A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12, 2003 Cattlemen’s 2003 Field Day Planned For Elizabethtown Area STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) The Pennsylvania Cattle men’s Association, Pennsylvania Angus Association, Cyagra, Inc., and the Pennsylvania Grazing Lands Coalition will team up to sponsor a field day in conjunc tion with Cyagra, at the EmTran facilities, located at 190 Bossier Road, Elizabethtown, on Satur day, July 19. A tour of the Dwight Hess Feedlot at Marietta will also take place after the events planned for the Cyagra (EmTran) facilities. The program will begin with registration at 9 a.m., and a wide array of different types of repro ductive technologies, plus mar keting and management consid erations will be discussed from 9:30 a.m. until about 3 p.m. There will be two sets of semi nars, one on reproductive tech nologies, and one on marketing and management of beef cattle enterprises. Both seminars will be repeated in the morning and in the afternoon. Among the new reproductive technologies to be discussed are artificial insemination enhance ment through new methods of identifying estrus, embryo trans fer, and cloning and genetic pres ervation. Organic Crops And Soils N.Y. GENEVA, N.Y. Tom Frant zen, organic farmer from Alta Vista, lowa will be the keynote speaker in the morning session of the Second New York Organic Crops and Soils Field Day sched uled for Tuesday, Aug. 12. Frantzen’s operation includes about 335 crop acres, 75 beef cows, and 100 sows. He markets his pork through Organic Valley, a Wisconsin-based cooperative with more than 460 farmer-mem bers in 17 states. Frantzen’s farm has been organic since 1995. The field day is sponsored by New York Certified Organic (NYCO), the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), the North- East Organic Network (NEON), and Cornell Cooperative Exten sion. Penn State Participates In ADSA Meetings PHOENIX, Ariz. Eleven Penn State Dairy Science Club members traveled to Phoenix, Arizona to participate in the June 2003 American Dairy Sci ence Association-Student Affili ate Division (SAD) meetings. These meetings bring together universities from across the na tion to share ideas and fellow ship. The club returned to Penn State with many honors. Penn State’s quiz bowl team placed first for the third consecutive year. This year’s members in- Youth ‘COWnections’ Day Camp Set MIFFLINBURG (Union Co.) An upcoming day camp called COWnections will offer youth hands-on dairy knowledge in an educational and fun environ ment, according to Sandy Costel lo, dairy agent and organizer of the event. The camp is for youth ages 12-18 who are interested in dairy The marketing and manage ment seminar will include discus sions about branded beef pro grams, selecting genetics for low input grassland farming, and uti lization of by-products as feeds in finishing beef cattle diets. Throughout the entire day there will be discussions on stream bank fencing, with a near ly completed project serving as a demonstration and the primary focal point for discussion about the benefits and methods of simi lar programs. There will also be commercial exhibits for cattlemen and others attending the field day to ob serve. A special speaker at the noon luncheon will be Don Coov er, SEK Genetics, Kansas, talk ing about the marketing, breed ing and other beef cattle industry benefits from cloning of animals. At 3 p.m. the field day attend ees will have an opportunity to tour the beef cattle feedlot owned and operated by Dwight Hess at Marietta. The Hess feedlot has fed cattle for many years, and utilizes some of the most modem methods of formulating and feed ing least-cost rations to finishing beef cattle. The feedlot also has state-of the-art animal waste disposal and utilization systems. “What we are managing with biology is pretty complex. Farm ing is vastly more complicated now than it was 20 years ago. Or ganic farming has given us a bet ter quality of life, though, and should give us a more stable fu ture in an unstable agricultural industry. I enjoy what I’m doing, and I enjoy the people I work with immensely,” Frantzen was quoted as saying on the New Farm Website (www.newfar m.org ). Weed management, soil health, organic grain markets and the beneficial connections be tween livestock and crop produc tion will be the primary topics of this field day. Organic field crop and dairy/livestock farmers and researchers from the Finger Lakes of New York and other re gions will share their expertise in eluded Meghan Moody, Hayley Springer, Daryl Maulfair, and Joshua Hushon. The club scrapbook prepared by Lauren King placed first, and the Dairyman yearbook edited by Maribeth Ozog and James Ney hard placed second. Josh Hushon, Airville, won first prize in the production divi sion of the undergraduate presen tation competition with his talk, “Crossbreeding Why Now?” Also presenting in the contest were Joel Krall with “Dairy Case Wars Got Milk vs. Not Milk?” and Hayley Springer with “Effect science. It is scheduled for July 31 at Troester’s Dairy, Mifflin burg. Activities will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The day includes a tour of Troester’s Dairy and workshops on dairy records, herd health, judging and type, nutrition, re production and breeding, and udder anatomy and health. A special presentation by con sultants from Agri-Basics, Inc. will be made during the morning and afternoon seminars, and will also be available at the Hess feed lot. According to Terry L. Shearer, president of the Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Association, “It is difficult to plan a field day pro gram, or any other educational event, that has something for ev erybody. However, this program, this year, appears to provide in formation for essentially all the different segments of the beef in dustry from the purebred breed er, to the commercial cow-calf operator, through feedlot opera tors and even on through the packer, processor and the ulti mate consumer.” There