Bendy Brook Holsteins
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planted in alfalfa and corn, and the
com is used as com silage for
heifers.
“It’s hard for us to keep our
energy up since we’re not feeding
com silage,” Mast says. Instead,
he has had great success feeding
crimped,'roasted soybeans. “We
like to feed a broad spectrum of
protein. We feed half beans, half
32%,” he states. “I like the beans
crimped instead of ground. They
eat them better. If you don’t have a
lot of fine things, the cows clean up
better,” Mast maintains. He adds
that he tried feeding animal fat
too, but “my test really drops.”
Mast has also adjusted his dry
cow program so that his cows are
ready after freshening to add to
that high rolling herd average. Dry
cows get com silage and hay. They
are housed in an open, loose
housing barn, and have access to
free choice minerals. Two weeks
before their due date, they are
brought into the barn and adjusted
to the milking ration. Mast makes
sure that all his cows get that 60-
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udders is only used as needed for
that particular cow.
“I believe exercise is good for
the cows,” Mast also states. This is
the reason his dry cows are
allowed in an open building and his
milking herd also gets outside and
fed at a bunk feeder daily. “I think
it’s good to feed both ways,” he
says of his system.
Mast’s management plan also
includes calf hutches. “They’re the
best investment we ever made,"
he says. “We can raise better
replacements.”
The “better replacements” are
the reason Mast can utilize another
fine management practice. “We
cull really hard,” he states. “We
didn’t increase the size of our herd,
we just culled harder.”
He goes on to explain his point
system for culling. If they don’t
make 15,000 ’to 17,000 pounds of
milk as two-year-olds; do not have
production with test; have poor
type, or a tendency for mastitis,
then we cull them, he states. “We
just don’t mess around with them if
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they don’t do well.”
Mast started out on his own in
1976 after working six years on the
Caernavon Farm of Andrew
Stoltzfus, Morgantown. “That’s
where I got my training,” Mast
says. Bendy Brook Farm was
purchased from Mast’s father, who
had to move to Arizona for health
reasons, after Mast’s uncle who
had been renting it sold out.
Mast explained that he had
several cows, calves, and heifers
from his 4-H and FFA projects and
tried to buy “good sound animals”
to start his herd. “John Stoltzfus
helped me to buy some of my
better stock,” he adds.
“I’m not looking for an excellent
cow,” Mast explains about his eye
for good dairy stock, “Just a good
sound animal with good test.”
Currently, Mast believes in
“breeding up the herd instead of
buying in.”
"I do my own breeding,” Mast
says. “I look at the weakest point
and go from that. We breed for
butterfat. She’s got to have
production with test,” he con
tinues. Bulls from the top of the
current TPI list are used and high
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Mast holds great respect for
because of their genetic ad
vancement of the breed.
With his herd average over
20,000 pounds of milk for the past
several years, Mast is not content
to rest on this latest achievement.
“Success isn’t measured by what
you are, but by what you could be,”
he says. “I think they could do so
much better. And there’s so many
areas where I need improvement. ’ ’
“Efficiency is something I have
to work at constantly,” he savs
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smiling. “I also encourage anyone
to further their education,” Mast
says, and adds that he enjoys
studying short courses in
agriculture when they are offered
and also takes part in the
programs that the Extension
Service sponsors each year.
With his wife, Audrey, who loves
helping out with the field work, and
his three young sons, ages six
years, two years, and four months,
gathered around him, Mast.con
cludes, “I’m really a servant. I like
giving credit to the Lord.” We’re
thankful for what we have.
address the following issues:
Taking control of your farm
business, Know what you own.
“What is it worth?” “What is the
farm worth?” “Know what you
owe, “What are you worth?” and
“is the farm business making a
profit?”
Reservations should be made by
Jan. 1 with the Cumberland Co.
Extension Office.
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