A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3, 1990
Complaints
If We
DICK BARTH
General Manager
PA DHIA
We get about 400 telephone
calls a month at the service center
about all kinds of things.
And while we make mistakes,
probably too often, I think the
DHIA staff goes out of its way to
help members with their
problems.
When we do make mistakes,
you can bet we will hear about that
from someone, usually an angry
member.
Now and then I hear about a
mistake directly from a member
who calls and insists on talking to
the general manager (why they
insist on that is a mystery because
everyone knows the general man
ager doesn’t know anything!).
A couple of weeks ago I got a
call from a member who wanted to
relate his displeasure about the
board’s decision to rank herds on
the basts of protein, not fat
production.
Even though the conversation
was very cordial, I was baffled by
his complaint. The evidence of the
American public’s rejection of
How Does Your Herd
Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —This data is
pulled from Pennsylvania DHIA’s mainframe
computer each week. It is a one-week summary
representing approximately one-fourth of the
herds on test, as they arc tested monthly.
These data are valuable from a business man
agement standpoint and can be used for compar
ing your operations to the averages from almost
1,400 herds across the
DHIA Averages for all herds processed between
10/15/90 and 10/22/90
Number of Herds Processed
Number of Cows Processed
Number of Cows Per Herd
Milk Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Fat
Fat Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Prolcin
Protein Per Cow (Lbs)
Average Days in Milk Per Cow
.Value for CWT Milk(s)
.Value for CWT Gram(S)
.Value for CWT Hay(s)
.Value for CWT Silage(S)
.Value for Pasture Per Day(s)
.Value for Milk Per Cow Per
Year(S)
.Feed Consumed Per Cow Per
Ycar(Lbs)
A: Gram
B. Hay
C- Silage
D: Day Pasture
.Feed Cost Per Cow Per Ycar(s)
A- Grain
B. Hay
C' Silage
D: Pasture
.Total Feed Cost Per Cow Per
Ycar(s)
.Income Over Feed Costs Per
Year(s)
.Gram to Milk Ratio
.Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s)
Avg Level For 1,159 SCC Herds
If We Do,
Don’t
animal fat in their diet is over
whelming. Even the USD A has
stopped ranking AI bulls on fat
and has switched to protein
dollars.
If anything, I thought DHIA’s
change to protein ranking was
behind .the times.
I know the argument: no one in
Pennsylvania (or practically no
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one) is being paid on protein pro
duction, so why rank cows on it?
There is a simple answer to that,
and the handwriting is on the wall
for those who will read it; it takes
generations of cows to achieve
genetic change and if you don’t
get a start on breeding for protein
now, you’ll just be that much
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FOCUS
farther behind when the inevitable
happens.
Since the cow year ended on
Sept. 30, and year-end reports are
out, I suspect we’ll get more com
plaints in the near future because
someone’s cow came in third, or
second in the county instead of
first, which would not have hap
pened if we continued to rank
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cows on fat, like we always used
to.
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Before you call, will you con
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the U.S. government is storing in
the CCC and what we should do to
stop the mountain from getting
any bigger?
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