—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 13,1979 104 Wenger reacts to proposal for deed restrictions LANCASTER - The Lancaster County Farmers’ Association Monday night approved a resolution calling for deed restrictions to preserve farmland. Before such a program could go into effect in a broad area of the County, legislative action would be required. State Represen tative Noah Wenger, R- Stevens, indicated he has some reservations about the proposal. To date there has been no bill introduced to implement Conservation District holds monthly meeting LANCASTER - The Lancaster Co. Conservation District held its monthly meeting at the Farm and Home Center on Wednesday evening. Along with their normal business agenda, the directors nominated Robert Wagner (Farm) and Ken Myer (Urban) to fill two directors’ terms which will expire December 31, 1979. The expired terms of Ken DePoe and Robert Wagner will be filled by Co. Com missioner appouitments. The District went on Milk makes k in the desert Milk will go from cow to container at one location in the Saudi Arabia desert sometime next year. It will include facilities for housing, feeding and milking cows and processing the milk. In addition to packaging about 45,000 quarts of milk each day, the unit will make yogurt, cheese and ice cream Most of the products will go to the canital citv of the program the task force proposed. But, Wenger did prepare a rough draft of similar legislation last Spring. Wenger’s proposal was circulated to the Depart ment of Agriculture, State Grange, Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association and other interested groups for comment. The groups raised several questions which were not answered by the draft bill, so Wenger with drew his legislation for further review. record as supporting and strongly endorsing the purchase of 2200 acres of land horn the Lebanon Water by the Pa. Game Commission. The tract of land is located at the Lebanon-Lancaster Co. line, close to Rt. 322. This will involve 700 of land m Lancaster Co. A training session for conservation contractors is being planned. More details on this activity will be an nounced sometime in the future. Riyadh. In most hot climates milk powder is reconstituted, instead of trying to produce fresh milk. The operation m Saudi Arabia is expected to be the world’s largest milk production-processing proj ect. Cows will be milked in a parlor, the milk instantly cooled and pumped into storage tanks ready for processing. One problem is that there is nothing in the proposal that forces the hearing board to abide by the opinions of citizens expressed at the hearings. Another problem is the question of condemnation. If an area were designated an agricultural district, all property transfers (with the exception of parent-child sales) would come under the board’s jurisdiction. The board could interfere before any deal could be consumated. Of course, any farmer can today insert a voluntary restriction in his deed. But manditory restrictions will have to await legislative action. “I have some reservations on manditory provisions for deed restrictions at this point,” Rep. Wenger said. “I have some other options I am working on.” While he re-affirmed his committment to ag land prevention, he said he would require few changes before he would introduce such legislation. He said the idea forms an altogether new concept in Pennsylvania law. He called the proposal a rather dramatic change in how property owners transfer land. Wenger indicated he has no immediate plans to re introduce the deed restriction proposal he formulated last Spring. He did indicate there is a possiblity other state lawmakers might draft a similar proposal for the current session of the legislature. Good News Grain Farmers Plain and Fancy Ag Enterprises Inc. Capacity is now 200,000 bu. and Truck has increased the size of its Tamaqua ing Services are also available. Grain Operation. This increase means If we can be of service to you, see us greater ease of operation for you. Unload at RD 3, Tamaqua, PA 18252, or call time is now 2,500 bu./hr.. Storage us at 717/386-4597. > 't ENT inc. 1
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