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# Farm Supplement of The Canadian Statesman and Newcastle Independent, Wednesday, March 20,1991 Results Used in Herd Management Milk U Farm-Tp^tpd Production is Kg y t0 Ceding World i/l/t1/ I/O -A. vv # ill/ JL V-z O £/ C/ VX/ From Paere 8 rigation. Some of th< they have the best herd p„s- Farmers need they can make facts so sure that sible, says Glenn Stapleton One way to obtain the Stapleton Farm From Page 7 while Marvin works at the Oshawa Ski Club in Kirby. In the summer, when all the work for the day is finished, finished, a visitor to the farm may find some of the Staple- tons at the pool. The farm provides for the needs of three families. All of them reap benefits from having a healthy dairy herd. That's not bad for a farm which started over a century 1^ . ,r'.. UI . X ago with 50 acres. The farm now consists of over 600 acres and is one the entire family is proud of. When asked if he ever thought about another type of work; Glenn replied: "I don't know anything else,, It is a business that you have to like." Hé adds: "The boys must like it too or else they wouldn't be with us." While Jeff Stapleton reads off the numbers of the cows to be tested, Marvin Stapleton prints the numbers numbers on the covers of the sample bottles to be used in this month's test. milk test, he added! The test itself is done during two milkings. The Stapletons' March test was performed on the evening of March 4 and the morning of March 5. Test samples were taken from each cow milked and; ut into sample bottles num- ered according to the identifying identifying numbers on the cows' tags. The one-ounce bottles were then sent by courier to a laboratory where tests are done to find out the percentages percentages of protein and butterfat for the milk of each cow tested. tested. The information from the tests is given to the farmers' through two reports. The first is a Cow Production Monthly Report and the other other is the Monthly Herd Summary. Summary. The Cow Production Monthly Report is used by the farmer to decide what types of feed and the amounts of feed an individual individual cow should be given. This report also helps in the selection selection process and general management of the dairy herd. The Monthly Herd Production Production Report gives the farmer information on each cow including the test day. It also covers the percentages percentages of butterfat and protein in the milk, accumulated production and projections of production for completed lactation. This réport includes the summarization of herd infor-. mation so the farmer can compare different groups of. cows and evaluate the herd's performance over time. A cell count done during the test can also be used to determine if a cow may be fighting an infection. sume that it's normal. Production agriculture is still the basis of agriculture. If production per hectare cannot be increased, the hungry of the world, many yet unborn, will surely starve. There have been some mistakes made in the past, but with some fine tuning, tuning, agriculture production will not be dramatically changed in the future. Sure, there is and will be increasing increasing care in development and From Page 8 use of pesticides; there will be continuing concern for sustainability of our land; there will be continued efforts efforts to utilize fertilizer more efficiently (through genetic genetic improvement and management management techniques); and we will continue to enjoy the safest food in the world. Farmers are consumers too; they carë about food safety. Farmers know the value of a productive topsoil better than anyone else. They value value clean water for their families, families, for livestock and for ir rigation. Some of the excesses of the past were exacerbated exacerbated by quest for economic economic survival. Government programs have attempted to allay these somewhat in recent recent years. However, the. current trends in food production/population production/population will, in the foreseeable future, eliminate eliminate the surpluses of the past few years, strengthen commodity prices, and bring stability back to the agricultural agricultural industry. Production agriculture will be respectable, respectable, profitable, and more es- • sential than ever. Think of us for all your Building Needs • Decks • Fencing • Steel Siding and Roofing • Shingles and much more. Come in for a FREE ESTIMATE ^ ORONO FUEL & LUMBER Station St., Orono 983-9167 WHITBY - OSHAWA'S #1 IMPORT TRUCK DEALER PRESENTS THEIR MARCH BREAK SALES EVENT! 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