__ this one operated by Carl Troop, near Mechanics£^ r onTuesdayand Wednesday PFA’ers eve farm legislation By MEI3SBAPIPER PARADISE - Members of the . Par Farmer’s > Lancaster. County, recently visited Washington, D. C. and. Harrisburg in an effort to acknowledge legislation ‘ affecting agricultural concerns both on a national and state level. ISMP plans Washington parley SOUTHAMPTON - More than 150 area dairy fanners will travel to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to stress the need for preserving dairy farms. The dairymen and their wives, members of Inter* State Milk Producers’ Order 2 of concern to Eastern ByDIETERKRIEG * NEW HOLLAND - The* price of milkis expected to drop 65 cents per hun dredweight this month, - according to Freebum Love, > regional marketer of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative. He made the remark at a recent meeting V 01.21 No. 21 ; , < -- v t’ r S - In a' report given at the 4 Lancaster County Farmer’s Association Spring meeting - held • here on Tuesday evening,'.lvan-Yost, chair man of the legislation committee, - briefed mem bers on the. bills currently . slated for attention. ' i Yost noted that most at- I tention had centered around ' Cooperative,- will be' at tending the April & and 14 ' sessions along with i representatives of the nation’s news media and representatives of various consumer organizations. ' “There’s presently an element apparently obsessed here for members of the Syracuse-based cooperative, ha discussing prices, the coop leader noted that five paying price for-milk in ' Order 2Js approximately 38 cents less than that received by Order 4 shippers, but that most of that difference is' nullified by the fad that Serving The Central and-Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas i la this issue ‘^J“"‘****' • ' Markets ‘ Bicentennialfara**' p^SS. ’ 1 HB 1793 which is entitled the “Federal Estate Tax BflL” : The bill which is currently on -: waivers in Washington, V i would increase the amount i of deduction taken lor an i estate from $60,000. to 1 $200,000. Up until this point 1 inheritors of a. farm orJ < property were taxed on the i value of the I with doing away with the family dairy farms”, said Boyd C. Gartley, director of member and public relations, “these people, and it appears columnist Sylvia Porter is now among them, are threatening to destroy the, same legal principles Eastern’s members currently only pay a 10-cent hauling fee, while those in Order 4 pay full costs.. Hie speaker also pointed, out that the 'new support. prices, which became ef fective 10 days ago,, may soon come in handy as milk prices continue to drop. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1976 deduction was made. This made keeping an entire farm Intact,' difficult as much capital was needed to pay. the' required taxes' on the., estate. Often inheritors had to slice up the property for sale in order to pay the ' amounts, instead of being able to salvage the acreage for agricultural production. that have allowed dairymen to remain in existence.” An array of noted officials along with the dairymen themselves will use the opportunity to cover issues involving such milk policies as marketing orders, price Figures released by Eastern, as well as other milk marketing cooperatives in the mid-Atlantic area show that the Class I price is likely to go down to ap proximately $10.77 per hundredweight in .May, compared to a price of $11.86 in February and $11.68 in PFA members are sup porting the increased exemption and along the same lines are supporting HB 3831 which values the land at its agricultural worth instead of at commercial values. - Yost reported that Senator Hugh Scott, R-Pa. had ex pressed optimism that the supports and the role of dairy cooperatives. The dairymen from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia will be converging on Washington - many of than via buses from Lancaster March (Order 4 prices). ClassHpricei, on the other hand, are expected to remain stable with a price variation of only about a nickel per hundredweight. The new floor will avoid the drasticdrop in prices such as , occurred a year ago. A major concern to the - $3.00 Per Year bills would be passed although the Senator noted that fanners might have to be prepared to take $150,000. exemption instead of the full $200,000. if the bill is to pass. Otter concerns which had been discussed in Washington included talks on grain inspection and [Continued on Page 15] and Blair Counties, Penn sylvania. Two buses are scheduled to leave from Lancaster County Tuesday. Stops are scheduled at the Guernsey Barn and the Quality Courts (Continued on Page 141 Eastern representative is that bearings are currently going on regarding the future of federal Order 2. In New York State only about £0 percent of the dairymen belong to cooperatives. If it drops much below that,, the Order could be in jeopardy. -- - [Continued on face'll]
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