Manure Handling To Take Spotlight At August Field Day LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) If you want to learn the latest on manure handling and nutrient management, mark Aug. 7 on your calendar. That’s when Binkley and Hurst Bros, equipment dealer ship is putting on a field day to demonstrate the best ways and means available for mak ing the most of manure while complying with nutrient man agement regulations and being a good neighbor. The all-day event is sched uled to take place Thursday, Aug. 7 at Oregon Dairy, sever al miles north of Lancaster along Rt. 272. “The intent is to educate farmers on how to properly handle, store, and apply ma nures,” said Don Hoover, sales manager at Binkley and Hurst. Binkley and Hurst has been hosting an annual crops day for years at their dealership near Lititz. Ken Ferrie, an agronomist from the Midwest, spoke at last year’s crops meeting on methods for pro ducing good crop yields. Afterward, he had a sugges tion. “He came to me after the meeting and said, ‘Don, we should have another meeting about manure handling and nutrient management,’” Hoo ver said. Hoover agreed that it was a great idea, especially with ma nure management increasingly in the spotlight as livestock operations grow and as more people move into farming areas. He also said he was as tounded by high phosphorus levels found in soil samples taken recently from several local farms. So, Hoover spoke to several nutrient management experts who said they would be willing to participate in such an event. Doug Goodlander, director of Pennsylvania’s nutrient management program; Don Robinson, head of the Lancas ter County Conservation Dis- jfmi&& We offer the following services for the most complete pest control possible. 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Guests will have a chance to observe a new orbital spreader, a liquid tanker, an applicator for in corporating manure into the soil, in-vessel bio-digester composters, skid loaders, and high pressure washing systems in action. Guests can bring water samples in glass jars to have them tested for pH and ni trates. A reverse osmosis water purification system will be on display. The event offers 3 nutrient management credits and 1.5 soil and water credits for certi fied crop advisors. There is no registration fee for the day. A $5 donation is requested for a lunch catered by Oregon Dairy. Lancaster County Dairy Promotion will be on hand to sell milk prod ucts, including milkshakes and floats. The main purpose of the day is to educate not pres sure people to buy equipment, according to Hoover. “We steer away from com mercial hype,” Hoover said. “We try to provide an atmos phere where people can learn.” For more information, call Binkley and Hurst at (717) 626-4705 or (800) 414-4705. &M 'Unique Farm Services” II CLARK • Licensed & Insured 1:717.361.6065 • Fax; 717.361.0867 I: 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 Hies Call for pricing KWIKBAIT v* $l2O/40 lb. pail PLUS complete supplies for the do-it-yourselfer ..... SAVE T1ME..... we can do it for you! $B7/gallon Mumma Endow Chemical Eco UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) In a move expected to ce ment Penn State’s College of Ag ricultural Sciences as an interna tional leader in chemical ecology research, two renowned entomol ogists will join the college as Mumma Professors, effective July 1. Tom Baker, former chairman of the department of entomology at lowa State University, and Jim Tumlinson, research leader with the USDA’s Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary En tomology in Gainesville, Fla., will fill positions created by an en dowment that honors Ralph Mumma, distinguished professor emeritus of environmental quali ty- Chemical ecology research described by Dean Robert Steele as among the most exciting and important work being done in the College of Agricultural Sciences may lead to advances in early warning for terrorist or military attacks from chemical or biologi cal weapons, and improved methods to deal with pests and other environmental stresses in agricultural production. “The field of chemical ecology holds great promise for under standing how plants and other organisms interact with each other and with their environ ments,” said Steele. “The re search already being done in our college could keep us safer from terrorist or military attacks at home and abroad, as well as help to improve the efficiency and profitability of our agriculture. The addition of these two re nowned scientists will open new avenues for research and inter disciplinary collaboration within the college, across the university and beyond.” Baker and Tumlinson are ac complished researchers. Baker’s work involves developing sex pheromones, host volatiles, and other attractants for use against insect pests in agricultural and urban situations. Part of his re search focuses on “neuroethologi cal” studies of insects to under Farm Services £ Elizabethtown • Pennsylvania ment Brings Renowned legists To Penn State stand fundamental processes of olfaction and orientation to odors. Baker, who is president of the International Chemical Ecology Society and a recipient of the so ciety’s 2002 Award for Outstand ing Research, also has applied basic knowledge about odor-me diated behavior to create im proved controlled-release odor delivery systems for use in appli cations such as sex pheromone mating disruption, opposition disruption, and manipulation of beneficial predatory insects. Tumlinson, who is one of just a handful of entomologists in the National Academy of Sciences, specializes in insect chemical communication which is the defining of chemical communica tion systems, including phero mones and other semioichemicals that mediate insect-to-insect and plant-insect interactions. The em phasis of his research is on devel oping fundamental knowledge and principals that can be ap plied in environmentally safe pest-management programs. He has identified volatile com pounds emitted by plants in re sponse to infections by pathogens of various types, including bacte ria and fungi, and discovered mechanisms by which plants can detect and report pathogens. Tumlinson discovered an attrac tant for boll weevils in the 1960 s that has led to the eradication of these pests in key cotton growing areas of the south. The Mumma Professorship in Entomology was created in 1997 with an endowment from Penn State graduate and State College businessman Michael Arjmand and his wife, Mitra, who contrib uted $500,000 to the college in Lancaster Farming's Boarder & Trainer has another fantastic section scheduled Aug. 9. The summer B&T is scheduled to include a feature on Percheron horses, an interview with two "horse dentists," pictorial coverage of a major horse show, and how one horse owner turned her experiences into an inspirational hook. Also included: housing and fencing requirements for horses and a special column on draft horses, along with many other goodies, watch for it! ■■N Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28, 2003-A3l recognition of the work and friendship of Ralph Mumma. Aijmand, who earned both master’s and doctoral degrees in entomology from Penn State, founded Center Analytical Labo ratories, a business which per formed chemical analyses for a variety of environmental con cerns and helped create environ mentally friendly pesticides. Gary Felton, professor and head of entomology, is pleased by the addition of Baker and Tum linson. “Both of these individuals bring not only a strong, basic re search component to the College of Agricultural Sciences, but also a proven ability to apply basic re search to agricultural problems, which is especially valuable at a land grant research institution such as Penn State,” he said. “Both men are exceptionally well-known in their field.” Baker and Tumlinson join an entomology department that al ready has been recognized several times recently for chemical ecolo- gy research. Consuelo De Moraes, assistant professor of entomology, earned a 2002 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Sci ence and Engineering for her re search on the chemical relation ships between plants and insects. She is the first entomologist and the first faculty member in Penn State’s College of Agricul tural Sciences to win the pres tigious honor. De Moraes will receive a per sonal research grant of $625,000 from the Packard Foundation, to be allocated over a five-year peri od. Each year, the foundation se lects up to 20 of the nation’s most promising university professors to receive the award.
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