A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 10, 1991 Ag Progress Days (ConllntMd from Pag* A 1) three-day event attracts tens of thousands of people each year. Ag Progress Days will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, August 13 and 15, and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednes day, August 14. This year’s theme, “Ag Science Touches Your Life,” will highlight many of the ways that agriculture directly or indirectly affects our daily lives. Ag Progress Days is one of the largest outdoor showcases of agri cultural research and technology in the East More than 250 commer cial exhibitors will show and demonstrate approximately $2O million worth of agricultural equipment The event also features tours of research farms and conservation education areas; exhibits and pre sentations by Penn State faculty on topics such as sustainable agricul ture, international agriculture, food safety, mushroom production and composting, nutrient manage ment forest management and the conversion of forage to food and fiber products; a working compu ter classroom; a museum full of antique home and farm imple ments; landscape, lawn, and gar den advice; information on how to start a small business; and more. New this year is an equine edu cational program. The program includes breed exhibitions, hand ling and training clinics, riding demonstrations, and horseshoeing and tack displays. Breed exhibitions are scheduled for 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Tues day and Thursday and 10 a.m. on It Pays to Link Up to Westfella’e Dairying Technology L“L To Hi MILK HIM METER If your question Is how to get more milk and profit per cow... This system provides your answer! Feeding, Milking, Breeding, Herd Health And Vet Information Is Recorded And Processed For Dally Management And Deciaion Making BULK METERS. FEED STALLS. AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION ALL TIED INTO A PC COMPUTER Give Your Dairy The Westfalia Advantage With Dairy Plan Software Program FOR A COMPLETE INTREGRATED SYSTEM! Wednesday. A handling and train ing clinic led by Ward Studebaker, Penn State horse farm manager, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. Therapeutic and 4-H champion riding demonstrations are sche duled Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. The Thomcroft Mainstreamers Drill Team will perform at 6 p.m. Wed nesday and again at 10 a.m. on Thursday. Miniature and draft horse exhibitions also are sche duled at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. In the exhibit building theater, educational videos produced by the College of. Agriculture are scheduled to be shown. The theater also will be the site of a Horse Bowl on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a Dairy Bowl on Thurs day 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Wednesday by 7 p.m. exper ts from across the nation will parti eipate in a teleconference on the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease. The workshop will be broadcast on cable TV stations in Pennsylvania and by satellite to other states. Ongoing exhibits are fun and educational. In the college exhibits building, visitors can trace how eows and sheep convert forage into the food and fiber products we depend upon for our health and economy. An artificial rumen the large compartment of a rumin ant’s stomach has been con structed to help visitors understand this process. Sustainable agriculture will be a major focus in the exhibits build ing, with a time line tracing histor ic milestones of alternative farm ing practices and displays high- DHIA approved. This cow side easy to read micro processor provides the information you need. Total milk yield, maximum milk flow, average milk flow and milking time. ss: Fisher & Thompson, Inc. tx Milk Equipment Sales & Service Amo* 127 Newport Road, Leola, PA 17540 me* ■ntmSm PHONE: 717-6 M-3307 wjfc i; m L*' lighting new developments for the future. Visitors can learn more about production efficiency and environ mental protection at the alternative practices exhibit, which is cospon sored by the Crop Management Association. College of Agricul ture faculty will be available to dis cuss new practices and possible solutions to management problems. Mushroom production and composting will be the focus of mother exhibit The displays will look at how Penn State researchers ire helping the state’s mushroom industry, which ranks number one in the nation, recycle spent com post for crop production and envir onmental applications. The College Exhibits building also will feature interactive dis plays on food safety and an exhibit on forest management. The Col lege of Agriculture’s international programs will be highlighted, with emphasis on a new project to help Polish farmers adjust to a firee market economy. At the micro-enterprise exhibit, emphasis will be on helping pros pective entrepreneurs get a head start on success. Visitors can talk with small business owners who have launched their own enter prises, and gain information about the College of Agriculture’s small business management educational programs. Visitors can get timely advice when they “ask the experts” in the areas of landscape, lawn, and gar den; crop and soil science; and dairy and livestock production. College of Agriculture faculty and cooperative extension agents will be available to answer general questions and deal with specific problems. Thank You To The Following Customers On Their New Complete Parlor Installations! Roy Hoover Landis Farm Farmersville, Pa. Strasburg, Pa. Double 6 Parlor Double 5 Parlor Lany Mertz C. Don Trout Fleetwood, Pa. Street. Md. Double 8 Parlor Double 6 Parlor Balmer Brothers R.M. Sickler Manheim, Pa. & Sons Double 10 Parlor Woodstown, NJ Double 12 Parlor Proudly Sold And Serviced By Bus tours to the research farms always have been a highlight of Ag Progress Days. A popular new addition three years ago—the spe cial topics research tours will return. Tuesday’s tour will focus on ways to maximize corn and small grain production in an eco logically sound manner. On Wed nesday, visitors will travel to the University Park Campus for a tour of the dairy production facilities and forage pastures that are man aged under an intensive rotational system. Thursday’s tour will high light the latest research on inte grated vegetable production. The special topics tours will run twice a day at 10 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. General research tours and soil and water conservation tours are scheduled throughout the day. Young people will enjoy the computer classroom located in the Youth Building, with introductory lessons on the Apple Macintosh computer running throughout the day. The Youth Building also will feature information on career plan ning, college admission, the 4-H program, and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Agri cultural Sciences. Nearby will be the wildlife exhibit from the Shav er’s Creek Environmental Center, BREAKING MILK RECORPS! 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Penn State’s Ag Progress Days features more than 500 acres of educational and commercial exhi bits, tours, and machinery demon strations. It is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College on Route4S, August 13-IS. Hours are 9 a.m. to S p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, with extended hours of 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Admission and parking are free. Designed For Maximum Results And Offers Features And Benefits Conventional Feeding Methods Can’t Deliver. See Us At AG PROGRESS DAYS- Located On W. 10th St.
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