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-Ag Progress Section, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11,2001
Innovations For Livestock Housed In One Place At Ag Progress
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As biosciences, computer
technologies, and other innova
tions impact every phase of
animal agriculture, it gets
tougher for livestock and dairy
producers to keep up. Producers
who want to stay current should
visit the Animal Sciences Exhib
its Area at Penn State’s Ag Prog
ress Days, Aug. 14-16.
The exhibits, sponsored by
Penn State’s departments of
dairy and animal science and
veterinary science, will feature
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 said. “There are so
many new inventions and initia
tives, sometimes it’s good to
have an expert there to help you
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 us for advice. We can dis
cover 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,
it’s a comparison of several tech
nologies for controlling odor em
issions from swine and other
livestock facilities. Visitors can
talk with the experts about the
relative strengths of each system
and consider the factors that
would make a system most ef
fective for a particular location.
Even the building housing the
exhibits is innovative. Called an
Lancaster
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“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
barns, at a fraction of the cost.
A new addition for 2001 is a
display from the Dairy Alliance,
a partnership between Penn
State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences, Penn State Coopera
tive Extension, and dairy pro
ducers to enhance the economic
development of the Pennsylva
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with a new wrinkle on Wednes
day, Aug. 15, at the Junior Live
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