Animal agriculture, but the poultry business in particular, is being jeopardized by movements to stop growth near residential areas, even if the land in question
is zoned agricultural.
Rural growth finds farmers, neighbors at odds
By DIETER KRIEG
GILBERTSVILLE -
Pennsylvania’s farming
industry may be fractured if
rural residents with little or
no agricultural un
derstanding have their way.
According to some, that
fracture is already starting
to take shape. If the problem
remains unchecked, the
ultimate results will be
and expensive
' jarmers. while con
summy, will have to pay
considerably more for their
eggs, chicken, milk, and
meat.
In two separate, but
similar cases, a poultryman
near here, in upper mon
tgomery County, and
another near New
Providence in southern
Lancaster County, are
Area potato growers
despite widespread beetle problem
ByKENDACEBORRY
LITITZ - The potatoes
planted throughout the
Lancaster Farming area are
looking rather good at the
moment, farmers report, but
.'''here is a problem occunng
y Jth the Colorado potato
"Me.
f ne eats the vine really
bad,” John S. Thompson,
Shrewsbury, York County,
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facing opposition from
neighbors. Both farmers are
poultrymen with hopes of
expanding their respective
operations. Their'neighbors
Emergency credit program approved
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
Senate-House Conference
Committee Monday ap
proved a bill authorizing up
to $4 billion for a new
program of emergency
credit for farmers who need
help to survive the economic
squeeze which has gripped
many segments of the
Nation's agriculture in
recent years.
The Conference bill, the
broadest farm credit
measure passed by Congress
commented. “We haven’t
been hit by the beetle yet,
but I’ve heard of several
growers who have. I imagine
that the insect will probably
come into our fields but we
should be able to keep it
under control.”
The farmer who grows 125
acres of potatoes com
mented that his crop looks
“real good”, growing right
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 8,1978
don’t like it. The problem,
according to Lancaster
County Agricultural Agent,
Jay Irwin, is one of
education. He claims that
in recent years, also includes
provisions which would;
-Bring major credit
programs of the Farmers
Home Administration
Hog prices drop, growers not worried
By JOANNESPAHR
LANCASTER -
Following suit with cattle
prices, hog market figures
took a noticeable drop over
the past several weeks with
some producers reporting a
optimistic
on schedule, and he has
hopes for a good crop. He
stated that there was a good
stand in his fields this year
and that if all goes as
planned, his crop should he
better than some of those in
past years.
Eugene Manifold, Airville
Rl, has 90 acres of the crop
in the ground. Earlier in the
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many residents in rural
areas don’t understand
agriculture and its im
portance. He also suggests
that these same peopleof-
(FmHA) into line with
current needs by raising
loan ceilings.
-Create a special new
FmHA farm real estate loan ,
dip of as much as $5 to $8 per
hundredweight from May’s
top figures. The hog futures
market also showed a rapid
decline with prices plum-
State revising indemnity ruling
By JOANNESPAHR
HARRISBURG - The
state is currently in the
process of amending its
indemnity law for market
swine passed for cooking or
condemned with swine
tuberculosis or with
tuberculosis-like lesions.
Whereas, formerly, the
farmer was paid an in
demnity if a packer found
problems with his hogs, the
state is now trying to change
the law so that the packer,
directly, and not the farmer,
receives the indemnity.
tentimes are misinformed as
to what really does go on out
on the farm. For example,
he notes that some terrific
progress has been made in
program for low-income
farm families including new
owners or operators.
-Extend a special cattle
industry credit program for
meting 12 points in a little
over a month. Both markets
showed signs of recovery
this week.
With hog prices going
“This is done to protect the
farmer, not just the packer,”
explains Dr David
Ingraham, director of the
In this issue
Farm Calendar 10
Editorials 10
Soil conservation 23,92
Hamburgers 26
Life on the farm 30
USDA views 31,35
Homestead Notes 42
Plant lovers’comer 43
Ida’s Notebook 45
$6.00 Per Year
the management of poultry
flocks to keep offensive
aspects such as odors to a
bare minimum. But the
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one year, through Sep
tember 30, 1979.
In addition, an amend
ment to the bill would
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hand-in-hand with beef
markets, swine producers
watched this Spring as
auction prices peaked as
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Bureau of Animal Industry,
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture. With the
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Jr. Cooking Edition 47
Home on the Range 48
Joyce Bupp 49
Doris Thomas 50
Lebanon dairy princess 53
Kendy’s Kollumn 54
Classifieds 56
Egg promotion 96
Poultry ventilation 107