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VOL. 30 No. 2
Pseudorabies compromise reached in Pa.;
Animal health advisory effort launched
Taking close
look at laws
and diseases
HARRISBURG An ambitious
list of agenda goals to improve
, animal health in Pennsylvania was
I outlined to an advisory group of
veterinarians and representatives
of livestock organizations by Dr.
Max Van Buskirk Jr., of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, on
Wednesday.
Dr. Van Buskirk outlined three
main areas of concern and need
regarding animal health in which
the advisory board will help in an
effort to find solutions and im
provement.
These areas of main concern:
-Animal diseases, with Avian
influenza, pseudorabies and
Johne’s at the head of a lengthy
list.
-Antiquated animal health laws
which impede efforts at im
provement.
-And, the bottom line - money.
Dr. Van Buskirk also injected a
fourth animal health concern for
Pennsylvania - animal rights.
“We’ve avoided animal rights,”
Dr. Van Buskirk said.
“But we can’t avoid it much
longer. At some point we’U have to
address these concerns.”
In the area of diseases, the
PDA’s Bureau of Animal Industry
has responsibility in three prin
cipal areas - those diseases
communicable to humans, those
diseases with serious economic
impact on agriculture and the
exotic diseases, such as
Newcastle.
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In this week’s issue, dairy far
mers will find three items of
special interest.
In the A Section, Dairy Editor
Wendy Wehr takes you along on a
manure management tour that
investigates the various options
that are available to dairy farmers
to handle this important phase of
their operations.
Also in the A Section, Robin
Phillips takes an in-depth look at
dairy rations from a unique three
part viewpoint - that of a feedman,
nutrition consultant and dairyman.
And in the B Section, you’ll find
comprehensive photo and story
coverage of dairy competition at
NAILE in Louisville, Ky A from
Donna McConaughey.
And, they’re exclusively in
Lancaster Farming.
Four Sections
Dairy Council nutrition researcher Dr. Elwood Speckmann discusses calcium benefits
with Inter-State President Robert B. McSparran, right.
Dairy product nutrition stressed
BY WENDY WEHR
LANCASTER “Our problem
is not over-production, it’s under
consumption,” proclaimed Dr.
Elwood W. Speckmann, Vice
President, Nutrition Research,
National Dairy Council. And with
that remark, he drew a strong
affirmative response from his
Audience, fee dairymen of Inter-
State Milk Producers’
Cooperative.
, On Thursday, Dr. Speckmann
addressed the delegates to Inter-
State’s 67th Annual Meeting. He
outlined the focus of the nutrition
Pa. FFA ers make good dairy showing
ST. LOUIS, MO. Pennsylvania
FFA’ers made their best com
petitive showing at the 57th
National Future Farmers of
America convention in dairy
contests.
Before a convention audience of
some 22,000 FFA members, ad
visors, parents and friends,
Commonweahth top honors in
national judging contests went to a
trio of Lancaster County FFA’ers
from the Solanco Chapter.
Joe DeLong, Mark Welk and
Kris Esbenshade from Solanco
FFA finished third in dairy cattle
judging among 45 teams - one of
the largest competitions at the
convention. They were topped by
teams from only two other states
with a few dairy cattle. California
finished first and Wisconsin was
second.
Individually, Welk placed 14th;
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 17,1984
At Inter-State meeting
research at Dairy Council, in
cluding information about the
probable calcium deficiency in the
diets of Americans.
“We are taking the offense to
make good news happen about
dairy foods. And the key to our
offense is calcium,” announced
Speckmann. In the past few years,
he explained, as Americans have
sought health promotion and
disease prevention, dairy products
have been excluded from their
diets because of risks of cancer,
heart disease, and hypertension.
To reassociate dairy foods with
Pictured earlier this year when they won state competition
in FFA Dairy Cattle Judging are, from the left, Joe Delong,
Mark Welk and Kris Esbenshade, of the Solanco Chapter,
Lancaster County.
health. Dairy Council is focusing
on calcium. In particular, calcium
is being identified with bone health
and regulation of blood pressure,
explained Speckmann.
In his discussion of osteoporosis,
the loss of bone mass, he noted that
bone health is strongly related to,
the intake of dietary calcium.
“You know what we say out at
Dairy Council,” he quipped, “No
bones about it, no bones without
it!”
Currently, Americans, men and
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$7.50 per Tear
Depopulation
moratorium
approved
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
HARRISBURG - A
pseudorabies compromise has
been reached with PDA’s Bureau
of Animal Industry for a
moratorium on forced
depopulation to provide time for a
livestock group to prepare an
alternate PRV control and
eradiction program for presen
tation to BAI.
The compromise was
unanimously endorsed by 15
liveatoefc and ag representatives at
a meeting at PDA offices on
Wednesday.
The compromise essentially puts
a temporary “hold” on forced
depopulation for operators who
currently have the disease and any
new ones who might get it during
the moratorium period that ex
tends until May 1.
In that interval a committee of
livestock representatives will
draw up a draft report of a new
program of how to deal with PRV,
which will still have the goal of
eradication, but without the
economic hardships imposed by
forced depopulation.
Principal areas of investigation
were listed at Wednesday’s session
which will be included in the
committee’s work:
-Swine identification system;
-Quarantine measures;
-If there is no depopulation,
what are the on-farm eradication
measures to be, including vaccine
use.
-A feasible marketing system
for animals shipped under permit
during quarantine.
-Indemnity;
-Retroactive indemnity;
-Swine shipping regulations,
including vehicle cleaning and
disinfecting;
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Thanksgiving
notice
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday,
Lancaster Farming announces the
following deadlines for the Nov. 24
issue; sales register, mailbox
market, pubhc sale ads and
display, 5 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19;
Classified advertising: real estate
and truck and trailers, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 20; all other
classified advertising, 9 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 21; and news, 4
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21.