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manage matings around BLAD.
not to cull every positive carrier.
However, artificial insemina
tion studs are not being accepted if
they carry the gene for BLAD. The
rationale is that if all A.I. semen is
BLAD free, then even if a cow is a
carrier, the offspring will not have
any symptoms, and can be milked
and bred.
The occassional bull calf that
could show up as a carrier should
not be used for breeding.
Those who would use untested
cleanup bulls run a risk of produc
ing cattle with BLAD symptoms.
While the strategy should work,
the practice of killing bulls testing
positive for the BLAD gene is a
financial strain on those who main
tain top quality breeding
programs.
One, well-bred young bull
which then tests positive for
BLAD can represent a loss of sev
eral thousand dollars for the breed-
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er. The money, time and selection
which went into attempting to
breed a desirable sire is gone.
However, such things are being
taken care of and all cattle breeders
are working with it.
As breeders all over are doing,
the Troutmans are testing their
bulls also.
The money made by selling
breeding stock doesn’t generate
the most dependable income, but
the extra cash from time to time
comes in handy, the brothers said;
especially this past year with the
drought, the tightness of feed sup
plies and the low milk prices.
“Selling breeding stock is a by
product, a diversification of
attempting to reach our main
goal.” Nelson said.
There are other benefits to tak
ing extra care to breed well.
“It makes a better manager out
of you,” Nelson said, adding that
when you sell breeding stock there
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reputation for having good breed
ing stock isn’t easy. “Every bull
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do it economically,” Nelson said
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won’t look at a bull as a potential
sire if it doesn gain fast and steady
enough.
The reputation that Troutmans
and the Oakenbound name has
built for breeding Holsteins is sol
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things, but a lot of it is the concern
that, “I like my cattle to do well for
their new owners.”
There are a few other examples
of the Oakenbound breeding prog
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LANCASTER (Lancaster , in Poland, what is currently hap-
Co.) —Jay Irwin. Lancaster Coun- pening, and the issues facing the
ty Extension director emeritus, people in this former communist
will be discussing his six-month country as they adjust to a free
assignment in Poland at Lancaster market economy.
County Cooperative Extension’s
annual meeting, at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 13, in the
Farm and Home Center.
Jay and his wife Betty have
recently completed a six-month
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Penn State and United States
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WASHINGTON,
D.C. The U.S.
Department of Agricul
ture is extending the
deadline to March 2 for
submission of proposals
on alternatives to the
Minnesota-Wisconsin
(M-W) price currently
used to set minimum
prices in all federal milk
marketing orders.
Daniel D. Haley,
administrator of
USDA's Agricultural
Marketing Service, said
the extension is in
response to an industry
group re- quest for more
time to submit its prop
osed alternative to the
M-W price.
The M-W price is the
average of prices paid to
farmers in the
Minnesota-Wisconsin
area for manufacturing
grade (Grade B) milk,
or, milk eligible for use
only in manufactured
milk products.
In effect since the ear
ly 1960'5, the M-W
price has been widely
accepted in the dairy
industry as a good mea
sure of changes in the
supply and demand for
milk nationally, Haley
said.
A continuing decline
in Grade B milk produc
tion, in part the result of
more stringent sanitary
requirements on dairy
farms, is gradually mak
ing the M-W price unus
able in formulating milk
prices.
"Eventually, there
will not be enough of
that kind of milk sold to
make a reliable base
price," Haley said. "US
DA's National Agricul
tural Statistics Service,
which compiles the
M-W price, questions
whether it will be able to
provide that price past
1992 or early 1993.”
"The proposals, to be
discussed at a national
hearing later this year,
should come directly
from the dairy industry
and the public.
Proposals should be
mailed by March 2 to
the Dairy Division,
AMS, USDA, Rm.