A24-Lincastw Farming, Saturday, February 24, 1996
Pennsylvania DHIA’s Downsizing
(Continued from Pago A 1)
ram down so more people would
use it and benefit No one else can
provide this service at this cost pro
fitably and our MUN herd sum
mary report is the first in the
nation. Twenty-eight percent of
our members’ cows are on the
program with over 1,000 herds
participating.
'The Performance Economics
Program is the first in the nation.
This program will provide unbe
lievable cost analysis information
through the PA DHIA system. It is
confidential, and it is free to our
members.
"The new direction of PA DHIA
will change DHIA forever. Though
our traditional role will remain,
bottom line performance is the new
game. Our goal is to improve the
net farm income of our members,
and our new direction will serve
that end,” Slusser said.
The association listed many
major accomplishments in 1995.
These included:
• A new herd summary report.
• Feed library and feeding
program.
• Performance Economics
Program.
• First MUN summary analysis
and MUN individual cow data.
• MUN training for vetema
rians, feed consultants, county
extension employees, and
members.
• MUN research projects with
Penn State and University of
Pennsylvania.
• Testing MUN samples for
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In addition, Jim Boyer, director
of dairy records processing, was
named to the National DRCPCom
mittee and Dixie Burris, director,
lab services and membership deve
lopment was elected to the North
American Lab Managers board.
PA DHIA is now in cyberspace
to connect by Internet to the
USDA, breed associations, and AI
studs. In the future the association
will be able to connect more effi
ciently to DHIA technicians and
Penn State extension.
Now that powerful, inexpensive
desktop computers are available,
DHIA has the opportunity to
reduce hardware costs and increase
the productivity of computer pnjg
ramers. By late spring, plans are in
place to move a significant part of
the daily DHIA processing onto
high end PC’s from older type
large computers with costly main
frames to process dairy records.
The seeds of real change in this
area were planted in 1995, and rich
rewards are expected to be reaped
in 1996.
Speakers on the program
included James Ferguson, VMD,
associate professor of nutrition,
University of Pennsylvania, New
Bolton Center, on the subject oi
MUN testing, and Steve Ford,
associate professor, ag economics,
Penn State, on the subject of Herd
Performance Economics. In addi
tion, Sonny Meyerhoefer, national
director from Virginia, brought
greetings from the national
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At the awards breakfast, the
winners of the 1995 herd manage
ment awards were named. They
are:
HOLSTEIN, 1. Milos and San
dy Sinan, Indiana County, 166
points; 2, Curtis and Ann Day,
Cumberland County, 158 points;
and 3. Fred and Tom Strouse,
Northumberland County. 154
points.
JERSEY, (three first place ties,
each with 90 points) Rankin Farm,
Washington County; William R.
Yoder, Somerset County; and
Eugene and Brian Harris, Bradford
County.
MIXED BREEDS, 1. William
and Janis Budner, Washington
County, 110 points; 2. Laszlo
Mozes, Mercer County, 108
points; and Canon Dairy. Mercer
County, 107 points.
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