Manure Not As Excessive As Expected In Lancaster County (Continued from Pago A 1) County Solid Waste Management Authority, sought to find where manure excess and deficit areas existed based on the amount of nitrogen, Heistand used information col lected from S7S farms during 1986 and 1987 as part of the Chesapeake Bay Assessment Project Informa tion from farms in the Conestoga Watershed wasn’t collected as they were assessed under a differ ent project in 1982. The Authority plans to conduct another survey in that area. “We thought we’d have very high figures,” commented Heis tand. “But only two townships have more than one in five farms ■ * >* Cool Them Off With An RC Cooling System We Stock RC Stainless Steel Nozzles, Pumps, PVC Pipe And All Components Needed For Your Fogging System CoolalP means performance PLUS... all galvanized NCF ECONOMY FANS Available In Carton Or Waferwood Crate FAN MOKI (U ncw 01 ncfwi Get The Complete System - Feeding. Ventilation. 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East Donegal Township had the fewest nitrogen units with a decifit of 270,488. The Ag Waste Committee of the Authority’s Citizen Advisory Group, which is studying the prob lem of waste disposal and ground water quality, plans to make recommendations to the Lancaster County commissioners by early 1990 on a nutrient-management plan. The recommendations may include a county-wide plan that would list the manure excess and deficit farms and arrange to bring these farmers together to meet each other’s needs. According to Michael W. 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Com pletely assembled (except blades) • All metal construction - 60' diameter blade sweep •IS’IP •11-IP \\tSJy baker, chairman of the Ag Waste Committee and owner of Brubaker Agronomic Consulting Service in Lititz, the recommendations would be detailed and include sug gestions for transportation and funding. “Cost keeps coming into this,” said Brubaker. “The end result (of the recommendations) is cleaner water, but who should pay for it?” Should the contributors foot the bill and if so, who contributes to the ground-water contamination? Or should everyone pay for the nutrient-management plan because everyone drinks and uses the water? As Lancaster County officials attempt to solve this problem, state HEAT ,/i\ HELPS TO HEAT IN WINTER! HELPS TO COOL IN SUMMER! • Livestock buildings • Processing plants • Warehouses • Machine shops • Homes • Churches STORE HOURS: HoiL'Frl. 7:30-4:30 Sal 1:00-11:30 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April I,IMO-A27 legislators also are working on it. “Representative Jeffrey Coy (D-89) of Franklin County plans to reintroduce a nutrient-man- agement bill in April that would require every farm to have a nutrient-management plan within two years and implement it within five years,” Brubaker said. The first attempt at state-wide nutrient-management legislation, old House Bill 2616, had major problems, according to Brubaker and Heistand. Part of its problem was that it would regulate only far mers and neglected other contribu- tors to the ground-water contamination. In a working draft, Coy outlined the bill’s purposes, which will include provision for a review and assessment of agriculture’s contri bution to ground-water pollution, establishment of requirements for certification of nutrient-mana gement specialists, and assessment of the impact of non-agricullural things such as on-lot spelic sys tems, septic system cleansers, resi dential fertilizers, and well-water construction on nutrient pollution. The proposed legislature, if passed, would supersede all local ordinances. Penn State Hires Assistant Professor Of Veterinary Science UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre) Dr. Charles A. Dangler has been appointed assistant professor of veterinary science in Penn State’s College of Agriculture. Dangler’s position will involve veterinary research in the areas of experimental pathology and molecular virology. He will con duct investigations of genetic recombination in pseudorabies virus, a herpes virus that affects the reproductive and nervous sys tems of swine. He also will iden tify potential mechanisms of viral induced atherosclerosis and the development of gene probe tech niques for the bacteria that causes a wasting syndrome known as Johne’s disease in ruminants. In addition, he will serve as a conti nuing education resource for Penn State Cooperative Extension. Dangler received his bachelor’s degree and veterinary medical degree from Michigan State Uni versity. He trained as a resident in veterinary pathology while enrolled in his doctoral program in comparative pathology at the Uni versity of California at Davis. He is continuing research with his colleagues in California based on his doctoral dissertation, “Deve lopment and Application of Recombinant Genetic Probes for the Study of Bluetongue Virus.” Dangler is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathol ogy. He also is a member of the American Association of Veterin ary Laboratory Diagnosticians and the United States Animal Health Association.
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