A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novambar 25,1989 DHIA Core Parameters Are Essential To Good Management “TO THE CORE” PA DHIA has a vision to provide accu rate and usable management information pertinent to the needs of its members. With this in mind, it is natural that we incorporate the promotion, use, and refinement of the ten setsof “core parame ters” developed over a two-year period by ten subcommittees of extension specialists. These committees, representing various regions of the United States, have pre pared fact sheets describing the funda mental core parameters deemed necessary for the elementary use of DHIA records in the following areas: (Turn to Page A 27) Don’t Plan Too Much For One Day By Walter Wurster Chester Co. Extension Dairy Agent I will approach this column from a little diffe rent perspective than most dairy Extension Agents. I have been a dairy farmer for more than 30 years and only recently joined the extension staff. My thoughts center on how today’s dairyman can plan his schedule considering all the prob lems he must solve on a day-to-day basis. Do people, especially your wife, tell you that you plan to do too much in one day? Most suc cessful businessmen fall into this category, but the key is not to carry it to extremes which may cause you to lose your help. My sons remind me of a day several years ago which is referred to in our family as “Black Mon day”. The time of the year was June. (I believe they made June Dairy Month because that is one of the busiest months for dairy farmers in the whole year.) Anyway, I “planned” to keep every body ,busy by mowing hay, raking hay, baling hay, combining barley and, of course, milking cows. Well, the mowing and raking went OK, but baling and combining became a problem, espe cially when the radiator on the tractor pulling the baler sprung a large leak, spraying me with water and antifreeze. About the same time, my son said they couldn’t get all the barley in the old wooden bin in the bam. “Of course it will fit,” I said and proceeded to crawl into the bin to level it off. Yes, it was full, but I scrambled around trying to get more in, rea lizing we were already late for milking. About the time I was getting buried in barley, someone let a burlap bag go up the elevator and jam everything. I came storming out of the bin probably looking like Darth Vader, being com pletely black from barley dust and shouting my frustration. We laugh about it today but, at the time, everyone was quite upset. Good thing they were my sons and not old enough to leave home yet or I might have lost my workforce. The moral of this story is that I tried to do too much in one day. How do you keep from having too many days like this each year? Take the time at least twice a week and put down on paper what you want to accomplish. 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