Lancaster Holstein Club tours new Em Tran facility
ELIZABETHTOWN - Two
hundred and fifty Holstein en
thusiasts from Lancaster County
attended the Club’s annual Field
Day at the new headquarters of
Em Tran on Bossier Road near
Elizabethtown.
In welcoming the group to the
new facilities, Dr. Alan McCauley
said their operations will be moved
there within the next three weeks.
Following the business meeting,
employees of Em Tran demon
strated the “on-farm” techniques
Women’s Division winners
Lancaster County Holstein Field Day are, from the left, Mim
Kauffman, first; Carolyn Crouse, third; and Audrey Shertzer,
second.
Pa. dairy okays
promotion plan
HARRISBURG - The 18-
member Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Advisory Board has
approved a $916,000 six-month
budget primarily designed to tout
the new marketing slogan, “Make
It Milk.’’ The action was taken at
the board’s monthly meeting held
Aug. 23 in State College.
Other budget items approved
included expanded Dairy Council
activities, appropriations for local
dairy promotion committees and
the State Dairy Princess Program,
research funds for the Penn State
Food Science Department, and a
cheese promotion in October,
according to State Secretary of
Agriculture Penrose Hallowed,
Advisory Board Chairman.
HBM/Creamer, the Pittsburgh
advertising agency tapped to
implement the “Make It Milk”
campaign, reported that radio,
television and newspaper ad
vertising will begin next week. The
board also approved advertising
on the 39-station Penn State
Football Radio Network.
The marketing slogan was un
veiled at the Dairy Promotion
Program’s exhibit at Ag Progress
Days. Secretary Hallowell said the
exhibit was successful in
generating interest and en
thusiasm for advertising among
the state’s dairy farmers.
According to Hallowell, three
Dairy Council units currently
operate in 46 counties in the state.
TTie supplemental funding will
$2lOO tops Lebanon sale
LEBANON Despite many re
cent predictions that improvement
is in sight for the dairy industry,
bidders at the Lebanon County
Holstein Sale showed caution as
they selected herd additions.
Benbro Chairman Polly, the top
selling animal, was consigned by
Marlin E. Bennetch of Myerstowii.
The December 1982 heifer, due in
February, was purchased by
Hoover Farms of Lebanon. This
fancy sale offering was sired by
Cal-Clark Board Chairman and out
of flushing embryos from donor
cows. Everyone had the op
portunity to look at eight-week-old,
100 cell embryos through a
microscope.
In the judging contest, a Chester
Countian walked off with the
overall grand championship. Tom
Kauffman, Rl, Atglen, took the
overall trophy with 148 points.
Second place in the men’s
division went to David Kulp, Rl,
Manheim and third went to Steve
provide nutrition education
materials in the 21 counties not
currently funded.
Local dairy promotion com
mittees may apply for Advisory
Board funding. Preliminary in
dications are that this support may
be on a matching fund basis,
Hallowed said.
The National Dairy Promotion
Board has approved a national
cheese promotion in October. This
national effort is focused on net
work television and grocery store
promotional material in major
United States markets. The state
board authorized expansion of
these promotional materials to
grocery stores throughout the
commonwealth.
The Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program was created
under provisions of the National
Dairy Promotion Program.
Federal legislation passed in 1983
established a mandatory deduction
of 15 cents per hundredweight on
all milk produced in the con
tinental United States, to promote
milk and dairy product sales.
Qualifying state programs like
Pennsylvania’s may receive ten
cents of the assessment for use in
local and regional efforts.
The Advisory Board’s next
monthly meeting is scheduled for
September 24 in Harrisburg in
conjunction with the 21st Penn
sylvania All-American Dairy
Show.
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to 26,286 pounds of milk. One of
twins, Polly sold for $2lOO.
The second high selling animal
was another bred heifer. Con
signed by Dale E. Hostetter of
Annville, Dale-Pride Bell Girlie
brought $1950 from Kenneth Swope
of Marietta. Swope purchased this
springing heifer as part of the
foundation herd he is trying to
assemble. He has been farming
with his father and raising tobacco
to purchase what is the beginning
Kauffman, Elizabethtown. There
was an eight-place tie for winners
in the men’s category, with
finalists being determined on the
basis of the weight of one of the
cows.
Mim Kauffman, Elizabethtown
and Carolyn Crouse, Stevens,
maintained their winning tradition
by taking first and third place in
the women’s category respec
tively. Audrey Shertzer, Lan
caster, placed second.
In the youth division, Karen
Shertzer, Lancaster, 18, took first
place. In second was Matt Welk, 9,
Peach Bottom; and in third was
Joe Long, 15, Quarryville. They
also tied with 148 points each.
Judge for the contest was York
County dairymen Jeb Bashore.
Whem Em Tran moves to their
new facility on Bossier Road, they
will have space for 80 donor cows.
The laboratory there is specifically
designed for embryo transplant
work, McCauley explained. He
added that they keep no recipient
heifers on the farm, for “health
and economic reasons.”
McCauley and partner John
Hosier took turns at the
microphone during the actual
flushing process, telling the
audience about each step and
answering questions from the
attentive group. Once the flushing
was completed, a laboratory
technician did the necessary lab
work just as it would be done on the
farm.
McCauley said that 90 percent of
Em Tran’s work is done on the
farm, and they now do about 5,000
transplants a year. This is up from
the 11-per-month they did when he
first came to Em Tran seven years
ago.
Em Tran now has about 20
employees, including those at their
office in California. The California
operation is not a donor facility,
McCauley said, because livestock
management differs so greatly
from here, it is easiest to do all the
transfers on the farm.
He and Hosier said Em Tran will
be doing splilt embryo work in the
future.
In other business, Steve Wilson
of the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, announced that the
Association has acquired a 12.9
acre tract of land adjacent to their
Middletown fann. He said there
has been an announced increased
in the subscription price of the
Holstein World, and the
Association is investigating the
possibility of offering a sub
scription as an option to members.
He encouraged dairymen to
contact the Association if they
have bred heifers to be considered
for filling domestic orders, and
said they are still accepting con
signments for the Nittany Lion
Fall Classic.
County President Greg Landis
reminded dairymen that the
deadline for entries in futurity
classes is Sept. 20, and the deadline
for production award applications
is Oct. 20.
Field Day visitors were treated
to a pig roast dinner, and a special
treat was real milkshakes donated
by Em Tran and created by Ken
Myer, Elizabethtown.'
of a future dairy herd. He
currently owns three milking cows
and three heifers. He said he has
been to several sales but was
looking for just “the right kind”.
This daughter of Carlin-M Ivanhoe
Bell was also out of an Elevation
dam with records over 20,000
pounds.
The Lebanon county sale in
cluded 40 lots which averaged
$974.00 for a gross sale receipts of
$38,950.-D.M.
Flush preparation
Preparation of donor cow for embryo flushing is watched by
participants in Lancaster County Holstein Club Field Day
program at Em Tran, Elizabethtown. Program featured
demonstration of flushing techniques just as they are done on
the farm.
Youth Division winners
Youth Division winners in judging competition at Lancaster
Holstein Field Day are, from the left, Karen Shertzer, 18,
first, Lancaster; Matt Welk, 9, second, Peach Bottom; and
Joe Long, 15, third, Quarryville.
Goes to Hoover Farms
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Top-selling animal at the Lebanon County Holstein Sale was
purchased by Dean and Reid Hoover, left, of Hoover Farms,
Lebanon, for $2lOO. Vincent Wagner, right, Jonestown, was
contending bidder. Alan Hostetter, sale chairman, is .at
halter.
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