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Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. ~ Proverbs 19:20-21

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Halifax hosts goat field day for southern Virginia, northern North Carolina SCOTTSBURG, VA — On Saturday, Sept. 15, the Southern Virginia Meat Goat Association (SVMGA) held a goat field day at the Halifax County Ag Marketing Center. Over 100 people participated in the free event, which included a presentation on how to show goats, educational seminars from the faculty of Virginia Tech and N.C. State, a herding dog demonstration, and a goat breeding stock sale. Goat meat chili was also available for sample. The day concluded with a producer panel, where established goat producers answered questions from attendees.

The SVMGA planned and hosted the event for those already involved in and those interested in goat production.

The idea was to have an educational day for the people of the region — southside Virginia and northcentral North Carolina — without them having to drive “to Virginia Tech or Virginia State,” as event coordinator Leslie Keck said.

David Tapp, who has raised goats

Melvin Burrell of Rice, VA, is building a drove of Kiko and Kiko-crosses. He attended the field day to learn from more experienced producers.

with his wife in Dinwiddie County (VA) for two decades, was particularly interested to see the goats on display at the stock sale.

Melvin Burrell, who lives outside Farmville, VA, and has just started to build a drove of Kiko and Kikocrosses, was at the event to network and learn from those with more experience raising goats.

Mary Beth Geesaman, of Cullen, VA, was on hand to sell eight-week old Great Pyrenees pups. She has been

Mark and Ann Atwell, left, of Powhatan, VA, bought two nannies from Burkeville resident Robbie Morris.

Photos by Karl Kazaks

raising the dogs since buying one for her own goats and sheep some five years ago.

Inside the classroom at the facility, attendance was impressive for the educational seminars.

This article will briefly present some of what was covered in the session on kid health management.

That session was led by Dr. Kevin Pelzer, from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech (where he has taught and served for 25 years).

Kid health management, said Dr. Pelzer, requires advance planning — and can begin “as early as the time of breeding.” Underperforming does may be good candidates for culling prior to breeding. Likewise does that have suffered from mastitis (they may not provide enough colostrum) may be selected out of the breeding string.

Doelings should be adequately sized before breeding. If they are undersized when bred, it can increase the risk of dystocia. Boer, Nubian, and Alpine doelings at seven months should be 70 pounds; La Mancha and Toggenberg 60 pounds.

When feeding during gestation, it is important to provide enough energy, but it is similarly important not to overfeed. To avoid overconditioning, feed little or no grain to does until the last six weeks of gestation.

Vaccination during that last trimester is also important. Dr. Pelzer recommended vaccinating dams with a CD and T vaccine in the last three or four weeks of gestation to ensure there will be antibody protection in the colostrum for the kid.

Some kid health problems can arise from improper housing. Before kidding, Dr. Pelzer advised, prepare a dry, well-bedded, and ventilated but draft-free area for kidding and

housing. Some infections in kids result from contact with feces, so keep feces to a minimum in the kidding area. What’s more, as does are the main source of feces, keep them in the kidding area for a minimal amount of time prior to and after kidding.

Consumption of colostrum is critical to the health and survival of newborn kids, Dr. Pelzer said. If you are going to collect and bank colostrum, do so within the first 12 hours after kidding — when the immunoglobulin concentration is at its highest. If you do bank colostrums, do so in a hygienic manner — clean the teats and use only clean collection containers. When thawing banked colostrum, use a warm water bath rather than a microwave.

Soon after birth, start a creep feed to encourage solid food intake. Weaning can occur once kids are 20 to 25 pounds and are eating a half-pound of creed feed per day.

As for vaccination, treat kids with a CD and T vaccine. If the doe was vaccinated, vaccinate the kid first at six weeks and then give a booster three or four weeks later. If the doe was not vaccinated, vaccinate the kid first one week after birth and then three or four weeks after that.

For more information about the SVGMA, see svmga.wordpress.com.

For more information about raising goats, contact your local extension agent.

Mary Whorton, who uses Border Collies and Kelpies to raise sheep with husband Richard in North Carolina, demonstrates how to use herding dogs.

AFBF presents case on Chesapeake Bay regulations WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorneys for the American Farm Bureau Federation delivered legal arguments Thursday explaining why the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Water Act when it issued its “Total Maximum Daily Load” regulation for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed.

AFBF believes that states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, not the federal government, are authorized by law to decide how best to achieve water quality goals.

“The Clean Water Act put states in the driver’s seat when it comes to decisions about how to achieve clean water and restrictions on land use and development,” according to Don Parrish, senior director of regulatory relations for AFBF. AFBF delivered the oral arguments and answered questions during a lengthy session before Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, PA. More than a dozen Pennsylvania farmers, as well as staff from several state Farm Bureau organizations within the watershed, attended the argument to show their support for the legal challenge.

“Judge Rambo clearly believes this case is important and involves complex legal questions,” said AFBF General Counsel Ellen Steen. “She had carefully studied the parties’ arguments and was active in her questioning. At the end of a very long day of arguments, she told the parties not to expect a quick decision.”

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Common diseases affecting sheep

by Sanne Kure-Jensen Biosecurity “The biggest threat to your sheep is another sheep. The second biggest threat is a person,” warned George Saperstein, DVM of the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The bacteria that cause sheep foot rot can live in soils, or on boots, for as long as 14 days.

Dr. Saperstein advised all farmers to provide a footbath and/or disposable booties for any farm visitors, especially farm and livestock dealers. Insist everyone participate. Vets should arrive with their own bucket and brush, and they should use it without being asked.

Your best biosecurity is to breed your own animals. Realistically, after about five years, chances are all your sheep will be too closely related and you will need at least a new ram for genetic diversity. Dr. Saperstein recommends a four to six week quarantine for all new animals. This will allow you to watch for any symptoms and arrange for a second set of tests (blood and parasites). Be sure your new animal is well, before adding it to your herd.

Diseases Healthy sheep are “B A R or Bright, Alert and Responsive,” said Herdsman, Scott Brundage of Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Risks of illness rise with poor diet, management or daily care.

Risk factors include genetics, reproductive problems, transportation stress and extreme weather. Watch for drool, skin discharges, lumps/bumps/bruises, behavioral changes or breeding problems.

Make sure your “sick sheep pen” is not a “dying sheep pen.” Clean out and sanitize every surface, and install new

bedding between patients. Quatricide is recommended as a sanitizer and zinc sulfate for footbath treatments for foot scald and foot rot.

Foot Scald is common in wet seasons. If untreated, or if sheep are genetically vulnerable, this disease can progress into foot rot. Sheep are skittish about walking through or standing in a footbath for the five minutes needed for effective treatment. Tom Colyer, sheep farmer at Greenwood Hill Farm in Hubbardston, MA, and President of the Massachusetts Federation of Sheep Association, shared his success with laying wool in a footbath next to a grain trough.

Soremouth looks like blisters on the lips or udder, and is a common sheep disease, often causing lambs to nurse less, decline or even die. Infected older sheep tend to eat less than usual.

Soremouth generally goes away by itself in about two weeks, but once a farm or sheep has soremouth, the virus may never go away. A vaccine is available and protects sheep for one to two years at a time. Exposure is most common at shows.

One other problem with soremouth is that the virus can be transferred to humans. Luckily, it does not transfer between people. Staff should cover all cuts if working around animals.

Regular hand washing is recommended for all farm staff.

CLA (Caseous lymphadenitis) can be diagnosed when lymph nodes at the neck and shoulder swell and become abscessed. It can be hard to detect CLA when sheep are covered in thick wool, but opened abscesses make a mess of wool during shearing. Be sure to ask about flock history of CLA when buying new animals. Be sure your shearer sanitizes equipment between farms, (ideally between animals) or use

George Saperstein, DVM of the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine strongly recommended the “SID Sheep Production Handbook” put out by the American Sheep Industry Association, Inc. Photos by Sanne Kure-Jensen

Tufts Herdsman, Scott Brundage, described common sheep diseases at Tuft’s Sheep School.

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Flystrike, or maggots can be a problem when sheep have long, wet wool. The moisture attracts flies that can spread secondary illnesses. Dr. Saperstein recommended, “Keep your animals clean and dry for better health.”

Pregnancy Toxemia happens when blood is low in glucose concentration and animals break down too much body fat to compensate. “Ketones” are a toxic by-product of fast fat breakdown. This disease is also called Ketosis, Pregnancy Disease, Twin Lamb Disease and Lambing Paralysis.

Use urine tests to detect Ketosis.

Overly large or fat sheep often develop toxemia late in their pregnancies (110 to 120 days). Small or thin sheep carrying twins or triplets can also develop Toxemia and lose one on more lambs preterm. Watch for unusual behavior or symptoms like weight loss, weakness, little or no appetite and isolation. Treatments may include feeding corn meal, which is high in energy, or supplements of 10 to 20 ml of propylene glycol several times a day.

Brundage recommends daily checks on each animal, noting of any changes and offered helpful mnemonics. For daily checks: “A D R” - Ain’t Doing’ Right. At purchase time, use: “F A M E” - Free (of physical defects), Alert, Mobile and Eating. Sick sheep can be difficult to recognize because survival instincts have evolved in these prey animals that prevents them from showing weakness until the disease has progressed.

Blue Bag or Mastitis is an udder infection of the mammary glands causing swelling and soreness. Farmers will find the udder hot, hard and swollen. Brundage recommends gently warming the medicine, especially in winter, to avoid injecting a cold treatment into a hot udder. On selecting a

treatment, Saperstein advised, “If the udder is sick, treat the udder; if a sheep is sick, treat the whole sheep.”

Haemonchus contortus or barberpole worm is a common internal parasite in the northeast. This bloodsucker weakens sheep and sets up secondary infections that can kill. Other parasites can include ticks, lice and sheep keds and mites that can affect wool quality because infested animals scratch against fences and trees, decreasing fleece quality and value. After identification of the exact pest, treatments should be carefully timed to that pest’s life cycle. Most treatments interrupt the molting cycle between the second and third instar stages. Use the FAMACHA chart to help determine worming needs. To minimize the risk of treatment-resistant parasites, only deworm sheep in need of treatment using feces testing.

Vaccinations If castrating rams, be sure to give one tetanus antitoxin at that time. As a public safety, keep show animals current with rabies shots. There is a soremouth inoculation available as a swab of mild, live virus delivered at a deliberate skin abrasion site.

All sheep should get CD-T toxoid vaccines annually, after two shots the first year, to protect against Tetanus and enterotoxemia type C. infected lambs under one month will have bloody infections in their small intestines. Older lambs are vulnerable to Enterotoxemia type D. This affects large, fast-growing lambs when a sudden change in their feed causes gut bacteria to multiply to toxic, often fatal, levels.

Vaccinating pregnant ewes four weeks before lambing gives lambs passive protection as long as they get colostrum. First time moms should get two shots: one at eight weeks and one at four weeks before lambing.

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Legislative update on issues that affect cattlemen

by Sally Colby Colin Woodall, vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, shared some good news with beef producers who attended a recent Pennsylvania Cattlemans’ Association Field Day in Gettysburg, PA. “We’ve had a lot of victories,” he said, “and we’ve had them in a time when the overall environment in D.C. has been tough. One of the big issues we talked about last summer was the proposed GIPSA rule on livestock marketing. This is where the government would come in and tell you how you could market your cattle; basically take away the opportunity to market them yourselves. We turned on the grassroots pressure and made sure that USDA understood that we wanted producers to be able to do what they wanted to do in marketing.

As a result of a two-year fight, I’m pleased to report that we killed that rule — we shut it down — and made sure that we protected one of your fundamental rights: to enter into a business contract the way you want to, without the government telling you

what is right, what is fair and what is unfair.”

Woodall also discussed the proposal that would have required everyone who operates a tractor or any kind of farm equipment to have a CDL, which he referred to as another example of a proposed rule with no defined benefit.

“We joined hands will all industry groups to push back on DOT,” he said, “and within two months shut that proposal down.”

Another important legislative victory is the Department of Labor proposal regarding children under the age of 16 not being allowed to work on a farm/ranch unless that farm/ranch was 100 percent solely owned and operated by his or her parents.

“If your farm or ranch was set up as something other than a sole proprietorship, you couldn’t work there either,” said Woodall. “That was a major slap in the face to us as an industry, because one of the things we pride ourselves in is the opportunity to let the next generation grow up working on these farms and ranches, to understand the benefit of a good days work, and build that

Cover photo by Karl Kazaks Robbie Morris carries one of the two dozen or so nannies he brought to the stock sale to deliver to a customer.

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Woodall discussed EPA’s attempt to regulate naturally occurring dust and treating it as a pollutant. “Dust happens in agriculture,” said Woodall.

“We were able to use that to illustrate that it was a ridiculous rule that would show no benefit but would have a tremendous cost to producers.” To ensure that there would be no further problems, the NCBA worked to pass language in the house and senate to prevent EPA from pursuing this issue in the future.

Regarding the fate of the 2012 Farm Bill, Woodall predicted there’d be a short-term extension of the existing 2008 bill. “The real focus will be the lame duck session,” he said, “which will probably start the week after Election Day and go until Christmas Eve. They’re going to have to make a final decision on the Farm Bill and on federal funding, and the number one issue for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association for 2012 is to find some relief from the death tax. If we don’t get something done by Dec. 31 of this year, then on Jan. 1, the death tax exemption amount goes down to one million dollars per person.

Anything over that one million dollars in your estate will be taxed at 55 percent.” Woodall mentioned that farm and ranchland values continue to rise, and the exemption down to one million would mean that operations with fewer assets would likely lose that one million dollars. “The secretary of agriculture has said the number one hurdle to passing multigenerational farms to the next generation is the death tax. That’s an interesting statement because his boss, the president, doesn’t see it that way.

So we have a situation where the president and his secretary of agriculture have completely different view on the death tax.”

Woodall says the NCBA would like to see the death tax repealed — completely taken off the books. “We don’t want to see farm and ranchland sold off to pay tax liabilities because that land isn’t always sold to another farmer or rancher,” he said.

Another issue NCBA is dealing with is ongoing concerns with animal rights. Woodall mentioned the partnership between HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) and UEP (United Egg Producers). “They did that to try to settle on the size of laying cages,” said Woodall. “HSUS has long said that laying cages are inhumane, and UEP has spent years pushing back against that.” The two

Colin Woodall, vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, discusses victories and current issues with cattle producers.

Photo by Sally Colby

groups eventually agreed on a cage size, shape and design that both support. “But it was the choice they made on how to implement it that brought in the rest of us in livestock,” said Woodall. “Instead of using the marketplace to push and drive adoption of these laying cages, they decided that the easiest way is get Congress to pass a law that mandated the use of these cages.”

Woodall says ag producers already have a long list of rules and regulations to deal with, but that Congress has never told producers how to produce a calf or lay an egg. “This will completely change the game for all of us,” he said. “Once you do it for one commodity, you give the animal rights activists — HSUS — a toehold to do that to the rest of us. Who’s next?”

Woodall noted that the pork industry is currently going through a struggle with gestation crates, and that public opinion is driving decisions for major retailers and restaurants.

“That could happen to us if we don’t stop it,” said Woodall. “We were very successful in keeping this from being an amendment on the Senate Farm Bill, and so far, we’ve kept this from being an amendment on the House Farm Bill. We’ve got to maintain that position. We are not going to sit back and allow Congress to mandate a production practice that they can someday come back and use against those of us in the cattle industry.”

FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE

by Julie Murphree Not long ago, Bob McClendon, an organic produce grower in Arizona, had a clear and concise answer when asked how Arizona Farm Bureau could help small and local farmers and ranchers succeed.

His reply: Help directmarket farmers and ranchers market their products.

Not only did McClendon’s request ring loud and clear at the time,

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but it also had staying power. By digging into how best to honor his request, Arizona Farm Bureau discovered an opportunity to approach its bottom-line support of farmers and ranchers with a different method.

The end result is a new guidebook, A Farmer’s Guide to Marketing the Direct-Market Farm.

The book is the result of three years’ worth of interviews with directmarket, or “retail” farm-

ers about their marketing strategies and needs.

One common thread is that farmers have often asked for simple, quick and inexpensive strategies for marketing their agriculture products to the public.

In other instances, innovative farm families have come up with simple and straightforward methods of connecting with their customers and selling their products.

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ry became the foundation of the 68-page guidebook. It’s loaded with questions for farm families to answer as they develop their marketing strategy and specific examples that other farm families in the retail agriculture market can relate to in a competitive market.

