A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 19, 1992
Wayne DHIA Holds Meeting
HONESDALE (Wayne Co.)
The Wayne County affiliate of the
Pennsylvania Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
(Pa.DHIA) completed its 66th
year on Nov. 17 with its annual
meeting and dinner at Lukan’s
Farm Resort, near Hawley.
A total of 88 herds completed a
full year of testing. The average
production per cow was 17,293
pounds of milk and 638 pounds of
bullerfat. Income over feed costs,
per cow, was $1,316.
The 1992 production awards
were presented to the follwoing
From the left, receiving Pa.DHIA herd management
awards are, Gary Fielding for Robert Fielding, Ronald Maye
ski and Jay Vail. Not shown is first place award recipient
Kevin Burleigh.
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• High Herd for Milk - Robert
Fielding (herd owner) and Gary
Fielding (herdsman and herd man
ager), Lake Ariel, 22,797 pounds
of milk per cow.
• High Herd for Protein - Kevin
Burleigh, Pleasant Mount, 744
pounds of protein per cow.
• High Herd for Butterfat -
Rowe Brothers, Honcsdalc, 886
pounds of butterfat per cow.
• High Cow for Butterfat Pro
duction - Rowe Brothers, Honcs
dale, “Jessica”, 1,231 pounds of
butterfat.
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• High Cow for Milk Produc
tion - Carl Shepstone, Damascus,
“Joyce”, 31,366 pounds of milk.
• High Cow for Protein Produc
tion - Kevin Burleigh, Pleasant
Mount, “Cheryl”, 959 pounds of
protein.
• High Lifetime Cow for Milk
Production - Kevin Burleigh,
Pleasant Mount, “Syrup”, 12 lac
tations, 248,685 pounds of milk.
• High Lifetime Cow for Butter
fat Production’ - Jericho Dairy,
Lake Como, “Liza”, 11 lactations,
9,974 pounds of butterfat.
• High Lifetime Cow for Pro
tein Production - Rowe Brothers,
Honesdale, “Dana”, 8 lactations,
6,633 pounds of protein.
• High Quality Milk Award -
James Slocum, Susquehanna,
64,000 Somatic Cell Count.
• Herd Management Awards -
First place, Kevin Burleigh, Pleas
ant Mount; second place, Robert
Fielding, (herd owner) and Gary
Fielding (herdsman and herd man
ager), Lake Ariel; and third place
(tie), Ronald J. Mayeski, Lake
Ariel and Milton L. Vail,
Honesdale.
The Pa.DHIA supervisor/
technicians serving Wayne Coun
ty dairymen are Linda Wagner,
Moscow, Steve Kammer, Hawley,
Gary and Gail Williams, Starrucca
and Steve Williams, Starrucca.
Dr. Larry Spccht, professor of
dairy science and extension dairy
man at Penn State University, was
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From the left, several Wayne County owners and mana
gers of DHIA-member herds with outstanding production
are Karl Eisenhauer Jr., Charles Dennis, Gary Fielding, and
Robert Fielding. Not shown were the Rowe Brothers, Kevin
Burleigh, William Bryant, and Allan Schnakenberg.
the guest speaker. Dr. Specht pre
sented a talk tracing the history of
DHIA in Pennsylvania. He spoke
about the early history of DHIA,
where it is now and where and
how Pa.DHIA is “growing-up” for
future years of service to Pennsyl
vania dairymen.
Diane Mcllwain, Canton, is the
regional manager for PA DHIA in
Wayne County and John Castro
giovanni, Montrose, serves as
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Phone 717-263-9111
slate director for Wayne County
dairymen.
For additional information
about PA DHIA and milk produc
tion testing and records, please
contact PA DHIA at
1-800-DHI-TEST or the Wayne
County Cooperative Extension at
253-5970, extension 239 or visit
the office which is located in the
basement of the Wayne County
Courthouse in Honesdale.
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