IOMORROW’S
TOP
FARMER can be
recognized
TODAY
The characteristics of top farmers show remark
able similarities when personalities are eliminated
and you look only at their farm account books.
Many of the rtate 'universities regularly analyze and
study record books of cooperators located through
out their states. What do these analyses show?
High profit crop producers have a greater pro
portion of their farms in high income crops. In
states such as Indiana, Illinois or Iowa, top operators
will have 5% to 10% more of their land in com and
soybeans than will lower profit'farmers on the same
size farms. In states further west and north, the
higher profit operators will run more wheat and
perhaps potatoes or dry beans rather than barley
or flax. They know what crop does best for them;
then they grow more of it.
You'll nearly always find the really top farmers
using more fertilizer than the lower profit operators.
But you’ll also find they have a better organized
and planned fertility program. In other words, they
take a balanced approach to fertilizing. Basic lime
or phosphate requirements aren’t ignored.
When crops are sold almost all the better op
erators receive a higher price per bushel than the
average farmers. This is often due to the fact that
they produce more uniform, higher quality prod
ucts. They also keep up on market prices and trends
and have a basic plan of marketing in mind.
On the livestock side the most outstanding char
acteristic you’ll notice on top profit farms is that the
livestock enterprise is much larger than average.
Best profits are partially achieved through having a
high volume operation. They wifi often sell more
livestock per breeding animal owned. For example,
they’ll sell more market hogs per sow kept; market
more feeders per cow due to a higher calving rate.
High profit livestock producers also consistently
show a much greater return per dollar of feed feci.
Top farmers will choose their livestock enter
prises based on their strengths and limitations. If
labor is scarce, you’ll usually find they will have
cattle feeding enterprises; if labor is plentiful, they
may be dairymen. But generally they look for enter
prises which have low labor requirements in rela
tion to gross income.
Better farmers can usually keep overhead costs
down since they have a larger livestock enterprise
to cover these costs. They will usually spend more
money to do the job where the profit prospects look
encouraging too.
Confinement hog finishing is catching on fast in all areas of the country. Top-notch
farmers like confinement finishing since they can get faster, more efficient gains
from using carefully mixed complete rations and they are able to make more
profit from cropping the land than using it for hog pasture. While labor efficiency
is not much better with confinement than with well managed pasture programs,
it's possible through the use of automated equipment to reduce the effort and
drudgery required.
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Terra ycin in feed used
crease nilk production
Tests with over 2300 dairy cows over a 186-day
lactation period showed that Iferramycin in
creased milk production by 0.87 lb. per cow per
day.
There were no detectable milk residues where
Terramycin was fed at the recommended level of
75 mg. per cow daily.
This was shown by both milk assays and by
testing for cheese and other culture-retarding
activity.
And Thrramycin produced a profit of nearly
$7 for every $1 invested.**
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Science for the world's well-being*
Careful attention to all management details, such as regular
systematic fly control, is the reason why most successful
dairymen are able to get a higher return for every dollar
of feed fed than do average farmers. Studies at several
colleges have shown that regular spraying with a good
knock-down spray plus a repellent will pay off in extra dol
lars of milk produced. A complete control program for flies
requires clean premises, use of a good larvicide in areas
where you can't clean regularly, a residual spray for build
ing interior, plus animal spraying at milking time. In areas
where face flies are a problem, a special syrup-insecticide
mixture may be required to keep them under control.