Farm Show Facts (Continued from Page E 6) The Farm Show sponsors an International Day. The interna tional guests are invited to come and sample Pennsylvania Agri culture. In 2002 there were more than 224 representatives from more than 71 different countries. In 2002 the Pennsylvania Farm Show conducted the 6th annual Pennsylvania Wine Competition. In 2002 the Pennsylvania Farm Show conducted the fourth annual Juried Art Exposition to benefit the Farm Show Schol arship Foundation. A new program, Link-To- Learn, was introduced at the 2001 Farm Show. This program enabled rural school districts to experience the Farm Show from their classroom. Through Link- To-Learn, schools with telecon ferencing capabilities were able to communicate with individuals in the Family Learning and Agricul tural Learning Center. In 2001, the Farm Show expanded the Link-To-Leam into a Teleconfer encing Center. One of the growing attractions is the Pennsylvania Marketplace. 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The Complex is staffed 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. A 10-member Farm Show Com mission establishes policy for the Complex. The Farm Show executive di rector heads operation of the Complex. The Complex is host to more than 200 events and houses a professional indoor soccer team, the Harrisburg Heat. As one of the most utilized fa cilities in the nation, the Complex generates business that amounts to more than $4BO million of eco nomic impact to the capitol re gion annually and creates more than 4,200 full- or part-time jobs. The 2003 Pennsylvania Farm Show is scheduled for Jan. 11-18. Tentative hours of operation for the Pennsylvania Farm Show are 8 a.m.-9 p.m. daily. The show closes at 4 p.m. on the last day. 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The legislation includes many of Farm Bureau’s water policy goals. (H.B. 2302) • Loans for Capital Projects A measure was approved that provides low-interest farm loans for land, buddings and equip ment under the Small Business First program. (Acts 115 & 120) • Farmland Preservation Funding A budget oversight was corrected to allow the state to complete its five-year $lOO million “Growing Greener” fund ing commitment to farmland preservation. (S.B. 1528) • Lawsuit Abuse Reform Legislation reformed Pennsylva nia’s legal system to cut down on “lawsuit lottery” whereby attor neys go after defendants for huge settlements no matter how much a defendant is actually at fault. (Act 57) :rm equipment Goliath Unloaders • Crop Insurance Subsidies State funding was continued to help farmers pay crop insurance premiums. (Act 7A) • Veterinary Care Farm Bu reau played a watchdog role in making sure that legislation up dating the state’s veterinary prac tice law would not prevent farm ers from treating their own animals. (H.B. 1742) • Ag Research and Extension Funding While the final bud get did not provide needed in creases for ag research and exten sion programs, a five percent spending cut originally proposed by the Governor was prevented. • Farm Truck Restrictions Legislation was corrected which would have reduced the 25-mile travel radius to 10 miles for some farm exempt trucks. (H.B. 2410) • Expanded Pesticide Regula tions Farm Bureau worked to make sure that legislation requir ing student and parental notifica tion about pesticide spraying at schools does not impose any new restrictions on farmers. (Act 36) • Sunday Hunting Several bills were stopped which would have established Sunday hunting. American Hereford Association Launches Two New EPDs KANSAS CITY, Mo. 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(H.B. 1591) “Our biggest disappointment was the House of Representatives failure to vote on Senate Bill 1413 which would have enabled farm ers to recover legal fees if a court finds that a township knowingly violated the law when adopting a local ordinance regulating agri culture,” said Guy F. Donaldson, president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. “You can be sure Farm Bureau will expand its campaign to achieve an acceptable outcome,” said the statewide leader. More information about these and other issues can be obtained at www.pfb.com. Go to the PFB Legislative Update in the “Legis lative Resources” section. points how much easier (+) or more difficult (-) one can expect births by a sire to be on the aver age. For instance, a CEd of 8 would indicate that one should expect the calves by that sire to calve easier than the breeds aver- age sire 8 percent of the time, when viewed over a population of cattle. Likewise, CEm expresses dif ferences in the calving ease of a sires daughters over a popula tion. A CEm of -3 would indicate that one should expect the daughters of a particular sire to have 3 percent greater than breed average difficulty at their first calving time. The ability of AHA to make CEd and CEm predictions is backed up by data compiled on more than two million head of Herefords. 1
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