Employee
Workshop
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.)-Brubaker Farms at Mount
Joy will host a session on train
ing dairy feeding employees on
Thursday, March 23. Area dairy
managers are encouraged to
enroll to receive information
and materials needed to train
dairy employees responsible for
feeding management. The ses
sion is a Pennsylvania Dairy Al
liance program coordinated by
the Capital Regional Extension
Dairy Team.
The feeder’s training will be
held at Brubaker Farms, 740
Union School Road, Mount Joy,
Pennsylvania. Directions to the
farm are as follows: From Route
283, travel south on Route 772
through Mount Joy. About 1.5
miles south of Mount Joy, turn
right at the traffic light onto
Union School Road, and turn
left immediately onto Flory
Road. At the “T”, turn right
onto Musser Road and proceed
about 1 mile to Brubaker Farms
and to the dairy complex at the
end of the farm lane.
Cost for the training includ
ing the lunch fee is $25/partici-
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Two In College Of Ag Named Distinguished Professors
UNIVERSITY PARK
(Centre Co.)-Two faculty mem
bers in Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences-Dr.
Roland Leach, professor of poul
try science, and Dr. Gary Peter
sen, professor of soil and land
resources-have been named dis
tinguished professors by the uni
versity.
The title of distinguished pro
fessor was established by the
office of the president to recog
nize a select group of professors
with exceptional accomplish
ments in teaching, research, and
service.
pant. The session is limited to
the fust thirty people who apply.
To register for the training,
please call the Penn State Coop
erative Extension Customer Ser
vice Desk at the York County
Office (telephone 717-840-7408).
You may also fax your regis
tration to 717-755-5968 or e
mail to Tim Beck at
(tbeck@psu.edu). Registration is
requested by March 13, 2000 so
adequate materials may be pre
pared for the sessions.
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Leach is a worldwide leader in
the field of bone metabolism,
bone growth and development,
egg shell formation, and mineral
nutrition. He identified, charac
terized, and named a major skel
etal disease of poultry known as
tibial dyschondroplasia, which
costs the poultry industry mil
lions of dollars annually.
“Dr. Leach’s research has
contributed greatly to our un
derstanding of the biochemical
and molecular mechanisms un
derlying this complex anom
aly,” said Robert Elkin, head of
Penn State’s poultry science de
partment. “In addition, his re
search has provided valuable
information on a number of
other connective tissue and skel
etal disorders while advancing
our knowledge of normal bone
growth. Dr. Leach’s findings
have transcended species and
are of tremendous relevance to
both poultry science and human
medicine.”
Leach has published 104 peer
reviewed papers, 32 conference
proceedings, nine book chapters,
seven non-refereed papers and
several in-house articles. In
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1980, the Poultry Science Asso
ciation awarded him the Ameri
can Feed Manufacturers
Association Research Award,
and in 1983 he received Penn
State’s Gamma Sigma Delta Re
search Award.
Leach has taught principles of
animal nutrition to more than
3,000 undergraduate students
and has mentored six doctoral
and 26 master’s degree candi
dates. He also has served on
more than 30 departmental, col
lege and university wide commit
tees, and was instrumental in
establishing the Intercollege
Graduate Program in Nutrition,
for which he served as associate
director.
Leach received his bachelor’s
degree in agriculture from the
University of Maine, his mas
ter’s degree in nutrition
/biochemistry from Purdue
University, and his doctorate in
nutrition/biochemistry from
Cornell University.
Petersen is internationally
recognized for his research on
how soil and agronomic sciences
can be applied to land use plan
ning and management. His work
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has focused on landscape analy
sis, watershed modeling, water
quality, on-site waste disposal,
precision agriculture and ru
ral/urban interface issue:. He
has used remote sensing and
geographic information systems
to increase understanding of
soil, landscape and hydrologic
processes. He co-founded and
co-directs Penn State’s Office
for Remote Sensing of Earth Re
sources.
“Dr. Petersen has contributed
significantly to a better under
standing of the interrelatedness
of soils and land use with agri
culture and environmental
issues,” said Steven Pales, head
of Penn State’s agronomy de
partment. “His statewide assess
ments of nonpoint source
pollution have helped to protect
surface and groundwater and to
evaluate potential threats to
drinking water supplies. Society
has benefited from his many
contributions, which have pro
vided a basis for scientifically le
gitimate, environmentally sound
and economically desirable land
use decisions.”
Petersen is the
author or co-author of
more than 180 publi
cations and has pre
sented more than 140
papers at national and
international scientific
meetings. He has been
the principal or co
principal investigator
for competitive exter
nal research funding
from state, federal and
industry sources total
ing more than $9 mil
lion.
Petersen has taught
several undergraduate
and graduate courses
and has served as
chair of advisory com
mittees for 55 master’s
and doctoral degree
candidates. He helped
establish the graduate
program in soil sci
ence, which he has
chaired since its incep
tion.
In 1991, Petersen
was the first recipient
of the Alex and Jessie
C. Black Award for
Excellence in Re
search. Gamma Sigma
Delta and the North
east Branch of the
American Society of
Agronomy also have
honored him with
teaching and research
awards. He currently
serves as past
president of the Soil
Science Society of
America.