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Vol. 40 No. 43
The Davis family will be honored next week as the Berks County Out
standing Farm Family. They arethe second generation winner of the hon
or. Shown here with JMJ SpiingPond Royal Trish, their two-year-old
Dairy Food Safety Researcher Questions Drug Residue Tests
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
LEMOYNE (Cumberland
Co.) Dairy producers may be
suffering unreasonably as a result
of current testing practices of raw
milk for drug residues, according
to a University of California,
Davis, researcher.
James S. Cullor, associate pro
fessor in the Department of Pathol
ogy, Microbiology and Immunolo
gy at the University of Califomia-
Davis School of Veterinary
Medicine, addressed a group of
about 200 dairy producers, exten-
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sion specialists and other industry
people who attended the 1995 reg
ional meeting of the National Mas
titis Council Inc. held last week at
the Radisson-Penn Harris Hotel
and Convention Center in
Leymone.
Cullor said he was critical of the
accuracy of current drug residue
tests as used in the field, critical of
the review process established by
Landrace Swine Sweep Breed Show At Allentown
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh Co.) —
For (he first time in recent mem
ory, Landrace grabbed the lime
light at the breed show on Wednes
day at the Allentown Fair Swine
Show.
A Landrace gilt that “exempli
fies how sound” a gilt should really
be was picked by judge James Par
lett, a York, Chester White, and
Duroc breeder from Airvillc. The
gilt, shown by Stephen Wessner
for Rocky Acres Farm (bperated
Lancaster Firming, Saturday, SeptembeS2^Vw>
the federal government to deter
mine the appropriateness of the
tests, and concerned about the reg
ulatory. industry’s use of the test
results to reject milk and its affect
upon the financial stability of dairy
producers.
“The use of antibiotic residue
assays (which are tests) in every
day settings and the consequences
of current assay performance is
by the Harlan and Barbara Wess
ner family) took big steps and “had
a nice groove down the top,” said
Parlett.
This marks the third year in a
row that the Wessners have exhi
bited a champion animal at the fair.
The sire of the gilt was obtained
from Wistabrook Farms, from
Kentucky, according to Barbara
Wessner, Stephen’s mother. The
(him is from Walker Farms, Mys
tic, lowa.
A Landrace also captured
supreme boar on Wednesday at the
Holstein that was reserve grand champion at the Kutztown Fair two
weeks ago are from left, Jeffery, Michael at halter, Jennifer, Frances, and
Ray. See story page A3O. Photo by Evarett Nawswangar, managing editor.
already adversely impacting dairy
producers and food animal prac
tices around the United States and
elsewhere,”
The associate professor said that
it is his belief that the tests are not
good for what they are being used
to do. He said he has found someof
them to not he able to distinguish
between true antibiotic residues
and a cow’s natural antibodies in
fair. Exhibited by Grant Lazarus,
17, son of Linda and Grant Lazar
us, Germansville, the boar was
“big-bodied, lean, long, and
extremely sound,” said Parlett
The homebred boar was shown by
Grant, a senior at Northewestem
High School.
Grant and his family have been
busy, also attending the N.Y. State
Fair and the Sullivan County Fair,
he said. They will also be showing
at Bloomsburg, Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Exposition and
the state Farm Show.
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raw milk.
And, he said he believes that
individual dairy producers should
not be required to bear the entire
cost of the current testing system
and the loss of milk based on those
tests.
Cullor said that the receiving
plants and processors who are
using these milk tests to screen for
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At the market swine champion
ship show Thursday morning. Par
ted picked a purebred Berkshire
gilt, the heavyweight champion, as
supreme market swine.
Parted said he chose the Berk
shire shown by Todd and Cheryl
Bennecoff family as market
champion because it was “an
extremely clean-bladed hog.
“Packers are looking for bigger
hogs that are really lean and have
lots of muscling,” he said.
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