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Environmental Program
Sign Up Ends Feb, 8
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
The Farm Service Agency is
accepting applications through
Feb. 8 for the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program
(EQIP). This sign up period will
address the Statewide Resource
Concerns only. A later sign-up
period will be held for farms lo
cated in the Chickies Watershed.
EQIP works primarily in areas
where there are significant natu
ral resource concerns, such as soil
erosion, water quality and quan
tity, wildlife habitat, wetlands,
and forest and grazing lands.
Priority is given to areas where
State or local governments offer
financial, technical, or education
al assistance and to areas where
agricultural improvements will
help meet water quality objec
tives. Activities must be carried
out according to a conservation
plan.
EQIP is one of several Federal,
State, and local conservation pro
grams that farmers can use to
solve their natural resource con
cerns.
EQIP offers financial, educa
tional, and technical help to in-
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Dairy Council, Inc. Annual Meeting and
New York State Dairy Princess Pagent
AGENDA;
Tuesday. Februar
5;00 p.m. - Reception
6:00 p.m. - Banquet
• ADADC 2001 Program Presentation
• New York State Dairy Princess Pageant
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Wednesday. February 20.2002
8:00 a.m. - ADADC Business Meeting
• Financing Update
• Advertising Update
• Program Updates
LOCATION:
Holiday Inn
7th N. Street and Electronics Parkway
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Reservations must be made by Friday, February 8,2002
PHONE:
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219 South West Street, Suite 100, Syracuse, NY 13202-1205,
315-472-9143
stall or implement structural,
vegetative, and management
practices called for in five- to
10-year contracts. These prac
tices which include manure
management systems, pest man
agement and erosion control
help improve and maintain the
health of natural resources.
Cost sharing may pay up to 75
percent of the costs of certain
conservation practices. National
ly, half of the funding for EQIP is
targeted to livestock-related nat
ural resource concerns and the
remainder to other significant
conservation priorities.
Contracts are awarded on a
competitive basis among a pool
of 14 counties in south central
Pennsylvania. Proposals are
ranked using a scoring system
based on ballpark estimates of
total program costs of the prac
tices planned. Requests can be
made at the Farm Service Agen
cy, located at the Farm and
Home Center, 1383 Arcadia
Road, Lancaster, or phone (717)
397-6235.
2002
Pennsylvanians Encouraged To Attend
Environmental Education Meetings
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Department of Environ
mental Protection (DEP) Secre
tary David E. Hess recently en
couraged citizens to attend one of
several public sessions to be held
this spring on recommendations
outlined in the “Pennsylvania
Environmental Readiness for the
21st Century” report.
“This first-of-its-kind report
identified 12 challenges to in
creasing the public’s understand
ing of environmental issues,”
Secretary Hess said.
“We’d like to hear ideas from
as many Pennsylvanians as possi
ble on how we might meet these
challenges.”
The report by the Pennsylva
nia Center for Environmental
Education (PCEE) includes the
results of a survey of Pennsylva
nia adults on their knowledge of,
attitudes toward and behaviors
related to the environment.
The report identified educa
tional issues in the following 12
areas: biodiversity; hazardous
waste; air quality; renewable re-
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sources; water quality; wetlands;
suburban sprawl; non-point
source pollution; energy; water
shed management; solid waste;
and sustainable development.
“The survey found that Penn
sylvanians want to take personal
responsibility for helping to solve
the state’s environmental prob
lems, but they like the nation
as a whole currently have little
knowledge of major environ
mental issues,” PCEE Director
Paulette Johnson said. “It’s our
goal to come up with ways to
help increase Pennsylvanians’
understanding about our envi
ronment so that they can become
better stewards of our natural re
sources.”
in order to achieve this goal,
the PCEE will hold regional
meetings throughout Pennsylva
nia beginning in March to hear
from formal and non-formal edu
cators, environmental profession
als, business and community
leaders, and the general public.
There will be two meetings at
each location: the first from 1:30
p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and the second
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Following is a list of meeting
dates and locations:
Ohio Swine Inventory
Down 5 Percent
REYNOLDSBURG. Ohio
Ohio hog producers had
1,420,000 hogs on hand Decem
ber 1, 2001 down 5 percent from
a year earlier and 3 percent below
last quarter, according to the
Ohio Agricultrual Statistics Serv
ice.
The number of market hogs, at
1,260,000 head, was down 5 per
cent from last year and 3 percent
below last quarter.
Breeding stock, at 160,000
head, remained the same as last
quarter, but down 6 percent from
last year.
The Ohio pig crop during the
September-November 2001 quar
ter numbered 635,000 head,
down 2 percent from last year
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• Dauphin County: March 6,
Wildwood Lake Sanctuary,
Harrisburg;
• Philadelphia; March 13,
Schuylkill Center for Environ
mental Education;
• Lackawanna County: March
19, Radisson Lackawanna Sta
tion, Scranton;
• Centre County: March 20,
Institute for Science and Tech
nology, Pleasant Gap (The after
noon meeting will be 2 p.m. to 4
pm.);
• Pittsburgh: April 2, Beech
wood Farms Nature Reserve; and
• Crawford County: April 3,
Pelletier Library, Meadville.
PCEE is a cooperative agree
ment among 11 partners, includ
ing DEP, formed in 1996 to en
sure that citizens in the
Commonwealth have access to
quality environmental education.
For more information on the
public sessions or a copy of the
Environmental Readiness for the
21st Century report, visit the
Pennsylvania Center for Envi
ronmental Education’s website at
www.pcee.state.pa.us (Under the
“Explore” category, click “EE
Research”).
and 4 percent below last quarter.
The number of sows farrowed
during the September-November
2000 quarter at 73,000 was 1,000
below last quarter and last year.
Pigs saved per litter averaged
BJO and was down from the
same period last year and last
quarter.
Ohio producers intend to far
row 71,000 sows during the De
cember-February 2002 quarter;
2,000 head less than a year
earlier. Farrowing intentions for
the spring quarter, March-May
2002, are 70,000 sows 3,000
head less than the same quarter
of 2001.
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