Minnesota DHIA News

A PUBLICATION OF MINNESOTA DHIA                                                   Volume 7, Issue 2                                                              February 2007

 

Milk ELISA Johne’s Testing Up and Running

 

The Sauk Centre and Zumbrota DHIA Laboratories are both up and running with the Milk ELISA Johne’s test, and USDA recently announced it has approved the test.  Over 1400 samples have been run so far at the two labs, and data is flowing to Minnesota DHIA’s data handling system for report generation and for reporting to the Board of Animal Health and University of Minnesota for research purposes relative to Johne’s prevalence.   Work continues to make selection of cows easier in the software, and to trap the data in the cowfiles for consultant and producer use.  Minnesota DHIA is grateful for the cooperation of the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, Antel-Bio, and the College of Veterinary Medicine at the U of M.

 

RFID Tag Update

371 Herds have now ordered RFID tags from MN DHIA, totaling over 33,000 tags.  In a recent study on a member herd over a period of time, 10,080 cows walked past panel readers on their way into the milking parlor.  The stationary reader panel was able to identify 97.8% of the cows in routine operation.  Breaking the study down, 99.9% of cows with Half Duplex Tags were read, confirming our advice that if you plan to use RFID tags in the parlor, you should pay a little extra and get the Half Duplex Tags.  We thank Dr. Steve Stewart and the U of M College of Vet Medicine for their good work.

 

At least one major buyer of cull dairy cows reports paying an additional 3 cents per pound for source verified beef, has an RFID reader, and is using RFID on a limited basis as evidence of source verification.

 

Minnesota DHIA is selling both Digital Angel Full Duplex Tags and All Flex Half Duplex.  Both are USDA approved, both come with the USDA shield, both use the international 840 codes to satisfy current and future regulatory requirements, and both come only in white.  Digital Angel offers a combo tag that incorporates the RFID and a large visible management tag.  Ask your DHIA Field Rep for details.

 

Cow Page Corrections Complete / Available

Beginning in late January of last year, and continuing through the spring, our Dairy Records Processing Center, Agri-Tech Analytics (ATA) was implementing a new data processing system.  When they implemented one of the program changes, they mistakenly removed the application of AP factors for butterfat test on individual cows.  The net affect of this was that most cows sampled on a morning milking were not given enough butterfat credit, and most cows sampled on a night milking were credited with too much. 

 

When the problem was found, we requested that ATA correct all cows and Rolling Herd Averages.  They recently completed that project and Rolling Herd Average adjustments showed up in your reports starting this past fall.  ATA has now provided us with the corrected cow pages.  For those on the cow page option, corrected cow pages are available on request.  Please call us at 800.827.3442 or have your field rep include a memo on your next sample day.  Please note that the next routine cow page you get on a cow will have the corrections on them anyway.

 

Cows for Sale

90 grade Holstein cows for sale.  For more information, please contact Brad Nere at Milky Way Dairy at 320.826.2299 or 320.522.1637.

January 2007 Milk Quality Top 100

 

 

SCC

Cows

 

 

 

SCC

Cows

DAN AND JOLENE SCHLANGEN

EDEN VALLEY

31

63

 

SUE STUEWE

COLOGNE

87

77

CIRCLE DRIVE HOLSTEINS

HUTCHINSON

38

16

 

OAK GLEN JOHNS

EAGLE BEND

88

33

TRAVIS-RICHARD SCHLOSSER

MILTONA

43

35

 

MARK KLEHR

BELLE PLAINE

88

54

HAPPKE HOLSTEIN FARM

PIERZ

46

66

 

LAYNE JANIKE

MINNESOTA LAKE

89

19

KEVIN ANDERSON

BATTLE LAKE

47

46

 

MIKE + ROSIE ZEIG

SLEEPY EYE

89

30

PETER & MARK HENDRICKSON

MENAHGA

47

71

 

GOLBERGS LAKEVIEW DAIRY

DEER CREEK

89

71

SCHEFERS BROS

PAYNESVILLE

47

78

 

GERALD+LISA BURG

FREEPORT

91

39

PHILIP & SHEREEN HAUGE

SUNBURG

49

49

 

CURT + JACKIE BEKIUS

MILACA

91

76

DANIEL HALLBERG

KANDIYOHI

49

59

 

BRUCE AND JODI HEIM

LEWISTON

91

142

HABERER HILL DAIRY

HENNING

53

20

 

