Vol. 47 No. 24
Scottish Cattle At Home In Pennsylvania Pastures
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Farming Staff
WASHINGTON BORO
(Lancaster Co.) The
McCreight family started in the
Brian McCreight, Washington Boro, owns both cross and
fullbred Belted Galloway animals. Even crossbred calves
will exhibit the familiar white band, a dominant trait.
CANARI May Be Necessary To Fight Agroterrorism
ANDY ANDREWS
Editor
UNIVERSITY PARK
(Centre Co.) Agroterrorism is
not only potentially deadly for
our food chain, but could create
catastrophic events in terms of
unemployment.
According to one expert, there
Unity Rally Draws Attention To Agriculture’s Challenges
At an ag unity rally in Harrisburg Monday, Sen. Roger Madigan, at the podium, spoke
about the importance of communication between producers and their neighbors and
community leaders. Madigan has sponsored Senate Bill 826. Photo by Michelle Kunjappu
www.lancasterfarming.com
Belted Galloway business with a
surprise.
A surprise for wife Paula, ac
tually. Although she had ad
mired the animals, she was still
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are four major poultry
producing areas in Alabama. If
multiple sites were infected by
avian influenza (A. 1.) by agro
terrorists, 24 million workers
could be affected. That includes
37,000 directly involved with the
industry, forcing applications
for unemployment benefits sky
Four Sections
The breed’s protective instinct is useful in western states, where they are integrated
into sheep flocks to keep the coyotes and wolves at bay. Photos by Michelle Kunjappu
rocketing to $3O million es
sentially bankrupting the state’s
unemployment compensation
abilities, according to Bob
Norton, associate professor of
poultry science, Auburn Univer
sity.
Norton spoke during the gen
eral session at the start of the
Saturday, April 13,2002
two-day annual Penn State
sponsored Pennsylvania Poultry
Sales and Service Conference
Tuesday at the Nittany Lion
Inn.
About 120 who registered for
the event were told that in the
event of a multiple-region out
break such as A.I. in Alabama,
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania’s three
largest agriculture organizations
gathered on the steps of the Cap
itol rotunda Monday afternoon
to demonstrate unity and call at
tention to issues facing the
changing industry.
More than 300 members of
the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau,
Cattle Gift Creates Bond
Between African Village, U.S.
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) No one suspected the
far-reaching effects that a gift of
cattle in 1987 would have upon
the lives of villagers in a remote
area of West Africa.
“It changed our lives. The gift
went far beyond economical as
sistance. It created a bond that
cannot be measured,” Umaru
Sule said of the role Heifer Inter
national played in helping Cam
eroon receive financial and
emotional healing after a crater
erupted under water in Lake
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what Norton calls the “Detroit
of the South,” he said, “our gov
ernment is not equipped at this
point to deal with this.”
But a proposed, integrated
system is called CANARI, or
Consolidated American Net
work For Ag Resource Intelli
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PennAg Industries Association,
and the Pennsylvania State
Grange stood together on the
stairs along with legislators, sev
eral of whom gave a speech
during the afternoon event.
“We are here to show you that
Pennsylvania’s three largest ag
riculture groups are united,”
said Guy Donaldson, president
of the Pennsylvania Farm
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Nysos and blanketed the region
with a thick cloud of carbon
dioxide. The poisonous gas
killed 1,700 people and 400 head
of cattle.
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Junior All-Pa.
Holstein
Winners
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