February 2003
Your 2003 DHIA District Meetings
Notice
All members are welcome to attend the District Meeting. If you are a member, you
are eligible to vote. Agenda items will include a review of the audit for 2002,
election of delegates to the Annual Meeting scheduled for March 27, election of
directors for 3-year terms in districts noted below, and new and old business.
| Tuesday February 25 |
South Central @ Digger's in Kasson |
| Wednesday February 26 |
South East @ Loon Cafe in Lewiston * |
| Thursday February 27 |
North West @ Shooting Star in Mahnomen |
| Monday March 3 |
South West @ Karl's in Essig |
| Tuesday March 4 |
Metro @ Kubes in Norwood * |
| Thursday March 6 |
Barron WI |
| Friday March 7 |
North East @ Embers in Milaca |
| Wednesday March 12 |
West Central @ Holiday Inn in Alexandria |
| Thursday March 13 |
Central@ Lab in Sauk Centre |
| * elections |
|
All district meetings begin with registration at 11:15 with the meeting
beginning at 11:30 Lunch is provided for members. The Barron Washburn meeting is
also the local annual meetings, so please refer to that notice for details.
Call 800-827-3442 for answers, or to make a reservation.*
Somatic Cell Counts less than 100,000!
Congratulations to the following
37 members - your January Somatic Cell Counts were under 100,000. We also had
another 120 herds with 150,000 or less. Thank you for your quality to the dairy
industry!
| ROLLING GREEN HOLSTEINS |
34,000 |
OAKLAND |
|
|
SILENT ACRES |
83,000 |
VILLARD |
| ROBERT SLATER |
35,000 |
MAHTOWA |
| |
NORBERT BROWN |
84,000 |
GREY EAGLE |
| JOHN KLEHR |
47,000 |
WINTHROP |
| |
|THOMAS & RITA WOLBECK |
84,000 |
WAUBUN |
| BEVENDALE FARMS 2 |
51,000 |
GREENISLE |
| |
SELKE FARMS |
86,000 |
DAKOTA |
| ROBERT + FAWN STAUB |
54,000 |
MAZEPPA |
| |
ROGER A GRUBER |
87,000 |
CANNON FALLS |
| GATEWOOD FARM |
64,000 |
WILLMAR |
| |
PAUL & MARY ZIMMERMAN |
87,000 |
BROOTEN |
| ROGER + WENDY SORENSON |
70,000 |
EAGLE BEND |
| |
ROBERT SWYTER |
87,000 |
RENVILLE |
| STEVE AND SANDY SIEGLE |
72,000 |
COLOGNE |
| |
MERTON + TRUDY NELSON 2 |
88,000 |
ELLENDALE |
| CLYDE R JOHNSON |
76,000 |
GROVE CITY |
| |
STEVE + LORRIE HELLMANN |
91,000 |
HOLDINGFORD |
| MIKE MARTIN |
77,000 |
HAYWARD,WI |
| |
DONALD + DARLENE MATROS |
92,000 |
PIERZ |
| DAN MICHAELIS |
77,000 |
WINONA |
| |
CURT & KARLA BAER |
93,000 |
RUSHFORD |
| WAYNE AND WADE ATHEY |
80,000 |
GRACEVILLE |
| |
RONALD+BRIDGET AUSMUS |
94,000 |
HINCKLEY |
| JON WINTER |
80,000 |
HOFFMAN |
| |
STEVEN ASHER |
95,000 |
PINE CITY |
| JOHN AND STACI SCHERBER |
80,000 |
ROGERS |
| |
PAUL NIBBE |
96,000 |
ZUMBROTA |
| JEFF BLENKER |
81,000 |
ALBANY |
| |
RANDY DRINKALL-HOL |
98,000 |
RUSHFORD |
| BILL + MERRI POST |
81,000 |
CHANDLER |
| |
LARRY BRAEM |
98,000 |
SACRED HEART |
| K + A DAIRY |
82,000 |
SEBEKA |
| |
JOHNSON TURKEY DAIRY |
99,000 |
PELICAN RAPIDS |
| CIRCLE DRIVE HOLSTEINS |
82,000 |
HUTCHINSON |
| |
BRYCE ANDERSON |
100,000 |
BARRETT |
| HILLVIEW-SHORTHORN |
83,000 |
FERGUS FALLS |
| |
|
|
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2002 Averages
For the calendar year 2002, here are the averages of all herds processed at ATA.
This data includes owner
samplers and herds from other states are using our system.
| Production |
|
|
|
|
Milk |
19,511# |
up 73 pounds from 2001 |
| |
Fat |
3.8% |
no change for years |
|
Protein |
3.10% |
|
|
MLM |
67# |
|
|
Peak Lact 1 |
69# |
|
| |
Peak Lact>1 |
88# |
|
| Lactation One |
|
|
| |
% of herd |
36% |
|
| |
Age at fresh |
27 months |
|
| |
Sire PTA |
$ 290 |
|
| Reproduction |
|
|
|
Waiting Period |
64 days |
|
|
Days Open |
178 days |
|
| |
Management Calving Interval |
15 months |
| |
% SCC Positive |
37% |
|
|
SCC Count |
415,000 |
|
Keys to Success in Your Dairy Business: People Considerations -
Are you Managing Your Time or Is Your Time Managing You?
by
Chuck Schwartau, University of Minnesota Extension Service, Dairy Systems, Red Wing
Lee Gross, University of Minnesota Extension Service, Farm Business Management, St. Cloud
Margo Rudstrom, West
Central and Outreach Center, University of Minnesota, Morris
Have you ever taken a close look at your daily routine in the
dairy? What time do you get in the morning? What time do you get stared on
chores? Who else is getting things started in the morning? Who is doing what in
the dairy? Do eat meals with your family? When was the last time you were able
to attend a child's
school activity in the evening?
