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Our Organization |
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Click here to view the Michigan Holstein Association District Map |
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| Master & Outstanding Young Breeder Past Recients | ||||
| MHA Master Breeder Recipients 1985: Henry Baker 1986: Jack Kaufman 1987: Keith Brown 1988: G. Carlos Long 1989: Richard Gilna 1990: Harold Gremel 1991: Eugene Weisenberger 1992: William Ludwig 1993: Roger Meyer 1994: Richard LaPoe 1995: Carl Minnis 1996: George Hazle 1997: John Clark 1998: Duane & Velmar Green 1999: Keith Bott 2000: Henry Ziel 2001: Gerald Geurink 2002: Duane Molhoek 2003: George Freehling 2004: Keith Brown 2005: Lynn Smith 2006: Lawson Bennett 2007: Terry & Jean Nugent 2008: Newell Rawlings 2009: Tim & Sandy VerHage |
MHA Outstanding Young Breeder Recipients 1988: John Clark 1989: Mark Reister 1990: Carl Straathof 1991: George Freehling 1992: Michael Wardin 1993: Mike LaPoe 1994: Duane Molhoek 1995: Donald Weisenberger 1996: Terry Koebel 1997: Dale Hackney 1998: Brian Brunink 1999: Tom Barends 2000: Todd Benjamin 2001: Paul Meyer 2002: Doug Westendorp 2003: Mark Ziel 2004: No award was given 2005: Wayne & Margery Webster 2006: Diane Wolford 2007: Tim Baker 2008: Sherry Meyer 2009: Mike Halfman |
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The 27th MI Futurity Entry Form is now online! Click here to print off your copy! |
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| Sales | ||||
Michigan-Indiana Spring Foundation Sale The Spring Foundation Sale is known as one of the best sales in the Midwest. We need your assistance to insure that we showcase the best from Michigan and Indiana. This is your opportunity to consign to consign top notch individuals and genetics to a tremendous marketplace. The selection process is underway for the sale which will include approximately 80 plus lots of high quality deep pedigreed registered Holsteins primarily from throughout Michigan and Indiana. Max Dunseth, HFA Field Representative, and Jason Lamoreaux, CanAm Sales Management, will handle the selection duties in Michigan. Please feel free to contact Jason Lamoreaux (phone 616-822-0101) or Max Dunseth (phone 269-251-0232) with potential consignments. Live cattle as well as pick of flush lots will be sold in the Spring Foundation Sale. In addition to the live sale, the Spring Foundation Sale Online Edition will be held online at Bovinebid.com featuring embryos and genetics from top genomic, show type, and cow families of the breed. All lots for both sales will be featured in a professional sale catalog. The sale will be promoted in a state, regional and national advertising campaign. Also, a Live Auction Webcast w/ Real Time Bidding provided by Bovinebid.com will allow for bidders worldwide to participate throughout the sale. A sliding scale of commission will be available for those consignors that consign cattle resulting gross sales in excess of $25,000 to the Spring Foundation Sale. It is up to each and every member to look to consign their best to the Spring Foundation Sale. We look forward to working with the entire membership on the 2010 Michigan Indiana Spring Foundation Sale. Best wishes for a joyous Holiday season- |
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| Vibrant weather, enthusiastic breeders and deep
pedigreed cattle were a winning combination at the annual Michigan-Indiana
Spring Foundation Sale held in East Lansing on the campus of
Michigan State University where 79 lots averaged $3081. A large crowd gathered on this beautiful day to inspect cattle offered from breeders in Indiana and Michigan. Deep pedigreed consignments from Winterfield Farm were pursued by tanbark trail enthusiast. Sharp dairy heifers with top shelf genetics to match were offered from breeders like Ri-Val-Re and End Road and were perused by merchandising experts while still some dairymen were looking for milk in the tank and found it from consigments offered from Green Meadows and Tony Bos. The bidding was lively, as Lot 1 Ri-Val-Re Planet Wendi-ET commanded $33,000. Oneof the early Planet daughters (born November 2008) she sold with embryo contracts. Her dam is Ri-Val-Re Shtle Wendi-ET VG-88, EX-92 MS @ 2-06. |
