A32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1980
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jy . y< Excellent at 90. This cow has
produced over 175,000 pounds of milk and 7000 ponds of fat in her lifetime.
Kenneth and his two sons, Kraig and Kevin (being held) willingly pose with this
strong foundation cows.
Sellers Milks
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simple enough that we can
get away.
The Sellers own about 85
acres and rent an additional
100. Currently the herd is
milked in a stanchion bam
with a pipeline, with one
person running three units.
Darryl Balmer, 15, helps in
the evenings during school
and all summer Sellers
says, “He has an interest
and can milk alone ”
In his second year as
president of the Lebanon
County Holstein Club,
Sellers is a strong supporter
of the organization. He
classifies his herd, and has
two Excellents, 14 Very
Good, 20 Good Plus and 6
Good. His BAA is 103.5.
His herd record is
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currently 8600 pounds of
milk, 4.0 test and 746 fat. He
is a firm believer in the
merits of the Dairy Herd
Improvement program, and
serves as secretary on their
Board of Directors.
He believes those records
are useful to dairymen. “If
you want to merchandise
your stock, the records are
helpful, but they can benefit
any farmer with his culling
They are of maximum
benefit to the purebred
breeder.”
Sellers is very interested
m merchandising his cattle,
and said that his income
from the sale of cattle is one
third the income from milk.
He said, “I plan on making it
a major part of my receipts.
I can sell pretty good
replacement cattle, although
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up to now I’ve been building
up my herd.” He raises all
his heifer calves, and the
cattle he sells are mostly
bred heifers and springing
heifers.
He believes in supporting
the county sale and has
participated in state con
vention sales as well as the
state bred heifer and calf
sales With the prices at
public sales so high, Sellers
says, “I have no complaints
about the price, but then I’m
always on the selling end.”
Sellers sells about six bulls
per year as breeding stock
and uses his own young sires
for heifers and repeat
breeders.
He does believe in using
top bulls in his breeding
program and when selecting
sires he says he places more
emphasis on the butterfat
record than on milk. “If they
are not plus in butterfat I
don’t use them, I don’t care
how high they are in milk. I
use top plus proven bulls
which break even or are plus
in butterfat I like to go and
look at daughters of bulls
because what’s on paper and
what you see is sometimes
not the same.”
Last year Sellers was
Premier Breeder and
Premier Exhibitor at the
Lebanon County Fair and he
has won one or both of those
awards for the last five
years. He said he usually
takes about 10 head to the
local fair, and five or six to
the All-American Show, the
Farm Show and the South
Central Show. Darryl has
both 4-H and FFA animals so
they combine with the
Sellers’ animals to take
“whatever he can handle.”
Darryl does the caring for
the animals, and Kenneth
helps with showing.
About showing, Sellers
comments, “I don’t make a
profit with the winnings, but
I get a lot of satisfaction. A
lot of good people are in
volved in showing and I like
working with them. I have
had plenty of experience at
both ends of the line and I
have taken some animals
which I should have left at
home. I’ve learned that you
don’t do a cow a favor by
taking her to a show where
she doesn’t do well.”
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Sellers has had a long line
of good animals, beginning
with his 4-H project animals.
He had the All-Pennsylvania
junior heifer calf and the
Honorable Mention All-
Pennsylvania senior
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A former member of the
Little Dutchmen FFA,
Sellers says, “4-H and FFA
had more influence on me
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