Farm Calendar
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grounds, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. and 7
p.m.-9 p.m.
Yak Fair Open Dairy Show.
North East Community Fair, North
East, thru Sept. 17.
Oley Valley Community Fair,
Oley, thru Sept. 17.
“Red Power” Roundup, Hook
stown Fairgrounds, Hook
stown, thru Sept 18.
Pasture Walk, Ardin Landis, Alg
len, 10:30 a.m.-noon.
39th Anniversary Steam Show,
Arcadia Exposition Grounds.
Keisterstown, Md., thru Sept
18.
Fall Field Day, Winsor Acres
Farm, HarpursviUe, N.Y., 11
The Big E, West Springfield.
Mass., thru Oct 2.
Upper Shore Small Grain break
fast. Howard Johnson Restaur
ant, Rt 301, Kent County, Md.,
8 a.m.
Organic Country Fair. Pennington,
N.J., thru Sept. 18.
PASA Field Day, Organic Rasp
berry Culture, Jean Nick,
Kintnersville.
Family Fun Festival, Joßo Hols-
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tein Farm, John and Bonnie
Hess, Gettysburg, 10 a.m.-2
p.m.
Ninth Annual Dorset Field Day,
The P r F r Whitdiouse
.ey HarvosL * .
ha Environmental Center,
Westminster, noon-5 p.m.
Over-The-Hill Horse Show, Engl
ish and Western (adults only),
Hunter Hill Stables, Coventry
ville, 9 a.m.
Fertilizer Institute’s 1994 World
Fertilizer Conference, The
Westin St. Francis, San Fran-
24.
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Harmony Grange Fair, Harmony,
thru Sept 24.
Beef Pasture Walk, William Pear
sall and David Hendricks,
Macungie, 6:30 p.m.
N.Y.-Pa. Pasture Tours, Painter
Dairy and Beef Farm. Elkland,
24-hour toll-free service phones
long distance: 800/444-6456 Lancaster local: 569-0411
10 a.m.-noon.
PASA Far* Field Day, A brent and
Flock Supervisors Conference,
Delmarva Convention Center,
Dclmar, Md. •
Bloomsburg Fair. Bloomsburg,
and Record Keeping. Lancaster
County Farm and Home Center.
1 p.m., also Oct. 20 and 27.
N.Y.-Pa. Pasture Tour, Antique
Valley Farm, Owego, N.Y.,
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Rob
and Darlene Howland Farm,
Candor, N.Y., 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
Northeast Regional Master Gar
dener Conference, Eden Resort,
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Eastern National Livestock Show,
Maryland State Fairgrounds,
The Pennsylvania Dairy Princess
Pageant Sheraton Inn East
Harrisburg.
Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival
of NJ., Salem County Fair
grounds, Woodstown, N.J.,
thru Sent 25.
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Potato Blight Meeting
(CondqiMd .from Pan* AO
She said that she estimates
severe losses of Potter County's
1,400 acres of potatoes and large
losses to Erie County's estimated
3,300 acres.
“This disease has probably been
the most well known disease on
potatoes,” Christ said, noting that
normally producers use fungacides
effectively to control the fungus
which can easily be transported
through infected seed potatoes.
In fact, she Aid that since the
disease had been known to have
been a problem in the potato-seed
producing areas of the Northeast
last year, it is likely that infected
seed potatoes could well be one of
the reasons for the widespread
spread of the fungus.
The weather complicated things
also, she said, creating favorable
conditions for the fungus to attack
the plants as rapidly and thorough
ly as happened.
But, Christ said this is apparent
ly also a new, unidentified strain of
late blight disease fungus, and the
outlook should cause some
concern.
According to Christ, the typical
strain" of fungus that typically
causes late blight disease repro
duces asexually and therefore has a
stable genetic pool.
This new strain reproduces sex
ually and has more genetic variety
and has a much stronger potential
to become resistant to weather con
ditions and treatments.
She said that DNA testing and
futher identification procedures
need to be performed in order to
know for sure that it is a new strain.
Producers are urged to attend the
meeting. State Secretary of Agri
culture Boyd Wolff, or a high
ranking designee, is to attend,
according to state PDA officials.
Representatives of lending institu
tions, federal agricultural agencies
and all with an interest in the Pen
nsylvania potato producer are
invited to learn more about the
problem and what can be done.
“For Pennsylvania, it’s been
over IS years since any significant
epidemic (of late blight),” Christ
said. "This is the first year in many
years when it is a problem.”
For more information, call Sam
Crosslcy at (814) 274-8540.
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