016192 1299 PERIODICALS DIVISION w?O9 PAT TEE LIBRARY PENNSYLVANIA STA IF UNIVEPSIIY - STATE COLLEGE \'i\ 1680*-1&0*. VOL 35 NO. 17 Corn Growers Expect To Expand Market With Ethanol VERNON ACHENBACH, JR. Lancaster Farming Staff CAMP HELL (Cumberland Co.) The future for com growers appears as equally promising as it does bleak, according to experts at a Thursday Pennsylvania Master Com Growers Conference held at the Penn Harris Con vention Center. Ethanol production and biodegradeable plastics are expected to increase com consumption and will help to eliminate surplus production in the United States, accord ing to Dave Drennan, field services director for the National Com Growers Association. However, com producers may not be able to create the current surpluses of crop in the future. The 1990 s appear hr be filled with regulation and restriction on the use of toxic chemicals for weed control, said Dr. Marshal McGlamery, Pennsylvania DHIA Reports Progress EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) DHIA is not just testing milk samples anymore. In fact, accord ing to Clyde Robinson, state Dairy Herd Improvement Association president, the mission of DHIA is to “provide records, information services, consulting services and products that are accurate, reliable, innovative and competitively priced to assist agriculture produc ers in the successful management of their herds.” Vaccinate Early, Prevent Exposure Are Keys To Controlling Avian Reovirus ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) “If we had 100 percent biosecurity, we wouldn’t have any disease problems in poultry,” said Dr. Bill Gerencer, director of poul try health for Avian Farms at Poul try Progress Day at the Farm and Home Center on Thursday. Gerencer was one of 10 special ists invited to speak to about 150 poultry farmers and industry rep resentatives at the seminar spon sored by the Penn State extension and the Lancaster County Poultry Association. Lebanon County Dairy Princess Kynel Bomgardner finds that growing up on a farm with six brothers offers many rewards. Pictured from left: Jesse, 11; Kevin, 13; 50$ Per Copy Robinson opened the second annual meeting of the state corpo ration here Thursday, by com mending the delegates, directors and management for their help to take the message of reorganization back to the local districts. “Last year, I asked you to tell your local association about the merits of reorganization,” Robin son said. “Thanks for your cooper ation. You did your job well,” “Pennsylvania DHIA is big bus iness with a three million dollar budget,” Robinson said. “Your Gerencer identified some of the ways poultry diseases, particularly the respiratory enteric orphan virus (Reovirus) problem, are spread and ways to combat them. His “stop the bug at the bam door” approach provides a list line of defense apinst reovirus and other types of diseases affecting poultry breeder and broiler flocks. Vaccinate Stock Ways to handle the problem, according to Gerencer, involve two methods: prevent exposure and vaccinate broilers and breeder (Turn to Page A 34) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,1990 professor of weed science at the University of Illinois. “We been working for the past three or four years on new industrial uses for com,” Drennan said. “Even though half the crop is still consumed by the livestock sector, we still got a 1.6- to 2-billion (bushel) surplus projected, so we’ve been looking at industrial uses like ethanol in gasoline . . . and biodegrable plastics made with a six percent com starch mix,” Drennan said. According to Drennan, the mix of ethanol to gasoline has several benefits to society at large. He said a 10 per cent increases the octane rating of gasoline and helps to eliminate carbon monoxide in automotive exhaust, a major cause of air pollution. Drennan added that there are eleven cities in Pennsylva nia that already exeed federal clean air standards for limits for air pollution, directly attributable to automotive exhaust and calls for a stronger clean air bill, currently board has invested 1.2 million dol- lars in capital investments since 1986 which now gives us the best equipped and most efficient milk testing laboratory and the best data entry control system in the United States. Robinson said the date of October 1992 is set as the final date for all local mergers into the state corporation because we needed to “get off our hunkers and gel the show on the road.” Improved service, better trained supervisors with longer service records and better communication with members were listed as rea sons for the reorganization. “But remember,” Robinson said, “this decision goes back for every member to have the oppor tunity for his or her vote either by voice or a proxy vote.” (Turn to Pago A 26) Energy Corrected Milk Awards Given At Maryland Convention ABERDEEN, MD In the past, milk records have been adjusted for 3.5% fat-corrected in solids (FCM) to give credit to cows that produced milk high in Nelson, 22, John (dad); Cori, 15; Kynel, 18; and Jere, 25. To read about Kynel and the Bomgardner family, turn to page 82. ndto by Lou Am Good. under federal consideration could affect the situation more. The biodegradeable plastics made with com starch reduces the time required by bacteria to decompose plastic bags. Normal plastic bags are rated to take anywhere from 300 to 400 years to decompose in a landfill. On the other hand, it is expected to take only from three to five years for the plastic-corn starch product to be broken down. “I’ve got over 30-some companies making some kind of product. We’ve got two companies making biodegrade ablc diapers right now . . . and several companies are making the trash bags, kitchen bags... a couple of bio bags are being sold in Illinois . . . several of the compa nies here today are going to biodegradeable plastic for their literature bags and several seed companies are using (Turn to P«g« A 24) - - Clyde Robinson was honored as the retiring president of Pennsylvania DHIA. Pictured (left to right) are Richard Barth, general manager; Robinson; and William Itle, vice president. solids. According to Dr. tee Majeskie, University of Mary land, Extension 0459, that formula did not give any credit to the qro tein composition of milk. Five Sections “This year our Production Awards are being based on Ener gy Corrected Milk (ECM),” Majeskie said. “The Energy Cor rected Milk formula takes into account protein and fat when adjusting the milk for compo nents.” The ECM Formula is 7.2 x lbs. protein + 12.95 x lbs. fat + .327 x lbs. milk. This Formula should help to identify cows that produce high volumes of milk solids. The 1989 Maryland Holstein Production awards presented at the state con vention recently are as follows: REMSBURG SALE SERVICE TROPHY, (Jr 2 yr. old). Owner: Kimstead Farm, Centreville - Kimstead Mandigo Veronicia - 28, 152 ECM. HARRY ROACH, 111, TRO PHY, (Sr. 2 yr. old). Owner: Mea dow Lane Farm, Ridgely - Dean- C-T Enchantment Comet-ET - 29,340 ECM. THE WHITELYN FARMS TROPHY - Donated by Dottie & $12.50 Per Year (Turn to Pag* A3B)
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