Farming, Saturday, December 9, 1996
Cumberland DHIA Honors Outstanding Member Achievements
BETH MILLER
Cumberland Co.
HUNTSDALE (Cumberland
Co.) Curtis and Ann Day of
Shippensburg came away from the
76th annual Cumberland County
DHIA Banquet with nearly every
award.
For starters, their cows captured
the 1995 awards for the county’s
all-time high in protein, in milk
and in butterfat
The Days* Tri-Day Astro Jet X-
Eve posted the protein high with
1,085 pounds.
Their Miss Beautician Pearl,
which was the county all-time high
milk producer, recorded 40,433
pounds of milk.
That same animal logged the
county all-time high in butterfat
with 1,485 pounds.
The banquet at the Penn Town
ship Fire Hall in Huntsdale also
saw the Days win the county
DHIA’s first-place Herd Manage
ment Award.
Second place Herd Manage
ment Award went to M. Thomas
Sheaffer. Paul M. Snyder captured
the third place Herd Management
Award.
Biymesser Farms tookTiome the
fourth place Herd Management
Award and the fifth place award
went to Fred B. McGillvray.
McGillvray also had the 2-year
old cow that posted the high in
milk production.
The 2-year-old that logged the
year’s high in protein was in the
herd of Mains Acres. Steve and
Mary Reese had the 2-year-old that
recorded high in fat.
The Days were back in the win
ner’s circle again when their entire
herd was named the top herd in
protein for 1994-95.
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Jet-Rae Farm of Shippensburg,
owned by Ray Thrush, made the
Somatic Cell Count Honor Roll
not only for the county DHIA, but
for the state DHIA as well.
Thrush, who has 76 cows in his
herd, recorded a somatic cell count
of 65,000 to place at the top of the
county’s honor roll and in third
place statewide.
Also, local members were told
how the DHIA began in October to
test for milk urea nitrogen as
another tool for gauging a herd’s
performance.
Milk urea nitrogen, or MUN,
measures the efficiency by which
nitrogen is used by an animal. Ni
trogen is an important component
for rumen microorganisms.
If MUN levels are too low or too
high problems may exist in the
ration that can harm an animal’s
performance, affect environmental
pollution and cut economic
efficiency.
MUN testing can help DHIA
members adjust their ration to gain
top production efficiency from
their herds.
Other events at the Cumberland
County banquet, which had the
theme, “Celebrating 76 Years of
Testing,” included a presentation
by the county’s 1995 dairy prin
cess. Lori Brownewell, and
remarks by state director Neal
McCulloch.
McCulloch is the chair of the
county’s DHIA local. Lonnie
Wickard is the vice-chair and
Michael Brymesser is the
secretary.
The other directors of the’Cum
berland local are Harold Myers,
Lee Hoover Jr., and Gerald
Davidson.
From the left, eltting, thie year’e Cumberland County DHIA award winnera are
Richard Maine, Ray Thruah, Curtis Day and Jeff McGillvray. From the left, standing,
are Jean Thruah and Ann Day with Cumberland County Dairy Princess Lori
Brownawell.
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