Page 40—Keystone Farm Show Section 1, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 2, 1999 BEAVER SPRINGS (Snyder Co.) West Snyder FFA Chapter was recently named the “Model of Innovation” Chapter at the Na tional FFA Convention in Kansas City, Mo. The West Snyder FFA Chapter received this award when they were named as one of the top 10 FFA chapters in the United States out of 7,503 local FFA chapters. The top 10 recognition came af ter being selected as Pennsylva nia's first-place gold FFA chapter for an unprecedented fifth conse cutive year in the National Chap ter Award Program. The state judging took place in June 1998 at the Pennsylvania FFA Summer Convention at Penn State Univer sity. The National Chapter Award program is based on the FFA Chapter’s program of activities. It recognizes FFA chapters which focus on a wide variety of chapter activities in the student, chapter, and community development categories. Chapter projects pro vide citizenship, personal, and leadership development oppor tunities to students by giving them a chance to work with community leaders and organizations. West Snyder Chapter repre sentatives underwent an intensive interview process to determine the top FFA chapter in the chapter de velopment and community devel opment divisions. FFA members Maria Trego and Heidi Good completed a 15-minute computer ized presentation to a panel of judges on the chapter develop- MILK Where's your mustache?“ Garsf Atthefowfiwtof TECHNOLOGY Today’s accelerated rate of change in agriculture demands flexibility. Garst customers have immediate access to a team of seed specialists. Helping our customers select the right hybrid for their farming situation is our top priority ... not just selling technology! See us at the Keystone Farm Show Booth 228 & 229 Register for our $5OO Seed Giveaway distributed by Chemgro If P.O. Box 218, East Petersburg, PA 17520 (717) 569-3296 • (800) 346-4769 (GROW) West Snyder FFA Receives National Emblem ment activities of the West Snyder FFA Chapter. The highlights of the West Sny der Chapter Development activi ties include a chapter fund-raising program. The chapter sells citrus, barbecued chicken, and plants from their greenhouse in order to fund chapter activities. Last year, the chapter sold more than 1,700 halves of barbecued chicken. The members use these funds to attend the state and national FFA con ventions as well as leadership de velopment workshops. The chapter officers conduct their own chapter officer camp where they develop their team building skills. The chapter has its own newsletter to keep the mem bers and community informed about their activities. They are also very active in promoting agri cultural education and the FFA during National FFA Week and Vocational FFA Week in Febru ary. In the community development division, members Michele Fettcr olf and Shane Eia presented a similar show to a different panel of judges on the community de velopment activities of the West Snyder Chapter. The highlights of the community development acti vities included making Christmas ornaments for both the McClure Borough and Spring Township and interacting with elementary students for various programs. One of these programs included the Food For America program where West Snyder FFA members explained to fourth grade students where their food came from and then took them on a tour of a local dairy farm. Another program in cluded Project PALS where FFA members serve as mentors for the elementary students. West Snyder FFA Chapter was commended for their Project PALS program and was asked to conduct two workshops at the Na tional FFA Convention on their PALS program. The final ele mentary program was the FFA Conservation Day when FFA members teach the elementary students how to protect their en vironment The last highlight of the community development pro gram includes Project SAFE. West Snyder FFA Chapter con ducted several safety programs for the community included the Midd-West Young Farmers and the elementary students. Finally, an oil additive that really works! 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The West Snyder FFA chapter ad visers are Cynthia Shaffer and Stephen Kline. AI (0 hours before ovulation), the ovum had to wait 8 hours before the semen would reach it. Pregnancy rates, pregnancy losses and calving rates were sig nificantly worse for this last Al timing, 0 hours before ovulation, when the semen would reach the ovum 40 hours after onset of es trus. The data suggested that the ide al timing of AI would be 16 hours after synchronization or 16 hours after natural onset of estrus, or 8 to 16 hours before ovulation. In addition, more heifer than bull calves (6:4 ratio) were bom after the two extreme AI timings, 32 and 0 hours before ovulation, which is also an interesting new finding. Thus, cstrus detection may soon become less elusive, and com bined with timed AI after syn chronization, may have great im pact on dairy farm profitability. 'O.
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