National DHIA Rules To Change
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The legal issues waste resources
which should be helping all mem
bos gel affordable services.
The effect wanted for the DHIA
segment of the dairy industry is to
minimize its role as referee
between other segments of the
dairy cattle industry.
In mote general terms, the con
cept would hold that if a man buys
a Holstein with a DHIA record of
high production, and the seller
used unreported artificial or illegal
means to create that record, then
DHIA shouldn’t be held liable for
that deceit, nor for the buyer’s fai
lure to use good sense in making a
purchase.
Another goal of changing rules
would be to allow more producer
involvement in testing, so that
there could be a more affordable
range of services available to
members.
More and more, according to
industry experts, producers want
testing procedures and costs that
reflect herd management needs,
not just those designed to establish
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high production of a cow or herd
for genetic-market attention.
The reason for all of this,
according to Dukas, is not only the
historically high costs associated
with DHIAs serving as “judge and
jury,” but because of significant
changes within the dairy produc
tion industry that, essentially,
make it difficult and more costly to
make sure everyone is acting
ethically.
The bottom line is that those
who want to use DHIA informa
tion for purposes other than herd
management such as for track
ing production of sire
daughters will be able to accept,
a wider variety of testing programs
while being aUe to examine more
closely the conditions under which
data were recorded.”
Dukas said that, if everything
can come together properly, the
new rules would, “Allow the user
to have more information to under
stand what is going on at a farm,
rather than for us to make that
judgement”
The current use of recombinant
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the important work of FFA chap
ters all across the U.S.”
In addition to the 25 cents paid
for every WIX Fillers box top, the
company is also offering four
incentive bonuses of $l,OOO each
to the chapters with the highest
number of box tops redeemed per
member and a $l,OOO bonus to the
chapter with the greatest percent
age increase from last year.
WIX Filters also offers four
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bovine somatotropin, which is not
necessarily reported, but has a sig
nificant impact on dairy produc
tion, and other methods for
increasing milk production, which
may or may not be illegal, as well
as variations in cow identification
procedures, and a broad spectrum
of dietary management, all com
bine to thwart the efforts of a
DHIA to collect and report accu
rate. comparable data.
The savings to dairy producer
members of DHIAs could be sig
nificant, for these and other
reasons.
‘Today, if on a young sire prog
ram, you need to be on an official
(DHIA) program,” Dukas said.
This means that a technician would
have to supervise testing, and 12
tests per year are requited. “Under
the concept (for changing rules),
we will identify how many obser
vations were supervised. With
further research, the A.I. industry
may find that you don’t need 12
tests to prove sires.
“With that in mind, you can see
how many new forms of testing
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“During the past year, 221
chapters participated, redeeming
more than 197,000 box tops,”
Johnston said. “Those box tops
represented $50,000 in funds to
the various chapters.”
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carrying WIX Filters are also par
ticipating in the program by serv
ing as official FFA Box Top Col
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(would be possible), where the far
mer could take the tests on
unsupervised days for his own
records, and, if the only need for
off-farm use (of the supervised
tests) would be for (eligibility in) a
young sire program, (the farmer)
may be able to test with a techni
cian fewer times.”
Fewer supervised tests means
less cost to the farmer.
While this may mean that an
individual farmer may see a tech
nician less often, it doesn’t neces
sarily mean that the need for tech
nicians will diminish.
“With this kind (of testing prog
ram), technicians will have diffe
rent schedules than today, but less
work? I don’t see that happening,”
Dukas said.
“There may be many herds that
may want to participate that aren’t
herd members today,” he said.
Despite the recent spate of com
petition between individual
DHIAs throughout the country,
there are basically two types of
current tests those that are offi
cial, and require strong technician
supervision, or those that are unof
ficial and do not require such tech
nician supervision.
Those programs requiring more
services of a technician are natur
ally higher in cost to the producer,
and a reason why some
producers who could other
wise use the breeding information,
the somatic cell count information,
the protein and hit composition
'monitoring for nutrition work and
herd health don’t bother join
ing a DHIA, reserving that cash
flow for other aspects of the farm
or family.
And, years ago, some DHIAs
didn’t reduce costs significantly
for technician-limited programs
(such as AM/PM), but in reality
overcharged in order to support the
higher-costing classic program of
having a technician supervise test
ing at two milkings on the same
day.
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tional testing devices and new
devices, laptop computers in the
bam, home computers and direct
computer links to records process
ing centers, etc., a change in rules
may make it more feasible for all
herds to use some offerings Grom
DHIAs.
As far as the need for techni
cians. Dukas said he can’t imagine
that it would diminish with new
rules changes.
Technicians across the nation
must be competent with a laptop
computer, they must be able to per
form and understand more than
ever. That, along with the fact that
research has shown that a techni
cian can make a better living with a
full schedule of limited-supervised
tests as opposed to the traditional
tests, and the anticipated increase
in dairy herd participation that
should accompany less-costly and
less-involved testing options, he
said hedoesn’texpectany signific
ant job losses.
But, at the same time, Dukas
said that the objective of National
DHIA is not to create jobs, but to
provide services to members at the
lowest cost possible.
“Our mission is really to serve
members; not maintain labs, not to
maintain status quo,” he said.
The change in rules is almost
certain to come, he said. Changes
in records standards formats have
already been implemented at pro
cessing centers across the nation,
Dukas said, althrough the farmer
doesn’t see it yet.
He also said that the USDA
AIPL, which does the genetic eva
luations for the national herd, is
currently programming to accom
modate the DHIA changes.
As for the rest of the industry,
Dukas said, “We predict the indus
try will start to make the decisions
on how they use records in 1995.”
Internationally, the rules
changes apparently will not cause
a problem, Dukas said.
Expectations from some are that
Thursday’s Senate approval of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) will her
ald a less-fettered
world-wide marketp
lace. With respect to
that, the impact of
changing rules govern
ing data collection for
comparison of animal
performance has been
considered by National
DHIA.
According to Dukas,
the concept of changing
rules in' the United
States has already been
presented during an
international DHIA
meeting, Dukas said,
adding that it was well
received. In fact, he said
that the head of INTER
BULL, the international
center of genetic con
versions located in Swe
den, had said that just
this sort of change
should come about in
the United States.
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As far as working out
the details, the National
DHIA Leaders Confer
ence (set for mid-
January in Orlando,
Fla.) is set to deal with
the rules issues.
From there, revised
rules proposals, and also
3 revised foundation for
enforcement, are to go
before DHIA delegates
in late March during the
1995 National Conven
tion and Trade Show, in
Burlington,* Vl