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VOL. 37 No. 40
Ag Progress Days To Open August 18
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
A wide range of programs—from
equine education to food process
mg to wood products
manufacturing—will be featured
at the 24th annual Ag Progress
Days sponsored by Penn State’s
College of Agricultural Sciences,
August 18-20.
“Ag Progress Days is a fun
fillcd, educational event for the
enure family,” says Dr. Lamartine
F. Hood, dean of the College of
Agricultural Sciences. “Through
numerous exhibits, farm machin
ery demonstrations and tours of
Penn State’s research areas, visi
tors will have the chance to see the
important role agricultural sci
ences play in our society.”
Held at the university’s
1,500-acre Russell E. Larson
Agricultural Research Center at
Rock Springs near Stale College,
the three-day event attracts lens of
thousands of people each year.
This year’s theme, “Exploring
the New World of Agricultural
Sciences,” will highlight many of
the new ways that agricultural sci
entists help producers and manu
facturers to offer better food and
fiber products to the public.
GAO Calls For No Sale Of BST Milk, VSDA Allows Ground Beef
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster
Co.) The Food and Drug
Administration is being pressured
to stop the sale of milk and meat
derived from cattle treated with
bovine somatotropin (BST),
despite the acknowledgement that
there is no danger to humans from
eating foods containing BST,
according to a report in the Tues
day Wall Street Journal.
At the Lancaster County Poultry Queen Pageant, Melissa
Dawn Yoder, center, was crowned Pennsylvania Poultry
Queen; Mary Sauder, left, was appointed Lancaster County
Poultry Queen; and Melissa Darlene Yoder, right, serves as
alternate. Turn to page 826 for pageant details.
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Ag Progress Days is one of the
largest outdoor showcases of agri
cultural research and technology
in the East. More than 250 com
mercial exhibitors will display and
AG PRO6HESS DAYS
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In contrast, a Wednesday Asso
ciated Press story reported that, for
the first time since 1922, the
USDA is going to openly allow
U.S. companies to import ground
meat, because the USDA now has
the “sophisticated” technology to
check the quality of the meat.
The connection to a proposed
free trade agreement between the
U.S., Mexico and Canada was not
ascertained by presstime.
For some time, U.S. meat and
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 15, 1992
demonstrate approximately S2O
million worth of agricultural
equipment.
Machinery demonstrations
scheduled throughout the day will
highlight no-lill planters, primary
and secondary ullage, mowing,
dry hay baling and bale handling
and wrapping equipment.
Beginning at 10 a.m. every
morning, Penn State faculty and
extension agents will present
programs on aspects of production
agriculture, including poultry
composting, manure marketing,
nutrient management and on-farm
composting. Other programs will
provide information on nutrition
and health.
Wednesday evening’s presenta
tions will focus on urban youth
education and theater arts, back
yard composting and pesticide
handling for homeowners.
The College Exhibits Building
will feature demonstrations and
displays of value-added agricul
tural products. One exhibit will
show how wood harvested from
Pennsylvania forests is converted
into kitchen cabinets and will
explain the importance of the
wood products industry to the
milk producers have expressed
frustration over the fact that the
same safety and inspection regula
tions to which U.S. producers are
held are not imposed on foreign
country meat producers, yet pro
ducts from those meats are allowed
to be imported, competing with
domestic production.
Foreign-produced ground meat
was restricted from import since
1922. In 1970, the laws were
changed, but not to the point of
Water Study Impacts Farmers
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Unless efforts are made by far
mers who maintain land in the
Conestoga Headwaters to stop the
degradation of tributaries, within
20 years the silt and sludge that has
been building on dams in the Sus
quehanna could brim over, dump
ing millions of pounds of pollut
ants into the Chesapeake Bay.
Efforts undertaken by the
USDA, through the results of
fieldwork conducted on hundreds
JACK VAN ALMELO
NeDHIA Director
of Marketing
ITHACA, NY When dairy
herds expand there are many
things they outgrow. An obvious
one is the bam. Then you might
think of feed storage, milking
facilities and heifer housing. If
you were listing components that
would be outgrown in an expan-
Animal ID System Important
state and national economy.
Other exhibits will show how
raw food products are transformed
into processed foods with
improved nutritional value, added
convenience and longer shelf life.
Faculty members and food indus
try representatives will be on hand
to talk about future food trends
and the importance of food manu
facturing to the Pennsylvania
economy.
To commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the artificial inse
mination industry in Pennsylvam
a, a special exhibit will show
making it profitable to import non
domestic ground meat
The USDA claims its testing is
now so good That, despite the fine
ness of the grind, federal inspec
tors can catch efforts to mix in or
substitute ground meat from ani
mals other than those domestic
species.
Meanwhile, the call for the ban
on meat and milk derived from
BST cattle results from investiga
tors with the General Accounting
of Susquehanna Valley farms by
the Rural Clean Water Project,
were revealed last week.
About 180 conservationists,
USDA, USGS, and DER person
nel, in addition to farmers and agri
business representatives, listened
to reports provided by those parti
cipating in the project.
The Conestoga River, a major
tributary of the Susquehanna,
stands in “a class by itself,”
according to Lloyd Reed, hydrolo
gist with the U.S. Geological
Survey, who spoke at the meeting.
sion you might even get down to
manure spreader. There are plenty
of technical books, magazine arti
cles and relatives with suggestions
to help plan the physical aspects of
an expansion.
One of the last components of
the farm modified to handle the
increasing herd size is the animal
identification system. You won’t
find any tables in technical books.
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memorabilia from the early days
of ibis important breeding tech
nique. Visitors can leam about ihe
status of the industry today and
see how applied reproductive biol
ogy will be conducted in the
future.
Those who want to maintain
their state pesticide applicator
license can earn up to three update
credits by attending special pre
sentations on weed life cycles,
choosing and using spray nozzles
for pesticide application and
methods of testing for pesticide
residues. Sessions will begin at 10
a.m. each morning in the College
Exhibits Building theater.
On Wednesday at 6 p.m., a ses
sion on pesticide handling for
homeowners will provide two
Office (GAO), which is an agency
of the U.S. Congress.
The GAO has asked the FDA to
stop the sale of meat and milk from
BST-treated animals, and also to
“withhold commercial approval of
bovine growth hormone, or BGH,
because of increasing concern
about indirect health effects on
humans,” according to the pub
lished report.
The Conestoga contributes a lot
of the sediment, clay, nitrogen, and
other materials deposited to near
overflowing-limits at the Susque
hanna dams.
During a wet year, said Reed,
more sediment is transported than
during dry years. In addition, the
Conestoga dumps about 10 million
pounds of nitrogen per year, or
about 33.40 pounds/acre/year.
Phosphorus dumping equals about
2.4 pounds/acre/year, according to
There are not many articles in
magazines. You may have some
relatives with opinions. It just isn’t
an exciting subject - unless you
have found yourself with a
doubled herd size and an out
grown ID system. Then you just
might get excited about ID.
Animal ID is the anchor to
which you tie your animal infor-
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