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Wampler Says Calif. ‘Pacesetters’ Each Consume 24 Pounds Of Turkey Per Year
JUDITH PATTON
Union Co. Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Charles Wampler, Jr.,
board chairman of WLR Foods,
Inc. of Harrisonburg, Va. was the
featured speaker at the 4th annual
Penn State Poultry Science Club
Banquet held here last week.
Wampler’s father was the first
person to raise turkeys in confine
ment, which was the start of the
modem turkey industry. One of
the first county agents in the
United States, Charles Wampler,
Sr. decided in 1921 to take turkey
eggs to a hatdhery rather than
allowing hens to run wild and
hatch their eggs in nests in
wooded areas, which were hard to
locate. He also formulated the first
turkey feed from onion tops and
other ingredients because there
were no commercial turkey feeds
available at the time.
From that beginning with 10
turkey hens and two toms, the
Wamplers developed the Wamp
ler Feed and Seed Company,
which evolved to Wampler Foods
(1969-1984), Wampler-Longacre
(1984-1988), and the present day
WLR Foods in Virginia and Penn
sylvania. Its New Oxford, Pa.,
plant employs 100 turkey produc
ers and 1,000 employees.
With the aid of favorable nutri
tional publicity for being lower in
fat than other meats, Wampler
said per capita poultry consump
tion in the U.S. is now 85 pounds a
year, which is higher than pork
and almost up to beef. Californian
“pacesetters” are eating 24 pounds
of turkey a year per person.
Wampler cited the biggest chal
lenges facing agriculture now and
in the future as feeding more peo
ple with less land, protecting the
Poultry Science Judging Team members, from left: Brian
Sensenlch, Troy Eckert, Lydia Kepler, and Eric Smith.
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Charles Wampler In appreciation for his speaking at the
banquet. Pictured here are Charles Wampler, Jr. and his
wife Dorothy.
environment, and most of all, pro
tecting the agriculture industry
from the environmentalists and
animal rightists.
Comparing agriculture to Rod
ney (“I don’t get no respect”)
Dangerfield, Wampler pointed out
that agriculturalists need to be
“good stewards” of the land and
livestock to counteract the effects
of consumers taking food supplies
for granted and farmers being
pushed out by population growth.
The future for college graduates
in agriculture is bright, Wampler
said, even though the types of jobs
available are changing. Not as
many people are needed for pro
duction, but more are needed in
technical areas such as computer
programming or research, he
pointed out
Wampler is a strong supporter
of his alma mater, James Madison
University, where he established
two professorships, was rector and
Becky Rlegel received the
Most Active New Member
Award.
Th# 1993-94 Penn State Poultry Science Club members, from left, seated In first
row: Kristen Hazlett, Brenda Morgan, Mark Skinner, Jodi Marshall, Lydia Kepler,
Becky Rlegel, and Eric Smith. Standing In second row; Andy Bradford, Brian Sense
nich, Ed Hoffman, Andrew Plummer, Bill Strock, Troy Eckert, Doug Metzler, Henry
Zerby, Joe Garber, and club adviser, Dirk Wise.
vice rector of the board of visitors,
helped set up an arboretum, and
has a dorm named after him. He
helped establish the Virginia State
Fair, for which he was on the
board of directors for 25 years. He
served on the Virginia Board of
Agriculture for eight years and
was president and general mana
ger of the Rockingham County
Fair Association.
Club Awards
The Penn State Poultry Science
Club won the Poultry Club of the
Year Award at the International
Poultry Exposition in Atlanta for
the second year in a row. The club
also had the best display at the
Penn State Ag Products Spectacu
lar at the Nittany Mall in State
College last fall and placed Erst at
the Ag Hill Olympics.
Awards to Poultry Science Club
members presented at the banquet
were high grade point average to
club member Henry Zerby and
poultry science major Ed Hoff
man; Most Active Club Member -
Troy Eckert, 1993-94 club presi
dent; and Most Active New Club
Member (first year) - Becky
Riegel.
