Penn State Reveals Plans For Dairy Research Center
UNIVERSITY PARK - Plans
for a S3B million research facility,
which would make The Penn
sylvania State University the
premier agricultural research
center in the Northeast, were
unveiled today by University
President Bryce Jordan and U.S.
Senator Arlen Specter.
Senator Specter released copies
of a federally produced feasibility
study at a press briefing held at the
Food Science Department on the
University Park Campus. The
feasibility study recommends a
number of capital improvements
for Penn State’s College of
Agriculture, including the
establishment of an Agricultural
Science and Industry Facility.
Senator Specter was in
strumental in getting funding for
the United States Department of
Agriculture study of existing
agricultural facilities at Penn
State. The Penn State proposal
seeks an $lB million federal grant
and a matching amount from the
state.
The senator also was in
strumental in obtaining funding for
a $300,000 grant for milk con
sumption research currently being
conducted at Penn State.
Researchers are investigating
ways to increase the market for
dairy products, focusing on health
issues and the threat of unfair
foreign competition.
“We are delighted today to
celebrate the completion of a
feasibility study that calls for
establishing an Agricultural
Science and Industry Facility at
Penn State,” Dr. Jordan said. “We
are very pleased that Senator
Specter was able to secure the
funds for the feasibility study.
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the six-member study team
chaired by Dr. Mary Carter,
associate administrator for the
USDA Agricultural Research
Service, saw fit to recommend
establishment of this agricultural
research center here at Penn
State.”
Dr. Jordan said the proposed
building “will be a major ex
pansion of the Henning Building
and will house the Agronomy
Department, the Dairy and Animal
Science Department and ad
ditional faculty in Veterinary
Science.”
Obie Snyder, president of the
Penn State Board of Trustees and a
dairy farmer, attended the press
briefing and stressed the im
portance of the University to the
state’s dairy industry.
The Senate Committee on Ap
propriations report accompanying
the 1986 Agriculture, Rural
Development and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill
directed the Agricultural Research
Service to conduct a feasibility
study of Penn State’s proposal to
establish an agricultural science
and industry facility.
Dr. T.B. Kinney Jr., ad
ministrator of the Agricultural
Research Service, appointed a six
member team which studied the
proposal, met with University and
College of Agriculture ad
ministrators, and reviewed
agricultural facilities on the
University Park Campus.
In addition to development of an
Agricultural Science and Industry
Building, the Penn State proposal
calls for the establishment of
several smaller research units.
These units include a new
poultry research unit located at an
appropriate new location on the
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periphery of the campus to replace
current poultry facilities. The new
facilities will reflect designs and
materials currently used in in
dustry and will facilitate waste
management, disease control, and
efficient systems for feedings and
' reproduction research, as well as
applications of computer
technology.
Also, a new dairy research unit
to replace the existing facility and
to contain specialized animal
housing and waste disposal
facilities, feeding systems, milking
equipment and computer systems.
It will enable research to be
conducted on important problems,
such as animal production ef
ficiency, disease control and ap
plications of biotechnology.
Additional contemporary
greenhouses are to be contracted
in the vicinity of the new
Agricultural Science and Industry
Building. The existing greenhouses
will be reglazed and remodeled to
reflect standards of industry and to
accommodate research on
greenhouse environment control
systems.
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A new swine research unit will urgent need to upgrade Penn
be added to replace the existing State’s College of Agriculture
swine unit constructed in 1958. The facilities, the study team said, “the
new unit will enable researchers overall concept of the proposed
from across the University to facility plan is viable, not ex
cooperate in research programs in cessive, and will adress the highest
the agricultural and health priority needs of the College of
sciences and in the applications of Agriculture in its support of the
biotechnology. 'agricultural industry of Penn-
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USDA Buyout Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
third weekly report on the buyout
was released by the USDA on
Wednesday.
USDA figures show an estimated
33,500 head of cattle in the program
were slaughtered during the week
ending May 17. This figure in
cludes all cows, heifers and calves
in the DTP, according to the USDA
spokesman.
An estimated cumulative total of
366,400 head have been slaughtered
since the beginning of the DTP on
April 1.
Meat purchases by the govern
ment reached 11.7 million pounds
for the week ending May 31. This
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ground beef, and 608,000 pounds of
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additional 22,984,500 pounds of
ground beef and 5,906,952 pounds of
canned beef. The additional
purchases set a new weekly beef
purchase record of approximately
29 million pounds.
Cumulative number of dairy
cows that were reported for export
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