 22123 800 3.6 656 3.0 20421 819 4.0 648 3.2 20642 776 3.8 648 3.1 17496 826 4.7 643 3.7 19345 734 3.8 620 3.2 19535 795 4.1 615 3.1 17917 715 4.0 603 3.4 15830 889 5.6 592 3.7 17982 751 4.2 591 3.3 16801 810 4.8 589 3.5 19631 746 3.8 586 3.0 17661 691 3.9 561 3.2 17112 696 4.1 561 3.3 18664 667 3.6 561 3.0 17967 698 3.9 552 3.1 17333 687 4.0 529 3.1

H H H H H J H H H H H H J H H G

49.8 120.1 63.0 85.8 20.2 15.6 13.4 131.2 37.9 44.7 44.7 121.6 68.6 44.4 27.6 45.3

30020 1050 3.5 930 3.1 26180 943 3.6 823 3.1 25536 965 3.8 786 3.1 24764 910 3.7 776 3.1 25188 970 3.9 760 3.0 20060 961 4.8 731 3.6 22154 837 3.8 713 3.2 21617 778 3.6 684 3.2 21042 726 3.5 684 3.3 21464 781 3.6 677 3.2 20879 768 3.7 662 3.2 20277 804 4.0 637 3.1 16208 779 4.8 581 3.6 17660 721 4.1 572 3.2 18429 702 3.8 571 3.1 17041 730 4.3 546 3.2

DHIR H 56.1 DHI-AP H 79.5

22251 17450

934 4.2 671 3.0 662 3.8 514 2.9

HERD OWNER

LAWRENCE

ROBIN & JOHN THOMPSON CAMPRUN HOLSTEIN HILLMAR FARM TROTACRE FARM HENRY FARMS MARTINHOLM FARMS TROTACRE FARM

LUZERNE

SCOTT RINEHIMER C K TROXELL FARMS

LYCOMING

BENJAMIN MCCARTY BOSCH FARMS SHANE KITZMILLER ED+CHRISKITZMILLER MICHAEL & LARRY FRY BRYNN BOWER FANTASYFOUND HOLSTEINS

MCKEAN

DETRICKS FARM SYN TANN JAMES&JUDITH LARSON THREE MILES DAIRY NEAL D GORDON JAMES&JUDITH LARSON

MERCER

CANON DAIRY CINDA L GANDER PAUL J CRITCHLOW DALE L KEPNER CLAN CAMPBELL J. D. PHILSON HILLVIEW ACRES DEWAYNE & BILL COULTER IRISHTOWN ACRES J. D. PHILSON DANE YEAGER WILLOW BROOK FARM LENGEL BROTHERS

MONTOUR

SAMUEL + ADA BYLER MELVIN & LOVINA HOSTETLER

NORTHAMPTON KLEIN FARMS EXCELSIOR FARMFLECK BREWER FARMS JUNIPERDALE FARM RALPH HAHN REDMAPL SPRING FARM BREWERS JERSEYS JOHN BOCKO MACK FARMS JOAN A WILLIAMS KLEINTOP FARMS

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

50.2 123.6 65.2 114.2 42.6 228.6 51.8

23451 22890 22302 21187 19494 19522 15870

897 800 805 725 739 709 690

3.8 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.6 4.3

DHI-AP H 76.1 DHI-AP H 187.4

23067 22798

872 3.8 722 3.1 815 3.6 684 3.0

TYPE TEST

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

H H H H X H G

H H H H H H H

42.4 105.8 21.8 67.7 78.4 42.1 129.1

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

H W H H H X

46.8 55.2 85.3 54.1 39.8 46.2

23133 22775 21699 20191 19888 16325

886 807 776 769 745 701

3.8 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.7 4.3

725 700 658 649 624 569

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.5

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

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

122.7 51.2 124.4 121.0 66.1 35.5 102.3 146.0 492.7 27.3 20.6 68.2 93.4

26232 25975 24538 24332 22625 20649 20458 19406 15626 16759 16780 16372 15662

989 860 867 921 888 754 721 769 792 761 686 632 606

3.8 3.3 3.5 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.5 4.0 5.1 4.5 4.1 3.9 3.9

792 785 731 727 720 641 637 624 597 589 533 520 518

3.0 3X 3.0 3.0 3X 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3X 3.2 3.8 3.5 3.2 3.2 3.3

DHI-AP H 53.4 DHI-AP H 61.1

22652 16638

842 3.7 688 3.0 650 3.9 507 3.0

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

H H H H H H J H H H H

59.4 94.6 99.6 61.7 82.3 101.0 17.9 53.6 25.1 115.6 120.3

BRUBAKERS DAIRY FARM DHI-AP H 118.4 ROGER+RHODA LENT DHI-APCS H 59.5 JOHNCAROL FOWLER # DHI-AP H 62.4 RON+CANDY COONEY DHIRAPCS H 54.1 CADY FARMS DHI-AP H 89.2 RISSER, DAVID & NELSA DHI-AP H 109.3 J J FARMS # DHI-APCS H 59.7 THOMPSON, DONALD & CATHY DHIR-AP H 61.0 GARY & TINA HAMILTON DHI-AP H 85.5 ROWN FARMS DHI-AP H 68.2 KURT KOSA DHIR-AP J 82.8 LEON AND CATHY TICE DHI-AP H 61.6 LLOYD & DENISE PEASE WALKER FARMS KEITH BRANT RANSOMED RANSOMDAIRY HARVATINE FARMS COTTRELL BROTHERS EMPET FARMS JOHN CASTROGIOVANNI KENNETH S. GESFORD R M SHIPSKY & SONS REUBEN EVERITT JOE VALENTINE EMPET FARMS DONALD POTTER JO AM SAN DAIRY ROBERT JOHNSON DONALD C ROBBINS HAROLD & NANCY SHAY JON ANN FARMS CRAIG ROBERTSON

TIOGA

BISHCROFT FARM MARK HALTEMAN KEN MARTIN SHERMAN HENRY&KELLY CARL K ZIMMERMAN

UNION

FLOYD MARTIN

3.2 3.1 3.0 3.1 3X 3.0 2.9 3.3 3X

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

POTTER

SUSQUEHANNA

746 712 674 656 593 573 523

24129 863 3.6 725 3.0 22241 1044 4.7 714 3.2 19669 743 3.8 609 3.1 19433 763 3.9 607 3.1 18944 832 4.4 590 3.1 18823 797 4.2 590 3.1 18893 721 3.8 588 3.1

25638 976 3.8 800 3.1 23439 842 3.6 715 3.1 23991 899 3.7 713 3.0 22861 1211 5.3 707 3.1 22022 847 3.8 692 3.1 21860 870 4.0 683 3.1 18406 905 4.9 672 3.7 19234 755 3.9 579 3.0 18723 638 3.4 570 3.0 18323 723 3.9 560 3.1 17003 668 3.9 523 3.1 23973 23657 22767 21648 21895 21072 21188 20381 17793 17422 15471 17408

820 852 803 789 823 819 787 812 685 706 708 659

3.4 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.8 4.1 4.6 3.8

719 714 706 669 664 655 646 635 560 553 538 531

3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.1

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

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

63.0 67.8 87.5 102.7 105.6 63.4 90.0 121.0 49.2 57.4 33.8 33.8 14.8 55.8 54.7 61.1 48.1 63.4 38.1 47.0

27422 1058 3.9 892 3.3 26388 980 3.7 786 3.0 24778 969 3.9 781 3.2 23979 918 3.8 767 3.2 24713 791 3.2 763 3.1 24794 947 3.8 758 3.1 24028 891 3.7 748 3.1 24373 817 3.4 742 3.0 22990 884 3.8 718 3.1 22464 808 3.6 698 3.1 21736 822 3.8 690 3.2 23586 840 3.6 684 2.9 18419 877 4.8 648 3.5 21049 811 3.9 648 3.1 20777 741 3.6 611 2.9 19373 758 3.9 595 3.1 17785 666 3.7 561 3.2 16638 696 4.2 544 3.3 17081 643 3.8 536 3.1 16560 653 3.9 530 3.2

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

H H H H H

851.8 53.7 69.7 117.4 48.9

25570 24050 23071 22126 18918

DHI-AP H 62.3

883 824 840 802 693

3.5 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7

760 700 677 670 584

3.0 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.1

31031 1186 3.8 947 3.1 3X

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

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

He also points out that October 31 butter Inventories stood at 130 million pounds versus a five year average of 160 million and said international

al levels. Cheese production was heavier over the Thanksgiving weekend and back to regular schedules following.

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

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

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

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

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

buyers are “kicking tires and will likely place orders once the U.S butter price gets to $1.50 or less.” Commercial disappearance of butter has been very strong, he said.

USDA confirms that, reporting that dairy product commercial disappearance in the first nine months of 2011 totaled 147.4 billion pounds, up 1.1 percent from the same period in 2010.

Butter was up an impressive 9.9 percent; American cheese, up 0.6 percent; other cheese was up 4 1/2 percent; nonfat dry milk, down 3.4 percent; and fluid milk products, were off 1 1/2 percent.

FC Stone dairy economist Bill Brooks said in Tuesday’s DairyLine that October butter output was the highest since records were kept and he’s a bit surprised that the price hasn’t fallen much considering the huge volume that was traded the week of November 28. He

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com HERD OWNER BUFF RUN COW COMFORT INN DAIRY ARRON HOOVER GARY B. HOFFMASTER BREEZYVUE FARM AMOS M STOLTZFUS IVAN NOLT LOCUSTRIDGE FARM DALE L.METZLER GEORGE & JOHN HAUCK SPRUCE RUN FARM COW COMFORT INN DAIRY VERNON MARTIN COW COMFORT INN DAIRY HILL CRAFT FARM

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

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

53.5 71.1 67.8 97.7 33.4 70.7 52.6 64.5 97.8 122.5 52.9 65.1 37.4 189.9 60.6

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

28077 1090 3.9 875 3.1 26955 1021 3.8 824 3.1 3X 26391 932 3.5 788 3.0 24477 919 3.8 774 3.2 23107 893 3.9 718 3.1 23759 853 3.6 700 2.9 22519 813 3.6 695 3.1 22567 893 4.0 693 3.1 21118 806 3.8 676 3.2 22104 800 3.6 672 3.0 21940 872 4.0 666 3.0 19583 873 4.5 662 3.4 3X 21184 777 3.7 660 3.1 18502 871 4.7 637 3.4 3X 20772 819 3.9 634 3.1

HERD OWNER

VENANGO

DICKMAR FARMS MITCHHILL DAIRYFARM

WARREN

KURTIS MESSENGER JARED LINDELL PINE TON FARMS MARTHA BEARDSLEY LINDELL FARMS LLC KEVIN LONG CONNEATTEE WEST FOGGY MEADOWS FARM

WAYNE ROWE BROS

TYPE TEST

warned however that, if the price breaks below $1.60, “it could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

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

The global dairy auction was held on December 6 and prices were up, according to the CME’s Daily Dairy Report. The trade weighted index was up

Mielke A22

Top 40 Herds For November B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

DHI-AP H 156.3 DHI-AP H 59.7

24254 20730

805 3.3 758 3.1 809 3.9 654 3.2

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

23101 24210 22883 21863 21618 19333 16009 16760

885 872 854 830 813 739 608 620

X H H H H H H H

23.9 137.2 285.9 46.2 338.9 57.6 96.4 96.3

DHI-AP H 78.8

3.8 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.7

746 742 710 689 656 595 529 516

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

28773 1157 4.0 846 2.9

CENTER STATE AG. SVC. INC. Rt. 20 Morrisville, NY 13408 315-684-7807

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER HIGHLAND FARMS JACK AND ELLA CHYLE KEV&GERARDA BURLEIGH N GARY KRAVETSKY ROCK RIDGE FARM DAVID&SHEILA BANICKY CHYLE LAND DAIRY DON STILES TRI NON FARMS ELWIN SMITH D ELLIS DIX CARL A ROBINSON#

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

WYOMING

HIRKEY BROTHERS SHADOW PRACTICE2 DAIRY

USA BODY INC. 994 Middle Lake Road DeRuyter, NY 13052 315-852-6123

B R COW E E YEARS D

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

95.3 33.9 48.4 54.7 80.2 56.8 92.7 44.8 74.3 37.6 49.9 56.4

DHI-AP H 42.3 DHI-AP H 135.2

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

24674 1100 4.5 780 3.2 24641 925 3.8 759 3.1 24218 927 3.8 737 3.0 21944 798 3.6 674 3.1 20704 799 3.9 637 3.1 20871 831 4.0 636 3.0 17771 822 4.6 624 3.5 18287 709 3.9 595 3.3 20047 762 3.8 592 3.0 18016 771 4.3 582 3.2 18538 702 3.8 558 3.0 16772 675 4.0 527 3.1 18560 21038

694 3.7 604 3.3 810 3.9 659 3.1

HISTANDS FARM & HOME Rd. 1, Box 231, Church St. Rome, PA 18837 570-744-2371

Page 21 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Mielke from A19

Section A - Page 22 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Mielke from A21 2.6 percent from the November 15 auction. The weighted average price for skim milk powder was $1.55 per pound, up 2.6 percent; whole milk powder was $1.65 per pound, up 2 percent; anhydrous milkfat was $1.82 per pound, up 12 percent and the highest since early September. The Cheddar cheese price was up 2.1 percent, to $1.62 per pound.

“International prices are still much weaker than domestic prices,” according to FC Stone dairy broker Derek Nelson, and “World prices are still playing catch-up with U.S. prices.” Broker Boris Maslovsky adds that “International dairy markets appear to have

stabilized but U.S. prices are still at a premium to world prices. Typically international prices are higher,” he said, and warned “We could see the traditional spread between world and U.S. dairy prices slowly reestablish itself.”

Bill Van Dam, of California’s Alliance of Western Milk Producers, says he has followed this auction since its inception, particularly skim milk powder, and for the past two months the sale of it by DairyAmerica. He wrote in his weekly newsletter that “It is becoming clear that the whole range of products sold at those auctions have become a critical piece of information in establishing the value of the various prod-

ucts in the world market.”

He also reported that Murray Goulburn, a cooperative that handles about 32 percent of the Australian milk supply, will be the first to offer lactose products at the auction. Lactose has become a valuable product in which there is a great deal of interest, Van Dam said. “The U.S. exports over 50 percent of the lactose made in this country and interestingly New Zealand is our most important customer.” Murray Goulburn will offer products for the first time in April 2012 and that is the only products they will offer, according to Van Dam. National Milk’s Third Quarter Import

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com HERD OWNER FARYNA , WALTER TRUE FARMS INC SIMMONS,WM & MARCIA EMERLING FARMS ALAN WEST FRIENDLY ACRES FARM DAVIS, JAMES F. STONEY CREEK SICKLES, RICHARD & SANDRA STONEY CREEK PINGREY, DONALD HYMAN, JOHN SILVER HAVEN FARMS ALLEN MASON WOODVALE FARMS VICTORY ACRES LLC SILVER MEADOW FARM CHAMBERLAIN, DAVE & GREG DANIEL PINGREY VICTORY ACRES LLC BRANT'S HILLTOP DAIRY EAGLEVIEW DAIRY LLC. WING, KERRY & ALAN METZ,DAVID & CYNTHIA HD 1 NICKERSON BROTHERS

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

H 401.1 H 1088.7 H 595.3 H 1099.0 H 147.5 H 556.3 H 256.4 H 83.2 H 121.1 H 37.5 H 275.9 H 65.0 H 181.0 H 75.2 H 575.0 H 69.2 H 177.7 J 670.0 H 251.4 B 120.8 H 150.9 H 349.4 H 80.6 H 71.7 H 172.1

25363 25206 25795 24755 23738 24367 24212 23435 22214 22353 22112 22462 22078 22410 23149 22625 21382 18558 20865 19502 21749 19893 20362 18957 18923

945 930 860 866 803 868 878 831 867 801 807 853 888 849 870 852 874 926 759 793 697 721 758 757 718

3.7 3.7 3.3 3.5 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.9 3.6 3.6 3.8 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.8 4.1 5.0 3.6 4.1 3.2 3.6 3.7 4.0 3.8

780 779 761 749 723 719 717 713 710 701 699 697 695 694 687 686 681 669 660 650 632 619 603 592 560

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

3X 3X 3X 3X

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

YATES

TIMBERMAN ROBERT ROLLEN N'S DAIRY OSWALD, SAM JENSEN, RODNEY HERD #1 VINE VALLEY FARM CHRISTI FARM JENSEN, RODNEY HERD #2 CHRISTI FARM

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

H W H H B H A H

66.5 100.2 304.1 19.9 232.4 95.3 27.1 40.5

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

27374 23547 22672 21589 19292 21393 18730 18325

914 878 859 787 757 799 713 687

3.3 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.8 3.7

845 696 675 666 639 636 588 534

3.1 3.0 3.0 3X 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.1 2.9

CENTRAL JERSEY AREA/HUNTERDON COUNTY FULPER FARMS LLC CEDAR LANE FARM, LLC MOUNTAINVIEW CORR FACILIT JONES FARM 1,2,3 DEPT.COR MIDDLEBUSH FARMS, INC. HOWARD SUTTON AND SON HUNVAL FARM JONES FARM 1,2,3 DEPT.COR CEDAR LANE FARM,LLC WENGRYN, JANET CEDAR LANE FARM,LLC BSB HOLSTEIN FARM

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

Mielke A24

Top 40 Herds For November

NEW JERSEY 3X

Watch shows dairy product imports continue a downward trend. NMPF’s Jim Tillison said in Thursday’s DairyLine that the imports they monitor have dropped 49 percent since 2005 and he pointed out that it’s the high value products that are dropping off the most.

Cheese imports are down significantly, according to Tilison, but “reflects the strong demand for cheese outside the U.S.” “The world middle class is growing,” he said, “And as a result, there’s a growing demand for dairy products offshore so the U.S. is no longer the place to dump dairy products.

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

120.1 36.2 76.3 105.8 46.0 46.4 46.2 13.6 13.6 22.4 18.7 38.6

23363 23221 20764 20655 19597 19821 18405 15249 16065 17952 14490 16805

966 987 758 828 743 649 731 806 716 675 803 684

4.1 4.3 3.7 4.0 3.8 3.3 4.0 5.3 4.5 3.8 5.5 4.1

715 700 660 647 597 584 575 543 538 536 521 519

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

MYERWOOD FARMS DHI-APCS H 377.9 WILLIAM M. DOLBOW DHI-AP H 96.2 SEBOWISHA FARMS DHI-AP H 71.2 STRING ALVIN W & MARIE DHI-AP H 122.5 BAYSIDE STATE PRISON FARM DHI H 133.7

23947 21223 20536 20103 18721

836 770 730 699 719

3.5 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.8

703 655 627 607 589

2.9 3X 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1

LOCKBURNER, MARK F FREEBORN LARRY ALLAVALLEY FARM WINDY FLATS DAIRY MOONEY, C. RAYMOND SPRING HOUSE DAIRY HOUGH FARM SCHOELIER CASEY BYACRE HOLSTEINS LLC CLIFFORD VANETTEN SPRING HOUSE DAIRY

973 942 900 769 836 799 901 736 857 689 747

3.7 3.6 4.0 3.5 4.0 3.8 4.3 3.7 4.4 3.6 5.3

793 790 725 678 675 628 620 606 572 564 524

3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.7

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

SOUTH JERSEY AREA

SUSSEX

WARREN

MAKARVICH FARMS GREEN VALLEY FARM GIBBS TOWERS DRAKES ACRES

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

H H X H H H H H H H J

78.8 103.1 19.1 96.1 103.4 45.0 53.0 61.9 144.0 41.7 44.3

26229 25966 22699 21996 21061 21161 21094 19855 19294 19268 13998

DHI-AP DHI DHIR DHI

H H H H

88.8 151.8 74.6 69.9

27672 1022 3.7 854 3.1 23422 903 3.9 737 3.1 22474 909 4.0 692 3.1 21012 795 3.8 644 3.1

CHAMPLAIN DAIRY SERVICE INC. Swanton, VT 802-868-3144

DYKEMAN FARMS Fultonville, NY 518-922-5496

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE Seneca Falls, NY 315-568-0955

FISHER FARMS Canastota, NY 315-697-7039

DON'S DAIRY SUPPLY, INC. South Kortright, NY 607-538-9464

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE Lowville, NY 315-376-2991

FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE Warsaw, NY 585-786-0177

R&M FARM & PRO HARDWARE Marathon, NY 607-849-3291

SOUTHERN TIER DAIRY SERVICE Java Center, NY 585-457-4350

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 Tues. 9-4, Wed. 9-4 & Thurs. 9-3 • York, PA

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

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

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

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

Page 23 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

THE FARM SHOW FOR FARMERS!

Section A - Page 24 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Long Island Ag Forum to take place on Jan. 12-13 The Long Island Agricultural Forum (Ag Forum) returns for its 31st year to Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus in Riverhead, NY, on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 12 and 13.

This two-day conference will include topics focusing on the interests of Long Island’s agricultural and horticultural industries. All growers and dealers in these industries are en-

couraged to attend. The Forum provides the opportunity to keep up-todate on the latest issues and technology, as well as to accrue important pesticide recertification credits.

The General Sessions will offer a legislative update and address current issues facing the agricultural industry, such as what you can do to protect our drinking water, new regulations for

pesticide and fuel storage tanks, addressing immigration issues, pesticide recordkeeping and overview of the federal crop insurance program. There will also be specialized sessions for Potato, Fruit, Sustainable Agriculture, Floriculture, Vegetables, Viticulture, Garden Centers /Landscapers, and Nursery; and two special sessions on Protecting Suffolk’s Agriculture: What

the 2010 Census Tells Us and Loan Opportunities: Farm Service Agency.

Registration is $30 per person; after Jan. 6 the registration fee will be $45 per person. For more information or a registration form, call Linda Holm at 631-727-7850, ext 341, or visit www.ccesuffolk.org for the complete schedule.

Mielke from A22 Butter imports are mixed but Tillison said there was a big drop in butter substitutes, such as anhydrous milkfat, most of which was coming from Canada. Almost none was imported in the Third Quarter, he said.

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

On the other hand imports of casine are up from a year ago and appear to jump when the milk price risies. When the nonfat dry milk price goes up imports of casine go up as well and Tillison believes that’s tied to the fact that casine can be a substitute in certain uses for nonfat dry milk powder.

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

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

The farmer-funded CWT program accepted 13 requests for export assistance this week from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 3.2 million pounds of Cheddar and Gouda cheese to customers in Asia, Central America, the Middle East, and North Africa.

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

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

SOFT COLLOIDAL PHOSPHATE CANTON MILLS, INC. P.O. Box 97 Minnesota City, MN 55959 www.cantonmills.com

1-800-328-5349

Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) relies a great deal on research about dairy trends and Americans eating and drinking habits.

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

On a less positive note the long-term trend of declining sales of packaged fluid milk products continued but MilkPEP still sees good opportunities ahead and is using research to fight aggressively to increase fluid

milk consumption.

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

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

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

concluded. “There is strong scientific evidence from research

with athletes that chocolate milk is the ideal recovery beverage if con-

sumed within two hours of vigorous exercise.”

s hat’ W k Loo ew!

N am Stre e n Ma ow is N e! n Onli

Yourr connectionn too thee Northeast Equinee Market

Go to www.cfmanestream.com we are just a Click Away!

BEGINNING

IN

JANUARY,

BECAUSE OF ANOTHER POSTAGE PRICE INCREASE, WE WILL BE FORCED TO RAISE

COUNTRY FOLKS

SUBSCRIPTION PRICES.

You can avoid this increase!

EXTEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW AT CURRENT COUNTRY FOLKS SUBSCRIPTION PRICES*.

To extend your subscription, remove this 4 page insert from your paper.

Fill out and follow the instructions on the form on page 4 of this pullout. *Offer ends December 31st, 2011.

Page 25 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

SAVE MONEY NOW B Y E XTENDING YOUR C OUNTRY F OLKS S UBSCRIPTION !

Section A - Page 26 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

- GIVE

FILL OUT THIS FORM TO: A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION - EXTEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION - SIGN UP FOR A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION

2011 Country Folks Subscription Prices (good through 12/31/11): One Year (52 issues) . . . . . . By Mail $45 . . OR By Email $25 . . OR Both $60 Two Years (104 issues) . . . . By Mail $75 . . OR By Email $45 . . OR Both $85 (Prices will increase approximately 10% after 1/1/2012) First, Give Us Your Info: Name________________________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address ____________________________________________________________________ City/State/Zip ______________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________________________________________________________ Email ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) __ Yes, Please Extend My Subscription __ One Year

__ Two Years

2) If Giving a Gift Subscription, Give Us the Name and Address of the Recipient: Recipient’s Name ____________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address ____________________________________________________________________ City/State/Zip ______________________________________________________________________ __ Please send me an opportunity to give this gift again when this gift subscription lapses by sending me a notice/invoice.

3) __ I Would Prefer to Receive My Subscription to Country Folks Via Email. __ Email Me a Subscription to Country Folks in Addition to My Mailed Subscription.

Send to (email address) ________________________________________________________________ Payment Info: __ Payment Enclosed (Make Check out to: Country Folks) Amount Enclosed $ ________ __ Charge my Credit Card (Mastercard/Visa/Discover/American Express) Card Number ________________________________ Expiration Date ______________________ Your Name as it Appears on the Card ____________________________________________

Mail this form to: Country Folks Subscriptions, PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 OR Fax this form to 518/673-2322

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

ALBANY

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

NEW YORK

STANTON FARMS LEWISDALE FARM NO B.S.T.

ALLEGANY

DHI-AP H 646.7 DHI H 48.4

23010 19773

851 3.7 713 3.1 3X 689 3.5 589 3.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BROOME

CATTARAUGUS

CAYUGA

CHAUTAUQUA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

Top 40 Herds For November B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H

212.5 93.0 105.9 90.3 83.4

24134 24072 22717 21672 19113

906 866 895 785 699

3.8 3.6 3.9 3.6 3.7

747 730 716 633 595

3.1 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.1

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H H H X H H

350.2 546.8 997.5 267.7 594.5 95.5 149.7 50.9 61.6 51.8

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

CHEMUNG

CHENANGO

CLINTON

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

COLUMBIA

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

CORTLAND

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3X

3X 3X

3X

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H X H H X G H

232.6 91.4 142.8 45.0 64.8 42.9 170.9 149.6 77.6 113.6 86.9

24225 22145 20139 20227 19298 18258 18163 17873 17022 16221 16237

915 927 797 734 734 700 667 675 689 748 624

3.8 4.2 4.0 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.8 4.0 4.6 3.8

732 704 652 624 587 581 579 576 538 518 515

3.0 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DELAWARE

3X 3X

3X 3X

DUTCHESS

ERIE

FRANKLIN

3X

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

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

H H H H H H H H H H

91.6 174.6 510.7 351.6 55.1 67.8 140.3 71.1 78.8 57.4

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

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

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

3X 3X

3X

3X

Page 27 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com

Section A - Page 28 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

GENESEE

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

GREENE

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

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

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

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

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

VALLEY VIEW FARM STORY, MATTHEW C. JR.

DHIR-AP J 58.8 DHI-AP H 44.2

18446 19093

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H H H

49.2 109.1 145.8 72.6 62.2 164.4 56.7

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

HERKIMER

JEFFERSON

LEWIS

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

917 5.0 647 3.5 720 3.8 586 3.1

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

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

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

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

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

3X

3X 3X 3X

3X

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

LIVINGSTON

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

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

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

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

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

COLBY HOMESTEAD FARMS ELLSWORTH, ROCKY & PAT

DHI-APCS H 211.2 DHIR-AP X 60.1

21213 16286

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

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

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

MADISON

MONROE

MONTGOMERY

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

Top 40 Herds For November

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

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

834 3.9 650 3.1 656 4.0 549 3.4

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

NIAGARA

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

ONEIDA

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

ONONDAGA

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25020 24378 24393 22784 21180 20363 20029 18472 17370

978 915 878 824 684 792 860 672 686

3.9 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.2 3.9 4.3 3.6 3.9

755 735 730 698 637 629 625 584 559

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H

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

ONTARIO

151.6 657.9 170.2 397.9 724.0

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

3X

3X

3X

3X

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORANGE

ORLEANS

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

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

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

26226 22301 19591

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

OSWEGO

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

H H H H H H

83.1 76.4 53.3 95.6 159.8 59.4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H H H H

340.5 109.1 184.6 128.5 33.5 93.7 122.7 103.2

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

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

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

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

OTSEGO

RENSSELAER

ST. LAWRENCE

26779 26424 26151 25467 23804 22054 22326 21012 21975

847 848 864 878 902 851 811 818 756

3.2 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.8 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.4

819 797 789 761 725 682 678 666 656

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0

LES & IRENE HARGRAVE HD2 PUTNEY,LESLIE G.HD 2 NOWZ THE TIME FARM ROPUT FARMS PUTNEY, LESLIE G. HD1 SCOTT&TRACI LAING MAPLE NOOK HOLSTEINS FREGOE PATRICK, H. BRESETT, HAROLD JR COW BELL ACRES MCDONALD,DONALD &ROBERT DAVID SMITH LAVACK,FRED & FAMILY HD 1 NELSON,MARK HOBKIRK, JOHN & RICHARD MATT REYNOLDS

SARATOGA

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

SCHOHARIE

962 3.7 772 2.9 3X 848 3.8 688 3.1 790 4.0 636 3.2

3X 3X 3X 3X 3X

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

Top 40 Herds For November B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H H H H H H H

928.4 597.6 148.6 801.8 101.0 672.2 564.4 170.0 83.1 22.2

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

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

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

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

SENECA

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

3X 3X

3X

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

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

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

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

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

H H H H M

20905 20531 18055 16928 16499

TIOGA

LYON, FRANK

DHI-AP H 88.3

3.3 3.7 3.9 4.0 3.9

639 611 551 535 516

3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.9

3X 3X

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

692 756 699 681 650

806 760 755 752 733 728 696 693 652 558

3X 3X

H H H H H H H H H H

85.9 29.9 140.6 49.2 20.5

3.6 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.8 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.6

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

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

SULLIVAN

975 937 931 851 852 907 824 828 747 691

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

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

STEUBEN

219.1 90.9 370.8 68.2 81.5 350.2 71.1 215.2 209.5 50.2

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

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

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

SCHUYLER

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

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

3.1 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1

27563 1044 3.8 841 3.1

3X 3X 3X

3X

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

TOMPKINS

TYPE TEST

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

B R COW E E YEARS D

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

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

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

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

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

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

DOMINO FARM F&C BROOKS AND SONS

21224 1005 4.7 784 3.7 17326 647 3.7 518 3.0

ULSTER

WASHINGTON

DHIRAPCS J 158.8 DHI-AP H 57.2

990 940 926 828 894 848 947 880 889 982 917 866 865 840 741 787 714 731 652

3.4 3.4 3.4 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.9 4.0 3.6 4.1 3.7 3.9 3.9

914 862 820 816 784 784 775 772 772 770 769 750 699 651 614 597 595 567 509

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0

3X 3X 3X

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

LINCOLN HILL FARM KENYON HILL FARM RUIGVIEW FARM MAIN DRAG FARM MARNS, ALBERT & DONNA WALKER FARMS CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL TOOLITE FARM LLC HIBROW FARM REAFIELD FARM STEWART FARM CORNEREST FARM LLC DEER FLATS FARM HOYT, JAY & LORI THE KUSTER FARM TWIN BROOKS FARM LLC TUDOR, JOHN SEACORD, RICHARD & BRIAN ABBOTT III, ROBERT ANDREW,HOWARD & JAY NEW GENERATION FARM TRINKLE FARM WEEPING BIRCH FARM PARKER'S DAIRY #1 ROUSE, EDWARD J. PARKER'S DAIRY #2 LIDDLE, ADAM CAMPBELL, REA D. SWEZEY VIEW FARM PARKER'S DAIRY #3 WEEPING BIRCH FARM REID, KYLE & SHANNA FOOTHILL FARM, LLC TOOLITE FARM LLC TRINKLE FARM SWEZEY VIEW FARM

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

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

188.8 355.6 80.4 100.0 138.1 999.8 42.6 116.2 233.7 211.1 134.4 192.1 231.6 58.0 109.7 194.0 111.8 81.0 64.2 115.7 36.0 355.4 102.3 87.3 67.1 106.2 71.6 85.7 75.6 65.3 30.7 90.0 83.7 35.7 28.1 44.7

27921 955 3.4 841 3.0 3X 26224 1023 3.9 812 3.1 3X 25198 1008 4.0 789 3.1 26048 933 3.6 785 3.0 24844 881 3.5 782 3.1 25429 905 3.6 755 3.0 3X 24688 847 3.4 753 3.1 24111 914 3.8 737 3.1 24130 901 3.7 736 3.1 23218 915 3.9 735 3.2 23005 924 4.0 733 3.2 23559 912 3.9 721 3.1 23080 852 3.7 720 3.1 21367 937 4.4 715 3.3 22357 892 4.0 707 3.2 21853 782 3.6 672 3.1 20772 741 3.6 670 3.2 17547 872 5.0 658 3.7 20623 727 3.5 640 3.1 20609 743 3.6 638 3.1 21183 770 3.6 623 2.9 19595 758 3.9 616 3.1 19411 785 4.0 615 3.2 20988 729 3.5 614 2.9 20567 735 3.6 608 3.0 20784 729 3.5 606 2.9 20526 764 3.7 605 2.9 18868 703 3.7 587 3.1 18570 680 3.7 582 3.1 19501 652 3.3 579 3.0 17066 740 4.3 563 3.3 18247 682 3.7 547 3.0 17554 658 3.7 546 3.1 15520 703 4.5 521 3.4 15473 613 4.0 516 3.3 15587 637 4.1 514 3.3

HORIZON DAIRY SCHULTZ, WAYNE H. WELCUMIN FARMS BOISE, STEPHEN & JEANNE SCHOEACRES LONELY LANE FARM KOEBERLE,E.W. & SONS DRUMLIN VIEW FARM SHIRRON FARMS HOAD ,BRANDON

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

H H H H H H H H H H

112.9 99.0 137.4 50.0 170.7 61.6 508.3 92.0 75.2 35.9

30047 1056 3.5 889 3.0 3X 22887 863 3.8 697 3.0 22012 862 3.9 680 3.1 21925 845 3.9 667 3.0 21787 788 3.6 661 3.0 22029 770 3.5 631 2.9 20744 744 3.6 623 3.0 19186 734 3.8 604 3.1 19169 717 3.7 579 3.0 17213 623 3.6 527 3.1

WAYNE

WYOMING

BAKER BROOK FARMS DHI-AP H1425.7 COVISTA HOLSTEIN DHIR-AP H 286.6 SOUTHVIEW FARMS 1 DHI-AP H1451.1 EMERLINGALFRED STATE DHIRAPCS H 94.0 DOUGLAS GOOD DHI-AP H 146.9 WISCOY FARMS DHI-AP H 172.3 DUEPPENGIESSER, A. DHIR-AP H1156.4 SCHREIBERDALE HOLSTEINS DHIRAPCS H 723.5 VANSLYKES DAIRY FARM LLC DHI-AP H 1260.5 ARMSON FARMS DHIR-AP H 421.4 HIBSCH DHI-AP H 144.2

28837 28807 27233 27455 25929 26142 27087 26725 28188 26243 25071

1116 1049 1040 924 975 941 1037 965 974 960 1052

3.9 3.6 3.8 3.4 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.5 3.7 4.2

869 867 832 820 817 814 804 801 800 793 784

3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.8 3.0 3.1

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

Page 29 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com

Section A - Page 30 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Where Information Creates Opportunity

800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Figure 1 - Sample of a Cornell Soil Health Test Report

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

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

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

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

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

• Growing cover crops to build organic matter.

• Adding organic amendments (manure or compost).

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

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

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

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

CENTER STATE AG SERVICE 20 West Main St., PO Box 935 Morrisville, NY 13408 (315) 684-7807 FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC 9618 Route 26 Lowville, NY (315) 376-2991 FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC 3003 Noble Rd. Seneca Falls, NY 13148 (315) 568-0955 FINGER LAKES DAIRY SERVICE INC 6195 Route 20A Warsaw, NY 14569 (585) 786-0177 FISHER FARMS Hwy Rt 13 PO Box 126 Canastota, NY 13032 (315) 697-7039 GIROUX BROTHERS INC 8092 Rt. 9 Plattsburg, NY 12901 (518) 561-3682 JONES FARM SUPPLY 39 Clinton St. Gouverneur, NY 13642 (315) 287-3210 ORTEL SUPPLY INC 268 Liberty Arcade, NY 14009 (585) 496-5050 R&M FARM & PRO HDWE 480 RT 11 PO Box 429 Marathon, NY 13803 (607) 849-3291 Z & M AG & TURF 17 Railroad Ave. Alexander, NY 14005 (585) 591-1670 Z & M AG & TURF 56 Lindquist Rd. Falconer, NY 14733 (716) 665-3110 PENNSYLVANIA AG EQUIPMENT SPECIALTIES Mercersburg, PA (717) 328-4450 HISTAND'S FARM & HOME RD 1 Box 231 Church St. Rome, PA 18837 (570) 744-2371 PAUL JACKSON LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS Bailey Hill Rd., Rt. 1 Box 366 Troy, PA 16947 (570) 297-3872 MAINE HAMMOND TRACTOR CO 216 Center Rd. Fairfield, ME 04937 (207) 453-7131 VERMONT HICKS SALES LLC 1400 Bowen Rd. East Corinth, VT 05040 (877) 585-5167 (802) 439-5279 (Fax) info@hicksales.com www.hicksales.com NORTHEAST FARM SALES & SERVICE INC Rt. 5, Box 4497 Irasburg, VT 05845 (802) 754-8863

Page 31 - Section A • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

NEW YORK A R TIMMEL 3626 Brown St. Collins, NY 14034 716-532-2040 • 716-532-0881 (Fax) artimmel@aol.com

December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Section A - Page 32

East A Few Words

by Phoebe Hall

Christmas will be a little different This Christmas will be a little different for our family. Our oldest son, who became a Grandfather this year, will be

Richfield Springs, NY 55 Main St. 315-858-0720

Section B missing as he is now starting his own traditions with his family and they will be flying out to Denver on Christmas Eve. It will seem strange after all these years, but

St. Johnsville, NY 7403 St. Hwy. 5 518-568-2016

I know that their grandson needs them now.

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

Oneonta, NY

56 Oneida St. 607-432-0171

Kubota L4330 used, w/loader, 876 hrs . 1997 JD 5400 w/loader, grapple bucket, Westfield WR80-51 auger, 8”x5’, LAST 2009 NH BR7060 Silage Special round baler w/netwrap . . . . . . . .SALE $22,900 . . . . . . .$21,500 REDUCED TO $16,900 2596 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,900 ONE LEFT!

NH 648 Silage Special round baler w/net JD 457 Silage Special round baler w/net Bobcat E32 Excavator, 436 Hrs. . . . . . . wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SALE $12,900 wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SALE $13,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,900 NH 1431 discbine . . . . . .SALE $14,900

NH TC33D diesel, 4x4 tractor w/loader, Case 75XT Skidsteer 490 Hrs . . . . . . . . Massey Ferguson 2605 tractor w/loader NH 492 haybine . . . . . . . . .SALE $6,500 60” deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SALE $13,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$19,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,900

D L O S New Holland 1411 Discbine . . .$11,900 Ford 800 Nice Tractor . . . . . . . . .$3,900 Bobcat E32 mini-ex . . . . . . . . . .$36,900 Kubota 9540 Tractor, 4x4, 320 hrs $31,900

John Deere 2940 tractor, 4x4, nice condi- Kubota M9540 Tractor, 4x4, Cab & Bobcat V417 Telehandler, cab, heat, air, 409 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$46,000 JD 530 Discbine Center Pivot . .$17,500 tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,900 Loader, 600 Hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,995

D L SO Polaris XP700 Ranger, Cab, Heat, New Wellenstein wood processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500 New Holland 575 baler . . . . . . .$16,900 New Holland 326 baler . . . . . . .$5,995s Snowplow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,250

and back in the time they’re allowed. I will see how it works out for her, since I’ve never flown either, maybe there is hope for me.

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

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

I’m penning this on ‘Pearl Harbor Day’ and it’s hard to believe that it has been 70 years since that day. We asked four folks that were around back then what they remembered about when they heard the news. They all said, that they were in shock, but what we are facing today, is as bad or worse than back then.

In talking to an elderly farmer recently, he related an experience I want to share. A niece had asked him, what were the traits that attracted him to his spouse? His reply was, “Isn’t Love enough? It was enough for our LORD to give up his comforts of Heaven and come down here to earth and to be born in a stable, with all its sounds and odors.

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

Page 1 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Country y Folks

Section B - Page 2 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

“Unfortunately, taking EPA’s word that farm dust will not be further regulated provides absolutely no relief to those cattle producers already faced with dust regulations. We saw legislation as the only option to give all ranchers across the country any sort of peace of mind,” said Donald, who is a rancher from Melville, MT. “Cattlemen and women worried about being fined for moving cattle, tilling a field or even driving down a dirt road should rest assured knowing that will not be allowed to happen on our watch. The bill provides much-needed certainty for cattlemen.”

