College and Tech School Scholarships are available for Minnesota DHIA members, DHIA employees, and their children. Call us at 763-682-1091 for details or an application, or logon to our web site www.dhia.org. Deadline for applications to be recieved is 9/29/2000.
Courtney Carlson of Clay county is selling his herd of 50 grade Holsteins. Please call Courtney or Charles at 218-483-4145 for more information.
Mike Steinhagen has 7 springing heifers for sale, due in August. Call Mike for more details at 952-442-2581.
Gabe & Barb Gieske are having a Herd Dispersal Auction with the MidAmerican Auction Co. on Friday, August 11. Start time is 12:30 pm. They will be selling a total of 79 Holstein cattle, including 43 milking cows. For more information, please call the Gieske's at 320-352-3360.
Larry Goodman of Wabasha county wants to sell his herd of 41 grade Holsteins by the end of July. Please call him for more information at 507-753-2030.
Roger Mohs of Otter Tail county would like to sell his pregnant Holstein heifers by August 1st. His phone number is 218-631-2042.
Karl Germscheid of Le Sueur county plans to sell his herd of Holstein cows. They will be available in August. For more information, call him at 507-357-4500.
Cows For Sale is a service of Minnesota DHIA. For a fraction of the price of newspaper advertising, you can list your dairy animals for 60 days. Members can advertise for just $2.50 per animal with a maximum of $50 per herd. For more information, talk to your Field Rep on sample day or call us at 800-827-3442.
The long anticipated release of the Windows version of Dairy Comp 305 has arrived! Over the next few weeks, we will be sending out the CD-ROMS with the latest DOS updates and the Windows version of DC 305 on them. All Dairy Comp users should have the new version by the end of August. We would like to thank you for your patience during this conversion.
SCOUT Windows Conversion -- Beta testing of the Windows version of Scout is already underway. So far things have been moving along very well. We anticipate the general release this fall.
The Stearns DHIA lab offers testing of all forages on NIR (Near-Infra Red) or Wet Chemistry. The lab processes up to 250 samples per day for DHIA members, cooperatives, feed companies, commercial hay producers and hay auctions. Samples are being tested from as far away as Texas, Washington and Canada. When Minnesota customers mail samples one day, the lab receives them the next forenoon, tests them and e-mails or faxes the results back the same afternoon for quick one day turnaround. Results may also be mailed out. The cost is $9.50 for NIR. To receive free sample bags, input forms and postage paid mailers for mailing in alfalfa samples call 1-800-369-2697.
Water testing is also available at Stearns. The lab is now certified to test water for livestock and domestic suitability. They offer several options. For more information or a sampling kit, call 1-800-369-2697.
You probably knew July is Ice Cream month, but did you also know . . .
1) Historians estimate that ice cream evolved sometime during the 16th century?
2) Rumor has it that ice cream came from a recipe that Marco Polo brought back to Italy from the Orient?
3) Ronald Reagan designated July as a time to honor America's favorite dessert in 1984?
4) The first improvement in the manufacture of ice cream (from the handmade way in a large bowl) was given to us by an American woman, Nancy Johnson, who in 1846 invented the hand-cranked freezer?
5) Commercial production of ice cream began in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851, by Mr. Jacob Fussell, now known as the father of the American ice cream industry?
6) The ice cream cone first became popular at the St. Louis Fair in 1904? They called it the "World's Fair Cornucopia"?
Find this and other interesting ice cream facts at the following websites: www.moomilk.com www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/icecream.html
Visit the new Stearns County DHIA lab site at www.stearnsdhialab.com