Berks
BERKS COUNTY —This year
Berks County Holstein Club is
hosting an interesting and educa
tional tour to Bedford and Blair
counties featuring new facilities,
famous Holstein genetics, red and
polled Holsteins as well as niche
marketing. The trip is open to any
'person wishing to have an enjoy
able day with other Holstein en
thusiasts. Following is our itiner
ary;
Loren Woy & Family, Everett
Within the last month, the Woy
family has moved into a new
6-row free-stall bam with a state
of-the-art milking center. The
Center features an Universal
double-10 expandable to a
double-16 parlor. To maximize
milker comfort, the flow of the pit
is on hydraulic cylinders enabling
it to be raised or lowered. The
milkhouse (tank, controls and
wash systems) are all located in a
basement area beneath the parlor.
Employing a water reservoir sys
tem, the Woys pump water during
off hours into holding tanks to be
used throughout the day. Feed is
stored in bunker silos. The farm
ing operation consists <Jf 2SO cows
and 1,100 acres of crops and is
owned and operated by Loren and
his two sons, Brian and Barry.
There are two full-time employees
and some part-time help.
Singing Brook Farm, Imler
Singing Brook Farm is owned
and operated by Obie Snider and
his family. Obie has served as a
director of the National Holstein
Association, has been very active
in the PA Holstein Association,
and is currently on the Board of
Trustees for Penn State Univer
sity. The Singing Brook herd is
home to the “Mandy” family
which has produced Mascot, Mar
vel and numerous other bulls that
have entered A 1 service. Their
consignment topped the National
Holstein Convention Sale held in
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Pittsburgh in 1995. The herd con
sists of 180 cows housed in a
120-stall bam with the low cows
residing in a loafing bam. Cows
are milked in a carousel parlor. A
visit to the display room off the
farm office will pay tribute to the
many great cows bred and devel
oped at Singing Brook Farm. Obie
concentrates his efforts on record
keeping and the cropping pro
gram, while son Bruce and a
herdsman care for the cattle and
the flush program. The fanning
operation covers approximately
1,000 acres in a beautiful Bedford
County valley.-
Buricet Falls Farm,
New Freedom
This scenic dairy farm located
at the end of farm country in Blair
County is owned and operated by
David Burkct and his family. Mas
ters of niche marketing, the Bur
kets and their Polled (hornless)
cattle and red or red-factored Hol
steins are drawing interest from
around the world, especially Eur
ope. The 100-cow herd is housed
in a stall bam with heifers in either
counter-slope pens or freestalls.
Several of the bulls which the Bur
kets are currently marketing are
housed in the bull bam. This fami
ly operation consists of 450 acres,
probably 600 acres if it were all
laid flat! Be sure to look in the
farm office to see another crop
that grows and harvests great in
this area!
Carl Rowser Elk Farm
This exciting farm, where Carl
raises his elk, is located in the
Dutch Comer area of Bedford
County. His herd consists of 11
cows and yearlings and 5 bulls.
All of the animals are registered
by the North American Elk Breed
er’s Association. The elk are
raised primarily for their velvet
(immature antlers) which are used
in Asia for medicinal purposes.
Breeding stock sales and meat
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production also contribute to their
value. Mr. Rowscr’s elk are kept
in large pastures that serve as a na
tural environment to these giant
deer-like animals. We will also
see the work station where the elk
are treated and worked by the vet.
Carl will explain the breeding,
bloodlines and marketing of regis
tered elk; many aspects of which
are similar to breeding registered
Holsteins.
Travel Information
Perldomen Valley Bus Com
pany will be providing charter bus
service for the farm tour with the
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Are you wondering about
the “wonders” of the World Wide
Web? Confused about your course
on the information superhighway?
Intrigued about the mysteries of
the Internet? If you have a modem
on your computer and access to
the Internet, let the new Dairy-
MAP web site be your guide to
finding information.
The Dairy Management And
Profitability (Dairy-MAP) pro
gram has a new web page with not
just the dairy producer, but all of
agriculture in mind. Designed by
Rob Walker, the new web page
can assist individuals and busi
nesses in locating information in
agriculture from Dairy-L to
Graze-L, from Bees to Sheep,
from Cows to Beef; it is all on the
Dairy-MAP web pages and link
ing pages. Dairy-MAP used Clark
Consulting International, Inc. in
listing the most up to date mater
ials in agricultural data bases. This
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To Bedford And Blair Counties
Information Age
Comes To Dairy MAP
ROBERT TURNER
Eastern Regional
Coordinator, Dairy-MAP
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following pick-ups:
7:15 a.m. • Depart Fleetwood
Grange Hall (Park in the rear near
the buses.)
8 a.m. - Depart the Bethel Pub
lic Library; located at the Bethel
Exit of 178. (Park behind the Li
brary to allow patrons easy ac
cess.)
Please be prompt!
Bring a brown-bag lunch for
your noon meal, the Berks County
Holstein Club will supply a bever
age. A supper stop in Everett be
fore heading east will be spon
sored by Star Silo. We appreciate
their generous support of this
The
information is free to computer
users with a modem and Internet
access. Information about the
treatment of mastitis or animal
diseases, mechanical problems
with your tractor, tapping into the
National Dairy Database, and
much more is available through
the Dairy-MAP web page with
links on the Internet Superhigh
way of information.
The web page is designed not
only for managers but also for all
users interested in researching
dairy and agricultural information.
From the Dairy-MAP home page
you can link to agricultural publi
cations, dairy software, agricultur
al organizations, commercial
dairy sites, dairy publications,
dairy farmer home pages, fim cow
stuff, computer resources, Internet
resources, newspapers, search
engines, Intemet/web training,
weather sites, agricultural soft
ware companies, and other agri
cultural related links and much
more. Most important is the
Dairy-MAP workshop schedule
pages for each of the workshops
on their new
61 ’xl96’ 3 row free stall barn
Features:
Double 5’ Curtains on front &
back
Enclosed Feed Alley
Ritchie Water Master energy-free
Paul B. Zimmerman Wide Loop
Free stalls & Gates
Sand-Based Free Stall Beds
9:30 p.m. - Return to the Berks
County area.
Cost
Transportation costs will be $2B
per person. Make checks payable
to die “Berks County Holstein
Club.” Checks must be presented
upon boarding the bus.
Reservations
Please make reservations by
calling any of the following no lat
er than Match 10, 1997:
Dave Biller - 610-944-0541
Don Stoltzfus - 610-286-7378
Dennis Sattazahn - 610-589-2310
being held in Pennsylvania, from
Managing For Success, Financial
Management, Human Resource
Management, to the newest work
shops being scheduled on Focus
on the Future just released last
week by the Dairy-MAP team.
The Information Age and web
pages are very much in line with
the mission statement of Dairy-
MAP, which is: "To create oppor
tunities for people in the dairy
industry to learn new business
management skills.”
The new web pages by Dairy-
MAP do just that, they make
available new management tech
nology for the collection 6f data to
assist your daily business deci
sions to increase the opportunity
for profitability. Try the new
Dairy-MAP web pages at:
http://www-das.cas.psu.edu/users/
dairymap/
Leave your comments and
please check out the scheduled
Dairy-MAP workshops in your
area. The Information Age is
available through the Dairy-MAP
Home Page on the Internet Web.
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