PERIODICALS DIVISION W 209 PATTEE LIBRARY PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY STATE COLLEGE PA 16802-1802 VOL 35 No. 12 Chester County Crops Day Examines Pesticide Laws, Storage, And Use ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff GUTHRIESVILLE (Chester Co.) “For your family’s and workers’ peace of mind, you want to be safe and you don’t want them to get hurt,” said Russ Powell, Penn State business management extension agent, about pesticide laws Wednesday at the 1990 Ches ter Country Crops Day. About 140 attended the one-day conference sponsored by the Ches ter Cdunty Penn State cooperative extension for Chester County farmers. “We offer Crops Day to provide farmers with some of the latest seed and soil facts and figures, including pesticides and herbicide information,” said Walter B. Wur ster, dairy extension agent. “Three core and three category credits are Experts Say BST Works, Safe Too EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-port series of a report on Bovine Somatotropin (BST) as discussed by several experts at a recent Penn-Jersey Dairy Exposition. Out of the many issues facing the dairy industry as it enters the 19905, perhaps no other is more signifi cant than the proposed use of biotechnology to increase milk yields. VERNON ACHENBACH, JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff ALLENTOWN (Lehigh Co.) — Two agricultural experts with ves ted interest in the production of the milk-increasing drug. Bovine Somatotropine (BST), say the drug can be a good and safe cow man agement tool in the U.S. dairy industry. Especially, for the small dairy operation. The experts are among a field of Recipients of Sire Power Inc. scholarships are, from left In back row, Duane Stoltzfus, Darwin Bratton, James Shade, Marvin Zimmerman and Gary Blcksler. In the front, from left are Carolyn Norman, Tammy Balthasar, Susan Four Sections provided to farmers toward their license to use pesticides at the meeting.” The conference featured nine exhibitors for grain and grain related products. Also at the con ference, three awards were pre sented to Chester-area farmers. Omar Beam won the Chester County Conservation Farmer of the Year. Carl Yoder was pre sented the Five-Acre Com Club Award from the Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Assocation. Innovative Conservation System Award Dunwoody Zook won the Inno vative Conservation System Award for his efforts in raising steers on his high-density rotation grazing farm, which makes better use of the land and the grasses for four who spoke last week during the all-day, Penn-Jersey Dairy Exposition. Also speaking were a Penn State University ag econom ist, and a spokesman from the BST-opposed ice cream manufac turer, Ben and Jerry’s, of Vermont About 200 dairy farmers, from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, attended the event to listen to the guest speakers and have questions answered. The event was sponsored in part by the Penn State and Rutger uni versities’ extension services and various dairy farm equipment supply and service businesses. The final message each speaker left with the crowd ranged in emphasis: • The economist urged farmers to “be aware of the issue and look at the source of information.” (turn to Pag* A 22) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 27, 1990 feeding. Zook’s farming technique pro vides less erosion and a better Robert Francis, right, chairman of the Chester County Conservation District, presents the Chester County Con servation Farmer of the Year Award to Omar Beam. DHIA Annual Meeting Program Finalized STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) The Pennsylvania DHIA has finalized its program for the second annual meeting of the cor poration to be held on March 1-2, 1990 at the Days Inn (formerly the Sheraton) in State College, PA. This year’s program, which is VERNON ACHENBACH, JR. Lancaster Farming Staff NEW CUMBERLAND (Cum berland Co.) Fourteen students whose parents are members of Sire Power Inc. received $5OO scholar ships recently. In addition to the sire Power scholarships, a $2,000 Lew Camp- Deeds, Kelli Winters and Karen Ann Knutsen. Missing from the picture are Nancy Powell, Johanna Remsburg, Anthony Weaver, Tina Hoser and Michael Eckert. grass crop for steer feed. Conference topics included small grain production, pesticide split between two half-day ses sions as in previous years, in cludes board committee and man agement reports on the first day. That day’s program is highlighted by two new events that will be conducted simultaneously. One is an orientation for newly elected Sire Power Scholars Named bell Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Susan Deeds, of Jump ing Branch, W. Virginia. Deeds, a student of dairy science at Virginia Tech, does all the sire selection on her family dairy farm. Deeds is a certified artificial insemination technician and breeds about half the family’s cows and heifers. At Surry Com 50* Per Copy SI 2.50 Per Year storage buildings, nitrogen man agement for com production, the fate of pesticides in the environ ment, com herbicides, chemical regulations and you, and small grains for silage. Comply with OSHA Powell said that farmers should strive to comply with OSHA reg ulations because the fines “can be severe.” Powell discussed the regula tions imposed by Pennsylvania’s Worker agd Community Right to Know and the Superfund Amend ment Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 111 laws. Regulations requir ing farmers’ responsibilities to train employees under OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) regulation were also discussed. HazCom specifies that farmers with more than 10 employees must provide full training, including a formal written training program and a material safety data sheet (MSDS) list of chemicals used on (Turn to Pag* A3O) directors and committee members of local associations and units. That season, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., will provide information and in sight into the DHIA’s purpose and structure from the local associa tion through the NCDHIP Policy (Turn to Pag* A 24) munity College she finished with a 3.95 grade point average. From the Northeast region, those who earned the Sire Power Scholarships include; Tammy Balthaser, Bemville, a student of ag business and food science; Gary Bicksler, Richland, a student of dairy production; Darwin Bratton, Millcrstown, a student of food sci ence; Michael Eckert, New Albany, a student of ag business management; Tina Hoser, Ster wartsville, N.J., a student of ag journalism; Carolyn Norman, Lib erty, a student of ag science; James Shadeh, Alexandria, a student of ag science; Anthony Weaver, Selinsgrove, a student of animal bioscience, Duane Stoltzfus, Mor gantown, a student of dairy and animal science; and marvin Zim merman, Benton, a dairy science student In the Maryland sales division of Sire Power, recipients include; Karen Knutsen, Rising Sun, a stu dent of animal science; Nancy Powel, Union Bridge, dairy sci ence; Johanna Remsburg, Middle town, animal science: and Kelli Winters, Smithsburg, dairy sci ence and pre-veterinary studies. The annual scholarships are awarded to college students whose agricultural activities, curriculum and grades reflect a high standard, according to officials.
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