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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;
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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