A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Auguat 2, 1997
BELOIT, Wis. The Brown
Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Associa
tion recently honored some of its
junior members during its annual
convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Two years ago, the BSCBA
created an annual contest to select
$11,300 Tops
National Brown
Swiss Sale
BELOIT, Wis. As Brown
Swiss breeders and enthusiasts
gathered in Cleveland for the Ohio
National Convention Sale on July
12, breeders took the theme of the
convention seriously.
Numerous Brown Swiss breed
ers and dairymen “took a Swiss
break by the lake” in order to
purchase some of the high-quality
Swiss cattle that were being
offered. Averaging $3,366 on 61
lots, the sale proved to be a suc
cess for American and foreign
participants.
Topping the sale at $11,300 was
Blessing PR Shirlan purchased by
Kenny Joe Manion of Scottsville,
Kentucky.
“Shirlan” was the 19% honor
able mention All-American junior
3-year-old and received an All-
American nomination as a junior
2-year-old. Her dam. Blessing
Kohl Shirley scored “3E,” has
records to 26.330 M 4.4% 1.148 F
3.8% 1.002 P at 6-07 in 365 days.
The “2E” gran dam has numerous
records over 20,000 M. “Shirlan”
was consigned by Dean Engleman
of Jansen, Nebraska.
Hill-N-Dale Ensign Sue ET,
consigned by James Cunningham
and Family of Warsaw, Ohio, sold
for $10,400 to Kenny Joe Mainon
of Scottsville, Kentucky.
“Sue” is sired by R
Hart Simon Ensign ET.
Her “2E92” dam. Hill-
N-Dale Jade Sarah, has
records to 18.940 M
3.9% 724 F 3.7% 704 P
at 5-09 in 365 days.
“Sarah” was the first
place 3-year-old and the
reserve grand champion
Brown Swiss at the
Ohio State Fair in 1993.
“Sue’s” third dam is
classified
“VB6-Certified” with
records to 24,810 M
4.4% 1.085F3.9% 963 P
at 7-08 in 365 days.
The high-selling heif
er of the sale was Bless
ing Peer Belinda ET, a
Top Acres Peerless ET
daughter with a PA of
+1.369M +S4F +46P
+I7BSMFP.
“Belinda” sold for
$9,800 to Ron and
Renee Michalovich of
Lakeville, Ohio, and
Phil Yetter of Newton,
New Jersey. She carries
a conditional A.I. con
tract for a male calf with
ABS. Her "2E92” dam.
Blessing Sensation
Bria, was the 1996
reserve All-American
aged cow. “Bria” has
records to 37,314 M
3.7% 1.394 F 3.7%
1.375 P at 6-06 in 365
days. “Belinda” was
consigned by Blessing
Farms of Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
National Brown Swiss Convention
BSCBA Honors
a youth to serve as a role model for
other youth involved with Brown
Swiss cattle and as a spokeperson
for the association and the dairy
industry.
The position is called the
National Brown Swiss ambassa
dor. This years, the recipient of the
honor is Jonathan Ronald Fisher,
son of Bryant and Marilee Fisher
of Yantis, Texas.
There were two runnersup
Larissa Mellot, of St. Thomas,
Pennsylvania, daughter of Gre
gory and Rhonda Mellott; and
Venessa Johnson, of Oak Grove,
Arkansas, daughter of Joe and Vic
kie Johnson.
Fisher, who prefers to be called,
“J.R.,” has been a junior member
of the Brown Swiss Association
for IS years, holding the offices of
president and secretary of the
national Junior Association.
He was the 1995 District VHI
youth achievement winner, and he
had a 1994 Junior Bell Ringer, and
several cheese yield and produc
tion award winners.
A high school senior, his plans
include pursuing a college degree
in dairy science.
Runnerup Mellott has been a
junior member for nine years, and
was the 1993 District II youth
achievement winner. She is a dairy
science student at Delaware Valley
College, and continues to work on
her family’s La-Mel-Lo Farm. She
plans to pursue a career in agricul
tural communications.
Runnerup Johnson has been a
junior member for eight years. She
is the farm manager of her family’s
Triple J dairy farm where she over
sees the care of 60 head of cattle. A
high school student, her plans are
to pursue a career in veterinary
medicine.
