Bull Test Under
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture’s official bull
performance testing program is
well under way.
Fifty-two of the state’s most
progressive purebred breeders
have consigned 73 of their best
purebred bulls of various breeds to
the testing program at the Meat
Animal Evaluation Center. This
year there are 27 Angus, 19 Polled
Herefords. 18 Simmentals, five
Charolais, two Chiangus, two Li
mousin, and one Salers.
Upon completion of the
112-day testing period, the bulls
are subjected to evaluation includ
ing a comprehensive breeding
soundness exam, measurement of
fat thickness and loin-eye area,
and a health exam which includes
blood and TB testing, enabling the
bulls to be sold anywhere in the
country. The bulls must also meet
minimum requirements for struc
tural correctness and breed char
acter. Individual feed efficiencies
will be calculated for the bulls.
After all of the indexes are cal
culated and the evaluations
analyzed, approximately the top
75 percent of the bulls are selected
to be sold at Pennsylvania’s 19th
Annual Performance Tested Bull
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Sale scheduled for noon, March
27, at Penn State’s Ag Arena. The
bull sale again is one of the major
components of the third Annual
Pennsylvania Beef Expo, which is
scheduled for March 26-29. The
Pennsylvania Polled Hereford As
sociation has their state female
sale planned for immediately fol
lowing the bull sale Friday after
noon.
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ciations will be conducting their
respective state breed female sales
on -Saturday, March 28.
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gram which will cover the topic,
“Improving Health in the Cattle
Herd,” and the trade show open
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door prizes and activities as well
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request a bull sale or breed female
catalogs, contact Glenn Eberly,
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State College, PA 16803, (814)
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FFA Awards
State gold medal winners, front, from left Steve Landis,
Dan Delaney, Bill Hersch. Back, Matt Johnston, Jason
Baughman, and James Burkholder.
tests were Bob Bittner, Steve Landis, Daniel Delaney,
and Jason Baughman.
The one-acre com growing contest gold medal winners
were Miachael Cooney and William Hersch for more
than 125 bushels. Winning silver for under 125 to 100
bushels were Matthew Johnston and Daniel Delaney.
Cooney, 18, is enrolled in World Agriscience studies
in Wald, Germany. His mother, Connie Cooney, accepted
his award from William J. (Dub) Brant of the Pioneer
Seed Co.
Daniel Delaney sold 334 bushels of fruit for the chap
ter and received a gift from Diversified Marketing
Association.
The banquet saw FFA member representation from
every chapter in Somerset County.
DPI Fund Drive
Under Way
GEORGETOWN, Del. The 1992 Fund Drive for
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI) is under way and
hundreds of volunteers are working to reach the $460,000
goal.
As the recent fund drive kick-off dinner in Seaford,
Del., DPI First Vice President and Fund Drive Chairman
Larry K. Winslow announced that cash and pledges
received for 1992 totaled $229,241, half of the goal. With
nine weeks remaining until the end of the campaign,
Winslow encouraged the nearly 200 solicitors to work
hard.
‘There are many opportunities this year,” Winslow
said, “and we have a good story to tell about the poultry
industry.”
DPI membership includes poultry growers, businesses
on Delmarva which recognize the importance of the local
poultry industry to their operations and to the entire
peninsula economy, allied industry suppliers of products
and services, poultry company employees, and the eight
local poultry companies.
The features speaker at the kickoff dinner was David
Carter, executive director of the Alabama Poultry and
Egg Association. Mixing comedy with a serious message,
Carter stressed the importance of teamwork in an associa
tion such as DPI. He said motivation and stimulation are
necessary to reach the $460,000 goal.
DPl’s Fund Drive continues until the April 21, 1992
Delmarva Poultry Booster Banquet in Salisbury, Md. To
be listed in the banquet program, however, investments
must be received by March 17. Close to 2,500 poultry
industry personnel are expected to attend, making this
event the largest poultry gathering in the northeast part of
America. DPI supporters receive one ticket to the banquet
for each $125 investment.
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