86 attend PFA Youth Leadership Conference LEWISBURG - “The future of fanning is in your hands. You have to shape it with those hands.” Carolyn Witmer, 1983-84 state president of the Future Fanners of America told an attentive audience at the banquet for the sixth annual Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association (PFA) Youth Leadership Conference. The conference, held at Bucknell University in Lewisburg from June 24-28, drew 86 young people, representing 49 PFA organizations across the Com monwealth. Sponsored by the PFA Women’s Committee, the con ference is designed to teach high school students about the legislative process and the PFA’s work. “I’ve developed an un derstanding of what happens to a legistative bill,” says John Burkholder of Lancaster County, one of the participants. Carolyn Witmer, 1983-84 Pa. FFA president, talks with PFA Field Services Director Mel Eckhaus. Got Grain To Move? Considering A New Body To Move It? 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The issues included farm-related topics such as taxation, safety and land use, public-interest topics such as drugs and alcohol, prison reform, crime, and nuclear proliferation. To liven up the proceedings there were some unusual bills in troduced, including requiring cars to be painted with polka dots and, of course, changing the conference curfew until later. The latter bill passed the House but was vetoed by the Governor, PFA regional coordinator Dave Muzzy. 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Twelve of the young people received certificates from the state Department of Education as instructors in bicycle safety, a skill they can take home and use in their day. The annual event attracted about 100 seed growers from New York and neighboring states. He says that seed growers in New York State will be planting the yet-to-be-named barley this fall for production of certified seed for use by barley growers during the 1985-86 season. Winter barley is planted in the fall and harvested in mid-July the following year. Used primarily as animal feed, the winter barley crop is grown on some 10,000 to 20,000 acres in central and western parts of New York State. Other eastern states that grow this crop are Penn sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. It also is grown in Michigan and in Ontario, Canada. Farmers also grow a spring barley, one that is planted in April for harvest in summer, but an excessively wet spring such as the one experienced this year often hampers spring planting ac tivities. Because winter barley is planted in early fall, a prolonged r 'k communities. “I’ve met a lot of new people, learned about different kinds of fanning and how the political system works,” says Carolyn Martens of Waterford, Erie County. Martens’ parents are both active in PFA and she adds, “The conference has helped me see what PFA offers my parents and why and how they’re involved.” rainy spell in spring, if anything, usually has a positive effect on the crop, Sorrells explains. In Cornell tests conducted over the past three years, the new barley has averaged 85 bushels an acre in yield, about three to four bushels more than Schyler. Also a Cornell variety, Schuyler has been the most popular one since its commercial debut in 1970. Other characteristics in terms of test weight, maturity, plant height, lodging resistance, and winter hardiness are similar to Schuyler, but mildew resistance is better than Schuyler, according to Sorrells. The new barley also is moderately resistant to other diseases such as loose smut and leaf rust, but it is susceptible to leaf scald. “Under good growing conditions the new variety has a definite edge over Schuyler in yield and mildew resistance,” Sorrells points out. “It eventually will replace Schuyler.” 0* Raytec Way Pig v **£, * */' > > * ■*-
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