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UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Following an 11.4 percent
increase in state funding for agri
cultural research and cooperative
extension in fiscal 1996-1997,
leaders in Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences are setting
priorities and charting a course for
the future.
“We are very grateful for the
recent increases in our research
and extension budgets,” said
Theodore R. Alter, interim dean.
“They will allow us to infuse new
energy into our college and to
begin a reversal of the slow
decline that we have struggled
with over the past six years.”
Flat state funding for the Col-
NFU Applauds Action
WASHINGTON, D.C.
National Fanners Union (NFU) is
applauding action announced
recently by U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Secretary
Dan Glickman to improve cheese
price reporting.
The department pledged to
improve the technique and scope
of prices reported nationwide. It
will also conduct an internal
review of USDA responsibility for
oversight and regulatory authority
over the National Cheese
Exchange (NCE).
“Farmers Union is very pleased
with Secretary Glickman’s deci
sion to address the issue of cheese
pricing,” said NFU President
Leland Swenson. “Less than 1
percent of all cheese in the nation
is traded during one half-hour per
week on the Exchange, yet it sets
the price for 90 percent of the
nation’s cheese, which determines
producer milk prices.”
The USDA announcement
came following three consecutive
price drops in NCE cheese prices
that began Oct. 18 and have cumu
latively totalled a price decline of
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lege of Agricultural Sciences
between 1990 and 1996 contri
buted to the loss of 163 faculty,
cooperative extension and staff
support positions statewide.
“One of our most urgent needs
is to rebuild our human capital so
that we can continue to provide
the highest quality research and
education programs and serve our
students and Pennsylvania’s citi
zens, communities, businesses
and industries,” Alter said.
Alter recently lifted a hiring
freeze that had been in effect for
more than a year. ‘This new fund
ing will enable us to fill about 40
percent of the total positions lost
since 1990 in those areas where
need is the most critical,” Alter
nearly 40 cents per pound. The
decline translates into a drop in
producer milk prices of around $4
per hundredweight
“Since we are down 1.3 million
cows in the U.S. I.S percent
below 1995 levels it is tough to
believe the drop was caused by
market forces,” wrote Swenson
and Wisconsin Fanners Union
President Bill Brey in a letter to
Secretary Glickman following the
price plummet that began Oct. 18.
In the Oct 24 letter to USDA,
the Farmers Union leaders also
asserted that the three-year study
and congressional scrutiny of
NCE had served as a form of over
sight but ceased when with the
Federal Trade Commission ruled
this September that NCE was not
violating trading rules. “Since that
time, milk prices have dropped
sharply,” the letter stated.
USDA will implement a pro
gram that will report a
“probability-based national aver
age Cheddar cheese price,” using
prices collected by the National
Agricultural Statistics Service.
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said. “The process to begin filling
some of these positions is already
underway.”
Alter said the funding also will
allow the college to enhance its
research and education activities
to ensure the sustainability of
Pennsylvania’s agriculture, food
system, and environment and to
improve the quality of life for
Pennsylvanians.
“We will now be able to re
invest in our research and educa
tion programs and improve our
ability to deliver important infor
mation to the people of Pennsyl
vania through cooperative exten
sion,” Alter said. He said the
increase in both funding lines is
especially timely in light of the
university’s desire to increase
public access to Penn State exper
tise that will help to address indus
try and societal needs across the
commonwealth.
Alter says one priority is to
assist the state’s mushroom indus-
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only 11. On vacation in Hershey,
Pa., she took her first trail ride.
She was hooked.
“I fell in love with riding,” she
remembers.
From then on, her life began to
revolve around horses, with riding
lessons, weekly excursions to the
race track, and the purchase of her
first horse when she was 14. Now
the tall, blue-eyed 21-year-old
owns three horses; Fabian, an
11-year-old Danish warmblood,
and two thoroughbreds, Alex and
Moon Mist.
Cian began learning dressage
when she was IS.
“Dressage requires that the
horse execute precision move
ments, such as skipping and mov
ing sideways,” she said. “It’s like
a ballroom dance. The goal is to
make it look like the horse is per
forming without being directed.
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try, which produces nearly half of
the nation’s mushroom supply but
faces several significant challen
ges.
“Trichoderma, or green mold, is
an epidemic that is severely
threatening Pennslvania’s
number-one cash crop,” Alter
said. “Producers also are strug
gling to control highly offensive
odors generated when the growing
medium used in mushroom pro
duction is composted, and to find
better ways to dispose of used
mushroom compost
“The increase in our research
budget will enable the college to
undertake a major six-year
research effort to help ensure the
mushroom industry’s survival,”
said Alter. “This initiative also
may help to address similar prob
lems faced in the production of
other Pennsylvania commodities.”
Alter said the new funding will
allow other vital research and
Science Major Rides
and to do that, the horse and rider
have to work as one.”
Inevitably, there are times when
horse and rider aren’t in sync.
Two years ago Cian fell off Fabian
and landed on her tailbone, an ac
cident that would have paralyzed
her if not for a blood tumor that
protected her spinal cord. But a
couple of months later, she was
back in the saddle.
Majoring in animal science
with a concentration in pre-veter
inary medicine at UD’s College of
Agricultural Sciences, Cian has
learned to pace herself to fit in
both studying and riding. Every
day she makes the 40-minute
drive to West Grove, Pa., to work
with Fabian and Alex. When pre
paring for competition, she takes
lessons three times a week. And
competing demands traveling, es
pecially in the spring.
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extension programs to be main
tained or enhanced. “Our efforts to
protect water quality and utilize
our natural resources more effec
tively will be ongoing,” he said.
“We will continue helping agri
cultural producers to reduce
reliance on pesticides, to meet
nutrient management require
ments and to improve the econom
ic viability of their operations. We
also will continue to help Pennsyl
vania’s processing industries to
generate products and develop
markets.
“Our programs designed to
improve the health, safety and
skills of individuals, families,
children, and the elderly will be
improved and expanded. And we
will step up our efforts to assist
communities in their economic
development efforts and to find
solutions to the problems that
arise as rural and urban areas
merge.”
“It was crazy at first, but now
I’m used to it. I’ve been going to
school part time,” Ciap said, “so
I’ll probably take five or six years
to get my degree. But I’m halfway
there.”
“Kim’s a competitive athlete
and is just shy of taking a full-time
courseload,” said Dr. Lesa Grif
fiths, her professor and adviser.
“She’ll have multiple career op
tions when she completes her de
gree.”
Now that Cian has achieved her
goal of competing in the Young
Riders National Championship,
she plans to takc iteasy-for-a few
months. But there’s no reining in
her enthusiasm. She hopes to com
pete in the World Cup and the
Olympics one day.
“I might be 80 when I get
there,” she said, “but I think I’ll
make it.”
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