834—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, March 12,1983
J)airymen: mark your calendar for
HERSHEY Dairymen across
Pennsylvania can mark their
calendars for a new and in
formative event that’s designed to
sharpen their feeding skills. The
date to mark is Tuesday, July 19.
“Pennsylvania Forage and
Dairy Day,” as the event is called,
will concentrate on forage
production, handling, and feeding.
Organizers of the one-day ac
tivities envision a variety of
educational exhibits ranging from
actual field demonstrations, crop
comparisons, nutrient analysis,
feed values, DHIA record-keeping,
and much more.
The Pennsylvania Holstein
Association and Pennsylvania
Forage and Grassland Council are
at the forefront of organizing the
unique event. Co-chairmen are
John Rodgers, of Plum Bottom
Farm, Reedsville; and A 1 Dugan,
Red Rose Alliance
to meet Thursday
BLUE BALL - The Red Rose
Alliance, Inc. will hold a general
meeting on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
at the Blue Ball Fire Hall.
Discussing the subject of
recycling will be guest speaker,
Richard Brown, president of
Lancaster Environmental Action
Federation.
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Phone:
717-394-3047
or
717-626-1164
of the Milton Hershey School
Farms, Hershey. John Baylor,
recently retired agronomist from
Penn State, serves on the
organizing committee in an ex
officio capacity. Other members of
the organizing committee include:
Richard Adams, dairy
nutritionist at Penn State; Nelson
Gotwalt from the ag com
munications department at Penn
State; Richard Hann, supervisor of
the Milton Hershey School Farms;
Joe Hartle, Centre County
dairyman; Richard Hill from the
U.S. Regional Pasture Research
Laboratory at Penn State; John
*a. Forage-Dairy Day seeks exhibitors.
Itle, representing the seed in
dustry; Dieter Krieg, Farmshine
editor; Bill Nichol, executive
secretary of the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association; Ray Pruss
from the DHIA office at Penn
State; John Sfaenk, noted research
agronomist who specializes 'in
forage analysis at Penn State; Bill
Stringer, Centre County dairyman
and agronomist; and Albert
Vigilante, from the Milton Hershey
School Farms.
Organizers of “Pennsylvania
Forage and Dairy Day” emphasize
that the event will in no way
conflict or compete with Ag
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Progress Days, the annual ag
extravaganza that attracts tens of
thousands of visitors to Penn
State’s research farm during
August. Forage and Dairy Day will
concentrate on educational
exhibits and demonstrations
designed to make dairymen more
aware of the potential of forages.
The purpose is to make forage
production more efficient while
bringin utilization close to op
timum levels. The day’s activities
will fallow forages “from field to
cow.”
Forages will be harvested during
the day, analyzed at the site and
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then fed to a cow. Predictions,
equations, etc. will be discussed
during the demonstration, plan
ners say.
Numerous other demonstrations
will be going on throughout the day.
which visitors can examine at their
leisure. All activities will relate
closely to feeding and production.
Finns and organizations which
are closely allied to forage
production and feeding are invited
to participate in this new event. To
inquire about exhibit spaces,
contact John C. I tie, 962 Raymee
Drive, Lancaster, Pa. 17601.
Phone: (717)6984690.
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