Garden Spat
“We’re all human and make
mistakes,” he said, saying that in
tough times, people have to
remember to be happy and enjoy
the fellowship and brotherhood.
However, he said he is deter
mined to do his best to make sure
that Pa.DHIA regroups and
restrengthens. “I’m going' to
recommend closing down the Col
lege Avenue office and move back
into the laboratory,” he said.
“The biggest area that needs
work is rebuilding the foundation
of this organization.
“It’s a lot easier to build a new
foundation than to repair the
foundation,” but he said there is no
reason not to shore up the
Pa.DHIA foundation.
He said he intends to spend
more than half his time in the filed
working with county boards, etc.
and thoya every week he has a meet
ing with the state staff to go over a
list of recommendations and to try
to work out what can be done.
“We also want to help supervi
sors do a better job,” he said. Also,
he said that members should
encourage other producers not on
test to do so. especially more AM/
PM and owner testing.
On a national level, Robert Kin
dig, a national director, gave an
update of the restructuring of
National DHIA since state borders
have largely been removed, with
former state oiganizations now
being considered affiliates of
National DHIA.
Yet to be worked out, he said,
are requests from groups of dairy
men not tied specifically to a gco-
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graphic or political boundary to be
recognized as affiliates.
“The challenge is to have a
program solid enough that it can
serve the whole range,” he said.
He also reported that there is a
question of members whose use of
DHIA is such that they can not be
fined for rule infractions who are
still asked to share to cost for pur
suing allegations of violations.
Dean Amick, state director of
field services and now also in
charge of the laboratory, reported
that currently 66 percent of the
state organization’s 190 field tech
nicians have been trained and
approved for using portable com
puters for electronically sending
data.
Within the next month he said
he expects that figure to close in on
100 percent, and by March 1, all
but a handful of the field techni
cians will be have been trained to
use field computers.
“Then we’ll be ready to send out
Dairy Comp 305. Then you’ll real
ly be able to see (what the changes
can mean to the producer),’’ he
said.
According to Amick, members
will be able to get a lot of informa
tion on test day that can help man
age the herd. And the field
computer-use should reduce error
delays. The goal is that errors will
be discovered at the farm before
the information is sent to State
College for processing, gets
kicked back, and reduces a produc
er’s ability to make change.
Further, he said that the
Pa.DHIA Board of Directors gave
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the staff permission to create and
select people for serving on a
Technician Advisory Committee
for Quality Certification. The
nine-member board has met twice
to date and is scheduled to meet
four times per year, he said.
“I think everything will work
out in the long run and will be bet
ter off,” he said.
In other business, the Red Rose
organization recognized its mem
bers’ outstanding achievements.
J. Harold Fritz farm of Lancas
ter was recognized with the top
herd management award for the
group, earning ‘7O points and
receiving a plaque sponsored by
F.M. Brown & Sons.
Second place was Wilmer
Horst, third went to Christ F. King.
K&Q Swiss, owned by Red
Rose president Tom Smith and
wife Dale, of Denver, was pre
sented an award for having the
lowest somatic cell
count 181,000. The award was
sponsored by Ray Kline.
In second place was Samual
Fisher with 213,000, and third
went to Singing Maple Farms with
216,000.
The J. Harold Fritz farm also
was recognized for having the high
herd for milk and protein produc
tion. The award was sponsored by
McCracken’s Feed Mill Inc.
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On Genetic Recovery Program
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio
The American Guernsey Associa
tion Board of Directors recently
voted to bring to the vote of the
membership an amendment to the
Constitution of the American
Guernsey Association regarding
the Genetic Recovery Program.
This proposal would require
that two additional steps be added
prior to the provisional register
status of the current Genetic
Recovery Program.
Step one is the recorded female
(RF). She should be a dairy type
animal with no genetically related
abnormalities. She should have at
lease one purebred Guernsey
parent
Step two is the Guernsey type
(GT) animal. This generation
would require Guernsey type or
appearance. This female would be.
sired by a purebred Guernsey bull
out of a RF. The animal in this
step would be a minimum of 7 5
percent Guernsey. If adequate
records are provided, the initial
animal may enter as a GT animal.
This step would be comparable to
the original animal (OA) status in
our current program. Females in
this step are eligible for AGA pro
duction awards.
Step three is the provisional
register (PR) animal. This would
be a female out of a GT female
and sired by a registered Guernsey
bull. There will be no production
or type requirements to advance
from the PR status to step four.
Females in this step are eligible
for AGA production awards. This
step would be a minimum of 87
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percent Guernsey.
Step four is the genetic recov
ery (GR) animal. This would be a
female out of a PR female and a
registered Guernsey bull. For a
bull to be registered, his dam must
be at least a GR female. This step
would be a minimum of 94.,per
cent Guernsey.
Animals in all four steps would
have the same information avail
able as registered animals, such as
a registration certificate, produc
tion records and classification
records.
When registering animals in
this program, breeders would have
to sign that, to the best of their
knowledge, this animal has no
genetic abnormalities. Every ani
mal must be available for inspec
tion by an AGA representative if
requested.
Genetic recovery females are
fully registered, thereby having all
the privileges of registered
Guernseys.
Fees for the expanded Genetic
Recovery Program would be as
follows: RF-S 5, PR $7 and GR
would depend upon membership
status. A $2 fee per animal would
be assessed for postage and hand
ling to convert animals from the
past Guernsey Genetic Growth
Program into this program.
The board of directors met at
their annual winter meeting Dec.
10-11 in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. The
American Guernsey Association
is the national organization for the
registration and promotion of
Guernsey cattle and is headquar
tered in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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