The Rural Voice, 1999-05, Page 40Farmers in the Know,
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LYNN LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS LTD.
R.R. 1, Kincardine, Ont.
519-395-2615
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training and parts to keep them working for years to come. He's
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silo unloaders are an important part of your feeding system.
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Rissler
The Original Wooden
Conveyor and Taper Board Feeder
• Wood Construction with oak rails or optional Poly rails
• Simple installation - Simple maintenance
• #55 or #62 Steel detachable chain with Poly flights
• Adjustable slip clutch, cast sprockets, greasable bearings
• 3 coats polyurethane on surfaces in contact with feed
• Painted exterior surfaces
• CONVEYOR available up to 170 ft. length
• FEEDER available up to 80 ft. length
• 12 1'2" to 30 1 2" widths
OPTIONS
• Inclines • Declines • Dropouts
• Covers • Hoppers
WE ARE THE DISTRIBUTORS FOR RISSLER MANUFACTURING
For your local dealer call:
OLIVET SALES & SERVICE
RR #2 Drayton, Ontario NOG 1P0
ELMER M. BRUBACHER
(519) 638-2555 Fax: (519) 638-2031
36 THE RURAL VOICE
depend on horse -power and small-
scale equipment, is a very
manageable use of their land. The
farmers sell the crcam for cashflow
and feed the skim milk to veal calves
and hogs.
/t's a totally different strategy than
main stream agriculture where
even the farmer with a 35-50 cow
herd is increasingly considered too
small to be economical but for the
OId Order farmers its a viable one,
Bennett says. The majority of OId
Order Amish make a living on Tess
than 80 acres and 30 per cent get by
on Tess than 75. Bennett related the
story of one family that supported
five children and one set of
grandparents on 43 acres using small
scale dairy and vegetable production.
The key to Old
Order farm
economics is
diversification
In another case a family with a 14
acre farm grossed $30,000 from eight
acres of vegetables and $11,000 from
selling eggs from 500 hens — and
because their input costs were low
they got to keep most of it.
"The key is diversification," says
Bennett of the Old Order economy.
Though he has modern
conveniences, Christian Ropp farms
by the same philosophy as the OId
Order farmers. He has a 100 -acre
farm with 72 acres clear. When he
took over the farm from his father in
1958 he shipped cream in the winter
and milk in the summer except on
Sundays. After shipping milk in cans
was halted, he went out of dairy
altogether because he didn't want to
go to a bulk tank and pipeline. For a
while he tried a cow -calf operation
but his purebred milking polled
Shorthorns produced more milk than
the calves could use. He bought
cream quota and went back to
shipping cream, feeding the skim
milk to livestock.
The Ropps' problem began in the
mid -eighties when the family headed
to northern Ontario and sold their 15
cow herd. They sold the quota to two
farmers with the understanding they
could buy it back if they wanted to.
They kept one cow to keep their