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A34-Lancasftr Fanning, Saturday, July 12,1986
Major Dairy Sales
And Dispersals
Nationwide
Reports from two sales for the
week of July 4 to 9 showed 105 head
averaging $1,942.50. These sales
were held in Washington and New
York. The top prices at the sales
were $7,600 and $5,950. Here is a
brief look at the results of these
sales.
HOLSTEIN
The SECOND GENESEE
COUNTRY BREEDERS IN
VITATIONAL SALE, held in New
York, averaged $1,866 on 79 head.
The highest bid of the day was
$7,600 on a Valiant daughter. This
5-year-old is a fourth generation to
produce over 20,000 pounds of milk
and is listed in the top 2,000 cows in
the country for production.
During her current lactation, at
155 days, this Excellent cow has
produced 17,995 pounds of milk and
780 pounds of fat.
Second in the bidding, with a
price of $7,000, was a choice of bull
calves in a flush to Marshfield
Elevation Tony. His dam classified
VG-89 and her six dams were
classified Excellent. Her best
record to date was 21,580 pounds of
milk and 771 pounds of fat.
A female choice of calves from
the same flush secured the third
high bid of the day, $5,200.
NATIONAL DAIRY COW SALE INDEX
© 1986 Lancaster Farming Newspaper
This sale index can help dairymen place a value on the dairy cows
on their own herds. Breed organization sales and private dispersal
sales reported in Lancaster Fanning are included in the dollar
averages.
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William Kent was the auctioneer
for the day, and the sale was
managed by the Genesee Country
Breeders
The WASHINGTON STATE
SALE averaged $2,019 on 26 head.
Topping the sale was a 3-year-old
by Lime Hollow Elevation Mars.
She sold for $5,950 and won the
State 2-year-old Futurity the day
before. She is classified VG-86 and
produced over 20,000 as a junior 2-
year old.
Her next three dams are Very
Good and Excellent. She is bred to
Tradition to calve in December.
Second in the sale was a just
fresh Valiant daughter with a price
of $3,600. She is out of a Very Good
Lime Hollow Elevation Mars
daughter who has records up to
23,000 pounds of milk.
Third in the bidding with a price
of $3,300 was bred heifer sired by
Glendell. Her dam, an Excellent
out of Locust Glen, has records up
to 32,000 pounds of milk and 1,221
pounds of fat. This heifer will calve
this month with a Chief Mark calf.
The sale was managed by the
Nahomish Holstein Club and the
Washington State Holstein
Association. Ray Nelson was the
auctioneer.
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cream that has been so successful
that they want to increase their
expenditures with us this year.”
While the national beef
associations have called for an
investigation of the Futures
Market, Klechner said he didn’t
sense that the members of the
American Farm Bureau really
want to do away with the Futures
Market. “I think the average
farmer thinks it’s okay to in
vestigate possible fraud. But I
think he should look at the Futures
Market in possible related forward
contracting. Maybe even better
would be the use ot options as production and raises and markets
related to the Futures Market,” he about 18,000 hogs. He is especially
said. “I personally have not done interested in improving net farm
much a in the way of forward con- , income and works for Expanded
tracting. But I’m looking closely at Exports of U.S. Farm Com
it right now. And we’ll need to modities.
consider hedging part of our hog Eckel is a full-time farmer m
production for next year.” Lackawanna county in partnership
Klechner was elected president with his father and brother,
of the American Farm Bureau on Eckel’s farming operation consists
January 16, 1986, after serving 10 of more than a thousand acres. He
years as president of the lowa is especially successful with a
Farm Bureau Federation. He green wrap tomato production
farms 550 acres in lowa, program and marketing operation,
specializing in com and sovfv>an
to avoid m<
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