FOR DAIRY FARMERS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31362, 6 May 1967, Page 9

FOR DAIRY FARMERS

rpHE committee of the Lincoln College farmers’ conference has organised a programme of papers of special interest to dairy farmers which will be given at the college on the first day of this year’s farmers’ conference on Wednesday, May 17. A feature of the programme will be a paper by Mr A. R. Candy on the raising of beef from the dairy herd. Mr Candy was deputy chairman of the Dairy Board and also a former chairman of the Dairy Products Marketing Commission. A leading Waikato farmer, he is now devoting his energy to improving farm efficiency. He has been an advocate of using dairy cows for beef produc-J

tion for many years because of the success he has had on his own farm.

The programme also Includes a paper on high stocking rates on the West Coast by Mr R. W. Clark, erf Rotornanu, a paper by Mr D. J. Botting, adviser to the Leeston Farm Improvement Club, who will be talking about the financial problems of dairy farm development, and Mr G. A. G. Frengley, lecturer in farm management at Lincoln College, will be comparing dairy specialisation with diversification.

The last paper of the day will be on pig farming, by Dr. J. L. Adam, senior scientific officer at Ruakura agricultural research centre, who will be discussing the potential sources of profit and loss with meal-fed pigs. There will be no field day at the conference this year because the remainder of the conference is likely to inter-

est dairy farmers and the uncertainty of the weather in the past. There will be a panel discussion in the evening in the Lincoln Community Centre, in which speakers during the day will take part. After the panel discussion a farewell function will be held for Mr H. W. Mclntosh, who Is retiring after many years of service to dairy farmers as consulting officer of the Dairy Board In Canterbury, Otago and Southland, and earlier to pig farmers. The evening has been arranged by the dairy section of Federated Farmers in conjunction with the committee of the Lincoln farmers' conference and will start at 8 p.m.