Monday, April 24, 2017

Pheasant Echo’s Farm – A Family Affair

One of two Red & White Features in the May HolsteinWorld Exclusive
By Cheri Oechsle

Although not rooted in generations of dairy farmers, the Holstein breeders at Pheasant Echo’s Farm do not lack any passion for their way of life and their cows. Officially established in 1991, on a rented farm in the gentle rolling hills of Maryland, Byron and Deborah Stambaugh began their journey into the registered Holstein business with 30 head purchased from Owen Martin of Hagerstown, Maryland and five children, Tanya, Crystal, Julie, Bud and Kenny. Now, 26 years later, the Pheasant Echo’s name is synonymous with champions and a dedicated and passionate family that thrives around the Holstein cow.

Jason Miley's Roots are Firmly Established at Miley Holsteins

One of two Red & White Features from the May HolsteinWorld Exclusive
By Cheri Oechsle


Developing the red bloodlines created diversity and “something different” for Ohio Holstein breeder Jason Miley and his family. Jason, along with his wife Amy, are the fourth generation of family at Miley Holsteins in West Salem, Ohio. “When we first started with the reds, we liked a few of the red bulls like Advent and wanted to try something a bit different. It was around the same time that the Ohio State Fair started to have a separate Red and White show and our Red and Whites did well for us. So they were something a bit different to breed,” said Jason. 

Saturday, April 22, 2017

California State Holstein Show & Red & White Show

The weather was perfect, the cattle outstanding and California hospitality was rolled out during the 2017 California State Holstein Show, April 21, at the Tulare County Fairgrounds in Tulare, California. Judge Carl Phoenix of Sunderland, Ontario had his work cut out for him as he placed both the Red & Whites and Black & Whites in a high-quality and high-number show. Below are a few photos from the champions. More coverage will be included in the June issue of the HolsteinWorld Exclusive.

Junior Champion honors went to the Fall Calf in the Red & White show. Elaine Alvanche Holiday Red topped one of the largest classes in the Red & Whtie show of the day for JT Leonardo. RWD-Five Armani Fancy 2 was the Reserve Junior Champion. The first place Spring Yearling was exhibited by Ruanne Dairy.

Junior Champions of the Holstein Junior Show was the beautiful Fall Calf, Garay Millenium Brisk owned by Danielle Pacheco. Reserve honors went to Camphols Doorman Elisee, the first place Fall Yearling exibited by David Edwards.

Danielle Pacheco and Garay Millenium Brisk took the open show Junior Champion honors as well. Reserve Junior Champion was the Winter Yearling Arolene GoldChip Eliza owned by Frank & Carol and Frank & Diane Borba.

The Borbas had an exceptional day with Grand Champions of both the Red & White Show and the California State Holstein Show. Chubanna Diehard Hearts, the first-place 4-Year-Old took Grand honors for the Borbas. Reserve honors went to Elbridge Abslte Rhonda Red-ET for owner Donavan Miguel. Honorable Mention was the Intermediate Champion, the Sr. 2-Year-Old Ms Barb Action Beauty Red-ET owned by Crazy Chaos Syndicate.

Grand of the Junior California State Holstein Show was Goldcrest Atwood Giggles, the first-place Aged Cow for owner Aspen Silva. Reserve Grand of the Junior Show was the Intermediate Champion of the show, Airosa B Atwood Blush owned by Kyleigh Forster. Honorable Mention went to the second-place Aged Cow, APGambo Marky Sadie-Lou owned by Alexandra Gambonini.

The day ended with the naming of the Grand Champions. The Borba's silky first-place 4-Year-Old, Aldora Alta Dempsey was tapped for Senior and Grand Champion honors. Reserve was the second-place 4-Year-Old owned by Christian Cunningham & Miles Price of Illinois, Silvermaple Windham Camille. Honorable Mention was the 150,000 Lb. Cow, Siemers Atwood Alexia owned by the Borbas. 

Premier Breeder and Exhibitor of the show was Ruann Dairy. Check out more photos at www.purebred.smugmug.com and look for more photos and coverage in the June issue of the HolsteinWorld Exclusive.



