PERIODICALS DIVISION
PENNSYLVANIA SIATE UNIVERSITY
W 209 PATTEE LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY PARK PA 16802-1802
VOL 37 NO. 30
This Special Issue A Tribute To Dairy Farme&sL
UNIVEBS
And Agribusinesses: Keep Up The Good Work!
Lebanon County Is rich in historical artifacts of early United States living,
such as the Union Canal Tunnel, which was cut through solid rock so that
barges could transport commodities between the watersheds of the Sus
quehanna and Delaware rivers. The dairy Industry is also Important to this
Dairy Industry Vital To Lebanon Economy, Community
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Leba
non Co.) Lebanon County’s
Holstein breeders are to be the cov
er feature in the June issue of the
Pennsylvania Holstein Associa
tion’s monthly magazine. Profiles.
For a variety of reasons, the
choice of Lebanon County to grace
the Dairy Month issue of the state
Holstein breed magazine is fitting
tribute to not only the county’s
Holstein breeders, but to all of the
dairymen in the county for the
past three years, Lebanon Coun
ty’s members of the Pennsylvania
Why Isn’t My
Herd Milking Better?
LARRY JONES
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
ITHACA, NY—Have you changed rations four times
and feed companies twice, but your herd is still at 58
pounds of milk per day? Nothing you have done seems to
increase milk production. What other factors can be limit
ing production? Have you considered checking your
demographics? Demographics! It sounds like a swear
word, but it has a big influence on herd performance.
Demographics is the distribution of animals in a herd.
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Additional DHI News: Pennsylvania Focus Pages CB-C 9, Lancaster Monthly Page D 3
Five Sections
Dairy Herd Improvement Associa
tion have lead the state on their
average rolling herd production.
With all production taken into
account and compared against the
averageftumber of cows, the aver
age production in the county
drops, but still remains in the top
10 percfnt in the state, according
to statistics compiled by the Pen
nsylvania Agricultural Statistics
Service.
But to the Lebanon County
community and its economy, the
dairy industry and the agriculture
industry are more important than
simple statistics can signify.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1992
Agriculture in the county is the
leading industry and the dairy
industry is the single largest ele
ment of that
A small northern sister to Lah
State DHIA Releases Lancaster Herds
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) —With 993 requests for trans
fer on the table, the Pennsylvania
DHIA directors voted to give the
Lancaster County DHIA members
who had submitted them an
unconditional release to have their
Using DHI As Dairy
Management Program
KEN BUTCHER
Manager DRPC, North Carolina State
RALEIGH, NC—The famous black baseball player.
Satchel Page, once said, “If you don’t know where you’re
going, you might end up somewhere else.” Good dairy
records are essential to “know where you’re going” in
managing a dairy herd. A commitment to accurate cow
identity and day-by-day recording of all events, coupled
with modem record systems, will pay a high return per
dollar invested.
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now largely urban community. In the front are Kirby and Cheryl Horst with
their 2-year-old Holstein, Len-Lyn Winken Hope. Standing In the back is Kurt
Hostetter with his 5-year-old Dale Pride Specs Betz, which was named grand
champion of the Junior show at the state spring Holstein show.
tester County, the Lebanon Valley
is a limestone-soiled farming mec
ca. But for many years, the impor
tance of the agricultural and dairy
industry was overshadowed by the
records processed at Raleigh. The
special board meeting to consider
these requests took place Tuesday
afternoon in the Farm and Home
Center after a joint meeting of
reconciliation between the Lancas
ter and Pennsylvania boards earlier
in the day.
The move makes Pennsylvania
609 Per Copy
Maryland Management
Awards Announced
LEE MAJESKK
Extension Dairy Specialist, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, MD—The lop 21 winners of the
1991 Maryland Dairy Herd Management Award (HMA)
are listed here, along with the criteria that was developed
in 1989, along with dairy producers and county agricultur
al agents. Fourteen different management practices are
evaluated for all herds enrolled in the Maryland DHI prog
ram. Points are given to the different management prac
tices based on ideals for each one. The award attempts to
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Cornwall Iron Ore Mine and the
Bethlehem Steel Coip and other
steel industry manufacturing
businesses.
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the only State in the nation at pre
sent with its own Dairy Herd Pro
cessing Center (DRPC) that has
agreed to allow competition within
the borders of jurisdiction. Other
states often have several DRPC’s
for members to use when they
don’t have their own center. But
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