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smaller, less visible breeders of
cattle.
The reason is simple. A well
developed show quality cow
should also have a better chance of
producing well and living longer.
(Though show animals tend to
be larger in frame and according to
some authorities and some dairy
farmer experience smaller stature
cows tend to live longer. An index
for predicting longevity that is
starting to be accepted in the dairy
cattle industry should eventually
bear out importance of size over
balance.)
And nowhere else in Pennsylva
nia is there the opportunity to see
lots of top quality dairy cattle of all
major dairy breeds.
to further provide opportunities
for all dairy cattle farmers, last
year for the fust time a special
events area was set up in conjunc
tion with thePAADS the Dairy
Activity Center (DAC).
Located on the first floor of the
state Farm Show Complex’s
Northeast Building, adjacent to the
Large Arena, the activity center
featured seminars on a variety of
items and issues. That is to be
repeated this year and expanded.
In the DAC, commercial dairy
vendors are mixed in with craft
vendors, commodity food stands,
and a stage for presentations. Edu
cational presentations are to be
offered.
This year, a day has been set
aside for a dairy facilities and
buildings trade show.
Scheduled to be held from 8:30
Saturday, Sept. 21st
9:00a.m. - Country Craft
6:00 p.m. Market - DAC
6:30 p.m.- Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Pageant, Sheraton
Harrisburg East
Sunday, Sept. 22nd
9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m.- Country Craft Market - DAC
5:00 p.m. - Guernsey Youth Meeting Room D
5:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. - Country Craft Market - DAC
6:30 p.m. - “A Brown Swiss Youth Happening" - DAC
7:00 p.m. - Pennsylvania Ayrshire Youth meeting & Social -
Room E 3
7:00 p.m. -
7:00 p.m. -
8:00 p.m.-
Monday, Sept. 23
8:00 a.m.-
8:00 a.m
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10:00 a.m.-
1:00 p.m.-
2:00 p.m.-
7:00 p.m.-
Tuesday, Sept. 24
900 a m.- 8:00 p m -
9:00 p.m.-
9:00 p.m.-
10:00 am-
10:00 am-
3:00 pm-
Wednesday, Sept. 25
9:00 am- National Guernsey Show - LA
9'oo am- Eastern National Brown Swiss Show -LA
9.00 am- 8:00 p.m - Country Craft Market - DAC
12 Noon- Top of the Harvest Jersey Sale -SA
5:00 p.m.- All American Buffet - DAC
Thursday, Sept. 26
8:00 am- Eastern National Holstein Show - LA
8:00 am- Mid-Atlantic Regional Jersey Show - LA
9:00 am- 5:00 p.m.- Country Craft Market - DAC
10:00 am- 3:00 p.m.- Building & Facilities Trade Show - DAC
Supreme Champion (selection immediately
following the Holstein and Jersey Shows) - LA
LA = Large Arena, SA=Small Arena, DAC=Dalry Activities Center
33rd All-American Is Dairy Enthusiasts’ Gala
a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 26,
the show is expected to provide
dairy farmers with the opportunity
to see first-hand what agribusines
ses can do to assist in renovations,
expansions and improvements.
There is no cost to the public to
attend.
A number of commercial ven
dors and e; perts are scheduled to
participate.
Those who attend the trade
show can expect to get information
on a number of dairy cattle raising
considerations, from constructing
the relatively new, so-called
“greenhouse” bams for raising
calves, heifers or for housing
cows; freestall barn designs;
waterers; milking facilities and
milkhouse waste; ventilation con
siderations, and many other
aspects of dairy cattle facilties.
“Dairymen who are looking to
expand or make changes in their
operations will find the vendors at
the show most helpful,” said Lolly
Lesher, show promotion coordina
tor for PAADS. “Information will
be available on everything from
workmen’s compensation insur
ance plans, to milk marketing
opportunities, artificial insemina
tion services and dairy herd
testing.”
On Monday, Sept. 23, at 10
a.m., Dr. Michael Lormor, a veter
inarian is to discuss how to assess
the profit potential of a dairy herd.
His seminar is being sponsored by
Monsanto.
