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Hopkinton Fairgrounds, Judge Jamie Black, Constable, NY 168 head—49 mature cows

Congratulations to the joint Show Committee that organized an out-standing inaugural New England Holstein Summer Show. From New Hampshire - Stephanie Morris, Brooke Clark, Nate Tullar and Tim Putnam. From Vermont - Dan La-Coss, Seth Carpenter, Elizabeth Hall and Renee Baker

Junior Champion – Junior Show 1st Fall Calf, Kennedy Kimball, Idee Dorman 1,Sire-Val-Bisson Doorman-ET, Breeder-Idee Holsteins Re-serve Junior Champion-Junior Show 1st Spring Calf, Kennedy Kimball, Cobequid Diamondbk Symbolic-Red, Sire – Mr D Apple Diamondback, Breeder-Cobequid Holsteins Junior Honorable Men-tion – Junior Show 1st Summer Yearling, Jadyn Kimball, Cobequid Doorman Fia, Sire-Val-Bisson Doorman-ET, Breeder-Cobequid Holsteins Junior Champion-Open Show,1st Fall Calf, Kennedy Kimball, Idee Dorman 1, Sire-Val-Bisson Door-man-ET, Breeder-Idee Holsteins, Reserve Junior Champion-Open Show 1st Winter Calf, Kennedy Kimball, BHL-HA Faiths Fame,

Sire-Sonnek GC Corvette-ET Breeder-Kennedy Kimball & Noah Reid, Honorable Mention – Open Show 1st Spring Calf, GMC Farm, Ms Beauty Aval Blush-ET, Sire-Dymentholm Mr Apple Avalanche-TW, Breeder – CLF, Eaton & Mur-phy Intermediate Champion – Junior Show 1st Junior 2-Year Old, Caden & Mariah Hart, Aceofhearts Diamondback 3517, Sire-Mr D Ap-ple Diamondback, Breeder-Caden & Mariah Hart, Reserve Intermediate Champion – Junior Show 1st Sen-ior 3-Year Old, Maddie Beaudry, Elme-Isle Tabber Channel, Sire-Regancrest-PJ Tabber-ET, Breeder-Maddie Beaudry Intermediate Champion – Open Show 1st Senior 2-Year Old, Fairmont Farm, Ms Apples Andralyn-ET, Sire-Scientific B Defiant-ET, Breeder-Fairmont Farm Reserve Intermediate Champion – Open Show 1st Sen-ior 3-Year Old, Renee & Chet Baker, Desperle Regina Aftershock, Sire-Ms Atlees Sht Aftershock, Breeder-Desperle Farm Grand Champion-Junior Show

1st Junior 2-Year Old, Caden & Ma-

riah Hart, Aceofhearts Diamond-

back 3517,Sire-Mr D Apple Dia-

mondback, Breeder-Caden & Mari-

ah Hart, Reserve Champion-

Junior Show 1st Senior 3-Year Old,

Maddie Beaudry, Elme-Isle Tabber

Channel, Sire-Regancrest-PJ Tab-

ber-ET, Breeder-Maddie Beaudry Grand Champion-Open Show

1st 4-Year Old, Fairmont Farm, Al-lyndale Shocking Lilac, Sire-S Af-tershock, Breeder-Justine Allyn, Reserve Grand Champion-Open Show 1st Senior 2-Year Old, Fair-mont Farm, Ms Apples Andralyn-ET, Sire-Scientific B Defiant-ET, Breeder-Fairmont Farm Premier Breeder: 1st Morrill Farm, 2nd Robeth Holsteins, 3rd Fairmont Farm Premier Exhibitor: 1st Mor-rill Farm, 2nd Fairmont Farm, 3rd GMC Breeder’s Herd: 1st Robeth Hol-steins, 2nd Morrill Farm Dairy, 3rd Fairmont Farm Open letter to the members of the Vermont & New Hampshire Hol-stein Associations

By Marion Seifert "Congratulations on the highly successful Summer Show. Through your hard work, you created a show that obviously met a need. We in New England now stand in a position of envy. We are hosts to four shows that.are known for their excellence, the Northeast Fall National at the Big E, the Connecti-cut Show, the Pine Tree Holstein Show, and now the New England Holstein Summer Show. Let's all work together to strengthen and maintain these shows. What an enviable position to be in. Keep up the good work.

