Deer Damage Deadline Sept. 1
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) The Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Associaiton (PFA) is urging
fanners suffering deer damage to
crops to enroll in a special Game
Commission program before the
Sept Ist deadline.
For the third consecutive year
the Pennsylvania Game Commis
sion will permit properly licensed
hunters to hunt antlerless deer on
so-called hotspot farms. This
year’s hunt has been scheduled
horn Dec. 26, 1992 through Jan.
23, 1993.
In a new pilot project, hotspot
hunting will be allowed in four
counties during regular buck sea
son from Nov, 30 through Dec.
12. The four counties selected for
the trial program are Indiana,
Schuylkill, Bedford and Craw-
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ford. All four had high enrollment
in past hotspot hunts.
PFA State Board director Ellis
Crawl of Airville, York County
saidPFA’s Wildlife Damage Con
trol Committee endorses the
Game Commission’s pilot prog
ram. Crawl, who chairs the com
mittee, said, “Deer eat and destroy
millions of dollars worth of farm
crops every year. Previous hotspot
hunts have been too limited. Ab
the deer have to do is leave the
area. Scheduling hotspot hunts in
four counties for the same time as
the hugest number of deer hunters
are in the field should make the
program more effective. We hope
the pilot program is successful and
can be expanded next year.”
Crawl also urged farmers with
deer damage in the rest of Penn
Pennsylvania
sylvania to sign up for the regular
ly scheduled hotspot hunt Two
weeks of the statewide hunt will
coincide with late archery and
muzzleloader deer seasons.
“While the program has not been
as effective as it could be, it’s the
only thing we have at the present
time,” Crowl said. “It’salso worth
noting that the four counties with
the highest hotspot enrollment
during the two years of the hotspot
program were selected for the
pilot program.
Interested farmers should con
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No Sale Of BST Milk
The FDA has been expected to
approve BST for commercial use
this fall. Milk and meat from BST
treated cattle has been approved
for human consumption for some
time.
Though there is no evidence to
suggest that BST-milk or meat is
of any concern for human con
sumption, the GAO said that there
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could possibly be a higher use of
antibiotics to treat BST-injected
cows suffering from mastitis.
Research has shown a slight rise
in mastitis in some test herds using
BST.
Consequently, opponents have
called for the rejection of milk and
meat from BST-treated animals,
because they say a connection
exists more infections in cows,
more antibiotic therapy and more
antibiotics getting into milk and
meat products.
This reasoning is despite exist
ing prohibitions on antibiotic
residues in milk and meat, USDA
meat inspections, and despite strict
testing of milk and meat for
antibiotics.
It has been shown that American
dairy products are the safest in the
world.
Jeremy Rifkin, president of the
anti-BST, anti-biotechnology
group, Foundation on Economic
Trends, is generally associated
with helping to create the percep
tion that there may be a link
between BST and antibiotics. He
was quoted in the Wall Street Jour
nal article by reporter Bruce
Ingersoll.
“I think the product may be dead
in the U.S. If it is, it’s dead in the
(European Community) too,”
Rifkin was quoted as saying.
The BST product is created
using biotechnology, similar to the
production of insulin for humans.
BST is a naturally occuring pro
tein hormone in dairy cows and
when injected into the cow, stimu
lates the animal’s system to pro
duce about 10 pounds of additional
milk per day.
(Reporting increased produc
tion by percent is misleading
because all cows respond to BST
with about the same increase in
pounds of milk produced, but not
all are producing the same base
amounts.)
Research has shown that, while
BST may be linked to an increase
in the occurance of mastitis or
reproductive problems in a herd
undergoing BST treatment, there
is no human health link at all
human digestive processes
destroy the protein chain in its BST
form.
A number of protests over the
use of BST have been based on
personal distaste for injections,
animal rights sympathies, and on
the hypothesis that increased milk
yields from cows will flood the
milk market and drive small dairy
men out of business.
On one hand, the GAO report
did concur with the FDA’s finding
that BST is apparently safe for
human consumption.
However the GAO still calls for
additional studies into what extent
allowing the commercial use of
BST will lead to antibiotic-tainted
milk and meat
And, according to the article, the
GAO is calling for a ban of sales of
milk and meat from BST cows
until the studies can be completed.
However, Gerald Guest direc
tor of the FDA Center for Veterin
ary Medicine is quoted as saying,
“We will review what the GAO
has found, but we haven’t seen
anything to cause us to see a
danger.”