At 1 p.m., Monday, in the DAC,
Gary Holcomb of Hereford, Texas,
is to discuss how to make the most
Pennsylvania Junior Jersey Meeting - Room C
Careers and Opportunities Night - DAC
Junior Dairy Show Olmypics - SA
Invitational Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest
(4-H, FFA, and Collegiate) - SA
Pennsylvania Junior Dairy Show - LA
Country Craft Market - DAC
Assessing the profit potential ■ In your dairy
herd, Dr. Michael Lormor, DVM Sponsored by
Monsanto Co. - DAC
Making the Most - Raising Dairy Replacements,
Gary Holcomb, Hereford, TX. Sponsored by
Elanco Animal Health - DAC
Milking Shorthorn Sale - SA
Judging Contest Awards Banquet - Sheraton
Harrisburg East
Country Craft Market • DAC
Eastern National Ayrshire Show - LA
Pennsylvania Fall Championship Holstein Show
-LA
Jumor Dairy Management Contest. 2nd Floor,
Main Building
Pennsylvania 4-H and FFA Dairy Judging
Forum - SA
Eastern National Milking Shorthorn Show - LA
of raising replacement animals.
His talk is sponsored by Elanco
Animal Health products.
A Penn State Dairymen’s craft
show a Country Craft
Market in the DAC is to offer
the opportunity for early holiday
shopping for such things as dried
flowers, dolls, “cowmania” items
and many gifts. Also an embroid
ery service is to be available to per
sonalize gifts.
In addition, a display of Bonnie
Mohr’s rural American artwork
featuring dairy farm scenes is
planned.
The craft show, called the Coun
try Craft Market, is set to open
Saturday. Sept. 21, from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m., and then have hours from 9
a.m. to 8 p.m., Sept. 22-25. The
last day of the PAADS, the craft
show is to be open for business
from 9 a.m until 5 p.m.
Youth Events
On Monday, Sept 23, starting at
8 a.m„ the state’s youth 4-H
and FFA combined are to com
pete for their respective breed
championships in the Large Arena
of the Farm Show Complex.
Three different show rings are
customarily setup inside the Large
Arena to provide for the concur
rent breed shows.
According to show officials,
1,075 animals are entered for the
youth dairy shows, having first
qualified at district-level shows
across the state.
For youth exhibiting Jersey
cattle that day, a committee is to be
watching from ringside to select
animals to represent Pennsylvania
at the North American Internation
al Livestock Exhibition at Louis
ville, Kentucky, on Nov. 9.
The cost of the trip to the NAIL-
E event for youth whose cattle are
selected will be picked up largely
through donations from businesses
and individuals throughout the
state. Anyone wishing to make a
contribution should contact David
Norman, socrelary/treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Jersey Cattle Asso
ciation, RRI, Box 30, Liberty, PA
16930, (717) 324-5631.
The same time the youth dairy
shows are going on, youth from
across the nation are to be compet
ing in an Invitational Youth Dairy
Cattle Judging Contest. The annu
al contest, held in the Small Arena,
is open to 4-H, FFA and collegiate
judging teams.
According to show officials,
140 youth are entered in the judg
ing contest, representing 15 4-H
teams, nineFFA teams, and 12col
legiate teams.
(An awards banquet for the invi
tational judging contest is to be
held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Sher
aton Harrisburg East, a short drive
from the Farm Show Complex.)
Two other major youth events
are scheduled to be held Tuesday
Sept 24 the Junior Dairy Man
agement Contest and the Pennsyl
vania 4-H and FFA Dairy Judging
Forum.
The dairy management contest
tests a wide-range of dairy man
agement knowledge, from iden
tifying feeds and balancing
rations, to the latest techniques of
reproduction management, breed
ing programs, facilities, health
care, and much more.
Show officials said this week
that 80 youth are expected to com
pete. The top winner is to receive a
$5OO educational scholarship.
The judging forum helps youth
understand better how to look at
the animal, what to look for, how
to form decisions and justify them.
