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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
V 01.46 No. 27
A Great Week
For Fieldwork
Stray Voltage Concerns
Under Scrutiny In Project
Rep. Bunt Claims Current Data Is Conflicting
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Pennsylvania De
partment of Agriculture (PDA)
has funded a $36,000, six-month
research project to address the
possible problem of stray voltage
on dairy farms.
“Stray Voltage: Methods For
Detection and Remediation” is
being conducted by Penn State
University and headed by the
Agricultural Engineering De
partment.
Meanwhile, at the Capitol, the
Pennsylvania Senate and House
Agricultural and Rural Affairs
Lehman Earns Top Awards
At Poultry Science Banquet
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The 11th annual Penn
State Poultry Science Club
awards banquet took place late
last week here at the Nittany
Lion Inn.
In a surprise award not listed
on the program, Heather
Lehman of Mechanicsburg was
called to the podium to receive
the Bryce Jordan Student Lead
ership Award and SBSO from the
college of Ag Sciences. She also
received the High Grade Point
Average and Most Active Club
Member awards.
Earlier in the year. Heather
accepted the Outstanding Stu
dent of the Year Award at the
International Poultry Exposi
tion in Atlanta, Ga.
Nick Gardner received the
Most Active New Club Member
Award. Tracy Lindgren received
the Highest Grade Point Aver
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Committees conducted a joint
informational meeting Tuesday
on the problem.
Mark A. Cook of the Wiscon
sin Public Service Commission
presented the committees with
information gathered on stray
voltage in Wisconsin since 1987,
when the state created a stray
voltage task force.
Cook said he has traveled a
million miles and has seen a
thousand farms in his work
toward developing a “viable
stray voltage program” in Wis
consin.
According to Cook, stray volt
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age In Their Major Award.
New officers elected include
Josh Elliott as president, Tracy
Lindgren as vice president,
Karen Groner as secretary/
treasurer, and Nick Gardner as
Ag Student Council representa
tive. Dirk Wise serves as club
adviser.
Jim Perdue of Perdue Farms
in Salisbury, Md., spoke of his
company’s history, the major
issues affecting their business
and the poultry industry, and
how they approach these issues.
Perdue said his grandfather
started the business in 1920 and
built the business around the
still-current values of integrity, a
strong work ethic, caring about
the individual, and a frugal ap
proach to business. The com
pany expanded when Jim’s
father Frank became president
in 1941.
“We’re involved in all aspects
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Four Sections
STEVENS (Lancaster Co.) For many crop farmers, the week was ideal for planting.
Dry, hot weather arrived by midweek to help ready the fields for corn. According to the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Statistics Service, for the week ending April 29, there were
five days suitable for fieldwork, despite some low-lying areas still too wet to farm. Soil
moisture was rated 3 percent short, 81 percent adequate, and 16 percent surplus.
Spring plowing was 42 percent complete, 8 percent behind last year and 14 percent
behind the 5-year average. Some oats were beginning to emerge in fair to good condi
tion. Barley acreage was heading two weeks behind the average.
In photo at left, Lamar Miller, left, and Dan Martin load corn to the hoppers of a 12-row
planter at a farm leased by Eugene Martin, Denver. The 60-acre field was planted to
shelled corn. Martin’s fieldmen planted more than 1,200 acres in the area this
week. Photos by Stan Hall
Fundraiser Supports Pro-Agriculture Legislators
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) When Franklin County
farmer John Stoner helped orga
nize FARMER, Farmers Allied
For Responsible More Effective
Representation, the purpose was
to have a voice in the legislative
Award recipients at the Penn State Poultry Science Club awards banquet include,
from left, Nick Gardner, Most Active New Club Member Award; Heather Lehman, High
est Grade Point Average and Most Active Club Member; and Tracy Lindgren, Highest
Grade Point Average In His/Her Major. Photo by Gail Strock, Mifflin Co. correspondent
Saturday, Mays, 2001
policies that affect agriculture.
After 21 years, FARMER con
tinues its legacy as the political
action arm of the Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau (PFB).
At FARMER’S annual state
wide dinner on Wednesday at
the Hilton Harrisburg Towers,
Guy Donaldson, president, en
couraged supporters to let their
$34.00 Per Year
voice be known.
If legislators don’t hear our
concerns on policies such as en
vironmental issues, our side will
not be represented, not because
legislators don’t care but be
cause they don’t know and un
derstand our needs, Donaldson
said.
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