TIMONIUM, Md. - Steven
Townsend, a 14-year-old 4-H’er
from White Hall, Md., claimed a
host of champion rosettes at the
Baltimore County Dairy Goat
Show held at the Maryland State
Fairgrounds July 17.
Among Steven’s winners was
Bucky’s Precious Honey Bee, an 8-
year-old recorded grade goat that
topped her class. Bucky has done
well at 4-H shows in previous years
and entered the open show circuit
for the first time this year. At the
Maryland Dairy Goat Association
show in Howard County judge
Harvey Considine of Portage,
Wise., placed her at the top of the
recorded grade class and named
her best of breed.
Bucky also was named grand
champion recorded grade at the
Mid-Atlantic show in Carroll
County and reserve grand
champion at the Carroline County
Fair.
Judge for the Baltimore County
show was Peggy Gelhard.
Complete results from the
Baltimore County Show are as
follows:
Fitting and Showing
Junior Division
1. Kara Peruzovic, 2. Kirsten
Peruzovic.
Senior Division
1. Tracey Garrett, 2. Greg Kadlec
Champion Challenge Winner
Steven Townsend
All Other Purebred*
Senior Kid
1. Kara Peruzovic
Dry Yearling
1. Kirsten Peruzovic
Junior Champion
Kara Peruzovic
Reserve Junior Champion
Kirsten Peruzovic
Doe in Milk, 2 and 3 years
1. Kara Peruzovic
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Senior Champion
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Kara Peruzovic
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Recorded Grades
Junior Kid
1. Tracey Garrett
Senior Kid
1. Kirsten Peruzovic
Junior Champion
Kirsten Peruzovic
NEWARK, Del. - Turnaround
time on Delaware DHIA milk cow
records has been cut in half,
thanks to an electronic mail
system installed late last month by
the Delaware Department of
Agriculture in its Dover
laboratory. The system, which
uses a microcomputer and
telephone modem, gives state
chemist Theresa Crenshaw direct
access to the Northeast DHIA
Computing Center at Cornell
University.
The computing center maintains
records on all cows in participating
herds in the region, updating
lactation data—milk fat and milk
protein content, and somatic cell
count—from monthly milk sam
ples. Farmers use this information
to make feeding, herd replacement
and breeding decisions.
“The purpose of the DHIA
program is to document the
productivity and genetic merit of
each cow in the herd,” explains
University of Delaware extension
dairy specialist Dr. George
Haenlein, who welcomes the
switch to electronic mail in
reporting Delaware milk test
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Reserve Junior Champion
Tracey Garrett
Doe in Milk, 2 and 3 years
1. Tracey Garrett
Doe in Milk, 4 years and up
1. Steven Townsend
Senior Champion
Steven Townsend
Reserve Senior Champion
Tracey Garrett
Grand Champion
Steven Townsend
Reserve Grand Champion
Tracey Garrett
Delaware DHIA Goes Electronic
results.
“Going electronic will even
tually reduce report turnaround
time from 20 days down to one
day,” he says. “That’s our goal in
installing the system. In the past,
with conventional mail, it
sometimes has taken up to 28 days
to send test results to Cornell and
get back updated reports on in
dividual cow performance. By
then, the reports are too late to be
of much use from a management
standpoint.
“Ideally,” the dairy specialist
says, “farmers should know within
one day of sampling how their
cows are doing, so they can im
plement that information into their
management systems. The great
benefit of this fast turnaround is
that feeding adjustments can be
made promptly. Immediate action
can also be taken on cows with high
somatic cell counts.”
Now that milk test results can be
transmitted electronically to the
DHIA computer center at Cornell,
Haenlein predicts that more
Delaware dairy farmers will want
to acquire the equipment to
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Junior Kid
1. George Moore
Senior Kid
1. Steven Townsend
Dry Yearling
1. Steven Townsend
Junior Champion
Steven Townsend
Reserve Junior Champion
Steven Townsend
Doe in Milk, 2 and 3 years
1. Steven Townsend
Doe in Milk, 4 and over
receive reports directly on their
farms. “A little better than half of
our producers now participate in
DHIA,” he says, “and the number
is rising steadily. We now have 68
participating herds, out of an
estimated 120 commercial herds in
the state.”
Delaware’s dairy herds are
about equally divided between the
three counties, with a trend
towards more in Kent County as
urbanization eats up more farms in
New Castle County.
Milk for testing is collected by
self-employed testers or super
visors (one for each countvi who
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Grand Champion
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Grand Champion of All-Breeds
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contract with DHIA to sample
herds. Besides helping producers
manage their herds more ef
ficiently, the resulting official
lactation records are used by the
National DHIA Computing Center
in Washington, D.C., to document
the genetic merit of bulls to sire
high-producing cows.
“The DHIA system,” Haenlein
says, “has made the U.S. the world
leader in dairy cattle breeding
both for domestic use and export.
In turn, this has helped support the
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Vernon Kourey, Stewartstown,
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