AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 12, 2003 OPINION Farm Show Champion We can’t think of a more challenging job in this world (perhaps other than U.S. president) than being director of the largest indoor ag event the Farm Show. Being director of the Farm Show Complex requires superhuman flexibility, great determination, a mannered temper, and fantastic peo ple skills. Dennis Grumbine lion. With Grumbine’s help ih better Farm Show as a result, tion. For his part in helping “hammer out” the vast and much-needed improvements to Farm Show, for his work with giving major recogni tion to the number one “world-class event” all of us know as the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and for his many contributions to Pennsyl vania agriculture, we salute Dennis Grumbine in all his endeavors. Saturday, April 1 2 Bucks County Extension Living on a Few Acres Workshop field trip, 9 a.m.-noon, (215) 345-3283. Northampton County 4-H Tack Swap, 4-H Center, Nazareth, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., (610) 837-7294. 33rd Annual Maryland State Holstein Show, Titnonium Editor: “You’ve got to love the work.” “It is certainly not the pay!” “We’re on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” Farming? No, this is how a small group of township supervi sors from Indiana County de scribes their job. One of the most disheartening situations to affect Pennsylvania Agriculture is the lack of public interest and respect for farming and rural life, according to Mike Pechart of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Many families no longer have any direct relationship to agricul ture. People are building and moving to rural areas with no thought about what it means to live in an active farming commu nity. When the dust flies, or smells Those have always been trade marks of Dennis Grumbine. We are reminded of a photo that ran in the October 15, 1994 issue (on page A 23) of Lancaster Farming that featured Grum bine, on the far right, along with Tom Ridge, in the center, holding a hammer and anvil, along with Bev Gruber during the Keystone International Livestock Expo fes tivities at Farm Show. (We also ran the photo on page E 32 of the Farm Show Showcase section of Jan. 4 this year). We should have known that in his campaign, Ridge, “ham mering out” his plans for a “new Pennsylvania,” would someday result in hammering out work in building a brand-new Farm Show Complex to the tune of $B6 mil promoting Ridge, we have a new and which has garnered national recogni- Fairgrounds, 9:30 a.m., (301) 271-0048. Penn State Little International Livestock Exposition. Ag Arena, 8 a.m. Advanced Pastured Poultry Workshop, Albany, N.Y., (518)427-6537. Penn State Dairy Exposition, (Turn to Page A 37) v. < * -r Jut * v Farm Forum ❖ N . > . . s.. » * <- «t. ir'V <t ift/. arise or, when tractors run all hours or large, slow equipment is on the roadway, these “new” rural people are on the telephone calling someone anyone to make the farmer stop. Often times the township su pervisor gets the call first. Most Indiana County township supervisors have been rurally raised and are supportive of farm operations. Occasionally a group will form to stop farming prac tices and it is essential that farm ers have formed a relationship with their elected officials, and neighbors, before problems arise. Farmers, in the northern end of the county, have had good re sponses from their supervisors when complaints were registered. These supervisors are quick to (Turn to Page A 35) To Protect Water Quality With Information From Farm-A-Syst Publications Everyday farm management prac tices affect the water quality around Pennsylvania’s farms. Two new pub lications from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences will help pro ducers protect water quality by fo cusing on silage storage and animal waste storage. The publications are part of the Farm-A-Syst series, which is de signed to help farmers learn more about their farming practices and fa cilities and how they are protecting water quality for farm families and neighboring residents. “Farm-A-Syst Worksheet 8: Silage Storage Management” is an eight page publication that helps farmers evaluate water protection related to silage storage and handling condi tions. The worksheet utilizes criteria such as crop moisture content, stor age location, silo condition, and ef fluent disposal. More than 7 million tons of com silage were harvested and stored in Pennsylvania in 2000. “When prop erly harvested and stored, silage THREE LITTLE WORDS Background Scripture: Mark 14:1-25. Devotional Reading: Matthew 26:17-30. If I had been Jesus and suspected or knew that my earthly life was soon to end, I would have been apprehen sive not only of the how and why of it, but also over the readiness of the 12 who were to carry on this minis try. We don’t know how long they were with him: it could have been several years or only one. Regardless, these men hardly seemed ready. They still didn’t seem to grasp what Jesus was teaching them. This is apparent in the little inci dent in the house of Simon the Tan ner in Bethany. A woman entered the house and, breaking a jar of costly ointment, she poured the contents over his head. The reaction of the disciples was al most instantaneous: “Why was this ointment thus wasted? For this oint ment might have been sold for more than three denarii and given to the poor” (14:4,5). Mark tells us “And they reproached her.” ' They had been wrong so many : Lancaster Farming An Award-Winning Farm Newspaper • PDA Friend of Agriculture Award, 2003 • Keystone Awards 1993,1995 • PennAg Industries 1992 • PACD Media Award 1996 • Berks Ag-Business Council 2000 • Recognized for photo excellence throughout the years by the Northeast Farm Communicators poses little or no pollution threat,” said author Les Lanyon, professor of soil science and management. “How ever, improper silage-making and storage can result in liquid effluents that affect water. Poor silage man agement also can cause gases, maio dors, undesirable microorganisms, and waste or spoiled silage.” “Farm-A-Syst Worksheet 9: Ani mal Waste Storage and Manage ment” is an eight-page document that provides farmers with step-by step methods to analyze their farm’s site conditions, waste facilities, stor age capacity, and management pro cedures. “Almost every livestock farm stores manure at some time during the year,” said Lanyon. “Runoff from livestock production facilities