Peck Promoted To
Communications Director
DeFOREST, Wis. ABS has
announced the promotion of Ed
Minority Society Gives
4-H’ers A Helping Hand
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Minority youth in a Phi
ladelphia 4-H club found new role
models and learned about career
opportunities in the agricultural
sciences this year, thanks to the
efforts of the Penn State Chapter
of The National Society for
Minorities in Agriculture, Natural
Resources and Related Sciences
(MANRRS).
Members of the Penn State
Chapter, called the Minorities in
Agriulturc and Natural Resour
ces Association (MANRA), along
with volunteers from Penn State’s
Black Caucus, Latino Caucus and
Puerto Rican Students’ Associa
tion, worked with 4-H’ers ages
13-16 in the Fitzsimons Middle
School in inner-city Philadelphia.
They helped the youngsters with
science and agricultural projects
and spoke with them about careers
in agribusiness, engineering,
environmental management, and
other agricultural fields.
“The U.S. Department of Labor
estimates that more than 48,000
jobs will open in the agricultural
sciences each year during the
19905,” said Dr. William Henson,
minority affairs assistant to the
dean in Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences. “Minority
youth should have a chance at
those careers.”
The Penn State students met
with the 4-H’ers every week dur
ing the 1992-1993 school year.
The club, which changed its name
to the 4-H Junior MANRAs, took
field trips to Penn State’s Univer
sity Park Campus and Washing
ton, D.C. Some attended the
national MANRRS meeting in
Huntsville. Alabama.
“Most of these 4-H’ers have
had little exposure to higher edu
cation. We’re showing them that
attending college opens up career
opportunities,” said Daisy Artiles-
Hunter, 4-H agent in Philadelphia
County. "The young people also
are developing interpersonal skills
ness
News
ward C. Peck of Madison to the
position of director of communi
cations.
Peck joined ABS in 1992 as
manager of public relations, serv
ing as the communications liaison
between the public and ABS. As
the new director of communica
tions, Peck will continue to serve
as the key corporate public rela
tions liaison while overseeing the
ABS tour program; all editorial
and publication efforts including
the ABS Breeders Journal, news
releases, etc.; ABS-hosted cus
tomer tours; ABS sales promo
tions and trade show involvement;
and the creative communication
projects of the company.
Additionally, Peck will be re
sponsible for directing and devel
oping the strategic ABS com
munication plans and projects
within the ABS representative,
employee, industry, and com
munity networks.
by participating in projects, con
ferences. public speaking, and
demonstrations.”
The Junior MANRAs also can
become mentors for new and
existing 4-H’ers. Youth who are
selected to become 4-H mentors
learn skills for leadership, mentor
ing, public speaking, and 4-H pro
ject training. The young mentors
work with members of MANRA,
participating in conferences and
special training sessions.
This November, the Junior
MANRAs attended the First
Annual Junior MANRAs Confer
ence, hosted by Penn State’s
Berks Campus.
“The conference included
workshops on leadership skills
and agricultural career paths, as
well as a presentation highlighting
the contributions of African
Americans, Latin Americans,
Asians, and women to the agricul
tural sciences,” said Henson, who
helped develop the program along
with James Locker, affirmative
action officer in the College;
Elmore Hunter, county extension
director in Philadelphia County;
Daisy Artiles-Hunter; and Penn
State students Cherice Parker and
Minerva Matos.
The 4-H Junior MANR As prog
ram will expand in 1994. “Mainly
it has served African-American
and Latino youth, but now we’re
attracting Asian youth as well,”
said Artiles-Hunter. “We’re also
going to expand the number of
youth participants. We’re deve
loping a proposal for a summer
program at Berks Campus, featur
ing courses in math, English, and
agricultural sciences.”
“This program offers our young
people the opportunity to set
attainable goals for themselves,”
said Henson. “It also creates a
core of positive young people who
will be able to promote and gen
erate further interest among their
peers.”
Consistent Grass Control
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Uni
versity weed scientists who have
worked with Surpass, the new
com herbicide from Zeneca Ag
Products, say the product will give
farmers a strong tool for controll
ing grass and certain broadleaf
weeds in com.
Zeneca anticipates EPA
registration of Surpass prior to the
1994 crop season. The company is
preparing to make the product
available to farmers on a commer
cial scale for 1994, according to
Dirk Drost, technical product
manager.
Surpass is applied preemer
gence or shallow-incorporated.
Surface applications are effective
when made up to 30 days before
planting, according to Zeneca. In
reduced-till or no-till, the com
pany will recommend tank
mixing Surpass with atrazine,
Bladex or Extrazine.