will be a noon lunch available, courtesy of the co sponsors and the hosts. More information about the field day arrangements can be obtained by calling the Pennsyl vania Cattlemen’s Association (phone/fax: (814) 238-5888) or by emailing Uw@psu.edu. The PCA website (www.pacattle.org) wiU also have more details about the field day. Field Day Set roundtable discussions, presenta tions, and farm field stops. An afternoon bus tour will include demonstrations on soU health, weed management, and other areas of interest to grain, dairy, and livestock farmers. The field day will run from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The morn ing session will begin at Jordan Hall, New York State Agricultur al Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y. Pre-registration and payment are required. Lunch is included. Fee is $25 per person, $l5 per person for additional participants from the same farm. Please con tact Maxine Welcome at (607) 255-5439 for more information. of Prepartum Dietary Carbohy drate Source and Monensin on Postpartum Immune Function.” The club ranked second in the Outstanding Chapter contest, and Jessica Worobey was elected first Vice-President of the Stu dent Affiliate Division for the up coming year. Penn State also placed first in the Centennial Celebration pro posal contest. Other Penn State undergradu ate students attending the meet ings included Amanda Silsby, Kim Matson, Sarrah Biddle, and Marc Sholder. The day camp is planned in cooperation with Kathy Weller, Snyder County dairy agent; Jan ette Strohecker, Northumberland County summer intern, dairy producers, and agribusiness sup porters. For more information or to register, call Sandy Costello at (888)922-5420. PA Cattleman’s Field Day & PA Angus Field Day Dak Sitindav lnh 19 2003 Location Cvagia I Pm Tran Facilities Located a! 197 Bosslei Road Phrahelhtovvn P\ 17022 Seminars on Reproductive 1 echnologies. Marketing and Management Seminar A - Reproductive Technologies 9 30 a m and I It) p m Embryo Transfer - Are you capitalizing on what is amiable Al Enhancement - Heat Waleh if you don’t have time to watch heals Cloning & Genetic Preservation -1 he Science, The Application, The Challenges Seminar B ■ Marketing and Management 9 31) a m and 130 p m Marketing ■ Branded Beef Program - Is it for you Environment - Selecting Genetics for Low Input Grassland farming Production - i'tihlzing by-products as feeds in your feedlot THROIT.IIOIT THE DAY □ Slieam-Bank Fencing- see the newly completed project and talk with representatives of the DEP on this state program Get questions answered and find out how you can participate □ Commercial Exhibits—newest services and products Lunch 1130 to Ipm Noon Program 12 30 Welcome from Alejandro Cantarelli, CEO of Cyagra, Inc Introductions of Guests Keynote Speaker - Don Coover, SEK Genetics. -Cloning, from a Marketer and Breeders Prospective Repeat morning Seminars 3 P.M. VISIT DWIGHT HESS FEEDLOT OR TOUR THE EM TRAN FACILITIES Season’s First Commercial Plum Pox Reported In State HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The first positive test for the Plum Pox Virus (PPV) this season has been confirmed in a commercial block of stone fruit trees in Adams County, accord ing to an announcement Monday by Agriculture Secretary Dennis C Wolff. Wolff said the administration and the Pennsylvania Depart ment of Agriculture (PDA) re main strongly committed to the Plum Pox Eradication Program. “Pennsylvania currently is one of the country’s top ten stone fruit producing states, and we want to maintain, if not improve, the ranking,” Wolff said. “Al though our staff is disappointed in finding even a single infected commercial tree, this in no way wiU diminish our resolve to eradi cate the virus and allow our hard-working growers the oppor tunity to once again plant stone fruit trees.” Cambria County Hosts Log-To-Lumber Workshop GALLITZEN (Cambria Co.) Rainy weather didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of more than 40 people at a recent Log-to-Lumber workshop at Gallitzin State Park. The workshop was co-spon sored by the Woodland Ovraers of the Southern Alleghenies, (WOSA) the Bureau of Forestry and Penn State Extension. Loggers, sawyers, woodwork ers and woodlot owners were ex posed to various methods of cut ting logs from plane sawing to quarter sawing, application to plane and quarter sawing in cab inetry, how to stack lumber for air drying, the benefits of sealing the ends of logs before cutting, various uses of other parts of a tree, veneering, and watched a demonstration of cutting logs by Lancaster Farming Check out our Website! www.lancasterfarmina.com Time 930 am to 4 pm This positive tree was found in an already quarantined area. When a tree tests positive for PPV, PDA establishes a 500-meter buffer zone around the infected tree or block of trees. All stone fruit trees within the zone must be removed and destroyed. In 2002, less than a dozen acres of commercial trees tested positive for PPV. In fact, there has been a drastic decrease in the amount of stone fruit acreage in fected with PPV after its initial detection in Pennsylvania in the fall of 1999. PDA and USDA surveyors will continue to visit commercial stone fruit orchards in the four county PPV quarantine area and adjacent counties. Visits are also continuing on homeowner prop erties in and near the quarantine area. woodworker and bandsaw mill owner George Radeschi of Bed ford. Following the demonstration, with 23 years of experience in the forest products industry, Dan Snyder of the Department of Conservation of Natural Re sources talked about bucking and the application of circular mill sawing. Snyder and service forester Dave Scamardella of the Bureau of Forestry gave a presentation about lumber grading. “This workshop filled a need to help people understand the importance of the efficient use of forest products and the value of sustainable forestry,” said John Herr, president of WOSA.
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