Donald said the fact EPA was even considering regulating dust at levels that would push much of the country into non-compliance was reason enough to move forward with H.R. 1633. NCBA Deputy Environmental Counsel Ashley Lyon said the legislation recognizes that dust from agricul-

tural activities has never been shown to have an adverse health impact at ambient levels. H.R. 1633 first gives states and localities the authority in regulating dust by preventing the federal standard from applying where states or localities already have dust measures in place. In places where there is no state or local control, the bill also would exempt farm dust from the Clean Air Act unless the EPA administrator can prove it is a significant health problem and that applying the standard is worth the costs.

Donald said it is because of commonsense policymakers like Congresswoman Noem and the original cosponsors Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), Larry Kissell (D-NC) and Robert Hurt (R-VA).

He said agriculture rallied behind this bipartisan legislation. Specifically, NCBA orchestrated a letter signed by 194 agricultural organizations that was sent to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Donald said NCBA wanted to be clear that this legislation was supported across the board by all of agriculture.

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

“The Senate will be a challenge. However, we are confident if agriculture continues to work together, we can expect this legislation to end up on the

president’s desk.”

The legislation now moves to the Senate, where it was introduced by

Senators Mike Johanns (R-NE) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and has support from 26 bipartisan senators.

The “Your Stories” series in Country Folks will highlight stories written by farmers across New York State in anticipation of the 2011 centennial year of Farm Bureau in New York State.

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

I spent five years, from age 13 to 18,

working on a few different neighborhood farms. There were many mornings of getting up before dawn, and during long New York winters, getting home long after the sun set. I’ve poured milk straight out of the bulk tank onto my cereal; I’ve chowed down while patrolling up and down the barn, keeping an eye on the cows getting milked. I’ve eaten while my hands were still dirty, too hungry to care about cleaning first. I’ve peeled off gloves after a day of working out in sub-zero temperatures, convinced that all my fingers were doomed with frostbite; I’ve raced up the nearest tree to get away from an ornery bull who felt I didn’t have the right to take away the cows he

CAPITAL TRACTOR, INC. 1135 State Rte. 29 Greenwich, NY 12834

Since 1966 www.capitaltractorinc.com

(518) 692-9611 FAX (518) 692-2210

was entertaining.

There’s a lot I miss about those years growing up. I miss having warm, nutritious and filling meal waiting for me when I got home from a long day. My mother was superb at feeding her daughter, even if her meals were a bit inventive at times. Before I was old enough to drive, she would get up with me in the darkness, make me a hot breakfast, and with me swaddled in layers of long johns and Carhart, would drive me to the farm.

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

The circle of life is always present on the farm. There was often a calf to pull out when the cow was either having physical difficulties or just didn’t feel like putting forth effort. It didn’t matter how many calves I helped out into the TRACTORS 2001 NH TN70 w/32LA Loader, 4WD, ROPS, 2018 Hrs. . . . . . . . . $22,600 1997 NH 8770 4WD, Supersteer, Mega Flow Hydraulics, Rear Duals, 7,164 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$53,750 2009 NH TD5050 4WD, Cab, 90 HP, 2683 Hrs., Excellent Cond. . $29,750 2000 NH TS100 4WD, Cab, 32x32 Shuttle, 2 Remotes, 2,135 Hrs. $39,995 1995 White 6215 Cab, Tractor, 4WD, Duals, 215 HP, w/Degelman Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.O.R. 2007 NH TL100A 4WD, Cab, w/NH 830TL Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . $43,795 1988 Ford 1720 4WD, ROPS w/Loader, 12x12 Shuttle Transmission, 3,140 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,995 2011 Mahindra 1816 4WD, ROPS, HST, Loader, 52” Mid Mower - 90 Hrs., Like New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,750 2011 Mahindra 3616 4WD, Cab w/Heat & AC, HST Trans, Loader, 4 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24,375 2010 NH TD5050 4WD, ROPS, w/Warranty, 480 Hrs. - Excellent. . $31,875 2010 NH TD5030 4WD, ROPS w/New 825TL Loader - 495 Hrs. - Excellent Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $37,800 Yamaha Rhino UTV, 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,995 AGRICULTURE EQUIPMENT Alamo Rear Mount Boom Mower w/60” Rotary Head . . . . . . . . . . . $2,100 2001 Gehl 1075 Forage Harvester, 2 Row Corn Head, Hay Pickup, Metal Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,700 2009 NH 74CSRA 3Pt Snowblower, Like New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,450 2000 Gehl 1287 Tandem Manure Spreader, 287 Bushel, Slurry Sides, Hyd. Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,495 1987 NH 790 Forage Harvester, Metalert, 790W Hay Pickup . . . . . $4,995 2003 Challenger SB34 Inline Square Baler w/Thrower, Hyd. Tension Like New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,375 2000 LP RCR 2584 7’ Rotary Cutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,540 2005 H&S ST420 Rotary Rake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 WIC Cart Mounted Bedding Chopper with Honda Engine . . . . . . $1,450 2008 Cole 1 Row 3pt. Planter with multiple Seed Plates . . . . . . . . . $1,195 1981 NH 320 Baler w/70 Thrower Hyd. Bale Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,995 Gehl Forage Box, on Dion D1200 Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,895 JD 336 Baler w/Thrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,200 2010 NH H7230 10’4” Discbine, Roll Conditioner, Like New, Demo. . $24,900 1987 NH 326 Baler w/70 Thrower, Hydra Formatic Tension, Hyd. Pickup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,700 2010 E-Z Trail CF890 Rd Bale Carrier/Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,995 1989 NH 570 Baler w/72 Thrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,300 2003 NH 1411 Discbine, 10’4” Cut w/Rubber Rolls, Field Ready. . $15,950 Woods B60C 60” Brush Bull Rotary Cutter w/New Blades . . . . . . . $1,195 Deutz-Fahr K500 Tedder, 4 Star, 17’ Working Width . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,260 Pequea HR930 Rotary Rake, Excellent Cond.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,400 2002 NH FP240 Forage Harvester, w/ met alert, Crop Processor, 29 P/U Head, 3PN Corn Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $39,995 NH 824 2 Row Corn Head for a NH 900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,250 2008 Taarup 8011T 8 Star 32’Tedder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,995 2008 H&S RT5200 HYD Hydraulic Fold Tedder, Like New. . . . . . . . $4,995 Smoker Solid Bottom Elevator 20’ on Chassis w/Elec. Motor . . . . . . . $995 Kuhn GF5001TH 4 Star Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,850 2009 NH BR7060 Twine Only Round Baler, Wide Pickup, Like New. . $24,500 2001 LP PD15 3Pt. Post Hole Digger w/12” Auger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $695

Capital Tractor Carries All The Parts, Equipment & Service That You Will Need www.capitaltractorinc.com

world; every new birth came with a feeling of triumph and happiness. It was something akin to pure joy watching a little bugger stumble to its feet and start bouncing around a pen, kicking up its heels with that abandonment that only the young possess.

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

These days I’m back to living in the city, far removed from four o’clock mornings and fresh milk. The city life has its advantages, sure, but there are memories that will forever put a smile on my face. After all, nothing beats being a part of a spring sunrise while warm, heavy bodies shuffle through a dewy pasture on the way to the barn.

JD 127 5’ Pull type Rotary Cutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $725 1995 Vicon H1050 9 Wheel Rake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,195 Kverneland 2 Bottom Spring Reset Mold Board Plow. . . . . . . . . . . $1,795 NH 519 Manure Spreader, T Bar Chain, Hyd Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $950 Gehl 940 16’ Forage Box on Tandem 12 ton on Gehl Gear . . . . . . . $2,995 Wooden Hay Rack on Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $595 Wooden Flatbed on Gear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $350 2008 Agway Accumul8 AC800 Bale Accumulator & AC8006G SSL Grabber, Like New Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,700 2002 NH 570 Baler w/72 Thrower - Excellent Condition. . . . . . . . . $19,600 2001 NH 163 Tedder, Hard Fold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,600 Knight 3300 Mixer Wagon - Good Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,600 Valvec Steel Hay Wagon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,100 NH 716 Forage Wagon on NH Gear w/roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,250 NH 273 Baler w/54A Thrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,995 2008 Knight 8118 Pro Twin Slinger Spreader, Tandems w/Flotation Tires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,250 1998 JD 3970 Forage Harvester w/7’ PU Head, 3 Row Corn Head, Good Cond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,000 Knight 3300 Mixer Wagon, Good Cond.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,200 1993 Wil-Rich 3 Point 10 Shank Chisel Plow w/Gauge Wheels. . . . $2,600 NH 415 Discbine, Good Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 NH 315 Baler w/70 Thrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4950 CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 2007 NH M428 Telehandler 42’ Reach - 1050 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . $66,250 2008 NH M459 Telehandler 45’ Reach - 420 Hrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $84,500 2008 NH W50BTC Mini Wheel Loader, Cab w/Heat/Air, Bucket/Forks, 375 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $69,500 2007 NH E70SR Excavator w/Blade, Steel Tracks, Car w/Heat/AC - 400 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $69,500 2009 NH E135B SR Excavator w/Cab, Dozer Blade, 36” Bucket, 1,600 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $128,500 2009 NH E50B Cab w/Heat & Air, Blade, Rubber Track, Hyd. Thumb, 725 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $41,250 2010 NH E35B Excavator w/Blade, Rubber Tracks, Cab w/Heat/Air. $33,750 2010 NH L170 Skidsteer, Cab w/Heat, Pilot Controls, Hyd. Q-Attach Plate 72” Bucket - 100 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $31,875 2007/08 (2) NH C185 Track Skidsteer, Cab, Heat/AC, Pilot, 84” Bucket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Your Choice $46,250 Mustang MS60P 60” SSL Pickup Broom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,650 1999 NH LX865 Skidsteer, OROPS, Bucket, Hi Flow Hyd., 1,202 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,250 2008 NH L160 Skidsteer, Cab w/Heat, Hyd. Quick Attach Plate, 72” Bucket 3476 Hrs, New Tires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,250 2005 NH LS180.B Skidsteer, OROPS, Hyd. Q-Attach, 84” Bucket - New Tires - 4601 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,650 1998 Scat Trak 1300C Skidsteer OROPS, Bucket Grouser Tracks, Boom Hyd’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,250 ATTACHMENTS 1999 Mensch M1100 6’ Sawdust Shooter, SSL Mount, Good Cond.. $3,150 2002 Mensch M1100 6’ Sawdust Shooter, SSL Mount, Like New . . $3,640 1999 Coneqtec APX400 Adjustable Cold Planer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,995 2008 NH 96” Hyd. Angle Dozer Blade, Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,875 2010 NH/Bradco 6” x 4’ Trencher, Skidsteer Mount, Like New . $3,995 2009 Virnig HD Hyd. Drive SSL Post Hole Digger w/ 9” Auger .$2,195

Page 3 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Growing up Country

Section B - Page 4

PLAY

JANUARY

“CRA CK TH E VAU AT TH LT” E S

19-20-21, 2012

HOW YOUR CHAN FOR WIN CE TO GREA T PRI ZES

Thurs. 9-4 • Fri. 9-4 • Sat. 9-3 AUGUSTA EXPOLAND FISHERSVILLE, VIRGINIA

Fill out the ticket below and bring to the show for FREE Admission!

Virginia Farm Show is Produced by Lee Trade Shows, Inc. a division of Lee Newspapers, Inc. The Proud Publishers of Country Folks Weekly Farm and Farm Chronicle Weekly Farm Newspapers

PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

800-218-5586 • www.leepub.com

VIRGINIA FARM SHOW TICKET

VIRGINIA FARM M SHOW JANUARY

THE FARM SHOW FOR FARMERS!!

19,, 20,, 21,, 2012

NOW...

Thursda y Friday & , Saturda y

Thursday 9-4 • Friday 9-4 • Saturday 9-3 Augusta Expo Land, Fishersville, VA Sponsored by the Trade Show Division of Lee Publications, Inc. Publishers of COUNTRY FOLKS AND FARM CHRONICLE

THIS TICKET MUST BE FILLED OUT COMPLETELY FOR FREE ADMISSION INITIAL

LAST

FIRST

Please Print With Capital Letters

December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

NOW....Thursday, Friday & Saturday

NAME

COMPANY ADDRESS STATE

CITY TELEPHONE

AREA CODE

#

-

FAX

AREA CODE

#

-

ZIP

E-MAIL

Would you Like a TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION to Mid-Atlantic Country Folks Farm Chronicle?

If Yes, Please Sign and Date to Receive your Free Trial Subscription

YES

NO

Signature ______________________________________Date________

Complete this ticket and bring to the show for free admission. Call 800-218-5586 for More Information

by Morgan Hartman Weed eaters, ground stompers, brands, and breeds will be the main subjects of the upcoming Winter Green-up Grazing Conference, which takes place on Jan. 27 and 28 at The Century House in Latham, NY. Kathy Voth, an animal behaviorist and former Bureau of Land Management range specialist will discuss how to train your livestock to eat weeds, and challenge us

all to redefine the term “weed.” After all, if the livestock are eating the plants we normally call weeds, and thriving with those plants in their diets, are those plants really weeds? Is a multiflora rose still a rose?

Maybe it’s breakfast.

Of course, there will always be the folks who say, “That might work on your farm or with your breed or your species, but it won’t work here.” To that I always say, “You’re

right.” And then follow up by quoting Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.” So the Winter Green-up Committee is challenging our audience to come out to the conference and pose questions to our five excellent speakers.

In the category of “that can’t be done here” we have Greg Judy coming to discuss how he went from being on the verge of bankruptcy to running

a highly profitable grazing operation in his home state of Missouri. Mr. Judy got there by custom grazing and using Ultrahigh Stock Density, also called Mob Grazing, to not only be profitable in a financial sense, but also in a soil building sense.

Greg doesn’t just count dollars as profit. He also takes count of his earthworm and dung beetle populations. He measures brix and organic matter increases in his

forages and in his soils.

But that all probably just works in Missouri (and Saskatchewan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Zimbabwe, Ohio, Kentucky, and certain portions of New York State that might wish to secede.)

Shepherd and writer Ulf Kintzel will be coming to town from his White Clover Sheep Farm in the Finger Lakes of New York to discuss his grass-fed lamb, sheep herding dogs, and bringing a different perspective to the mix having originally trained and worked in Germany. (Maybe successful grass farming and stock rearing can be done there too?)

Eddie Draper, Program Manager of the Wye Angus Farm in Queenstown, MD will be discussing the history and uniqueness of the Wye Angus herd as well as some of the research ongoing at Wye Plantation since it was gifted to the University of Maryland Foundation in 1978. The University continues to maintain the Wye Angus herd as a closed gene pool as it has been since 1957. Eddie might even discuss how that could be done outside Maryland, say at farms across the Northeast.

And finally, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ontario County’s Jim Ochterski will covering how to build a brand for your farm. In other words, Jim will let us know that you can do that here, wherever

“here” happens to be.

Each one of our farms is unique and marketing that uniqueness is part and parcel to having a viable, profitable farm enterprise.

To register at the Early Bird Rate of $110 for this two day conference which includes these fantastic speakers AND a Friday Night Banquet featuring ALL Locally Sourced Meats, Dairy Products, and Vegetables. The Early Bird Registration Deadline is rapidly approaching. Dec. 30 is the date after which the registration fee jumps to $140 per person.

For more information on The Winter Green-up Conference please contact Tom Gallagher at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County by e-mail at tjg3@cornell.edu, by phone at 518-765-3512, Lisa Cox at lkc29@cornell.edu, or Morgan Hartman at blackqueenangus@yahoo.com. You can also visit the website, www. ccealbany.com.

Rooms are being held for Friday and Saturday night at The Century House for $104 per night.

The Century House can be reached at 518-785-0931.

Please mention the Winter Green-up Conference when booking your room.

The Winter Green-up is sponsored by NE SARE, NY GLCI, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County, and Black Queen Angus Farm.

Page 5 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

4th Annual Winter Green-up Grazing Conference registration deadline looming

Section B - Page 6 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

A View from Hickory Heights

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

There was a furniture store that had Santa. You had to wander through Graf’s to find him, but he was there. Then, there was a Santa in the toy department at J. C. Penney’s. One Christmas I spotted a big teddy bear in their display. He was brown with a white front that had the alphabet printed on it. I looked at that teddy bear until he finally disappeared. On Christmas morning I was surprised and pleased that teddy bear was underneath my tree.

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

Once we disembarked we took the trolley uptown.

All of the big department

stores had Santa. I remember the department being very busy. You often had to stand in line a while before you got up to the joy old gentleman.

The stores gave away games to the children who visited Santa. I thought that was wonderful. I remember getting a Chinese checker game one year. I could hardly wait to open it, but I waited until I got home since my mother informed me there were marbles inside which might get lost.

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

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

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

store had a Santa at Christmas. He was rotund and very jolly. The children just loved him.

Personally, I knew that he was really a young Jewish boy that went to the same college I did!

Oh well, when you are in college you do whatever you can to supplement your income.

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

When Santa asked my son what he wanted for Christmas, he told him he wanted a book. Santa asked if there was any special book he wanted, but he said any book would do.

That was all he asked for. Santa told him he thought that order could be filled. My daughter was young so she just smiled at Santa and clutched her candy cane.

What a nice Santa he was! He reminded the children about the real meaning of Christmas, too. I do not remember any of the Santas in my

315-923-9118 Clyde, NY

jasonmartin@anmartinsystems.com

Now On The Web www.anmartinsystems.com

Congratulations to Emil Weber on yet another expansion (a 54’ 113,000 bushel Sukup commercial grain bin) to his grain facility in Ontario, NY. This latest addition will allow him to expand his grain storage and allow him to better market his commodity. We would like to thank him for being a dedicated customer for over 10 years.

• Transport Augers • Grain Legs • Buhler Grain Cleaners

• Grain Bins • Portable Dryers • Tower Dryers

• Custom Millwrighting • 35 Ton Crane Service

day doing that. Maybe it was because this area is very country oriented and Jamestown was a small town.

When the mall opened there was just one Santa out in the middle. Everyone has figured out how to add value to events.

That is when they began taking pictures of Santa and selling them. Up until that time we took our own pictures. Somehow for me that ruined the

whole thing. Couldn’t the stores just give away something to the children? After all, the parents came shopping to indulge the children. In my mind they were not losing anything. It could not have cost each store much to pay the wages of the Santa during the Christmas season.

The grandchildren have different memories.

They tried the mall Santa, but that was not sat-

isfactory. When the little store on the corner in Akeley began having Santa that was the place of choice. One Saturday during December Santa was in residence there.

That made it easy on the parents — they only had to go down to the corner.

The owner took Polaroid pictures to give each child. That is one of the memories I treasure.

Hickory B7

FACTORY DIRECT POLE BARN AND PRE-ENGINEERED STEEL BUILDINGS

ROOFING AND SIDING PANEL STEEL ROOF, WALL & LINER PANEL 17 COLORS AVAILABLE

WINTER BLITZ 29 Ga. Galvalume $1.80 / Lin. Ft. Complete Wood Packages from 24' x 24' to 106' x 400' Penn State Style Complete All Steel Pkg. up to 200' clear span

29 Ga. Painted $2.55 / Lin. Ft.

Hurry while suppies last

We Are Now Manufacturing Mini-Self Storage Systems Call for Information

1-800-323-7739 (607) 753-9384 607 Rte. 13, Cortland, NY 13045 • A Division of Essex Structural Steel Co. Inc.

National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has released an updated Milk and Dairy Beef Drug Residue Prevention Manual. The manual is a concise review of appropriate antibiotic use in dairy animals. Additions to the 2012 version include a section on meat drug

residue testing, an expanded list of products and risk factors for residues, as well as an updated drug and test kit list. For more information, visit www.nationaldairyfarm.com.

Source: Friday Facts Dec. 2

Hickory from B6 That Santa was very good. He also stressed the real meaning of Christmas.

I do not remember seeing a Santa at the mall this year, but maybe that is because of the time that I shop. If they do not have one, they are missing out because parents will go somewhere to let the children talk to Santa.

While we were in New York City we were up on

the floor where Macy’s had Santa. They create a magical land for people to walk through.

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

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

They were very nice to us. Although they took

TRACTORS & IMPLEMENTS QUITE POSSIBLY THE LAST TRACTOR YOU’LL EVER HAVE TO BUY! STOP IN TO SEE THE COMPLETE LINE OF B&L MODELS

GREENVILLE SAW SERVICE, INC. ROUTE 81 • GREENVILLE, NY (518) 966-4346

518-265-0203

photos to sell they even helped us take our own.

Some things that we associate with Christmas have gone by the wayside. That is sad. After all, Christmas is a season of giving. Even without a lot of money, there are things that can be given. Last night our church family went Christmas caroling. I especially like that it is cross generational. It is good for the children to see the adults having fun and giving of themselves.

Every place we went we were welcomed. Some of the people even joined us in song.

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

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

* USED EQUIPMENT SPECIALS * 2011 is Almost Over - Don’t Wait For the Equipment You Need

2008 CHALLENGER MT455B CLEAN! 85HP, 4WD, Ldr., Cab w/Air & Heat, Dyna 4, 4-in-1 Bucket, Low Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64,975

2006 NEW HOLLAND TL90A 90HP, 4WD, Ldr., Cab w/Air & Heat, 878 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,500

2009 JOHN DEERE 5105M

2008 NEW HOLLAND T5060

105HP, 4WD, Ldr., Cab w/Air & Heat, 579 105HP, 4WD, Ldr., Cab w/Air & Heat, Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$64,750 12x12 PS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$54,900

2010 KUBOTA L3400

2005 KUBOTA L4400

NEVER SOLD! 34HP, 4WD, Ldr., 8x8, 30 45HP, 4WD, Ldr., 8x8 . . . . . . . . .$19,500 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,950

2010 KUBOTA M7040

1997 JOHN DEERE 5500

2005 MASSEY FERGUSON 5465

LIKE NEW! 62HP, 4WD, Ldr., 12x12 Mech. Shuttle, 62 Hrs. . . . . . . . .$29,500

85HP, 2WD, Ldr., Bale Spear . . .$19,600

110HP, 4WD, Cab w/Air & Heat, 16x16 PS, 1600 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$43,500

1988 JOHN DEERE 450G IV

2004 CHALLENGER MT255

2010 MASSEY FERGUSON MF-1532 TLB, 33HP, 4WD, Ldr., 8x8 SS, Backhoe, Quick-Attach Bkt, 50 Hrs. . . . . . .$23,750

GOOD PUSHER! Clean, 6-Way Bld., Nice 23HP, 4WD, Ldr., Hydro, Mower, Turf, 650 U/C, 2,600 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22,500 Hrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,995

Call 518-265-0203 Today to Choose From Over 500 Machines

FREPETION

I SUBSCR R OFFE

Published by the Lee Publications, Inc. PO Box 121, 6113 State Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 Mail this form back or Fax to 518-673-2381

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN HORSES? SIGN UP NOW TO RECEIVE COUNTRY FOLKS MANE STREAM AT NO CHARGE!

Name ___________________________________________ Farm/Company Name _______________________________ Address _________________________________________ City ____________________________________________ State ___________________________ Zip _____________ Signature _______________________ Date _____________ Phone ( )______________________________________ Fax ( )________________________________________ Email ___________________________________________ How Many Horses Do You Have?_______________________

www.cfmanestream.com

Page 7 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Dairy Cattle Antibiotic Residue Prevention Manual updated

Section B - Page 8

SIX Surge mini orbit claws and shells, 30” vent-o-matic barn fan. 315-344-2300.(NY) GHANDY dry chemical box and 40 foot long hay-grain elevator. WANTED: Shanandoah Stove. 585-593-5685.(NY) MILKING DEVON cattle and milking devon, beef devon crosses for sale. 413446-2004.(MA) FORD 8N tractor, 1950, rungs good, has good tires, PTO 3ph everything works great, new drawbar assy, $1,800 bo. 401662-9131.(RI)

IH 315 cultimulcher, 12 ft., $1,800; WANTED: 9 ft. discbine, mower in working condition. WANTED: Deer rifle, bolt action. 315536-8522.(NY)

18 FT Jamesway silo unloader, $1,000; Poclain hydraulic excavator, 30 ton, 200 hp motor, $6,000. 315-245-5275.(NY) REG. Angus bull, DOB 1/17/2008, proven calving ease, sired by MYTTY in focus, gentle. 518-885-6286.(NY)

1968 671 Ford tractor with ford loader. 315343-9687.(NY)

NEW HOLLAND 1069 bale wagon, vg; Mack silage-grain tandem truck, vg; 30’ skeleton elevator, $650; Snap-On duals, 20.8-38, $1,500. 315-364-7936.(NY)

SINGLE SEATER Mennonite buggy, $900; Hyd. pump for IH 800 planter, swing bearing for CAT E70B, 66’ skid loader bucket, $200. 315-536-1112.(NY)

FOR SALE: Bobcat 543, two buckets, good condition, Oneida County. 315-8293594.(NY)

DEBEAKER for chicken, 2 vacuum pump, 400 gallon bulk milk tank with compressor.

John 413-562-2981.(MA)

ORGANIC Holstein heifers, for sale, yearlings to shortbred, springing cross heifers, also, must sell, need room. 518-6388357.(NY)

QUICK ATTACH bale spear, like new, $375., Land Pride York rake, excellent condition, $575; Brand new calf puller. 518883-5160.(NY)

FARMALL450 wide front end, power steering, good tires, excellent condition, INT. 800 air cyclo 6 row corn planter. 315-5367875.(NY)

FLAT TOP 300 gallon Girton bulk tank with working compressor, 200+ foot complete DeLaval pipeline, 200+ foot badger cleaner chain. 585-770-4145.(NY)

Many IH 1066s, 1466s, fender and cab tractors, $6,500-$12,000; 340 dual loader w/ bale spear, $1,500. 66’ series parts.

518-677-2854.(NY)

400 bales nice, first, $2, 400 bedding, good kicker wagons, $900; Farmall H was running, NH 277 baler, $2,000, offers, Devin 607-432-0171.(CNY)

BALE WAGONS for sale, 18 ft. steel, $2,000, (2) 16 ft. wood, $1,750 and $1,000, all gc. No Sunday Calls! 315-5367841.(NY) WANTED: MANURE SPREADER, small, 80 bushel, no junk sale Hobart Butcher Saw $1,650, new. JD 720 standard, straight, $7,800. 914-533-6529.(NY) A set 16.9-38 continental tires, 60% tread, $25/pair; (2) 38” double bevel rims, 16” wide, $200/pair. 315-225-9882.(NY)

SUBSCRIBE TO

RADIAL tires, 2 (14.9-24), 2 (14-38), Case IH 1660 combine rotor, Abbott Farms, Baldwinsville 315-727-8347.(NY)

1 And Fa F G M rme R e ar r T E t E ke o E ve tp Fa ry lac rm Mo e er nt Ad h!

CALL Toll Free 888-596-5329

or FAX form with credit card information to (518) 673-2699 or e-mail your request to subscriptions@leepub.com

Rush This Subscription Form with Check or Credit Card Information To:

Country Folks

Country Folks is Published Weekly By Lee Publications, Inc.

P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428-0121 Name ______________________________________________ Farm/Company Name__________________________________ Address ____________________________________________ City __________________________State ____Zip ________ Signature ______________________________Date ________ Phone (

) ____________________________________

E-mail ______________________________________________ ) ________________________________________

- Publication Country Folks Eastern Edition Country Folks Western Edition Country Folks New England Farm Weekly Country Folks MidAtlantic (Farm Chronicle)

Print Digital

- Subscription Price 1 Year (52 issues) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45.00 2 year (104 issues) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$75.00 Canadian (52 issues) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$140.00 Canadian 1st Class (52 issues) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$265.00 New Renewal (include label from paper if possible) Gift Subscription Signature __________________________________Date ________ Payment Method VISA MC AMEX DISC Exp. Date

____

Acct. # ________________________________________________

Every Week

DOUBLE RING TRACTOR TIRE, chains for 18.4-38 tires. Heavy duty round bale, bucket spear, Badger three beater forage wagon. 607-962-1477.(NY) JOHN DEERE 48 loader, $750; NH 56 rake with dolly, work good, $750; IH corn planter, 4 row, nice, $750. 607-4359976.(NY) 1040 MASSEY quick hitch loader, fits 471, 481, $2,500; Case 580L 4x4 extender hoe, 2,800 hours, $27,000. 508-410-7996.(MA) FORD 2000, super H, Ford 9N, lots of Molines, show ready! Case 430 restored, Fordson Major diesel. Call for pics. 518922-6301.(NY) WANTED: Need a gear box for model 72 Gehl Flail mower. Call 315-245-1149.(NY) PUREBRED SAANEN bucks: 8 mos., 18 mos., excellent lines, CAE tested. yearling does, doelings, bred or open, closed herd, wlemcke1@rochester.rr.com. 585-6592936.(NY)

New Subscribers Please Allow 3-4 Weeks Delivery

NOW AVAILABLE DIGITALLY!!

Get your copy every Saturday from anywhere you have web access!!

By getting your subscription digitally you also will have access to our archived issues since January of 2009 and have the ability to search your current issue or the past issues.

18” GSI grain bin fan, purchased new, very little used; Also, JD 100 forage blower, same as NH 28, $450. 315-781-2572.(NY) FORD 602 2 row mounted corn picker with mounts for Ford 6000. Vegy good, $1,500 trade for Ford 6000 parts. 716-9413200.(NY)

TIRE CHAINS, 15.5x38, excellent, large number of various JD bean puller parts, can be sold as complete unit as well. 585747-7577.(NY) CAST IRON HOT WATER radiators, $100 each. Call for sizes. Penn Yan. 315-5360235. No Sunday Calls.(NY) ONE ROW CAROUSEL, six cup transplanter, one row bare root rubber finger transplanter, $375. ea. 908-362-7478.(NJ)

1947 Farmall A not running, motor turns, been inside with 2 bottom LnR plows, cultivator, exhaust lift wheel wt. $795. 413738-5379.(MA) FOR SALE: DeLaval 76 Vacuum pump, 3 hp, runs great, good for small operation. $600. Call 518-772-8856.(NY) GOATS ALPINE purebred, 5 female, 1 male, $50 each; Dog houses, $19. Reminisce magazines, $0.25 each, Gerbils, Guinea pig cages. 315-531-8670.(NY) 21’ rock flex disk, needs work, $2,500; 2 heifers, due Feb. 585-526-5195.(NY) SHAVINGS, White Pine, Kiln dried, 3.25 cu. ft., good quality, 529 Klock Road, Fort Plain. 518-568-3203.(NY)

CASE IH combine, 8x60 PTO auger, 6x41 electric auger, CIH 5100 drill. International 475 disk. Chevy 16’ dump, removable sides. 315-789-0882.(NY) 2 inch stainless pipeline, 60 cow tie stall, best offer wanted. Lime/litter spreader and 15’ or 20’ batwing mower. 315-3485251.(NY)

Country Folks The Weekly Voice of Agriculture

FARMER TO FARMER MARKETPLACE

Your paid subscription to Country Folks earns you 1 FREE Farmer to Farmer Marketplace ad Each Month.

INCLUDE Your Mailing Information Found on the Front of Your Country Folks Paper!

EE D RS W02888 ***************CAR-RT Chec Are You LOT**R002 R F AI BE Eleg k You 1 P I r L1/01/11 YOUR NAME abel ible?

TO CR LY YOUR MAILING ADDRESS For The “A ” BS N YOUR CITY & STATE, NY 13428 U S O

Your Label Looks Like This Gray SAMPLE Label

You Must Include The ( A ) That Is Found In This Area Of Your Label, It Signifies That You Are A A PAID SUBSCRIBER

YOUR Label Is Found On The Lower Right Hand Corner Of The Front Page Of Your Paper

YOU MUST MAIL THIS FORM & YOUR LABEL TO: Country Folks FARMER TO FARMER MARKETPLACE PO Box 121 Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Country Folks

Brings You: • Award Winning Editorial • Feature Stories • Latest in National, Local, and State News • New and Used Equipment for Sale • Auctions

3 Hackney pony mares, 53” tall, dark bay, ride and drive. 8:00-8:15 a.m. 607-5827248.(NY)

FOR SALE

WANTED

_______________________________________________ 1ST word 2ND word 3RD word 4TH word _______________________________________________ 6TH word 7TH word 8TH word 5TH word _______________________________________________ 9TH word 10TH word 11TH word 12TH word _______________________________________________ 14TH word 15TH word 16TH word 13TH word _______________________________________________ 18TH word 19TH word 20TH word 17TH word

( ) _______________________________________________ Area Code & Phone Number (Counts as the 21ST word)

Please PRINT Clearly!

Fax (

One Year (52 Issues) $45.00 Two Years (104 Issues) $75.00

18.4x38 95% $450, IK Member B-RB motor in a body, mopar, $125., snow shoes, mod. bearpaw, $45. leave message. 607-293-7303.(NY)

Please PRINT Clearly!

December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

FARMER TO FARMER MARKETPLACE

REQUIREMENTS: 1. Paid S u b s c r i b e r s are allowed ONE Farmer to Farmer Marketplace ad Per Month. (Ads Will Appear For 1 Issue Only) 2. Must MAIL this form & your Current Label to us.

(NO Phone Calls, NO Faxes, NO E-Mails, NO Photo Copies Accepted).

3. (21) Word Limit.

Please Print Clearly.

(If we can’t read your writing we can’t enter it in the paper.)

4. Include your Phone Number with area code.

(Phone #’s count as 1 word).

5. The following types of ads WILL NOT be accepted: BUSINESS, Personals, Help Wanted, For Lease, For Rent, Wanted To Rent, Wanted To Lease.

The above types of ads WILL NOT be accepted.

6. Information not received

in our office by Noon on Wednesday will be held until the following issue.

Lee Publications staff has the right to reject and/or edit any Farmer To Farmer Marketplace ads.

by Aaron Gabriel, Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program Are you getting “queezy” from the roller coaster ride of extreme weather and fluctuating markets? On Jan. 17, 2012, at The Century House in Latham, NY, the conference “Stability Amidst Volatility: Growing Crops and Feeding Livestock” will give you the tools and a new way of thinking to manage your business through a volatile business climate.

There will also be a trade show of ag suppliers and professionals. On the program, Mike Bittel, senior vice-president of King Arthur Flour, will

give his insights into grain markets for the coming years, and the management skills that it takes to participate in commodity markets.

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

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

about volatility in the business environment.

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

There will also be a panel of farmers to discuss their feeding

strategies including high forage diets, snaplage, and growing all your own grains. Another area of volatility is weather. How do we grow consistently good crops when the 25-year rain comes every four years on top of other weather extremes? What agronomic practices can be used to manage the soil, pests, fertility, and crop environment to ensure high yields?

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

T YOUR R BUSINESS! WE WANT WHITEE EAGLEE AG G & TRUCK K SERVICES TED D AT 36366 RT TE 12bb IN N MADISON! LOCAT

ALL MAKES REPAIR FACILITY SPECIALIZING IN JOHN DEERE HARVESTERS COMBINES COMPACT AND ROW CROP TRACTORS OVER THE ROAD TRACTORS & TRAILERS LAWN & GARDEN EQUIPMENT

IF YOU USE IT AT HOME OR ON YOUR FARM WE CAN FIX IT! NO JOB IS TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL CONTACT RENEE, JOHN OLIVER OR CASS WIMMER

@ (315) 303-5491

Charlie Koines, New York State Crop Insurance Education Program, will discuss the future of crop and livestock insurance programs. Two farmers will explain how to make crop insurance and Livestock Gross Margin -Dairy insurance work for you.

So, mark your calendar for Jan. 17 and come to The Century House for a timely con-

ference to help you chart the future of your business and trade show to talk with your ag professionals and suppliers. $45 pre-registration is due by Jan. 12, 2012.

Call Gale Kohler, 518765-3510 or gek4@cornell.edu for registration information and Aaron Gabriel, 518-380-1496 or adg12@cornell.edu for program information.

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

We are disappointed that Congress passed a Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations bill that prevents additional portions of the rule from advancing. In particular, it is critical that the competitive injury portion of the rule be implemented. Currently, a producer must prove that a packer’s anti-competitive practices damaged the entire marketplace. Clarification of competitive injury is needed so that the producer would only have to prove that his or her operation was hurt by such actions, a much more reasonable stan-

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

“After more than one year of discussion and more than 60,000 comments received, USDA has issued a Final Rule that provides some protection to family farmers and ranchers across the country. This rule will make the livestock market at least somewhat more transparent and fair. The rule clarifies whether the requirement of additional capital investments for poultry growers and swine producers violates the Packers and Stockyards Act, and ensures poultry dealers have a reasonable period of time to remedy a breach of contract.

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

Page 9 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Stability Amidst Volatility program planned

Section B - Page 10 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Silver Lake Rod & Gun Club donate to 4-H

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These Businesses and Organizations Are Proud Supporters of New York FFA and Youth Involved in Agriculture RIM-GUARD ®® TIRE BALLAST Manufactured By:

Rim-Guard Inc. P.O. Box 4012 East Lansing, MI 48826

• Ready to use liquid, easier to handle than traditional weights • Reduces tire rusting to rim • Nonn-corrosive to tire rims • Non-toxic & biodegradable • Safe to -30C

• Non-flammable • Weighs approx. 10.7#/gal.

• Patented and OSHA approved • Used with tubes or tubeless tires on new, antique, full siize or compact tractors

518-852-5901 www.rimguard.biz Say You Saw It In Country Folks

Tri-County Supply, Inc.

Silver Lake Rod and Gun Club Vice President, and son of Roger Everitt, Todd Everitt; LouAnn Kiefer, Penn State Extension representative and Committee Member Fred Guyette at the check presentation ceremony at the Silver Lake Rod and Gun Club.

Greenwich FFA assists with Good Night Irene Fundraiser

At Agri-Mark, we believe in actively working together for better farm milk prices, whether it be through the growth of our Cabot or McCadam brands of cheese or support of the plans like the current Federal MILC Program.

If you are a dairy farmer, we will work hard for you in the marketplace, not against you. Join 1,400 dairy farm families working for a better future by calling our Membership Department at

12069 Olean Road (Rt. 16) Chaffee, NY 14030

Locally: (716) 496-8859 Toll Free: (866) 496-8859 sales@tricountysupply.com

349 Roses Brook Rd. South Kortright, NY 13842 607.538.9464 fax: 607.538.1514 coagerd@dmcom.net

1-800-225-0532.

Beautiful Greenhouse Fresh

Poinsettias

Great Fund Raiser Call For More Info

Wessels Farm 845-386-5681 Greenwich FFA members donated their time and expertise with animals to help with the Goodnight Irene fundraiser held in September at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds. Seventeen Greenwich FFA members coordinated a petting zoo and assisted with the auction set-up. Over $20,000 was raised to benefit farmers who were devastated by the flooding of Hurricane Irene.

Photo courtesy of Greenwich FFA

To Show Your Support For FFA Call Ian Hitchener 518-210-2066

Nearly 180 people joined together at the Montrose Bible Conference Center to celebrate the accomplishments of its 4-H members during 2011 at the annual 4-H Achievement Night. This year the Susquehanna County 4-H program combined Achievement Night with its annual spring Leader Recognition Event, so leaders were also recognized and thanked for their service to the 4-H program.

Following a delicious covered dish dinner Michelle Kowalewski, emcee for the event welcomed everyone and introduced special guests who were able to join the group for the evening.

One special guest was former 4-H Extension Educator Joe Fuller. 4-H leader and former member Elaine Mackey shared memories of Joe with stories about traveling with members to State 4-H Achievement Days and also traveling to Capitol Days in Harrisburg.

During 2011, 391 youth ages 5 to 18 participated in 4-H; these 4H’ers are guided by 95 volunteer leaders and completed 754 projects at various 4-H roundups this year including dairy roundup, horse roundup, dog obedience roundup, livestock roundup and the general 4-H roundup held in conjunction with the Harford Fair. More than 70 4H’ers and Clubs were recognized for their accomplishments. The awards

program highlighted members accomplishments in several areas including dairy and livestock project book work, horsemanship skills awards, horse sponsorship awards, project diversity, outstanding news reporter, club spirit award winner, and blue ribbon club winners.

The Susquehanna County 4-H Dairy Leaders selected Eric Giangrieco as the outstanding 4-H dairy member. Eric is a 10 year member of the North Jackson Ag 4-H Club and has shown dairy animals throughout his 4-H career and has also been part of the dairy judging team. The Susquehanna County 4Horse Leaders selected Olivia Mitchell as the 4-H Horse Scholarship recipient. Olivia has been involved in several 4-H clubs during her career, and taken numerous 4-H projects and served in various club offices. Giangrieco and Mitchell were also named the 2011 Susquehanna County Outstanding 4-H Members.

The Susquehanna County 4-H Program was pleased to award six academic scholarships to graduating seniors. The scholarship recipients were Shawn Carey, North Jackson Ag 4-H Club; Eric Giangrieco, North Jackson Ag 4-H Club; Sarah Johnson, Elk Mountain Community 4H Club; Katie Klim, North Jackson Ag 4-H Club; Olivia Mitchell, Franklin Hill Community 4-H

Club; and Nathaniel Suchnick, Deckertown 4H Club.

Susquehanna County 4-H has an awesome network of volunteer leaders who bring a vast skill set to the table when working with youth in our county.

At this year’s 4-H Achievement Night we were honored to recognize those leaders who have reach momentous years of service to our organization.

The following leaders were honored for their first year of service: Lori Bonavita, Tammy Frisbie, Michelle Kowalewski, Adele Kryger, Elaine Mackey, Daisy Matulevich, Diane Mooney, Connie Oliver, Ann Marie Shevchuk, Amy Wood, and Brittany Zembrowski. The following leaders have served the 4-H program for five years of service: Connie Chisek, Jim Cook, Betty Eichelberger, Beth Everitt, Mike Kowalewski, Denise Kraynak, Abby Onyon, and Robert Supancik.

