Ift—Lancaster Farming, Saturday December 19,1970
Report From State Conference on Ag Waste Management
Natural lesources are not un- veit waste into a marketable by
limited and, once used, cannot pioduct or return it to the
be replaced: they must be recy- natural environment in such a
cled and reused repeatedly to manner as to impiove or at least
satisfy the needs and demands not to harm the community ”
of our giowmg population Waste Management Center
That was the opinion of speak- Penn State researchers, he
ers and panelists at the Penn- said, are working in numerous
sylvama Conference on Agncul- areas to obtain answers to these
tural Waste Management as problems “Our efforts have
they exploied possible solutions been on many fronts, but have
to the problems of pollution re- been relatively disconnected,
lated to agriculture and agn- What is needed at the University
business. level, and what we will have as
The conference was sponsored soon as the resources are made
by the Pennsylvania Department available, is an agricultural
of Agriculture in cooperation waste management center at
with the College of Agriculture enn s> *- ate
of Pennsylvania State Umver- “We plan a full-time contmu
sity John W Early, of the Agri- mg staff of qualified people
culture Department, was con- assigned to this center, whose
ference cooidmator total i esponsibihty will be to
Appi oximately 200 persons at- woik on the problems of waste
tended the sessions held at the management and waste utiliza-
Penn Hams Motor Inn Nov 17 tion.”
and 18 “It represented a true Another speaker Tuesday was
cross section of society,” State Dr Herbert Cole Jr, of Penn
Agncultuie Secretary Leland H. State, who leviewed problems
Bull said i elated to the usage of pesticides
He pointed out that the group aR d opposition to such usage,
included bankers and farmers, “This is a highly complex prob
manufactureis and processors, lem,” he said
housewives and industrialists, “We cannot sepaiate pesticide
educatois and researchers, con- pioblems from population prob
eervationists and utility repre- lems As the number of people
sentatives. increases, we must face reality
“We aie here,” Secretary Bull and lecognize the need to pro
told the group, “in search of duce moie food from less land.”
common sense and clear think- Dr Paul Hess, of Hershey
ing in oui efforts to deal with Foods Corp, spoke at the noon
problems of pollution ” luncheon He pointed out that
Expressing his concern about technology has advanced faster
“pollution and the effect of than “our philosophy toward
waste products on the environ- pollution We must recycle and
ment," he pointed out that “I reuse the things we get from
realize, as you do, that man’s the eaith, because there is no
basic needs for life are clean more here than the resources
air, pure water and the good, we now have ”
productive earth. But I also am In a panel discussion of laws
deeply concerned about the and regulations pertaining to
barm that may result from pre- pollution abatement, Charles F.
eipitate action when it is mo- Hess, executive secretary of the
tivated by fear, anxiety, or im- State Soil and Water Conserve
patience ” tion Commission, and Robert J
Dr Russell E Larson, dean Bielo, executive director of the
6f the College of Agriculture at State Fish Commission, pointed
Pennsylvania State University out that “it is imperative that
pointed out that “icsearch in we take the initiative in seeking
waste disposal and utilization is to solve the problems of agri
needed now by all of us who cultuial waste befoie others try
have to share this ciowded and to do it” Hess also charged
polluted planet ” that agriculture “is too pi one to
He told the gioup that “prod look at its lesponsibihty as an
nets and piocesses must and will individual pioblem instead of in
be developed so that the pio- total peispective ”
ducer and processor can con- Otheis on the panel were
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Harry Steigman and Walter
Lyons, of the State Health De
partment, and Merle Eigen
brode, Washington Township
supervisor The moderator was
Bernhard Larsen, of the State
Agriculture Department
Problems of agricultural waste
were identified and described by
Glenn Herr, of Ephrata, repre
senting the poultry industry:
Dr. Thomas King, Penn State,
livestock; George Stahl, State
Agriculture Department, dairy,
James Yeatraan, Avondale,
mushroom industiy, and James
F Staeck, Peach Glen, fiuit and
vebetable produceis and proces
sors. The panel moderator was
N Heniy Wooding, Ji , of Penn
State.
Reuse Benefits Described
Benefits derived fiom lecycl
mg and reusing natuial re
sources weie descubed by Rep
resentative Benjamin Reynolds,
who seived on a legislative
panel
Reynolds, with a series of
photographic slides, described a
waste water renovation project
on his Chester County dairy
farm The water, most of it
from his dairy, barn, flows into
a lagoon and then is pumped
through an irrigation system to
cropland. As a result, he said,
some fields produce two crops
a season where only one had
been produced in the past.
In addition, he pointed out,
trees have made surprisingly
fine growth; plant Me along a
small stream has benefited from
nutrients in the water and now
provides excellent food and shel
ter for birds and wildlife.
“I am convinced,” he said,
“that by recycling agricultural
waste, we can provide many
economic benefits for the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.”
Senator D. Elmer Hawbaker
warned against the “hazards of
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over-reacting in an atmospheie “We must find out how it works,
of hysteria.” The Legislature, and if any parts are unfair or
he said, must remain respon- ineffectual.”
sible, not merely responsive to Bureaucracy?
mass public opinion. “If we He also declared that in view
maintain our sanity, our stabil- Q f projected population trends,
ity, and our willingness to think lilt 1S mev itable that we -will
objectively, we will be able to hsve moie government regula
solve these problems of natural resources in the
Representative Franklin L. years ahead.”
Kury said Pennsylvania s new ‘Representative W. Brady Het-
Clean Stream Law is a step for- r jck expressed a different opin
ward in dealing with pollution ion. “In every instance where
pioblems. “The biggest need bureaucracy can be kept from
now is experience,” he declared. (Continued on Page 11)
BnsylvllH
associ^SMß
James L. Martin
Sec, Lane. Co. Farmers
Assoc.
Strasbui g RDI, Pa.