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Wool Pools Set
CANTON (Bradford Co.) In
Pennsylvania, the old practice of
fanners packing wool into bags
for sale to markets has returned.
For the last several years, the
market price for wool has been
depressed and the cost of grading
and packing wool was equal or
close to the market price. The co
operatives deductions were al
most equal to the gross price for
the wool.
To add insult to the low prices,
farmers often gave up another
day from their busy schedules to
help at the wool pool.
During these times of de
pressed prices, some of the coop
eratives have been coordinating
trucks that stop at convenient
sites near to the sheep farms. The
farmers then help each other load
Kids and adults joined in
the task of packing large
bags with wool that was
collected at last year’s
wool pool.
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the wool bags onto the truck.
When the wool reaches the buy
ers warehouse, they weigh and
grade each producer’s wool and
send the check directly to the
producer.
This system is based on the
premise that the buyer must treat
producers fairly if he wants to
continue a long-term relation
ship.
This year, the price for wool
has increased to the point where
the wool pools which grade and
pack wool could return to their
normal methods. Many coopera
tives are electing to use the meth
od of loading bags direct from the
producer as a way to return more
of the wool money to the produc
er.
The Potter-Tioga Wool Pro
ducers will be collecting wool
June 22 at four stops 8 a.m. at
Roulette in Potter County, 10:30
a.m. at Whitneyville Fairgrounds
in Tioga County, 1 p.m. at Can
ton in Bradford County, and 3
p.m. at Doeblers in Lycoming
County.
The Northeast cooperative will
be picking up wool at 8 a.m. in
Laceyville on June 15. Northum
berland will be picking up wool
at 12:30 p.m. on June 15.
Mifflin County will be picking
up wool near Belleville June 25.
Centre County will be picking up
wool on June 25 at the Grange
Fairgrounds.
Cumberland combined pools
will be operating June 19 at Car
lisle Fairgrounds. Anyone inter
ested should confirm procedures
and times with their local direc
tors.
For more information, call
Don Norman at (570) 324-3562.
Lycoming County Man Named
‘Conservation Volunteer Of The Year’
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Department of Conserva
tion and Natural Resource’s
(DCNR) Bureau of Forestry offi
cials have recognized a Lycoming
County resident’s continuous
years of dedicated volunteer serv
ice that began while he was em
ployed in the Tiadaghton State
Forest District.
Robert Webber of Slate Run
was named “Conservation Vol
unteer of the Year” in a recent
ceremony in the state forestlands
that benefited from his volunteer
ism even before he retired from
the Bureau of Forestry in 1988.
“Bob got a head start on many
of our dedicated DCNR volun
teers who often find increased
time after retirement,” said John
Program For Turfgrass Technicians Offered
UNIVERSITY PARK
(Centre Co.) A program of
fered by Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences will help
meet the needs of the turfgrass
and agricultural equipment in
dustry for highly qualified serv
ice technicians to keep equip
ment in top condition.
The Turfgrass and Agricul
tural Equipment (TAE) Service
Technician Certificate program
will create technicians for this
service area.
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Plonski, DCNR executive deputy
secretary for parks and forestry.
“Officially, he has been a volun
teer the past 14 years since retir
ing as a labor foreman, but even
while employed by the bureau he
volunteered countless hours
plowing snow, working on trails,
and greeting the public.
Webber is the second individu
al to be honored this year by
DCNR as a “Conservation Vol
unteer of the Year.” Dale Hilde
brand of Mountaintop, Luzerne
County, was honored April 22 at
Nescopeck State Park for devot
ing more than 100 volunteer
hours in 2001 to that park, as
well as nearby Lehigh Gorge and
Hickory Run state parks.
In 2001, Webber, Hildebrand
and hundreds of other conserva
“The turfgrass and agricultural
equipment industries report
shortages of qualified technicians
wanting and able to work in the
industry,” says Doug Schaufler,
instructor in the department of
agricultural and biological engi
neering. “The Engine and Equip
ment Council estimates a short
age of 30,000 qualified
technicians.”
Developed with input from in
dustry representatives, this two
year certificate program will be
tion volunteers logged more than
550,000 hours in the state’s 116
state parks and 2.1 million acres
of state forestland. They helped
build trails, clean up debris and
trash, serve as hosts or educators,
conduct scientific research, and
perform other natural resources
volunteer work.
Many state parks and forests
are looking for volunteers for
“spring cleanup” activities. Sev
eral parks also are looking for
people to serve as campground
hosts. Those interested in becom
ing conservation volunteers can
contact any state park or forest
district office, or visit DCNR’s
website through the PA Power-
Port at www.state.pa.us, PA, Key
words: “state parks,” or “for
ests.”
offered at the University Park
campus over a two-year sequence
of four eight-week sessions. The
first session starts in October
2002.
“Offering the TAE program in
four eight-week sessions each year
allows individuals to work in the
turf grass and agricultural equip
ment industry when not at
school,” says Dr. James Hilton,
associate professor of agricultural
engineering and education.
Sessions will be offered back-to
back. The fall session
runs from October
through December, and
the spring session runs
from January through
March 2003.
The first year curric
ulum includes mathe
matics for turfgrass and
agricultural service
technicians, hydraulic
applications, engine
technology, electrical
systems, computer ba
sics and applications,
safe equipment trans
port and shop practice,
communications and
public relations, power
transmission applica
tions, turfgrass and ag
ricultural equipment,
and business concepts.
The following sub
jects will be covered
during the second year:
electronic applications,
electro-hydraulics and
hydrostatics, agronomy
or turfgrass principles,
machinery management
for turfgrass, written
communications and
agriculture business ap
plications, inventory
management, agricul
tural equipment opera
tion, shop management,
turfgrass and agricul
tural equipment opera
tion, irrigation systems
and water management,
power units, traction
and weight transfer and
diagnostics, repair and
maintenance.
Optional workshops
may include welding
and metal working,
plastics use and repair,
painting, inventory con
trol, safety management
and other mechanical,
business and manage
ment concepts.
The curriculum cov
ers more than just en
gines, hydraulics and
electrical systems,
according to Hilton. It
also includes equipment
operation and adjust
ment, plus computer,
business and manage
ment skills.