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DHIA meeting, hosted at Avalong county production listing.
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butterfat output, with lactation AirviUe. Ellas 305-day credits
Junior Holstein members Chris Wolf, left, and Lesley King
were winners in the junior milk and fat contest, accepting
their Holstein-plate awards during the DHIA recognition
program.
Ralph Innerst, left, boosted butterfat production on his R &
M farms by 67 pounds, to win honors in the 400*500 fat
category. DHIA president Marty Grey offers congratulations.
Highest individual lifetime butterfat record was produced
by a member of the Sinking Springs herd, with farm manager
Marty Grey accepting the award from York dairy agent
Shannon Neuman.
Richlawn Farms tops York DHIA
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For 2nd consecutive rear
totaled 44,024 milk, with 1,906
pounds of butterfat. The Knight
family copped a second honor, with
a herd fat production improvement
of 103 pounds to finish with 19,314
milk, 713 fat, on 90 head.
Lifetime awards split between
two herds, Stewartridge and
Sinking Springs. Jordan-view Star
Dust took high lifetime milk
recognition for David Stewart’s
Stewartridge Farm, Delta, with
lactations totaling 221,943 pounds.
Sinking Springs Meg Carol
totaled butterfat production of
9,142 pounds to earn a lifetime fat
honor for Sinking Springs Farms of
York.
Honors for the highest herd
average improvement between 400
and 500 pounds fat went to Ralph
Innerst’s R&M Farms at R 3 York.
Eight other county herds earned
ribbons for boosting rolling herd
averages over 50 pounds of fat over
the past year. In the over-500 fat
level, those winners were Lynn
Wolf, Abbottstown, with a 86-pound
fat increase; Ellis Growl, R 2
Airville, for a 76-pound increase;
Horace Heindel, R 9, York 75-pound
increase; Ray Doll’s Walnut Hill
Farm, Spring Grove, a 69-pound
increase; Rick Cook, R 1
Wellsville, 69-pound increase;
Palmer McWilliams, Jr., R 2 Seven
Valleys, 62-pound increase, and
Jeff Wolgemuth, the J.E. Baker
Co. farm, York, a 55-pound in
crease.
In the 400 to 500-pound category,
the J.E. Baker Co. farm managed
by Leßoy Hertzler showed a 58-
pound increase.
Youth awards went to two
members of the Junior Hoistem
club for outstanding lactations on
project animals.
Lesley King R 2, Delta, won the 2-
year-old category with a heifer
record of 19,106 milk, 3.4 percent
650 fat.
Chris Wolf of Abbottstown took
the honors in three other classes.
One of her 3-year-old’s records of
23,838, 3.0 percent, 711 fat topped
other contenders in the milk
category, and Chris’s second 3-
year-old animal’s lactation of
23,172, 3.6 percent, 828 fat earned
her a win in the fat category for the
age classification. A third entry in
the 5-year-old class of 22,916, 4.0
percent 928, won the production
honors in that division.
Three new directors won seats
on the county’s board of directors,
each to serve a three-year term.
They are Dan Hushon, R 3 Delta,
Phil Laughman, R 2 Thomasville,
and Bob Reheard, R 2 Airville.
According to the brief DHIA
overview presented by president
Marty Grey, 549 more cows were
tested in 1982, with a total of 7,280
on test across the county. Average
production was 15,135 milk, an
increase of 300 pounds over the
previous year, while fat climbed
three pounds to a 553-pound level.
Several rule changes are
scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1,
including a visible indentify
requirements on each cow tested
in the state’s DHIA program. Also
new is a requirement that embryo
transplant individuals as well as
recipients must be stested along
with other animals in a herd.
Cows suffering sickness, but
fresh at least a week, will be tested
with no exceptions. However, at
the second lest a computation
backwards will be made to give
credit for the first test at tune of
illness.
Refusal to test will now be
considered a violation of the
national DHIA rules. However, a
test supervisor may be contacted
10 to 15 days before herd centering
date, and notified of certain dates
near the centering day that pose
test conflicts.
While thyroidal derivatives are
now approved for use undei DHIA
rules, no muscular injection of any
Robert Smyser, right, accepts a York DHIA plaque
honoring the Smyser family’s high county herd in both milk
and butterfat production. Making the presentation was DHIA
president Maiiy Grey.
Noami and George Knight, 111, accept two honors for the
Woodbine herd. High lactation honors went to the family's
NorthcroftJElla Elevation, and the Knights earned a second
award for their 103 pound butterfat increase.
type, including oxytocin, or let- participants to improve herd
down hormones, may be given any management using their test
animal immediately prior to results, a Feb. 10,1983, workshop is
testing.
York DHIA program participants
In order for York County DHIA as that date approaches.
Holstein brings
record $1 million
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Queen Manor farm, scored Very
Good 88. According to
Doebenener, Eve is "better than
her mother as far as production
goes.” Her records, at age 3 years
and 8 months, show 33,565 pounds
of milk, with 1,275 pounds of but
terfat in 329 days for twice-a-day
milking.
Pearson, who was not available
for phone interview, was described
by Coyne as “very pleased” and a
“little surprised,” having hoped
for at least 1500,000 for Ivy. “But
we never thought she'd sell that
high,” Coyne admitted.
Pearson, hoping to retire after
this sale, lives with his wife Linda
and two children on their 100-acre
Greenleaf farm which he pur-
scheduled. Details will be sent to
chased in 1976 following a four-year
partnership.
Cormier, Ivy’s new owner, runs
two operations and an export
business in Georgetown, Ontario,
owning 25 breeding cattle.
When Cormier first realized Ivy
would be for sale, about 6 months
ago, he said he became interested
in buying her. “We hoped we would
get her but we didn’t think we’d
have to spend quite that much.”
Cormier admitted hoping that the
bidding would stop at the “800,000
mark” but that “there seemed to
be a lot of people bidding for her.”
He said his plans for Ivy include
breeding her at least once to
Paclaroar Bootmaker and to use
her for embryo transplant work.
The sale attracted more than
2,000 people from across the United
States and Canada.