The Rural Voice, 1988-10, Page 58FARM
& INDUSTRIAL
MANUFACTURING
& REPAIR
• Portable Welding
• Millwrighting
• Cast & Aluminium
Welding
• Custom Fabricating
• General Machining
• Ornamental
Railings
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WINGHAM
off Hwy. 4
519-357-2727
Spike Bakker 519-528-2520
PLOW PARTS
COMBINE PARTS
— concaves
— cylinder bars
— elevator chains
by
new -life feeds
JEROME
FEED & SEED
Lucknow
(opposite the sale barn)
519-528-2447
ROLLER BLOWER MILLS
• 1200-3600 bu./hr. capacity with low horsepower requirements
* 54" blower fills the tallest silos
• Exclusive Mid -West sample door allows sampling while roller
is running
• 15 new & used units in stock
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ADVICE
"SCORE" IMPROVES
SWINE OPERATIONS
OMAF swine specialist Jim Dal-
rymple has been urging producers to
improve their "SCORE" — Sanitation,
Closed Herd, Observation, Records,
and Environmental Control.
Attention to these five points will
not, or should not, require a great deal of
additional borrowed capital, he says,
and improvements in sow productivity,
herd health, labour efficiency, and mar-
ket hog performance should be marked.
When working with lenders or fi-
nancial advisors, Dalrymple says pro-
ducers should have production informa-
tion readily available:
• inventory: number of boars, sows,
and all ages of market hogs,
• sow productivity: pigs/sow/year or
pigs/farrowing crate,
• piglet mortality,
• approximate days to market,
• market index.
He has also suggested that when a
banker or advisor is visiting a farm to
assess management level, these consid-
erations indicate the degree of control:
• sows/farmer or partner (50-75),
• health concerns: barn door locked,
isolation area for new stock, antibiotic
use and storage, veterinary program,
• records: sows identified, record
cards over farrowing crates, importance
of records to producer,
• efficient use of farrowing crates (3/
4 capacity), • OPPMB printout,
• general cleanliness,
• pig comfort (cleanliness, feed
waste, noise level).0
BLOWING SOIL
ADDS UP LOSSES
Soil scientists in Alberta have re-
ported that if you can see soil blowing on
a windy day, at least five tons per acre
are being lost.
They add that it costs up to $34,000
an acre to replace nutrients lost to wind
erosion.
Even if it were practical to spend this
amount of money, they say, it takes
about 25 years of intensive management
to replace one inch of topsoil lost to
erosion.0