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Vol. 48 No. 20
Lancaster Farming’s Boarder & Trainer this issue includes ways to improve horse
health using a new treadmill developed at the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical
Center in Leesburg, Va. Also included: highlights of a steeplechase in Leesburg,
Va., the work of farriers, and more.
Hundreds Of FFA’ers At 2003 State Legislative Leadership Conference
HARRISBURG P>auphln Co.) More than 320 Pennsylvania FFA members and
advisers assembled on the steps of the state capitol last Sunday during the 16th
Annual FFA TTlsfn Wriilatlvn Leadership Conference (SLLC). This year the state
officers and aecomSear scholars were responsible for putting together a new
version of SLLC, complete with a House of Representatives and a Senate. Abopt
www.lancasterfarming.com
Five Sections
Saturday, March 15, 2003
Ag’s Future, Ethanol Plans
On Slate At Issues Forum
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
It’s no secret that Lancaster
County farms and agribusinesses
are a major part of the local
economy.
But the “increasing tension of
coexistence” with neighbors calls
for a change in tactics, according
to Tom Baldrige, president of the
Lancaster Chamber of Com
merce and Industry.
Dairy Success Strategy:
Watch Overall Herd Health
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Of all the diseases for a dairy
veterinarian to treat, one stands
out as particularly insidious.
That distinction goes to bovine
viral diarrhea, or BVD, according
to Charles Gardner, DVM for
Agway.
The disease, Gardner told
more than 80 producers and
dairy industry representatives, is
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“Agriculture is both significant
and essential,” Baldrige said at
an ag issues forum at Landis Val
ley Museum here Thursday. “Yet
for all its importance, it is not the
most significant aspect of our
local economy. The fact is, we are
a manufacturing-driven county.”
The manufacturing sector pro
vides one of every three jobs and
40 percent of the wages, and
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“more common than you think,”
he said. It can strike all bovines,
not just dairy animals
Gardner told those who at
tended the Lancaster County
Family Dairy Day on Monday
that if they want to purchase
dairy animals, consider BVD and
“understand how it works.”
Gardner was one of several
speakers at the annual Dairy Day
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