Innovations For Livestock
UNIVERSITY PARK
(Centre Co.) As biosciences,
computer technologies and
other innovations impact every
phase of animal agriculture, it
gets tougher for livestock and
dairy producers to keep up. Pro
ducers who want to stay current
should visit the Animal Agricul
ture Tent and facilities at Penn
State’s Ag Progress Days.
The exhibit, sponsored by
Penn State’s departments of
dairy and animal science and
veterinary science, organizes the
best available technologies to
make them accessible to farmers
and producers, according to Bill
Heald, professor of dairy science
and exhibit coordinator.
“We’re highlighting the best
of the new and the old, to help
farmers sort out what’s avail
able,” he says. “There are so
many new inventions and initia
tives, sometimes it’s good to
have an expert there to help you
Housed In One Place
decide what's a real innovation,
and what’s a flash in the pan.
“We want the animal indus
try to show us what they’re
doing and have the opportunity
to ask the experts for advice. We
can discover what the producers
want, they can see what we have
to offer, and we can forge a rela
tionship to improve Pennsylva
nia’s agriculture industry.”
A great example is the hog
odor remediation exhibit in the
Animal Sciences facility. Devel
oped by Penn State researchers
Kenneth Kephart and Robert
Mikesell, it’s a comparison of
several technologies for control
ling odor emissions from swine
and other livestock facilities.
Visitors can talk with the ex
perts about the relative
strengths of each system and
consider the factors that would
make a system most effective for
a particular location.
Even the building housing the .
exhibits is innovative. Called an
“animal greenhouse,” it’s a low
cost and surprisingly sturdy
farm building that uses a metal
tubing frame and plastic sheet
ing to fulfill all of the functions
of traditional wood-and-steel
bams at a fraction of the cost.
A new addition is a display
from the Dairy Alliance, an in
novative partnership between
Penn State’s College of Agricul
tural Sciences, Penn State Coop
erative Extension and dairy
producers to enhance the eco
nomic development of the Penn
sylvania dairy industry through
focused educational efforts. The
alliance helps individual farm
ers with issues of labor and busi
ness management, information
technologies and nutrient man
agement.
The popular Youth Skillathon
and Lamb Show returns with a
new wrinkle on Wednesday,
Aug. 16 at the Junior Livestock
Exhibition Ten. Pennsylvania 4-
H and FFA members in four age
Ag Progress Section 2, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 12, 2000—Page
Penn State Ag
groups will test their knowledge
about lamb production in multi
phase competition that includes
a showmanship competition, a
written test and a series of iden
tification stations, followed by a
traditional lamb show. This
year, 4-H and FFA members
with lamb projects can compete
without showing an animal.
Other displays address the dy
namics of milk market pricing,
milking machine testing and im
provement, and opportunities in
undergraduate education.
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