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Vol. 48 No. 45
Pa. CREP Doubles In Size
Northern County Sign-Up Began Sept, 2
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
During Ag Progress Days, con
servation leaders announced that
100,000 more acres in 23 counties
in the northern part of the state
are eligible for enrollment in the
conservation reserve enhance
ment program (CREP).
Sign-up began Sept. 2 for the
23 counties, which make up
Pennsylvania’s upper Susquehan
na River basin from the central
part of the state north to the New
York border.
The first CREP was an
nounced three years ago for 20
Pennsylvania counties in the
Dairy Beef, BQA To ‘Marry’
DAVE LEFEVER
Lancaster Farming Staff
PENNSYLVANIA FUR
NACE (Centre Co.) Nine-hun
dred beef producers in Pennsyl-
I vania are certified under the
state’s Beef Quality Assurance
— but only about 10 of
| them are dairy farmers.
That number needs to change,
, according to Paul Slayton, execu
tive director of the Pennsylvania
Beef Council.
About 50 percent of the beef
supply in Pennsylvania conies
from dairy cull cows, Slayton has
Farm Science Review To Show One-Of-A-Kind Yield Monitor Simulator
LONDON, Ohio All farm
ers, from large and small opera
tions, can find their niche here at
Ohio State University’s 2003
Farm Science Review. This year’s
three-day trade show, Sept.
16-18, features a mix of exhibits
that appeal to visitors of all back
grounds.
I DJ and Loretta Duncan grow a corn maze on their
' Berks County 137-acre dairy farm to promote the dairy in
: dusty. Loretta used graph paper and pencil to design the
“3-A-Day Real Seal” maze, which covers eight acres and
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southcentral part of the state.
The expanded CREP includes all
43 Pennsylvania counties in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Pennsylvania’s westernmost
counties are also set to join the
program, possibly within months.
Those counties, west of the Alle
gheny mountains, are in the Ohio
River watershed. Eastern Penn
sylvania counties, located in the
Delaware River watershed, may
come on board at some point,
according to CREP leaders.
Although the original program
got off to “a slow start,” officials
say the newly expanded and im
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estimated. And about half of that
beef goes for whole cuts, not just
hamburger a strong case for
dairy producers making sure
their cull cows are providing
high-quality carcasses at the
packing house.
A flrst-of-its-kind program in
Pennsylvania can help them do
it, according to organizers.
Slayton, along with other offi
cials and beef industry experts,
launched the Pennsylvania Dairy
Beef Quality Assurance (DBQA)
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Farm Science Review visitors
will have the opportunity to see a
mobile combine yield monitor
simulator demonstrating how
field conditions can affect grain
flow and combine yield monitor
sensors.
The Ohio State University De
partment of Food, Agricultural
Four Sections
Lehigh County 4-H’ers saw good prices for the animals at the county’s annual
4-H roundup last Saturday afternoon at the Allentown Fair. Timothy Billig, New Tri
poli, second from left, won grand champion hog, purchased by Hatfield Quality
Meats for $625. From left, John Strawbridge; Billig with the 250-pound hog; and
Duff George, representing Hatfield, along with George’s daughters Lydia and
Naomi. See story page A 24. Photo by Andy Andrews, editor
and Biological Engineering De
partment will demonstrate the
simulator daily at Alumni Park.
This will be the first public ap
pearance for the simulator, which
started out as a student design
project.
According to Matt Sullivan,
Ohio State University Extension
has more than two miles of twists and turns. See page B 2
to read about the Duncans who have a son Luke, 5, and a
daughter Jessica, 7, who is the Berks County Li’l Miss.
Photo by Preston Whitcraft, Ephrata Review photographer
Saturday, September 6, 2003
program specialist, there was a
need within the industry and the
department for a yield monitor
simulator. “It started out as an
idea of professors Reza Ehsani
and Joe Walker to have students
in an engineering class design a
simulator for their senior proj
ect,” Sullivan said. “Students did
$37.00 Per Year
a design model and when the
quarter ended, we started to build
a full-scale simulator.”
The simulator was developed
to be used as a research, educa
tion and teaching tool to help
people better understand the dif
ferent components of a combine
such as the mass flow sensor,
grain moisture sensor, speed sen
sor and header height sensor.
“You have to understand the
complete system from the ground
speed to the grain hitting the
mass flow sensor to get anything
out of it,” Sullivan said. “It’s very
important to understand all as
pects of how a yield monitor
works and how to calibrate it.”
The simulator will be used in
Inside
The Farmer
✓ Lehigh Livestock
Roundup Sale page
A 24.
✓ Dairy District
Show page A 36.
✓ Plans For Penn
sylvania page ASS.
✓ 4-H Activities
Week page 814.
$l.OO Per Copy
(Turn to Page A 27)