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Proper cattle handling win-win situation for cattle, cattlemen by Jennifer Showalter HARRISONBURG, VA — Fast is not always better when it comes to working cattle. Giving cattle time to think and respond is becoming more and more important as the industry is realizing the negative implications of stressing cattle. Virginia Cooperative Extension was pleased to bring Dr. Tom Noffsinger to the Shenandoah Valley for a discussion and demonstration on low stress cattle handling techniques. Dr. Noffsinger is a feedlot veterinarian and nationally renowned expert in cattle handling as well as a consultant for Merial Animal Health. Noffsinger’s credentials and reputation drew around 110 people from across Virginia and West Virginia to the Rockingham County Fairgrounds for a workshop on handling cattle. Noffsinger started off by emphasizing that cattle handling facilities which flow properly are a big help in handling cattle calmly. Before building anything permanent, Noffsinger suggested using a portable type system that could easily be moved around to get the most ideal flow figured out before putting a lot of money into a system that has to last a lifetime. The slightest movement can mean more to cattle than most realize. Noffsinger emphasized the importance of gaining cattle’s trust by adjusting distance to them according to their attitudes. “You have to be in a different position for each animal. Jerseys have headlights for eyes while the eyes of other cows are set differently making the way they see totally different. Just like a Roman nosed horse sees differently than a horse with a flat nose,” explained Noffsinger. To go along with his talk on subtle movements, Noffsinger pointed out the power of a handler’s eyes. “The most powerful tool to stop cattle is

your eyes. A good trucker doesn’t look down an alley when cattle are coming up.” Noffsinger discouraged using loud voices or a lot of commotion to move cattle. “If you want to put extra pressure on cattle, raise your hands and motion like a windshield wiper. The cattle will move in a perpendicular direction. The rest of the time, try to keep your hands in your pockets,” said Noffsinger. While talking about movement, Noffsinger mentioned, “Don’t get your cattle braindead! You want to keep some movement in cattle.” Cattle are like any other species and must be rewarded when they are behaving correctly in order to gain respect and obedience. Noffsinger encouraged handlers to reward animals that are doing right by allowing them to stop doing what you asked and giving them a chance to think. Repetitively doing something without any rewards does not advance the situation any. “Animals learn when we stop doing. Don’t keep doing over and over!” Noffsinger pointed out several signs, such as licking and chewing, that cattle display when they are showing respect to orders given by cattlemen. “We over look the fact that cattle need to be trained and gain self esteem. We always have done it with dogs and horses and need to do it more with cattle. Cattle want to learn something new everyday,” said Noffsinger. Noffsinger discouraged the crowd from ever pushing cattle to feed or water. Rather, he suggested pushing the cattle that are already at the bunk or trough away and back into the other cattle. “Never push cattle to feed or water. The ones that have been eating will lead the others to the bunk,” said Noffsinger. With several 4-Hers and FFAers in the audience, Noffsinger shared some pointers throughout the day on

Dr. Tom Noffsinger, a feedlot veterinarian, a nationally renowned expert in cattle handling, and a consultant for Merial Animal Health, points how some low stress ways to more logically handle cattle.

breaking show cattle. Before ever haltering a calf, he suggested spending the first two days teaching the calf to stop with its’ front feet together, to start, and to walk around a pen. He then suggested letting the calf catch one front leg in a rope. Noffsinger explained how to pull and release on the rope in order to teach the calf to lead by one front leg. Noffsinger admitted that there are some cattle that simply do not have the disposition to ever become show calves. “There are just some calves that aren’t meant to be in the show ring.” Noffsinger’s way of thinking when it comes to handling cattle was a new concept for many in the audience. After seeing how well cattle reacted to his techniques, the audience realized that fast is not always better and that cattle are more sensitive to movement and noise than most realize. Learning how to gain respect from cattle and how to work them in a civil manner

Dr. Tom Noffsinger gets the audience involved as he loads a pen of calves back onto a trailer without any lead-up panels or a crowd pen. Photos by Jennifer Showalter

was a major step in minimizing the stress load on cattle. In addition to the workshop being a real eye-opening experience for many, it gave qualified Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certified producers a chance to earn re-certification credits. There are over 3,000 BQA certified producers in Virginia. This certification is needed for producers to participate in the Virginia Quality Assured feeder cattle programs. “The event went well and ran smoothly. Cattle handling is an experience driven skill that comes with time, exposure to a variety of cattle and people with equally as many temperaments, and most important of all, patience. I think the basic message of being patient and deliberate when handling cattle improves the efficiency and quality of the experience for all involved. Patience also allows for greater observation of the tendencies of the cattle to allow a producer to better anticipate

cattle behavior and take the next step and improve cattle handling facility flow. With patience and time being first on the list of cattle handing priorities, second would have to be facilities with logical flow,” said Jason Carter, Animals Science Extension Agent for the Augusta County Virginia Cooperative Extension. “Poor facility design and/or construction often creates stress when handling cattle for both the producer and the cattle leading to potential for improperly administered health inputs, running of the cattle and injury for everyone involved. The Beef Quality Assurance Program emphasizes producers improving management skills and knowledge for carcass quality preservation. Cattle handling is certainly a key component affecting both the performance and stress level in cattle, each of which may have dramatic long-term effects on carcass quality,” said Carter.

A group of around 110 cattlemen gather at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds to hear Dr. Tom Noffsinger, a feedlot veterinarian, a nationally renowned expert in cattle handling, and a consultant for Merial Animal Health, share his knowledge on cattle handling.

by Sally Colby The 2012 Farm Bill, the legislation that sets government farm and food policy, is currently on the table. Although there is already considerable controversy about proposed changes, farmers have an opportunity to express their views and make suggestions about how to best use funds. “The Farm Bill has been very evolutionary,” said Jim Shortle, professor of ag and environmental economics at Penn State University. “We have taken the basic structure and changed it over time to serve a broader set of purposes. Environmental aspects have expanded, beginning in the 1980s.” Although most of the money allocated in the Farm Bill goes into nutrition and commodity programs, farmers are interested in other aspects of the legislation, including conservation programs. During an open discussion focused on the conservation title portion of the Farm Bill, Shortle stated that farmers are most interested in programs related to soil quality, water quality and wildlife habitat. He pointed out that conservation programs fall under technical assistance programs, which help people figure out how to do things, and voluntary financial assistance programs, which help them pay for those things. “Those programs are broadly categorized as land retirement programs,” he said, “with CRP being the number one. Those programs entail switching land from crop production into other non-intensive uses that are viewed as being good for the environment.” Land retirement programs tend to be used by smaller farms, while working lands programs are used by large farms. The environmental quality incentives program, or EQIP, helps farmers with best management practices for soil erosion control, pollution control and other practices. EQIP is the number one working lands program and the second largest program for funding. Shortle says that by the end of this decade, all tax money raised under the existing revenue structure will cover only the cost of entitlements and interest. “All of the things you might think of as really important functions of gov-

Farm Bill conservation programs such as CRP provide landowners with funding to plant trees that help maintain waterway boundaries and control erosion. Wildlife habitat is enhanced, especially with the use of duck nesting boxes such as the one in this CRP area. Photo by Sally Colby

ernment — defense, conservation, environmental protection — there won’t be money to cover it,” he said. “It’s an unsustainable system. It’s not going to work, and we have to change it. There are a lot of people who are fighting to get money into the Farm Bill to do the things it has done in the past, and they may succeed, but we will be looking at a shrinking budget for conservation programs.” In order to maintain programs, Shortle says that it’s time to start thinking about how to get the best use from our money. “The Farm Bill has a range of interest groups that have interest in specific program components, and they would all like to have those components stay and grow, but they’re not — they’re going to change. The changes will be designed to make better use of our money.” Shortle explained that ‘targeting’ is directing money to address specific problems in specific places to get the most out of that money without spreading it too thin. “Targeting has been a bad word because everyone wants some of the money,” he said. “Look at programs like CRP and EQIP — there are a lot of people who want that money and can’t get it.” When if comes to funding, Shortle

says that states in the Midwest tend to fare better than mid-Atlantic states because the senate ag committee, which is the determiner for farm policy in the U.S., is historically dominated by Midwest senators. “Those areas aren’t necessarily the best place to be spending that money for the public purposes they’re supposed to be addressing,” said Shortle. “We have significant issues in this part of the country — where should they rank compared to the Midwest?” As far as implementation of programs, Shortle says that the targets should be naming priorities and goals, and how to reach those targets. “What mix of education, technical assistance and financial assistance do we need?” he said. “Numerous studies show that education about conservation goals can be really helpful in helping people understand these issues and take them on.” Farmers should also consider whether they want to work on those goals quickly (which means more money immediately), or over a given period of time. “We’ve been working on the Chesapeake Bay for over 30 years,” said Shortle. “Some people don’t think we’ve made nearly enough progress, and they want to speed up that

progress quite a bit. If you’re going to speed it up, you’re going to spend more money. How much do you want to accomplish in any one conservation objective? In thinking about controlling nutrient pollution how deep do we need to cut?” Shortle says that we need to think about other ways to create effective conservation programs. “The Farm Bill might not do the things it used to do — what other resources can we utilize?” he said. “As resources shrink, we have to be partners with people that we didn’t used to partner with — we have to begin to leverage resources.” One example of such cooperation is American Farmland Trust putting money into best management practices in Pennsylvania. Should financial assistance programs be activity or performance based? “Performance programs ask what is the goal we want to achieve, then base payments on that goal,” said Shortle. “In general, performance-basing is viewed as good idea, but often, programs are based not on performance but on activities undertaken. For example, EQIP is a collection of formulas for adoption of specific practices, usually BMPs. If you’re going to reward performance, you have to be able to measure it. Some incentive programs are fixed-payment: the farmer knows how much he will receive for certain activities completed. A new approach, which is used in the CRP, is competitive bidding, which you don’t know what you’re going to get. You submit a bid, and if it’s accepted, you know what you’re going to get.” Competitive bidding requires more effort from the farmer — a fixed payment program is easier — but competitive bidding saves the government money. Shortle urges farmers to consider the conservation accomplishments of various programs as well as benefits and costs to farmers, consumers and farm input suppliers. However, these programs also serve consumers, so it’s important to consider how these programs provide benefits beyond the agricultural community — making the case for public money ultimately helps demonstrate good stewardship.

Dairy farmers help support dairy bill I have been a lifelong dairy farmer in Northern New York State. In addition for many years I hauled dairy cows all over the Northeast for hundreds of dairy farmers. During the last several years, I’ve heard nothing but complaints from these dairy farmers regarding raw milk prices and the high cost of operating their dairy farms. Over and over again I heard these dairy farmers tell me that we need a new dairy bill that would cover their cost of operating their farms! No kidding! Many of us have been attempting for many years to obtain a new pricing formula that would allow all dairy farmers to cover their costs. Oh, I call myself a real strong dairy farmer activist. I have to say, where is everyone else? Don’t you dairy farmers feel you deserve to have the opportunity to cover all of your costs? Don’t you realize there is a dairy bill called the Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2011. The bill is

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identified as S-1640. It was introduced by Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania. (Please don’t be confused by the other bill that Senator Casey introduced called S-1682.) Believe me, S-1640 is the only bill or dairy proposal out there that uses the dairy farmers’ cost of production to determine the value of raw milk at your farm. (Isn’t it about time?) S1640 has a milk supply management program. This program doesn’t tell you how much milk you can produce, but in the event there is over-production of milk, then those that over-produce

milk may have to pay a penalty on the over-production. S-1640 also allows a dairy farmer not only to cover their cost of production, but if you operate your farm properly you will be able to realize a profit on your operation. (When was the last time you heard profit?) I urge all dairy farmers to put your shoulder to the wheel and support S1640. Please ask yourself these questions. 1. Do you want a dairy bill that covers your cost plus a profit? 2. Do you really believe the government should be involved in subsidizing insurance programs to cover your cost? 3. Do you really believe that allowing operators of manufacturing milk plants to establish your price is really the way to go? 4. Do you believe that receiving cheese and butter prices electronically on a daily basis will help your price?

I think all dairy farmers should say NO to processors determining your milk price. You should say NO to insurance programs covering some of your cost. And you should say NO to continually having your milk prices established by the present system. Oh, by the way, please remember that S-1640 is the only dairy bill that will not cost the government any money. Boy, that’s a real twist. If you want to know what your pay price would be than simply review the pricing chart that Pro-Ag released recently. If you want to review the pricing chart you can call 658-2687 or email at fhagdairyactivist@ridgeviewtel.us. You know what, if you don’t get behind S-1640, then please don’t complain to me anymore about your milk prices. Floyd Hall, Ag & Dairy Activist LaFargeville, NY

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Super Committee’s failure was a lucky break for dairy farmers In the Nov. 22nd failure of the Congressional “Super Committee” U.S. dairy farmers dodged a bullet. Had the Super Committee not broken up in the confusion of Babel, the nation’s dairy farmers might already be saddled with a 2012 Farm Bill dairy initiative that would have been largely against their interest. In the run-up to the Super Committee deadline powerful Washington lobbying forces in concert with a select member of Congress were confidently moving to impose a dairy proposal of greater utility and advantage to the management of the nation’s largest dairy cooperatives and dairy processors than to the nation’s dairy farmers. None of the numerous 2012 Farm Bill dairy proposals currently before the House and Senate Ag. Committees take note of, or proposes a remedy for what should be seen as the obvious elephant in the room: the market failure that is the USDA Farm Milk Price Formula. This formula is based on what is dubiously referred to as cheese trading, as practiced on the cheese floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). This traded cheese comprises less than 1 percent of total U.S. milk production. It is offered in 50,000 pound “carload” lots; often at low-ball prices, seemingly against the offering trader’s immediate financial interest. This practice is termed: “trading against one’s interest.” In this instance, it represents collusion. Collusion amongst these cheese traders, who front for multinational dairy corporations, is done to deliber-

ately down-skew the CME sale data which will be collected by USDA in the knowledge the data will become the formula basis for future U.S. farm price calculations. In this fashion these dairy corporations “game” the system; subverting this CME market mechanism to deliberately down-value the remaining 99+ percent of U.S. farm milk output. Short-selling one or two carloads of cheese can lower the future USDA Farm Milk Price and reduce these conspiring corporations’ overall monthly milk assembly costs by tens of millions of dollars. This scam translates to a systematic, continual financial shortchanging of the nation’s dairy farmers. This CME system gaming has not gone unnoticed in the halls of Congress. Currently at point on the issue is New York’s junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. At an August agricultural listening session in Westfield, NY, the Senator stated: “There is no transparency or honesty in the pricing mechanism at all, I want to push the envelope that there is a disconnect between the (farm) price of milk and how we come up with it through the price of

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cheese in Chicago. I think there is a lot of corruption and anti-trust behavior that is there to keep the (farm) price down.” Until the collapse of the Super Committee negotiations there was a very real danger that the best interests of the nation’s dairy farmers were going to be sacrificed to political expediency. Post-collapse, the 2012 Farm Bill process now has an opportunity to revert to a slower, more thoughtful, deliberate and measured pace. U.S. dairy farmers must take advantage this precious opportunity and bend it to answer their purpose. Senator Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security is urging Senate Ag. Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, (D-MI) to hold hearings to explore the limitations and short-comings of the current USDA Milk Price Formula. Senator Gillibrand is on record as wanting to craft a fair, transparent price formula based on reliable price discovery factors to counter the chicanery routinely generated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange cheese floor. All parties interested in a bright future for the American dairy industry should close ranks behind the Senator and aid her in any way possible in this pursuit. Reworking the USDA Milk Price Formula will not be an end-all solution for our nation’s dairy farmers. However, without a remaking of the basic price formula all other proposed measures currently before Congress, either on their own, or in concert, are doomed to fail in curing the ongoing and seemingly unending crisis on the nation’s dairy farms. Seldom in life are there second chances, yet this is exactly what has been bequeathed to U.S. dairymen. It would be the height of folly for dairymen and their allies to ignore the

resulting opportunity to enlighten their Senators and House members of what is needed to correct the U.S. dairy industry in the upcoming drafting of the dairy portion of the 2012 Farm Bill. Regardless of what other solutions are adopted, for ultimate success, a total retooling of the USDA Milk Price Formula must be at the head of the 2012 Farm Bill dairy initiative “to do list.” Failure to address the inadequacy of the current USDA Price Formula and the CME price discovery system that feeds it bogus price information portends the eventual decline of the U.S. dairy industry itself. This is an American industry truly too vital, too strategic and too big to be allowed to fail. U.S. dairymen must come to the realization that no one, regardless of their high flown rhetoric — not their milk cooperative management, the American Farm Bureau, the National Milk Producers Federation nor its Congressional waterboy, Rep. Collin Peterson, (D-MN) has the U.S. dairy farmer’s back or any right to speak for them in the 2012 Farm Bill dairy fight. If U.S. dairy farmers want an honest, successful conclusion for their ongoing milk price difficulties, they are going to have to make it happen themselves, on their own initiative. Regardless of whatever pet Congressional dairy reform proposal each individual U.S. dairy farmer favors, dairymen need to unite and get behind Senator Gillibrand and her allies in Congress, now, in force and with a will. The USDA Farm Milk Price Formula must be reformed: the future of U.S. dairy farming depends on it, absolutely. Nate Wilson Sinclairville, NY Nate Wilson, 64, has retired from a 40year career as a dairy farmer on a small grassland dairy farm in Chautauqua County, NY

Dairy Reform: Careful what you ask for! Letter to the Editor Opinions of the letters printed are not necessarily those of the staff or management at Country Folks. E-mail letters of opinion to jkarkwren@leepub.com or fax to 518-6732699, or mail to Country Folks, PO Box 121, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428.

The recent in-depth economic analysis by Mark Stephenson of National Milk’s “Dairy Security Act,” which was introduced by Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN), brings to light several unintended consequences that will harm the future of the U.S. Dairy Industry. Stephenson’s analysis shows only a modest reduction in the volatility of milk prices, but a significant decrease in dairy farmers’ revenue. This proposal also has a huge price tag for the taxpaying public, yet is being considered by the “Super Committee” as saving taxpayer dollars. Congress has a history of making changes to dairy policy that have unintended consequences, such as the dairy price support and product price formulas with make allowances. These programs were well intended, but they remove competition from manufac-

tured product classes and send a signal to our international customers that we will only sell products to them when prices are high. This approach decreases dairy farmers’ revenue. I think Senator Robert Casey’s (DPA) “Dairy Advancement Act” (S. 1682) is a better option for the dairy industry. It cleans up existing policy by removing the dairy product price support program and product price formulas with make allowances and replaces them with a true two-class system, which puts competition back into the marketplace. It sends a clear signal to our trading partners that we will be a reliable supplier of dairy products, while giving farmers the option to use MILC or LGM-Dairy insurance as a safety net. Dairy farms are an important part of the local economy, and federal dairy policy needs to align with the real needs and opportunities of the dairy industry. Sincerely, Clifford L. Hawbaker Dairy Producer and Chairman of the Dairy Policy Action Coalition (DPAC) Hamilton Heights Dairy Chambersburg, PA

Newsletter of Penn Dutch Cow Care by Hubert J. Karreman Hi Folks, I sometimes take heat in the organic world due to really enjoying treating animals rather than focusing on prevention and nutrition. Yet let’s be real — even with excellent prevention and nutrition, the fact is there’ll still be illness at times — that’s part of life. Truth is that by the time I’m called to see a case, the situation is already beyond simple prevention and/or nutrition. Interestingly, some people seem to dislike that I use therapy via needles and injection to help animals regain health, instead of relying on orally administered remedies. Why is

that? All I can say is that while I might use fairly intensive natural methods, I’ll also use all routes of administration to help get the best outcome for the patient. Interestingly, it seems that more and more dairy farmers considering organic certification want solutions with near equal “punch” that they have come to expect with conventional medicine. Thus it seems logical to know which quick acting, effective natural treatments to use when orally administered remedies have not succeeded. Truth be told, when giving talks to groups, I usually spend nearly half the time talk-

ing about prevention and foundational health strategies, with the rest of the time talking about various modes of alternative treatments and then actual case studies. There are many types of alternative treatments that can be used as stand alone treatments or in combination with each other. As a group, the AVMA calls them Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (CAVM). My opinion is that we should use whichever mode of treatment that we feel intuitively drawn to. Or if there are certain CAVM therapies that make no sense to you whatsoever, don’t seem “real

enough”, or make you uncomfortable, simply don’t use them. A short listing of CAVM groupings with specific examples follow: food therapy - preventive nutrition, therapeutic nutrition, glandular therapy and orthomolecular medicine; manual therapy - massage, acupressure, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, and physical therapy; biological therapy - hyperimmune plasma, hyperimmune eggs, serum therapy, bee sting therapy, and pharmaceutically reared leeches and maggots; botanical therapy - western herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, es-

sential oils and aromatherapy; energy medicine - Christian layingon of hands, classical homeopathy, homotoxicology, Bach flower remedies and non-traditional homeopathy. This is not a complete list of course and there are combinations of treatment, like injecting homeopathic remedies at acupuncture points. If you are drawn to a particular CAVM, consider learning more about it to use it well. Or, if a CAVM therapy makes no sense whatsoever, doesn’t seem “real” enough, or makes you uncomfortable, simply don’t use it. Just please don’t blindly “grasp at straws” in attempts to avoid standard, conventional therapy. Knowing a little about each may help you understand their potential role. Acupuncture is a form of treatment which utilizes energy routes (meridians) that naturally course throughout the body, with certain points (acupuncture points) of

the channel on the skin surface connecting nerves to organs in the body interior. By stimulating these points with dry needles, injectible solutions, electricity or heat, we can influence the functioning of circulation and internal organs to help return a patient to health. Homeopathy is a form of treatment that uses very highly diluted substances of plant, mineral or animal origin to gently stimulate the body to return to normal equilibrium. The materials that are used would, if given in their raw form, create the illness condition that the dilute remedy is being used to treat. In-depth knowledge of the remedies’ properties and specific symptoms are needed to use homeopathy effectively. Homeopathic remedies higher than 12C (such as a 30C or 200C) actually have no original material, only the essence or

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Moo from A5 energy of the original material remains. Botanical therapy is a form of treatment which has been used by humans and animals forever. The Bible mentions many plants that were used as medicine. Plants are food, herbs, nutraceuticals and medicine. Real medicine is tucked away within plant cells and all the big drug companies got their start with plant medicines and with good reason — because they contain active compounds. Like homeopathy, there are energetics associated with botanicals (bitter, cooling, sweet, pungent, sweet, and salty), but moreover, there are a multitude of real medicinal compounds in plants. Biological therapy is a form of treatment that uses natural substances derived from living organisms to stimulate, augment, or modify the immune system. Prior to the antibiotic era, serum therapy was used to deliver antibodies from donors to recipients. Hyper-immune plasma, much purer than serum therapy, is the modern equivalent. For example, rabies anti-toxin, snake venom anti-toxin and botulism anti-toxin and gram-negative coliform and salmonella anti-toxins are derived from horses and cows. Using bees to sting certain points can reduce arthritic pains, using leeches to draw off excess blood accumulation, and carefully placing maggots to temporarily eat away gangrenous, dead tissue is known and practiced by some regular medical doctors. In approaching cases and coming up with possible solutions, I like to use hands-on touch to sense where problems may be, careful observation, heightened sense of smell, listen for subtle sounds (with a stethoscope) and intuition to pin point problems. Then I choose from whichever CAVM treatment seems best for each case. Anyone can do this. And while it’s satisfying to be part of a successful outcome, I don’t feel it’s actually me that

gets the patient better — that is up to Holy Spirit. I am just a channel for healing to hopefully occur. You can be, too. Using natural therapies honors God’s creation. But if there isn’t success, then hopefully we learn from the situation to prevent it from happening again. That’s the way I handled situations as a herdsman and still do as a veterinarian. One last thing, and it’s mighty important, the intention with which we approach our animals is critical. I love what bio-dynamic herb grower Andrea Reisen said, “As soon as you put your intention upon anything, it changes everything.” This is so very true. Animals can sense with an uncanny ability whether we as individuals truly want to help them or if we are just going through mechanical motions. Yes, animals can resist your attempts to treat them. But if we come to them from a calm heart rather than a busy head, we may better understand what ails them — and then we’ll choose better therapies from the natural kingdom which God allows us all to partake in. Please realize that antibiotics do have a place in therapy. For example, if pneumonia hasn’t responded quickly to natural treatments, switch to antibiotics. You’re going to cull a few animals a year, so using antibiotics shouldn’t be automatically be viewed as an impossibility. Most people agree it’s better to have a live cow than a dead organic one. There’s a reason God placed the animals you have in your life — do what’s right and take good care of them. Rewards abound. Hey, I plan to start up again in parttime practice in the new year — to treat medical and repro problems with natural therapy (but not for emergencies or scheduled monthly reproduction). Hopefully I’ll get to see you sometime! Until then, count your blessings and the biggest blessing of all, the meaning of Lord Jesus born among the farm animals. Merry Christmas!

