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year’s recipient of the PFGC
Special Award. New Holland
has been a strong supporting
member since the PFGC was
formed in 1960, according to
Hall. They have provided the
PFGC with two presidents
Albert Best (1979) and Mike
Bular (1988) and numerous
board members throughout the
PFGC’s 40 year history. In addi
tion, New Holland was a finan
cial supporter of the 1994 AFGC
Conference in Lancaster and the
PFGC 40-Year History, being
written. New Holland has also
been an active participant in
every PFGC Forage Field Day.
According to Hall, who pre
sented the awards, considering
the many contributions of New
Holland to the PFGC, both past
and present, “it is an honor to
recognize them as the recipients
of the PFGC Special Award.”
Accepting the award was Rich
ard Adams, team leader for re
search and development at New
Holland North America.
• Research/Ex tension/
Teaching Award. This year’s
Research/Extension/T caching
Award recipient is Penn Jersey
Extension Partnership.
The Penn Jersey Extension
Partnership is an educational
union between Penn State Coop
erative Extension and Rutgers
Cooperative Extension. The
partnership recently completed
16 years of successful interstate
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cooperation in agricultural pro
gramming with its mission to
provide enhanced and expanded
educational programs that have
shown positive impact on agri
culture in eastern Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, noted Hall.
Many programming initia
tives, including multiyear and
multidiscipline educational pro
grams, were undertaken to ad
dress producer needs. Some of
the most successful Partnership
events include pasture walks,
pasture weed control demon
strations, a poisonous plant ID
course, drought management
newsletters, the Penn Jersey Til
lage Conference, the Penn
Jersey Dairy Expo, and hay
quality evaluation workshops.
Participants reported that the
programs were valuable to them
and they had applied manage
ment tools learned through the
programs.
• Conservation Award. This
year’s Conservation Award re
cipient is J.B. Harrold, Project
Grass coordinator of the Somer
set County Conservation Dis
trict. As coordinator for Project
Grass, Harrold is instrumental
in the establishment of rota
tional grazing systems in west
ern Pennsylvania, according to
Hall. Harrold oversaw the origi
nal grant that provided cost
share funds to the Project Grass
counties. Numerous grazing sys
tems have been established
under this program, with Har
rold developing grazing man-
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agement plans, providing
suggestions on grazing prac
tices, gathering data from the es
tablished systems, and
preparing reports that describe
the economic, nutrient manage
ment, and air pollution control
benefits of using rotational graz
ing systems. He is now involved
in a research project to deter
mine if fly ash can be used to
construct stabilized areas associ
ated with pastures.
According to Hall, nearby
counties have seen the advan
tages of being a member of
Project Grass since Harrold was
hired. As a result, the number of
member counties is growing, as
is the range of impact Harrold is
making on grazing management
in Pennsylvania.
Harrold was recently assigned
12 more counties, which makes
him in charge of all the western
Pennsylvania counties. When
PFGC asked Harrold what he
thought of this expansion, he
just said, “More research!”
Hall noted, “We feel J.B. Har
rold has gone way beyond the
call of duty, and deserves to be
recognized with the PFGC Con
servation Award.”
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Richard Adams, representing New Holland North
America, far right, accepts the PFGC Special Award and
J.B. Harrold, Project Grass coordinator, center, the
Conservation Award from Marvin Hall, far left, at the
Pennsylvania Grazing and Forage Conference.
• Conservation Farmer
Award. Dale Bracken has estab
lished a rotational grazing
system for beef feeders at one of
his farms. Working with the In
diana County Conservation Dis
trict and the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service,
Bracken expanded his rotational
grazing system to include 16
paddocks that cover approxi
mately 44 acres. High-tensile
perimeter fence was installed as
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