AlB-Lancastcr Farming, Saturday, October 18,1986
ITHACA, N.Y. - New York monitoring progress, Empet said
Dairy Herd Improvement Guest speaker Edgar King of the
Cooperative held a Supervisor New York State Department of
Seminar recently to inform Agriculture and Markets, reported
records supervisors about DHI that this is “the toughest time for
innovations and recognize in- farmers since the Depression,”
dividual accomplishments. Nearly and called for elimination of the
250 supervisors from New York, f ea r that many farmers associate
New Jersey, Maine, with the word “cooperative."
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Farmers need help from informed
New Hampshire gathered in sources to manage their resources
Albany, to participate in the two- and make profitable management
day event. decisions, King said. King
General Manager Nelvin Empet described the Regional
welcomed the crowd at the opening Cooperative Marketing Agency, a
of the seminar with thanks for money management cooperative
their excellent performance in 1986 intended to improve dairy farm
and the challenge to live the DHI er’s incomes by collective
promise of delivering fast, ac- bargaining,
curate, useful dairy herd Supervisors throughout the
management services. The Northeast system were recognized
records supervisor makes the DHI for various accomplishments in
promise real by gathering in- years of service, excellence in
formation, helping farmers realize reporting and on proficiency and
areas that could be improved, and competency exams, and for
Order 4 Milk Priced At $12.93
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle price was up 25 cents from August
Atlantic Order Market Ad- and was 42 cents higher than a
ministrator Joseph D. Shine an- year earlier. The gross value of
nounced a September 1986 base September producer milk was
milk price of $12.93 per hun- $66.1 million, compared to $63.6
dredweight and an excess milk million a year ago.
price of $11.53. Shine said that producer receipts
The weighted average Sep- totaled 513.5 million pounds during
tember price was $12.91 and the September, an increase of 2.8
butterfat differential for the month million pounds from last Sep
was 17.7 cents. The base milk price tember, and the average daily
was up 26 cents from August and delivery of 2,640 pounds per
was 38 cents higher than last producer increased 100 pounds or
September. The weighted average 3.9 percent from a year earlier.
Class I producer milk totaled
USDA Buyout Report
WASHINGTON -An estimated Dair y cattle reported for export
13,700 head of dairy cattle were unde . r 0,6 Program for the period
slaughtered in federally inspected A P. **° 11 , tota ] ed an
plants during the week ending estimated 37,003 head. An
Sept. 27, as a result of the Dairy astunatad were exported
Termination Program, the U.S during the week ending Oct. 11
Department of Agriculture an
nounced Wednesday.
This total includes all cows,
heifers and calves identified as
dairy animals designated for
disposition in compliance with the
program requirements.
The cumulative total of cattle
slaughtered under the program
from April 1 through Sept. 27 is an
estimated 789,700 head.
The purchases of meat in ad
dition to normal purchases are to
help offset the effects of the DTP
on the domestic meat market. For
the two-week period ending Oct. 11,
the government purchased 241,250
pounds of meat. The cumulative
purchases, reported bi-weekly as
of Oct. 11, total 297.5 million
pounds
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numerous sales achievements.
Two region managers, Walter
Close and Myron Brown, were
commended and awarded for 40
years of service with the
cooperative. Close lives in Oneonta
and manages supervisors in
Chenango, Otsego, and Herkimer
counties. Brown is responsible for
supervisors in Washington,
Warren,* Saratoga, Renssalaer,
Schoharie, Albany, and Mont
gomery counties and resides in
Cobleskill.
General Manager Nelvin Empet
reported that the Northeast DHI
Association task force would be
meeting on Oct. 21 to consider a
draft of bylaws for the new North
east DHI organization.
Currently, the states of Con
necticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, and New Hampshire
have contracted with New York
DHI for record keeping and
261.0 million pounds and was up
19.7 million pounds or 8.2 percent
from last September. Class I milk
accounted for 50.84 percent of total
producer milk receipts during the
month, compared with 47.25
percent in September 1985.
Base milk accounted for 91.96
percent of total producer milk
receipts m September compared
with 88.94 percent last year. The
average butterfat test of producer
milk was 3.61 percent, up from 3.55
percent last September.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in-area
milk sales of 211.4 million pounds
during September, an increase of
2.4 percent from a year earlier
after adjustment to eliminate
variation due to calendar com
position.
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RD 8 Box 1A
703/434-9943
management services. Sept. 1,1987
is the goal set for consolidation of
the Northeast organization, which
would give representation on the
Board of Directors to all states
involved.
Lyle Wadell, Director of the
Northeast Dairy Records
Processing Lab, spoke of the
future of NE DRPL. Toll-free
telephone lines have just been
installed for better com
munications. Wadell recognized
Kathryn Ray, DRPL writer, who
was hired in another effort to
improve communications. Wadell
described upcoming electronic
mail systems and increased use of
computers in DHI record report
ing. He mentioned that use of the
Remote Management System, a
method allowing parties to access
DHI records via remote com
puters, has increased 68 percent
over the past year. Wadell expects
this increase to continue as
computers become the way of the
future for dairy farm managers.
Dairy Production Consultants
Dr. Arden Nelson of Homer and
Dr. Howard Redlus of Mount
Holly, N.J. spoke of the im
portance of records in herd health
and production management.
Without a record base, it is im
possible to make sound nutritional,
reproductive, and production
management decisions, according
to these two production medicine
veterinarians.
Nelson and Redlus claim that
dairy animal veterinarians are
now spending more of their time as
production consultants than in
treating disease. The DHI
supervisor is the crux of the
records on which these
veterinarians base their consulting
decisions. The DPC consultants
commended the supervisors in
attendance for excellent service
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and challenged them to take an
active interest in their members’
records to help make those records
come alive.
Terry Smith, New York State
Extension Dairy Specialist, based
his talk on the importance of the
DHI Remote Management System
in making DHI records come alive
for dairy producers. Records are
of utmost importance in the day to
day and long term decision making
processes that dairy farmers
undergo, Smith said. Smith spoke
of Extension projects underway in
several areqs of New York State
involving extensive use of the
Remote Management System in
dairy farm management and of the
impact these projects will have on
the future of dairy farming.
Calvin Walker, Maine Extension
Dairy Specialist, spoke of the
importance of the Advanced In
formation Manager reports. AIM
offers farm managers the op
portunity to use their records in
innovative and self-tailored styles
without the need for a computer on
the farm. Walker commended the
new “AIM in Lieu” option, where a
farmer can trade the Sample Day
Lactation Report for an AIM
report of his or her own making, as
an opportunity for supervisors to
spread the word about the im
portance of AIM.
At the closing of the seminar,
General Manager Nelvin Empet
reiterated the principles and goals
of the cooperative and called for
continued superior performance
by NY DHI records supervisors.
He stated that the DHI mission is
to increase the dairy farmers’ net
profit. “If you can’t measure it,
you can’t manage it,” Empet
stated. The DHI supervisor is the
focus of the measurements that
provide the records used to make
profitable management decisions.
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