Joann Cronk, Danette Fuller, and Karen Moyer have reached 10 years of volunteer service to 4-H. Marking 15 years of service were Ann Corbin, Frida Giangrieco, Michael Hardisky, and Joan Webster. The highest honor of the evening was given to Walter and Marilyn Race for 30 years of service as a 4-H Leader.

To learn more about the Susquehanna County 4-H program call the Penn State Extension office in Montrose at 570278-1158.

Blue Ribbon 4-H Club winner was the Blue Ribbon Driven 4-H Horse and Pony Club.

Members left to right: Olivia Vosburg, Makayla Mack, Kelly Oliver, Kelsey Mitchell, Kyleigh Kline and Dana Nunemacher.

Honored for being 30 Year 4-H Volunteers were Walter and Marilyn Race.

2011 Outstanding 4-H members: Eric Giangrieco and Olivia Mitchell.

Pine Plains FFA ~ another strong start The Pine Plains FFA has once again had an outstanding start to the new year with ever increasing numbers of members joining in the fun. Our FFA year begins on July 1, just as the new school year does.

We started out by sending two students to the Washington Leadership Conference (with financial help from the Lower Hudson Valley FFA Foundation) and we had an exceptional three day officer retreat over the summer at our local Wilcox Park to begin our new year as an officer team beginning to learn how to lead and work as a team.

Although the time there was short, the DC Fair hosted us in their Salute To Ag tent where we had a display informing the public about our organization as well as trying to raise funds through sales of our FFA T-shirts and sweatshirts. The Pine Plains FFA hosted their annual Fall Festival over Columbus Day weekend and attracted over 1,000 people who enjoyed the day — it’s just like our County Fair, just on a schooldistrict kind of level. Maybe you can come join us next year and check it out.

We hosted our first Annual Motorcycle Benefit ride that was held on a beau-

tiful day and sent riders throughout the countryside riding past many of our students’ host farms, it was an unbelievable success and we hope to be able to repeat it again next year.

Five students were sent to the National Convention (with the financial help of the Lower Hudson Valley FFA Foundation and the Pine Plains Ag Advisory Board) and experienced an outstanding program of convention sessions, a wide selection of workshops and a career show that was almost too big to take in.

We have started our community service projects off by promoting our annual food drive which is always held in the month of November before Thanksgiving, assisting in the preparations for the Pine Plains town decorating day and participating in the adopt-a-family program.

We are currently fundraising by selling poinsettias and fruit & cheese while gearing up for our Holiday celebration, prepping for Career Development Event Contests and will soon be getting ready for our Annual Toy Show in March.

We would like to thank all of you who have helped us run and/or attend these events and wish everyone Happy Holidays from the Pine Plains FFA.

Page 11 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Achievement night and leaders recognition celebration

Section B - Page 12 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Weed Science Society of America says flooding along our nation’s rivers worsened by invasive weeds This year, flooding has ravaged thousands of homes and businesses in communities across the U.S. and scientists say the prevalence of invasive weeds is one of the factors that may be contributing to the damage.

These foreign invaders are overrunning many vital “riparian” lands — the ecologically diverse natural habitats that run along the millions of miles of our nation’s waterways and help to prevent or moderate flooding.

“Healthy riparian areas populated by native plants can store thousands of gallons of water per acre,” says Linda Nelson, plant physiologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and former president of the Aquatic Plant Management Society. “They filter the water that flows into a stream after a storm or snow melt and can also mitigate the effects of river flooding. But, unfortunately, the protection capacity of many of our vital riparian areas is being degraded by invasive weeds.”

The native plant species typical of a healthy riparian corridor prosper there and have dense root systems to hold soil in place and protect against erosion.

As a result, the soil is highly permeable and can absorb water entering the river and overflowing the banks. Healthy riparian land can even improve water quality as dense, native vegetation absorbs potential contaminants and traps sediment.

But weeds that overrun native riparian vegetation can change everything and seriously degrade our nation’s valuable water re-

FOR ROUND BALE HAYLAGE OR DRY HAY

CUT THROUGH BALE LIKE AMERICAN CHEESE

Distributor

BECHARD’S FARM EQUIPMENT

Champlain, NY (518) 298-5381 Dealerships Available

sources. Common invaders include reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea), saltcedar (Tamarix aphylla) and leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula).

Another good example is knotweed, an aggressive species from Asia introduced here as an ornamental. The most common varieties of this troublemaker include Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum), giant knotweed (P. sachalinense), Himalayan knotweed (P. polystachyum) and a Japanese and giant knotweed hybrid (P. X Bohemicum). Knotweeds have been spotted in 41 states and are becoming a real threat to riparian areas, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.

Knotweed roots are far less dense than those of native plants and are unable to hold soil firmly in

place. When knotweed invades a riparian zone, stream banks become unstable and soil is stripped away.

This scouring effect can actually shift a stream channel, create a sloping bank and result in significantly more sediment in the water. It also reduces the ability of both the riparian zone and the stream to hold water — promoting flash floods during periods of heavy runoff.

Why is knotweed so successful at taking over?

Like many riparian invaders, it can spread vegetatively, as well as by seed. Each plant produces an extensive network of underground rhizomes that can spread up to 65 feet in all directions. Tens of thousands of dormant buds on these underground stems can sprout new bamboo-like shoots that have been

known to break through asphalt. “I’ve even seen a picture showing Japanese knotweed that had grown through someone’s living room floor,” says Timothy Prather, associate professor of weed science at the University of Idaho and a specialist in knotweed.

Even a small fragment of a root or stem can launch a new invasive weed colony. You need to proceed with care and use every tool in your weed control arsenal to control knotweed. Here are a few control tips and best management practices compiled by The Nature Conservancy. Some of these same techniques can be applied to other aggressive plant invaders: • Manual/mechanical control methods such as mowing, trimming, digging and pulling may

work if you are persistent over a period of years.

Your objective is to starve the root system, and that means staying ahead of new shoots that are produced from latent buds as you disrupt the plant.

Be prepared to cut down or pull new shoots twice a month or more from April to August — and then at least once a month until first frost. Repeat the process annually until the knotweed no longer regrows. Also, keep stems that you pull, cut or mow out of the compost pile and well away from any nearby body of water. You don’t want the plant to spread to a new location.

• Foliar herbicide applications may be appropriate for large infestations.

Use only an herbicide approved for riparian use and take precautions to minimize drift. As with mechanical control meas-

ures, timing and persistence are important. Multiple applications may be needed to do the job.

• New stem-injected herbicide techniques are showing great promise. A special tool is used to inject concentrated chemicals directly into a hollow in the knotwood stem. It’s a labor intensive process, though, making it best suited for small patches that are easily accessible.

“Reclaiming riparian areas and restoring native species can be vital to flood control, water quality and even wildlife habitat,” Prather said. “It is important that we focus on early identification of invasive weeds, understand their growth patterns and how they spread, and establish an effective management plan before it’s too late.”

A sold-out crowd of dairy farmers and their advisors gathered in East Syracuse in early December to learn why some farmers are enthusiastic about group-housing and feeding systems.

Over 275 people attended the “Group-Housed Dairy Calf Systems” symposium and others joined online

for a webinar. They heard late-breaking research and learned about autofeeders, acidified self- feeders and positive pressure direct ventilation.

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

Other speakers included experts

Precast Feed Bunks & Bunk Silos Straight or Tapered — Engineered to fit your needs

J-Bunk

U-Bunk

H-Bunk

T-Panel

L-Panel

Precast Bunk Silo

Level Capacities of Silos per 10 feet of length (Depth of Silo 10 feet)

Silo Floor Width 20' 30' 40' 50' 60' 70' 80' 90' 100' Bushels 1800 2600 3400 4200 5000 5800 6600 7400 8200 Tons 55 80 105 130 155 180 205 230 255 Closed and ratio 1/8 at 50 lbs./cu.ft.

All are in stock and ready to go!

ALL SIZES AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY We can adapt to replace wood sides on existing silos

ROBINSON CONCRETE, INC. (315) 252-7227 • 685-8230

3486 Franklin St. Road, Auburn, NY 13201

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

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

We have an ancient contract to give calves what they need for life, growth, health and comfort. Group feeding and housing move closer to nature’s way, said Dr. Anderson.

Regional on-farm tours continued Wednesday through Friday following the symposium. Group-housing dairy calves will also be featured topics at PRO-DAIRY’s Winter Dairy Management series in February and the Northeast Dairy Producers Conference in March.

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

Within that group of producers and advisors is a significant body of knowledge. The symposium was a first attempt to bring this emerging knowledge base together with those we consider experts in this field, and to identify the key questions that remain about how to fully capitalize on this approach to raising dairy calves,” said symposium planning committee mem-

ber Frans Vokey, dairy extension educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County, NY. Symposium planning members included John Conway and Heather Darrow of PRO-DAIRY, Countryside veterinarian Dr. Mark Thomas, Dr. Bob. Ceglowski, Rupert Veterinary Clinic and Dr. Jerry Bertoldo, NWNY Dairy and Field Crops Team.

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

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

PRO-DAIRY’s mission is to facilitate New York State economic development by increasing the profitability and competitiveness of its dairy industry.

PRO-DAIRY specialists have made a positive impact on the technical knowledge, management skills and economic strength of New York State’s dairy industry since 1988. Visit PRO-DAIRY online at www.ansci.cornell.edu/prodairy/index.html.

Page 13 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

PRO-DAIRY’s Group Housed Dairy Calf Systems symposium sold out

Section B - Page 14 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Managing for Success: transition cows

by Jackson Wright & Jerry Bertoldo The transition period is critical to a successful lactation. It is defined as the three weeks prior to calving through day 21 of lactation. During this period the cow undergoes multiple physiological and metabolic changes as she transitions into lactation. Stress is the catch-all phrase used to categorize the effect of these challenges. In addition to these biological changes, a natural lag exists between her ability to generate milk and her ability to consume enough feed to meet these new energy requirements. As a result, every cow experiences some form of negative energy balance during early lactation. Stresses associated with diet, pen/stall changes and the calving process add to the transition challenge. However, proper management can reduce the length and severity of this negative energy balance providing benefits on both milk production and reproduction.

The severity of this negative energy balance is also dictated by the biology of the cow, a key component of which is how well the cow is able to coordinate the meta-

bolic changes required to produce large quantities of milk. The currency for these metabolic changes is glucose (energy). The rumen consumes feed source glucose in the fermentation process. This is not a loss to the cow since unlike monogastrics, cows cannot readily absorb glucose from the gut.

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

The liver is the center of energy conversion, protein manufacturing, blood detoxification, mineral complexing and many other metabolic functions. It requires a wide variety of enzymes, energy and a good deal of time for the liver to convert fat to useful energy sources. Depending on the demand and amount of fat pulled from around the body, the liver may have to store fat. The ability of the liver to carry on its normal duties decreases as the amount of fat stored within the liver increases.

As fat accumulates in the liver, the liver is less

HOS-COT BUILDERS, INC. Box 12, South Street • Hoosick, NY 12089

Phone: (518) 686-4422

# Free Stall Barns # Milking Parlors # Machine Sheds # Farm Shops # Tie Stall Barns # Milkhouses # Horse Barns # Heifer Barns

= CUSTOM DESIGN SERVICE = A SPECIALTY Concrete Forming and Flat Work Quality Construction At Reasonable Cost Excellent References

Where One Call Brings It All!

Season’s Greetings And Best Wishes for A Prosperous New Year From All of Us at Hos-Cot Celebrating 38 Years In Business

capable of generating glucose which can lead to multiple metabolic disorders including ketosis, metritis, displaced abomasum and mastitis.

Some older estimates put the cost of clinical ketosis around $145 per case and subclinical ketosis at $78. Uncomplicated ketosis may reduce lactation output by up to 775 pounds.

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

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

Often pre-calving nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA’s) or post calving beta-hydroxy butyric acids (BHBA’s) serum levels are good indicators

of energy status. If your cows are suffering from severe or prolonged negative energy balance, you should consult with your herd veterinarian or subsequent advisor regarding your herd management practices, especially surrounding the transition period. Newer cowside tests have significantly helped in assessing ketosis risks.

Consider some of these recommendations for transition cow success: • reducing stocking density during the transition period — 80 percent is ideal, less than 100 percent critical, less competition at the feed bunk, water trough and for resting places • maintain a fresh cow group — fine tuning the ration, return to positive energy balance sooner and tracking intakes better • improve cow comfort — flooring, stall design, water access, ventila-

tion, cooling, lighting • use a rumen protected choline both pre and postcalving — helps transport fat out of the liver enhancing overall liver function Focusing on better cow management during the

transition period can improve liver function and can increase peak milk yield and profitability.

The events surrounding calving have no equal in determining a cow’s potential for health and productivity.

1989 MF 3090 MFWD, cab, air, 95 hp, 32 speed trans ex 18.4x38 radials 13.6x28 radials front fenders 540+1000 PTO real clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000

2009 Degelman 40.7H Agriplus material handler 9000lb lift 1286 hrs, 4 speed power shift cab, air, drawbar, 94 inch bucket, forks and bale spear like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000

1998 JD 5410 MFWD, 12x12 trans lift hand reverser 3391 hrs 16.9x30 rears 11.2x24 fronts 540 loader with joystick folding roll bar, 73 inch bucket, very clean, sharp, runs ex .$22,500

2006 JD 6320 2WD, cab, air, power quad, left hand reverser 2419 hrs, ex 16.9x38 radials, 540+1000 pto buddy seat very clean sharp original ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000 2006 JD 6320 MFWD, cab, air, 24 speed PQ LHR, 1100 hrs, buddy seat dual pto 460/85R/38 and 420/85R/24 front fenders with JD 563 SL loader electronic joystick 3rd valve to front mint cond like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$52,500 2005 JD 5225 468 hrs, 9 speed sync shuttle trans, 2 remotes 540 and 1000 pto 3 point hitch 14.9x28 tires like new . . . . .$16,500 2004 JD 7220 MFWD, cab, air, IVT trans 2539 hrs, buddy seat 4 remotes 18.4x42 and 14.9x30 radials front fenders very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$52,500 2004 JD 6420 MFWD cab, air, 24 speed power quad LHR, 18.4x38 and 13.6x28 Michelin radials buddy seat only 48 original actual hrs just like brand new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$52,500 2004 JD 6320 2WD, cab, air, power quad, LHR, ex 16.9x38 radials, 540+1000 pto buddy seat 3079 hrs, very clean sharp original . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 1998 JD 6410 MFWD, cab, air, power quad LHR, 4936 hrs, new 18.4x38 rears 13.6x28 fronts with JD 640 SL loader runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$32,500 1998 5510 narrow orchard cab, air, 5621 hrs, syncro reverser 2 remotes outback plus joystick and loader brackets 380-85-28 rears 280x80R18 fronts ex running clean tractor . . . . .$20,000 1997 JD 7210 MFWD, cab, air, power quad LHR, 4800 hrs, ex 18.4x38 and 13.6x28 radials JD 740 SL loader runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$42,000 1988 JD 4450 MFWD, cab, air, 15 speed power shift 12 front weights 14.9x46 radials rear 14.9x30 radials front 3ph quick coupler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$30,000 1986 JD 2550 cab, air, 3552 hrs, 18.4x30 tires dual remotes with like new JD 620 loader joystick and new 7' bucket real clean runs ex only used on a bale spear before . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,500 1985 JD 1030 roll bar and canopy same as JD 1530 2900 hrs diesel very very clean tight sharp one owner runs ex . .$6,000 1983 JD 2950 with laurin cab 4732 hrs, ex 18.4x38 radials 16 speed trans dual pto and remotes sharp runs ex . . . . .$12,500 1979 JD 3130 (same as 2840) 18.4x34 rears 4734 hrs, 540 +1000 pto with hiniker cab good original tractor runs ex . . . . . .$6,500 1968 JD 4020D power shift with added on sound guard cab ex 18.4x38s dual remotes runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 1998 White 6710 cab, air, 95hp, 4242 hrs, 8x4 power shift right hand reverser 3 remotes 18.4x38 and 13.6x28 with Quicke 465 loader new 7ft bucket clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,500 1980 White 2-105 MFWD, cab, 5100 hrs, brand new 20.8x38 RL 14 ply tires ex 16.9x26 fronts dual pto and remotes runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,500

1994 Ford 7840 MFWD, 90hp, cab, air, SLE, 4995 hrs, ex 18.4x38 radials ex 14.9x28 radials ex Ford 7413 loader very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$25,500 1990 Ford 5610 Series 2, factory cab, air, 2587 hrs, 18.4x30 and 12.4x24 dual power 2 remotes real clean runs ex . . . .$14,500 1989 Ford TW 15 MFWD, cab, air, series 2 20.8x38s and 16.9x28s 10 front weights and rear weights, 6180 hrs 3 remotes very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,000 1988 Ford 7710 Series, 2WD cab, air, 3 remotes dual power 4430 hrs, very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 1987 Ford 4610 series 2 MFWD, 2300 original one owner hours ex 16.9x30 and 11.2x24 8 speed ex allied 594 quick tatch loader front mounted pump ex tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,000 1982 Ford 3610 42 hp, 3347 hrs, 8 speed trans single remote 540 pto 14.9x28s runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,000 1979 Ford 5600 with Hiniker 1300 cab 62 hp 4094 hrs, ex 16.9x30 tires dual remotes 540 pto sharp very clean runs ex . . .$7,500 2005 CIH JX95 MFWD, cab, air, 80 hp, 841 hrs, 18.4x30 and 12.4x24 Goodyear super traction radials front fenders dual remotes like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$27,500 2005 CIH JX 1075C, MFWD, 62 pto 75 engine HP, 16 speed trans LHR, 16.9x30 rears 11.2x24 fronts dual remotes 2025 hrs, with Stoll F8 self leveling loader very clean sharp one owner ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$22,500 1999 CIH MX200 MFWD, cab, air, 6400 hrs, 540 + 1000 PTO 4 remotes 20.8x46 axle duals ex 16.9x34 radials front fenders and weights very clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$45,000 1995 CIH 7220 Magnum MFWD, cab, air, 5657 hrs, ex 20.8x42 radials rear ex 16.9x30 radials front front fenders and weights dual pto 3 remotes very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . .$46,500 1984 IH 684D only 2317 original hrs ex 18.4x30 rears roll bar and canopy with ex CIH 2250 quick tatch loader joystick very clean original one owner hobby farmer ex tractor . . . . . . . . .$13,500 1983 Case 2290 cab, air, 129 hp 20.8x38s 540+1000 pto 5400 hrs, runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,000 1980 Case 2090 cab, air, power shift 4561 hrs, 540+1000 pto dual remotes 20.8x38s real clean runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500 1977 IH 986 factory cab 5717 hrs, dual pto and remotes like new 20.8x38 firestone 7000 radials very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,500 1977 IH 1086 cab, air, 6100 hrs, 18.4x38 radials dual pto and remotes clean original Illinios tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 1975 IH 666D with cab 5900 hrs, new 18.4x34s dual remotes good TA very clean sharp original must see runs ex . . . . . . . .$8,000 1976 Massey Ferguson 245 diesel 5114 hrs, 13.6x28 rears, 3ph, 1 set of remotes very clean original runs ex . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 New Holland 310 baler with NH 75 hydraulic pan type kicker real nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500

1994 New Holland 575 wire tie baler hydraulic bale tension pickup head and hitch NH model 77 pan type kicker real nice .$7,000 JD 337 baler with kicker and hydraulic tension . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 2005 Claas 260 variant with netwrap and twine 4ft by 5ft super sharp like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,500 2004 Claas 260 variant rotocut with netwrap and twine 4ft by up to 5ft super sharp like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$16,500 2005 CIH RBX 453 4x4 round baler dual electric tie bale ramps baled less than 2000 bales like new mint baler . . . . . . .$9,500 2003 New Holland BR750 4x6 round baler wide pickup head bale ramps netwarp endless belts very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,500 2000 JD 446 4x4 round baler bale age kit like new belts ex$8,500 1999 New Holland 648 silage special round baler wide pickup head bale ramps very nice 4x5 baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 CIH 3440 4x4 round baler nice little baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 1996 New Holland 644 4x5 round baler silage special wide pickup head bale ramps net wrap very nice baler . . . . . . . . . . .$8,500 CIH 3450 4x5 round baler very clean nice baler . . . . . . . . .$3,500 Gallignani 3200 4x4 round baler rolls and chains very clean ex baleage baler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 CIH No 10 flail chopper nice one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 NH model 38 flail chopper like new flails hydraulic lift on head electric controls good clean chopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,750 Kverneland Taarup 17 ft hydraulic fold tedder ex cond 2 years old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Massey Ferguson model 72 manual fold up hay tedder big tire very nice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000 2010 Anderson RB 500 trailer type bale wrapper 30 in plastic auto start and cut with electric start Honda gas engine just like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,500 Late model Kuhn KC 4000G center pivot discbine rubber rolls ex cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 NH 144 windrow inverter nice one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500 IH manure spreader model 500 ground drive good chain 75 bushel nice little spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$800 Agrimetal 24 in front mounted PTO powered leaf blower ex .$2,000 IH 450 3 bottom 3ph auto reset plow very nice . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 CIH 7500 4BT variable width auto rest plow 16-20 inches like new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 20.8x38, 20.8x42, 18.4x46 clamp on duals 18.4x38, 18.4x42s and 20.8x38 10 bolt axle duals and hubs 10ft power angle snowplow with mounting brackets cylinders and hoses off JD 6420 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500 8ft front mounted snow pusher with mounting bracket for farm tractor with cylinder and hoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,000 8ft 6 in hi volume 3ph box blade for snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,000

Financing Available Delivery Available

Bures Bros.

Equipment

23 Kings Highway Ext., Shelton, CT 06484

1-203-924-1492

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

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

for small businesses.

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

timely manner.”

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

A reassessment can only take place if the reduction in the assessed val-

ue is greater than 50 percent of the original property value. The difference in assessed values would either reduce the current property tax bills, or provide a refund for those who already paid their bill.

In addition, all school districts in federally-declared disaster areas, at local option, will be able to accept property tax installment payments from

homeowners. The number of installments would be at the discretion of the school district. School districts that elect to adopt installment payments would be able to receive advanced school aid payments for the 2011-12 School Year. The amount in school aid that would be advanced to these school districts is at the discretion of the com-

missioner of education, the state comptroller and the director of the Division of the Budget.

“Some of the greatest frustrations from those affected by the floods was the inability for government to provide flexibility and common-sense solutions,” said Amedore. “With this structure in place, it is my hope that it will be immediately implemented to help those who are still struggling to put their lives and homes back in order.”

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

Preference shall be given to projects that demonstrate the greatest need.

In addition, the director of the budget, in consultation with the temporary president of the Senate and the speaker of the Assembly, will develop a plan to distribute $20 million in additional aid to municipalities in federal disaster flood areas affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. “There was a sizeable gap in direct aid for small businesses, farmers and organizations that had opportunities for low-interest loans, but not grant assistance. This will help close that gap so businesses can get back on their feet, continue their operations, and keep people employed,” said Amedore. “The additional funds for flood mitigation come after years of failed task forces and paltry funds to address flood issues. Many municipalities in my district are habitually inundated by flooding after the winter thaw or heavy summer rains. While it is unfortunate that it took a historic flood to address the issues, I know that the investment we make today will have a great impact for years to come.”

Page 15 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Amedore outlines new flood relief package

December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Section B - Page 16

JANUAR Y

THE FARM SHOW FOR

FARMERS!

19-20-21, 20 12 Thurs. 9-4, Fri. 9-4 & Sat. 9-3 Augusta Expoland • Fishersville, VA

Don’t Miss These Exhibitors!!

Advance Agra Service, LLC • 508 AIC - Agricultural Instruments Corp • 316 Agco Corporation • 201, O-3 Agri-King • A Agri-Plastics Mfg • 213 Agri-SC • 126 Agri-Service, LLC • O-4B Agrotain International • 144 Airgas • 141, 142 AKE Safety Equipment • 206 American Farm Products • 504 Amerseal Tire Sealant • 162 Animat, Inc • 528 Augusta Cooperative Farm Bureau • 127, 128 Bath Fitter • 515 Beverage Tractor • 100, 102, O-4 Binkley & Hurst LP • 210 Bonny View Farms • O-6 C&C Farm Supply • 134, 135 Camping World of Roanoke • 340, 341, O-4A Cargill Animal Nutrition • 145 Channel Bio, LLC • 517 Charvin Farm Ag Plastics • 315 Chemgro Seeds, Inc • 139 Christian Farmers Outreach • 522 CID Attachments, Inc • 203, 204 Cloverdale Supply, Inc • 216 Cobra Torches • 509 Concrete Jack • 156 Conklin Agrovantage • 313, 314 Country Folks Farm Chronicle • 146 Countryside Organics • 138 Croplan Genetics / Neodak Seeds • 518, 519 Cummings & Bricker, Inc • 105, 106, O-15 Dew Eze Manufacturing • O-11 Ed Hoover Construction • 534 Emm Sales & Service, Inc • O-2A Farm Credit • 125 Farm Family Casualty Insurance Co • 205 Farmer Boy Ag • 118, 119 Fetterville Sales • 143 First Bank & Trust Company • 163 Fisher Auto Parts • 329 Garber Farms • O-7

GCR Tire Centers • 154, 155 General Fertilizer Equipment, Inc • 103 Growers Mineral Solutions • 161 GVM, Inc • 122 H&S Manufacturing • 200, O-1A Hamilton Equipment, Inc • 109 Haybuster / Duratech • 532, 533 Helena Chemical Company • 150 Hoard’s Dairyman • 147 Hotsy of Virginia • 514 Houff Feed & Fertilizer • 130 Hud-Son Forest Equipment, Inc • O-5 Huffman Trailer Sales, Inc • O-1 IBA, Inc • 112 IntelliAir • 531B Iva Manufacturing • 300, 301, 302 James River Equipment • 530, O-17 Jamesway Farm Equipment • 214 Janney Montgomery Scott • 516 Kioti Tractor • B, C, D, E, F Kuhn North America, Inc • 529 L Cubed Corp dba Tam Systems • 123 Lancaster Farming, Inc • O-12 Lanco-Pennland • 309 Lar-Lyn Farms, LLC • 511 Lawrence Ag Equipment • 104 Layman Water Solutions • 124 Liskey Truck Sales, L.C. • O-13 MAX, Mutual Aid Exchange • 507 May Supply Company • 120 Mid-Atlantic Irrigation Co., Inc • 101 Miller’s Storage Buildings • O-16 Morris Distributing • 328 Morton Buildings, Inc • 115 Organic Valley • 317 Outback Heating, Inc • 104B Outdoor Furnace Distributing • O-8 Ownby Auction & Realty Co., Inc • 149 P. Bradley & Sons • 121, O-2 PA Country Equipment • 303 PBZ LLC / Crop Care • 104A Pearson Livestock Equipment • O-10 Perma-Column East, LLC • 151, 152 Pioneer Hi-Bred • 129

Quality Craft Tools • G Quality Metal Works • 207 Recyc Systems, Inc • 339 Restora Life - Natural Way Feeds • 202 Rockbridge Farmers Coop • 148 Rural Community Insurance Service • 140 Ryder Supply Company • 502 Salford Farm Machinery, Ltd • 137 Sanimax • 310 Southern Farm Supply • 215 Stone Hill Construction, Inc • 527 Sukup / LnR Feed & Grain Sys. • 212 T.A. Seeds • 113, 114 Taylor Manufacturing, Inc • 311 Tech Mix, Inc • 505 The Power Connection • 136 Trissel Equipment • 107 Uncommon USA, Inc • 531A United DHIA • 506 VA Golf Cars Inc • 172 Valley Feed Co • 500 Valley Implement Sales • O-6A Valmetal Inc • 214 Virginia Bin Service • 512 Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Srvcs • 120A Virginia Farm Bureau • 211 Virginia Simmental Assoc. • 510 Virginia Trailer Sales/Double H Equipment • O-14 Vulcan Materials Company • 513 Waste Solutions Forum • 132, 133 Whitesel Brothers Inc / W.S. SE Gea • 108 Williams Brothers Tree & Lawn Service • 503 Wood-Mizer Products, Inc • O-9 SKID STEER RODEO SPONSORS Virginia Farm Bureau - Diamond Level TROPHY SPONSOR Virginia Farm Bureau GIVEAWAY SPONSORS Camping World of Roanoke VA Golf Cars Inc

Two months ago, the National FFA Organization announced a new record membership of 540,379 students thanks to more than 17,000 students in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands signing up during the 2010-11 school year.

On Dec.13, the organization’s fundraising arm, the National FFA Foun-

dation, announces it raised a record $16 million through corporate and private financial contributions to support FFA in 2011.

The foundation welcomed 40 new corporate sponsors in 2011, raising the total number to 1,212. Three new corporations combined for a $3 million gift to FFA. The foundation also

drew more than 80 new companies and organizations as exhibitors at the 2011 National FFA Convention & Expo, the nation’s largest gathering of students. More than 53,350 FFA members, teachers and school administrators attended the 2011 event.

“We were well positioned in 2011 with the resources we needed to

ensure our members received the ultimate FFA experience through our programs and key initiatives,” said National FFA Foundation executive director Rob Cooper. “Our core programs, including career development events, proficiencies, scholarships, award competitions and more, were funded at 90 percent — another record

high. Without the commitment of our donors, it would be impossible for FFA to make a meaningful difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.”

Providing opportunities that help FFA members grow and succeed is the work of the National FFA Foundation. Foundation donors make possible award and recogni-

tion programs, scholarships, service learning activities, global engagement programs, national FFA convention functions, educational materials, teacher training and much more.

Created in 1944 and governed by a 19-member national board, the foundation gives companies, organizations and individuals opportunities to provide financial resources and cooperation in support of FFA programs and other agricultural education organizations. Since, the foundation has raised more than $216 million to support FFA and agriculture education.

The National FFA Organization provides agricultural education to 540,379 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,489 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Come to the Country Folks Booth #720 at the

Come to the Country Folks Booth #720 at the

FARM SHOW

FARM SHOW

KEYSTONE

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 TUES. 9-4 • WED. 9 -4 • THURS. 9 -3 YORK FAIRGROUNDS • YORK, PA

KEYSTONE

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 TUES. 9-4 • WED. 9 -4 • THURS. 9 -3 YORK FAIRGROUNDS • YORK, PA

and Receive a FREE Mug!!

and Receive a FREE Mug!!

TUESDAY’S OFFICIAL MUG SPONSOR

To Join These Sponsors Call Beth at 800-218-5586 Deadline - December 9th STIHLdealers.com

Five Star International 1810 S.19th Street Harrisburg, PA 17104

717-986-1500

See them in Booth O-313 Outside Building #3

Country Folks “Your Weekly Connection to Agriculture”

800.836.2888

www.countryfolks.com

“Permanent Foundations For Post-Frame Structures” 65 West Penn St., Lenhartsville, PA 19534

Toll-Free 888-699-8875 www.permacolumneast.com sales@permacolumneast.com

F.M.I.

FEEDMOBILE, INC.

Scott Truck Bodies & Beds Tarp Systems Installed • Custom Fabrication Custom Welding 727 Furnace Hills Pike Lititz, PA 17543 717-626-2680 Fax 717-627-4948

JOHN HIGH www.feedmobile.com johnshigh@dejazzd.com 717-471-1901

Find your Channel ® Seedsman at

www.channelbio.com

Page 17 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Donors give record $16 million to National FFA Foundation in 2011

Section B - Page 18 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Farm food safety training course offered Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Cornell Vegetable Program, the Lake Ontario Fruit Team, the Cornell National GAPs Program, and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets will be running a series of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) trainings for 2012. The first, Farm Food Safety Training, will be held at the Livingston County Highway Department facility, 4389 Gypsy Lane, Mt. Morris, NY, Jan. 4 and 5.

Registration and coffee begins at 8:30 a.m. and the program runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days. Lunch is included.

This is for those farmers who are being required by buyers to provide third party verification of their food safety practices and for farmers thinking about moving in this direction, with Federal Food Safety Legislation a reality in the very near future.

The first day will focus on the details of what GAPs is, how it works, and what it means for farming operations. The second day will be devoted to helping participants write a food safety plan as required for audit certification or if attendees just want to have one for themselves to implement on their farms.

A laptop computer is required for the second day. If you need to borrow one, please let us know ahead of time so we can have one available. In addition, if you have a person from your farm who has better computer skills, you can bring them for day two.

It is strongly recommended that you attend day one in order to begin writing your food safety plan on day two. Pre-registration is advisable because space is limited for the second day.

The cost is $100 for two days for one farm member and $20 per additional member for both days.

This is a three day class — the first two days are in the classroom and the third is to be announced. Attendance is optional for the third day, which will be held during the growing season on a participant’s farm for a mock audit.

The workshops are being partially funded by a grant from the Genesee Valley Regional Marketing Authority, along with

a Smith-Lever grant “Creating a comprehensive state-wide GAPs food safety education program.” In addition, funding to support the participation of New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets auditors and the distribution of GAPs educational materials comes from a Specialty Crop Block Grant to New York state from the USDA. For directions to the

Mt. Morris training, and the other training dates and locations this winter, go to the GAPs event calendar www.gaps.cornell.edu/eventscalendar.html A registration form is available online at www.gaps.cornell.edu.

Pre-registration is recommended by Jan. 2. If your registration is not received by our office by Jan. 2 and you still are interested in attending

the trainings, call or email Craig Kahlke at 5 8 5 - 7 3 5 - 5 4 4 8 , cjk37@cornell.edu. For

more information, contact Kahlke; Robert Hadad, 585-739-4065, rgh26@cornell.edu; or

Dave Thorp, 585-6583250, dlt8@cornell.edu.

Make Plans Now to Attend the EMPIRE STATE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXPO and DIRECT MARKETING CONFERENCE Oncenter • Syracuse, NY

January 24-25-26 2012 LIMITED BOOTH SPACE AVAILABLE CALL TODAY!!

800-218-5586

NEW FOR 2012 • Third Day Added • NYS Flower Industries

Don’t Miss These Exhibitors . . .

2012 SESSIONS WILL INCLUDE:

• Flower Production • Flower Marketing • Labor • Potatoes • Tree Fruit • Tomatoes & Peppers • Cultural Controls • Direct Marketing • Pesticide Safety • Vine Crops • Leafy Greens • Cover Crops • Soil Health • Reduce Tillage • Berry Crops • Cabbage • Cole Crops • Food Safety • Onions • Garlic • Peas & Snap Beans • Greenhouse & Tunnels • Pesticide Safety • Sweet Corn

Acadian AgriTech • 910 Adams County Nursery, Inc • 115 Advanced Sprayer & Water Tech • 931, 932, 933, 934 Agraquest, Inc • 705 Agricultural Data Systems, Inc • 602 Agro One • 421 Amaizeingly Green Value Products, ULC • 108 American Takii, Inc • 709 Andre & Son, Inc / Nature Safe • 114 Applied Agricultural Technologies • 214 Arctic Refrigeration Co. • 518 BASF - The Chemical Company • 402 Bayer Crop Science • 201, 300 BCS Shop • 325, 424 BDI Machinery • 403, 405 Bejo Seeds, Inc • 320 Belle Terre Irrigation, LLC • 519, 521, 523 Biagro Western Sales • 700 Blackberry Patch • 106 Burgess Baskets • 107 Business Lease Consultants, Inc • 604 CAS Pack Corporation • 103 Clifton Seed Co • 303 Community Bank, NA • 924 Community Markets • 200 Compac Sorting Equipment • 423, 425, 522, 524 Conklin Agro Vantage • 806 Cornell Pesticide Management Education Program • 804 Cornell University-NYSAES • 100 CropCare Equipment by Paul B LLC • 719, 721, 816, 818 Crop Production Services • 600 Country Folks Grower • 1014 Dow Agro Sciences • 606 DuBois Agrinovation, Inc • 503 DuPont Crop Protection • 909, 911 Durand-Wayland • 205 Empire Tractor • 117, 119, 121, 216, 218, 220 Farm Family Life & Casualty Insurance Co • 101 Farmer’s Choice Foods • 915 FB Pease • 102 Fingerlakes Trellis Supply • 605, 607

Food Bank Assoc of NYS • 504 Frontlink, Inc • 941, 942 Gowan Company • 501 Grimes Horticulture • 304 Growers Mineral Solutions • 319 Growers Supply • 217 Growth Products • 210 GVM, Inc • 723, 725, 820, 822 Hansen-Rice, Inc • 904 Harris Seeds • 901 Haygrove Tunnels, Inc • 307 Hill & Markes, Inc • 808 Hillside Cultivator Co., LLC • 301 Hillside Orchard Farms • 419 InterCrate Inc • 603 IPM Laboratories, Inc • 112 J&M Industries, Inc • 703 Kepner Equipment, Inc • 1005, 1006 Koppert Biological Systems • 805 Kube Pak Corp • 706 Lambert Peat Moss, Inc • 938 Lansing Sales & Service, Inc • 929 Lee Shuknecht & Sons, Inc • 906 Lucas Greenhouses • 520 Maier Farms • 305 Mankar Ultra Low Volume Sprayers • 1000 Marrone Bio Innovations • 701 MAS Labor H-2A, LLC • 203 Mid-Lantic Labeling & Packaging • 903 Mike Weber Greenhouses, Inc • 809 Miller Chemical & Fertilizer Corp. • 316 Monte Package Company • 206 N. M. Bartlett, Inc • 801, 803, 900, 902 Natural Forces, LLC • 221 Natural Industries • 321 New York Center for Agricultural Medicine & HealthNYCAMH • 623 Nichino America, Inc • 506 Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York • 109 Nourse Farms, Inc • 707 NTI Global • 1001

NY DOL - Rural Employment • 122 NYS Department of Ag & Markets • 1013 NYS Department of Ag & Markets-Crop Insurance Education • 204 NYS Flower Industry • 111 NYS Vegetable Growers Association • 950 O. A. Newton • 819, 821, 920, 922 OESCO, Inc • 525, 624 Oro Agri Inc • 202 Paige Equipment Sales & Service, Inc • 711, 713, 810, 812 PCA - Supply Services • 418 Penn Scale Manufacturing Co • 116 Pennsylvania Service & Supply, Inc • 937 Phil Brown Weldin Corp. • 323 ProducePackaging.com® • 502 RE & HJ McQueen • 209, 211, 213, 215, 308, 310, 312, 314 Reed’s Seeds • 407 Rupp Seeds, Inc • 406 Rockford Package Supply • 302 Seedway, LLC • 318 Siegers Seed Company • 400 Sinknmore Div - Polyjojn Enterprises Corp • 618 Spectrum Technologies, Inc • 625 Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co • 207 Stoke Seeds, Inc • 401 Stokes Blueberry Farms & Nursery • 212 Summit Tree Sales • 507 Suterra, LLC • 505 Syngenta • 702, 704 Targit Sales Associates, LLC • 807 Tew Manufacturing Corp • 935 The Horticultural Society • 907 Treen Box & Pallet • 919 Tuff Automation • 802 USDA NY Agricultural Statistics Service • 113 Valent U.S.A. Corp • 306 Van Ernst Refrigeration • 620 VirtualOne • 500 Wafler Nursery • 404 Wessels Farms • 601 White’s Farm Supply, Inc • 619, 621, 718, 720

For trade show and exhibiting information, please contact Dan Wren, Lee Trade Shows, P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

800-218-5586 or e-mail dwren@leepub.com

For Registration Information go to https://nysvga.org/expo/register/ For Exhibitor Information go to www.leetradeshows.com

The 2012 Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo is sponsored by: New York State Vegetable Growers Association Empire State Potato Growers New York State Berry Growers Association New York State Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association

New York State Horticultural Society Cornell University Cornell Cooperative Extension NYS Flower Industries

3-4-5, 2012

Tues. 9 AM-4 PM • Wed. 9 AM-4 PM Thurs. 9 AM-3 PM York Fairgrounds • York, PA

Fill out the ticket below and bring to the show for

IF IT HAS TO DO WITH DAIRY FARMING...IT’S EXHIBITED AT THIS SHOW...

MARK YOUR CALENDAR TODAY

FREE Admission!

Virginia Farm Show is Produced by Lee Trade Shows, Inc. a division of Lee Newspapers, Inc. The Proud Publishers of Country Folks Weekly Farm and Farm Chronicle Weekly Farm Newspapers

PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

KEYSTONE FARM SHOW TICKET

800-218-5586 • www.leepub.com

KEYSTONE FARM SHOW

Don’t Miss Over

JANUARY

350 Agricultural

York Fairgrounds • York, PA

3-4-5, 2012 Tues. 9 AM-4 PM • Wed. 9 AM-4 PM Thurs. 9 AM-3 PM

Sponsored by the Trade Show Division of Lee Publications, Inc. Publishers of COUNTRY FOLKS AND FARM CHRONICLE THIS TICKET MUST BE FILLED OUT COMPLETELY FOR FREE ADMISSION

Exhibitors!!

Please Print With Capital Letters

INITIAL

LAST

FIRST

NAME COMPANY ADDRESS STATE

CITY TELEPHONE

AREA CODE

#

-

FAX

AREA CODE

#

-

ZIP

E-MAIL

Would you Like a TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION to Country Folks?

If Yes, Please Sign and Date to Receive your Free Trial Subscription

YES

NO

Signature ______________________________________Date________

Page 19 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

JANUARY

Section B - Page 20 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Are You Involved In More Than One Industry?