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Record number of dairy and beef producers attend Alltech’s Global 500 Alltech’s biggest ever Global 500 conference concluded, after welcoming nearly 700 dairy and beef producers from 32 countries to Alltech’s home in Lexington, KY. President and founder of Alltech, Dr. Pearse Lyons opened the conference with his “Eight Big Ideas” for the dairy and beef industries: 1. Efficiency: the cow is a fermentor, it is designed for fiber, we can increase efficiency and feed fiber. 2. Green house gases: We cannot stick our head in the sand. Green house gases are a real problem and sooner or later we will be taxed. 3. Mineral wastage and pollution: .75 kilo of mineral waste per cow means that a ton of mineral waste per day on a 1,000 cow farm. 4. Creating more nutritious milk and beef. 5. Branding: Branding is essential. Why is soda $5 per gallon when milk is so much better for you? 6. Fiber: Grain is expensive or unavailable. Fiber is not only a cheaper alternative but the rumen is designed to use it.

7. Nutrigenomics: This is a nutrition revolution. Nutrigenomics allow us to study how nutrients switch genes on and off. We can then develop programmed nutrition plans for young animals to increase efficiency and performance for life. 8. Social Media: We have to tell our story. This was followed by two days of seminars, covering everything from nutrition, to branding and social media. Experts from all areas of the industry were on hand to give dairy and beef producers all the information they need to take on the challenges of a changing industry. Paul Gardner, responsible for all milk and dairy ingredient purchasing at Groupe Danone, a company that purchases 3 billion dollars of milk each year, spoke about dairy demand and one of the biggest challenges for the dairy industry, price volatility. “Volatility in the market is huge when you buy that much milk but volatility is a much bigger issue for farmers. One year you can think about investing and the next year you cannot

buy Christmas presents for your kids. When farmers can invest they make short term investments because volatility prevents them from making long term investments,” said Gardner. During the beef discussion panel, John Butler of the Irish food board, Bord Bia, talked about the importance of educating consumers. “It is critical to understand your market and know what they want, but it is important to educate those consumers in a way that they will understand why they should want this product,” said Butler. “If nutrition is their concern we explain the nutritional value of the product, if it is safety then we

explain the practices we use to make sure the meat through every phase is the best quality.” In addition to seminars on the future of the industry, the conference attendees had the chance to network with other producers and farmers, and participate in discussion dinners that focused on hotly debated topics. To watch footage of the conference, visit the Alltech Ag Network at www.ihigh.com/alltech. You can also view pictures, interviews and recaps of the Alltech Global 500 conference, on Alltech’s blog at www.alltech .com/blog.

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Up to $2,000 for new teams and up to $1,000 for existing teams. Farms new to the program and those currently participating must complete a 2012 application to receive funding. New guidelines require teams to identify three annual goals and submit them to the center, complete the Monthly Monitor Tool provided by the Penn State Extension Dairy Team and determine the farm’s gross margin (Income Over Feed Cost) on an ongoing basis. “The current marketplace, with higher input costs, price volatility and outside pressures, requires producers not only to be good dairy managers, but also good business managers,” said Frey. “Good business managers know the key to their success is surrounding themselves with experts to help take their business to the next level. Having a profit team in place who knows the farm’s numbers is an important step in surrounding yourself with that expertise.” Producers currently enrolled should complete the 2012 applications mailed to them. Dairy farms not enrolled but interested in establishing a profit, target or succession planning team can contact the center to receive an application by calling 717-346-0849 or e-mailing info@center fordairyexcellence.org. More details can be found at www.center fordairyexcellence.org. Click on “Producer,” then on “Learn About Profit Teams.”

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Put the pieces in place for pneumonia management Set up your youngstock for a lifetime of success Replacement heifers are the future of every dairy operation. Your calf and heifer management program needs the right pieces to ensure the future wellness of your herd and your business. A key piece of that puzzle is pneumonia management. Pneumonia causes the second highest number of cases of illness and death in young dairy calves, behind only scours. Calves that do survive pneumonia are likely to face a lifetime of diminished performance. According to Lance Fox, DVM, Cattle Technical Services with Pfizer Animal Health, research shows that replacement heifers experiencing bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in the first three months of life are more likely to experience significantly increased mortality, have reduced average daily gain, calve later than healthy herdmates and produce less milk in at least their first lactation. “It is important that producers work with their veterinarians to look at their calf and heifer management program and make sure they are properly managing BRD,” says Dr. Fox. “There are

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HARRISBURG, PA — Agriculture Secretary George Greig invites Pennsylvanians to celebrate agriculture — from farm gate to dinner plate — during the 96th Pennsylvania Farm Show, set for Jan. 714 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. The eight-day show, the largest indoor agricultural exhibition in the nation, will feature 6,000 animals, 10,000 competitive exhibits and 300 commercial exhibitors. “The Pennsylvania Farm Show provides a unique opportunity to showcase the great work being done by the state’s more than 63,000 farm families to pro-

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day early, starting at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 6. Parking is free only on Jan. 6. New Family Living exhibitions — As part of the complex renovations, the Family Living area in the Main Hall has been renovated to better showcase homemade food items and handmade wares. Today’s Agriculture display — Today’s Agriculture, an exhibit in a full-size barn, is a collaboration between agricultural industry groups to showcase modern production practices used to efficiently and safely produce our food supply. Historical Marker Scavenger Hunt — Search for 22 replica historical markers throughout the complex and learn how Pennsylvania is the “Land of Penn and Plenty” as Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission markers bring history to the table. Food Court specialties — In addition to long-time favorites, the food court will feature three new items — a PA Preferred™ pizza with Pennsylvania ingredients, grilled cheese sandwiches and tender barbecue brisket sandwiches. Butterfly House — Visitors can see and learn about butterflies for a small fee, which supports the Friends of Farm Show Foundation. Returning show highlights include: “Parade of Agriculture” — During the opening ceremonies on Saturday, Jan. 7, representatives from each Farm Show department along with state commodity representatives will parade through the Large Arena. PA Preferred Culinary Connection — In addition to cooking demonstrations,

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Agricultura by Greg Coffta If you visit one of New York’s mid- to large-size dairy herds, you would see many employees in the milking parlor who are immigrants of Hispanic descent. This isn’t a news flash — these employees have been working on some dairies for more than 10 years now. In recent years, the increase in immigrant labor from Mexico and Central America has become a hotbutton political issue achieving national attention. People make many assumptions about this workforce: It’s uneducated, unskilled and suitable for only the most routine, tedious tasks such as milking. A closer look at our dairy farms proves those beliefs to be misconceptions. The Hispanic workforce on New York dairy farms is being promoted to higher positions and given more responsibilities. New tasks and responsibilities Responsibilities vary from dairy to dairy, but in general Hispanic employees complete some of a herd manager’s responsibilities. Dairies’ reproduction programs have benefited greatly from Hispanic employees’ taking on additional responsibilities. Heat detection and the delivery of ovulation synchronization injections are now popular jobs for Hispanic employees. On some dairies, Hispanic

employees are also performing A.I. And they’ve been trained to identify lameness and often trim hooves. The calf barn has probably benefited the most from Hispanic employees being trained to work outside the milking parlor. Caring for heifers from their first day to their first service is an important job that many Hispanic employees now perform. There are many reasons why Hispanic employees are diversifying in their job duties, but two of the biggest

reasons for this change are: A. The quality of the Hispanic workforce. That is to say; the dedication, responsibility and effort that most exhibit. B. The decline in the number of trained herd managers. Dairy managers and owners are having more difficulty in finding trained herd managers, and vacancies can be empty for months. A dairy can’t stop operating, so many managers have decided to fill the gaps with current Hispanic employees who have a record of compe-

tence and high performance. Dedicated, skilled employees are valuable not just in the milking parlor but everywhere on a dairy. Many dairy managers have learned that Hispanic employees aren’t an unskilled workforce but simply an untrained workforce. They have discovered that these employees are a valuable resource beyond their traditional role as milkers. Source: Dairy Pipeline, NovemberDecember 2011

Aim for pain-free and stress-free procedures DCHA’s Gold Standards III, animal welfare standards for rearing dairy calves and heifers, devotes a large section to elective medical procedures and supportive care. It is important to perform procedures like dehorning, tattooing and castrating humanely. These procedures are necessary components of dairy calf and heifer rearing, but there are methods that can be employed to make these tasks as pain-free and stress-free as possible for the animals. The Gold Standards III covers employee training, animal restraint, minimizing stress, pain management and care and housing for convalescing animals in the section. Also included are age recommendations for various pro-

cedures. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) also has specific suggestions for humanely managing dehorning/disbudding of calves. In “Welfare Implications of the Dehorning and Disbudding of Cattle,” the AVMA covers a broad range of considerations when performing the procedures, including: 1. Physiological indicators of pain; 2. Behavioral indicators of pain; 3. Prevention of secondary diseases; and 4. Production considerations. The AVMA document addresses methods of controlling pain, including: • Sedation; • General anesthesia;

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Dec. 31. Individuals, Corporations, and organizations making a contribution to the Foundation prior to Dec. 31 will join current Charter Members.

Contributions to the All-American Dairy Foundation have ranged from $5 to over $15,000. Contributions can be made to the office of the; All-American Dairy Foundation, P O Box 11211, Richmond, VA 23230. George Cashell Trustee indicates that Grants offered by the Foundation are limited to youth activities at the All-American Dairy Show. Cashell stated that the Grants are made to the Pennsylvania Dairy and Allied Industries Association, the sponsor of the All-American Dairy Show held each September at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. Heilman announced that the following Grants were made for the AllAmerican Dairy Show Youth Activities since the Foundation was organized in September of 2010: 2010 Premier National Junior Show, Championship Pageant $3,000, Premier National Junior Holstein Grand

Champion $500, in 2011 Premier National Milking Shorthorn Grand Champion $750, Premier National Junior Show Championship Pageant $3,000, Premier National Junior Networking and Career Event $1,100, AllAmerican Showmanship Challenge $500, All-American 4-H and FFA Judging Forum $1,348, All-American Invitational Dairy Judging Challenge $1,560, All-American Pennsylvania Junior Dairy Show Breed Champions and Bred & Owned by Exhibitor $1,000, Total Grant Support $12,758. Jay Houser, Treasurer, and Dick Chichester, Trustees of the Foundation oversee the Endowment Fund as established by the Trustees. The Trustees have established a goal of a $300,000 for the Endowment Fund by year end of 2013. The investment policy is to maintain principal and use income returns for Grants.

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Building family business relations Part 1: The family business environment Understanding the family business environment starts the process of success with family labor. The family business environment typically has the following key characteristics: 1. The family and the business overlap. Family considerations affect many business decisions; for example, business expansion is justified by a son’s interest in the business. On the other hand, business considerations affect many family decisions; for example, bathroom and kitchen remodeling must wait until an additional truck is paid for. 2. The small business way of life brings great satisfaction to family members. Many families want to continue their attachment to the business and each other as long as possible. Children grow up wanting to raise their children the way their parents raised them. 3. Family pride, values, history, and willingness to sacrifice drive the business to success.

The family business is much more than a business. It is often a family’s identity in the community. Family members are willing to sacrifice much for the success of the business. 4. The family culture emphasizes self-employment. Most owners highly value self-employment. Not surprisingly, their children are often raised to prefer self-employment over working for someone else, especially a neighboring business. The desire to be part of ownership and management often dominates career decisions. 5. The opportunities provided by a small business may not fit the strengths of family members. The strengths of younger siblings in the management of crops, machinery, or sales often duplicate the strengths already in the business. An answer to the desperate need for strengths in financial management, marketing, or labor management may be nowhere to be found among family members

in the business. 6. The family business often limits the opportunities for career growth. A capable young family member often joins a family business while his or her parents are in the middle of their careers. Grandparents may still play a dominant role. In this situation, reality is waiting 30 years for one’s first significant taste of top management decision making. 7. Chronic health problems, weather, mari-

tal problems, economic difficulties, and calamities impede progress of the business. Factors over which the family has little control continuously affect the outcomes of plans and expectations. 8. Family members often come into the business with vague job descriptions, compensation packages, and placement in the business hierarchy. Confidence that everything will work out substitutes

for careful discussion of the pros and cons for joining the business. Growing up in the business or marrying into it leads to the conclusion that not much can or will change. Several of these family characteristics appear negative. In fact, many family businesses are unsuccessful in bringing in succeeding generations. The challenge is to take advantage of the significant strengths of family businesses while

dealing with their inherent weaknesses. Many family businesses succeed and thrive generation after generation. Top managers and the rest of the family working hard at family relations explain the success. The following three sections suggest guidelines that can help bring about the success. Source: www.extension.org/pages/15587/ building-family-business-relations

by Gary Sides, Ph.D., Cattle Nutritionist, Technical Services, Pfizer Animal Health Before calving season starts, you should have a plan ready to maximize weight gains for suckling calves and increase dollars on sale day. For calves at just 45 days old, multiple technologies are available to help increase the productivity of your calf crop. Along with early vaccinations, you can help increase pounds of gain by collaborating with your veterinarian to select a low-dose implant best suited for your herd. For cow/calf producers in particular, the extra pounds at weaning that can

be achieved by implanting sucking calves far outweighs the actual cost of the implant. When properly used, implants can help to wean an extra 19 pounds, giving you at least $25 more per implanted calf when sold. The long-standing philosophy behind using implants is to match the dose to the cattle based on their nutritional status. For instance, suckling calves on the cow are going to have a lower rate of gain potential and reduced feed intake compared with a heavier animal. In any case, this is an excellent time to utilize a low-dose implant. As the calves grow larger and

feed continues to get more expensive, looking to a higher-dose implant will be the most practical option. Proper nutritional programs, parasite control (both internal and external) and implant strategies are all additive and continue to improve health and weaning weights of suckling calves. Best of all, gains during the suckling phase will not adversely affect future performance in the feedlot. The benefits of implanting suckling calves improve rate of gain, help produce more beef with fewer cattle and rarely affect the price paid per pound at the sale barn. Based on 2009 data,

very few producers received a premium when they did not implant their calves. In fact, on average, there was no difference in prices paid per pound for nonimplanted vs. implanted calves. When looking at weight gains of implanted vs. nonimplanted cattle — implants produce a heavier animal. Cattle grow bigger and more efficiently, leaving less of a carbon footprint and making them able to use nutrients more economically. Combining implants with other technologies helps us to maintain beef supply with a lower number of cattle due to drought and other factors.

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“DAIRY” CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Issued Dec. 9, 2011 The Agriculture Department’s latest milk production estimate for 2011 and 2012 was unchanged from last month’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. Commercial exports were forecast higher for 2011. Look for 2011 milk output to hit 195.9 billion pounds, up from 192.8 billion in 2010 and 189.3 billion in 2009. The 2012 projection is 198.4 billion pounds. Cheese, butter, and whey prices were forecast higher for 2011 and 2012, but the nonfat dry milk (NDM) forecast was reduced for 2011 and unchanged for 2012. Class III milk prices were raised for 2011 and 2012 on the increased price forecast for cheese and whey. The Class III is expected to average $18.30$18.40 per hundredweight, up 15 cents

from last month’s estimate, and compares to $14.41 in 2010 and $11.36 in 2009. The average takes a drop in 2012 however to $16.70-$17.60, down 40 cents from last month’s projection. The Class IV price was unchanged for 2011 as the higher butter price is mostly offset by a lower NDM price forecast. That range is $19.05-$19.25, up from $15.09 in 2010 and $10.89 in 2009. However, for 2012 with an unchanged NDM price forecast, the Class IV price forecast was raised from last month due to higher butter prices. The 2012 average is now projected at $16.40-$17.40, which is a dime higher than what bean counters projected last month. Meanwhile; cash cheese prices fell for the fourth consecutive week at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The cash block price closed the second Friday of December at $1.6550 per

pound, down 8 1/2cents on the week but still 26 1/2- cents above that week a year ago when they plunged 11 3/4-cents. The blocks have lost 29 1/2-cents in the last four weeks and you’ll recall that a penny movement on the cheese price approximates to a

dime on the milk price. The barrel price closed Friday at $1.5725, down 14 cents on the week, 22 1/2- cents above a year ago when the barrels rolled 11 1/4 cents lower, and is now 8 1/4 below the blocks so, either the barrels will have to move higher or the

blocks head lower to reestablish the more typical 3 cent spread. There were only four cars of block that were sold this week but 39 of barrel. The NASS-surveyed U.S. average block price slipped to $1.8807, down 0.8 cent, while the barrels averaged $1.9127,

down 6.2 cents. FC Stone dairy broker Boris Maslovsky warned in his December 5 eDairy Insider Opening Bell that “Cheese buyers are still out there but the holiday buying season is winding down.” eDairy economist Bill Brooks added that

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“dwindling margins for butter and powder plants have probably shifted some milk into cheese vats.” “Butter demand is likely filling pipelines following holiday buying,” he said. “Butter has to be in distribution centers by now or on its way to stores.”

USDA’s Dairy Market News said that “Cheese interest is light though lower prices may stimulate extra late year promotions.” It reported that a number of packagers needed overtime, to make up for the Thanksgiving holiday reduced schedules.

Process interest is about steady at lighter seasonal levels. Cheese production was heavier over the Thanksgiving weekend and back to regular schedules following. Cheese yields remain at solid seasonal levels, according to USDA. Butter ended the week

at $1.64, up a penny and 2 cents above a year ago. Volume was half that of the previous week with 25 cars trading hands. NASS butter averaged $1.6284, down 1.8 cents. NASS nonfat dry milk averaged $1.4422, up 3.2 cents, and dry whey averaged 64.7

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cents, up 0.4 cent. Dairy analyst Jerry Dryer gave some insight into the butter situation in his December 2 Dairy and Food Market Analyst, stating; “Tis the season for the butter price to plunge; however, one or more manufacturers and/or marketers aren’t ready to let it plunge. They want to protect inventory values, selling prices or both until all holiday orders are filled.” Dryer added that “two manufacturers reportedly had a supply agreement or have a supply agreement that is about to expire, so the buyer or the seller or both needed to come to the market and thirdly cream supplies may be just tight enough to put the squeeze on the available butter supply and force some to scramble for enough last minute butter to fill holiday orders.” He warned however, that “the butter price is about to correct lower. Holiday orders will be shipped within the next week to 10 days,” but added a couple other thoughts. One, October butter production was at a record 146 million pounds or 20 percent more than any previous October in recent history. He also points out that October 31 butter Inventories stood at 130 million pounds versus a five year average of 160 million and said international buyers are “kicking tires and will likely place orders once the U.S butter price gets to $1.50 or less.” Commercial disappearance of butter has been very strong, he said. USDA confirms that, reporting that dairy product commercial disappearance in the first

nine months of 2011 totaled 147.4 billion pounds, up 1.1 percent from the same period in 2010. Butter was up an impressive 9.9 percent; American cheese, up 0.6 percent; other cheese was up 4 1/2 percent; nonfat dry milk, down 3.4 percent; and fluid milk products, were off 1 1/2 percent. FC Stone dairy economist Bill Brooks said in Tuesday’s DairyLine that October butter output was the highest since records were kept and he’s a bit surprised that the price hasn’t fallen much considering the huge volume that was traded the week of November 28. He warned however that, if the price breaks below $1.60, “it could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.” He sees cheese prices dipping to $1.60 or so as well and reminds us that we started 2011 in the $1.30s but saw the $2 level maintained for some time. He pointed to the growing milk supply across the Southern Hemisphere and said “That’s not real positive given our economic situation we have out there across the world that we’re going to be able to use up all that at these current price levels and it could very well be that we’ll have to push those prices down a little bit further to move the product.” The global dairy auction was held on December 6 and prices were up, according to the CME’s Daily Dairy Report. The trade weighted index was up 2.6 percent from the November 15 auction. The weighted average price for skim

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Top 40 Herds For November

Top 40 Herds For November For Records Processed through DRMS Raleigh

800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

AUGUSTA

NORTH POINT FARM INC. KEVIN PHILLIPS

B R COW E YEARS E D

RHA MILK

VIRGINIA DHI-AP H 573.6 24421 DHI-APCS H 230.2 21361

CLARK

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YANCEY'S DAIRY

DHI-AP H 194.7 19434

ROBERT & STEPHANIE WHIPPLE DHI-AP H 100.1 22994

ROCKINGHAM WEST BRANCH DAIRY

SHENANDOAH

WILKINS BROTHERS DAIRY

889 3.6 727 3.0 3X 791 3.7 650 3.0 3X

DHIR H 607.9 27229 1036 3.8 822 3.0 3X

ROCKBRIDGE

DHI-AP H 145.6 21224 DHI-AP H 135.8 20271

For Records Processed through DRMS Raleigh

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TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

% 3 % FAT FAT PRO PRO X

734 3.8 611 3.1

NEW CASTLE

737 3.6 599 3.0

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

H H H X

102.9 105.9 159.9 72.7

25588 1047 4.1 801 3.1 20819 720 3.5 641 3.1 18997 721 3.8 614 3.2 17479 732 4.2 566 3.2

BERKELEY

DEMPSEY FARM DHI-APCS DULIN BROS. DHI-APCS GREGG & STEPHANIE KNUTSEN DHIR-AP JENAMY FARMS DHI-AP MOOR JR, ALFRED M. DHI-APCS GREGG & STEPHANIE KNUTSEN DHIR-AP WHITE OAK FARMS DHI-AP VOGL, ANTHONY & ERNEST DHI-AP

H H H H H J H H

236.1 156.7 40.6 173.1 315.7 24.8 178.5 143.7

28030 1076 3.8 844 3.0 24937 914 3.7 787 3.2 22683 862 3.8 730 3.2 23652 842 3.6 728 3.1 22281 886 4.0 722 3.2 16336 780 4.8 616 3.8 17777 704 4.0 566 3.2 18644 705 3.8 565 3.0

