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.
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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
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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.
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Southeastern PA
Direct Herd A NJ
Representative Eldon Ford
Russell Jacques Phone; 717-933-5961
717-587-2868
Western PA
Roger Peril
Phone: 412-794-5423
Direct Herd
Representative
Nelson James
215-562-7117
Moons has excelled in dairy aa- ■ •. ,
vertising. research and edition S mSSn
efforts. A CMAB director for ten y dh h P romotlon
years, she served as its secretary y
and vice chairperson before b 2 J^ 8 “Jj" Inew 1new
coming chairperson a year ago. an advlSOry
During that 10-year period.
Moons was highly involved in iZj-_ farm “
moving CMAB into cheese pro- i®f dc ?- S * de^ 1 ° P ! nent of
motions when many dairy produc- I .^ n l^f^iJr^ UCtS, ,K he also rep
ers thought only in terms of adver- . r AB 011 * e Dair y R ®-
tising fluid milk. She was instru- Ccnter C0 T“ Be * a
mental in launching CMAB’s reSCarch ’
Real California Cheese program,»• , • The COW orgamza
which involved developing a state Po "‘ s madc U P of representattves
identity for cheese produced in P^ on “B™*” “>
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.
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