Committee To Preserve Ag
Gives Reports To Governor
The preservation of a portion vllle Rl, a master farmer anti “Once land is used for most
of Pennsylvania’s better soils for L. H. Skvomme, Vice President, non-agricullural purposes," the
future agricultural and open New Holland Div. of Sperry report points out. "it Is virtually
space use was suggested In an Rand Corp. lost to future food and fiber pro
interim report presented to Citing the Importance of agrl- duction. We need to have
Governor Raymond P. Shaffer by cultural land to Pennsylvania’s enough acres to insure an ade
his Committee for the Preserva- total economy, the report dis- Quate supply of food and fiber
tion of Agricultural Land. closed that farming has a total f° r the expanded population of
The report of the 18-member annual income of almost a bil- the future.
Committee was presented to the lion dollars, while its related This acreage, the report indi-
Governor by Curtis Wachsmuth, agribusiness complex has grown cated, could be used for a vari
committee chairman, and State into a $l4 billion industry. Good ety of open space purposes un-
Agriculture Secretary Leland H. land also is important to assure til it is needed for food produc-
Bull. Local men on the commit- Pennsylvanians ample food and tion.
tee are Amos H. Funk, Millers- fiber, it added. The committee has set a tar-
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 2,1968
get date of June 30, 1969, for
completion of the final report
with recommendations for deal
ing with these problems.
In receiving the interim re
port, Governor Shafer expressed
his appi eolation for the commit
tee’s work and said he Is confi
dent the committee will formu
late an effective piogram for the
wise use of our land.
“Every citizen, as a consumer,
has a vital stake in agriculture
and its importance as a source of
food and fiber now and in the
future.” the Governor said.
In addition to the importance
of agricultural land for future
food and fiber production, the
report outlines a rapidly grow
ing need for recreation areas
and an orderly expansion of our
population and economy to pie
vent ghettos.
“The need for and methods of
picserving agiicultuial land for
agricultural use is in reality a
complex problem involving all
of Pennsylvania’s residents,”
Bull told the Governor
The committee has scheduled
11 statewide public hearings to
discuss its icport and learn the
viewpoints and recommenda
tions of individual citizens,
groups and organizations. The
first of these hearings is sched
uled at Collegeville on January
6. Testimony may be presented
from 9:30 a m. to 3 p m.
Other locations and dates in
clude Gettysburg, January 8;
Harrisburg, January 10 and 14;
State College, January 21; Mead
ville, January 22; Butler, Janu
ary 23; Sunbury, January 28;
Williamsport, January 29; Scran
ton, January 30; Greensburg,
February 12, and Hollidaysburg,
February 13.
Following a study of plans ad
vanced by other states, informa
tion gathered through the pub
lic hearings and a thorough ex
amination of the situation m
Pennsylvania, the committee
will offer conclusions and lec
ommendations in a final report
scheduled for completion by
June.
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