FARM SHOW - Though
the week is long and the
schedule if full of early
mornings and late nights,
every year many of the same
faces can be seen in the
showring of the Penn
sylvania Farm Show
What makes the show so
appealing that these animal
buffs keep coming back year
after year 9
"It’s the excitement and
the familiar faces I like to
come back to see people I
know,” says 42 year veteran
Kenneth Moore of Bradford
County.
“1 first started showing at
Farm Show in 1938 and have
showed every year since,
except for the year it was
closed after the war,” Moore
said
Moore operates a sheep
farm of 500 Shropshires,
Dorsets and
Rambomllets m Nichols,
New York
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1 live so far north in
Pennsylvania that my ad
dress is New York and yet I
still brought 34 sheep down
this year. I just enjoy it,
that’s all,” Moore added.
Perhaps, amongst other
reasons, it’s the feeling of
being a champion that
brings Moore back The first
year he participated he
received a ribbon for
Champion Shropshire ewe
This year he received
awards for Champion
Hampshire ram. Reserve
Champion Dorset ewe,
Champion Rambomllet ram,
Reserve Champion Ram
bouillet ram, Champion
Rambomllet ewe and
Reserve Champion Ram
bouillet ewe.
1 couldn t begin to tell you
what all I’ve won After 42
years, it s hard to keep
count,” he smiled.
But though the years have
been many, Moore denies
leaves ring after 42 years
any tales ut t arm Show
changing through the years
I don’t think Farm Show
has changed that much It’s
bigger and there are more
people participating each
year, but that’s all,” Moore,
said ‘lf there were any
changes at all, they are that
for
BELTSVILLE, Md -
USDA geneticist Thomas E
Devine, told science writers
here recently that he expects
to increase soybean
productivity using a soybean
plant that was once thought
to be of no economic value
The plants were con
sidered practically valueless
because they are incapable
of fixing their own nitrogen
At a seminar held by
USDA’s Science and
Education Administration,
Devine explained that
soybeans, as well as other
legumes, are infected by
helpful soil bacteria called
rhizobia
These bacteria can change
inert nitrogen gas, through
aprocess called “fixing,”
into a form that the plant
needs for growth The plant
provides the bacteria with
nutrients from photosyn
thesis and with a place to
grow within a rounded root
enlargement or nodule This
type of mutually beneficial
relationship, called sym
biosis, reduces the need for
fertilization of legume crops.
In most sods there are
indigenous Rhizobium
japomcum bacteria which
readily infect soybean roots
and form nodules However,
these Rhizobium vary
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the prices are higher and
there used to be a lot more
room for the sheep Now
we’re pretty crowded ”
Moore, who raises his
sheep with the help of his
daughter, Dons Powell and
his son Robert Moore, said
his interest in sheep all
Breeding soybeans
enhanced productivity
greatly in their ability to fix
nitrogen Many indigenous
strains are less efficient inf
fixing nitrogen than the
better strains m available
Devine a plan to
use a soybean that excludes
most indigenous Rhizobium
and to inoculate this plant
with strains of Rhizobium
that would infect it ex
clusively His goal is to
create a symbiosis that fixes
nitrogen more efficiently
with these rhizobia than the
indigenous rhizobia
In 1954 researchers
reported a seemingly
valueless soybean plant that
would not fix nitrogen in the
presence of most Rhizofaium.
The gene responsible for the
non-nodulation is called rjj
Devine is backcrossmg
soybean plants having the
USDA to increase poultry, egg fees
LANCASTER Effective
January 25, the U.S
Department of Agriculture
will increase the fees
charged to industry for
voluntary grading of egg
products, eggs, poultry and
rabbits to reflect higher
costs of the grading service.
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman said the new fee
schedule raises rates for
voluntary grading of eggs,
poultry and rabbits on a non
resident basis from $14.72 to
$l6 52 an hour. Rates
charged to plants with
resident graders to cover the
grader's salary and fringe
benefit costs have also been
increased from $8 34 to
$ll 68 an hour
‘Fees tor the voluntary
services have not been in
creased since 1977, and for
the mandatory services
since 1978, despite ste,
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began when he was 16 years
old
That was when 1 bought
my first sheep I just decided
I wanted to show sheep, so I
purchased six Shropshire
sheep from a guy who
trusted me for the money I
didn’t have it for a while, but
'■•hen I final!} ■'ivpd him 1
rjl gene with commercially
used soybeans to create
cultivars that would exclude
the less-efficient indigenous
rhizobia
Devine, with associates in
SAE’s Cell Culture and
Nitrogen Fixation
Laboratory, is searching for
highly efficient strains of
rhizobia that have the
genetic potential to nodulate
the new cultivars carrying
the rj l gene In 1977 he
planted soybeans with the
rjl gene in a field known to
contain many Rhizobium
An examination of 30,000
plants disclosed only 34 root
nodules In a similar test in
1978 he found only 123
nodules on 182,000 plants
Under normal conditions all
the soybeans would be
"odu’ated
increasing operating costs of
the program,” said
Foreman.
Legislation requires fees
be collected from the in
dustry requesting voluntary
or mandatory service. USDA
sets grade standards and
provides official grading and
inspection for many food
products.
USDA’s Food Safety and
Quality Service also will
increase overtime and
holiday inspection fees
charged to industry for
mandatory inspection of egg
pi oducts, Foreman said
DID YOU EVER SEE aTHEI AFTERA^,
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corurolled
still had money left to
purchase more. From there
my farm just grew ”
And so did his years as
shower and champion at the
Farm Show But Moore says
now when he comes back it
will be strictly as spectator,
not showman anymore.DK
The nodules were removed
from the rj l plants and the
Rhizobium were' isolated
from them Young plants
were then infected with the
isolates Although some
strains formed nodules, the
number was insufficient for
economic use
Since some of his new
isolates form more nodules
with the rjl plants than the
rhizobia strains previously
available, Devine is en
couraged He is continuing to
search for rhizobia that will
nodulate the rjl plants and
outperform other soybean
rhizobia combinations.
This could result in a
soybean-Rhizobium relatio
nship that produces more
nitrogen for plant vigor and
increased productivity
Legislation provides fees
for holiday and overtime
work required for the
mandatory egg products
inspection service meet the
cost of this extra service.
The new fees for this service
have been raised from $l2 to
$16.28 and $l3 08, respec
tively USDA will continue to
pay for the inspectors’
regular working hours on
mandatory inspection.
The new schedule of fees
appears in January ;
Federal Register, available
in most local libraries