A22-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29, 2003
Holstein Club Travels To Mifflin County
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dian last year as a 4-year-old.
According to Neer, the busi
ness of hoof trimming allows him
the opportunity to see a large
number of cows in his daily work
and provides him with contacts
to help build his herd.
Mel Peachey, along with wife
Judy and children Michael, 13;
Tonya, 11; and Colton, 8 tend a
high-producing herd of 50 Hoi
steins in a tiestall barn. Tran-
Acres is the farm name.
The Peachey herd posted
32,106 pounds of milk, 1,073
pounds of fat, and 951 of protein
in last month’s Dairy One report.
Close attention to feed quality
and breeding plays a big part in
making the Peachey cows one of
the top-producing herds in the
state.
Of the homebred Holsteins on
the farm, Mel is particularly
pleased with Tran-Acres Moon
breeze, classified Very Good-88
as a young cow.
The Peacheys also own Great
View Marina Marbeli, a
15-year-old EX-93 cow with
194,000 pounds of lifetime milk
production to date.
The Spicher family, David and
sons Keith and Kent
ot Kish-View Farms,
told the story of re
building a new dairy
setup after a fire de
stroyed the old one in
November 2001.
The family milked
the herd in deadlocks
under a makeshift roof
from November
through January a
total of 164 milkings
while working on the
new facility.
“A new parlor
wasn't really in our
5-year plan,” Kent
said, noting that most
of the equipment in
the double-8 parallel
parlor is secondhand.
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Fifty volunteers helped the
Spichers clean up and rebuild
after the catastrophe, which
brought a drop in rolling herd av
erage from about 26,000 pounds
to 23,000 pounds, and increased
the average calving interval by
three months. But the family is at
work bringing things back to nor
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“This (new facility) is some
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someday,” David said. “But this
Vernon Yoder talks about
his herd, Ver-Nan Holsteins
near Belleville.
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The Spichers milk about 200
Holsteins in the new setup. They
farm about 500 acres, growing
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Vernon Yoder and wife Nancy
of Ver-Nan Holsteins started
dairying in 1993. They operate in
a 55-cow tiestall bam and farm
120 acres, about half of which
they own.
The Yoders also experienced
some unique challenges in recent
years, including a battle with my
cotoxins in feed and losing some
top cows in the heat of last sum
mer.
A large number of replacement
heifers on the farm, however,
helped the Yoders get the high
type herd back on track. __
“Two years ago, we had
a 70 percent heifer-to-bull
ratio,” Vernon said.
Today, 22 of the 55 cows in
the barn are first-calf heif
ers.
Highlights in the Yoder
herd include two Excellent
cows with production re
cords of 35,000 and 38,000
pounds, respectively.
Kent and David Spicher of Kish-View Farms show visi
tors their new dairy facility, seen here in the background.
The holding area and parlor were built after a fire de
stroyed the old setup in 2001.
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