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I RAPP-CHATS
By: W, H. Lyn»
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.Wednesday, February 16th is . “Livestock Day” at the annual Middleburg Pasture School to be held in. the community center beginning at 10 km.
Some farmers are modernizing their operations because they realize narrowing margins of profits in farming make such; necessary. Also farmers are beginning to apply dollar and cents evaluation on many of their enterprises. Thus what could be more timely than the first topic on the program “The Economic Evaluation for Forages in Beef Production.’* • What may be economical on one farm can easily be anything but on another though ’they both; be producing slaughter steers or feeder calves. • At the Middleburg Pasture and Forage Crop Research Center 3500 lbs. of hay and 230 lbs. of beef was produced per acre in the dry year of 1953, The beef represents gains from 165 days of grazing—the hay afforded a fair daily ration for the remaining 200 days of the year—almost enough for a beef sow. This is efficient production from the standpoint of land use and soil conservation (no row crops) but whether or not the operation was economical is another question
What is the most economical and efficient pasture and forage program for your farm ? Could well be you could reach a more accurate discussion if you’ll take the time to go to. Middleburg on the 16th. “Band Seeding of Forage Crops” is the subject of another timely topic for discussion. Then too during the aftefnoon Dr. Blaser will report on the Beef grazing and related experiments at the Middleburg Station. Soils-topographydimate and the tattle are as much like Rappahannock as you can find anywhere—it’s the sort of research that can and should mean much to the beef industry of rite county, that is if your livestock men have the industry to go see and find lout. There is not much point in your tax dollar being spent if you don’t reap the benefits. The livestock men from Roanoke, Tappahannock, Madison, Charlottesville, Staunton are finding out while the Rappahannock farthers stay home.
Dr. Harry Love, head V.P.I. Agricultural Economics Depart
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