We Are Here to Help You. FREE E SUBSCRIPTIONS S BY Y REQUEST * Please check off the publications you would like to receive and answer the questions below each.

Regional/National Solid Waste Recycling (monthly)

Regional Heavy Construction (monthly) - Send me Ì YES Hard Hat News!

Handling Ì YES - Send me Waste Equipment News!

Hard Hat News focuses on heavy equipment construction including excavating, construction/demolition, paving, bridge building, and utility construction in the northeastern third of the United States.

TITLE 1 Ì President/CEO 2 Ì Manager/Supervisor 3 Ì Other FULL TIME EMPLOYEES 1 Ì 1-5 2 Ì 6-25 3 Ì >25 NUMBER YOUR PRIMARY BUSINESS #1, SECONDARY #2, ETC. 1 Asphalt Paving _____________________ 2 Concrete Paving ___________________ 3 Oil & Stone Paving__________________ 4 Bridge Construction _________________ 5 Excavating ________________________ 6 Utility/Underground _________________ 7 Construction Demolition______________ 8 Landscaping ______________________ 9 Land Clearing _____________________ 10 Logging _________________________ 11 Other ___________________________

HOW MANY OF THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF EQUIPMENT DO YOU OWN OR LEASE? 1 Excavators ________________________ 2 Dozers ___________________________ 3 Track/Wheel Loaders ________________ 4 Trucks____________________________ 5 Backhoes, TLB’s ___________________ 6 Other Heavy Equipment _____________

National Aggregate

(bi-monthly)

Do you perform contract snow removal? Ì Yes Ì No If so, how many pieces of equipment do you use for snow removal? ______________________ Do you have plans for your company’s expansion? Ì 1-2 Years Ì 3-5 Years Ì No plans at this time Ì Other

Recycling professionals involved in the wood waste, C&D, scrap metal, asphalt & concrete, and compost recycling industries will find Waste Handling Equipment News a valuable source of new products, product innovation and site adaption.

Two regional editions cover the United States.

TITLE J Operations Manager J Other TYPE OF BUSINESS (Check all that apply) Construction Demolition Recycling J Scrap Metals Recycling Construction Demolition Landfill J Ferrous J Non-Ferrous Woodwaste Recycling/Land Clearing J Equipment Manufacturer Composting J Equipment Dealer Asphalt/Concrete Recycling

J Owner/President/VP J J J J J

Regional Horticulture

Country Folks Grower is the regional newspaper for all segments of commercial horticulture since 1991. Each monthly issue is filled with important news, information, and advertising for the Greenhouse, Nursery, Garden center, Landscaper, Fruit, Vegetable Grower and Marketers.

North American Quarry News covers quarries, sand and gravel pits, HMA and ready mix concrete operations in the United States. NAQN provides a combination of strong editorial and advertising for industry professionals.

Your company produces these products or services: (Check All That Apply) Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì

Crushed stone and sand & gravel Crushed stone Sand and gravel Recycled materials, concrete/asphalt Cement Lime Industrial minerals Concrete

Regional Agriculture

Ì

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì Ì

*This publication costs $22 for one year. *This publication costs $38 for two years.

Asphalt Consulting engineer Machinery/equipment manufacturer Equipment dealer/distributor Government, association or school Drilling Blasting

(

Paid Subscription

weekly

monthly

Folks Ì YES - Send me CountryGROWER!

- Send me North Ì YES American Quarry News!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Paid Subscription

Business Type: K Greenhouse K Tree Fruit K Nursery

)

YES - Send me Country Folks!

Our premier weekly agricultural newspaper has four editions covering agriculture from Maine through North Carolina. Every issue is loaded with national, regional and local agricultural news, equipment, service advertising and auctions. *This publication costs $45 for one year. *This publication costs $75 for two years.

(Check All That Apply)

K Small Fruit K Christmas K Garden Center K Supplier

K Farmers Market K Direct Market K Vegetable

LEE PUBLICATIONS PO Box 121, 6113 State Hwy., Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 800-218-5586 • FAX 518-673-2381

SUBSCRIPTIONS 888-596-5329 email: subscriptions@leepub.com Name _______________________________________________ Farm/Business Name ___________________________________ Address______________________________________________ ______________________________________________

Business Type: K Dairy K Horse K Alfalfa

K Beef K Goat K Corn

(Check All That Apply)

K Poultry K Sheep K Soybeans

City ________________________ State _____ Zip __________ County ____________________Email _____________________ Phone (

) _______________Fax (

) _________________

Date ___________Signature______________________________

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Announcements

Announcements

Announcements

YARD SIGNS: 16x24 full color with stakes, double sided.

Stakes included. Only $15.00 each. Call Beth at Lee Publications 518-673-0101. Please allow 7 to 10 business days when ordering.

ADVERTISING DEADLINE Wednesday, December 21st For as little as $8.25 - place a classified ad in

Country Folks

Call Peg at 1-800-836-2888

or 518-673-0111

or email classified@leepub.com CODE 35 40 45 55 75 80 85 90 95 105 115 120 130 140 155 160 165 175 190 210 215 235 325 335 340 370 410 415 440 445 455 460 465 470 495 500 510 560 580 585 590 595 610 620 630 640 645 650 655 670 675 680 700 705 730 735 740 760 780 790 805 810 815 860 885 900 910 915 950 955 960 1035 1040 1050 1060 1075 1080 1085 1100 1115 1120 1130 1135 1140 1160 1170 1180 1190 1195 1200 1205 1210 1220 1225

CLASSIFICATION Announcements Antique Tractors Antiques Appraisal Services ATV Auctions Backhoe/Loaders Bale Covers Barn Equipment Bedding Beef Cattle Bees-Beekeeping Bird Control Books Building Materials/Supplies Buildings For Sale Business Opportunities Cars, Trucks, Trailers Chain Saws Christmas Trees Collectibles Computers Custom Butchering Dairy Cattle Dairy Equipment Dogs Electrical Employment Wanted Farm Machinery For Sale Farm Machinery Wanted Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn Fencing Fertilizer & Fert. Spreading Financial Services For Rent or Lease For Sale Fresh Produce, Nursery Grain Handling Eq., Bins & Dryers Groundcover Guns Hay - Straw For Sale Hay - Straw Wanted Help Wanted Herd Health Hogs Hoof Trimming Horse Equipment Horses Housing For Stock Industrial Equipment Insurance Irrigation Lawn & Garden Legal Notices Livestock For Sale Livestock Wanted Llamas Lumber & Wood Products Maintenance & Repair Maple Syrup Supplies Miscellaneous Mobile Homes Motorcycles Organic Parts & Repair Pest Control Plants Poultry & Rabbits Real Estate For Sale Real Estate Wanted Recreational Vehicles & Motor Homes Seeds & Nursery Services Offered Sheep Silos, Repairs, Silo Equip.

Snowblowers Snowmobiles Snowplows Stud Service Tires & Tire Repair Service Tools Tractors Tractors, Parts & Repair Trailers Tree Trimming & Removal Truck Parts & Equipment Trucks Vegetable Vegetable Supplies Veterinary Wanted Water Conditioning Waterwell Drilling Wood For Sale

Announcements # # # # #

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

CHECK YOUR AD - ADVERTISERS should check their ads on the first week of insertion. Lee Publications, Inc. shall not be liable for typographical, or errors in publication except to the extent of the cost of the first weeks insertion of the ad, and shall also not be liable for damages due to failure to publish an ad.

Adjustment for errors is limited to the cost of that portion of the ad wherein the error occurred.

Report any errors to 800-836-2888 or 518-673-0111 GOT GAS: 315-729-3710 35¢ above spot. No contracts, membership or tank fees. www.propane4farms.com

Barn Repair NEED BUSINESS CARDS? Full color glossy, heavy stock.

250 ($45.00); 500 ($65.00); 1,000 ($75.00). Call Lee Publications 518-673-0101 Beth bsnyder@leepub.com

BARN REPAIR SPECIALISTS: Straightening, leveling, beam replacements. From foundation and sills to steel roofs. HERITAGE STRUCTURAL RENOVATION INC., 1-800-735-2580.

Bedding

Bedding

BEDDING SAND for COW STALLS

• Stones • Gravel • AgLime Mark J. DuPont, Owner Cell 315-796-5084 Home 315-845-8471

USA Gypsum Bedding Reduce your bedding costs!

And Improve Soil - Naturally!

Gypsum Bedding • Cheaper than sawdust shavings or straw.

• Reduce mastitis & cell counts.

• Use in place of Hydrated Lime.

• Improves your soil • Available in bulk.

GRIP X 1 Barn Dry • Barn dry filling your gutters & tanks?

Gypsum dissolves.

• Use less! More absorbent than lime products.

Try Grip X1 Today! www.usagypsum.com • Phone 717-335-0379 Dealers wanted in select areas Also Available at: Central Dairy & Mech.

Delmarva Farm Service Elam Miller Himrod Farm Supply Homestead Nutrition Genesee Valley Nutrition Levi Fisher Martin’s Ag New Bedford Elevator Norm’s Farm Store Robert Rohrer Steve B. Stoltzfus Walnut Hill Feeds

Martinsburg, PA Kennedyville, MD Fort Plain, NY Penn Yan, NY New Holland, PA Piffard, NY Honey Grove, PA Shippensburg, PA Baltic, OH Watsontown, PA Millmont, PA Lykens, PA Shelby, OH

ph 814-793-3721 ph 888-348-1747 ph 518-993-3892 ph 315-531-9497 ph 888-336-7878 ph 585-243-9597 ph 717-734-3145 ph 717-532-7845 ph 330-897-6492 ph 570-649-6765 ph 570-898-1967 ph 717-365-3804 ph 419-342-2942

Bedding

KILN DRIED BULK BEDDING Delivered all of NY & New England or you pick up at mill.

Seward Valley 518-234-4052 WOOD SHAVINGS: Compressed bags, kiln dried, sold by tractor trailer loads. Call SAVE! 1-800-688-1187

Beef Cattle

Building Materials/Supplies

WANTED: Steers 200# & up.

570-561-8488

Wanted: 50’ wooden or coverall style trusses. Will take down. 315-224-1667, 315730-3271

Building Materials/Supplies 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

Bedding

PEANUT HULL BEDDING New York Prices Quoted • Call for Prices Elsewhere

Load Size

110 Cu. Yd. Trailer Loads

Ground Unground

$125.00 $115.00/Ton $165.00/Ton

Works Great in Both Freestall & Tiestall Barns

“Specializing in Dairy Bedding” e Oak Farm Bedding, LLC W h it 508 White Oak Rd. New Holland, PA 17557 Wendell • (717) 989-4153 Wesley • (717) 587-7192

Beef Cattle Certified Organic herd reduction - grass fed Belted Galloway cattle. Cow-calf pairs and champion bull.

Young stock all certified organic. SW NH 508-5619107 FOR SALE: Angus bull, born 5/10/11, sired by Final Answer, dam on premises.

315-350-8584

1-800-836-2888 To place a Classified Ad 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 ~ Quick Turn-Around, We Ship Anywhere ~ Located in the Heart of the Fingerlakes

607-869-9483

LOW-LINE ANGUS CATTLE, AI sired calves, bred heifers & cows. Quiet Valley Farm, 315626-6893

2845 Rte 364 Penn Yan, NY 14527 315-536-0944

LOWLINE ANGUS CALVES for sale. purebred bulls, percentage heifers, steers. Call 315-497-0095 Empire Rib

REG. ANGUS BULLS Embryo Yearlings out of Final Answer, $2,000; show heifer and market steer prospects. 802-3766729, 518-436-1050 WANTED: Feeders 250 lbs+ up, year round buyer. Beef for sale, 700 lbs. plus. 518-7961818 WANTED: Quality grain finished beef cattle. Now booking for January. 518-231-0239

PBR pannel

t direc Buy ave! s And

Standing Seam

Metal roofing available cut to your length 18 + colors painted • Galvalume • Galvanized aluminum • #1 & #2, material in stock.

Page 21 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Section B - Page 22 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

29 Gauge 26 Gauge

Buildings For Sale

Concrete Products

Buildings For Sale

BARN FLOOR GROOVERS®

22+ Colors

Mohawk Metal Manufacturing and Sales #1 and #2 Steel Roofing & Siding Painted - Galvanized - Galvalume Overhead Doors - Sliding Door Track & Parts Laminated Posts - Roof Trusses - Insulation Complete Post Frame and All Steel Building Packages 315-853-ROOF (7663) 4901 St. Rt. 233, Westmoreland, NY 13490

Construction Equipment For Rent

Professional Pole Barns

HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOR RENT. 315-497-0095

CONCRETE SAFETY GROOVING IN

Custom Services

We build what we sell

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

No Sub Crews

Dick Meyer Co. Inc.

Any Size Or Description of Building Most Structures Erected Within 30 Days Beat Our Price? I Don’t Think So!

www.barnfloorgroovers.com

by S&L Builders 35 years of experience Lifetime Warranty

HAULING of Heavy Equipment and farm equipment.

OVERSIZE OK. 315-4970095

CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-228-5471

570-398-5948 (o) 570-772-2352 (c)

Buildings For Sale FA R M R A I S E D H O M E BUILDER, featuring Bill Lake Homes. Your plans or ours. www.kdhomesny.com Call Dave KD HOMES 315-841-8700 kdhomes@frontiernet.net

Cars, Trucks, Trailers

Cow Mats

Cow Mats

Custom Butchering

Custom Butchering

Cars, Trucks, Trailers

R A R E & FA S T ‘06 Caddy CTS-V Buildings For Sale

Buildings For Sale

Double O Builders, LLC 1133 Clinton Rd., Fort Plain, NY 13339

518-673-1073 “Pole Barn, Garage” Winter Price Specials Basic Building Prices

20’x20’x8’ 24’x24’x8’ 24’x32’x9’ 24’x32’x10’ 24’x40’x10’ 30’x32’x10’ 30’x40’x10’ 30’x48’x10’ 30’x48’x12’ 30’x64’x10’ 30’x64’x12’ 30’x80’x12’ 40’x60’x12’ 40’x60’x14’ 40’x60’x16’ 40’x80’x12’ 40’x80’x14’ 40’x80’x16’ 40’x96’x14’ 50’x96’x14’ 50’x96’x16’ 60’x96’x16’ 60’x120’x16’ 70’x120’x16’ 70’x120’x20’

$6,660 $7,320 $8,200 $8,450 $8,900 $8,900 $9,600 $11,300 $12,600 $15,050 $15,456 $19,320 $19,320 $19,800 $21,300 $23,600 $25,900 $28,200 $31,050 $35,000 $37,500 $44,900 $49,500 $57,800 $60,200

Prices Good Within 50 Mile Radius of Fort Plain, NY

New York Custom Processing, LLC

Do your site prep now and take advantage of some of our good winter prices!

Rt. 8, Bridgewater, NY

Prices subject to change

Now Open & Booking Animals

No Lines ~ No Waiting

6.0 liter V-8, 6spd std, all options, black w/tan leather interior, 46,000 miles.

All Cuts Vacuum Packed and Bar-Coded for Tracking and a Complete Printed Inventory of Your Product

Reduced to $22,500 518-221-4103 or 518-673-0104

Call For Appointment

315-204-4089 or 315-204-4084

Collectibles Basic Buildings Include: (1) 10’ Wide Overhead Door (1) Entry Door Flush Eves and Gables Painted 40 Year Steel Erected on Your Level Site

WANTED TO BUY: Old Grit newspapers (not the Grit magazine). 518-568-5115

FOR THE DO-IT-YOURSELFERS: Complete Kits Available for Homeowners or Contractors Give us a call before you build!

Time to Start Thinking of

“THE DEER MAN”

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Optional: 36”x36” Window - $165 • 48”x36” Window - $175 48”x48” Window - $185 • 12” Overhang 7.90 a Linear Ft. Overhead or Sliding Doors • Wainscoting Lifetime Warranty Metal • Clear Skylights Board “N’ Batton Siding • Concrete Floor We will help you Design and Customize your building to suit your “Wants, Needs and Dreams”.

www.JOESFARMERSPLACE.com

Winner of State & National Awards for His Products

Joe “The Deer Man” Will Process Your “BONELESS” Deer Meat Into Any of His Famous “Award Winning” Products...

Jerky* Polish Kielbasa Polish Kielbasa w/Cheese Ring Bologna* Ring Bologna w/Cheese* Summer Sausage* Hot Sticks* Hot Sticks w/Cheese* Pepperoni*

Pepperoni Sticks* Pepperoni w/Cheese* Boneless Smoked Legs Hot Sausage* Sweet Italian* * 2004 Breakfast* International Ground Gold Medal Hot Dogs*

Winners

Our own custom blended spices used in all of our own award-winning products.

It’s easy & economical to add a picture to your ad!

For Information Call

1-800-836-2888

Always Booking Hogs & Beef WE BUY DEER HIDES 607-847-8234 - Somewhere Downtown South Edmeston

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Custom Services

Custom Services

Dairy Cattle

Dairy Cattle

50 ORGANIC Dairy Cows.

Springing heifers & shortbreds. 570-547-6343

USED COWS WANTED

50 WELL GROWN Freestall Heifers due within 60 days.

Joe Distelburger 845-3447170.

95 WELL-GROWN freestall trained Holstein heifers due January & February. Had all shots. 315-269-6600 BOSS LIVESTOCK: WANTED Holstein Jersey or Mixed Dairy Herds, immediate payment and removal. Also Dairy Cows For Sale: One or 100your choice, quality replacements. Call Chris Boss 315219-0590(cell), 315-8581651(home).

DEAD - DOWN - DISABLED CATTLE Call 607-722-5728 Anytime

1-800-777-2088

Dairy Cattle

ALWAYS 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 LIVESTOCK SALES, INC. Middletown, NY (845) 344-7170 buycows@warwick.net

A MESSAGE TO ALL DAIRY FARMERS We’re not the largest Livestock Dealers, we don’t have the largest advertisements, but we can promise to be honest, fair, and caring when it comes to purchasing and selling your complete dairy herd. You and your cows deserve that much. We also have a quality selection of Reg. and Grade cows at all times for you to choose from.

So if you are thinking of buying or selling, from one cow to an entire herd, give us a call. You will be glad you did.

Bose Quality Dairy Sales

Tom 845-482-4380 • Sonny 845-482-4166

ATTENTION FARMERS

Herd Expansions

WANTED All Size Heifers

Also Complete Herds Prompt Pay & Removal

315-269-6600

WANTED

ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS

HEIFERS

300 Lbs. to Springing Free Stall Herds & Tie Stall Herds

REGISTERED Red and White Holstein heifer. “Kobler Inferno Betty-Red”. Bred to black and Holstein with Red Factor. Due 1/2/12.

Vaccinated and wormed, $1,800.00. 315-6835532

WA N T E D

SEMEN COLLECTED ON YOUR BULL

For Rendering - Courteous Service

All Semen Processed at Our Lab Under Strict Regulations Electronic Seal of Straws (no powder plug)

Down - Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows

315-793-0043

At Your Farm or At Our Stud in Verona, NY

40 Years Experience

Dependa-Bull Services

ATTENTION FARMERS Operating 6 Days~Monday thru Saturday

WANTED

Down, Disabled & Fresh Dead Cows for Rendering

PINE TREE RENDERING Route 37, Brier Hill, NY

315-375-8459

BASKIN LIVESTOCK 585-344-4452 508-965-3370

- WANTED -

Heifers & Herds Jack Gordon (518) 279-3101

315-829-2250 SHORTHORNS Make Great CHRISTMAS Presents! Echo Farm in Hinsdale, NH has 20 Reg Shorthorn calves for sale, $600-2200 each depending on age/pedigree. 2 May’s, 12 summer’s, 3 November’s, & 3 December’s. Also, 4 bred heifers (due Jan-Mar). Please call Courtney for more information, (603)336-7706 ext10 or email:

courtney@echofarmpuddings.com

We Need Good Used Tanks • 100-8,000 ga. - Call Us

• 4000 Gal. Surge (99) • 3000 Gal. Storage • 2700 Gal. Mueller OH NY • 2000SOLD Gal. DeLaval • 2000 Gal. Mueller OE SOLD NJ Mueller OH • 2000 Gal. • 1600 Gal. Surge • 1500 Gal. Mueller OHF • 1500 Gal. Mueller OH • 1250 Gal. DeLaval PA M • 1000 SOLD Gal. Mueller • 1000 Gal. Sunset F.T. • 1000 Gal. Mueller OH • 1000 Gal. DeLaval

• 1000 Gal. Mueller M • 900 Gal. Mueller OH SOLD OH OH Mueller • 800 Gal. • 800 Gal. Majonnier • 800 Gal. Mueller OH • 735 Gal. Sunset • 700 Gal. Mueller OH • 700 Gal. Mueller V • 700 Gal. Mueller M • 600 Gal. Mueller OH • 600 Gal. Mueller M • 600 Gal. DeLaval Rnd • 545 Gal. Sunset • 500 Gal. Mueller M • 500 Gal. Mueller MW

• 500 Gal. Majonnier • 415 Gal. Sunset • 400 Gal. Jamesway • 400 Gal. Majonnier SOLDMilkeeper WV • 375 Gal. • 300 Gal. Majonnier • 300 Gal Mueller M • 300 Gal. Sunset • 200 Gal. Mueller RS • 200 Gal. Sunset SC • 180 Gal. Milkeeper • 150 Gal. Majonnier • 150 Gal. Mueller RH • 100 Gal. Mojonnier

HEAT EXCHANGERS • TUBE COOLER 300-6000 Gal Storage Tanks

We have clients in need of herds, fresh cows, bred, and open heifers. Call Us with your information or email jeffking@kingsransomfarm.com

We Do Tank Repair

SHENK’S

505 E. Woods Drive,

Sales 717-626-1151

Lititz, PA 17543

518-791-2876

www.cattlesourcellc.com

REG. PUREBRED Holstein Service Bulls, 2 left, $900.00. each. Call James Loomis 315427-6568

MILKING PARLOR COMPONENTS FOR SALE: • Double 10 Herringbone with Germania Model B arm take offs • Double 10 Blue Diamond stalls and indexing neck rail.

• 3” stainless steel line with receiver jar, variable speed pump (three phase), wash system and sink.

• Updated Legend vacuum pump with variable speed drive, three phase • Model 70 Delaval vacuum pump, single phase (backup) • Almost new Delaval Delatron 100 pulsators with two control boxes • Plate Cooler • Ingersoll Rand Model 2475 air compressor, three phase.

• 3000 gallon Surge Stainless Steel (white) tank – storage only • 29 ft Blue Diamond crowd gate, single phase with cord. 70 feet of track for both sides MUST GO - Building is Coming Down Will Accept Offers for All or Individual Pieces 585-526-5523 ext 10 or ryan@hemdalefarms.com

REG. HOLSTEIN HEIFERS, 3 bred due March, 8 open, 6 5-8 month old calves. 607761-4966 REG. HOLSTEINS, 27,000lb. herd average, 100,000SCC, 108BAA, 1 to 10, $1,900. Call Greg 518-284-2991

Dairy Equipment

AMERICAN RENDERING CO. BINGHAMTON, NY

(ALL SIZES)

Dairy Cattle

Dairy Equipment

Dairy Equipment USED DAIRY EQUIPMENT Bulk Milk Coolers, Stainless Steel Storage Tanks, Pipeline Milkers, Milking Parlors, Vacuum Pumps, Used Milking Machine Plus Agitator Motors, Stainless Steel Shells, Weigh Jars, Etc.

Dogs

Electrical

BORDER COLLIE PUPS. Red, Black, Blue & Merle, working lines, ABCA Reg. Shots.Dep. 518-673-5456

Let our 35 years of electrical experience go to work for you.

Providing Complete Grain/Dairy Facility Installations, Facility Power Distribution & Lighting, Motor Control Centers, Automation & Troubleshooting, and New Services & Upgrades.

CJM Farm Equipment 802-895-4159

Call Jeffrey at Agri-Fab & Repair, Inc. dba AFR Electrical Service

@ 585-584-9210

Farm Equipment

THINK ABOUT TAX PLANNING IH P& W

HITE

COMBINES & HEADS

JD 4650 MFD, new PS . . . . . . . . . . . . .$28,500 Case IH 9170 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$29,500 CIH 4366 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,900 IH 3588 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,250 IH 1086 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11,250 IH 966 Fender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$8,250 IH 1066 Black Stripe, new engine, exc. cond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,500 IH 856 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call IH 1066 4WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500 IH 1066 w/LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$9,500 IH 1066 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,900 IH 806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,900 IH 656 weak hydro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 IH 424 w/LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 IH 656 diesel, RBT eng . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500

LOWS

& PARTS FD 4100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,500 Kilbros 350 gravity wagon . . . . . . . . . . .$2,200 JD Combines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call JD 9510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$69,900 JD 915 flex heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call JD 643, 693 & 843 corn heads . . . . . . . .$7,900 JD 8300 drill w/seeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,750 Case 8430 Round baler . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Elwood 4WD unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,500 New Holland Loaders New . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call IH & White plows 3x-10x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call IH 100# Front End wgts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$105 1st Choice GS520-4 tedder . . . . . . . . . .$4,500 Chisel Plows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call Planters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call

Alternative Parts Source Inc. Chittenango, NY •

315-687-0074

Page 23 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Section B - Page 24 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Lower your feed cost!

Save an average of 3 to 4 lbs of grain per cow per day Going from non processing to a processor. $6.00 corn. . . .

$1000 OFF Most All cornheads & grainheads in stock.

Huge Selection. Zeisloft Farm Eq., Bloomsburg,PA 800-9193322

15’ Woods Batwing Bush Hog Excellent Shape $ 6,500 OBO

518-829-7790 1991 LOR-AL EZ Rider F350 Spray Truck, 60’ booms, 500Gal. tank, light-bar, chemical injection, Mattracks available. Jantzi Crop & Turf Spray.

315-523-2249

GET A

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

BEST BUYS IN USED EQUIPMENT

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale 2-Gehl 970 forage wagons; Valmetel 5600 round bale chopper. 315-532-5581

Canandaigua, NY Oliver 1955 cab tractor great Cummins project. . . . $3,500 White 100 4x4 cab with Westerndorf loader . . . . . $26,500 White 140 4x4 cab, tractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,000 Pair of 2-105 White cab tractors . . . . . . . . . . Choice 7,500 IH 1460 combine very sharp machine . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 Gleaner F2 diesel combine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,900 Parker header cart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 John Deere 1210A grain cart with tarp, nice. . . . . . $5,750 J&M 12 ton running gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,200 New Holland 514 spreader top beater . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 Woods 121 10’ rotary cutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,900 IH 1020 25’ flex head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,200 Bush Hog 9 shank disc chisel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,750 White 588 5x18 reset plow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,250 Gehl 970 14’ 3 beater box with roof & gear . . . . . . . $4,000 (3) Case IH 183 12 row flat fold cultivators. . . . . . . . . . Call 16-9-38 9 bolt duals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $800 IH 100 lbs. front weights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at $85 each Pair 18-4-38 trail duals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $950 Pair of 15-5-38 tires on double bevel rims. . . . . . . . . . $600 4 small gravity boxes some on gears Parts tractors Oliver 1755, White 2-85, White 2-105 Nice pair of White rear fenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $600 3 1 8 6 Fr e s h o u r R d . , C a n a n d a i g u a , N Y 1 4 4 2 4

2001 JD 3710, 8 bottom plows, auto reset, hydraulic variable width, many new parts, field ready, $14,500.

ALLIS CHALMERS D17, recent motor overhaul, 3 bottom plows included, very good condition, $3,200. 315-3237699 2001 JD 7710 MFWD, 4718hrs., power quad, fresh from farm, $62,500. 3.7%Fin. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-9193322 2010 EDGE high-flow snowblower, used one season, 36”H 86”W, chute hydraulically controlled, $8,900. 518872-1386

2880 Krause 9 Shank Chisel Plow Hyd., Front Coulters w/Leveler, Great Shape In Field Now

10,500 518-829-7790 $

(585) 394-4691 or (585) 394-4057 Serving the American Farmer Since 1937

www.countryfolks.com Farm Machinery For Sale

702531

CASE-IH MAG305 4WD TRACTOR W/14’ GROUSER BLADE, 800 HOURS, WARRANTY TILL 12/22/11, EXTENDED WARRANTY TILL 12/31/13 OR 2,000 HOURS W/$500 DEDUCTIBLE

$199,900

700469 JD 8560 w/14’ 4-WAY BLADE W/SILAGE EXT 702182 JD 9400 w/DEGELMAN 7200 6-WAY BLADE COMING JD 9530 w/GROUSER 6216 6-WAY HIGH LIFT DOZER BLADE w/SILAGE EXT & ADJUSTABLE EDGE 701961 CATTEPILLAR MT855 4WD TRACTOR w/TRACKS PS, 16’ 4-WAY BLADE, 5 OUTLETS LOOK UP AND ORDER YOUR PARTS ONLINE THRU OUR WEB SITE: www.whitesfarmsupply.com 4154 State Rt. 31, Canastota (315) 697-2214 (800) 633-4443 962 State Rt. 12, Waterville (315) 841-4181 (800) 859-4483 8207 State Rt. 26, Lowville (315) 376-0300 www.whitesfarmsupply.com

©2007 CNH America LLC. All rights reserved. Case IH is a registered trademark of CNH America LLC. CNH Capital is a trademark of CNH America LLC. www.caseih.com

Farm Machinery For Sale

4 USED GRAIN CARTS, Brent, Parker. Starting at $7,900. Zeisloft Eq. 800-9193322

Farm Machinery For Sale

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery For Sale

8’ SNOW PUSHER, standard quick tach, others available, 10% off thru Dec. 31st, 2011.

Pine Ridge Welding and Machine, Penn Yan, NY. 315536-2102

JD 338 baler, good condition; 910 Pequea fluffer, new condition. 518-843-0999

MUST SELL! 20’ Featherlite trailer, exc. condition, $9,000; NH 170 skid steer, 1300 hrs., $21,000; MF 1105, 7000 hrs., $7,000; Keenan 115FP, 400CF, new floor, $9,000; side shooter, $500.00; tire scraper, $300.00; 6 calf hutches, $150.00 each. Contact Andy at 860-534-0556 or jersey_cow_guy@yahoo.com pictures available

TT60A New Holland Tractor, Mint Condition, low hours.

B&E MANUFACTURING: Kicker racks, slant bar feeders, headlock feeders, round bale carriers, low profile bale carriers. 315-536-9513 BIG AUGGIE 216 w/auger chute, exc. shape, $4,500.

607-279-6232 days, 607-5334850 nights CASE 85XT skid steer, reduced to $13,500; NH LX865, 60hp, $13,500.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322 CASE IH MAXXUM 5220, cab, 4WD, 960 Quicke Loader, new tires, $23,500; Barber Green diesel Track Tile machine; NH L885 skid loader, 2 speed, 55hp; Ag Chem Gator sprayer, 500 gallon, 80’ booms, cummins engine. 315-536-8718 CASE-IH 8930 MFWD, 3hyd., both PTO, real nice one! $62,500. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322 FANCY! 2006 J.D.7720 MFWD w/746 loader, only 1200hrs., local PA farm tractor, one owner. Both like new.

24spd., 3hyd. Both PTO. Nicest one you’ll find. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322 FEED/GRAIN BIN: Holds 8 tons, new plastic boot, 12’ auger, $1,600/OBO. Little Falls,NY, 315-868-4905 FOR SALE: JD 724 18’ soil finisher with 5 bar coil tine harrow, excellent condition, $8,500. 315-276-5122 FORD 641 w/2 bottom plow, 8’ drag, 6½’ disc; International 574 diesel; International 1586; Case IH 685; 30hp electric motor. 315-691-2927 HERCULES, CONTINENTAL WAUKESHA: Farm and Industrial Engine Parts, M&M Surplus Sales, P.O. Box 381, Chester, NY 10918. 845-4693597, Fax 845-469-0990.

IH 1086 tractor, $9,000; Gehl 309 manure spreader, $1,200.

607-588-6723 IH 966 Hydrostatic w/IH 2350 loader, $12,500; IH 1256 turbo w/cab, 18.4x38 radials, $9,500; Hesston 7155 chopper, $3,500; Richardson 700 dump wagon, $8,000; 1981 Chevy C60 w/silage dump body, $5,000; old JD rake, $500; Int. 400 gas tractor, $2,000; Harsh 290 mixer wagon, no scales, $1,500.

607-286-9362

JD 7720 COMBINE, 4X4, vg!, just finished our corn and beans, $16,500. Mike Franklin 607-749-3424 JD 8420, 8200, 7700, 7405, 7210; NH 8560; Ford 8830, TW15; Case IH MX135, MX120, JX95 C80. 585-7321953 JOHN DEERE BALER PARTS. Winter discounts for baler repairs. New & Used hay equipment. Nelson Horning 585-526-6705 JUST TRADED: Gleaner R62 4x4 combine w/15’ grainhead.

Priced for quick sale, $29,900.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

Kennedy Tractor (315) 964-1161 Williamstown, NY “We Deliver” Quicke 980 (new) LDR & 7’ Bkt w/mts. to fit MF, Agco & Challenger $4,150; PTO Generators 70/30kw & 50/25kw; Fr. Mt. Snowpushers 7’ & 8’; 3pt use 7’ & 7 1/2’ Snowblowers (Several); New 5’ 3pt Snowblowers Fully assembled $1,890; 4x4 Ford 2120 w/Ford 7109 LDR 1100 hrs 40HP Dsl $8,950; 4x4 Kubota L3410 heated cab “ag” tires 30HP Dsl $7,950; Ford NH 4630 heated Factory cab 55-60HP Dsl 1800 hrs Dual outlets $11,500; 4x4 JD 4200 heated cab & 72” mower Deck 2025HP dsl w/ Hydr outlets Just In $Call; 4’ Heavy duty Roto-tiller; Bush Hog brand Trailer Type 7’ Rotary mower hard rubber tires w/cyl; JD new (1) Btm 3pt Plow; Landpride RCR 2570 10’ Rotary (Demo) mower (3) gearboxes 540 PTO Chain Guards (new list over $7,400) our price $5,950; Ford 540 heated cab & Ford LDR 50HP Dsl $4,950; Lots more Tractors & Equipment In Stock

KICKER BALE WAGONS $2,350; 8 & 10 Ton Running Gears, $1,325-$1,500; 20’ Bale Carriers, $2,750. Horst’s Welding, 585-526-5954 KUBOTA mini x-cavator 7000#, blade, rbr tracks, NICE, $12,500. dvburly@aol.com 585-230-3038

Maine To North Carolina

Merry Christmas

From All Of Us At PleasantCreekHay.com

J.D.4450, 2WD, quad, just arrived. Also J.D.4650 power shift & duals. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322

MANY IH 1066’s, 1466’s fender & cab tractors, $6,500$12,000; Du-al loader, $1,500.

518-677-2854

JD 2350 2WD diesel, 0% rears, 2hyd. valves, runs GREAT, looks not so good, $6,250 dvburly@aol.com 585230-3038

Martin’s Welding

JD 336 wire baler w/kicker good cond $2500; Wooden kicker wagons good gears, wagons 2 and 3 years old $1600 choice. 315-224-1667 315-730-3271

Wishes a

New Skid Loader Attachments, Buckets, Pallet Forks, Manure Forks, Round Bale Grabbers, Bale Spears, Feed Pushers, Adapter Plates, Skid Steer Hitch

MARTIN’S WELDING

315-531-8672

NH TB 110 TRACTOR, 90HP, FWD, Loader w/Quick Attach, 4 remotes, new clutch in 2010, good shape, very reliable, $22,000/OBO. Little Falls,NY 315-868-4905 PAIR - 30.5x32 Goodyear 10ply tires, 50% tread, no breaks or patches, excellent condition, $1,300/pair. 315-2765122 PEOPLE WILL PAY TO HUNT on your land. Earn top $$$ for hunting rights. Call for a FREE quote and info packet toll free 1-866-309-1507 or request at www.BaseCampLeasing.com PRICES REDUCED on all combines in stock! Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-919-3322 RECONDITIONED 4-6-8R 7000 and 7200 planters. Also, one and two row sweetcorn, vegetable, pumpkin planters w/JD Max-Emerge. FrameMount no-till coulters. Custom b u i l d p l a n t e r s . Pe q u e a Planter, 717-442-4406

Smiley’s Equipment ‘08 Dodge 4x4 pickup, $16,500; ‘99 Ford pickup, $2,000; IH dsl dump truck, $2,500; JD 4630, nice, $12,500; JD tractor & ldr, compact, $10,500; Hesston 4x4 & cab, $7,500; White 4x4 w/cab, 135hp, nice, $12,500; Int. 4x4, $10,500; David Brown, $3,500; new dump trailer, $5,000; 9 ton trailer, $1,500; Baler, $2,000; Round Baler $1,500; Corn Picker, $1,500; Corn & Flail Choppers, $1,200 up; Brush Hogs, Discs, Harrows, Plows & more. Excavator, $12,500; Case 450 Dozer, $8,500; JD 350C Dozer, $11,500; White 4x4 ldrhoe, $9,500; Case ldrhoe, $6,000.

BUYING MACHINES DEAD OR ALIVE

518-634-2310

Merry Christmas

STOLTZFUS HEADLOCK Feeder Wagon with 28 headlocks, brand new condition.

845-294-5797

MF MANURE SPREADER runs and operates, $450.00.

Call 315-497-0095

SUPER SHARP JD 6420 IVT, cab, MFWD, like new, 1500hrs., one of a kind, one owner, retired, $59,500.

Zeisloft Eq. 800-919-3322

to Current & Future Customers

607-529-3294 570-888-5370

USED BATWING mowers, 15’ & 20’, Woods, Bushog, JD. Zeisloft Farm Eq. 800-9193322

USED COMBINE PA R T S K & J SURPLUS LANSING, NY 607-279-6232 Days 607-533-4850 Nights VERY NICE J.D.6400, cab, low hours, local farm, only raked hay. Zeisloft Eq. 800919-3322

Farm Machinery For Sale

Farm Machinery Wanted

WANTED

NEW HOLLAND Model 72 thrower wanted for parts. 315493-1619

165, 175, 265, 275, 285 Any Condition

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

WANTED: 900 New Holland chopper w/Metal Alert, preferrably w/kernel processor; also Case IH 900 or 950 6 row corn planter in good condition.

315-688-2850

Custom Roasting and Cooling Your Soybeans,Corn, etc.

At Your Farm or Mill Serving All of NY State

Massey Ferguson 814-793-4293

Farm Machinery Wanted

WANTED

John Deere 5460, 5820, or 5830 Choppers

814-793-4293

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn

WEILER’S GRAIN ROASTING

(315) 549-7081 FOR SALE: #1 Roasted Corn.

518-537-6509

YOUR SOURCE FOR:

Pat O’Brien & Sons For all your feed needs!

• Steam Flaked Corn • Protein Mixes

• Corn Meal • Minerals

• Energy Mixes • Nutritional Services

Pick-up or Delivery from our Geneva Feed Mill

We Buy All Grains! Call Pat @ 716-992-1111

Grain Roasting On Your Far m

Soybeans • Corn Barley • Wheat

Waterville Grain Roasting Oneida Co., NY

315-534-8948

188 Genesee St. - Suite 209 Auburn, NY 13021

1-800-599-7150 315-258-4394 Grieg Dougherty • Richard Damaske Carter Riley • Greg Creeden Jeff Kuney • Dan Campbell (Distiller Sales)

GRAIN AND INGREDIENT MERCHANDISERS ORIGINATING CORN & MARKETING DISTILLERS FOR SUNOCO ETHANOL PLANT , F ULTON , NY

• Livestock Feeds • Ration Balancing • SeedWay Seeds • Crystalyx Products Buying Corn, Feed Wheat & Oats

(315)) 549-82266 Romulus, NY 14541

Fencing ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLLER REPAIRS. Factory authorized warranty center for Zereba, ParMak, many others.

No charge for estimates. Quick turn-around time. Send or bring to our shop, any make, any model. 518-284-2180 LOCUST POSTS, POLES, Split Rails, 6x6’s, 4x4’s. Other hardwood & softwood boards and planks, custom cut. Also lots, land cleared, woodlots wanted. 518-883-8284

Page 25 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Section B - Page 26 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Fencing

For Sale

Fencing

Empire Farm Fence & Supply

FOR SALE: John Deere 2940 4x4 with loader, 150 hours on new engine. John Deere 4040 cab, 1650 hours on rebuilt.

585-567-2306

“Miles of Quality Start Here”

• High Tensile • Split Rail • Misc. Types of Fence • Energizers • Fencing Supplies

ALL L SIZES S AND D STYLES

IN N STOCK!

We Also Carry Posts, Gates & More

2033 Brothertown Rd., Deansboro, NY 13328

315-841-4910

www.williamsfarmfence.com

Improve Your Farm Efficiency

ALL TYPES OF FENCES Quali Guara ty nteed

FALL DISCOUNTS NOW

Hay - Straw For Sale

STANTON BROTHERS

GOOD QUALITY hay & straw.

Large Square Bales. Will load or ship direct. 802-849-6266,

HEIFER BEEF COW HAY, first cutting, late cut, lots of green color, $100/ton. Mixed first cutting hay, nice, $150/ton Mike Franklin 607-749-3424

10 Ton Minimum Limited Availability

518-768-2344 1st & 2nd CUT HAY & OAT STRAW, Large square bales, processed. 716-474-3973

Generators

1st & 3rd cutting square bales; 4x5 wrapped 1st cutting silage bales; 4x5 dry round bales. All good quality.

