How Dpes Your Herd Compare?
STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) These data are 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 arc 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 6/26/94 and 7/3/94
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)
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•Value for CWT Grain(s)
♦Value for CWT Hay(s)
•Value for CWT Silagc(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)
•Income Over Feed Costs Per
Year(s) 1,553
•Grain to Milk Ratio 1:2 5
•Feed Cost Per CWT Milk(s) 4.94
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Average Farm Feed
Costs For Handy
Reference
To help fanners 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 - 2.96 bu. 5.30 cwL
Wheat, No. 2 - 3.08 'bu. 5.14
cwL
Barley, No. 3-1.77 bu. 3.78
cwL
Oats, No. 2 -1.58 bu. 4.93 cwt
Soybeans, No. 1 -6.40 bu. 10.68
cwt
Ear Com 79.95 ton 4.00 cwL
Alfalfa Hay - 90.50 ton 4.5 cwu
Mixed Hay - 92.50 ton 4.6 cwu
Timothy Hay - 91.25 ton 4.56
cwu
Pasture Session Set
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BLOOMSBURG
(Columbia Co.)
Penn State’s multi
county extension unit in
the central Susquehan
na Valley area has sche
duled the next set of
pasture discussion
group meetings for
dairy and livestock pro
ducers.
The pasture discus
sion group meetings are
for people interested in
improving or intensify
ing their grazing man
agement. The meetings
are held on area farms
utilizing intensive graz
ing programs. Discus
sion centers on grazing
management strategies,
successes, and prob
lems.
The next dairy pas
ture session will be on
Friday, July 22 from 10
a.m. to noon at the farm
of Mark Mapes near
New Berlin in Union
County. The Mapes’
use a combination of
grazing and conven
tional feeding technolo
gy. Cows graze per
manent pasture and re
growth on hay fields.
Cows are also fed a
TMR. The farm is just
west of New Berlin on
Rt. 304.
The next livestock
pasture session will be
on Wednesday, August
3 from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at
the DeHart farm near
Milton. This is a beef
and sheep operation
with 100 head of cattle
and 600 ewes. The pas
ture program consists of
intensively managed
permanent pasture and
annua! crops such as
turnips, peas, and triti
cale grown for pasture
and storage forage.
From Rt. 147 take Rt.
642 east a short distance
and turn left onto Mexi
co Road and follow for
'A mile. The farm has a
black fence and a stone
entrance.
For more informa
tion, call Dave Hartman
at the Columbia County
Extension Office, (717)
784-6660.