Times Advocate, 1984-10-10, Page 17Huron farm and home news
Times -Advocate, October 10,1984
Now beef club gets going; so does time to baffle worms in dairy heifers
Since the Huron County
organization and information
meeting of August 23 at the
Clinton Legion Hall, the
Huron County Beef Herd Im-
provement Association ex-
ecutive that was formed has
drafted a set of weigh pro-
gram fees and guidelines, and
have hired two weighmen -
Jim Taylor of Wingham and
Bob Turner of Varna.
Jim will be concentrating
on the north end of the coun-
ty, while Bob will cover the
central and southern parts.
On September 26 the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food provided the Associa-
tion with a set of cattle scales
and calf weighing quickly
began starting on the farm of
Mack Webster.
Please note the October 15
deadline for 1984 enrolment.
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SPECIALISTS
• DEMONSTRATIONS
• SALES
• INSTALLATIONS
ALLEN STUBBS
SATELLITE LI ANTENNAS
296-5565— 786-4848
Forms are available at the
ClintonO.M.A.F. office. Pro-
ducers who have already
received their adjusted
weight indexes are finding the
data very useful.
We look forward to working
with the Huron producers on
this management incentive
program. For further infor-
mation contact John Bancroft
at 482-3428 or 1-800-265-7044 or
James Reesor at
1-800-265-8502.
In recent years there has
been considerable interest in
developing good worm con-
trol programs for dairy
replacement heifers.
Research trials have con-
sistently demonstrated im-
proved growth rates when
treatments for internal
parasites are used in young
growing animals which have
been exposed to pasture. The
life cycle of cattle worms
makes strategic timing of
treatment extremely
important.
In spring worms which
have survived on pasture,
over the winter, begin to
mature and attach
themselves to blades of grass
to be digested by grazing
heifers. Other worms have
spent the winter in the
heifer's gut in "arrested
development state", and
these worms, along with those
picked up on spring pasture,
develop into egg laying adults
while burrowed on the lining
of the digestive tract. Eggs
shed in manure hatch on the
pasture and go through
several larval stages before
being reingested.
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r' Preparing Your
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WARBLES
Spotton
A sirigle applica
tion placed on the
backline of cattle,
gives effective
grub and lice(
control.
Grubex
Ready to use grub
control
This life cycle repeats itself mer months. Cooler weather
several times during the sum- in the fall triggers a reaction
in the larvae which stop.their
development. If these larvae
A CORN DEMONSTRATION — A Jaques corn plot demonstration was held Satur-
day at the Bill Schode farm near Dashwood. From the left are Joe Miller, Jaques
Canadian distributor John Mclnersey, area agent Jack Ford and Sam Regier.
Researchers in the United
States are making great
strides in biotechnology.
Growing plant cells in
laboratory dishes and
transplanting genes between
plants or animals, they hope,
in the near future, to produce
crops that supply their own
fertilizers, to produce pigs
and cattle that grow twice as
fast as they do now, grow
plants that resist disease,
drought, herbicides and
salinity, and grow leaner
meat and more nutritious
grains.
All this research and
development is cutting years
off the traditional timetable
for growing both meats and
grains. The more immediate
effect of the research is in
major crops such as wheat,
barley, corn and soyabeans.
The researchers suggest that
major changes will come in
the 1990s. After the turn of the
new century. the technology
will make corn and wheat
crops look quite different than
they are today.
Leaves of the new corn
plants, for instance, will grow
vertically rather than
sideways so more plants can
be grown on less land.
The research focuses on
genes which makeup the
chemical blueprints for every
cell in every living thing.
Genes are like words in a
molecular Morse code. Using
sequences of chemicals as the
dots and dashes, a gene pro -
dues a protein that. causes a
particular response from the
cell. A one -cell organism has
about 3,000 genes. A plant can
require 1,000 timse as many
genes. So the research is com-
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plex and time-consuming.
So what has all this to do
with Canadian farming?
Canada may have to grap-
ple with reduced grain ex-
ports and balance of trade
problems unless more money
is spent on agricultural
research, says Clay Switzer,
president of the Agricultural
Institute of Canada.
Mr. Switzer spoke at the in-
stitute's annual conference in
Winnipeg in August and
issued a warning: The
agricultural industry is not
receiving any significant infu-
sion of new funds.