Holstein USA Director’s Report by Steve Keene

Attending this years’ National Hol-stein Convention in Michigan late June and early July reminded me how diverse we are as a member-

ship organization from different parts of the country, with a variety of challenges , but at the end of the day we all have common goals that involve good people and the Hol-stein Cow. This years convention saw two National Directors finish their sec-ond 3year term. Pat Maddox , Calif. ; and Paul Buhr , Wisc ; were thanked for their service to the as-sociation. John Anderson, ID ; and John Marshman , NY ; were re-elected to serve a second 3year term as directors. New Directors elected were Bill Genasci , Calif ; and Bob Webb , Wisc . Committee reports were present-ed and heard of the International Committees’ focus on expanding HUSA marketing of products and services internationally and in-creasing export opportunities. Also a speaker from the US-Cuba Ag Coalition presented his views on US- Cuba trade, past , present , and future. Type Advisory Committee re-ported that 1) starting in Jan 2018 HUSA will perform type classifica-tion services for the American Guernsey Association (AGA ). 2) Discussion of rear udder cleft and teat placement led to a recommen-dation that rear teat placemnt be a two-way trait with intermediate be-ing optimum , and 3) further discus-sion centered on declining linear classification SET type data ; and “type” vs “functional type “ The Genetic Advancement Com-mittee 1) recommends that a letter be sent to CDCB reminding them of their obligation to provide accurate

and error-free information , 2) rec-ommended participating in a DMI-led research project on the effects of A2 milk , 3) reaffirms the im-portance of accuracy and terminol-ogy regarding haplotypes. Legislative affairs committee , after discussing a variety of issues affecting our industry, decided to focus on one item of importance to all dairy producers . The Dairy Pride Act legislation was intro-duced to eliminate miss-labeling of non-dairy products .More infor-mation can be found on the HUSA website where individuals can sign a petition of support. It was a recommendation from the show committee to approve 2 new National Shows. Also, some additions have been made to the Approved judges list. There is now space provided to include a picture and a short bio . OTHER BUSINESS: Delegate Elections - August 1st nominating petitions are mailed out from HU-SA office and are the most im-portant part of the process. Please nominate a few people you feel would represent your state well at the National Convention. Open Access- In THE PULSE. Spring 2018 issue CEO Meyer out-lined some history of DHI testing and genetic evaluations and the cooperation of all involved. He mentions that “ There may be some changes forthcoming. You may be contacted by DHI or a DRP Center regarding how you want your in-formation and data to be handled. If you receive a document regard-ing how the CDCB will incorpo-rate your data for genetic evalua-tions, we urge you to check the box or indicate that you would like open and/ or full disclosure of your data to the Holstein Association” This will help enable the amount of good , quality data to flow into and through the U.S. dairy genetic evaluation system. New Committee- President Schaufelberger has appointed a committee to review National Con-vention planning and make rec-comendations moving forward. WEBSITE NEWS: The HUSA website continually has new infor-mation available. From the weekly

“ Whats Up” feature , to press releases ,CEO Meyers’ State Of The Association Address , The Holstein Marketplace ( to help con-nect Registered Holstein Breeders looking for quality genetics ) , Dairy Pride Act tab to click and find out details and sign a petition in support , and a listing of all ap-proved National Holstein Shows in addition to any information you need regarding HUSA products and services. HOLSTEIN AMERICA: A tribute to the nations Dairy produc-ers. On RFD- TV in February 2018. You can see it on youtube. The second Holstein America will be on August 9th at 10pm and avail-able later on youtube. NHWSO: The National Holstein Womens Scholarship Organization (NHWSO ) held their annual silent auction at National Convention which helps support scholarships to Holstein Jr. Members continuing their education. This year NHWSO awarded one $ 5,000 and two $2,500 Scholarships. CONGRATULATIONS: National Distinguished Junior -Erin Norris, MA, Herds Of Excellence -Grafton County Farm , NH and Ar-ethusa Farm, CT, Outstanding Young Breeder- David Harvatine Aurora Ridge Dairy., NY, Elite Breeder Award- Tom & Ginny Kes-tell, WI, Distinguished Leadership Award- Bill Nichol, Penn. Hope to see everyone at New Eng-land Convention in Manchester, Conn. October 26 & 27. Connecticut/Rhode Island Hol-stein Show, July 15, Goshen Fair-grounds, Judge Michael Heath, Westminster, MD, 86 head—30 mature cows All CT Photos courtesy of Rachel Footit, Rachel Anna Photography

Junior Champion Junior Show

Champion – 1st Fall Calf, R-E-W So Lois, Walnutlawn Solomon-ET, R-E-W DeLikely-ET, B/O: Michael Wolf, Reserve – 1st Spring Yearling Hilltop-Manor Echo Elec-tra,Dementholm Mr App Avalnche-TW, Hilltop-Manor R E Echo. O: Michael Wolf, Honorable Mention – 1st Spring Calf, R-E-W All in Favor, Dymentholm Mr App Avalance-TW, Budjon Vail All My Heart, B/O: Michael Wolf Junior Champion Open Show-

