A2B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 20, 1999
1999 Md. Holstein Association Convention
FULTON, Md. The Mary
land Holstein Association has
announced that its 1999 conven
tion has been scheduled for March
12 at the Turf Valley Resort and
Conference Center in Ellicott City.
The theme is, “All good things
must come to an end," reflecting
the coming end of the century.
A convention sale is scheduled
for March 13 at the Howard Coun
ty Fairgrounds in West Friendship.
Convention host is the Howard
County Holstein Breeders, and
according to a news release, com
mittee people have organized a full
agenda.
The deadline for ordering con
vention tickets is March 1 and pay
ment must accompany the order
forms. Checks should be made
payable to: Howard County Hols
tein Association.
Completed forms and payment
should be mailed to: 1999 MD
Holstein Convention, c/o Sharon
& Phil Jones, Bowling Green
Farm, 1465 Underwood Road,
MARYLAND STATE HOLSTEIN CONVENTION
• TURF VALLEY * ELLICOTT CITY, MD
MARCH 12.1999
Registration, visit booths k exhibits
9 00 a m
Annual business meeting, Breed Improvement awards, Progressive Breeder and
Genetics recognition
10 00 a m
12 30 pm
Seated luncheon
1 45 p m
Featured speaker - Dr Tom Bailey, Veterinary Reproduction Specialist with VA-MD
Regional College of Veterinary Medicine will talk about improving reproductive efficiency
in the dairy herd heifer development and what’s in the future in technology
Free time to visit booths and exhibits Short demonstration on the new ‘Windows’
version of DHI PLUS by Stephen Smith from DHI, Provo
Time to preview the convention sale consignments at the Howard Co fairgrounds
3*6 00 p m
Registration, visit booths k exhibits
9 00 a m
Tnple Treat Skin care products for the entire family, Create a great look with the right
scarf, and Cake decorating made easy
10 00 a m
Seated luncheon - Ellicott Room
12 30 p m
1 45 p m
Featured speaker • Dr Tom Bailey
Registration, visit booths and exhibits
9 00 a m
10 00 a m - Board Eyre’s charter bus for USDA, Bclisvillc Annual business meeting, lunch and
‘til 300 p m guided tours with an “environmental theme" including animal, manure, crop and soil
management Juniors will see the dairy herd (including putting hands in a cow’s rumen),
the manure digester and the new composting facility
6 00 p m Social hour with cash bar
7 00 p m Seated dinner
8 00 p m Junior award* scholarships, and introduction of judging and dairy bowl teams
8 45 p m Entertainment • Greg Claasscn ventriloquist from Kansas
945 pm Dancing Disc Jockev
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CONVENTION TICKET ORDER FORM
Seated Business Lunch - Chicken Cordon Bleu
Non-Meat Lenten Option
Seated Ladies Lunch - Chicken Cordon Bleu
Non-Meat Lenten Option
Junior Program - Meat Lunch
Non-Meat Lenten Option
Seated Banquet - Filet Mignon & Chicken
Non-Meat Lenten Option
Age 12 & Under - Meat
Age 12 & Under - Non-Meat
List names of those attending
Business Meetu
Ladies Program.
Youth Progn
Banquet.
Mail orders to. 1999 MD Holstein Convention
C/O Sharon & Phil Jones
Bowling Green Farm
1465 Underwood Rd
Sykesville, MD 21784
Phone 410-442-2679
Sykesville, MD 21784.
There are four meal catagories
for which tickets need to prepur
chased: a seated business lunch; a
seated ladies program lunch; a
junior program lunch; and the
evening seated banquet meal.
The ticket order form includes
meal options and prices.
Convention registration begins
at 9 a.m., March 12, and is fol
lowed at 10 a.m. with the choice of
attending the annual bsuiness
meeting, a ladies program, or a
youth program.
Prior to 10 a.m., attendees can
visit with commercial exhibitors.
The Maryland State Holstein
Association annual business meet
ing is to include business reports,
an election of officers, and the pre
sentation of breed improvement
awards, progressive breeder
awards, and genetic improvement
awards.
The ladies program is to include
a presentation on skin care pro
ducts for the family, accessorizing
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,«dies Program
fumor Program
Banquet
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Headline is March 1,1999
Money must accompany order
Make check out to:
Howard Co. Holstein Assoc.
Greg Claassen
Ventriloquist
with scarves, and easy cake decor
ating ideas.
The Maryland Junior Holstein
Association members’ program
runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and
includes the junior annual business
meeting, lunch and guided tours
that have an environmental theme.
The juniors are to board a char
ter bus for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Beltsville Research
Station where they are to see the
research dairy herd (including a
voluntary hands-in-rumen experi
ence); go on tours highlighting the
management of animals, manure,
crops and soils; visit a manure
digester, and see the station's new
composting facility.
For those attending the seated
luncheon at 12:30 pjn., the fea
tured speaker, at 1:45 p,m., is to be
Dr. Tom Bailey, a veterinary
reproduction specialist with the
Virginia-Maryland Regional Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Bailey is to discuss impro
ving reproductive efficiency in the
dairy herd, heifer development,
and what appears to be the likely
future of applied technology.
According to a news release. Dr.
Bailey is a veterinary consultant
for Holstein Association USA, is
president of the Society for Ihcr
iogenology, and is actively
involved with research on a com
puterized heat detection system, as
well as research on transvaginal
follicular aspiration.
From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., there is to
be free time for visiting booths and
exhibits, previewing the sale con
signments, qr attending a demon
stration of a new Windows version
of DHI PLUS available through
DHI, Provo, Utah.
A social hour is scheduled to
start at 6 p.m. followed by the ban
quet at 7 p.m.
