A42-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5, 1998 MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin Co.) Dennis Snyder, a veal producer from Westfield, Pennsylvania, was elected chair man of the Pennsylvania Beef Council at their annual reorga nization meeting. Snyder is the first veal producer to serve as chairman of the 21-member board of directors which over sees the beef checkoff program in Pennsylvania The Potter County producer had previously served as vice chairman of the board. Snyder, and his wife Sharon, operate a 200 stall inde pendent veal farm in Northern Pennsylvania In addition to serving on the Beef Council “Beef 2000” Scheduled MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin Co.) Cattlemen from all seg ments of the beef industry will have the opportunity to partici pate in a three-day course January 18 - 20, 1999 at Penn State University. BEEF 2000 is coordinated by the Pennsylvania Beef Council in cooperation with Penn State Department of Animal Science and PA Cattlemen’s Association The program will provide producers with an opportunity to follow several head of finished beef cattle from the point of departure from the farm to the packing plant and finally to the consumer. Cattlemen will evalu ate these cattle live, including ultrasound work and then observe the slaughter process in the packer’s shoes, as well as grade and inspect the carcasses with a USDA inspec tor and grader. Producers will then fabricate the carcasses into wholesale and retail cuts, assessing a value to the product through each step This hands-on “ranch-to-rail” pro gram is an outstand ing opportunity to help cattlemen become more efficient m their business prac tices, while mingling with other cattlemen The registration cost is $4O per person for Pennsylvania produc ers and $lOO for out of-state producers and agri-business persons, plus overnight accom modations The Beef Council has tried dili gently to keep the costs of this program down with the help of PA Cattlemen’s Association and sever al animal health com panies Applications are available by con tacting Tammy Weaver, Director of Industry Relations at thr PA Beef Council, (717) $39-7000 Space is limited to the first 36 participants, which wilj hi,determined on a', firat-come, .finU served basis. Deadline for reservations is Board, Snyder also serves as treasurer of the American Veal Association. Randall Meabon, a dairy farmer from Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, was elected as vice chairman. Meabon farms with his family in Erie County. Meabon had previously served as the Beef Council Treasurer, and also serves as a Dairy Farmer’s of America Cooperative (DFA) director. Jerome Carl, a beef producer from Dysert, Cambria County, was elected treasurer of the board while Alan Waybright, a Gettysburg, Adams County, dairy producer was elected sec retary. The Board also re-elected Dennis Snyder, veal representa tive; Norman Kolb, auction mar ket representative; Randy Meabon, Western regional dairy producer; John Hess, Eastern regional beef producer; and Ray Grimes, Lowell Wilson and Paul Slayton, Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Association repre sentatives, to the board. Newly elected directors to the board are Duane Hertzler, a dairy produc er from Perry County; Bob Livingston, a beef producer from York County; Steve Bryce, a rep resentative of Moyer Packing; and Kathy Allen, a beef produc er from Butler County. Bill McCoy, past Beef Council chair man was elected as a director to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Checkoff Board. mM FARM EQUIPMENT Snyder Elected Beef Council Chairman In addition to electing new directors and officers, the board approved a $1.3 million budget to be invested on programs focusing around food safety and health, satisfying consumer expectations, ensuring producer profitability, adding value to the Ultrasound Making Waves in Pork Production COLUMBUS, Ohio Ultrasound machines could ben efit pork producers and packers by predicting fat-free lean pork content in live pigs and carcass es, said Ohio State University Extension swine genetics spe cialist Steve Moeller. “Lean content in hogs is how the producer is paid today,” Moeller said. “The amount of fat-free lean pork in a pig deter mines the price a producer receives at the market.” Using ultrasound to accu rately measure fat-free lean con tent in live pigs would help pro ducers decide what pigs to keep as breeding animals. Previously, fat-free lean content could only be determined by measuring the pig’s carcass after it had been killed. Packers could use ultrasound lean predictions to help deter mine the value of carcasses, so producers would be paid based on the weight and value of their product. Moeller and researchers from Purdue University studied two types of ultrasound machines, A mode and real-time, to see which one gave the most accu rate predictions of fat-free lean content on live pigs and carcass es. Results of their work were presented by Ohio State Public Auction Register Closing Date Monday 5:00 P.M. of each week's publication Internet Sale Register will be updated every Sat. at 2:23 P.M. 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Some specific programs include a school food safety campaign, a minor league baseball promotion, a beef qual- ity assurance initiative, and new University graduate student Rebecca Emnett, July 28 at the American Society of Animal Science and American Dairy Science Association annual meeting in Denver, Colo. “We found the real-time machine is a better predictor of lean content than the A-mode because it predicted more accu rately and with less variation between the live pig and the car cass,” Moeller said. “And, both machines were better at predict ing fat-free lean on a lie animal than on a carcass, which is good information for the industry to know.” While carcass measurement was shown to still give the best results, the real-time machine gave a good estimate, he said. Standard carcass testing mea sured fat-free lean content in pigs with 87 percent to 91 per cent accuracy, while real-time was 86 percent accurate on live pigs and 85 percent accurate on carcasses. 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The Pennsylvania Beef Council is a producer-controlled and funded organization, which administers the $1 per head beef checkoff program in Pennsylvania. good when used on live pigs,” Moeller said. “This could allow producers to enhance the effi ciency of lean production through ultrasonic evaluation in a selection program.” While less accurate, the bene fits of an A-mode ultrasound are that it is more portable and much less expensive $2,000 versus $12,000 than a real time machine. “A large investment in advanced technology has been proven more accurate, but pro ducers have to make a decision of what type of data they want and at what cost,” he said. “And until recently, real-time machines were large and diffi cult to maneuver in swine facili ties, but units now can be worn similar to a backpack and are easier to move.” For producers who think both machines are too expensive to buy, there are 25 certified ultra sound technicians in the United States who travel the country and can provide an ultrasound service at a relatively low cost of $3 to $5 per pig, Moeller said. “The cost of the service is often based on the number of pigs measured - Food Catered by Bat’s Deli - 10% Buvei \ Premium 717.944-6537-h 2 rsEs=
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