ITHACA Two Cornell University scientists one a pioneer in the use of bovine growth hormone to boost production ef ficiency of dairy animals, and the other a pioneer in the use of insect sex attractants for pest management have been honored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dale E. Bauman, professor of nutritional biochemistry in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at' Cornell, received a Superior Service Award. Wendell L. Roelofs, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Insect Biochemistry at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, was the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given by USDA. They were cited for outstanding acheivements of major significance to the USDA mission and to the nation as well as their contributions to their areas of specialization. Bauman has focused his research on the regulation of Heavy Duty I >»■• . • Heat Treated • All Chain Has 10 Yr. 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The growth hormone technology is expected to have a major impact on animal agriculture in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. His previous honors include the Alexander von Humboldt Foun- CORNING, lowa The National dation Award from Germany in Board of Directors of the National 1985, an honor reserved for those Farmers Organization, meeting in who have made “the most session today, announced a plan to significant contribution to olleviate the situation farmers are American agriculture” during the f ac * n B hi the drought-stricken past several years. Southeastern United States. Roelofs was recognized for his tn onnouncing the plan, DeVon research contributions to the Woodland, president of the NFO, biology of insect sex attractants B® time for politicians to known as pheromones that are ®*°P ma hhig political hay at the produced by female insects to of farmers and start attract males. His work over the developing a realistic solution to past two decades at the Geneva the problem. 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