Ag Horizons Conference July 25 GRANTVILLE (Dauphin Co.) Program topic for the upcom ing Ag Horizons 2000 Confer ence is “The Retail Face of Farming.” The conference, scheduled July 25 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey in Grant ville, will focus on a diversity of marketing options, including e commerce, entertainment farm ing, niche marketing, and direct marketing. Ag Horizons is designed spe cifically for educators in agricul ture. Graduate credit at Penn State can be earned with the con ference. After a continental breakfast and registration, the program be gins at 8:30 a.m. with an intro duction to the retail face of agri culture by Lou Moore, Penn State professor of ag economics. Terry Kile, Weidenhammer Sys tems Corporation, will review e commerce. The subject of entertainment farming will be discussed by Janet Finney, Jack Finney Corp., and Stephen Quigley, Merry mead Farm, Inc. Niche marketing will be ex plored by Roy L. Brubaker, Tus carora Organic Growers. Direct marketing will be the subject of a talk by Romaine Erb, Brooklawn Farm Market. After lunch, a 1 p.m., a panel discussion will be held. A regis tration fee of $l5 will be collected at the conference. For more information, contact Penn State at (814) 863-0644. Riding Aren& Ph. (717)866-6581 FAX (717)866-7237 /^°\ > i<in—l 701 E. Linden St., RICHLAND, PA 17087 Trusses for Commercial or Residential 4 . 4 . - a \ A'k 4 vriVii *'a** \ | , World Dairy Expo Honors Four Dairy Industry Leaders And Producers (Continued from Page A 22) World Dairy Expo. Gable is re spected in and out of the show ring for her ethics, grace, and humbleness. The Pennsylvania State Uni versity graduate annually hosts the college’s dairy judging team and was awarded the Penn State Dairy Judging Service Award in 1996. She has also hosted the Pennsylvania Holstein Junior Judging School and opens the farm to area schools for Dairy Day. In 1994, the Snider herd pro vided an outstanding class for the Hoard’s Dairyman judging contest. Gable also provides housing for cattle owned by 4-H youth and retired neighbors. In 1998, Snider Homestead Farm was the site of the World Guern sey Conference tour. This year she hosted the National Guern sey Convention Tour. International Dairyman Promotes Brown Swiss Breed As a boy, the International Person of the Year spent his summers tending his family’s Brown Swiss herd in the moun tains of Switzerland. As an adult, Heinrich Meli became an influ ential diplomat for Brown Swiss breeders around the world. After earning a masters degree in agricultural science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech nology in Zurich, Meli worked at the herdbook office of the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Federation in Zug. While there, he intro duced the computerized contem porary comparison progeny-test ing program, which set the basis for modem selection possibilities. In 1964, he became the Secre tary of Agriculture and Public Economics for the Canton of Graubunden. He promoted the little-used practice of artificial insemination and built the Can ton of Graubunden’s herd into a leader of dairy cattle breeding throughout Europe. In 1971, Meli became the gen eral manager of the Agricultural College Plantahof, Landquart, where he also managed two training farms until his retire ment in 1999. There he bred an outstanding 90-cow herd of Brown Swiss cattle that breeders from around the world travel see. Meli is also credited with being the first promoter of U.S. Brown Swiss genetics in Europe and turned the national herd into a showcase for these genetics. Meli went on to influence the breed and the industry in 1976 when breeders unanimously elected him president of the World Brown Swiss Federation. In 1992, he became president of the commission of the Swiss Cat tle Breeders Federation, a group representing all of the breeding federations and numbering more than 40,000 farmers and 1.6 mil lion head of cattle in Switzer land. He served as secretary/ • GLU-LAM ARCHES •Ri • GLU-LAM BEAMS • FI • GLU-LAM TREATED »T POSTS “The Sign of Quality In Engineered Timber" HUMS KATE INSTITUTE f Ytftf V.«« W. treasurer for the annual meeting of the European Association for Animal Production in 1975 and organized the third and fifth an nual world Brown Swiss confer ences in 1986 and 1997. He promoted international semen exchange, initiated the interna tional progeny testing of several Brown Swiss bulls and helped in troduce INTERBULL to many European countries, industry Winner Uses His Pen World Dairy Expo’s 2000 In dustry Person of the Year has impacted agriculture through his writing, his teaching, and his presentations on his realistic vi sions for the future of the indus try. Miles “Mac” McCarry is a familiar name to many in the dairy industry due to the many hats he’s worn during his career. His long resume includes Di rector of Public Relations for the Holstein Associations, Sales Manager for Curtiss Breeding Service, National Dairy Shrine secretary, and author of more than 100 articles for several dairy publications. As an agricultural agent in Massachusetts in the late 19405, McCarry developed an Artificial Insemination Coop erative along with other livestock marketing programs. He also launched the first on-farm-tape recorded radio programs and was recognized for outstanding contributions to the New Eng land Green Pastures Contest. Free Stall Bam Interior .*>>.• \ ■’* '. r ,,-a Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 8, 2000-A23 And Voice To Make a Difference Over 40 years quality products & materials... Let us help you with your building needs! At the Holstein Association, he developed such programs as “Fit for the Farm Fit for the Mar ket” and “Making the Certificate of Registry Mean More” through advertising and promotional campaigns. He attended many national shows and events, han dling public relations duties and speaking at state and county Holstein meetings across the country. In 1963, McCarry moved to Curtiss Breeding Service where he designed the “Complete Cow Program” and traveled exten sively speaking at numerous events in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. He served as the of ficial for judging contests at Wa terloo, and Columbus and Chica go and ran the intercollegiate and 4-H judging contests at World Dairy Expo. The National Dairy Shrine had some of its most shining mo ments under McCarry’s leader ship. Membership thrived and the Shrine’s permanent home in Fort Atkinson, Wis. became a re ality. After retiring to Florida, he continues to work on a historical video project for Dairy Shrine conducting more than 100 oral interviews. McCarry has earned seven Dairy Shrine membership awards. He also became the first to win the Dairy Shrine’s 4-E award. To date, only four people have earned this award which stands for extra, energy, effort and enthusiasm. Free Stall Barn Exterior ? l I W. ‘ ' h - i > W•it A ' f *
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