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Southcentral Pennsylvania Champ Is Mercersburg Cow
BY BONNIE BRECHBILL
Franklin Co. Correspondent
SHIPPENSBURG franklin
Co.) A cow bached by three
generations of homebred cows
with lifetime records of 100,000
pounds of milk won the South
central Pennsylvania Champion
ship Show August 12. Lockway
Ivy Plato, a four-year old owned
by C. Richard and Georgianna
Locke of Mercersburg, is esti
mated at more than 20,000 pounds
of milk with a 4.2 percent test
Fresh four months, she is the
daughter of Willmont Glendcll
Plato-ET and Lockway Honey-
OC.
Judge Paul King admired the
grand champion for her overall
scale and youthfulness and her
outstanding udder.
Plato was alsa named best bred
and owned of the show.
“She’s in her prime,” Locke
said of Plato’s first big win.
A veteran of the show ring was
named reserve senior and reserve
graiul champion of the show, held
atwfe SMppensburg Fairgrounds.
James ft Nina Burdette’s Windy
Knoll View Ultimate Pala, also a
Many peopla watch the com harvesting demonstrations at Ag Progress Days.
PDA And Penn State Join To Cut Farm Pesticide Use
BY PAT PURCELL
ROCK SPRINGS (Centre Co.)
The Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture and Penn State Uni
versity have joined forces to help
farmers cut their use of chemical
pesticides and herbicides through
the increased use of Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) techniques.
By an agreement signed at Penn
State’s agricultural research center
during Ag Progress Days, Secret
ary of Agriculture Boyd E. Wolff
and and College of Agriculture
Dean Lamartine Hood, the depart
ment and university will combine
resources to research, develop and
implement IPM practices.
IPM is a form oferop protection
which replaces chemical depen
dency with a greater reliance on
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four-year old, is classified 92
points and is milking 122 pounds
a day. She was named All-
Pennsylvania as a junior yearling,
junior two-year-old and three
year-old, and was grand champion
ofithe Southcentral Championship
show last year. The Burdettes and
their two sons operate Windy
Knoll View farm near Mercers
burg.
The Burdettes also showed the
junior champion of the open show.
Windy Knoll View Count Noreen,
a junior yearling, is a Modik Val
iant Count-ET daughter.
Reserve junior champion of the
open show was Penn Gate Valiant
Fancy, an S-W-D Valiant daught
er. She is an intermediate yearling
owned by Steve and Chris Wood
of Penn Gate Farm, Liulcstown.
The Woods, who farm in part
nership with Chris’s father.
Robert Gitt, also took home the
premier exhibitor and premier
breeder banners. Penn Gate
earned blue ribbons in five classes
at JSISI6 judgc Paul King
of MciUHfttld, W. Va., the quality
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information while protecting the
farm’s profitability. IPM utilizes
increased information to help the
farmer make better pest manage
ment decisions with an emphasis
on the integration of biological,
cultural and chemical methods.
“These new techniques can
show fanners they may be buying
more chemicals than they need,
and that there may be more effec
tive. cheaper methods of controll
ing pests,” said Wolff.
‘The department has been sup
porting these concepts for some
time, and the feedback has been
positive,” said Wolff.
Penn State’s College of Agricul
ture has been conducting various
research projects in several crop
areas including apples, peaches.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 19,1989
Lockway Ivy Plato garnered senior and grand champion honors at the Southcentral
Pennsylvania Holstein Championship Show for Lockway Farm of Mercersburg. C.
Richard Locke, third from right, showed the four-year-old Wlllmont Glendeli Plato-ET
daughter. James Burdette, third from left, of Windy Knoll View Farm in Mercersburg
thpSfed Urn reserve senior and reserve gland champion, tA fri¥ I—iT" — Ultimate
Ito f Miiliifiu them are Judge Paul King, Lancaster Princess
Angie Sptohler, Pnakiln county Dairy Princess Jennifer Gloaarwnd Cumberland
County tef Princess Bobbie Jo OalMiaW>
com, and potatoes. One project has
concentrated on the the European
red mite which costs the Pennsyl
vania apple grower much in loss in
quality and production.
“Through EPM research, we
were able to discover a biological
control dial was effective against
the mites,” said Hood.
Hood added that PDA’s contri
bution will accelerate Penn State’s
research program and help bring
about more success stories.
PDA has contributed more than
$386,000 in the form of research
grants to Penn State for IPM
related projects:
CONTINUING PROJECTS:
- Biological control of forage
diseases $29,500.
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Board Raises Preservation
Fund To $25 Million
ROCK SPRINGS (Centre Co.)
The state Agricultural Land
Preservation Board approved an
additional $5 million in grants on
Wednesday so local governments
can purchase additional conserva
tion easements.
Agriculture Secretary Boyd E.
Wolff, who chairs the board, said
the state has approved a total of
$25 million toward the preserva
tion of Pennsylvania farmland.
Eighteen counties have contri
buted $3.4 million in local funds to
the program, and the state fund
was increased in order to meet the
matching fund formula in the
Farmland Preservation Act, which
went into effect in February.
If funds still remain this year
after all allocations have been
Boyd Wo |ff i Pennsylvania ag secretary, and Lamartine
Hood, Penn State University College of Ag dean, sign an
agreement to cooperate to help farmers reduce their depen
dence on chemical pesticides.
$12.50 Per Year
made to eligible counties, the pro
cess wilt begin again with the
remaining monies.
“We have been very pleasantly
surprised by the support and enthu
siasm of our counties,” said Wolff.
“Counties are halfway through
their fiscal year and have commit
ted $3.4 million dollars. We think
this - is significant support for the
voter-approved program.”
f Pennsylvania’s farmland pro
tection program is funded by a
SIOO-million bond issue approved
Jby voters in a statewide referen
dum in 1987. Funds are allocated
according to a formula based on
pressure from development, agri
cultural production, and county
appropriation.
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