Soviet Agriculturists
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The openness sweeping the
Soviet Union reached the Farm
Show Monday afternoon when
four Soviet ag scientists visited
the Penn State University booth.
The visit was part of a week long
tour of Lancaster County, Harris
burg and University Park.
Their trip is the second step in a
developing relationship between
Penn State and the Siberian
Branch of the V.I. Lenin All-
Union Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, known as VASKhNIL.
Last April, three representatives
of the College of Agriculture ven
tured to VASKhNIL’s Siberian
Branch, which is four time zones
east of Moscow in Novosibirsk, or
“New Siberia.”
“Just three years ago this could
never have happened,” says Dr.
Charles R. Krueger, associate
Montgomery
Meeting Announced
CREAMERY, PA (Montgom
ery Co.) “Reflections on the
Soviet Union” will be the subject
of a slice presentation by Tom
Leidy at the Montgomery County
Cooperative Extension Annual
Meeting on January 18, 1990.
The meeting will be held at the
Montgomery County 4-H center
on Route 113 in Creamery, Penn
sylvania. A buffet dinner will be
dean for research and member of
Penn State’s delegation. “With the
new openness in superpower rela
tions, we can visit and talk with
each other. We have the opportun
ity to learn from each other.” Dr.
Paul J. Wangsness, former head of
Penn State’s department of dairy
and animal science, now regional
director for the Capital Region of
Penn State Cooperative Exten
sion, and Dr. John M. Skelly, pro
fessor of plant pathology, also
journeyed to Novosibirsk.
During this visit, Krueger hopes
to identify potential areas of joint
research with VASKhNIL. “The
Soviets will have group meetings
with faculty from the college.
Through these dialogues, we hope
to develop areas of mutual inter
est. But any project must be a two
way street so that we leant from
them, as well as they from us,”
Krueger said.
Co. Extension
served from 6:30 to 7:30 pm and a
short program will follow. Also
being honored at the dinner are
4-H livestock winners, 4-H
cabinet members, and longtime
extension board members. The
public is invited to attend.
Tickets for the dinner are $B.OO
and are available from the exten
sion office. Reservations may be
made up to January 12 by calling
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Bring Perestroika To Farm Show
The legal groundwork for colla- production, from pasture manage
borative study with VASKhNIL ment to effective storage,
has been laid: the University of Dr. Margarita V. Shtemshis
Alaska already has a cooperative heads the Laboratory of Microbio
agreement with the Siberian logical Methods at the Siberian
branch. “Alaska’s a good fit, Institute of Arable Farming and
because it has a similar climate to Use of Agricultural Chemicals.
Siberia’s,” Krueger said. “The She is interested in integrated pest
things' Penn State could do deal management, biological control
more with methodology and find- and plant breeding for pest resis
ing techniques that can work on tance. Dr. Victor G. Guglya,
our crops and livestock as well as director of the Siberian Institute of
theirs- transferrable technology.” Animal Husbandry, is interested
Dr. Gennady P. Gamzikov, in animal production techniques
director of the Altai Institute of such as feeding, breeding and
Arable Farming and Plant Breed- manure management
ing, will head the VASKhNIL del- “During the week, they will
egation. Gamzikov’s interests tour some of our facilities and talk
include soil management systems, with faculty members who share
fertilization practices and plant their research interests,” Krueger
breeding. Dr. Victor A. Bentz, said. “These dialogues will help
deputy director of the Siberian both of our institutions know what
Institute for Fodder Crops, is we have to offer each other.”
interested in all aspects of forage The Soviets’ visit will continue
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week,
Officials also said they would
set a goal of uniting all four dairy
promotion agencies in the effort to
increase the sale of Pennsylvania
dairy products.
The two-day meeting, held at
the Grantville Holdiay Inn,
focused on the outlook for the
dairy industry in the 1990 s and was
highlighted with predictions by a
Michigan State University profes
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the state Department of
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chair Paul Corbin. Duncan, who
also serves on the executive board
of the Regional Cooperative Mark
eting Agency (RCMA), said his
goal is to continue to expand mark
eting efforts and to bring market
ing agencies closer together.
“My personal goal is to continue
the good work done by the two for
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another dialogue-- a correspon
dence between students in Novo
sibirsk and the State College Area
Junior High School. “While we
were in the Soviet Union, we vis
ited a junior high English class
that Dr. Shtemshis’ son attended,”
Krueger said. “We brought back
letters that the Soviet children had
written.”
Krueger gave the letters to his
son, Brian, whose teacher passed
them out to her class. Their
replies, were sent to Novosibirsk
last June. During her stay,
Shtemshis will visit the junior
high to deliver personal responses
from her son's class. “She’d like
to visit my child’s class, just as I
visited her child’s. I think both
groups of children, like their
parents, are learning how much
they have in common,” Krueger
said.
Meeting
ing to Duncan, “ ... is to increase
the bottom line for dairy farmers
by increasing sales.”
As far as continuing efforts at
mutual cooperation among mark
eting agencies, Duncan said, “I’m
going to do everything I can to
bring in the fourth organization to
share proportionately in the 10
cents coming in. We’ll take it day
by day and do the best we can.”
Duncan added that PDPP is
“ . . . certainly welcoming sug
gestions from dairy farmers and
those in the business to get ideas on
how to better market their
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