Friday, April 21, 2017

California Classic Sale

California Holstein enthusiasts gathered in Tulare, California, this week for the Spring Show and Classic Sale. The sale was held Thursday evening, April 20 with 21 Holsteins and embryo packages and six Jersey and an embryo package selling. The Holsteins averaged $3419 while the Jerseys had a $2833 average.

Top selling female was MS Malarky-LR BKW Lady-ET at $10,000. The silky 87-point Brokaw daughter sold fresh in March and with a Very Good Mammary score. Consigned by Miles, Kanani and Soren Price of Martinton, Illinois, she is backed by an EX-92 Sanchez with records to 34,351M 1,206F 1,051P and a blue ribbon winner in her own right at the Illinois State Show and Show. The next dam is an 88-point Goldwyn in Canada out of the EX-94 Lylhaven Lila Z. Two more 94-point dams including the Gold Medal, Dam of Merit Lylehaven Form Laura-ET back her. Summer Parreira led the enthusatic bidding and was all smiles as her dad congratulated her on winning the bidding war to take Lady home.



Another excited young lady, Grace Wilbur took home the second-high seller, HMG Union Zoey. She is a September 2016 Our-Favorite Union 142-ET daughter out of the famous Ocean-View Zandra family. Her Million dame is VG-86/VG MS dam made 44,490M 1,730F 1,247P out of the 93-3E Zamara with 188,590M 8,407F 6,100P daughter of 2E-95 GMD, DOM, All-American honored Zandra. She was consigned by Henry M. Grossi.

The high-selling Jersey was a first choice female out of Hazelcrest Governor Molly, named Grand Champion earlier in the day during the Jersey show. Scored 91-points, her Fizz daughters are due in December. Consigned by Nicole Sanders of Fire Lake Jerseys the choice was struck off at $4900.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

New York Spring Brown Swiss Show

Jeff Stephens of Troy, Ontario was the official for the show held Sunday, April 9. 
Junior Champion
Top Acres Braiden Wiza ET, Lindsey Rucks of Okeechobee, Florida
Res. Junior Champion
Glen Islay Biver Fairytale, Lookout & Gerald Halbach, Canada
Hon. Men. Junior Champion
Latimore Braiden Twinkie exhibited by Janet Ludwig, York Springs, PA
 and now owned by Lindsey Rucks.
Intermediate Champion
Cutting Edge Thunder Faye, Elite Dairy, Copake, NY
Res. Intermediate Champion
Peach Kist Total Tango ET, Lindsey Rucks, Okeechobee, FL
Grand Champion
Bittersweet Victor Roxanne-ET, Elite Dairy
Res. Grand Champion
Cutting Edge Thunder Faye, Elite Dairy
Hon. Men. Grand Champion
Peach Kist Total Tango ET, Lindsey Rucks
Premier Breeder & Exhibitor was Elite Dairy
For more photos visit the purebred.smugmug.com website

NY Spring Guernsey Show


NY SPRING CAROUSEL GUERNSEY SHOW 2017

JUNIOR CHAMPION
Knapps Kringle Tappy-ET, Winter Yearling, Landree Fraley
RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION
Toolite Mints Vivian, Fall Calf, Richard Tooley
HONORABLE MENTION JUNIOR CHAMPION
Pinedust Colton Forest, Summer Yearling, Daniel St. Pierre

JUNIOR SHOW
 JUNIOR CHAMPION
Knapps Kringle Tappy-ET, Winter Yearling, Landree Fraley, IA. 
RESERVE JUNIOR CHAMPION
Topline Rex Penny, Fall Calf, Emily Fisher, NH. 
HONORABLE MENTION JUNIOR CHAMPION
Wabanaki Madden Skyla Star, Winter Yearling, William Forman, ME. 

