VOL. 29 No. 42
Ag Progress opens on Tuesday at Penn State
Providing higher
AG PROGRESS
Corn canyons
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Ag students to exhibit and sell Pa, food products
Old Country Store located in barn
to show state’s farming diversity
BY LAURA ENGLAND
ROCK SPRINGS The visitor
to Penn State’s Ag Progress Days
knows that the agricultural ex
travaganza provides a perfect
setting for teaching, learning and
catching up on the latest in
agriculture technology.
The visitor also knows that the
event provides for an agricultural
"shopping spree.” It is not un
common for Ag Progress visitors
to leave the site with an armload of
brochures, pencils, writing pads
and plastic litter bags strewn with
company logos. And tucked in
among these items might be an
intent to buy a new, modern farm
implement.
For this year’s annual shopping
spree at Ag Progress, visitors
might want to keep at least one
arm free to carry bagfulls of a
new, special item. For the first
time at Ag Progress, visitors will
be able to buy authentic, Penn
Six Sections
Research
Production
]Vlarketing
Swimming cows
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sylvania grown and processed
agriculture food products.
In an attempt to promote Penn
sylvania agricultural products and
in turn increase sales of these
items, an Ag Commodities Booth
has been added to the list of Ag
Progress features. Designed to
depict an old-fashioned country
store, the booth is the brainchild of
Penn State’s College erf Agriculture
Student Council.
The need to sell agriculture
products was a result of previous
Ag Progress evaluations, ac
cording to student council member
Philip Price 11, who is chairman of
the Ag Commodities Booth com
mittee.
“The evaluation of Ag Progress
showed an interest in this,” Price
said, “and we met in late October
to try and solve the problem.”
The “we” who met last October
included Ag Student Council
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18,1984
For Farming
Round hog houses
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Surrounded by Pennsylvania food products which will be sold during Ag Progress
Days, is Penn State student Phil Price, chairman of the Ag Commodities Booth committee
Triple farm commitment
is featured for all to see
ROCK SPRINGS Penn State showcases its triple-pronged
commitment to agriculture Research, Production and
Marketing at Ag Progress Days at the Rock Springs Research
Farm Tuesday through Thursday.
This three-pronged ag commitment is highlighted inside:
Research]
Penn State’s Hort Farm with its wide diversity of research is
just one phase of ag studies that are conducted in agronomy,
plant pathology, entomology and pastures.
Production
When you think of ag progress in Pennsylvania, you always
must consider forage production gains in recent years. After all,
Ag Progress grew out of earlier grassland and forage field days.
Marketing
Members of the Ag Economics and Rural Sociology Depart
ment at Penn State are involved in a wide variety of ag
marketing studies. From direct marketing to how the casual
food shopper thinks and from pseudorabies to career singles
and their vegetable preferences, these studies are aimed at
helping Pennsylvania agriculture tighten its grip on that final
step involving food products marketing.
And, the first letters of this triple commitment of Research,
Production and Marketing signify RPM's which represent the
role of mechanization and equipment improvements in ag
progress. Some 300 exhibitors will display more than $2O
million worth at Ag Progress.
But Ag Progress also can be found in the everyday activities of
members of the state's ag community And plenty of features
about this type of ag progress are found inside, too.
As a comprehensive living outdoor exhibit and extravaganza,
Ag Progress has no rival. It’s well worth a visit from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.
Flooded farm
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Map & exhibitors
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»7.50 per Year