Champion – 1st Fall Calf, R-E-W So Lois, Walnutlawn Solomon-ET, R-E-W DeLikely-ET, B/O: Michael Wolf, Reserve –1st Winter Calf, Ce-dar Ridge R Tanguray-Red, Reality-RED, Hottamale-RED, B/O: Rick, Dorey & Casey Wolf, HM – Sum-mer Yearling, MS Solomon Hori-zon, Walnut Solomon, Miss Re-ginald Harper, O: Horizon Syndi-cate. Futurity – 1st prize $150,1st Watch-Hill Gold Chip Elsa-ET, Mr Chassity Gold Chip,Watch-Hill Ad-vent Elaine,B/O: Watch-Hill Hol-steins – Scott Davenport Intermediate Champions– Open Show -Champion – 1st Senior Two-

Year- Old Kingsway Doorman An-drea,Val-Bisson Doorman-ET, Kingsway Sanchez Arangatang, O: Beth Roberts & Bill Taylor Reserve – 1st Senior Three-Year- Old Whit-tier-Farms Bomb Ricki Richmond-FD, El Bombero, Whittier-Farms Rosepetal-ET, B/O: Todd Whittier Honorable Mention – 1st Junior Two-Year Old- Lizettes Doorman Lyrica-ET, Val-Bisson Doorman-ET, Lot-tos Atwood Lizette-ET, O: Wood-mansee Farms, Clark Woodmansee,

Senior Champions—Junior Show-Champion-1st Place Senior Two-Year Old, Ari Jane Glavco Jewel, Toc-Farm Duplex Glauco, Ari Ja-lene, O: Morgan Betti (lease) Re-serve Senior – 2nd Place Senior Two-Year Old, Budjon-Vail All My Heart, Val-Bisson Doorman, Milksource Goldwn Africa-ET, O: Michael Wolf, Honorable Mention – 4 Year-Old, Thorncrest Maxwell Ivory, Mr Burns Maxwell, Thorn-crest Dundee Ivory, O: Margaret Brady Grand Champions - Junior Show, 1st Senior 2-Year Old, Ari

Jane Glavco Jewel, Toc-Farm Du-plex Glauco, Ari Jalene, O: Morgan Betti, Reserve Grand – Junior Champion – 1st Fall Calf, R-E-W So Lois, Walnutlawn Solomon-ET, R-E-W DeLikely-ET,B/O: Michael Wolf, Honorable Mention – Re-serve Senior Champion—Open Show—2nd place Senior 2-Yr. Old, Budjon Vail All My Heart, Vail-Bisson Doorman, Milksource Goldwn Africa-ET, O Michael Wolf Senior Champions-Open Show–

Champion—Aged Cow, Ernest-Anthony Tarra, Gillette Windbrook, O: Cedar Lane Farm, Reserve -

Five-Year Old, Millborne-MG Phoenix Timone, Windy Knoll Phoenix-ET, Millborne-MG Dundee Twilite, O: Paul Saunders, Honora-ble Mention – 4 Year-Old, Mill-borne-MG Clark Twister, Dool-Leigh Goldwyn ,Clark Millborne-MG Aftershock Twix, O: Paul Saunders Grand Champion –Open Show –

Senior 2-Year Old, Kingsway Door-man Andrea, Val-Bisson Doorman-ET,Kingsway Sanchez Arangatang, O: Beth Roberts & Bill Taylor, Re-serve – Senior 3-Year Old, Whittier-Farms Bomb Ricki, Richmond-FD El Bombero, Whittier-Farms Rosep-etal-ET, B/O: Todd Whittier, Hon-orable Mention – Aged Cow, Ernest

-Anthony Tarra, Gillette Wind-

brook, O: Cedar Lane Farm Best Bred & Owned, Open Show –

Senior 3-Year Old (Todd Whittier Best Udder – Grand Champion (Beth Roberts & Bill Taylor)

