Page 12—Foraging Around, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 24, 1998
Executive Director
In Leadership Conference
RIO GRANDE, OHIO- Richard
Hann of Hershey, PA, recently
joined 30 other forage leaders from
across the United States at the
American Forage and Grassland
Council’s (AFGC) Leadership
Conference in southeastern Ohio.
The meeting provided a forum for
sharing ideas on strengthening local
forage programs and communicat
ing the importance of forages in live
stock production.
Conference sponsors including
the American Forage and Grassland
Council, the Forage and Grassland
Foundation, The Ohio State
University and Bob Evans
Corporation. Highlights of the three
day session included tours and dis
cussion with Bob Evans about their
grazing operation. Dr. Bobby Moser,
vice president for agricultural
administration and dean, College of
Food, Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, The Ohio State University,
BUY,
SELL,
TRADE
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Lancaster
Farming
PHONE
717-626-1164
OR
717-394-3047
FAX
717-733-6058
Mon., Tues.,
Wed., Fri.
8 AM to 5 PM
Thurs.
7 AM to 5 PM
provided a goal setting message and
Martha Nall, Ed.D., University of
Kentucky, shared tips on working
with volunteers to get the job done.
The American Forage and
Grassland Council (AFGC) is the
voice of forage agriculture. AFGC,
founded in 1944, is dedicated to the
profitable production and sustain
able utilization of quality forage and
grasslands. AFGC has more than
5,000 members from the United
States, Canada and Mexico.
Twenty-six states and provinces
have organized local affiliate coun
cils that plan and conduct programs
to improve forage utilization and
solve forage-related problems.
For more AFGC or affiliate coun
cil information, call the AFGC office
at (800) 944-AFGC or look for AFGC
on the web at http://www.forages.
css.orst.edu/Organizations/Forage/A
FGC/index/html.
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