Farm Show Facts
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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.
The Pennsylvania Marketplace
features a variety of Pennsylva
nia companies promoting their
own snack foods, candy, spices
processed meats, condiments,
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General Complex operation in
cludes 348 full- and part-time,
represented by three different
unions. 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.
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closes at 4 p.m. on the last day.
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Issues Of2ool-2002 General Assembly
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The 2001-2002 General
Assembly acted on issues vitally
important to agriculture, includ
ing the following measures high
lighted by the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau (PFB):
• Water Resources Planning
Legislation was sent to the gover
nor that commits the state to de
velop a plan for managing its
water resources. The measure
sets a multi-year planning pro
cess in motion. It does not in
clude any requirements for
water-usage permits or regula
tions. 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)
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• 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
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. The
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tion and release of two new eco
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better describe for commercial
producers what they might ex-
pect from their purebred Here
ford bull purchases. The new
EPD trait categories were intro
duced in August.
The traits, Calving Ease Direct
(CEd) and Calving Ease Mater
nal (CEm), take into considera
tion both birth-weight and calv
ing-ease scores to predict a bull’s
ability to sire easy calving off
spring and/or the ability for a
sire’s daughters to calve easily.
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self, and describes in percentage
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• Game Land Management
Legislation was derailed that
would have directed the Game
Commission to maximize wildlife
populations on game lands. (H.B.
1983)
• Water Well Regulation
Legislation was stopped that
would not have provided ade
quate funding for the closing of
abandoned water wells. (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.
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