Vol. 48 No. 43
PDA, Penn State Unveil World-Class Facility In ‘Sam’s Valley ’
ANDY ANDREWS
Editor
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
Call it Penn State’s Valley, but
With assistance from state officials, former agriculture secretary Sam Hayes, center,
cuts the ribbon to the Livestock Evaluation Center named in his honor. Joining him, at
his immediate left, is Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff, along with Dean Robert
Steele, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, far left. At right of Hayes are Don
ald T. Cunningham, secretary of general services and Dr. John Enck, director, Bureau of
Animal Health and Diagnostic Services. Photo by Andy Andrews, editor
Manheim Ag Teacher Wins National Award
NICKI LEFEVER
Special Correspondent
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
Deb Seibert is one teacher who
doesn’t get summers off and in
addition to her weekly classes she
works evenings and weekends.
Because of her dedication, Sei-
Deb Seibert, front center, joins her Manheim Central ag
students and teacher Heather Anderpon to promote milk
for a contest to raise funds for the farm show.
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according to Penn State College
of Agricultural Sciences Dean
Robert Steele, it’s “Sam’s Valley
as well.”
bert is one of six ag teachers
named Outstanding Ag Ed High
School Teacher by the National
Association of Agricultural Edu
cation earlier this month. She will
fly to Florida in December to ac
cept the award.
“It is nice to be recognized for
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Steele pointed to the work of a
pioneer in promoting the impor
tance of Pennsylvania agriculture
to the world, a man who served
positive things,” she said. “Espe
cially since my job helps the com
munity.”
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Bull Proofs!
This issue of Lancaster
Farming includes the quar
terly bull proof update,
continued from last week.
See page A2B.
Inside
The Farmer
✓ Ag Progress cov
erage throughout the
issue. •
✓ Bull proofs page
A2B.
✓ Rockingham Fair
page A3l.
✓ Elizabethtown
Fair Sale page A 32.
✓ Dairy One DHIAs
page 820.
as the secretary of agriculture
during the Ridge and Schweiker
administrations Sam Hayes.
For his work, and in Hayes’
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, center, joins
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff,
left, and Robert Steele, dean of the Penn State Col
lege of Agricultural Sciences, Wednesday before the
luncheon in Rockspring. See story page Al 9.
Photo by Andy Andrews, editor
Farmer, Businessman Team Up
For Biodiesel Demo At Ag Progress
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
Matt Steiman was working on
his own biodiesel project at Wil
son College this spring when he
heard that a Pennsylvania busi
ness group was exploring the pos
sibility of building a commercial
scale biodiesel facility in the area.
So Steiman contacted Mike
Gerhart, a consultant with the
Regional Economic Development
District Initiative (REDDI) based
in Harrisburg. REDDI is looking
into how a facility making biodie
sel from soybeans might help
boost agriculture and the overall
economy in the mid-state.
Matt Steiman, right, demonstrates biodiesel production
from soybean oil at Ag Progress Days this week. He is
joined here by Mike Gerhart of the Harrisburg-based Re
gional Economic Development District Initiative, a group
exploring the possibility of building a biodiesel plant in
the area. Photo by Dave Lefever
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honor, the site of the Pennsylva
nia Department of Agriculture’s
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Steiman said Gerhart encour
aged him to demonstrate his bio-
diesel-making apparatus at Ag
Progress Days this week. Steiman
just recently began producing
biodiesel fuel from waste fryer oil
in the 50-gallon tank equipped
with a circulating pump that he
and an engineer friend recently
constructed.
As a result, Ag Progress visi
tors had the chance to not only
learn about biodiesel fuel, but
watch it being produced from
soybean oil.
According to Steiman, making
biodiesel horn either soybean or
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