Ag research committee okays
HARRISBURG - State
Agriculture Secretary
Penrose Hallowell has an
nounced the approval of 12
continuing agricultural
research projects for a total
of $284,883. Approval for the
projects came from the nine
member Agriculture
Research Committee
chaired by Hallowell, with . run.
funding from a $400,000 Dan Cook, director of the
allocation from state horse Department’s Office of
and harness racing* Planning and Research, said
revenues. that the Agriculture
Six of the projects are Research Commmittee has
being conducted by the evaluated the progress of 16
Pennsylvania State continuing projects, and bad
University, four by the approved 12 in a meeting
University of Pennsylvania, held May lin the Agriculture
one by the Department’s Building. He said, “The goal
Bureau of Plant Industry, of the committee is to fund
and one is being privately projects which will benefit
our farmers, while making
the best use of the taxpayers’
dollar.”
New project proposals
amounting to over $389,000
were discussed at the
meeting, as were four
continuing projects which
annually amount to $89,644.
The continuing projects
approved by a majority vote
of the nine members are:
- Potato Verticfllium Wilt,
to control the disease by
cultural and genetic
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 12,1979
12 contracts
methods; Penn State,
$23,329.
- Pome Fruits, calcium
nutrition; Penn State,
$34,705.
- Deer Damage, to
alleviate deer damage to
Pennsylvania agriculture;
Penn State, $25,050.
- Aflatoxin in Eggs,
potential human health
hazard; Penn State, $21,000.
- Soil Conditioners, to
develop procedures for
evaluation of soil con
ditioners and plant growth
substances; Penn State,
$33,000.
- Tomato Rot, a fruit rot
control system for
processing tomatoes; Penn
State, $27,569.
- Vitamin D Deficiency, in
horses; University of
Pennsylvania, $23,610.
- Equine and Bovine
Botulism, to develop
diagnostic laboratory
methods and clinical in
tervention programs;
University of Pennsylvania,
$19,365.
- Dairy Cattle Rumen
Control, optimizing
production and production
efficiency in dairy cattle by
controlling rumen fer
mentation; University of
Pennsylvania, $16,385.
- Bovine Leukemia Virus
Transmission, development
of a vaccine; University of
Pennsylvania, $31,890.
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- Nematode Control,
distribution, impact and
control of the dagger
nematode and the viruses it
transmits on apple, grape
and stone fruit in Penn
sylvania; Agriculture
Department’s Bureau of
Plant Industry; $21,482.
- The effect of high
temperature-short time
processing on the quality
and yield of canned
mushroms; Strasburger and
Siegel, Inc., $7,500.
Members of the
Agriculture Research
Committee in addition to
Hallowell and Cook arc: E.
Chester Heim, deputy
secretary of agriculture; J.
Luther Snyder, deputy
secretary of agriculture;
Senator Patrick J. Stapleton,
chairman of the Senate
Agriculture and Rural Af
fairs Committee; Senator
Frank O’Connell, minority
chairman of the Senate
Agriculture and Rural Af
fairs Committee;
Representative Reno
Thomas, chairman of the
House Agriculture and Rural
Affairs Committee;
Representative Paul
Yahner, Jr., minority
chairman of the House
Agriculture and Rural Af
fairs Committee; and
Bernard Hammer, executive
secretary of the Penn
sylvania Harness Racing
Commission.