GRAND CHAMPIONS


GRAND CHAMPION
Knapps Hillpoint MB Fame Tia, 5-Year-Old, Morey Miller & Hillpoint Partners,CT & IA.
RESERVE GRAND
GR-Craig Moor Camero Starlet, 2nd place 5-Year-Old, Laquay Chascidy, NY. 
HONORABLE MENTION GRAND
Topline Pies Debut, Jr. 2-Year-Old, Sydnee Fisher, NH

JUNIOR SHOW
GRAND CHAMPION 
GR-Craig Moor Camero Starlet, 2nd place 5-Year-Old, Laquay Chascidy, NY. 
RESERVE GRAND
Topline Pies Debut, Jr. 2-Year-Old, Sydnee Fisher, NH

Saturday, April 8, 2017

NY Spring Carousel Protein Sales

New York Spring Carousel Protein Sales

Brown Swiss Sale

Unofficial Average: $1,289.17 
6 Live Lots
High Seller, Lot 6; Hylight GPS Phew
September calf by GPS from Todd Hyman, Adams, NY. Purchased by Zoie Skinner

Guernsey Sale

Unofficial Average: $2,197.06
17 Live Lots & 1 Embryo lot @ $625 x 3

High Seller, Lot 1; Knapps Regis Trotter-ETV
Fall Yearling, full sister to Tambourine!

Ayrshire Sale
Unofficial Average: $1,865.63
8 Live Lots

High Seller, Lot 1; Grand-View Real Drama-ET, Lot 1. 
Consigned by Keenan Thygesen, VT sold to Ohio. Daughter of Grand-View Sumtotal Divot EX-94 4E


Sunday, April 2, 2017

Mid-East Spring National Cow Show

Judge Dean Dohle began the second day of the Mid-East Spring National Holstein Show in Columbus, Ohio, with a strong group of Junior Two-Year-Olds. Taking top honors in that class was a beautiful red heifer, Express-SMD Naynay-Red-ET, who won her class on Thursday evening in the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo Red & White Show. She is owned by Express-Stan-Mar-Dale of Urbana, Ohio, and sired by Addiction.

A beautiful Senior Two-Year-Old, Vale-O-Skene Lauthority Kitty, owned by Kyle & Kris Ackley and Matt Oechsle of East Liberty and Van Wert, Ohio, won the class and was later named Honorable Mention Intermediate Champion. She is sired by Lauthority.

T-Triple-T Play It Again-ET took top honors in the Junior Three-Year-Old Class for owners Triple T of North Lewisburg. She is sired by Fever. She was also named Intermediate Champion of the Show.

Qcove-W JMK Curan Darcy-ET, sired by Sid and owned by Quietcove Farms, Wapakoneta, Ohio topped the Senior Three-Year-Old class and was named Reserve Intermediate Champion of the Show.

Intermediate Champions of the Junior Show were the Senior Two-Year-Olds. Cambridge Atwood Ellie-ET, sired by Atwood and owned by Kris Ackley and Blake Heger was named the Intermediate Champion. The second-place Junior owned Senior Two was Beardsly Atwood Gwynne-ET, another Atwood daughter, owned by Victoria & Emily Deam of Sugarcreek, Ohio. Gwynne was also named Junior Best Bred & Owned of the Junior Show for her exhibitors.

Intermediate Champions of the open show were the Junior and Senior Three-Year-Olds.

A beautiful class of Four-Year-Olds paraded before Judge Dohle. Winning the class was the ultra-dairy Bucks-Pride Gold Chip Winie owned by Topp-View Farms of Botkins, Ohio. She is sired by Gold Chip.

The Ackley brothers took home the first-place Five-Year-Old class award with another Atwood daughter, Budjon-JK Atwood Ekira-ET. Ekira went on to be the Grand Champion of the Junior show as well as Reserve Grand of the open show.

T-Triple-T Durham Poppi returned to the ring in rare form taking home the blue ribbon in the Aged Cow class with her style and angularity according to Judge Dohle. Owned by Triple T & Entourage, she is a Durham daughter. She later went on to be named Senior and Grand Champion of the show.

Whiteleather Holsteins of Minerva, Ohio, won the 150,000 Pound Cow class with Whiteleather Sizzle 1440-ET, a Shottle daughter.

The Ackley boys finished out the day with both Senior, Reserve Senior and Grand and Reserve Grand Champion awards of the Junior Show with the Five-Year-Old Atwood, Budjon-JK ATwood Ekira-ET and their first-place Junior Aged Cow, another Atwood daughter, Maiz-N-Blu Atwood Alegra-ET.

