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JAMESWAY PARTS AVAILABLE KEITH SIEMON Plumbing — Farm Equipment R.R.4, Walton, Ont., 345-2734 MUILOS EVER YTKING IF OA BERG HAS THE BEST —BARN CLEANER Farm Systems Grain a Fied Handling Specialists FOR COMPLETE .. DRYING, STORAGE AND ELEVATING SYSTEMS Your Headquarters for... • Pedlar Beatty *Modern Mill •Westeel Rosco Grain Bins *Cardinal Bucket Elevators *Super B Grain Dryers • Underground manure systems • Ventilation systems • "Sweet" Bucket Elevators *FREE ESTIMATES* Doug Arnold Ross JoIlIffe Larry Smith Stratford 273-1671 Stratford 273-0332 Atwood 356-9018 F arm Newton Ont ystems "rafted Tel. 595-8182 THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 25, 1979 13. Canfarm in the black by 1983 Beef Congress hears By 1985, Canfarm ex- pects to service 25 to 30 per cent of the commercial farms in Canada. The message that Canfarm will be even bigger and better now that it's a private farm management co-op, was delivered by Lindsay Barfoot, the new general manager at the Ontario Beef Congress held in London. Mr. Barfoot told the cattle- men that by 1983, the transfer of the Canfarm operation to private industry will be complete, and the business "should be into the black." In recent years Mr. Bar- foot told the audience, farm- ing has become a capital intensive industry, and the average inventory in running Majestic picnic at About 35 members and guests of the Majestic Women's Institute held a picnic on the spacious lawn at the home of Doris McCall on Thursday, July 12. Anyone wishing to attend the play "The Sound of Music" at Grand Bend on August 29, is asked to get in touch with Dorothy Steffler or Doris McCall by August 1. a farm is approaching $% million, with many farmers seeing cash turnovers of over $100,000 a year in their operations. Mr. Barfoot said in 1970, bank loans for farmers to. tailed $1 billion and now that total is over $6 billion. The manager said when Canfarm was started in 1968, as a joint effort of provincial and federal governments, the primary emphasis was on developing a farm accoun- ting and bookkeeping system using computer technology. He said by 1978, a com- prehensive computerized farm accounting system had been developed to adapt to the needs of any Canadian farmer. Now he said several other WI enjoy McCall's Plans are being made. for the 40th Anniversary of the Majestic Women's Institute in October or November. Fun and games were en- joyed with Jane deVries, Leona Armstrong, Dorothy Steffler and Marie Mc- Cutcheon being in charge. A lovely pot-luck lunch was enjoyed. computerized packages are being developed for other planning and management activities on the farm. Mr. Barfoot said Canfarm eventually plans to develop a field service network with territorial offices across the country - as many as 70 field offices by 1983. In addition to the accounting and book- keeping services, Canfarm now has a sow herd manage- ment program, a recently- developed beef finishing pro- gram, and is offering a variety of consulting ser- vices. In the future, Mr. Barfoot said, Canfarm will be assis- ting farmers interested in on-farm computer services. The new Canfarm beef finishing program, intro- duced recently, balances fac- tors affecting feedlot oper- ations, including items such as implants, breeds of cattle, general management, ex- pected markets as well as obvious items such as the quality of roughage and ration balancing. Mr. Barfoot said this pro- gram was developed after working with 150 beef feedlot operators. The manager said more beef producers are having their feeds analyzed to find the most profitable rations for their operation. He said corn silage tests alone have shown a difference of from six to 12 per cent crude protein in the rations when they come from different fields. He said the variations could be due to fertilization practices, soil quality and the varieties of corn being grown. Mr. Barfoot told cattlemen if they didn't know inform- ation like this, and started feeding rations without knowing the necessary sup- plements they should be adding, "then you could be in for a rude awakening."