C36— Uncaster Farming, Saturday, October 18,1980
HONEY BROOK -
Howard E. Griest HI, 18, will
recieve a $lOO Savings Bond
on Thursday, October 16, for
being recognized as the
outstanding FFA boy from
Berks County in conjunction
with the 1980 Reading Fair.
To achieve such an award
he had to be outgoing in his
particular field of
HARRISBURG - The
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture and the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection
Service of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, have
begun a survey of Penn
sylvania potato acreage to
detect the presence of the
Golden Nematode.
The nematode is one of the
most dangerous pest threats
to the potato industry.
The Golden Nematode, a
parasitic worm, has long
been a serious pest m nor
thern Europe, but lias also
been detected in New York
State. The pest was first
discovered on Long Island in
the 1940’s and was contained
on Long Island until 1967
when it was detected in
inland New York State.
,The detection and control
program of the New York
Exotic Newcastle
in three more states
LITITZ Oregon,
Nebraska and Georgia have
been added to the list of
slates where exotic
Newcastle disease has been
found in cage birds, a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
veterinarian said today.
Jerry Mason, who is
directing eradication efforts
for the USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection
Service, said the virus
disease of poultry and other
birds has now been
diagnosed in 17 states. The
other 14 states are Arizona,
Arkansas, California,
Delaware, Flonda, Hawaii,
Illinois, Maine, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio,
Texas, and Vermont.
“We’ve had about 425
federal and state
veterinarians and other
animal health technicians
working out of five regional
task forces to eradicate this
outbreak,” Mason said. “So
far, we’ve humanely
destroyed approximately
20,775 infected or exposed
birds at 434 locations to
eliminate the disease agent.
Owners will be paid over
$886,000 to compensate for
these losses,” he said.
To date, exotic Newcastle
disease has been diagnosed
in 48 premises. Each of these
was placed under federal
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Griest named outstanding FFA boy
agriculture, and a 1980
Keystone Award Winner.
Howard is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Griest
Junior of R.D. #l, Honey
Brook. Howard is a 1980
graduate of Twin Valley
High School and an out
standing member of the
Twin Valley FFA Chapter.
Howard has been involved
counties to be checked
10
for golden nematode
State Department of
Agriculture and USDA have
confined the spread of this
pest to a few sites m inland
New York. In November
1979, however the Golden
Nematode was found in a
New York State locatioh only
20 miles from Pennsylvania.
Secretary of Agriculture
Penrose Hallowed said,
“This ~Golden Nematode
surveillance program may
be a key to protecting
Pennsylvania potato land
from the pest. Commencing
ur 1980, potato fields in 10
counties will be sampled:
Bradford, Cambria,
Crawford, Ene, Lycoming,
Mercer, Potter, Somerset,
Tioga and Warren Coun
ties.”
“Every potato grower can
aid in the detection effort by
reporting symptoms of
quarantine to make sure
they are kept free of birds
until there is no more danger
of the virus remaining on the
premises.
“Some premises, con
structed with impervious
surfaces that were easily
cleaned and disinfected,
have already been released
from quarantine,” Mason
said.
“However,” Mason said,
“there are still several
hundred samples from all
over the United States being
tested at the National
Veterinary Services
Laboratories at Ames, lowa.
Until we get the results of
these tests, we won’t know
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in FFA activity, since
becoming a Greeniiu ~ i In tenth grade Howard
1976. As a freshman, he served as Vice-President of
participated in the field com the Twin Valley chapter and
test plot project, Food for as chapter delegate to the
America presentations to county organization. He
elementary students, expanded tus projects by
Banquet planning com- increasing his com acreage
mittee. Pumpkin contest and adding a beef heifer,
committee, and Berks Li eleventh grade, Howard
County Leadership Trains > - was elected President of the
Golden Nematode to the
Department’s Bureau of
Plant Industry or to their
county agents,” Hallowell
said.
Symptoms of Golden
Nematode infestation in
clude stunting of plants,
usually in very small areas
m a field, but spreading over
a period of years. The
predominant spread pattern
is in the direction of
cultivation.
The Golden Nematode
passes through its egg,
larval and adult stage in 38
to 48 days. Up to 500 eggs are
contained within fertilized
females dead bodies, which
are known as cysts. Each
cyst is smaller than a
pinhead and resists drying
and some chemicals.
The cyst is a major means
found
for sure how much further
the disease has spread.
“There has been no spread
into commercial poultry,”
Mason said. “With the bulk
of tracebacks on bird sales
completed, we feel more
assured that this outbreak
'-has been stopped before it
could damage our egg and
poultry supply.”
Exotic Newcastle disease
does- not affect people who
eat eggs and poultry, but the
disease can cause
tremendous losses even m
vaccinated chickens and
turkeys, and the cost of these
losses would be passed along
to consumers in the form of
higher prices, Mason said.
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conference.
of both short and long
distance spreading of the
pest. As the number of cysts
in an effected field grows,
the hsk of spread in soil
accompanying potatoes and
equipment grows apace.
Containment of the Golden
Nematode has traditionally
relied on soil fumigation, no
host crops or a long rotation
between crops susceptible to
the nematode, and strict
sanitation measures such as
cleaning equipment when
moving from infested areas.
Several- potato- culh'-ars
such as Atlantic, which are
resistant to Golden
Nematode have been
developed for adoption in
Pennsylvania. Those new
restraint varieties offer a
new tool that promises to
help contain this serious
potato pest.
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Twin Valley Chapter and
Vice-President of the Berks
County Association. He
placed fourth in the Con
servation speaking contest
this year, and was the
President on the chapter
parliamentary procedure
team in both the county and
area contest.
He placed first in both the
county tractor driving and
agronomy contests, and won
second place in the state
salesmanship contest. He
also increased the scope of
his beef fattening, dairy
heifer, and field corn
projects.
As a senior, Howard again
was elected President of the
Twin Valley chapter, and
was also elected Berks
County FFA President. He
placed first in the county
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and served as President of
the Twin Valley Chapter of
National Honor Society.
At the Berks County FFA
Banquet he was named
Berks County Star Farmer.
He again won the right to
participate in a state FFA
contest-extemporaneous
public speaking. He was first
in the county ex
temporaneous speaking
contest, second m the area
contest, first in the Eastern
Pennsylvania contest, and
ninth m the state.
Following graduation
from Twin Valley High
School in June, Howard
assumed increasing
responsibilities on his
parent’s farm. His im- r
mediate goal is to establish.!
his own dairy herd.
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