The winning Aged Cow and first-place Five-Year-Old were named the Senior Champions and Grand Champions of the Mid-East Spring National Show for their owners Triple T, Enterouge and the Ackley boys.


Premier Breeder of the show was Triple T and Premier Exhibitor was Tri-Koebel of Three Oaks, Michigan. Supreme Champions and Special Awards are listed below. For more photos visit the photo gallery of the Mid-East Spring National Show at www.purebred.smugmug.com

The Five-Year-Old was tapped for Supreme Champion of the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo Junior Show for Kris & Kyle Ackley

The Junior Champion of the Red & White Show was tapped for Supreme Junior Champion of the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo Junior Show for Elaina Lahmers. Wabash-Way Kalif Halo-Red was the 1st place Winter Yearling.

Poppi was tapped for Supreme Champion of the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo by the two judges, Dean Dohle & Herby Lutz.
Lewis Jones was presented the Spring Dairy Expo Award of Honor by John Griewe representing the Spring Dairy Expo




Saturday, April 1, 2017

Ohio Spring Dairy Expo Brown Swiss Show

Judge Herby D. Lutz of South Carolina was the official judge for the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo Brown Swiss Show. Sorting to the top of the Junior heifer show were the pair of Fall Yearlings. Top Acres Braiden Winzit ET was tapped for Junior Champion honors of the Junior Show for owner Will Huges of Killbuck, Ohio. Latimore Chilli Grace took the Reserve honors for owner Lauren L'Amoreaux of Louisville, Ohio.

The deep ribbed Winter Yearling, R Hart BJ 25 took top honors in the open show for owners Topp-View Farms of Botkins, Ohio. Reserve Junior Champion honors went to the Junior Champion of the Junior Show Top Acres Braiden Winzit.


The Intermediate Champion of the show was the Senior 3-Year-Old, R N R Pierce Primrose, owned by the Michalovichs of Lakeville, Ohio. Reserve Intermediate Champion was Idle Wild Pepper Sage, owned by Greg Cornish of North Fairfield, Ohio.

The Component Merit class winners took top honors in both the open and junior shows. Alfa Creek Parker Victory took top honors for owner Keaton Topp of Topp-View in Botkins, Ohio. Jonlee Secret Langwathby returned to the winners circle as Reserve Grand for owners Dillon, Dalton & Breanne Freeman of Bremen, Indiana.

For more show photos visit www.purebred.smugmug.com

Mid-East Spring National Show

The Mid-East Spring National in Columbus, Ohio, kicked off with the heifer and dry cow show on March 31. Judge Dean Dohle of Missouri, had his work cut out for him sorting through the large and high-quality heifer classes.

Sorting themselves to the top to contend for the Junior Champion honors of the Junior Show was the Fall Yearling owned by Korey Oechsle and Allison & Mallory Scott of Van Wert, Ohio. The silky black heifer, Scratchwell Ladd Rockin is a Ladd P daughter.

Kris and Kyle Ackley and Garret Havens took the Reserve Junior Champion honors of the Junior Show with the winning Summer Yearling, Brookview Arch Riv Polar Pop, a daughter of Arch Rival.


Taking the open show top honors was the deep-ribbed, beautiful winning Winter Yearling, Ludwigs-DG DRM Everlast-ET. A Doorman daughter, she is owned by Legendholm Holsteins, Fithian, Illinois. The Reserve Junior Champion was Quietcove Holstein's silky Spring Yearling, Quietcove Foxys Lollipop sired by Arch Rival.


1st place Summer Yearling - Brookview Arch Riv Polar Pop 
Junior Champion pull of Junior Show


Summer Yearling
1st Winter Yearling - Toppglen Awesome Wildflower


1st Fall Yearling - Scratchwell Ladd Rockin

Fall Yearling

1st Spring Yearling & Res. Jr. Champion Open Show - Quietcover Foxys Lollipop

1st Winter Yearling & Jr. Champion Open Show - Ludwigs-DG DRM Everlast-ET

1st Fall Yearling & HM Junior Champion - Russellway Atwood Jane-ET

Junior Champion Winter Yearling












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