How Does Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —These data are catrninmri 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 04/02/94 and 04/09/94
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
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
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Average Farm Feed
Costs For Handy
Reference
To help farmers 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 - 3.11 bu. 5.56 cwt
Wheat, No. 2 - 3.36 bu. 5.61
cwt.
Barley. No. 3 - 2.46 bu. 5.26
cwt.
Oats, No. 2 -1.69 bu. 5.27 cwt
Soybeans. No. 1 - 6.45 bu. 10.77
cwt.
Ear Com - old 89.69 ton 4.49
cwt
Ear Com - new 82.50 ton 4.13.
Alfalfa Hay - 113.50 ton 5.68
cwt
Mixed Hay - 103.50 ton 5.18
cwt
Timothy Hay - 103.75 ton 5.19
cwt
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“Total Feed Gist Per Cow Per
Year(s)
“Income Over Feed Costs Per
Year(s) 1,504
“Grain to Milk Ratio 1:2.5
“Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s) 4.98
Avg Level For 877 SCC Herds 360,547
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Spring Conference Report
DAVE SLUSSER
General Manager
During the last three months, I
have met hundreds of DHIA
members, and particularly all of
the employees of Pa. DHIA. It is
really inspirational to know that
we have so many friends and sup
porters on the farm, and in the
dairy industry. DHIA is changing
nationally. Pennsylvania is of
course involved with that change.
1 have a set policy for myself to
attend at least one county commit
tee or board meeting in every
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county per year. So far, I have at
tended 10 county meetings, most
of which involved the field techni
cians. 1 give a report on the Pa.
DHIA association, and then we
have a round table discussion.
The county committee duties
include evaluating and assisting
the state association in providing
DHIA services. By all working to
gether, we can do a much better
job serving our members. If your
county has not yet met with me,
please let me know your meeting
dates, and I will attend.
Weekly I meet with
Dean Amick, Dixie
Burris, Jim Boyer and
Jim Garrity. We discuss
the comments and re
commendations that
come back from the
county committee meet
ings. Many recom
mendations that come
from the counties have
already been instituted,
one being the color re
port forms.
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MEMBER
The field service on
Thursday. April 14
completed the Spring
Technician Training
Conferences. There
were 14 conferences al
together of which I was
able to attend 8 of them.
After meeting so many
of our field technicians,
and working with them,
I am more confident
than ever about our fu
ture. These employees
work where the rubber
meets the road. They
come into your farm
every month, and pro
vide a service second to
none. They are Pa.
DHIA in your bam, and
all the rest of us support
them in their work.
Because of the work
they do and the manage
ment information Pa.
DHIA provides, hun
dreds of Pa. DHIA
members will be able to
survive these troubled
economic times.
At each meeting,
technicians shared then
ideas on how to better
serve -ur members. An
other important ac
complishment for our
technicians has been the
mastering of the laptop
computer. Half of the
conference time was
spent working on their
computer skills with our
Pennsylvania DHIA
DRPC staff. Over 2
hours of each technician
conference was spent on
computer functions and
on farm reports.
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