ASO-imcattar Farming, Saturday, Novambar 29,1986
York County DHIA Completes 65th Year
BY JOYCE BUPP
York County Correspondent
YORK - York County’s Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
has wrapped up its 65th year of
providing production records to
dairymen. That occasion was
noted recently at the annual DHIA
meeting and awards presen
tations, held at Wisehaven Hall.
Multiple awards winner for the
Multiple awards winner for the
year was the Smyser’s Richlawn
Farm, East Berlin Road, York, the
family operation of Richard and
sons Robert and Rodney Smyser.
Richlawn’s 77 Holsteins completed
the test year with the county’s high
herd average of 792 pounds of fat,
22,518 milk and 696 protein.
Two individuals in the Smyser
herd won the family awards for
high 305-day milk and fat, and high
lifetime record. Richlawn Per
former Idol Amy, sired by
Paclamar Triune Complete, took
the county’s 305-day record with a
7 year and 8 month lactation of
33,597 milk and 1,174 fat. Top
lifetime production honors went to
their Richlawn Leader Star Dawn,
for total milk to date of 253,030
pounds. Dawn is sired by Penstate
Ivanhoe Star, and projected to
complete her current 14 year and 6
month lactation at 21,000 milk.
Lynn Wolfe, Abbottstown Rl,
topped the county’s herd
production list for 1986 in both milk
and protein. Wolf’s herd of 71
registered Holsteins finished the
test year with an average of 22,655
milk, 726 protein and 762 fat.
Recognition for high lifetime
production for the second con
secutive year went to the Earl
Furhman family’s Oil Creek
Apollo Vicki. Now 17 years old, the
Hilltop Apollo Ivanhoe daughter
completed her 12th lactation at the
Furhman’s Hanover farm for a
lifetime production of 10,986 fat,
and milk total of 251,975.
A new category of awards this
year focused on quality, with
recognition for low Somatic Cell
Counts. Topping the list was Edwin
Calhoun, Glen Rock, with an SCC
average of 92,000. Second place
went to Paul King, Delta, with an
average SCC count of 121,000;
third, J. Donnell Taylor, Delta,
131,000; fourth, Beshore Farms,
142,000; and fifth, David and Chris
Druck, Airville, 155,000.
Two herds were honored for
Brandt Herd Reaps Top Award At
BY MARTHA J. GEHRINGER
PRESCOTT David Brandt,
Annville, garnered the award for
high herd in milk, fat and protein
at Lebanon County Dairy Herd
Improvement Association’s 57th
annual meeting on Tuesday.
The Annville dairymen’s herd
bested the other 147 herds on test in
the county with an average of
fat and protein at Tuesday’s Lebanon County DHIA annual
meeting. Reid Hoover accepted Hoover Farms' award for
high individual cow. -
outstanding fat production in
creases. Hopewell Center Farm,
New Park, operated by the James
Warner family, recorded the
largest increase in the over-550-
pounds fat category. The Warner’s
herd average on 32 head increased
by 137 pounds of fat, and competed
the 1986 test year with a total of 717
fat, 19,552 milk and 638 protein.
Elvin Dieter, Dover, had the
largest herd increase in the 400 to
550 pounds fat category. Dieter’s 63
head of Holsteins jumped an
average of 87 pounds of butterfat,
finishing with 549 fat, 15,616 milk,
and 493 protein.
Herds increasing by 50 or more
pounds of fat were Four-Co Farm,
Doug and John Cope; Galen Hess;
Peter Leise, Bupplynn 2; Ramsey
Cooper; Albert Dehoff and Sons;
Shelbud Holsteins, Bud Holmes; T.
Edwin Johnson; Charles Herr and
Son; Beshore Farms; and
Rineway Holsteins, Larry and
Adrian Rinehart.
Accepting ribbons for herd
averages topping the 700-pound-fat
mark were Smysesr’s Richlawn
Farmn, 792 fat; Beshore Farms,
788 fat; Lynn Wolf, 762 fat; H.S.
and R.E. Fetrow, 761 fat; Paul
King, 741 fat; Rineway Dairy
Farm, 727 fat; Sinking Springs
Farm, 726 fat; Hopewell Center
Farm, 717 fat, and Shelbud
Holsteins, 712 fat.
Recognition for protein averages
over 600-pounds went to: Lynn
Wolf, 726 pounds protein; Beshore
Farms, 704 protein; Smysers
Richlawn Farm, 696 protein; H.S.’
and R.E. Fetrow, 693 protein;
Rineway Dairy Farm, 653 protein;
Hopewell Center Farm, 638
protein; Wayne Mummert, 624
protein; Shelbud Holsteins, 622
protein; Sinking Springs Farm, 619
protein; Paul King, 617 protein;
Daryl Bair, 615 protein; Melvin
and Barb Marks, 607 protein; and
Leonard Greek, 605 protein.