JEFFERSON

H X H H H J H H

104.5 38.9 569.9 84.3 25.6 115.2 257.4 233.8

25724 23006 23802 22274 22421 19402 21714 19963

KENT

3.6 3.9 3.6 3.9 4.1 4.9 3.6 3.4

794 747 710 704 697 675 664 599

3.1 3.2 3.0 3X 3.2 3.1 3.5 3.1 3.0

OWNER

CRESTHAVEN FARMS LEWIS A LAMB SONS INC TRIPLE R DAIRY ROBERT D STOOTS LAKESIDE DAIRY FARM INC. DAVID HOOLEY DONALD BOWMAN WOLF RIDGE HOLSTEINS ROHRER BROTHERS SHEN-ROCK HOLSTEINS CARLTON W BRUBAKER STEVE RAINEY M J ATKINS RICHLANDS DAIRY FARM INC BROWN RANDALL INMAN BARNY BAY DAIRY INC AMEVA FARM INC HEATWOLE FAMILY DAIRY RIVERBEND DAIRY FARM R.JEFFERSON CONNER DAIRY FARM INC LEWIS E WENGER WHITAKER FARM INC. NATHAN HORST CHRIS MCADEN CLARMAY FARM E H SPURLIN & SONS CLAUDIA PAULSON ALFRED STEPHENS JOHN O HARDESTY & SON WEST FINT BRANDON BEERY M B & MARK B GOODE WILLOW BEND DAIRY JENNINGS GAP DAIRY GARY RUSSELL HAMMOCK DAIRY INC. LUKE & ROBERTA HEATWOLE MICHAEL WRIGHT ERIC & RACHEL SIMMONS ROLLING HILLS DAIRY CUB RUN DAIRY FRF CROSS KEYS LLC CHERRY GROVE FARM INC MICHAEL COUNTISS HOME PLACE DAIRY INC CHAD & REBECCA MCMURRAY CHARLES F MOYER AND SONS JORDAN ROHRER RICHARD L SHOWALTER FORKLAND FARMS CORP REGGIE DUNCAN STEVE AND MARY MCCROSKEY GOLDENVIEW DAIRY INC MAJESTIC VIEW DAIRY

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MILK LBS

DAYS IN MILK

LBS MILK

% FAT

LBS FAT

GALAX VA (3X) ROCHELLE VA (3X) CREWE VA (3X) MAX MEADOWS VA MINERAL VA AMELIA VA (3X) ROCKY MOUNT VA BRIDGEWATER VA (3X) DAYTON VA HARRISONBURG VA (3X) BOONES MILL VA (3X) DILLWYN VA (3X) CHARLOTTE C H VA BLACKSTONE VA (3X) MARTINSVILLE VA MT. CRAWFORD VA (3X) ROCKY MOUNT VA AMELIA VA HARRISONBURG VA (3X) ROCKY MOUNT VA CHATHAM VA (3X) FLOYD VA DAYTON VA (3X) AMELIA CT HSE VA WEYERS CAVE VA BRODNAX VA (3X) FISHERSVILLE VA GALAX VA PORT REPUBLIC VA (3X) WYTHEVILLE VA BERRYVILLE VA SALTVILLE VA (3X) MT. CRAWFORD VA (3X) HUDDLESTON VA BRIDGEWATER VA CHURCHVILLE VA WOODLAWN VA CHATHAM VA (3X) MT. CRAWFORD VA WEYERS CAVE VA (3X) BRIDGEWATER VA (3X) ROCKY MOUNT VA MCGAHEYSVILLE VA (3X) HARRISONBURG VA FAIRFIELD VA ABINGDON VA (3X) DAYTON VA (3X) HARRISONBURG VA (3X) AMELIA VA GROTTOES VA (3X) DAYTON VA FARMVILLE VA CHRISTIANSBURG VA MENDOTA VA (3X) REDWOOD VA DAYTON VA

11 10 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

92.4 91.1 88.1 84.4 82.3 81.8 81.6 81.6 81.4 81.0 80.2 79.8 79.6 79.4 79.3 79.3 79.2 79.1 79.1 79.0 78.7 78.6 78.5 78.2 78.1 78.1 77.9 77.9 77.9 77.3 77.1 76.9 76.8 76.2 76.2 76.1 76.0 75.7 75.7 75.5 75.4 75.4 75.4 74.9 74.8 74.8 74.7 74.4 74.3 74.0 74.0 73.7 73.7 73.7 73.4 73.4

158 190 147 155 166 202 150 189 190 180 175 156 174 148 144 180 168 173 181 156 161 165 179 156 172 157 168 166 164 190 178 188 181 180 166 142 198 185 153 166 156 152 161 150 143 177 172 235 153 151 187 150 170 170 152 205

30440 28463 25479 25134 25902 24841 25942 24023 25007 26394 23706 25419 22465 24184 22336 26945 24946 25575 26565 24967 25462 23628 25157 24460 24299 20587 23673 24956 26811 24371 24938 20917 26753 20701 23088 21385 24998 25222 26444 24140 20614 22063 25723 21799 22913 23591 25457 24897 23006 23656 24875 21510 22329 25745 22238 27094

3.3 4.0 3.4 4.0 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.4 2.8 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.7 4.1 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.1 3.3 4.0 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.1 3.6 3.6 3.3 . 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.2 3.3 3.8 4.3 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.0 4.0 3.4

994 1132 861 1003 954 888 999 820 706 1016 835 933 804 908 817 1100 923 967 1005 918 969 722 825 982 839 749 854 828 1032 892 917 756 1051 778 912 887 912 916 880 . 715 810 932 855 845 759 849 940 997 785 887 775 829 762 894 927

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

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3.0 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.8 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 0.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 . 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0

925 873 749 759 750 775 764 740 731 799 696 762 693 723 687 811 750 783 808 692 781 701 761 752 723 645 732 20 807 756 767 651 790 639 702 666 767 759 780 . 620 658 770 659 688 698 746 753 726 688 764 663 673 767 696 824

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

DHI H 182.5

16976

647 3.8 519 3.1

DHIR X 126.0 DHI-AP H 132.8

19337 20704

754 3.9 642 3.3 769 3.7 632 3.1

HOUGH, CLARENCE E. & T.TODD DHIRAPCS H 218.2 VICKERS, L. ELMER DHI-AP H 95.9 SNYDER, NICHOLAS DHI-AP H 91.5 RZ BANE INC. DHI-APCS H 249.3 VICKERS, L. ELMER DHI-AP J 54.5

23012 21223 20388 19255 16005

957 792 747 696 736

DHIRAPCS H 47.5

18216

679 3.7 573 3.1

DHI-APCS H 86.2 DHI-APCS H 31.5

24458 16704

962 3.9 751 3.1 563 3.4 502 3.0

DHI H 79.1

20528

803 3.9 672 3.3

DHIR-AP H 213.0

20092

709 3.5 617 3.1 3X

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MONONGALIA MONROE

BEILER DAIRY FARM, LLC TRISH & STEVE ECHOLS

PRESTON GREG GIBSON

RANDOLPH LINGER FARMS INC.

ANNUAL AVERAGES B % LBS R PRO PRO E E D

RHA MILK

4.2 3.7 3.7 3.6 4.6

703 647 622 580 570

3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.6

Herds Ranked by Daily Milk Lbs Compiled by: DRMS, Raleigh The United Federation DHIA's, Va Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 552-2541

NOVEMBER R TEST A MTH N K

B R COW E YEARS E D

WEST VIRGINIA

WEST VIRGINIA DAIRY DEPT 936 891 864 869 913 959 783 676

UNITED DHI VIRGINIA TOTALS TEST DAY AVG (COW)

TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

LOYAL JAKE BENDER DHI-AP LOYAL JAKE BENDER DHI-AP GREEN ACRES FARM DHI-APCS HEATWOLE, JERREL & ALMA DHI-AP JOHN A. MILLS DHIR-AP JOHN A. MILLS DHIR-AP BAILEY, J. E. & SONS INC. DHI-AP VANDERWENDE, WILLIAM & SNS DHI-AP

789 3.7 644 3.0

B R COW E YEARS E D

DELAWARE

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE VARI, V. JOSEPH EMERSON, ROBERT L. COOK, H. WALLACE & SON

SUSSEX

882 3.8 697 3.0

Top 40 Herds For November

TEST DAY AVG (COW) OWNER

KYLE LEONARD ROBERT JENKINS & SONS DAIRY HARMAN BECKNER LW COLE FARM EASTVIEW FARM INC COTTAGE FARM ROBERT RUTROUGH ALLEN L SHANK WHISPERING OAKS FARM BURNT CHIMNEY DAIRY ASHLAND FARMS COOL LAWN HOLSTEINS CLIFFORD BOWMAN BACK RUN DAIRY THOMAS E STANLEY & SONS INC OAK SPRING FARMS LLC CARTER S ELLIOTT JR ALLEN LAYMAN WALKUP HOLSTEINS GEO ALVIS & SONS MOTLEY DAIRY INC. FLOWING SPRING FARM J HOLLACE BOWMAN & SONS RED-VALE DAIRY MEL-PAULA HOLSTEIN'S STAN AND WES SHOWALTER DONALD & WAYNE COX HILLSIDE FARM INC. HILLVIEW FARM INC HENRY L HOPKINS BELAIR DAIRY, LLC MT AIRY DAIRY FARM LLC TURNER DAIRY DANIEL LAYMAN JARECO FARMS J & B FARMS INC. MELVIN R WENGER HOWARD BOWMAN & TERRY AUSTIN RIVER HAVEN FARMS INC DAVID TERRY W W SANFORD HOMESTEAD DAIRY MCADEN FARM INC M.D.& LEE SIMMONS OAK SPRING FARMS LLC DAN ABE SLEMP AND SON J S HUFFARD III DAVID G & DARLENE F HOFFMAN JOE BLANKENSHIP JACOB SHENK R Y STILES & SONS NELSON & BEVERLY SINE & FAMILY E CLINE BRUBAKER HEDGEBROOK FARM MICHAEL AND LORI WEBB

TOWN (3X)

R TEST A MTH N K

SPOTTSWOOD VA 11 57 GREEN BAY VA 11 58 WIRTZ VA 11 59 CHILHOWIE VA 11 60 BEAVERDAM VA 11 61 COLONIAL BEACH VA 11 62 ROCKY MOUNT VA 11 63 BRIDGEWATER VA 11 64 ROCKY MOUNT VA 11 65 WIRTZ VA (3X) 11 66 CULPEPER VA 11 67 REMINGTON VA (3X) 11 68 CALLAWAY VA 11 69 ROCKY MOUNT VA 11 70 ASHLAND VA 11 71 UPPERVILLE VA 11 72 RUSTBURG VA (3X) 11 73 WIRTZ VA 11 74 HARRISONBURG VA 10 75 MANAKIN SABOT VA (3X) 11 76 CHATHAM VA 11 77 BUCHANAN VA 11 78 ROCKY MOUNT VA 11 79 BOONES MILL VA 11 80 ROANOKE VA 11 81 BRIDGEWATER VA 11 82 RADFORD VA 11 83 DUBLIN VA 11 84 BRIDGEWATER VA 11 85 ROCKY MOUNT VA 10 86 CULPEPER VA 10 87 MT JACKSON VA 11 88 BEDFORD VA 11 89 WIRTZ VA 11 90 PENHOOK VA 11 91 MAX MEADOWS VA 11 92 DAYTON VA 11 93 BOONES MILL VA 11 94 RADFORD VA 11 95 RURAL RETREAT VA (3X) 11 96 ORANGE VA 11 97 BRIDGEWATER VA 11 98 BRODNAX VA 11 99 MOUNT SOLON VA 11 100 VIRGINIA COLOR BREEDS UPPERVILLE VA 11 1 SUGAR GROVE VA 11 2 CROCKETT VA 10 3 CULPEPER VA 11 4 SUGAR GROVE VA 11 5 CATLETT VA 11 6 CLEAR BROOK VA 11 7 WOODSTOCK VA 11 8 ROCKY MOUNT VA 11 9 WINCHESTER VA 11 10 CONCORD VA 11 11

ANNUAL AVERAGES

MILK LBS

DAYS IN MILK

LBS MILK

% FAT

LBS FAT

B % LBS R PRO PRO E E D

73.3 73.3 73.2 73.1 73.0 73.0 72.8 72.7 72.6 72.6 72.5 72.5 72.4 72.4 72.4 72.3 71.5 71.1 71.0 70.8 70.8 70.7 70.7 70.7 70.7 70.5 70.2 70.2 70.2 70.0 69.7 69.7 69.6 69.5 69.3 69.3 69.2 69.1 69.1 69.0 68.9 68.8 68.5 68.3

147 144 148 206 159 154 162 163 197 167 191 174 183 152 183 108 194 152 167 168 162 190 163 181 223 170 154 172 152 180 173 166 183 162 174 167 181 178 161 175 180 220 146 185

23525 21641 22434 21897 23323 21587 24279 22465 25904 21391 23444 23249 23335 25202 22592 14304 24131 22177 23656 22697 20429 22997 23001 24078 23890 22505 21275 24243 22494 22668 21482 21686 22074 22793 23099 23509 21753 22158 22029 21758 22271 24918 20879 24623

3.7 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.9 4.0 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.9 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 4.8 3.7 3.8 4.1 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.6 3.2 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.7 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.6 . . 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.3 3.8 3.4

882 837 843 809 871 850 960 840 938 769 907 860 888 965 866 690 883 841 979 884 778 896 821 770 873 804 793 895 903 879 832 790 860 851 926 849 . . 839 789 837 818 786 825

3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.5 3.0 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0 . . 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0

704 681 690 689 712 678 741 716 758 659 735 704 694 735 691 506 728 649 702 653 635 725 679 692 731 674 673 737 675 696 667 649 692 684 728 710 . . 669 664 690 752 651 743

72.3 58.3 53.1 50.7 49.3 48.4 46.5 37.5 37.1 35.5 33.9

108 214 162 164 177 170 141 167 198 152 171

14304 17598 16676 16648 14355 15260 13805 12091 13596 11585 .

4.8 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.9 4.2 .

690 766 765 773 682 714 654 549 661 485 .

3.5 3.3 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.3 3.4 3.5 .

506 B 575 J 586 J 590 J 509 J 543 J 505 J 405 J 461 G 403 J . J

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NORTH CAROLINA JOE’S TRACTOR SALES Joe Moore Road, off Hasty School Road Thomasville, NC 910-885-4582

PENNSYLVANIA MM WEAVER & SONS, INC. 169 North Groffdale Rd. Leola, PA 717-656-2321

PENNSYLVANIA STANLEY’S FARM SERVICE RR Box 46, Scenic Rd. Klingerstown, PA 717-648-2088

LOUISBURG TRACTOR & TRUCK CO. 1931 Hwy. 401 S. Louisburg, NC 919-496-3594

PEOPLES SALES & SERVICE Rt. 35, PO Box 157 Oakland Mills, PA 717-463-2735

VIRGINIA COLLINS TRACTOR St. Rte. 631 Stewart, VA 276-694-6161

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For Records Processed Through DRMS Raleigh 800.496.3344 • www.dairyone.com TYPE TEST

HERD OWNER

ADAMS

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

PENNSYLVANIA

SPUNGOLD HOLSTEINS KEHOLTZ DAIRY KEHOLTZ DAIRY HILCREST DAIRY STEVE & CHRISTINE WOOD CIRCLE CREEK HOL. APPLE VALLEY CREAMERY LADD S. MUMMERT FARVIEW HOLSTEINS KENNETH WENGER

DHIR-AP DHIRAPCS DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H

104.8 40.0 400.1 274.5 54.2 150.6 63.9 180.7 60.7 234.3

24069 24551 23139 23102 20501 21466 20884 21206 21122 18124

995 942 894 865 858 791 789 810 761 770

4.1 3.8 3.9 3.7 4.2 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.6 4.2

768 754 710 705 661 657 652 647 641 562

3.2 3.1 3X 3.1 3X 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1

SCOTT BOWSER SHIREY FARM RON & BETH RUFFANER SHANMAR JERSEYS R.FREEHLING LARA WILSON SHIELDS

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP

H X H J H H

82.2 249.6 40.9 344.5 94.7 32.9

23512 22549 21867 16357 18267 16470

868 817 778 794 635 638

3.7 3.6 3.6 4.9 3.5 3.9

726 678 652 590 567 504

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.6 3.1 3.1

BONZO ONEOONE BREEZE RIDGE CRAIG FARMS BREEZE RIDGE NYE FARMS FISCHERS WINDY RIDGE DIANE BURRY

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H B H J J

39.1 31.1 107.9 54.5 131.7 39.9 17.6

28179 1060 3.8 860 3.1 21781 772 3.5 675 3.1 20884 815 3.9 660 3.2 19642 766 3.9 651 3.3 21349 805 3.8 635 3.0 17544 819 4.7 629 3.6 14166 654 4.6 514 3.6

DEVON MARTIN RAY D MOWRY & SONS

DHI-AP H 106.4 DHIR-AP X 40.8

21845 17357

CARL Z GOOD DHI-AP H 86.5 MELVIN M OBERHOLTZER DHI-AP H 121.4 DON & AMY RICE DHI-AP H 106.5 ALLEN P+MARY J GRUBE DHI H 60.6 EARL R HAFER & SONS DHI-APCS H 226.0 TULPACANAL FARM DHI-AP H 129.7 LARRY GRUMBINE DHI-AP H 64.3 E&N SHAYNAH KEE DHI-AP H 70.8 MICHAEL FORRY DHI-AP H 106.4 MIL JOY FARMS DHI-AP H 245.1 SCATTERED ACRES INC DHI-APCS H 335.2 SKYLINE ACRES INC. DHI-APCS H 575.0 UNITED HEARTS HOLSTEINS DHI-AP H 119.2 GARY & KATHY HEFFNER DHI-AP H 77.9 SUNRISE FARM DHI-AP H 39.2 LLEWELLYN MOYER DHI-AP H 113.4 GLENN A DAVIS DHI-AP H 74.4 SHOW TOP FARMS DHI H 171.1 ROCKYCREST HOLSTEINS DHI-AP H 38.7 MISTY MOOR HOLSTEINS DHIR-AP H 78.4 LUKE & LORI TROUTMAN DHI-AP H 56.1 CURVIN MARTIN DHI-AP H 89.2 DAVIEW FARM DHIRAPCS H 68.4 NORTHKILL CREEK FARM DHI-AP X 125.8 MARTIN & MISSY MOYER DHI-AP H 43.8 RODGER WAGNER DHI-AP H 206.7 CEDAR CREEK DAIRY LLC. DHI-AP H 108.5 KIRBYVILLE HOLSTEINS DHIR H 97.5 MICHAEL HAAG DHI-AP H 87.1 ARDOUNIE FARM INC. DHI-AP H 131.2 CURVIN MARTIN DHI-AP H 72.2 WAY HAR FARMS DHI-AP H 89.9 SUNNYSIDE DAIRY FARM DHI-AP H 202.0 JAMES P. & JAN M. ADAM DHI-APCS H 187.5 BARRY+BARBARA GOOD DHI-AP H 88.7 DANA & DEBBIE STOUDT DHI-AP H 50.4 ONE HILL FARM MOYER DHIR-AP B 31.7 WALNUTRIDGE HOLSTEIN DHI-AP H 56.7 WILLIAM&KAREN BOYD DHI-AP H 45.4 ALLEN A DAVIS DHI-AP H 55.5

29460 30061 29784 27899 27405 27247 26483 26536 25069 24753 25929 24668 25102 24740 24647 24948 23682 23495 24786 25192 24519 24083 23472 23978 24708 23738 24142 22656 23879 23476 23966 22568 23689 22649 23084 23461 22105 22820 21808 21461

CLOVER WILL FARMS

DHI-AP H 194.0

24931

DEB & RAY DETWEILER MARWELL DAIRY FARM ROY + ART SHULL WO BO FARMS TOM + SUE HALDEMAN

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H

84.7 67.3 209.7 72.0 94.4

30037 1040 3.5 939 3.1 23820 931 3.9 720 3.0 22463 891 4.0 709 3.2 19220 684 3.6 593 3.1 18902 764 4.0 580 3.1

DAVID MYERS RALPH J LIEB BRENT LOWMASTER BILL HOOVER MARTIN SHERRY STRITTMATTER DAIRY DAVID MYERS VALEWOOD DAIRY RON HOOVER RONALD HOGUE BORLIE'S DAIRY

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H J H H H H

280.3 210.8 163.0 118.2 101.6 246.4 16.8 217.4 117.2 74.0 117.3

26169 25924 24862 22213 22863 22644 18682 22246 20881 18890 17127

925 877 939 745 799 844 853 863 750 705 630

3.5 3.4 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.7 4.6 3.9 3.6 3.7 3.7

830 777 755 695 694 684 678 676 644 586 518

3.2 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.6 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0

DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIRAPCS

H H H H H H H H H H

80.8 796.4 193.1 157.5 87.5 145.0 48.9 201.6 78.8 77.4

30587 28784 28164 27752 29530 26577 24717 23824 23185 23412

1140 990 1003 1128 1061 929 870 902 840 952

3.7 3.4 3.6 4.1 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.8 3.6 4.1

890 864 852 843 837 784 769 747 722 707

2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0

ARMSTRONG

BEAVER

BEDFORD BERKS

BLAIR

BUCKS

CAMBRIA

CHESTER

ROY & RUTH ANN BENDER WALMOORE HOLSTEINS ROBERT +BETTY PEIFER NOLAN&NORI KING ROY & RUTH ANN BENDER NEAL & LOU KING DAVID F KING FARM #2 MARSHAK DAIRY -NBCMARK &MELODY STOLTZFUS CENTURY OAK FARM

839 3.8 674 3.1 646 3.7 549 3. 1086 1013 1048 993 923 1005 874 900 938 894 938 912 907 872 945 889 921 911 876 966 873 876 805 798 903 909 855 851 895 821 872 804 825 817 884 888 912 868 726 827

3.7 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.7 3.3 3.4 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.8 3.6 3.9 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.7 3.8 3.5 3.8 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.8 4.1 3.8 3.3 3.9

921 908 891 853 833 825 824 798 771 770 765 764 757 756 753 752 752 750 748 743 742 739 730 729 728 727 724 720 718 717 715 713 711 710 709 708 707 705 686 685

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2

HERD OWNER AMOS LAPP HERBETH FARMS EVERGREEN FARM AMOS J STOLTZFUS RIDGE STAR FARM HOLLY SOLLENBERGER

3X 3X 3X 3X

865 824 773 747 634 604

3.8 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.9

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H X H H X H X H H H H H H H

256.8 386.0 62.7 54.5 149.1 93.3 148.9 176.5 93.2 30.0 128.7 74.4 352.7 157.9 61.8 94.9 34.8 142.8 272.1 82.5 51.7 29.7 194.4 74.7

28562 1062 3.7 901 3.2 30173 1018 3.4 892 3.0 3X 26208 984 3.8 808 3.1 24526 911 3.7 783 3.2 25372 962 3.8 781 3.1 23958 962 4.0 773 3.2 26424 954 3.6 768 2.9 3X 23600 892 3.8 740 3.1 24113 875 3.6 736 3.1 23657 873 3.7 705 3.0 21748 834 3.8 677 3.1 21033 819 3.9 663 3.2 20824 738 3.5 657 3.2 20945 803 3.8 647 3.1 19916 736 3.7 628 3.2 20525 746 3.6 624 3.0 17995 777 4.3 624 3.5 19160 695 3.6 616 3.2 19692 745 3.8 612 3.1 19510 784 4.0 603 3.1 19162 654 3.4 592 3.1 19529 748 3.8 590 3.0 17777 665 3.7 574 3.2 17233 627 3.6 555 3.2

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI

H H H H H H

114.0 169.2 49.9 52.6 125.0 67.3

24237 874 3.6 732 3.0 22373 849 3.8 718 3.2 23795 1042 4.4 718 3.0 20397 752 3.7 626 3.1 19924 665 3.3 622 3.1 18850 689 3.7 589 3.1

