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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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,
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Machinery demonstrations are
scheduled throughout the day.
Seven demonstrations each day
will feature tillage and planting,
com chopping, silage bagging,
round baling of high moisture
alfalfa, rectangular baling and
handling, round bale handling and
wrapping, and mowing.
At the Mealing Place, faculty
and staff from the College of Agri
culture will give meat cutting and
cooking demonstrations, explain
ing which cuts are low in fat and
preparing the meat different ways.
Visitors can sample the results.
There also is plenty of food to
eat, served by local agricultural
and community service
organizations.
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.
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AG PROGRESS
DAYS-
Located On
W. 10th St.