Delaware Valley College Conducts Consignment Sale DOYLESTOWN (Bucks Co.) This spring, Delaware Valley College of Doylestown, Pennsyl vania will present a consignment sale entitled “The Green and Gold Spring Spectacular.” The second consignment sale will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2001 at 12 p.m. in the Equestrian Center located on the campus. The sale will feature approxi mately fifty head of Holsteins, 20 head of Jerseys, and promising embryos. The sale committee is currently locating and selecting consignments, which can be all ages but preferably show age ani mals. The committee is asking PDPP Welcomes New Board Members HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program welcomed two new members to the board of directors Oct. 1. Secretary of Agriculture Samuel E. Hayes appointed Harold Bailey of Roaring Spring and Christine Cooney of Spartansburg to devote three years of service toward helping guide the direc tion of the dairy promotion pro gram. Bailey owns and operates a 140-cow milking herd witlv an HOULE that all classifiable animals be classified at least 80 points. Milk ing animals should have records comparable to herd mates, with components at or exceeding breed average. For heifers and calves, the animal should be out of at least an 80 point dam. Ex ceptions may be made. General health papers will be required for acceptance and pedigrees will be greatly appreciated. Please con tact Josh Sanders (215) 489-4502, Jason Fetzer (215) 489-4472, Andrea Gamer (215) 489-4430, or Jarrod Burleigh (215) 489-4370 to consign an ani mal. additional 100 head of heifers. He is a member of Dairy Farm ers of America and is active in promoting dairy in Blair County. Bailey previously served on the PDPP board from 1990-1996. Cooney and her husband Mi chael manage a 350-animal dairy in Crawford County, in cluding a milking herd of 185 Holsteins. Cooney is also active in the state and national Hol stein organizations. Berks DHIA Annual Meeting LEESPORT (Berks Co.) The annual Meeting of Berks County DHIA will be held on Friday evening, Dec. 1, 2000 at the Berks County Agricultural Center. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. will a full course dinner and make-your-own sundaes fol lowed by a short talk by Jamie Zimmerman, the new general manager of Pennsylvania DHIA. The cost to DHIA members will be $2 per person. The tickets can be purchased from your Pennsylvania DHIA technician. Entertainment will be a magician/comedian geared to family enjoyment. With the two new appoint ments, PDPP honored two retir ing board members Joy Crothers of Oxford and Robert Pardoe of Milton. Both plan to remain active in Pennsylvania agriculture. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 18, 2000-A3l Muscle Profiling Study To Add New Value To Beef DENVER, Colo. The final report on a checkoff funded study that should boost the value of beef from the chuck and round was recently rolled out to key audiences. The “muscle profiling” study was presented at a gathering of more than 100 major U.S. beef industry end-users and suppliers in Lincoln, Neb. Oct. 23-24. Coordinated by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association for the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the study helps open the door to new, higher-value marketing op portunities for the chuck and the round. Research Endings from the study will benefit all seg ments of the beef industry and ultimately provide consumers with new choices at the meat counter and in restaurants, according to Bucky Gwartney, director of research and technical services for NCBA. “This new research identifies key muscle characteristics we need to explore if we’re going to find new, convenient ways of preparing cuts,” Gwartney says. The study describes and cata logues the characteristics of 39 chuck and round muscles. 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