Cl*—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980 Wye Angus herd thriving under new ownership QUEENSTOWN, Md. - When most of the in ternationally known Wye Angus herd was officially donated to the University of Maryland Foundation in January 1978, there were some questions raised throughout North America by knowledgeable breeders of the nation’s most numerous beef cattle. They included the f ollowmg: —Would the Wye Angus herd remain at the Wye location near Queenstown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore? There had been speculation that the herd would be moved to the university’s beef cattle research farm near Sykesville, Carroll county, in north central Maryland. —Would semen from noted Wye Angus bulls continue to be available for artificial insemination purposes? —Would outstanding bulls from the Wye Angus herd continue to be available for purchase by the public 9 On the eve of the second annual production sale of tested bulls since acquiring the Wye Angus herd, W. Lamar Hams, director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, is satisfied that these questions can be answered in the af firmative. The herd appears com fortably settled for the foreseeable future m its histone location on the Eastern Shore; semen is Auction set for April 19 being sold regularly from a frozen-sperm bank, and an advisory panel of animal scientists, Angus breeders, breed organization representatives, and commercial producers have been appointed to help shape the future of the Wye Angus herd. Finally, 54 prospective herd sires will be listed in the sale catalog when the auctioneer’s chant starts rolling at noon on April 19 at the Wye Plantation sale site. The University of Maryland Foundation herd now shares land and some facilities at the Wye Plan tation with the Aspen In stitute, a privately endowed “think tank’’ and educational meeting center. Some 200 gentle black brood cows and their young off spring lend a pastoral backdrop to the academic scene. Supervising the Wye Angus program for the University of Maryland Foundation is Gordon M. Cairns, dean emeritus of the College of Agriculture at the university’s College Park campus. A dairy scientist by training, Cairns finds that many principles of dairy cattle breeding and feeding are applicable to beef cattle as well. Thus, he follows in the steps of James B. Lmgle, now retired, who guided the Wye Plantation to worldwide renown among Angus breeders for former owner, Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., over a period covering more than three decades Dwight Riggleman, associated with the former Wye Plantation herd operation under Houghton’s ownership, has remained as herd manager Cairns points out the young Wye Angus bulls offered for sale both this year and last were products of the Houghton ownership team. This year’s 1980 calf crop represents the first offspring from the University of Maryland Foundation breeding program. It will furnish prospective herd sires for the 1981 production sale. Most of this year’s calves will have been born February, March and April, Caims reported. He emphasized the Wye Angus breeding program is being earned out basically as in the past. This includes a contmuation of breeding management, performance testing, and live skeletal measurements on the bulls, along with detailed feed consumption records. Two changes in the histone Wye Angus pattern under the new University of Maryland management have been formation of the advisory panel and in stallation on a trial basis of two “pinpomters”, or electronic feed consumption recorders, m one of the Wye Plantation’s four bull test barns. Ida’s Notebook Ida Kisser The first day of Spring will be next week. 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