Columbia DHIA
(Continued from Pag* A 24)
dairy farmer must record known
feed information. The system can
then identify where feed deficien
cies exist within the herd and
recommend adjustments to correct
excesses and deficiencies.
Forage Testing
Going hand in hand with the
nutrition system is a forage analys
is which has not yet been com
pleted. Once in operation forage
and milk samples will be picked up
at the same time by the supervisor.
Samples will go to the labs and
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Young Stock Management
DHIA is working on other areas
of service. One is young slock
management which will replace
calf books. The calf information
will be entered into the system and
when the heifer freshens, the need
to copy all data from calf to fresh
cow records will be eliminated.
This useful management tool will
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Sample Pick-up
The use of sample pick-up
trucks came up for discussion. The
change was necessary because
DHIA has discontinued use of the
sample preservative dichromate
for environmental reasons. An
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a non-toxic substance. With pick
up trucks as transporters, the sam
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time of the former method of UPS
pick up and with a more constant
and desirable temperature climate.
With UPS, samples often sat in hot
summer climate or freezing winter
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10,1988-A25
tedd the quality of the sample.
More reliable results will be
obtained.
What’s In Store?
Reorganization of DHIA,
according to Barth, is a two-sided
issue: management control and
membership control. The two must
jell into an organization that is not
cumbersome, while providing
information from both sides.
Both sides essentially work for
the same goal, to make the dairy
farmer more comeptitive, not only
in the state or county, but also in
the country.
What dairy farmers are doing in
California have a definite effect on
dairy farmers in the Northeast.
That state can produce milk for
$3.00 less per hundredweight than
Pennsylvania farmers. Because of
low production costs California
fanners can afford to ship milk to
eastern markets and still undersell
Eastern producers. This marketing
deficiency must be worked out by
a cooperative effort from both
sides.
DHIA is an $8 million non
profit operation. Efficiency must
top the list of priorities. The struc
ture must be reorganized to get the
most for a dollar and also meet
farming community’s changing
needs.
With computers entering the
farming field, the consumer is
demanding more and better ser
vices. If DHIA is to continue to
meet these needs and maintain
membership in a shrinking dairy
community, it, like the dairy far
mer, must compete, but in this case
it must compete against itself.
Although DHIA members pay
only 1 percent of their profit for
this service, an expenditure can
pay for itself many times over if
used correctly. To do this the ser
vice must continually update and
expand its information.
Several cost cutting items were
mentioned. DHIA has installed
equipment which has eliminated
three costly salaried technicians.
The equipment will pay for itself in
three years. Reusable vials have
replaced the disposable milk
sample bags at a substnatial
saving.
Since there is little chance for
reduction of DHIA services in the
future, it is the organization’s goal
to maintain present cost levels and
at the same time develop new
systems.
Meating Out Rewards
involved in raising rabbits; BOAC,
a community-involvement activi
ty; and citrus sales. During his
freshman year, he was the top
salesman among the first-year stu
dents. Last year he sold about 150
cases of oranges and grapefruit and
became the top salesman overall.
Weldy hopes to have repealed that
feat again this year, but won’t find
out until the awards banquet in
March.
He received the Star Grccnhand
award in his freshman year and
also received the ag processing
award for his work experience in
the butcher shop.
The FFA’er also competed in
meats judging, ag mechanics, and
dairy and livestock judging. Last
year he and his meats judging team
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A concern expressed by several
in the audience was for more edu
cation of services offered. While
letters of instruction and video
equipment may provide some
assistance, there is still a strong
ned for a. one-on-one discussion
with some of the users. An exam
ple was given that somatic cell
management, nutrition implemen
tation and compiling reports was
not understod by some users and
after frustration sets in, they simp
ly drop out
Barth said he was aware of the
short coming and while personnel
to accompany each service with
more than initial instruction is
unaffordable, DHIA is working to
find acceptable solutions for
everyone.
Joe Lyons said that because of
comments and concerns coming to
the Columbia board of directors, a
workshop is being considered for
this winter. Evaluation will be
based on attendance and interest
noted.
The meeting drew to a dose
with award presentations by Presi
dent Andy Robbins. The following
dairymen were award winners:
John Slemrich recognized for
best somatic cell count fo 74,000
which was sponsored by the
Bloomsburg Veterinarian
Hospital.
Dick Kreibel recognized for the
highest increase in milk produc
tion with 2,531 pounds which was
given by Local Farm Credit.
Jay Wise was recognized for the
highest increase in butterfat with
107 pounds which was given by
Local Farm Credit.
Bruce Hemsarth received an
Honorable Mention for increased
butterfat production with 106
pounds.
Jim Hunter was recognized for
high herd production with 22,621
pounds. Hunter also got the award
for high butterfat production at 824
pounds. Both awards were spon
sored by Endless Mountains
Harvester.
Dick Krcibel announced that the
board is going to discuss recogni
tion or non-recognition of non
published herds, enter it into the
record and bring to an end the issue
which has dominated many
conversations.
Jim Kline and Craig Fester were
elected to three-year terms and and
Bruce Hemsarth to one-year term
on the board of directors.
(Continued from P«a« Al 9)
placed first in the county.
“Meats judging takes a lot of
work to leant the different cuts,”
Wcldy said. “You can’t leant them
overnight. You have to study.”
Some of what Wcldy knows he
was lucky enough to learn first
hand at the butcher shop.
Wcldy is uncertain of where the
future will take him. “I might go
further into butchering, but I’m
also thinking of farming,” he com
mented. “But this (butchering) will
be my job after high school until I
know more of what I want to do.”
Regardless of what Wcldy
decides to do, it’s certain that he
will lake with him specific job
skills as well as the responsibhty
and confidence that he’s learned as
an FFA’er.
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