A4O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 21,1986
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a particular export order we
provide these local sales
representatives with the
specifications and ask them for
assistance in locating the cattle
that meet these various
specifications. We also use these
sales representatives to help select
for the state assocaition sales.
Q. It’s always been a problem to
have breeders register their
animals on time. What in*
volvement does the state
organization have in getting the
animals in the herd book?
A. Our involvement in increasing
registrations or maintaining
registrations is mostly tied to our
membership. Right now the state
membership is a minimum of $2O
with a 45 cent per registered cow in
the herd of the member. This gives
us the incentive to keep the
animals registered and to increase
the number of registered animals
on farms throughout the state. Also
we encourage registrations
through our field day club ac
tivities and annual meeting. If our
members or even a non-member
comes to us with a registration
problem we get involved with it
right away.
Q. Can you give us a little ex
planation of the index numbers we
now see in the official pedigrees of
our animals?
A. Indexes are important
because it provides a measure for
the potential of the animal. But
there is discussion about whether
there is some possibility of af
fecting the indexes by
management of the herd in terms
of herd mates. Maybe there needs
to be some changes made in the
formulas and we expect to see
some changes made. But the in
ternational buyers still look at the
indexes. Recently we were host to
some bull buyers from Japan. And
their specifications called for
young bulls to be out of cows with
at least an 800 index. But when
they got here it was difficult to sell
a bull out of a cow that had less
than a thousand index. The
requirements keep going up. And
the domestic market must look at
the indexes because the foreign
markets use them. The main
concern is that we must be sure
that the formula is correct so that
we are all recognizing the best
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breeding from these cows. We will
likely see some lively discussion at
the national convention the first
week of July in Milwaukee on this
subject.
Q. Can you give us a little more
information on how these cow
indexes are formulated?
A. Basically the index comes
from the sire of the cow and the
performance of the cow herself in
relationship to her herd mates.
Q. You mentioned the national
convention coming in July. Can
you give a little preview of the
convention?
A. One of the important things for
Pennsylvania members is to get
Thomas Kelly elected as national
director. The desire for Penn
sylvania is to have two directors
from our state. That certainly is
the highlight of the convention for
the Pennsylvania delegation.
There will also likely be discussion
about how to recognize the cow
families a little more by giving a
little less emphasis on the sires
side when dealing with index
numbers.
Q. Since the Pennsylvania State
Association will be 75 years young
next year, are you already plan
ning some special things to
highlight the state convention?
A. Yes. The next state convention
will be held in the Sheraton in
Wilkes Barre on February 25 and
26. We haven’t done a lot of
planning yet. But we want to have
a place to display some
memorabilia of the first 75 years of
the Pennsylvania Association.
Local clubs can already start
thinking toward what they might
bring along to the convention in the
way of historical things. Of course
some of the records of the early
years were not kept as well as they
have been in the last 25 to 30 years.
So we are looking forward to some
of the old things that show holstem
history. We also will have a
ballroom sale as a major activity.
And we will be housing the cattle
across the street in the parking
garage.
Q. What would you like to tell the
120,000 readers of Lancaster
Farming about your member
relations program?
A. First of all, we’d like to tell
everyone to keep active and in
volved. A lot of people right now
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are considering whether they
should keep on registering all of
their cattle, it might look like they
can’t afford membership right
now. But if they look down the road
they will see that to let their
registrations go on the young
animals will place a handicap on
their sales program three or four
years from now.
Q. Can you elaborate on the
dollars and cents aspect of
registered animals over non
registered animals.?
A. The average registered
animal is worth $3OO to $4OO more.
Our state average for membership
fees is about $33 a year. That
allows the member to belong to
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