News For August 2004

• Penn State Course Features Yogurt, Cottage Cheese And More
  Monday August 30, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The science and technology of yogurt, cottage cheese and cream cheese will be the focus of the Cultured Dairy Products Short Course, to be offered Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 by Penn State's department of food science at the Atherton Hotel in State College.

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• Penn State Cooperative Extension Offers Presentation In Pittston On Working With Overweight Children
  Monday August 16, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A youth obesity expert at Penn State's Children's Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, will give a presentation called "Working With Overweight Children and Their Parents: Tools for Success" on Sept. 22 at the Victoria Inn in Pittston, Pa.

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• Colgate Youth Service America Campaign Honors Pa. 4-Hers
  Friday August 13, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Kellyite 4-H club of Lewisburg was awarded $1,000 and first place honors among 2,000 entries nationwide in the 4-H division of the 31st Colgate Youth for America Campaign, a program launched in 1973 to recognize youth groups for their community service projects.

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• Penn State Ag Progress Days Research Tours Cover Lots Of Ground
  Friday August 13, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- With hundreds of research plots spread over 1,500 acres, the Russell G. Larson Agricultural Research Center can be overwhelming in size and variety. But for visitors to Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 17-19, guided bus tours once again cut the sprawling facility down to manageable size.

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• 2004 Precipitation On Pace To Exceed Last Year, Penn State Experts Say
  Friday August 06, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- If it seems to you like this year is wetter so far than 2003 -- which for much of Pennsylvania was the wettest on record -- you are perceptive. Depending on where you live, say experts in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, rainfall has exceeded 2003.

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• Penn State Offers Venison Workshop For Successful Hunters
  Friday August 06, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Time was when every deer hunter was taught how to butcher a deer, process the meat and prepare a variety of tasty venison dishes. But these days, it sometimes seems like that vital information is not passed down.

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• Penn State's Ag College Converts To Soy-Based Hydraulic Fluid
  Tuesday August 03, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In its latest "green" initiative, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has converted all of its farm equipment to biodegradable, vegetable oil-based hydraulic fluid in an effort to reduce environmental damage from spills and leaks and cut cleanup costs.

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• Penn State Offers Educatonal Program For Turfgrass Technicians
  Monday August 02, 2004

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A program offered by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, called the Turfgrass and Agricultural Equipment (TAE) Service Technician Certificate program, is designed to meet the needs of the turfgrass and agricultural equipment industry by developing highly qualified service technicians to keep equipment in top operating condition.

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