Uncovering “traditional” farm and ranch families slowly dipping their toes into this new market was one of the most fascinating aspects to emerge from this quest to help direct-market agriculture. One of the book’s most interesting stories highlights the saga of a traditional farm family as they begin direct-marketing.

As the book went to press, more and more farm families with a traditional farm and ranch enterprise began to emerge as interested direct marketers. It’s clear that they identified with the goal of helping farm families of all types ben-

efit from doing business directly with their end customers.

One resounding experience common to all the farmers interviewed for the book — regardless of size and type — was how they grew to believe their farm story was their marketing message.

They also realized that before re-evaluating a direct market connection, they were not inclined to tell their stories.

As a result, many of the marketing strategies in the guidebook are built around the story that must be told.

The last chapter is devoted to storytelling and easy tips for telling the farm story. When farmers are able to tell their stories in an engaging way, they are better able to connect with their customers — the quintessential “public.” In this way, they earn trust from their customers and relationships develop.

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PA Sheep and Wool Growers Annual Shepherd's Symposium Whether you currently own sheep or goats, or are considering starting a small ruminant flock or herd, you should plan to attend the PA Shepherd's Symposium and Beginning Shepherd's Workshop Oct. 20 - 21.

The symposium will be held at the Samuel E. Hayes, Jr. PA Livestock Evaluation Center, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA. The symposium will focus on how environmental conditions and management decisions affect the productivity of your flock. Featured speaker David Pugh, DVM of Southern Traxx Veterinary Service in Waverly, AL will entertain and educate producers with down to earth approaches as he discusses small ruminant nutrition, health, parasites and much more!

This symposium will offer an opportunity to get sheep and goat management questions answered by a qualified small ruminant veterinarian. Dr. Pugh is the Editor and major contributor to the text book Sheep and Goat Medicine, a coeditor of the NRC for Sheep, Goats, Cervids, and New World Camelids), a contributing author for the Merck Veterinary Manual, and was the Director of

the Auburn University Camelid Research and Teaching Program from 1991-2004. He has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia and Auburn University, and has been a consulting veterinarian for Fort Dodge Animal Health.

There will be a lamb luncheon, showcasing the contestants for the 2013 PA Lamb & Wool Queen contest! Throughout the day, there will be a silent auction going on to benefit the PA Sheep & Wool Growers Association. The evening will feature a reception and door prizes, concluding with the PA Sheep & Wool Growers Annual meeting.

The Beginning Shepherd's Workshop will be held on Sunday morning, Oct. 21 at the Livestock Evaluation Center. The goal of the workshop is to provide hands-on management information for both first-time and experienced shepherds. This year's focus will be developing a manure management plan for your farm.

Plan to attend this motivating and educational symposium and workshop with fellow sheep enthusiasts. Pre-registration fees for the symposium are

$35/adult and $15/child, and $30/adult and $10/child for the workshop. For more information, and to pre-

register, please contact Joanne Evans at 717-485-0532 or by email: genetic@innernet.net

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ANNAPOLIS, MD — The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced that the Final Notice to Adopt its revised nutrient management regulations is published in the Oct. 5, issue of the Maryland Register. The regulations will take effect Oct. 15. They are designed to achieve consistency in the way all sources of nutrients are managed and help

Maryland meet nitrogen and phosphorus reduction goals spelled out in its Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. The final regulations include one technical, non-substantive change in the provision that refers to nutrient application setbacks and the department’s consideration of new practices developed by the USDA’s

National Resources Conservation Service and the University of Maryland.

MDA revised the provision to add “and other land grant universities.”

To read the Final Notice to Adopt, visit the Maryland Register. A Frequently Asked Questions document is available online at www.mda.maryland.gov /pdf/nmfaq.pdf.

The Nutrient Management Advisory Commit-

tee has been working on the revised regulations for nearly two years. The new rules were originally introduced last October; however, due to overwhelming feedback, Governor Martin O’Malley asked that the proposed regulations be placed on hold to provide an additional opportunity for stakeholders to further discuss the proposal as well as

input from his BayStat Scientific Panel. The regulations were revised and published in the Maryland Register on June 29. MDA then held a series of four public meetings across the state in July to provide information to farmers, environmental interests, local governments and other stakeholders on the proposed changes to Maryland’s Nutrient Management Regulations and offer an opportunity for public comment.

Established in 1998 to develop and refine regulations and requirements for Maryland’s

Nutrient Management Program, the 16-member Nutrient Management Advisory Committee includes representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, MDA, University of Maryland, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Farm Bureau, Delaware-Maryland Agribusiness Association, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, commercial lawn care companies, the biosolids industry, as well as local governments and the state legislature.

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by Martha Goodsell and tatiana Stanton Before you put any claim about either the nutrition of your product or the management of the animal that produced it on the label of your meat or dairy product, it is important to understand the status of that particular claim. Nutrient claims about a product such as “lean” or “low-fat”, must be verified at the producer’s expense, and the producer must have documentation that the product meets the requirements for the definition. Producers who wish to make the official USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) claims of “Naturally Raised” or “Grass Fed” must

have approval from the Labeling and Review Branch of the USDA to make these animal production claims. Independent auditors certify specific claims including “Humanely Raised” or “Certified Organic”. The provisions of the certifying agency must be complied with to meet these claims. There are no provisions to claim “Antibiotic Free” or “Hormone Free”; while “Chemical Free” is expressly prohibited.

The term “certified” implies that the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the AMS have officially evaluated a meat product for class, grade, or other quality characteristics

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(e.g., “Certified Angus Beef”). When used under other circumstances, the term must be closely associated with the name of the organization responsible for the “certification” process, e.g., “XYZ Company’s Certified Beef”.

Antibiotic Free is not an approvable USDA claim. “No antibiotics administered” or “raised without antibiotics” is permitted. This claim implies that the animal has not had any antibiotics administered within the course of its lifetime. There is no verification system in place currently. No meat sold in the U.S. is allowed to have antibiotic residues, so therefore it is all “antibiotic-free”. Because the USDA regulates language only on food labels, many companies get away with using unapproved terms in advertising and on their Web sites. Sufficient documentation must be provided by the producer to the Agency demonstrating that the animals were raised without antibiotics.

Chemical-Free is expressly prohibited by the USDA as a label on ANY meat or dairy product. “No Chemicals Added” is not an official marketing claim, as it lacks a standardized definition and a certifying agency. This term creates confusion in the marketplace, as antibiotics are not considered chemicals.

Hormone-Free is not an official marketing claim. All animal products contain naturally occurring hormones.

The USDA has defined the use of the term and can hold manufacturers accountable for using the “hormone-free” on all meat and dairy products. Do not

use this term. “No hormones administered” is the proper way to make this claim, and then only on products from animal species such as beef where administration of some hormones is permitted. While there is no certifying agency for this claim, a producer using it can be held accountable to the USDA for improper use.

There is a growing market in the U.S. for the consumption of farm fresh product. Some consumers request organic meats while others ask for grass fed meat. Here are some legal descriptions of these marketing claims.

Organically certified meat and dairy products are from livestock that have been raised in compliance with the National Organic Program’s standards.

Their production must be certified by an accredited state or private certifying agency. Strict guidelines must be met.

For example, in the case of meat, the use of dewormers and antibiotics is forbidden not only for the market kid or lamb itself but also for its dam during the last third of pregnancy (gestation) and lactation. Sick animals must be treated with antibiotics or dewormers if necessary but can no longer be marketed as organic. All feed and bedding must usually be obtained from certified organic sources.

Grass fed became an official marketing claim in October 2007. Raising livestock on a forage diet with little or no grain supplementation may in-

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Thoughts from an Old Goat Herd Reprinted with permission from the Empire State Meat Goat Producers Association Newsletter. You should always contact your vet for veterinary advice.

It was pretty late the other day as I was finishing up my afternoon chores.

Floating in the final water tub were three of those little “pellets” that goats seem to drop in the worse places. I almost scooped them out and said “good enough,” but I didn’t. I dumped the water and refilled the tub. A waste of time and water? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Those three pellets could easily spread internal parasites to every goat who

drank the water.

On the way back to the house I got to thinking about goat nutrition. I remembered when I was a little kid and asked my grandfather why we always dumped the ashes from the wood stove in the sheep yard and why we cut evergreen boughs late in the winter and fed them to the sheep? If memory serves me right, he said, “because there’s stuff in these things that keep ‘em healthy.”

Back then that was a good enough answer for a seven-year-old. Today, we need better answers to goat nutrition.

Let’s start with something simple,

water! Goats need continuous access to clean, clear water. Have you ever noticed that sometimes they don’t seem to drink hardly any. Then, if you replace the water with new, clean water they drink a lot. That is because, unless they are very thirsty, goats don’t drink dirty water. And, if they aren’t drinking, they aren’t producing efficiently. Further, bucks without water become more susceptible to urinary calculi. This is especially true in winter when water is often frozen. Also, contaminated water is a spreader of internal parasites which further reduces

production of meat and milk.

Minerals! Another thing we often neglect is the mineral requirements for our goats. For example, they need access to salt on a continuous basis, and more copper than sheep. In fact the amount of copper required for goats can kill sheep. So, the “sheep and goat” mineral you may find locally can’t adequately meet your goat’s mineral requirements. If it contained enough copper for the goats it could kill the sheep. We need to use minerals

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Nutritional from 9 crease the amount of beneficial fatty acids (Omega 3 and CLAs) in their meat. Thus, AMS requires that grass and forage be the sole feed source for the lifetime of the “Grass fed” animal with the exception of milk consumed prior to weaning. However, routine minerals and vitamins may be added to the diet. The animals must have continuous access to pasture during the grazing season.

Natural is a food label that does not refer to how the animal was raised but rather to how it was processed. Natural products can contain no artificial ingredients, coloring agents or chemical preservatives and must be minimally processed. Meat can be ground, smoked, roasted, dried, or frozen as long as these procedures do not fundamentally change the raw product.

The Naturally Raised

label claim became official in January 2009. It requires that animals be raised entirely without growth promotants or antibiotics, except for the two ionophores, Rumensin (monensin) and Bovatec (lasalocid) which may be used for coccidia control. The animals cannot be fed animal byproducts such as meat, fat, manure, poultry litter, fishmeal or fish oil.

Meat that is certified as Humanely Raised and Handled is from farms that have enrolled in a private certification program such as that of the Humane Farm Animal Care (www.certifiedhumane.com ), a consumer certification and labeling program based on standards established by a scientific animal welfare committee.

Private certification programs will often require that you sign an affidavit indicating that your livestock have been

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raised in agreement with their management standards. They may need to inspect your farm periodically.

Pasture Raised, Sustainably Raised, and Locally Grown are not official claim terms and may have different interpretations for different people. For example,

farmers’ markets handling only “local” product may require that the product be raised within 30 miles while supermarkets may consider product to be local if it can be transported to the store within a set number of hours.

Kosher and Halal Meats – Although there

are national certification programs for Kosher and Halal processed foods, there is no national mandatory labeling and certification for Halal or Kosher meats. For the most part, it is a farmer’s responsibility to insure that their meat meets their customers’ definitions of Halal or Kosher.

Some states such as New York do have laws pertaining to Halal and Kosher certification records. For more information on NYS regulations go to www.agriculture.ny.gov/KO/KOHome.html or www.agriculture.ny.gov/Halalsite/halals.html .

cheese price averaged $1.8647 per pound, up 9.7 cents from August.

Butter averaged $1.8269, up 14.1 cents. Nonfat dry milk averaged $1.3768, up 12.3 cents, and dry whey averaged 58.46 cents, up 4.9 cents.

California’s comparable 4b cheese milk price is $17.50 per cwt., up 93 cents from August and $1.17 above a year ago.

Its 2012 average now stands at $14.69, down from $16.48 a year ago and $13.00 in 2010.

The 4a butter-powder price is $16.62, up $1.22 from August and $2.67 below a year ago. Its average now stands at $14.88, down from $19.24 a year ago and $14.45 in 2010.

Looking at what’s driving milk prices; CME cash cheese saw a fifth week of gain the week of October 1, with the blocks closing at $2.10 per pound, up another 2 1/2-cents on the week, 33 1/2-cents above a year ago, but 18 1/2cents shy of the record

percent from the previous event, according to FC Stone’s eDairy Insider Closing Bell. Whole milk powder (WMP) and buttermilk powder (BMP) were the exceptions but all global prices are well below U.S. prices. The average price for anhydrous milk fat (AMF) of $1.3526 per pound was down 6.4 percent (adjusted for 80 percent fat the price was $1.0843); the cheddar cheese price fell 7.4 percent to $1.4969 per pound. BMP at $1.4261 per pound rose 4 percent; but WMP at $1.4365, climbed 2.8 percent.

The CME cash butter price had a meltdown the first Friday of October, dropping 9 1/4cents to $1.86, down 9 cents on the week but 9 cents above a year ago.

Fourteen cars were sold on the week, 13 on Friday. The AMs butter price averaged $1.8791, up 3.6 cents.

Churning schedules across the country are increasing as butter producers take advantage of available cream supplies and are generating butter for fourth quarter, according to DMN. Producers indicate it will not be long before cream is absorbed into Class II cream based holiday items and limit cream for churning.

Cash Grade A and Extra Grade nonfat dry milk held at $1.66 and $1.6350 respectively on the week. AMS powder averaged $1.4395, up 4 1/2-cents, and dry whey averaged 60.61 cents, up 1.3 cents.

Where’s the milk going? The latest Dairy Products report showed August butter production at 129 million pounds, down 3.1 percent from July and 3.5 percent below August 2011. Nonfat dry milk output, at 106 million pounds, was down a whopping 30 percent from July and 7.8 percent below a year ago.

American type cheese, at 354 million pounds, was down 0.7 percent from July but 4.5 percent above a year ago.

The increasingly growing importance of Italian type cheese, at 370 million pounds, was up a half-percent from July and 1.9 percent above a year ago. Total cheese output amounted to 884 million pounds, up a half-percent from July and 2.6 percent above a year ago.

Meanwhile; dairy product commercial disappearance in the first seven months of 2012 totaled 117.1 billion pounds, up 2.6 percent

from 2011. Butter was up 4.2 percent; American cheese, up 1.1 percent; other cheese, up 2.2 percent; Nonfat dry milk, up 42.7 percent; but fluid milk products were down 2.1 percent.

Milk production across the country varies from declines in the northern tier of states to slight increases in southern regions, according to USDA and milk production in the Oceania region continues to seasonally build.

Most milk producers and handlers project milk output in Australia to be in the 1-2 percent growth range over recent years. New Zealand projections are for a 3-4 percent increase from the last two years.

Checking the bottom line; the Daily Dairy Report’s (DDR) Sara Dorland pointed out in the September 28 Daily Dairy Discussion on the DDR website that higher U.S. milk prices haven’t been realized yet in farm milk checks while higher feed prices arrived almost immediately, thus culling rates remain high. She warned that we’ll likely see a continued reduction in the milking herd which could

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Agritourism Web guide adds four new walk-throughs Just in time for the fall agritourism season, four new walk-throughs have been added to the new interactive Web guide, www.safeagritourism.com.

Farmers can now select virtual walkthroughs that include corn maze safety, hay-ride safety, machine safety, and walk-ways, surfaces and structures. The walk-throughs identify health and safety hazards and provide

resources to fix the hazards.

The walk-throughs and remedies are based on “Agritourism Health and Safety Guidelines for Children,” available at www.marshfieldclinic.org/agritourism. The guidelines originally were published in 2007 by the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, part of the National Farm Medicine Center at

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI. Features of the interactive guide include: • Walk-throughs that use photos to contrast improper practices with best practices and guidelines. Review questions and resource information accompany the photos.

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calculi increase significantly. In summer, when the goats are high quality grass/browse which is high in calcium, this is seldom a problem. But with winter fast approaching, that lush grass/browse is about to disappear, so we feed hay.

Forage! Have you ever looked at some of the hay fed to cows? It would gag a goat. Goats can’t digest stemmy, leafless, or moldy hay like cows can.

Several things happen when you feed poor quality hay. First, waste increases dramatically since goats won’t eat the stemmy stuff. Second, goats don’t get enough nutrients to prosper and third, they are much more likely to get listeriosis if the hay is moldy. This is the same reason most of us don’t feed balage/silage. The chances of listeriosis are just too high. So, we feed the leafiest, greenest, freshest hay we can afford. It is the cheapest source of en-

ergy in the winter.