Four directors won seats on the
county DHIA board, three of them
for full three-year terms, and one a
partial-term replacement. Elected
to full terms arc Patti Hushon,
Delta, Dale Clymer, York and Jim
Innerst, Red Lion. Doug Cope,
Dillsburg, will fill the unexpired
term of former director George
Shoe, who has moved from the
county. Retiring as directors were
Edwin Calhoun and Dale Doll,
22,123 pounds of milk, 778 pounds of
fat and 698 pounds of protein on 71
Holsteins.
Roy Weaver’s herd of 54
Holsteins achieved the second high
production in all three categories.
His cows averaged 21,240 pounds of
milk, 764 pounds of fat and 658 '
pounds of protein for the year.
The third high herd for fat award
>p York Com .. pi .ion awat for 1986 were split by the Wolf and
Smyser families. Left are Lynn and Gerry Wolf, recipients of the high herd milk and
protein awards. Robert and Lisa Smyser, center, and Rodney and Joyce Smyser were
honored for high herd in fat, high 305-day milk and fat record, and high lifetime milk
production award.
Glen
Rock,
and
Manchester.
In his state director’s report,
Martin Grey noted a 10,000-head
overall increase for 1986 in the
enrollment of cattle on Penn
sylvania’s DHIA program, in spite
of a loss of 10,000 head sold through
the Dairy Termination Program.
Total enrollment for the state
DHIA is 349,000 head in 6500 herds.
According to Grey, the state
DHIA board is “catching up” with
some cases of cattle records
manipulation. One state hearing
currently underway is for a
member cited for some 19
violations of DHIA rules. In
another case, a member has
already been suspended from the
DHIA testing program for three
years due to rules violations.
The York DHIA board is
recommending a county fee in
crease of 10 cents per cow, to granl
testers salary raises. No increases
in state fees are anticipated for the
1987 test year.
went to Hoover Farms of Lebanon.
Their 132 Holsteins averaged 749
pounds of fat. “Heidi,” an 11-year
old Holstein, owned by Hoover
Farms produced the top record in
the county for the year, 33,138
pounds of milk, 1,182 pounds of fat
and 928 pounds of protein.
David Eugene Reiff received the
lowest somatic cell count award.
His herd averaged a SCC of 95,000
per month.
The greatest increase in rolling
herd average for protein and fat
went to Sven Bomberger. His herd
registered an increase of 90 pounds
protein and 99 pounds fat. Lester
Martin added an additional 2,581
pounds of milk to his herd average
for the greatest increase in rolling
herd average for milk award.
Herds recognized for production
over 700 pounds of fat were: David
Brandt, 778; Roy Weaver, 764;
Hoover Farms, 749; Willow Maple
Farm, 747; Donald Hoffer, 740;
Irvin Brubacher, 737; Arthur Krall
and Son, 726; Marvin Meyer and
Sons, 722; Roy Nolt, 721; Lloyd
Burkholder Jr., 721; Gary Lentz,
719; M. Luther Bennetch, 718; Dale
Hostetter and Sons, 716; Raymond
and Marlin Getz, 714; Arnold
Acres, 714; Vincent Wagner, 709;
Kenneth Mase, 708; Leon
Burkholder, 706; and Kenneth
Seller, 705.
These herds plus Eugene
Gringrich, Willis Good, David
Weaver, Wernerway Farms and
Zirkel,
Troy
Carolyn and Edwin Calhoun, center, received a newly
instituted DHIA award, honoring them for the low year
average in Somatic Cell Count. Tim Warner, left, accepted
awards for Hopewell Center Farm's high increase in fat.
Accepting the high lifetime fat production plaque was Dale
Fuhrman for the Earl Furhman family.
Lebanon County DHIA
Rob
award for greatest herd average increase in fat and protein
Jay and Carol Hershey were agricultural agent. The total
honored for protein production number of herds on test dropped
over 600 pounds. from 152 in 1985 to 148 this past
Elected as directors were: Jay year. Inspite of the loss of four
Hershey, Donald Hoffer, Sam herds, the total number of cows on
Bucher, Clyde Deck, Vince test increased to a record 9,982. An
Wagner, Malcolm Sonnen and Roy extra testing circuit was added to
Weaver. accomodate the increase.
The past year was a year of Winebark reported that Lebanon
change for the Lebanon County County ranks sixth in the Penn-
DHIA program, according to sylvania for milk production. The
Kenneth Winebark, county (Turn to Page A 39)
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