Rosanne Makes Breed History With Record Sale Price
BY
GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Adams Co. Correspondent
WASHINGTON, NJ.—Jersey
breed history* was made here last
Monday at the International Jersey
Extravaganza Sale when half
interest in Billings Top Rosanne, a
3-year-old A-Nine Top Brass
daughter, sold for $36,000. This
makes Rosanne the highest selling
female of the breed ever sold at
public auction. She was purchased
by a 20-member syndicate of
breeders from Canada and the
United States. Dubbed the Rosan
ne Syndicate, the members were
organized by sale host Max Spann,
Heron Run Farm. Contending bid
der was Braden King from
Maryland.
Rosanne was billed as perhaps
the most valuable Jersey cow
alive. Her dam is TC Rose EX-95
whose best effort was at 4-05 2x
14,580 pounds of milk, 6.0 percent
and 876 pounds of fat. The next
two dams in the pedigree averaged
a 6 percent test and the next five
direct maternal dams behind die
Rose cow scored Excellent. This
makes Rosanne a possible seventh
generation Excellent.
Her maternal sister Billings MC
Rosa, EX-90, in 305 days, made
20,060 pounds of milk, 5.7 per
cent, 576 pounds of fat and sold for
$14,000 in 1985.
Rosanne sold with solid creden
tials in her own right having made
a 14,837 ME milk record at 2 years
and carrying a 6.2 percent fat test.
She was the first place junior
2- at the 1986 All-
American Jersey Show and most
recently was Grand Champion at
the 1987 New England Showcase
Show. She is nominated to show in
the 1987 Jersey Jug Futurity. She
sold carrying a Master Milestone C
calf that will be totally owned by
the purchasing syndicate.
The half-interest in Billings Top
Rosanne was consigned by The
Billings Farm, Woodstock, Vt.
Drawing out the second high
money of the day was Forest Glen
Brass Sapphire who sold for
$13,000 to Cheryl Carlson, N.Y.
Consigned by Stanley and Dora
Benson, Dayton, Ore., this EX-90
3- A-Nine Top Brass
daughter sold with a 1 -10 record of
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16,751 pounds of milk, 4.6 per
cent, 779 pounds of fat 3.5 percent
and 584 pounds of protein.
Sapphire’s dam is the Forest
Glen TSP Sapphire cow, EX-91,
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The next dam was also scored
EX-92 with records of 22,400
pounds of milk and 1023 pounds of
fat. Sapphire sold safe in calf to an
April service by Highland Magic
Duncan.
The Elegant Elaine Syndicate,
composed of Mike Hart, Peggy
Bennett and Wayne Stiles, bid the
third high price of the day, $11,500
for Glenholme M Gem Elaine.
This VG-86 3-year-old is a daught
er of HVF Marlu Gem. Her dam is
Rexlea Horizon Iris 1 IK EX-92, a
One Star Brood Cow in Canada.
Elaine boasts two maternal sisters
by JFD Title, one scored VG-87
with over 16,000 pounds of milk
and the other scored Excellent with
617 pounds of fat. Elaine was con
signed by Robert and Bruce Mel
low, Bolton, Ontario, and was bred
back to Grand Slam.
Commanding the fourth high
selling price was Valleystream B
Joni- ET consigned by John and
June White, St. Thomas, Ontario.
She sold for $6OOO to Emerson and
Richard Abom, Conn. Joni is a
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International Jersey Extravaganza Sale
Breed history was made at the International Jersey Extravaganza Sale
hosted by the Max Spann Family when half-interest in Billings Top Rosanne
sold for $36,000. Selling to a 20-member syndicate, Rosanne nowenters breed
history as the highest selling female ever offered at public auction. Posing
here with Rosanne are syndicate members with Ed Crotty, left, representing
Braden King, contending bidder, and Bob Lord, right, representing The Bill
ings Farm, consignor.
Bruce daughter out of Valley
stream Silver B Jo 35L EX-93.
Silver B Jo’s 365-day record at
4-00 of 26,973 pounds of milk, 5.4
percent, and 1,461 pounds of fat
makes her the highest 365 day
Jersey milk and fat producer ever
in Canada. Both the second and
who just had too much credit. Wc
need to pair down the excess
investments that sit around the
farm so we can reduce the debt
load,” Whipple said. “Some of the
credit institutions that lost money
on farming deserve to lose the
money because of the way they
handled the accounts,” Whipple
said.
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poultry and general family home
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family since 1938. He went to high
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home county. Then 31 years ago
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third dams behind this open heifer
are scored EX-91 and carry a 5.7
percent fat test.
The sale grossed $209,375 on
56 head for an average selling
price of $3,738.84. The Extrava
ganza Sale was the culminating
event of a four-day international
he came to Lancaster Farm Credit
office and became manager in
1939. Miller and Bushong hired
him away to start a credit depart
ment and poultry building
business.
Whipple set up a distributorship
of poultry equipment as a service
to farmers and got Hers hey to
install the equipment. Hcrshey
later took over the equipment busi
ness, and after a time, also began to
build poultry houses. Whipple
came through the merger that
became Pcnnfield and retired in
1984 after 20 years with the feed
company. That is when he joined
*^ lC AS M ALTH K '%
meeting which included seminars,
sightseeing in New York City, and
an old fashioned beef roast. It
attracted Jersey breeders and con
signments from Canada, the Isle of
Jersey, and from across the United
States.
AgriGeneral. And now he has
retired again. Or so he says.
But with his vast experience
with finance and feathers (as he
likes to say), farmers and financial
people will likely never let him
rest. Though they’ll need to wail
for a little while because the going
away present from the Hersheys to
the Whipples was a vacation in
Hawaii. But when they return, you
can be sure someone will be seek
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help people get started or to help
them along the way.
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