West Central
Selects Winners
CENTRE HALL (Centre Co.)
The West Central District 4-
H and FFA Dairy Show was
conducted Saturday, July 29,
here at the Centre Grange Fair
grounds.
Creedin Cornman, Carlisle,
was the type judge and Vicki
Ansell, Scottsdale, was the
showmanship judge.
One-hundred-twenty-two ani
mals were shown in five breeds.
Grand and junior champion
Milking Shorthorn honors went
to Melissa M. Wolfe,
Northumberland, with her fall
calf. Reserve grand and reserve
junior champion honors also
went to Melissa M. Wolfe, with
her winter yearling.
Junior champion Brown
Swiss honors went to Elizabeth
Cloninger, Centre Hall, with her
spring yearling. Reserve junior
champion honors went to Ben
Manheim Dairy
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Best Three Females
Ayrshire: 1. James Findley 2. Zinn Family
3. Ken Findley.
Milking Shorthorn: 1. James Findley.
Jersey: 1. Dice Family.
Holstein: 1. Lowell Brubaker 2. Joe
Wivell 3. Homing Family.
Best Udder
Ayrshire: 1. James Findley 2. Ken Find
ley.
Jersey: 1. Andrew Dice 2. Harold Dice.
Holstein: 1. Lowell Brubaker 2. Dustin
Homing 3. Joe Wivell.
Dairy Hard
Ayrshire: 1. Findley Family.
Jersey; 1. Dice Family.
Holstein: 1. Brubaker.
Senior Showmanship (14 Yrs. & Older): 1.
Dustin Homing 2. D. Oberholtzer 3. D.
Ebeiiy.
Senior Fitting (14 Yrs. & Older); 1. J.
Zimmerman 2.0. Eberly 3.0. Homing.
Junior Showmanship: 1. L. Homing 2. J.
Zimmerman 3. K. Wenger.
Junior Fitting: 1. B. Brubaker 2. C. Bru
baker 3. Jason Zimmerman.
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Cloninger, Centre Hall, with his
winter yearling.
Grand and senior champion
Brown Swiss honors went to
Lauren D. Daubert, McElhat
tan, with her aged cow. Reserve
grand and reserve senior cham
pion honors also went to Lauren
Daubert, with her senior 2-year
old.
Junior champion Jersey
honors went to Alanna Judy,
Spring Mills, with her summer
yearling. Reserve champion
honors went to Mary E. Martz,
Spring Mills, with her winter
calf.
Grand and senior champion
Jersey honors went to Jennifer
Kellerman, Centre Hall, with
her senior 2-year-old. Reserve
grand and reserve senior cham
pion honors also went to Jen
nifer Kellerman, with her junior
2-year-old.
Grand and senior champion
Red and White honors went to
Amanda Gates, Warriors Mark,
with her junior 2-year-old. Re
serve grand champion and
junior champion honors also
went to Amanda Gates, with her
spring calf, and reserve junior
champion honors went to Anna
Marie Spangler, New Berlin,
with her winter calf.
Grand and senior champion
Holstein honors went to Emily
K. Cloninger, Centre Hall, with
her senior 2-year-old. Reserve
grand and reserve senior cham
pion honors went to Ben Clon
inger, Centre Hall, with his
junior 2-year-old.
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payability, juiciness, and
flavor.
“I looked at Certified Here
ford Beef for the new century
and the improvements that
could be made with CHB,” said
Vogel. Vogel “went out on a
limb” with his new marketing
ideas. He contacted both Certi
fied Angus Beef and the Red
Oak Farms feedlot, an operation
with their own branded beef
program named Premium Here
ford Beef. From these sources
Vogel gathered information
about their product and market
ing ideas already in place.
“1 sat down and went through
the information and looked at
where the Certified Hereford
Beef program is now, and
thought about what Certified
Hereford Beef needed to do to
catch up with the competition,”
said Vogel, who then related
these thoughts and concerns in
his speech.
Key points included a plan to
catch up with Certified Angus
Beef.
“Certified Angus Beef is ev
erywhere and has been around,
but Certified Hereford Beef is
hard to get,” said Vogel. Ac
cording to Vogel, more pounds
of CHB need to be produced to
increase availability. He also
highlighted the advantages of
moving the product to the East
Coast markets.
Selling Itself
“The product should be able
to sell itself,” said Vogel. He
pointed out that for the past two
years, according to the Ameri
can Tasting Institute, Hereford
beef has been named the best-
Heard About CHB?
tasting supermarket beef and
the best-tasting restaurant beef
the past three years.
Vogel also used graphs to il
lustrate Colorado State Univer
sity’s comparison of Choice,
CAB, and CHB. “Certified
Hereford Beef excelled in juici
ness, payability, flavor, and
tenderness,” said Vogel.
During his speech Vogel in
cluded his ideas “for whatever
we (Hereford breeders) need to
do to get commercial cattle
buyers to get involved in CHB,”
said Vogel. “Ear tags or brands
symbolizing Certified Hereford
Beef would track calves for the
CHB program from the day they
are born until they reach the
Dairy Expo Names
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was the overall winner ot the
2000 National Dairy Quality
Awards (NDQA) program.
Brabant Farms is owned and
operated by Joe, Paul, Steve,
Phil, and Pat Van Lieshout,
along with their father, Henry.
“We believe we have an obli
gation to provide clean and
healthy milk for consumers.
That’s what they’re paying us to
do,” said family spokesperson
Joe Van Lieshout.
The Van Lieshouts milk 500
cows with a rolling herd average
of 26,050 pounds of milk on
three-time-a-day milking. Their
herd’s somatic cell count aver
age, an estimate of mastitis level
in the herd, averaged just 83,000
cells/ml. The herd averages just
two cases of mastitis per month,
outstanding in a herd of 500
cows.
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slaughterhouse, where they are
given a premium,” said Vogel.
He believes this tagging and
tracking would lead to increased
numbers of Hereford beef par
ticipation, besides increased
consumer appeal.
Vogel hopes to improve the
market conditions in the sale
ring for Hereford cattle.
“Today Hereford calves are
not given the extra nickel be
cause of the belief that Here
fords don’t marble,” said Vogel.
Taste tests, however, prove the
opposite is true. Vogel hopes
that his strategies will, however,
work to “give Hereford calves
equal footing,” in comparison to
cattle with black hides.
NDQA, started in 1994, rec
ognizes dairy producers and
their families who do an out
standing job of producing high
quality milk every day on U.S.
dairy farms. The Van Lieshouts
represent the very best of the
U.S. industry, said Anne
Saeman, executive director ol
the National Mastitis Council
and NDQA manager.
NDQA is sponsored by the
National Mastitis Council,
World Dairy Expo, the National
Milk Producers Federation, and
Dairy Today magazine.
For more information about
the NDQA program, contact
Anne Seaman, National Mastitis
Council, (608) 224-0622.
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