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How Does Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) These data arc calculated using
information pulled from Pennsylvania DHIA’s mainframe computer
each week. It is a one-week summary 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 about
one-fourth of the herds across the state.
DHIA Averages for all herds processed between 03/19/94 and 03/26/94 a ~o rnoo
Number of Herds Processed 1,067 AVBrUgv rtUln r€€u
Number of Cows Processed 65 450 QoStS FOf Handy
Number of Cows Per Herd 61.3 J
Milk Per Cow. (Lbs) 18,685 Reference
%-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)
♦Grain to Milk Ratio
♦Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s)
Avg Level For 955 SCC Herds
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To help fanners across the slate
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 - 3.18 bu. 5.69 cwl
Wheat, No. 2 - 3.43 bu. 5.73
cwl*
Barley, No. 3 - 2.52 bu. 5.38
CWL
Oats, No. 2 -1.72 bu. 5.37 cwl
Soybeans, No. 1 -6.72 bu. 11.22
CWL
Ear Com - old 82.50 ton 4.13
CWL
Ear Com - new 90.50 ton 4.53.
Alfalfa Hay - 114.25 ton 5.71
cwl*
Mixed Hay • 106.75 ton 5.34
CWL
Timothy Hay - 105.75 ton 5.29
CWL
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brings feedback from the agricul
tural community to Penn State’s
College of Agricultural Sciences,
will meet April 13 at the Nitlany
Lion Inn on the University Park
Campus.
The meeting’s morning session
will feature a discussion of public
policy issues concerning the
state’s agricultural industry. “We
hope to share with the college ad
ministration our views on the ma-
jor issues facing agriculture in
Pennsylvania,” says Earl B. Fink,
president of the council.
The Agricultural Advisory
Council has 69 member organiza
tions. most of which are trade as
sociations and commodity groups
representing various segments of
the agricultural business com-
Consider Public Policy
munity. To broaden the range of
viewpoints included in the discus
sion, representatives of more than
90 additional industry groups have
been invited to participate.
“From nutrient management to
economic development, our col
lege is involved in public policy
issues,” says Dr. Lamartine Hood,
dean of the college, “We are com
mitted to become even more in
volved in examining, analyzing
and helping to shape policies re
lated to food, agriculture and na
tural resources.”
Because the concerns of a dairy
farmer may differ from those of a
food processor or timber harves
ter, delegates will split into five
focus groups.
One group will examine general
agricultural interests. The others
will emphasize food science, ani
mal production, food crops and
non-food crops. Each group will
develop a list rtf conerns, then the
council will establish group con
sensus about the main concerns on
those lists.
“The results will help the col
lege better understand the public
policy concerns of a wide range of
agricultural interests,” says Pat
Heuser, director of industry rela
tions in the college. “We then can
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