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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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