Vitamins you say! Vitamins A and D seem to be the ones that are most problematic. Goats can store Vitamin A in their bodies and get what they need from fresh, green, leafy forage — another reason to feed good quality hay. If you feed old, weather-beaten hay your mineral mix should have Vitamin A in it. Sunlight is necessary to produce sufficient Vitamin D. With winter approaching this can be a problem if goats are confined indoors. If your goats don’t get out in the sun your mineral mix should contain Vitamin D. Adequate protein is necessary for maintenance, growth, meat, milk and disease resistance. Since protein is not stored in the body goats need adequate protein daily. Temperatures, exercise, stage of lactation, age and other factors affect protein requirements. I don’t know about you but I can’t al-

ways segregate my herd based on these factors. So, I roll the dice when I feed concentrates which normally contain about 16 percent protein.

Wow! Sound like we need a Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition to raise healthy goats. Not really! We need to ensure they have a continuous supply of clean, clear water; adequate salt and minerals on a continuous basis; make maximum use of the lush grass and browse we have in the northeast; in winter feed the greenest, most leafy hay you can afford; and feed concentrates when necessary. Note, too fat is as bad as too thin. Do these things because “there’s stuff ‘em in that keeps the goats healthy.”

For additional information visit: www.cals.ncsu.edu/ansci/extension/animal/meatgoat/MGNutr.html www.goatworld.com/articles/nutrition/feedingprograms.shtml

Thoughts from 10 formulated specifically for goats. By the way, I have found that block salt wears down the goat’s teeth at a rapid rate so I use loose salt in a rain free container. No teeth — no digestion. Another important mineral is selenium and soils all across the northeast are deficient in selenium. Several years ago I lost a number of beautiful does just prior to kidding. The culprit was selenium deficiency, and my feed already contained some selenium. Whatever the source, trace minerals, or concentrate, goats need adequate selenium. The amount of this mineral is controlled by law. To increase it beyond this amount you need veterinary intervention. How about calcium and phosphorous? The experts tell us goats need these minerals in a ratio of 2:1 calcium to phosphorous. If this balance is upset, production and health decline and the probability of urinary

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September Federal Order Milk Price Jumps $1.27 Issued Oct. 5, 2012 Farm gate milk prices continue to rise. The Agriculture Department announced the September Federal order Class III price at $19.00 per hundredweight (cwt.), up $1.27 from August, 7 cents below September 2011, $1.50 above California’s comparable 4b cheese milk price, and equates to about $1.63 per gallon. The September Class IV price is $17.41, up $1.65 from August but $2.12 below a year ago.

The 2012 Class III average now stands at $16.54, down from $18.28 at this time a year ago and compares to $14.07 in 2010 and a painful $10.49 in 2009.

Looking ahead, the October Class III Futures contract was trading late Friday morning at $21.03; November at $21.13, and December at $20.45.

The AMS-surveyed

$2.2850 on May 23, 2008. The barrels closed at $2.06, also up 2 1/2cents on the week and 27 1/2-cents above a year ago when they rolled 14 1/2-cents lower. Seventeen carloads of block traded hands this week and two of barrel.

The AMS-surveyed block price averaged $1.8907, across the U.S., up 4.2 cents, and the barrels averaged $1.9051, up 7.7 cents on the week.

Cheese production is mostly steady with recent weeks as manufacturers look to secure more milk for cheese vats, according to USDA’s Dairy Market News (DMN). Demand for mozzarella is good as new pizza promotions are surfacing. Export sales are slower with the recent price increases, but the CWT program continues to aggressively promote sales with their assistance.

Ten CWT requests for export assistance were accepted this week to sell 4.25 million pounds of cheese and 200,621 pounds of butter to customers in Asia, Central America, the Middle East and North Africa.

Tuesday’s Global Dairy Trade auction saw the weighted average price for all contracts fall 0.9

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Working dogs - and working dogs at Possum Hollow Farms

by Sally Colby A good working dog is a valuable asset for anyone who raises sheep and goats. Border Collies and other herding breeds can be used to round up animals for handling, sorting and other routine chores, and livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) remain with the flock or herd and

have become frustrated because their dog won’t obey should understand that LGDs have been bred for thousands of years to work independently. With LGDs, it’s a matter of guiding these dogs’ instinct to protect the species with which they’ve bonded. Some people who raise sheep or goats would like to

guardian dog is on the premises for a while, whether that dog was purchased or born there, they learn that the Border Collies are allowed to be in with the sheep.

“When we’re out there working with a herding dog, the guardian dog’s job is to stay out of the way,” she explained. “If a guardian pup wants to

The Anatolian stays with the flock as the Border Collie moves the group.

Photos by Sally Colby

A well-trained Border Collie like this one can move sheep effectively without upsetting them.

protect prey animals such as sheep, goats and cattle from predators.

But when it comes to traits and instincts, the two types of dogs — herding and guardian — are about as opposite as they could be.

A herding dog, such as a Border Collie, uses eye contact and works under the control of a handler to control livestock movement in much the same way a predator would.

Livestock guardian dogs bond with the flock or herd, avoid eye contact with livestock and can move through the flock quietly without disturbing the animals. Those who have tried guardian dogs as flock protectors and

use both guardian dogs and herding dogs, but aren’t sure if the two can work together.

Vickie Hughes, of Rutherfordton, NC, says dogs herding and guardian dogs can work together. She and her husband Joe rely on Anatolians, a Turkish breed, to guard their flock of Katahdin sheep and Border Collies to move the flock.

“Our Anatolians know whether a dog is supposed to be there or not,” said Vickie as she explained how a herding dog can be used while a guardian is on duty.

“They realize that the (herding) dogs aren’t trying to kill the livestock.”

Vickie says once a

play, that’s when it’s time to make it very clear that they are to leave the herding dog alone. Some of our Anatolians will allow themselves to be herded right along with the livestock. But if a

coyote shows up, it’s a different story.”

Predator pressure at Possum Hollow Farms is fairly severe, and includes coyotes, large bobcats, occasional black bears and stray dogs; all of which require serious dog power. The Hugheses say they’ve had several people come to purchase guardian dog pups after having tried donkeys or llamas.

Vickie says she can un-

derstand the appeal — a donkey or a llama is less work than a dog. But she

tells the story of a neighbor who had two donkeys

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The Angus breed shines above the rest at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition on Sunday, Oct. 7 at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex and Exposition Center in Harrisburg.

The Junior Champion Angus and Champion Angus Heifer was Buchanan’s Erica N214 was exhibited

by Laine Jurgilewicz, Sunset Ridge Farm of Norfolk, Conn.

Champion Red Angus was MBC Shirley Temple CM76 exhibited by Christopher P. Montross, Montross Beef Cattle of Weedsport, NY. The Supreme Champion heifer received a $500 check sponsored by Pfizer, manufacturer of Bovi-Shield Gold.

The Reserve Champion heifer received a $250 check from Pfizer.

The selection of the Supreme Champion was completed by Jeff Kiefer, Cliff Orley, and J.P. Hausner. Judges for the Junior Show included Cassie Johnson, Gene Steiner, and Blaine Brown.

available at time of posting Reserve Crossbred Heifer — Not available at time of posting Champion Hereford Heifer — SHF Miss Timeless 108, Melissa Grimmel, Grimmel Girls Show Cattle, Jarrettsville, MD Reserve Champion Hereford Heifer — Purple DSF Firefly 125Y, Kyle Lemmon, Manchester, MD Champion Limousin Heifer — Auto Bette 2664, Adam Griffith, Thomas and Sons Farms, Boonsboro, MD Reserve Champion Limousin Heifer — EXLR Rebeca11604, Lonnie Thomas, Thomas and Sons Farms, Boonsboro, MD Champion Maine Anjou Heifer — JSC Harmony 134, Kirby Dygert, KD Livestock, Elma, NY Reserve Champion Maine Anjou Heifer — Wolf Constance 214, Hannah Imgrund, Lewisburg, PA, Union Co. Champion MaineTainer Heifer — SMSC Delicious, Kurt Fleener, South

Grand Champion MaineTainer Female Kallie was exhibited by Tim Schaeffer of Hagerstown, MD during the Breeding Cattle Show at the 2012 Keystone International Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg.

Grand Champion Female TSSC Spice Girl Y175 was exhibited by Megan Craig of Hagerstown, MD during the Breeding Cattle Show held on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Grand Champion Highland Cow/Calf Shat Acres Cinnamon Bay was exhibited by Hugh Wilson of Sunbury, PA, during the Open Beef Breeding Cattle Show held on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the 2012 Keystone International Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg.

Champion SimSolution Cow/Calf Anvil Acres Freightliner was exhibited by McCall Griffith of Anvil Acres, Boonsboro, MD during the Open Beef Breeding Cattle Show held on Friday, Oct. 5.

Photos courtesy of Keystone International Livestock Exposition

Grand Champion Highland Bull LiTerra Bandolero-ET was exhibited by John & Jody Ligo of Grove City, PA. during the Highland Breeding Cattle Show held on Saturday, Oct. 6, at the 2012 Keystone International Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg.

These judges worked through heifer and cow calf pairs. During the show the judges were impressed with quality and selections the young exhibitors have made in their herd.

They aligned the champions as followed: Champion Angus Heifer — Buchanan’s Erica N214, Laine Jurgilewicz, Sunset Ridge Farm, Norfolk, CT Reserve Champion Angus Heifer — Windy Ridge Shadoe II, Lauren Schur, Hunter Ridge Farm, Sabillasville, MD Champion Charolais Heifer — EOOT, Ms. Pearly Momma 4Y, Kallie Anne Knotts, LaOtto, IN Reserve Champion Charolais Heifer — EOOT Ms. Wyndy 10Z, Kallie Anne Knotts, LaOtto, IN Champion Crossbred Heifer — Not

Mountain Show Cattle, Robesonia, PA, Lebanon Co. Reserve Champion MaineTainer Heifer — Miss. Sweetheart, Melanie Sinon, Sinon Farms, Poughkeepsie, NY Champion Red Angus Heifer — MBC Jagerbomb CM67, Christopher P. Montross, Montross Beef Cattle, Weedsport, NY Reserve Champion Red Angus Heifer — MBC Shirley Temple CM76, Christopher P. Montross, Montross Beef Cattle,Weedsport, NY Champion Shorthorn Heifer — CF Boy Caroline 210 ET, Clayton Boyert, PA Reserve Champion Shorthorn Heifer — RFC Kolt Demi’s Diva 105, Jamie Limes, Waynesville, Ohio Champion Shorthorn Plus Heifer —

RFL Storm Queen 2Z, Xavier Ferris, Royal F Livestock, Whiteland, IN Reserve Champion Shorthorn Plus Heifer — Willow, Mya Storll, Slow Creek Farm, Linesville PA, Crawford Co. Champion Simmental Heifer — Cherokee Burning Lace, Tyler Brown, Fairmont, WV Reserve Champion Simmental Heifer — VPI Polly Anna X070, Kelsey PowersBarb, Holly Spring Simmentals, Boston, VA Champion SimAngus/SimSolutions — Wheeler/KNKC S240 Lutty, Jessica Butler, Dawson, PA, Fayette Co. Reserve Champion SimAngus/SimSolutions — Wheeler/KNKC S 240 Zipper, Jessica Butler, Dawson, PA, Fayette Co. Champion Texas Longhorn — CCC Kody Boom, Alura Ruppert, Ruppert

Longhorns, Lewisberry, PA, York Co. Reserve Champion Texas Longhorn — DG Hunting Ms Ernpress, Alura Ruppert, Ruppert Longhorns, Lewisberry, PA, York Co. Top Five Winning Carcass Steers: 1. Kayli Sinon, Poughkeepsie, NY 2. Kelsi Lawson, Leesburg, VA 3. Matt Simpson, Purcellville, VA 4. Madison Weaver, Ephrata, PA 5. Dalton Gromlich, Hamburg, PA The Keystone International Livestock Exposition is the largest livestock show on the East Coast, featuring more than 3,500 animals, including beef cattle, horses, sheep and pigs. The expo runs through Oct. 7. For more information and a complete show schedule, visit www.keystoneinternational.state.pa.us.

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Angus, Red Angus rise to the top of 2012 KILE Junior Breeding Beef Show

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Protection available to Livestock Sellers

by Robert J. Melchior State and federal government programs are in place to provide some protection to livestock sellers. Usually these include licensing and record keeping requirements for dealers and other livestock buyers and in some cases may include some limited bonding.

Details on some of these programs

are included in the links listed below.

It is important to note that these provisions are no substitute for prudence when making a sale. Know your buyer, inquire about his reputation in the trade and avoid extending credit. For your own protection, obtain receipts if at all possible. Sources of information include your state or regional Packers

and Stockyards representative, your state agriculture department, and other producers who have worked with the buyer. These considerations should be made for commission sale barns as well.

You deserve prompt and certain settlement for your livestock production.

Even if the packer and/or dealer you

sold to has filed bankruptcy or is suffering financial difficulties resulting in delayed or non-payment for livestock and poultry transactions, the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act of 1921 may be able to offer you some protection.

The P&S Act has authorized and estab-

dogs. Everybody learns from everybody else.” Vickie noted that in addition to Border Collies, some of the breeds that show up at their clinics include Australian cattle dogs, Australian Shepherds, Shelties, Beauceron, German Shepherd, Bernese Mountain Dogs, Corgies and Bouvier.

“Some people come every year; others have never seen sheep and neither have their dogs,” said Vickie, adding that attendees come from throughout the east and southeast. During the clinic, handlers work with their dogs and sheep, although goats will sometimes be used. Cattle aren’t used because most people attending a clinic don’t have the level of experience it takes to handle cattle.

Training sessions are geared to whatever the group needs. Sometimes, an experienced dog is available for novice handlers to use so that that handler gets an idea of how to work a herding dog. But Vickie says that if

people understand how to move sheep without a dog, it’s a lot easier for them to work effectively with a dog. At the Hughes’ three-day spring clinic handling clinic, one of the first lessons is moving sheep without a dog. “The better the stockmanship, the better they’re going to handle a dog,” said Vickie. “It’s mostly where you position the dog — don’t let him go too far, or not far enough.”

Vickie noted that many of the AKCtype Border Collies aren’t built to withstand the rigorous work required of a herding dog. “They want those legs straight,” she said. “They’ve bred them to be short and stocky, which isn’t conducive to running. With those

straight back legs, you get torn ligaments. They might not look beautiful in the field, but the dog won’t get hurt.”

As for the Anatolians on the property accepting unfamiliar herding dogs that come for clinics, Vickie says there are certain dogs the Anatolians don’t trust. “It’s usually the larger breeds,” she said. “The guardian dogs have a good ‘feel’ for dogs that might intend malice.” During the clinic, the guardian dogs remain with the sheep that aren’t being worked by herding dogs and simply do what they do best — watch.

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“The coyotes went up the creek behind our field, and to their field,” she said.

“They lost all of their sheep, and then a dog killed one of their llamas. Even though donkeys and llamas are illtempered toward dogs, they’re still prey animals.”

To help those who want to use herding dogs effectively, the Hugheses hold herding clinics at their farm. Although Border Collies are the main breed used for working sheep, Vickie said any herding breeds are welcome.

“When I first started out, I had a Blue Heeler and I couldn’t find anyone who’d work with me,” said Vickie. “I had to drive all the way to Atlanta. When we first started doing clinics here, we decided that we’d be open to all breeds.

Some people are serious about herding and go on to compete; others have a farm and learn what they need to know to get their dogs to help. Others come just to enjoy doing something with their

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lished trust protection for producers who have done business with packers and dealers whose average annual purchases of livestock who have inadequate financing arrangements.

The producer must be a cash seller of livestock (a cash seller is a seller

who expected to be paid promptly and did not knowingly extended credit). The packer must have average annual purchases of livestock that exceed $500,000. In these specific cases the Act establishes that the producer has rights to specific assets of the

packer that are legally superior to the interests of any secured lenders to whom the packer offered those assets as collateral for loans. However, in order to preserve your rights for compensation you need to file timely written notice of your claim against the regu-

lated entity who owes you. This written notice must be provided to GIPSA and the regulated entity who owes the seller or grower within a specified period after the transaction date(s).

For more information on Livestock Sellers Rights under the Pack-

ers & Stockyards Act go to www.gipsa.usda. gov/psp/livetrust.html.

