UNIVERSITY PARK - Frederick A. Hughes will retire June 30 as professor emeritus of farm management extension after 30 years of service to The Penn State University. In addition to his duties as senior Extension farm management specialist, he has served for the last 10 years as coordinator for Extension programs in agriculture. He represented the College of Agriculture for four years as a member of the University’s Faculty Senate. During his service to the University, Hughes has organized and promoted a number of useful programs in agriculture. He worked with the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association in setting up its farm-business analyses program in farm management, including early innovations to permit computerization. Hughes worked with the agronomy and dairy Extension sections of the College of Agriculture in organizing the Unit Demonstration Farm program in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Currently there are 21 such demonstration farms in Pennsylvania. The farms are used to provide a setting in which other farmers may learn how to increase productivity, improve management and financial decision-making skills, and in crease income. When Penn State set out to organize its Bahamas Agricultural Research, Training, and Development Project, Hughes served as senior economist. This project was in cooperation with the US Agency for International Development, and its ac complishments include establishment of a 500-acre research farm, completion of more than 50 research projects, training of counterpart personnel, and Frederick Hughes retires from Penn State Fred Hughes establishment of 16 pilot test farms operated by Bahamians on Andros Island. In the late 19605, Hughes served with others as prime movers* in setting up a state-wide series of meetings to explore the topic “Who will control US agriculture?” These meetings made it possible for nearly 5000 Pennsylvanians farmers, educators, legislators, agribusiness leaders, and ordinary citizens to examine the struc ture of the nation’s agriculture in detail. Recognizing the increasing complexity of the legal aspects of farming, Hughes established working relationships with the Rural Lawyers’ committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and with the Pennsylvania Bar In stitute in developing and con ducting educational programs for attorneys, other professionals, and farm families on estate planning, partnerships, farm transfers, and related legal aspects of rural living. Similarly, he worked with the Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association, the Farm Credit Association, and the Farmers’ Home Administration in programs to improve credit services to farmers. His name appears as author or co-author on a number of the major Penn State publications in the farm management field, and he has written magazine articles for the farm- press and con tributions for journals published by societies of farm management scholars. In 1969, the Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association presented Mr. Hughes with its annual Ex tension Award, citing “valuable Goodwin retires at Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK - Dr. Kenneth Goodwin, professor and head of the Department erf Poultry Science at Penn State, retired June 30, with emeritus status. Dr. Goodwin has been head of the Poultry Science Department since 1966. Under his direction, the department has provided programs in resident education, research and Extension that are designed to meet the needs of a rapidly changing agricultural technology. For his many years of con servation work and outstanding contributions to the wildlife cause, Dr. Goodwin was awarded the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Senior Wildlife Conservation Award on March 6,1984. “It is only on rare occasions that we feel we are justified in presenting this award, and this is a special moment in the Game Commission’s history,” said Eugene Nelson, assistant chief of game management, Pennsylvania Game Commission, in presenting the award. When Dr. Goodwin began ser ving in his present position 17 years ago, the Game Birds In dustry was rather small and just beginning to expand when he guided and encouraged his three divisions, the Farm, Resident Research Department, and Lancaster fairing, Saturday, law 30,1004—A25 and noteworthy contributions to the Pennsylvania Dairv industry.” A native of Ebensburg, Hughes earned a BS degree in agricultural education and a MS degree in agricultural economics from Penn State. He served nearly 3 years with the US Army, with assignments to its Cavalry, Army. Air Corps, and Service Forces. After graduation from Penn State he managed the 300-acre dairy farm operated by Westtown School in Chester County for nearly 3 years, and then worked as farm management specialist with the Ohio State University Extension Service. Kenneth Goodwin Poultry Extension, to cooperate and assist not only the Penn sylvania Game Commission but the Commercial Game Bird In dustry with our many and varied complex problems. A native of Ossining, N.Y., he earned a bachelor of science degree in agriculture, master of Corn Club sets deadline UNIVERSITY PARK - Com producers wishing to enter the Com Club, sponsored by the Penn State Cooperative Ex tension Service and the Penn sylvania Master Com Growers Association, should notify County Extension Offices no later than Julyl. Any fanner or farm operator who is 18 years of age or older by August 1,1984, is eligible to enroll. There is no charge for entering the Com Club. However, farmers are encouraged to become members of the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Association. Only one entry is allowed per farmer or farm operator, even if more than one farm is involved. The field must be five acres or HAWK CREEK INC. ENVIRONMENTAL & WATER TEST KITS According to the USPHS nitrates above 45 ppm in drinking water may be hazardous to your health Test for nitrates in water using a simple, single test strip Range 0 to 500 ppm utilizing E Merck quant strips $l7 50 ppd for 100 strips Acid ram alkalinity, soil pH. and other test kits available phone or write for information RD 1, Box 686, Glen Rock, PA 17327 (717) 235-3849 Hughes is married to the former Irene Louise Gochnour of Mar tins burg; they have one daughter and three sons. Hughes holds memberships in the northeastern and national associations of American Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, the American Agricultural Law Association, Pennsylvania Grassland Council, Pennsylvania Plant Food Society, and the Penn State Extension Professors’ Association. His honorary and social fraternity memberships include Delta Theta Sigma, Alpha Tau Alpha, Epsilon Sigma PM, and Gamma Sigma Delta. science degree in animal genetics and histology and a Ph. D. in animal genetics from Cornell University. Before coming to Penn State, he was a geneticist at Kimber Farms, Inc., in Fremont, California, and at Heisdof and Nelson Farms in Redmond, Washington. In 1975, he was a Food and Agriculture Organization consultant in Bangalone, India. Dr. Goodwin served as Director of the Poultry Science Association, associate editor of the Poultry Science journal, a member of the Industry Relations Board and a member of the Board of Directors of the World’s Poultry Science Association. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Genetic Association; the Genetics Society of America; the American Institute of Biological Science; Sigma Xi, honorary research society; Gamma Sigma Delta honorary agricultural fraternity and Epsilon Sigma Phi honorary Extension fraternity. more and a complete Penn State soil test must have been taken within the last two years. If the com is grown in contour strips, two or three strips on the same slope may be used as long as the com bined acreage is five acres or more. The five acres must be planted to one variety of com. A cost of production budget will be required for 1984 Club members. There are two categories, a three or more acre harvest sample and a small plot harvest sample. Within each category there is an ear com harvested class, a shelled grain harvest class and the new irrigated class. In addition, awards will be made for the highest three year average yield in each harvested class. A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! Phone: 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164
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