A34-Lanc«ttor Farming, Saturday, March 21,1987
NATIONAL DAIRY COW SALE INDEX
© 1987 Lancaster Farming Newspaper
This sale index can help dairymen place a value cm the dairy cows in
their own herds. Breed organization sales and private dispersal sales
reported in Lancaster Fanning are included in die dollar averages.
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Major Dairy Sales
And Dispersals
F=j Nationwide
Reports from six sales for the
week of March 10 to 17 averaged
|1,301 on 451 head. The top prices
ranged from |2,050 to $5,600. The
sales were held in Missouri,
Virginia, Wisconsin and New York.
Here is a brief look at the results of
these sales
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The LYONS FARMS COM
PLETE DISPERSAL held in
Missouri averaged $942 on 99 head.
This number includes all the
animals to go through the sale
ring, from aged cows to a 3-day-old
calf.
Topping the sale at $2,700 were
two daughters of Big Tex.
The first cow to sell at this price
was a VG-88 5 year old. She
produced a top record as a 2 year
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old of 12,450 pounds of milk, 534
pounds of fat, and 438 pounds of
protein in 365 days. The sale topper
averaged 1,700 pounds of milk over
herdmates. She was due at sale
time to Wistar Deacon.
Her dam was a Housleys Dari
Fayvor daughter. The next dam
classified Very Good and produced
a lifetime record over 178,000 milk
and just under 9,000 fat.
The second cow to sell for the top
price of the sale was a VG-87 3 year
old. Her current Mature
Equivalent record stands at 16,230
mUk and 620 fat with a Cow Index
of plus $6l. She posted a herd mate
deviation of plus 6,800 milk. She
was bred to Fayette to calve in
June.
Her dam, classified VG-88 and
sired by Fauver HU Wis Domino,
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produced five records which
averaged 3,200 milk over herd
mates. She produced a top record
of 15,480 milk with a 4.4 test in 309
days.
Merv Leffler auctioneered the
sale. The Guernsey Marketing
Service managed the sale.
The VIRGINIA HOLSTEIN
ASSOCIATION SPRING SALE
averaged $1,158 on 75 lots.
Two lots sold for the top price of
$2,050.
A 2-year-old, sired by Valiant,
was the first animal to sell for
$2,050. Fresh on Jan. 9, she was
producing 50 pounds of milk a day.
Her dam, an 85-point Pete
daughter, produced a high record
of 26,500 milk and 964 fat in 365
days.
The second cow to sell for $2,050
was a 3 year old daughter of
Glendell Arlinda Chief. Classified
at 81 points as a 2 year old, she
completed a first-calf lactation of
14,450 milk and 516 fat in 295 days.
Fresh in December 1986, her
current lactation stands at 3,046
milk and 145 fat in 56 days.
Her dam is an B&point Pete
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