Lists of markets, dealers, and packers that are bonded under the USDA Packers and Stockyards Program, are at www.gipsa.usda. gov/psp.html . The GIPSA Toll-Free HOTLINE

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Packers and Stockyards Act Prompt Payment Provis i o n : www.gipsa.usda.gov/Pu blications/psp/broch/pr ompt_payment.pdf P r o g r a m s : www.usda.gov/gipsa/pu bs/psbroch.htm Eastern Regional Office for Packers and Stockyards 75 Spring Street, Suite 230 Atlanta, GA 30303 Telephone 404-5625840 FAX 404-562-5848 E-mail: PSPAtlantaGA.GIPSA@usda.gov Contact them to find out about field representatives closer to you States often have additional programs to try to protect livestock sellers. For example New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets requires the licensing of all dealers who buy or receive farm products from New York producers in excess of $10,000 annually to resell at wholesale. Licensed dealers are required to file security in the form of a bond or letter of credit with the Department. Supplemental financial coverage is provided by the Agricultural Producers Security Fund, which is funded by the licensed dealers.

Producers are provided further protection through a provision of the Article 20 Law, which authorizes a statutory trust (replaces the producer lien, effective July 20, 2005) in the event a dealer defaults in payment.

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Shorthorn sweeps supreme spot at Breeding Beef Pageant Champion prizes sponsored by EMM Sales & service, Inc. HARRISBURG, PA — Shorthorn heifer CF Margie 119 Sol ET, exhibited Autumn Robison, Markle, IN, swept up the Supreme Female Championship title of the Breeding Cattle Beef Pageant held on Sunday, Oct. 7, at the 2012 Keystone International Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg.

The Reserve Female Championship title went to Lowderman Cattle Company, Macomb, IL, with their entry, LCC Kee Wee 208X. Richard Watson, Shady Valley, TN, was awarded the Supreme Male Championship with his entry, RF Endurance 1301 ET. CLO Captain America 704Y, exhibited by CLO Simmentals, Lebanon, PA, took home the honor of Reserve Supreme Male Champion.

EMM Sales & Service, Inc., of Brownstown, PA, sponsored the Supreme Champion awards for the sixth consecutive year.

Winning heifer owner Autumn Robison was given the year-long use of a cattle trailer, while Watson earned a $1,000 cash prize.

The judges for the show were Cassie Johnson, Cushey, Iowa; Blaine Brown, Frandfort, IN; Gene Steiner, Mason, Ohio.

The Grand Champion females and bulls of each breed were: American British White Park Female: Mountain View’s Zada, Mitchell Brower, Mayfield, NY Bull: Mountain View’s Zeus, Mitchell Brower, Mayfield, NY Angus Female: Lisageers Sinead 105, Sarah Lownes, Coatesville, PA Bull: JDH Bismaker 3511, John Hausner, Dover, PA Charolais Female: EOTT Ms Pearly Momma 4Y, Kallie Anne Knott, LaOtto, IN Bull: 3G Young Gun 192Y, Eric Ott & Emily Griffiths, Columbia City, IN Hereford Female: LCC Kee Wee 208X, Lowderman Cattle Comp., Macomb, IL Bull: RF Endurance 1301 ET, Richard Watson, Shady Valley, TN Highland Female: Summit Ranch Yara, Daniel Thorne, Georges Mills, NH Bull: LiTerra Bandolero-ET, John & Judy Ligo, Grove City, PA Limousin

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Mielke from 11 lead to further contraction in milk production, possibly evidenced in the September data.

On a brighter note, the October 1 DDR reports that the National Restaurant Association (NRA), restaurant performance index (RPI) for August was 100.6, up 0.4 percent from July and the first month since March 2012 that it increased. More than 61 percent of restaurants surveyed reported that same-store sales were higher in August versus last year; an improvement over July’s 53 percent, which was the lowest level in 2012, according to the DDR. The DDR points out that “Continued strength in the restaurant industry provides support for U.S. dairy products. A substantial portion of cheese consumption occurs outside the home in fast-food, pizza, and sitdown restaurants.”

In politics; Lori Fischer, Executive Director of the Dairy Business Association, discussed the importance of getting a farm bill passed this year in Wednesday’s DairyLine.

Speaking from this week’s World Dairy Expo where they held a press conference on Thursday, Fischer said Wisconsin dairy farmers have even been asked by their governor to increase milk production to meet the demands of the specialty cheese market and she cited New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s support of “the booming Greek yogurt industry” by “loosening regulations and increasing incentives for his dairy farmers to grow.”

That desire to grow the industry runs contrary, however, to the proposed dairy title of the new Farm Bill, according to Fischer, by giving farmers a disincentive in its supply management scheme. She argued that “Dairy farmers want to have insurance for risk management purposes very similar to crop growers. But in the dairy side of things if you want to have the insurance, you also have to participate in a program that forces dairy farmers to periodically limit milk production or be penalized.”

She added that “dairy farming isn’t that nimble, you just can’t tell a cow today you’re going to need to produce less milk tomorrow.” When the program shuts off, they’re going to want the milk production and cows just don’t jump back on.”

Penalties to some of her members would have been as much as $18,000 per month, she said, and while the program would increase milk prices, it would increase consumer dairy product prices and foreign markets will look to other countries.

She said her members support an alternative

by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and David Scott (D-GA) which would remove the supply management provision but still “provide dairy farmers with the margin insurance that they’re looking for.”

National Milk took its message to World Dairy Expo as well. Dairy Profit Weekly (DPW) reported that NMPF’s Jerry Kozak and Jim Tillison said dairy policy debate in the 2012 Farm Bill is essentially over, with both the full Senate and House Ag Committee proposals embracing the major pieces of the “Dairy Security Act,” which was built on NMPF’s “Foundation for the Future” program.

They noted that the Goodlatte alternative had been already soundly defeated in the House Ag Committee by a 29-17 vote, and that the committee had approved a 2012 Farm Bill on a 3511 vote.

“Due to higher costs which could limit availability of margin insurance to all dairy producers, the NMPF leaders contend the Goodlatte amendment would actually impose greater supply management controls,” DPW reported.

The financial plight of California’s dairy farmers received some national attention in an Associated Press column in the September 29 Washington Post. A recent rally on the issue in Sacramento drew several hundred people, according to the September 28 Milk Producers Council (MPC) newsletter.

Participants called on Governor Jerry Brown

and Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Karen Ross, to, as the MPC stated, “Utilize their authority and legal responsibility to bring our milk prices in better alignment with the prices being paid for milk throughout the country.”

MPC reported that organizers continue to strategize and are planning another rally in Sacramento on October

18th and a pre-rally prep session on October 4th in Tulare). Details are posted at www.rallyforcaliforniadairyrelief.com .

Finally, the Alliance’s Bill VanDam continued his focus on U.S. ethanol mandates in his last newsletter and reports that “Dairymen, pork producers, beef producers and poultry operations are under huge stress.” He charged that “The only thing that does

not change is the ethanol mandates which are nothing but an arbitrary number put into a bill by Congress. Congress by definition has the power to change the mandates.

Can it really be true that we are not smart enough to stop converting our corn into ethanol when it is needed to feed America?”

IDFA’s SmartBrief, citing a story from the Huffington Post, reports

that Americans’ favorite ice cream chain is Ben & Jerry’s, followed by Cold Stone Creamery and Culver’s, according to a new survey by Market Force Information.

Ben & Jerry’s took top place in the Midwest, Baskin-Robbins was the favorite in the Northeast, and Culver’s was top ice cream chain in the South and West.

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MT. AIRY NC FEEDER CATTLE Feeder Steers: M&L 1-2 320348# 155-170; 365-395# 149169; 400-448# 135-162; 460490# 139-150; 560-595# 124139.50; 613-645# 120-136.50; 670-690# 123.50-131; 705-740# 114-129.50; 775-785# 114118.50; 815-845# 114-122; S 1-2 350-390# 110-125; 400- 445# 110-112; 455-490# 106-118; 668675# 102-111.00; Hols. L 3 289# 112; 335-345# 111-113; 359# 108; 414# 106; 485-490# 99105.50; 558# 96; 635-648# 91; 693# 84; 776# 90; 978# 86.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1-2 320340# 126-129.50; 372- 395# 126; 430-448# 118-125; 455-475# 125-133; 500-533# 115-124; 558575# 116-125; 615-640# 105110; 658# 105-110; 700-736# 103-113.50; 815-835# 94-103; 860-875# 103-105; S1-2 365395# 100-119; 455-495# 104114; 525# 106-112; 565-595# 107-113; 860-875# 95-96; M&L 3 415-415# 87-90; 625# 86; 660670# 85-88; S 3 360-375# 74; 565-595# 70-77.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1-2 455-495# 119136.75; 528-547# 123-131; 564567# 112-117; 628-648# 119; 660-665# 111-112.50; 755-780# 90-108.50; S 1-2 458# 107; 500545# 108-115; M&L 3 480-495# 80-90; 650-685# 80-89.

Bred Cows: M&L 1-2 Young 635880# 700-1175/hd., 4-6 mos bred; 900-1115# 950-1150/hd., 4-6 mos bred; 1275-1305# 9991125/hd., 4-6 mos bred; 10151180# 825-1125/hd., 4-6 mos bred; 1230-1245# 900-925/hd., 4-6 mos bred; 1090-1175# 9251125/hd., 7-9 mos bred; 12201325# 999.00-1275/hd., 7-9 mos bred.

FEEDER CATTLE: 281 Feeder Steers: M&L 1-2 315335# 147-173; 350-395# 129163; 410-445# 116-146; 420420# Brahman x 111; 480# 133 148; 505-535# 126-137; 550595# 131-136; 610-645# 126136; 660-680# 127-128; 753# 123; S 1-2 290# 112; 360# 109; M&L 3 270# 94; Hols. L 3 380380# 93; 435# 93; 495# 91; 515# 90; 570# 85; Hols. L 4 508# 75; 662# 72.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1-2 300345# 126-136; 365-385# 131136; 410-435# 120-131.00; 450480# 111-128; 500-545# 115122.00; 555-590# 112-120.00; 605-645# 110-116; 650-655# 110-122.00; 700# 105; 750-775# 96-102.00; 800-830# 98-102; S 1-2 355-380# 110-119; 415-440# 111-114; 510-520# 95-100; 570585# 108-110; 615-645# 100107; M&L 3 335# 95; 415# 98; 465-490# 85-94; 755# 78.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1-2 455-490# 125-136; 500-540# 120-135; 550590# 105-127; 600-645# 110126; 600-625# Brahman X 96-98; 655-673# 112-120; 710-745# 104-113.50; 710# Brahman X 94; 770-785# 105-108; 805-805# 100; 875# 94; 940# 93; 1015# 89; S 1-2 480-495# 110-118; 670# 104; 785# 90. .

BLACKSTONE, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 103 Feeder Steers: M&L 1 400-500# 150; 500-600# 143.50; 600-700# 32.50; 700-800# 125.50; M&L 2 400-500# 130-147; 500-600# 143.50; 600-700# 127.50; S 1 400-500# 130; 600700# 112.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 400500# 123.50; 500-600# 117.50; 600-700# 114-118; M&L 2 300400# 134; 400-500# 117-119.50; 500-600# 120; 600-700# 115.50; M&L 3 400500# 119; 500-600# 117; S 1 300-400# 125; 400-500# 118; 500-600# 108.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 150-155; 400-500# 153; 500600# 133-135; 600-700# 121; 700-800# 110; 800-900# 102; M&L 2 300-400# 155; 400-500# 134-160; 500-600# 133; S 1 400-500# 125; 600-700# 100.

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Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 170-173; 300-400# 150-180; 400500# 140-167.50; 500-600# 138159; 600-700# 121-148; 700800# 119-140; 800-900# 128-140.21; 9001000# 124-130.10; M&L 2 300400# 136-151; 400-500# 149155; 500-600# 120-154; 600700# 93.50-146; 700-800# 109-128.50; 800-900# 105-121; 900-1000# 96-105; 1000-1100# 103.50; L 3 600-700# 100.50; S 1 400-500# 139; 500-600# 121123.

Feeder Holstein Steers: L 2-3 300-400# 95; 400-500# 106; 500600# 95; 600-700# 93; 700-800# 81.50-91.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300400# 124-139; 400-500# 118.50129; 500-600# 117-126; 600700# 112-126.50; 700-800# 101119; 800-900# 101-117.50; M&L 2 300-400# 114-136; 400-500# 113-122; 500-600# 115-121; 600700# 100-115; 700-800# 101102; 800-900# 87-92; S 1 500-600# 100-103.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 156-172; 300-400# 150-178; 400500# 139-162; 500-600# 120.50153.50; 600-700# 123-139; 700800# 89-108; 800-900# 87-94; 900-1000# 88; M&L 2 300-400# 125-149; 400500# 111-129; 500-600# 127135; 600-700# 101-117; S 1 400500# 104-130.

SW VA FEEDER CATTLE: 1762 Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 150-165; 300-400# 164-165; 400500# 148-164; 500-600# 135151; 600-700# 128-144; 700800# 124-136.50; 800-900# 95-130; 900-1000# 107-116; 1000-1100# 100.50; M&L 2 200-300# 145-169; 300400# 140-171.50; 400-500# 145166.50; 500-600# 120-146; 600-700# 125-140; 700800# 113-131; 800-900# 110122; 1000-1100# 81.

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300# 152.50-166; 300-400# 125141; 400-500# 115-141; 500600# 115-132; 600-700# 110140; 700-800# 108-121; 800-900# 97-124; M&L 2 20030# 135-159; 300-400# 120-136; 400-500# 115-140; 500-600# 110-129; 600-700# 113-125; 700800# 94-124; 800-900# 75-106.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 150-167; 300-400# 161-167; 400500# 115-153; 500-600# 110141; 600-700# 95-129; 700-800# 89-113.50; 800-900# 92-96; M&L 2 200300# 130-171; 300-400# 119137; 400-500# 125-148.50; 500600# 121-128.50; 600-700# 96123; 700-800# 76-95; 800-900# 85-95; 9001000# 84.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report.

FRONT ROYAL, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report.

HOLLINS, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 179.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 157-160; 300-400# 144-158; 400500# 150-155; 500-600# 138144; 600-700# 124-137; 700800# 100-127.50; 800-900# 96-103; 900-1000# 119; M&L 2 200-300# 125-150; 300-400# 125-157; 400-500# 157; 500-600# 139; 600-700# 130; Hols. L 2-3 400-500# 97; 700-800# 100.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200300# 134; 300-400# 122-125.50; 400-500# 125; 500-600# 120.50121; 600-700# 117; 700-800# 118.50; 800-900# 82; M&L 2 200-300# 34; 300-400# 126.50; 400-500# 128; 500-600# 122; 600-700# 116; 700-800# 109.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 125-134; 300-400# 134; 400500# 125; 500-600# 118; 600700# 109-114; 700-800# 96-97; 800-900# 93-100; 900-1000# 119; M&L 2 200-300# 117; 300-400# 113; 400-500# 113; 500-600# 120; 600-700# 110; 700-800# 101; 800-900# 85.

LYNCHBURG, VA Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 178; 400-500# 152-162.50; 500600# 138.50-148.75; 600-700# 125-134.50; 700-800# 124-130; M&L 2 300-400# 183.50; 400-500# 156-160; 500600# 138-147; 600-700# 129132.50; 700-800# 128.50-130.75; M&L 3 300-400# 164; 400-500#

145; 500-600# 140.75; 600-700# 130.50; 700800# 122; S 1 300-400# 164; 400-500# 137; 500-600# 134; 600-700# 126; 700-800# 107.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300400# 131-138; 400-500# 128130; 500-600# 122-129.75; 600700# 112-121.25; 700-800# 114118; M&L 2 300-400# 130-138.50; 400-500# 130.50132; 500-600# 120; 600-700# 117-120.75; 700-800# 120; M&L 3 300-400# 134-138.50; 400500# 128-130.25; 500-600# 123.75; 600-700# 20.25; 700-800# 107; S 1 300400# 119-131.50; 400-500# 115126.25; 500-600# 114; 600-700# 109.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 168; 400-500# 145.50-163; 500600# 127-129; 600-700# 122; M&L 2 300-400# 165-179; 400500# 150.25-166.25; 500-600# 127.50-145; 600-700# 122.50; S 1 300-400# 135-147; 400-500# 131.50-135; 500-600# 118.

