ClS—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, July 12,1980
Heifer breeding, cow judging
BY CURT HAULER
MIDDLETOWN -
Dauphin County’s twilight
dairy meeting Monday night
featured a talk on breeding
better Holstems and an
informal cow judgmg con
test.
The meeting was held at
the Catalpa Farm of Ray
and Dale Kennedy, R 1
Middletown.
Ronald E. Buffington,
sales coordinator for Select
Sires in Plain City, Ohio
returned to his native
Dauphin County to tell local
dairy farmers he feels AI
should be used on all animals
in an improving herd,
especially the heifers.
The cow judgmg was
divided into several classes.
wnty Dairy Princess Cindy Lupey, R 4 Linglestown, was
among a number of youth judges rating the Holsteins of Ray and Dale Kennedy.
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Dauphin Holstein meeting
Winners in the children
under 12 years of age
division were - first place,
Heidi Boyer, second place,
Kim Boyer, third, Scott
Boyer The Boyers, R 1
Millersburg, all are brothers
and sisters
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Zell,
In the
Robin
Elizabethtown took first
place. Second place went to
Ann Kopp, R 1 Middletown;
third, to Barb Kopp, Ann’s
sister-in-law
Teenage division title, 13
to 19 years old, went to
Gerald Lehman, R 2
Elizabethtown, second,
Bruce Sine, Elizabethtown;
third, Randy Oelhg, R 1
Grantville
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Zell’s husband In second
nlace was Park Sheesley,
Harrisburg, third place
went to Karl Hertzler,
Elizabethtown
Following the judgmg,
Ronald Buffington outlined
his ideas for breeding better
Holstems
division
R 2
Buffington said he feels
farmers who use artificial
insemination on cows and
run a bull with heifers are
missing a good chance to
improve their herd quickly.
He said farmers should put
their herds on a 100 percent
AI program if they are going
to realize maximum genetic
growth.
“Artificial insemination
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