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,
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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
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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
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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.\
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