A22*Laneast«r Farming, Saturday, August 14, 1993
How Does Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —This data is pulled from Pennsy 1-
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 state.
DHIA Averages for all herds processed between 7/24/93 and 7/31/93
Number of Herds Processed
Number of Cows Processed
Number of Cows Per Herd
■Milk Per Cow (Lbs)
46-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
Year(Lbs)
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)
Warning Labels
(Continued from Pag* A 1)
after touching raw meat or poultry.
—“Cook thoroughly.
—“Refrigerate leftovers within two
hours.”
An additional message will be included on
meats distributed to restaurants and institu
tions. These labels will also say that food must
be kept hot at 140 degrees or higher and that
immediately after service, leftovers must be
refrigerated.
The new label states what everyone knows
or should have known. To prepare meats, you
need to cook them properly and refrigerate
leftovers. But the label text falls far short of
what the “Beyond Beef Coalition” originally
wanted to be included in the warning. At the
time the lawsuit against the U.S. Department
of Agriculture was filed, Kathleen Maiquardt,
chairperson. Putting People First, an advoca
cy group for animal agriculture, said the Coal
ition wanted the message to include: “Warn
ing: this product may contain certain E. coli
bacteria, which can cause serious illnesses,
including strokes, seizures, bloody diarrhea,
renal failure, red blood cell destruc
tion—.
The label as the USDA has written it should
cause no more alarm in the public’s mind than
is necessary to cook and refrigerate meat
properly, but many meat industry leaders
believe this is only the opening round in a cru
sade to eventually get people to stop eating
meat
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62,481
62.4
18,401
3.69
679
3.19
587
318
12.96
7.68
4.27
1.54
.28
2,386
7,383
2,300
15,104
62
567
98
233
917
1,469
Profit
from fall
lime application
‘Grain to Milk Ratio
•Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s) . -
Avg Level For 887 SCC Herds
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Average Farm Feed '£S
Costs For Handy ZSt’SZSSjSS.
Ref€retlC€ Remember these arc averages so
a/ L you will need to adjust your figures
To help fanners across the state up or down according to your loca
te have handy reference of com- don and the quality of your crop,
modify input costs in their feeding Com, No. 2y -2. SS BU. 4.57
operations for DHIA record sheets CWT.
or to develop livestock feed cost Wheat, No. 2 - 2.86 BU. 4.77
1:2.4
.4,98 ~
389,323
limestone
v* ■ *
CWT.
-Baric*-No* 3- 1.54 BU. 3.30
CWT.
Oats, No. 2 - I.SO BU. 4.68
CWT.
Soybeans. No. 1 - 6.88 BU.
11.48 CWT.
Ear Com - 65.95 TON 3.30
CWT.
Alfalfa Hay -105.00 TON 5.25
CWT.
Mixed Hay - 93.75 TON 4.69
CWT.
Timothy Hay - 95.50 TON 4.78
CWT.
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Improve your soil by applying
Martin’s quality Hi-magnesium or
Hi-calcium agricultural limestone.
Call your local Martin Limestone
dealer or call Blue Ball, Pa.
(800) 233-0205
(717) 354-1370
Martin
LIMESTONE
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