Firm makes three executive appointments
LANCASTER Donald E.
Horn, 4059 Robmwood Road,
York, has been named Vice
President, Allied Division of
Pennfield Corporation, 711
Rohrerstown Road, Lan
caster.
The appointment, ef
fective January 1,1981, was
announced by Robert B.
Graybill, President.
Previously Horn was
General Manager of Penn
field Farms Eggs, the
company’s egg processing
operation, located in
Ephrata.
In his new position he will
be responsible for the
company’s allied operations,
including Pennfield Farms
Egg Division; Beachley-
Hardy Seed Company
Shiremantown; Palmer
Green Company, Ship
pensburg; Allied Products,
York; and J. Brame Witmer,
Inc., Lancaster.
Horn also serves as Vice
President, Pennfield Farm
Poultry Division,
Fredericksburg; and
Secretary of Pennfield
Corporation.
He is a member of the
Board of Directors of Egg
lobday
Clearing House, Inc.;
American Egg Board; Egg
Council of the Pennslvania
Poultry - Federation; and the
Commonwealth Agn Loan
Corporation.
Glenn U. Smith, 102
Meadow View Drive, Leola,
has been named to succeed
Horn as General Manager,
Pennfield Farm Eggs. Smith
previously served as Sales
Manager for the Egg
Division, and Area Manager
with Pennfield Feeds.
Donald E. Horn
A native of Lancaster
County, Smith is a member
of the Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association, and
serves as Chairman of the
association’s Consumer
Research and Education
Committee. He also serves
on the Pennsylvania Egg
Exchange and is treasurer of
the Upper Leacock War
Memorial Association.
Pnor to joining Pennfield,
Smith was General
Manager, Chick Sales Egg
Farm, Hanover; Operations
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pany, Dnyl**ot r 'W n- and
Farmers to meet
on pepper growing
NEW HOLLAND -
During the summer of 1980,
23 farmers in the New
Holland area grew peppers
for the Ben Lipitz Packing
Company of Philadelphia.
Lipitz said he would like to
expand the acres of peppers
grown in Lancaster County
and surrounding area in
1981. He not only will be
expanding the number of
varieties of peppers grown,
be also is interested in
growing tomatoes in the
area.
Glen U. Smith
Production Manager, Indian
River Poultry Farms, for
merly of Lancaster now
located in Texas.
Also announced was the
appointment of Richard A.
Hobday, 2629 Marietta
Avenue, Lancaster, as Vice
President of Finance for the
corporation. Hobday has
served as treasurer since
April, 1967.
Previously he was
associated with Hatter,
Hams & Beittel, Lancaster;
and Hubley Manufacturing
Company, Lancaster.
Un Wednesday evening,
January 7 at 7-30 pm. the
Adult Farmer Program of
the Eastern Lancaster
County School District will
sponsor a meeting with
ijpitz at the Union Grove
School to discuss these crops
and contact potential
growers for 1981. All in
terested persons are invited
to attend.
The Union Grove School is
located two miles north of
Blue Ball on Route 625. For
more information call
215/445-5041.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3,1981—A25
Brecknock ag zoning
(Continued from Page Al)
The proposed ordinance
contains many agricultural
safeguards, Robinson said,
and the concerned farmers
are looking to get further
clarification and explanation
concerning these certain
restrictions.
Actually, one of the three
mam purposes cited m the
beginning of the ordinance
“To preserve prime
agriculture and farmland
considering topography, soil
type and classification, and
present use.”
The intended purpose of
the Ag District set up in the
ordinance further states:
“The regulations for this
District are intended to
encourage continued
agricultural activities in
those parts of the Township
where agriculture is the
predominant use, and to
protect those areas with
slopes greater than twenty
(20) percent. Since
agriculture is the intended
primary use, residential and
other non-agncultural uses
must accept the nuisances
and hazards which are a
normal adjunct to farming.”
Permitted uses in the ag
district, which is the largest
district m the township,
include agriculture, public
park and recreation areas,
single family detached
dwellings and customary
accessory uses, buildings,
and structures incidental to
the above permitted uses.
A number of uses are also
permitted as special ex
ceptions.
Residential development
in the ag district is based on
a sliding scale formula,
which limits the number of
dwellings according to a
certain amount of con
tiguous acreage of land
under single ownership.
For example, one dwelling
is permitted on parcels of
land from one acre to less
than six acres; two
dwellings for parcels from
six acres to less than 30;
three dwellings for parcels
from 30 acres to Jess than 80,
etc.
The minimum lot area for
dwellings in the ag district is
one acre.
Other
requirements
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governing agricultural uses
include:
All grazing and pasture
areas must be fenced.
Liquid manure must be
incorporated into the soil
within 10 days of application.
This requirement further
recommends that such
spreading be done on a clear
day with a slight wind in
order to promote drying of
the manure.
Garbage can’t be fed to
livestock.
Dead livestock must be
disposed of properly within
48 hours.
Non-dairy farm products
can be displayed and sold
provided that at least half
are produced on the property
on which they are offered for
sale.
Parking space for at least
three cars must be provided
behind the street nght of
way line. The products must
be sold from either a por
table stand located behind
the street right of way line
and which will be dismantled
at the end of the growing
season, or from a permanent
building located a minimum
of fifty (50) feet from the
street line.
Future poultry houses of
more than 5000 birds or
structures for more than 25
sows or 50 head of other
livestock must comply with
setback requirements, in
cluding 75 feet from all
street nght of way lines, 50
feet from all other property
Lines and 500 feet from all
existing dwelling units other
than the dwelling unit owned
by the person building the
structure. The 500-foot
requirement can be reduced
by the Zoning Hearing Board
to 250 feet if certain con
ditions are met.
In addition to the ag
district, agriculture would
be permitted in other
districts, including the light
industrial, the flood plain,
and as a special exception in
both the residential low and
residential medium
districts. It is not permitted
in the forest recreation or
neighborhood commercial
districts.
But in the two residential
districts mtensif led livestock
operations of more than 5,000
birds, 25 sows or 50 head of
other livestock will not be
permitted.
Agricultural requirements
in the flood plain district
specify a filter strip between
any watercourse and any
tilled land. Such a strip must
be 15 feet in width and must
be planted with a permanent
ground cover
Also, in tne flood plain
district, a cover crop, such
as annual rye grass, must be
planted when the land is not
being tilled for major crops.