—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1978
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Top speakers ,
slated for Pa,
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Dr. Helmut Becker of
Geisenheim, West Germany,
founder of the German Wine
Academy, will be among the
featured speakers at the
Tenth Pennsylvania Wine
Conference to be held
January 31 and February 1
at the Hershey Convention
Center, Hershey.
Md. tobacco auction
set for April - June
CHELTENHAM - The
1978 Maryland tobacco
auction season will begin
April 11 and run for eight
weeks until June 1, ac
cording to the Maryland
State Tobacco Authority.
Auction sales at the eight
warehouses in Southern
Maryland will be held four
days per week, Monday
through Thursday. The
weekly quota of tobacco to
be sold will be four million
pounds.
Advance indications are
that the 1977 Maryland
tobacco crop is about 30
million pounds and the
quality of the leaf is
regarded as “very good”
with much highly-prized thin
crop grades on hand.
Tobacco growers from
Anne Arundel, Prince
Georges, Calvert, St. Marys
and Charles, also are well
along in their “stripping”,
something they have not
been able to report for the
past several seasons due to
extremely dry conditions.
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PHONE
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Dr. Becker is also leader
of the Grape Breeding and
Grape Propagation Institute
at the Geisenheim
Agricultural, Horticultural,
Grape, and Wine Institute.
He will speak on “Root
stocks for Vmifera Grapes”
and “Sparkling Wine
Production for Small
Wineries.”
On another note, Maryland
Secretary of Agriculture
Young D. Hance reported
that slightly over $l7 million
worth of Maryland Type-32
tobacco was exported in the
past marketing year, up
substantially from $11.5
million exported the year
before.
“Tobacco has been a vital
export dollar earner for
Maryland since colonial
times,” Hance said, “and
today it is encouraging to see
tobacco playing a strong role
in earning foreign exchange
credits for a nation which
needs agricultural exports to
help pay for imported
petroleum.”
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pertinent topics
wine conference
An assessment of grape
plant injury from the Winter
of 1977 will be made by Dr.
Thomas Zabadal of Finger
Lakes, New York, grape
specialist, and Dr. Carl
Haeseler, pomologist at
Penn State’s Erie County
Field Research Laboratory.
In addition, Dr. Haeseler
will compare the growing of
vmifera of European-type
grapes with non-vinifera
grapes in Pennsylvania.
The conference will deal
with loss of grapes due to the
downy mildew disease, a
serious problem in 1977.
Speaking on the nature of
downy mildew of grapes will
be Dr. Donald H. Peterson of
Penn State.
Federal quality standards
for producing grapes for the
processing industry will be
presented by Clyde Miller,
chief of the fruit and
vegetable division of the
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A champagne breakfast
will be featured Feb. 1 as
well as an informal tasting of
Pennsylvania wines and
cheeses that evening prior to
the annual banquet.
The Wine-Conference will
take place simultaneously
with annual meetings of the
State Horticultural
Association of Pennsylvania
and the Pennsylvania
Vegetable Growers
Association. Over 100
exhibitors will feature
equipment for grape
growing, wine making, and
food processing.
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Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. This topic will
be complemented by a
discussion of one processor’s
aproach to determining field
maturity and acceptance of
grapes. Speaking will be
Gordon DeGolier, chief of
the field division for
National Grape Cooperative,
Westfield, N.Y.
J. Richard Nissley of
Landisville, president of the
Pennsylvania Wine
Association, will discuss the
role of this newly-formed
organization.
Sponsoring the Wine
Conference at Hershey are
the Cooperative Extension
Service and the Agricultural
Experiment Station of the
College of Agriculture at
Penn State, the Penn-
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sylvania Grape Council, the
Pennsylvania Wine
Association, and the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture.
Topics of interest to
commercial wine makers
will include one entitled
“Inducing Malo-Lactic
Fermentation by
Inoculation,” by Dr. Robert
Beelman, researcher in food
science at Penn State. “The
Effect of Skin-Contact Time
on White Wine Quality” will
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be presented by Susan
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food science at Penn State.
Equipment sources for
small wineries will be
discussed by Douglas
Moorhead of Presque Isl"
Wine Cellars, North East,
Pa. Mrs. H. Lee Stauffer and
Hudson Cattell, editors of
“Pennsylvania Grape and
Wine News,” will access the
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