Cloned calves bring $47,000 before birth
FOKT COLLINS, Co. A pair ot
unborn Simmental calves,
••cloned” at ' Colorado State
. University, recently brought
|47,000 at a Kentucky cattle auc
tion.
The calves, to be born next year,
were brought by Claus von
Franzius of Schwartz Creek,
Mich., during a sale at Ml.
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Oakland Mills. PA
717-463-2735
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Brilliant Farm in Fayette County,
Ky.
"As far as we know, this is the
first sale of its kind, but there
probably will be a lot more,” said
Dr. George Seidel, a CSU
researcher who helped develop the
cloning process. “People wouhf
prefer to buy two good animals
instead of one.”
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Lineboro, MO
301-374-2672
Seidel said von Franzius actually
will have his choice of three pairs
ot calves now implanted in six
recipient cows. The cows have
been staying at CSU’s Animal
Reproduction Laboratory embryo
transfer unit, where they were
impregnated. They will-be shipped
to Kentucky and the calves will be
born at Mt. Brilliant.
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Carlisle, PA
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Each recipient cow is pregnant
with half of an embryo’, produced
through a process developed by
Seidel, Dr, Peter Elsden and Dr.
Timothy Williams. The process
involves artificially inseminating a
donor cow, collecting an embryo
non-surgically, microsurgically
splitting the embryo and then
placing the two halves into one or
two recipient cows.
The result is artifically produced
identical twins (technically clones,
individuals with the same genetic
material;.
The first pair of identical twin
heifers produced by the CSU
process was born May 18, Since
then several other sets have been
born; several dozen more are
gestatmg.
The calves auctioned in Ken-
Pa. fruit production up
HARRISBURG Based on July
1 conditions, Pennsylvania far
mers will produce more apples,
peaches, pears, sweet cherries and
rye than last year while producing
less oats, barley and wheat, ac
cording to the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service. They will
produce the same quantity oi tart
cherries.
Pennsylvania’s commercial
apple crop this year is forecast at
570 million pounds, up 43 percent
from 400 million pounds last year.
Peach production is expected to
total 80 million pounds, up 23
percent from a year ago.
The sweet cherry crop is
estimated at 700 tons, up 133
percent from last year’s short
crop. Tart cherry production is
forecast at 8.0 million pounds the
same the 1981 cron. Pear
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 24,1982—D5
lucky are out ot Lacombe Achilles
261 A and Caroline. Achilles, who
belongs to Ml. Brilliant owner
Mike Molloy, has sired 40,000
registered offspring via frozen
semen and artificial insemination.
Molloy has cooperated ex
tensively in CSU embryo transfer
research. He housed Achilles at
CSU until this spring, when the 13-
year-old bull was retired and
returned to Kentucky.
Molloy auctioned oft the unborn
twins during one of his annual
cattle sales. The pair brought the
highest price of any lot sold that
day.
Bidding began at $lO,OOO,
climbed to $25,000, stalled at
$29,000, jumped to $40,000 and
ended with von Franzius’ bid,
according to local reports.
production is estimated at 4,500
tons, up 50 percent.
Winter wheat production is
estimated at 8.0 million bushels,
down 18 percent from a year ago
with 228,000 acres for harvest
compared with 270,000 last year.
The oats crop at 19.1 million
bushels is down five percent from a
year ago with 335,000 acres for
harvest compared with 345,000 in
1981. Barley "production is 3.6
million bushels is down 12 percent.
Acreage for harvest decreased
from 76,000 acres in 1981 to 72,000
acres for 1982.
Rye production is expected to
total 396,000 bushels this year
compared with 363,000 last year
with 12,000 acres for harvest
compared with 11,000 acres last
year.