A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24, 1998
Maryland To Host
NE Collegiate
Soil Judging
COLLEGE PARK. Md. If
you happen to see youthful dirt
loving persons emerging from
southern Maryland pits during
Thursday-to-Saturday daytime
hours next week, don’t fear a Hal
loween danse macabre (dance of
death) gathering.
What you’re probably seeing is
ag students from nine colleges and
universities who are participating
in the Northeast Regional Collegi
ate Soil Judging Contest, an an
nual October event being held in
Maryland for the Erst time since
1990
The actual contest will be held
somewhere in Anne Arundel
County on OcL 31. rain or shine.
The exact location is kept secret
from participants until the day of
the contest
But practice judgin pits will be
available on Oct 29 and 20 at
several sites in Anne Arundel and
Prince George's counties. One of
the practice pits will be located at
the University of Maryland’s Up
per Marlboro facility of the Cen
tral Maryland Research and Edu
cation Center (former tobacco re
search farm) at 200 S Largo Road,
four miles north of Upper Marl
boro.
This year’s event is being
hosted by the Department of Na
tural Resource Sciences and Land
scape Architecture in the College
of Agricultural and Natural Re
sources at the University of Mary
land. Collaborating organizations
include the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service in Maryland
and the Smithsonian Environ
mental Research Center near
Edgewater.
Delvin S. Fanning, professor of
soil science at the University of
Maryland, chairs the planning
committee for this year’s contest
He is being assisted by Steve
Hirch, a graduate student and for
. ;r UM soil judging team mem
ber. Fanning noted that Maryland
hosted the national collegiate soil
judging contest in 1994.
Helping to locate a contest site
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ture. Haddon is director of educa
tional programs at the Smith
sonian Environmental Research
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contest include Ohio State, Penn
State, Cornell University of Con
necticut, University of Rhode Is
land, and the University of New
Hampshire. Also, Wilmington
College of Wilmington, Ohio;
Delaware Valley College of
Doylestown, Pa.; and the Univer
sity of Maryland, College Park.
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be Martin C. Rabenhorst, profes
sor of soils. He will be assisted by
John Wah, a UM graduate student.
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of University of Maryland soil
judging teams that won the North
east regional championship in
1973 and 1974. He is a Maryland
native. Dr. Mark Stolt, another
UM alumnus and Maryland na
tive, coaches this year’s Univer
sity of Rhode Island soil judging
team.
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