NARROWS, VA FEEDER CATTLE: Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 70; 400-500# 157-170; 500-600# 140-157; 600-700# 129-133; 700800# 118-123.50; M&L 2 300400# 170; 400-500# 138-170, mostly 151; 500-600# 139.50-146.75; 600700# 129-132.50; 700-800# 120127.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300400# 133-136; 400-500# 131132; 500-600# 124.50-129.75; 600-700# 120.50-122.50; 700800# 123.50; M&L 2 300-400# 134.50-136; 400-500# 132-133.25; 500-600# 118124.50; 600-700# 116-121; 700800# 119.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 159; 400-500# 135-160, mostly 135-145; 500-600# 135-139; 600700# 120-125; M&L 2 400-500# 139-139.50; 500-600# 130-135; 600-700# 120.

MARSHALL, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report.

NARROWS, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report.

ROCKINGHAM, VA .

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STAUNTON, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 1258.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 170-173; 300-400# 180; 400-

500# 158.50-167.50; 500-600# 149-159; 600-700# 143.25-148; 700-800# 128-140; 800-900# 128-140.21; 9001000# 124-130.10; M&L 2 400500# 149-155; 500-600# 140154; 600-700# 146; 700-800# 128.50; 800-900# 116-121; 9001000# 101.75; S 1 400-500# 139; Hols. L 2-3 400-500# 106; 600700# 93; 700-800# 91.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300400# 124-131; 400-500# 121129; 500-600# 118-125; 600700# 120-126.50; 700-800# 112119; 800-900# 114-117.50; M&L 2 300-400# 114-124; 400500# 113-121.50; 500-600# 115121; 600-700# 106-115.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 159-178; 400-500# 157.50; 500600# 141-153.50; 600-700# 127134; M&L 2 300-400# 133-149; 500-600# 135; 600-700# 110.

TRI-STATE, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 855 Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 150; 300-400# 165; 400-500# 151.50-163; 500-600# 138-151; 600-700# 132-144; 700-800# 125-136.50; 800-900# 95-126; 900-1000# 116; M&L 2 200-300# 158; 300-400# 140158; 400-500# 147-159; 500600# 120-131; 600-700# 130140; 700-800# 122-130; 800-900# 122; 1000-1100# 81; Hols. L 2-3 400-500# 67; 500600# 93; 600-700# 70; 700-800# 90; 800-900# 90.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200300# 152.50-166; 300-400# 125141; 400-500# 115-141; 500600# 115-132; 600-700# 110140; 700-800# 114-121; 800-900# 124; M&L 2 200-300# 135-159; 300-400# 120-130; 400500# 115-140; 500-600# 110126; 600-700# 125; 700-800# 121-124; 800-900# 75.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 150-165; 300-400# 161; 400500# 115-153; 500-600# 120141; 600-700# 110-128; 700800# 89-113; 800-900# 96; M&L 2 200-300# 130-136; 300-400# 137; 400-500# 138146; 500-600# 125-128; 600700# 96-123; 700-800# 76-82.

WINCHESTER, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 672.

Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 151-166; 400-500# 149-163; 500600# 148-166; 600-700# 141151; 700-800# 121-125; 800900# 116-126; M&L 2 300-400# 134-151; 500600# 137-151; 600-700# 129144; 700-800# 110-121; 9001000# 110; S 1 600-700# 122;

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Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 158-179; 300-400# 149-169; 400500# 131-160; 500-600# 131153; 600-700# 122-145; 700800# 113-126.50; 800-900# 90-105; M&L 2 300400# 154.50; 400-500# 120-124; 500-600# 120-131; 600-700# 119.50-123; 700-800# 105-108; 800-900# 82.50-90; 900-1000# 68.

WYTHE COUNTY, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 603 Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 160-165; 300-400# 164-165; 400500# 152-164; 500-600# 135149.50; 600-700# 128-139; 700800# 130.50-132.50; 800-900# 120125; 900-1000# 107; 1000-1100# 100.50; M&L 2 200-300# 145169; 300-400# 171.50; 400-500# 166.50; 500-600# 135-146; 600-700# 125-136; 700800# 121-131; 800-900# 110; Hols. L 2-3 200-300# 153; 300400# 132; 400-500# 87-91; 500600# 75-99; 600-700# 80-86; 700-800# 68-89; 800-900# 7189; 1100# & up 69.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200300# 159; 300-400# 125-137; 400-500# 123-137; 500-600#

115-122; 600-700# 113-122; 700800# 117; 800-900# 97-116; M&L 2 200-300# 140; 300-400# 130; 400-500# 125133; 500-600# 129; 600-700# 115-122; 700-800# 94-116; 800900# 106.

Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 167; 300-400# 167; 400-500# 125-150; 500-600# 110-126; 600700# 95-129; 700-800# 93113.50; 800-900# 92-95; M&L 2 200-300# 171; 300-400# 19; 400-500# 125-148.50; 500600# 121-128.50; 600-700# 104109.50; 700-800# 95; 800-900# 85-95; 900-1000# 84.

Cows Ret. to Farm: L 1, 2-12 yrs. old 785-115# 880-950/hd; M 1, 5 yrs. old 1125# 950/hd.

Cows w/Calves at Side: M 1, 5-10 yrs. old w/100-200# calves 1000-

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 10:30 AM Catskill Tractor, Inc., Franklin, NY

Tractors & Industrial: Kioti CK25 w/ldr (100 hrs), Case IH 885 w/cab (nice), Ford 8210 4WD w/ldr, Ford 800, Kubota M9540 4WD w/ldr, Ford 7740 Powerstar 8 (like new), MF 471 4WD w/ldr, IH 5488 w/cab, IH 3688 w/cab, Ford 8700 w/cab, Ford 5000 w/cab, Farmall 400, Ford 4600, Ford 7710 4WD w/cab, MF 35 w/ldr, JD 4230 w/cab, JD 5420 4WD, FarmTrac 555 4WD w/ldr (520 hrs), JD 1010, FarmTrac 555DT 4WD, AC 160, JD 4400 4WD w/ldr, NH TC26DA 4WD TLB, Ford 8N w/blade, NH 7610 4WD w/ldr, Ford 4500 w/loader, Ford 1920 4WD w/ldr, NH TC40 4WD w/ldr, Oliver 555, NH LS170 skid steer w/spear, Bobcat 751 skid steer, JD 160LC excavator, Komatsu D32E dozer, Oliver OC46 crawler loader,Cat D3 dozer w/6-way blade, MF 220 all-terrain forklift, Case DH4B articulating backhoe, Long 3 pt backhoe, Tree Farmer log forwarder w/Banko 60 picker (Detroit diesel engine), '97 IH 4900 dump truck w/DT466E engine (heated dump, cover). Sale Highlights: JD 160LC Excavator & IH 4900 dump truck were used here for cleanup after the fire...both in good working condition!!

Implements: Case IH DCX131 disc mower, Case IH 8430 inline baler, Kverneland 806 rnd bale processor, Gehl 1475 rnd baler, double rake hitch, Kidd 6-10 3 pt rnd bale processor, Kuhn GT300 rotary rake, Case IH 8420 rnd baler, AC 9 ft haybine, AC 16 ft transport disc, NH 455 trailer mower, NI 522 3 pt sickle bar mower, G&S 1501 3 pt sickle bar mower, Gehl 95 grinder mixer, JD 335 rnd baler, Bush Hog 1439 13 ft transport disc, Knowles 8-ton running gear, Gehl 1060 chopper w/2-row corn & hay heads, QT 8 ft snow pusher, IH 12 ft transport disc, NH 163 tedder, NH 1412 disc bine, NH 467 haybine, H&S 125 spreader, NH 352 grinder mixer, Hesston 3800 rake w/dolley, JD VanBrundt grain drill, Kverneland 5 btm auto-reset plow, Land Pride 3 pt power rake, Shaver 3 pt post pounder, 8 ft front snowplow blade, Lowery 8 ft 3 pt stone rake, Enviroeze 3 pt 4-row cultivator, JD 6 ft rotary mower, Leon rock picker, Gehl 99 blower, Oliver 10 ft transport disc, IH 5100 grain drill w/seed box, IH 2-row corn planter, Fella KM167 3 pt disc mower, Tufline 8 ft hyd-angle back blade, Kuhn TB181 ditch bank mower, 12 ft spring-tooth harrow, IH 10 ft transport disc, Pincor 30000-watt PTO generator, IH 496 20 ft wing disc, KFM 814Sg rnd bale chopper, Killbros 350 gravity wagon w/auger, North Star 3 pt crop sprayer (new), Dynavent bedding chopper, (2) Ford 309 3 pt 2-row corn planter, Lowery 3 pt 6 ft disc (new), Lowe 750 QT post hole digger, cement mixer, Pequea tedder, rnd bale wagon, Land Pride overseeder, Ford 2 btm plow, IH 8 ft transport disc, IH 420 3 pt 3 btm plow, Nelson chipper, Roman 4x4 rnd bale wrapper, Ford 3 pt 6 ft disc, Pittsburg 3 pt 4 btm plow, AgriMetal 3 pt PTO mulch chopper, wooden utility trailer, Blue fertilizer spreader, back blades, bale spears, IH 428 baler, (2) MF 3 pt sickle bar mower, Puma 7 ft snowblower (like new), IH 600 blower, Meyer V-Max 2636 spreader, IH trailer mower, Ford 3 pt 3 btm plow, White 508 5 btm spring-reset plow, Gehl 1315 spreader, 250 gal fuel tank, 300 gal fuel tank, Fritsch 8 ft bunk defacer, hot water pressure washer, Pequea HR10 Haymaker rotary rake, Vermeer SW-3500 bale wrapper, MF 3 pt 3 btm plow, Perfecta II 11 ft field cultivator, IH 132 9 ft 3 pt disc, 2-row cultivator, Brillion packer seeder w/hyd lift, MF 33 grain drill w/seed box, Gehl 860 chopper w/2-row corn & hay heads, Gehl 865 chopper w/2-row corn & hay heads, ValMetal 5500 rnd bale processor (like new), (4) 12 ft farm gates, NH 716 forage wagon, Brillion 8 ft cultimulcher, Kuhn GMD600 3 pt disc mower, JD heavy duty disc, NH 1432 disc bine, NH 320 baler w/thrower, NH 258 rake, NH BR7060 Silage Special round baler, MF wheel rake, MF 1745 round baler, NH 256 rake, JD 446 round baler, NH 492 haybine Lawn & Garden: Ingersoll 4020 garden tractor, Cub Cadet RZT50 zero-turn mower, Cub Cadet LTX1040, Cub Cadet LT1040, Cub Cadet 1330, NH LS25, NH GT22, NH G4010 zero-turn mower, Kubota L175, Artic Cat 400 4-wheeler w/plow, garden cart, DR chipper (gas), Ohio Steel lawn sweeper Salvage: JD 2630 tractor, Oliver tractor, MF 175 diesel, Gehl 2345 disc mower, NH 315 baler, NH 316 baler, JD 14T baler, JD 1470 disc mower Listing May Change Due to Daily Business Consignments Accepted Until Friday, October 19th, 5 PM Trucking Available Pre-Approved Financing Available Terms: Cash or Check. VISA and MasterCard accepted. Positive ID required.

4% Buyer's Premium Waived if Paid in Full with Cash or Check.

Nothing Removed Until Paid in Full. All Sales As Is Where Is. 20% Down Payment Required Sale Day - Balance Due in 7 Days Directions: From I-88 Exit 11, take State Route 357 east approx 7 miles to Franklin.

Turn left onto Otego Street. One block to auction.

Auctioneer: Frank Walker For updated listing or to view photos, visit www.auctionzip.com. Auctioneer ID 19065 Catskill Tractor Inc., 387 Center Street, Franklin, NY (607) 829-2600 www.catskilltractor.com

SLAUGHTER CATTLE HAGERSTOWN, MD SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breakers 6976.50; Boners 67-73, hi dress to 75.50; Lean 61-67; Thin & Light 60 & dn.

Bulls: YG 2 1536# at 84; 1136# at 88.

Fed Steers: Ch 1200-1350# 117119; Sel 1100-1400# 110-114; L Ch Hols. 1514# at 92.50.

Fed Heifers: Ch 1100-1200# 112-114.

Calves: Hols. Bull Ret. to Farm No. 1 94-115# 90-102; 88-92# 70-85; No. 2 94-120# 75-90; 8092# 65-75; Hols. Hfrs. No. 1 90120# 90-110; Beef X Hfrs. 65-85# 95-105.

Slaughter Calves: Gd 80-110# 50-65; L Ch 175-300# 95-110.

SILER CITY, NC SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7080% lean 1410-1490# 74.5076.50; 1705# hi dress 82.50; Boner 80-85% lean 980-1380# 7279.00; 960-1255# hi dress 81.5085; 905-1305# lo dressing 62.5070.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10151380# 91.50-97; 1975# 94.50; 1630-1970# hi dress 100.50104.50; 1880# lo dress 87.50.

Cows/Calf Pairs: 2. S 1-2 800# young to middle age cows w/100# calves 800/pr; L 1-2 1200# young to middle age cows w/200# calves 1190/pr.

Baby Calves, per head: Holsteins 30.

MT. AIRY SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7080% lean 1405-1810# 73-79.50; 1460-1675# hi dress 80.50-84; 1400-1610# lo dress 65-69.50;

PUBLIC AUCTION 3 Acres Real Estate and Personal Property Greenhouses, Deli & Store, Residence

November 10, 2012 Personal Property @ 9:00am Real Estate @ 12:00pm Glen Horst 717-271-8868

Boner 80-85% lean 985-1395# 72-79.50; 1035-1390# hi dress 80-84; 1015-1360# lo dress 6572.50; Lean 85-90% lean 8251020# 65-70; 825-1085# lo dress 57-60. Slaughter Bulls: YG 12 1295-1380# 92-95; 1045-1460# lo dressing 80-88; 1635-2115# 92-96.

Cows/Calf Pairs: 6. S 1-2 750# middle age cows w/210# calves 1350/pr; M 1-2 900-1100# middle age cows w/190-280# calves 800-1375/pr; L 1-2 1200-1500# middle age cows w/100-200# calves 1200-1410/pr.

Baby Calves, per head: Hols.

52.50-100.

SW VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 362.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 850-1200# 63.50-72; 1200-1600# 69-82; HY 12001600# 79-88; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 63-77; 1200-2000# 65-73, HY 1200-2000# 74-76.50; Lean 8590% lean 750-850# 50-60; 8501200# 57-71.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 74-90; 1500-2500# 8596.50; HY 1000-1500# 90.50-99; 1500-2500# 97-99.

Cows Ret. to Farm: L 1, 2-12 yrs. old 785-1215# 880-950/hd; M 1, 5 yrs. old 1125# 950/hd.

Cows w/Calves at Side: 10. M 1, 5-13 yrs. old w/100-200# calves 1000-1350# 850-1370/pr; L 1, 512 yrs. old w/100-200# calves 900-1300# 990-1280/pr.

N VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 439.

Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 10001100# 109.50; 1100-1300# 110.25-115; 1300-1500# 109.25-

117.50; 1500# & up 115.50; Sel 2-3 1100-1300# 105-109.25; Hols. Ch 2-3 13001500# 101.50.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 9001000# 104-108.50; 1000-1200# 108-115; 1200-1300# 107113.25; 1300-1500# 112-117.75.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% lean 850-1200# 67-74; 1200-1600# 63-78, HY 12001600# 74-81.75; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 61-80; 1200-2000# 61-79, HY 12002000# 72-81.75; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 43-60; 850-1200# 50-68.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 82-94; 1500-2500# 6593.25; HY 1000-1500# 94.5098.50; 1500-2500# 92.50-99.50.

Cows Ret. to Farm: 60. M&L 1, few 2, 3-12 yrs. old, bred 1-8 mos.

840-1388# 600-1150/hd; M&L 12, 5-10 yrs. old, 1000-1300# 7584/100 wt.

Cows w/Calves at Side: 9. M&L 1 3-10 yrs. old w/80-210# calves, 920-1305# 1080-1425/pr.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols. Bulls 70-100# 20-100/hd; 100-130# 87.50-88.

BLACKSTONE, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 38.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% lean 850-1200# 68-76; 1200-1600# 73-78.50; Boner 8085% lean 850-1200# 64.5073.50; 1200-2000# 60-67.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 5964; 850-1200# 62-68.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 76-87; 1500-2500# 8588.25.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: No report.