ORR FARMS ALLEN HILL DAIRY ORR FARMS JACKSON FARMS DAVID HAY FERENS FARM LLC GARY THOMAS FERENS FARM LLC TESLOVICH DAIRY

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H X H H H H A H

110.8 122.7 63.8 146.7 40.5 100.1 93.6 20.8 67.6

23868 21672 21180 20771 20358 19902 18104 17089 16209

CREEK VALLEY FARMS

DHI-AP H 494.1

CUMBERLAND

BRYMESSER FARMS NEALAND FARMS SMITHDALE FARMS MARLIN & ADAMAE ZIMMERMAN CURTIS WEAVER JETRAE FARM TRIPLE L FARM STOVER FARMS MARCUS GOOD DORELL & BEV AGAR WESTYLE HOLSTEINS SILVER HILL FARM JOHN STAMY BERKHEIMER FARMS J&S DAIRY DAVE AND DOUG LEHMAN LIGHTNING BOLT FARM TIM WITTER HARRY & PAUL HOCH HENSEL HILL FARM HARRY E THOMPSON K HALE & L WENGER HARPER HERSEY + SONS DAVID R WALTON TY & TRACY LONG LEHMANSTEAD FARMS BOB KESSLER PLEASANT HILL FARMS STONEY LAWN FARMS J MELVIN BRANDT

FAYETTE

HUNTINGTON

MOWRER FARMS LOCUST LANE FARMS BILL & KAROL WINGERT GLOBE RUN FARMS WILLOW BEHRER FARMS WILLOW BEHRER FARMS EVERGREEN FARMS INC LITTLE J RANCH TIMOTHY R PEACHEY LOST HOLLOW FARM BILL & KAREN DAVIS DIAMOND VALLEY FARM TERRY ALLISON IRVIN G MARTIN LAKEVALE AYRE FARM TOM & GLORIA COFFMAN HERON RUN FARMS HAWN CREST FARMS

DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

BLOSSOM HOLLOW FARM PLEASANT VIEW FARMS LARRY H MARSHALL JERRY NESBIT DAN L. HANCOCK NEHRIG FARM JEWART DAIRY CRAIG A ANDRIE STEWART HOLLOW FARM BERKEYS DAIRY FARM GLEN HENRY AND SONS DARYL&DEL BRUBAKER RUSSELL ADAMIRE JR TUSCARORA RUN HLSTNS GRAYBILL, DAVID MYRON+MARY GEHMAN MICHAEL W BEAVER BARRY E+BARB A LUCAS JOEL & SARA MILLS J.SCOTT LANDIS B. C. + E. BRUBAKER CHARLES&TAMMY KLINE ANTHONY HEIMBACH MARCUS J ZOOK RUSSELL J DRESSLER KENT MABEN COCOLAMUS FARM CENTERVIEW FARM MARLIN CHARLTON TIMOTHY E LAUVER ANDREW B.SWARTZ G V FARMS

902 825 849 773 794 771 651 695 566

3.8 3.8 4.0 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.6 4.1 3.5

703 679 636 614 525 509

749 703 691 668 651 599 557 512 506

3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.3

3.1 3X 3.2 3.3 3X 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1

30594 1228 4.0 942 3.1 3X

H 359.7 H 466.8 H 741.9 H 115.3 H 691.5 H 114.2 H 2792.9 H 87.7 H 91.3 H 120.0 H 159.4 H 88.5 H 85.7 H 84.2 H 65.1 H 175.8 H 171.5 H 75.2

28277 27110 27542 26231 26421 26219 26225 24538 24552 22532 22961 23003 20837 22224 21344 21002 19620 17729

1024 999 1090 1036 1035 998 979 887 968 824 971 840 774 773 785 797 697 707

3.6 3.7 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.7 4.2 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.6 4.0

852 839 836 823 805 793 782 770 760 722 722 713 679 663 658 655 592 570

3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H X X H H

60.4 230.9 47.4 101.3 116.1 101.9 227.5 61.7 60.7 48.5

25227 23031 22479 21223 21185 20683 19822 19875 18577 19073

981 850 986 923 764 746 763 815 685 712

3.9 3.7 4.4 4.3 3.6 3.6 3.8 4.1 3.7 3.7

781 700 679 663 660 635 623 615 584 571

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0

DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

52.1 98.9 87.3 101.3 65.4 341.0 24.2 131.5 109.0 64.3 69.8 80.2 58.8 76.7 85.4 57.6 41.5 123.2 75.3 39.9 55.9 121.7

28174 1044 3.7 867 3.1 25645 953 3.7 778 3.0 24029 920 3.8 774 3.2 25374 971 3.8 763 3.0 24656 912 3.7 757 3.1 24837 870 3.5 751 3.0 24008 914 3.8 747 3.1 23726 899 3.8 745 3.1 23862 888 3.7 743 3.1 24314 858 3.5 739 3.0 23756 831 3.5 739 3.1 24129 836 3.5 725 3.0 23817 880 3.7 725 3.0 23439 875 3.7 718 3.1 23720 873 3.7 710 3.0 22348 815 3.6 685 3.1 21365 752 3.5 667 3.1 21494 805 3.7 662 3.1 21544 806 3.7 662 3.1 20530 801 3.9 657 3.2 20878 754 3.6 653 3.1 19598 737 3.8 627 3.2

HERD OWNER

TYPE TEST

B R COW E E YEARS D

ROBERT A MILLER DHI-AP H BRIAN&KAREN DIFFENDERFER DHI-AP H E MARLENE PEOPLES DHI-AP H DARRON SHEARER# DHI-AP H ZIMMERMAN BROS DHIR-AP H GLENN D. LAUVER DHI-AP H

22713 22490 20092 19921 16891 15631

JUNIATA

3X 3X 3X

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

53.4 61.9 132.4 61.2 50.3 35.6

INDIANA

966 3.9 784 3.1 3X

RHA MILK

H H H H H X

FULTON 3X

B R COW E E YEARS D

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

DAUPHIN 3X 3X

TYPE TEST

Top 40 Herds For November

3X 3X

3X 3X 3X

LANCASTER

STAR ROCK FARMS TRUDALE FARM LLOYD M REIFF RAYMOND H GOOD SCATTERED ACRES REINHOLDS JAY & ANNETTE STOLTZFUS ELI S. STOLTZFUS HERMAN COOK MEGASTAR HOLSTEINS HERMAN COOK

LEBANON

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-APCS

55.3 51.9 106.8 71.6 87.8 31.1

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

20073 19486 19701 18348 17505 17438

766 749 737 695 712 623

3.8 3.8 3.7 3.8 4.1 3.6

621 603 600 574 571 556

3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.2

H 1377.5 X 27.0 H 57.8 H 276.9 H 638.2 H 131.1 H 57.0 H 80.0 H 56.4 J 25.8

28635 1070 3.7 875 3.1 3X 23046 917 4.0 766 3.3 25397 916 3.6 755 3.0 23951 843 3.5 726 3.0 3X 23513 882 3.8 714 3.0 3X 20292 728 3.6 618 3.0 19061 750 3.9 584 3.1 19106 674 3.5 577 3.0 17947 644 3.6 543 3.0 14719 697 4.7 516 3.5

BRANDT VIEW FARM LITTLE HILL FARM EARL RAY & CAROL MARTIN LEON E. MARTIN LITTLE HILL FARM DALE+PATTIE MAULFAIR KENDRA MASE KEVIN & ALLISON SELLERS GARY LENTZ B & L HOSTETTER RUPLAND HOLSTEINS ADAM LIGHT DEW MIST HOLSTEINS PHILHAVEN FARM MILE EE FARM KIRBY L HORST MARTIN RIDGE FARM LEROY WISE BARRY HOSTETTER JAY W GOOD BRUCE BOLLINGER&FAMILY ZIM LEA HOLSTEINS CURVIN+DAWN GOOD WHITE BIRCH FARM NATHAN NOLT CARISTONE FARM, LLC DALE HOSTETTER & SON JERE BRUBAKER K & M SELLERS MUSSER RIDGE FARM RICREY HOLSTEINS REID K HOOVER MARK M. HOOVER DONALD C KRALL RUPLAND HOLSTEINS CLIFFORD+FAY BERGER# JOHN + SHARON KLINE HARLAN GOOD BRUCE R HEILINGER DAVID+CHRIS WILLIAMS

DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP

H H H H B H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H

114.8 55.5 93.2 67.3 37.2 58.9 59.5 67.1 83.0 116.0 119.7 117.8 109.6 91.0 204.1 45.6 106.4 136.1 64.5 126.2 79.8 84.0 119.2 137.6 59.5 268.5 85.1 132.4 63.6 144.4 123.0 207.4 45.9 66.2 111.2 67.6 125.4 75.6 81.3 59.1

32824 31157 30320 27115 25620 26992 26349 25570 26315 26671 26359 25680 25853 25638 25604 25465 24230 24810 24257 24588 24603 24173 24822 24770 25140 23578 23684 24257 23434 23976 23361 23442 23816 22946 23824 23442 23425 23305 23264 21778

MELVIN&JUDY PEACHEY KISH VIEW FARM DAVID T HOSTETLER LOWELL J PEACHEY DAVID C YODER RAMOND&ROSE KAUFFMAN RODERICK KAUFFMAN AMMON FARMS DAVID J&RUTH PEACHEY FORGY DAIRY ROBERT L KAUFFMAN RAYMOND S HOSTETLER FROG MEADOW FARM VERNAN HOLSTEINS MICHAEL P YODER LEE AND JOANNE YODER SHAWN & EMILY YODER MARK & VERNA PEACHEY ROBERT & LISA PEACHEY JESSE L SPICHER JOHN SPICHER G SHELDON PEACHEY LOREN K. YODER ELWOOD H STITT PAUL NEER SAM K KAUFFMAN JOHN & SALOMA BYLER TITUS R PEACHEY VALLEY VIEW FARM PEACHVIEW FARM DARVIN RENNINGER DALE I KING CAS STEAD FARMS CLARK N. PEACHEY A FRED KING REED GAP FARMS CAS STEAD FARM2 MARLIN HARTZLER JAMES L HOSTETTER

DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR

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55.0 407.2 55.5 59.2 78.7 87.8 115.1 93.0 54.4 148.8 48.0 62.2 65.2 67.0 141.7 57.3 99.6 99.5 87.9 39.5 75.3 118.8 114.1 43.0 23.8 80.6 85.1 98.3 75.6 120.8 58.0 46.9 195.7 70.0 66.3 69.2 18.4 50.2 30.4

29409 1122 3.8 892 3.0 3X 28012 950 3.4 839 3.0 3X 26040 966 3.7 810 3.1 26482 948 3.6 802 3.0 3X 25193 965 3.8 799 3.2 25844 966 3.7 788 3.0 25331 923 3.6 781 3.1 24821 937 3.8 768 3.1 24086 870 3.6 758 3.1 23830 927 3.9 748 3.1 24091 862 3.6 742 3.1 24278 902 3.7 740 3.0 24207 910 3.8 738 3.0 24246 897 3.7 735 3.0 24008 891 3.7 732 3.0 22856 885 3.9 727 3.2 24024 874 3.6 727 3.0 24060 878 3.6 726 3.0 23859 887 3.7 723 3.0 23086 899 3.9 723 3.1 23317 891 3.8 723 3.1 22985 915 4.0 709 3.1 23273 853 3.7 700 3.0 22144 799 3.6 699 3.2 22816 884 3.9 694 3.0 22665 854 3.8 693 3.1 22243 853 3.8 691 3.1 22527 857 3.8 689 3.1 21358 805 3.8 688 3.2 21598 834 3.9 684 3.2 22120 873 3.9 678 3.1 22256 798 3.6 672 3.0 21615 784 3.6 667 3.1 22024 809 3.7 663 3.0 21894 783 3.6 660 3.0 19993 738 3.7 634 3.2 20630 646 3.1 630 3.1 20708 736 3.6 626 3.0 19937 779 3.9 625 3.1

MIFFLIN

1175 1112 1119 968 1030 957 918 995 913 998 927 1013 926 901 909 972 920 894 902 885 844 904 905 916 867 848 873 818 881 823 809 837 843 840 849 794 828 798 813 895

3.6 3.6 3.7 3.6 4.0 3.5 3.5 3.9 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.4 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 4.1

997 931 914 836 834 822 813 809 804 801 799 797 794 792 788 786 772 762 761 758 755 754 753 749 749 747 743 741 737 725 724 723 723 718 718 709 709 709 699 692

3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.2

3X 3X

milk powder was $1.55 per pound, up 2.6 percent; whole milk powder was $1.65 per pound, up

2 percent; anhydrous milkfat was $1.82 per pound, up 12 percent and the highest since

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA TOP 40 HERDS FOR NOVEMBER

NAME

BRD

MILK 3X

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H B B H H H H H H H H H H H H H X H H H H X H

YES YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES NO NO YES NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES YES NO NO YES

FURNACE HILL HOLSTEINS SPRING VALLEY DAIRY LLC ROARING CREEK FARM BRIAN K MULL SCOTT & APRIL COOPER DEWDROP-MEDO HOLSTIENS DEEP RUN CRK HOLSTEINS ABNER L STOLTZFUS WEA-LAND FARM MIFFLIN HILLS FARM DAVID & JOSHUA BISHOP KEVIN L OBERHOLTZER FREDERICK FARMS K WAYNE &MIKE BURKET CLIFF & ANDREA SENSENIG JOBO HOLSTEIN FARM DELAWARE VAL COLLEGE OLD PIKE DAIRY SKY VIEW DAIRY CHRISTIAN L PETERSHEIM CLAIR N OBERHOLTZER WILLOW RUN FARM BRAUND VALLEY FARMS GERALD SMITH CREEK VIEW FARM TROUT BROS DAIRY DOUG-GREG MC CULLOH BRENT L. GEHMAN JEFF SENSENIG BRUVALLEY FARM MAINS DAIRY INC. JOHN M. BURKHOLDER JOBO HOLSTEIN FARM MILL HILL FARMS KING-RIDGE FARM CREEK VIEW FARM GLENVILLE FARMS

RHA FAT RHA PROT RHA MILK PCT FAT PCT PRO

33224 31688 30886 29615 30389 30034 30784 28619 27836 29515 28015 28253 27536 28012 27940 26636 26605 27936 29036 27174 27163 27913 27577 26231 28254 27146 27954 27020 29125 28729 26961 27031 27604 27205 25941 26212 26618

3.3 3.6 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.7 3.4 3.7 3.9 3.4 3.7 3.3 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.5 4.0 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.6 3.9 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.9 3.5 3.1 3.7 3.9 3.3 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.6

1087 1125 1139 1032 1141 1106 1060 1052 1086 999 1039 938 1060 1020 1033 944 1052 991 1080 951 949 938 1006 1019 999 980 997 1058 1026 904 986 1042 906 952 953 1000 963

3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1

1002 940 926 922 917 907 905 903 896 889 883 877 872 870 867 863 861 859 857 857 855 854 853 852 852 852 850 848 847 843 842 842 840 840 838 836 836

TOP HERDS FOR RHI PROTEIN

BEN AKERS SANDY HOLLOW FARM HAROLD S ZIMMERMAN

H H H

NO 26906 3.8 1022 3.1 835 NO 27331 3.8 1036 3.1 835 NO 27836 3.3 931 3.0 834

early September. The Cheddar cheese price was up 2.1 percent, to $1.62 per pound. “International prices are still much weaker than domestic prices,” according to FC Stone dairy broker Derek Nelson, and “World prices are still playing catch-up with U.S. prices.” Broker Boris Maslovsky adds that “International dairy markets appear to have

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stabilized but U.S. prices are still at a premium to world prices. Typically international prices are higher,” he said, and warned “We could see the traditional spread between world and U.S. dairy prices slowly reestablish itself.” Bill Van Dam, of California’s Alliance of Western Milk Producers, says he has followed this auction since its inception,

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Jared Cupp, Rockingham County, VA

Knight 4036 Bowtec Mixer, Stainless Liner, Nice Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Gehl 7190 Feed Wagon, Exc. Cond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,750 Salsco Round Bale Wrapper, 3Pt Hitch, Good Cond., Ready to Work . . . . . . .$4,250 Anderson 680S Single Bale Wrapper, Big Round-Big Square, Ex. Cond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Call! Rental M&S Grain Crusher, Rollermill/Bagger, does 5’x200’ bags, approx. 2500 bu.

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DHI-AP H 86.4

19866

DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H

97.4 37.4 110.4 175.6 61.0 32.2

28976 1011 3.5 862 3.0 22810 885 3.9 710 3.1 21992 815 3.7 672 3.1 19491 801 4.1 610 3.1 19530 787 4.0 601 3.1 18480 726 3.9 593 3.2

JOHN RISHEL STROUSE DAIRY FARM SPRING LAKE DAIRY SHULTZ HILLSIDE DAIRY ZIMMERMAN FARMS INC. DRY RUN DAIRY, LLC NORTH RUSH HOLSTEINS WOLFE'S POWER LINE DAIRY WAYNE KLOCK J DANIEL FAUS JUDY BROSIOUS

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50.0 68.5 110.7 80.9 318.6 94.0 94.1 400.0 40.8 130.1 45.2

33565 28944 28806 27459 27782 24512 23028 24024 21793 20993 18179

CARL & BRENT MC MILLEN LOY ACRES L.L.C. M W SMITH FARMS CINDY & JOE COMP JESSE+BARB SINGLETON MELVIN S WEAVER O'TOOLE ACRES WELLER'S DAIRY NEVIN G RICE OL MAPLES FARM ROBRT & BONITA RODGERS LENARD & AMY KRESGE LYONS BROTHERS SYLVIN M WENGER PHILLIP WENGER KRETZH FARMS INC. ED + WILMA MCMILLEN EDWARD C BROFEE INNERST FARM KENDALL BYERS

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

95.3 91.6 489.8 103.3 52.5 91.9 72.1 65.1 121.5 96.4 37.1 159.5 67.4 74.4 74.7 327.8 48.5 246.8 189.0 64.4

27933 958 3.4 870 3.1 26956 968 3.6 833 3.1 26931 1015 3.8 825 3.1 3X 26608 999 3.8 812 3.1 25464 959 3.8 809 3.2 26412 1016 3.8 796 3.0 24764 966 3.9 781 3.2 25057 938 3.7 769 3.1 23849 855 3.6 748 3.1 23338 825 3.5 747 3.2 22993 918 4.0 743 3.2 23871 870 3.6 739 3.1 23512 883 3.8 726 3.1 23195 824 3.6 710 3.1 21734 780 3.6 683 3.1 21514 803 3.7 668 3.1 21940 808 3.7 665 3.0 22087 836 3.8 657 3.0 21256 754 3.5 644 3.0 20989 763 3.6 644 3.1

MONTGOMERY MERRYMEAD FARM RUSSELL GUNTZ ROY S KOLB & SONS EDWIN A POLLOCK MARK SCHMIDT MERRILL MEST

NORTHUMBERLAND

PERRY

773 3.9 619 3.1

1151 1017 1059 1035 1029 975 1002 850 826 771 711

3.41019 3.5 882 3.7 860 3.8 842 3.7 834 4.0 766 4.4 722 3.5 718 3.8 672 3.7 632 3.9 564

3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1

3X 3X

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

20188 20821 18457 15602

782 732 709 669

3.9 3.5 3.8 4.3

H H H X

59.1 34.5 52.7 80.5

CARL A FARMS INC BRIAN RUCH JAMES D. DUNN LARRY HEPLER SNYDERLANDFARMS MILLER & REX WIND MILL FARM ELBERT FARMS MARK & AMY WOLFE MAR K FARMS RYAN KAHLER DAWN F RHEIN DONNON-S DAIRY FARM JERSEY ACRES FMS INC DONNON-S DAIRY FARM

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93.1 61.3 98.3 60.1 52.4 38.3 181.8 90.2 58.6 79.9 90.2 228.0 134.4 190.2 40.4

32190 1177 3.7 966 3.0 3X 26595 1004 3.8 840 3.2 24433 856 3.5 751 3.1 22782 831 3.6 726 3.2 23135 847 3.7 713 3.1 24041 802 3.3 708 2.9 20715 881 4.3 689 3.3 22571 834 3.7 677 3.0 21416 758 3.5 677 3.2 21594 776 3.6 659 3.1 21246 800 3.8 651 3.1 15741 700 4.4 585 3.7 18975 698 3.7 582 3.1 15732 729 4.6 571 3.6 16728 608 3.6 516 3.1

CHRISS+TRISH NIPPLE DARE E LAND JACOB GRAYBILL KEITH MCCOOL ROBERT + KATHY WAITE JOHN M KURTZ JL & CL SHAFFER WARREN FAUS SAUDERDALE FARM BO ANN HOLSTEINS DAVID APPLE AND SON RICHARD+BETTY WELLER JAY HOLLENBACH WAITE N CE FARM LEIRE FRY & SONS DAN WHITMER MABARBIL FARMS SEVEN OAKS JUSTAMERE FARM DUANE & KAREN EWING

DHI DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

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49.0 88.3 48.6 148.1 45.8 65.3 39.6 89.9 53.2 45.0 67.5 44.7 47.3 73.5 142.0 33.7 98.7 60.0 41.4 53.6

26417 1087 4.1 867 3.3 23534 1008 4.3 765 3.3 23183 889 3.8 710 3.1 22957 823 3.6 706 3.1 21084 841 4.0 676 3.2 21699 814 3.8 662 3.1 21115 776 3.7 647 3.1 21215 784 3.7 644 3.0 19914 734 3.7 626 3.1 20456 801 3.9 626 3.1 21095 848 4.0 620 2.9 18986 787 4.1 616 3.2 19436 852 4.4 607 3.1 19627 743 3.8 594 3.0 18992 744 3.9 587 3.1 18819 695 3.7 572 3.0 18277 812 4.4 558 3.1 18583 730 3.9 558 3.0 17748 754 4.2 541 3.0 16923 695 4.1 521 3.1

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Rockingham County, VA dairyman, Jared Cupp of Green Hills Farm in Briery Branch, utilizes his NDE 1502 (420 cu. ft.) vertical mixer to accurately supplement his rotational grazing program. Previously, having hand weighing and hoping he was accurate, Jared invested in an NDE unit over 2 years ago. Now he can accurately meet the needs of his herd. Cupp uses rotational grazing paddocks consisting of perennial ryegrass, Alice White clover, matua, endophyte free fescue and some summer annuals such as sudangrass and sorghum sudan. Jared utilizes his NDE to supplement the additional protein, energy and fiber to his herd based on the forage quality of his grazing paddocks. His ability to process big wet ryelage bales through his NDE was noted as a real plus. Before it was an impossibility. By providing a more balanced, consistent plane of nutrition to his replacement heifers, growth rates and better overall health for this group was noted. So far his NDE has been trouble free. Cupp noted that it is a simple design that doesn’t allow for a lot of mechanical headaches. He provides routine maintenance and keeps rolling along.