Although the country is in-
creasing research and
development spending from
0.9 to 1.5 percent of the gross
national product, there is a
gap between the size of grants
for science and for
agriculture.
"So far, the proportion for
agriculture has not been in-
creased even though we an-
nually indicate our unhap-
piness about the budget," said
Mr. Switzer. "This could lead
to difficulties down the road
because agriculture is impor-
tant to Canada."
More should be spent, for
instance, to alleviate soil and
water problems.
"Water has to be one of our
major concerns in the years
ahead," said Mr. Switzer of
the University of Guelph. "We
have to look at the total pic-
ture, including everything
from drainage to irrigation."
The institute is the national
organization for agronomists
and agricu itural scientists.
Within its ranks are the best
brains in the country for
agriculture of the future. It
will be men andwomen from
the Agricultural Institute of
Canada who will make the
changes in the lab which
could affect farming for the
next 100 years.
Yet, they cannot get enough
money from the senior
governments of Canada to do
the research necessary to
keep pace with the rest of the
developed world. Nor can
they get enough from food
companies. One reason, of
course, is that those food com-
panies are multinational and
their research money is spent
in the good ole Hew Hess of
Ilay. But that's another story.
Unless more funds are
available, these men and
women will be left in the back
forty.
And so will the rest of
Canada.
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QUEEN PLOWS - Middlesex Queen of the Furrow for
1984 Margaret Giles, shows her plowing skills at Satur-
day's county match at Sylvan.
Corbett
Livestock
(Former Sales Arena)
Now open under
New Management
We have purchased the sales yard and
will be operating a stocker and feeder
yard open 6 days a week. We have had
the barns completely steam cleaned
and updated to offer the best possible
service to our customers. We will be of-
fering all classes of stockers and
feeders, and quality western calves.
Drop in or call:
Corbett Livestock
(Div. of Brussels Stockyards Ltd.)
Bruce Coulter 294-6584.
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are ingested by heifers they
burrow into the gut wall
where they remain quite in-
active throughout the winter
and only develop into egg
laying adults the following
spring.
Occasionally, and for
reasons which are not well
understood, the worms in an
individual animal may
mature rapidly at some time
in mid to late winter causing
a clinical parasitism which
severely affects the health of
that animal.
Since worm egg counts in
mature from heifers show a
sharp increase, three or four
weeks after pasture turn out
in the spring, the most critical
time for strategic treatment
is three weeks after turning
heifers out to pasture, since
nearly all of the worms are in
the animal and few are on the
pasture itself.
Because, the worms are
very activ, at this time, any
commercially available
wormer will be quite effective
in preventing the increase in
worm loads over the summer
months. Programs which in-
volve a repeat treatment,
three 10 five weeks later
depending on the product use,
will be more effective than a
single treatment.
Since no new worms will be
picked up, once animals are
taken off pasture, a fall treat-
ment at this time reduces or
eliminates the worm burden
in the animal over the winter
and ensures that clinical
cases, as described above, do
not occur. Many worm con-
trol products are much less
effective in killing arrested
development worms and
treatment with these products
GET PAY BOOST
At the regular meeting on
October 1, the Middlesex
County Board of Education
ratified a collective agree-
ment with the Canadian
Union of Public Employees,
Local 1170, for the period Ju-
ly 1, 1984 to June 30, 1985.
The agreement represents
an increase of 5.5 percent on
all hourly wage rates. Hour-
ly wages range from $8.74 per
hour for a labourer to $13.80
for a maintenance A
tradesman as compared to
$8.36 and $13.21 respectively
for the 1983-84 contract year.
The retirement gratuity
was eliminated for all new
employees hired on or after
July 1, 1984.
The employees of C.U.P.E.
Local 1170 ratified the Collec-
tive Agreement at a meeting
on September 23.
may be of little value in the
fall.
Ivermectin is a relatively
new parasite control product
which has been shown to be
effective against warble
grubs, lice and both adult and
arrested development
worms. While this injectable
product is more expensive
and perhaps less convenient
than wormers added to feed,
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it's greater effectiveness
makes it a logical choice for
fall worming.
Because this drug also
destroys warble grubs and
provides excellent louse con-
trol, it should be applied prior
to November 30th, and it can-
not be used in lactating cows.
Jack Rodenburg,
Dairy Cattle Specialist,
Oxford County
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