812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9, 2000
David Quick Award Honors 4-H’ers
... to right, „
Sartell, Jim and Marilyn Quick.
MONTROSE (Susquehanna Co.)
Marilyn Quick and her children Cara,
Melinda, Jim and Reggie and their fam
ilies set up the David Quick 4-H Memo
rial Fund through the Susquehanna
County 4-H Program to recognize out
standing 4-H members. A savings bond
was awarded to the grand champion
Hort Show Offers International Gardens Tour
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.)
Visitors can take a gardening tour
around the world without leaving Penn
sylvania’s borders at Penn State’s 87th
annual Horticulture Show, from 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, and from
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, here in
the Ag Arena.
The show, sponsored by the College
of Agricultural Sciences’ student Horti
culture Club, focuses on “Landscapes of
the World: Uniting People Through
Horticulture.” Many of the displays fea
ture themed gardens designed to show
case how different nations approach
landscape gardening.
The themed gardens will include a
Japanese meditative garden, an Ameri
can vegetable and landscape garden, an
Australian garden, a Mexican tropical
garden, an English formal garden and
an English children’s garden, which fea
tures a hedge maze.
“The Horticulture Show is really a
year-round process,” said Mike Wim
mer, 22, a senior from Quakertown ma
New Soybean Varieties Have
COLUMBUS, Ohio Now Ohio
farmers can raise soybeans that lead to
healthy hearts.
Two new soybean varieties that pro
duce soybean oil with about half as
much linolenic acid as current varieties
have been released by Ohio State Uni
versity’s Ohio Agricultural Research
and Development Center.
The soybeans offer health and taste
benefits for consumers and a possible
price premium for soybean growers,
said Steve St. Martin, an OARDC
agronomist who helped develop the va
rieties.
Almost 99 percent of soybeans are
crushed, and their oil is extracted for
use in margarine, salad oil,, cooking oil
and other edible oil products.
“Soybean oil contains five different
fatty acids, and so does the oil from
these new varieties," St. Martin said.
"But the acids are in different propor
tions.”
Normal soybeans produce oil with 7
percent to 8 percent linolenic acid. The
new varieties, designated HS9S-4907
and HS9S-4908, produce oil with 3 per
cent to 4 percent linolenic acid, he said.
That’s important because when pro
cessors hydrogenate soybean oil to make
food products, the linolenic acid in the
oil can form trans fatty acids. Some
studies have linked trans fatty acids to
heart disease.
“By lowering the linolenic acid con
tent of soybean oil, there will be little or
senior showman, Heather Pease and the
grand champion junior showman, Jessie
Sartell at the Susquehanna County 4-H
Dairy Roundup. Both Heather and Jes
sie belong to the North Jackson 4-H
Club.
A savings bond will be awarded at the
Harford Fair at the colored breeds and a
joring in landscape contracting and one
of four co-managers of the show. “We
start planning and calling for donations
for next year’s show right after the cur
rent show closes.”
The Horticulture Show also features
a farmer’s market, where visitors can
buy all types of vegetables, fruits, pump
kins, and cider. Those interested in solv
ing a gardening problem can stop by the
Ask the Experts table, which is staffed
throughout the show.
The Horticulture Show is planned,
designed, and constructed by students
in the Horticulture Club. More than 60
students participate in the event each
year.
Plants used at the exhibit will be on
sale during the show. Buyers can place
reserve tags on the plants and pick up
their purchases after 5 p.m. on Sunday,
Sept. 10. There also will be more than
700 mums on sale. The plants that are
not purchased are used by Penn State’s
Office of Physical Plant in landscape
plantings around the campus.
no production of trans fatty acids dur
ing hydrogenation,” he said.
Linolenic acid also is somewhat unst
able and picks up oxygen during cook
ing and storage. This can result in bad
odors and poor flavor.
“Food scientists say soybean oil with
reduced linolenic acid tastes better than
normal soybean oil,” St. Martin said.
“Food scientists also agree it’s good to
reduce linolenic acid, but not eliminate
it.”
