C4-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, August 26,1989 ABS Sire News Transmitting ability is one-half of each animal’s Breeding Value or Genetic Merit. An animal’s Breeding Value is the sum of the genetic effect of all of the'genes received from both parents. Since offspring receive a diffe rent sample of genes from each parent, transmitting ability mea sures the average effect of the genes transmitted by a parent to its offspring. The Breeding Value of an individual can be estimated as the sum of both patents’ Transmit ting Abilities or one-half of both parents’ Breeding Values. Mogens Stendal, Executive Secretary of the Danish Jersey Cattle Society, makes the follow ing observations about TOP BRASS daughters in Denamrk; - TOP BRASS has the highest breeding index for protein yield ever achieved by a Jersey sire in Denmark (at 93% repeatability). The Danish Jersey breed-is world renowned for protein pro duction and takes considerable pride in the 3.94% protein average for the breed. At 93% repeatability 29 J 2793 TOP BRASS has the highest breeding index for protein ever achieved by a Jersey sire in Denmark. Genetic research clearly indi cates that selection for high milk production will produce more pro tein than selection for high percent protein test New Percentile Ranking Beginning with the July 1989 sire and cow evaluations, the per centile ranking will be based on PTA protein dollars, which con siders the production of milk, fat, and protein. Two key points can be drawn from these statistics. First of all, it again demonstrates the superiority of U.S. dairy genetics as com pared to the genetics available from Canada (difference = 809 pounds). Secondly, it shows that Results From Mexico Number Average PDM of Bulls Kilograms Pounds 638 124 273 Category All bulls Bulls with U.S. registration number Bulls with Canadian registration number Bulls with Mexican registration number Canadian bulls with U.S. sire Mexican bulls with U.S. sire All bulls with a U.S All bulls with a Canadian sire Ross Appointed Interim RCMA Head BATAVIA, NY Ed Anna resigned from the position of executive director and general manager of the Regional Coopera tive Marketing Agency (RCMA), effective August 11,1989. Carmen L. Ross was appointed interim executive director by RCMA’s Board of Directors during the board’s August meeting. Ross brings 31 years of experi ence in the dairy industry to the director’s position. He formerly was employed with the New York- New Jersey Market Administra tor’s Office, where he was chief auditor in charge of audit progarms and enforcement. the best available U.S. sired bulls are from the U.S. A.I. organizations. Cow Longevity Researcher, Brian Van Door maal studied the length of time a cow stayed in its herd of origin in Canada and reached the following conclusions: 1. Milk, fat yield, protein yield, and final classification score are of equal importance in predicting the length of herd life in herds of purebred breeders. 2. Type traits had much less influence on longevity in commer cial herds. 3. Mammary traits had the strongest relationship to longevity followed by feet and leg traits. 4. Statute, size, and rump traits ars not good predictors of longevity. July 1989 Calving Ease Changes The 1989 Calving Ease Sum mary has arrived. 1,448 new bulls were summarized for the first time and 12,868-bulls were resummar ized. The lesummarized bulls had remarkable stability in (heir sum maries. 12,613 (98%) changed by one point or less in percent diffi cult births. Only 2SS bulls changed by more than one point and only 33 bulls changed by more than three points in compari son with the 1988 summary. All of the bulls that changed by more than 3 points had fewer than 75 calvings in their 1988 summary. Bulls with a large number of calv ings changed very little in their evaluations. Dairymen can have confidence in evaluations of calv ing ease when a bull has an ade quate number of calvings. ABS considers evaluations on less than 200 calvings to be preliminary. Calving ease ratings are obtained by statistical analysis of calving scores recorded by dairymen in ABS progeny test herds. 336 302 117 -65 18S -80 113 487 -3 207 sue 138 -135 Anna served two years as RCMA’s director during the for mative period when RCMA expanded. He cited personal rea sons for his resignation. RCMA now serves 22,000 dairy farmers in 11 Northeastern states. RCMA collects, from the marketp lace, a Class 1 fluid milk differen tial over the minimum Class 1 price set by the government, and RCMA returns this money in the form of “over-order premiums” to all its farmer-members. For the period from September 1987 through May 1989, RCMA has paid ou $66 million to its member farmers. -143 -176 -7 456 -298 CLASSIFIED AD ORDER BLANII ' FLEAH Wam CU AMY Lanaaeter Farming 1 E Main St Ephreu, Pa. 17*22 7173*4-3047 •r UUlt 717-*2«-IIM MAIL TO; LANCASTER FARMING P.O. Bo* *0», Eoluala. PA 17922 DIADLINIii- SECTION B - WIONISOAV ATS.DOP.M. _ . SfCTION C ■ THURSDAY AT V:00 A.M NOTE PlcMc do not use this lorin lor m |a«u uiistf*c misi if atiabi Mail Boi Marks! Ads. 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