A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17, 2003 USDA Top Dairy Bull Evaluations, Ranked By Net Merit As a new service to our dairy readers, Lancaster Farming has scheduled the publication of regular USDA sire evaluation reports-for the seven major dairy breeds. The reports are released quarterly by the USDA’s Ani mal Improvement Programs Laboratory during the months of February, May, August, and November. This week, we begin with the top Holstein sires avail ■ H0U5A00Q122358313 1 007H006417 i HQU5AQ00122185573 | 029H009685 i' ‘ i I H0U5A000124003312 j 001H005583 ! I iO j 224H006874 j HOGBROOI 1A00O124! HOU! 25841340 iA000017007! I HQ1TA000912027632 ISAQI 17473 011H004662 iAQQOI I Hi I ’ SARS Epidemic Not Impacting Soybean Exports ST. LOUIS, Mo. Not even the SARS epidemic has been able to prevent U.S. soybean exports to China and Southeast Asia from reaching near-record levels, thanks, in part, to focused soy bean checkoff marketing efforts. In fact, China, one of the coun tries most severely hit by the dis ease, has already imported record A lesson well learned... Lancaster Farming’s classified ads get results! ! NAAB O-BEE MANFRED JUSTICE ET MOET LOOKOUT ET VISION-GEN OZZIE-ET I LANCELOT EMERALD-ACR-SA T-DAWSON-ET COGENT COURIER-ET CARTERS-CORNER ALLY-ET 011H005929 RICECREST SHAMROCK-ET 029H009958 PAGEN-ERNWOOD DANE-ET 007H005710 AQUILA PATRON LUCENTE-ET 224H006974 RICECREST MARSHALL-ET 001H005588 RICH-J SOSA-ET CAROL PRELUDE MTOTO-ET 206H000004 SANDY-VALLEY TREDWAY-ET 014H003367 levels of nearly 278 million bush els of U.S. soybeans through the first half of the current market ing year. Nearly three out of every 10 bushels of U.S. soybeans being exported this year are going to China. Total soybean ex ports to China for the 2001-2002 marketing year amounted to 168 million bushels. Agricultural Generators \ Detroit Deisel Spectrum — tt Mr — _ fUgmmQ I Automatic PTO Generators L.P. Gas, Diesel 25 to 135 KW Units Natural Gas Generators In Stock! 5 to 2,000 KW Service - Rental - New & Used Units In Stock! W^M-MWmWSYSTEMS Power Ocneration Systems Spec ialists 330 Founderwhite Road, Lebanon, PA 17042 Call Leonard Martin 717-273-4544 Fax: 717-273-5186 ?_ ' .e-majinrpartintpendp° wers y s t e ms. com able in the U.S. The list was released by the USDA on May 15. May sire lists for the Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Jersey, Milking Shorthorn, and Red and White breeds are scheduled for next week’s edition of Lancaster Farming. The sires are ranked by net merit (NM$). PTA stands for the average predicted transmitting ability for each of USDA Evaluations for Available Holstein Sires MM<t ! REL IP ™ ' PTA ' PTA I p P ™. PTA NM$ I NM$ | *f' k ; f at i Fat % i Pr ° tein Protein % i { lbs | lbs , lbs Name 759! 711 I 692 687 675 667 641 638 630 630 625 624 607 607 Sorted by Net Merit May, 2003 851 1767 74 i 2120 j 73 j -0.01 i 28641 1041 0.00 i 76^ 1587 [~ 98 [ 0.16 i 721 _ L ' , I '. . _. ... . _... . 70 i 2310 6 81 2865 99 013 79 1809 2645 1853 73 2160 2299 64 2980 96 1744 71 j 1804 101 0.14 (Turn to page A 33) U.S. soybean exports are typi cally highest between October and March and usually slow down from April through Sep tember. However this year U.S. exports to China during the month of April were over 10 mil lion bushels. Most of these ex ports were shipped from Pacific Northwest ports, demonstrating the importance to Chinese cus- 76' 0.14 ' 74 I -0.07 85 -014 97 0.05 -0.03 0.07 0.06 -0.08 -0.12 0.04 70 0.Q6 75 tomers of the shorter delivery times available from these ports. According to a checkoff-funded transportation study, shipping U.S. soybeans from the West Coast to Asia saves 10-18 days compared with shipments from the Gulf of Mexico. The Southeast Asia market, which includes Thailand, Malay sia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Phil the categories listed, including milk yield, fat yield, fat percentage, protein yield, protein percentage, somatic cell score (SCS), and productive life (PL). DPR stands for daughter pregnancy rate, a recent addi tion to the bull proofs. Also included are the number of herds and daughters evaluated in each sire’s proof. REL | PTA Yield , SCS 0.09 ; 289 0.04 j 88 2 82 76 r 3.09 -0 03 0 10 f 86 3.00 0.06 76 0.03 84 316 0.01 86 3.18 0.01 92 -0.01 0.03 -0.08 -0.02 ' PTA p" Herds Daus PTA DPR 2.87 21 | 80! 109 -0 7 0.6 ! 2.2 | 0 9 84 j 106 0.2 51 | 82 -1 1 3 31 -0 7 27 -0.5 2.86 1.5 140 -1.3 -0.2 1.3 63 3.13 -0.1 124 2.6 37 2 94 -1.7 316 2.52 -i 0.3 01 j 3oT 43 I !. -1.5 3.07 ippines, and Indonesia, is the largest soybean meal market for U.S. farmers. Soybean checkoff marketing programs in this re gion target core buyers in the rapidly growing poultry, swine, and aquaculture sectors by differ entiating U.S. dehulled soybean meal as the product of choice over competitive sources of sup ply. 84 156 63 1 117 104] 641 105 238 178 45 17637
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