MADISON, WI The chair person of the California Milk Ad visory Board has received World Dairy Expo’s 1989 Dairy Woman of the Year Award. Beatrice Moons* activities stretch from heading up one of the country’s leading dairy promotion organizations to involvement in her community and playing an ac tive role in the family’s farming operation! Moons and her husband. Jack, own Moons Dairy, an 850-cow Holstein operation on 98 acres near Chino, California. Approxi mately 85 percent of the herd, which includes 1,000 replacement heifers, are grade animals, while the remainder are registered. The cows, with a herd average of about 18,000 pounds, are milked in a two-double-ten herringbone par lor. Sixty-five of the farm’s acres are triple-cropped to oats, barley and Sudan grass, all of which are green chopped and fed to the herd. GABRIE 9H968 Fivebrooks Spirit GABRIEL *TD Excellent-90 aAa 612435 7/89 USDA (PTA ’9O) 47 dtrs./43 herds PTA Protein +sls9 +.01% +4l p 75% Rel. Mllk/Fat +1133m +sls4 +.08% +S6f 76% Rel. PTA Type +l.OB 54% Rel. TPI+BSO Pedigree: Spirit X Elevation Calving Ease - 12% (61 calvings, 61% Rel.) GABRIEL is a promising new quadruple-plus sire that entered the lineup following the July 1989 sire summary. An Excellent-90 Spirit son, GABRIEL is backed by a 2E-90 Elevation dam with 157,110 pounds of lifetime milk production and a VG-87 granddam with lifetime production of 194,940 pounds. The deep-bodied GABRIEL daughters have ex ceptional dairy strength, good width through the thurls, and correct feet and legs. They also have high, wide rear udders, super center support, and excellent teat placement. * Northeastern PA Southcentral PA Don Hibbard Ed Gulnac .. Phone 717-836-3168 Rhone: 814-847-2520 Northcentral PA J. Hershey Myer Phono 717-523-3090 PENNSYLVANIA Direct Herd Representative Earl Kepner Phone 717-935-2485 ) ALLIED GENES ( “ ' "^FTIIeHINMOCIiy LINKED FOR YOUR PROGRESS" Expo’s Dairy Woman Of The Year Named The farm employs six full-time workers. Moons is considered an astute businesswoman and serves as the farm’s bookkeeper, maintaining financial records, as well as re cords for young stock. Until a year ago, when she took over as CMAB chairperson, she played a full role in all phases of the form’s day-to-day operation, including planting and harvesting. Giving up field work was enabled when their son, John, came back to the farm after graduating from Cal Poly University - San Luis Obispo in the spring. She maintains responsibility for the appearance of Moons Dairy, a duty which earned the farm the distinction as Outstanding Dairy from the Chino Chamber of Com merce in 1988. With an attractive farmstead, complete with bonsai trees, Moons Dairy occasionally hosts dairy tours for local school children. & new- California. Development of the Cdrfonua, Oregon and Washing program involved an extensive re- and works cooperatively toad search project on the viability of a pr^ • cheese industry in California. fMI^ ns h f is a lead f Those efforts, along with those ° u * ,de her sta , te ; She currcntl y of others in the California dairy in- . on K an dustry, has led California from by * e D Natlonal producing 150 million pounds of j-. and R p se * rc h Board cheese 10 years ago to 600 million d 3 n edto d f l ™ me how best to pounds today. While fluid milk re- "™ rdinate nat,onal Potion ef mains the organization’s top pro- Dancing-Ball Gabrlal Soupy, GP-83 (EX-MS) 2-1 336 d 17,040 m 38% 652 f 33% 559 p Owned by Don Meyers, Kempton, PA agh-. 2-7 301 d 21,856 m 31% 6821 30% 652 p Owned by William B Hart, Forksville, PA 2-4 362 d 18,604 m 3.9% 725 f 33% 61 Op Owned by Gary & Donna Ayres, Granville Summit, PA MARYLAND Ted Ridgely Phone; 301-898-9101 Toll Free Technician Service 1-800-227-6417 Direct Herd Representatives Pete Bohacek 301-371-6834 Dave Elston 301-898-9101 Washington, Groan & Fayotts Co. In PA Jim Filer Phone: 304-686-2100 R D. #2 Tunkhannock, PA 18657 (717) 836-3168 FAX (717)836-1490 Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 7,1989-A53 Moons has served on the Dairy Science Advisory Committee for Cal Poly for about five years. She is treasurer .of a parent advisory group for her daughter’s high school, and she is active in the San-River Dairy Bells, a regional service and social organization of dairy women whose activities in clude planning dairy tours and working at local fairs. She served as a director to the Chino Chamber of Commerce from 1980 to 1982 and worked with the California Dairy Princess contest for a number of years, holding positions as district chair person, state vice chairperson and treasurer. Currently, she is a mem ber of Dairy Shrine, state and na tional Holstein Associations and Milk Producers Council of Cali fornia. In 1989, Moons was named an honorary member of the Los Lecheros Dairy Club at Cal Poly, an honor re served for one dairy farmer and one dairy in dustry representative yearly. Moons and her hus band have four children; Stephanie, 23; John, 22; Agnes, 20 and Jacque line, 15. A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! 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