City family makes it
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Donna, after he purchased two of
the Hotson bovines and also bought
a nulking machine since •he
"couldn’t milk that cow by hand to
save me”.
After the purchase of these first
cows, “we sort of inched our way
into it”, Reusing states. Since 1980,
one or two cows were added at a
tune from nearby Jersey sales or
Heifers on Reusing farm are fed out of a used wash tub. Old
greenhouse in background becomes a heifer stable.
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neighboring farms, with a total of 5
annuals coming from Spring Run
Farm of New Wilmington, until the
herd reached its current numbers
of 22 head. Only two animals have
been culled and no heifers calves
have been lost to date. Looking
down the neat and clean rows of
stanchions featuring automatic
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barn, the Reusing producers
display a dairyness and will to
milk m addition to a sound func
tional type very rarely found in a
bam belonging to a “city man
turned country”.
Admitting that he still has a lot to
learn, Reusing gives his dairy,
Milk Marketing, Inc. of Ohio, much
of the credit for the instruction on
remodeling his bam, milking, and
the proper equipment to use. “I
think Milk Marketing is tops,”
Reusing states and adds that in
September of this year they will be
giving protein bonus- s to
dairymen on an incentive plan.
According to the information
that Reusing received from the
dairy, protein premiums will be
paid to producers on a basing point
system‘according to the somatic
cell count.
For example: For somatic cell
counts less than 500,000 the
proposed basing point is 3.2%. If
the average protein test for the
month is 3.73, you subtract the
basing point of 3.20 which equals
5.3 additional points multiplied by
the protein differential of .03
equals 15.9 cents protein premium
per hundredweight. For somatic
cell counts of 500,000 to 750,000 the
base point to be subtracted from
the herd average would be 3.4%,
for somatic cell counts in the
751.000 to 999,000 range the basing
point to be subtracted would be
3.6%. This means that the higher
the somatic cell count of a herd
becomes, the higher the basing
point becomes which when sub
tracted from the protein average
would leave less points to be
multiplied by the protein dif
ferential for the protein premium.
With the Reusing herd averaging
a somatic cell count way below the
200.000 point, Reusing is excited
about the additional revenues his
herd will bring him.
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It would seem that for a
beginner, Reusing chose the best
breed when taking into con
sideration the additional butterfat
and protein premiums to be reaped
from Jerseys, but he admits that it
was mostly coincidence./*! didn’t
even know that there was that
much difference (between
breeds)”, he stated. “As we drove
around, we used to quiz ourselves
on the different types of cows in the
meadows”. Reusing remembers
froip family drives together.
In addition to crediting his dairy
for their support Reusing and his
wife also appreciate the
educational programs of the ex
tension service and Penn State and
try to attend all the seminars and
instructional schools possible.
“Dave and I went to milking
school,” Donna states. They also
attend annual Dairy Days and the
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