Penn State Eliminates Sheep Programming
FRANKLIN (Venango Co.)
As a result of the College Futures
Committee recommendations,
Penn State Cooperative Extension
has eliminated adult sheep prog
ramming from its educational
agenda in all regions of the state
except the west, according to Jef
frey T. Fowler, extension agent
According to Fowler, this
means that extension staff will be
conducting programs to benefit the
sheep industry only in Allegheny,
Armstrong. Butler, Beaver, Cla
rion. Crawford. Erie, Fayette,
Forest, Greene. Indiana,
Lawrence, Mercer, Venango,
Warren, Washington, and West
moreland counties.
As a result Penn State has
decided to conduct a survey of pro
ducers to determine future needs
assessment regarding the sheep
and wool program efforts.
The survey “will help us, the
extension staff, belter understand
the current problems and concerns
of sheep and wool producers like
yourself, and therefore help you to
better prepare for what lies ahead
in the sheep and wool industry,”
according to a letter addressed to
sheep and wool producers by the
Venango County extension.
The Western Pennsylvania
Milk Bottle Collectors
BALLSTON SPA,
N.Y. The national convention
of (he national Association of Milk
Bottle Collectors (NAMBQ will
be lake place at the Holiday Inn
June 2-S. Of special interest will be
the auction of milk bottles of all
types, signs, creamers, and other
historic dairy memorabilia. The
auction starts at 9 p.m. on Saturday
night. All items will be sold, and a
portion of the sales will go to sup
port the national bottle museum.
John Robinson, associate auction
eer for Robert Bair Auctioneers of
Wrightsville, Pa., will be the guest
auctioneer.
Other activities at the conven-
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includes 27 questions and one
comment section, mailed to pro
ducers in sheep-producing coun
ties in the western part of the state.
The responses to the survey will be
kept confidential. The results will
be used, in summary form, for
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These results, in summary form.
DHIA Installs Dairy Comp
ITHACA. N.Y. Recently,
two members of the Ithaca,
N.Y.-based Northeast DHIA
Dairy Management Technologies
team travelled to Bermuda to
install Dairy Comp SOS herd man
agement software.
The Bermudian Government, in
particular Government Veterina
rian Dr. Susan Smith, has decided
to begin tracking all 350 erf the
islands milking cows plus an addi
tional 300 heifers through Dairy
Comp 30S.
“We are very impressed by
what this software can do. and
with the people we have spoken
with at Northeast DHIA as we
were evaluating the various prog
rams,” Dr. Smith said.
tion include all day swapping and
buying of dairy antiques in the
hotel guestrooms; displays of vari
ous collections in the display
room; a postal sub-station with
special cancellation on Saturday
morning and the convention buffet
dinner on Saturday evening.
Of special interest this year will
be a representative from Stanpac,
manufacturers of milk bottles, clo
sures, and pogs, who will bring the
members up to date on what is hap
pening in the dairy industry relat
ing to the “return to glass” move
ment All activities are open to the
public. For information, you may
call Thomas F. Gallagher at (203)
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sion staff, slate extension program
staff, and state extension admi
nistration, according to Fowler.
For more information about the
survey, contact Fowler at Venango
County Cooperative Extension,
P.O. 80x468, Franklin, PA 16323,
(814) 437-7607.
Currently in Bermuda there are
no organized records services
such as the Northeast Dairy Herd
Improvement Association. Ber
mudian dairy farmers do not have
access to things many DHIA
members may take for granted;
MB’s, Site information. Compo
nent testing, Somatic Cell testing,
production information, and the
ability to look back at historical
trends in the herd.
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be able to accurately evaluate
management factors. This will
help the dairy community to
become more efficient and to
increase profits, thereby remain
ing a viable part of the Bermudian
economy.
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