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DlO-Lancaster Farming Saturday, May 12,1990
Penn State’s New Ag Curriculum Discussed At BCCA Meeting
READING (Berks Co.)— The
Berks County Cattlemen’s Asso
ciation (BCCA) held its quarterly
information meeting on Saturday,
April 21, 1990, at Penn State
Berks Campus’ Janssen Confer
ence Center.
Following a brief directors
meeting, the agenda included an
update by Campus Executive
Officer Dr. Fred Gaige and Dr.
David Sanford, assistant professor
of horticulture at the university, on
the planned agricultural curricu
lum which will be offered at this
local Penn State branch.
Dr. Gaige noted that Penn State
plans a food science and horticul
ture emphasis on courses offered
at this location. He noted the loca
tion at Berks Campus is ideally
suited for College of Agriculture
students because of its proximity
to the city of Reading and sur
rounding rural Berks County, with
its productive and diverse
agriculture.
Gaige noted today’s Penn State
agriculture students are predomin
antly from non-farm backgrounds.
Eighty percent of the ag students
come from urban or suburban
areas. He quickly added that those
students who come to Penn State
from the farm will benefit from
the Berks Campus’ smaller, more
intimate class size.
Gaige said he is hopeful the
new agriculture opportunities at
the Berks Campus, which will
allow more “hands-on” experi
ence earlier in each student’s col
lege career, will help to stop the
migration of Pennsylvania stu-
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dents to other agricultural schools.
Gaige asked for the local agri
cultural community to support
Penn State in its effort to provide
this opportunity for students to
study agriculture at Berks. He
noted the Capital Campaign for
building student housing, expand
ing present lecture facilities and
laboratories, etc., has come close
to reaching its $2 million goal.
The last $lOO,OOO is the hardest to
achieve, he said.
Sanford pointed out Penn State
Berks’ efforts to offer the same
courses by 1992 that would be
taken during the first two years at
University Park for any student
studying agriculture. Additional
staffing will focus on professors
who can teach agronomy, animal
science, soil science, and other
subjects. According to Sanford,
the school will be concentrating
on horticulture and food science
majors, since these areas are cur
rently in demand. There are 5 to
10 job opportunities per graduate,
he noted.
Along with offering courses for
bachelor degrees in agriculture,
Sanford said the university is con
templating offering associate
degrees and certificate programs
in agriculture.
“Here at Berks Campus, we are
taking the pressure off University
Park in horticulture and food sci
ence majors since this represents
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the College of Agriculture’s
largest enrollment,” said Gaige.
“We have chosen to put the
emphasis on ag business rather
than ag production, which differs
from what former dean of the col
lege Sam Smith had envisioned
five years ago when the university
began serious discussions of an
expanded agriculture curriculum
at Berks Campus.”
Dr. Smith left Penn State in
1985 to become president of
Washington State University.
Eventually, Dr. Lamartine Hood
assumed the dean’s position at the
college, and realized the 1987
purchase of the farm adjacent to
the Penn State Berks Campus.
The working-farm concept
envisioned by Smith for the Series
Campus has since been rerouted to
a program that offers more agri
business, and probably will never
offer a four-year agricultural
degree. Gaige explained it would
be cost prohibitive to try to dupli
cate the experts on staff at the
main campus in order to provide
the requirements of a four-year
degree.
Next on the agenda was Packers
and Stockyards Administrations’
Durwood Helms of Lancaster.
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375-acre southeast Alabama live
stock farm, became supervisor of
the Lancaster region for this
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The Berks County Cattlemen’s Association quarterly
Information meeting featured an update on the Penn State
Berks Campus agricultural curriculum by Dr. Fred Gaige,
campus executive officer, left, and Dr. Dave Sanford, assis
tant professor of horticulture, seated right. Durwood
Helms, regional supervisor of the USDA Packers and
Stockyards Administration, seated center, provided Infor
mation on livestock sellers’ rights to prompt and fair
payment.
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1987. He explained the primary
mission of P & S is to assure fair
competition through its investiga
tive and law enforcement charge.
The agency was created by the
federal government in 1921 in
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