Vol. 42 No. 39
This sign marks ttye horns of Pennsylvania’s State Dairy Princess Angela Werley.
Her reign has changed DOlUlffy her life but also that of her parents, Philip and Donna
werley, and siblings from left, Pam, Melissa, and Matt. To read about the Werley fami
ly, turn to page 82. Photo by Lou Ann Good.
Electric Deregulation Perspectives
(This is the first part of a two
part series about the deregulation
of the sale of electric power in
Pennsylvania.)
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania’s plan for
the deregulation of electrical pow
er generation is a move that appa
rently had to be done, but how it
Ag Horizons Educates Educators
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Information has doubled in the
last eight years.- To keep up with
the new information and to sort out
what’s important is no easy task.
On Tuesday, Ag Horizons held
its eighth annual conference to
educate educators. The all-day
seminar held at Harrisburg Area
New Holland Flock Has A.L
Vaccine Can’t Be Used
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
A flock of 60,000 pullets that
was granted official approval to
move out of the quarantine area to
New Holland was announced as
having avian influenza (A.L) this
week.
The flock met the test require
ments for movement from the
northern Lancaster County quar
antine area to New Holland, in the
eastern part of the county, but
somehow may have already har
bored the virus, according to Dr.
Phil Debok, chief of the animal
health division of the Pennsylvania
Four Sections
plays out, and what it means to the
agricultural and rural consumer is
far from clear.
An informal roundtable discus
sion was held last week in Harris
burg in the Capitol Building to pro
vide a forum to specifically
address concerns of the agricultur
al, rural and agribusiness com
munity in. Pennsylvania.
The meeting, held as a variation
Community College focused on
frontline issues facing Southeast
ern Pennsylvania and the expand
ing agricultural horizons.
Teachers, ag advisers, and
extension leaders were some of the
participants who heard about new
technologies used to create new
food items, about biotechnology to
improve plants and animals, and
about the vast network of compu-
Bureau of Animal Health.
Also, according to Debok, the
A.I. vaccine was that was
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Ag Progress Issue Next Week
Next week, Lancasltr Farming’s August 9 issue will pay special tri
bute to Ag Progress Days with field maps, schedules of events, new
areas of interest, and messages from our advertisers. This event is Penn
State College of Agricultural Sciences’ showcase for research, educa
tion, and new technology in agriculture. More than 300 commercial
exhibitors will also display their equipmentand services to the public.
You will want to make plans to meet with your fellow farmers at this
large agriculture event at the Russell B. Larson Agricultural Research
Center at Rock Springs, August 12 to 14.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 2, 1997
of a public hearing of the Senate
Agricultural and Rural Affairs
Committee, was requested and co
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
State Grange, whose members per
haps face the largest uncertainties
and potential cost increases and
loss of service.
A number of other groups and
organizations attended: the chair-
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ter information.
Dr. Roland Leach Jr., professor
of poultry science of Penn State,
shared his fascination with skeletal
research in poultry and swine and
how the findings arc being trans
lated into human studies.
“Biotechnology is defined as
any technology that uses living
organisms or processes to make or
modify products, to improve
plants or animals, or to develop
microorganisms for specific use,”
Leach said.
While many people think of
biotechnology as a new science.
Leach said the concept dates back
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Maryland Gov. Glendening
Visits Ag Showcase Day
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
FAIR HILL, Md. - Maryland’s
Gov. Parris Glendening made a
surprise visit to the Ag Showcase
Day at the Cecil County Fair Tues
day and told farmers that while he
was making other stops in the
county, the Ag Day stop was the
most important because of the
impact agriculture has on the
state’s economy. It was the first
time a governor had visited the fair,
as far as local fanners and officials
could remember.
“Agriculture is most important
in terms of the economy and what
this means to our lifestyle,” Glen
dening said. “This is our future,
and it is the reason that working
with the legislature, we got our
Smart Growth program through
and along with the Rural Legacy
program, we will have SjjQjnoillion
over the next five years tvhrchase
development rights so
keep their investment inWßanar
In response to a question posed
by one Maryland farmer to this
reporter earlier in the week, Glen
dening said he was aware of the
local cluster zoning issue that has
recently become controversial in
Maryland’s Gov. Parris Glendenlng visited the Ag Show
case Day at the Cecil County Fair, Tuesday, and Is shown
here checking out the farm equipment.
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Maryland. Cluster zoning allows
more intensive development than
one house per five acres. The idea
is to contain the development in a
smaller part of the developed prop
erty while a majority of the land
remains open space.
But in the case of this farmer,
who has sold the development
rights to his farm, the proposed
development of the adjoining farm
will put the cluster of homes right
beside his preserved farm, thus
negating the real purpose of pre
serving the farm. In a discussion
over lunch, Glendening said the
new Smart (spot) Growth program
will limit state funding for infra
structures to these projects such as
building roads, sewers, and sidew
alks and should help in these situa
tions in the future.
The governor also announced
that he planned to sign a letter to
President Clinton and Ag Secret
ary Glickman Wednesday, to have
Maryland declared a drought dis
aster area.
. “This is an interesting chal
lenge,” Glendening said. “In some
areas the crops are fairly good
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