Lancaster Holstein Club Xravels To Mifflin County Farms
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
BELLEVILLE (Mifflin Co.) Valley.
Lancaster County Holstein Club Mike Ammon is the fifth
members spent a day viewing generation on Ammon Farms,
great cows and scenery in the owned by his parents Bill and
area around Belleville Tuesday. Helen. The Ammons send eight
The tour bus with some 20 to 10 bulls a year to A.I. studs
Holstein breeders and enthusiasts from their 80-cow lineup,
first stopped at Ammon Farms The herd is housed in freestalls
Mel Peachey of Tran-Acres discusses his breeding pro
gram with tour guests.
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Lapp’s Bam Equipment held a Grand Prize Drawing at the annual
Open House. Pictured above are this year’s winners of $l,OOO
toward the purchase of James way parts:
Leon N. Sensenig, Peach Bottom, PA, has a tie stall bam with 80+
cows and farms a couple hundred acres.
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Ist Place 4 Pc DeWalt 18v Cordless Set
2nd Place Stihl Leaf Blower
3rd Place 18v DeWalt Cordless Drill
4th Place J-Star Jacket & Cap Tom Lapp, Gap
sth Place Roll Seal Jacket & Cap Amos J Stoltzlus, Gap
6th Place Rotomix Jacket & Cap David King, Paradise
7th Place Rotomix Apron & Cap Wayne Erb. Mt Joy
Lapp’s would like to thank everyone vs ho came and made this yeat's
open house a t neat success Thanks attain to all n ho participated
near Lewistown before heading
over the mountain into the Big
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Bill, Helen, and Mike Ammon with two of their top young cows, Ammon Farms Aaron
Dori, left, and Ammon Farms Addison Dora.
and milked in a tiestall barn. The
focus of the breeding program is
on productive animals that can
thrive in modem dairy facilities.
“The cows are there in the
freestalls, and if they are good
they’ll rise to the top,” said Mike
Ammon, who manages the herd
and handles sire selection and
bull marketing. “(Freestalls) are
where most cows are. We don’t
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baby cows.
“We don’t breed for show,” he
said. “The goal is to provide
functional, profitable cows.”
The group also visited the
herds of Paul Neer, Mel Peachey,
Keith and Kent Spicher, and
Vernon Yoder, all in the Belle
ville area.
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this point he keeps about 20 cows
in the tiestall setup.
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