Roscoe,NY 607-498-5812

NOBODY beats our prices on Voltmaster PTO Alternators, Sizes 12kw-75kw. Engines Sets and Portables Available.

1st CUT SMALL SQUARES, $3.00/bale; 2nd cut square, $4.00/bale. 1st cut round, $30.00/bale; 2nd cut round, $40.00/bale. Accessible to tractor trailers. Mike Quinn, Middlebury,VT 802-388-7828

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

1st CUTTING, dry wrapped hay, 4x4, 2nd cutting sq. bales. 607-965-8184

NEW AND USED Grain Dryers: GT, MC, GSI. Call anytime toll free 1-877-422-0927

BALEAGE for sale, 54”x48” grass and clover mix. Call 315-497-0095

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

Grain Handling Equip.

Bins & Dryers

A N MARTIN GRAIN SYSTEMS 315-923-9118

Clyde, NY

WE SPECIALIZE IN Cyclops Energizers

Heavy Duty Galvanized Gates

• Sukup Grain Bins • Dryers • Grain Legs Grain Handling Equip.

• Custom Mill Righting Bins & Dryers

GRASSY HAY FOR SALE, 1st cutting $4.00/bale; 2nd cutting $5.00/bale. 45-50 lb. bales, no rain. Located near Homer,NY. 315-496-2356

• Hopper Feed Bins • Transport Augers • Crane Service Grain Handling Equip.

• Dryer BinsService & Dryers

Made in USA

LOT’S OF GOOD HAY: 1st & 2nd cutting. 518-284-2180

Hay For Sale First Cut, Second Cut, Timothy and Alfalfa WE DELIVER

519-604-8683 HAY FOR SALE: First cutting round bales stored outside $25. Bennington,VT. Delivery available 802-688-3700 HAY SAVER Plus Hay Preservative, 68% Propionic Acid.

87¢ per pound. Product available in Waterloo, NY. Delivery Available. Conoy Ag, Elizabethtown, PA 717-367-5078

MOELLER SALES 1-800-346-2348

FOR SALE: 2009 GT RB800 grain dryer, ready now, delivery anywhere. 877-422-0927

Hrs.: Mon.-Fri. 8am-4pm; Saturday By Appointment

Hay - Straw For Sale

PUREBRED Light Gray Flemish giant rabbits, (2) lt. gray giant doe chinchillas. 585567-2306

4097 Rt. 34B, Union Springs, NY 13160 RUSTIN WILSON (315) 364-5240

MIRACO HEATED WATERERS

Hay - Straw For Sale

ONTARIO DAIRY HAY & STRAW

Quality Alfalfa Grass Mix Lg. Sq. - 1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut

ALSO CERTIFIED ORGANIC Low Potassium for Dry Cows

Call for Competitive Prices NEEB AGRI-PRODUCTS

519-529-1141

TOO MUCH HAY?

H AY

Try Selling It In The

Wet and Dry

Call Peg At

Farmer to Farmer

Round & Square Bales

1st, 2nd & 3rd Cut Hay Also Square Bales of

CLASSIFIEDS 800-836-2888 or email

STRAW

classified@leepub.com

519-482-5365

Hay - Straw Wanted

CALL STEVE

ALWAYS WANTED TIMOTHY MIXED HAY ALFALFA MIXED HAY

HAYLAGE BALES & dry round bales. 700 bales baleage, 400 bales dry hay.

Mulch/bedding round bales available. Albany,NY area.

James Frueh, 518-436-1050

Call 4M FARMS 315-684-7570 • 315-559-3378

Hay - Straw Wanted

Hay - Straw Wanted

1st, 2nd & 3rd Cuttings Also Small Square Mulch

BOARD • VINYL • WOVEN WIRE • HI TENSILE

HAY & STRAW

E&A Fence LLC

LARGE QUANTITIES

WANTED

Serving The Northeast

All Grades - 2 String Bales

518-993-5177

PAID UPON PICKUP OR DELIVERY

771 St. Hwy 163, Fort Plain, NY

HORSESHOE ACRES 845-783-4507 Ask for Mario

Fertilizer & Fertilizer Spreading

TOP MARKET PRICES PAID

AG LIME

For Quality Hay in 2 String Bales

HI-MAG

3 0 To n M i n i mu m Spreader & Spreading Available Large Quantity Discount ALSO BEDDING SAND & CHICKEN MANURE

Call T J Allen 315-845-6777 315-868-2438

HI-MAG LIME

Delivered by the Truckload Also BEDDING

SAND

for Horse Arenas or Cattle FOB McConnellsville, NY Delivery Available

888-339-2900 ext. 10

Want To Place A

Classified Ad

800-836-2888 CALL

Hay - Straw For Sale

FOR SALE All Grades Hay & Straw Horse & Dairy Quality Bagged Shavings & Sawdust

Looking for Long Term Supply Paid for On Scale

Also Buying All Grades of Hay and Straw in 2 String or Large Square Bales

Nick Fitzpatrick 845-901-1892 or 845-609-7315

WILL DELIVER

ROBERT ROLLE (518) 234-4052

adenbrook.com

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Hay - Straw Wanted

Heating

Help Wanted

Horses

CENTRAL BOILER E-Classic OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACES. Cleaner and Greener. 97% Efficient. EPA Qualified. Call today Halloran Farm 845-482-5208.

Employment OpportunityAgricultural business in Wayne County, NY seeking a conscientious individual to do application of fertilizer and pesticides to farm fields as well as other duties. CDL license, some mechanical ability, and pesticide applicators license a plus. Full time position with benefits. Call 315-374-5847

10 YEAR OLD LEOPARD Appaloosa, mare. Free. 315651-2265

Central Boiler E-Classic OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE. Buy NOW and save up to $1500! The next generation of cleaner wood furnaces has arrived. 97% Efficient. Call Today Border Drive Heating/Royal Stoves 570537-2447

Help Wanted

WANTED: Ag Service Tech

WANTED

Cazenovia Equipment Company, a premier John Deere Dealer is looking for experienced service technicians to join our team in any of our eleven locations in New York.

Hay & Straw - All Types We Pick Up & Pay Cell 717-222-2304 Buyers & Sellers

W ANTED

The right candidate has strong mechanical skills, understands the performance of farm equipment and implements applications.

Pre Cut Rye Straw 50 to 75 Lb. Bales

302-737-5117 302-545-1000

The job requires computer knowledge and good communication skills. John Deere equipment repair knowledge and experience is a plus.

WANTED: 1st & 2nd cut big & small squares. 315-363-9105 WANTED: Construction hay 700 bale loads. Paying $1.25 per bale for bales 32” to 34” long (will buy other lengths).

315-826-3400

Technicians have access to state-of-the-art computer diagnostic information, John Deere education programs, as well as performance incentive programs.

Heating CENTRAL BOILER EClassic OUTDOOR FURNACES. Cleaner and Greener. 97% Efficient. EPA Qualified. Call North Creek Heat 315-8663698

Cazenovia Equipment offers competitive compensation package, 401K retirement program, employee discount, personal leave days many group employee benefits.

Help Wanted

PATTERSON FARMS Is Looking for a Self Motivated Team Player to Join Our Team If you are a Jack or Jill of all things, we are looking for you. Repairs, crop, dairy animals and manure.

Possitive attitude a must and Class A license helpful.

Please Call Jon at

315-729-0438 Hoof Trimming DON’S HOOF TRIMMING: Maintain herd health. Sore feet a specialty. Vet recommended. Quality, experience, will travel. 518-6732577 leave message.

J&S LEONARD HOOF TRIMMING. 20 Years of Experience. Sore Feet - My Specialty. 607-264-8004

Horse Equipment BRAND NEW

BOB SLEIGHS Set Up Ideal for Sleigh Rides

315-963-3586

DANIEL ZOOK • Horseshoeing • Trimming • Dentistry

TEETH FLOATING 10% Discount

85 Bushel Lancaster Manure Spreader

Fax Resume to (315) 655-8433 Email Resume: jobs@cazequip.com

Ground Drive, Brand New $ 3,200 Delivery Available

www.cazenoviaequipment.com

BEFORE 7:00 PM

315-963-3586 Help Wanted

Keyy responsibilitiess include: Regularly visit our industry partners (feed companies, consulting nutritionists, veterinarians, producers, government agencies, etc) across the territory to manage existing relationships while cultivating new relationships Drive sales by identifying customer needs and finding solutions Attend industry events and tradeshows to showcase Alltech in a positive, professional manner

Thee ideall candidatee should d have: A strong technical background: BSc, MSc or higher Strong verbal and written communication skills Interest and experience in the animal health or nutrition industries Self-motivated and proactive A valid driver’s license E-mail resumé and cover letter to: mgast@alltech.com

Alltech h | Pennsylvania 1860 0 Charterr Lane,, Suitee 203 Lancaster,, PA A 17601 Fax:: 717-393-9774 4 • mgast@allltech.com

Maintenance & Repair

Attention Building Owners Don’t tear down Your failing structures.

We can repair them.

If Scheduled Before Jan. 30th

315-823-1618 Livestock Equipment Round Bale Feeder $150.00 / OBO 518-673-2885 Lumber & Wood Products BAILLIE LUMBER CO. buys all species of hardwood veneer logs, sawlogs and standing timber year round.

IMMEDIATE LOCAL PAYMENT AND TRUCKING AVAILABLE. Please call for an updated price and spec sheet today! Smyrna Sawmill 607-627-6547. Mark Mowrey 315-796-6644; Phil Day 315436-2766; Jonathan DeSantis 315-882-8174; Sean Karn 315-436-3588. Boonville Sawmill 315-942-5284. Dave Prezyna 315-436-5329; Paul Snider 315-827-4062 (home) or 315-436-0949 (cell); Tom King 315-436-0936; Lukas Myers 315-263-6909.

Maple Syrup Supplies THREE-SEATER Bob Sleigh, medium size, rebuilt runners, new bed. Can be used by single draft or pole for team. Erin C. Lundy 315-493-1051

Alltech is currently looking for a Territory Sales Representative with a strong dairy background for Pennsylvania. Alltech sales people are highly motivated professionals who provide a natural link between marketing, research and the customer. Alltech ranks among the top 10 animal health companies in the world. The company has experienced consistent growth since it was founded in 1980. Headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, Alltech has a presence in over 110 countries with distributors around the world.

Today it employs 2,600 people and growth continues at a rate of 20 percent.

CLOSING G DATE:: JAN.. 1,, 2012

Manheim Farrier Service

BEFORE 7:00 PM

Apply now...

Help Wanted

2 YEAR OLD Quarterhorse paint colt, brown & white, Free. 24 year old brown Quarterhorse mare, Free. 315-6512265

Maintenance & Repair

FOR SALE: 4x12 oil fired evaporator, have front doors & grate to change to wood. 315350-8584

Before

After

Performing structural renovations and general construction since 1965. With having been involved in over 30,000 projects we feel confident we can solve your problems

Woodford Bros., Inc. Box 108, Apulia Station, NY 13020 1-800-OLD-BARN WWW.1-800-OLD-BARN.COM Parts

NEW, USED & RECONDITIONED PARTS FOR CONSTRUCTION & AGRICULTURE Case-JD-IHC Crawlers Case-JD-Ford-IHC TLB’s Case-JD-Wheel Loaders Skid Loader Parts SPECIAL: MultiKey Construction Sets $45

GOODRICH TRACTOR PARTS

Rt. 38 & 38B, Newark Valley, NY

607-642-3293

Parts & Repair

Parts & Repair

Dave Gabel Agricultural Belt Services

www. equipmentexplorer. com 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

www. equipmentexplorer. com

“BELT T BUSTERS” $ave on Flat Belts for Your Farm Machinery

21 Years of Customer Satisfaction QUALITY BELTS AT FARMER PRICES Now Available: Extensive Line of Trailers & Trailer Parts ~ Call for Information & Prices

Agricultural Belt Service Route 75, Eden, NY 14057 Call 716-337-BELT Now accepting MasterCard, Visa & Discover

Call us today for your Subscription to

Country Folks

Your Weekly Connection to Agriculture

888-596-5329

As our readers say... “Monday just isn’t Monday without your Country Folks!”

Page 27 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Section B - Page 28 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

FARM SALE IN WALWORTH, NY: 88 acres, 60 tillable, 43 cow newly renovated dairy barn, 2 heifer facilities w/full concrete, machine shed in garage, w/beautiful 1800 4 bedroom 2 bath house. 315730-3312

Real Estate For Sale

Van Billings Real Estate, LLC Van Billings, Broker/Owner 14 S. Main St., Dolgeville, NY 13329

315-429-0300

www.vanbillingsrealestate.com

Want To Sell Your Farm or Land?

Call Van!

HELP WANTED

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

Kinship Properties Inc.

Active farm real estate broker seeks person with extensive farming experience to handle farm sales in Madison County and nearby areas.

Must have real estate license or be willing to get one.

Phone Van Billings @ 315-429-0300

2 Locations To Serve You

FARMS

St. Johnsville Branch Dolgeville Branch 54 East Main Street, St. Johnsville NY 13452 • (518) 568-2776

10 E. State St., Dolgeville NY 13329 • (315) 429-9750

St.. Johnsville e

5743 ST. HWY 29 This Victorian style country home has unique molding features, 4 bedroom and two productive business already established! Move in and you are your own boss! 40x40 fabricated steel building with tools negotiable, 20-year guarantee on building, is a welding and heavy equipment shop.

Two-stall beauty salon on side of home, making it convenient for a stay at home mom! Lovely landscaped backyard with 100x80 pond and wooded property as well! Great business opportunity in a quaint area! $199,999

NEEDED: 100-300 Acres Tillable

IN

MADISON COUNTY - LEBANON - EATON - EARLVILLE

QUALITY BUYER WILL PAY MY COMMISSION

Manheim - 42 Acres - $135,000 Barn on about 42 acres with apartment built into barn. Includes the business of Zook’s storage shed, lawn furniture and food goods, but does not include the inventory.

Excellent main roadbusiness site.

Call Debbie Sicilia @ 518-495-5770

Fortt Plain n 203 HEISER RD. A beautiful ranch home in country setting, offers 2 or 3 bedrooms, large master bedroom, loft, large bathroom w/jacuzzi tub, large living room w/propane fireplace, large kitchen, and an open floor plan. Only 8 years old, this home has a lot of natural woodwork and natural light. $169,000 Call Bob Snell @ 518-321-9897

Fortt Plain 1179 RIVER ROAD A beautiful ranch home in a nice country setting with 10.3 acres of land. This home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, beautiful woodwork, a full basement with a 2-stall garage, a coal stove and a 6000w propane generator. $139,000

Manheim - 83 Acres - $440,000 Vintage brick farmhouse fully restored with beautiful floors and trim, keeping the original look, yet with a modern kitchen and baths.The main house has 3200 sq ft including 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. There is a 1 bedroom, 1800 sq ft apartment with a huge great room, amazing fireplace and wonderful views. Could be used as a 2 family or in law apartment. Set on 83 magnificent acres of useable farmland this property is ideal for horses or a small sustainable farming operation. There is an old barn and two modern steel barns. The Morton pole barn, 40X80 has water and electricity. Part of a larger parcel, taxes to be determined.

Champion - 190 Acres - $365,000

Nice small dairy farm on a quiet country road with plenty of land. Could be organic, 100 acres tillable, 50 acres wood and 30 acres pasture.

32 tie stall barn in excellent condition, new roof and all milking equipment stays. Older solid 6 bedroom house with updates. First time offered for sale in over 100 years, don’t miss out!

Call Bob Snell @ 518-321-9897

Sawmilll with h Residentiall Property 2633 ST. HWY. 10 Caroga Lake sawmill and residental property.

Owner willing to sacrifice. Name your price!

To break up lots, build on pad or sell business without equipment! $199,000

Oppenheim - 37.1 Acres - $110,000 Beautiful old multi-level barn would make an excellent home. A drilled well, 2 septics and electricity already on the property. 37.1 acres of nice farmland, great hayfields, beautiful and magnificent distant views all makes a perfect spot for a retreat.

Call Deb Sicilia @ 518-495-5770

Fortt Plain n

515 NELLIS RD A beautiful single family home in a county setting with 3 acres of land, a fenced in play area for children and a room, an open floor plan, two full baths, skylights and a finished basement. It has a new propane heating system and also comes with a Vermont Casting Woodstove. It also has a deck to enjoy the view and a 2 stall attached garage. It must be seen to be appreciated! $170,000

Call Bob Snell @ 518-321-9897 or 518-568-7543 for your appt

Dolgeville e 110 SOUTH MAIN ST. Spacious village home priced to sell located on large lot.

Tastefully remodeled inside & out with 2 bedrooms but could be converted up to 4 bedrooms. Large open living room and family room with fireplace in the den area, ceiling fans and multi lighting system accent every room.

Conveniently located within walking distance to school, stores and park. $99,500 Call Heidi Mouyos @ 315-717-7269

Palatine e Bridge 146 GRAY RD. Lovely 18 year old colonial home with two-stall garage. Has awesome view of the Mohawk valley! Three bedroom with master bath, hardwood flooring! Great move-in price! $249,900.

Call Deb Sicilia @ 518-495-5770

Dolgeville e

29 DOLGE AVE. This 3 bedroom home with beautiful natural hardwood floors throughout awaits you to move in today. This tastefully designed home features central A/C, new furnace, intricate woodwork cabinets in dining room and kitchen, and a sunroom that leads out to the deck. Two stall garage with plenty of storage and additional work area. Full basement with workshop. Priced to sell! $128,000

Call Heidi Mouyos for your appt. today 315-717-7269

Call Heidi Mouyos @ 315-717-7269

Salisbury 932 JERSEYFIELD RD. Enjoy this beautiful cabin year round. This newly built home in 2007 comes with all the furnishings and features 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. Never pay high electric bills again, cabin is wired to generator for all power and vent free gas. Brand new gas refrigerator, stove, woodstove with stainless steel liner system, and fully insulated. Price is dropped drastically to sell so don't let this great country property pass you by. $99,900

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT

www.kinshipproperties.com

POSSON REALTY LLC 787 Bates-Wilson Road Norwich, NY 13851

(607) 334-9727 Cell 607-316-3758 www.possonrealty.net possonrealty@frontiernet.net David C. Posson, Broker

Richard E. Posson, Associate Broker

New - 2311 - Bordering large State Land and Brookfield Equine Trail System. Madison County Farm - 240 acre 60+ acre tillable mostly hay 70 acres in pasture, balance woods. Old 2 story barn for 70 head of cattle. 2 outbuildings for machinery storage.

Older 2 story 5 bedroom home in fair condition. Excellent hunting.

Sits on a very quiet road with lots of possibilities. Raise a nice beef or horse farm. Priced to sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asking $310,000 5 - Madison County Gentleman's Farm. 190+/- acres. 60 2275 well drained high lime tillable acres. Balance woods and pasture. 2 large machinery buildings. 50x70 loose housing livestock barn. Also an older 72x175 Free stall barn. Good completely remodeled 2 story Victorian home. House is ready to go for two families but could easily be changed to one 5 bedroom home. Farm has a great location, 25 mins to Syracuse. Beef, horses, or gentleman farming. Farm has been reasonably priced to sell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Price Reduced from $300,000 to $280,000

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

FARMS FOR SALE

WE HAVE OVER 20 FARMS FOR SALE THROUGHOUT PA. JOHN MATTILIO, BROKER

Go to our website

fingerlakesrealestate.com

SELLING A FARM

Call us at 315-729-3672 Ask for Richard Schmidt We have buyers looking for farms to buy in NY

FARM AND LAND REALTY, INC. 717-464-8930

www.farmandlandrealtyinc.com

RE/MAX Masters 16 Jordan St., Skaneateles, NY Office 315-685-4788

Real Estate For Sale

Real Estate For Sale

DEMEREE REALTY Little Falls, NY 13365 Phone (315) 823-0288

www.demereerealty.com • demeree@ntcnet.com #1 - UNIQUE PROPERTY with much potential & lovely views of valley - 400 rolling acres, some lg. fields, nice woods & pasture land - restored & elegant Victorian home - 11 lg. rooms with victorian period decor is a step back in time - 130 yrs. old & in VG condition - 4 Bdrms., lg. LR, DR, Fam. rm. - nice library & 3.5 baths - lg. bay windows upstairs & downstairs - attached 2 car garage - patio area - also carriage house in entrance to 120x36 ft. dairy barn - 72x25 ft. mach. shed & attractive tree lined entrance to property - A MUST SEE FOR BUYERS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$898,000 #36 - Nice hunting & recreation property on very quiet road - 141 acres near Adirondack Park on south side - 5 rm. A-Frame home w/attached 10x18 ft. breezeway & 20x24 ft. work shop - lots of water - 125 ft. well - 3 ponds, 2 stocked w/bass & 3 creeks - INCLUDES TRACTOR AND LAWNMOWER - PRICED AT . . . .$268,000 #20 - Well-kept country property w/12.7 A. - 8 rm., 3 bdrm., 2.5 baths, brick ranch home in VG condition - 2 rec. rooms in basement - also central air - 30x36 ft. unattached garage & lg. paved driveway - tall pole barn is 54x96 ft. w/20x20 ft. heated, insulated office & half bath - 2 wells, spring & creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$249,000 #71 - Hobby farm w/8.2 A. in nice quiet location - 2 story post & beam 7 rm. home mostly remodeled - attached garage - also 40x80 ft. pole barn with 36x60 ft. addition & water - irrigation pond for veg. gardens is stocked w/bass . . . . . . . . . . . .$130,000 C-62A - 84 Acres farmland, mostly all tillable. Spring water supply centrally located in the parcel makes this an ideal acreage for a hobby farm. Could be purchased with homestead listing C-62 or separately, terms available. . . . . . . . . . .Asking $175,000 C-72 - Operating Sheep Farm located in southeast Montgomery County. 204A. Total with 104A. forest managed surveyed woodlot, (last harvested in 2007), 20A. pasture, remainder prime cropland. 36x80 two-story barn, set-up with pens for livestock, 9-crate heated and insulated farrowing room. Additional 30x40 wing off of main barn, 40x80 steel pole barn/large doors, 5 outbuildings; 2-16x21; 2-16x30; 1-12x41. Used for livestock all with water, completely remodeled 3200 sq. ft. 200+ yr old farmhouse.

8 Lg. rooms, 4BR, 2 full baths, jacuzzi, woodstove in kitchen/dining area, fireplace insert for wood in sitting room, additional wood or coal forced-air furnace. Drilled well and pond. Great hunting, woodlot, and cropland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Asking $499,000

nty Free stall Operation. 210 acres 160 2256 - Madison Coun acres of very productive tillable land. 2 barns with 280 free stalls.

Double 10 rapid exit parlor. Large concrete pad for feed storage.

Good 2 story 5 bedroom home with 2 baths. Several custom operators in the area for harvesting and planting feed. This farm is turnkey, ready to milk. Good farming area, agricultural and machinery businesses all close by. . . . . . . . . Asking $550,000. Make an offer.

2304 - Oneida County Dairy Farm 140 acres, 80+ acres tillable well drained very productive soils right behind the barn, flat to gently rolling fields. An additional 86 acres tillable close by available to rent.

Nice remodeled 2 story dairy barn with 86 stalls. Tunnel ventilation.

Nice barn to work in. Attached 74 stall free stall barn w/large bedding pack and pens for calves. Barn has a manure pit for 3 month storage.

2 large machinery buildings. Good 2 story 5 bdrm home and 2 bdrm mobile home for hired help. This is a good turn-key operation.

Owners are retiring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Askinng $450,000 2307- Herkimer County - 100+/- acres all wooded, good amount of road frontage. Power and telephone. Year round stream. Awesome deer & turkey hunting. Mins from the Adirondack Park. Mins from I90, hour to Albany. This is a very nice area of the Mohawk Valley region. Seller is a retiring dairy farmer from the area. Looking to downsize his land base. Would like to sell before spring. Reduced from $110,000 to $90,000 for this good property. Which is an AWESOME buy anywhere! Make an appointment to see this property soon.

Near Cortland, NY. 26 acres of land with road frontage on two roads.

Power and telephone. Mineral rights intact. . . . . .Askinng $55,000 Owner would consider financing for qualified buyer.

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Real Estate Wanted NEEDED FOR THE SPRING of 2012: Dairy Farm to Rent or Lease for 60+cows with pasture. Current farm becoming too small. 518-321-0889. Best time to call 7-9pm

Roofing

Roofing

ROOFING & SIDING

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

Trailers

NORTHEAST SILO DEMO: Need a cheap, quick & easy way to get your silo down?

Will travel, give us a call. 518568-3560

B&G Trailer Sales

REPLACEMENT SILO DOORS & HARDWARE AGRI-DOOR Jake Stoltzfus 649 South Ramona Rd. Myerstown, PA 17067

717-949-2034 Toll-free 1-877-484-4104 e Metall Roofing g & Siding..

BUY DIRECT – We manufacture

ABM M & ABX X Panell - Standingg Seam m - PBR R Panel LOW PRICES - FAST DELIVERY – FREE LITERATURE

A.B. MARTIN ROOFING SUPPLY, LLC Ephrata, PA 1-800-373-3703 N e w v i l l e , PA 1-800-782-2712

Full line Pole Building material. ~ Lumber - Trusses - Plywood.

www.abmartin.net • Email: sales@abmartin.net

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

YES WE HAVE SEED CORN Conventional, GT, 3000GT, CB/LL, GT/CB/LL, Viptera, Waxy 866-471-9465 request@gristmillinc.com

MID-STATE TECH INC.

Sheep BLUE-FACED Leicester ram & Blue-Faced crossbred ram, 7 months old. 518-283-5217

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

315-495-6506 315-404-6721 David Stanek

Pre-Owned Tanks & Silos NRCS Approved Slurry Storage Systems

New Conventional Silos

Hammer Mills

Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year From Everyone at CENTER STATE AG. SERVICE, INC.

WANTED: Stock trailer, 16’, in good condition. Call after 6pm 518-828-1102

Call Kevin at 315-247-5592 to buy

Also

Flatbed Trailers

1 (2)) 19855 FREUHAUFF 80000 GALLON N ALUMINUM M TANKS,, buds on hub pilot and 23’ boom, field spread or nurse. Very Sharp!

Call Chuck Hainsworth 585-734-3264

Wanted WANTED TO BUY: Old Grit newspapers (not the Grit magazine). 518-568-5115

Martin’s Farm Trucks, LLC

Trucks for All Your Needs - Specializing in Agri-Business Vehicles

Tractor Parts NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS: John Deere 10,20,30,40 series tractors.

Allis Chalmers, all models.

Large inventory! We ship.

Mark Heitman Tractor Salvage, 715-673-4829

Tractors, Parts & Repair

1997 F/L FLD112 Day Cab, C10 Cat 370, Jake, 10 Spd, (Trans rebuilt 11/11), 12/40 Axles, AC Alum Wheels, Good Rubber, Product Blower $9,900

• We Have Over 7000 Parted Tractors • Many Late Models • New & Used Parts • UPS Daily *Nationwide parts locating service*

Anderson Tractor Supply Inc. 20968 TR51 • Bluffton, OH 45817

800-391-5462

PARTS •

2000 KW T300 24’ Alum. Dry Box, 3126 Cat 215hp, 6spd, 136” CT, 211” CEF, Air Brakes, 33,000 GVW, 214K $13,450

888-497-0310

Tractors, Parts & Repair

TRACTOR PARTS NEW & USED

1996 6 Western n Starr 4900SA 475 HP C-15, 397k miles, 46k rears, 20k front, 20k lift axle, new rear radials (not recaps) $52,000 complete unit OR $35,000 cab/chassis only

Call Kevin at 315-247-5592 to buy

PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS

Trailers

Trailers

Horse • Livestock • Dump • Cargo Equipment • Landscape • Motorcycle Snowmobile • ATV • Car and More

Trailer Parts & Towing Accessories

Morrisville, NY

(315) 684-7807

COMPLETE LINE OF ADAM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS 12’ TO 24’ ADAM & COTNER HORSE TRAILERS

Tires & Tire Repair Service

FULL LINES VAN DALE NORBCO RISSLER GRAETZ LAIDIG Ventilation Cow Mattresses Stalls & Gates All Silo Repairs Conveyors & Mixers Utility Augers

607-898-9558

PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS

WANT TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD? CALL: 1-800836-2888

6024 Greene Rd. Munnsville, NY

450HP Mercedes, 73K Miles, One Year Old 2666 USA silage/grain body (26’x6’ 6”) $88,000 complete unit OR $68,000 cab/chasis only

Dryden, NY 13053

TEITSWORTH TRAILERS: Over 400 in stock now! PJ Goosenecks, Dumps, Tilt Tops, Landscape, Car Haulers, Skid Steer & more.

Best prices, largest selection.

585-243-1563

2-600/65/28 Firestone R1W on John Deere rims; 2710/70R38 Firestone R1W on John Deere rims. All deep tread and have 80-90% tread, no cuts, Exc. Cond., never hauled heavy loads. Complete with rims, $4,500.00. Call Kevin at 315-247-5592 to buy.

Trucks

2005 Western Star 4900SA

SOLLENBERGER SILOS, LLC, 5778 Sunset Pike, Chambersburg, PA 17201. Poured Concrete silos since 1908, Manure Storage and Precast Products. For Information: Ken Mansfield 717-503-8909 www.sollenbergersilos.com “1908-2008” Celebrating 100 Years

PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS • PARTS

Seeds

Trucks

Route 12, North Norwich, NY

1988 Kenworth T-600 Series 60 430 HP with Jake, 15 Speed Trans., Wet Line, Cheap!

Priced To Sell Or Trade

1995 Steco Walking Floor Trailer, Roll-Over Tarp, Cheap!

Priced To Sell Or Trade

2006 J&J 36’x102” Aluminum Dump Trailer, 2 Way Gate, Liner, Aluminum Wheels, Tarp, Work Ready Priced To Sell Or Trade

1987 Western Star Southern Truck, No Rust, 300 Cummins, 8LL Transmission, 18,000 Front, 46,000 Rears, Hendrickson Walking Beam Suspension, Double Frame, Cheap! Price To Sell Or Trade

ADVANTAGE TRUCKS (716) 685-6757 www.advantagetrucks.com

WE DELIVER

“Exporters Welcome”

Page 29 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

Section B - Page 30 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Sell Your Items Through Reader Ads P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

1-800-836-2888 classified@leepub.com Trucks

Trucks

Trucks

CALEDONIA DIESEL, LLC TRUCK & EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICE “The Diesel People!”

2905 Simpson Rd., Caledonia, NY

585-538-4395 • 1-800-311-2880 Since 1982

Just 1 mile south of Route 20 on 36 south

(Qty 3) 2004 Freightliner Columbia Day Cabs Cat C-13 425hp, 10 speed, 185” wheelbase, 46,000# rears. $29,900 each

2001 Freightliner FL80 Cab & Chassis 310hp Cat, Allison Automatic, 18k front axle, 46k rears, 16’ of double frame behind cab, 60,000 miles, auto-lube system $34,000

2003 Kawasaki 60Z V Wheel Loader, 4532 Hrs, cab with heat & A/C, JRB quick coupler, 2 1/4 CY Bucket, Forks Available. $48,500

2003 Peterbilt 357 Cab & Chassis Cummins 305hp, Allison Automatic, 20k front axle, 46k full locking rears, 16’ 8” of frame behind the cab, 189k miles. $55,000

(Qty 2) 2006 Mack CH613 Daycabs 427hp, 10 speed, 44k rears, wetlines, Rubber 90%, aluminum wheels, 177” wheelbase, very clean trucks. $34,500 each

2008 Mack Pinnacle CXU613 Daycab 445hp, 18 speed, 364k miles, 14,600# front axle, 46k full locking rears, 222” wheelbase, wetline, polished aluminum wheels. $58,950

Please check our Web site @ www.caledoniadiesel.com

2006 Deere 310G 4x4 Backhoe, EROPS, Extenda-hoe, 2050 Hrs. Excellent Condition $46,950

2006 Deere 450J LT Dozer 1267 hours, OROPS, good U/C, 6 way blade, very clean machine $39,950

Calendar of Events EAST NOTE: Calendar entries must arrive at the Country Folks office by the Tuesday prior to our publication date for them to be included in the calendar of events. Email: jkarkwren@leepub.com

JAN 14, FEB 7, APR 4 & MAY 10 Basic Farm Business Management Planning 5 dates and locations, choose the one most convenient for you. Helping your farm business achieve success, $25. Choose the site, time most convenient for you.

• Jan. 14 - CCE-Washington Co, 411 Lower Main St., Hudson Falls, 9:30 am to noon.

• Feb. 7 - CCE-Washington Co, 411 Lower Main St., Hudson Falls, 6-8:30 pm.

• April 4 - CCE-Albany Co, 24 Martin Rd., Voorheesville, 6-8:30 pm.

• May 10 - CCE-Greene Co, Acra, 6-8:30 pm.

Contact Sandy Buxton, 518380-1498 or sab22@ cornell.edu.

DEC 19 2 Webinars to Help Understand the 2012 Farm Bill Reauthorization Process Local & Regional Food Systems - 11 am - 12:30 pm.

2002 Mack CH613 Day Cab 460hp, 18 speed, 14,600# front axle, 46k rears, double frame, good rubber, 527k miles. $27,900

2007 Case 621D Wheel Loader, 3045 hrs, GP bucket, JRB coupler, good rubber, cab with heat. $73,950

Contact American Farmland Trust, 202-331-7300.

DEC 21 Dairy Policy & Marketing Meeting Tally Ho Restaurant, Richfield Springs, NY. 10:30 am 3 pm. The cost to attend is $10/person and includes lunch. Register by Dec. 19 as space is limited. Contact CCE Herkimer Co., 315-8667920.

JAN 5 & 19, FEB 2 & 16, MAR 1, 15 & 29, APR 12 Farm Business Planning Course Ithaca, NY. All classes 6-9 pm. Cost: Sliding scale, $80 - $300 Application required.

Visit www.groundswellcen ter.org for online application.

For more information e-mail info@groundswellcenter.org.

JAN 6-7 New York State Maple Conference Verona NY. Contact Keith Schiebel, e-mail kschiebel@ vvsschools.org. On Internet at www.cornellmaple.com.

JAN 7 Contestants Sought for Multi-County Maple Royalty Contest Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School. This event is open to young people ages 12-24 who are interested in promoting the maple industry. An optional preparatory workshop will be offered for any potential contestant who would like to attend. This will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 14. from 3:30-7:30 pm, at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill

John Deere 9500 4WD, 30.5x32’s at 90%, Straw Spreader, 3794 Sep. Hours. $25,500

40-45 ft. Aluminum Grain Hopper Trailers in stock and arriving weekly.

Prices Starting at $22,500

Central School. To participate in the workshop please RSVP to 315-717-6288 no later than Dec. 10. Contact Laurie Jean Britton, 315717-6288.

JAN 10 & 24 Manure Management Workshops Canton High School Room 122/123, Bradford Co., PA. 6:30 pm all sessions. Contact Bradford County Conservation District, 570-2655539 ext. 6.

JAN 11 2012 Madison County Crop Congress Empire Tractor, Route 20, Cazenovia, NY. 9:30 am - 3 pm. The day long meeting gives central New York crop and dairy farmers the opportunity to update themselves on new diseases, insects, legislation and products available Pesticide recertification credits have been applied for and it is anticipated that 2.5 credits will be awarded. Lunch will be provided. Preregistration is required by Jan. 6. Contact CCE of Madison County, 315-684-3001 ext 106.

Special Farm Family Relationships Webinar 3 pm. EST. “Dealing with the complexity of family and business relationships that exist on family owned farms,” the webinar will cover these discussion points: • Estate Planning - active and non-active family members in the farm business; • Farm Transition - owner-

ship and control; • Organization - multiple family members working together; and • Exit strategies for the retiring farmer without a successor.

Question should be submitted to c.merry@agconsult ants.org at least 10 days prior to the event.

JAN 11-14 National No Tillage Conference St. Louis, MO. Registration is $279/person, with a special $252 rate for additional farm or family members. On Internet at www.NoTill Conference.com.

JAN 12-13 Long Island Agricultural Forum Suffolk Community College’s Eastern Campus in Riverhead. Growers/producers and agribusinessmen will be brought up to date on the latest issues and technology and can earn pesticide recertification credits. Call 631-727-7850.

JAN 17 Stability Amidst Volatility: Growing Crops and Feeding Livestock The Century House, 997 Rte 9 Latham, NY. 9 am - 3:30 pm. Topic include skills to use the commodity markets, dairy rations insulated from market volatility, business skills needed in a volatile economy, managing crops in adverse environments, high forage rations; snaplage, BMR corn silage, growing your own grain, crop insurance and LGM-Dairy insurance. $45 pre-registration due by Jan 12. Contact Gale Kohler, 518-765-3500 or gek4@cornell.edu or Aaron Gabriel, 518-380-1496 or adg12@cornell.edu.

JAN 20 Lewis County Maple Production for the Beginner CCE Lewis County, 5274 Outer Stowe St., Lowville, NY. Call 315-376-5270 or email mel14@cornell.edu.

JAN 20-22 2012 NOFA-NY Winter Conference Saratoga Springs, NY. For general questions about the Winter Conference, including sponsorship and tradeshow opportunities, please contact Matt Robinson at 585-271-1979 ext.

503 or matt@nofany.org. For any questions on registration or to register over the phone contact Katie NagleCaraluzzo at 585-271-1979 ext.

512 or register@ nofany.org. Register by Dec. 7.

JAN 21 Lewis County Maple School CCE Lewis County, 5274 Outer Stowe St.,Lowville, NY. Call 315-376-5270 or e-mail mel14@cornell.edu.

JAN 22-24 The National Mastitis Council (NMC) 51st Annual Meeting TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, 5500 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete Beach, FL. For dairy professionals from around the world to exchange current information on udder health, mastitis control, milking management and milk quality. Call 727-3676461.

On Internet at www.nmconline.org JAN 27 Clinton County Maple School 157 Bear Cub Lane, Lake Placid, NY. Contact Mike Farrell, 518-523-9337 or email mlf36@cornell.edu.

5 Easy Ways To Place A Country Folks Classified Ad

1. PHONE IT IN FAX IT IN - For MasterCard, Visa, 2. American Express or Discover customers, fill out the form below completely and

FOR BEST RESULTS, RUN YOUR AD FOR TWO ISSUES!

Just give Peggy a call at 1-800-836-2888

Cost per week per zone: $9.25 for the first 14 words, plus 30¢ for each additional word.

(Phone #’s count as one word) If running your ad multiple weeks: Discount $1.00 per week, per zone.

FAX to Peggy at (518) 673-2381

3. calculate the cost, enclose your check or MAIL IT IN - Fill out the attached form,

credit card information and mail to:

Country Folks Classifieds, PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

4. E-MAIL E-mail your ad to classified@leepub.com - Go to 5. ON-LINE www.countryfolks.com and follow the Place a

West

East

New England

Classified Ad button to Mid-Atlantic place your ad 24/7!

Place my ad in the following Zones: Country Folks East Country Folks West Country Folks of New England Country Folks Mid-Atlantic Farm Chronicle Number of weeks to run___________ Name(Print)________________________________________________________________ Farm/Company Name_________________________________________________________ Street___________________________________________County_____________________ City____________________________________________State______Zip______________ Phone_______________ _______________ ____________________________________ Fax_________________ _______________ ____________________________________ Cell_________________ _______________ ____________________________________ e-mail address: _____________________________________________________________ Payment Method: Check/Money Order American Express Discover Visa MasterCard Card # ______________________________________________Exp. Date ______________ (MM/YY)

Name On Credit Card(Print)____________________________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________ Todays Date: ______________ (for credit card payment only)

15

(MM/DD/YY)

16

1 Week $9.55 per zone / 2+ Weeks $8.55 per zone per week 1 Week $9.85 per zone / 2+ Weeks $8.85 per zone per week

17

18

1 Week $10.15 per zone / 2+ Weeks $9.15 per zone per week 1 Week $10.45 per zone / 2+ Weeks $9.45 per zone per week

19

20

1 Week $10.75 per zone / 2+ Weeks $9.75 per zone per week 1 Week $11.05 per zone / 2+ Weeks $10.05 per zone per week

21

22

1 Week $11.35 per zone / 2+ Weeks $10.35 per zone per week 1 Week $11.65 per zone / 2+ Weeks $10.65 per zone per week

23

24

1 Week $11.95 per zone / 2+ Weeks $10.95 per zone per week 1 Week $12.25 per zone / 2+ Weeks $11.25 per zone per week JAN 27 & 28 4th Annual Winter Greenup Grazing Conference Century House Hotel & Conference Center, Route 9, Latham, NY. This year’s conference will feature speakers on Wye Angus genetics, grazing behavior, branding your farm’s products, leasing land to graze, extending the grazing season and more. Contact Gale, 518765-3500.

JAN 28 Maple Expo St. Lawrence County. Call 315-379-9192.

FEB 1 Extension Home Study Courses The purpose of the courses is to teach producers about production principles for beef, sheep or meat goats that will help their opera-

tions become more profitable. For more details or to sign up for a course, go to http://guest.cvent.com/d/s dqb58 or call 877-489-1398.

To speak to one of the instructors you can contact the Penn State Extension Office in Bedford County at 814-623-4800 or in Fulton County at 717-485-4111.

