Breed leaders talk about their cows
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nationally, Guernseys produced
13,222 pounds of milk and 611
pounds of fat on a 305-day ME
DHIR average.
Guernseys have a quiet
disposition, are easy to handle and
can adapt to all kinds of modern
dairying, says Mrs. John. Thus
they offer efficient use of labor,
feed, acres, space and equipment.
Although quite similar to other
breeds in care and disease
resistance, Mrs. John said,
Guernseys may well be the only
breed of dairy cattle with no known
recessive genetic traits. They also
display good heat resistance, a
plus in areas that experience high
temperatures.
She adds that Guernseys can
produce maximum income over
feed cost in light of the high fat and
protein percentages, their small
size and their ability to convert
roughage into milk, an important
factor in high-cost grain areas.
Nationally, the Guernsey
Breeders have organized several
young sire sampling programs,
and performance programs to
promote outstanding cows within
the breed.
“Perhaps, in the past, one of our
problems may have been that we
were letting the Guernsey cow
make her own future,” says Mrs.
John. “Today we see an era of
breeders taking a strong,
progressive approach and a hard
look at their cattle and managing
that cow for top performance as
it should be with every breed.
“The Guernsey breed has many
benefits to offer a prospective
dairyman,” she adds. “Their
quality milk high fat, protein,
solids non-fat quiet disposition
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One of the oldest cattle breeds in
existence, the Brown Swiss breed
came to this country from Swit
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They were the ultimate multi
purpose animal in those early
years, giving milk, carrying heavy
loads and eventually ending up in
the slaughterhouse for meat.
As a result of that varied history,
the breed is known as a well
muscled, docile and versatile
animal that can adapt to a variety
of conditions, including less-than
optimal ones.
The breed is equally at home in
the cold north as well as in the heat
and humidity of the tropics, ac
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butterfat and 3.58 percent protein
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vitation to private exporters to
purchase CCC commodities for
resale to drought-stricken African
countries, Under Secretary of
Agriculture Daniel G. Amstutz
said today.
The invitation is the fourth under
a program initiated in May 1984 in
which up to $9O million of wheat,
corn and nee would be sold to
eligible countries. After the first
three invitations there remains a
balance of up to $24.3 million of
commodities yet to be sold.
As under the earlier invitations,
exporters will acquire the com
modities on a competitive bid basis
and pay all processing costs plus
provement over the years, clim
bing from 10,945 pounds of milk
and 465 pounds of fat in 1960, to a
national average of 14,545 pounds
of milk and 587 pounds of fat in
1983.
Mrs. Queitzsch quotes a USDA
survey in 1982, which reported that
Swiss, with their higher fat and
protein content, will yield more
cheese or manufactured product
than a breed with more milk
volume.
As a result, she says, “The
recent development in protein
pricing, end-product pricing or
cheese-yield pricing is probably
the most exciting thing that has
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importing country. Safeguards will
be continued to ensure that the
commodities will be exported to
the eligible countries. Half the
quantity of commodities pur
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cluding the commodities exported
as a result of the earlier in
vitations, will be shipped on U.S.
flag vessels if available at fair and
reasonable prices.
The countries designated to
participate under the fourth in
vitation are Angola, Botswana,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape
Verde, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Lesotho, Mali Mauritania,
Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda,
Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tan
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happened for our breed in some
time.”
She adds that Brown Swiss cows
have good feet and legs . . . and
with their mild temperament, will
stay in the milking line a long time.
“I believe that the Brown Swiss
will be in greater demand because
there is a difference in milk,” says
Mrs. Queitzsch. “Our main
problem will be in filling the
demand.
‘‘Today, they can still be bought
at reasonable dairyman prices but
as more milk checks include
payment for solids, the price for
these big, rugged, milk-, butterfat
and protein-producers will surely
go higher.”