Awards Presented At Cumberland BETH MILLER Cumberland Co. Correspondent NEWBURG (Cumberland Co.) Rebecca Quitman of Boiling Springs turned out to be a double winner during the 41st annual Cumberland County 4-H dairy banquet During the event, which was held at the New Hope Church, Re becca received not only the out standing 4-H dairy member award, but als6 was chosen as the winner of the achievement award. Rebecca, the daughter of Deb and Steve Comman, earned her outstanding dairy member honor for her activities during her busy seventh year in die county dairy club. She exhibited the champion and reserve champion Jersey at the 1996 County 4-H roundup, kept records and showed five animal projects and completed Level 1 and Leadership. She also is a member of the Fly ing Fingers 4-H Sewing Club, has served as a counselor of the ag sci ence camp/ag day camp and was a teen leader for the farm safety day camp. Rebecca has been elected presi dent of the county dairy club for this year. In addition, Rebecca, who won the achievement award based pri marily on her top-notch score on her achievement form, was a member of the county’s dairy judging team at slate days and at the Pennsylvania All-American judging Xomm. Two boys, Gregory Hammond of Mount Holly Springs and Jason Nailor of Mechanicsburg, shared the first-year dairy member Gregory is the son of Guy and Sharon Hammond. Jason is the son of Joanne and Dennis Nailor. They won their awards based on interest, in and attendance at club programs, the quality of their proj ect work and their scores and par ticipation in events. Gregory attended the dairy workshop and junior dairy bowl, presented a demonstration at a 4-H meeting and showed two ani mals atthe4-H Dairy Roundup. In addition, he has had a perfect at- All WORK. NO PIAY. SQUADRON® herbicide as hard as you do. Soil apply SQUADRON for proven early-season and residual control of more than 50 tough grasses and broadleaf weeds. 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"However, it’s not a sudden departure from what we’ve been doing. It’s just Ae next logical step.” Already common in the dairy industry is semen and embryo col lection and freezing, and, more recently, Ae splitting of embryos. “Instead of splitting, now we have cloning. So, it’s a continued deve lopment of the progress of man ipulation of genetics in livestock,” he said. The technology will speed agri culture’s ability to reproduce ani mals with valuable traits; cows that produce more nutritious milk, cows that produce milk that can be used for mediciwd pupates, or livestock that can withstand dis eases better. Respondents to a recent media poll who indicated they would not eat cloned vegetables probably don’t know cloning in fruits and vegetables has been around in some form for centuries, said John Finer, a plant geneticist also based in Wooster. “ln the plant area, cutting up the eyes of potatoes and growing plants from them, that’s cloning. Strawberry runners are clones. - i A d—«r 1 m ™ Ucowmotl Miller Memorial Award. John is the club treasurer, com pleted the Unit 1 Team Leadership Project and was a dual presenter at speak out night He also belongs to the Wildlife Habitat Club and the Cumberland County 4-H live stock chib. Three members were recog- Navel oranges come from an orig inal clone,” Finer said. So do many wine grape varieties, apple varieties, kiwi fruit lilies, roses, and Dahlias. For farmers, the technology will initially be “size neutral,” that is, it will be adoptaUe by anyone who wants it, said Luther Tweeten, Ohio State University agricultural economist However, “it will cost a Air amount of money and call for additional management so big farmers will probably use it first” he said. Tweeten expects large agribusi ness companies that have been involved wiA biotechnology and AMES, lowa Placing the in terests of American consumers and dairy producers at the fore front, National Farmers is sug gesting methods to improve cheese and butter trading prac tices. The group’s ideas came in re sponse to a recent announcement that the jChicago Mercantile Ex change is creating a new cash mar ket for cheese to replace the Na tional Cheese Exchange (NCE) in Great Bay, Wis. “If trading officials instituted daily trading and greater market access through electronic trading with this move from the NCE to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, it could improve dairy trading practices.” said National Farmers President Gene Paul. The CME market will open Squadnm. * hartnode 4-H Dairy Banquet nized during the banquet for com pletint 11 years of club work. They are Mandy Naugle and Bet sy Walton of Carlisle and Heath Ockcr of Shippensburg. The youth weren’t the only ones to be honored during the event Four adult dairy leaders were recognized for lengthy ser- Agriculutre, Medicine with access to plenty of capital will be the first to adapt the tech nology and make it available to farmers who want to improve their livestock. Breeding companies might also be the purveyors of the technolo gy, depending on how compli cated and expensive it is to adopt he said. The story is similar for medical applications of the technology, said Pappachan Kolattukudy, director of Ohio State’s Neuro biotechnology Center. Pharma ceutical companies and the com panies that provide animals to drug companies are likely to be the early adopters. National Farmers Want Electronic Trading May 2, ending trading on the NCE. Officials at the Cheese Ex change in Green Bay said trading guidelines on the new CME mar ket would be similar to those of the NCE, except the new market would use profesional brokers, al lowing for anonymous trading. “This anonymous trading could encourage smaller processors to participate in the CME cheese market, creating more competi tion,” said National Farmers Dairy Department Director of Opera tions Joe Paris. “Competition is healthy in any market, and this allows for greater trading opportunities by compan ies of all sizes.” The CME provides internal monitoring of trading activities in some of its markets, and its over sight group is the Commodity Fu- You’ll get maximum yields. Because this is one soybean herbicide that’s working 8 days a week. SQUADRON®. It’s one hard workin’ herbicide. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 29, IM7-A27 vice. Marie Naugle of Carlisle and John Ockcr of Shippcnsburg were both cited for 25 yean of service. Sharon Hammond of Mount Holly Springs was honored for IS yean of service and Kathy Walton of Carlisle was recognized for 10 yean. “Genetic variance is a problem with pharmaceutical testing. It’s difficult to determine if certain results are an inherent nature of the process, or if it is because of the animal’s genetic background. This breakthrough will provide companies with identical animals and will remove one big variabili ty,” he said. Kolattukudy believes people do not need to fear the technology. “None of the experiments are done in a vacuum, and are only done after the approval of safety committees and institutions. We’ll see no runaway experiments. There’s practically no possibility of abuse,” he said. tures Trading Commission. “We’re encouraged that a sys tem for assuring that industry-re cognized trading practices are fol lowed is in place,” Paris said. “Na tional Fanners supports direct oversight of this new cheese mar ket by the CFTC or the Federal Trade Commission.” National Fanners and other leading form groups are suggest ing several steps to improve dairy pricing structure. “It’s critical to the health of America’s dairy producers to adopt a competitive pay price sys tem in this country,” said Paris. While this change could bring im provement, dairy producer pay prices for milk should not be based on trading of processed dairy products, he said. “This change coincides with USDA’s actions to reform the federal milk marketing or der system,” said Paris. “We hope to see the reform pro cess produce a more fair and equitable milk pricing structure.”
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