A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28. 1893
How Does Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —This data is pulled from Pennsyl
vania DHIA’s mainframe computer each week. It is i 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 8/07/93 and 8/14/93
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
Judges Select Steer
E-Town Supreme Animal
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Elizabethtown; the grand champ
ion sheep shown by Ann Leid,
Mcyerstown; dairy champion
Jason Wivell, Elizabethtown; and
goat champion Amy Smith,
Lebanon.
Swine judge Mike Miller, vice
president of sales and marketing
for White Oak Mills, said Baum’s
champion swine, a Hampshire
cross barrow, “will cut a real large
pork chop,” and congratulated the
exhibitor, who faced strong com
petition, “like most fairs in Lan
caster County,” he said.
Bill Curley, Tri-State Breeders,
said the dairy champion, a 2-year
old Red and White Holstein, is a
“real fine individual,” an animal
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that ‘ ‘carries her udder high above
her hock.” The individual is out
standing, ‘‘especially in the foot
and leg,” said Curley.
Natalie Glunz, dairy nutrition
specialist from Agway, sheep
judge, said Ann Leed’s Dorset ewe
will make a “fine brood ewe for
the young lady,” and commented
on the animal’s “natural thickness
and muscling.” She said it was a
real nice example of the Dorset
breed.
Dr. Robert Herr, goat judge,
commented on Amy Smith’s
champion animal, and about how
the meat goat will provide a very
desirable carcass in a growing
industry.
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♦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
Ycar(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
Ycar(s)
♦Grain to Milk Ratio
♦Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s)
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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 - 2.65 BU. 4.75
CWT.
Wheat, No. 2 - 2.89 BU. 4.82
CWT.
Barley, No. 3 - 1.60 BU. 3.43
CWT.
Oats, No. 2 - 1.46 BU. 4.54
CWT.
Soybeans. No. 1 ■ 6.73 BU,
11.24 CWt.
Ear Com - 66.30 TON 3.32
CWT.
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