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New Agriculture Education Partnership Announced For Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania Gov. Tom
Ridge, Agriculture Secretary
Samuel E. Hayes Jr. and
Education Secretary Eugene W.
Hickok announced the creation
of The Pennsylvania Agriculture
Partnership to increase and
enhance agriculture education
programs across the Common
wealth.
“We are here today for one
mission - to increase awareness
about the vital role and impor
tance of agriculture in the lives
of all Pennsylvanians,” said
Secretary Hayes Thursday after
noon during a ceremony opening
This farm family makes high quality milk on their Union County dairy farm such high
quality milk that they were honored as the 1999 National Dairy Quality Award winners at
the World Dairy Expo this week in Madison, Wis. They are from left Chris Snyder
Kauffman, Annette and Joe Snyder, Joe Snyder Jr., and Anne Brooks, Pennsylvania DHIA
technician. The children are Colton and Katy Kauffman. See their story on page A 32 written
by Kaye Slusser from Pennsylvania DHIA.
The supreme champion of all breeds at the Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show last
week was Blacky Rose of Briarcliffs, the grand champion Jersey for New Direction Jerseys,
Elizabethtown. Waverly Farm, Fred Strouse, and Justin Burdette are also part owners of
this prize Jersey. Pictured here is Blacky Rose at her coronation with all her friends
B if au a ,n lar ge arena at the Farm Show building in Harrisburg. We have the results of
the All-American dairy shows starting on page A 22.
Four Sections
the Keystone International
Livestock Exposition (KILE).
“These organizations will pro
vide the foundation for efforts to
build that greater awareness.”
Dairy Compact Extended Amid
Political Maneuvers
Everett Newswanger
Editor
WASHINGTON, DC - The
future of U.S. dairy farming,
especially dairy farming in the
Northeast and South, seemed to
hang on political maneuvers in
congress this week. Lawmakers
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 2, 1999
Hickok said education is the
cornerstone to Pennsylvania
agriculture’s success in the glob
al markets of the next century.
“Whether it is technology in
made an effort to give disaster
relief to farmers while trying to
avoid the regional fight over
milk-price reforms and the lifting
of the trade embargo with Cuba
on food.
Meanwhile, U.S.
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the fields, research in our uni
versity’s laboratories or ‘Ag in
the Classroom,’ agriculture edu
cation is the key element needed
to build an industry that can
continue to feed the families of
District
Dr. Graham Spanier, president of Penn State University,
along with Rep. John Barley, chairman of the Pennsylvania
State House Appropriations Committee, visited Lancaster
County Thursday to see how Penn State may play a useful role
in the area's economic development. During the day, Spanier
and Barley visited local farmers, the county commissioners,
officials from Penn State Cooperative Extension Service, the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and leaders in
the Lancaster school district. In the photo taken at the Rohrer
Dairy Farm, Millersviile, are from left Bob Jr. and Robin
Rohrer, Rep. Barley, Spanier, and Bill, Mike, and Bob Rohrer
Sr. Photo by Everett Newswanger, editor.
More Than 4,200 Entries At
43rd Keystone International
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) More than 4,200 entries
are slated for competition in the
43rd Annual Keystone
International Livestock
Exposition (KILE) that is in
progress now through Monday
at the Pennsylvania Farm Show
Complex.
“The Keystone International
is nationally recognized as a
showcase for the nation’s top
beef cattle, swine, sheep and
horses,” said Secretary Hayes.
“As a major livestock producer,
Pennsylvania is again proud to
serve as host to some of the
finest quality livestock in the
world,” he said.
Noting Governor Ridge’s sup
port for KILE, Secretary Hayes
said that premiums for this
year’s Keystone International
were increased $lO,OOO in the
1999-2000 Agriculture
Department budget from
$167,000 to $177,000.
At opening ceremonies of
KILE on Thursday, the
Departments of Agriculture and
Education and a number of
statewide agricultural and edu
cational organizations signed a
proclamation committing their
efforts to cooperatively promote
agricultural education across
Pennsylvania.
As reported last week,
Charles Itle, assistant Farm
$31.00 Per Year
the world,” Hickok said.
Secretaries Hayes and
Hickok were joined by numerous
other farm and education orga
nizations.
Show director was named the
Pennsylvania Livestock
Association 1999 Hall of Fame
Award recipient.
PDA Farm-City Day at KILE
On Friday, the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
(PDA) hosted more than 5,500
children from over 70 schools
across the mid-state for PDA’s
third annual Farm-City Day at
the Farm Show Complex.
Secretary Hayes said, “It was
a fun day and a learning day for
thousands of young students.”
PDA’s theme for the event was ‘A
Story to be T01d... Lessons to be
Learned.’
Held in conjunction with
KILE, Farm-City Day is an
“open house” for Pennsylvania
agriculture, featuring an array
of more than 50 interactive and
informative displays.
Children have an opportunity
to experience agriculture first
hand, with things like food safe
ty and milking a cow; planting
their own seeds and going
through a maze; seeing hun
dreds of farm animals and
watching baby chicks hatch;
laughing with costumed charac
ters and enjoying carnival rides;
they will learn about insects and
how to make livestock feed.
Saturday, was Family Day
with attractions including the
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