These Brown Swiss Dairy Farmers Love To Talk Good Cows
(Continued from Pago A 1)
going up. There are quite a number
of 30,000 lb. milk. Brown Swiss
cows now.
“Weonly got $5 for milk at first,
but feed was only $75 A ton. Actu
ally. in the 1970's I could pay the
bills better than we can now.
The Dauberts ship milk to Guers
Dairy at Tumbling Run. They have
high Class 1 utlization and
received a recent top price of
$15.50 per hundred.
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On the subject of BST, the
Dauberts believe you can get more
milk out of the cows, but they are
not convinced you will make any
more money. They say it lakes a lot
more management, and Dennis
sees a big problem in bull proofs.
These bull proofs can be mani
pulated so badly with BST it's not
even funny.” Dennis said. “We
have talked to people in Ohio who
are getting cows to respond with an
increase of 10 to 30 pounds of
Servis-Rhino
milk. Herdmate comparisons
would be easy to manipulate with
BST. Just give the bull’s daughters
BST and not the herdmates.”
William has been a director of
the National Brown Swiss Associ
ation in the 1980’s. Exports from
the herd have gone to South Ameri
ca, Mexico and Japan. Five bulls
have been purchased or leased to
studs.
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program of the best cows con-
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tinues. The herd is mosdy home
bred, and many animals trace back
to three major cow families. But
the Dauberts like to buy four or five
animals each year to bring new
bloodlines into the herd.
Ronald said the genedcs base in
the Brown Swiss bteed is now
adequate for good breeding capa
bility. ‘The smaller genedc base
hampered the breed in earlier
times," he said. “But in the last 10
years they have been sampling a lot
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mote young bulls and doing a good
job of it, especially in artificial
breeding.
“And inquiries from potential
buyers continue to create an adequ
ate market for excess breeding ani
mals in the herd. Brown Swiss auc
tions usually draw good crowds of
dairymen, and cows bring good
prices.”
As for the milk and beef check
off money that is taken from their
income checks, the Dauberts don’t
like to give up the money, but they
think it is going for a good cause. “I
like the commercials and other
promotional programs I see,”
Ronald said. “I think they are doing
a good job.”
But other overhead costs are not
considered so favorably. "The
machinery costs are way out of line
as far as farming is concerned,”
William said. “And the young peo
ple could make a lot more off the
farm.
'The cost of DHIA has gotten
out of hand too. You need to sell a
few good animals each year to pay
for the records.
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“Many young far
mers farm by choice.
But without family help,
no way can a young per
son borrow enough
money to start farming
today. With the interest
and down payment on a
$400,000 farm and the
machinery and cow
cost, no young person
has that much money,”
William said.
“In the valley out our
way, five or six farms
are now being turned
over to the next genera
tion. They are the survi
vors. The little farmes
have already gone out of
the dairy busines, and
the larger farmers rent
the land.”
Dennis served 10
years as a director of
Pennsylvania DHIA.
This year the state asso
ciation changed the dis
trict lines, and Dennis
and Don Duncan would
both have been up for
election.
“I choose not to run,”
Dennis said. I had 10
years, and I wanted to
give someone else a
chance. 1 think everyone
who has a chance to be a
director should do it.
That way some of the
questions about why
things cost so much and
why they are run the
way they are will be
answered.”
Dennis also thinks
Dave Slusser.'the new
state association general
manager, will do a good
job to keep DHIA in
Pennsylvania, but he
has his work cut out for
him.
Asked about the rea
sons for their success,
the Dauberts pause and
reflect for a moment
before answering. Then
William speaks first.
“If we are successful,
and I’m not sure you
would call it success,
the reason would be
because we are blessed.
When my wife and I sit