Cost for the course is $45 if taking over e-mail/internet (sheep and meat goat courses only) and $80 if taking through the postal service.

Deadline for registration is Jan. 23, 2012.

FEB 1-4 2012 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show Nashville, TN. Advanced registration is open until Jan. 11, 2012. To register visit www.beefusa.org or contact Kristin Torres at ktorres@ beef.org.

FARM SHOW

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 TUES. 9 AM-4 PM WED. 9 AM-4 PM THURS. 9 AM-3 PM YORK FAIRGROUNDS • YORK, PA

The Largest Commercial Farm Equipment & Service Provider Trade Show in The State of Pennsylvania!!

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL

800-218-5586 DONT MISS OVER 350 AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITORS!

Keystone Farm Show is Produced by Lee Trade Shows, Inc. a division of Lee Newspapers, Inc. The Proud Publishers of Country Folks Weekly Farm and Farm Chronicle Weekly Farm Newspapers PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 • 800-218-5586 Visit Our Website: www.leepub.com

Page 31 - Section B • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

KEYSTONE

Section B - Page 32 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

1999 New Holland 4630 - 55 PTO HP, 2WD, 2 Rear New Holland TC26DA - 20 PTO HP, 4WD, Loader, Mid Remotes, 8x8 Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$17,975 Mower Deck, Excellent Condtion . . . . . . . . . . . . .$13,975

New Holland TC33 - 26 PTO HP, Cab w/Heat, 4WD, Loader, Mid Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14,975

2007 New Holland C175 - 60 HP, 2200 lbs. Lift Capacity, 2007 New Holland L175 - 60 HP, 2000 lbs. Lift Capacity, 2008 New Holland L170 - 52 HP, 1700 lbs. Lift Capacity, Cab w/Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$33,500 Cab w/Heat AC, Foam Filled Tires . . . . . . . . . . . .$26,975 Cab w/Heat, Excellent Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . .$27,999

New Holland 155 Spreader- 220 Bushels, End Gate, Field New Holland 130 Spreader - 145 Bushels, End Gate, Field Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,575 Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,875

Patu DC-40 Woodchipper - 4” Capacity, Standard Slide In, Patu DC-65 Woodchipper - 6.5” Capacity, Hydraulic Feed, 3pt Hitch, 15-35 HP Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,875 3pt Hitch, 20-45 HP Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6,575

New Sunflower 4213 - 07 Disc Chisel, 9 Shank, Straight Front Coulters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$27,575

2007 Woods 1020 Front Loader - Fits Ford 5000 - Ford 7610, Brackets and Joystick, 78” Bucket . . . . . . . .$4,975

Section C

AUCTION SECTION and MARKET REPORTS Assemblyman Pete Lopez prepares flood relief legislation, calls for extraordinary session Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,ISchoharie) is drafting new legislation, including a measure entitled the Whole Communities Recovery Act, to help assist New Yorkers get back on their feet after the devastation from Tropical

Storms Irene and Lee, and create a framework for future disaster relief efforts across the state. Assemblyman Lopez is also preparing legislation and draft regulatory language that would seek to compel the City of New York

Follow Us On www.facebook.com/countryfolks Get mid-week updates and online classifieds, plus links to other agricultural organizations.

and the New York Power Authority to be part of a flood control solution for the Schoharie Valley and communities along the Mohawk River. Furthermore, the Assemblyman is calling on Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders to immediately convene extraordinary session to address the urgent needs of flood victims and their communities.

“Across the state, New Yorkers continue to suffer from the devastating tropical storms and resulting floods.

No region was impacted more than the 127th Assembly District, where residents are still without housing, and businesses and farms continue to struggle,” said Assemblyman Lopez.

“Now these communities are faced with massive debt from cleanup, a weakened economy, and greatly reduced tax base. The state must take action now in order to protect the lives and communities at stake.”

Assemblyman Lopez continued, “Recovery is painfully slow, and clearly tied to the availability of outside resources. Yet, I fear that leaving these critical issues unresolved will have a domino effect that will cripple our

schools and local governments, and threaten the sustainability of our local economies.”

Assemblyman Lopez’s draft legislation addresses a variety of concerns facing New Yorkers as they struggle to rebuild from recent disasters. Some of the issues addressed in the Assemblyman’s Whole Communities Recovery Act include: • Grant and Zero-Interest Loan Program for Homeowners: emergency housing assistance grants of $10,000 for rebuilding in place, grants for $30,000 per home in support of improvements that mitigate future damage, and grants for new construction within the community, outside of areas immediately affected by a natural disaster; zero-interest loans would be available to homeowners to refinance existing debt, replace contents as well as rebuild in place or construct new housing; aid levels would be increased for homeowners who engage in flood-proofing or choose to rebuild outside of floodprone areas in the same community;

Assemblyman C2

Page 1 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Country y Folks

Section C - Page 2 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Assemblyman

from C1

the Commissioner of Housing would be instructed to assess other existing state housing programs to recommend further statutory changes in support of single- and multi-family homeowners or renters impacted by natural disasters.

• Personal Income Tax Credit and Corporate Franchise Tax Credit for Property Taxes Paid by Home and Business Owners Based on Predisaster Assessments: provides a one-year state tax credit equal to the excess in property taxes paid as a reflection of pre- and post-disaster property assessments.

• Business Assistance Reconstruction and Employee Retention Grant & Zero-Interest Reconstruction Loan Program: businesses would be offered a grant of $30,000 for reconstruction and working expenses, and an additional $1,000 for such purposes for every employee retained; loans would be offered for up to 30 years and would include refinancing of existing debt; instructs the CEO of Empire State Development to assess other existing state economic development programs to recommend further statutory changes in support of businesses impacted by natural disasters.

• Suspension of State Agency Mandates: would

require that any mandate suspension enacted by the Governor following a natural disaster would remain in effect for a minimum of 12 months; state prevailing wage and WICKS requirements would be suspended for a period of 36 months.

• Production Agricultural Assistance Reconstruction Grant and Zero-Interest Loan Program: family farms and other agricultural production businesses would be offered a grant of $30,000 for reconstruction and working expenses and an additional grant of 15 percent of gross cash income based on previous year receipts; loans would be offered for up to 30 years and would include debt refinancing (note: these funds would be in addition to grants and loans for the homestead, which would be eligible under the homeowners’ assistance provisions of the legislation); instructs the Commissioner of Agriculture to assess other existing state agricultural development programs to recommend further statutory changes in support of farms and other agricultural production businesses impacted by natural disasters.

• Municipal/School District Stop Gap Grant and Zero-Interest Loan

ADVANCE NOTICE

SATURDAY

JANUARY 21st, 10 AM

HUGE USED EQUIPMENT AUCTION Hosted by Gray’s Auction at the Connecticut Valley Auto Auction (Indoor Facility) Rt. 14, White River Junction, VT Full Details and Equipment List Coming Soon in Country Folks

TOWNLINE EQUIPMENT Plainfield, NH

603-675-6347

Program: provides a one year grant of 50 percent of real property tax (RPT) revenues lost as a result of reductions in the RPT assessment roll as reflected on the taxable status date immediately following the natural disaster. Zero-interest loans would be available for up to 30 years, with amounts contingent on disaster mitigation accompanying reconstruction. Counties would be offered additional zerointerest loans to cover the cost of property taxes owed to other taxing jurisdictions as a result of

property tax delinquencies in the year the disaster occurred.

• Municipal Infrastructure Realignment Program: provides priority consideration for municipal water and sewer expansion in cities, towns and villages to encourage growth and development within the municipality’s borders, outside of areas immediately affected by natural disasters; expansion may be initiated on a prospective basis and need not be tied to proposed housing or business projects.

Lastly, Assemblyman

TRACTORS Case IH 9110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23,900 . . . . . . . . Fultonville CAT D4H LGP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Ford 8N w/Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Ford 555B WLB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 2840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 7930 Lease return . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 4010 w/Loader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5510 w/540 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville AC CA 2btm/cult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville NHTD 95 cab, MFWD, Loader . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH TL90 cab 2WD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham AC 200 w/ cab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 4230 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5325 2WD/Cab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 5065M w/553. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen COMPACT TRACTORS MF 1220 w/mower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,595. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 110 TLB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen JD 750 w/ldr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,900 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2305 w/ldr & deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 850 w/cab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500. . . . . . . Clifton Park JD 855 w/cab, & loader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,800 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 1600 wam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,900 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 3720 w/blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,900. . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 4410 w/420 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham Kioti DK455 TLB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Kubota L39 TLB, canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,400. . . . . . . Clifton Park Kubota L5450 loader/backhoe . . . . . . . . $21,000. . . . . . . . . Chatham NH TC45D cab/loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen NH TZ25DA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,900. . . . . . . . . . Goshen SKID STEER / CONSTRUCTION 72” Sweepster Broom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,200. . . . . . . . . Chatham 78” Skidsteer Blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Cat 236 cab, heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH L160 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke NH L170 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville MOWERS CONDITIONERS Gehl DC2414 Moco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham NH 477 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900. . . . . . . . . Chatham JD 925 Moco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,900 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Kuhn FC 302 Moco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville HAY AND FORAGE Claas 870 SPF H w/Heads . . . . . . . . . $169,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke Miller 310 30’ merger. . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH 256 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,850 . . . . . . . . Fultonville NH Flail Chopper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller Pro Rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,900 . . . . . . . . Fultonville

Lopez is advancing legislation and proposed language that would modify DEC regulations to establish a Schoharie Watershed Flood Management District which would, among other things, compel the City of New York and the New York Power Authority to be part of a proactive framework aimed at blunting the impact of future high water events in the Schoharie Valley and along the Mohawk River.

In the request for extraordinary session, Assemblyman Lopez is

also asking that a number of other bills regarding flood and emergency recovery efforts (many that he is co-sponsoring) be addressed: • A.8647: Establishes the flood assessment relief act of 2011 for the counties of Albany, Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery, Nassau, New York, Oneida, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenec-

Assemblyman C9

(2) JD 74 Rakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville Double Rake Hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller Pro Rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Miller 1416 merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 385 RB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 714 Forage Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3960 forage harv., base unit . . . . . . . . $3,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 3970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 735 Moco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 860 w/2R 6’ po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Gehl 1470 RB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham NH 166 inverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,850 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Pequea Fluffer 81⁄2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Fahr KH500 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,200 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Vicon 4 Star Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Kuhn 500 Disc Mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham Krone 550 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,650 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 552 Tedder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville PLANTING / TILLAGE Brillion 18’ Harrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 220 disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Taylorway 16’ disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 12’ BWA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Brillion Seeder 10’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,600 . . . . . Schaghticoke IH 710 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200 . . . . . Schaghticoke IH II Shank Chisel 5700. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,600 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 1450 4 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 2000 6 bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville BALERS NH 326 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke NH 316 baler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500. . . . . . . . . . Goshen Hesston 560. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500. . . . . . . . . Chatham Hesston Rounder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Krone 1500 Rd baler, Knives. . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville MISCELLANEOUS HARDI 210 3pt Sprayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,850 . . . . . . . . Fultonville POLARIS RAZOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 245 loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,500 . . . . . Schaghticoke JD 666R corn HD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming In . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 6600 combine w/215 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,800 . . . . . . . . Fultonville JD 7000 Series 3 pt./PTO, front hitch . . . $4,950 . . . . . . . . Fultonville H&S 125 spreader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Great Bend loader for JD 7000’s . . . . . . . $5,500 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Bush Hog 4 ft. mower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $850. . . . . . . . . Chatham 7’Loader blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $875 . . . . . . . . Fultonville Landpride 7’ HD Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,900 . . . . . Schaghticoke Frontier 7’ HD back blade, hyd Angle . . . $1,850 . . . . . Schaghticoke Woods 1035 backhoe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,650. . . . . . . . . Chatham Woods RB72 rear blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $425. . . . . . . . . Chatham

HUDSON RIVER TRACTOR COMPANY LLC FULTONVILLE 518-853-3405

GOSHEN 845-294-2500

CHATHAM 518-392-2505

SCHAGHTICOKE 518-692-2676

CLIFTON PARK 518-877-5059

Page 3 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Melvin & Joan Bodine Retirement Auction

Sat., Dec. 31, 2011, 9am blizzard date Sat., Jan. 7, 2012

5253 Rt. 364 at corner of Upper Hill Road 1 mile E. of Middlesex, NY, 11 mi. W. of Penn Yan, 12 mi. S. of Canandaigua.

Farm is sold, will sell: Truck: ‘99 IH 4700 T444E, 6+1, 4 yr. old 22’ steel flat bed body, Edbro hoist, lift axle, 82,234 mi, 2,557 hrs; Tractor, Vineyard and Hay Equipment: JD830 (3 cyl.) tractor, 1,988 hrs, 1 owner; Shaver 4 way post pounder; Bob Equipment grape trimmer; 10 grape totes; 600 plastic grape picking boxes; NH 1035 sp bale wagon w/Wisc VG4D, 70 bale capacity, 1 owner; Fahr KH-40 4 star tedder; Ford 3pt. 5’ rotary mower; 3pt. 6’ rotary mower; Ford 3pt. 4-16 plow; 18.4x38 bolt on duals; JD Quick Couplers; 2 poly 1,100 gal tanks; Homelite portable pumps; 30 gal trailer mounted sprayer w/boom; stone boat, 5”x10’ grain auger; Wisc VE4 engine; Herd and Gerber seeders; hydraulic cylinders; 50-8’ cedar sharpened vineyard posts; quantity used vineyard posts suitable for shorter posts or firewood.

Shop Tools: Lincoln welder; Lincoln portable welder; torch set; welding table; Sears 5hp 120 gal air compressor; Craftsman tool chests; 3/4” drive socket sets; wrenches; quantity hand, electric and air power tools; 4T porta power; floor and hyd. jacks; tap and die set; new and used parts washers; bench grinder; metal band saw; portable air compressor; shop press; engine lift; transmission jack; wheel jack; bench drill press; chain falls; JD and Sears portable generators; Honda XR 2600 5hp pressure washer; Craftsman 12” table saw; bolts bins; lubricants; new JD AC165 portable heater; shop portable stairs; log chains; quantity misc. tools.

Misc equipment: Quantity new and used parts used in farming and trucking businesses; 2 sleeper cab fairings off IH and Peterbilt; aluminum diamond plate truck fenders; 9.00x20-11R 24.5 tires; cherry lumber; 120 chicken waterers; Wells Ulkut K-2467 meat saw; wood block meat table; meat hooks; 14 livestock gates 8-20’.

Antiques and Household: Regulation size slate top pod table; wainscot cupboard; Widmer grape picking box, milk cans; potty chair; picnic table; lawn set.

Info: Mel Bodine 585-554-6629 Preview: Starts Tues., Dec. 27, 9-5pm Terms: ID for bidder number, cash, check auction day. Payment w/Visa, MC, Disc. 3% fee.

Sale Order: 9am antiques, household, 9:15am shop tools, 11am truck, tractor farm equip. remaining small tools; most of Auction sells indoors.

D ANN A UCTIONEERS , D ELOS D ANN , 3339 Spangle St., Canandaigua, NY 14424, 585-396-1676. www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm UPCOMING AUCTIONS Sat., Mar. 10, 3:30pm: - Seneca Farm Toy Auction, Show 8:30-2pm. Benton Fire Dept., 932 Rt. 14A, Benton Center, 3 mi. N of Penn Yan, NY. Show info hosts David and Debra Dean 585-797-4211, 585-747-5025.

Sat., Mar. 31, 9am: - Equipment Consignment Auction, Windmill Farm Market, 3900 Rt. 14A, 5 mi. S. of Penn Yan, NY. Thurs., Apr. 5, 11am: - Marvin and Mildred Koek Excellent Farm Equipment Retirement Auction, 2324 Ridge Rd., Penn Yan, NY. IH 986, IH 1420 4wd combine, ‘95 Ford 16’ grain truck; tillage, planning, harvest equip.

Section C - Page 4 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 Monday, December 19 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 55:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only.

John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752.

• 12:00 Noon: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale.

Empire Livestock Marketing, 585584-3033 • 12:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Calves. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Misc. & Small Animals. 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. We will be open the day after Christmas - Business as usual. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771

www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Horses & Hay. 1:30 pm Calves & Beef. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315322-3500, sale barn 315-287-0220 • 4:00 PM: Chatham Market, 2249 Rte. 203, Chatham, NY. Regular Sale. Harold Renwick, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-392-3321.

Tuesday, December 20 • 1:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Dairy, sheep, goats, pigs and horses; 3:30 PM feeders followed by beef and calves. Tim Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800-321-3211.

Wednesday, December 21 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only.

John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 9:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Market-

B RO U G HT

ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES Rte. 125, E. Middlebury, VT 05740 Sale every Monday & Thursday Specializing in Complete Farm Dispersals “A Leading Auction Service” In Vt. 800-339-2697 or 800-339-COWS 802-388-2661 • 802-388-2639 ALEX LYON & SON Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc. Jack Lyon Bridgeport, NY 315-633-2944 • 315-633-9544 315-633-2872 • Evenings 315-637-8912 AUCTIONEER PHIL JACQUIER INC. 18 Klaus Anderson Rd., Southwick, MA 01077 413-569-6421 • Fax 413-569-6599 www.jacquierauctions.com Auctions of Any Type, A Complete, Efficient Service philcorn@jacquierauctions.com AUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL 808 Borden Rd., Buffalo, NY 14227 800-536-1401 www.auctionsinternational.com BENUEL FISHER AUCTIONS Fort Plain, NY 518-568-2257 Licensed & Bonded in PA #AU005568

TO

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

ing, 716-296-5041 • 10:00 AM: 3277 Lexington Road Richmond, KY. Secured Creditors Auction: Construction Equipment, Drilling Equipment, Support, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available.

Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday.

Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Dryden Market, 49 E. Main St., Dryden, NY. Phil Laug, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 607-844-9104 • 1:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Calves followed by beef.

Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 Thursday, December 22 • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop off only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752 • 11:00 AM: 38 Lake St., Chateaugay, NY. Short Notice Dispersal for Gary Matthews. 50 head quality dairy cattle sell, machinery, fee,

YO U

BY

barn & farm equip. Sale Manager, Delarm & Treadway, 315-659-2407, 518-483-4106 www.delarm-treadway.com • 12:30 PM: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale.

Empire Livestock Marketing, 585584-3033 • 1:15 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Dairy Cattle followed by Beef & Calves. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 2:00 PM: Gouverneur Market, 952 US Hwy. 11, Gouverneur, NY. Calves, Pigs, Goats, Dairy and Beef. Jack Bero, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315322-3500, sale barn 315-287-0220 • 5:00 PM: Central Bridge Livestock, Rte. 30A, Central Bridge, NY. Calves, followed by Beef. Tim Miller, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518-868-2006, 800-3213211.

Monday, December 26 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). We will be open the day after Christmas Business as usual.

Happy Holiday wishes from The Hosking Family, the Sale Barn crew & Cafe Girls. We appreciate all the business & friends we have made along the way! Tom & Brenda Hosk-

THESE

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

Livestock Sale every Wednesday at 1 PM Feeder Cattle Sales monthly Horse Sales as scheduled 585-394-1515 • Fax 585-394-9151 www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com FRANKLIN USED EQUIPMENT SALES, INC. AUCTION SERVICE Franklin, NY 607-829-5172 Over 30 Years Experience in Farm Equipment Auctions Frank Walker, Auctioneer P.O. Box 25, Franklin, NY 13775 fwalker2@stny.rr.com

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

To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact David Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 ing 607-699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, December 28 • 9:30 AM: Tuscaloosa, AL. Large Logging, Construction, Truck Tractors, Dump & Utility Trucks, Support Equipment Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday.

Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Friday, December 30 • 10:00 AM: 398 Old Schuylerville Rd., Greenwich, NY (Washington Co. Fairgrounds). Rental Returns of New Holland, Kobelco, Cat Construction Equipment, Support, Attachments, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 Saturday, December 31 • 8:30 AM: Hoover Tractor, Mifflinburg, PA. 5th Annual New Years Sale. Accepting consignments. Fraley Auction Co., 570-546-6907 www.fraleyauction.com • 9:00 AM: 5253 Rt. 364, corner of Upper Hill Rd., 1 mi. E of Middlesex, NY. Melvin & Joan Bodine Retire-

ment Auction. Farm is sold, selling farm equipment and shop tools.

Dann Auctioneers, Delos Dann, 585-396-1676 www.cnyauctions.com/dannauctioneers.htm Monday, January 2 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale. A group of Jersey & Jersey X steers.Misc. & Small Animals. 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-8478800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Saturday, January 7 • 9:30 AM: Pittsburgh, PA. Very Large Job Completion Auction for Fleischner Excavation. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 10:00 AM: 3517 Railroad Ave., Alexander, NY. Z&M Ag & Turf Auction. Public Auction Sale of Farm Tractors, Machinery, Landscape, Tools, Lawn Tractor & Mowers. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Auctioneers, 585243-1563. www.teitsworth.com Thursday, January 12

• Portland, OR. Major Job Completion Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315633-2944, 315-633-9544 Friday, January 20 • 12:00 Noon: 73 West First Ave., Windsor, PA. Public Auction of Windsor Meat Market. Operating business wit retail meat sales & custom slaughtering. Leaman Auctions, 717-464-1128 or 610-6628149 www.leamanauctions.com Saturday, January 21 • 10:00 AM: Gray’s Connecticut Valley Indoor Auction, White River Junction, VT. Townline Equipment Sales Used Equipment Auction.

C.W. Gray & Sons, Inc., 8027852161 Monday, February 6 • Kissimmee, FL. Yoder & Frey Auctioneers, Inc., 419-865-3990 info@yoderandfrey.com www.yoderandfrey.com Saturday, February 11 • 9:30 AM: Penn Yan, NY. Farm Machinery & farm smalls plus a few household goods for Ivan & Verna Zimmerman. L.W. Horst Auctioneer, 315-536-0954 Saturday, March 24 • Atglen, PA. The Gala at Glen Valley II. Hosted by Glen Valley Farm.

The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-

2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, March 31 • Cobleskill, NY. 31st Annual Cobleskill Dairy Fashion Sale.

Hosted by SUNY Cobleskill Dairy Cattle Club. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 14 • Syracuse, NY. New York Spring Holstein Sale. Held in conjunction with the New York Spring Dairy Carousel. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 21 • Quarryville, PA. Wea-Land Holsteins Complete Dispersal. Landis Weaver & Family, Owners. Co-managed by The Cattle Exchange & Stonehurst Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, July 21 • Middleburgh, NY. Reflections of Maple Downs Sale. Hosted by Maple Downs Farm II. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

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

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

607-699-3637 Fax 607-699-3661 www.hoskingsales.com hoskingsales@stny.rr.com

KELLEHER’S AUCTION SERVICE R.D. 1, Little Falls, NY 315-823-0089 We Buy or Sell Your Cattle or Equipment on Commission or Outright In Business Since 1948!

NORTHAMPTON COOP. AUCTION Whately, MA • Farmer Owned Since 1949 Livestock Commission Auction Sales at noon every Tues.

Consignments at 9 AM 413-665-8774

ROY TEITSWORTH, INC. AUCTIONEERS Specialist in large auctions for farmers, dealers, contractors and municipalities.

Groveland, Geneseo, NY 14454 585-243-1563 www.teitsworth.com

MEL MANASSE & SON, AUCTIONEERS Sales Managers, Auctioneers & Real Estate Brokers Whitney Point, NY Toll free 800-MANASSE or 607-692-4540 Fax 607-692-4327 www.manasseauctions.com

NORTHERN NEW YORK DAIRY SALES North Bangor, NY 518-481-6666 Sales Mgrs.: Joey St. Mary 518-569-0503 Harry Neverett 518-651-1818 Auctioneer John (Barney) McCracken 802-524-2991 www.nnyds.com

TOWN & COUNTRY AUCTION SERVICE Rt. 32 N., Schuylerville, NY 518-695-6663 Owner: Henry J. Moak

MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION 488 Cherry Hill Rd., Middlefield, CT 06455 Sale Every Monday Lisa Scirpo 860-883-5828 Sales Barn 860-349-3204 Res. 860-346-8550

PIRRUNG AUCTIONEERS, INC. P.O. Box 607, Wayland, NY 14572 585-728-2520 • Fax 585-728-3378 www.pirrunginc.com James P. Pirrung

LEAMAN AUCTIONS LTD 329 Brenneman Rd., Willow St., PA 17584 717-464-1128 cell 610-662-8149 auctionzip.com 3721 leamanauctions.com

NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLE Norman Kolb & David Kolb, Sales Mgrs.

Auctions Every Mon., Wed., & Thurs.

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

R.G. MASON AUCTIONS Richard G. Mason We do all types of auctions Complete auction service & equipment Phone/Fax 585-567-8844

L. W. HORST AUCTIONEER 1445 Voak Rd., Penn Yan, NY 14527 315-536-0954 • Fax: 315-536-6189

NORTHEAST KINGDOM SALES INC. Jim Young & Ray LeBlanc Sales Mgrs. • Barton, VT Jim - 802-525-4774 • Ray - 802-525-6913 neks@together.net

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

802-334-2638 • 802-777-1065 cell robertsauction@together.net

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

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

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

Page 5 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

AUC TION CALENDAR

Section C - Page 6 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT MIDDLESEX LIVESTOCK AUCTION Middlefield, CT December 12, 2011 Calves: 45-60# .22-.28; 6175# .47.5-.50; 76-90# .55.57.5; 91-105# .60-.65; 106# & up .67.5-.70.

Farm Calves: .75-.80 Started Calves: .25-.32 Veal Calves: .00-1.47.5 Open Heifers: .60-1 Beef Heifers: .67-.70 Feeder Steers: .65-.85 Beef Steers: .85-1.04 Stock Bull: 7.2.5-.95 Beef Bull: .67-.75 Boars: 1 at .09 Sows: 1 at 34 Butcher Hogs: .70-.80 Feeder Pigs (ea): .30-.90 Sheep (ea): 110-115 Lambs (ea): 140-150 Goats (ea): 100-235 Kid Goats (ea): 70-105 Canners: up to 64.50 Cutters: 65-68.50 Utility: 69.50-73 Rabbits: 5-19 Chickens: 4-13 Ducks: 4-14 On the Hoof, Dollars/Cwt ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES East Middlebury, VT December 12, 2011 Cattle: 131 Calves: 178 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whits 65-75% lean 85.50-88; Breakers 75-80% lean 73.5081.50; Boners 80-85% lean 69-80; Lean 85-90% lean 4571.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bul.s 92-125# 70-135; 80-92# 7092.50; Vealers 100-120# 6075; 90-100# 60-76; 80-90# 50-75; 70-80# 45-73; 60-70# not well tested.

COSTA & SONS LIVESTOCK & SALES Fairhaven, MA No report * Sale every Wed. @ 7 pm.

FLAME LIVESTOCK Littleton, MA December 13, 2011 Beef Cattle: Canners .45.60; Cutters .55-.70; Util .68.78; Bulls .65-.85; Steers 11.15; Hfrs. .70-.85.

Calves: Growers .70-1.50; Hfrs. .70-1; Veal .60-.75.

Hogs: Sows 35-42; Roasters 50-110; Boars 20; Market 5570.

Sheep: 76-100 Goats (ea): 90-130; Billies 175-200; Kids 50-120.

Lambs: 1.50-2.30 NORTHAMPTON COOPERATIVE AUCTION, INC Whately, MA December 13, 2011 Calves (/cwt): 0-60# 5-2; 61-75# 10-56; 76-95# 5-75; 96-105# 50-64; 106# & up 35-66.

Farm Calves: 70-125/cwt Feeders: 59-75/cwt Heifers: 51.50-72.50/cwt Steers: 53-80/cwt Canners: 20-57/cwt Cutters: 57.50-67.50/cwt Utility: 70-81.50/cwt

Sows: 26-52/cwt Hogs: 57-62/cwt Boars: 3-16/cwt Shoats: 90-126 ea.

Pigs: 21-56 ea.

Lambs: 80-285/cwt Sheep: 30-125/cwt Goats: 24-177.50 ea.

Rabbits: 1-7.50 ea.

Poultry: 2.50-22.50 ea.

Hay: 14 lots, 3-4.90/bale northamptonlivestockauction.homestead.com HACKETTSTOWN AUCTION Hackettstown, NJ December 13, 2011 Livestock Report: 47 Calves .12-1.36, Avg .86; 76 Cows .40-.80, Avg .62; 6 Easy Cows .14.5-.52.5, Avg .31; 13 Feeders 300-500# .58-1.16, Avg .96; 9 Heifers .57-.97, Avg .70; 10 Bulls .481.02, Avg .71; 14 Steers .371.12, Avg .80; 6 Hogs .48.5.62, Avg .53; 8 Roasting Pigs (ea) 2-30, Avg 25.25; 1 Boar 26; 3 Sows .02-.53, Avg .41; 55 Sheep .03-1.65, Avg .89; 2 Lambs (ea) 64-72, Avg 68, 94 (/#) 1.14-2.46, Avg 1.74; 8 Goats (ea) 32-88, Avg 63; 9 Kids (ea) 40-66, Avg 52.67; 40 Hides (ea) 1-20, Avg 3.86.

Total 401.

Poultry & Egg Report: Heavy Fowl (/#) .40-.75; Leghorn Fowl (ea) 5.50-5.75; Mixed Fowl (ea) 1.50-6; Pullets (ea) 3-6.50; Geese (ea) 24-36; Ducks (/#) 1.05-1.05; Rabbits (/#) 2-2.80; Pigeons (ea) 3-5.50; Guineas (ea) 8.50-9.

Grade A Eggs: White Jum XL 1.45-1.65; L 1.40; Brown Jum XL 1.90-1.95; L 1.89; M 1.15.

Hay, Straw & Grain Report: 2 Alfalfa 3.90-4.40; 23 Mixed 3.10-7.50; 6 Timothy 3.704.30; 10 Grass 2.20-4; 2 Mulch 1.60-2.60; 1 Rye Straw 5; 3 Oats 6.50; 1 Firewood 32. Total 48.

CAMBRIDGE VALLEY LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Cambridge, NY No report EMPIRE LIVESTOCK MARKET BURTON LIVESTOCK Vernon, NY No report CENTRAL BRIDGE LIVESTOCK Central Bridge, NY No report CHATHAM MARKET Chatham, NY December 12, 2011 Calves (/#): Grower over 92# .90-1.20; 80-92# .65-.80; Bob Veal .47-.62.

Cull Cows (/#): Gd .69-.75; Lean .63-.67; Hvy. Beef Bulls .73-.80.

Beef (/price): Feeders 400750# 53-86; Hfr. 65-109; Steer 57-76; Oxen 35-45; Veal 75-87.

Lamb/Sheep (/#): Feeder 1.90-2.60; Market 1.30-1.70; Slaughter Sheep .81.

Goats (/hd): Billies 135-180;

Nannies 71-92.50; Kids 4090.

Swine (/#): Sow .40; Boar.12; Feeder Pig (ea) 40. *Buyers always looking for pigs.

Gouverneur

CHERRY CREEK Cherry Creek, NY No report DRYDEN MARKET Dryden, NY No report GOUVERNEUR LIVESTOCK Governeur, NY No report

Canandaigua Pavilion Penn Yan Dryden Cherry Creek

Bath

Vernon New Berlin

Cambridge

Central Bridge Chatham

PAVILION MARKET Pavilion, NY No report BATH MARKET Bath, NY December 6, 2011 Calves (/#): Grower Bulls over 92# 1.05-1.35; 80-92# .70-.95; Bob Veal .20-.40.

Cull Cows (/#): Gd .66-.74; Lean .58-.64 FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK AUCTION Canandaigua, NY December 13, 2011 Dairy Cows for Slaughter: Bone Util 58-75; Canners/Cutters 40-68; HY Util 65-78.

Slaughter Calves: Bobs 95110# 50-67.50; 80-95# 4065; 60-80# 30-62.50.

Dairy Calves Ret. to Feed: Bull over 95# 70-132.50; 8095# 65-125; 70-80# 60-85; Hfr calves 100-160.

Beef Steers: Ch grain fed 112-124.50; Sel 97-110; Hols. Ch grain fed 89-104.50; Sel 75-85.

Hogs: Slgh. US 1-3 50-70; Sows US 1-3 31-50; Feeders US 1-3 34-50.

Lambs: Hot house Ch 4050# 180-225; Feeder Ch 5080# 120-160; Market Ch 80100# 80-150.

Slaughter Sheep: M 5567.50; Rams Ch over 130# 105.

Goats (/hd): L Billies 110# & up 80-170; L Nannies 70140.

FINGER LAKES PRODUCE AUCTION Penn Yan, NY No report Produce Mon. @ 10 am, Wed-Fri. @ 9 am sharp!

FINGER LAKES HAY AUCTION Penn Yan, NY December 9, 2011 Hay: 1st cut 110-210; 2nd cut 150-230; 3rd cut 145257.50.

Straw: 220-260 Firewood: 50 Oats: 10.50 HOSKING SALES New Berlin, NY December 12, 2011 Cattle: Dairy Cows for Slaughter Bone Util .64-.74; Canners/Cutters .58-.65; Easy Cows .60 & dn.

Bulls: Bulls/Steers .68-.82.

Calves: Bull Calves 96-120# .80-1.15; up to 95# .10-.95; Hols. under 100# 1.

Dairy Milking age top 2750; bred hfrs. top 2300; open hfrs. top 1000.

BELKNAP LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belknap, PA No report BELLEVILLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Belleville, PA December 7, 2011 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75# lean 73.5074; Breakers 75-80% lean 66.75-71.75, lo dress 60.7563; Boners 80-85% lean 62.50-67, hi dress 67-70; Lean 85-90% lean 57-62, lo dress 54-57.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12562028# 60-69.50.

Feeder Cattle: Steers L 3 Hols. 380# 95; 646-658# 67.50-72.

Feeder Calves: No. 1 Hols.

Bulls 94-110# 120-140; No. 2 94-116# 90-115; 84-90# 80102; No. 3 96-102# 70-80; 78-92# 70-76; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 95-105# 175-180/hd; No. 2 80-90# 85-100/hd; Beef X 104# 90;Vealers Util 58112# 11-69.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 45-50% lean 200-220# 85-90/hd; 230-270# 135142/hd; Sows US 1-3 700# 285/hd; Boars 350-500# 90100/hd.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 10-55# 8-28; 60-90# 28-48.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 24-38# 145-170; 4060# 170-205; 74-92# 130185; 114# 135.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 65-90# 110-162.50; Sel 2 2040# 42.50-82.50; 45-65# 57.50-90; Nannies Sel 1 100130# 95-115; Sel 2 90# 95.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA December 13, 2011 Slaughter Cattle: Steers Sel & Ch full 1330-1470# 114-121.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White & Hols. Hfrs. 74.50-86; Breakers 70-74; Boners 6671; Lean 65-70; Big Middle/lo dress/lights 57.50-64.75; Shelly 55 & dn.

Bulls: 1210-1640# 65-79.50.

Feeder Cattle: Hfrs. one Black X 390# 98; Bulls Dairy types 530-700# 70-76.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols.

Bulls No. 1 95-120# 140-147; No. 2 90-130# 105-140; No. 3 75-135# 75-105; Hols. Hfrs.

No. 2 80-90# 70-150.

Swine: Hogs 245-310# 5961; 325-350# 55-66; Sows 505# 53.50; Boars 455-690# 27.50-29.50.

Goats (/hd): L Nannies 100132; Billies to 220; Fancy Kids 130-149; Fleshy Kids 87-125; Small/thin/bottle 1180.

Lambs: Ch & Pr 55-80# 260300; Gd & Ch 50-75# 202236; 65-85# 185-210; Gd 75110# 170-172.

Sheep: (all wts.) 55-135 Sale every Tuesday * 5 pm for Rabbits, Poultry & Eggs * 6 pm for Livestock starting with calves. * Special Fed Cattle Sales Dec. 20 & 27. * Breeding School - Buying Open Cows Tues., Dec. 20.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC Carlisle, PA Small Animal Sale December 13, 2011 Rabbits/Bunnies: 1.50-17 Chickens/Chicks: .50-7.50 Quail: 2.50-4 Guinea Pigs: .50 Turkey: 25 Ducks: 3-8 Pigeons: 3-3.50 Ferrets: 22 All animals sold by the piece.

Sale starts at 5 pm.

CARLISLE LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC State Graded Feeder Pig Sale Carlisle, PA No report DEWART LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET, INC Dewart, PA

December 12, 2011 Cattle: 131. Steers 12441364# 114-116; Hols. Steers Ch 1380-1524# 106.75107.25; Hfrs. 1124-1244# 115-117.

Cows: Prem. White 69.5073.50; Breakers 65.50-68.50; Boners 58-65; Lean 50-60.

Bulls: 1540-1858# 71.5078.50; Feeder 360-452# 97.50-120.

Calves: 219. Bull Calves No. 1 94-120# 142-165; 90-92# 117-137; 82-88# 95-170; No. 2 94-130# 120-147; 90-92# 100-117; 80-88# 80-92; No. 3 94-124# 75-115; 80-92# 6087; Hfr. Calves No. 1 94-98# 180-197; No. 2 76-88# 125165; Util 10-67.

Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 4270# 190-215; 74-96# 155182; Ewes 104-162# 57-75; Gd & Ch 1-3 80-100# 130145.

Kid Goats (/hd): Sel 1 3040# 70-90; 60-70# 90-120; Sel 2 30-40# 50-70; 50-70# 80-95; Sel 3 20-30# 1627.50.

Hogs: 278-308# up to 70; 105-150# 77.50-85.

Sows: up to 62 Boars: up to 29 Hay: 25 lds, 110-400/ton.

Straw: 9 lds, 100-270/ton.

Earcorn: 3 lds, 200-210/ton.

Firewood: 7 lds, 50-92/ld.

EIGHTY FOUR LIVESTOCK AUCTION New Holland, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% lean 77.5079, hi dress 89; Breakers 7580% lean 73-76.50, hi dress 77.50, lo dress 69-72; Boners 80-85% lean 69-72.50, lo dress 66; Lean 85-90% lean 64-68.50, hi dress 69-71.50, lo dress 60.50-63.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 11201635# 78-81.50; YG 2 10701400# 67-72.

Steers: M&L 1 600-700# 122.50; 700-800# 102-118.

Heifers: M&L 1 300-500# 117.50-127.50, few fancy 132.50-134; 500-700# 116124, few fancy 127.50; 800900# 94-100; M&L 2 300500# 101-116.

Bulls: M&L 1 300-500# 128146; 500-600# 127.50-140; 600-700# 117-120; M&L 2 300-400# 98; 700-900# 8186.

Feeder Calves: No. 1 Hols.

Bulls 90-120# 130-150; No. 2 90-130# 102.50-125; No. 3 85-120# 60-95; Beef 155250# 107.50-112.50; Vealers Util 65-120# 20-40.

Slaughter Hogs: Sows US 1-3 300-400# 54-62; Boars 300-500# 24-40.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 30# 32.5/hd.

Slaughter Lambs: Ch 1-3 60-80# 170-185; Gd & Ch 12 40-60# 140-152.50; Yearlings 95-140# 125-160; Ewes Util 1-2 105-205# 71-90.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 37-40# 72.50-77.50; 5155# 85-105; 75-95# 125-130; 112# 130/cwt; Sel 2 40-65# 52.50-67.50; Sel 3 35# 4042.50; Nannies Sel 1 105# 87.50/cwt; Sel 2 105-110# 62.50-65; Billies Sel 1 100# 135; Sel 2 145# 85/cwt; Wethers Sel 2 115# 131/cwt.

GREENCASTLE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Greencastle, PA December 12, 2001 Slaughter Cattle: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1386-1540# 128-131.50; Ch 2-3 1328-1582# 123128.50; 1606-1674# 118120; full YG 4-5 1404-1570# 118.50-121.50; Sel 1-3 12621488# 115.50-120; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1380-1510# 109-115; Ch 2-3 1334-1536# 103-109; 1640-1714# 109.50; Sel 1-3 1244-1390# 95-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & pr 2-3 1392-1412# 125.50127.50; Ch 2-3 1174-1436# 119-123; full YG 4-5 12041304# 112.50-114.50; Sel 13 1160-1340# 112-116.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 67.50-73, lo dress 62.50-67.50; Boners 80-85% lean 62-67, hi dress 67-70, lo dress 57-62.50; Lean 85-90% lean 57-62, hi dress 63-66.50, lo dress 5057.50.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 10241862# 77.50-84.50, hi dress 1322# 88; lo dress 10301738# 63.50-78.

Feeder Cattle: Steers M&L No. 1 352-434# 127.50-154; 514-558# 133-134; M&L 2 290# 145; Herefords 406# 77.50; L 3 Hols. 406# 83; 562-1156# 70-86; Hfrs. M&L 1 300-405# 120-138.50; 520604# 107.50-130.50; 8371166# 98-106; M&L 2 306469# 100-122.50; 512-726# 85-115; Herefords 452-618# 77-89; Bulls M&L 1 305-440# 127.50-154; 575-776# 97125; 811-1020# 93-102; M&L 2 268-412# 120-125; 736# 93; L 3 Hols. 292-324# 62.50-70.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bull Calves No. 1 94-120# 135162.50; No. 2 94-120# 95135; 84-92# 70-95; No. 3 94116# 67.50-95; 78-92# 6575.

Utility: 70-110# 25-70.