Linolenic acid may have some cardio
vascular benefits and is an essential
fatty acid in the human diet.
Growers who raise the low linolenic
acid soybeans could earn an extra 30
cents per bushel. Obtaining a premium
price is essential for growing the new
varieties to be economical because they
do not yield as well as normal soybeans,
St. Martin said. In tests, the new culti
vars yielded about 48 bushels per acre,
compared to about 53 bushels per acre
for normal varieties.
Low linolenic acid varieties developed
in the next year or two should have
higher yields, he said.
it’s going to take an entrepreneur to
successfully grow these varieties, be
cause in addition to growing them you
have to sell their benefits and find an
outlet willing to pay more for them, and
store and process them separately from
other soybeans,” he said. “Ultimately,
the success of the new varieties will de
pend on whether consumers are willing
to pay more for what they’re getting.”
bond at the Holstein youth dairy show
for the champion owned and bred ani
mal. A scholarship will also be given at
the Susquehanna County 4-H
achievement night in October.
Dave Quick became 4-H Club mem
ber in Wayne County when he was 10
years old. Quick took the capon and
electricity projects before starting to
show Jersey cattle. Along with showing
dairy animals, Quick participated in
dairy judging and received a gold medal
for his dairy project work at a National
Awards program. While a 4-H member,
Quick was selected as having the best
Jersey project in Pennsylvania and hon
ored at a State Dairyman’s Banquet. As
a 4-H member, Quick did radio pro
grams and was on County Council.
In 1964, Quick became a leader in the
Rushville 4-H Club, serving both at the
club and county leader levels. Quick an
nounced the County 4-H Dairy Round
up last August, an example of his con
tinuing dedication to the 4-H program.
Quick was a Susquehanna County 4-H
Leader for over 36 years.
The memorial fund will serve to re
mind 4-H members and leaders in Sus
quehanna County of the importance of
the 4-H program in David Quick’s
many years of participation and service
in the 4-H program.
The show features more than 200
woody ornamental shrubs and trees,
and from 50 to 100 different varieties of
perennials.
“Proceeds from the show go toward
operating the Hort Club,” said Dan
Stearns, associate professor of land
scape contracting. “The club uses the
funds to sponsor educational trips,
scholarships, social activities, and char
itable donations.”
Stearns estimates that from
5,000-8,000 people visit the event each
year. The event is timed to open on the
same weekend as Penn State’s second
home football game, which features
Penn State versus Louisiana Tech. “At
tendance to our event varies, depending
on the football game,” Stearns said. “If
the game is one-sided, we get a few
more visitors. If it’s a close game, we’ll
get a few less.”
Admission to the show is free. The
Agricultural Arena is located on Park
Avenue across from Beaver Stadium on
the University Park campus.
Health Benefit
The new cultivars carry the “fan”
gene for reduced linolenic acid concen
tration. The “fan” gene occurs as a nat
ural mutation in some soybean varieties.
The new OARDC cultivars were devel
oped through conventional cross breed
ing of varieties that contain the “fan”
gene and varieties that are adapted to
grow well in Ohio.
The new varieties are resistant to
phytophthora rot, a soybean disease
common in Ohio. They also mature
early in the fall, making them suitable
for northern Ohio, particularly when
planting wheat after soybean harvest,
St. Martin said.
Development of the low linolenic acid
varieties began in 1991 and was sup
ported by an OARDC Interdisciplinary
Team Research grant. The Ohio State
University research team consisted of
St. Martin, plant pathologist Anne Dor
rance and food scientist David Min.
Farmers who wish to grow the
HS9S-4907 and HS9S-4908 varieties can
get seed through a license from the Ag
ricultural Genetics Research Associa
tion or AGRA - an association of small
and medium-size seed growers in Ohio.
A portion of the profit from the sale of
the seed goes to Ohio State University to
support further soybean breeding re
search, St. Martin said.
For more information about the low
linolenic acid soybean varieties, contact
St. Martin at (614) 292-8499 or stmar
tin++ aosu.edu.
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