Silver Shade Lee Cadillac placed first in the junior division at the Eastern National Hol
stein Show in Harrisburg this fall.
Breeding For Excellence
Keeps Beshores In Dairy Business
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW CUMBERLAND (York Co.) Jed and
Sue Beshore have worked with cows their whole life.
Their breeding philosophy still keeps adapting to
the demands of dairy farming.
Jed Beshore is the third generation of his family
on the farm in northern York County, just across
the Susquehanna River south of Harrisburg.
Sue grew up in Berks County, the daughter of
longtime dairy enthusiast and show judge, Ray
Seidel.
Since Jed was a boy, the landscape of the sur
rounding area and the business of dairy farming
have changed in big ways.
Being surrounded by housing develonments and
facing a long stretch of low milk prices could make
dairying seem like a losing battle to the Beshores,
who milk about 50 registered Holsteins in a tiestall
barn and grow forages on 120 acres.
It is the ongoing challenge of producing a better
cow that keeps them interested. And it appears the
Beshores have passed that fascination on to their
children Angie, 20, and K.C., 13, who have both en
joyed considerable success in the show ring.
“As far as dairy farming goes, this breeding
aspect is by far why we still do it,” Jed Beshore said.
In the last decade, the Beshores have found them
selves growing more interested in cows that stand
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