A26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 9,1980
Biggest and best Ag Progress Days planned
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Final preparations are
underway to accommodate
the more than 15,000 visitors
a day expected at Penn
State’s Rock Springs
Research Center next week.
“Ah indications are that
this year’s annual
Agricultural Progress Days
will be the biggest and best
ever,” says Joseph
Harrington, Penn State
agronomy professor and
general chairman of the
three-day event.
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the sun,” says Harrington.
Educational displays and
commercial exhibits from
Canada and the eastern
Umted States are growing in
numbers and quality,
providing a strong regional
reputation for the event.
Agam this year, visitors
will see alternative energy
systems and the technology
for using them.
Harrington says that
systems include wood
burning and forest im
provement methods, solar
methods for heating
To run August 19-21
buildings and drying crops
from gardens to commercial
farms, and improved ef
ficiency of farm-size
methane and gasohol
digesters operating on gram
and crop residues.
“A record number of
commercial exhibitors will
display goods and services
for agriculture,” points out
Harrington About 225
commercial companies will
be exhibiting about $2O
million in products. “Some
of the world’s most
sophisticated farm equip
ment will be display,” adds
Harrington.
Featured exhibits mclude
energy and resource ef
ficient animal and crop
production. Back agam will
be special exhibits and
working demonstrations m
the areas of on-farm waste
disposal, soil and water
conservation, and safety.
The midway area will
focus on field equipment,
farm supplies, seeds, fer
tilizers, silos, farm
chemicals, and other farm
and home supplies.
Also on display will be
chain saws, lawn and garden
equipment, sprayers, hor
ticulture exhibits, family
living programs, and youth
activities.
The theatre tent, a popular
change of pace, will feature
CROP TOUR
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1980
9:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. (Aug. 14, Raindate)
• Corn Variety Plots
• Double Crop Soybeans
• Pasture Fertility Plots
Representatives for the following Companies
Will Be Present:
• Migro Seed Corn
• Chevron Chemical - Ortho
• Stauffer Chemical
• Ciba-Geigy
The tour will start at the Pavilion, at the Mervin Hess
farm located on Colebrook Rd. Transportation will be pro
vided from the Pavilion.
All farmers are invited and
urged to attend this important . B , T *
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Sponsored By
P.L. ROHRER & BRO., INC.
Smoketown, Pa,
musical entertainment each a t the Rock Springs
mid-day. Presentations on Agricultural Research
everything from home Center, located rune miles
horticulture to home safety W est of State College on Rt.
will be scheduled from 10 45 from 10 a.m. to 5p m.
a m to 4 p.m A small tent
nearby will offer puppet Ag Progress Days is
shows and play activities for sponsored by Penn State s
young show visitors. College of Agriculture m
cooperation with machinery
The 1980 Agricultural companies and numerous
Progress Days will be held agricultural associations
Tuesday through Thursday and agencies and is an of-
September Class
pegged at $14.51
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -
Middle Atlantic Order
Market Administrator
Joseph D. Shine Wednesday
announced a Class I milk
price of $14.51 per hun
dredweight for September
1980.
This price is up five cents
from the August price and is
86 cents above last Sep
tember.
Order No 4 prices are
announced for milk testing
3.5 percent butterfat, f.o.b.
plants located within 55
miles of the Philadelphia,
PA and also within 75 miles
from the nearer of
Pork Barbeque Lunch 12:00
Tour Activities
Washington, DC or
Baltimore, MD.
There is also a 6-cent
direct-delivery differential
applicable to producer milk
received at plants located
within 55 miles of
Philadelphia,
Shine announced a Class II
milk price of $11.78 per
hundredweight for July 1980
and a butterfat differential
of 16.0 cents for the month.
The Class II milk price in
creased 19 cents from the
previous month primarily
because of a 14 cent increase
in the seasonal adjustment
factor.
These class prices are
• Fertilizer Spreading
Demonstration
• Chemical Control of Corn Borer
• Weed Control Measures for Corn,
Tobacco, Soybeans, Pasture
• American Cyanamid
• FMC Corp.
• Union Carbide
Colebrook Rd
Route 283
Landisville
ficial part of Penn State’s
125th anniversary
celebration.
The road to Rock Springs
began even before last
year’s Progress Days were
over and has become one of
the largest outdoor activities
in the East Harrington
emphasizes that the ac
tivities are planned to be of
interest to both the rural and
urban visitor
1 milk
based on the July 1980
Mmnesota-Wisconsm man
ufacturing milk price of
$11.73 per hundredweight
adjusted to a 35 percent
butterfat content.
The USDA reported that
the wholesale price of Grade
A butter at Chicago for July
was $1.3931 per pound and
the nonfat dry milk price
waw $.8929 per pound, f.o.b.
plants in the Chicago area.
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