A32-Lancasler Farming, Saturday, March 17,1990
National DHT A “Fortunately for the dairy pro
wnm ducer, the same technology is there
(Continued from Page At) to help him as well as regulate him.
What looks like something from DHIA is in perfect position to
a movie producer s creative mind deliver these techniques to the
is a workable proto-type that will dayman. with 2 000 supervisors
be marketed in the US in die next an d 54 i a b s across the country, no
*° f l ve y^\ The University one else has the capability t 0 ana] .
of Maryland has been designated samples like DH IA.”
as the US research facility to con- £eo REPORT
tinue the development of the Frank Dickinson, chief execu
machme into a practical product. dve officer) said the organizadon
Rick Vanßinsum, Gascoigne was and a i wa y S will be run in a
Melotte, said his company s mam business-like manner, following
objective is to create systems that direction of the elected dele
will be able to do automatically the gates. He said trends show a conti
repetitive things that happen on a nuing long . term gain in market
dairy farm. share seems to be one of the main
No one in the audience seemed s j gns 0 f a successful state or reg
to question that the process of j ona j
attaching milking machines to a Dickinson said the quality certi
herd of dairy cows every morning fication service procedu res were
and evening was repetitive. But up . dated and informational data
some farmers were not sure the bases were established for the cen
docile aged cow 111 the video was dal labs . DH ia Services. an arm of
representative of the species. One die national association, estab
man pointed out that the things that Ushed Uie Staph Aureus test that
go on between a first-calf heifer s positioned National DHIA to pro
back legs may cause a different vide new technology to the entire
reaction. dairy industry.
u J C c a " J “ oneofmyh ? ,f r “DHIA has the unique capabili
-550,000 damage out of that t y to analyze hugh numbers of milk
robot the first time through,’ he samples .. said . “We
Sai . . r . . , have an unmatched, nation-wide
Another farmer thought the sys- network of employees, transporta
tem was made for people like this tion and communications. We
editor who wanted to keep a job m have the ability to analyze and pro
town and have a herd of cows in his vide information for virtually all
back yard. dairymen in the country.”
But the company expects to have reai-rarm
systems available within two to five years. And
after this new idea sank into one farmer’s think- ■
ing, and he contemplated the possibility he may I
some day be able to stay in bed Sunday morning I
while the robot did the milking, he said, “You I
never know, it may work.” I
WISCONSIN’S NEW
BAR CODE SYSTEM
From Wisconsin, Pete Giacomini told how
their DHIA was ready to implement a hand-held
data unit into their regular testing program. This
unit records bar codes and matches each cow
with her records and each sample vile cap with
the computer link in the testing laboratory. As the
milk samples move through the testing system,
the bar coded vial lids are automatically removed
and read by a bar code scanner. This information
is run together with the information from the on
farm hand-held unit. All the information comes
together by computer and the farm reports are
quickly provided.
“The major usefulness in the new system is the
identification of individual milk samples,”
Giacomini said. “The decrease in paper work,
along with increased accuracy and speed will
help the new system pay for itself.”
Thirty herds are now on the system and
another 600 herds are ready to go on next month.
A complete turn over to the system will be
phased in this summer.
PARASITES
Teny Skogerboe, DVM, Pfizer, discussed
deworming practices and listed the life cycle of
common internal cattle parasites as follows:
Grazing cattle ingest infective-stage parasite
larvae with grass. The adult worms inhabit the
gastrointestinal tract and eggs are passed out in
the feces onto the pasture. These eggs hatch and
develop in the feces and migrate onto the grass.
The grazing cattle ingest the larvae and the life
cycle of the parasite continues. This cycle has a
tremendous potential for infection and reinfec
tion throughout the grazing period.
Skogerboe said the goal for treatment was to
prevent or limit the parasites’ contact with the
lost animal by eliminating the adult worms in the
mimal before they are turned out to graze. In
tddition, the cows should be wormed at calving
mu in the fall to eliminate parasites that have
leen picked up through the grazing season. The
trade-marked Rumatel product was recom
mended as a safe-effective way to deal with the
parasite problem and defeat the economic liabili
ties of parasitism.
TECHNOLOGY
Lew Parker, Pro Science, said that within the
last few years, technology has been developed to
detect very small quanities of substances. “One
drop of antibotics in the swimming pool of
30,000 gal. could be detected,” Parker said. “And
we could tell you what kind and how much was
there. An error with one cow can cause a detect
able residue in the pool of milk from 70,000
National DHIA Directors in Greensboro, NC, this week are (I to rt: Front. Michael Quesnell,
Twin Falls, ID, vice president; Robert Klndlg, Conestoga, PA, president; John Noble, Lin
wood, NY, secretary; H.L. Hill, Lexington, NC. Center, Tom Sammon, Faribault, MN; David
Watkins, Moscow, IA; Terry Ellingson, Poplar Grove, IL; Ken Beswlck, Turlock, CA. Back,
Donald Long, executive committee, Weyauwega, Wl; Dick Scott, Norridgewock, ME; Doug
Runyon, treasurer, Kopperl, TX.
KINDIG LISTS OBJECTIVES the National DHIA operations in
President Robert Kindig said the the 90’s,
people who established National * Assisi state DHIA’s to
DHIA 25 years ago, had forsight increase their market share.
and should be proud of what has * Insure more efficient ways to
been accomplished. “We find collect on-farm records.
ourselves benefiting from these * Insure state DHIA’s increase
years of progress,” Kindig said, the quality of their internal
“And now we find ourselves at the operations,
threshold of a new decade.” * Provide leadership in identifi-
Kindig listed ten objectives for cation, analyzation and promotion
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