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unanimous in giving consent to go
ahead with the latter proposal.
One dissenting opinion on the
genetics reporting was centered on
the process of notification of the
owner if his animal is found to be a
carrier of undesirable genes.
According to Chuck Allen,
operations director for Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative, the pri
vilege of information desired by
the association should not super
cede the normal business relation
ship between the laboratory and
client.
For example, ABC had pur
chased a bull which on initial pedi
gree screening, did not appear to
have a potential for carrying
BLAD. Later, while in isolation
and going through the normal,
intensive A.I. screening process, a
blood sample was sent off to one of
two laboratories already under a
cooperative agreement with
Holstein.
However, according to Allen,
Holstein Association received the
results before he did, and, before
Allen could, the association noti
fied the former owner of the bull
that it was a BLAD carrier.
Allen contended that it should
have been he, not the association,
to receive first notification of the
test results; and it is his obligation
to inform his client of test results,
not the duly of the association.
The directors said they look note
of the notification and timing
problem.
Another bylaw proposal which
received a good deal of conversa
tion was a series of proposed
changes to control prefixes and
registration.
The proposal approved by most
concerned jointly owned female
cattle.
The proposal is that “A member
of a jointly owned or syndicate
owned ‘designated’ female that
becomes sole owner of resulting
offspring can be identified as the
breeder and owner at time of
registration, and thus use their own
prefix.
Also, “A form will be provided
which all owners of the ‘desig
nated’ cow must sign. The signed
form must be submitted to the
Holstein-Freisan Association with
a S5O fee.”
The proposal is also that the $5O
covers one ‘designated’ cow. And
there is to be a waiver of the prefix
breeder status by the joint owner
ship or the syndicate.
A transfer of embryos or natural
births from that cow to a member
of a jointly-owned cow, continues
to be a requirement.
What those attending turned
their thumbs down on was a
bylaws proposal which would
change the prefix-breeder waiver
manipulations so that an owner of
a cow must pay a $5O waiver fee to
the association if he sells embryos,
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or $25 for natural calves, to some
one else who wishes to use their
own prefix and/or be listed as the
breeder.
Further, a transfer of the
embryos or natural calves con
tinues to be a requirement.
It would also make it so that two
or more buyers of embryos from
one dam can register the resulting
calves with their own prefix. The
owner of the cow would then have
to pay the association $5O for each
prefix transfer.
Also drawing some discussion
was a series of questions posed to
delegates.
Since there has been a perceived
problem with some apparently
artificially inflated selling prices
for Holsteins' at sales, some are
questioning whether the associa
tion should change its positions on
allowing minimum bids.
Also posed to the delegates was,
if a minimum bid is allow at a sale,
at what time should it be
announced.
There was no clear consensus on
this.
Other items discussed included
changes or elimination of the TPI
index, since it seems to be reward
ing conflicting attributes in bulls
and seems to be digressing from
the model animal.
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GETTYSBURG (Adams
Co.) Adams County dairy far
mers can go on a tour of five Mary
land dairy forms through a Thurs
day, April 8 program offered by
the county extension service.
Those interested in going on the
farm tour should be prepared to
board a Wolf 547-passengcr bus at
8 a.m. The bus is to be parked at the
North Gettysburg Shopping Cen
ter. Participants should park their
vehicles in the lot west of Weis
Market
After boarding, the bus is to
travel to pick up David Greene,
extension agent in Taneytown, or
his alternate.
From there, the first farm stop is
be at approximately 9;OS a.m., at
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Standing at a podium, John Selz, Holstein Association vice president, talks about
an experimental cattle identification program which is being researched as a possible
alternative to sketching cattle for registration identification. To the right are Pennsyl
vania’s representatives on the Holstein Association’s board of directors, Thomas Kel
ly and John Howard.
• A proposal to drop the bottom
10 percent of cows during classifi
cation. Reportedly, this proposal
was made because of an estimate
3,700 cows whose registration is
cancelled annually on classifica-
has a milking herd of 153 cows of
which 143 are registered Holstein
cows and the rest grades. They are
kept in free stall housing and milk
ing in a herringbone parlor.
Another highlight is that Uni
com currently has the highest pro
ducing 3-year-old in the state with
36,380 pounds of milk and 1,272
pounds of fat The associates have
also sold a number of bulls to arti
ficial insemination groups this
year.
The next stop, at approximately
10 a.m., is also in the Union Bridge
vicinity at the Peace and Plenty
Farm, owned by Joe and Nona
Schwartzbeck.
Peace and Plenty Farm has ISO
registered milking Holsteins with a
herd average production of 19,280
pounds of milk, and 747 pounds of
fat
The tour schedule is to arrive at
410 E. LINCOLN AVE. (RT. 422)
lion day because their scores
would drag down the herd BAA.
• Sketchless registration is being
worked on and a permanent tag
ging system is being evaluated.
• Increase efforts to cooperate
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the third farm, Coldsprings Farm,
at about 11 a.m.
Owned by Marlin and Kathy
Hoff, the 330-registered Holstein
hod operation is located in the
New Windsor vicinity. The HofFs
have recently upgraded the facility
with a double-20, parallel milking
parlor.
A $5.50 cafeteria lunch is sche
duled for 12:15 p.m. at a Brethren
Service Center. A tour of the ser
vice center is to follow lunch.
The next farm to be visited is
Big Spring Farm in the Union
Bridge vicinity. Time of arrival is
estimated at 1:45 p.m.
Owned by Dennis and Steve
Bowman, Big Spring Farm was
recently outfitted with a one-of-a
kind, double-12, rapid reel exit
herringbone parlor. Their total
herd is 370 cows, though they cur
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and production records.
• Provide a free pedigree with
registration, or offer a pedigree at a
cost less than $2.50.
The herd is mostly grade, with
some registered cattle, and they
use their own computer production
records, instead of using the ser
vices of the Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association.
The cattle are housed is a new
six-row freestall barn that features
a drive-through feeding alley,
automatic alley scrapers with grav
ity flow to manure storage, and
automatic sort gates and a hospital
area.
From 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the
tour is to visit Windsor Manor
farm, in New Windsor.
Owned by Jason and Donna
Myers, they milk 60 registered
Holsteins in a flat bam with a pipe
line and have received the Holstein
PBR award the past six years.
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