The Rural Voice, 1978-08, Page 44Swine Al
reports soles,
membership up
Woodstock: Membership in the Ontario
Swine A.I. Association has increased to 502
swine producers in the past year. "Sales of
semen and equipment have increased
47%." Jim Wilkins. General Manager,
told members who attended the annual
meeting on July 5th at Western Ontario
Breeders in Woodstock. "We hope to
double this growth rate in the coming year
Jim stated.
Several factors have contributed to this
succes story. Seventeen training courses.
attended by 324 Participants (some
Husband and wife teams) have been given
this past year. Also. the use of frozen
semen. even in the area that is serviced
with same day delivery for chilled liquid
semen, is showing great acceptance .
President Warren Stein reported that
"possibly the most important factor has
been the extra revenues gained from
export sales which help the As-
sociation to function more economically at
the local level." During the past year the
Swine A.I. Association successfully bid on
a Malaysian order for 44 live animals and
WO doses of semen. Negotiations are
underway for another 1000 ose!s order of
semen to Malaysia.
In the past 18 months General Manager
Jim Wilkins has travelled extensively and
given courses in the U.K., Jamaica,
Holland, Italy, New Zealand and
Singapore.
"The future for Ontario Swine A.I. is
very bright," Warren Stein told the
meeting. "both at home and in the export
field as our industry enjoys the best health
status in the world. We have top genetics
and an R.O.P. programme that does'.
an excellentjob of evaluating our breed-
ing programme."
Guest speaker, Dr. Al Christian, a
renowned swine breeder and associate at
Iowa State University. showed slides of the
type of market pig he is trying to develop.
"The ideal hog" said Dr. Christian "can
stay lean and mature later. This is our idea
of a hog with profitablity."
The following swine producers were
elected to the Board of Directors: Paul
Bayer. Woodstock: Angus Campbell. St.
Thomas: Murray Faris. Bradford; Don
Henry. Bluevale: Gerald Hope. Mossley;
Jud Martin . St.Thomas; George Proctor
Brussels; Warren Stein. Woodstock; Ron
Urquhart. Arva.
During the Board meeting which was
HEAD FOR
held immediately following the annual
meeting, Jud Martin, R.R.8, St. Thomas
was elected President and Paul Bayer,
R.R.5, Woodstock was elected Vice -Pre-
sident.
Grow barley for
cheapest protein
Farmers determining which crops to
grow for livestock feed 'should consider
the amount of nutrients that can be
produced on the available land, and the
relative cost of these nutrients. To measure
the nutrient value of livestock feeds'
examine the content of total digestible
nutrients (TDN) and the content of crude
protein.
The measureable costs per acre for
barley, oats. and grain corn were obtained
from production cost studies conducted in
southwestern Ontario during the 1976-77
crop year. These costs were adusted to
remove costs of marketing and storage.
After this adjustment. per acre costs were:
baley $126.68, oats $110.95, and corn
$217.84.
Production costs per pound of total
digestible nutrients amounted to 5 cents
for corn. 6.7 cents for barley. and 7.7 cents
for oats. One of the major reasons for the
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