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with a good predicted dif
ference bull can realize a
farmer 1000 pounds more
milk on every daughter in
every one of her lactations,”
he pomted out.
He said it is no more dif
ficult to detect heifers in
heat than it is to detect heats
in cows.
“The only reason some
farmers have trouble finding
heifers m heat is because
they look at them only at
feeding time,” he said.
At feeding, the heifers’
hunger overrides any sexual
desires and the heats may be
missed, he said
Buffington, who was a
former Dauphin County 4-
H’er and FFA member,
advised farmers to bring
heifers mto a barn for six to
eight weeks.
All heifers will cycle once
to twice in that time, he said
“Breed them twice and
then put a bull m with them if
you feel the bull is
necessary,” he said.
But, he noted, the bull is
unlikely to do much
Japanese show
booths available
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell
today announced that booth
spaces are still available to
Pennsylvania food
processors interested in
exhibiting their nroducts to
Japaneses buyers. Over 150
Japanese buyers,
representing Japan’s 115
million consumers, will be
attending a Japanese buymg
mission at the Holiday Inn,
City Lme and Monument
Avenues in Philadelphia, on
Sept 15,1980.
“This show offers food
processors an excellent
opportunity to introduce
their products to new
markets,” said Hallowed. “I
urge you to seriously con
sider exporting markets for
your products. Now is a good
time to cash m on expanding
Japanese trade op
portunities.”
The food show is bemg
sponsored by the Eastern
Holstein
breeding. He said most
farmers realize a 10 percent
better conception rate with
heifers than with older cows.
This is because heifers are
not under production stress
and are likely to be more
fertile.
“If I had the choice of
using AI only on cows or only
on heifers, I’d choose the
heifers,” he said. “But the
nice thing about AI is you
don’t have to make that
choice.”
He explained his logic by
pointing out the heifers are
apt to have the best genes in
a herd because they are the
latest genetic products.
He said most good could be
realized by breeding heifers
to the finest available bulls
because the farmer will be
mating the top genetic
potential in his herd with the
best bulls available from the
stud.
The result, he concluded,
is advancment of the herd’s
genetic makeup for
production, type, or -in
area the farmer
wants improvment.
United States Agricultural
and Food Export Council
(EUSAFEC), of which
Pennsylvania is an active
member, and the Foreign
Agricultural Service of the
United States Department of
Agriculture.
The Japanese have in
dicated that they are in
terested m the full line of
food products that Penn
sylvania firms have to offer,
including but not limited to
fresh, frozen, canned, dairy
products, snack items,
feedstuffs and grams.
Firms from EUSAFEC’s
ten member states m the
Northeast are urged to
participate. Booth space will
be assigned on a “first come,
first served” basis
For further information,
contact the Bureau of
Markets, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture,
2301 North Cameron Street,
Harrisburg, PA 17110;
phone, 717-787-4210