A26-Lanoister Farming, Saturday, August 15, 1992
Lyttle-Hyll Farm Hosts
Lebanon Holstein Club
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
MT. ZION (Lebanon
Co.) About 300 people
attended a Lebanon County Hols
tein Club family night at the
Lyttle-HiU Farm near Ml Zion
Thursday night.
In addition to socializing, judg
ing cattle, and touring the farm
owned by Jim and Billie Hill, the
crowd listened to Ron Wood, of
Gor-Wood-D Acres, Mansfield.
Ron is the son of Gordon and
Dorothy Wood, owners of Gor-
Wood-D Acres, and is heavily
involved in the operations and
decisions. The family is known for
breeding a large number of Excel
lent cows over the years and have
had owned dozens of Excellents at
one time.
Wood said that their
strategy and philosophy
is that everyone in dairy
production is a “com
mercial dairyman.” “I
hate that word,” he said.
“We strive for an
Excellent cow that
makes 30,000 pounds
(of milk) and still can go
on to more 100,000
(pounds) or more (dur
ing a lifetime,” he said.
“You have to look at
cows as individuals,” he
said, adding that he has
purchased many three
teated registered cows
which otherwise were
structurally sound, and
then worked with them
to breed for a better-
udder, for production.
He said that even
though the sale price for
registered and grade
animals is not that much
different at some sales,
the registration and
tracked pedigree offer
an advantage in that the
offspring can be pre
dicted and the herd
improved.
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“I think we’re all commercial
dairyman, but pedigree gives
advantages,” he said.
According to Ron, “We’ve been
quite lucky at Gor-Wood-D. Ele
vation has helped establish the
line,” he said then, added that Star
buck and Jerry (similar to Bell)
have helped bring the strong pro
duction and larger stature.
As far as stature, however, he
said that from 56 inches to 60
inches is tall enough.
“Where we differ (with regular
breeding programs) is that once we
have bred for 30,000 pounds, we
can then afford the luxury of breed
to correct specific things.
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good production using Starlight,
but the daughters have had a prob
lem with legs, but the Starlight
granddaugthers were bred to cor
rect legs and have all turned out
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