The presentation of junior mem
ber awards and scholarships, and
an introduction of the organiza
tion’s judging and dairy bowl
teams, are to be made at 8 p.m.
At 8:45 p.m., entertainment is to
be provided by Greg Claassen, of
Whitewater, Kansas. Claassen is a
ventriloquist who performs about
120 times per year at theme parks
and dinners, and who is involved
with his father and two brothers in
growing 2,500 acres of grain
crops, running a farrow-to-finish
hog operation, and raising feeder
calves.
A dance with music provided by
a disc jockey is set to start at 9:45
p.m.
January FO . 4 Weighted
Average $17.23
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Feb.
Middle Atlantic Order Acting
Market Administrator David Z.
Walker announced a January
1999 weighted average milk
price of $17.23 per hundred
weight.
The weighted average differ
ential price was 91 cents per
hundredweight and producer
nonfat milk solids (NFMS) price
was $1.26 per pound.
The weighted average price
was down 12 cents from
December but was $2.96 higher
than a year earlier. The produc
er NFMS price was up 24 cents
from Ist January.
The nonfat milk solids price,
applicable to handler payments,
was $1.2680 per pound for the
month, up 23.97 cents from last
year. The gross value of January
producer milk, adjusted to 3.5
percent butterfat ws $94.3 mil
lion, compared to $75.5 million a
year ago.
Mr. Walker said that produc
er receipts totaled 551 million
pounds during January, an
increase of 19.4 million pounds
from last January and the aver-
Berks Holstein Club
Offers Production Tour
FLEETWOOD (Berks Co.)
On Saturday, Match 6, the Berks
County Holstein Club has sched
uled a bus tour that is to visit some
of the top production herds in the
state along with the dairy research
facilities at Penn State University.
Thp trip will begin with a morn
ing' stop at Scott and Karen Nolt’s
“Country Path Holstcins.” This
young Lebanon County couple
milks 100 cows three times a day,
and average 106 pounds/cow/day.
The current herd average is
32.918 M 1047 F 1023 P.
Recently featured in the Hol
stein World, the Notts are working
in a new tie bam complete with
gravity flow gutters, funnel venti
lation, mattresses and a milking
system equipped with automatic
takeoffs.
Their classification BAA is
108.4, and they are currently
flushing a high index Luke daugh
ter.
Our next stop will be the Jay
Houser Family farm in Centre
County. Jay is the immediate past
president of the Pa. Holstein Asso
ciation. His “Penn Dell” herd has
long been known for its high pro
duction, deep cow families and
outstanding type. Jay’s son, Jim, is
the key member of the family
working with the herd.
The cattle are housed in a stall
bam and fed a TMR. Recently, the
herd was averaging over 88
pounds of milk per cow with many
nice heifers in the bam helping to
yield a herd average of 27,502 M
1059 F 864 P. Current BAA is
107.9.
Also in Centre County, the next
stop is to be at “Ideals Holsteins”
operated by Jake and Sally Tanis
and family. Jake’s philosophy is to
breed for type and feed for pro
duction; he has achieved both. His
herd average is currently 30,908 M
1188 F 973 P, and the herd has top
ped the PA DHIA for milk in re
cent years.
age daily delivery of 3,572
pounds per producer decreased
221 pounds or 5.8 percent from a
year earlier.
A total of 4,976 producers
supplied Order 4 handlers dur
ing the month, an increase of
455 form a year ago.
Class I producer milk totaled
219 million pounds and was
down 12.1 million pounds,or 5.2
percent from last January. Class
I milk accounted for 39.75 per
cent of total producer milk
receipts during the month, com
pared with 43.47 percent in
January 1998.
The average NFMS test of
producer milk was 8.77 percent,
up from 8.74 percent the previ
ous year. The average butterfat
test of producer milk was 3.84
percent, up from 3.77 percent in
January 1998.
Middle Atlantic Order pool
handlers reported Class I in
area milk sales of 191.6 million
pounds during January, an
increase of 1.2 percent from a
year earlier, after adjustment to
eliminate variation due to calen
dar composition.
With numerous Canadian sites
represented in (he herd, the BAA
is 109.5. Jake uses FuUTimc.For
age com silage, probiotics and
tender loving cate to achieve his
goals.
The tour is to also visit the Penn
State Daily Research facility, that
has been instrumental id keeping
Penn State at the forefront of new
developments m the dairy indus
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Cattle are housed in frees tails
and tie-stalls and milked in a dou
ble-10 herringbone parlor. A new
state-of-the-art feed mill prepares
feed for the 180+ cows in the
milking herd.
Currently, several research tri
als are taking place. In spite of the
on-going research and control
groups of cattle, the herd is obtain
ing 88 pounds of milk/cowday on
average. Manure is all handled on
a stack-pad. Heifers are raised pri
marily in frees tails.
From Petrn State, on the trip
home, a stop is scheduled at the
Family House Restaurant to enjoy
their “all-you-can-eat buffet” for
the evening meal, sponsored by
Star Silo Equipment and Service
along with Mark Wicks, a repre
sentative for Semex. Bus trans
portation is being subsidized by
Cargill Hybrid Seeds, John Gulya,
district sales manager.
The bus is to depart the Fleet
wood Grange Hall at 7 ami. on
March 6 and will stop for another
pick-up at the Bethel Library Oust
north of 1-78 at the Bethel Exit) at
7:45 a.m. Return time will be ap
proximately 8:30 pjn. at Fleet
wood.
For reservations, call Dennis
Sattazahn at 610-589-2310 or Da
vid Bitler at 610-944-0541 before
February 28. Bring your own
lunch, drinks will be provided by
the chib. Cost of the trip is $25.
Make checks payable to; “Berks
County Holstein Club” on tour
day.