j Pennsylvania Corn Growers Association fs . . Lancaster Farming • Section E • Saturday, October 18, 2003 Lancaster Farming Celebrates 10 Years Of Corn Talk Greg Roth, Penn State corn specialist, center, joins Willard Jones, Doebler’s, Inc., left, and Grant Troop at Ag Progress to discuss the decade that has been Corn Talk. Photo by Andy Andrews, editor Ethanol: DAVE LEFEVER Lancaster Farming Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Penn-Mar Ethanol, LLC, a company founded this year from a group of entrepre neurs and com producers Wednesday, October 29 Certified Crop Adviser Fall Seminar, Grantville Holi day Inn, thru Oct. 30, (717) 840-7408. Tluiisday, November 6 Grain Marketing Meeting, Dutch Family Restaurant, Penn-Mar Project Manager Provides Answers from the area, is getting closer to building an $BO million ethanol facility on a 65-acre site in Conoy Township, Lan caster County, along the Sus quehanna River and adjacent to a major railaway. Accord- ORN TALK Farm Calendar Millington, Md., 7 a.m., (410)778-9075. Tuesday, December 9 Ag Service School, Days Inn, Meadville, contact Joel Hunter, (814) 333-7460. (Turn to Page E 10) ‘Founders’ Marvel At The Changes In Decade Since ANDY ANDREWS Editor ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.) One corn industry spe cialist noted the many merg ers and bankruptcies over the years. Another points to the working interrelationships with science and industry. Still another believes in the changes that have taken place in selection of com for certain specific traits, whether they are improved feed perform ance or resistance to pests. Yet all three com experts believe that in the 10 years since Lancaster Farming first published Com Talk (Feb. 13, 1993), a newsletter of the Pennsylvania Com Growers Association (PCGA), ing to planners, the plant will have the capacity to produce SO million gallons of the re newable fuel each year from Mark C. Hershey Farms, Inc., mill near Lebanon has been in operation since 1956. The mill offers custom feeds and pellets, steam flaked and/or ground grains, and grain drying and storage. See story page 2. Photo by Andy Andrews, editor the industry has seen some major changes. Com industry experts gath ered at the annual Penn State TEN YEARS OF CHANGE publication in Lancaster IN CORN PRODUCTION Farming, I thought it would As this marks the 10th an- be appropriate to reflect on niversary of our Com Talk (Turn to Page E 5) com. Co-products will include distillers grain and carbon di- oxide. Ag Progress Days in August this year to talk about the in dustry in the past 10 years. (Turn to Page E 4) PENNSYLVANIA GROWERS ASSOCIATION letween The Rows Dr. Greg Roth sssor of Agronomy, Penn State tment of Crop and Soil Sciences Steam generated by the Lancaster County Solid Waste (Turn to Page E 3)
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