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Murray Goulburn, a cooperative that handles about 32 percent of the Australian milk supply, will be the first to offer lactose products at the auction. Lactose has become a valuable product in which there is a great deal of interest, Van Dam said. “The U.S. exports over 50 percent of the lactose made in this

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particularly skim milk powder, and for the past two months the sale of it by DairyAmerica. He wrote in his weekly newsletter that “It is becoming clear that the whole range of products sold at those auctions have become a critical piece of information in establishing the value of the various products in the world market.” He also reported that

641 625 583 522

3.2 3.0 3.2 3.3

HERD OWNER DAVID CRISSINGER VERNON D. MARTIN MERVIN AND JENELL YODER

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DHI-AP H 45.9 DHI-APCS H 206.5 DHI H 80.9

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

23117 22716 20870

829 3.6 703 3.0 853 3.8 686 3.0 781 3.7 668 3.2 860 848 871 694 833 709 722 659 684

HAMILTON BROS HAMILTON BROS JOHN E MARCHEZAK GREEN HAVEN FARM JOHN E MARCHEZAK FOLLY HOLLOW FM INC MARION PYLE STONE WILLIAM A SCOTT WINDSON DAIRY FARM

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52.8 251.3 68.9 161.9 16.2 151.1 14.3 69.0 86.7

23958 24467 23385 20794 17535 19328 17898 17559 18851

SLICKHILL HOLSTEINS BILL & RICK EBERT ALVIN VANCE JR -HHIXSON FARM SELEMBO DAIRY FARM YURIS' DAIRY FARM JAMES HOUGH POOLE & SONS DAIRY ALVIN VANCE JR. -J-

DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

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79.4 78.3 42.3 31.8 163.5 48.3 32.1 29.9 77.7

23667 1043 4.4 733 3.1 23436 925 3.9 727 3.1 23275 921 4.0 711 3.1 19801 838 4.2 611 3.1 18379 721 3.9 576 3.1 18383 746 4.1 567 3.1 17205 684 4.0 539 3.1 16414 678 4.1 521 3.2 14527 675 4.6 509 3.5

DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

75.1 187.3 265.9 175.7 162.0 44.1 48.2 72.9 104.2 101.3 68.7 23.1 28.3 150.6 68.3 173.9 55.0 25.2 119.2 135.2

30556 1151 3.8 927 3.0 25953 1051 4.0 814 3.1 25251 919 3.6 775 3.1 3X 24250 971 4.0 733 3.0 23566 898 3.8 730 3.1 23623 917 3.9 722 3.1 22210 709 3.2 682 3.1 20358 774 3.8 664 3.3 21027 718 3.4 662 3.1 20861 784 3.8 644 3.1 3X 20723 780 3.8 641 3.1 20689 799 3.9 634 3.1 3X 19567 722 3.7 626 3.2 19450 735 3.8 606 3.1 17855 692 3.9 563 3.2 18499 683 3.7 550 3.0 17167 657 3.8 541 3.2 17201 588 3.4 513 3.0 15948 620 3.9 503 3.2 21038 810 3.9 659 3.1

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SMYSERS RICHLAWN FMS TAYACRES FARM WALK LE HOLSTEINS FUHRMAN ROBT. BAUMGARDNER JR THOMAS BOYER KATEANN FARM BARRENS VIEW FARM DALE & DARLA DOLL JESSE & BARB DRUCK GUM TREE FARM JESSE & BARB DRUCK 2 JOHN KRONE #PERRYDELL FARM SYDOR BROS. FARM LEROY BUPP GARY THOMAN LARRY ROBINSON STUMP ACRES SHADOW PRACTICE2 DAIRY

3.6 3.5 3.7 3.3 4.8 3.7 4.0 3.8 3.6

746 741 726 644 626 592 549 547 546

3.1 3X 3.0 3X 3.1 3.1 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.9

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How farmers market local foods to consumers Visit www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR128 for full report In Direct and Intermediated Matketing of Local Foods, ERS explores farmers’ use of both direct-to-consumer marketing (such as farmers markets)

and intermediated channels (such as grocers and restaurants) to sell food to consumers in their local areas. Small and medium-sized farms dominate local foods sales marketed exclusively through direct-to-consumer channels

(foods sold at roadside stands or farmers’ markets, for example), while large farms dominate local food sales marketed exclusively through intermediated channels. Marketing of local foods, via both direct-to-consumer and inter-

mediated channels, grossed $4.8 billion in 2008 — about four times higher than estimates based solely on direct-to-consumer sales.

most of which was coming from Canada. Almost none was imported in the Third Quarter, he said. “We’re seeing a contiuing shift away from imports toward products that are produced domestically and toward the world export market.” On the other hand imports of casine are up from a year ago and appear to jump when the milk price risies. When the nonfat dry milk price goes up imports of casine go up as well and Tillison believes that’s tied to the fact that casine can be a substitute in certain uses for nonfat dry milk powder. Milk protein concentrate imports are down and isn’t the “bug-a-boo” that some think it is, according to Tillison. MPC imports are running about average to what they’ve been running, he concluded. The farmer-funded CWT program accepted 13 requests for export assistance this week from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 3.2 million pounds of Cheddar and Gouda cheese to customers in Asia, Central

America, the Middle East, and North Africa. The product will be delivered through May and raised CWT’s 2011 cheese exports to 91.5 million pounds. The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has issued its annual Dairy Facts book. Vivian Godfrey talked about it in Wednesday’s DairyLine and pointed out that the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) relies a great deal on research about dairy trends and Americans eating and drinking habits. She reported that U.S. milk production reached a record 192.8 billion pounds in 2010 but U.S. dairy exports increased 38.9 percent in volume with a 65 percent increase in value over 2009. She added that per person consumption of natural cheese achieved a record 33.29 pounds, surpassing t he previous 2007 record. On a less positive note the long-term trend of declining sales of packaged fluid milk products continued but MilkPEP still sees good opportunities ahead and is using research to fight

aggressively to increase fluid milk consumption. MilkPEP’s independent research shows that from breakfast to dinner, milk consumption at home represents close to 70 percent of all domestic milk consumption, with 2.7 billion gallons of milk being consumed at breakfast alone. Our data also shows that milk added to foods and beverages makes up about 40 percent of total fluid milk volume. Another revelation from the study is that many Americans stop drinking milk in their teenage years. “We have discovered through research a great opportunity to bring lapsed adults back to drinking milk by suggesting that they drink chocolate milk as a refuel beverage after exercise,” Godfrey concluded. “There is strong scientific evidence from research with athletes that chocolate milk is the ideal recovery beverage if consumed within two hours of vigorous exercise.”

Mielke from A23 country and interestingly New Zealand is our most important customer.” Murray Goulburn will offer products for the first time in April 2012 and that is the only products they will offer, according to Van Dam. National Milk’s Third Quarter Import Watch shows dairy product imports continue a downward trend. NMPF’s Jim Tillison said in Thursday’s DairyLine that the imports they monitor have dropped 49 percent since 2005 and he pointed out that it’s the high value products that are dropping off the most. Cheese imports are down significantly, according to Tilison, but “reflects the strong demand for cheese outside the U.S.” “The world middle class is growing,” he said, “And as a result, there’s a growing demand for dairy products offshore so the U.S. is no longer the place to dump dairy products. Butter imports are mixed but Tillison said there was a big drop in butter substitutes, such as anhydrous milkfat,

Herds Ranked by Daily Milk Lbs UNITED DHI Compiled by: NORTH CAROLINA TOTALS DRMS, Raleigh, NC 27603 NOVEMBER

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TEST DAY AVG (COW) OWNER

BUTTKE DAIRY COREY FOSTER MYERS FARMS INC M&M'S DAIRY SCOTT AND BANKS DAVIS T C WILLIAMS BEN SHELTON JOHNNY, KAREN, & BRIAN MOORE JAFRAL HOLSTEINS JOHNNY, KAREN, & BRIAN MOORE

TOWN (3X)

LIBERTY NC (3X) CLEVELAND NC UNION GROVE NC (3X) STATESVILLE NC (3X) MOORESVILLE NC UNION GROVE NC OLIN NC (3X) MOUNT ULLA NC (3X) HAMPTONVILLE NC MOUNT ULLA NC (3X) ROBERT NUTTER & MICHAEL STROWD HILLSBOROUGH NC (3X) CROSS CREEK DAIRY HURDLE MILLS NC DAVID A SMITH LEXINGTON NC (3X) SAM GALPHIN DURHAM NC STEPSTONE HOLSTEINS INC BLANCH NC MARK JOHNSON STATESVILLE NC JERRY W. CRAWFORD CHAPEL HILL NC (3X) NEAL P JOHNSON STATESVILLE NC TAPROOT FARMS FLETCHER NC (3X) MCCAINS DAIRY SOPHIA NC (3X) WAYNE P STOUT STONY POINT NC FOGLEMAN DAIRY LIBERTY NC (3X) HOLLAND FARMS OF OLIN,LLC OLIN NC JEFF CORNWELL LAWNDALE NC SAMUEL J. FLOWE MIDLAND NC EAKER DAIRY CHERRYVILLE NC NATHAN SOUTHER UNION GROVE NC (3X) T C WILLIAMS UNION GROVE NC SHUMAKER DAIRY, INC. BLANCH NC GLADDEN'S DAIRY VALE NC RIDGE FARM RANDLEMAN NC ENGLISH DAIRY FARM, LLC MARION NC A D & CARLTON WILLIARD GRAHAM NC AUBREY N WELLS LEICESTER NC GRAYHOUSE FARMS STONY POINT NC (3X) GEORGE SMITH LEXINGTON NC (3X) TED AND ALAN MOORE HURDLE MILLS NC SAMUEL J. FLOWE MIDLAND NC CARL & CLAYTON SMITH ENNICE NC GARY & SHARON MACGIBBON CROUSE NC (3X) LYNCHS DAIRY INC MAIDEN NC CARLAND DAIRY MILLS RIVER NC (3X) MANCO FARM INC. PITTSBORO NC STEVE AND ALLEN JOINES SPARTA NC BOBBY & ALVIN EVANS SPARTA NC TALLEY-HO FARM OLIN NC OAKMERE FARM BROWNS SUMMIT NC GARY SCHLABACH UNION GROVE NC LOFLIN DAIRY SOPHIA NC DONALD PAYNE TAYLORSVILLE NC COLTRANE FARM PLEASANT GARDEN NC (3X)

R TEST A MTH N K

11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 10 11

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51

ANNUAL AVERAGES

MILK LBS

DAYS IN MILK

LBS MILK

% FAT

LBS FAT

90.9 89.0 88.7 87.0 86.8 85.2 83.6 83.5 83.4 82.6 79.8 78.8 78.5 77.6 77.4 77.2 77.0 76.8 76.3 74.9 73.5 73.4 73.2 72.5 72.2 72.1 72.0 70.6 70.1 69.8 69.3 69.0 68.5 68.4 67.8 67.6 67.3 67.1 66.7 65.2 65.1 65.0 64.7 64.5 64.4 64.1 64.0 63.8 63.7 62.2 62.1

175 204 157 153 97 157 145 166 235 163 140 171 179 102 125 152 143 166 185 190 153 202 115 154 164 165 173 167 170 171 174 156 184 140 177 202 213 176 226 153 222 190 161 164 181 157 173 194 229 191 205

25172 27865 28315 27144 25970 18909 25691 23927 31497 23995 25604 23976 25048 . 21941 21883 20165 23147 23130 23865 20872 25662 26248 20252 21830 21296 25396 18612 23197 20287 . 22666 22247 21592 21683 23455 21708 21758 21397 19220 20276 20858 18131 21477 18737 22214 19896 . 19691 19599 19164

3.8 3.4 3.5 4.0 3.5 3.5 4.0 3.3 4.2 3.3 3.7 3.6 3.5 . 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.9 . 3.6 3.8 4.0 3.3 3.8 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.8 . 3.6 4.1 3.2 3.8 3.8 4.3 3.4 3.4 3.8 3.7 3.8 4.1 3.6 . 3.8 3.8 . 3.8 3.6 3.8

968 941 979 1099 911 666 1038 780 1330 781 960 871 876 . 863 832 731 899 . 871 787 1016 865 775 749 762 939 654 903 778 . 819 903 700 827 893 926 749 722 730 745 784 738 774 . 854 759 . 755 706 735

B % LBS R PRO PRO E E D

3.0 3.1 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.0 3.1 3.1 . 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 . 3.0 3.2 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.2 . 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 3.1 0.4 3.0 3.2 3.1 . 3.1 3.1 . 3.2 2.9 3.0

746 862 771 784 799 591 753 680 975 680 760 739 766 . 683 665 639 711 . 708 658 784 769 615 640 663 741 581 717 641 . 684 708 676 653 730 669 638 647 591 73 631 589 660 . 691 626 . 636 572 571

TEST DAY AVG (COW)

ANNUAL AVERAGES

TOWN (3X)

R A MTH N K

MILK LBS

DAYS IN MILK

LBS MILK

% FAT

LBS FAT

B % LBS R PRO PRO E E D

WILLIAM H DAY JR MATTHEW CODY WRIGHT DAIRY BEVILLE BROTHERS DAIRY W G CARUTHERS JR MIKE DUCKETT J NORMAN RIDDLE CHARLES CURRIN DAIRY GEORGE L PLESS AND SONS OAKMERE FARM RANDY DOUGLAS KERR MILL HOLSTEINS NEAL GROSE JY-RO HOLSTEINS LARRY D GALLIHER ALLENS DAIRY

OXFORD NC MARS HILL NC REIDSVILLE NC REIDSVILLE NC HILLSBOROUGH NC LEICESTER NC STATESVILLE NC OXFORD NC ROCKWELL NC BROWNS SUMMIT NC HAMPTONVILLE NC MOUNT ULLA NC (3X) HARMONY NC ELKIN NC HARMONY NC (3X) ASHEBORO NC

11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67

62.0 61.9 61.9 61.8 61.5 59.7 59.6 59.5 59.2 59.2 59.2 58.9 58.6 58.5 58.3 58.3

144 201 230 196 168 210 181 197 197 186 162 180 246 191 252 193

19635 21058 21167 20526 18209 22022 15670 19369 20797 20067 19197 14790 17783 18351 19880 20322

3.7 3.3 3.8 3.6 3.9 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.4 3.8 3.2 3.8 3.6 3.8 4.1 3.8

733 695 797 736 712 797 578 733 709 764 617 565 644 699 817 777

3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0

595 656 666 646 579 689 478 590 639 632 587 457 571 578 596 619

T C WILLIAMS BRUSH CREEK SWISS FARMS BRUSH CREEK SWISS FARMS T C WILLIAMS BRUSH CREEK SWISS FARMS AUBREY N WELLS GARY & SHARON MACGIBBON CARLAND DAIRY BRIAN MOORE JERSEYS COY + WANDA REESE TALLEY-HO FARM LUCKY L JERSEY MATTHEW CODY COREY LUTZ BRIAN MOORE JERSEYS TREASURE CHEST JERSEYS GARY & SHARON MACGIBBON LYNN BONHAM SHADY BROOK FARM WAYNE AND KAREN LUTZ TREASURE CHEST JERSEYS ATT. LENNIE BREEZE RAY & LINDA ELMORE RIVERSIDE DAIRY FARM BILTMORE DAIRY FARMS INC SHADY BROOK FARM CHAPMAN DAIRY CALDWELL OVERCASH GRANT WALTERS CHARLES FISHER WARD SHADY BROOK FARM G W BELL ATT. ANNA G. AMORIELLO HARRY WELLS CHAPEL HILL CREAMERY

UNION GROVE NC SILER CITY NC (3X) SILER CITY NC (3X) UNION GROVE NC SILER CITY NC (3X) LEICESTER NC CROUSE NC (3X) MILLS RIVER NC (3X) MT. ULLA NC (3X) TAYLORSVILLE NC OLIN NC STATESVILLE NC MARS HILL NC LINCOLNTON NC MT. ULLA NC (3X) LINCOLNTON NC CROUSE NC (3X) ARDEN NC STATESVILLE NC MOCKSVILLE NC LINCOLNTON NC GREENSBORO NC STATESVILLE NC GIBSONVILLE NC FLETCHER NC STATESVILLE NC TAYLORSVILLE NC KANNAPOLIS NC CHINA GROVE NC LEXINGTON NC STATESVILLE NC KINGS MOUNTAIN NC GIBSONVILLE NC CLOVER NC CHAPEL HILL NC

11 9 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

85.2 83.6 77.1 70.6 69.5 68.4 65.2 65.0 64.5 64.2 64.1 63.2 61.9 61.1 61.1 59.7 58.3 55.5 54.0 51.5 51.1 51.0 50.9 50.8 49.3 48.2 48.0 46.4 45.7 44.9 44.8 43.9 41.6 38.9 34.3

157 180 176 167 161 140 153 190 169 149 157 157 201 146 164 92 153 187 170 154 160 350 143 158 171 167 187 212 158 150 203 244 157 225 174

18909 19799 20367 18612 21093 21592 19220 20858 19500 16766 22214 19217 21058 16815 19590 19867 19134 16606 17461 16792 16019 16586 13870 16200 15347 14666 15270 15251 14057 15955 13573 15087 13120 13041 12335

3.5 4.1 4.1 3.5 4.1 3.2 3.8 3.8 4.2 4.5 3.8 4.3 3.3 4.8 4.2 3.8 3.8 4.3 4.1 4.9 4.3 4.0 4.5 4.0 4.8 4.6 4.4 3.5 4.3 3.4 4.4 4.9 4.1 4.9 4.8

666 817 840 654 871 700 730 784 813 760 854 822 695 804 813 754 723 722 714 817 684 657 628 650 735 670 676 532 608 546 601 735 542 634 590

3.1 3.3 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.6 3.1 3.4 3.1 3.6 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.6 3.1 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.1 3.5 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.3 3.6 3.7

591 662 679 581 702 676 591 631 647 608 691 648 656 608 648 635 586 556 572 591 557 547 499 506 555 509 540 468 489 488 469 487 429 475 451

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HERD OWNER

BALTIMORE

B R COW E E YEARS D

RHA MILK

FAT

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

MARYLAND

STEVE WILSON

DHI-AP H 175.5

CAROLINE

HARMONY FARM RICHARD EDWARDS HOLLINGSWORTH DANIEL 3 FAITHLAND FARM ARTIE FOSTER LONGDAY FARM

CARROLL

RICHARD &DIANE FLICKINGER R.A.BELL&SONS LLC COLDSPRINGS FARM QUEEN ACRES JERSEYS GARY R BRAUNING PANORA ACRES R.A.BELL&SONS LLC FRITZ FARM LLC DONNA & JASON MYERS BYRON D. STAMBAUGH BAR NONE JERSEYS CEDAR KNOLL FARMS CHARLES L. LETHBRIDGE MARYLAND DELIGHT FARM PEACE AND PLENTY FARMS LEASE BROS. ARBAUGH S FLOWING SPRINGS PARKER SMITH

CECIL

KILBY INC. MT ARARAT FARMS WIL-O-MAR FARM KILBY INC. KILBY INC. LONG GREEN FARMS INC. MT ARARAT FARMS

956 884 780 783 672 662

H H H H H H

136.7 683.0 43.3 206.1 277.7 52.7

25663 24404 21911 22125 18555 16417

DHIR DHI-AP DHIR DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP

H H H J H H B H H H J H H H H H H H

162.1 134.7 889.9 39.8 37.8 268.1 17.0 70.9 64.6 122.7 45.5 126.9 92.2 90.6 212.5 115.2 336.4 135.4

26495 1007 3.8 843 3.2 24658 938 3.8 758 3.1 3X 24356 913 3.7 754 3.1 3X 18601 911 4.9 718 3.9 22441 843 3.8 712 3.2 23154 865 3.7 710 3.1 21761 886 4.1 708 3.3 3X 22191 838 3.8 705 3.2 22205 862 3.9 701 3.2 22177 803 3.6 690 3.1 17411 881 5.1 677 3.9 21167 832 3.9 661 3.1 20781 782 3.8 651 3.1 19779 795 4.0 646 3.3 20833 787 3.8 635 3.0 20379 774 3.8 624 3.1 19888 716 3.6 607 3.1 16517 633 3.8 517 3.1

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H X J H G

465.0 58.3 113.1 74.7 40.0 131.7 11.2

23677 21600 21841 19785 15663 18139 14149

824 832 824 822 772 756 695

DHI-AP H 181.5

16533

720 4.4 545 3.3

H1128.2 H 537.7 H 104.3 H 232.6 H 188.4 X 86.7 H 50.7 H 74.2 H 94.4 H 179.5 H 44.9

25024 24094 22079 22398 22096 19367 19398 19322 19254 16880 16776

972 913 858 862 828 729 742 757 659 692 589

DHIR-AP H 144.3

21116

792 3.8 655 3.1

DHIR H 95.4 DHIR B 20.7

24379 20862

988 4.1 803 3.3 883 4.2 730 3.5

W. BLAN HARCUM

TEABOW INCORP. PAUL COBLENTZ & SONS BULLDOG HOLSTEINS MATTHEW TOMS DAVE & CAROLE DOODY ANDREW TOMS MERCURO FARM LLC JEREMY & JULIE THOMPSON PLAIN FOUR FARMS ROCKY POINT FARMS, INC. JOHN STONE

615 3.8 532 3.3

DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP

WICOMICO FREDERICK

16354

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

GARRETT KENTON B

HARFORD

MATT & JULIE YARRINGTON MATT & JULIE YARRINGTON

3.7 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.6 4.0

3.5 3.9 3.8 4.2 4.9 4.2 4.9

3.9 3.8 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.9 3.4 4.1 3.5

803 732 666 665 579 523

707 701 657 651 561 560 522

775 758 705 704 649 618 616 608 594 539 511

3.1 3.0 3X 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2

3.0 3X 3.2 3.0 3.3 3X 3.6 3X 3.1 3.7

3.1 3X 3.1 3.2 3.1 2.9 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.0

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DHIRAPCS DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

HOWARD

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BOWLING GREEN FARM INC.

