B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 25,1980 , Forage Council to mark 20th anniversary HERSHEY The Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Hershey Convention Center Coffee and Danish S. A. Dum,-Professor, Farm Management Extension, Council will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of its for- available at Registration. CONFERENCE; SUITES D, Moderator. mation with a special two day Forage Conference at the F,H, and J, Lower Level P- m - Annual Report Pennsylvania Forage & Hershey Convention Center on November 24 and 25. 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. THEME - FORAGES & THE „ Grassland Council -R. S. Harm, Secretary-Treasurer Offically organized in 1960, PFGC was the first such RUMINANT - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE. 6:0 " P-™- ' 7:00 P- m - DAIRY PUNCH AND CHEESE Council organized in the U.S. Chairman: R. J. Wangsness, Head, Department of PARTY Since that time the council has sponsored or co- Dairy and Animal Science. The Forage Plant -W. K. P m ‘ RECOGNITION BANQUET. Masters of sponsored many programs of benefit to Pennsylvania’s Griffith, Eastern Director, Potash/Phosphate In- Ceremonies: J. K. Evans, Extension Forage forage-livestock industry, including Hay & Silage Shows, stitute, Great Falls, VA. The Ruminant - L. D. Muller, Agronomist, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Forage Progress Days, the Outstanding Grassland Professor of Dairy Science. “Special Entertainment” Farmer program, Forage Workshop and mostly recently (Turn to Page B 5) the nationally recognized Alfalfa Growers’ Program. The Conference gets underway Monday momu:g, *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* November 24 and continues through Tuesday afternoon iji tt and includes speakers from many of the 16 States Forage y CjFJr Council’s organized during the past 20 years. ■ The conference will include a special recognition banquet and entertainment Monday evening preceded by a Dairy Punch and Cheese reception sponsored by the ' ▼ State’s Dairy Industry. flk Plans for the conference includes a special ladies program Monday afternoon and Tuesday. Ladies are also . welcome to attend the luncheon and banquet. The |l5 registration fee includes a complete conference proceedings available at the time of registration. Details on the conference including housing reservation forms are available from the Council’s Headquarters c/o Richard Hann, Hershey School Farms, Hershey 17033. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. REGISTRATION - Lower Lobby - Pseudorabies virus (Continued from Page B 2) boiler through a system of differential thermostats. “The system has paid for itself in about three years,” Six explained. “In the winter the system carries about 25 percent of the heat load during the day. It averages out to about 10 to 15 percent of the load throughout the winter. Building temperature is maintained at 85 to 90 degrees. The Snell feeding program is based on high moisture corn because of the speed in harvesting and silo loading. But this is balanced by the extra labor and management required in its feeding. The corn is harvested at about 22 to 23 percent moisture. At 25 percent, it’s too much trouble to process through the bins and doesn’t crack but flours. The Snells tried a mix-mill system but have essentially ' abandoned it because of problems m balancing the high moisture com ration. Now, the mill is used only to crack the com. Platform scales are used for weighing such things as vitamins and supplements and a concrete mixer is used to process the ration. First, soybean meal goes into the ration, followed by -the supplements and metered dicalcium phosphate. It’s mixed for about five minutes. After the com is cracked, it is in cluded and mixed for another five minutes. A bag of rolled oats or colored sawdust is added from time to tune to test the mixing. If this system does not prove out, the Snells plan to revert to a batch ribbon mixer. The Snell operation also includes a herd of about 500 fat cattle.—DA 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. LUNCHEON - Trinidad Room. PROGRAM - Meet Our Alfalfa Champions. 1:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. THEME - ALFALFA, QUEEN OF THE FORAGES. Chairman: K. T. Leath, President, Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council. 1:15 p.m. Alfalfa - Challenges in the 80’s, A.A. Hanson, Director of Research, Waterman-Loomis Co., Highland, MD 3 1:45 p.m. Alfalfa - Challenges in Seed Production, A S. Bell, Ranch Manager, J. G. Boswell Co., Corcoran, CA 2:15 p.m. Alfalfa Research in the Decade Ahead, R. R. Hill, Jr., Research Agronomist, U.S. Reginal Pasture Laboratory, University Park, PA. 2:45 p.m. MILK AND COFFEE BREAK 3:15 p.m. Pennsylvania's Alfalfa Growers Program - What We’ve Learned Production Practices - J. E. Baylor; Nutrient Relationships - L. E. Lanyon; Alfalfa Production Costs - W. K. Waters 4:00 p.m. How our Alfalfa Champs Did It - J. Z. Shearer, County Agent Franklin County, Modetetor; H.G. Gayman, (Franklin Co.) - 1977 Champion; I.H. Bare, (Lebanon Co.) - 1978 Champion; D. C. Schrack, (Clinton Co.) - 1979 Champion plus our 1980 Grand Champion.' 4:45 p.m. Our Grasslanders of The Decade Tell Us How - DIVISION CORN PICKER Designed for years of dependable corn harvesting. 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