North Carolina Meeting 2020
Members of the North Carolina Jersey Cattle Association met at the Agriculture Center in Statesville on January 20, 2020, for their annual meeting.
Nancy Keith, dairy extension agent for Iredell County, was the guest speaker. Her motivational presentation entitled, “The Three Es: Energy, Effort and Enthusiasm,” stressed the importance of a positive attitude, especially in trying times. Keith reminded her audience that health is wealth and there is a boomerang effect from acts of kindness and good deeds, which frequently circle back to where they start.
Keith closed her presentation with a quote from Jimmy Valvano, former basketball coach for North Carolina State University, “Three things [one must] do every day: laugh, think, be moved to tears.” An effective speaker, her audience experienced all three that morning as she spoke about family, friends and farm.
Members also heard about national Jersey organization news from American Jersey Cattle Association (AJCA) Director Bradley Taylor and National All-Jersey Inc. (NAJ) Vice President James Huffard III. Erica Davis, the region’s AJCA-NAJ area representative, also spoke about Jersey sales and encouraged breeders to attend the upcoming AJCA-NAJ Annual Meetings in Portland, Ore., this summer.
In the business meeting, members received reports from the treasurer and secretary and elected new leaders. Officers re-elected to serve in 2020 included Corey Alan Lutz, Lincolnton, president; Major Bond, Hickory, vice president; Shirley LeForge, Union Grove, secretary; and Coy Reese, Taylorsville, treasurer. New directors elected to serve three-year terms were Bryant Chapman, Taylorsville, Dorman Loyd, Statesville, Wayne Lutz, Mocksville, James Pearson, Lincolnton, Coy Reese, and Dr. John C. Wilk, Raleigh.
Members approved generous donations of $500 to the North Carolina Dairy Spring Weekend in March and $10,000 to the North Carolina Dairy Youth Foundation.
Upcoming events include the quiz bowl and skill-a-thon for juniors, to be held at the Agriculture Center on May 9 and the NCJCA Field Day and North Carolina Pot O’Gold Sale on July 11 at Small Acres Dairy at Biltmore Farms in Fletcher.
Corey Lutz also brought the group up-to-speed on the dairy processing plant he and his family are building at Piedmont Jerseys. Plans are to be up-and-running in May or June, selling milk and ice cream to consumers at an on-farm store.
Nancy Keith presents awards to Corey Lutz for winning the state’s lifetime production contest for milk and fat. Piedmont Avery Lindsey won the awards with lifetime production of 246,992 lbs. milk and 10,154 lbs. fat in 12 lactations.
Nancy Keith presents the Ray Mayne Trophy to Drew Gibson on behalf of White Rock Farm for for the high-producing cow for milk among cows under three years-of-age, NC White Rock 940 354.
Awards
Adults and juniors were recognized for achievements with Registered Jerseys.
Haley Foster, Cleveland, won the Kenneth E. Myatt Senior Memorial Trophy for exhibiting the Grand Champion at the North Carolina State Junior Dairy Show, Brenbe Getaway Mocha, Excellent-91%.
Jersey junior Macy Chapman, Taylorsville, won the 2020 North Carolina Pot O’Gold Production Contest with JX Moo Regency McKeya 1468 {5}-Twin. The Very Good-81% daughter of TJF Visionary, GJPI +126, produced a first lactation with a total dollar value of $6,459.29 to win the contest. Production for the 1-9 record is 23,235–977–834, with 2,721 lbs. cheese, on an m.e. basis. She was consigned to the 2017 North Carolina Pot O’Gold Sale by Brian J. Moore, Mount Ulla, and milked at Chapman Dairy in Taylorsville.
Macy received a check in the amount of $1,318.75. Other juniors who received prize money as well were Arley Purser, Marshville, Isaac Chapman, Taylorsville, and Bryson Baldwin, Statesville.
Deerview Plus V-Coed {6}, owned by Bowman Dairy Inc. of Julian, won the Myatt-Lutz Cup for producing the high m.e. protein record among all cows and the Biltmore Farms Cup for top milk production among cows three years and older. The Very Good-87% daughter of Sweetie Plus Iatolas Bold {5}, GJPI +74, produced a 3-9 record of 32,025–1,531–1,153 on an m.e. basis to earn both awards.
NC White Rock 940 354 won the Ray Mayne Trophy for milk production among cows under three-years-of age. The Very Good-82% daughter of CDF Layne Ivory-ET, GJPI +149, is owned by White Rock Farms LLC of Marshville. She produced a record of 31,403 lbs. milk on an m.e. basis.
Piedmont Avery Lindsey, owned by Corey Lutz, won the Sunbeam Farms Trophy for lifetime milk production for the second straight year and received the Howard Odum Trophy for lifetime fat production for the first time. An Excellent-93% daughter of Bancrest Lester Avery, GJPI -1, she produced 246,992 lbs. milk and 10,154 lbs. fat in a dozen lactations. She has an m.e. average over 20,000 lbs. milk and made a top record of 23,710 lbs. milk, 876 lbs. fat and 795 lbs. protein at 5-8. She calved for the last time in November 2018 at 14-7 and left the herd in early January 2019. She has five registered daughters.
The Randleigh Jersey herd at North Carolina State University in Raleigh was the state’s high milk and protein producer with a 2019 herd average of 20,728 lbs. milk, 933 lbs. fat and 755 lbs. protein on 60 cows. The dairy also led the way for most desirable calving interval, with an average calving interval of 11.7 months.
Bowman Dairy Inc. was the leading fat producer, with a 2019 herd average of 20,481 lbs. milk, 1,027 lbs. fat and 744 lbs. protein on 97 cows. The 115-cow herd owned by Brian J. Moore, Mount Ulla, earned the prize for lowest age-at-first-calving, freshening first-calf heifers on average at 20 months-of-age.
Farside Farms, Alexander, topped its peers for low somatic cell count (SCC) with an average SCC of 159 on the 50-cow herd.