A 24 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 31, 1998
Marking the first shipment of Pennsylvania Simmental beef cattle embryos to
Poland, these officials and farmers gathered to mark this special state agriculture
exporting event. Bill and Karen Flagg of Warren Point Simmental Cattle, Elverson,
were contacted by a large Polish farm with the desire to import U.S Simmental gene
tics because the beef cattle in Poland do not have pure bloodlines. Actually, the dam
of most of the embryos is a 19 year-old daughter of a foundation cow that was
imported to the U.S. from Germany in the 1970’5. The exported embryos, which have
already arrived at their destination, will become the foundation herd for the Ostas
zewski family in Poland.
The Em-Tran facility at Elizabethtown provided the reproductive technology and
found veterinarians in Poland who could do the recipient implanting. The Pennsylva
nia Department of Agriculture, under the direction of Samuel Hayes, Jr., secretary,
helped with the contact and visited the actual farm on a Pennsylvania trade mission to
Poland at the time these embryos reached their destination.
In the photo, from left, Noah Wenger, state senator; Hayes; Boyd Henderson, Em-
Tran veterinarian; Steve Mower, Em-Tran dir. of export promotions; John Hasler, Em-
Tran technical director; Karen and Bill Flagg, Simmental cattle breeders, and Emily
Cardey, embryologist.
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State Ayrshire Sale
BELLEVILLE (Mifflin Co.)
John Reed Rodgers of Plum Bot
tom Dairy Farm, Belleville,
hosted the Pennsylvania Ayrshire
Association’s Consignment Sale
the middle of September. The
“Raised to Graze” sale drew buy
ers from Pennsylvania, New York,
and Maryland. Most of the ani
mals sold were originally pur
chased by Rodgers privately or at
consignment or dispersal sales,
then raised through intensive rota
tional grazing. Thirteen others
consigned animals.
Alvin String ID, of Harrison
ville, NJ., paid $2,000 for the
highest selling animal, Toll-Gate-
Ayr BBK Beth, who was Grand
Champion at the Eastern National
Junior Show in 1993. This animal
was owned by Rodgers. The sec
ond highest selling animal was
owned and bred by Carolyn
Loucks of Rcedsville. Round
about-Fru-T Pebbles was pur
chased by Earl Van Tassel from
Mifflin Conducts Holstein Sale
REEDSVILLE (Mifflin Co.) cow was Byler-Crest Mathie
The Mifflin County Holstein Ballet, owned by Sam R. Byler,
Club held its Fall Classic Sale in Jr., Milroy.
September at the Mifflin County Overall, 71 lots sold for an
Youth Park in Reedsville. average of $1,600. The sale staff
Tim Peachey of Petersburg included auctioneer Art Kling,
consigned the high cow. Peachey John Burket (pedigrees),
Luke Nina sold for $2,900, just Gordon Wood, and John Rheam.
$5O over the second highest sell- Sale chairmen were Paul Neer
ing Holstein. and Dave Spicher.
The second highest selling
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Of the 64 lots sold, the averages
were as follows: three milking
cows averaged $1,183; five diy
cows averaged $1,035; 25 fresh
first-calf heifers averaged $984;
18 bred heifers averaged $708;
five grade bred heifers averaged
$517; seven open heifers averaged
$407; five September (’9B) calves
averages $256.
Rodgers said that many of the
animals went to herds of other col
or breeds. U.S. Ayrshire Forum
President David Patrick spoke be
fore the free Ayrshire grass-fed
beef luncheon. The Zembo High
landers, a bagpipe group from
Harrisburg, entertained.
This was the highest selling ani
mal at the Pennsylvania Ayrshire
Sale, held recently near Belleville.
Owned fay John Reed Rodgers,
this animal was purchased by Al
vin Sting m, of Harrisonville, NJ.
for $2,000.
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