BlO—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9,1980
HARRISBURG - Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture J.
Luther Snyder testified last
Wednesday before the
Governor’s Tax Commission
in Erie on the unpact of the
state tax system on farmers.
Governor Thornburgh has
directed the Pennsylvania
Tax Commission to seek
reforms that “no Penn
sylvanian pays more than
tus or her fair share of our
tax burden in the years
ahead.”
During the testimony
Snyder noted, “that m the
for disease resistance
NEWARK, Del. - Com
diseases next year can be
managed by carefully
selecting your varieties now,
says University of Delaware
extension plant pathologist
Bob Mulrooney.
Don’t overlook this im
portant aspect of crop
management. It can put
money in your pocket.
Most com hybrids now
available are resistant to one
or more diseases. Ask your
seedsman for results of local
tests and talk with farmers
who have grown the variety
you’re interested m, advises
Mulrooney
Cora hybrid evaluations
are run yearly in Newark
and Georgetown by the
Delaware Extension Ser
vice. Test results are now
available at county ex
tension offices in Newark,
Dover and Georgetown.
Variety selection is just
one aspect of managing
diseases, notes the
pathologist. Care should be
taken to rotate your crops,
too. Disease organisms -
especially fungi - over
winter m or on crop debris
Given the proper en
vironmental conditions,
these can result in yield
losses when com is planted
year after year in the same
field
If for some reason you are
planting com continuously,
manage crop residues
carefully to minimize
possible disease problems
later on
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Ag secretary testifies
before tax commission
past decade 10,000 farms and
one million acres went out of
agriculture. Fanners are
being squeezed out because
of certain burdensome local
and state taxing policies.”
Snyder urged, “the con
tinuation of several tax relief
benefits the Legislature
authorized in recognizing the
regressive impacts (certain
taxes) had on our fanners.”
He urged the continuation
of the “Clean and Green
Act,” sales tax exemptions
to farmers in the purchase of
items used in the production
and marketing of farm
Select corn hybrids
the ground from either no-till
or minimum tillage (such as
chisel plowing with a single
disking), can be a source of
fungus spores to infect next
year’s com plants.
This residue should be
moldboard plowed from
products and relief from
payment of assessments of
municipal improvements
such as the installation of
water and sewer lines.
Snyder asked for the
adoption of amendments to
the dean and Green Act,
inheritance tax, and
exemptions from current
law of family farm cor
porations from the capital
stock franchise tax.
Amendment of the dean
and Green Act would
liberalize the split-off
provisions allowing far
mland to change hands
time to tune, if you’re not
practicing rotation.
Remember, to ensure
yields, minimize your
disease problems by good
variety selection, rotation,
and residue management,
Mulrooneysays.
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paying prohibitive add-back
taxes, provided the land
remains in agriculture.
The inheritance tax would
be amended so family farm
property is valued at its
farm value rather than at its
market value, providing the
land remains in farming for
at least seven years. This
amendment would be con
sistent with recent
legislation on the federal
level.
Family farm corporations
are presents required to
pay the capitol franchise
tax, an exemption from this
prohibitive tax would allow
the farm family to pass on
farm ownership to sons and
daughters without excessive
taxation.
He suggested additional
revenues be made available
to local municipalities on
lands acquired by state and
federal governments and
“while the property tar is an
important government
source, it is also one of the
most maligned.”
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