CHESAPEAKE BAY DAIRY

QUEEN ANNE

LESTER C. JONES, INC. W. EDWARD PALMATARY PATTERSON FARMS INC. WINTERSTEIN FARMS LLC FRANKLIN & JEFF MOORE KEVIN LEAVERTON BOONE BROTHERS LESTER C. JONES, INC. BENJAMIN STANTON WM. BRINSFIELD HENRY SNOW 111

WASHINGTON

CLETUS & JANICE FREY TRANS OVA GENETICS RALPH W SHANK ISAAC AND DIANE MARTIN CLETUS & JANICE FREY SHENANDOAH JERSEYS BRENT HORST PRYOR BROTHERS MICHAEL FORSYTHE RALPH W SHANK EARL GROVE, JR. DAVID HERBST CLETUS & JANICE FREY MARSH-HAVEN FARM COOL BROOK FARM DEBAUGH FARMS JAMES A. CAMPBELL JR. MARSH-HAVEN FARM S.J. WINTERS JR. & FAMILY MICHAEL FORSYTHE

% 3 % FAT PRO PRO X

908 871 878 799 859 714 681 681

DHI-APCS H 73.7 DHIR-AP H 114.1

22261 19141

859 3.9 699 3.1 760 4.0 635 3.3

312.0 208.7 18.7 68.3 56.0 71.1 166.8 24.5

25813 23716 22320 23019 22325 18557 16978 16047

891 904 855 891 856 823 857 659

DHI-AP H 77.2

17238

664 3.9 569 3.3

H1317.0 H 170.9 H 301.7 H 147.3 H 136.2 H 85.7 H 163.0 J 14.8 H 55.4

27197 23322 23861 21138 19671 18315 19601 16078 17814

970 925 893 843 741 759 676 799 624

DHI-AP H 144.7 DHIR-AP H 24.0

19591 19500

800 4.1 608 3.1 713 3.7 593 3.0

26483 22476 23734 23198 21158 19275 22743 21836 21814 19356 19347 20183 18147 18517 19348 19695 20005 14542 17747 13548

972 866 943 872 847 955 817 830 789 809 686 721 804 746 721 750 705 750 680 677

DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-APCS DHI-AP

TALBOT

FAT

23034 22379 23504 22575 20984 20955 18502 17215

FAIR HILL FARM INC. DHI-APCS CENTERDEL FARM INC. DHI-AP FAIR HILL FARM INC. DHI-APCS P. THOMAS MASON DHIRAPCS BRICK HOUSE FARM, INC. DHI-APCS ROBERT FRY & JUDY GIFFORD DHIR-AP P. THOMAS MASON DHIRAPCS P. THOMAS MASON DHIRAPCS

DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIRAPCS DHI-APCS DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHIR-AP DHIR-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP DHI-AP

H H H H H H X H

RHA MILK

331.5 72.1 123.8 191.7 153.6 165.3 66.2 231.4

KENT

WORCESTER

B R COW E E YEARS D

H H B H H J J A

H H H H B J H H H A H H G H X H H J H J

98.9 21.0 62.3 59.8 23.5 123.7 133.9 102.1 22.7 112.7 114.7 179.1 12.6 47.1 110.1 125.7 105.4 12.7 134.6 34.9

3.9 3.9 3.7 3.5 4.1 3.4 3.7 4.0

3.5 3.8 3.8 3.9 3.8 4.4 5.0 4.1

3.6 4.0 3.7 4.0 3.8 4.1 3.4 5.0 3.5

3.7 3.9 4.0 3.8 4.0 5.0 3.6 3.8 3.6 4.2 3.5 3.6 4.4 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.5 5.2 3.8 5.0

724 713 713 678 663 641 583 569

762 755 715 711 692 646 601 509

791 719 712 672 605 601 578 561 538

829 754 743 725 722 712 709 676 669 625 624 619 618 604 598 598 592 556 534 510

3.1 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.3

3.0 3X 3.2 3.2 3X 3.1 3.1 3.5 3.5 3.2

2.9 3X 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.5 3X 3.0

Calf blankets play an important role in calf comfort and warmth on any calf-raising operation, especially as the colder temperatures set in. But you can’t just put the blanket on the calf and forget about it. A little time spent checking could make a huge difference in the comfort of the calf. Land O’Lakes Purina Feed calf and heifer specialists offer the following tips to ensure producers are getting the most out of their calf blankets. • Calves under three weeks of age are the primary target for calf blankets. • Make sure calf blankets are put on correctly. If not put on correctly they can come off and could end up dangling around the calf’s neck.

Common mistakes include putting the blanket on inside out, putting the front leg through the neck hole, or two rear legs in the same leg strap. • The most important concern to be watching for is the tightness of the jacket. Keep an eye out if the straps need to be adjusted or the blanket taken off because the calf outgrew the jacket. • Calf blankets should be washed between each use and only put on a new calf when they are completely dry. • When choosing a calf blanket, make sure to pick one with the correct thickness for adequate insulation, as well as one that will be easy to put on and take off. Source: Land O’Lakes Purina Feed

3.1 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.4 3.7 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.8 3.0 3.8

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RECORDS RECOGNIZE ENERGY CORRECTED MILK (ECM) BASIS - Over the years, totals have recognized milk, fat, and protein production. Since 1989, high herds on a county and state basis, along with all individual production awards, have been made on an (ECM) basis. The ECM formula (7.2 x lbs protein) + (12.95 x lbs fat) + (.327 x lbs milk) has helped identify cows that not only produce high volumes of milk, but also of milk solids. Maryland dairy producers are using the ECM formula and no longer mention lbs of fat or lbs of 3.5% fat corrected milk, since fat has become a negative word in promoting dairy and other food products.

HERD NAME DAIRY CATTLE RESEARCH SAVAGE-LEIGH FARM PAUL F. HARRISON JR. PAUL YODER GLEN-TOCTIN FARM O. CLAYTON SMITH DAVID & JAMES PATRICK PHILIP BEACHY ORION-VIEW HOLSTEINS CESSNA BROS. FARM MD.-CARROLLTON CALVIN SCHROCK BENEVA FARMS GLENN BEARD LAVON YODER JAMES & JOHN MYERS DAVE & CAROLE DOODY VALES - PRIDE HOLSTEIN DOOL-LEIGH FARM THOMAS H. MULLER PAUL & HENRY KINSINGER MAPLE LAWN FARM INC. WILLOW SPRINGS PARTNERS BRAD & CATHY WILES ERIC & FAITH BURALL HARA VALE FARMS SHAFDON FARMS ANDREW W. SCHROCK MIKE & ANITA HAINES ANDY MASON ASH & BEAR EHRHARDT FARM INC

TYP BRD TEST H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

22 23 23 00 20 00 23 20 31 20 23 20 31 31 00 23 22 23 23 31 20 23 31 20 23 00 22 23 23 31 31 31

ECM 27,250 27,112 26,066 25,678 24,332 24,031 23,776 23,644 23,559 23,514 23,352 23,130 23,126 23,105 22,929 22,796 22,609 22,441 22,432 22,150 22,141 22,077 22,043 22,011 21,988 21,823 21,668 21,285 21,148 21,043 20,957 20,947

AVG MILK

AVG FAT

26348 979 24969 1027 22933 1011 24756 925 22419 924 21498 924 22504 875 22994 848 22394 866 22291 859 22932 832 21865 839 22764 821 21953 846 21935 844 22268 822 22113 827 21202 837 19855 867 21064 808 21125 818 21074 811 20517 813 20028 819 20975 800 20915 806 20150 810 20369 776 20959 740 19410 791 19190 801 19313 786

ANNUAL LIFETIME AVG AVG AVG PRD PRD PRB % FT PRO. % PRO. TOT MILK TOT FAT TOT SNF 3.72 4.11 4.41 3.74 4.12 4.30 3.89 3.69 3.87 3.85 3.63 3.84 3.61 3.85 3.85 3.69 3.74 3.95 4.37 3.83 3.87 3.85 3.96 4.09 3.82 3.86 4.02 3.81 3.53 4.08 4.17 4.07

828 785 761 779 700 700 707 715 698 709 706 711 702 691 671 677 649 649 655 667 645 651 668 675 663 632 638 636 655 619 599 619

3.14 3.14 3.32 3.15 3.12 3.26 3.14 3.11 3.12 3.18 3.08 3.25 3.09 3.15 3.06 3.04 2.94 3.06 3.30 3.17 3.05 3.09 3.26 3.37 3.16 3.02 3.17 3.12 3.12 3.19 3.12 3.21

79.7 73.6 72.2 62.1 69.2 66.7 68.0 62.8 66.6 59.9 62.6 63.7 55.4 73.6 58.9 69.1 56.1 61.2 57.4 44.9 46.3 52.7 55.3 58.7 70.8 68.1 67.2 59.4 59.5 45.4 53.9 57.8

2.9 3.0 3.0 2.2 2.8 2.8 2.6 2.3 2.5 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.1 2.6 2.3 2.5 2.1 2.3 2.4 1.7 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.2 2.1 1.8 2.1 2.3

2.5 2.3 2.3 1.9 2.1 2.1 2.1 1.9 2.1 1.9 1.9 2.0 1.7 2.3 1.8 2.1 1.7 1.9 1.9 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.8 1.9 2.2 2.0 2.1 1.8 1.9 1.4 1.7 1.8

HERD NAME

TYP BRD TEST

ANNUAL LIFETIME AVG AVG AVG PRD PRD PRB % FT PRO. % PRO. TOT MILK TOT FAT TOT SNF

AVG MILK

AVG FAT

20295 19635 20608 19518 18282 19309 20178 19815

747 765 715 743 777 727 712 710

3.68 3.89 3.47 3.81 4.25 3.76 3.53 3.58

629 619 623 605 582 621 606 617

3.10 3.15 3.02 3.10 3.18 3.22 3.00 3.12

54.0 43.0 44.4 41.9 54.7 47.6 51.6 55.5

1.9 1.7 1.5 1.6 2.1 1.8 1.9 1.9

1.7 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.7

ECM

SUNRISE HOLSTEINS RANDAL BEITZEL TOBIE KINSINGER DALE M & SUSAN SMITH EZRA SCHROCK WARNER BROS INC DAVID & JENNIFER BUROW RUFUS PEACHEY

H H H H H H H H

31 20 20 31 23 23 00 00

20,835 20,780 20,480 20,356 20,227 20,196 20,178 20,112

PATRICK, DAVID & JAMES VALES - PRIDE AYRSHIRE WHISPERING AYRSHIRE ROOM-TO-GROW

A A A A

23 23 00 20

19,687 19,504 13,958 1,330

18315 17378 12796 1489

735 759 532 44

4.02 4.37 4.16 2.95

581 555 401 38

3.17 3.20 3.13 2.58

51.8 44.7 40.2 6.8

2.1 2.0 1.7 .2

1.6 1.4 1.3 .2

SHAFDON SWISS VALES - PRIDE BROWN SWISS ERIC F-FAITH M. BURALL DUBLIN HILLS SWISS DWAYNE BELL

B B B B B

22 23 23 31 20

21,066 20,557 19,674 19,622 15,538

18347 17971 17712 17429 13846

809 797 732 739 573

4.41 4.44 4.13 4.24 4.14

638 606 612 605 499

3.48 3.37 3.46 3.47 3.60

49.6 47.2 49.1 41.5 35.7

2.1 2.1 2.0 1.7 1.5

1.7 1.6 1.7 1.4 1.3

WALNUT RIDGE GUERNSEY MAR SHIRL GUERNSEY

G G

31 31

21,826 18,752

17018 17264

924 706

5.43 4.09

597 551

3.51 3.19

51.5 45.1

2.7 1.8

1.8 1.4

GLENN BEARD O. CLAYTON SMITH MIKE & ANITA HAINES 2 JOHN & JULIE MAYER WILLOW SPRING FARM SPRING VALLEY JERSEYS WES KELLER ASH & BEAR ELI SWARTZENTRUBER GLADE VIEW DAIRY

J J J J J J J J J J

31 20 23 31 31 31 22 23 23 20

26,802 25,784 18,865 18,030 16,949 15,728 15,029 14,507 11,467 8,082

22636 1072 19446 1125 15055 756 14801 718 13958 663 12394 636 11276 633 11846 575 9208 468 6682 322

4.74 5.78 5.02 4.85 4.75 5.13 5.61 4.86 5.08 4.82

767 675 577 541 528 478 437 443 333 240

3.39 3.47 3.83 3.65 3.78 3.85 3.88 3.74 3.62 3.59

59.9 69.5 45.4 43.8 35.8 30.7 34.4 36.1 30.1 15.4

2.9 4.2 2.3 2.1 1.7 1.6 1.9 1.7 1.5 .7

2.0 2.4 1.7 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.1 .5

GHANDY dry chemical box and 40 foot long hay-grain elevator. WANTED: Shanandoah Stove. 585-593-5685.(NY) MILKING DEVON cattle and milking devon, beef devon crosses for sale. 413446-2004.(MA) FORD 8N tractor, 1950, rungs good, has good tires, PTO 3ph everything works great, new drawbar assy, $1,800 bo. 401662-9131.(RI)

IH 315 cultimulcher, 12 ft., $1,800; WANTED: 9 ft. discbine, mower in working condition. WANTED: Deer rifle, bolt action. 315536-8522.(NY)

18 FT Jamesway silo unloader, $1,000; Poclain hydraulic excavator, 30 ton, 200 hp motor, $6,000. 315-245-5275.(NY) REG. Angus bull, DOB 1/17/2008, proven calving ease, sired by MYTTY in focus, gentle. 518-885-6286.(NY)

1968 671 Ford tractor with ford loader. 315343-9687.(NY)

NEW HOLLAND 1069 bale wagon, vg; Mack silage-grain tandem truck, vg; 30’ skeleton elevator, $650; Snap-On duals, 20.8-38, $1,500. 315-364-7936.(NY)

SINGLE SEATER Mennonite buggy, $900; Hyd. pump for IH 800 planter, swing bearing for CAT E70B, 66’ skid loader bucket, $200. 315-536-1112.(NY)

FOR SALE: Bobcat 543, two buckets, good condition, Oneida County. 315-8293594.(NY)

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ORGANIC Holstein heifers, for sale, yearlings to shortbred, springing cross heifers, also, must sell, need room. 518-6388357.(NY)

QUICK ATTACH bale spear, like new, $375., Land Pride York rake, excellent condition, $575; Brand new calf puller. 518883-5160.(NY)

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FLAT TOP 300 gallon Girton bulk tank with working compressor, 200+ foot complete DeLaval pipeline, 200+ foot badger cleaner chain. 585-770-4145.(NY)

Many IH 1066s, 1466s, fender and cab tractors, $6,500-$12,000; 340 dual loader w/ bale spear, $1,500. 66’ series parts. 518-677-2854.(NY)

400 bales nice, first, $2, 400 bedding, good kicker wagons, $900; Farmall H was running, NH 277 baler, $2,000, offers, Devin 607-432-0171.(CNY)

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The Cornell Soil Health Test Report: A new way to identify unhealthy soil by Janet Fallon, CCA - Dairy One Forage & Soils Lab

When we aren't feeling well we might go to the doctor to have our blood pressure checked, our cholesterol tested or a throat culture taken to see if we have strep throat. The doctor might suggest weight loss, exercise, an anti-acid for a sour stomach or an anti-biotic for strep throat to bring us back to good health. Now we can do the same thing for our soil when it isn't performing quite as expected. A group of Cornell scientists, growers, extension educators and crop consultants evaluated 39 potential physical, biological and chemical indicators for their use in rapidly assessing soil health. They were able to boil these down into 9 grower friendly measurements or "indicators. Farmers can now send soil samples to the Cornell Soil Health Lab to get the health of their soils “diagnosed”...much like a person going to the doctor to find out how healthy they are. These 9” indicators are shown below. Four soil physical health indicators including aggregate stability, available water capacity, surface and subsurface hardness are evaluated. Aggregate stability uses a rain simulation sprinkler to determine the fraction of a soil sample that remains on a sieve after a specific amount of time and rainfall. Soils with low aggregate stability tend to form surface crusts which can reduce water infiltration and air exchange and can even make it tough for germinating seeds to emerge from the soil. Available water capacity measures the amount of water in a disturbed sample that is actually available for plant use. Surface and subsurface hardness is a measure of penetration resistance at 0 to 6 inches and 6 to 18 inches respectively, using a field penetrometer, an instrument that measures the extent and depth of compaction that may restrict the growth of roots or movement of air and water through the soil. This measurement needs to be taken in the field. All other indicators are measured in the laboratory using a sample submitted by the customer.

The Dairy One Improver water infiltration and poor rooting depth in the affected soil. This may explain why a soil with an excellent soil test (pH, P, K, etc) is failing to meet expectations. These ratings are averaged to provide an overall quality score (out of 100) as shown in Figure 1. Soils play a key role on every farm. Dairy farmers and cash crop producers are familiar with standard soil testing to identify nutrient deficiencies or imbalances in their soils. But many farmers have learned, some the hard way, that the chemical "health" of a soil is just one part of the puzzle. This may explain why certain fields perform poorly despite having an adequate and well balanced soil fertility profile. Something else, like soil compaction, poor drainage or root pathogens may limit crop performance and profitability unless corrective measures are taken to address the problem(s). So, send your soil samples to the Cornell Soil Health lab for a full work up if you think your soils are “sick” or you just want to know what is needed to help your soil meet it's full potential. You can go to http://soilhealth.cals.cornell.edu/extension/test.htm for complete information on services, pricing, sample sheets, guidelines needed to collect a representative sample, shipping samples and interpreting results including the physical and biological evaluations done by Cornell and the chemical evaluation done by Agro-One.

Figure 1 - Sample of a Cornell Soil Health Test Report

The four biological soil health indicators tested include organic matter, active carbon, potentially mineralizable nitrogen and a root health rating as determined in the soil health lab. Organic matter contributes to overall soil tilth, soil water holding capacity, and nitrogen availability, among other things. Active carbon is a leading indicator of soil health by telling us how fast soil organic matter will become available for use by important soil microbes. Likewise, potentially mineralizable nitrogen tells us how much plant available N will be released by organic matter. The Root Health Rating is based on a soil bio-assay with bean plants to determine the incidence of root pathogens like Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia and Thielaviopsis - and no, I don't know how to pronounce that last disease. A standard soil test, conducted by Agro-One, is used to determine the chemical health of a soil. This includes pH, extractable phosphorus, extractable potassium and several other secondary and minor elements. Results are summarized in a “report card” of sorts (Figure 1) that identifies potential problem areas based on the evaluation of physical, biological and chemical characteristics as measured by Cornell and Agro-One. It also identifies limitations or constraints that may be seen in the test soils. The Cornell Soil Health Website provides additional information and suggested management practices to correct these soil health constraints including: • Reducing or modifying tillage. • Changes in the crop rotation to add organic matter and/or break up pest life cycles. • Growing cover crops to build organic matter. • Adding organic amendments (manure or compost). • Adding chemical amendments (limestone, gypsum, fertilizer, etc). The Cornell Soil Health Report (Figure 1) shows the actual measured value, i.e. % aggregate stability, hardness (psi), % organic matter, pH, ppm P, ppm K, and so on. Each indicator is then scored on a scale of 1 to 100. Scores less than 30 are considered low and receive a red color code on the report. A score of 30 - 70 is medium and earns a yellow color code. A score above 70 is considered to be high or good and earns a green. The report also identifies possible constraints or problems associated with a particular indicator if it receives a low (red) rating. For example, a poor aggregate stability rating may indicate poor aeration, poor

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Virginia governor accepts Executive Mansion tree, wreaths and greenery RICHMOND, VA — John and Virginia Carroll of Claybrooke Farm in Louisa County presented a 12-foot Canaan fir Christmas tree Dec.

12 to Governor Bob McDonnell for the Executive Mansion. In addition to the tree, Jocelyn and Joe Lampert of Crazy Joe’s Tree Farm in Culpeper

County presented wreaths and Bill and Mary Apperson of Millfarm Christmas Trees of Williamsburg provided greenery for the Man-

sion. The presentation took place in front of the Executive Mansion in Capitol Square. These Christmas tree farmers won the

Governor Bob McDonnell with Virginia and John Carroll of Claybrooke Farm in Louisa County. Photo courtesy of governor’s photographer Michaele White honor of providing the Mansion decorations when the Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association (VCTGA) chose their products as Grand Champions in their respective categories. The centerpiece of the decorations, the large Canaan fir, is in step with today’s emphasis on fresh, local, natural trees. Christmas tree far ming is a major agricultural industry

in Virginia with more than a million trees harvested and sold annually from hundreds of far ms throughout the state. Virginia is ranked in the top 10 states in number of trees harvested, total tree acreage and number of operations. For every tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place, making real Christmas trees a renewable resource.

CWT export assistance program extended Dairy cooperatives and individual farmers representing 70.1 percent of the nation’s milk have committed 2 cents per hundred pounds of milk to Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) for 2012 and 2013. As a result of reaching the minimum participation level that the CWT Committee established, the Export Assistance program will carry on with assisting member cooperatives in selling U.S. cheese to key markets around the world. The 2-cent investment will begin with milk marketed in January 2012, and continue on member milk marketings through December 2013. Meanwhile, CWT members continued to

aggressively sell American cheeses to key markets in November. A total of 9.5 million pounds of cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, scheduled for shipment through April 2012, will receive assistance from CWT. This brings the total export sales assisted so far in 2011 to 88.3 million pounds going to 25 countries on four continents. CWT requires extensive documentation from cooperative members showing that the product was delivered in order for assistance payments to be made. Source: News for Dairy Coops, Dec. 2, 2011

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Don’t Miss These Exhibitors!! Advance Agra Service, LLC • 508 AIC - Agricultural Instruments Corp • 316 Agco Corporation • 201, O-3 Agri-King • A Agri-Plastics Mfg • 213 Agri-SC • 126 Agri-Service, LLC • O-4B Agrotain International • 144 Airgas • 141, 142 AKE Safety Equipment • 206 American Farm Products • 504 Amerseal Tire Sealant • 162 Animat, Inc • 528 Augusta Cooperative Farm Bureau • 127, 128 Bath Fitter • 515 Beverage Tractor • 100, 102, O-4 Binkley & Hurst LP • 210 Bonny View Farms • O-6 C&C Farm Supply • 134, 135 Camping World of Roanoke • 340, 341, O-4A Cargill Animal Nutrition • 145 Channel Bio, LLC • 517 Charvin Farm Ag Plastics • 315 Chemgro Seeds, Inc • 139 Christian Farmers Outreach • 522 CID Attachments, Inc • 203, 204 Cloverdale Supply, Inc • 216 Cobra Torches • 509 Concrete Jack • 156 Conklin Agrovantage • 313, 314 Country Folks Farm Chronicle • 146 Countryside Organics • 138 Croplan Genetics / Neodak Seeds • 518, 519 Cummings & Bricker, Inc • 105, 106, O-15 Dew Eze Manufacturing • O-11 Ed Hoover Construction • 534 Emm Sales & Service, Inc • O-2A Farm Credit • 125 Farm Family Casualty Insurance Co • 205 Farmer Boy Ag • 118, 119 Fetterville Sales • 143 First Bank & Trust Company • 163 Fisher Auto Parts • 329 Garber Farms • O-7

GCR Tire Centers • 154, 155 General Fertilizer Equipment, Inc • 103 Growers Mineral Solutions • 161 GVM, Inc • 122 H&S Manufacturing • 200, O-1A Hamilton Equipment, Inc • 109 Haybuster / Duratech • 532, 533 Helena Chemical Company • 150 Hoard’s Dairyman • 147 Hotsy of Virginia • 514 Houff Feed & Fertilizer • 130 Hud-Son Forest Equipment, Inc • O-5 Huffman Trailer Sales, Inc • O-1 IBA, Inc • 112 IntelliAir • 531B Iva Manufacturing • 300, 301, 302 James River Equipment • 530, O-17 Jamesway Farm Equipment • 214 Janney Montgomery Scott • 516 Kioti Tractor • B, C, D, E, F Kuhn North America, Inc • 529 L Cubed Corp dba Tam Systems • 123 Lancaster Farming, Inc • O-12 Lanco-Pennland • 309 Lar-Lyn Farms, LLC • 511 Lawrence Ag Equipment • 104 Layman Water Solutions • 124 Liskey Truck Sales, L.C. • O-13 MAX, Mutual Aid Exchange • 507 May Supply Company • 120 Mid-Atlantic Irrigation Co., Inc • 101 Miller’s Storage Buildings • O-16 Morris Distributing • 328 Morton Buildings, Inc • 115 Organic Valley • 317 Outback Heating, Inc • 104B Outdoor Furnace Distributing • O-8 Ownby Auction & Realty Co., Inc • 149 P. Bradley & Sons • 121, O-2 PA Country Equipment • 303 PBZ LLC / Crop Care • 104A Pearson Livestock Equipment • O-10 Perma-Column East, LLC • 151, 152 Pioneer Hi-Bred • 129

Quality Craft Tools • G Quality Metal Works • 207 Recyc Systems, Inc • 339 Restora Life - Natural Way Feeds • 202 Rockbridge Farmers Coop • 148 Rural Community Insurance Service • 140 Ryder Supply Company • 502 Salford Farm Machinery, Ltd • 137 Sanimax • 310 Southern Farm Supply • 215 Stone Hill Construction, Inc • 527 Sukup / LnR Feed & Grain Sys. • 212 T.A. Seeds • 113, 114 Taylor Manufacturing, Inc • 311 Tech Mix, Inc • 505 The Power Connection • 136 Trissel Equipment • 107 Uncommon USA, Inc • 531A United DHIA • 506 VA Golf Cars Inc • 172 Valley Feed Co • 500 Valley Implement Sales • O-6A Valmetal Inc • 214 Virginia Bin Service • 512 Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Srvcs • 120A Virginia Farm Bureau • 211 Virginia Simmental Assoc. • 510 Virginia Trailer Sales/Double H Equipment • O-14 Vulcan Materials Company • 513 Waste Solutions Forum • 132, 133 Whitesel Brothers Inc / W.S. SE Gea • 108 Williams Brothers Tree & Lawn Service • 503 Wood-Mizer Products, Inc • O-9 SKID STEER RODEO SPONSORS Virginia Farm Bureau - Diamond Level TROPHY SPONSOR Virginia Farm Bureau GIVEAWAY SPONSORS Camping World of Roanoke VA Golf Cars Inc

Hours’ obsession: a legacy of lost opportunities With the Obama administration currently weighing unnecessary changes to the current hours-of-service rules, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said the focus on this area by advocacy groups and the current leadership at the Department of Transportation has prevented progress on a number of other, more pressing safety concerns. “Report after report, from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s own Large Truck Crash Causation Study to the most recent annual report on truck and bus safety facts shows that fatigue is not a leading cause of crashes,” Graves said. “By putting an incredibly resource-intensive focus on this rule, FMCSA and these advocacy groups have foregone progress on areas ranging from speed to safety technologies to driver training that would have a much larger impact on highway safety.” Drawing on the LTCCS and other federal data sources, three-quarters of all fatal and serious truck crashes involve at least one other vehicle, typically a passenger car. In a majority of cases, accident investigations assign the critical reason for the crash to the passenger vehicle, but when it is assigned to the truck, nine times out of 10, the issues lie with the actions of the driver. “Put most simply, these crashes are caused by unsafe behaviors by drivers

like speeding, driving too fast for conditions or distracted and inattentive driving, or unfortunate mistakes related to unfamiliarity with his or her surroundings or driving conditions,” Graves said. “We have long advocated that FMCSA do more to address aggressive and unsafe driving and for the increased use of advanced safety technologies, but to date those pleas have been largely overlooked.” ATA has promoted and sought support for return to a national maximum 65 mph speed limit for all vehicles, mandatory speed limiters on all large trucks, widespread implementation of proven enforcement and education programs like TACT (Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks), stronger, uniform CDL rules, incentives for vehicle collision warning systems and improved education for all drivers through the Share the Road and America’s Road Team programs. DOT’s preoccupation with determining the size and stickiness of the hours-of-service band-aid to address complex fatigue issues in order to cater to small, organized labor-backed and perhaps well-intentioned “safety” advocates, has done little to address the vast majority of car-truck crashes. “The 2009 Truck and Bus Safety Facts report from FMCSA showed that fatigue was the cause of just 1.4 percent of crashes and the Large

Truck Crash Causation Study said fatigue was associated with, but not the cause of, 13 percent of crashes,” Graves said. “That means that between 87 percent and 98 percent of serious crashes will be unaffected by changing the hours rules. “When looking at highway safety, regulators have an obligation to spend the public’s resources to implement programs and countermeasures that will do the most good, and it seems

clear that the leadership at DOT and FMCSA are failing to address larger crash causes in order to placate special interests fixated on a relatively small part of the crash problem,” he said. “We hope that policy makers will do more to address the bulk of truckinvolved crashes because the trucking industry, which has a vested interest in keeping our highways safe, and the motoring public deserve better.”

