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New Official DHIA
Testing Plans Offered
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The new official DHIA
testing plans are available.
Those plans include the DHIA
AM/PM (code 31). DHIA Milk
Only (code 33). and DHIA Milk
Only AM/PM (code 34), and also
DHIR AM/PM.
To participate in a testing plan,
you need to contact your state
DHIA office at 1-800-325-2720,
or your technician for more
information.
Herds participating in any of
these testing plans will need to fol
low test-day procedures as
follows:
MILK: Milk weights are
obtained for all cows each test day
as prescribed for AP plans in
NCDHIP Rule 4, with the excep-
tion that a milking interval recor
der is not required. For MILK
ONLY herds, it is the same, except
no milk samples ate not taken.
COMPONENTS: Milk sam
pels are obtained for all cows each
test day as prescribed for AP plans
in NCDHIP Rule 4. For MILK
ONLY herds, no component data
are included in this plan.
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Dairy Product Involvement In
Data Collections! All data are col
lected by DHIA field technicians.
The MILK ONLY herd users fol
low the same guidelines as stated.
SPECIAL PROCEDURES
and/or DATA; Bulk tank ship
ment milk weights must be
reported by the dairy producer as
described in the official NCDHIP
Rules, Appendix 2. MILK ONLY
herds are the same as stated.
A copy of the NCDHIP Rules
can be obtained by calling the stale
DHIA office, or by ordering
through a technician the next test
day.
The following is a revision of
Appendix 2 to the NCDHIP Rules,
which was effective as of October
1992.
“Bulk tank pickup milk weights
shall be recorded each test day for
monitoring 24-hour total herd
yield separately from the test day
milk weights of each cow. Ideally,
this should be accomplished by
reporting the three daily pickups
from the three days immediately
preceding each test day.
“In some herds, other proce-
Average Farm Feed
Costs For Handy
Reference
To help fanners across the state
to have handy reference of com
modity input costs in their feeding
operations for DHIA record sheets
or to develop livestock feed cost
data, here’s this week’s average
costs of various ingredients as
compiled from regional reports
across the state of Pennsylvania.
Remember these are averages so
you will need to adjust your figures
up or down according to your loca
tion and the quality of your crop.
Com, No. 2y - 2.43 BU. 4.35
CWT.
Wheat, No. 2-3.31 BU. 5.53
CWT.
Barley. No. 3-1.93 BU. 4.13
CWT.
Oats, No. 2-1.65 BU. 5.15
CWT.
Soybeans, No. 1 - 5.70 BU. 9.52
CWT.
Ear Com - 65.45 TON 3.27
CWT.
Alfalfa Hay - 103.50 TON 5.18
CWT.
Mixed Hay - 91,50 TON 4.58
CWT.
Timothy Hay - 94.50 TON 4.73
CWT.
dures may be needed due to unusu
al pickup schedules. If other proce
dures are required, they should be
designed to fulfill the basic pur
pose of providing an independent
measure of total-herd, 24-hour
milk yield, each test day.
“Each state DHIA should
approve alternate procedures to
ensure they fulfill the purpose
intended.”
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Board Election
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) On April 8. the Pa.DHIA
State Board of Directors met in
State College to elect officers for
1993.
How Does Your
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —This data is pulled from Pennsyl
vania DHIA’s mainframe computer each week. It is a one-week sum
mary representing approximately one-fourth of the herds on test, as they
are tested monthly.
These data are valuable from a business management standpoint and
can be used for comparing your operations to the averages from almost
1,400 herds across the slate.
DHIA Averages for all herds processed between 4/18/93 and 4/25/93
Number of Herds Processed
Number of Cows Processed
Number of Cows Per Herd
Milk Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Fat
Fat Per Cow (Lbs)
%-Protein
Protein Per Cow (Lbs)
Average Days in Milk Per Cow
♦Value for CWT Milk(s)
♦Value for CWT Grain(s)
♦Value for CWT Hay(s)
♦Value for CWT Silage(s)
♦Value for Pasture Per Day(s)
♦Value for Milk Per Cow Per
Year(s)
♦Feed Consumed Per Cow Per
YearCLbs)
A: Grain
B: Hay
C: Silage
D: Day Pasture
♦Feed Cost Per Cow Per Year(s)
A: Grain
B: Hay
C: Silage
D: Pasture
♦Total Feed Cost Per Cow Per
Year(s)
♦lncome Over Feed Costs Per
Year(s)
♦Grain to Milk Ratio
♦Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s)
Avg Level For 924 SCC Herds
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