Youth Meetings
On Sunday, Sept. 22, prior to the
State Dairy Princess Rhonda Joy Kleklak presents the
1995 supreme champion award to Gary Culbertson who
holds the halter of C Taraley Astro Sherry, a 5-year-old Hols
tein owned by Herb and June Kerr of Pamtom Farm, in Hud
son Falls, N.Y.
shows. Brown Swiss, Jersy, and
Ayrshire youth organizations have
scheduled activities.
At 6:30 p.m.. Brown Swiss
youth are to hold a social event in
the Dairy Activities Center.
The Pennsylvania Jersey Junior
Association is to hold a meeting at
7 p.m. in Room C, located on the
second floor of the Farm Show
Lobby Building (along McClay
Street).
The Pennsylvania Ayrshire
youth have scheduled a meeting
and social at the same time in
Room E 3 (located in the same area
as the Jersey youth meeting).
Guernsey youth are set to meet
earlier, at 5 p.m., in Room D, also
in the same area.
For all youth, at 7 p.m. Sunday,
a careers and opportunities night is
scheduled to be held in the DAC,
followed at 8 p.m. by a social/fun
event the Junior Dairy Show
Olympics in the Small Arena.
Open Dairy Shows
The dairy cattle shows and
sales, however, are the meat of the
PAADS six national shows
and two national sales.
About 1,400 dairy animals are
to be at the Farm Show Complex
for the week, representing the
Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss,
Milking Shordiom, Ayrshire, and
Guernsey breeds.
There are three open dairy
shows on Tuesday, two on Wed
nesday and two on Thursday. All
the open dairy shows are held in
the Large Arena.
The Pennsylvania Fall Holstein
Championship is set to start 9 a.m.,
Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Large
Arena. It features and open divi
sion and a youth division.
The fall state championship is
the final major state Holstein
Association show, and can be
counted on to offer depth of quality
and seriousness of competition.
Along with selecting class win
ners for the show, officials are to
be announcing the 1996 All-
Pennsylvania winners, a competi
tion based on show placings com
piled from exhibiting at the spring
show, regional shows and the fall
show.
Results of the All-Pennsylvania
are published annually in October.
Dennis Patrick, of Woodbine,
Md.. is to judge the 16th annual
show.
In addition to the Fall Holstein
Championship, there will be the
selection of the 1996 Keystone
Futurity. There are 40 animals
eligible to compete for the more
than $9OO in prize money.
Another special award is made
during the championship show
the selection of the winner of the
George M. Knight Jr. Total Perfor
mance Award, a distinction that
combines show ring results along
with with actual dairy production.
Also starting at 9 a.m. on Tues
day, the Eastern National Ayrshire
Show is to take place in the Large
Arena with 147 animals entered.
The Eastern National Milking
Shorthorn Show follows the Hols
tein show and is scheduled to start
at 3 p.m. There are 149 animals
entered for that show.
On Wednesday, two national
shows start promptly at 9
a.m. the National Guernsey
Show with 214 entries, and the
Eastern National Brown Swiss
Show, with 227 animals entered.
Again, both offer depth and
quality.
Thursday morning at 8 a.m. are
the Eastern National Holstein
Show, with 426 cattle entered from
up and down the coast and inland,
and the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Jersey Show with 232 animals
entered.
The grand finale of the week
long dairy exposition is the selec
tion of the supreme champion of
all breeds, which is slated to start at
about 3 p.m., following the conclu
sion of the Holstein and Jersey
shows.
The state secretary of agricul
ture is usually on hand to present
the banner to the winner, selected
by several of the show judges.
Sponsors for the PAADS
include the Pa. Department of
Agriculture, the Pennsylvania
Farm Show Commission, and the
Pennsylvania Dairy and Allied
Industry Association.
Cattle Sales
Cattle sales are also a highlight
of the PA ADS and they are held in
the Small Arena at the complex.
Normally there is an Eastern
National Holstein Sale, but it was
cancelled this year. It is planned to
be held next year.
Of the two cattle sales set for
this year, the first of the week is the
Milking Shorthorn sale, scheduled
to be held 2 p.m., Monday. Sept
23.
At noon Wednesday the Top of
the Harvest Jersey Sale is sche
duled to start
Other Events
Other events during the week
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