Sows: US 1-3 506-582# 52-

Pennsylvania Markets Mercer

Jersey Shore

New Wilmington

Dewart Leesport Belleville Homer City

New Holland Carlisle Lancaster Paradise

Eighty-Four 59.

Boars: 552# 27.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 47-70# 167.50-245; 70-108# 145-210; 114-142# 172.50-187.50; Ewes Gd 2-3 172-216# 67.50-75; Rams 178-254# 60-85.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-65# 72.50-120; 70-90# 120-160; Sel 2 under 20# 1929; 20-40# 35-72.50; 45-65# 50-100; 70-80# 90-145;Nannies Sel 1 95-160# 90-120; Sel 2 80-100# 59-82.50; Billies Sel 1 130-185# 155-215.

INDIANA FARMERS LIVESTOCK AUCTION Homer City, PA No report KUTZTOWN HAY & GRAIN AUCTION Kutztown, PA December 3, 2011 Alfalfa: 3 lds, 220-400 Mixed Hay: 12 lds, 205-360 Grass: 7 lds, 230-310 Straw: 8 lds, 165-210 Firewood: 7 lds, 35-65 Oats: 2 lds, 5.75-6 LANCASTER WEEKLY CATTLE SUMMARY New Holland, PA December 9, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1230-1595# 127-131; Ch 2-3 1220-1575# 125.50127; Sel 2-3 1120-1260# 110-114; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 23 1385-1615# 110-114; Ch 2-3 1355-1615# 98.50-104; Sel 2-3 1138-1455# 88-93.

Slaughter Cows: Prem Whites 65-75% lean 7073.50, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 68-70.50; Breakers 7580% lean 66-69, lo dress 6365; Boners 80-85% lean 6265, hi dress 66.50-67, lo dress 58-60; Lean 85-90% lean 56-60, hi dress 62.5063.50, lo dress 52-55.

Slaughter Bulls: Thurs. YG 1 920-1625# 73-76.50, lo dress 1250-1950# 67-70.50; Bullocks 915-1320# 73-77; hi dress 900-1440# 83-85.50, lo dress 885-1350# 65702090-2155# 69-69.50.

Graded Bull Calves: Thurs.

No. 1 114-128# 142-150; 94112# 155-159; 90-92# 105; No. 2 94-118# 144-156; 8892# 119; 80-86# 70; No. 3 100-130# 105-118; 80-98# 67-70; 72-78# 90; Util 60-

110# 20-35; Hols. Hfrs. No. 1 90-95# 185-210; No. 2 pkg 85-120# 50-100.

LEBANON VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Fredericksburg, PA December 10, 2011 Alfalfa: 270-340 Mixed Hay: 190-350 Timothy: 210-310 Grass: 190-295 Straw: 165-230 Corn: 70-120 Oats: 7 LEESPORT LIVESTOCK AUCTION Leesport, PA December 7, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1240-1600# 128-132, few fancy 133-134.50; Ch 2-3 1135-1600# 124-128; 16101700# 1200-126.50; Sel 2-3 1040-1345# 118-122; Hols.

Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1365-1645# 108-122, few 113-115; Ch 23 1270-1720# 101-107.50; Sel 2-3 1305-1615# 97-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1500# 127129.50; Ch 2-3 990-1315# 123-125.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 74-76; Breakers 75-80% lean 72-74, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 6569; Boners 80-85% lean 6871, hi dress 71-74, lo dress 62-67; Lean 85-90% lean 61.50-65, hi dress 66.5068.50, lo dress 55-60.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12751760# 75-78, lo dress 68.5073.50; Bullocks 970-1500# 73.50-78, hi dress 92-103.

Feeder Cattle: Steers L 3 Hols. 510-700# 55-65.

Vealers: 70-100# 30-67.50; 55-65# 17.50.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls No. 1 95-120# 130-145; 8590# 95-105; No. 2 95-130# 120-140; 80-90# 75-85; No. 3 95-120# 70-115; 80-90# 47.50-65.

Lambs: Ch 2-3 75-90# 172.50-180.

Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-50# 8590; Sel 2 20-30# 45-50;Nannies Sel 3 70-100# 52.5072.50.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 50-54% lean 225-230# 60-63.

MIDDLEBURG LIVESTOCK AUCTION

Middleburg, PA December 6, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1270-1565# 128-133; Ch 2-3 1320-1570# 123-128; 1605-1660# 116-122; full YG 4-5 1235-1555# 116-120; Sel 1-3 1110-1560# 115-122; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 13651515# 108.50-115; Ch 2-3 1295-1520# 105-109; Sel 1-3 1420-1550# 95-102.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1295-1490# 127-131; Ch 2-3 1130-1460# 119-125; full YG 4-5 1055-1270# 114118; Sel 1-3 990-1210# 113118.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

Whites 65-75% lean 74; Breakers 75-80% lean 67-70, hi dress 72.50, lo dress 6367; Boners 80-85% lean 6266, hi dress 68-68.50, lo dress 58-61; Lean 85-90% lean 58-61, hi dress 60-63, lo dress 52-55.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 9651835# 73-83.50, hi dress 1385# 90, lo dress 8702325# 60-69; Bullocks 11201225# 83-88.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 340405# 127-140; 575-700# 103-122; M&L 2 290-435# 112-132; L 3 Hols. 230-282# 70-75; 415# 80; 535-775# 77-85.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 247265# 102-132; 370-495# 105-125; 530-640# 105-115; Herefords 415# 97; M&L 2 247-290# 100-112; 315-495# 87-109; 515-630# 80-105; Herefords 390-470# 70-85.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 295485# 118-140; 555-830# 92121; M&L 2 275# 90; 485# 97; 775# 85; Herefords 340# 65; L 3 Hols. 245-295# 7582; 522# 76.

Feeder Calves: Hols. Bulls No. 1 95-120# 135-172; 90# 110-120; No. 2 95-120# 100137; 80-90# 85-107; No. 3 95-110# 70-95; 80-90# 6580; Hols. Hfrs. No. 2 85# 85145; Beef X 95# 117; Vealers Util 65-125# 30-70.

Slaughter Hogs: Barrows & Gilts 49-54% lean 245-277# 68-73.50; 282-322# 68-72; 45-50% lean 245-270# 6669.50; 282-295# 68-69.50.

Sows: US 1-3 420-485# 4757.50; 515-745# 52-59.

Boars: 465-745# 28-30.50; Jr. Boars 270-365# 43-51.

Feeder Pigs: US 1-3 60-

105# 23-57.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch 2-3 40-67# 187-265; 7095# 157-182; 117-162# 130145; Ewes Gd 2-3 140-195# 75-85; 248# 67; Rams 190215# 60-77.

Slaughter Kids: Sel 1 4550# 125-135; 60-80# 127.50165; Sel 2 25-40# 35-75; 4555# 75-120; 60-70# 95-115.

Slaughter Nannies: Sel 1 110-160# 102-135; Sel 2 90130# 70-105; Sel 3 70-100# 60-75.

Wethers: Sel 1 120-160# 145-170.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK AUCTION Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Cattle: 120 Cows: Steers Ch 110-118; Gd 100-110; Hfrs. Ch 110115; Gd 95-105; Util & Comm. 60-70; Canner/lo Cutter 60 & dn.

Bullocks: Gd & Ch 70-78 Bulls: YG 1 65-70 Feeder Cattle: Steers 110118; Bulls 90-105; Hfrs. 80110.

Calves: 102. Ch 90-110; Gd 75-90; Std 15-70; Hols. Bulls 90-130# 70-150.

Hogs: 38. US 1-2 75-78; US 1-3 70-75; Sows US 1-3 3560; Boars 24-42.

Feeder Pigs: 30. US 1-3 2050# 5-30.

Sheep: 36. Ch Lambs 160180; Gd 140-150; SI Ewes 50-70.

Goats: 15-195 MORRISON’S COVE HAY REPORT Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Alfalfa: 285-305 Alfalfa/Grass: 250-330 Grass: 190-245 Timothy: 185-215 Mixed Hay: 150-190 Round Bales: 100-195 Lg. Sq. Bales: 215-260 Straw: 190-205 Wood: 50-70 Fodder: 85 Hay Auction held every Monday at 12:30 pm.

MORRISON’S COVE LIVESTOCK, POULTRY & RABBIT REPORT Martinsburg, PA December 12, 2011 Roosters: 3-5 Hens: 1.25-3.40 Pigeons: 2 Guineas: 5 Bunnies: 1.25-4 Rabbits: 5-10 Auction held every Monday at 7 pm.

NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES New Holland, PA December 8, 2011 Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 12401600# 128-132, few fancy 133-134.50; Ch 2-3 11351600# 124-128; 1610-1700# 120-126.50; Sel 2-3 10401345# 118-122; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 1365-1645# 108112, few 113-115; Ch 2-3 1270-1720# 101-107.50; Sel 2-3 1305-1615# 97-100.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1500# 127129.50.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 65-75% lean 74-76; Breakers 75-80% lean 72-74, hi dress 75-78, lo dress 6569; Boners 80-85% lean 6871, hi dress 71-74, lo dress 62-67; Lean 88-90% lean 61.50-65, hi dress 66.5068.50, lo dress 55-60.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1 12751760# 75-78, lo dress 68.5073.50; 970-1500# 73.50-78, hi dress 92-103.

Graded Bull Calves: No. 1 114-128# 142-150; 94-112# 155-159; 90-92# 105; No. 2 94-118# 144-156; 88-92# 119; 80-86# 70; No. 3 100130# 105-118; 80-88# 67-70; 72-78# 90; Util 60-110# 2035.

Holstein Heifer Calves: No. 1 90-95# 185-210; No. 2 85120# 50-100.

NEW HOLLAND PIG AUCTION New Holland, PA December 7, 2011 US 1-2: 4, 13# 170; 48, 2025# 170-190; 16, 25-30# 140-150; 77, 30-40# 120145; 67, 40-60# 110-120; 12, 80-90# 75-90.

US 2: 11, 15-20# 180-210; 107, 20-30# 100-140; 31, 2030# 175-180, 45 30-40# 100150, mostly 100-130; 20, 5055# 105-115; 33, 60-90# 7585.

NEW HOLLAND SHEEP & GOATS AUCTION New Holland, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Lambs: Non-traditional markets: Wooled & Shorn Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 245-305, new crop 40-50# 358-390; 60-80# 180-250, new crop 60-70# 298-312; 80-90# 180-195; 90-110# 180-192, new crop 90-110# 212-134; 110-130# 179-194; 130-150# 170-185; 150-200# 155-170; Wooled & Shorn Ch 2-3 40-60# 203-224; 60-80# 175-203; 90-110# 161-176; 110-130# 160-174; 130-150# 135-150; 150-200# 108-123.

Slaughter Ewes: Gd 2-3 M flesh 120-160# 91-104; 160200# 87-103; 200-300# 7590; Util 1-2 thin flesh 120160# 78-84; 160-200# 72-84.

Slaughter Kids: Sel 1 3040# 92-100; 40-60# 90-119; 60-80# 116-134; 80-90# 131146; 90-100# 141-156; Sel 2 30-40# 69-84; 40-60# 73104; 60-80# 105-122; 80-90# 117-132; 100-110# 130-139; Sel 3 30-40# 64-80; 40-60# 62-83; 60-80# 83-94; 80-90# 94-103.

Slaughter Nannies/Does: Sel 1 80-130# 121-136; 130180# 124-140; Sel 2 80-130# 108-124; 130-180# 116-131; Sel 3 50-80# 76-91; 80-130# 90-105.

Slaughter Bucks/Billies: Sel 1 100-150# 196-211; 150-200# 253-266; Sel 2 100-150# 160-175; 150-250# 190-205.

NEW WILMINGTON LIVESTOCK AUCTION

Page 7 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

Section C - Page 8 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT New Wilmington, PA No report NEW WILMINGTON PRODUCE AUCTION, INC. New Wilmington, PA No report PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Grain Market Summary Compared to last week corn sold steady to .05 lower, wheat sold .05-.10 lower, barley sold steady to .05 lower, Oats sold steady to .05 lower & Soybeans sold .15-.20 lower. EarCorn sold steady. All prices /bu. except ear corn is /ton.

Southeastern PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.65-7.05, Avg 6.79, Contracts 5.45-5.46; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.537.06, Avg 6.27, Contracts 5.28-5.83; Barley No. 3 Range 4.70-6, Avg 5.40, Contracts 4.50; Oats No. 2 Range 4.50-5, Avg 4.66; Soybeans No 2 Range 10.32-10.57, Avg 10.46, Contracts 10.75; EarCorn Range 195-198, Avg 196.50.

Central PA: Corn No. 2

Range 6.40-6.70, Avg 6.56; Wheat 5.73; Barley No. 3 Range 4.75-5.25, Avg 5; Oats No. 2 Range 3.60-4.30, Avg 3.95; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.30-11.50, Avg 10.66; EarCorn Range 195220, Avg 207.50.

South Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.35-6.85, Avg 6.60; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.60-6.73, Avg 6.09; Barley No. 3 Range 4.25-5.30, Avg 4.80; Oats No. 2 Range 3-4, Avg 3.55; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.16-10.57, Avg 10.50; EarCorn Range 190.

Lehigh Valley Area: Corn No. 2 Range 6.50-6.92, Avg 6.69; Wheat No. 2 Range 6.85; Barley No. 3 Range 4.95; Oats No. 2 Range 4.75; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.40-10.80, Avg 10.53; Gr. Sorghum Range 5.96.

Eastern & Central PA: Corn No. 2 Range 6.35-7.05, Avg 6.67, Month Ago 6.85, Year Ago 5.71; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.53-7.06, Avg 6.25, Month Ago 6.16, Year Ago 7.13; Barley No. 3 Range 4.25-6, Avg 5.01, Month Ago 4.96 Year Ago 3.63; Oats No. 2 Range 3-5, Avg 4.08,

Month Ago 4.13, Year Ago 2.70; Soybeans No. 2 Range 10.16-11.50, Avg 10.54, Month Ago 10.95, Year Ago 12.05; EarCorn Range 195220; Avg 199.60, Month Ago 196.66, Year Ago 144.83.

Western PA: Corn No. 2 Range 5.64-6.50, Avg 6.10; Wheat No. 2 Range 5.36; Oats No. 2 3.75-4.90, Avg 4.38; Soybeans No. 2 10.42.

PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Weekly Livestock Summary December 9, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 128-134; Ch 1-3 123128; Sel 1-2 117-122; Hols.

Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 110-116; Ch 2-3 101-107.50; Sel 1-2 95.50-99.50.

Slaughter Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 2-3 125-131; Ch 1-3 119125.50; Sel 1-2 113-118.

Slaughter Cows: Breakers 75-80% lean 67-71.50; Boners 80-85% lean 63-68; Lean 85-90% lean 58-62.

Slaughter Bulls: hi dress 83-90; Avg dress 74-79; lo dress 68.50-73.50.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300500# 145-162; 500-700# 120-152; M&L 2 300-500# 125-140; 500-700# 110-126.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300500# 120-146; 500-700# 120-137; M&L 2 300-500# 100-125; 500-700# 100-120.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300500# 130-165; 500-700# 118-134; M&L 2 300-500# 107-129; 500-700# 87-114.

Vealers: Util 60-120# 10-65.

Farm Calves: No. 1 Hols.

bulls 95-125# 130-170; No. 2 95-125# 100-145; No. 3 80120# 60-110; No. 1 Hols.

Hfrs. 84-105# 185-250; No. 2 80-105# 85-185.

Hogs: Barrows & Glts 4954% lean 220-270# 66-72; 45-50% lean 220-270# 6465.

Sows: US 1-3 300-500# 5863; 500-700# 58.50-62.50.

Graded Feeder Pigs: US 12 20-25# 170-190; 25-30# 140-150; 30-40# 120-145; 40-60# 110-120; 80-90# 7590; US 2 15-20# 180-210; 20-30# 100-140; 20-30# 175180; 30-40# 100-150.

Slaughter Sheep: Lambs Ch & Pr 2-3 40-60# 250-275, new crop to 310; 60-80# 208235, new crop to 270; 80110# 168-203; 110-150# 162-178; Ch 1-3 40-60# 215255; 60-80# 180-200; 80110# 160-183; 110-150# 151-164; Ewes Gd 2-3 120160# 80-95; 160-200# 74-89; Util 1-2 120-160# 60-75; 160200# 58-73.

Slaughter Goats: Kids Sel 1 40-60# 84-110; 60-80# 120153; 80-100# 141-170; Sel 2 40-60# 75-92; 60-80# 81106; 80-100# 105-140; Sel 3 40-60# 61-79; 60-80# 79-95; Nannies Sel 1 80-130# 112122; 130-180# 120-134; Sel 2 80-130# 94-108; 130-180# 107-115; Sel 3 80-130# 8398; Billies Sel 1 100-150# 171-186; 150-250# 209-224; Sel 2 100-150# 146-161; 150-250# 168-180.

PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Hay Market Summary

Hay & Straw Market For Eastern PA: All hay prices paid by dealers at the farm and /ton. All hay and straw reported sold /ton. Alfalfa 175-250; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 160-300; Timothy 150-200; Straw 100-160 clean; Mulch 60-80.

Summary of Lancaster Co. Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 192 lds Hay, 40 Straw. Alfalfa 155-510; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 155-500; Timothy 215-340; Grass Hay 135-400; Straw 165-260.

Diffenbach Auct, December 5, 85 lds Hay, 11 lds Straw.

Alfalfa 255-510; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 140-500; Timothy 200335; Grass 185-400; Straw 185-240.

Green Dragon, Ephrata: December 9, 57 lds Hay, 16 Straw. Alfalfa 155-385; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 155-370; Timothy 220-340; Grass Hay 135-240; Straw 165-210.

Weaverland Auct, New Holland: December 8, 35 lds Hay, 9 Straw. Alfalfa 350-390; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 190-275; Timothy 320-330; Grass 150350; Straw 170-235.

Wolgemuth Auction: Leola, PA: December 7, 15 lds Hay, 4 Straw. Alfalfa 240; Alfalfa/Grass Mix 205-350; Timothy 215-285; Grass 120-245; Straw 177-260.

Summary of Central PA Hay Auctions: Prices/ton, 135 Loads Hay, 22 Straw.

Alfalfa 250-400; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-400; Timothy 170325; Grass 140-410; Straw 165-220.

Belleville Auct, Belleville:

LETT USS DESIGN N ANDD PRINTT YOURR OWN N BROCHUREE ORR FORMS 4 to 48 Page Tabloids on Newsprint or Offset Paper • Spot Color and Process 4 Color Available 8 1/2 x 11 or 11 x 17 Single Sheets Printed One or Two Sides, Spot Color, Variety of Paper Colors and Weights and Folding is Available In Quantities from 5,000 to 100,000 We can work from your layout or provide a custom designed piece for you.

Let Us Take Out The Headache . . .

Let Us Take Out The Red Tape . . .

Let our expert and professional graphic department create the image you are looking for in all of your business forms, brochures, handouts, newsletters, payroll stuffers, invoice stuffers etc.

No more jumping from the printers to the mail room. No more cutting checks to several out-sourcers to complete one job.

Fast Turn Around On All Your Commercial Print Jobs.

Our fast and professional service will keep you on target.

No more missed deadlines, no more coordination problems.

Let our professionals get the job done...ON TIME!

We offer complete mailing services and mail processing including labeling, inserting and folding!

And All Without Breaking Your Wallet . . .

Call us for an estimate on your next job!!

Lee Publications Job Printing Depart. 1-800-218-5586

PO Box 121, 6113 St. Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 518-673-3237 • 1-800-218-5586 • Fax: 518-673-2699

December 7, 22 lds Hay, 0 lds Straw. Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 125-320.

Dewart Auction, Dewart: December 5, 19 lds Hay, 3 Straw. Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-400; Straw 170-200.

Greencastle Livestock: December 5 & 8, 14 lds Hay, 0 Straw.

Alfalfa/Grass 102.50-212.50.

Kutztown Auction, Kutztown: December 3, 22 lds Hay, 8 Straw. Alfalfa 310-400; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 205-360; Grass Hay 230-310; Straw 165-210 clean.

Middleburg Auct, Middleburg: December 7, 23 lds Hay, 3 Straw. Alfalfa 300; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 140-290; Grass 100-195; Straw 120245.

Leinbach’s Mkt, Shippensburg: December 3 & 6, 35 lds Hay, 8 Straw. Alfalfa 220275; Alfalfa/Grass Mixed 100-335; Timothy 170-325; Grass 140-410; Straw 132.50-235 clean.

New Wilmington Livestock, New Wilmington: December 2, 18 lds Hay, 0 Straw.

Alfalfa/Grass 215-257.50.

VINTAGE SALES STABLES Paradise, PA December 12, 2011 Slaughter Steers: Hi Ch & Pr 3-4 1300-1560# 127-130; Ch 2-3 1050-1535# 124.50127.50; Sel 2-3 1155-1425# 115-118; Hols. Hi Ch & Pr 23 few 1385-1505# 114-116; Ch 2-3 few 1290-1520# 109.50-112.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 1150-1345# 121-122.

Slaughter Cows: Prem.

White 73.25-75.75; Breakers 75-80% lean 65.50-69, hi dress70.50-73.50; Boners 80-85% lean 63-66; Lean 8590% lean 58-62.50, lo dress 52-56.50.

Holstein Bull Calves: No. 1 95-125# 135-150; No. 2 95115# 115-130; 85-90# 75-85; No. 3 95-130# 100-110; 7595# 60-70; Util 70-115# 4565.

Holstein Heifers: No. 2 80115# 70-100.

WEAVERLAND AUCTION New Holland, PA December 8, 2011 Alfalfa: 2 lds, 350-390 Timothy Hay: 3 lds, 320330 Orchard Grass: 5 lds, 225300.

Mixed Hay: 15 lds, 190-275 Grass: 10 lds, 150-350 Straw: 9 lds, 170-235 Firewood: 5 lds, 45-125 Corn Fodder: 4 lds, 90-145 Soybean Stalks: 1 ld, 110 WOLGEMUTH AUCTION Leola, PA December 14, 2011 Alfalfa: 4 lds, 170-250 Mixed: 25 lds, 150-390 Timothy: 6 lds, 130-325 Grass: 20 lds, 170-290 Clover: 1 ld, 135 Straw: 12 lds, 145-225 Bean Stubble: 1 ld, 72 Fodder: 2 lds, 60-100 Firewood: 55/ld

by Bob Gray With the failure of the Joint Deficit Reduction Committee to reach agreement on $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, the question now, what is going to happen next?

Well, as you know, there is a process for automatic cuts to take place if the Super Committee did not reach an agreement. Half of these $1.2 trillion in cuts would come from defense while the other half would come from domestic programs.

Although these automatic cuts

would not take place until January, 2013, a number of members of Congress are looking at different ways to structure a deficit reduction package that would be agreeable to both Democrats and Republicans. The sticking point, as you know, is if significant cuts are going to be made in the federal budget, how will federal revenues be adjusted to offset some of the deep reductions in federal spending. The Republican side wants to close various tax loopholes as a way of bringing in more revenue whereas the Democratic

side feels that wealthy individuals should be taxed at a higher rate. The two sides can’t seem to reach an agreement on this key matter. The other issue, of course, is what programs would take the brunt of most of the cuts. The entitlement programs such as food stamps and Medicare will certainly be on the table as part of the budget cutting process and so will defense. But the two political parties also disagree as to the magnitude of cuts in various programs. And this, of course, has led to the current gridlock here in Washington.

However the president has been very cool to the idea of renegotiating the au-

tomatic spending cuts that were put in place if the Super Committee could not come up with a budget deal.

Many ideas, including even much steeper cuts in the neighborhood of $3 trillion or $4 trillion have been thrown out on the table but again there is no consensus as to how the cuts would be made and if there would be offsetting revenues either in the form of closing tax loopholes or increasing taxes on higher income people. It seems to me that if Congress can’t reach an agreement on cutting $1.2 trillion, it is going to be very difficult to up the ante to $3 trillion or $4 trillion.

Source: NDFC E-letter for Dec. 2

Assemblyman from C2 tady, Schoharie, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Ulster, Warren, Washington, and Westchester (and similar bills A.8634 and A.8649); • A.44: Enacts the New York state comprehensive flood mitigation grant act; appropriates $5,000,000 therefor; • A.8648: Relates to payments of taxes in installments in certain school districts affected by floods or natural disasters; • A.8654: Requires the state to pay local municipalities’ share of the costs not covered by municipal public assistance from the federal government; • A.8655: Relates to excluding certain emergency expenditures from school district tax levy limits; • A.8643: Establishes a credit for sales tax paid by victims who incurred damage as a result of tropical storms

January 26, 2012

Irene and Lee; and • A.4772: Relates to a program for flood damage to businesses; provides a tax credit for businesses that purchase flood insurance.

“We’ve seen a number of ad hoc programs emerge as a result of Irene and Lee, however our communities continue to struggle,” said Assemblyman Lopez. “While we are thankful to the Governor and his Flood Task Force for their efforts, we need to be more aggressive in addressing still unresolved issues as well as establishing a predictable framework for responding to the needs of our neighbors across the state. It’s time for Albany to put its collective efforts and resources to work in protecting its people now, and in the future.”

TRADE SHOW OPPORTUNITIES • KEYSTONE FARM SHOW •

8:30am - 3:45pm

January 3, 4, 5, 2012 • Tues. 9-4, Wed. 9-4 & Thurs. 9-3 York Fairgrounds • York, PA

Holiday Inn, Liverpool, NY

• VIRGINIA FARM SHOW •

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

Dr. Danny Klinefelter is a professor and economist at Texas A&M University specializing in agricultrural finance and management development.

He will be speaking on “The Twelve Best Management Practices”.

Jan. 19, 20 & 21, 2012 • Thurs. 9-4, Fri. 9-4 & Sat. 9-3 Augusta Expoland • Fishersville, VA

• BIG IRON EXPO • February 8 & 9, 2012 • Wed. 10-7 & Thurs. 9-4 Eastern States Exposition • West Springfield, MA

• MATERIAL HANDLING & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT EXPO • February 8 & 9, 2012 • Wed. 10-7 & Thurs. 9-4 Eastern States Exposition • West Springfield, MA

• EMPIRE STATE FRUIT & VEG EXPO • Jan. 24, 25 & 26 2012 Oncenter Convention Center • Syracuse, NY

• HARD HAT EXPO • March 7 & 8, 2012 • Wed. 10-7 & Thurs. 9-4 New York State Fairgrounds • Syracuse, NY

• MATERIAL HANDLING & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT EXPO • March 7 & 8, 2012 • Wed. 10-7 & Thurs. 9-4 New York State Fairgrounds • Syracuse, NY FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO EXHIBIT AT OR ATTEND ANY OF THESE SHOWS

CALL 800-218-5586 www.leetradeshows.com • mwhite@leepub.com

Page 9 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Now what???

Section C - Page 10 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

National Grange President calls for common sense decision making during address During his annual address Tuesday, Nov. 8, National Grange President Edward Luttrell said the organization must be a leader in advocating for rural America, American values and common sense decision-making.

Luttrell began his address by stressing the need for continued advocacy by the organization for rural broadband build out and a viable U.S. Postal Service for rural residents in front of an audience gathered for the 145th Annual National Grange Convention.

Saying local post offices are “at the heart of our hometowns,” Luttrell called for any changes to the USPS be done with the impact to rural America in mind.

In the light of proposed closures of post offices and the USPS request to change service schedules, Luttrell said the Grange “believes that all reforms should be fully

debated while keeping in mind that the rural mail customer is much more likely to rely on USPS services in light of the current digital divide.”

“We suggest that Congress allow the USPS to be innovative in the modern business world and develop a competitive culture within their employees,” Luttrell said.

Regarding the digital divide, Luttrell said it is necessary for rural America to have access to broadband services in order to “shorten the distance between rural America and state-ofthe-art learning and healthcare.”

“Doing more with less is something that rural Americans know very well. Broadband allows its users to do many things, but most importantly it makes us more efficient at home and at work,” Luttrell said. “Living on a back road should no longer trans-

On Wednesday December 28 We will be selling 31 head high % Boer Goats APPROX 5 PM

late to being denied access to cutting edge communication.”

During the speech, Luttrell also outlined the Grange’s position on energy, saying it is “the lifeblood of our economy and it is a major factor in the quality of our life.”

Luttrell said the Grange would like to see the immediate removal of “legislative and regulatory roadblocks to allow clean energy production to be brought on line within the next 10 years.”

Further, Luttrell said the organization “is not opposed to common sense regulations,” but wishes for President Barack Obama to “halt the growth of onerous federal regulations during this time of economic uncertainty.”

“Common sense spending” is equally necessary, Luttrell said, in order to “bring fiscal responsibility back to our nation.”

“The Grange asks each elected official to lay aside their partisan politics and work together to ensure that a balanced budget is achieved,” Luttrell said.

Sometimes more than regulation, the perception of the agricultural industries by the public will shape those industries, Luttrell said, stressing that those working in agriculture must “become educators and creators of public opinion.”

Luttrell said it is imperative for producers to “communicate through all the mediums used by the consumers to ensure that agriculture is judged

on facts, not myths.”

For all of these things, Luttrell said the Grange is “ready to work with thousands of communities, to advocate in State

Capitols around our nation and to stand firm in Washington, D.C., on the common sense principles of American values.”

Happy Holidays We offer a full line of: • Agricultural Spray Materials • Corn, Alfalfa & Grass Seeds • Bag & Bulk Feed Now Accepting Pre-Pay for the Spring Season

T&P SALES and SERVICE & Richardson Farms Buddy Richardson • (315) 829-8000

FORECLOSURE Real Estate

AUCTION On Site Regardless of Weather

Thurs., Jan. 5, 2012 • 2:00 PM

th

11 Main Street, Village of Cherry Valley, County of Otsego, State of New York 5000+/- S/F Comm. Bldg. w/Former Grocery Store, Apt. & Comm. Space.

Open House: Thurs., Dec. 29th 10-11 AM & Auction Day 1 PM Terms: $2,500 down payment plus a 10% buyer’s premium in cash or official bank check made payable to the bidder (This means you).These funds must be shown at time of registration.

Closing on or before Feb. 18, 2012.

See Web Site for Details, Photos & Full Terms

For info call: 585-394-1515

www.collarcityauctions.com

FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK EX.

(518) 895-8150 x101

3 Miles East Of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20 Visit Our Web Site www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

WEEKLY SALES EVERY MONDAY HOSKING SALES - FORMER WELCH LIVESTOCK Weekly Sales Every Monday 12:30 Produce, Misc. & small animals; 1:00 Dairy; **We will now sell lambs, goats, pigs, feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves and cull beef approx. 5:00-5:30PM. Help us increase our volume - thus making a better market for everyone. **We are Independent Marketers - working 24/7 to increase your bottom line. Competitive marketing is the way to go.

Monday, 12th sale - Cull cows ave. .62 top cow .73, Bulls up to .82, bull calves top $1.15. Top Dairy Milking age $2750, bred heifers top $2300, open heifers top $1000.

Monday, Dec. 19th - Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. Holiday Sale groups of lambs coming from 3 different flocks.

Monday, Dec. 26th - We will be open the day after Christmas - Business as usual!!

Monday, Jan. 2nd - Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from The Hosking Family, the Sale barn crew & Café Girls - We appreciate all the business & friends we have made along the way.

LOOKING TO HAVE A FARM SALE OR JUST SELL A FEW GIVE US A CALL. **Trucking Assistance - Call the Sale Barn or check out our trucker list on our Web site. Call to advertise in any of these sales it makes a difference.

Directions: Former Welch Livestock 6096 NYS Rt. 8, 30 miles South of Utica & 6 miles North of New Berlin, NY. www.hoskingsales.com Call today with your consignments.

Tom & Brenda Hosking 6096 NYS Rt. 8 New Berlin, NY 13411

607-699-3637 or 607-847-8800 cell: 607-972-1770 or 1771

D SALES STABLES , IN HOLLAN W NELocated 12 Miles East of Lancaster, PA Just Off Rt. 23, New Holland C.

Annual Christmas

Dairy Heifer & Cow Sale F st Chr ree Free mas i Wed., Dec. 21 t H s i l ams stmas Chr s to Al t m B Ha Buyers at 10:30 AM uyeros All TOP LOADS OF FRESH 1ST & 2ND CALF HEIFERS WILL BE SOLD

All Consignments Welcome - Cows - Bulls - Heifers Consignors: Please Send All Info w/Truckers on Tues., Dec. 20th

Every Buyer Receives A Christmas Ham

Have a Merry Christmas from everyone at NHSS SALE MANAGED BY:

New Holland Sales Stables, Inc. David Kolb 61-L

717-354-4341 (Barn) 717-355-0706 (FAX)

Reminder: Mon., Dec. 26th we will be open for all sales Horses, Beef Cows, Bulls, Calves, Sheep & Goats

FINGER LAKES LIVESTOCK EX.

FEEDER SALES 2012 Sat., January 7 @ 10 am Sat., February 4 @ 10 am Sat., March 17 @ 10 am Sat., April 21 @ 10 am *Sat., May 5 @ 10 am (also selling Trowbridge Angus Bulls)

Sat., May 19 @ 10 am Fri., June 1 @ 6 pm Fri., July 13 @ 6 pm

Fri., August 3 @ 6 pm Sat., September 8 @ 10 am Sat., September 22 @ 10 am Sat., October 6 @ 10 am Sat., October 20 @ 10 am Sat., November 3 @ 10 am Sat., November 10 @ 10 am Sat., December 1 @ 10 am

Please Vaccinate your cattle and bring documentation with you Cattle accepted Thurs & Friday between 7:30am-6:00pm

For info call: 1-585-394-1515 Visit our website @ www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

For

GROWER

Wine & Grape

The NEWSPAPER for the wine and grape industry December 2011

Volume 1 Number 1

Newport Vineyards: Record harvest, grand expansion plans

In this issue

~ Page 2

Second generation returns to Shade Mountain Winery and Vineyards ~ Page 3

g n i m o C on So

Sustainable practices focus of grape annual convention ~ Page 5

New Publication for the wine and grape industry Page 4

Sustainable practices focus of grape annual convention Page 5

Calendar of events Page 7

Wine and Grape Grower will offer features, news and information on growing grapes, and making and selling wines.

As readers of Country Folks and Country Folks Grower you know the value of our publications as you run and improve your business.

If your current business or future plans include grapes or wine you can now have a publication with those same benefits for that branch of your business.

Subscribe today and don’t miss a single issue.

If you have friends or family who would be interested please feel free to share with them also.

Order Soon and get a Free Shirt.

While Supplies Last

Classifieds Page 7

Subscription Form

* Paid Orders Only

Name __________________________________________________ Business/Farm Name ________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________ City__________________________State__________Zip Code________________ PHONE (

) __________________ E-mail __________________________

Free Trial

Paid Paper $12, 1 Year

Payment Method Check (#

)

Cash

Paid Digital $12, 2 Years Bill To Me

Exp. Date __________

Acct. #__________________________________________________

Amt. Paid

Signature ______________________________________ Date ______________

If your business provides products or services for the grape growers and wine makers, please contact us for information on marketing opportunities to this important segment of agriculture.

You can reach us at P.O. Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 or call 800-218-5586 • Fax 518-673-2381 • Email: dwren@leepub.com

Page 11 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Coming Soon - The newest publication in the Lee Publications, Inc. family of agricultural papers

Section C - Page 12 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

• Since 1964 • Specializing in Trade Publications, Trade Shows, Commercial Printing & Mailing Services

LEE PUBLICATIONS

A Fun and Easy Way To Read Country Folks...

Serving the agricultural, heavy construction, aggregates, solid waste, commercial horticulture and equine industries.

MARKET TO ANY OR ALL OF THESE INDUSTRIES WITH ONE CALL! Country Folks

Farm Weekly Newspapers - since 1972, serving fulltime farmers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic market areas. The number one agricultural publication in this market! Target your audience with 4 regional editions.

Monthly Equine Publication covering New York, New England, Northern Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Reaching the horseowners in this market area as the official publication of over 25 Associations.

Since 1979, serving heavy construction contractors, landscaping, aggregate producers and recyclers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Markets every month. Qualified readership is guaranteed to get you results.

NOW AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT DOWNLOADABLE Read it on your computer anytime, anywhere

Country Folks

Since 1990, serving the commercial greenhouses, vegetable and fruit growers, and nurseries in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Northwest market areas. Reach your target audience with this monthly publication that is by far the number one media for these industries.

GROWER W

Is our newest publication. Started in 2011 to serve an important and growing segment of horticulture, this newspaper is targeted at businesses active in commercial scale growing and winemaking in the United States. In addition to a six times a year mailing, a searchable version is available to our online readers.

WASTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT NEWS, since 1992, serving asphalt/concrete recyclers, composting facilities, construction demolition companies, wood waste recyclers and scrap metal recyclers with 2 monthly editions that cover the entire United States.

GET IT FASTER Arrives every Saturday morning

USER FRIENDLY Search and print ads and articles, even from past issues

THINK GREEN Save trees — no ink and paper necessary!

NORTH AMERICAN QUARRY NEWS since 1998, serving the quarry, sand & gravel, hot mix asphalt and ready mix concrete industries with one national edition. This is the fastest growing publication for these markets.

TRADE SHOWS Lee Publications produces trade shows, both regionally and nationally for each of the markets listed above. Go to our website at www.leepub.com for more information or call 800-218-5586.

COMMERCIAL PRINTING

We specialize in short run (5,000-100,000) copies) web offset printing.

Tabloid style print jobs like this publication are available in increments of 4 pages in black & white or full color. Complete mailing sources are available as well as insertions in any of our publications

Email subscriptions@leepub.com to start a new digital subscription or change your current print subscription to digital.

LEE PUBLICATIONS PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 Phone 518-673-3237 Fax 518-673-3245

info@leepub.com

www.countryfolks.com

JANUARY 19-20-21, 2012 THURS. 9-4, FRI. 9-4, SAT. 9-3 AUGUSTA EXPOLAND • FISHERSVILLE, VIRGINIA THE FARM SHOW FOR

FARMERS!

Don’t miss your chance to exhibit or attend! For more information call

800-218-5586 • www.leepub.com Virginia Farm Show is Produced by Lee Trade Shows, Inc. a division of Lee Newspapers, Inc. The Proud Publishers of Country Folks Weekly Farm Newspapers and Country Folks Farm Chronicle Weekly Farm Newspapers PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 • 800-218-5586

Page 13 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

VIRGINIA FARM SHOW

Section C - Page 14 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

SCIP to the premiums

by Jen Gillespie and Steve Suther First results from ongoing research show an average carcass-value advantage of $134 per head for Angus-sired calves compared to those with bos indicus or Brahman influence.

The Southern Carcass Improvement Project (SCIP) was initiated in 2009 as a collaboration between Kansas State University, Virginia Tech and Gardiner Angus Ranch. Its goal was to measure the impact that a single generation of high-quality Angus genetics can have on feedlot and carcass performance when mated to Brahman-crossed cattle commonly found in the Southern U.S. “It had to show the effect in one generation to have much impact and gain many believers,” said Mark Gardiner, the Ashland, KS, Angus breeder who shared SCIP progress at his family’s bull sale in September.

The idea came up while talking with longtime friend Tom Brink, senior vice president of Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, about beef quality in the South, where many herds were selected for adaptability with little emphasis on carcass traits.

Brink had bought many calves and feeders from those states, and he knew a huge share of them hit a genetic roadblock to marbling. Gardiner had sold many bulls into those states and saw what a difference genetic improvement was making for his customers.

Both men saw the USDA Choice percentage climb in Kansas packing plants while Texas plants lagged.

“This is a major problem, yet there is no broad-scale effort to improve quality grades in Southern-origin cattle,” Brink noted at the Gardiner sale. “In fact, the industry problem is rarely even discussed, although its annual cost is more than $200 million, not counting the lost beef demand due to lack of sufficient high-quality beef.”

Three years earlier he and Gardiner wondered, what if a demonstration project could be set up in with a major university to show the added value in breeding to an Angus alternative? They talked to Virginia Tech animal scientists Dave Notter and Bill Beal, geneticist and breeding systems experts, respectively. Gardiner would fund the research if a scientifically valid structure could be set up.

As Beal recalled, “Tom proposed that we identify a group of cows typical of Southern herds and breed them either to typical Southern bulls or highgrowth, high-carcass Angus bulls. The question was how to do it.”

He liked the idea of “demonstration” as opposed to clinical study.

“We could all sit back and go to the Journal of Animal Science, where there are published studies that used bulls with different marbling levels, and they show that what you see is, in fact, what you get in carcass merit. Okay,” Beal said, “but those were controlled studies that some meat scientist did at a university.” Such results still seemed theoretical to real-world ranchers.

A demonstration project may not impress animal scientists, but it had to

pass their scrutiny. The target had to be commercial ranchers who had adapted their herds to challenging Southern environments, but who doubted whether Angus genetics could make a difference in their progeny.

After ruling out multiple herds and locations for adding too many wild cards to the project design, Beal and Notter saw the Gardiner embryo transfer (ET) program as part of the solution: All that was needed were Southern donors.

Simplicity may have allowed some elbow room, but skeptics are universal.

“We couldn’t have either ranchers or animal scientists look at the study and say, ‘well obviously it worked because they picked those donors or those bulls.’ We really went to great lengths to be representative and then utilized random mating of bulls to the Southern donors,” Beal explained.

Igentity® DNA profiling helped minimize concerns about selection of specific individuals, too, he added. “We characterized those cattle, cows, bulls and calves, so you could see which ones had marbling potential.”

