Vol. 41 No. 48
Officials Kick Off KILE
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Exposition
(K.1.L.E.) officially began Thurs
day afternoon with the traditional
opening ceremony, held in the
Small Arena of the Pennsylvania
State Farm Show Complex.
From the left, Pennsvhauajfcltate Farm Show Director
Dennis Grumbine presem Livestock
Association’s Hall of Fame Award to Martha Gallagher, wife
of the late James Gallagher, while state Secretary of Agri
culture Charles Broslus helps with the presentation. The
presentation was made during opening ceremonies for the
1996 Keystone International Livestock Exposition.
Harvesting corn for silage is nearly completed across the region. As the corn con
tinues to mature, farmers have made some very good silage during the last several
weeks.
Early in the season some silos were filled too early, and the extra juices and weight
from the green stalks caused major seepage and several toppled silos.
Now, locally, the ear and shelled corn crop promised to be good, and the markets
are also reflecting better yields than were expected in mid-summer with the December
futures contract closing below $3 after reaching almost $4 back In July.
In the photo, Merle Groff opens up the field at Donald Bare’s farm located along Mill
port Road, Lancaster Co., between Lampeter Road and Strasburg Pike. A photo essay
of what the camera saw on the visit with Groff at Bare’s farm late Tuesday afternoon
will be part of the Com Talk section to be published in next week’s issue. Also look for
other special features of farmers, reports on corn management from the experts, and
messages from the advertisers. Photo by Evaratt Newswangar. managing adltor. ■, . .
Four Sections
The recipient of the Pennsylva
nia Livestock Association’s Hall
of Fame award was the late James
P. Gallagher, whose wife Martha
accepted the award in his behalf.
Other members of the Gallagher
family present included daughter
Marty and her husband Marc Sta
chowski, Martha’s sister Ann
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 5, 1996
Sharing the scissors to cut the ribbon on the new state animal health diagnostic
laboratory are state Gov. Tom Ridge, left, and state Secretary of Agriculture Charles
Brosius. From the left, Kerry Golden representing Rep. Raymond Bunt, who is majori
ty chairman of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee; Sen. Patrick
Stapelton a member of the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee; Sen.
Roger Madlgan, the majority chairman of the Senate ag committee; Rep. Arthur Her
shey, majority vice chairman of the House ag committee; Gov. Ridge and Secretary
Brosius; Rep. William R. Lloyd Jr., minority chairman; andJSfen. Noah Wenger, majori
ty vice chairman of the Senate committee.
State Officials Cut Kffibon For
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) State Gov. Tom Ridge
$27.50 Per Year
along with Secretary of Agricul
ture Charles Brosius on Monday
officially opened the state’s new
$6.7 million veterinary diagnostic
laboratory.
The 32.000-square foot facility
is twice the size of its long 65-year
old outdated Summerdale pre
decessor and places Pennsylvania
in position to do export testing
requirements inhouse, as well as
better protect the health of the
state’s considerable livestock
population, as well as help prevent
the spread of disease between ani
mals and humans.
Located adjacent to the state
Agriculture Department Building
in Harrisburg, the two-story diag
nostic laboratory helps to bring the
state into compliance with require
ments for full accreditation.
The stale lost is accreditation in
1989 under the watch of the Gov.
Bob Casey administration,
although it wasn’t the fault of the
administration, but rather because
of previous years of neglect to
Penn State And Pa. DHIA
Host Feed Industry Seminars
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Penn State’s Department
of Dairy and Animal Science and
Pa.DHIA will be hosting the 1996
Dairy Feed Industry Seminar at
five locations throughout Pennsyl
vania.
The seminar is geared for pro
fessionals working in agriculture,
including feed industry representa
tives, veterinarians, farm lenders,
and extension agents. The program
speakers will be Dr. Jud Heinrichs,
Dr. James NoceJc, Virginia Ishler,
and Jim Boyer. The seminar will
cover topics that can be applied out
in the field. The workshop’s agen
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maintain modernization at the
Summerdale lab.
That meant that those seeking to
have routine testing done to fulfill
export requirements, or even some
intrastate shipping, had to wait
until samples could be shipped to
out-of-state laboratories and the
results returned. The lengthened
turn-around in time created a busi
ness disadvantage.
But more importantly, the state
was faced with a growing potential
for a serious animal and human
health disease outbreak.
Because of changes in livestock
operations, from numerous small
stocks of livestock on farms to
concentrated numbers on fewer
farms, and the widespread growth
in human residential develop
ments adjacent to those high densi
ues of livestock the situation was
growing tenuously closer to a real
threat of the state being out of posi
tion to responsibly deal with a dis
ease outbreak.
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da includes:
• Managing carbohydrate nutri
tion.
• Amino acid nutrition and its
influence on milk protein concen
tration.
• Using NDF and particle size to
evaluate effective fiber.
• MUN update for Pennsylvania
herds.
• Downloading data for herd
analysis.
• Preventing lameness in dairy
herds.
• Farm case study analysis of:
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