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| Planet Wendi was consigned by Aaron Jorgensen and purchased by Genervations, Maplewood Holsteins & Stanton Brothers of Ilderton, Ontario. Pictured with the high seller, left to right: Jason Lamoreaux, sale manager; Mike Berby, Laport, In., contending bidder; Jim Stanton, representing the buyer; Jim Hoskens, DePere, WI, pedigrees; Ken Hall, sale staff;, Aaron Jorgenson, consignor and Katie an MSU student at the halter.The second high seller was End-Road Socrates Maris-ET an August heifer out of End-road Shottle Maze-ET backed by 8 generations of VG or EX dams. Consigned by End Road Farm, Duane Molhoek of Falmouth, MI she sold for $6,600. | ||||
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| Eric Havens, Brookview Farms, Fremont, Ohio
and sale manager Jason Lamoreaux visit about the consignments
before the sale. Havens went home with two consignments. Other
sale highlights included Lot 6 Green-Meadow Kinsey-ET brought
$6,000. She is a Shottle, due in June, from a VG-88, EX-MS
Outside dam. Consigned by Green-Meadow Farm of Elsie, MI. Lot 4, a second choice Million female from Regancrest G Brandis-ET (VG-85, VG-MS @ 2-05 by Goldwyn) sold for $5700. Lot 9 Ri-Val-Re Adv Ell-Red-ET brought $5000. She is an Advent daughter of Derrwyn Spec Secret-Red-ET (VG-85, VG-MS @ 3-00) and a granddaughter of Derrwyn Miss Special (EX-94). Lot 8 Winterfield Rampage Twister-Red, sold for $4700. She is backed by 10 EX dams and is a Rampage from Wilson-Dale Tal Trendedy-ET (EX-91) Lot 13, a first choice Alexander female from Astrahoe Durham Rodeo-ET (EX-90), a 13th generation EX. Lot 23 Long-Haven Damion Mia-ET, brought $2900. Her dam is an VG-89, EX-MS Outside daughter. Lot 31, first choice Big Apple-Red female from Winterfield SS Skyla Rae-ET *RC brought $5000. The next dam is Scientific Sweetie Rae (EX-92) Lot 36 Ri-Val-Re Stormatic Eliz-ET sold for $5600. Her dam is Budjon-JK Lee Evalie (EX-90), then Budjon-JK Linjet Eileen (EX-96) and Krull Broker Elegance (EX-96). The sale was sponsored by the Michigan and Indiana Holstein Associations and managed by CanAm Sales Management. |
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| Jim Stanton of Stanton Brothers, Ilderton took bids at the sale and was one of the buyers for the high seller. | ||||
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| The Indiana connection was on hand to take home a few new cows. Left to right: Mike Berby, contender on the high seller, Bobby Johnson, Long Prairie, Joe Ekovich, LaPorte and Brad Johnson, Long Prairie. | ||||
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| In addition to the sale, the Michigan-Indiana Jackpot Show will begin this morning at 9 am. There were a few MSU fans exhibiting cattle and were showing their Spartan Spirit. | ||||
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| Classification Highlights | ||||
• VerHage Holsteins classified on Saturday, Feb.7th adding several new Very Good cows by Sosa, Best, Wizard,Titanic, Freelance, Adam, Allen and Goldwyn. Married Well Gold Rascal-ET moved up to VVVVV-87. Rascal is a *RC Goldwyn from the Roxy family. Ver Hages Allendra-ET, a Canyon Breeze Allen from Ver Hages Bootpeg Roshel, the full sister to Alta Roswell-ET, moved up to VVV+E-88. Ver Hages Btpeg Goldwyn-ET is VVVVV-86 and Ver Hages Finale-ET by Buckeye scored V++++ 83-just 19 days fresh. Finale is the last daughter from SFL Bootpeg W Bethany-ET. • Tim Baker, Star-Summit Farm, Byron Center, MI, classified and had 38 Excellents and 33 VG from 76 animals. If you would like to share your classification highlights please feel free to contact me: 517-655-6590 or MichHolstein@fnwusers.com |
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