D26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 11,1981
POWELL, Ohio Delegates
attending the March annual
meeting of Ohio Ag Services, Inc.
decided to provide protein testing
for all dairy herds on test in Ohio.
The proposal, brought before the
members by the Wooster area
delegation, will add more than
120,000 protein records to the data
for sire summaries Delegates also
expressed the opinion that it might
help convince milk marketing
agencies to implement a protein
pricing program in Ohio.
The testing will be implemented
in early 1982 following installation
of computerized lab equipment
which will automatically tran
scribe the testing results onto the
dairyman’s report.
Currently, the protein testing
operation is a labor intensive
program with the test results being
hand transcribed onto the
dairyman’s report at a cost of four
cents per cow.
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Ohio dairymen move toward protein testing
the labor through computerization
will allow OAS to put all herds on
protein test for one-half cent per
cow.
In other business, delegates
turned down the Belle Valley area
delegation’s proposal requesting
somatic ceil testing for all herds
John White, head of the dairy
science department at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA., the
featured speaker of the day ex
plained how a check-off system,
providing funds for research and
extension, has greatly increased
the production and efficiency of
dairy farms in Virginia.
White cited many examples of
the effectiveness of this program
including:
(1) An 1700 pound mcrease in the
state herd average.
(2) An mcrease in the cows on
test to 54 percent.
(3) The average predicted
difference of the bulls used ranks
first in the nation.
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(4) Extension programs have
been developed and implemented
to help dairymen.
Glenn Schmidt, chairman of the
Ohio State University Dairy
Science Department, believes this
type of program could be of benefit
to Ohio. He proposed a similar
check-off program which would be
coordinated through the Ohio
Farmers Federation
Funds generated would be used
to provide area dairy agents and
state extension specialists to
disseminate the latest research
results and work closely with farm
management.
In the area of research, greater
emphasis would be placed on
developing a control program from
cohform-caused mastitis, im
proving estrus detection methods
and new reproductive technology,
increasing feed intake with forages
and by-product feeds for high
producing cows, developing more
comprehensive management tools
including on-farm computer
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Richard Sechnst, executive
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