Farming, Saturday, July 8, 1995 VERNON ACHENBACH, JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff KINZERS (Lancaster Co.) Dale and Deb Hershey of Mill-Springs Holsteins in Kinzers are serving as this year’s host for the annual Held day for the Lancas ter County Holstein Club. The event is set to be held from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. t August 3. The annual field day provides an opportunity for club members and people with an interest in the dairy cattle breed to get together, team mote about the breed and enjoy family oriented fellowship and fun. On Monday, Dale said that the meal is to be catered by Yoder’s Deli of Intercourse, and that in order to prevent any problems with food supply, he is asking that those who intend to attend please let him know before July 20. The price of the event is $5 per adult and $2.50 per child if registration is made prior to July 20. Add 25 cents to the cost if registration is made after that date. The schedule for the field day is full. Featured speaker is to be auc tioneer Horace Backus, well known Holstein enthusiast who has been reading pedigrees, breed ing, selling and buying the black and white cattle for years. Rather than give a formal talk. Backus is to discuss the breed through a question and answer forum. Although not specifically set as of this week, Hershey said he plans to have three classes of animals for judging. Bob Knutsen, of Rising Sun, Md., is to serve as judge for the day. There are separate competitions for the men, women and youth, with prizes for the top scores in each of the classes. Many door prizes are to be presented during the day. Also, for entertainment, a neigh bor, Elmer Lapp, is to offer hay wagon rides pulled by a team of his prize-winning Belgian horses. Guests should bring lawn chairs. A food tent is to be set up in the front lawn of the farm house, located across the road from the Hershey Mennonite Church at the junction of New Holland Road and Hershey Church Road. Dale said that guests should park in the church’s lot. Another tent is to be set up in a pasture next to the front lawn for Mil Valll Belltone Hilda is the top Indexing cow at the Dale and Deb Hershey farm which strongly depends on marketing genetics. Guests to the annual Holstein field day can see Hilda and several other cows of genetic Importance. Hersheys Host Lancaster Field Day Dale and Deb Hershey are inviting Lancaster Holstein enthusiasts to their rented dairy farm near Klnzers for the county club’s annual field day on August 3. In front is the judging. Dale said they also plan to have games for the children. Those attending are also invited to tour the farming operation and see the 57-head all registered herd from which Dale has sold 27 bulls in the last six years, seven to studs in the United Slates. Hershey said that merchandis ing genetics makes up a large per centage of his operation and he also has been exporting heifers and selling embryoes. He bought his startup herd from G. Hershey Hostetter, of Mill wood, and Dale said he has three brood cows which are the focus of his efforts cows from the Isabel family. Heather family and Jennif er family. Currently he has heifers and calves representing four genera tions from those cows. One of his cows in particular has been getting attention. His Mil Valli Belltone Hilda, and Very Good 86 is his top index cows and he exported SI embryoes from her to Etazon Genetics, a Dutch com pany. She was featured in an advertisement in the 1994 Holstein World, During her last lactation she produced 31,000 pounds of milk in 305 days. While the Hersheys are in their sixth year dairying, they have worked at the rented 100-acre farm for the past three years. Those familiar with Dale’s operation may note that he previ ously had a 90-head milking string. He said that in order to reduce overhead costs, he elimi nated hired help and cut the herd back during the last couple of daughter Monica while Dale holds daughter Taylor and Deb holds son Regan In front of their stone farm house. months to keep it a family farm. He still has about 6S head of heifers produced from the herd when it was 90-head strong. The current herd has been aver aging about 23,000 pounds of milk, 776 pounds fat, and 730 pounds protein. In addition to selling milk and genetics, the Hersheys also raise their bull calves under the Tend-R- Lean program and market those with die help of Pennfield Corp. Currently they have 41 head. Dale does his own sire selection and he said he stresses index, and type and production. He said the Flying Farmers To Land In READING (Berks Co.) Fly ing Farmers from across North America will land here at the Sheraton Berkshire on July 18 as the International Flying Farmers’ Slst Convention begins. More than 300 members of the 50-year-old nonprofit association are expected to attend the interna tional event, including members from United Slates and Canada. They will come together to reaf firm their commitment to safety and education in the general avia tion and agriculture industries. “Since the beginning of our or ganization, Flying Farmers has been dedicated to education, safe ty and the protection of members* farming and flying interests,” said Wayne Steel, IFF president IFF began when Herb Graham, Oklahoma A & M College’s Agri cultural Extension Director, took his idea to Oklahoma A & M’s president, Dr. Henry G.. Bennett Bennett not only liked die plan of an organization of flying farmers, but he also envisioned the possi bility of a national organization headquartered in Stillwater cm the herd has strong production, and he has been pushing type. Dale has been involved with the Holstein Club for three years, sav ing as club treasurer for two years. He also serves on the county Field Day Committee with Mike Eby, Kelvin Hatch, and Warren Good, and he said that he and Deb were glad to be able to open their farm for the annual event The Hersheys have three child ren, daughters Monica and Taylor, and infant son Regan. To register contact Hershey at (717)768-3508, or write to Dale R. Hershey, 416 Hershey Church Road, Kinzers, PA 17535. Reading A & M campus. The invitations were sent and the first meeting look place Aug. 3, 1944. Today, Oklahoma A & M is now Oklahoma State University and the Flying Farmers’ headquar ters are in Wichita, but the dream came true and even surpassed. The organization, now international in scope, encompasses thousands of members from all over the world. Not only are fanners who fly encouraged to join but anyone who has the desire to find a fami ly-oriented organization that sup ports private pilots. Flying Farm ers are people of all ages and oc cupations. from retirees to grade-school children and doctors to professional pilots. “We expand our members’ horizons through seminars and speakers as well as through tours and meetings across the United States, Canada, and beyond,” said Steele. “However, the biggest asset to our organization is our members and our ability to involve the whole family in chapter, regional, and international events."
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