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The Huron Expositor, 1982-09-15, Page 30B14 — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEPTEMBER 15, 1982 41. CONSTRUCTION of the new Seafortb and district community ee.ntres is progressing favourably, and donations for the new complex are still coming in. Representing Pioneer HI -Bred Limited, Keith McMillan, left, Huron district sales manager and Oliver Ramseyer, Perth district sales manager, presented a cheque to Ken Campbell, right, chairman of the new arena committee, The cheque amounted to $5,000. Mr. Campbell has purchased the old arena which he will use to store corn. (Wassink J ; y photo) i .'Corn f•• ,ro,ug 1. ho.s C�MQOG� �aQ> tg1@W BY RICHARD SMELSKI, Swine Specialist Because of the low prices forecast for corn, there seems to be a very favoured altern- ative to market corn through hogs this fall. One price forecaster very simply pre- dicted - get a hold of some of those empty pig barns from the bankers and market your cheap corn through hogs this tall. Remember you get nothing for nothing. Yes. the 26: I corn: hog ratio favours put- ting corn through hogs. but let's now define some of the criteria around this ratio. 1) Let's not make the mistake of the beef feedlots and let's pencil the purchase of those feeder pigs. What price can ybu afford to pay before you Tose on matketing corn through hogs? Know your own costs. not someone ekes. • 2) Take a look why there is an empty barn. Not every empty barn is capable of producing hogs, especially the empty ones. There's a reason why the barn•is empty and take a close look at the ventilation and pig flow. 31 Study your source of piglets. Hemophilius pneu- monia and swine dysentry have not left the pig indus- try. Raising hogs is not as easy as forecasting prices, especially with some of the deadly diseases. 4) Take a look when you're going to buy these feeder pigs. Corn harvest is a busy season. so you're not likely to look after them properly and late fall has some real temp- erature fluctuations. Do some planning and budgeting before you jump into hogs. 5) Lastly -and most import- ant, the corn:hog ratio is only important if you can produce lean pork efficiently. The last Pork News and Views showed a return of 538.75 per finish- ing hog. Calculated another way it could also be said that it gives you 57,66 per bushel of corn for your total farm efforts. But let's change the costs probably closer to the Ontario level of production rather than goals • for example, $80. for the total weaner costs, feed conver- sion of 4.2, 5% mortality and a newer barn. Now with these figures you are getting 52.37 per bushel of corn. The important thing is to be as realistic as possible when plugging in your costs. You niay be losing less money by selling your corn at 52,50 per bushel than doing a poor job putting corn through hogs. M & M MEATS M&MMEATS X X ad. M fin W it X [F©m Does innoculant cut costs? This is just one claim being made in a recent color adver- tisement promoting a silage innoculant. It further stated that this innoculant cuts spoilage and heat losses. 1 read the company literature that 1 had on this product, and then phoned several other professionals. Harvey Wright, the Soils and Crops Specialist for Ox- ford County, wonders about the need for any silage innoculant in our northern climate. He suggested that there are very few problems in making good silage in Ontario is you ' use good techniques. This means cut silage at around 65°%a moist- ure and fill the silo fast. Cut the silage short and use a good silo. Silage additives will not substitute for poor management. If you have a poor pack, cracks in the silo or too much air getting at the silage, you will still have spoilage. University of Georgia nu- trionist Marshall McCullough emphasizes additives are not a substitute for poor silage management. Furthermore, Mclullougtt believes you can expect greater results using an additive if you operate in the southern half of the United States. This means that trials done in the south- ern United States should show a greater response using innoculants. -When you read results of silage additive trials, check to see where they were done. 1 talked to Dr. J.G. Bu- chanan -Smith of the Animal Science Department of the University of Guelph. He has tested the product in question and found no advantage, to feeding treated corn silage vs feeding silage the conven- tional way. (Perhaps the difference is due to our more northern climate). Dr. Bu- chanan -Smith stated that his research showed this innocu- lant had no affect on the pH, lactic acid production, acetic acid, butyric acid or the gross energy of treated silage. 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BOX 13.75 WHILE QUANTITIES LAST ••RESTAURANT CUT 1 EAT FIXINS AT BUDGET PRICES IMMI meat shop ` l Fri M & M IIA • r 455 ERIE STREET STRATFORD 273.4690 M &M s it 3 a tot gray areas of farming•. It is one of the few areas where a company can sell a product without government research to back these claims. Y,ou certainly can not buy pesti- cides without government proof that they are both beneficial if used correctly and safe to the handler. They must also be safe to the consumer of the final pro- ducts. Silage additives and innoculants do not have to pass these tests. KNOW THE COST • BENEFITS So why are we writing this article? 1 guess it is on point of principle. You can not assume anything about silage additives. For instance, if Pioneer sells you good corn hybrids this does not mean their•silage innoculant is of value to you on your farm. You have to look at the proof they offer to show their innoculants benefit. These benefits must be tvorth the cost. especially in tough eco- nomic times. Corn hybrids are tested in government licencing and performance trials. They are further tested by extensive Canad 19 industry and Soil and Crop improvements on farm test- ing programs. But silage innoculants are not as thoroughly tested. In fact, the Ontario researchers can find no consistent benefit to using any silage innoculant now being sold. And there are no on-farm tests to show any value to these products. I mentioned these points to the company in question and they state they have their own farm tests from the ttnirri States. [checked their results and you be the judge. 1 have a summary of numerous tests. I point out some particulars of two of these summaries. In one test, each ton of silage that was treated with one pound of additive (cost about $1.25 per pound) re- turned approximately 1.4 pounds extra beef. Is that enough to pay for the cost? In another test involving haylage, the control group of 25 cows produced 47.4 pounds of milk per day. The 25 cows receiving the treated feed averaged 49.9 pounds of milk per day. That is a difference of 2.5 pounds of milk per cow. 1 suggest that if spends 15% Some pertinent facts from Wooten for the Survival of Aguculture, -Canadians spend 15 per cent of their disposable in• come on food: England 25 per cent: Russia and Poland - 50 per cent of food is available); in ma 1\ Asian countries • 80 per cent. -the farmer receives only .10-35 per. cent of n hat the consumer pays for the pro- duce. -only 4 per cent of Cana- dians live on farms. but 25 per cent make their living as a direct result of agriculture • marketing boards ensure a reliable food supply at a staple price. Commodities marketed under supply man- agement program, have had a smaller price rise than the overall rate of food prices in the last 5 years. 4:C si •our farm population of 4 per cent produces enough food to feed the other 9¢ per cent and -also enough to make us one of the very few net exporters of food in the world .each farmer can produce enough food for 75 other people -the Ontario government spends more on urban transit than the entire provincial agricultural budget -urban dwellers are subsi- dized up to 80 per cent for their water systems -about two-thirds of the 19'9 food imports consisted o��f1�products also produced in Vanada •farm businesses in Can- ada employ about 480.000 people •in total. the agri-food businesses constitute about onc•fifth of our GNP you take two groups of 25 cows and feed them the same thing there will be a differ- ence of at least 2.5 pounds of milk per day between the two groups. ulunts. 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