Wisconsin names Ed Lump 1985 June Dairy Month Chairman
Ed Lump, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, is named 1985 June Dairy Month Chairman. He will promote dairy foods and serve as spokesman for Wisconsin’s dairy industry at civic and social events statewide, stressing links between food service and dairy quality. The observance is sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board UW Extension the June Dairy Month Advisory Committee and the Wisconsin DATCP. This marks the 49th year.
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Nebraska corn grower tops 319 bushel record
Nebraska farmer Gerrod E Toepfer of Lewellen claims the NCGA irrigated yield record with 320.63 bushels per acre on a field planted to PAB SX 333. He topped Ernest Dixon’s 1982 mark of 319.52. Toepfer credits hybrid selection fertility planter adjustments irrigation and ideal growing conditions.
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Gerrod E. Toepfer
Lewellen
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National Corn Growers Association
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Ernest Dixon
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Toepfer
Bigger is not better says 4000 cow California dairy rancher
Doug Maddox of AuAnn Dairy East in Avon New York and AuAnn West in Riverdale California argued at the Wisconsin Holstein Association convention that milk yield per cow is the key to profitability. His herds average 20 000 pounds per cow annually across operations including 180 registered Holsteins in New York 700 in California and 3000 in Burrel. He emphasized individual cow management genetics feeding and mastitis control plus incentive pay and worker communication. He noted advances in genetic engineering embryo techniques and sexed sperm, predicting gradual improvements within 10 to 20 years and noting current limits in embryo storage and thawing.
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Doug Maddox
AuAnn Dairy East
Avon, New York
Riverdale
Calif
New York
Maddox Dairy
Burrel
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