Premier Breeder & Exhibitor: P. Morey Miller Holstein USA Convention

Delegate Re-port by Heather Richardson The National Holstein Con-vention and 133rd Annual

meeting of Holstein USA was held

June 29th-July 3rd in Acme, Michi-gan at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. It was a wonderful con-vention from start to finish and the Resort facilities were top notch! The Host Day Tours provided attendees with a nice variety of tour options, from visiting a cherry re-search center and a boat ride on Lake Michigan, to the Sleeping Bear Dunes and Mackinaw Island tours and last but not least the Farm Tours. This year's farm tours took place on 4 different farms (Ber-Sher Farms, Bosscher Dairy, Hidden Hills Dairy and Yonkman Dairy) ranging in size from 200 cows to 1200 cows . Highlights from this tour were viewing the rotary parlor with a robotic post dip sprayer, vis-iting a state of the art 3 year old facility, and a Showcase of the best Holsteins in Michigan, providing far away farms with the chance to highlight their breeding programs. During the annual meeting, dele-gates were brought up to date on the state of the association and given reports on all standing committees. Our association saw increases in registrations and identifications again this year, yet decreases in classifications. The association saw a deficit in the budget for the past fiscal year, yet had a good return on investments during that time period, adding positively to the reserve fund and total assets. The associa-tion launched the inaugural year of a Research Grant Program that will utilize a portion of reserve fund money to sponsor a research pro-posal that will ultimately increase the profitability of Holstein cattle. The proposal that was selected for this first round will use genomic information to help minimize in-breeding in the Holstein population. From committee reports, dele-gates learned that the current aver-age classification score on all cows is 80.6 with 2 year olds averaging 79.4 points. The next base change is scheduled to occur in December of 2019. Two new shows have been added to complete the list of 12 Na-tional shows in 2018: Northeast Spring National in Syracuse, NY and the Western Fall National in Oregon. Optional classes for all shows will be the Fall Yearling and

Summer Calf classes. The 2019 Judges Conference to be added to the list of approved judges will be held in Columbus, Ohio at the Spring Dairy Expo. A new optional feature has also been added to the official Judges List that will include a picture, biography and additional information on each judge. Monitor-ing the over bagging of cows at shows is something that is being closely watched and studied at Expo and other national shows. Delegates were informed that the YDLI pro-gram is accepting applications for the 11th class of the program. The legislative affairs committee pre-sented the stance that the association has taken in support of the Dairy Pride Act, which will require correct labeling of nut and soy products as such. There is an online petition to sign that can be found on the legis-lative affairs page on the Holstein USA website. During the Annual meeting new directors were elected: region 5- Bob Webb, region 8- John Ander-son, region 9- Bill Genasci, and the At-large position- John Marshman. A very interesting presentation was given by Chad Dechow on the Ge-netics of Embryo Protection. Final-ly, Delegates were invited to attend the 2019 National Holstein Conven-tion in Appleton, Wisconsin June 24th-27th. The state of Michigan truly de-serves a round of applause for the wonderful convention that they put together and for locating the facili-ties to host the annual meeting! Massachusetts Summer Meeting & Picnic by Melissa Griffin

The Massachu-setts Holstein As-sociation met on Sunday July 8, 2018 at Jordan Dairy Farm in Rutland, MA. Randy Jordan and Heather Richard-son led the group on great tour of

the dairy facility including the dairy barns, milking parlor, and methane digester. The tour was followed up

by a picnic lunch catered by a local church group and a short business meeting. Thank you to the Jordan Family for hosting the meeting! During the business meeting MA Holstein members heard reports from the National Holstein Conven-tion junior and adult conventions recently held in Acme, Michigan. Thank you and congratulations to junior members Erin Norris, Greg Norris, Austin Norris, and Katelyn Poitras for all their hard work and dedication that went in to represent-ing Massachusetts and New England at this year’s event. A huge congrat-ulations goes out to Erin Norris for being selected as a 2018 Distin-guished Junior Member Finalist for the Holstein Association USA, Inc. Heather Richardson and Melissa Griffin served as the Massachusetts delegates this year for the adult con-vention. Rachel Pomeroy has been work-ing on a new logo for the association and a potential design was presented to all members in attendance and will be voted on in the future. She has also been working on t-shirt de-signs which we hope to sell as a fundraiser later this year. At the con-clusion of the meeting we wrapped up our two fundraisers, the basket and coffee table raffles, which had been going on all spring. Thanks to Lisa Norris for organizing the basket raffle, to Brian Richardson for mak-ing the coffee table, to all those who donated items for the basket raffle, and to all those who purchased tick-ets for either raffle and helped make these fundraisers so successful! New England Junior Report By Gregory Norris

The New England Juniors returned home from Acme, Michi-gan as one of the most successful

groups in recent history. The week started off on Friday night with jeopardy orientation and a "Welcome Ashore" junior mixer. Saturday morning started early with the Jeopardy contest and public speaking. Erin Norris placed third in the Senior Jeopardy division to start out the week. Later in the day, Sydney Bullard and Maddie Beaudry both participated in the prepared public speaking con-test. That night, the members of the quiz bowl team took the written test to determine the seatings for the dairy bowl contest on Monday.