Club officers for 1994-1995 are
Doug Metzler, president; Lydia
AJCC Awards Research Grants
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio
At their March 1994 meeting, the
board of directors of The Ameri
can Jersey Cattle Club appropriat
ed $39,000 to finance nine Jersey
related research projects. Funding
was made available from interest
income of The AJCC Research
Foundation.
Qualifying proposals were se
lected from a field of 22, based on
their relevance to Jersey research
priorities that include:
• Nutrition of high-producing
Jerseys (particularly practical
feeding methods to maximize pro
duction of valuable milk compon
ents);
• Factors affecting yield of pro
ducts manufactured from Jersey
milk;
• Factors affecting net income,
longevity, and lifetime profit;
• Optimal young sire usage;
• Biological and economic effi
ciencies of Jerseys; and
• Factors affecting management
of Jersey calves.
Researchers and their respec
tive institutions will receive the
designated funds to conduct the
following investigations:
Armstrong, Dennis V., Zola
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dent; Becky Rlegel, secretary-treasurer; and Doug Metzler,
president.
Kepler, vice president; Becky
Riegel, secretary-treasurer; and
Brian Sensenich, ag student coun
cil representative.
Poultry Judging Team mem
bers, who competed at the Univer
sity of Tennessee, were Troy Eck
ert, Lydia Kepler, Eric Smith, and
Brian Sensenich.
Dirk Wise, club adviser, high-
Keister and Roy Ax; University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Effects
Of A Spray And Fan System On
Milk Production And Reproduc
tive Efficiency of Jersey Cows In
A Hot Arid Climate. $3,500.
Bonczek, Richard R., Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, TN, Charles W. Young and
Tony Seykora, University of Min
nesota, Sl Paul, MN. Inbreeding,
Relationship, and Ancestry of Re
gistered American Jersey Cows.
$2,000.
Cowan, C. Michael; Genetic
Visions, Inc., Madison. Wiscon
sin. Evaluation of the B-lactoglo
bulin Gene As A Marker To Re
veal Differences In Genetic Value
For A Chromosome Pair In An
Elite Heterozygote Jersey Sire.
$3,500.
Goff, Jesse P., Ronald L. Horst
and Donald C. Beitz; USDA
ARS, National Animal Disease
Center and Nutritional Physiology
Section, Ames. lowa. Tissue Vita
min D. Receptor Concentration in
Jersey vs. Holstein Cows; A Pos
sible Explanation For Increased
Susceptibility Of Jerseys To Milk
Fever. $ 5,500.
Hemken, R.W. and Z. Du; Uni
lighted other club activities
including fall and spring turkey
sales, a visit to Perdue, Inc., sell
ing chicken sandwiches at Ag
Progress Days, having a display
about the new Penn State poultry
farm facilities at the Northeast
Poultry Trade Show, and the sum
mer internship placement
program.
versity of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky. Copper Toxicity in Jer
sey Cattle. $5,000.
Lindberg, Gary L. and Donald
C. Seitz; lowa State University,
Ames, lowa. Regulation Of Peri
parturient Milk Protein Synthesis
in Jersey Cattle. $4,000.
Me Daniel, Ben T. and John C.
Wilk, North Carolina State Uni
versity, Raleigh, North Carolina
and Can W. Wolfe, The American
Jersey Cattle Club, Reynoldsburg,
Ohio. Maintaining Genetic Diver
sity in the Jersey Breed While Se
lecting Intensely for Yield.
$6,000.
Me Dowell, R.E. and J.C. Wilk:
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, North Carolina. Stanley
Makuza; University of Zimbabwe,
Harare. Speaking For Jerseys
Around The World. $5,000.
Neibergs, Holly and Timothy
Reinhardt; National Animal Dis
ease Center, Ames, lowa. Asso
ciations Between Genetic Markers
And The Incidence Of Milk Fever
And Associated Disorders In Jer
sey Cattle. $4,500.