A22-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 16, 2002
Open House Shows Growth, Milk Testin
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.)
Hundreds of farm families toured
Lancaster County DHIA testing
labs during its open house this
week.
Many expressed amazement
that only two seconds are re
quired to test samples for fat,
protein, solids, and lactose. Some
farmers remembered the “old”
days when milk testers stayed
overnight at farms and calculated
records by hand.
While visitors expressed aston
ishment at the testing process,
Jay Mylin, manager of the associ
ation, said he, himself is in awe of
how much has changed in the
past 10 years.
“It has outgrew my vision,”
Mylin said. It started with 58,000
Leanne Snyder shakes samples en
tered to test. Set amounts are drawn for
vials with automatic stirrers and probes
testing for butterfat, protein, solids, and
lactose.
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cows and has grown to 150,000
processed monthly. The service
area covers 30 counties in Penn
sylvania and several counties in
northern Maryland.
To better serve farmers, the
Lancaster County DHIA broke
away from the Pennsylvania
DHIA in Oct. 1, 1992. They be
came affiliated with Raleigh
Daily Record Processing Center
(RDRPC), which continues to
provide processing records. The
Manheim office transmits lab
testing results to RDRPC, which
uses its software to configure
management data reports.
In the beginning, Mylin’s poul
try house on his family farm was
remodeled to serve as the coun
ty’s headquarters. Since then, the
building has been expanded and
remodeled several times.
“Ten years ago, we didn’t have
a lab. We sent
samples to Mary
land DHIA for
testing,” Mylin
said.
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Installing a lab
not only enabled
the organization to
cut costs but also
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