can carry manure, soil, microorgan isms, and other potential pollutants. If not managed properly, animal wastes can negatively affect water quality and human health.” Both publications show how an evaluation of site conditions and farm facilities can aid in developing personal, voluntary action plans that reduce pollution risks for farm fami lies and neighboring residents. Farm-A-Syst is a cooperative ef fort of Penn State Cooperative Ex tension, Pennsylvania Natural Re sources Conservation Service, and other state agriculture and conserva tion agencies. The program regularly produces publications on farm man agement and water resource issues. Single copies of Worksheet 8 and Worksheet 9 can be obtained free of charge by contacting any Penn State Cooperative Extension county office or by calling the College of Agricul tural Sciences Publications Distribu tion Center at (814) 865-6713. Copies of these and other farm management publications also can be found on the Web at http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/. To Congratulate Penn State Entomologist Dr. Consnelo De Moraes Research on the chemical relation ships between plants and insects by a Penn State entomologist has earned her a 2002 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Dr. Consuelo De Moraes, assistant professor of entomology, is the first times, you’d think they would have waited to see how Jesus reacted be fore forming their conclusion. But, typically, their mouths preceded their minds and they were re proached in turn by Jesus: “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me... She has anointed my body be forehand for burying.” And then, to rub salt in their self-inflicted wounds, Jesus says; “ ‘And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her” (14:6-9). This doesn’t mean that the woman necessarily also knew of his impending death, but that Jesus chose to interpret her magnanimous act in that manner. One Of You We see Jesus’ awareness even more clearly in the Last Supper. Eat ing with his disciples in the “large upper room furnished,” Jesus as tounded them when he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me” (14:18). Some people have difficulty in ac cepting that Jesus knew or suspected his betrayal by Judas. I do not, be cause I remember that, before he was assassinated, Lincoln had a dream in which he saw his body lying in state in the capitol. President Kennedy had a similar dream the night before he was assassinated. So, why should the premonition of Jesus bother us? Then there are those disturbing words spoken by some or all of the disciples: “Is it I?” Am I the one you just mentioned? Some readers inter pret these questions to reflect genu ine anxiety on the part of the disci ples. But why should they be anxious, unless, of course, there were some thoughts of betrayal in their minds? Perhaps this “Is it I?” is more entomologist and the first faculty member in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences to win the prestigious honor. De Moraes will re ceive a personal research grant of $625,000 from the Packard Founda tion, to be allocated over a five-year period. Each year, the foundation se lects up to 20 of the nation’s most promising university professors to re ceive the award. De Moraes was cho sen last year by Penn State President Graham Spanier to be one of the two professors nominated from Penn State. De Moraes’ research focuses on the chemical communication of plants and the defensive responses of plants to insect feeding. When at tacked by insect pests, plants release complex blends of airborne chemicals with odor molecules that can be in terpreted by insects as warning mes sages, distress signals, and invita tions. According to De Moraes, they are also important location cues for other insects that are natural enemies of the pests. “I discovered that these chemical signals are keyed to individual pests and that natural enemies of the pests, such as parasitic wasps, exploit the signals to locate them,” said De Mo raes. “Subsequently, I found that these signals differ from day to night and that pest female moths utilize nighttime signals when choosing plants on which to lay eggs.” The discovery that plants produce information-rich chemical signals in response to specific environmental stimuli holds potential for technolog ical advances in both agriculture and environmental sensing. De Moraes’ continued research may someday be applied to the development of new agricultural techniques and crop va rieties that could enhance plant resis tance to pests. De Moraes received her bachelor’s degree in ecology in 1992 from the Universidade Federal de Minas Ge rais in Brazil. In 1998, she earned a doctoral degree in entomology from the University of Georgia. She joined Penn State’s department of entomol ogy in 2001. Quote Of The Week: “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ” Martin Luther a self-serving protest of innocence: surely, you don’t mean me? Isn’t that how most of us would react? We would never betray Jesus. Judas did, but then Judas was a bad guy. Some think that Jesus said this so that Judas would realize that Jesus already knew what he was doing. But I believe that Jesus’ “one of you will betray me” was also di rected at the other 11. Judas was going to betray him this very night, but all of them would be tempted to betray him at some time. Is It I? Just as this accusation was appro priate for each of the 12, so it is ap propriate for us today. In “Against The Sun,” Ann Jackson writes of Judas: “Men take the price of treachery And swear their hands are clean.” So swear we all even though we claim him as Lord and then live our lives by standards that deny the both the words and spirit of his gospel One of the clients of Whistler, the painter, told him that one of his paintings would not fit into his room. “Man, you can’t make the picture fit the room,” said Whistler, “You must make the room fit the picture.” When we make the gospel fit us in stead of fitting ourselves to it, we need not ask, “Is it I?” We have al ready betrayed him. (Apologies: in some editions of this column that appeared elsewhere, the Background Scripture and Devotion al Reading for the March 2 Bible Speaks were in error: they should have been respectively Mark 1:1-45 and Luke 4:14-21.\ Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building 1 E. Main St. Ephrata, PA 17522 —by— Lancaster Farming, Inc. 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