CATTLE AUCTION - CLINTON, NC THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER – 11:00 AM

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FRIDAY EVE., OCTOBER 26TH AT 6:00 PM FEATURING

150 Head & Holstein Steers from Oak-Bluff Farms, Keymar, MD NOTE: Cattle are home raised, wormed, dehorned & double inoculated, ready to go!!

Approx. Wts. 600-1000 Lbs.

ALL FARM FRESH CATTLE ARE WELCOME Any Size-Sex-Breed or Color Thank You

SALE MANAGED BY: New Holland Sales Stables, Inc. David Kolb 61-L

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Location: 2 mi. South of Clinton on Hwy. 421 @ George P. Upton Sales Arena.

(35) Fancy Angus & Angus X bred heifers bred to Yon Angus bulls due to start calving 1st December, (6) Balancer bred heifers due to calve spring, (6) F1 bred heifers due spring, (4) cow/calf pairs, (6) bred cows. All cattle screened for reproductive soundness by vet.

NOTE: THIS IS A THURSDAY SALE!!! Visit www.ebharris.com.

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Selling

FRONT ROYAL, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 28.

Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 11001300# 115.25-119; 1300-1500# 90-122, mostly 114.50-122; 1500-1850# 115.

Slaughter Heifers: Ch 2-3 10001200# 115-115.25; 1100-1300# 115; 1200-1400# 114.75-116.75.

HOLLINS, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 48.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 850-1200# 70-73.50; 1200-1600# 78.50-80; Boner 8085% Lean 800-1200# 70-73; 1200-2000# 71-76, HY 1200-2000# 78.50; Lean 8590% lean 750-850# 46-61; 8501200# 56-75.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 90; 1500-2500# 88.5090.50.

LYNCHBURG, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 223 Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 850-1200# 72-77; 1200-1600# 69-78, HY 12001600# 79-83; Boner 80-85% Lean 800-1200# 62-72; 1200-2000# 63-75, HY 1200-2000# 76-80; Lean 85-90% Lean 750-850# 5863; 850-1200# 59-68.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 83.50-93; 1500-2500# 9396; HY 1000-1500# 99-100; 1500-2500# 100-101.

Cows Ret. to Farm: 1. M 1, 8 yrs. old 1340# 1100/hd.

Calves Ret. to Farm: 2. Hols.

Bulls 70-100# 15-55/hd.

MARSHALL, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 1200-1600# 66.7573.25, HY 1200-1600# 73.2575.25; Boner 80-85% Lean 800-1200# 65.25-74.25; 12002000# 68-73.50, HY 1200-2000# 73-76.50; Lean 85-90% Lean 850-1200# 47.50-54.50.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 15002500# 80.50-85.

Calves Ret. to Farm: 6. Hols.

Bulls 70-100# 85-140/hd; 100130# 85-110.

ROCKINGHAM, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 114.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 850-1200# 72-74; 1200-1600# 66-72.50; Boner 8085% Lean 800-1200# 63-69.50; 1200-2000# 61-71.50, HY 1200-2000# 72-74; Lean 8590% Lean 850-1200# 54-65.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 82; 1500-2500# 78-80.50, HY 1000-1500# 98.50; 1500-

2500# 92.50.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols. Bulls 70-100# 20-85/hd, 1 at 107.50; 100-130# 88.

STAUNTON, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 35.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% lean 850-1200# 73; 12001600# 71-75; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 65.50-70; 12002000# 62-70; Lean 85-90% lean 850-1200# 68.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 15002500# 65-93.25.

TRI-STATE, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 180.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% lean 850-1200# 63.50-70; 1200-1600# 69-76; HY 12001600# 79-80; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 63-69; 1200-2000# 65-73; HY 12002000# 76.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 55-60; 850-1200# 5771.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 74-85; 1500-2500# 85-95; HY 1000-1500# 94.50-99; 15002500# 99.

Cows Returned to Farm: 1. 5 yrs. old 900# 870/hd.

Cows With Calves at Side: 5. M 1, 12-13 yrs. old w/200# calves 1200-1300# 850-1200/pr; L 1, 512 yrs. old w/150-200# calves 900-1000# 1120-1250/pr.

WINCHESTER, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 117.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 7580% Lean 850-1200# 78-83; 1200-1600# 64.50-73; HY 12001600# 73.50-81.50; Boner 8085% Lean 800-1200# 64-77; 1200-2000# 64.50-72; HY 1200-2000# 75-81; Lean 85-90% Lean 750-850# 52-54; 850-1200# 62-70.

Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 10001500# 82.50-93; 1500-2500# 80.50-89; HY 1000-1500# 94-98; 1500-2500# 96-101.50.

Cows Ret. to Farm: 34. M&L 1, few 2, 3-12 yrs. old, bred 2-5 yrs.

720-1400# 600-1250/hd.

Cows w/Calves at Side: 5. M 12, 4-6 yrs. old w/170-300# calves 895-1200# 950-1620/pr.

Calves Ret. to Farm: Hols. Bulls 70-100# 16-30/hd; 100-130# 80185.

WYTHE CO SLAUGHTER CATTLE: No report.

HOG REPORT HAGERSTOWN, MD PIGS

5th ANNUAL COMMERCIAL BRED HEIFER SALE 275 BRED HEIFERS ALL BLACK-HEAVY ANGUS INFLUENCE

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• Spring Calves • Open Females • Bred Females • Cow Calf Pairs • 2 Bulls

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Heifers will be sold in singles and groups up to 5.

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1300# 1100-1370/pr; L 1, 5-10 yrs. old w/100-200# calves 10001300# 990-1280/pr.

October 15, 2012 • MID-ATLANTIC COUNTRY FOLKS FARM CHRONICLE • Page 22

AUC TION CALENDAR To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact Dave Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 • e-mail: ddornburgh@leepub.com Monday, October 15 • 11:00 AM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY. Special sale selling household contents for Alice Sargent, as she is moving and cannot take everything. Very clean items, some furniture, gun cabinet, guns: 30 cal. Military rifle, 12 ga. Pump, 20 ga. Pump, 22 cal. Semi automatic, kids toys, old vintage JD & assortment of tin toys, old comic books dated back to 1960s, old baseball books, Xmas and Halloween decorations and more. Full listing on website.

Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig sale. Tom & Brenda Hoskings, 607-699-3637, 607847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771. www.hoskingsales.com

Wednesday, October 17 • 10:00 AM: Bridport, VT. Complete Dispersal of 235 head artifically bred Holstein herd and full line of machinery including 6 Ford tractors, for Leonard & Linda Barrett. Addison County Commission Sales, E.G. Wisnowski & Sons, 802-388-2661 or 800-339-COWS. • 3:00 PM: D.R. Chambers & Sons, 76 Maple Ave., Unadilla, NY. Dairy Day Special Feeder Sale. Every Wednesday following Dairy. D.R. Chambers & Sons, 607-369-8231 www.drchambersauction.com

Stoney Farms. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 10:30 AM: Catskill Tractor Inc., Center St., Franklin, NY. Inventory Reduction & Consignment Auction. Sale by Franklin Used Equipment Sales. Call to consign. Frank Walker Auctioneers, 607-829-2600 • 10:30 AM: Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer & Feeder Sale. Don Yahn Manager & Auctioneer, 585-738-2104.

• 11:00 AM: 6055 Canandaigua-Farmington TL Road. Est. Alice K. Taylor Farm Machinery Auction. Most equipment has been unused and stored inside since Elmer Taylor “Chevrolet Dealer” sold cows in 1970.

Harris Wilcox Inc, Auctioneers, 585-4941880.

• 11:00 AM: Hobart, NY. Hosking Farm Complete Dispersal. 120 Holsteins. Don & Joanne Hosking. Tremendous cow families, quality, low SCC & lots of type & production.

The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com. www.cattlexchange.com • 12:00 Noon: Aldie, VA. Whitestone Brand of Quality Angus Female Sale. Mark Duffell, Auctioneer.

Sunday, October 21

Thursday, October 18 • Baltimore, MD. A.Lyon & Son, 315-6332944. www.lyonauction.com • Wyoming, Wyoming County, NY. Farm Real Estate Auction. Selling 20 acre farm w/ house, barns, pond, pasture, woods and orchard. Excellent hunting. William Kent Inc. www.williamkentinc.com

• 2:00 PM: State Hwy 23, Davenport/Oneonta, NY. Real Estate Auction. 4.7+/- acres with fancy remodeled former barn and former Go-Kart track. Mel Manasse & Son, Auctioneers., 607-6924540, 800-MANASSE. manasseauctions@aol.com

Saturday, October 20

• Kissimmee, FL. A.Lyon & Son, 315-6332944. www.lyonauction.com • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558.

• Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S of utica & 6 miles N of New Berlin. Eastern Breeders Brown Swiss Sale. Sale managed

by Modern Associates, Hosking Sales assisting. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771. www.hoskingsales.com • Judd Construction Auction, 23 CT Rt 39, Sherman, CT. Trucks, Trailers, Pay Loader, Excavator, Roller, Antique Dozer & Tractor, Tools, Pedal Cars & Tractors. Jacquier Auctions, 413-569-6421. jacquierauctions.com • 8:30 AM: Gray’s Field, Rt 5, Fairlee, VT. Public Consignment Auction of Farm Machinery, Construction Equip., Autos and Trucks, Trailers and small tools.

Consignments accepted on Friday from 812. C.W. Gray & Sons, Inc., 802-785-2161.

• 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Also Complete herd dispersal of Big

Wednesday, October 24

Thursday, October 25 • Portland, OR. A.Lyon & Son, 315-6332944. www.lyonauction.com • Former Welch Livestock, 6096 NYS Rt 8, 30 miles S of Utica & 6 miles N or New Berlin. Certified Organic Sale featuring 80 Head of Jerseys. Tom & Brenda Hoskings, 607-699-3637 or 607-847-8800. Cell: 607927-1770 or 1771. www.hoskingsales.com • Pigeon Acres Farm, Manheim PA. Selling complete dairy of 175 mature cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030.

Saturday, October 27 • 9:00 AM: Syracuse, NY (NYS Fairgrounds).

Onondaga Co. area Municipal Equipment Auction. Municipal & Contractor Equipment.

Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Professional Auctioneers, 585-243-1563. www.teitsworth.com • 10:00 AM: 10784 Rt 19 Fillmore, NY. Local Hobby Farm Dispersal. Tractors, skidsteers, compact tractors, equip., feeder cattle. RG Mason Auctions, 585-567-8844. www.rgmasonauctions.com • 11:00 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Feeder Sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558.

• 11:00 AM: Cornell Livestock Pavilion, Ithaca, NY. The NY Holstein Harvest Sale.

100 of the finest Holsteins to sell all year!

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

Premier All Breed Sale. Call early to consign to make catalog & advertising deadlines.

Early consignments from Oakfield Corners, George Farms, Muranda, Roll n View, Bennett Farms, Tiger Lily, Fantasy Found, Boardwalk Holsteins, Roedale Farms, Boanco Farms, Gaige Farms, Lawton Jerseys, Tornado Valley, Wisbee Farms, Liddleholm, Elm Spring, Spruce-Haven, OC-E-C Embryos, plus many more. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-699-3637, 607-8478800, cell 607-972-1770 or 1771. www.hoskingsales.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Wednesday, November 7 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558.

Wednesday, October 31 • East Middlebury, VT. Annual Fall dairy consignment sale. Accepting dairy consignments now!

• 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-2965041 or 585-447-3842, Sue Rudgers, Manager 716-296-5041, Lonnie Kent, Auctioneer & Sales Manager 716-450-0558.

Thursday, November 1 • 11:00 AM: Reserved for major Holstein Herd Dispersal in NY. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com. www.cattlexchange.com

Friday, November 2 • San Bernardino, CA. A.Lyon & Son, 315633-2944. www.lyonauction.com • 10:00 AM: Dansville, NY (Livingston Co.).

Dwight & Deanna Knapp retiring from dairying. 265 freestall/parlor top end Holsteins.

(135 milkers), corn ensilage, haylage.

Pirrung Auctioneers, Inc. www.pirrunginc.com • 11:00 AM: Lakeview Holsteins, 2456 Rt. 14, Penn Yan, NY. Selling complete dairies and registered & grade cattle. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030.

Saturday, November 3 • Canastota, NY. A.Lyon & Son, 315-6332944. www.lyonauction.com • Hosking Sales (former Welch Livestock), 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Fall

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Friday, November 9 • Pleasant Lane Beef Farm, Hannibal, NY. Selling complete line of late model equipment. (Save the date, late model equip. you don’t find at absolute public auction.) Ray was very successful and equip. is in great shape with most only few years old. Hilltop Auction Company, Jay Martin 315-521-3123, Elmer Zeiset 315-729-8030.

Saturday, November 10 • Racine, WI. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944. www.lyonauction.com • 10:00 AM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY on Rt. 5 & 20. Feeder Sale. Finger Lakes Livestock, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com

Tuesday, November 13 • Houston, TX. A.Lyon & Son, 315-633-2944. www.lyonauction.com

Wednesday, November 14 • Barton, VT. 154th top-of-Vermont Invitation Dairy Sale at the Pines Farm. Free Turkey for every buyer! Sales Managers, Northeast Kingdom Sales. Reg Lussier 802-626-8892.

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Pigs & Shoats (/hd): 25-40# 2638; 40-50# 37-43; 50-60# 37-50; 1 lot 78# at 58; (/#)?120-140# 5571; Gilts 220-250# 64-69.

Butcher Hogs: 1-2 220-280# 6366; 1-3 220-280# 54-60; 300500# 50-56; No. 1-2 375-380# 57-60.

Sows: 300-500# 38-43.50; 500600# to 45.

Boars: 500# at 13.

NC SOWS: 300-399# 41.78-45; 400-449# 42-46; 450-499# 38.12-50; 500-549# 45-52; 550# & up 45-51.44.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA HOGS: No report.

HOLLINS, VA HOGS: No report.

MARSHALL, VA HOGS: No report.

ROCKINGHAM, VA GOATS: No report ROCKINGHAM, VA SHEEP: No report.

SHENANDOAH SHEEP Slaughter Lambs: Spring, Wooled Ch & Pr 80-110# 112160; Spring, Wooled Gd & Ch 1-3 60-90# 111-130 SILER CITY, NC GOATS: 35.

Slaughter & Replacement Classes: Kids: No. 1 under 20# 30-40; 20-40# 50-65; 40-60# 7080; 60-80# 85-90; Sel 2 under 20# 20.

Yearlings: Sel 1 60-80# 105.

Does/Nannies: Sel 1 50-70# 80; Sel 2 50-70# 65-70; Sel 3 50-70# 55.

Bucks/Billies: Sel 1 100-150# 120; 150-250# 160.

-----, ----; Creswell 8.04, 17.04, ---; Elizabeth City 8.03, 17.24, 8.53; Greenville ----, ----, ----; Lumberton ----, -----, ----; Monroe ----, 16.94, 8.23; Norwood 8.73, 16.84, 7.53; Pantego ----, -----, ----; Register ----, -----, ----; Warsaw #2 8.79, -----, ----.

Soybean Processors: Fayetteville, 17.39; Raleigh,17.39.

RUSHVILLE SEMIMONTHLY HAY AUCTION Prices/ton FOB unless otherwise noted. Delivery beyond 10 miles mostly 2.50/mile. Hay: 45 tons.

Mixed Grass: Lg. Sq. Gd 40/bale; Fair 18/bale; Sm. Rd. Gd 85; 21-29/bale.

Orchard Grass: Lg. Sq. Gd 31/bale; Sm. Rd. Gd 96.

Straw: Lg. Sq. 23/bale.

POULTRY REPORT

N VA HOGS: No report.

ROCKINGHAM, VA HOGS: No report.

SILER CITY, NC SHEEP: No report

S VA HOGS: No report.

STAUNTON, VA SHEEP: No report.

STAUNTON, VA HOGS: No report.

STAUNTON, VA GOATS: No report.

WINCHESTER, VA HOGS: No report.

TRI-STATE, VA GOATS: No report.

WYTHE CO, VA HOGS: No report.

WINCHESTER, VA SHEEP: 54.

Slaughter Lambs: Wooled, Ch & Pr 1-2 90-110# 139-148; 110130# 127.50-139; Wooled, Ch & Pr 3-4 130-160# 140; Wooled, Gd & few Ch 1-2 30-60# 140-142.50; 60-90# 115158.

