National Holstein Convention
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• Battleship New Jersey and
the Aquatic Museum in Camden.
• A half-day tour of dolphin
watching in the Atlantic and a
three-hour cruise.
• Atlantic Blueberry, Atlantic
County.
• Rutger’s Blueberry-Cranber
ry Research Center.
• Equine horse training and
Showplace Farm and Cedar Lane
Farm.
ton battlefields and Princeton • Cape May fisheries.
• Party boat fishing tour all
day.
• A historic tour of the Tren-
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333 South Middlebush Road
Somerset, NJ 08873
Phone 732-568-0219
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Spouse’s program events in
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with lunch at the Lafayette Hotel
and a walk to popular shopping
areas.
According to Valen, a “dairy
bar” will be established with vari
ous dairy and New Jersey-vege
table related products, including
ice cream, milk, grapes, cheese,
and others. Valen said volunteers
are needed to staff the dairy bar
and contributions from dealers
and processors are urgently
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the NJH-FA, Sussex, N.J., spoke
about plans for the national sale,
which will include 75 entries and
40 for the silent auction.
“We are trying to showcase all
of New Jersey,” said Valen, who
noted there is “so much more to
New Jersey than Atlantic City.”
Planning for the convention
began seven years ago. The Taj
Mahal can just to fit the large
convention, he noted. About 55
booths were sold, and booth
space was officially sold out.
Lancaster Farming plans to ex
hibit at and report extensively
about the convention.
Sponsorships include various
levels, such as Diamond, $40,000
and up; Gold, $lO,OOO and up;
Silver, $5,000 and more; Bronze,
$2,500 and more; and donors, at
least $l,OOO.
Special technical sessions at
the convention were scheduled to
include the effects of nutrients on
reproduction and embryo trans
fer, vaccines to help treat
Johne’s, and others.
Recognized with awards for
juniors will be the champion
Dairy Bowl team (last year they
received $205,000 in scholarship
money). At the senior level, the
Outstanding Distinguished
Young Breeder Award, for farm
managers/owners under 40 years
old, will be presented. Also, a
premier breeder family will be re
warded for herd genetic accom
plishments.
At last year’s convention in
Cedar Rapids, lowa, about 300
visitors to the NJF-HA booth in
the trade show enjoyed the
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theme, “Some of New Jersey’s
Finest,” noted Valen. Last year’s
sale included about 1,500 people.
The sale this year is scheduled
Wednesday evening at the con
vention. A banquet will conclude
the convention Thursday.
New Jersey has been noted as
the “cradle” of the dairy indus
try. Brown Swiss were first bred
in the garden state, as well as the
Guernsey and Jersey.
Jersey cattle were brought into
the ports, and the state was the
Jersey cattle leader for many
years. Valen said artificial breed
ing began in the 1940 s in the
state, with the New Jersey Coop
erative Artificial Breeding Asso
ciation.
Scheduled is a reception with
National Holstein President
Joann Hartman, Waterloo, 111.
General sessions will be con
ducted midweek, with the lun
cheon and banquet at the end of
the week. The Outstanding
Young Farmer Award will be
presented at the general session
Thursday. The banquet will be a
“wrap-up” event, a chance to
renew friendships.
The convention will provide
attendees from around the coun
try with message that New Jersey
is “alive, vibrant, an exciting
place with a healthy ag indus
try,” said Valen, “and a fun place
to visit.”
The association still needs vol
unteers to sign up in almost every
facet of the convention schedule.
But Valen assured members at
the meeting in January that “you
are going to be really pleased
from a financial standpoint that
we did this,” he said.
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