Pa. Farm Bureau Salutes State’s
Number One Ag Industry
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) June is dairy month and
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau wants
to know, what better way to salute
Pennsylvania’s dairy producers
than to pass the Northeast Inter
state Dairy Compact in the House
of Representatives?
We are really hoping to get the
compact passed in the House be
fore the legislators break for the
summer,” said Guy Donaldson,
president of Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau.
“We feel it is crucial to Penn
sylvania’s dairy industry that the
compact is passed. Hus proposed
legislation will provide a safety
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Farm Bureau has remained
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sylvania into the compact
“We know that a thriving dairy
industry is vital to the future of
Pennsylvania agriculture,” said
Donaldson.
“In addition to the compact we
are working to not only improve
profits, but to control costs
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potentially costly environmental
and food safety regulations. These
efforts will benefit all of agricul
ture. including Pennsylvania’s
dairymen, and the consumer.”
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A Century of Service,
Dairy is the largest segment of
Pennsylvania’s agricultural indus
try. It generates mote than $1.5
billion for the state’s economy.
According to the National Agri
culture Statistics Service, Penn
sylvania’s 10,2000 dairy farm
families with their 639,000 cows
produce 10.7 billion pounds of
milk and rank fourth in the nation
in milk production.
Since it was designated in 1992,
milk has been Pennsylvania’s offi
cial beverage.
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is a
voluntary, statewide farm or
ganization which represents
27,000 farm and rural families in
S 4 county farm bureaus.
;aster County locations
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Understand The
Records Rating System
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.
DHIA no longer designates test
plans as “official” or “unofficial,”
thus providing dairy producers the
ability to choose the amount of
testing that they need.
As a result, not all production
records are calculated with an
equal amount of information and
supervision.
Therefore, it is up to a buyer of
cattle to decide if the record pro
vided has been produced under
sufficient testing procedures.
Holstein Association USA has
developed a means of better un
derstanding how a record was pro-
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duced. The Association’s TriStar
production records system involv
es showing stars and Data Collec
tion Ratings (DCRs) to indicate
how much testing and monitoring
went into a record.
Records shown on Official Hol
stein Pedigrees”* are designated
this way and the Association is en
couraging the use of this effective
system in advertisements, sale
catalogs and other promotion ef
forts.
The stars show which TriStar
service option an animal was en
rolled in while the record was be
ing produced.
Three stars (★★★) are used for
Premier records which require the
highest level of testing and moni
toring, two stars (★★) for Deluxe
records and one star (★) for Cus
tom records.
The stars are similar to the
three-letter symbols that once
were used, such as DHR for DHIR
records.
DCRs are new values that indi
cate the amount of information
collected through the DHIA sys
tem.
Higher DCRs mean that more
supervision, milk weights, and
component samples were involv
ed in the calculation of the lacta
tion total.
A dairy cattle buyer has every
right to make decisions based on
all of the information that can be
made available.
If stars aandDCßs are not
shown in an advertisement, the re
cord shown may have been made
with a traditional test plan with
two milkings weighed each month
or with a quarterly AM/PM test
plan with only three milkings
weighed during the entire 30S-day
lactation. Buyers won’t know un
less the records are labelled.
For more information about the
Holstein Association’s TriStar
program call 800-952-5200 and
speak with a customer service rep
resentative.
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