A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5, 1995 DHIA Pa.DHIA Fall Conferences (NOTE: All coherences are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Sept. 29 Mlllerstown Fire Hall. Cumberland, Juniata, Perry, Dauphin and Snyder counties. Take Millerstown exit of Rt.22/322. Oct. 2 Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, in Easton. Bucks, Chester, Lancaster and Montgomery counties. Located a half-mile south of turnpike along Rt.loo. Oct. 3 Blue Mountain Family Restaurant. Lebanon, Berks, and Schuylkill counties. Exit 8 of (78. Oct. 4 General Lee’s Family Restaurant Adams, Franklin, and York counties. Rt.3o west, before Gettys burg Battlefield. Oct. 5 Hoss’s Steak and Sea House, Huntingdon Huntingdon, Fulton and Mifflin counties. Rt. 22, in Huntingdon. Oct. 6 The Ranch House Blair, Bedford, and Cambria counties. Old Rt. 220, south of Claysburg. Oct. 10 Candlelight Restaurant Washington, Fayette, Westmoreland, Somerset, and Indiana counties. Exit 9 of the turnpike. Oct. 11...... Auntie Em’s Restaurant, Clearfield Centre, Clinton, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, McKean, and Jefferson counties. Exit 19 of 181. Pork Candidates SUMMERDALE (Cumberland Co.) The election of pork pro ducer delegate candidates for the 1996 Pork Producers Delegate Body will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17, in conjunc tion with a board of directors meeting of the Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council at the Region VI Office of the Pennsylvania De partment of Agricultue in Sum merdale. Pa.DHIA Sets Fall Conference Dates STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) The locations and dates of the technician’s fall conferences have been confirmed. Each year, Pa.DHIA holds three conferences spring, summer and fall to further update and educate each technician. Fall conference is mandatory and allows time for each techni cian to interact and to exchange ideas with each other, as well as being able to interact with the guests who attend each meeting, such as extension agents and peo ple working with artificial insemination. There are a total of 14 confer ences held at different locations. Each technician selects the appro priate conference closest to his or her area. This allows each group of technicians to be relatively small, which contributes to better interac- Average Farm Feed To help fanners across the state „ . „ __ . to have handy reference of com- LsOSts for tianay modity input costs in their feeding operations for DHIA record sheets or to develop livestock feed cost Oct. 12 Howard Johnsons, Mercer Mercer, Butler, Venango, Lawrence, Beaver, Armstrong coun ties. Exit 2 of 180. Oct. 13 Dutch Treat, Spartansburg Crawford, Erie, Warren, New York. Located along Rt. 77 in Spartansburg. Oct. 16 Slnbad’s, Wysox Bradford and Sullivan counties. Along Rt. 6 in Wysox. Oct. 17 Bonanza, Mansfield Potter and Tioga counties. Take Mansfield Exit of Rt.ls. Oct. 18 Mountalnvlew Restaurant, Clifford Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyane, and Wyoming counties. Located along Rt. 106. Oct. 19 All American Truck Stop, Milton Union, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Columbia, Luzer ne, and New Jersey counties. Exit 32 of 180. To Be Elected All Pennsylvania poik produc ers are invited to attend. Any producer who is a resident of the state and has paid all assess ments due under the national 100% checkoff may be considered as a delegate candidate and parti cipate in voting. Nominations will be taken from the floor at the time of election. For more information, contact the Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council, 1631 Grim Rd., Kutz town, PA 19530, 610-285-6519. Reference tion as well as being able to assist in keeping traveling time at a mini mum for most technicians. This year’s conference promises to be as exciting as ever with the ability for each technician to give his or her dairymen Westfalia Dairy Plan reports on test day. The conference agenda includes round table discussion facilitated by Dean Amick, director of field operations. This discussion is set up in a way that each technician has the opportunity to ask ques tions or voice any concerns. Motivation and sales will be covered as a follow-up to the sum mer conference agenda. The new nutrition program will be covered in depth. Our goal is to familiarize every technician with the finished product Making sure each technician has the proper instruction as to how to understand Poultry Pointers (Continued from Pago A 32) placing a tiny cube of sponge soaked in retinoic acid at the tip of the wing bud. This causes wing tip formation to occur prematurely and also causes extra digits to form. The leg limb bud reacts similarly. These are just a few examples of how chick embryos have served to foster understanding of living pro cesses. Embryos also provide a means for testing the effects exter nal agents, such as pharmaceuti- V'l ;/ii; S'' uthi ‘in I ',‘nim\h nni.i .uul M ,n,lnn,l ANDERSON TRACTOR SALES INC 141 S. Main 4600 Breidenbaugh Lane Jacobus, PA Glenarrn, MD (/17) 1?R 1280 (410)502-74?? this new program will bring out its fullest potential. Fall conference allows time to give each technician a certification exam. This exam covers different areas of the responsibility of a Pa.DHIA technician. This certification exam is given in compliance with National DHIA’s quality certification speci fications. Those specifications include that a DHIA technician must be tested at least once a year to measure his or her progress. Fall conference is just one way that allows Pa.DHIA technicians to receive the proper education to complete their jobs in a competi tive manner. Please feel free to contact Pa.DHIA at (800) 344-8378 if we can assist with your dairy operation. data, here’s last week’s average costs of various ingredients as compiled from regional reports across the state of Pennsylvania. Remember these are averages so you will need to adjust your figures up or down according to your loca tion and the quality of your crop. Com, No. 2y - 3.01 bu. 5.39 cwL Wheat, No. 2 - 3.95 bu. 6.60 cwL Barley, No. 3-1.58 bu. 3.37 cwL Oats, No. 2 -1.49 bu. 4.65 cwL Soybeans, No. 1 - 5.96 bu. 9.95 cwL Ear Com 70.88 ton 3.54 cwL Alfalfa Hay - 91.75 ton 4.59 CWL Mixed Hay - 79.25 ton 3.96 cwL Timothy Hay - 75.00 ton 3.75 cwL cals and pesticides, may have on, living systems. Another important use of embryonated eggs is vac cine production not only for poul try, but for other domestic species and for humans. The pathogen-free egg is an ide al environment for producing pathogen-free vaccines. A relevant publication has recently become available: “Egg Uses and Process ing Technologies,” by J. S. Sim (University of Arizona Press, 1994).
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