Adams Mark Host Site For National DHIA Convention
UNIVERSITY PARK - The 1987
National Dairy Herd Improvement
Association Annual Meeting and
Trade Show will be held in
Philadelphia at the Adam’s Mark
Hotel on March 9 to 12.
A Biotechnology Conference will
be held on March 9 and 10 in
conjunction with the NDHIA
Convention and Trade Show.
The theme for day one of the
conference is “New Dairy
Technologies.”
Dr. Kenneth Butcher, general
manager of the DHIA dairy
records processing center at
Raleigh, N.C., will discuss on-farm
DHIA records at 1:25 p.m.
Dr. Michael Tomaszewski,
extension dairy specialist at Texas
A and M University will follow
Butcher with a presentation on
expert systems.
Steve Spencer, Penn State ex
tension dairy specialist, will
discuss milking systems
automation.
Philip Dukas, NDHIA director of
technical development, will
present a half-hour program on
milk weighing devices and iden
tification.
Concluding the afternoon session
will be Dr. Paul Thompson, Dairy
Equipment Company president,
and Dale Gordon, Babson Bros,
product manager, discussing
milking and feeding systems.
Day two of the conference
focuses on bovine somatotropin.
Leading the indepth look at the
growth hormone will be Dr.
William Chalupa, University of
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nutrition. He will explain the
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Following Chalupa at 9 a.m. will
be David Walton, American
Cyanamid marketing manager,
who will discuss the marketing of
somatotropin.
Dr. George Conneman, Cornell
University professor of
agricultural economics, will make
a presentation on the adoption of
new technologies.
Tom Craig of Murmac Farms in
Bellefonte will talke about his
perspective of somatotropin.
Anchoring the session will be Dr.
James Crowley, University of
Wisconsin professor and extension
specialist, will a reasoned ap
proach to BST.
The convention will include a
week-long trade show, annual
meeting of delegates, tours to
Chester County and Lancaster
County farms and businesses,
caucuses and the annual banquet
closing the event on Thursday
evening, March 12.
Reservations can be made by
contacting National DHIA office at
3021 East Dublin Granville Road,
Columbus, Ohio 43229.
Registration fees for the NDHIA
meeting include:
•Biotechnology conference $l5
per person.
•General registration fee $lOO
per person.
•Youth registration
person.
•Ladies outing on Tuesday $lO
per person.
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•Lancaster County farm tour $5
per person.
•Chester County farm tour $5
per person.
•Ladies outing on Thursday $l5
per person.
The general registraton fee
includes the biotechnology con
ference, president’s reception,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thur
sday continental breakfasts and
lunches, Wednesday’s dinner,
Thursday’s banquet, and all dairy
and coffee breaks.
Room reservations should be
made with the Adam’s Mark, City
Line Avenue and Monument Road,
Philadephia, PA 19131 or phone
215-581-5000 or 1-800-231-5858.
The 1987 convention will feature
a trade show with a variety of
innovative exhibits. These exhibits
will show the lastest in dairying
equipment and services.
A Ladies Outing scheduled for
Tuesday includes the Philadelphia
Flower Show and a tour of Fair
mount Park. The Thursday Ladies
Tour includes Longwood Gardens
and the Brandywine River
Museum.
Two farm tours to either Chester
County or Lancaster County farms
are slated for Wednesday, March
11.
The Chester tour includes stops
at Maplebound Farms.
Maplebound, owned and operated
by Donald Hostetler, maintains a
rolling herd average of 19,550
pounds of milk and 720 pounds of
fat on 87 cows. Hostetlers farm 140
acres of com and 80 acres of hay.
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The herd is housed in a well
ventilated tie-stall bam.
Another stop includes Marlboro
Mushrooms, owned by Charles and
Jane Brosius. They ship
mushrooms daily to the fresh
mushroom markets of New York
and Philadelphia. The operation
includes 13 mushroom houses
displaying all 13 weeks of the
mushroom growing cycle.
The Nelson Stoltzfus farm, a 70
cow, family-owned and operated
dairy, is slated for the convention
tour. The dairy features a one year
old, double four milking parlor
with computer feeder and heat
exchanger and oil reclaimer on
milk pumps.
The final stop features the New
Bolton Center. Convention visitors
will have the opportunity to see the
George Widener Hospital for large
animals on the rural campus of the
University of Pennsylvania
Veterinary College. The recovery
pool for large animals
recuperating from anesthesia will
be open for viewing.
The Lancaster County tour in
cludes four stops.
Oregon Dairy, a family part
nership involving six brothers of
the Hurst family, will display the
dairy’s milk processing plant,
retail milk outlet, and full service
grocery store and cafeteria.
Hursts’ farm consists of 450
acres and supports a 300-cow dairy
herd and 200 heifers. The farm
features a free stall bam with
fence line feeding, oak plank stall
beds and a ventilation system
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consisting of two rows of side
opening panels, open ridge and
circulating fans.
Their milking system consists of
a 24-stall polygon parlor with
automatic take-offs. A water
treatment system is used for the
herd’s water supply.
Manure is handles with alley
scrapers, a manure transfer
system and earthen bank storage.
A continuous feed, flow through
methane digester is used. The
farm generates its own electricity
and excess is sold to a power
supplier. Manure solids are sold
and effluent is applied to the land.
A tour will be held of the New
Holland Inc plant where the
company assembles balers and
blowers.
Way Lane Farm will welcome
convention goers. This Amish farm
of 100 acres features a registered
herd of 50 Holstein cows averaging
18,000 pounds of milk.
The final stop will be Zimhaven
Farm, owned and operated by
Loren and Helen Zimmerman.
This registered herd of Holsteins
averages 19,000 pounds of milk on
75 cows. These cows are divided
into two production groups. Both
groups receive a TMR containing
60 percent haylage, 40 percent cor
silage plus high moisture corn. The
high group also receives a topdress
mix containing roasted soybeans,
whole cottonseed, shelled corn and
a protein supplement.
The herd is housed in a tie-stall
barn with a duct ventilation
system.
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