On Monday morning, the dairy bowl contest began with the seniors taking on California in the first round. After a tough loss to California, the senior team, consist-ing of Miriam Dugas, Greg Norris, Maggie Laprise, and Maddie Beaudry, had to play their way up through the losers' bracket with a grueling slate of five matches right in a row. They went on to beat New Jersey, Washington, New York and Pennsylvania, before be-ing eliminated by eventual champi-ons Iowa, to finish in a strong third place, one place better than last year. The junior team of Sydney Bullard, Katelyn Poitras, Regan

Johnson, and Charlie Haynes also suffered a tough loss in the first round to South Dakota. The young junior team kept their cool and when on to defeat the teams from Michigan, Illinois, and New Jersey before a tragic three point loss to eventual champion, Iowa, finishing in fifth place. All of the members from both the junior and senior

dairy bowl teams are eligible to compete next year and will look to make it to the finals to compete for the dairy bowl title!

In other junior contests, the digital scrapbook placed third and the scrapbook placed fourth over-all. Additionally, Erin Norris of Westhampton, MA was named a Distinguished Junior Member final-ist. This is the highest honor a jun-

ior Holstein member can re-ceive. Erin entered the contest at the New England Holstein Conven-tion last fall and was chosen to rep-resent New England on a national level. She then sent her portfolio to Holstein USA to be judged, and was chosen as one of twelve semifi-nalists for the honor. Each of the twelve semifinalists participated in an interview at the convention, and the six semifinalists with the high-est scores were named Distin-guished Junior Members. Erin be-came the first finalist from New England since 2008 and the first from Massachusetts since 1988.

Try-outs for the teams for the 2019 National Holstein Conven-tion in Appleton, WI will be held this fall at the New England Hol-stein Convention in Manchester, Connecticut. The annual meeting of the junior association will also be held here to elect a new slate of of-ficers and discuss club business.

Mark your calendar

You don’t want to miss the

New England Holstein Convention & Annual Meeting

Hosted by CT/RI Holstein Assoc.

October 26 & 27 The New England Meeting will take place at the Baymont Inn in Manchester, right off Interstate 84.

Friday, October 26

Begin at UConn in Storrs for a full day of programs around robotics, from genetics to ani-mal welfare to robotic systems

• Tours of the Kellogg Dairy Center and robotic milking sys-tem as well as look at some of the research being conducted; lunch & dinner offered here

• Juniors activities begin

Saturday, October 27

• Breakfast & panel discussion on branding and marketing milk

• Junior activities continue

• Annual meeting

• Awards ceremony

• Oak Ridge Dairy - tour and lunch

New England Committees Executive - Jim Strout, Sr., presi-dent; Mary Margaret Cole., vice-president; Dan LaCoss, treasurer; Kirsten Kruger, secretary. Finance - Chair Pete Waterman, Jim Strout, Sr., Dan LaCoss, Dave Schillawski, Lee Salonen, and Lin-da Haggarty Membership - Chair Betsy Bullard, Marion Seifert, Ellie Kotrady Breed Promotion & Show - Chair Rick Allyn, Scott Davenport, Bonnie Burr, Arnie Nieminen, Betsy Bullard Youth: Chair Nicole Fletcher, Labette Page, Leanne Moon, and Kirsten Kruger

2018 NEW ENGLAND STATES

LEE SALONEN OUTSTANDING HOLSTEIN JUNIOR EXHIBITOR AWARD

Lee Salonen and Chris Kimball present the first award to Maggie

Martha Seifert presents the second award to Lottie Page of New Hamp-shire.

General guidelines: 1) Award to be a $250 cash prize, presented at the Northeast Fall National Holstein Show, Eastern States Exposition, in honor of Lee Salonen; 2) Applicant must be a New England and Holstein USA junior mem-ber and may win this award only once; 3) Juniors must exhibit their own Holsteins at the Northeast Fall Na-tional Show in the year in which the applicant has applied; 4) Selection will be completed by an anonymous committee. Applications are due in the New England office by August 15. Complete award information and application (fillable .pdf form) are available on our website nesh-olsteins.com and on Facebook. You may also email neholstein@nesholsteins.com or call 802-757-2442 to request an application.

Lee Salonen was on hand at the Northeast Fall National Holstein Show to present 2017 award to Isabel Hall of E. Montpelier, VT.

2018 Award Winner ? ? ?

This could be you!