Slaughter Rams/Ewes: 7. Ewes Gd 2-4 82.50-87.50; Util 1-3 70.

Slaughter Rams: all grades 8087.50.

LAMB & GOAT MARKET N VA SHEEP: 39.

Slaughter Lambs: Spring, Wooled, Ch & Pr 80-110# 112160; Spring, Wooled, Gd & Ch 13 60-90# 111-130; Wooled, Ch & Pr 1-2 90-110# 100-119.50; 110-130# 120-130; Wooled, Ch & Pr 3-4 130-160# 100; Wooled, Gd & few Ch 1-2 60-90# 10-140.

Slaughter Rams: all grades 90100.

S VA SHEEP: No Report.

HAGERSTOWN, MD SHEEP Lambs: Ch 90-145# 122-140; M Gd 90-145# 105-120.

Sheep: Buck 134# at 97-50; Ewe 100-200# 56-65.

HAGERSTOWN, MD GOATS: Sel 1 Wethers 148# at 210; Kids Sel 1 70-100# 132-150; 56-65# 80-115.

WINCHESTER, VA GOATS: 65 Kids: Sel 1-2 20-40# 100152.50; 40-60# 140-187; 60-80# 160-174; Sel 3 40-60# 50-110; 60-80# 100-150.

Bucks: No. 1-2 70-110# 122.50164; 100-150# 130; 150-250# 125.

Does: Sel 1-2 70-100# 80-126; 100-150# 142.50.

WYTHE CO SHEEP: No report.

WYTHE CO GOATS: No report.

CASH GRAIN MARKET

N VA GOATS: 15. Kids Sel 1-2 20-40# 150; 40-60# 170; 60-80# 160; Bucks Sel 1-2 70-110# 156170; 100-150# 136; Does Sel 1-2 70-100# 110.

MT. AIRY SHEEP: No Report.

MT. AIRY GOATS: Slaughter and Replacement Classes: No report.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA SHEEP: No report FREDERICKSBURG, VA GOATS: No report.

HOLLINS, VA SHEEP/GOATS: No report.

MARSHALL, VA SHEEP: No report.

MARSHALL, VA GOATS: No report.

NC GRAIN US 2 Yellow Corn was 1-2¢ higher. Prices were 7.48-8.23, mostly 7.48-7.72 at the feed mills and 7.43-7.83, mostly 7.83 at the elevators. US 1 Yellow Soybeans were 30-31¢ lower.

Prices were 15.80 at the processors, 15.51 at the feed mills and 14.80-15.01, mostly 14.84 at the elevators.

Feed Mills: Bladenboro 8.25, ----, ----; Candor 8.73, -----, 7.88; Cofield 8.28, 17.44, ----; Laurinburg 8.25, -----, ----; Monroe 8.59, -----, ----; Nashville ----, -----, ----; Roaring River 8.69, -----, ----; Rose Hill 8.25, -----, ----; Selma ---, -----, 7.95; Statesville 8.44, ----, 9.13; Warsaw 8.25, -----, ----; Pantego #2 7.78, -----, ----.

Elevators: Cleveland ----, -----, ---; Belhaven ----, -----, ----; Chadbourn ----, -----, ----; Clement ----,

NC BROILERS & FRYERS The market is steady on small, lower on the balance. Supplies are heavy. Retail demand is very light. Prices weighted average, in small lots, USDA Grade A & Grade A, white eggs in cartons, nearby retail outlet, cents per dozen. XL 142.40; L 142.09; M 109.34; S 90.

NC EGGS: The market is higher on all sizes. Supplies are light.

Retail demand is good. Weighted average prices for small lot sales of Grade A eggs delivered to nearby retail outlets: XL 160.56, L 150.48, M 117.30 & S 90.

NY EGGS: Prices are unchanged on all sizes. The undertone is steady. Offerings and supplies are moderate to occasionally heavy.

Demand is mostly light to moderate. Market activity is slow to moderate. XL 117-121, L 115119, M 94-98.

FARMERS MARKETS NC STATE FARMERS MARKET Butterbeans, Shelled (4# bg) 13, (8# bg) 20; Beets (25# bg) 20; Blackberries (flat) 23-24; Blueberries (flat) 20-22; Cabbage (50# crate) Pointed Head & Round 12-15; Cantaloupe (bin) 140, (ea) 1.10-1.25; Corn, White or Yellow (4 dz crate) 13, (5 dz bg) 15; Cucumbers, Long Green (3/4 bu) 18, Pickling (3/4 bu) 20; Eggplant (1 1/9 bu) 10- 12; Okra (25# bx) 20; Potatoes, Red or White (1 bu) 2025; Sweet Potatoe (40# bx) 1215; Peaches (1/2 bu) 14; Peas (1-1/9 bu) 22; Pepper, Bell (1-1/9 bu) 12-15; Potatoes, Red or White 20-25; Squash, Yellow (1/2 bu) 12, (3/4 bu) 20, Zucchini (1/2 bu bx) 12, (3/4 bu) 20; Tomatoes, Slicing/Field (25# bx) 10-20; Tomatoes, German Johnson (25# bx) 30, Grape (12 pt flat) 15, Cherry (12 pt flat) 15, Roma (25# bx) 14-15; Watermelons, Seeded 2.50- 3.50 (ea).

Wholesale Dealer\ Price: Apples (traypack ctn 100 count) WA Red Delicious (traypack ctn) 32.95-35.75, WA Golden Delicious (traypack ctn) 33- 34.50, Granny Smith WA (traypack ctn) 34-36.50, Gala WA 32-36, WA Fuji (traypack ctn) 34.50-38, WA Pink Lady (traypack ctn) 38-41.50; Asparagus (11# ctn) 26.95-34; Bananas (40# ctn) 23-28.75; Beans,

Round Green (1-1/9 bu ctn) 34-41.25, Pole (1-1/9 bu) 32-34; Beets (25# sack) 15.45-21.15; Blueberries (flat 12 1-pt cups) 22-25; Broccoli (ctn 14s) 19.95-21; Cabbage (50# ctn) 16.50-21.45, (case 12 count) 19.95-20.65; Cantaloupe (bin 110-120 count) 150; Carrots (50# sack) 32.15-34.65; Cauliower (ctn 12s) 18.05-20; Cherries (16# bx) 48; Celery (ctn 30s) 30.95-31; Cilantro (ctn 30s) 18.65-23.65; Citrus: Oranges, CA (4/5 bu ctn) 24-26.15, FL (4/5 bu ctn) 21-22; Pink Grapefruit, CA (4/5 bu ctn) 28.65-33.15; Tangelos, FL (80 count bx) 25-26.95; Lemons (40# ctn) 35.75-40.23; Limes (40# ctn) 20-22; Oranges, CA Naval (4/5 bu ctn) 24-32.15, FL Naval (64 count) 26.15- 31.75; Tangerines (120 count) 24; Corn (ctn 4 ?-5 dz) Yellow 15-17.55, White (ctn 4 ?-5 dz) 15-17.15; Cranberries (24 12 oz pkg) 24.50; Cucumbers (40# ctn) Long Green 23-25, Pickles (ctn 40#) 32-35; Eggplant (25# ctn) 14-15; Grapes, Red Seedless (18# ctn) 29-32, White Seedless 29-34, Black Seedless 29, Red Globe 29; Grapefruit (40# ctn) 31.45; Greens, Collard (bu ctn/loose 24s) 10, Kale (ctn/bunched 24s) 11.55-14.15; Turnips, Topped 14; Honeydews (ctn 5s) 29; Kiwi (ctn 117s) 12.15; Lettuce (ctn 24s) Iceberg (wrapped) 26.50-28.45, Greenleaf (ctn 24s) 22-26, Romaine (ctn 24s) 27.50-29.50; Nectarines, Yellow/White Flesh (1/2 bu ctn) 24; Onions, Yellow (50# sack) Jumbo 24.9525.45, White (25# sack) 14-16, Red (25# sack) 15-22.50, Green (ctn 24s) 14.65-19.65; Sweet Onions (40# ctn) 22-24.35; Peaches, Yellow/White Flesh (1/2 bu ctn) 23; Peanuts (35#) Green 53-69; Pears, Bartlett (16# ctn) 34; Bell Peppers, Green (1-1/9 bu ctn) 16.5422, Red (11# ctn) 32, Yellow (11# ctn) 32; Potatoes (50# ctn) Red size A 14-18.65, Red Size B 15-19.50, White size A 14.3517.15; Russett, ID 19.35-20.05; Radishes (30 6 oz film bgs) Red 15.45-16.85; Plums, Red (28# ctn) 27; Squash, Yellow Crooked neck (3/4 bu ctn) 12.95-22, Zucchini (1/2 bu ctn) 16-18; Strawberries CA (flat 8 1-qt conts) 16.9517.15; Sweet Potatoes, Orange (40# ctn) 16-21.45, White (40# ctn) 20-20.75; Tomatoes, Vine Ripened XL (25# ctn) 19.3520.75; Tomatoes, Cherry (flat 12 1-pt conts) 24, 25-25.75, Romas (25# ctn) 18-20, Grape (flat 12 1pt conts) 20-21; Turnips (25# film bg) Topped 11.05-22.15; Watermelon (bin) Seeded 125, Watermelon (bin) Seedless 125.

WESTERN NC FARMERS’ MARKET Apples (traypack ctn) Red Delicious 36-38, Golden Delicious 36-38; Local (1/2 bu), Early June, Ginger Gold 14-15; Bananas (40# bx) 19.50-20; Beans (bu) Greasy Cut Shorts 45; Broccoli (ctn) 16-17.75; Cabbage (50# ctn/crate) 10-12; Cantaloupes (ctn 9-12 count) 16-17, (bin 120140 count) 140-180; Cauliflower (ctn) 18-19.75; Citrus: Lemons (ctns 95 count) 31.50, (165 count) 30-34.50; Corn (bg) BiColor, White & Yellow 14-15; Cucumbers (1-1/9 bu) Long Green 17.75-18, Picklers (1 1/9 bu crate) 25-30; Grapes (18# ctn) Red & White Seedless 24.50-25;

Lettuce (ctn) Iceburg 20.75-22, Green Leaf 22-23.75, Romaine 26-27.50; Okra (1/2 bu) 20; Onions (50# bg) Yellow Jumbo 19.50-20; Peaches (1/2 bu basket) Freestone Monroe, White Rose, Elberta 15-18; Bell Pepper (1-1/9 bu ctn) L & XL 14-16; Potatoes, Irish (50# bg) White 1522.50, Red 19.50-23, Russett 13.50-18; Squash (3/4 bu) #1 Yellow Crookneck 16-18, (1/2 bu)

Zucchini #1 13-14; Sweet Potatoes (40# bx) Red or Orange #2 13-14; Tomatoes, Vine Ripe (25# bx) XL & Larger 11-14, Medium 8-10, Green 14-15; Turnips (25# sack) 13.75; Watermelons (ea) 38, (bin 35/40 count) Seeded 140150.

MARKETS

Cash feeder cattle

by John Otte O C T O BER 10, 2012 — Compared to last week, Oklahoma National Stockyards reported the Oct. 9 f eeder steers steady to $1 h igher. Feeder heifers $1 to $3 higher. Demand was go od for feeder cattle. Steer c alves sold $4 to $12 higher, most advance under 550 pounds. Heifer cal ves sold firm to $3 higher.

Quality was plain throu gh attractive and improved from last week. Fe eder demand improved so me as cattle futures and l ive cattle prices showed s trength last week.

Cattle futures. Front f ed cattle months advanced on expectations of higher cash prices this w eek, along with a mid-day rise in beef prices.

October settled up 30 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $123.35. November feeder cattle gained a dime t o $146.30.

Futures got an early bo ost from expectations tha t cash market prices, after climbing last week, co uld gain again this week.

Asking prices for live cattle from feedlot operators in the southern Plain

s were $2 to $3 per pound higher than last week.

Trade chatter suggests a meatpacker in Tex as was “trying to get some cattle tied up.” Packers c ould be short-bought for a second straight week.

Monday’s higher midday cutouts further buoy ed futures. Wholesale bee f prices had climbed most of last week before slipping Friday. Resuming th e upward trend Monday s uggests near-term demand is solid.

However, futures’ upside is limited by expectations that supplies are po ised to expand. Plus slau ghter weights have been historically high recently.

The CME listed 24 tender notices to deliver on t he October fed cattle contract yesterday.

Beef packers may be sh ort-bought for a second st raight week, demand see ms firm, expectations of r ising hog slaughter limit hog futures upside.

Source: PA Center for B eef Excellence Inc. with in formation from the CME Report, Cattle Buyers Wee kly and other resources. F or more information call 7 17-705-1689.

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Penn State team wins World Dairy Expo Dairy Cattle Judging Contest UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — The Dairy Judging team from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences took top honors at the recent Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in Madison, WI. The team finished first overall and tops in team reasons at the competition, which was held as part of the 2012 World Dairy Expo.

Other top five teams overall at the World Dairy Expo contest were University of Wisconsin, Madison, (second); Iowa State University (third); University of Minnesota, (fourth); and University of Wisconsin, River Falls (fifth). Nineteen teams competed in this year’s contest.

Led by Isaac Haagen, of Howard, a sophomore majoring in Animal Sci-

ences, who was overall high individual and second high in reasons, the team consisted of Arial Taxdal, of Bel Air, MD, a sophomore majoring in Animal Sciences, who finished third overall and sixth in reasons; Rebecca Shaw, of Williamsburg, a junior majoring in Agricultural Business Management, who placed ninth overall; and Dustin Gates, of Warriors Mark, a junior majoring in Animal Sciences, who finished 19th overall.

The team was coached by Dale Olver, instructor in dairy and animal science.

The Penn State team was high team for Ayrshires, Guernseys, Holsteins, and Red and Whites, and earned second in Brown Swiss, fourth in Jerseys, and fifth in Milking Shorthorns. All four team members earned All-Ameri-

can honors in the contest by placing in the top 25 overall high individuals.

Haagen earned first place in Brown Swiss and placed second in Holsteins, third in Ayrshires, and fourth in Guernseys and Milking Shorthorns.

Taxdal placed second in Red and Whites, fifth in Jerseys, sixth in oral reasons, seventh in Ayrshires, eighth in Guernseys, and ninth in Holsteins.

Shaw earned fifth for Holsteins and for Red and Whites. Gates was fourth in Ayrshires and sixth in Holsteins.

“This is a remarkable accomplishment by our dairy judging team, and I congratulate them for their hard work and dedication,” said Terry Etherton, Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Animal Science.

“We deeply value judging team expe-

riences for our students because they develop their decision-making skills while learning effective communication skills in defending their placings. We are extremely proud of the students’ achievements.”

It was not the first impressive showing this year for the Penn State team dairy judging team. At the Eastern States Exposition in September, it placed second high team overall and first for oral reasons. In that event Rebecca Shaw was the high individual, placing first for Ayrshires, Brown Swiss and Jerseys. The team was high team for Ayrshires and Jerseys.

At the All-American Dairy Show’s judging competition in Harrisburg in September, the team placed fifth overall and third for oral reasons.

