New Bolton*'s Garden Yields A Harvest Of Education MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Lancaster Farming Staff KENNETT SQUARE (Chest er Co.) The landscape of the New Bolton Center is changing as toxic and poisonous plants move in. The invasion of these plants, however, is not cause for concern but part of a “teaching garden” for students and visitors to the Center, which is the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veteri nary Medicine. “In class we cover about 30 different plants, both indigenous to Pennsylvania and otherwise, so we’ll put in plants for the classes,” said Dr. Robert Pop penga, associate professor of vet erinary toxicology, who de termined which plants to include in the garden. He added that the large animal owners who spend the day on the premises, waiting as their ani mals are treated, could take the opportunity to learn about poi sonous pasture plants. Volunteers from Penn State’s Chester County Master Garden ers designed and installed the unique garden. Tuesday’s work included breaking ground for a wildflower bed. Project leaders hope to have several beds planted by the end of May. Phase two will be the con struction of a stone area with benches and pots, plus the addi tion of a pergola. The instruction tool will devel op “as resources permit,” said Poppenga. Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order Uniform Price For March 2003 BOSTON, Mass. Erik F. Rasmussen, market administra tor for the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order, has an nounced that the statistical un iform price (SUP) paid by milk dealers (handlers) regulated under the Northeast Order dur ing March 2003 is $11.43 per hundredweight ($0.98 per gallon) for milk delivered to plants locat ed in Suffolk County, Mass. (Bos ton). The producer price differen tial (PPD) portion of the SUP for March is $2.32 per hundred weight for milk delivered to plants located in Suffolk County, Mass. The PPD ($2.32) combined with the corresponding month’s We °ff er the following services for the most complete pest control possible. Whether your need is to control pests, eliminate harmful bacteria ; or encourage beneficial insects, we have the tools to help you. FLY CONTROL ■(Uf Water-based liquid 3% Pyrethrins FLY PARASITES 15/000 Colony $15.00 25/000 Colony $20.00 Shipping is Additional The plants will be labeled and a map will be available to direct visitors to trees and shrubs such as Red Maple and Black Lo cust already located on the grounds in other locations, he said. Besides labeling the plants, he plans to provide information on which animals are impacted if they ingest the plant. Problems with toxic plants in the mid-Atlantic area are “more sporadic, and not as common be cause we don’t have the numbers of plants that they have out west in Wyoming, Utah, or Colorado, where they make a major eco nomic impact.” From left Master Gardeners Lena VonLuehrte, Thomas Bare, project coordinator, and Alice Hall work on phase one of the project. Hall plans to help provide plants from her gardening business. “As we pull them from our cus tomers’ properties, we will bring them and plant them here,” she said. Class 111 price ($9.11) equals the SUP ($11.43). The SUP represents a bench mark minimum price paid to dairy farmers, prior to allowable deductions, for farm milk con taining 3.S percent butterfat, 2.99 percent protein, and 5.69 percent other solids. The actual price re ceived by an individual dairy farmer will vary, as the composi tion of a farm’s milk differs from the component benchmarks. The PPD represents each producer’s share of the value generated by the marketwide pool. The PPD is added to the payment producers receive for their milk’s compo nents and is adjusted for the loca &M "Unique Farm Services” CLARK • Licensed Er Insured 717.361.6065 • Fax: 717.361.0867 cnoflies@paonline.com Flies and beetles are susceptible to many naturally occurring diseases. Applied twice a week, BALANCE (a naturally occurring fungus) works to reduce the adult fly & beetle population. BALANCE Controls adult flies , \ Call for pricing KWIK BAIT v* $l2O/40 lb. pail PLUS complete supplies for the do-it-yourselfer ..... SAVE T1ME..... we can do if for you! $B7/gallon However, “I get calls on what plants can be in pastures around here, it’s more that peo ple want information to avoid poisonings than there are actual poisonings.” Not all of the plants pack the same punch for animals. Ingest ing only 6-8 ounces of the yew, for example, “can kill a cow,” however an animal can ingest “quite a bit” of milkweed, “de pending on the size of the ani mal.” - Fortunately, “a lot of forages are not very palatable,” said Pop penga, so if livestock “get a de cent opportunity to get forage tion of the receiving plant(s). The SUP and PPD decrease by sched uled amounts the further away the plant(s) receiving the produc ers’ milk are from Suffolk Coun ty, Mass. (Boston). The class prices for milk pool ed in March are as follows: Class I, $13.06 (Suffolk County, Mass.); Class 11, $10.54; Class 111, $9.11; and Class IV, $9.79. Comparable prices for March 2002 were: Class I, $14.87; Class 11, $12.19; Class 111, $10.65; and Class IV price, $11.42. The component values for March 2003 are protein, $1.6648 per pound; butterfat, $1.1459 per pound; other solids, $0.0206 per pound; and nonfat solids, $0.6651 per pound. Farm Services Elizabethtown • Pennsylvania from the pas ture, they gener ally leave the poisonous plants alone, but I think it’s good for farmers to know what’s in their pasture,” he said. Poppenga hopes that stu dents will also have the oppor tunity to help with the gar vTter Project coordinators and volunteers class there’s al- from Penn State ’ s Chester County Master wavs a core Gardeners planned, designed, and began group of stu- to install the unique garden Tuesday. dents interested in plants, and we’re hoping to hire them to help maintain the garden over the summer,” he said Native plants which Poppenga hopes to put in the garden are rhododendron, mountain laurel, lupine, larkspur, Japanese yews, milkweed, poison hemlock, and digitalis. Master Gardener Craig Rybin ski, a landscaper, designed the project and planned the construc tion phases. Milk receipts from producers totaled 2.150 billion pounds. Class I utilization, milk processed as beverage milk, was 41.3 per cent of producer milk receipts. The Class I utilization was 39.2 percent ki March 2002. The manufacture of Class II products such as cream, ice cream, yogurt, and cottage cheese utilized 18.8 percent of producer milk. Milk used to manufacture Class 111 products such as cheese (American and Italian) and evap orated and condensed products utilized 29.0 percent of total milk receipts. Class IV usage (butter, nonfat, and whole milk powder) equaled 10.9 percent of the total. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26, 2003-A37 Dr. Robert Poppenga, as sociate professor of veteri nary toxicology, works on one of the new beds. Beef Conference Will Be Online Thre will be online coverage of the 2003 Beef Improvement Fed eration (BIF) Annual Meeting. Producers can go to www.bifcon ference.com for information, arti cles, news releases, and links re lated to the conference as it happens. This year’s BIF confer ence will take place May 28-31 in Lexington, Ky., and will focus on surviving environmental chal lenges. In addition, www.4cattlemen.com will feature highlights of the 2003 Cattle In dustry Convention and Trade Show.
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