A2O-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 7, 1991
Pennsylvania
Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
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Dairying In Japan
Two Japanese journalists recently visited the dairy extension group at
Cornell. Some of their comments about the dairy industry in Japan were
interesting.
Milk prices received by dairymen are also depressed in Japan and the
dairymen are quite upset The current price is about 1.3 percent lower than
last year. They were quite surprised to hear the magnitude of the price cuts
that U.S. dairymen are facing.
The SCC count standard for shipping milk in Japan is 300,000. If the
count is higher than this, the price received for such milk drops by 40-SO
percent. They indicated that an incentive of this magnitude is quite effec
tive in getting the dairy producer’s attention relative to milk quality.
They also shared some information from the 1990 DHI summary from
Hokkaido. Hokkaido is the northern island of Japan. This DHI data repre
sented 7,773 herds. The data provided included:
Milk. Ibs/cow
Milk fat, percent
Milk protein, percent
Milk SNF, percent
Calving interval, months
Ist service, days in milk
Days open
Services/conception
Avg age, Ist calving (mos)
There are some high producing herds in Hokkaido. Production data for
the 10 top herds included:
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Age in months at calving and
production in first lactation were
summarized for Holstein heifers
from the 1989-90 DHIA test year
information.
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Q: If I subscribe to the ARTS
program, can I enter data such as
breeding dates every day, or do I
have to wait until the supervisor
comes to the farm to have that
kind of information updated?
A: The ARIS program is
designed to give you important
management reports using the
data that is stored in our main
frame. It is not possible for any
ARIS user to add to or to change
any of the data on the mainframe.
All her data is updated when the
herd processes each month. A per
sonal computer program which
would allow users to make daily
changes to breeding dates, etc.
will be available in the future.
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Milk, Ibs/cow
Milk fat, percent
Milk protein percent
Milk SNF, percent
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Heifer Stats Revealing
There were 84,250 heifers calv-
ing for the first time between 18
and 3S months of age. Most fre
quent ages at calving woe 24
months (13,445) and 25 months
(12,071). Average age at first calv
ing was 26.7 months. This com
pares favorably to 26.8 and 27.0
months for the 1988-89 and
1987-88 DHIA years.
Actual 305 day production
ranged from 12,405 pounds of
milk at 19 months up to 15,065
pounds at 27 months.
As the table below indicates, it
declined slowly to 14,391 pounds
at 35 months of age. With produc
tion at 14,822 pounds for animals
calving at 24 months, it is clear that
there is no advantage to holding
heifers to calve at older ages.
Average Farm Feed
Costs For Handy
Reference
To help fanners across the state
to have handy reference of com
modity input costs in their feeding
operations for DHIA record sheets
or to develop livestock feed cost
data, hoe’s this week’s average
costs of various ingredients as
compiled from regional reports
across the state of Pennsylvania.
Remember these are averages so
Top Herd Average of Top
10 Herds
55
25,323
3.70
3.16
8.72
94
26,699
3.83
3.13
8.66
AGE AT FIRST CALVING
FOR HOLSTEIN HEIFERS
Months i 305 Day Production
Milk Hit Pit
13552 491 424
12405 447 388
13128 471 408
13779 498 427
14411 522 448
14761 536 459
14822 538 461
14997 543 466
15000 545 467
15065 547 469
15012 545 468
14936 545 467
14774 539 460
14782 539 462
14819 542 463
14614 534 457
14577 535 458
14391 527 452
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19
20
you will need to adjust your figures
up or down according to your loca
tion and the quality of your crop.
Com, No. 2y - 2.74 BU. 4.90
CWT.
Wheat, No. 2 - 2.80 BU. 4.68
CWT.
Barley, No. 3 - 1.73 BU. 3.70
CWT.
Oats. No. 2 - 1.38 BU. 4.31
CWT.
Soybeans, No. 1 - 5.60 BU.
9.352 CWT.
New Ear Com - 73.20 BU. 3.66
CWT.
Alfalfa Hay -110.50 BU. 5.525
CWT.
Mixed Hay - 98.75 BU. 4.938
CWT.
Timothy Hay -
5.313 CWT.
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