A22-lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1,1992
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Wayne Kuhns, president
of the Pennsylvania Crop Man
agement Association, used infor
mation from his own fanning
experience to illustrate the value
of CMA to his operation, at the
eighth annual meeting of PCMA.
Kuhns related details of his own
cropping experiences at the annual
meeting of die Pennsylvania Crop
Management Assocadon at the
Knights of Columbus Hall in State
College.
In 1991, Kuhns saved $3,500 in
crop inputs through following the
recommendadons of his county
CMA consultant. Through soil
testing and weed, disease and
insect scouting, he used only the
inputs necessary to meet his pro
duction goals.
Dry weather interfered with the
potential crops of com and alfalfa
he had anticipated.
“Like most farmers, I don’t
have $3,500 in the bank from the
savings, but had that money to use
in other ways on the farm,” said
Kuhns.
Reduced labor was not factored
into his savings figures. An addi
tional benefit is the improvement
of water quality on the farm, he
said.
To inform Pennsylvania far
mers about the economic advan
tages of crop management associ
ations and to convey to the public
the responsible practices of far
mers using crop management
associations are the goals of the
PCMA, said Kuhns. “We need to
be working to achieve these
goals,” he said.
State Secretary of Agriculture
PCMA Meeting Highlights Agriculture’s Condition
Boyd Wolff talked about the
results of a recent study on, agri
cultural chemical use conducted
by Penn State and funded by the
Department of Agriculture.
The study showed that most far
mers are using Integrated Pest
Management even if they don’t
know it, he said. There has been a
reducdon in the amount of chemi
cal used on Pennsylvania farms.
The study also showed that
small operation and part-time far
mers need additional information
and education on chemical uses,
and that more effort needs to be
made to tell the non-farm people
of the use of IPM among Pennsyl
vania fanners.
Wolff addressed the state’s fis
cal problems and said he didn’t
hold much hope for improvement
in the short term.
The Department of Agriculture"
is keeping track of nutrient man
agement legislation thachas
passed the House and is now in the
Senate, Weiff said. Someone from
the department is to be testifying
at hearing which will be con
ducted soon on the bill.
On another topic, Wolff warned
farmers that there has been a
request for a 52 percent workers’
compenstation which will affect
all employers including farmers.
Sen. Roger Madigan of the 23rd
District expressed regret aht Gov.
Robert P. Casey didn’t even men
tion agriculture or rural Pennsyl
vania in his recent state of the state
address. With agriculture being
the number one industry in the
state and the state having the
largest rural population in the
nation the governor could have
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made comment in his speech, he
said.
Madigan discussed Ag 2000, a
packages of bills to help Pennsyl
vania agriculture meet the chal
lenges of the future. Many of the
bills will be held back because of
fiscal restraints at this time, but
Madigan said he expects the reg
ulations of labeling of organic
food to come to the floor and
hopes to get a crop insurance bill
moving soon.
“These are changing times
which put pressure on agricul
ture,” said Madigan. Efforts are
being made to make Pennsylvania
agriculture sustainable, the oppor
tunity to make a comfortable liv
ing and preservation of farm land
for the fiiture.
Fanners must realize the inter
dependence of all crops and the
world impact on their frfirms,
Madigansaid.
“Pennsylvania agriculture is in
the hands of the people who make
it through the tpugh times and the
good times,” Madfghn Sai<LJ-The
future is in good hand*.” '
Veteran crop consultant, Martin
Krone, Franklin County CMA and
rookie crop consultant Tom Mor
gan, Lehigh Valley CMA, pre
sented their perspectives on the
work they do and the importance
of CMA to agriculture.
The One Plan pilot project was
reviewed by Barry Frantz who is
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The project is being conducted in
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across the state will require more
CMA consultants and the cooper
ation of a lot of people in many
agencies.
The afternoon included a panel
discussion of crop insurance, with
Bill McSweeney, extension eco
nomist, Liz Boob, Centre Insur
ance and John P. Held, of Held
Insurance Agency, fielding
questions.
Retiring directors, Jim Eshel
man, Steve Kistler, Wayne Kuhns,
Harold Book, Sheldon Harshbar
ger, Charles Allen, Duane Wilcox
and Ed Snook were honored for
their service to the organization.
Others that addressed the group
included Louis Moore, extension
economist, Stanley Curtis, head of
the dairy and animal science
department at Penn State, Allen
Turgeon, head of Penn State’s
agronomy department and Gary
Petersen, co-director of the remote
sensing project in the agronomy
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