Research Expands At PSU To Meet
State’s Gaining Beef Cattle Industry
«aT W 0 lin( ' lcc * beef cattle and Underway for four years,
COO acres of land have pro- studies of the Rockview land
duced a cooperative research and herd have dealt with pas
project between a state univer- ture renovation, fertilization,
a . a correctional in- grazing methods, wintering sys
"’“I 1011, terns, and caltle breeding. In
The project, involving Penn the future, the research will
Stale University and the near- concern beef cattle breeding
hy Rockview State Correction- and management methods and
al Institution, has the long- pasture evaluation, says Dr.
range goal of improving beef Lowell L. Wilson, associate pro
cattle breeding and manage- fessor of animal science at
went for the state’s growing p en n State.
Beef cattle industry while pro- The Rockview herd and land
Tiding occupational training for me presently the College’s only
Rockview inmates. 1. i.
Robert K. Rohrer
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Barn Cleaners - Silo
Unloaders - Cattle Feeders
i Quarryville, R. D. 1
Hensel 548-2539
Where Pop and Jumoi boo-booed was in stopping to discuss who should
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Meanwhile—Mom moved in'
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New Holland
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Tel. 354-9538
Growers of:
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slope cover with good forage-crop poten
tial- Certified seed and crowns available.
FOILED AGAIN
large-scale project involving
pastures and beef cows for ex
perimental purposes, Wilson
points out. The project pro
vides an opportunity to evalu
ate new forages under grazing
conditions.
Profitable beef cattle breed
ing and management methods
are more important today than
ever before in Pennsylvania,
Wilson claims Beef cow num
bers in the state have more
than doubled in the past 12
years. New cow herds are ap
pearing m every county, he
says, some icplacing dispersed
dairy herds while some are
started on land with no previ
ous livestock history.
Grumeili Farm Service
Quarry\ille, Pa.
Chef' Long
Akron, Pa.
Lancaster Farming,
In recent years, animal sci
entists and agronomists have
managed the 200-cow Rockvicw
herd on about 500 acres of pas
tures developed from abandon
ed, non-productive wasteland
Wintci rations included can
nery waste silage, buylagc, and
hay.
Until 1961 the Rockview beef
operation used yearling steers
purchased and fed out on pas
tille with grain. This program
had shoiteoinings such as get
ting steers with predictable in
herited ability to gain econom
ically and produce meaty, qual
ity carcasses. Because of these
shortcomings in steer feeding,
an Angus-llolslein ciossbred
cow herd was established,
j Crossbred beef cows wei eob
tamed from the daily herds at
Rockview and other coneclion
c'l institutions where Angus
bulls weie used routinely on
first-calf heilers and low-pio
ducing cow'. Tire ciossbiecl
Angus-Holstem heileis, instead
of being feci out for slaughter
beef, weie saved to form a
ciossbied Angus-llolstem cow
heid. The piesent Rockview
cow heid is composed com
pletely ot Angus-Holstem cows
and the dairy heids continue
to furnish leplacement females
Animal Science Department
peisonnel at the Umveisity as
sist in managing the Rock
view heid Presently, they se
lect Polled lierefoid bulls and
breed each of six bulls to
about 25 ot the ciossbred An
eus-Hoistem cows Semen fiom
these bulls is donated by live
stock bieedeis in exchange for
iccoids on the gams and car
cass meiit ol the offspring
“The most surprising part of
the high level of performance
is the fact that carcasses grad-
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in,' choice cany an optimum
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loin and desirable amounts and
distribution of muscling. The
carcasses arc acceptable iiom
cvciy standpoint and are the
meaty, quality caicusses desir
ed by today’s packer and con
sume!," WiNon states.
When scvci at years of rec
oids are available on the Rock
view herd, they will be analy
zed to determine how much
diflerence exists between actu-
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