A close and honest examination of those questions is part
of a study that dairy operators should conduct themselves. The results may not
only give you more personal living time for yourself, your family and your
community, but they may also help you find out where small amounts (or maybe
even large amounts) of
dairy management time are slipping away from you.
"Diary Your Dairy"
* Keep a diary of your routine for a time period to see what you are really doing.
* Invite someone
else, like a diary profitability team member, to watch parts of
your work routine to help identify things that might be done differently.
* Don't forget the minutia.
Examine Your Dairy Diary and Organize Your Work
* What is being done?
* Who is doing it?
* Is it a routine job done daily? Weekly? Monthly?
* Does it have a regular place on the schedule?
* Where does the job fall on the priority list?
* What are the implications to yourself and the dairy
if the job doesn't get
done in a specific time, or at all?
* Is health or safety compromised during any tasks?
Chart the Work on Your Farm
* Are there jobs that routinely get put off of don't get done at all?
* Is the most appropriate person on the farm doing the job?
* Is there a specific time set-aside for "managing"?
* Are there jobs that take more labor time than they should?
* Are
there gaps in the day when one or more persons involved in the dairy are
significantly under-employed?
* Are key people in the operation spending too much time on mundane jobs?
* Is there time on the chart devoted to management?
* Consider how the chart could be reorganized to
better utilize the people and
time available.
* Do
a time allocation chart based on your diary and what is believed to be
appropriate time for the work to be done, or establish priority lists of work.
End of the Day
* Look at what didn't get done
* Why didn't it get done?
* Does in need to get done yet today?
* Can it wait until tomorrow?
* Does it need to be done at all?
* Did not getting something done really make a difference?
Remember to congratulate yourself
for the accomplishments of the day rather than
dwell on the what didn't get done.
Multi-tasking may look
like good time management, but the real goal should be
better use of the time you have.
Learn to manage your
time so you have time to manage the business and your quality
of life for yourself, your family and your community.*
* The above information was presented at the recent
Minnesota Dairy Days meetings.
Wisconsin Jaycees recognizes Son-Bow Farms
Inc. of Spring Valley, WI
Congratulations to members Jay and Kristi Richardson of Son-Bow
Farms Inc. of Spring Valley, WI. They have been awarded the honor of 2003
Wisconsin Jaycees Outstanding Young Farmer. Jay and Kristi milk 650 cows, farm
2,110 acres
and custom harvest 7,500 acres. They have 2 sons.
The Wisconsin Outstanding Young
Farmer (OYF) is a program of the Wisconsin Jaycees, and has been held for 48
years, since 1954. The Wisconsin Jaycees, United States Jaycees, and JC
International comprise the greatest young person's leadership development
organization in the world, using public service projects to train leaders for
tomorrow. The Jaycees, and their OYF honorees, have networked, shared ideas, and
gained public recognition for farmers and ranchers form all
facets of agriculture.
The Goals of the Program:
* Fostering better urban-rural relations
through the understanding of farmers'
challenges, as well as their contributions and achievements.
* Building interest in farmers and their business.
* Advancing awareness of the farmers' importance and impact on America's economy
Congratulations again to Jay and Kristi Richardson and all
you have done with the dairy industry.*
Cows for Sale
For Sale: 80-cow Holstein herd, 19 springing
heifers - (due now - May 1st), 92 open heifers. All AI herd. 21,000 RHA on
official test, 300,000 SCC. Located in Morristown.
If interested please call Jeff Voegel 507.685.4404 (2/6/03)
Entire herd for sale. Located in Lindstrom.
Please call
Pat Eichten at
651.257.6777 (1/23/03)
Wanted to Buy: Open & PG Holstein heifers.
Grade-ID-REG.
Please call
Bill Eustice @ 888.656.7832. (1/23/03)
Cows For Sale is a service of
Minnesota DHIA. Members can advertise for just $2.50 per animal with a maximum
of $50 per herd (good for 60 days).
For more information, talk to your Field
Rep on sample day or call us at 800.827.3442.*
Lower the count
For the third time in six years, the National Mastitis Council
will submit a proposal to the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments
(NCIMS) this spring to lower the national somatic cell count limit. (NCIMS meets
every other year.) This time, NMC is proposing to gradually lower the count to
400,000 over eight years. The first drop would be to 650,000 SCC on January 1,
2005. The proposal then incrementally lowers the count every two years, until
the 400,000 SCC level is reached on Jan. 1, 2011.*