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Junior Members
National Achievement
Also recongized during the con
vention were the 1996 district and
national youth achievement
winners.
Jeremy Daubert, 18, of McEl
hattan, Pennsylvania, was honored
as the 1996 national youth
achievement winner. Daubert, son
of Dean and Brenda Daubert, cur
rently owns 16 registered Brown
Swiss. His cattle earned him three
Pennsylvania State Bell Ringer
awards and two reserve honors, as
well as the 1996 Pennsylvania
Brown Swiss Futurity.
A 4-Her for 11 years, Daubert
served as the 1995 state 4-H
ambassador, and was a member of
the planning committee for the
first annual Pennsylvania Junior
All-Breeds Convention, held in
1996. He is currently pursuing a
dairy science degree at Virginia
Tech.
Cheese Yield
In a repeat performance, Nier
mans Jinx Pammi, owned by Shan
na Lea Smith, of Woodsboro, Md.,
was the winner of the annual
cheese yield award and youth pro
duction awards.
Pammi produced a new cheese
yield record of 418.85 pounds of
Cheddar, breaking her national
1995 record by more than 18
pounds.
The production award is calcu
lated based on the deviation of an
animal’s record compared to the
rolling herd average, with the own
er of the cow with the highest
deviation receiving the award.
The cheese yield contest is base
d on the highest production during
a 30-day period.
Quiz Bowl
The top 1997 national Brown
ir Door!!
it To Yoi
Swiss quiz bowl team was com
prised of four youth from different
states.
Out of the 11 teams competing,
the winning team consisted of
members Robert Sigler, Middle
town, Maryland; Kevin Michalo
vich, Lakeville, Ohio; Abby Rine
hart, Wapakoneta, Ohio; and Katie
Voelker, Perryville, Missouri.
Scholarship Winners
Two youth were selected as
recipients of this year’s national
Brown Swiss scholarships.
Nick Uglow, of Watertown,
Wisconsin, a dairy science student
at University of Wisconsin at
Madison, and Kathi Jo Brown,
Monroe, Wisconsin, a freshman at
Blackhawk Technical College,
Janesville, Wisconsin, both
received $l,OOO scholarships tow
ard their educational goals.
Uglow currently owns 13 regis
tered Brown Swiss and has partici
pated in youth cheese yield and
production contests, as well as Bell
Ringer and achievement contests.
He is a member of the college foot
ball team and the Badger Dairy
Club.
Brown is pursuing a degree in
marketing and advertising and said
she intends to use her education to
promote the Brown Swiss breed.
She has been involved in the
national association and her state
association, in cheese yield and
production contests, and has
served as vice president of the
Junior Brown Swiss Association.
Scholarship eligibility includes
having been a member of the
national junior association for at
least three years, and be pursuing
higher education in an agricultural
or dairy related field.
Other Activities
The theme for the 16th annual
fun auction was, “Rock ’n Rolling
with the Big Brown Cow,” and
attendees dressed in the styles of
the 19S0s and ‘6os.
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The top selling item among all
those donated for the fun acution
was a painting of “Terri,” the
Brown Swiss cow, by Jeanne Tru
man, of Hutchinson, Minnesota.
It was purchased for $1,050 by
Oak Spring Dairy of Upperville,
Virginia.
The second highest selling item
was a wooden trunk decorated
with a painting of Brown Swiss
cows on pasture, donated by the
Ohio Brown Swiss Association.
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The sale and donations totalled
$9,575 with proceeds going to the
national youth fund, to support
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BELOIT, Wis. Recognizing
the need for new sources of
revenue for the Brown Swiss
Cattle Breeders’ Association and
the need to create a demand for
Brown Swiss milk to help make
Brown Swiss producers more
money, the BSCBA has deve
loped its own branded line of
Baby Swiss Cheese.
“Exclusively Swiss” cheese is
made from the milk of Brown
Swiss cows.
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dwindle nationwide, the BSCBA
has become involved in an area of
the industry that is expanding,
thus coming up with its “Exclu
sively Swiss” cheese. Because
cheese consumption is expected to
continue to rise and is rapidly
closing the gap with fluid milk,
and per capita consumption of
cheese is up 2S percent in the last
decade, now is the time to act,
according to Brown Swiss Associ
ation leaders.
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and other manufactured dairy pro
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