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14— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June'l2, 1976 .'
Most farmers oppose OSHA regulations
CHICAGO, 111. - A recent
survey, conducted by In
ternational Harvester’s
FARM FORUM Magazine,
indicates that almost two
thirds of fanners polled are
LYTPA held
tractor pull
The Lebanon Valley
Tractor Pullers Association
sponsored their first pull of
the season on June 4 at the
Lebanon Area Fairgrounds.
The following were awarded
trophies in the farm tractor
classes.
5000 lb. class - Tom
Showers, Lebanon, driving
an Oliver 88
7000 lb. class Ist - Dennis
Showers - Lebanon, with
Oliver 88; 2nd - Donald
Hoffer, Lebanon, John Deere
3020.
9000 lb. class - Ist - Donald ,
Hotter, John Deere 3020; 2nd
- Tom Showers - Oliver 88.
12000 lb. class - Ist. Robert
Mid-Atlantic Class I
July milk price set
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A
Class I price of $ll.OB per
hundredweight for July 1976
was announced today by
Order No. 4 Market Ad
ministrator Joseph D. Shine.
This price is down 14 cents
from June, but is $1.28 above
July one year ago. Middle
Atlantic order prices are
announced for milk testing
3.5 percent butterfat, f.o.b.
plants located within 55
miles of Philadelphia, Pa.
and also within 75 miles from
the nearer of Washington,
D.C. or Baltimore, Md.
There is also a 6-cent direct
delivery differential ap
plicable to producer milk
received at plants located
within 55 miles of
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Also Barn Cleaning Service
Available With Compressed Air
To have your barn cleaned with air it will clean
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We white washed 600 barns last year, so if your
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MAYNARD L. BEITZEL
Witmer, PA 17585 717-392-7227
If no answer call Willard Beitzel 717-733-6357
We will take on work within IQO mile radius of
Lancaster
Barn spraying our business, not a sideline.
Spraying Since 1961
against OSHA (Occupational
Safety and Health Act)
regulations to help protect
hired farm help from ac
cidents.
And more than half (56
Meyer, Womelsdorf, 1150
Massey; 2nd Stephen Barry,
Jr. Newmanstown, 806 IHC.
12000 Turbo - Ist. Robert
Myer, 1150 Massey; 2nd Joe
Schott, Lebanon, 4230 John
Deere; 3rd Robert Barry,
Newmanstown, 806 IHC.
15000 Open - Ist. Gerald
Hoffer, Annville, 4430 John
Deere; 2nd Eckenrode Bros.
Lebanon, 1566 IHC.
Unlimited - Ist. Robert.
Myer, 1150 Massey; 2nd
Albert Keiffer, Bangor, 9600
Ford; 3rd Gerald Hotter,
4430 John Deere
9000 Turbo - Fred Wolfe,
Lebanon, Pa. 88 Oliver
Neat Pull is Friday, July 2.
A Class IT price for May of
$8.20 per hundredweight was
also announced by Mr.
Shine. He said this price is 17
cents below the April Class II
price, but $1.28 higher than
last year.
The Order No. 4 July Class
I price and the May Class n
price are based on the May
Minnesota - Wisconsin
manufacturing milk price of
$8.30 per hundredweight for
milk testing 3.5 percent.
The USDA reports that the
wholesale Grade A butter
price at Chicago was 89.88
cents in May, and the nonfat
dry milk price for the month
was 62.71 cents, f.o.b. plants
in Chicago.
percent) believe that OSHA
and other governmental
safety regulations -have
absolutely no effect on
making farming operations
safer.
These and other con
clusions are based on a
random sampling of 829 U.S.
fanners who voiced their
opinions on a variety of
questions concerning farm
safety.
In response to the
question, “How do you feel
about government enacting
OSHA regulations to help
protect hired farm help from
accidents,” the farmers
responded as follows:
I’m for OSHA regulations
100 percent - 1 percent
answered yes.
OSHA is necessary
because farmers haven’t
corrected safety hazards
themselves. - four percent
agreed.
Although I can't say I'm
for oSHA regulations, I think
the good points outweigh the
bad. * thirty percent agreed.
I’m against OSHA in
terfering in farm operations.
- sixty-five percent said yes.
Asked if they felt OSHA
and other governmental
safety regulations really
made their farming
operation safer, only four
percent answered definitely
yes. More than a third (37
percent said somewhat, and
56 percent said absolutely no
effect.
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To date, OSHA regulations.
apply only to hiriiid persons
working on a farm, and do
not apply to a fanner or
members of his immediate
family. The farmers were
asked if OSHA or OSHA-type
regulations .should be ex
tended to include the fanner
and members of bis family
as well. Their responses
were as follows;
Definitely yes - two per
cent.
Yes, if that’s what it takes
to get persons; to be more
safety conscious nine
percent.
No. A farmer’s safety
should be bis own respon
sibility, and no law is going
to make him more safe. -
sixty-two percent.
Under no circumstances
does the government have
any business telling a fanner
whether to practice safety. -
twenty-six percent.
Yet more than three
fourths of the responding
fanners had had some sort
of farm or farm-related
accidtn. Most (58 percent
bad received only minor
cuts, bruises or sprains; 15
percent bad had a serious
accident; and 4 percent had
had an accident causing
permanent injury.
The responding farmers
were divided on how
dangerous an occupation
they feel fanning is, an
swering as folows:
Extremely dangerous
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grain, forage,
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occupation - four percent.
More dangerous than the
majority of other jobs - 35
percent - ‘
No more or less dangerous
than, any other jobs - 52
percent. -
Less dangerous than other
occupations - eight percent
The fanners were asked
„ which was "the one most
hazardous job or situation in
them farming operations. .
Responses included: driving ~
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drpperating tractors or sell
-'propelled equipment 0 ,
; roads and highways (2
percent); operating, a( ]
justing or; repairing com
bines, com pickers or othg
farm- machinery (20 p tt
cent); handling herbicides
insecticides or fertilizer (]
percent); and handluv
livestock (12 percent).
Despite the dangers, 3
percent of the respondent]
indicated that they do noi
practice as good a faro
safety- program /as thej
‘ should, while 65 percent sail
that they do. And only nim
percent are personally m
volvedin an organizedsafety
- education program-in then
communities.'
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