ITHACA Records were broken
at the New York Performance
Tested Bull Sale May 6 at the
Livestock Pavilion on the Cornell
University campus.
The sale was topped at a record
|4,000 when ShißaLoKen Farm of
Deposit purchased an Angus bull,
Gallagher’s Progression 742 L
consigned by Gallagher’s Farm
Inc. of Ghent.
A second record for a New York
Bull Test Sale was the average of
$1,606 on the 39 bulls consigned.
A third record was the en
thusiasm and acceptance of the
concept of performance tested
bulls. Bidding was spirited
throughout the fast paced sale and
no bull sold for less than $l,OOO.
The Simmental bulls had the
highest sale average $2,100 for the
four in the sale. The highest selling
Simmental bull was Simme Valley
Mercury consigned by Simme
Valley Ranch of Groton and
purchased at $2,200 by Sunßise
Farm of Auburn.
The seven Polled Hereford bulls
averaged $1,707 with a Marshall
Farm of Port Byron consignment,
MF Rockman 2012, as the second
highest bull in the sale. The buyer
at $3,000 was Hector Hernandez of
Analomich, Pa.
The five Charolais bulls
averaged $1,660. The highest
selling Charolais bulls was
Meadow View David consigned by
Meadow View Farm of Frankfort
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and the buyer at $l,BOO was
Maynard Hall of Penn Yan.
The 22 Angus bulls averaged
$1,464 and the single Shorthorn
entry sold at $1,500.
Charles and Joann Srebnik of
New City donated the proceeds
from their Simmental con
signment to the Cornell Beef
Producers Extension Research
Fund. The buyer of this bull at
$2,000 was Ralph Timmerman of
LaFargeville.
Melinda Christoferson, 17, of
Cortland was the youngest con
signor and her Shorthorn bull,
Springtime Dividend MLC was
purchased by the Angelica Feeder
Sales Inc. of Angelica. The bull will
be used in the New York Beef
Cattlemen’s Association South
western Division’s “Lease-A-Bull”
program.
The South Central Resource
Conservation and Development
Area purchased three Angus bulls
and one Polled Hereford bull to use
in its livestock program. A com
mittee of RC&D, Cornell
University, and Department of
Agriculture and Markets per
sonnel will select cattlemen in the
nine county area to receive these
bulls. Each will be given three
years to pay back the purchase
price (without interest) and each
will be expected to participate in
the state Performance Testing
Program.
The 39 bulls represented the
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N.Y. bull sale sets records
“cream of the crop” of 80 bulls that
completed the 140 day uniform
performance testing program at
Cornell’s Livestock Teaching and
Research Center at Harford. The
total average daily gain for the 80
bulls on test was 3.50 pounds. All of
the bulls that were consigned to the
sale had to meet certification
standards as to frame score, rate
of gain, efficiency ratio, and
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BALTIMORE, MD - On April 30
Dairymen, Inc. mailed notices of
allocation totaling $13.7 million to
its 8,000-plus dairy farmer
members. The allocations
represented net retained margins
from the marketing of member
milk during fiscal year 1982
together with net margins from
non-patronage sources.
The April 30 Dairymen
allocations of retained marketing
margins and non-patronage
margins represent 18.5 cents for
each hundred pounds of milk
marketed during the fiscal year.
Dairymen checks mailed with the
allocation notices amounted to $2.5
million or 3.7 cents per hundred
pounds of milk.
The allocation notices also in
cluded credits to member equity
accounts totaling $6.6 million,
ness.
The acceptance of performance
testing was evident throughout the
1982-83 Bull Test program and sale.
Dr. Ralph Vaneema of
ShißaLoKen Farm who purchased
the top selling bull said, ‘T believe
in performance testing and I liked
the pedigree and the performance
of this bull since the start of the
test. His performance record of an
average dphv gain of 3.36 pounds,
Dairymen, Inc. pays dividend
representing the 10 cents per cwt
capital retains. This is capital
invested by members in their
association during the fiscal year.
It has been the consistent practice
of Dairymen, Inc. to revolve or pay
to members both the retained
marketing and non-patronage
margins as well as capital retains
on a five-year revolving cycle.
For example, a Dairymen
member who shipped 90,770
pounds of milk in fiscal year 1962
was credited with a total
patronage dividend of $1,683.51. Of
this amount, $336.70 was
destributed by check and the
remaining $1,346.81 was credited to
the member’s account. Ad
ditionally, the member’s equity
account was credited with $165.60,
representing margins from non
patronage sources and $907.70 in
capital retains.
in addition to the above
allocation. Dairymen members
were also issued investment tax
credits totaling $9OO thousand,
equal to 1.3 cents per cwt of milk
marketed. Generally, investment
tax credits can be used as a direct
From the Pioneers of the
Till Planting System with
Over 20 Years Experience
Plateless Units are now available on the Buffalo Till
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cleaners and pull-type hitches are now offered as
optional equipment.
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his frame score of six, and his
conformation made him the bull
we wanted to add to our herd.”
The New York Bull Test Sale and
Bull Test program are jointly
sponsored by the New York Beef
Cattlemen's Association, Cornell
University, Cooperative Ex
tension, and the New York
Department of Agriculture and
Markets.
dollar-for-dollar offset against
federal income taxes in the year in
which the member received the
notice.
An additional 1.8 cents in non
patronage dividends was credited
to each member’s equity which
brings the total to 21.6 cents per
cwt for patronage, non-patronage
and investment tax credit
allocations.
Dairymen, Inc. members
marketed more than 6 billion
pounds of milk through their
association in fiscal year 1982.
Total assets of the milk producers’
marketing cooperative amounted
to almost |2SO million, an increase
of 8% over the previous year.
Member equity amounted to a
record $B3 million, an increase of
over $ll million from a year
earlier.
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