January 2007
- Custom Harvester Aids Carrot Farmer Glenn Vogel’s carrot harvester is the only one of its kind. On a good field with plenty of trucks, it can cover 18 to 20 acres per day, pumping out a 22-ton load of carrots every 20 minutes and filling 25 semi-loads. Usually, a shortage of trucks is the only limitation.
- Extension Seeks to Offset Shrinking Federal Funding Since its creation nearly a century ago, the Cooperative Extension Service (CES) has held the same guiding principle: a commitment to quality programming, backed by the best research available and delivered to have significant impact on local, regional and national needs.
- Penn State Taps Into School Pride With Blue and White Potato Chips For years, William Lamont, vegetable crops professor at Penn State University (PSU), visualized a line of potato chips sporting the university’s colors. Utz Quality Foods in Hanover, Pa., has wanted to partner with Penn State to expand its grower base for gourmet potatoes. Fourth-generation Schuylkill County potato grower John Terwilliger has been interested in projects beneficial to the potato industry. Now, coordinating these interests in a research project, Lamont is seeing blue and white potato chips.
- Will the Guest Worker Arrive Here Via Donkey or Elephant?
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