NATSO applauds Senate Committee’s commitment to transportation, safety and jobs NATSO, the national association representing truckstops and travel plazas, on Nov. 9 applauded the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee for unanimously approving a bipartisan two-year highway reauthorization bill. The Senate EPW voted 18-0 to approve S. 1813, also known as MAP21, which would fund the nation’s transportation program for two years at current funding levels. NATSO President and CEO Lisa Mullings said, “We applaud Senate EPW Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, Ranking Member James Inhofe, and the entire committee for approving MAP21, which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, make our roads safer, and reduce the time professional drivers and other motorists waste in

highway gridlock. We urge full Senate passage of this important legislation.” Mullings also expressed support for a specific provision that would devote more funding to truck parking. Under a section titled “Jason’s Law,” the bill would authorize states to use certain appropriated dollars for truck parking facilities. This includes the construction of rest areas with expanded truck parking; construction of commercial truck parking facilities adjacent to commercial truck stops and travel plazas; the opening of existing inspection and weigh station facilities to truck parking; and promoting the availability of publicly or privately provided truck parking on the National Highway System using intelligent transportation systems.

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HAGERSTOWN, MD FEEDER CATTLE: 269. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 360# @ 166; 400-600# 120145; 600-700# 115-123; 700-950# 101-119; Hols. 825-950# 84-87. Feeder Heifers: M&L 200-400# 100-120; 400600# 105-125; 600-800# 97-115. Feeder Bulls: M&L 200400# 120-145; 400-600# 120-147; 600-750# 95-116. Beef Cow/Cf Pairs: Sm 750-900# short breds 7251035. MT. AIRY NC FEEDER CATTLE: 602. Feeder Steers: M&L 1-2 275-290# 151; 320-340# 151-170; 351-375# 159165.50; 415-440# 146-149; 450-495# 140-150.50; 538540# 143-149; 552-561# 123-148; 630# 126; 653# 130.50; S 1-2 350# 115. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1-2 328-333# 145-148; 358395# 133-148.50; 400-440# 132-141; 450-495# 124144; 500-532# 121-127.50; 550-555# 123.50-124; 600631# 114-116; 660-695# 106-109; 750-775# 104107; S 1-2 255-275# 120129; 415-440# 116-125. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1-2 420-445# 134-151; 450485# 130-146; 518-545# 125-135; 552-575# 120129.50; 603-625# 119.50124; 665# 123; 720-745# 98.50-114; 823# 87.50; S 1-2 400-445# 112-127; 460490# 105-123; 500-530# 105-114; 588-590# 100118. Bred Cows: M&L 1-2 Young 1050-1130# 880920/hd 4-6 mos bred; M&L 1-2 Young 1040-1095# 950960/hd 7-9 mos bred; 9201160# 650-950/hd 4-6 mos bred; 970-1100# 7401050/hd 7-9 mos bred. SILER CITY, NC FEEDER CATTLE: 1297 Feeder Steers: M&L 1-2 225-245# 127.50-179; 250295# 120-179; 300-345# 124-176; 350-395# 122165; 400-445# 120-158; 455-495# 135-147; 500546# 133-147; 550-595# 130-145; 600-642# 130134; 650-695# 125-131; 700-730# 115-124; 810825# 109-116; S 1-2 200245# 100-122.50; 255-285# 92-111; 300-345# 100-116; 355-395# 90-115; 405-440# 100-115. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1-2 225-245# 107-142; 255295# 130-155; 300-345# 117-145; 350-395# 115150; 400-445# 115-148; 450-498# 117-143; 500547# 115-139; 550-595# 113-137; 605-647# 102117; 652-695# 100-117; 700-720# 100-105; S 1-2

250-285# 115-121; 365390# 91-108; 400-445# 90110; 450-495# 95-115; 500545# 90-111; 550-591# 100-110; 655-680# 85-92. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1-2 450-495# 120-145; 500547# 119-139; 550-598# 120-138; 600-645# 110128; 660-685# 111-118; 700-735# 100-110; 755792# 104-109; 905-945# 84-86; 970-995# 81-87; S 1-2 455-490# 91-114; 500530# 100-114; 560-595# 92-114; 665-695# 95-109. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 70-80% lean 1400-1770# 65-72; 1405-1695# hi dress 72-80.50; Boner 80-85% lean 820-890# 60-63; 9351395# 61-70.50; 970-1355# hi dress 71-78; 910-1325# lo dress 50-60; Lean 8590% lean 805-955# 53-60; 825-1280# lo dres 40-47. Other Cows: M&L 1-2 Young 645-805# 67-71. BLACKSTONE, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 237. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 140; 400-500# 128-130; 500-600# 128.50129; 600-700# 117.50; 700800# 115-125.50; M&L 2 300-400# 118-135; 400500# 114-125; 500-600# 127; 600-700# 117.50; 700800# 112; M&L 3 400-500# 132; 500-600# 117-119.50; 600-700# 118; S 1 300400# 118; 500-600# 115; 600-700# 118; S 1 300400# 131; 400-500# 127. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 400-500# 118; 500-600# 118; 600-700# 111; 800900# 100; M&L 2 300-400# 115-120; 400-500# 117117.50; 500-600# 119; 600700# 92-107; M&L 3 300400# 116; 400-500# 119.50; 500-600# 115; S 1 300400# 110-114; 400-500# 112; 500-600# 104. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 151; 400-500# 125-132; 500-600# 117.50; 600-700# 115.50; 700-800# 111; M&L 2 300-400# 157; 400-500# 111-128; 500600# 113-117; 600-700# 113; 700-800# 112; S 1 300400# 120; 400-500# 104118; 500-600# 105; 700800# 85. N VA FEEDER CATTLE: 1781. 200-300# 150-180; 300400# 142-181; 400-500# 140-178; 500-600# 135163.50; 600-700# 126.50148; 700-800# 114-132; 800-900# 110-128; 10001100# 109.50-113; M&L 2 300-400# 125-139; 400500# 125-162; 500-600# 123-147; 600-700# 114137; 700-800# 105-123; 800-900# 106-116; 9001000# 105; S 1 300-400# 105-135; 400-500# 110133; 500-600# 110-128; 600-700# 110-126; 700800# 108-122.

Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 120-134; 300400# 120-146; 400-500# 400-500; 500-600# 114137; 600-700# 110-122.25; 700-800# 104-115.50; M&L 2 300-400# 118-143; 400500# 120-140; 500-600# 115-130; 600-700# 105117. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 145-161; 300400# 140-180; 400-500# 133-164; 500-600# 120143; 600-700# 110-126; 700-800# 97-112; 800-900# 90-101; 900-1000# 84-86; M&L 2 200-300# 132-148; 300-400# 128-151; 400500# 130-149; 500-600# 118-131; 600-700# 109115; 700-800# 93-102.50; 800-900# 69-75. SW VA FEEDER CATTLE: 938. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 143-159; 300400# 133-156; 400-500# 130-157; 500-600# 130144; 600-700# 121-137.50; 700-800# 119-137.75; 800900# 111-118; 900-1000# 107; M&L 2 200-300# 136146; 300-400# 119-136.50; 400-500# 139-155; 500600# 111-147; 600-700# 110-137; 700-800# 115130; 800-900# 107; S 1 400500# 130-134. Feeder Holstein Steers: L 2-3 200-300# 95-105; 300-400# 80-105; 400-500# 83-105; 500-600# 86104.50; 600-700# 79-92; 700-800# 77; 800-900# 76; 1100# & up 65. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 143-158; 300400# 127-150; 400-500# 124-141.50; 500-600# 114140; 600-700# 108-120.50; 700-800# 105-115; 800900# 75-98.50; M&L 2 200300# 100-131; 300-400# 125-145.50; 400-500# 114141.50; 500-600# 98-128; 600-700# 97-114; 700-800# 75-110; 800-900# 78-95.50; S 1 400-500# 110-114; 500600# 110-115. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 150-176; 300400# 140-170; 400-500# 136-156; 500-600# 119143; 600-700# 112-128; 700-800# 83-112; 800-900# 85-93; 900-1000# 71; M&L 2 200-300# 135-136; 300400# 100-157; 400-500# 124-139; 500-600# 118138; 600-700# 93-124; 700800# 81-100; 800-900# 87; S 1 300-400# 114-126; 400500# 111-125. FREDERICKSBURG, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report. FRONT ROYAL, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report. HOLLINS, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 311. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 141-144; 300-

400# 157-164; 400-500# 147-148; 500-600# 143; 600-700# 137.75-141.50; 700-800# 115; 800-900# 113; 900-1000# 107; 10001100# 95-102; M&L 2 200300# 131-133; 300-400# 111-156; 400-500# 147; 500-600# 141.50; 600-700# 135; 700-800# 128.50. Feeder Holstein Steers: L 2-3 200-300# 113; 300400# 94-103; 400-500# 105; 500-600# 101; 600-700# 70; 700-800# 70; 1000-1100# 60. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 112-126; 300400# 124-135; 400-500# 131-133.50; 500-600# 120121; 600-700# 120; 700800# 95; M&L 2 200-300# 116-119; 300-400# 133; 400-500# 134.50; 500-600# 117; 600-700# 114-118.50; 700-800# 95. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 130-135; 300400# 138-158; 400-500# 138-139.50; 500-600# 130.50; 600-700# 119-120; 700-800# 105-107; 800900# 98; M&L 2 200-300# 133; 300-400# 120-136; 400-500# 110-136; 500600# 130.50; 600-700# 116; 700-800# 102. LYNCHBURG, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 879. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 162-169; 400500# 150-157.75; 500-600# 143-146; 600-700# 127.50135.75; 700-800# 118125.50; M&L 2 300-400# 163-181.50, mostly 158; 400-500# 153.50-160.75; 500-600# 141-145.50; 600700# 120-132; 700-800# 119.50-124.50; M&L 3 300400# 161; 400-500# 147.50; 500-600# 127.50-130; 600700# 116-124; S 1 300400# 140; 400-500# 138158, mostly 158; 500-600# 138; 600-700# 122; 700800# 103. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300-400# 139.50; 400-500# 130.50-137.50; 500-600# 122.50-128.50; 600-700# 116.75-117.25; 700-800# 103; M&L 2 300-400# 139145; 400-500# 133-133.50; 500-600# 125-128.75; 600700# 115-118.25; 700-800# 100; M&L 3 300-400# 129135.50; 400-500# 127134.50; 500-600# 120.50123; 600-700# 115.25; 700800# 91; S 1 300-400# 137.50; 400-500# 121-125; 500-600# 114; 600-700# 109; 700-800# 91. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 164-180; 400500# 140-158.50, mostly 140; 600-700# 123.25; M&L 2 300-400# 180-183; 400500# 141-160.50. mostly 160.50; 500-600# 123132.50; 600-700# 125; S 1 300-400# 169; 400-500# 129-151, mostly 137.75; 500-600# 125-128. MARSHALL, VA

FEEDER CATTLE: No report. NARROWS, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report ROCKINGHAM, VA FEEDER CATTLE: No report. STAUNTON, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 775. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 150-180; 300400# 142-181; 400-500# 140-178; 500-600# 135163.50; 600-700# 130-148; 700-800# 114-132; 800900# 110-128; M&L 2 300400# 125-135; 400-500# 125-162; 500-600# 123147; 600-700# 114-137; 700-800# 105-123; 800900# 106-116; S 1 400500# 110-133; 500-600# 110-122; 600-700# 110126; 700-800# 108-122. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 300-400# 120-142; 400500# 125-140; 500-600# 114-137; 600-700# 110122.25; 700-800# 104115.50; M&L 2 300-400# 120-143; 400-500# 120140; 500-600# 115-130; 600-700# 105-117. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 300-400# 140-180; 400500# 133-164; 500-600# 120-142; 600-700# 110118; 700-800# 97-107. TRI-STATE, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 561. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 133-139; 400500# 150-157; 500-600# 132.50-144; 600-700# 126132.50; 700-800# 122-129; 800-900# 111-117; M&L 2 200-300# 137; 400-500# 146-155; 500-600# 128137.50; 600-700# 122-130; 700-800# 115-122; S 1 400500# 130-134. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 143; 300-400# 136-150; 400-500# 126141; 500-600# 126-140; 600-700# 112-120.50; 700800# 105-106.50; M&L 2 200-300# 131; 300-400# 125-138; 400-500# 125130; 500-600# 115-128; 600-700# 108-114; 700800# 92-101; S 1 400-500# 110-114; 500-600# 110115. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 176; 300-400# 140-170; 400-500# 140156; 500-600# 125-143; 600-700# 120-128; 700800# 103-112; M&L 2 300400# 126-150; 400-500# 130-139; 500-600# 118138; 600-700# 115-124; 700-800# 96-100; S 1 300400# 114-126; 400-500# 111-125. WINCHESTER, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 650. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 300-400# 150-165; 400500# 149-157.50; 500-600# 131-148.50; 600-700# 126139.50; 700-800# 117-126;

800-900# 114-122; 10001100# 112; M&L 2 200-300# 120; 300-400# 131-148; 400-500# 118-144; 500600# 112-127; 900-1000# 110; S 1 300-400# 113; 400500# 119-122; 500-600# 116. Feeder Holstein Steers: L 2-3 400-500# 85-87; 500-600# 80.50. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 118-129; 300400# 122-145; 400-500# 123-143; 500-600# 114133; 600-700# 102-116; 700-800# 114-117; M&L 2 300-400# 105-120; 400500# 108-127; 500-600# 100-111; 600-700# 89-110; 700-800# 98; S 1 300-400# 81-97. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 152-170; 300400# 148-166; 400-500# 128-164; 500-600# 127143; 600-700# 110-127; 700-800# 106-115; 800900# 93-99; 900-1000# 85; M&L 2 200-300# 132-149; 300-400# 136-151; 400500# 132-147; 500-600# 120-125; 600-700# 105113; 800-900# 77-86.50; S 1 400-500# 103-116; 500600# 118; 700-800# 91. WYTHE COUNTY, VA FEEDER CATTLE: 142. Feeder Steers: M&L 1 200-300# 159; 300-400# 136.50; 400-500# 150; 500600# 130-144; 600-700# 121-135.50; 700-800# 119129; 800-900# 117; M&L 2 200-300# 136; 300-400# 136.50; 400-500# 139148; 500-600# 147; 600-700# 110-126; 700-800# 123; 800-900# 107. Feeder Holstein Steers: L 2-3 200-300# 105; 300400# 80-105; 400-500# 105; 500-600# 93; 600-700# 79; 700-800# 77; 800-900# 76; 1100# & up 65. Feeder Heifers: M&L 1 200-300# 158; 300-400# 140-141.50; 400-500# 139141.50; 500-600# 114-115; 600-700# 115-117; 700800# 113-115; 800-900# 98.50; M&L 2 200-300# 100; 300-400# 145.50; 400-500# 141.50; 500-600# 116-120; 600-700# 109; 700-800# 110; 800-900# 93.50-95.50. Feeder Bulls: M&L 1 200-300# 168; 300-400# 145; 400-500# 136; 500600# 129; 600-700# 119; 700-800# 90-110; 800-900# 85-90; M&L 2 200-300# 136; 300-400# 136; 400500# 136; 500-600# 129131; 600-700# 115-121; 700-800# 90.

SLAUGHTER CATTLE SILER CITY, NC SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breaker 70-80% lean 1400-1770# 65-72; 1405-1695# hi dress 72-80.50; Boner 80-85% lean 820-890# 60-63; 935-

1395# 61-70.50; 970-1355# hi dress 71-78; 910-1325# lo dress 50-60; Lean 8590% lean 805-955# 53-60; 825-1280# lo dress 40-47. Other Cows: M&L 1-2 Young 645-805# 67-71. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1305-1490# 77-84.50; 1515-2220# 77.50-83; 1645-2175# hi dress 87-93. Cows/Calf Pairs: 3. S 1-2 600-850# middle age cows w/125-150# calves 590650/pr; M 1-2 950# middle age cows w/300# calves 540/pr. Baby Calves, per head: Holsteins 75-95. MT. AIRY SLAUGHTER CATTLE: Slaughter Cows: Breaker 70-80% lean 1050-1320# 65-75; 1080-1190# hi dress 77.50-78; 1400-1775# 6675; 1470-1840# hi dress 75.50-79.50; Boner 80-85% lean 805-890# 65-70; 9001385# 63-75.50; 12901390# hi dress 75.50-76; 975-1250# lo dress 54-62; 1430-1675# 66-72.50; 1400-1480# hi dress 75.5076.50; Lean 85-90% lean 720-785# lo dress 45-61; 920-1050# 62; 815-1370# lo dress 40-60. Other Cows: M&L 1-2 Young 1030# 65-75.50; S 12 Young 690-740# 6475.50. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1090-1480# 79-89; 11051110# lo dress 65-70; 15552205# 78-89.50; 17202050# hi dress 91-92.50. Cows/Calf Pairs: 6. S 1-2 700# middle age cows w/175# calves 800/pr; M 12 830-1035# middle age cows w/125-300# calves 800-1110/pr. Baby Calves, per head: Holsteins 70-100. SW VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 323. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 57.50-66.50; 1200-1600# 63-70.50; HY 1200-1600# 68-74.50; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 55-65; 1200-2000# 53-67.50; HY 1200-2000# 62-65.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 4052.50; 850-1200# 52-61.50. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 63-87.50; 1500-2500# 70-87; HY 1000-1500# 77-81; 15002500# 76.50-89. Cows Ret. to Farm: 31. M 1, 7-8 yrs. old 910-1230# 770-910/hd; L 1, 5-10 yrs. old 760-1200# 670-900/hd; S 1, 3-8 yrs. old 635-740# 450-500/hd. Cows w/Calves at side: 4. M 1, 2-8 yrs. old w/calves 200-300# 1000-1235# 900-1080/pr; L 1, 3-5 yrs. old w/calves 150-300# 800850# 900-1080/pr. Calves Ret. to Farm: 8. Hols. Bulls 70-100# 1755/hd.

HAGERSTOWN, MD SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 120. Slaughter Cows: Prem. Whites 71-74.50; Breakers 65-71; Boners 63-68, hi dress Limis 82-83.75; Lean 58-64; lo dress 55-58 thin/light 55 & dn. Slaughter Bulls: 9. YG 1 74-79.50; YG 2 69-74; 1 2760# @ 63.50; Bullock 1390# @ 88. Fed Steers/Heifers: 38. Hi Ch & Pr 1375-1450# 125127.50; few Ret. to Feed 1150-1250# 103-108. Fed Heifers: Hi Ch & Pr 1250-1450# 125-128.25; L Ch 1000-1100# 119-120; Hols. Bulls Ret. to Farm No. 1 94-120# 125-140; No. 2 94-120# 112-125; No. 1-2 80-92# 75-100; Hols. Hfrs. No. 1 80-110# 130-150; No. 2 80-110# 100-130. Slaughter Calves: Gd 80-100# 40-60. N VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 520. Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 1000-1100# 124; 11001300# 120-123; 1300-1500# 127.25-128.75; 1505-1665# 115.50-130; Sel 2-3 11001300# 109.50; Hols. 13001500# 114-118; Sel 2-3 1100-1300# 101-109.50; 1300-1500# 106. Slaughter Heifers: Ch 23 1000-1200# 120-125; 1200-1300# 123-128.50; 1300-1500# 115.50-128.75; Sel 2-3 1000-1200# 108.50. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 58-67; 1200-1600# 57.5069; HY 1200-1600# 6673.75; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 54-64; 12002000# 56.50-69; HY 12002000# 65-73; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 47-58; 8501200# 53-64. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 72.50; 15002500# 72; HY 1500-2500# 74.75-75.25. Cows Ret. to Farm: 52. M&L 1, few 2, 3-12 yrs. old bred 2-8 mos. 746-1440# 575-1110/hd. Cows w/Calves at side: 5. M 2, 6-7 yrs. old w/calves 140-250# 899# 1070/pr. Calves Ret. to Farm: 66. Hols. Bulls 70-100# 3090/hd; 100-130# 80131/cwt. BLACKSTONE, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 51. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 55-68; 1200-1600# 5767.50; HY 1200-1600# 6970; Boner 80-85% lean 8001200# 53-60; 1200-2000# 52-64.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 30-45; 850-1200# 45-52. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 65-69; 15002500# 60-72.25; HY 15002500# 73-77.

