Vol. 47 No. 35
Holstein 6 World Series’ Sale Averages $8,207
Two-Bull Package Brings $lOO,OOO,
Heifer Sells For $38,000
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
WOODSTOWN, N.J. Hol
stein breeders and enthusiasts
from across the continent packed
the big tent at the Salem County
Fairgrounds here Wednesday
evening for the annual National
Holstein Convention Sale.
Horace Backus, veteran Hol
stein stakeholder and pedigree
reader at the event, characterized
the international lineup of 72
lots.
“We’re at the World Series,”
Backus said. The sale went on to
average $8,207 per lot.
Buyers were offered a selection
of high-profile cows, heifers, and
embryos, as well as a clone calf
and a bull package.
The offspring of two cows
owned byCrnest Kueffner, Mary
land, arid Oseeana Holsteins,
West Virginia, captured top dol
lars at the sale. Those dams are
Court Order Ending Beef Checkoff Results
In Swift Responses From Cattle Industry
MILLIE BUNTING
Market Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
South Dakota Federal District
Court Judge Charles B. Kom
mann ruled Friday, June 21, “ ...
The Beef Promotion and Re
search Act, and the Beef Order
promulgated thereunder ... are
unconstitutional and unenforce
able because they violate the
plaintiffs’ rights under the First
Amendment to the United States
To teach students life and business skills and educate them about the workings of
cooperatives, the Mid Atlantic Alliance of Cooperatives and Penn State conducted a
summer institute for more than 50 students this week. These scholars and alternates
will attend the national convention this August in Chicago. Back row from left is Matt
Fearnley, Andy Stein, Anthony Seymore, Jeffrey Chapin, and Will Amoss; in middle row
stands Michele Whitman, Amy Kaucher, Laura Grove, Mike Woods, Heather Sisto, Ste
phen Gilkinson, and Chris Jeffcoat; and front row is Nicole Martin, Emily Grove, Regina
Lehman, Mary Strasbaugh, Andrew Herr, Sarah Grim, Amy Kneer, and Sarah Krail. See
story page A 22. Photo by Michelle Kunjappu
www.lancasterfarming.com
Tri-Day Ashlyn-ET, who is class
ified Excellent-96 and voted All-
World 2002 by Holstein Interna
tional; and Efcnest-Anthony SD
Tobi-ET, al?0 EX i 96.
Two bulls, EK-Oseeana Abso
lute Lee-ET (out of Ashlyn), and
Tobis RB Temptation-ET (out of
Tobi), nine months and not quite
14 months old, respectively, sold
together for $lOO,OOO, the top
selling lot at the sale. Bred and
owned by Kueffner and Oseeana
Holsteins, they are housed at
BrowndaleFarm in Canada.
The bulls were bought by Sure
Bet Syndicate, a group of HoF
stein breeders and dairy produc
ers from New Jersey and, other
states across the country.
EK-Oseeana Lee Abby-ET, a
9-month-old heifer calf also out
of Ashlyn, sold for $38,000, mak
ing her top-selling female. The
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Constitution.”
Judge Kommann ruled further
that there should not be “any fur
ther collection of beef checkoffs
as of the start of business on July
15,2002.”
The reaction was swift from
the Livestock Marketing Associa
tion (LMA) who brought the suit
along with the Western Organi
zation Resource Councils
(WORC) and several individuals.
Reaction was also prompt from
Four Sections
Nine months old, EK-Oseeana Lee Abby-ET was top-selling female at the National
Holstein Convention Sale.
the Cattlemen’s Beef Board
(CBB), USDA Secretary Ann Ve
neman and the National Cattle
men’s Beef Association (NCBA).
The defendants in the case are
the USDA, the Cattlemen’s Beef
Promotion and Research Board,
which administers the checkoff,
and Nebraska Cattlemen, Inc.,
which has been heading a group
of supportive producers to inter
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Saturday, June 29, 2002
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster Co.) - Late last week,
U.S. Ag Secretary Ann Veneman visited the manufac
turing facility of New Holland North America here to
speak about her roots in Palmyra and about ongoing
efforts to heighten food security and to implement
the new Farm Bill.
The whirlwind tour included stops in St. Louis, Ne
braska, Colorado, and New Holland. She also visited
Wengert’s Dairy in Lebanon.
Veneman was greeted by more than 200 farmers
and agri-industry representatives at the town meet
ing conducted at New Holland North America. Also
speaking were Paolo Monferino, chief executive offi
cer of CNH; Tom Kennedy, president of CNH agribu
siness worldwide; and Pennsylvania Ag Secretary
Sam Hayes.
Monferino stands behind her in the photo.
Photo by Andy Andrews, editor
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