UNIVERSITY PARK -
assessment of manure
Management systems,
trends in fertilizer and
pesticide use, and new
concepts in weed control will
be topics discussed at the
1981 Lime, Fertilizer, and
Pesticide Conference to be
held January 20-22 at Penn
State.
Penn State to host lime, fertilizer conference
Conference registration
will be held from 10:30 a.m.
to noon on January 20 in the
University’s J.O. Keller
Building, points out Peter
Ferretti, Extension hor
ticulture specialist and
University program
chairman.
He emphasizes that the
program is designed to be of
interest to ag-industry
personnel, farmers, and
extension staff members in
Pennsylvania and bordering
states.
Programs will be
available in Pennsylvania
county extension service
offices in December.
Speakers and their topics
during the afternoon of
January 20 include Gene
Graves, vice president of
planning and economics for
Agnco Chemical Company,
discussing the fertilizer
outlook, short and long
term; Wayne Himsh, Penn
State assistant extension
director, adjustments to the
phosphorus soil test;
William Leibhardt, of the
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1980—815
University of Delaware
Plant Science Department,
excess use of poultry
manure; David Mathews, of
Agway, Inc., an agronomic
assessment of manure
management systems; and
Richard Fox, Penn State
agronomist, the University’s
new lime test.
The program the morning
of January 21 includes
pesticide trends in the future
by Leo Bontempo, vice
president of marketing for
Ciba-Geigy; and iden
tification and control of
alfalfa insects by Stanley
Gesell and Arthur Hower.
Ferretti notes that the
conference will conclude at
noon on January 22.