TIM & SUE HOESE

GLENCOE

92

27

KEVIN & SHEILA THARALDSON

GOODRIDGE

55

54

 

BOB L LIESER

PAYNESVILLE

92

61

DAN-BRUCE-TIM LOUWAGIE

COTTONWOOD

55

64

 

JIM AND LAURIE ORTH

WINONA

92

68

NORBERT BROWN

GREY EAGLE

56

55

 

JON WINTER

HOFFMAN

93

32

JAMES AND PAUL GREGORY

BELGRADE

58

87

 

STEVE + LORRIE HELLMANN

HOLDINGFORD

94

44

HAZEL-BUSH FARMS INC

RICE LAKE

61

47

 

TREVOR HASSE

FERGUS FALLS

95

16

WAYNE AND WADE ATHEY

GRACEVILLE

62

43

 

EVERETT AND PAT ROLFING

WINONA

95

41

AL + MARK SCHMITT

RICE

63

94

 

AUSMUS FARM

HINCKLEY

95

78

LYLE AND WANDA HONEBRINK

MAYER

63

95

 

KIMM'S DAIRY

PELICAN RAPIDS

95

79

DALE ERICKSON

BARRETT

64

39

 

DEVOINE KRUSE

CALEDONIA

95

130

GLEN CHRISTEN

SAUK CENTRE

65

42

 

SCOTT'S DAIRY

RICE LAKE

96

37

MARK TESSMER

ROGERS

67

45

 

SONDAG DAIRY

APPLETON

96

39

ZUMBRO VIEW FARMS LLC

ZUMBROTA

67

50

 

DARRIN STEIN&LYNN SCHULTZ

CENTER CITY

96

43

JOHN AND STACI SCHERBER

ROGERS

68

48

 

TIMOTHY-MAYLA KLEMEK

HENNING

97

34

SCOTT FELDHACKER

HILLSDALE

68

57

 

STANLEY MARTIN

BROWERVILLE

99

34

WILLIS-MARY KRUEGER

ALEXANDRIA

68

68

 

TODD & KATHY JOHNSTON

ANGUS

99

57

JERON NATHE

MELROSE

68

242

 

SELKE FARMS

DAKOTA

99

160

MORRIS + JEFF CHAMBERLAIN

HASTINGS

70

18

 

DEAN FRISLE

PRAIRIE FARM

100

64

TOM FUECHTMANN

MELROSE

71

93

 

MARK & CARLA BRUNHOLZL

LAKE CITY

101

25

ROBERT SLATER

MAHTOWA

72

30

 

STEVEN KUEHN

NEW ULM

101

32

ART AND JANE STUMPF

PIERZ

74

47

 

LUX-URY HOLSTEINS INC.

EDEN VALLEY

101

134

MARK TITERA

BAGLEY

75

24

 

WALLY W WIESE

VERNDALE

102

30

KIRK BENGTSON

BUFFALO

75

44

 

CURTIS + MAREN HOLST

LAKE CITY

102

95

STEVEN ASHER

PINE CITY

76

32

 

HOWARD STUEBER

NEW ULM

103

33

BOB & TERRI KETCHUM

UTICA

76

122

 

LARRY & CAROL MOEN

CAMERON

103

73

TLK FARMS

HEWITT

77

64

 

JIM KULINSKI

LESTER PRAIRIE

104

49

AB ACRES

SHELL LAKE

79

40

 

SAINTVILLE DAIRY

NORWOOD-Y.A.

104

73

MILKY WAY DAIRY FARM

HAYWARD

81

43

 

SOLYNJA DAIRY ACRES

NORTHFIELD

104

79

JEFF MILLER

FOLEY

81

58

 

MANUEL JERGER & SONS

BARNESVILLE

104

130

WILL TACHIBANA DAIRY

UNDERWOOD

82

30

 

SCHUELER FARMS

WILLMAR

104

241

LARRY BRAEM

SACRED HEART

82

37

 

JOHN ROBERS

CLEAR LAKE

105

20

JEFF BLENKER

ALBANY

82

44

 

QUINCY VALLEY FARM

ST CHARLES

105

77

DEAN + ELIZABETH JOHNSON

HERON LAKE

82

72

 

STEVE H REMIGER

WOODLAKE

105

102

SCOTT & JACOLYN RICKEMAN