A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fabruary 21,1987
Holstein Association
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were initially sown at the
February 1986, Pennsylvania
Holstein convention in Pittsburgh
by state members disgruntled with
the present USDA indexing system
of evaluating cattle on computer
formula “numbers.”
Baxter also praised the state’s
staff, calling it “a good, congenial
group to work with.”
The biggest challenge of the year
for the staff, Baxter is quick to
add, was an order for ap
proximately 1,000 heifers for
Brazil. Problems encountered in
the release and exchange for the
payment funds for those animals
created delays in shipment of the
cattle.
A large pole-barn addition to the
PHA farm at Middletown was
another highlight of the year.
“I don’t know how we would
have managed without it,” says
the PHA president.
With a year of experience behind
him, the Mercer County dairyman
eyes 1987 as a year of renewed
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continuing challenges to the dairy
industry.
“Maybe we should be helping the
kids do a few more things than in
the past,” Baxter suggests.
Over-order pricing is also an
item on his wish list. Baxter em
phasizes that he’d like to see dairy
fanners stand together to make
over-order pricing a reality.
Another issue on the back burner
is the possibility of an addition to
the information currently
available to members through
Pennsylvania’s Dairy Herd Im
provement Association.
Wisconsin and Ohio already have
in place a column on their DHIA
sheets which rate animals in
comparison to their own farm
heramates only, and not solely on
index. Animals in the top 25 per
cent for milk, fat and protein, for
instance, get top ratings, ranked
by a system of letter values.
“It offers a relative value of an
animal against her own herdmates
on production,” Baxter explains.
“Under the present system, a
group of heifers by a homebred
sire, no matter how well they do,
gets no index. This additional
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Baxter says he understands that,
as Pennsylvania’s DHIA system
moves into computerization, such
a program could be added with
relative ease, if demand warrants
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