A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24,1981
PFU
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dards in several respects do
not match the current milk
referendum proposal.
During the two day
meeting, PFU also asked
support for young farmers
starting in business,
resolved to establish an egg
and poultry committee, and
proposed inspection of fresh
mushrooms by the
Agriculture Department at
the retail level.
They resolved the Game
Commission pay taxes equal
to taxes landowners pay on
uncultivated land. They also
asked a reduction in
property taxes and increase
in per capita income tax be
instituted.
They supported a Lehigh
County resolution to require
pseudorabies checking on all
breeding hogs sold, but blew
away a resolution asking for
evidence of calfhood vac-
cination for Bangs disease
on ail dairy cattle brought
into the state.
Delegates supported a
Lancaster County proposal
for voluntary ag districts,
with Act 442 Amendments,
as a means of preserving
farmland.
They opposed dumping of
hazardous waste materials
anywhere in any county.
Members approved
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measures on gas wells and
coal mining which were
proposed by delegates from
Western Pennsylvania.
They asked for better
erosion and sedimentation
controls, and demanded
enforcement be focused on
municipalities.
They said ASCS funds
should be tax-free and said
FmHA county board
members should be elected.
They took stands on
several marketing issues,
asking all mushroom buyers
be bonded, and that livestock
auctions be required to
publish the true figures for
sales, quoting both high and
low prices.
At the annual banquet
State Administrative
Director Leonard E.
Zemaitis told the 120
delegates—the largest
number ever—the future
holds serious questions,
including whether people
will continue to farm in
Pennsylvania.
“Will it be possible or
profitable to farm in our
state?” he asked.
He said the solution was to
give up self-interest and
fight for the general in
terests of all farmers. He
said members should try to
build a strong political
ahance with other farmers
and farm groups to assure
success.
“We are going from a
period of handling surplus
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problems to a tune of
shortages,” Zemaitissaid.
He noted the pn ’e of seed
corn has gone up faster than
any other agricultural input.
Meanwhile big corporations
are absorbing the remaining
small seed companies, he
said, warning that farmers
may become dependent on
big conglomerates for seed
the way we now depend on
OPEC for oil.
We still are waiting for
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Washington, but we are not
getting them,” he concluded.
Following Zemaitis’s
address, National Farmers
Union President George W.
Stone continued on the same
theme.
Farmers must do a better
job of monitoring Congress
and the White House and
making their concerns
known to decision-makers.
Stone said.
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He told the group there are
74 new members of the U.S.
House, including nine
committee chairmen; plus
18 new senators with a
completely new roster of
Senate chairmen.
“What this means is
decisions affecting farmers
will be made by new people,
many of whom have no
background in agriculture,”
he noted. “This is why we
feel it must be a top priority
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these new decision-makers
on farm issues.”
The meeting’s keynote
speaker was Victor Ray,
current Vice President of
NFU.
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to strengthen farm
organizations if farmers are
to achieve economic justice.
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