Exclusive to Lancaster Fanning Fastline Publishing To Exhibit At Farm Show BUCKNER, Ky. Matt Con iglio of Fastline is happy that the Pennsylvania Farm Show is drawing the ag community back to the annual weeklong event in Harrisburg. As a publisher of 29 magazines nationwide, including 22 picture buying guides for farm equip ment, Fastline’s core customers come from the field of agricul ture. “We’re a resource to the farm er to help them find equipment. Our goal is to try and put buyers and sellers together, “ Coniglio said of the company that was founded in 1978. “We are return ing to the Farm Show because of the new emphasis on agricul ture.” Cattlemen Finalizing Contracts For BSE Research McDonald’s Grant Helps Propel Process DENVER, Colol Contracts are being finalized that will help bring the subject of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) under clearer focus. The research is being funded through $l.l million in beef checkoff funds and a $500,000 grant from McDonald’s Corpora tion. The project is being coordinat ed for the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and state beef councils by the National Cattlemen’s Beef First Union Pennsylvania/Delaware Agri-Finance Relationship Management Team * Hanover 717-633-4003 (Seated). Damn Boyd ■ SVP, Director of Agri-Finance ♦ Lancaster 717-291-3519 (Standing left to right) Blame Fessler ■ VP, Business Banking Relationship Mgr, Clay Thomson - VP, Commercial Banking Senior Relationship Mgr, Roger Rohrer - VP, Business Banking Senior Relationship Mgr, Ted Bowers - VP, Business Banking Relationship Mgr Agri-Finance Support Team (not pictured): Business Banking Senior Sales Associates: Ann Marie Barr, Lancaster, Jill Bronder, Lancaster, Sandra Fellers, Hanover, »» i f i f I’crv i < 11 ? ( <,m i». im r jt» i unoi u : ii Farm Show 2003 Exhibitor Spotlight Coniglio, Fastline’s Northeast sales representative, said that the Farm Show will provide opportu nities for new contacts in agribu siness circles. The company is al ready represented at more than 40 trade shows across the country and hosts a Website advertising more than SO,OOO pieces of farm equipment online. “We’re excited that the Farm Show is putting the emphasis back on farmers and reaching out to the ag community again,” Coniglio said. Coniglio and other company representatives will be on hand at Fastline’s display each day of the upcoming Farm Show, set for Jan 11-18. Association (NCBA) Research and Knowledge Management staff. The Beef Board oversees the sl-per-head beef checkoff. Members of the BSE Scientific Working Group reviewed 17 pro posals received from research or ganizations across the U.S. These proposals were generated through a “request for proposal” process that identified the specif ic goals the Working Group wanted to accomplish. The group’s five topic areas consisted of basic research, diag- Linda Hildebrand, Reading, and Dorma Schreiner, Lancaster. Commercial Senior Sales Associate: Patfidq Copmes, Lancaster Lamb Board Meets, Elects Officers WASHINGTON, D.C. USDA has announced the offi cers elected to the Lamb Promo tion, Research, and Information Board. The election took place at the board’s inaugural meeting Nov. 6-7. The board met to discuss, de velop, and implement the provi sions of the Lamb Promotion, Re search, and Information Order. Under the order, which became effective in April, the board will conduct a coordinated program of promotion, research, and in formation to maintain and ex pand markets for lamb and lamb products. The board also approved of a $2.6 million budget and estab lished a number of program com mittees. More Than $4.3 Million Will Support Watershed Restoration Projects HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Department of Environ mental Protection (DEP) Secre tary David E. Hess recently an nounced more than $4.3 million to fund watershed restoration projects, including farmland con servation projects, under the Growing Greener Program. “Growing Greener represents the next generation of environ- nostics, “Beef Quality Assur ance” Best Management Prac tices, eradication and rendering technologies. Topics of final proposals ranged from basic research of prion proteins to Chronic Wast ing Disease in deer and CWD re lationships to Transmittable Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE). Twelve-month contracts with investigating bodies are ex pected to be finalized by the end of the year, with results available by early 2004. tt, y'i' * At the inaugural meeting, the board elected the following offi cers: chairman - Thomas A. Kourlis of Englewood, Colo.; vice chairman - William R. Brennan of Sioux Falls, S.D.; treasurer - W. David Winters of Del Rio, Texas; secretary - Margaret C. Magruder of Clats kanie. Ore. The board is comprised of 13 members, including six producer representatives, three feeder rep resentatives, three first handler representatives, and one seedstock producer representa tive. To finance the activities of the program, domestic lamb produc ers, feeders, seedstock producers, and exporters pay one-half cent ($.005) per pound of live lambs mental protection programs, sup porting community- and water shed-based projects that build partnerships to accomplish their goals,” Secretary Hess said. “So far this year, more than $33.7 million has been awarded to sup port watershed restoration proj ects, which was matched by an other $66.7 million from local partners.” A $900,000 Growing Greener grant is being awarded to the Pennsylvania Association of Con servation Districts (PACD) to support the installation of conser vation practices on farms through the Conservation Re serve Enhancement Program (CREP). “The PACD is pleased to be able to provide Growing Greener funds on behalf of DEP to farm ers participating in the CREP program,” said Susan Fox, Exec utive Director of the PACD. “This grant will assist farmers to implement conservation best- We Salute Oar faming Industry could be more important to your success than a financial team amirnitud to agiu uhun Rain. 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For more informa tion, contact Kenneth Payne, AMS Livestock and Seed Mar keting Programs Branch Chief, USDA Stop 0251, 1400 Indepen dence Ave. SW, Washington EXT 2025-0251; phone (202) 720-1115. Forms are also available at http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/ mpb/rp-lamb.htm. management practices on their farms that will improve water quality and promote wildlife hab itat.” CREP is a federal program where the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) partners with states to reduce sediment or nutrient runoff from agricultural land. The USDA provides 50 per cent of the funds necessary to in stall conservation measures, such as filter strips, permanent vegeta tive cover or riparian buffers. “With help from Growing Greener, Pennsylvania farmers are able to do much more to pro tect our watersheds from the ef fects of excessive nutrient and sediment loading due to agricul tural runoff,” Secretary Hess said. “These funds wUI help Pennsylvania farmers in 20 coun ties within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to protect the bay.” This year the Growing Greener Program has provided a total of $2.2 million to support the CREP Program.
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