Consulting with Notter, 22 representative cows were purchased and relocated to the Gardiner Ranch for the ET program; 12 of them produced calves from random mating to sires from eight bos indicus breeds or three Angus bulls. They were born in spring 2010, raised as contemporaries, weaned and fed together through harvest.

Carcass data on 57 of those Angus

— or “Southern” — sired calves shows big differences, although leanness was similar as measured by yield grades.

Two-thirds of the Angus-sired group graded Choice, but none of the nonAngus graded above Select.

On average, the Angus-sired group finished with higher marbling scores, larger ribeye areas, more backfat and heavier carcass weights compared to the Southern-sired group. The value of those differences added up to $134 gross and a net $92-per-head economic advantage after accounting for feed costs.

The Angus sire effects for the firstyear calves included a 103-point marbling advantage-more than a full USDA quality grade-along with nearly another inch of ribeye area and 61 more pounds of carcass.

Larry Corah, Certified Angus Beef LLC (CAB) vice president for supply, said demand for high-quality beef is running high, even as the supply tightens and quality premiums increase. CAB partners sold more than 807 million pounds in 2011, setting a fifth consecutive annual sales record, despite a stagnant to recession-affected economy.

“This project and its results speak volumes about the opportunity just waiting for ranchers in an area not known for high quality to cash in on the millions of dollars in annual premiums paid for quality beef,” Corah said.

And the project continues with 56 SCIP calves born in 2011 backgrounded at Gardiner Angus Ranch.

DON’T MISS IT

FEBRUARY

8-9, 2012 Eastern States Exposition West Springfield, MA Wednesday 10am - 7pm Thursday 9am - 4pm

For Information on Exhibiting or Attending Call Ken Maring

800-218-5586 Fax 518-673-3245 Visit Our Web site: www.leetradeshows.com

Big Iron Expo is Produced by the Trade Show Division of Lee Newspapers, Inc. Publishers of Hard Hat News, Waste Handling Equipment News, North American Quarry News P.O. Box 121, 6113 St Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

JANUARY 3-4-5, 2012 YORK FAIR GROUNDS • YORK, PA TUES. 9-4 • WED. 9-4 • THURS. 9-3

DAUPHIN COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SEMINAR ROOM 2 LOCATED IN THE TOYOTA ARENA

SEMINAR SCHEDULE TUES. JANUARY 3, 2012 11am-11:30am The Fate of Pesticides in the Environment, Paul H. Craig, Penn State Cooperative Extension (1 Core Credit)

11:30am-12pm

Becker Forum 2012 Farming in a Non-Farmer World: Building Trust, Engaging Communities, and Finding Common Ground Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Andy Vance — columnist for Feedstuffs Magazine, Upstate New York farmers Richard Ball and Don Lewis, and Hugh Whaley of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance. They will be sharing their insights about meaningful consumer communication. This will inspire a new exchange of ideas, and challenge New York farmers to face up to their duty to re-establish the public relationship.

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

The 2012 Becker Forum is open to all New York farm operators and agriculturalists, University faculty and staff, Extension and agribusiness professionals, media representatives, agency personnel, and anyone from the general public interested in agriculture or food production. It is the opening event for the three-day Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo.

The advance registration fee for the 2012 Becker Forum is $75 per person for the full-day session, including lunch and refreshments; the walk-in registration fee will be $100 per person.

Interested participants can get detailed information about speakers, presentations, location, and registration online at www.BeckerForum.org

BEST BUYS IN USED EQUIPMENT

Soybean Pest Management Update, Del Voight, (1 Category Credit)

1:00pm-1:30pm Surfactant Management To Increase Pesticide Efficiency, Mena Hautau (1 Core Credit)

1:30pm-2:00pm What’s New in Herbicides for 2012, John Bray (1 Category Credit)

WED., JANUARY 4, 2012

11am-11:30am Soybean Pest Management, Del Voight (1 Category Credit)

11:30am-12pm Spill Management, Bill Ridon (1 Core Credit)

1:00pm-1:30pm What’s New in Herbicides for 2012, John Bray (1 Category Credit)

1:30pm-2:00pm Pesticide Record Keeping Requirements, Bill Ridon (1 Core Credit)

Hay Master Accumulator

Hoelscher Accumulator TRACTORS CIH 5230 MFD, ROPS CIH 5120 2WD IHC 986 w/ Cab

PROJECT TRACTORS Kubota M6950 TILLAGE Amco Disc 13” Brillion 21’ Mulcher Brillion 12’ Packer Transport Case IH 415 Mulcher, 15’ Case IH 720 5x18 Auto CIH 4600 Field Cultivator 24’ CIH 475 Disk, R.F. 18’ Dunham 12’ Packer Dunham 13’ Mulcher Ford (White) 151 5x Auto IHC 475 Disk, 17’ IHC 415 Mulcher 12’6”

IHC 720 4x18 IH 470 Disk 14’ IH 450 3pt. 3x Auto IH 415 Mulcher 12’x6” IH 330 Disk, 13’ IH 5500 Chisel 10x IH 55 Chisel 12x JD 950 Mulcher 12’ Landoll Finish-all 20’ Krause 2800 9X chisel White 588 6x OL MATERIAL HANDLING CIH 8650 Processor Gehl Box Spreader, 180 Bu. Houle 3600 Tank IH 12’ Shredder Knight 8024 Slinger Knight 8014 Slinger Knight 3160 Mixer Knight 3060 Mixer Knight 3030 Mixer

Knight 8118 NI 3609 Spreader HAY & FORAGE Steel Hay Rack Claas 350 Rotary CIH SBX 530 Baler Dion Forage Box (c) Hay Rite Accumulator Hoelscher Accumulator Jiffy Block Deck Kuhn GT-300 Rake NH 55 Rake NH 492 Haybine NH 648 Baler NH 1411 Discbine CONSTRUCTION Case 1845C Skid Steer Case 40XT Skid Steer Case 420 Skid Steer Case 480E TL 3 pt.

Case 550 Dozer Cat 302.5 Excavator

PLANTING & SEEDING CIH 900 4X Cyclo CIH 5300 Drill 18x7 John Deere 7000 4x Deere 400 Rotary Hoe, 15’ Deere 7240 6x11 Liquid Lilliston Rotary Hoe 4+6x COMBINES CIH 1020 17 1/2’ CIH 1020 20’ EZ Trail 475 Cart Flickiln 610 Cart IHC 1460 MISCELLANEOUS 1480 Combine Parts 1460 Combine Parts 1420 Combine Parts IH 710 & 720 Parts Plow IHC 656 Parts IHC 986 Parts

2991 State Highway 5S • Fultonville, NY

518-853-4500 www.randallimpls.com ©2007 CNH America LLC. All rights reserved. Case IH is a registered trademark of CNH America LLC. CNH Capital is a trademark of CNH America LLC. www.caseih.com

Page 15 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Becker Forum to provide fresh ideas to bridge the farmer-consumer gap in New York

Section C - Page 16 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

New York farmers donate 5.6 million pounds of food BINGHAMTON NY — When New York Farm Bureau members traveled to Binghamton for the State Annual Meeting they didn’t come empty-handed. Members and supporting food companies delivered a record haul of food items to assist those in need this Holiday Season.

Today’s donations bring the yearlong total of food donated by farmers across the state to more than 5.6 million pounds. With a few weeks left in the year, it is expected that farmer donations will exceed 5.8 million pounds.

“As we gather here in Binghamton to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Farm Bureau System it is especially important to continue the tradition of Farm Bureau support for our State’s Food Banks,” said New York Farm Bureau President Dean Norton. “Considering the fact

that our economy continues to struggle and in spite of the fact that many of our members faced hardships themselves this year due to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, I am very proud of the generosity of our farmer members and their strong support of this program.”

Food is collected through the “Harvest for All” donation program. “Harvest for All” is a nationwide annual farm donation partnership linking the Farm Bureau and Feeding America in each state.

In New York, the NYFB’s Young Farmers & Ranchers and the Food Bank Association of New York State administered the statewide donation partnership. Under the project, NYFB members donated excess farm products to the 10 New York State Feeding America food banks located across the state.

The USDA annual report on Household Food Security states that 17.2 million households, or 14.5 percent, had difficulty putting enough food on the table in 2010. Local food pantries and soup kitchens have seen increases ranging from 10-12 percent, if not higher.

John Evers, the executive director of the Food Bank Association of New York stated, “Considering the high level of unemployment and economic uncertainty that our state faces, there are more people than ever that need the assistance of local food banks, “This record setting donation by New York’s farmers will put millions of nutritious meals on the table at a time when they are sorely needed. New York Farm Bureau and its members have stepped up in a major way this year and I deeply appreciate their support.”

“We are proud to partner with the

Hello, I’m Peggy

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From Eggleston Auction Service Now Booking for Spring Machinery Auction in April 2012 Call

315-982-4084

Beaver Mountain Farms Would Like to Wish Everyone a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year

Thank You for Your Business in 2011 and Looking Forward to Serving You in 2012.

Also, We Would Like to Remind You of Our Annual Antique & Modern Farm Consignment Sale on April 14, 2012 Call for Early Photos & Listings

Don & Betty Duksa

518-929-3480 • 518-329-1321

Food Bank again this year, to do our part to eliminate hunger throughout the state of New York,” said Andrea Schultz and New York Farm Bureau State Young Farmer & Rancher Committee chair.

Natasha Thompson, President & CEO of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, said, “The New York Farm Bureau remains a constant source of support for New York state food banks and the hunger-relief agencies we serve, helping those in need gain access to fresh, healthy, local food. Our partnership with the Farm Bureau is more important than ever with food insecurity at an all-time high. Each week, over 11,000 individuals visit a hunger-relief agency served by the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. We’re grateful for the continued generosity of the Farm Bureau and their members.”

Your Country Folks Classified Ad Representative I’m here to make it easy for you to place your ad.

Call Me FREE On Our 800 Phone Line From Anywhere in the Continental United States

1-800-836-2888 Or Fax (518) 673-2381 Attn. Peggy E-mail: classified@leepub.com

Deadline is Wednesday at 3 PM

We Accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express

Payment May Also Be Made by Check or Money Order

RATES

(Per Zone) FIRST 14 WORDS

One Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9.00 Two or More Weeks . . . . . . . . . $8.00 ea. wk.

Each Additional Word . . . . . . . 30¢ per wk.

Lee Publications, Country Folks Classified, PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428

by Greg Coffta If you visit one of New York’s midto large-size dairy herds, you would see many employees in the milking parlor who are immigrants of Hispanic descent.

This isn’t a news flash — these employees have been working on some dairies for more than 10 years now. In recent years, the increase in immigrant labor from Mexico and Central America has become a hotbutton political issue achieving national attention.

People make many assumptions about this workforce: It’s uneducated, unskilled and suitable for only the most routine, tedious tasks such as milking.

A closer look at our dairy farms proves those beliefs to be misconceptions. The Hispanic workforce on New York dairy farms is being promoted to

higher positions and given more responsibilities.

New tasks and responsibilities Responsibilities vary from dairy to dairy, but in general Hispanic employees complete some of a herd manager’s responsibilities. Dairies’ reproduction programs have benefited greatly from Hispanic employees’ taking on additional responsibilities.

Heat detection and the delivery of ovulation synchronization injections are now popular jobs for Hispanic employees. On some dairies, Hispanic employees are also performing A.I. And they’ve been trained to identify lameness and often trim hooves.

The calf barn has probably benefited the most from Hispanic employees being trained to work outside the milking parlor. Caring for heifers from their first day to their first service is an im-

HOLIDAY SALE

TOP CATTLE & HEIFERS

FRIDAY DECEMBER 30, 2011 11:00 A.M. Top 1st calf heifers, with size and condition. Some fresh or due for January.

Nice group. (18) Head from one consignor, some good 1st & 2nd’s milking well. There are some Crosses in this group, and (5) Open heifers. A group of open heifers from 400 lbs. to breeding age, with more cattle being consigned daily. Also selling misc. items; (2) Electric waters, like new.

Tractor chains, tractor seat, and more.

Sale Managed By:

Gene Wood’s Auction Service, Inc. Cincinnatus, NY 13040

(607) 863-3821

Visit us on the Web @ genewoodsauctionserviceinc.com

FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION M SHARP S AT.. DEC.. 31 ST 11:00AM

349 COUNTY ROUTE 111 (JOHNSONVILLE RD.) VALLEY FALLS, NY 12185 HAVING SOLD THE FARM WE HAVE BEEN COMMISIONED TO SELL THE COMPLETE LINE OF MACHINERY FROM BIG OAK VIEW FARM. TRACTORS: IH 3588 2 + 2, 4WD; JD 6300 W/640 LOADER 2WD; JD 4240 4WD, CAB, QUAD SHIFT; JD 2640 2WD, ROPS; IH 856 4WD; NH LS160 SKID STEER 1300 HRS.; FORAGE & HAY EQUIP: JD 5440 SP HARVESTER 4WD, HAYHEAD, 3 ROW CORNHEAD (SOLD SEPARATELY); NH 648 ROUND BALER (LIKE NEW); NH 320 SQUARE BALER; NH H7330 DISCBINE (LIKE NEW) H & S HYD. BI-FOLD HAYRAKE; KUHN GF5001 HYD-FOLD TEDDER; 2 - RICHARDTON DUMP WAGONS; 3 - METAL HAY WAGONS; HAYRITE HAY ELEVATOR; JD FLAIL CHOPPER; IH S1600 SILAGE TRUCK; STOLTZFUS ROUND BALE WAGON; TILAGE & PLANTING EQUIP: IH 700 5 BOTTOM PLOWS; CASE WING FOLD DISC; IH 5500 9 SHANK CHIESEL PLOW; JD 12' ROLLER HARROW; BRILLION 12' SEEDER; IH GRAIN DRILL; JD 7200 6 ROW DRY CORN PLANTER; 2 - KILBROS 350 GRAVITY FLOW WAGONS ONE W/AUGER; KUKER BOOM SPRAYER MISC: KNIGHT 2450 MIXER WAGON; GEHL GRINDER MIXER; GEHL MS1315 SCAVENGER MANURE SPREADER; GEHL BOX SPREADER; MENSCH SKID STEER SAND SHOOTER; MENSCH SKID STEER RUBBER TIRE SCRAPER; SCHAVER POST POUNDER; 3 - SETS OF DUALS; 2 - ROUND BALE SPEARS 3PT HITCH; GRAIN BIN W/AUGER BARN EQUIP: WIC BEDDING CHOPPER (LIKE NEW); AGWAY BREEDING WHEEL; ZIMMERMAN FREESTALLS (30-35); FOOT BATH; COW STANCHIONS; 3 - PICKUP FIFTH WHEEL PLATES; NEW 18.4 X 34 TIRE; MILKING EQUIP: DOUBLE FOUR PARLOR 3" LOWLINE STAINLESS STEEL RECIEVER; 8 SUPER FLOW CLAWS; 9 DELTRON 2 PULSATORS; WASH UNIT; 7 HP VACUUM PUMP; SURGE 600 GALLON TANK; COMPRESSOR; TANK WASHER; 8 - WEIGH JARS DIRECTIONS: FROM TROY FOLLOW RT 7 TO CO. RT 111 TAKE LEFT FOLLOW FOR 2 MILES TO FARM; FROM HOOSICK FOLLOW RT 7 TO CO RT 111 TAKE RIGHT FOLLOW FOR 2 MILES TO FARM; FROM SALEM OR CAMBRIDGE FOLLOW ROUTE 22 SOUTH TO ROUTE 67 TURN RIGHT FOLLOW TO JOHNSONVILLE TURN LEFT ON CO RT 111 FOLLOW FOR 5 MILES TO FARM; FROM MECHANICVILLE TAKE ROUTE 67 EAST THROUGH SCHAGTICOKE CONTINUE TO JOHNSONVILLE TURN RIGHT ON CO RT 111 FOLLOW FOR 5 MILES TO FARM.

SALE HELD BY: K-HILL

AUCTION SERVICE

KYLE MCPHAIL • 518-573-0683

AND: CAMBRIDGE

VALLEY LIVESTOCK MARKET

GLEN MCLENITHAN • 518-677-3895

TERMS: CASH OR GOOD CHECK DAY OF SALE / SALE HELD RAIN OR SHINE AUCTIONEERS NOTE: GLEN & KYLE SAY COME SPEND SOME OF THAT HARD EARNED MONEY BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR RATHER THAN GIVING IT TO UNCLE SAM !!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE VISIT AUCTIONZIP.COM ENTER AUCTIONEER ID # 11699 FOR COMPLETE DETAILS AND PICTURES.

portant job that many Hispanic employees now perform.

There are many reasons why Hispanic employees are diversifying in their job duties, but two of the biggest reasons for this change are: A. The quality of the Hispanic workforce. That is to say; the dedication, responsibility and effort that most exhibit.

B. The decline in the number of trained herd managers. Dairy managers and owners are having more difficulty in finding trained herd managers, and vacancies can be empty for months. A dairy can’t stop operating, so many managers have decided to fill

the gaps with current Hispanic employees who have a record of competence and high performance. Dedicated, skilled employees are valuable not just in the milking parlor but everywhere on a dairy.

Many dairy managers have learned that Hispanic employees aren’t an unskilled workforce but simply an untrained workforce. They have discovered that these employees are a valuable resource beyond their traditional role as milkers.

Source: Dairy Pipeline, NovemberDecember 2011

Page 17 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Agricultura

Section C - Page 18 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

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

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

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

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

can grow on its own and produce food by photosynthesis.

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

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

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

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

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

Comfort foods made fast and healthy!

by Healthy Exchanges

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

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

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

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

Add raisins and rice. Mix well to combine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Makes 32 sandwiches.

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

For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefin der/. (c) 2011 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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

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

Serve hot.

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

Last week’s Sudoku solution

This week’s Sodoku solution

Page 19 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Section C - Page 20 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

Cornell offers online marketing class for new farmers in the Northeast Pricing, marketing tactics online course for beginning farmers offered through Cornell this winter The Beginning Farmer Project at Cornell University is offering an online course series in marketing strategy for new and start-up farmers. The online course is designed to help farmers better understand how to price products, position yourself in the growing “buy local” marketplace, online and physical location sales, as well as guerrilla marketing tactics.

Webinars The bulk of the course happens on students’ own time, with discussions, readings, and assignments in a virtual classroom. There will be weekly webinars to allow farmers to learn from outside presenters, ask questions, and collaborate

with other participants and the instructors. Webinars will be from 7-8:30 p.m. EST on Wednesdays Jan. 4-Feb. 8. Webinars will be recorded.

Target Audience New farmers with 1-3 years of farm experience and serious aspiring new farmers who have already explored the basics of marketing and are ready for a more formal marketing strategy.

Course Objectives This course will help farmers: • Link your farm’s mission and vision to your commercial goals and marketing strategy • Understand the key elements of a solid marketing plan • Understand and use effective marketing strategies • Understand and use various pricing strategies with your products • Create a multitiered marketing strat-

This Family Friendly House Situated in a Beautiful Country Setting Rural Route Cooperstown, NY

Could Mak e Your Dr eams Come True...

More than a house, a wonderful way of life. 3.5 acres, Kitchen with built in Dishwasher, Stove, Refrigerator/Freezer, Ample Cupboards and Work Island. Dining Area - Living Room adjacent to Den, 3 Bedrooms with 3 Baths. Large, Glassed Sunroom, Outside Deck, Insulated Barn with concrete floor. Oil Hot Water Baseboard Heat.

You owe it to yourself to come and take a look.

Owner will carry mortgage for qualified buyer with down payment. Otsego Lake Privilege.

Contact Owner • 518-568-5115 or Hubbell’s Real Estate • 607-547-5740

egy incorporating traditional and guerrilla marketing tactics Qualifying for Loans Students who successfully complete the course are eligible for borrower training credits through the USDA New York State Farm Service Agency. Borrower training credits may help farmers improve eligibility for a low-interest beginning farmer loan though the USDA Farm Service Agency. For more information, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/ webapp?area=home&su

bject=fmlp&topic=bfl Instructors Laura Biasillo is an Ag Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County. Rebecca Schuelke Staehr is an agricultural consultant and owner-operator of Cayuga Pumpkin Barn in Cayuga, NY. Course Outline • Week 1: Navigating the online classroom, introductions and welcome to course Topic(s) Covered: Introduction to Marketing; Mission Statement, Goals & Overview of Market

Channels (retail, wholesale, etc...

• Week 2: Marketing Strategy - Where Do I Fit in this “Buy Local” market?

Topics Covered: Who are your customers?

How Do They Get Their Information? How Do You Access Them?

• Week 3: Expense Budgets - How Much Should I Charge (or How Much Does It Really Cost Me to Produce This Product?)

Topics Covered: Sales Tactics, Expenses (real & perceived), Promotions (incl. point of purchase), Pricing

• Week 4: Marketing Tactics Topic(s) Covered: LowCost, No-Cost, Cooperation and More • Week 5: Tying it all Together: Implementation of Marketing Tactics, Pricing and Local/Global Economy • Week 6: Overview of Marketing Plan Cost and Registration Course fee is $175.

Students are not eligible for college credit. To register, go online: http:// nebeginningfarmers.org /online-courses/register-for-upcoming-courses/.

ALBANY NY — New York Farm Bureau on Dec. 13 expressed its support for new guidelines promulgated by the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in regards to nutrient management.

NYFB had previously expressed concern with changes proposed in the initial draft policy released by NRCS earlier this year. (To read NYFB comments on Nutrient Management Practice

Standard Code 590 visit www.nyfb.org/img/document_files/T estimony%20NRCS%20Nutrient%20Management%20Practice%20St andard%20Code%20590 %20-%20022511.pdf) Draft language considered by NRCS under the title of “Nutrient Application Timing and Placement” abandoned scientific justification for environmentally responsible manure spreading, in an attempt to impose a one

size fits all system. The most alarming aspect of the draft guidelines was a section that essentially banned manure spreading and proper nutrient management in the winter months.

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

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

Because of differences in soils, climate, cropping systems and natural resource concerns individual states are best suited to determine which nutrient management options to utilize and to develop their own risk assessment standards. This philosophy

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

has long been at the heart of NRCS policy on manure spreading and phosphorus management. The decision by NRCS wisely preserves the spirit of this long standing policy.

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

REGULAR LIVESTOCK SALES DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY & NEW YEARS WEEKS

SALE EVERY WEDNESDAY @ 1 PM 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

D.R. CHAMBERS & SONS, INC. 76 Maple Ave. - Unadilla, NY 13849

607-369-8231 • Fax 607-369-2190

Special for Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 3pm From Chuck & April Middaugh from Ulster, PA

Young 32 head Dairy 28 Holsteins- 4 Jersey and Jersey Cross 16 of which are Registered Holsteins 8 Due in December and January—5 Due in April, May and June 6 are Fresh with one being a Nice Fresh Jersey first calf Heifer Balance in various stages of Lactation

Columbia Tractor 841 Rte. 9H Claverack, NY 12513 518-828-1781

Randall Implements Co. 2991 St. Hwy. 5S Fultonville, NY 12072 518-853-4500

Dragoon’s Farm Equipment 2507 Rte. 11 Mooers, NY 12958 518-236-7110

Salem Farm Supply 5109 Rte. 22 Salem, NY 12865 518-854-7424

White’s Farm Supply, Inc. Rte. 26 • Lowville, NY 315-376-0300 Rte. 12 • Waterville, NY 315-841-4181 Rte. 31 • Canastota, NY 315-697-2214

3.7 Butter Fat- 3.2 Protein- 104.000 Somatic Cell Averaging 49 lbs in the tank with DHI Records Tie Stall Cattle with daily turnout- Cattle are not being pushedThey have had Shipping Fever Shots and will be Vet Checked Young medium framed Cattle with good Udders and legs

DR Chambers and Sons, Inc. is expanding our Dairy Cattle Division If you are planning on selling your Dairy of Cows or having a complete dispersal Call Scott Chambers Home 607-369-7316 Cell 607-353-2728

or

Frank Walker Home 607-829-5172 Cell 607-434-0042

Celebrating 74 years in business Check out our Website for market report, sale dates and more. www.drchambersauction.com Join us on Facebook at Chambers Livestock-Auction

Page 21 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

Farm Bureau hails triumph of common sense in new Code 590 Guidelines

Section C - Page 22 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

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

“Report after report, from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s own Large Truck Crash Causation Study to the most recent annual report on truck and bus safety facts shows that fatigue is not a leading cause of crashes,” Graves said. “By putting an incredibly resource-intensive focus on this rule, FMCSA and these advocacy groups have foregone progress on areas ranging from speed to safety technologies to driver training that would have a much larger impact on highway safety.”

Drawing on the LTCCS and other federal data sources, three-quarters of all fatal and serious truck crashes involve at least one other vehicle, typically a passenger car.

In a majority of cases, accident investigations assign the critical reason for the crash to the passenger vehicle, but when it is assigned to the truck, nine times out of 10, the issues lie with the actions of the driver.

“Put most simply, these crashes are caused by unsafe behaviors by drivers like speeding, driving too fast for condi-

tions or distracted and inattentive driving, or unfortunate mistakes related to unfamiliarity with his or her surroundings or driving conditions,” Graves said.

“We have long advocated that FMCSA do more to address aggressive and unsafe driving and for the increased use of advanced safety technologies, but to date those pleas have been largely overlooked.”

ATA has promoted and sought support for return to a national maximum 65 mph speed limit for all vehicles, mandatory speed limiters on all large trucks, widespread implementation of proven enforcement and education programs like TACT (Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks), stronger, uniform CDL rules, incentives for vehicle collision warning systems and improved education for all drivers

through the Share the Road and America’s Road Team programs.

DOT’s preoccupation with determining the size and stickiness of the hours-of-service bandaid to address complex fatigue issues in order to cater to small, organized labor-backed and perhaps well-intentioned “safety” advocates, has done little to address the vast majority of cartruck crashes.

“The 2009 Truck and Bus Safety Facts report from FMCSA showed that fatigue was the cause of just 1.4 percent of crashes and the Large Truck Crash Causation Study said fatigue was associated with, but not the cause of, 13 percent of crashes,” Graves said.

“That means that between 87 percent and 98 percent of serious crashes will be unaffected by changing the hours rules.

“When looking at high-

2010 Ford F150 Supercab STX 4x4 (U1302F)

4.6 3V V8, auto, STX Decor & Plus pkgs., tow pkg., LS axle, Factory Repurchase 38,490 Mi.

SEASON’S SPECIAL $25,995!!!

Rt. 28 South, Cooperstown, NY 13326

607-547-9924

2008 Chevy Silverado K3500 LTZ 4x4 DRW (U1446)

Duramax Diesel, Allison trans., Navigation, Sunroof, Leather, 5th Wheel Prep Tonneau, BEAUTIFUL, 1 owner, ONLY 22K miles...

Orig MSRP $52,265

SEASON’S SPECIAL $38,995!!!

Rt. 28 South, Cooperstown, NY 13326

607-547-9924

WE SUPPORT YOU

Trucks way safety, regulators have an obligation to spend the public’s resources to implement programs and countermeasures that will do the most good, and it seems clear that the leadership at DOT and FMCSA are failing to address larger crash causes in order to placate special interests fixated on a relatively small part of the crash problem,” he said. “We hope that policy makers will do more to address the bulk of truck-involved crashes because the trucking industry, which has a vested interest in keeping our highways safe, and the motoring public deserve better.”

ALWAYS 4 TRUCKS ON THE ROAD FOR FARM, CONSTRUCTION SITE, AND ROAD SERVICE

BECKER’S BECKER’S TIRE SERVICE, SERVICE, IINC. NC. TIRE

Route 30 South

Box 33

Grand Gorge, NY 12434

607-588-7501 • 1-800-LGTIRES

The Tire Shop

Now Offering on the Farm Tire Service OPEN: Mon. - Sat. 8-5

Now Located at 155 Erie Blvd. Canajoharie, NY

Call Scott at

518-673-5399

Best Quality • Best Service • Best Price

Ág|á à{x fxtáÉÇ àÉ A A A

Get Special Deals on TRUCK$!!!

2008 Chevrolet Silverado K3500 LTZ 4x4 DRW (U1446) Duramax Diesel, Allison trans., Navigation, Sunroof, Leather, 5th Wheel Prep, Tonneau, BEAUTIFUL 1 owner ONLY 22 k miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Orig MSRP $52,265 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEASON’S SPECIAL $38,995 2008 Ford F150 SuperCab XLT 4x4 (U1392) 5.4 V8, auto, Tow & Go & Chrome pkgs, 1 local owner Sold New & Serviced here, 24 k miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SEASON’S SPECIAL $24,995 2009 Ford F150 SuperCrew XLT 4x4 (U1213) 5.4 V8, auto, Tow & Go, Brake Control, XLT Convience pkg, local 1 owner 29 k miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Was $29,995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .PRICE REDUCED, NOW $27,995 2010 Ford F150 SuperCab STX 4x4 (U1302F) 4.6 3V V8, auto, STX Decor & Plus pkgs, Tow pkg, LS axle, Factory Repurchase 38,490 miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .SEASON’S SPECIAL $25,995 2011 Ford F250 XL (U1303F) 6.7L Diesel, auto, LS axle, Full pwr & XL Value pkg w/ cruise, XL Decor, HD Service suspension & alternator, Upfit switches & Integrated Brake Controller, much more. PREVIOUSLY TITLED by Ford ONLY 21 ACTUAL MILES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Orig MSRP $40,815...Was $37,995

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PRICE REDUCED, NOW $35,995 2006 Ford F650 Flat Bed (U1345F) 210hp Cat C7 Acert, 7 spd manual, 26000 GVWR, 20’ Morgan wood deck, New Retail Was $66,800. With ONLY 13,640 Miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SEASON’S SPECIAL $38,495 2009 Ford F550 4x4 Dumping Flatbed (U1334F) 6.8L V10 gas, 6 spd manual, 14’ Omaha Standard flatbed, E/H Hoist, 40” expanded steel racks, ONLY 15,027 Miles, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Retail Was $49,150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEASON’S SPECIAL $34,995 1999 Ford F350 4x4 (U1314) 5.4 V8 gas, automatic, 8ft Flat bed with steel sides, 1 owner, local corporation 59 k miles, good work life left in this truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SALE $8,995

SUPER DUTY DISCOUNTS ON NEW TRUCKS TOO, LIKE THESE 2011 Ford F250 SuperCab 4x4’s XL, XLT models with New Ford 6.7L V8 Diesel IN STOCK! (stk# N10943) XL 600A with following options: 6.7L V8 diesel, 6 speed automatic, Cloth Bench, Seating for 6, Alum Wheels Plus 17” A/T tires, Power Equip Group, Cab Steps, Snow Plow Prep package, MORE

2008 F350 Crew Cab 4x4

2007 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4x4

8 Ft., Dually, Lariat, Diesel, Auto, 42,000 Miles, 6 New Tires, Moonroof, 1 Owner, Black, New Brakes

SLT, Hemi, Auto, 26,000 Miles, 6 Ft. Box, Bought Here New, Yellow, 20” Wheels

NO!! Diesel Exhaust Fluid Required!!

800 Lb Ft. Torque

MSRP as equipped Ford Customer Cash Rebate: Ford Credit Bonus Cash Rebate: Ford Promotional Bonus Rebate: Ford F-Super Duty Diesel Bonus Rebate: Ford Retail Trade-In Assistance Bonus Rebate: ADDITIONAL SMITH FORD DISCOUNT:

NOW STARTING @

$44,880 ($1,500) ($1,000)** ($1,000) ($1,000) ($1,000)*** ($2,700)

$36,680 —-> SAVE SAVE $8,200 ON THIS TRUCK after Ford rebates*

OR, GET $1,000 Ford Credit Bonus Cash Rebate** PLUS $1,000 Ford Trade-In Assistance Rebate PLUS 0.0% APR up to 60 Months with Ford Credit!!!

GET up to $4,000 in Ford Cash Rebates on select 2011 Ford F150 SuperCab & SuperCrew Pickups in STOCK, PLUS SMITH-FORD YEAR END DISCOUNTS!!!*

-In

e

Du 2007 Ford F150 X-Cab

2004 Ram 2500 Reg Cab

5.4 V8, Auto, Trailer Tow, XLT, 6 Ft. Box, 50,000 Miles, Black/Silver, Two Tone Paint

8 Ft. Box, 5.9 Cummins diesel, auto SLT, 4x4, 1 owner, 8ft Hiniker Plow 64k, bright red. Rare Find

Incl: $3,000 in Ford Cash Rebate Offers PLUS $1,000 Ford Trade-In Assistance Rebate OR, GET 0.0% APR up to 60 mos with FORD CREDIT PLUS $1,000 Ford Trade-In Assistance Rebate

2007 Dodge Ram 3500 Quad Cab DRW, 5.9 Cummins, auto, jake brake, gooseneck, 2 wheel drive, Laramie, leather, white, just turned 100k! Call Quick

Disclaimer: Advertised prices do not include sales tax, dealer documentation or DMV fees. Ford Cash rebate offers valid thru 01/03/2012, subject to change without notice to dealer or customer while vehicle supplies last. Ford Cash Rebate offers in lieu of special 0.0% APR offers with Ford Credit unless specified. *Assume ALL rebates assigned to dealer & include Ford Credit Bonus Cash offers. *Ford Credit Bonus requires Ford Credit financing for approved buyers. ***Ford Trade-in Assistance Rebate for Customers that currently own or lease a 1995 or newer Ford/LM/Competitive Car, Truck or SUV who Trade In or have an expiring Lease will receive Trade-In Assistance Bonus Customer Cash toward the purchase of an eligible vehicle. Residency Restrictions apply for ALL offers. For complete program details and deadlines, CONTACT SMITH-COOPERSTOWN, INC. (607) 547-9924 or fordsales@stny.rr.com. SEE OUR INVENTORY ONLINE, ALL THE TIME!!!

VIEW US ONLINE @ RoyalChrysler.com Rt. 28 South, Cooperstown, NY 13326

607-547-9924

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!!

CRACK THE VAULT AND WIN GREAT PRIZES

AT THE

VIRGINIA

FARM SHOW

JANUARY

19-20-21, 2012 Thurs. 9-4 • Fri. 9-4 • Sat. 9-3

AUGUSTA EXPOLAND • FISHERSVILLE, VIRGINIA

SPONSORS

Camping World of Roanoke 8198 Gander Way Roanoke, VA 24019 888-501-8405

888-853-7746 4445 Early Road Harrisonburg, VA 540-433-7881

Produced by the Trade Show Division of Lee Newspapers, Inc.; P.O. Box 121, 6113 State Hwy. 5; Palatine Bridge, NY 13428. Publishers of Country Folks, Country Folks GROWER and Farm Chronicle

Show Manager: Ken Maring 1-800-218-5586 or 518-673-0103 • Fax 518-673-3245

The Virginia Farm Show is proud to announce the “Crack the Vault” giveaway. Enter the right 5-digit combination that unlocks the prize vault and win. One chance per attendee. The winner must be 18 years of age. Sponsors, exhibitors, show management or their employees are prohibited from participating.

Page 23 - Section C • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS • December 19, 2011

DON’T MISS

Section C - Page 24 December 19, 2011 • Let Them Know You Read COUNTRY FOLKS •

PH (585) 243-1563 FAX (585) 243-3311 6502 Barber Hill Road, Geneseo, New York 14454 WWW.TEITSWORTH.COM

ROY TEITSWORTH INC. SUCCESSFUL AUCTIONS FOR 42 YEARS

Business Liquidation Auction Sicilia Construction Inc.

Thursday, January 5th • 10AM

3104 Zoeller Road, Alden, NY • Off Walden Ave. www.teitsworth.com Selling Equipment: Case 580 L, 4WD Backhoe w/ cab, Extendahoe NH 865 Skid Steer loader NH 185.B track Skid Steer w/bucket, forks JD 450G 6 way Dozer Komatsu P.C. 40MR Excavator w/rubber tracks JD 5105 Tractor w/front loader Ditch Witch walk behind trencher Multiquip Diesel Air Compressor Diesel 6500 Gen Set Gas 8000 Gen Set Power Georgia buggy Plate Tamper

Road saw Steel sidewalk and curb forms Black top tools Safety fence and cones Equipment trailers Shop Tools: Welders, Torches, Air compressor, Hand tools and more.

Selling Trucks: 1982 Mack R688 Tandem Dump, extra clean 1987 Freightliner Tandem Dump 1984 IH 1600 Crew Cab Dump 1992 Isuzu one ton service truck 2007 F350 Diesel stake body

Terms: Full payment on all items auction day by Good Check, Visa, or M.C. 12% Buyers Fee on items under $1,000., 4% on items over $1,000.

2% discount for Cash or Check Removal: Small Items removed the day of the auction, Large Items by January 11th Inspection: January 4th 10AM - 4PM

Roy Teitsworth Inc. Auctioneers Geneseo, NY Check our website www.teistworth.com for more information and photos or call our office at 585-243-1563.

Z&M Ag and Turf John Deere Dealer PUBLIC AUCTION of Farm Tractors, Machinery, Landscape Tools and Lawn Tractor-Mowers • Financee Termss Available

Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 @ 9:00 A.M.

Railroad Avenue, Alexander (Batavia), NY • Complimentary Breakfast 8-9 A.M LOCATION - 10 miles south of the NYS Thruway at Batavia, just off Rt. 98 and Rt. 20 on Railroad Avenue NOTICE - Z&M’s 7 locations will all send equipment to 1 large public auction. This is a great chance for farmers and homeowners to purchase quality equipment the auction way. If you want great finance terms, see the sales team at Z & M early or call (585) 591-1670.

SELLING TRACTORS JD 7520 MFWD cab JD 8760 JD 8430, 3pt hitch and PTO JD 7410 MFWD w/cab JD 7410 N MFWD w/cab JD 5525 JD 5325 N JD 5525 w/cab JD 6300 MFWD w/cab JD 5510 MFWD w/cab JD 6420 N MFWD w/cab JD 6200 JD 4520 JD 2440 JD 5310 MFWD w/cab JD 3020 JD 1010 w/cult JD A JD 1020 N JD 301 Backhoe-Loader Case MX270 MFWD w/cab Case MX210 MFWD W/cab Case 5140 MFWD w/cab Case 574 Case 1086

Case 1486 Case 485 Case 826 Farmall C w/Loader Case 886 NH TV 140 w/loader Ford 8830 w/cab MF 275 NH 4630 White 2135 Kabota M9000 MFWD w/cab and loader Kabota M8200 MFWD w/cab Kabota M8950 MFWD w/cab MF 2705 MFWD w/cab MF150 MF 65 w/loader SKID STEER LOADERS & EXCAVATOR JD 301.5 JD 317 JD 250 (2) JD 260 JD 240 NH LS170 Bobcat 553 Bobcat 301-5 Bobcat T190 Bobcat 632 COMPACT TRACTORS Cub Cadet 7265 4WD w/mower IH Cub JD 4120 4WD w/loader Cub Cadet 7264 4WD w/loader Case MX31 4WD JD 655 4WD w/ mower JD 4400 MF 135 JD 650 w/belly mower COMBINES, CHOPPERS, AND HEADS 2008 Claas 870 Forage Harvester w/

R4600 8R Rotary Corn head and PU380 Hay head, 2050 Head Hrs. Claas RU450 Rotary Corn head JD 9500 4WD Combine JD 7700 4WD Combine (2) JD 643 Corn head JD 630F Flex head JD 893 Corn head JD 920 Rigid head JD 222 Flex head JD 922 Flex head JD 7' hay head JD 30' Crary cws NI Uni System PLANTERS & DRILLS Kinze 2000 6R Narrow Liquid Planter Kinze 12 R Liquid Planter w/Rawson zone till JD 1760 12R Liquid Planter Great Plains 30' Foldup Soybean Special 2sht Semi no till MISC Knight 3030 Mixer wagon Haybuster Bale shreader Knight 5042 Mixer wagon HAY AND FORAGE TOOLS JD 3430 12' Windrower JD 1360 Mower conditioner JD 945 Mower conditioner NH 1432 Mower conditioner Case DCX 131 Mower conditioner Case 8430 Mower conditioner Vicon DMP 3001 Triple mower JD 582 Round baler JD 346 Baler (wire) NH 315 Baler Vicon 833T Rake NI 279 cut/ditioner

Bush Hog 287 Mower Bush Hog 307 Mower Pequea 710 Tedder TILLAGE TOOLS IH 5 Shank Ripper AMCO F15 Disc Brillion XL 144 32' Fold Packer JD 970 Roller Harrow Dunham 21' Disc Unverferth 22.0 30 double rolling baskets Brillion 5 shank land commander Brillion 14' cultipacker Case 700 7B Trailer plow 20-LAWN TRACTORS AND GATORS JD 6x4 Gator Toro 520 JD LX280

Keep checking our website at www.teitsworth.com for Catalog and pictures. You can also visit www.zahmandmatson.com

INSPECTION - Friday, January 6, 2011 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

TERMS - Full payment auction day, cash, check, MC/Visa. 2% buyer's fee waived for payment with cash or check.

NO BUYER’S FEE John Deere credit has very attractive terms, Call Z & M Ag and Turf for details. 585-591-1670 by Jan 5, 2012 for pre approval QUESTIONS - Z & M Ag and Turf, owners: (585) 591-1670 Some items may be added or deleted due to daily business. There will be no pre Auction sales after Jan 3, 2012

“WE SPECIALIZE IN LARGE AUCTIONS FOR DEALERS, FARMERS, MUNICIPALITIES AND CONTRACTORS”