Al6-UncMt«r Farming, Saturday, Novambar 29,1986
Walkup Holsteins
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would let anybody have her. In
dexing between 13 to 15,000 is not
that important if you’re not going
to be able to work with that cow.
“I wouldn’t want the buyer to go
out and say this is the cow I bought
fromWalkup,” Dan explains. “We
enjoy something of a reputation on
the quality of cattle and because of
that reputation we cannot sell this
cow and we will not sell those
cows that we know for a fact won’t
be able to make a customer happy.
That’s good business sense
whether you’re a retail store or
whether you’re a car dealer or
whether you’re' breeding
registered Holsteins,” he says.
When it comes to selling his
Holsteins, Myers maintains a
contract with the Holstein World
and advertises through the
publication several times a year as
well as in Southeast Holstein News.
“From there our marketing efforts
are done largely with the cattle in
consignment sales and hoping they
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will build a reputation for repeat
business.” The breeder also ex
ports some cattle and has shipped
cows and heifers from Japan to
Hungary to, most recently,
Morrocco.
According to Dan, milk sales are
still greater than breeding animal
sales at Walkup, but both are an
important part of the operation as
a whole. “We believe the milk
should be able to pay the bills and
living expenses and that the sale of
surplus breeding stock is basically
profit. That’s just one more reason
to register cattle,” he grins from
his soapbox briefly.
“We invest in registered cat
tle,”’ he continues, “And it’s like
all investments you hope it turns
out. If they have the pedigree and
they’re good individuals that
perform after they grow up,
hopefully we’ll be able to cash in on
the investment.
“As Ron Buffington has said,
“Dan adds, ‘“Those that fail to
plan, plan to fail.’”
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nation for markets for vegetables.
And weather plays a major role in
market movements at any one
particular time. The ACRES
program paid for itself just in the
45 days I was harvesting
tomatoes,” Eckel said. In talking
to one of my fellow state
presidents, this president in
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$9,000 from the program last year.
To use the new service you need
a computer, a telephone modem, a
private telephone line and an
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Richard Denison, manager said,
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my interest was in programs,
those things that work in the
hardware to perform the reports
that allow the farmer to make
better management decisions.
However, you can’t support a man
on the road just selling software.
So we have combined the hard
ware and software into a package.
Keith Eckel (right), Pennsylvania Farmers Association
president and farm user of the new acres program, works
with Nevin Dourte, marketing representative for farm
computers.
One of the things farmers kept
telling us was that we need market
information. So now with the
ACRES program in place to help
with the educational part of our
program to farmers, we have a
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Denison listed the services of his
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