Zeneca’s Drost said that Sur
pass controls common annual
weeds such as foxtails, fall pani
cum, woolly cupgrass, barnyard
grass, crabgrass, and others.
Tom Bauman, Purdue Universi
ty extension weed scientist, said,
“We’ve looked at it for several
years, and it has provided out
standing giant foxtail control.”
Alex Martin, University of
Nebraska weed science professor,
reports excellent control of green
and yellow foxtail, the most com
mon grass problems in eastern
Nebraska, from the product
University weed specialists
generally agree that Surpass offers
improved consistency of grass
control in com over a wide variety
of weather conditions.
Weston Farm Is Premier Exhibitor
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.
Judge Judy Moore of Eagle,
Mich., sifted through nearly 120
head of Montadale sheep in route
to selecting her champions at this
year’s E.H. Mattingly National
Montadale held in conjunction
with the North American Interna
tional Livestock Exposition in
Louisville, Ky.
First place honors in the ram
divisions went to Klink Monta
dales, Iowa; Baugh&Dunn, Mis
souri; Weston Farm, Maryland;
Carroll Montadales, Illinois; and
Pork Chop Hill of Indiana. Grand
champion ram was awarded to
Klint Montadales on their first
place yearling ram. The second
place yearling ram exhibited by
Pork Chop Hill Farm was tabbed
reserve.
In the female show, class win
ners were exhibited by Carroll
Montadales, Illinois; Brookfield
Farm, Vermont; Pork Chop Hill
Farm. Indiana; and the Steve Roy
Family of Indiana. Judge Moore
than selected the intermediate ewe
lamb of Steve Roy champion
female. The first-place yearling
ewe of Carrolls Montadales was
selected reserve champion.
Pork Chop Hill Farm won top
honors in the flock class. Premier
exhibitor of this year’s National
Montadale Show went to Weston
Farm of Glen Arm, Md.
Herbicide Provides
Mike Owen, lowa State U.
agronomy professor, said aceto
chlor (the active ingredient in Sur
pass) has performed well through
wet and thy years in lowa.
“We compared herbicides
against foxtails and woolly cup
grass beginning in 1984 when it
was wet through the dry years in
1988 and 1989, then in wet weath
er again in recent years. Accte
chier has been mote consistent
than comparative materials,” he
said.
While primarily a grass herbi
cide, Surpass is expected to give
farmers a bonus in the form of
broadleaf weed control.
“We think this will be welcome,
especially as restrictions on atra
zine get tighter,” Drost said. “Far
mers can reduce their atrazine
rates up to 30 percent because of
the activity Surpass hai on
btoadleaves.”
The proposed label for Surpass
includes control of lambsquarters,
pigweed, black nightshade, com
mon ragweed, kochia, and others.
Drost said that Surpass won’t
be a standalone treatment in most
cases, however. Typically it will
be used with a broadleaf herbi
cide, either as a tankmix or a
sequential treatment, to control
additional broadleaf weeds.
University weed scientists say
they’ve seen full-season residual
control from Surpass, and no
problems with carryover. 1993
provided a good test of staying
power as excess rain slowed early
crop growth and canopy
formation.
Oven has researched various
formulations of acetochlor, the
First Place intermediate ram lamb, Tyler 4008 was exhi
bited by Weston Farm, Glen Arm, Md. Weston Farm is own
ed by Alfred and Katherine Tyler. Pictured with the ram Is
Mark Johnson, farm manager. Weston Farm was also the
premier exhibitor of this year’s National Montadale Show.
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active ingredient in Surpass. “In
lowa State trials in conventional,
reduced-till and no-till conditions,
of the chloroacetamide family of
herbicides, we had the best results
consistently with acetochlor,” he
said.
Zeneca has added a com safen
er, dichlormid, to acetochlor to
provide a wide margin of crop
tolerance to the herbicide.
University of Missouri weed
scientist Don Null has run trials
with Surpass at up to four times
the labeled rate. “We’ve never
seen a problem with crop toler
ance,” he said.
Registration is pending for
Surpass EC, a new, highly
active com herbicide from
Zeneca Ag Products. Zeneca
anticipates registration of
Surpass In advance of the
1994 use season. Surpass
expects to be labeled for
control of grasses and small
seeded broadleaf weeds. It
may be applied preemer
gence or shallow
incorporated, and used in til
lage systems ranging from
conventional to no-till. It
requires less moisture to
activate than other
preemergence herbicides.