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Fifty Years of D.H.I.A. Work

Iowa State College, Ames

ABSTRACT

Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, formerly called Cow Testing Associations, have operated in the United States since 1906; hence a report of the developments over the last 50 years constitutes a complete history of the work. Credit for organizing the first Dairy Herd Improvement Association in the United States goes to a Danish immigrant, Helmer Rabild, and a small group of dairy farmers in Newaygo County, Michigan. Mr. Rabild knew what cow testing associations had meant to the dairy farmers in his native land, and he was convinced that a similar program would be of inestimable value to dairy farmers of his adopted country. As a consequence, he was instrumental in getting the first association organized. At the time, Mr. Rabild was employed by the Dairy and Food Division of the Michigan Department of Agriculture. The meeting that resulted in the organization of the first Dairy Herd Improvement Association in the United States was held on Sept. 26, 1905, and was attended by six or eight dairymen. After hearing Mr. Rabild explain the advantages of a production testing program, the group appointed a committee to set up the organization.

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