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A24-lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 23, 1994 STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) The 69th Penn State Dairy Science Club Dairy Exposition will be held today at the Ag Are na, beginning at 8:30 a.m. with cattle fitting and showing compet ition among club members and other interested Penn State stu dents. A champion fitter and showman will be named in each of three divisions: amateur, interme diate, and professional, from which the show’s Grand Champ ion and Reserve Grand Champion will be crowned. In addition to tye competition, several fun events are planned for all ages, youth to alumni. Penn State President Joab Thomas will participate in the annual celebrity milking contest, and several facul ty members will get into the spirit of competition as they try to win the calf showmanship contest. Other special events include a milk chugging contest, calf dress ing, alumni showing contest, and cow pie bingo. Conference (Continued from Pago A 23) Our technicians were asked to name something good about working for Pa. DHIA, and the re mark I heard far mote than any thing else was, “I love and care for my farm families.” They really love you. and care for your future. God Bless them, and God Bless you! Our laboratory and] field training program has just completed the quality certification from National DHIA. The lab scored a 99 per cent. The field service scored a pass. National DHIA QC now scores field service only pass or fail. Historically we have always scored 100 percent I wish the scor ing system had not changed because it does not give a true picture of our field service. I can assure you that they are the best in the country. Our DRPC service will be scored later in the summer. I wish that these scores were public information nationwide. If it were, Pa. DHIA would rank near the top, if not the top. We are in the process of making some changes in State Col lege. The West College Avenue office will be closed, June 30, and we will all move into the la boratory building on Or chard Road. Also, we are making some per sonnel changes in our milk testing laboratory. All of these changes are for economic rea sons, so we can provide the best service at com petitive prices. How ever, during the next 2 months our turn around time may slow down some. I ask you to be pa tient with us until our new people get better trained at their work. We, at Pa. DHIA are honored to serve you. If you have any concerns, please write or call me at 800-344-8378. Our Pa. DHIA members and their profitability are the Penn State Dairy Club Exposition Today The culmination of the day’s events will be the annual awards and recognition banquet, where club members will be rewarded for their work throughout the year. Awards will also be given to win ning dairy judges from the spring contest. Dairy Science Club Young Dairyman and Dedicatee, and the Department of Dairy and Animal Science Distinguished Dairy Science Alumni. Penn State’s 1994 Outstanding Young Dairyman is Mary Ann Keith, a 1990 Dairy and Animal Science alumnus. During her undergraduate education at Penn State, Keith served as secretary of the Penn State Dairy Science Club in 1988 and president in 1990. She also was an Ag Advocate and the 1988 Ms. College of Agriculture. Keith was a founding member and 1990 president of Sigma Alpha sorority, a member of the Coaly Society and Alpha Zeta fraternity, and 1990 Outstanding Senior in the College of Agricultural Sciences. Currently, Keith is agriculture administrator at Mid-State Bank, where she evaluates loan requests and handles agriculture transac tions fev new and existing custom ers. She also lends a hand on the family farm as night and relief milker. 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He was named Grand Champion Show man at the 1948 Dairy Expo and 1949 winner of the spring judging contest He also competed on the Penn State Dairy Judging Team, finishing fifth high individual at the Waterloo contest. McKown also found time to play varsity basketball at Clarion State and Penn State. Upon graduation in 1951, he became farm manager at Wemers ville State Hospital, a 1250-acre farm in Bedes County, where he and new wife Jeanne purchased their first registered Holsteins. In 1956, they moved to Sandy Creek, New York, where McKown became editor of the Pennsylvania Holstein News. He currently is senior vice president of livestock advertising for Hols tein World . In addition to oversee ing their advertising programs, McKown reports on Holstein shows, sales, meetings, and other related events. His work has taken him across the United States, Canada, Japan, and Korea. McKown’s original herd grew to about 100 head. Over the last 14 years, twenty Excellent Holsteins were bred at MooKown Farm in Belleville, New York, with many other Excellent cows raised on the farm. The herd has earned several PBR awards, and its 1993 classifi cation BAA was 107.2 percent, with a DHIR average for 47 lacta tions of 24,099 lb. milk. 822 lb. Delay On Worker Protection Standards Will Help Safety HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Postponing enforcement of new Worker Protection Standards for agricultural pesticides will re sult in maximum compliance with new regulations and better worker protection, according to State Agriculture Secretary Boyd E. Wolff. Wolff commended President Clinton and Members of Congress for taking action to delay enforce ment of the Environmental Protec —We ere now also an Authorised Service Center for •dli 1 1&3 W YnHMM J~X fuel Injection systems. we Buy | If Yau Cant Dml With Your Daalar, Dm! 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He has twice been a showmanship judge at the club Expo and is a lifetime member of the Penn State Alumni Associa tion and a member of the Penn State Dairyman’s Club. tion Agency’s (ERA) new Woiker Protection Standard (WPS) for agricultural pesticides by almost nine months, until Jan. 1, 1995. A postponement in enforce ment of the new Standard had been sought by the National Asso ciation of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) because of delays in EPA’s completion of education and training materials and over serious flaws in parts of the regulation.