FREDERICKSBURG, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: No report. FRONT ROYAL, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 26. Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 1100-1300# 129.50; 13001500# 118.50-130; 15001850# 119-124.25. Slaughter Heifers: Ch 23 1000-1200# 110; 12001400# 122.50-131.50; 14001600# 129. HOLLINS, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 98. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 63-69.50; 1200-1600# 64.50-73; HY 1200-1600# 80.50-93.50; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 62.50-66; 1200-2000# 64-68.50; HY 1200-2000# 70; Lean 8590% lean 750-850# 47-58; 850-1200# 50-64. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 70.50-76.50; 1500-2500# 70-81.50; HY 1000-1500# 78.50; 15002500# 83. Cows Ret. to Farm: 8. M 1, 2 yrs. old 955-1295# 730920/hd; L 1, 820-950# 540580/hd. Cows w/Calves at side: 1. M 1, 10 yrs. old w/calf 280# 1000# 940/pr. Calves Ret. to Farm: 10. Hols. Bulls 100-130# 116/cwt. LYNCHBURG, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 292 Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 63-68; 1200-1600# 6274.50; HY 1200-1600# 7585; Boner 80-85% lean 8001200# 54.50-61; 12002000# 58.50-66; HY 12002000# 67-72; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 45-57; 8501200# 48-58. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 69-79; 15002500# 66-75; HY 10001500# 80-85; 1500-2500# 76-84.50. MARSHALL, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: No report. ROCKINGHAM, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 126. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 1200-1600# 57.50-64; HY 1200-1600# 66-68.50; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 54-61; 1200-2000# 56.50-63.50; HY 1200-2000# 65-66; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 4751; 850-1200# 53-60.50. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1500-2500# 72. Calves Ret. to Farm: 60. Hols. Bulls 70-100# 3080/hd; 100-130# 131/cwt. STAUNTON, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 60.

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 58-67; 1200-1600# 60-69; HY 1200-1600# 70-73.75; Boner 80-85% lean 8001200# 56-64; 1200-2000# 60-69; HY 1200-2000# 7173; Lean 85-90% lean 750850# 53-58; 850-1200# 5464. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 72.50; HY 1500-2500# 74.75-75.25. Slaughter Steers: Ch 2-3 1300-1500# 121.25-125.50. Slaughter Heifers: Ch 23 1200-1400# 121-130. TRI-STATE, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 160. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 60-66.50; 1200-1600# 6370.50; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 57-65; 12002000# 62-67.50; Lean 8590% lean 750-850# 40-49; 850-1200# 52.50-57. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 73-87.50; 1500-2500# 77-87. WINCHESTER, VA SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 136. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 1200-1600# 63.25-69; HY 1200-1600# 72.50-85; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 60-67.50; 1200-2000# 61-71.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 3755.50; 850-1200# 52.5056.50. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 60-75; 15002500# 73-81; HY 15002500# 82.75-84.75. Cows Ret. to Farm: 41. M&L 1, few 2, 3-12 yrs. old bred 2-8 mos. 800-1450# 600-1075/hd. Cows w/Calves at Side: 2. M 1, 3-5 yrs. old w/calves 200-250# 885-910# 11751225/pr. Calves Ret. to Farm: 2. Hols. Bulls 100-130# 42.5055/cwt. WYTHE CO SLAUGHTER CATTLE: 112. Slaughter Cows: Breaker 75-80% lean 850-1200# 57.50-65.50; 1200-1600# 64-70; HY 1200-1600# 7374.50; Boner 80-85% lean 800-1200# 55-58; 12002000# 53-61.50; HY 12002000# 65.50; Lean 85-90% lean 750-850# 43-52.50; 850-1200# 58.50-61.50. Slaughter Bulls: YG 1-2 1000-1500# 70-766; 15002500# 72.50-81.50; HY 1000-1500# 80.50-81; 1500-2500# 87.50-89. Cows Ret. to Farm: 22. M 1, 7-8 yrs. old 910-1230# 770-910/hd; L 1, 8-10 yrs. old 760-1200# 760-900/hd. Calves Ret. to Farm: 1. Hols. Bulls 70-100# 17.50/hd. HOG REPORT

HAGERSTOWN, MD PIGS Pigs & Shoats: 76. (/hd) 25-40# 35-40; 40-50# 4865; 60-80# 60-70; 80-100# 80-101; (/#) 100-130# 7597; 150-200# 75-86. Butcher Hogs: 77. US 13 225-270# 64-68; 270325# 66-76; 350-425# 6669. Sows: 23. 500-700# 5257; Lean 400-525# 49-52. Boars: 3.400-600# 2832. NC SOWS: 300-399# 51.58-61; 400-449# 50-62; 450-499# 50-56.68; 500549# 55-58; 550# & up 51.11-60.75. FREDERICKSBURG, VA HOGS: No report. HOLLINS, VA HOGS: No report. MARSHALL, VA HOGS: No report. N VA HOGS: No report. ROCKINGHAM, VA HOGS: No report. S VA HOGS: No report. STAUNTON, VA HOGS: No report. WINCHESTER, VA HOGS: No report. WYTHE CO, VA HOGS: No report. LAMB & GOAT MARKET N VA SHEEP: 86. Slaughter Lambs: Spring, Wooled Ch & Pr 1-2 60-80# 174; 80-110# 170176; Spring, Wooled Gd & Ch 1-3 30-60# 132; 60-90# 167-169; Wooled, Ch & Pr 2-3 90-110# 180; Wooled, Gd & few Ch 1-2 60-90# 180.50. Slaughter Ewes: Ch 2-4 71.50; Gd 2-4 67; Util 1-3 64; Cull 1-2 45. Slaughter Rams: all grades 78. HAGERSTOWN, MD LAMBS: 18. Lambs: L Ch 50-60# 197212; Gd 60-80# 150-160; Sheep Bucks 184# X 75. HAGERSTOWN, MD GOATS: 46. L Billies 125185; Nannies 80-110; Sel 1 Kids 80-110# 120-165; 6080# 102-165; 35-60# 5585.. N VA GOATS: 54. Kids: Sel 1-2 20-40# 175185; 40-60# 160-185; 6080# 120-180; Sel 3 20-40# 109; 40-60# 105-175; 6080# 85-110. Bucks: Sel 1-2 70-110#

112-153; 100-150# 132149. Does: Sel 1 100-150# 84112. S VA SHEEP: No report. S VA GOATS: 3. Kids: Sel 1-2 20-40# 10/hd. Bucks: Sel 1-2 70-110# 100/hd. MT. AIRY SHEEP: 12. Slaughter Lambs: Gd 60-100# 90-95; Ch & Pr 60100# 125; 100-140# 145205. MT. AIRY GOATS: 79. Slaughter and Replacement Classes: Kids: Sel 1 40-60# 75-100; 60-80# 105130; Sel 2 20-40# 27.50-40; 40-60# 50-65. Yearlings: Sel 1 80-100# 125-150. Does/Nannies: Sel 1 100-140# 125-195; Sel 2 70-100# 62.50-75. Bucks/Billies: Sel 2 70100# 35-50. FREDERICKSBURG, VA SHEEP: no report FREDERICKSBURG, VA GOATS: No report. HOLLINS, VA SHEEP: No report. HOLLINS, VA GOATS: 7. Kids: Sel 1-2 40-60# 60. Bucks: Sel 1-2 100-150# 120. Does: Sel 1-2 50-70# 95115. MARSHALL, VA SHEEP: No report. MARSHALL, VA GOATS: 1No report. ROCKINGHAM, VA GOATS: No report ROCKINGHAM, VA SHEEP: No report. SHENANDOAH SHEEP: 71. Slaughter Lambs: Spring, Wooled Ch & Pr 1-2 60-80# 174; 80-110# 170176; Spring, Wooled Gd & Ch 1-3 30-60# 132; 60-90# 167-169. Slaughter Ewes: Ch 2-4 71.50; Gd 2-4 67; Util 1-3 6; Cull 1-2 45. SILER CITY, NC GOATS: 144 Slaughter and Replacement Classes: Kids: Sel 1 under 20# 37.50; 20-40# 4555; 40-60# 65-75; 60-80# 85-90; Sel 2 40-60# 60; 6080# 80. Yearlings: Sel 1 60-80# 100-122.50; 80-100# 135150; Sel 2 60-80# 80-90; 80100# 100-115. Does/Nannies: Sel 1 70-

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To Have Your Auction Listed, See Your Sales Representative or Contact Dave Dornburgh at 518-673-0109 • Fax 518-673-2381 • e-mail: ddornburgh@leepub.com Monday, December 19 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Sheep, Lamb, Goat & Pig Sale. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 5-5:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-9721770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 8:00 AM: Half Acre Market, Ridge Rd., Auburn, NY. Drop Off Only. John Kelley, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-258-9752. • 12:00 Noon: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585584-3033 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Misc. & Small Animals. 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 55:30 pm. We will be open the day after Christmas - Business as usual. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607-6993637, 607-847-8800, cell 607-9721770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com • 12:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Horses & Hay. 1:30 pm Calves & Beef. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315829-3105 • 4:00 PM: Chatham Market, 2249 Rte. 203, Chatham, NY. Regular Sale. Harold Renwick, Mgr. & Auctioneer, Empire Livestock Marketing, 518392-3321. Wednesday, December 21 • 9:30 AM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Monthly Heifer Sale. Followed by our regular Wednesday sale at 1:30 pm. Empire Livestock Marketing, 716-296-5041 • 10:00 AM: 3277 Lexington Road Richmond, KY. Secured Creditors Auction: Construction Equipment, Drilling Equipment, Support, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944,

315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday. Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com • 1:30 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Calves followed by beef. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315-829-3105 • 1:30 PM: Cherry Creek Market, 6732 Pickup Hill Rd., Cherry Creek, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Market, 716-296-5041 Thursday, December 22 • 11:00 AM: 38 Lake St., Chateaugay, NY. Short Notice Dispersal for Gary Matthews. 50 head quality dairy cattle sell, machinery, fee, barn & farm equip. Sale Manager, Delarm & Treadway, 315-659-2407, 518-4834106 www.delarm-treadway.com • 12:30 PM: Pavilion Market, 357 Lake St., Pavilion, NY. Regular sale. Empire Livestock Marketing, 585584-3033 • 1:15 PM: Burton Livestock, Vernon, NY. Dairy Cattle followed by Beef & Calves. Dale Chambers, Manager, Empire Livestock Marketing, 315829-3105 Friday, December 23 • 4918 Rozzells Ferry Rd., Charlotte, NC. General Consignment Auction. Godley Auction Co., 704-399-6111, 704-399-9756 Monday, December 26 • Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). We will be open the day after Christmas Business as usual! Happy Holiday wishes from The Hosking Family, the Sale Barn crew & Cafe Girls. We appreciate all the business & friends we have made along the way! Tom & Brenda Hosking 607699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Wednesday, December 28 • 9:30 AM: Tuscaloosa, AL. Large Logging, Construction, Truck Tractors, Dump & Utility Trucks, Support Equipment Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son,

Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 1:00 PM: Finger Lakes Livestock, 3 mi. E. of Canandaigua, NY. Regular livestock sale every Wednesday. Finger Lakes Livestock Exchange, 585-394-1515. www.fingerlakeslivestockex.com Friday, December 30 • 10:00 AM: 398 Old Schuylerville Rd., Greenwich, NY (Washington Co. Fairgrounds). Rental Returns of New Holland, Kobelco, Cat Construction Equipment, Support, Attachments, Trucks & Trailers. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315633-2944, 315-633-9544 Saturday, December 31 • 8:30 AM: Hoover Tractor, Mifflinburg, PA. 5th Annual New Years Sale. Accepting consignments. Fraley Auction Co., 570-546-6907 www.fraleyauction.com Monday, January 2 • 12:30 PM: Hosking Sales, 6096 NYS Rt. 8, New Berlin, NY (30 miles S. of Utica & 6 miles N. of New Berlin). Monthly Fat Cow & Feeder Sale. A group of Jersey & Jersey X steers.Misc. & Small Animals. 1 pm Dairy. We now sell Lambs, Goats, Pigs & Feeders immediately following Dairy. Calves & Cull Beef approx. 55:30 pm. Tom & Brenda Hosking 607699-3637, 607-847-8800, cell 607972-1770 or 1771 www.hoskingsales.com Saturday, January 7 • 9:30 AM: Pittsburgh, PA. Very Large Job Completion Auction for Fleischner Excavation. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944, 315-633-9544 • 10:00 AM: 3517 Railroad Ave., Alexander, NY. Z&M Ag & Turf Auction. Public Auction Sale of Farm Tractors, Machinery, Landscape, Tools, Lawn Tractor & Mowers. Roy Teitsworth, Inc., Auctioneers, 585243-1563. www.teitsworth.com Thursday, January 12 • Portland, OR. Major Job Completion Auction. Online bidding available. Alex Lyon & Son, Sales Managers & Auctioneers, Inc., 315-633-2944,

315-633-9544 Friday, January 20 • 12:00 Noon: 73 West First Ave., Windsor, PA. Public Auction of Windsor Meat Market. Operating business with retail meat sales & custom slaughtering. Leaman Auctions, 717-464-1128 or 610-662-8149 www.leamanauctions.com Monday, February 6 • Kissimmee, FL. Yoder & Frey Auctioneers, Inc., 419-865-3990 info@yoderandfrey.com www.yoderandfrey.com Saturday, February 11 • 9:30 AM: Penn Yan, NY. Farm Machinery & farm smalls plus a few household goods for Ivan & Verna Zimmerman. L.W. Horst Auctioneer, 315-536-0954 Saturday, March 24 • Atglen, PA. The Gala at Glen Valley II. Hosted by Glen Valley Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, March 31 • Cobleskill, NY. 31st Annual Cobleskill Dairy Fashion Sale. Hosted by SUNY Cobleskill Dairy Cattle Club. The Cattle Exchange, 607-7462226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 14 • Syracuse, NY. New York Spring Holstein Sale. Held in conjunction with the New York Spring Dairy Carousel. The Cattle Exchange, 607746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, April 21 • Quarryville, PA. Wea-Land Holsteins Complete Dispersal. Landis Weaver & Family, Owners. Co-managed by The Cattle Exchange & Stonehurst Farm. The Cattle Exchange, 607-7462226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com Saturday, July 21 • Middleburgh, NY. Reflections of Maple Downs Sale. Hosted by Maple Downs Farm II. The Cattle Exchange, 607-746-2226, daveramasr@cattlexchange.com www.cattlexchange.com

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AUCTIONS 100# 105; 100-140# 120140; Sel 2 50-70# 65; Sel 3 50-70# 45. Wethers: Sel 1 100-150# 150. Bucks/Billies: Sel 1 100150# 140-155; 150-250# 160-190.

RUSHVILLE SEMIMONTHLY HAY AUCTION Prices/ton FOB unless otherwise noted. Delivery beyond 10 miles mostly 2.50 /mile. Hay dry 65 tons. No report

POULTRY REPORT SILER CITY, NC SHEEP: 22. Slaughter Ewes: Gd 100-200# 135-155; Util 80100# 100. STAUNTON, VA SHEEP: No report.

STAUNTON, VA GOATS: No report. TRI-STATE, VA GOATS: No report. WINCHESTER, VA SHEEP: No report. WINCHESTER, VA GOATS: No report. WYTHE CO SHEEP: No report. WYTHE CO GOATS: No report. CASH GRAIN MARKET NC GRAIN US 2 Yellow Corn was 14¢ lower. Prices were 6.216.65, mostly 6.21-6.45 at the feed mills and 5.60-6.25, mostly 6.21 at the elevators. US 1 Yellow Soybeans were 14-18¢ lower. Prices were 11.10 at the processors, 10.90 at the feed mills and 10.20-10.80, mostly 10.80 at the elevators. US 2 Soft Red Winter Wheat was without an available trend. Soybean Meal (f.o.b.) at the processing plants was 302.20/ton for 48% protein. Feed Mills: Bladenboro 6.50, -----, ----; Candor 6.51, -----, ----; Cofield 6.21, 10.90, ----; Laurinburg 6.50, -----, ----; Monroe 6.45, -----, ----; Nashville 6.65, -----, ---; Roaring River 6.55, -----, ---; Rose Hill 6.50, -----, ----; Statesville 6.30, -----, 6.80; Warsaw 6.50, -----, ----; Pantego #2 6.45, -----, ----. Elevators: Cleveland ----, -----, ----; Belhaven ----, -----, ----; Chadbourn ----, -----, ---; Clement ----, 10.73, ----; Creswell 5.60, 10.55, ----; Elizabeth City 6.01, 10.80, ---; Greenville ----, -----, ----; Lumberton ----, -----, ----; Monroe ----, 10.80, ----; Norwood 6.21, 10.35, ----; Pantego ----, -----, ----; Register ---, 10.20, ----; Warsaw #2 6.25, -----, ----. Soybean Processors: Fayetteville, 11.10; Raleigh, 11.10.

NC BROILERS & FRYERS The market is steady and the live supply is adequate to meet the moderate demand. Average weights are mostly desirable. The estimated slaughter for Wednesday in NC is 1,912,000 head compared to 2,136,000 head last Wednesday. NC EGGS The market is steady on small, higher on the balance. Supplies are light. Retail demand is good. Weighted average prices for small lot sales of grade A eggs delivered to nearby retail outlets: XL 153.16, L 152.39, M 121.30 & S 107. NY EGGS Prices are 3¢ higher on XL & L. M prices are 2¢ higher. Supplies are light to moderate. Demand ranges moderate to good. Market activity is moderate to mostly active. Prices to retailers, sales to volume buyers, USDA Grade A & Grade A white eggs in ctns, delivered

store door, cents per dz. XL 144-148, L 142-146, M 111115. FARMERS MARKET NC STATE FARMERS MARKET Beans, Green (25# bx) 30; Beets (25# bg) 17.65; Cabbage (50# crate) Pointed Head & Round 12; Greens (bu ctn) Collards 9, Turnips 12-13.25, Spinach (25# bx) 18; Peas, Crowder (bu bag) 12-20, Crowder (bu shelled) 24; Peanuts (35# bg) Green 35; Sweet Potatoes (40# bx) 14-21.75; Red Potatoes (40# crate) 18-20. Wholesale Dealer Price: Apples (traypack ctn 100 count) WA Red Delicious (traypack ctn) 33.95-34.95, WA Golden Delicious (traypack ctn) 33-34.50, Granny Smith WA (traypack ctn) 3436.50, Gala WA 29-41.50, WA Fuji (traypack ctn) 34.50-38, WA Pink Lady (traypack ctn) 38-41.50; Asparagus (11# ctn) 27.0529.25; Bananas (40# ctn) 21.50-22.80; Beans, Round Green (1-1/9 bu ctn) 2833.25, Pole (1-1/9 bu) 3032.50; Beets (25# sack) 11.55-14.35; Blueberries (flat 12 1-pt cups) 24-34; Broccoli (ctn 14s) 27.5035.15; Cabbage (50# ctn) 11.95-17; Cantaloupe (case 12 count) 21.15-23.15; Carrots (50# sack) 15.75-22.95; Cauliflower (ctn 12s) 29-

31.45; Cherries (16# bx) 48; Celery (ctn 30s) 28-30.95; Cilantro (ctn 30s) 19.0520.65; Citrus: Oran-ges, CA (4/5 bu ctn) 24-34.85, FL (4/5 bu ctn) 21-22; Pink Grapefruit, CA (4/5 bu ctn) 22-25.05; Tangelos, FL (80 count bx) 25-26.95; Lemons (40# ctn) 34.35-35.55; Limes (40# ctn) 26-34.35; Oranges, CA Naval (4/5 bu ctn) 29.85-30.65, FL Naval (64 count) 19.50-21.50; Tangerines (120 count) 24; Corn (ctn 4 ?-5 dz) Yellow 20-23.35, White (ctn 4 ?-5 dz) 20-23.35; Cranberries (24 12 oz pkg) 24.50; Cucumbers (40# ctn) Long Green 20-23.50, Pickles (ctn 40#) 21.45-30; Eggplant (25# ctn) 21-24; Grapes, Red Seedless (18# ctn) 27-29, White Seedless 37-42.50, Black Seedless 28, Red Globe 34; Greens, Collard (bu ctn/loose 24s) 10, Kale (ctn/bunched 24s) 21.15-22.85; Turnips (topped) 11.85-14.65; Honeydews (ctn 5s) 17; Kiwi (ctn 117s) 11.65; Lettuce (ctn 24s) Iceberg (wrapped) 24.50-26, Greenleaf (ctn 24s) 23-24, Romaine (ctn 24s) 24-31.50; Nectarines, Yellow/White Flesh (1/2 bu ctn) 22; Onions, Yellow (50# sack) Jumbo 18-20, White (25# sack) 14.50-15, Red (25# sack) 15, Green (ctn 24s) 23.45-24.15; Sweet Onions (40# ctn) 20-25.05; Peaches, Yellow/White

Flesh (1/2 bu ctn) 18; Peanuts (35#) Green 51-53; Pears, Bartlett (16# ctn) 27; Bell Peppers, Green (1-1/9 bu ctn) 18.15-20.05, Red (11# ctn) 32, Yellow (11# ctn) 32; Potatoes (50# ctn) Red Size A 18-24.35, Red Size B 25-28, White size A 14-15, Russett, ID 19.3520.05; Radishes (30 6-oz film bgs) Red 13.55-15.50; Plums, Red (28# ctn) 22; Squash, Yellow Crookedneck (3/4 bu ctn) 18.85-19, Zucchini (1/2 bu ctn) 16-19; Strawberries, CA (flat 8 1-qt cont) 35.05-37.05; Sweet Potatoes, Orange (40# ctn) 16-21.45, White (40# ctn) 20-20.65; Tomatoes, vine ripened XL (25# ctn) 17.1519.50; Tomatoes, Cherry (flat 12 1-pt cont) 13.7515.15, Romas (25# ctn) 19.50-20, Grape (flat 12 1-pt cont) 19.50-22; Turnips (25# film bg) Topped 14.3517.95. WESTERN NC FARMERS’ MARKET Apples (traypack ctn) Red Delicious 16-30, Golden Delicious 16-30, Granny Smith 31-36; (bu loose pack) Red & Golden Delicious, Fuji, Stayman, Romes 15-20; Bananas (40# bx) 18.50-20; Beans

(bu) Snaps 23.50-27, Halfrunners 33.50-38; Broccoli (ctn) 20-22; Cabb-age (50 bg) 7-12; Cantaloupes (ctn 9-12 count) 12-18; Cauliflower (ctn) 22.50-24; Citrus: Grapefruit 14-18, Lee Fruit 17-22, Navels 16.50-20, Oranges 15-18, Tangerines 16.50-20; Lemons (ctns 95 count) 26.50-28, (165 count) 24-28.50; Corn (Crate) Bi-Color 20; Cucumbers (1-1/9 bu) Long Green 19-20, Picklers (1-1/9 bu crate) 29.50-31; Grapes (18# ctn) Red Globe 24-25, Red & White Seedless 2532; Lettuce (ctn) Iceburg 1824; Nuts (50# sack) Mixed 125, Pecans160, Walnuts 130; Onions (50# bg) Yellow Jumbo 13.50-15; Bell Pepper (1-1/9 Bu ctn) L & XL 14-16.50; Potatoes, Irish (50# bg) 16-20, Russet 15.50-18; Squash (3/4 bu) #1 Yellow Crookneck 21-24, (1/2 bu) Zucchini #1 12-15; Strawberries (flat 8 1#) CA 26-30; Sweet Potatoes (40# bx) Red or Orange #2 1216; Tomatoes (25# bx) XL & Larger 14-16; Turnips (25# sack) 12.75-15. MARKET

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