Grove Named To Angus Assoc. Board
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Angus
breeders from Alaska to Florida
met in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov.
17 for the 103rd Annual Meeting of
the American Angus Association.
Elected president of the 30,000-
member Angus breed organization
was Joe Neely, Franklin, Ky. A.
Harvey Lemmon, Woodbury,
Georgia, was elected vice
president, and five men were
elected to the 10-person American
Angus Association Board of
Directors.
Elected to their first three-year
terms on the board were Conrad
Grove, Downingtown, Pa.; Joe Bill
Meng, Bowling Green, Ky.; and
Paul “Butch” Meier, Jackson, Mo.
Re-elected to a second three-year
board term were Tom Drake,
Davis, Okla., and Richard Jan
ssen, Ellsworth, Kans.
The Annual Meeting was held in
conjunction with the North
American International Livestock
Exposition. The business of the
Association was conducted by
some 250 delegates elected to
represent their respective states.
Conrad “Connie” Grove,
Downington, Pa., began managing
farms and acquiring Angus cattle
in 1946. Since 1959 he has been
manager of Devereaux Soleil
Farm. It consists of 300 registered
Angus cows and bull testing
facilities, including pinpointer
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From Missouri
Farm News Service
Tom turkeys are gaining weight
so fast they literally can’t stand it.
“Sometimes their legs just give
out,” said University of Missouri-
Columbia poultry scientist Joe
Vandepopuliere.
“There’s something wrong with
their skeletal structure.”
Whatever the problem is, it only
affects toms and not hens. It
doesn’t affect every tom, either,
but the problem has been in
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Joe Neely, the new Association
president, purchased his first
Angus cow with a heifer calf at side
in 1947 as a 4-H project, and he has
been a member of the American
Angus Association and an Angus
breeder since that time.
He and his brother, Ben operate
a farm that has been in the Neely
family since 1810. They farm some
1,400 acres and run a 125-cow
registered Angus herd.
Harvey Lemmon, the new
Association vice president from
Woodbury, Georgia, has owned
Angus cattle since he was
old. A native of Dublin, Virginia,
he is a 1969 graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University. He is the owner and
operator of Lemmon Cattle En
terprises.
Turkeys Can't Stand
creasing in recent years.
“That could be because we’re
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skeleton these days,” Van
depopuliere said.
“We now get toms up to 28
pounds in 18 weeks almost two
months faster than we could in
1970,” Vandepopuliere said.
“Apparently, skeletal strength
hasn’t kept up with the bird’s
ability to gain weight.”
Vandepopuliere isn’t sure if he’s
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Intemotional Committee Strives
To Standardize Drug Residue Regs
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An in
ternational committee of
veterinary drug experts have
recommended review of several
commonly used livestock drugs to
establish international agreement
on the safety of residues from the
drugs in food products, according
to a USDA official.
“The Codex Committee on
Residues of Veterinary Drugs in
Food has established a list of seven
animal drugs for which the
committee recommends in
ternational scientific review in
order to reach agreement on
allowable levels of residues from
the drugs in foods,” said Lester M.
Crawford, associate administrator
It
dealing with a genetic problem, a
nutritional deficiency or a com
bination of the two.
He’s currently injecting
vitamins and minerals into the
yolk of the turkey egg as it is
transferred from incubator to
hatcher. That way, the young
turkey absorbs the mix slowly as
part of its food supply before it is
hatched.
“We certainly hope this solves
the problem,” Vandepopuliere
said.
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of USDA’s Food Safety Inspection
Service and chairman of the
committee. “The list includes
growth-promoting hormones, the
antibiotic chloramphenicol, sulfa
drugs and four other classes of
drugs.”
Crawford said that, in compiling
the list, the Codex Committee
considered any substance ad
ministered to agricultural
animals, including hormones and
externally applied pesticides, that
could leave a residue in food
products such as meat, milk, eggs
or fish. He said the initial list in
cludes the seven substances which
the committee believes deserve
top priority, and that the com
mittee may recommend other
drugs for review at a later date.
The Codex Committee is a new
group established by the Codex
Alimentarius Commission, an
international group of experts who
work toward the adoption of
common international food
standards to protect consumers
and promote fair trade.
Crawford said the development
of the committee’s list is a
significant first step toward in
ternational agreement on
veterinary drug issues, including
the establishment of common
allowable levels of veterinary drug
residues in food. Currently, there
exist wide variations among
countries in animal drugs allowed
and in the maximum residues
permitted.
“Because of advances in
science, we can now detect sub
stances that are present in food in
parts per billion or even parts per
trillion in some cases,” Crawford
said. “Unfortunately, some
countries use this capability to
prohibit the use of certain drugs
whose residues can be detected but
are not likely to be harmful, while
other countries may allow the
entry of products containing
residues of substances almost
universally viewed as unsafe.
There is a great need for in
ternational standardization.”
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manure from heavy pit manure
to totally liquid loads.
According to Brad Boncher,
waste handling product manager,
the new Gehl L 22 can handle a very
wide range of manure con
sistencies. “Powerful blades in the
scoop break up the most crusted
manure, mix it with the liquids,
then deliver it to a heavy-duty
auger without jamming or
clogging. And, this same system
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simply by adjusting the tractor
throttle.”
Features of the new L 22 include
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scoop liquid, 10-gauge steel con
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