PERIODICA! ;; DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY —. W 209 PATTI.! LIBRARY UNIVERSITY PARK PA 16802-1002 Tn sl| iTiHI^M?K‘-SPBBwdW^BBi^CS^4E3MB^ Vol. 39 No. 34 No Such Thing As ( A Day In The Life Of A DHIA Technician ’ York County DHIA technician Abbe Gore relocates her portable office, a tabletop, after wrapping up another teat day on her herd circuit. Gore represents ail DHIA tech* nicians who work on the farm. Experiences are many and varied. Ag Protests "FSe Impositions, Supports Management Effort VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) A number of people rep resenting various segments of the state’s agricultural segment on Tuesday voiced opposition to a proposal by the Susquehanna Riv er Basin Commission that would initiate a fee structure for relatively high levels of water use. At the same time, the majority Poet Hill Genuine Risk received championship honors for Susan Means of New Albany last week at the Pennsylva nia Dairy Goat Association show. See story on Page A 32. 016192 1279 604 Per Copy of those testifying also offered comments of support in the com mission’s effort to manage the wate~ supply for the commonwealth. The SRBC an autonomous agency formed by a compact between Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and the United States in December 1970 to oversee water use within the basin of the Susque hanna River has proposed a Lancaster Fanning. Saturday. Jufr2. i^fl^^^statc revision and addition to its regula tions, and its staff is in the process of holding public hearings on the proposal. Justin Good, left, clinched county swine champion at the 32nd annual Lancaster County FFA Hog Show and Sale at the Manheim Farm Show grounds last week. Hat field Quality Meats, represented by Kenton Good, right, purchased the hog for $l.BO per pound. Genetics Key Championship ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Fanning Staff MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) Justin Good understands the adage well enough to interpret it himself: ‘‘lf it’s going good, don’t change anything." Justin’s efforts to ensure the same type of hog market genetics for his show animals, obtained from a Canadian source that gar nered a championship at the New Holland Swine Show last October. JOYCE BUPP York Co. Correspondent UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) Somewhere across the state, at almost any hour of the day or night, a Pennsylvania Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) technician is on the job. Or, as Centre County technician Anne Brooks puts it: “I set the alarm clock for a different time every day.” It’s an observation that is prob ably echoed by nearly every one of the nearly 200 Pennsylvania DHIA technicians offering dairy herd testing to the common wealth’s thousands of dairy far mers. Pennsylvania DHIA, head quartered on Orchard Road, pro vides a range of herd testing and cow record-keeping information and services. Anne Brooks, Bellefonte R 3, is a senior technician for the state’s milk production records and test ing cooperative. Her job responsi bilities include monthly weighing and sampling milk on client dairy herds and gathering data for com prehensive herd record informa Perhaps (he most significant changes to the regulations are proposals that would include agri culture and community water sup- clinched county swine champion at the 32nd annual Lancaster County FFA Hog Show and Sale at the Manheim Farm Show grounds last week. Celebrate July 4 To celebrate the 4th of July, Lancaster Farming’s office will be closed on Monday, July 4. Our offices will open again at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 5. Have a good day! Four Sections tion on production, feeding/and breeding. As a senior technician, she also helps train new techni cians and does fill-in testing around the state as needed. What technicians do, she sum marizes, is gather information that "gives the farmer a record of a cow’s production to help deter mine if she is paying her way.” “Every day is different,” adds this 15-year-veteran DHIA employee “I like the job because I get to meet new farmers and see new herds across the state.” Average size of the 30 herds which Brooks tests is about 60 cows, with more than 2,000 cows total on her circuit. Two of her herds each number 175 head in the milking string. “Some technicians last a very short time, because they, or their families, can’t adapt to the sche dule,” admits this mother of two grown children. Brooks got her job when the technician at the farm where she was helping to milk cows decided to quit - and asked if she might be interested in (Turn to Pago A 33) pliers as having to abide by the reg ulations, especially the consumptive-use regulations, (Turn to Pag* A 27) His 230-pound “4-Way” hog combining the preferred gene tics of a Hampshire, Duroc, York, and Landrace won lightweight (Turn to Pago A 23) $21.00 Per Year
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