Hailey is top pick at 2012 World Dairy Expo RF Goldwyn Hailey, owned by GenCom Holstein Ltd. of Notre-Dame-duBon-Conseil, Quebec, captured the Supreme Champion title of the 2012 World Dairy Expo. Earlier in the day, Hailey was named the winning SixYear-Old & Older Cow and Senior Champion of the 2012 International Holstein Open Show, adding on to her title of Grand Champion. In 2011, Hailey made quite the impression on the world stage, racking up a vast list of credentials. She was named Reserve Grand Champion and Best Udder of Show at the 2011 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair last fall and Reserve AllCanadian and Reserve All-American 5Year-Old for 2011. At the 2011 Quebec International Fall Show, Hailey placed 1st as Five-Year-Old Cow, second at the Quebec Expo, and third at the International Holstein Show. This Excellent 97-point cow was bred by R&F Livestock and Chilliwack Cattle Co., Warman, Saskatchewan, out of Mellholm Louie Hanah and sired by Braedale Goldwyn. Gen-Com Holstein Ltd. was founded in May 2009, specializing in Holstein breeding and working with heifers, cows and embryos with high genetic potential. Hailey is awarded the Gregory Blaska Memorial Tro-

phy, $1,500 courtesy of BouMatic, a champion sash courtesy of Arethusa Farm, Litchfield, CT, a royal blanket from Agpro, Inc., Paris, Texas and a director’s chair sponsored by Royal Brand Embroidery, Ellsworth, WI. Arethusa Response Vivid-ET, owned

by Arethusa Farm, of Litchfield, CT, swept her competition for the title of Reserve Supreme Champion of 2012 World Dairy Expo. Only one day into WDE, Vivid domineered, earning the title Grand Champion of the 2012 International Jersey Show. She additionally was named winning Four-Year-Old Cow and Senior Champion. Already on her resume, Vivid was the Intermediate Champion at the NY Spring Jersey Show in 2010 and the Intermediate Reserve Grand at the 2010 All-American Show. Last year, she was also the first Junior Three-Year-Old Cow at World Dairy Expo. Vivid is a daughter of Huronia Centruion Veronica 20J, the World Dairy Expo Supreme Champion in 2006 and Reserve Supreme Champion in 2004, and sired by Hollylane R Response-ET. Arethusa Farms, located in Litchfield, CT, pride themselves on providing the best care for their cows to produce truly exceptional products, which is clearly represented

RF Goldwyn Hailey (left), owned by Gen-Com Holstein Ltd. of Notre-Dame-du-BonConseil, Quebec, captured the Supreme Champion title of the 2012 World Dairy Expo while Arethusa Response Vivid-ET, owned by Arethusa Farm, of Litchfield, CT, swept her competition for the title of Reserve Supreme Champion.

Competitors line up to await the results of the judging for Supreme Champion at the 2012 World Dairy Expo.

Photos by Nina Linton

in this Excellent 91-point cow. As Reserve Supreme Champion, Vivid received $1,000 from Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., a champion sash courtesy of Arethusa Farm, Litchfield,

CT, Saint Joseph, MO; a royal blanket courtesy of E-Zee Milking Equipment, McFarland, WI and a director’s chair courtesy of Royal Brand Embroidery of Ellsworth, WI.

of the year, says Peel. But imports are expected to slow in the coming months. Much of the increase in Mexican cattle numbers since 2010 is the result of drought impacts. In 2011, 34 percent of the year-over-year increase in Mexican imports was heifers, representing 14.7 percent of total cattle imports and the largest imported heifer total going at least back to 2001. For January to July this year, the number of imported heifers was more than 268,000 head,

more than in all of 2011, and represented 27 percent of the year to date import total compared to last year.

The increase in heifers represented 67 percent of the year-over-year increase in imports and suggests herd liquidation in Mexico, says Peel.

Source: PA Center for Beef Excellence Inc. with information from the CME Report, Cattle Buyers Weekly and other resources. For more information call 717-705-1689.

Imports offset smaller calf crop Feedlots have been able to hold inventories at high levels as imports of feeder cattle have partially offset a decline in the U.S. calf crop. But they will not be able to maintain feedlot inventories in the coming months. The short supply of feeder cattle, masked by the impacts of two years of drought, is finally catching up with the feeding industry. So say Oklahoma State University’s Derrell Peel in an analysis of available feeder cattle supplies and COF inventories.

The Sept. 1 inventory of 10.637M head was 0.6 percent lower than last year but still 4.5 percent above the same period in 2010, he says. In fact, except for the slight decrease from last year, the September inventory was the largest since 2006. This is remarkable given that the U.S. calf crop has decreased every year since 2006. The last

annual increase in the calf crop was in 1995. The 2012 calf crop is projected at 34.5M head, down 6.8 percent from 2006 and down 2.3 percent from last year, he says. But increased imports of feeder cattle from Mexico and Canada partially offset decreased calf production. The increase from 2010 through the year to date in 2012 equals roughly 40 percent of the decrease in the calf crop over the period, says Peel.

Latest USDA data show that imports of feeder cattle from Canada and Mexico are up 207,890 head from the same period in 2011. Mexico accounted for most of the increase, with imports to Sept 22 up 164,905 head or 18.3 percent. Canadian imports to Sept 15 were up 42,985 or 16.8 percent. At the current pace, Mexico could contribute an additional 220,000 head by the end

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Culpeper Agricultural Enterprise, Culpeper, VA Selling 60+ Bulls-Angus, Braunvieh, BraunAngus, Hereford 100 Females - Purebred & Commercial

DISTELBURGER R LIVESTOCK K SALES,, INC. Middletown, NY (845)) 344-71700 buycows@warwick.net

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Farm Machinery For Sale 2 GRAVITY FLO WAGONS on 8 ton running gears with high floatation tires; John Deere 64 rake with dolly wheel. 540-270-6098

DISMANTLED MF TRACTORS FOR PARTS Large Selection Available

USED TRACTORS & EQUIP. FOR SALE We Buy Tractors For Parts

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Farm Machinery For Sale

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Int’l. 20x7 Grain Drill Miller Pro Forage Boxes In Stock STANLEY’S FARM SERVICE

Farm Machinery For Sale JD BALER PARTS: Used, New Aftermarket and rebuilt. JD canopy new aftermarket, $750. Call for pictures. Nelson Horning 585-526-6705

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SPECIALIZING IN GRAIN BIN RELOCATION Parts & Service New Installations

MANY RECENT arrivals of combines, JD & Case IH. Prices lower due to drought!

Largest selection in Northeast. Zeisloft Eq. 800-9193322 NH LM445A TELEHANDLER. 6000# cap, remotes, silage bucket, full cab, $29,500 OBO. 585-469-0438

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Randolph, NY

RD Box 46 Klingerstown, PA

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No charge for estimates. Quick turn-around time. Send or bring to our shop, any make, any model. 518-284-2180

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’Vermeer WR20, 8 Wheel V-Rake.Call! ’08 McCormick MTX135, 4x4, Cab, 900 Hrs., Pristine Cond.........$60,000 ’08 Vermeer 5410 Round Baler, Net, 500 Bales, Exc. Cond............$16,900 Vermeer 605M, w/Net and Bale Ramp, Complete Rebuild (Belts, Chains, Sprockets) Wide Pickup........$19,900 Fanex 833T by Vicon 6 Rotor Tedder, Field Ready, Pull Type.............$4,500 ’05 McCormick CX85 Tractor, 1,400 Hrs., w/New Loader, Cab, 4x4 Dual Remotes................................$35,000 ’73 Ford 3000 8 Speed Manual, 1 Remote, Diesel, Good Rubber, No Rust!........................................$5,500 ’09 Vermeer 555XL w/Net Wrap, Good Condition...............................$10,900 NEW! HayMag 4 Rotor Tedders w/Hyd. Fold & Tilt, 18’.........................$4,995 McCormick is Offering Cash Discount with 0%-60 Month Financing on MC and CX Series Tractors!

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Feed, Seed, Grain & Corn TRICK OR TREAT: At De Dell Seeds, our seed corn price will remain at $136.00 per bag until Halloween. 519-4736175

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We’re #1 - Financing Available WE DELIVER! Certified Organic Growers Association $50 CASH for REFERRALS

CALL RICK (815) 979-7070 Hay - Straw For Sale

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750 LB. ROUND BALES Orchard Grass Mix Hay, Net Wrapped, Inside & Outside.

540-270-6098

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BIG SQUARE BALES, 1st cut, Timothy/Grass mix, $160.00 per ton, delivery available. Pat 518-361-4333 FOR SALE: Quality first & second cut big & small square bales. Delivered. 315-264-3900

ADEN BROOK FARMS Buying 2012 Crop All Grades Purchased Long Term Commitment Flatbeds and Vans Loaded Top Prices Paid on Scale Call Nick 845-901-1892 or 800-747-3811

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For Sale All Types Delivered Cell 717-222-2304 Growers, Buyers & Sellers Help Wanted

HUNTING/CAMPING PROPERTY

Available at Merrell Dairy, LLC a progressive 3000 cow dairy in Wolcott, NY. Compensation is based on experience.

Benefits include paid vacation and SIMPLE IRA. Health insurance is available. Opportunities for growth and continuing education are provided. A self motivated, responsible individual is desired.

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Silos, Repairs, Silo Equipment

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REPLACEMENT SILO DOORS & HARDWARE AGRI-DOOR Jake Stoltzfus 649 South Ramona Rd. Myerstown, PA 17067

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Tractor Parts NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS: John Deere 10,20,30,40 series tractors.

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Large inventory! We ship.

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Trucks ’07 CHEVROLET 2500, 4x4, gas, AT, new Cannonball hay bed, $18,500; 2000 Ford F3509, extra cab, 4x4, 7.3 diesel, 6spd., new Cannonball hay bed, $18,500; 2006 Ford F350, extra cab, 4x4, 6spd., diesel 6.0, new Cannonball hay dump bed, $22,500; 2006 Ford F250, extra cab, AT, 4x4, new Butler hay bed, $18,500; 2001 Dodge 2500, extra cab, diesel, AT, new Butler hay bed, $15,500; 2001 Ford F250, 4x4, gas, AT, new Cannonball spike bed, $9,500.

Bonny View Farms, Raphine, Virginia 540-460-3535

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Calendar of Events MID-ATLANTIC REGION 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

OCT 16 Robeson Co. Area Beekeepers Assoc.

Monthly Meeting O.P. Owens Ag. Center, 455 Canton Rd., Lumberton, NC. 6:30 pm meal, 7 pm educational meeting. Contact Nelson Brownlee, 910-6713276.

OCT 18 SSCC Meeting Maryland Department of Agriculture headquarters, 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis. 9:30 AM. Meeting is open to the public and will focus on soil conservation and water quality program implementation and policy development. Contact Louise Lawrence, 410-841-5863.

OCT 23, NOV 14, 20 MARCH 26, DEC 17 Nutrient Management Voucher Training and Renewal courses Courses are for farm operators who apply nutrients to 10 or more acres of cropland. The two-hour nutrient applicator training course is required once every three years for these operators.

Oct 23: 8-10 PM. Worcester County. Offered w/ a separate private pesticide applicator recertification. Call 410-632-1972 for details and to register.

Nov 14: 10 AM-noon or 1-3 PM. Frederick County.

Nov 20: 8-10 PM. Somerset County. Offered w/ a separate private pesticide applicator recertification. Call 410-651-1350 for details and to register.

March 26: 10 AM-noon or 13 PM. Call 301-600-1594 to register.

Dec 17: 8-10 PM. Wicomico County. Offered w/ a separate private pesticide applicator recertification. Call 410-749-6141 for details and to register.

OCT 24 Farm Taxation Issues Workshop O.P. Owens Ag Center, 455 Caton Rd, Lumberton, N.C. Workshop begins with registration at 8 AM and con-

cludes at 4:45 PM. Cost is $139. Call 919-515-2261.

On Internet at www. continuingeducation.ncsu.e du Montgomery County Sustainable Landscapes Bus Tour Montgomery County Conservation District Office, 143 Level Rd., Collegeville, PA. Visit a variety of sites that incorporate green stormwater practices, native plantings and more. Contact Jessica Sprajcar, 717 798 2409 or e-mail jsprajcar@pa.gov.

On Internet at http://www.dcnr.state.pa.u s/conservationscience/ sustainablelands/ conferences/index.htm OCT 24-27 National FFA Convention & Expo Indianapolis, IN. On Internet at www.ffa.org OCT 26-27 Virginia Tech Small Scale and Niche Market Pork Production Conference Tidewater AREC, Suffolk, VA. Contact Mark Estienne, 757-657-6450, ext. 408, or e-mail mestienn@vt.edu.

OCT 27 King George FFA Farm Toy Show King George High School Gum, 10100 Foxes Way, King George, VA. 9 AM - 3

PM. Call for more info.. Contact Stan Mitchell, 540-7753535, ext 2181 or 804-4455468.

OCT 30-31, 2012 10th Annual Small Farm Family Conference Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, VA. Keynote speaker will be Archie Hart, special assistant to North Carolina’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Registration is $10/person. Deadline is Oct 26. Contact Mark Klingman, 804-524-5960 or email mjklingman@vsu.edu.

NOV 3 MAEF Banquet and Auction Michael’s, 8 Ave, 7220 Grayburn Dr., Glen Burnie, Maryland. $65/person. Call to purchase tickets. Proceeds benefit MAEF’s agricultural education outreach programs. Call 410-9399030.

NOV 7 Southeast Strawberry Expo Hilton Charlotte University Place, Charlotte, NC. Farm tour, workshops, educational sessions and trade show. Contact NC Strawberry Association, 919542-4037 or e-mail info@ncstrawberry.com. On Internet at www.ncstraw berry.com

NOV 7-8 Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo DCU Center, Worcester MA. Call 802-865-5202 or e-mail info@negreenhouse.org.

NOV 10 Cornell Bred Heifer Replacement Sale Contact Dr. Michael Baker, 607-255-5923 or e-mail mjb28@cornell.edu.

NOV 13 Western PA Vegetable and Small Fruit Seminar Butler, PA. Contact Lee Stivers, 724-228-6881 or email ljs32@psu.edu or Bob Pollock, 724-465-3880 or rcp3@psu.edu.

NOV 20 Dairy Farm Family Transition Planning workshop Central Penn Conference Center in Summerdale, PA. Workshop will be held from 8:30 AM - 3:15 PM. It is designed to better equip participants to work through the complex steps of transferring ownership and management of a dairy business to the next generation. Cost is $50/family, with up to 5 family members welcomed to attend. In addition, one nonfamily trusted advisor or planning team facilitator is required to attend the work-

shop with the family unit.

Call 717-346-0849.

On Internet at www.center fordairyexcellence.org Planning for Farm Succession Central Penn Conference Center, Summerdale, PA. The Center for Dairy Excellence and the S. Dale High Center for Family Business are hosting a workshop on Dairy Farm Family Transition Planning. Check online for more information or to register. Click on “Building a Bridge Transition Planning Workshop” under News and Events. On Internet at www.centerfordairy excellence.com Robeson Co. Area Beekeepers Assoc.

Monthly Meeting O.P. Owens Ag. Center, 455 Canton Rd., Lumberton, NC. 6:30 pm meal, 7 pm educational meeting. Contact Nelson Brownlee, 910-6713276.

JAN 13-16 American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2013 Annual Meeting Nashville, TN. Farm Bureau members register for the 94th AFBF annual meeting through state Farm Bureaus.

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DON’T MISS OUT! OUR ANNUAL STALLION DIRECTORY IS COMING. DEADLINE WILL BE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13TH! LISTINGS WILL APPEAR IN THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY ISSUE!

by Hope Holland There are many different breeds of goats and those breeds have been adapted to the service of humans in the making of milk, very tasty cheeses and meat as well. Goats are known to be friendly, strong minded and curious companions to their human owners. Most people who keep goats find them to be excellently suited to the needs of the smaller farm.

Goats are healthy animals who keep well on less than perfect forage.

Goats’ milk is in high demand for people who are otherwise allergic to milk and its by-products and even, as many have found out, as a substitute milk for orphaned foals and puppies that are almost ready for weaning to help them in the transition to “real” food.

However, the sheer amusement value of goats has not been explored thoroughly in any well-defined or scientific way, except by the person who has come into the keeping of a goat and realized that there is just something about that

goat that seems to be, well, different.

Enter Monika Klinefelter, who is used to dealing with smaller versions of animals. She has a limited kennel of Parson Jack Russell Terriers, a small group of Mini Horses and now a mini goat named Diana. Ms. Klinefelter found out about the entertainment value of a goat when she conceived the idea of taking her goat, which answers to the name Diana, to a retirement home when her own mother’s failing health required that she enter the home as a resident.

Mother May had always

loved the animals on Monika’s few acres and the little goat particularly amused her as it had lived in the house in a dog crate after it came to Monika as an orphan and was simply too small to be put out in the barn or pasture.

If you have thought of taking a goat along to a retirement home, the further idea of dressing the goat up in a small child’s princess outfit doesn’t seem like such a stretch.

And so it happened that Diana was introduced to bathing and being attired in a lovely outfit of pink and purple satin and gauze, complete with hat,

and the concept of Diana, Fairy Princess became a reality.

The little goat loved it and the old folks thought it was a hoot.

The only drawback was

that people who passed the white van on the road may or may not have been able to cope with looking up and seeing a goat in a cone-shaped pink and lavender hat

looking out the passenger’s side window but, really, who cares if they couldn’t take a joke? Certainly Diana, Fairy Princess, didn’t let it spoil her day.

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Diana, Fairy Princess

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